Research

Research

PhD

In my PhD I studied conformal field theories. These are a special class of quantum field theories that arise in the study of phase transitions, string theory and particle physics. My dissertation, titled N=6 Superconformal Field Theories, and studies conformal field theories in three spacetime dimensions with extended supersymmetry. You can read it here. My advisor was Silviu Pufu, who is a member of the bootstrap collaboration.

Publications

2021

The Cubic Fixed Point at Large N
pdf · arxiv

ABJ Correlators with Weakly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry
Joint with Shai Chester and Max Jerdee
pdf · arxiv

The 3d N=6 Bootstrap: From Higher Spins to Strings to Membranes
Joint with Shai Chester, Max Jerdee, and Silviu Pufu
pdf · arxiv

2020

Deligne Categories in Lattice Models and Quantum Field Theory, or Making Sense of O(N) Symmetry with Non-integer N
Joint with Slava Rychkov
pdf · arxiv

AdS4/CFT3 from Weak to Strong String Coupling
Joint with Shai Chester and Silviu Pufu
pdf · arxiv

N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Correlators at Strong Coupling from String Theory and Localization
Joint with Shai Chester, Silviu Pufu, and Yifan Wang
pdf · arxiv

Absence of D4R4 in M-Theory From ABJM
Joint with Shai Chester and Silviu Pufu
pdf · arxiv

Preprints

The Holographic Contributions to the Sphere Free Energy
Joint with Daniel Freedman, Silviu Pufu, and Bernardo Zan
pdf · arxiv

A Bispinor Formalism for Spinning Witten Diagrams
Joint with Daniel Freedman and Silviu Pufu
pdf · arxiv


Undergraduate

As an undergraduate, I studied at the Australian National University. For my honour year I worked with Cedric Simenel, a nuclear theorist specializing in nuclear dynamics.

Nuclear Interaction from Effective Field Theory
Honours thesis
pdf

Non-Anomalous Semigroups and Real Numbers
An essay I wrote for a category theory course
pdf · arxiv

The Quantum Zeno Effect
An essay I wrote for a course on quantum measurement
pdf

I also wrote course notes for an introductory quantum field theory course, aimed at third year undergraduates. The course is now run as PHYS3201.