Group and openings

Current members:

Yanhan Wang: master student.

Potential position and basic requirement:

Graduate students: quantum field theory (two semesters; second semester might be taken concurrently with research) and solid backgrounds, i.e., A’s (or equivalence) in almost all physics (i.e., classical mechanics, electrodynamics, statistical mechanics, two semesters of quantum mechanics, and two semesters of quantum field theory) and math courses (i.e, calculus, linear algebra, and complex analysis), and previous research experinece: ideally one research paper already.

Contact me to start a trial project (consisting of two parts: initially a reading project and then a research project on the topic related to the reading project). For the first reading part, you are expected to reproduce results of the references provided on your own in a month or two at most. In the following research project, you are expected to lead the project and produce some new reasonable results in a month or two at most. Ph. D students also have to pass the comprehensive exam with decent grades. No funding will be provided to the Ph.D student unless passing all the trials.

Research of master students has to be self-funded. The physics requirements are the same as those for PhD students.

Undergraduate students: quantum mechanics (at least two semesters). Need to be awarded with univeristy UTRA/SPRINT funding or self-funded. Whether there is a position depends on whether I could find a suitable project.

If you are interested in working with me (whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student), please email me with your cv indicating your academic preparation and previous research experience, as well as your transcript.

Sorry but I do not supervise high school students.

Previous members:

Itamar J. Allali: postdoc 2023 – 2025 (Society of Science Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Notre Dame);

Shi Yan: master student, graduate in 2024 (PhD student in University of Wisconsin-Madison);

Lingfeng Li: postdoc 2021 – 2024 (to-be faculty at International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific);

Gareth Mansfield: undergraduate student (summer research), graduate in 2024 (Ph.D student at UCLA, NSF graduate research fellowship);

Yunjia Bao: master student, graduate in 2022 (Ph.D student at UChicago);

Steven Clark: joint postdoc with Prof. Koushiappas and Alexander 2019 – 2022 (assistant professor at Hood College);

Manuel Buen-Abad: postdoc 2018 – 2021 (postdoc at Maryland);

Jatan Buch: PhD student, thesis defense 2021, Dean’s faculty fellow at Brown (postdoc at Columbia);

Adam Tropper: undergraduate student, thesis defense 2020, recipient of Goldwater Scholarship and NSF graduate fellowship (Ph.D student at Harvard);

Shing Chau Leung: PhD student, thesis defense 2020 (ZAIS group);

Chen Sun: visiting postdoc 2018 – 2019 (postdoc at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, to-be faculty at International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific);

David Pinner: postdoc 2017 – 2019 (Fulcrum);

Eliott Rosenberg: undergraduate student, thesis defense 2017 (Ph. D student at Cornell);

Prerit Jaiswal: postdoc 2013 – 2016 (Amazon Web Services);