Peter Taylor

Assist. Prof

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Dr. Peter Taylor is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Relativity (CfAR) in the School of Mathematical Sciences. He graduated with a degree in Mathematical Sciences from UCD in 2006, winning scholarships to Cambridge University to pursue a masters in Theoretical Physics (Part III of the Tripos). Having obtained a Distinction in Part III, he returned to UCD on an Irish Research Scholarship, completing his PhD in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Ottewill. From 2011-2014, he held an assistant professorship at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin. He then moved to upstate New York where he was a Marie Curie research fellow at Cornell University. In 2016, he returned to Dublin, taking up his current position at DCU where he continues to teach mathematics and research in the area of black hole physics.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2022 Taylor, Peter; Breen, Cormac; Ottewill, Adrian (2022) 'Mode-sum prescription for the renormalized stress energy tensor on black hole spacetimes'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 106 (6). [DOI]
2022 Conroy, A.; Taylor, P. (2022) 'Response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector near an extremal black hole'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 105 . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Peter Taylor; Cormac Breen (2021) 'Semiclassical backreaction on asymptotically anti–de Sitter black holes'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 103 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.025006
2021 Morley, Thomas; Winstanley, Elizabeth; Taylor, Peter (2021) 'Vacuum polarization on topological black holes with Robin boundary conditions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 103 (4). [DOI]
2020 Peter Taylor (2020) 'Quantum field theory on global anti-de Sitter space-time with Robin boundary conditions'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aba58a
2020 Taylor, Peter (2020) 'Regular quantum states on the Cauchy horizon of a charged black hole'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37 (4). [DOI]
2018 A. I. Harte, P. Taylor and É. É. Flanagan (2018) 'Foundations of the self-force problem in arbitrary dimensions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 97 . [Link]
2018 Cormac Breen and Peter Taylor (2018) 'Vacuum polarization for varying quantum scalar field parameters in Schwarzschild–anti–de Sitter spacetime'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 98 . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.105006
2018 Morley, T.; Taylor, P.; Winstanley, E. (2018) 'Vacuum polarization on topological black holes'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35 . [Link] [DOI]
2017 Taylor, P.; Breen, C. (2017) 'Mode-sum prescription for vacuum polarization in black hole spacetimes in even dimensions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 96 . [Link] [DOI]
2016 Taylor, P; Breen, C (2016) 'Mode-sum prescription for the vacuum polarization in odd dimensions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 94 . [DOI]
2016 Harte, AI; Flanagan, EE; Taylor, P (2016) 'Self-forces on static bodies in arbitrary dimensions'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93 . [DOI]
2015 Taylor, P; Flanagan, EE (2015) 'Static self-forces in a five-dimensional black hole spacetime'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 92 . [DOI]
2014 Taylor, P (2014) 'Propagation of test particles and scalar fields on a class of wormhole space-times'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 90 . [DOI]
2013 Taylor, P (2013) 'Self-force on an arbitrarily coupled static scalar particle in a wormhole space-time'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 87 . [DOI]
2012 Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2012) 'Quantum field theory on the Bertotti-Robinson space-time'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86 . [DOI]
2012 Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2012) 'Static Kerr Green's function in closed form and an analytic derivation of the self-force for a static scalar charge in Kerr space-time'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86 . [DOI]
2011 Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2011) 'Renormalized vacuum polarization and stress tensor on the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole threaded by a cosmic string'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28 . [DOI]
2010 Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2010) 'Vacuum polarization on the Schwarzschild metric threaded by a cosmic string'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 82 . [DOI]
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Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/01/2001 BT Young Scientist of the Year BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, RDS
01/01/2000 Intel Excellence Award, BT Young Scientist Intel
01/01/2000 Communication Award, International Science and Engineering Fair Society for Technical Communication
01/01/2001 Third Place, EU Science Fair European Union Science Fair
01/01/2002 Entrance Scholarship UCD
01/01/2006 Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship Cambridge University
01/01/2006 EU Scholarship Cambridge University
01/01/2007 PhD Scholarship Irish Research Council
01/01/2014 Marie Curie-Sklodowska Global Research Fellowship Marie Curie Actions, Irish Research Council

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
UCD BSc
Cambridge University MASt (Part III of the Tripos)
UCD PhD

Other Activities

Description

Research Interests

My research is mainly concerned with classical and quantum
aspects of black holes. From a quantum perspective, I am interested in
quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and the associated
theory of semi-classical gravity. The most famous prediction
of this approximation--and one of the most surprising and far-reaching
predictions of theoretical physics--is that black holes emit
quantum thermal radiation, the so-called Hawking effect. On
the classical front, I'm interested in the problem of motion
in General Relativity including strong self-interaction
effects. This is particularly important for modeling binary
black hole systems where one black hole is much larger than
the other, a key astrophysical source of
gravitational waves being targeted by the European
Space Agency's eLISA mission.

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Does the self-force prevent time-travel through wormholes? Principal Investigator 20/01/2014 20/01/2017

Teaching Interests

Mathematics 
Mathematics Teacher Education (in particular Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Geometry and Calculus)
General Relativity, Differential Geometry and Quantum Field Theory

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Discrete Mathematics MS118
2022 Calculus for Teachers MS116
2022 Geometry MS302