Rate My Professor Paul Norbury

Norbury has authored numerous influential publications in leading journals. Key works include 'Gromov–Witten invariants of ℙ¹ and Eynard–Orantin invariants' (2014), 'A new cohomology class on the moduli space of curves' (2023, awarded the Gavin Brown Prize by the Australian Mathematical Society), 'Weil–Petersson volumes and cone surfaces' (2009), 'Orbifold Hurwitz numbers and Eynard–Orantin invariants' (2017), 'Quantum spectral curve for the Gromov–Witten theory of the complex projective line' (2017), and recent papers such as 'From double-scaled SYK correlators to Weil–Petersson volumes' (2025, with Norman Do), 'Super volumes and KdV tau functions' (2024, with Alexander Alexandrov), and 'Polynomial relations among kappa classes on the moduli space of curves' (2024, with Maxim Kazarian). These contributions advance understanding in enumerative geometry, topological recursion, and volumes of moduli spaces, bridging algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. Norbury received the Gavin Brown Prize in recognition of outstanding and innovative research exemplified by his 2023 paper published in Geometry & Topology.