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Name: Alan Cornell
Location: C1 Lab 118 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 011 559 4024
Email: acornell@uj.ac.za
About Prof. Alan Cornell
NRF rating: B2
Field of Specialisation: High energy theory, particle phenomenology, gravitational physics and physics education.
Research Interests
Prof Cornell is a Professor of physics in theoretical particle physics, having obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has previously worked at the Korean Institute for Advanced Studies (Seoul, Korea), the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (Kyoto, Japan), the Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (France) and the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a member of the SA-CERN programme, the Inter-experimental Machine Learning working group at CERN, the Future Circular Collider collaboration, and the chair of the Theoretical and Computational Physics division at the SAIP.
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Recent Publications
1. General vacuum stability of orbifold gauge breaking and application to asymptotic grand unification
G Cacciapaglia, AS Cornell, A Deandrea, W Isnard, R Pasechnik, A Preda, Zhi-Wei Wang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16137
2. Dominant misconceptions and alluvial flows between Engineering and Physical Science students
A Chrysostomou, AS Cornell, W Naylor
arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.12083
3. A semi-analytic treatment of quasinormal excitation factors in the eikonal regime
CH Chen, HT Cho, A Chrysostomou, AS Cornell
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.18644
4. Analyzing the effect of higher dimensions on the black hole silhouette, deflection angles, and PINN approximated quasinormal modes
NJLS Lobos, AM Ncube, RC Pantig, AS Cornell
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08078
5. Solving the Regge-Wheeler and Teukolsky equations: supervised vs. unsupervised physics-informed neural networks
AS Cornell, SR Herbst, H Noshad, AM Ncube
arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11343
6. A three-year comparative study of dominant misconceptions among first-year physics students at a South African university
A Chrysostomou, AS Cornell, W Naylor
Physics Education 59 (1), 015036
7. Reissner-Nordstr” om black holes in de Sitter space-time: bounds with quasinormal frequencies
A Chrysostomou, AS Cornell, A Deandrea, H Noshad, SC Park
arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07311
8. Black holes and nilmanifolds: quasinormal modes as the fingerprints of extra dimensions?
A Chrysostomou, A Cornell, A Deandrea, É Ligout, D Tsimpis
The European Physical Journal C 83 (4), 325
9. Top partners and scalar dark matter: A nonminimal reappraisal
AS Cornell, A Deandrea, T Flacke, B Fuks, L Mason
Physical Review D 107 (7), 075004
10. Supervisor perspectives in STEM PhD supervision: a social realist analysis of current trends
AS Cornell, W Doorsamy, K Padayachee
Higher Education Pedagogies 7 (1), 146-159
11. Using physics-informed neural networks to compute quasinormal modes
AS Cornell, A Ncube, G Harmsen
Physical Review D 106 (12), 124047
12. Neutrino specific spin-3/2 dark matter
A Goyal, MO Khojali, M Kumar, AS Cornell
The European Physical Journal C 82 (11), 1002
13. Dark matter in a singlet-extended inert Higgs-doublet model
MO Khojali, A Abdalgabar, A Ahriche, AS Cornell
Physical Review D 106 (9), 095039
14. Boosted decision trees in the era of new physics: a smuon analysis case study
AS Cornell, W Doorsamy, B Fuks, G Harmsen, L Mason
Journal of High Energy Physics 2022 (4), 1-36 28
15. Probing the effect on student conceptual understanding due to a forced mid-semester transition to online teaching
E Carleschi, A Chrysostomou, AS Cornell, W Naylor
European Journal of Physics 43 (3), 035702
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1896-4628