Richard Ward Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Durham Science Laboratories South Road DURHAM DH1 3LE UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44-(0)191-334-3118 (direct) Tel: +44-(0)191-334-3050 (Maths Office) Fax: +44-(0)191-334-3051 E-mail: richard.ward "at" durham.ac.uk Wikipedia

Research Areas:

• Topological solitons: monopoles, skyrmions, hopf solitons etc; their statics and dynamics, and relations between them
• Self-dual gauge fields, twistors and integrable systems; monopoles and other exact solutions; the generalized Nahm transform