School of Natural Sciences

Inflation may have occurred at energies up to 10^16 GeV, far beyond any terrestrial collider. The "cosmological collider" program aims to extract the mass spectrum and spin content of particles present during inflation from non-Gaussian correlators...

Numerical simulations of galaxies and the interstellar medium are now reaching resolutions where small-scale physical processes can be resolved directly. This raises a natural question: which pieces of microphysics must be modeled explicitly in...

We propose a Hamiltonian framework for constructing chiral gauge theories on the lattice based on symmetry disentanglers: constant-depth circuits of local unitaries that transform not-on-site symmetries into on-site ones. When chiral symmetry can be...

Continual improvements to our observational capabilities promise a wealth of data from binary neutron star systems in the coming years and decades, which will find broad applications across several fields of physics. However, the current generation...

In this lecture, we establish the kinematic foundation of the Geometric QCD theory by constructing the unique stable vacuum of the loop equation. We demonstrate that the MM loop equation admits a solution of the form $W[C] = W_{fluct}[C] \exp{-...

I will present and discuss new analytical solutions to high eccentricity perturbed Keplerian orbits undergoing Kozai-Lidov oscillations. In particular, I will show that the complex dynamics of hierarchical few body stellar systems - can be reduced...

I will employ twistor string theory to construct a bulk dual of N = 4 super Yang-Mills in the regime of weak 't Hooft coupling. I will also discuss applications of this duality to the study of scattering amplitudes, giant graviton correlators, and...