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Research Experience – Summer 2024
Participated in the Hamilton Trust Summer Internship with Eliza Somerville and Mikey Whelan.
Supervised by Prof. Ruth Britto, we studied the symbol alphabet of one-loop Feynman integrals.
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Poster
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Research Experience – Summer 2023
Received the
Naughton Fellowship to do an REU at the University of Notre Dame.
Worked with Prof. Ragnar Stroberg on
spurious isospin symmetry breaking in the IMSRG formalism of ab initio many-body nuclear theory.
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Bachelor Thesis – 2023/2024
My thesis was a review of Foundations of the \(\small\text{AdS}_5\times S^5\) Superstring in which
I reproduced many of the results from the first two chapters. It involved learning about basic string theory, superalgebras, the Green-Schwarz superstring
in \(\small\text{AdS}_5\times S^5\), and how one could go about quantising it in the light-cone gauge. It turns out to be difficult to quantise the model
directly so one resorts to a perturbative approach in the limit as the string length goes to infinity. My supervisor was Prof. Sergey Frolov.
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Visualisations
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Interactive Cloud Chamber – Nov 2024
A cloud chamber reveals charged particles which are usually invisible to the naked eye. These basic experiments
played a historical role in our understanding of particle physics, and can be made at home with a bit of effort!
I created this interactive webpage as a convenient version of the real thing, where you can choose which particle
to observe.
Explanation (in progress)
Interactive chamber
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Interactive Potts Model – Oct 2023
Following an independent reading project on statistical field theory, my interest
in critical behaviour led to this visual showcase of the square lattice Potts model. To play around with the
lattice, see the interactive gallery (best on desktop). If you want to skip straight to the theory behind it,
see the explanation.
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Interactive gallery
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Solitons in 1 dimension – Nov 2023
Learned about basic soliton theory with Eliza Somerville and wrote a
short introduction to solitons in 1+1 dimensions, namely solutions to the KdV equation and kink solitons for a \(\small\phi^4\) potential and a sine-Gordon potential.
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Satisfying animations
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Communication
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Physics Communication – 2023
Wrote and filmed a video series introducing index notation, the Levi-Civita symbol and Einstein summation
convention for the Theoretical Physics Student Association (TPSA).
ESC #1
ESC #2
Made a video on the critical temperature of the Ising Model with Mikey Whelan.
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Miscellaneous
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Electoral Redistricting – May 2023
Sparked by the Real World Mathematical Modelling
hackathon event, applied multi-objective optimisation and data science techniques to the electoral
redistricting of Ireland. I worked with Eliza Somerville,
Ben McGloin and Mikey Whelan.
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