Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics

Graduate Alumni — PhD

Bootstrapping Universal Asymptotics of Conformal Field Theory via Thermal Effective Action

Lee, Jaeha ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Ooguri, Hirosi

Soft Theorems from Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Derda, Maria Dominika ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Cheung, Clifford W.

Scattering and Gravitational Effective Field Theory

Shah, Nabha Niranjan ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Cheung, Clifford W.

Quantum Mechanical Vistas on the Road to Quantum Gravity

Singh, Ashmeet ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Carroll, Sean M.

Information Scrambling in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Zhang, Yongliang ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Chen, Xie

Fundamental Physics Through Gravitational Waves: From No-Hair Theorem to Quantum Structures of Black Holes

Du, Song Ming ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Chen, Yanbei

Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes and Algebraic Aspects of Holography from the Projective Line

Heydeman, Matthew Thomas Edwin ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Schwarz, John H.; Marcolli, Matilde

Topological Phases of Matter: Exactly Solvable Models and Classification

Wang, Zitao ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Chen, Xie

The Union of Quantum Field Theory and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Bartolotta, Anthony Leo ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Wise, Mark B.; Carroll, Sean M.

Gravity Informed

Chatwin-Davies, Aidan Émile ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Carroll, Sean M.

Spin in Conformal Field Theory

Kravchuk, Petr ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Ooguri, Hirosi

The Effective Field Theory of Fermi Surfaces in the Vicinity of Van Hove Singularities

McKinney, Tristan James ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Kapustin, Anton N.

A Symphony of Supersymmetry and Geometry: Invariants, Dualities and Chiral Rings

Ye, Ke ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Gukov, Sergei

Constraints on Cosmology and Quantum Gravity from Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

Pollack, Jason Aaron ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Carroll, Sean M.