Professor Andrea Brini

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Professor of Mathematical Physics

A.Brini@shef.ac.uk

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Professor Andrea Brini
School of Mathematics and Statistics
J21
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
Profile

I did my undergraduate studies in Physics in Milan, and I got my PhD in Mathematical Physics at SISSA, Trieste in 2009 under the supervision of Boris Dubrovin and Alessandro Tanzini. I then spent time as a postdoc at the University of Geneva (2009-11), and later at Imperial College London (Marie Curie Fellow, 2011-13).  

I obtained a CNRS permanent research post based at the University of Montpellier in 2013, and held visiting research positions again at Imperial College (2016-18) and MSRI Berkeley (2018), following which I took up an academic post in Birmingham in 2018. I joined the University of Sheffield in 2019, on leave from CNRS.

My CV is here.

Research interests

My research field lies at the intersection of Geometry and Mathematical Physics. I work on the mathematical aspects of String Theory and their interface with Integrable Systems and Algebraic Geometry. My main research topics are the theory of topological strings and Gromov-Witten theory, with emphasis on their connections to gauge theory, matrix models, integrable systems, and other moduli space problems.

I'm a member of the Sheffield Algebraic Geometry and Mathematical Physics group.

Publications

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Preprints

  • Brini A (2022) Enumerative geometry of surfaces and topological strings, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A & Schüler Y (2022) On quasi-tame Looijenga pairs, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A & Osuga K (2021) Five-dimensional gauge theories and the local B-model, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A & van Gemst K (2021) Mirror symmetry for extended affine Weyl groups, arXiv. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bousseau P, Brini A & van Garrel M (2020) Stable maps to Looijenga pairs: orbifold examples, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bousseau P, Brini A & van Garrel M (2020) Stable maps to Looijenga pairs, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A (2019) Exterior powers of the adjoint representation and the Weyl ring of $E_8$, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A (2017) On the Gopakumar-Ooguri-Vafa correspondence for Clifford-Klein 3-manifolds, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A (2017) $E_8$ spectral curves, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Borot G & Brini A (2015) Chern-Simons theory on spherical Seifert manifolds, topological strings and integrable systems, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A & Cavalieri R (2014) Crepant resolutions and open strings II, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A, Carlet G, Romano S & Rossi P (2014) Rational reductions of the 2D-Toda hierarchy and mirror symmetry, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A, Cavalieri R & Ross D (2013) Crepant resolutions and open strings, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A, Cavalieri R & Ross D (2013) The open string McKay correspondence for type A singularities, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A, Carlet G & Rossi P (2011) Integrable hierarchies and the mirror model of local CP1, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A, Eynard B & Marino M (2011) Torus knots and mirror symmetry, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A (2011) Open topological strings and integrable hierarchies: Remodeling the A-model, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A, Marino M & Stevan S (2010) The uses of the refined matrix model recursion, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A & Cavalieri R (2010) Open orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants of [C^3/Z_n]: localization and mirror symmetry, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A (2010) The local Gromov-Witten theory of CP^1 and integrable hierarchies, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A, Griguolo L, Seminara D & Tanzini A (2008) Chern-Simons theory on L(p,q) lens spaces and Gopakumar-Vafa duality, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A & Tanzini A (2008) Exact results for topological strings on resolved Y(p,q) singularities, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brini A & Forcella D (2006) Comments on the non-conformal gauge theories dual to Ypq manifolds, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

Current Grants

 
Mirror symmetry, quantum curves and integrable systems EPSRC
Administrative duties

Head of Group, Algebraic Geometry and Mathematical Physics

Deputy Director of Research and Innovation, School of Mathematics and Statistics

Member, Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematical Sciences, EPSRC