Physics research

Before working on global catastrophic risks, I studied theoretical physics. In my PhD I studied conformal field theories, 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.

Publications

2022

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

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
Joint with Slava Rychkov
pdf · arxiv

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

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

2019

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

Undergraduate

I studied at the Australian National University; my honours work with Cedric Simenel was on nuclear physics.

Nuclear Interaction from Effective Field Theory
Honours thesis
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Non-Anomalous Semigroups and Real Numbers
An essay for a category theory course
pdf · arxiv

The Quantum Zeno Effect
An essay 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.