CV & Publications

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Publications and Theses

2024

Holographic Foliations: Self-Similar Quasicrystals from Hyperbolic Honeycombs
(arXiv:2408.15316)

Higher Operations in Perturbation Theory
(arXiv:2403.13049)

2023

Topological Manipulations of Quantum Field Theories
PhD Thesis
Supervised by Davide Gaiotto and Jaume Gomis
Submitted July 2023, University of Waterloo, Canada

Semi-Chiral Operators in 4d N=1 Gauge Theories
(arXiv:2306.01039)

2022

Feynman Diagrams in Four-Dimensional Holomorphic Theories and the Operatope
(arXiv:2207.14321)
https://github.com/TwistedQFTs/laman-loopstrap

Notes on Resonances and Unitarity from Celestial Amplitudes
(arXiv:2205.14633)

2021

Duality Defects in E8
(arXiv:2112.14323)

2020

Orbifold Groupoids
(arXiv:2008.05960)

Two More Fermionic Minimal Models
(arXiv:2003.04278)

2019

Orbifolds, Anomalies, and Topological Field Theories
Master's Thesis
Supervised by Davide Gaiotto
Submitted June 2019, University of Waterloo, Canada

2017

Representation Theory and Quantum Mechanics
Undergraduate Thesis
Supervised by Andrew J. Dean
Submitted April 2017, Lakehead University, Canada

MurnaghanNakayama
The Murnaghan-Nakayama rule for Mathematica.
https://github.com/justinkulp/MurnaghanNakayama

2016

D-functions and immanants of unitary matrices and submatrices
with Hubert de Guise, Dylan Spivak, and Ish Dhand
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Volume 49, Number 9
(arXiv:1511.01851)

Presentations and Posters

2024

Twisted Tools for (Untwisted) Quantum Field Theory (Video of Talk)
Higher Categorical Tools for Quantum Phases of Matter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, also at Yale, Quiver Meeting, UEdinburgh, String Math 2024 (ICTP), CUNY, Boston University, Harvard CMSA, University of Toronto, and Virginia Tech.

2023

Holomorphic Confinement of N=1 SYM (Video of Talk 1:01:43)
Institute for Advanced Study

Hyperbolic Honeycombs and Self-Similar Quasicrystals (Video of Talk)
Perimeter Institute, IHES, Simons Center, and UPenn

2022

Holomorphic Twists and Confinement in N=1 SYM (Video of Talk)
Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
Harvard University

Quasicrystals and Decapods (Gong Show) (Video of Talk 26:45)
Quasicrystals and Decapods (Poster)
Generalized Global Symmetries, Quantum Field Theory, and Geometry
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

2022 (Continued)

Confinement and Holomorphic Twists of N=1 SYM
(PSI Graduate Student Talk Version)
Simons Confinement Collaboration Inaugural Workshop
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science

Holomorphic QFTs: Higher Structures and Bootstrap (Gong Show)
Holomorphic QFTs: Higher Structures and Bootstrap (Poster)
Strings 2022
University of Vienna

Duality Defects in E­­8 (Gong Show)
Duality Defects in E­­8 (Poster)
Global Categorical Symmetries
Perimeter Institute

The 3d O(N) Model on the Celestial Circle
Celestial Holography '22
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science

2021

Topological Aspects of QFT
PI Grad Conference 2021

Duality Defects in E­­8 (Preliminary)
Presented at PI's Quantum Fields and Strings meeting.

2020

Orbifold Groupoids (Video of Talk)
Slides from Harvard CMSA Condensed Matter Seminar.
Also presented at PI's Quantum Fields and Strings meeting.

WZW Introduction & Fermionic Minimal Models
Merged slides from weekly Reading Group Meeting
and PI's Quantum Fields and Strings meeting.

2019

Orbifolds, Anomalies, and Topological Field Theories
Master's Thesis Presentation
Screen capture with audio available.

Scattering in Chern-Simons Matter Theories
with Lorenzo Di Pietro, Diego García, Jingxiang Wu, Matthew Yu, Keyou Zeng
PSI Winter School Project

Quasicrystalline Compactifications
PSI Essay Update
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

2018

Aperiodic Tilings in Physics
PSIminar
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Limiting Factors for Tree Height
with Francisco Borges and Sara Bogojevic
PSI "Physics in Nature" Presentation
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

2017

Aperiodic Tilings: an Introduction
Lakehead University Mathematics Colloquium
Lakehead University, Canada

The Logistic Map and Bifurcation Diagrams
Lakehead University Classical Mechanics Class
Lakehead University, Canada

The ADFGVX Cipher
with Wilson Poulter
Lakehead University Cryptography Class
Lakehead University, Canada

2016

Beta Testing ITk Modules
with Nicholas Zutt
ATLAS Canada Summer Student Presentation
University of Toronto, Canada

Decays of the Higgs Boson
ATLAS Toronto Presentation
University of Toronto, Canada

Student Representative Speech
Lakehead University Annual Donor Reception
Lakehead University, Canada