Prof. Alan Cornell

Overview

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. If you wish to read more on Prof Cornell’s research interests, please click on this link . 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 Publication Links Google Scholar LinkedIn Research Gate ORCID: 0000-0003-1896-4628