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Stephen Thompson

Latest News: PhD finished!

• Supervisor: Dr. P. Monthoux

• Room: 500 Mott Building, Cavendish Laboratory

• Telephone: (01223) 337340

• Email: st229@phy.cam.ac.uk; st229@cam.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Strongly interacting electron systems.
• Novel Numerical methods for locating all of the local minima of a function of many variables.A brief description of this work
• Ground States of Polyacetylene, (Su, Schrieffer and Heeger Model)
• Doped Manganes oxides that show colossial magnetoresistance.
• Limits on the information capacity of Nonlinear Optical fibres. Applying techniques borrowed from many body quantum mechnics to the problem of Nonlinear optics.
• A more detailed account of the things I have done during the first year of my PhD
• A talk I recently (lent 2002) gave in a TCM seminar entitled The ground states of Manganese Perovskites

Links to other sites

• VC student poker site.
• Details of getting the student rakeback scheme working.
• Great Poker Website aimed at University players, lots of great student deals.
• Cambridge University Poker Society website.
• Poker simulator written by Colin Frayn to improve our play at the MCR regular games
• TCM homepage
• Richard Edgar appreciation society
• The best free online chess server
• Robinson College
• My funding body
• Brilliant site, enables you to look up any british school photograph
• Caragan Music Agency . Something to check out if you want to become a famous popstar.
• TES (Total Event Solutions). Something to check out if you want a company to organise an event for you.

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