Group Members

Group Members
Group in Summer 2021, clockwise from top left: myself, Cole Coughlin, Naman Agarwal, Michael Grehan, Shawna Skelton, Jiayue Yang

Hardik Kuralkar
2024 Summer Research: D-brane equations of motion in Dirac brane formalism (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Ratul Mahanta
Postdoc 2024-25: String phenomenology
Akshdeep Gill
2023-24 High School Internship: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime
Prakriti Singh
2022 Summer Research: Holographic complexity of the Klebanov-Strassler background (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Subsequently: Syracuse University PhD program
Florian Seefeld
2021-22 Honours Thesis: Complexity of AdS Black Hole Microstates (McGill Honours)
Subsequently: EPFL theoretical physics graduate program
Jiayue Yang
2021 Summer Research: Complexity, scaling, and a phase transition, arXiv (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Subsequently: University of Waterloo Physics graduate program
Cole Coughlin
2021 Summer Research & 2021-22 Honours Thesis: Code for Inhomogenous Tensor Networks (NSERC USRA; UManitoba Honours)
Subsequently: Perimeter Scholars International MSc program, UWaterloo PhD program
Shawna Skelton
2020-21 Honours Thesis & 2021 Summer Research: Tensor Network Models of de Sitter Spacetime Decays (NSERC USRA)
Subsequently: Perimeter Scholars International MSc program, Hanover Physics PhD program
Nathaniel Betts
2020-21 High School Internship: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime
Naman Agarwal
2020 Visiting Graduate Fellow (MSc): Holographic Complexity in 10D
2021-present Doctor of Philosophy: String Phenomenology
Tim Coates
2019-20 Honours Thesis: entanglement entropy and complexity in supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Michael Grehan
2019-20 Summer Research: Complexity of scalar collapse in anti-de Sitter spacetime, arXiv (NSERC USRA)
2021 Summer Research & 2021-22 Honours Thesis: Holographic complexity of the Klebanov-Strassler background (NSERC USRA)
Subsequently: University of Toronto physics MSc program
Manu Srivastava
2019 Summer Research: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime and Complexity of scalar collapse in anti-de Sitter spacetime, arXiv (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Subsequently: Perimeter Scholars International MSc program, MIT Physics PhD program
Anna Volotovska
2018-19 High School Internship: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime
Tejhas Kapoor
2018 Summer Research: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Subsequently: Universite de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique Physics MSc program, IJCLab (Paris-Saclay) PhD program
Samantha Taylor
2017-18 Honours Thesis: Connecting Direct & Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
Subsequently: University of Victoria Physics MSc & PhD programs
Yibo Zhong
2017 Summer Research: Effective Field Theories of Heavy Dark Matter (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Subsequently: University of Copenhagen Physics graduate progam, Purdue University Physics graduate program
Apoorva Sinha
2017 Summer Research: Thermodynamics of String Subsystems (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Brett Meggison
2016-19 Masters in Science: The effect of anisotropy on phase transitions in graphene, arXiv (co-supervised with Margaret Carrington)
2020-present Doctor of Philosophy: Nonperturbative Methods in Field Theories (co-supervised with Margaret Carrington)
     Phase transitions in anisotropic graphene, arXiv (conference proceeding)
     Effects of different 3D QED vertex Ansatze on the critical coupling, arXiv
Mitul Patel
2016-19 Masters in Science: Modeling Inflation in String Theory
Subsequently: data science, currently with Decathlon Canada
Brayden Yarish
2016-18 High School Internship: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime
Subsequently: UWinnipeg Physics
Anindya Banerjee
2016 Summer Research: Thermodynamics of String Subsystems (MITACS Globalink Research Intern)
Subsequently: Rutgers University Physics PhD program
Raphael Hoult
2016-18 Summer Research & Honours Thesis: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime (NSERC USRA 2017)
Subsequently: University of Victoria Physics MSc & PhD programs
Phil Gregoryanz
2013-14 Honours Thesis: "Pinnochio Inflation" in String Theory
2022-24 Masters of Science (Applied Computer Science): GPU Computing for Stability of Anti-de Sitter Spacetime
Gabriel Chernitsky
2013 & 2015 Summer Research: Dark Matter Signals in Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way (NSERC USRA 2013)
2014 Summer Research: Non-Abelian Dark Matter Models for X-ray and Positron Production (NSERC USRA)
2014-15 Honours Thesis: Boltzmann Equations for Dark Matter Decoupling and Kinetic Freezeout
Subsequently: McGill Unversity Physics MSC (2018), McGill University Continuing Education
Nils Deppe & Allison Kolly
2013-14 Summer Research: Stability of Anti–de Sitter Space in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity, arXiv (co-supervised with Gabor Kunstatter)
Subsequently: Cornell University Physics PhD program, CalTech postdoc, Cornell University faculty (Deppe)
          McGill University Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences MSc program, research career (Kolly)
Jared Enns
2013 Summer Research: Dark Radiation from Dark Matter Annihilation
2013-14 Honours Thesis & Summer Research: Relative Abundances of Multi-Species Dark Matter
Subsequently: McMaster University Physics MSc (2016), NAIT Edmonton
Brad Cownden
Interview 3 April 2018 on UMFM radio
2012-2014 Masters in Science: Dimensional Reduction for D3-brane Moduli, arXiv
     Variations on the Dirac string, arXiv
2015-2020 Doctor of Philosophy: Phase diagram of stability for massive scalars in anti–de Sitter spacetime, arXiv
     Examining Instabilities Due to Driven Scalars in AdS, arXiv
Subsequently: Mitacs postdoctoral position, Jagiellonian University postdoc
Nick Reid
2012 Summer Research: Cosmic microwave background constraints on dark matter models of the Galactic center 511 keV signal, arXiv
2013-14 Summer Research & Honours Thesis: Particle Physics Models of Dark Matter and Possible Detection at 130 GeV
Currently: Pilot, Canadian Forces
Tim Chau
2012 Summer Research: Gravitational Collapse and Thermalization in AdS (co-supervised with Gabor Kunstatter)
Subsequently: University of Minnesota engineering program
James Roberts
2011-12 Honours Thesis & Summer Research: The dimensional reduction and Kähler metric of forms in flux and warping, arXiv
Subsequently: HUB International Insurance

Group Members
Group in Feb 2015: Gabriel Chernitsky, Brad Cownden, Allison Kolly, myself (l-r)
Photo Credit: Naniece Ibrahim, used with permission