Eric Sharpe
Assistant Professor of Physics

Theoretical Particle, String Theory
Ph.D.: Princeton, 1998
211-A Robeson Hall
Phone: (540) 231-7890
Fax: (540) 231-7511
Email: ersharpe(AT)vt(DOT)edu

• Physics 6456: Quantum field theory, II (Spring 2009)
• Physics 6455: Quantum field theory, I (Fall 2008)
• Physics 5714: Methods of theoretical physics (Fall 2007)

• Mathematical methods for physicists (spring 2005, 2006)
• Quantum field theory (summer-fall 2006, spring 2007)

• Talk at Topology, C* algebras, and string duality (Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, May 18-22, 2009) on Landau-Ginzburg models, gerbes, and Kuznetsov's homological projective duality
• Talk at Austin (February 24, 2009) on A-twisted Landau-Ginzburg models; talk at Austin (February 25, 2009) on GLSM's, gerbes, and Kuznetsov's homological projective duality
• Talk at Workshop on the geometry and physics of the Landau-Ginzburg model (Clay Math Institute, Boston, January 12-16, 2009) on A-twisted Landau-Ginzburg models, gerbes, and Kuznetsov's homological projective duality
• Talk at Workshop on Topology and Physics (Drexel University, September 8-9, 2008) on Heterotic mirror symmetry
• Talk at Bundles, gerbes, and derived categories in string theory (Salamanca, May 14-16, 2008) and at the University of Pennsylvania (September 2008) on ``GLSM's, gerbes, and Kuznetsov's homological projective duality''
• Talk at Stanford University (March 2008), Berkeley (March 2008), SPOCK IX meeting (Cincinnati, January 2008), Texas A & M (November 2007), and the Workshop on recent developments in string effective actions and D-instantons (Max-Planck, Munich, November 14-16, 2007) on ``Heterotic swamplands?''
• Talk at Berkeley (March 2008) on ``GLSM's, gerbes, and Kuznetsov's homological projective duality''
• Talk at the AMS Summer Research Conference 2007 on derived categories in mathematics and physics (co-organizer), on ``GLSM's, gerbes, and Kuznetsov's homological projective duality''
• Lectures at the June 2007 Utah minicourse on derived categories (co-organizer)
• Talk at the Sowers theoretical physics workshop 2007 (co-organizer) on ``Recent developments in heterotic compactifications''

• An introduction to string theory
• NOVA's website for The Elegant Universe
• Musings, Jacques Distler's blog
• The n-category cafe, another blog