From the Planck Scale to the Hubble Scale - Theoretical Physics At KCL
Lead Research Organisation:
King's College London
Department Name: Mathematics
Abstract
Our research focuses on theoretical physics and the quest for the ultimate laws governing the Universe we inhabit and everything that we see around us. There are two sides to the kind of theoretical physics we research - quantum physics and gravity.
Quantum physics, particularly quantum field theory, describes particles and the forces like those that make up regular matter as well as ones that can only be detected at particle experiments, like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The development of quantum field theory in conjunction with experiments have led to the creation of the Standard Model of particle physics over the past century. This hugely successful theory received its final confirmation in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Gravity, as first formulated by Newton and then in more detail by Einstein's General Relativity describes the motion of celestial bodies and the expansion of the Universe as being due to the curvature of space-time. There have been multiple observations over the years in agreement with Einstein's theory. One of the most exciting was the discovery in 2015 of gravitational waves, a key prediction of the theory. Our ability to detect these ripples of space-time has fundamentally changed what we can learn about the Universe.
While there are some tantalising indications about new physics at the LHC, so far the Standard Model and General Relativity have passed every experimental test we can throw at them, often to amazing accuracy. Our research aims at gaining deeper insights into those theories and resolving outstanding questions in the relation to observations.
Some of the puzzles we are studying are as follows. There is plenty of evidence for dark matter in the Universe - an additional particle beyond those in with the standard model. There is also evidence for dark energy, a mysterious energy field which accelerates the Universe's expansion and doesn't behave like a particle at all. And does the Universe contain so much more matter than anti-matter. We know that some new physics beyond just the Standard model with gravity had to take place at the very start of the Universe to set up the initial conditions of the Universe we inhabit. More fundamentally, quantum theory and general relativity don't play well with each other and lead to inconsistencies in extreme situations like at the beginning of the Universe and in black holes.
It is precisely these questions that we hope to research with this grant. In order to find out what lies beyond the standard model and what the dark matter is we use observations at particle colliders, underground detectors and in space. We can examine what can and cannot be observed at the Large Hadron collider, what dark matter is doing inside galaxies in space and increasingly we are using gravitational waves to peer deeper into the Early Universe than we have been able to in the past.
To reconcile quantum physics and gravity, we study string theory and its many avatars. At a basic level, string theory replaces particles and quantum fields with extended objects - the strings. The resulting theory accommodates both quantum physics and gravity and reveals many new features. One particular example are "holographic" theories where gravity provides an alternative description to quantum field theory, rather than a contradiction that needs to be reconciled. We explore a multitude of theories in varying dimensions of space-time and the objects within them, from particles to black holes. The more learn of all possible physical theories, the better we will understand the laws governing our Universe.
Roughly speaking, the Theory Group in the Maths Department works more closely on string theory, black holes, and abstract properties of quantum field theory and gravity while the Theory Group in the Physics Department works on particle physics phenomenology, dark matter, the early Universe and the relation of gravity to particle physics.
Quantum physics, particularly quantum field theory, describes particles and the forces like those that make up regular matter as well as ones that can only be detected at particle experiments, like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The development of quantum field theory in conjunction with experiments have led to the creation of the Standard Model of particle physics over the past century. This hugely successful theory received its final confirmation in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Gravity, as first formulated by Newton and then in more detail by Einstein's General Relativity describes the motion of celestial bodies and the expansion of the Universe as being due to the curvature of space-time. There have been multiple observations over the years in agreement with Einstein's theory. One of the most exciting was the discovery in 2015 of gravitational waves, a key prediction of the theory. Our ability to detect these ripples of space-time has fundamentally changed what we can learn about the Universe.
While there are some tantalising indications about new physics at the LHC, so far the Standard Model and General Relativity have passed every experimental test we can throw at them, often to amazing accuracy. Our research aims at gaining deeper insights into those theories and resolving outstanding questions in the relation to observations.
Some of the puzzles we are studying are as follows. There is plenty of evidence for dark matter in the Universe - an additional particle beyond those in with the standard model. There is also evidence for dark energy, a mysterious energy field which accelerates the Universe's expansion and doesn't behave like a particle at all. And does the Universe contain so much more matter than anti-matter. We know that some new physics beyond just the Standard model with gravity had to take place at the very start of the Universe to set up the initial conditions of the Universe we inhabit. More fundamentally, quantum theory and general relativity don't play well with each other and lead to inconsistencies in extreme situations like at the beginning of the Universe and in black holes.
It is precisely these questions that we hope to research with this grant. In order to find out what lies beyond the standard model and what the dark matter is we use observations at particle colliders, underground detectors and in space. We can examine what can and cannot be observed at the Large Hadron collider, what dark matter is doing inside galaxies in space and increasingly we are using gravitational waves to peer deeper into the Early Universe than we have been able to in the past.
To reconcile quantum physics and gravity, we study string theory and its many avatars. At a basic level, string theory replaces particles and quantum fields with extended objects - the strings. The resulting theory accommodates both quantum physics and gravity and reveals many new features. One particular example are "holographic" theories where gravity provides an alternative description to quantum field theory, rather than a contradiction that needs to be reconciled. We explore a multitude of theories in varying dimensions of space-time and the objects within them, from particles to black holes. The more learn of all possible physical theories, the better we will understand the laws governing our Universe.
Roughly speaking, the Theory Group in the Maths Department works more closely on string theory, black holes, and abstract properties of quantum field theory and gravity while the Theory Group in the Physics Department works on particle physics phenomenology, dark matter, the early Universe and the relation of gravity to particle physics.
Publications

Abbott R
(2023)
Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3
in Physical Review X

Abbott R
(2023)
Open Data from the Third Observing Run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Abbott R
(2023)
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO-Virgo Observing Run O3a
in The Astrophysical Journal

Abbott R
(2023)
Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion History from GWTC-3
in The Astrophysical Journal

Acharya B
(2024)
MoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger Effect.
in Physical review letters


Aguilar-Gutierrez S
(2025)
$$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$ deformations from AdS2 to dS2
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Ai W
(2024)
Piecewise linear potentials for false vacuum decay and negative modes
in Physical Review D

Ai W
(2024)
From QFT to Boltzmann: freeze-in in the presence of oscillating condensates
in Journal of High Energy Physics

Ai W
(2024)
Double-well instantons in finite volume
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Title | Exhibition in Hamburg |
Description | This was an exhibition at Hidde van Segellen Gallery in Hamburg of ceramic works inspired by my STFC funded research https://hiddevanseggelen.com/exhibitions/nadav-drukker-solo-exhibition/ |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | 100s of people saw the work and a few dozens particiapted in activities that the gallery held in collaboration with me, where they learned more about my research and artistic practice. |
URL | https://hiddevanseggelen.com/exhibitions/nadav-drukker-solo-exhibition/ |
Title | Fuzzy Axions and Associated Relics |
Description | This repository stores the data for some of the example models of fuzzy dark matter in type IIB string theory obtained in ArXiv:2412.12012. It also contains a Python notebook to illustrate the manipulation of these models in CYTools. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Used in a publication |
URL | https://github.com/sheride/fuzzy_axions |
Description | Collaboration with the Xu group at Harvard |
Organisation | Harvard University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Participated in authorship of a paper. Provided theoretical input and calculations on the use of a material for dark matter detection. Wrote text. Advised on interpretation of results. |
Collaborator Contribution | Fabricated material and performed experiments measuring the frequency response of MnBi2Te4. Discovered the axion quasiparticle. |
Impact | Paper accepted in Nature. "Observation of the dynamical Axion quasiparticle by coherent control of Berry curvature in 2D MnBi2Te4", Qiu et al. Accepted February 11, 2025 Multi disciplinary. Chemistry: production of the materials and experiments. Theoretical condensed matter physics: calculation of material properties. Theoretical particle physics and astrophysics: calculations relating to using the material as a dark matter detector and as an "analogue" system for dark matter. |
Start Year | 2024 |
Title | Black Hole Superradiance for Ultralight Bosons |
Description | A Python package and data repo for calculating BHSR rates and constraining the properties of ultralight bosons. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Used in a preprint publication |
Title | SDPB |
Description | The software SDPB is a numerical tool that solves semidefinite programs -- optimization problems constrained by semidefinite-positive constraints on matrices. This specific software is optmized for computations that arise in the field of numerical conformal bootstrap. This output refers to a siginificant improvement that has been implemented in this software based on an algorithm I designed. This algorithm introduces near-optimal polynomial interpolation of input data into SDPB, which dramatically improves performance characterstics in real-life use cases. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The optimized performance of this code made possible a precision study of 3d Ising CFT, which determined its key parameters with precision exceeding the previous word's best by two orders of magnitude. |
URL | https://github.com/davidsd/sdpb/ |
Title | fuzzylli: Interference Fringes for Cosmic Filaments |
Description | fuzzylli is a tool to postprocess fuzzy dark matter (FDM) interference fringes onto cosmic filaments. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Used in a publication |
Title | jaxsp: A semi-analytical model for ULDM in spherical systems |
Description | jaxsp is a python library for constructing analytical wave function approximations to the steady-state Schroedinger-Poisson equation (SP) in spherical symmetry. The resulting wave function is a cheap, yet accurate, surrogate model for the equilibrium dynamics of ultralight, bosonic dark matter (ULDM) in spherically symmetric systems such as dwarf galaxies. Its evaluation does not require to run full-fledged SP simulations. Under the hood, jaxsp builds the sought-after wave function by (i) generating an extensive library of energy eigenstates via the matrix-free Pruess method and application of the WWT-algorithm (ii) fitting the eigenstate libary to a user-provided density profile. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Use in a publication accepted in Physical Review Letters |
Title | timzimm/boson_dsph: PRL |
Description | Reproduces main result of PRL-accepted paper |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2025 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | This software can be used to reproduce the analysis and figures in Phys Rev Lett paper by Zimmermann et al, to be published in 2025 |
URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14960338 |
Description | Banff Women in Geometry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Summary presentation of our working group: aims and objectives. "Cosmic Strings and Spacetime Singularities" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.birs.ca/events/2023/5-day-workshops/23w5062 |
Description | Big Bang at St Martin in the Fields Girls school |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Careers and science talk given to a girls school. Covered aspects of cosmology and careers in academia. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/platform/activity/08d145bf-8c97-4a6a-b63e-40682dabf64e |
Description | Big Bang at The City Academy Hackney |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Talk and workshop on modern cosmology, and careers in science to GCSE and A-level children. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/platform/activity/9f58f745-3194-4b6a-899e-fc841b19eeec |
Description | COST Action Seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar as part of COST Action Cosmic WISPers, subject: axiverse in 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://agenda.infn.it/event/38647/ |
Description | Cambridge University Cosmology Lunch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar on axion star explosions at Cambridge University, 30th May |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Dame Allans School, "The Lectures" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Closing lecture "Branes, Boffins and Black Holes" in inaugural "The Lectures" series at Dame Allans School, Newcastle upon Tyne. Audience of school children, parents and general public. A lot of questions and interest. Advised on studying physics beyond school. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Durham annual theory meeting talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar about axions in string theory at the annual STFC theory meeting in Durham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Harvard seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar in theory group at Harvard University about my research on axions in string theory |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Hertford Astronomy Society - Public Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lecture to an astronomical society on puzzles in understanding the universe. Communication of science to the public, increasing interest in scientific enquiry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology dedicated to Prof. Rubakov memory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Online contribution "Acceleration and Black Hole Thermodynamics" to meeting commemorating the life and work of Valery Rubakov. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.aanl.am/?p=82&pni=19&lang=en |
Description | Interview in Vague skateboard magazine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Feature interview with me in Vague skateboard magazine discussing my work as a physicist |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Invited plenary talk at "Relativistic Quantum Information", Prague |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A conference mixing a range of physics practitioners. Lots of interest in the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Invited speaker at "Frontiers in Cosmology and Gravitation" Portsmouth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk: Sparked discussion in breaks, led to a re-direction of a research project resulting an another publication. New collaborations and conversations have resulted. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Invited speaker at "New Horizons in Primordial Black Hole physics", Edinburgh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussions sparked, led to new collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Lecture at STFC Astrophysics Summer School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Lecture on introduction to dark matter at Keele University for astrophysics summer school. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Lecture at STFC Particle Physics summer school |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Lecture on introduction to dark matter at BUSSTEPP summer school in Sheffield |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | London Gravity Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at London Gravity Meeting "Thermodynamics of Acceleration" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Loughton Astronomical Society Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public lecture to Astronomical Society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | New scientist article about axions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interviewed for New Sceintist cover feature about axions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034670-700-the-wonder-particle-how-axions-could-solve-more-... |
Description | Olentzero Meeting, Bilbao |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at meeting, "Slow roll with a black hole" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Online Seminar for Moscow University ITMP |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Online seminar for ITMP on the string axiverse, 24th May |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Open Day fro KCL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Mini seminar to schools visit at Physics deaprtment |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Open day for KCL, 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Mini seminar at open day |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Phys.org article about axion star explosions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article in phys.org associated to my paper "Axion Star Explosions: a new source for axion indirect detection" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://phys.org/news/2024-02-explosive-axion-stars-dark |
Description | Public Lecture: Prague Academy of Sciences: |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public Lecture "Symmetry and Conservation: The Impact of Emmy Noether", attended by Czech public and local physicists. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Quantum Gravity and all that - online |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Online talk "Thermodynamics of Acceleration" given in online series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://qgholqi.inpcs.net/ |
Description | Quantum Spacetime in the Cosmos: from conception to reality |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Plenary talk at conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/39/overview |
Description | Radio 4 the Third Degree |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participated on team in university game show The Third Degree, recorded 31st May, broadcast 31st July at 3pm, repeated the following Saturday at 11pm |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p7ck |
Description | Science Week Manor Infants School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Careers and science talk to infant school children |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/platform/activity/039e1c71-50a5-4544-ba3c-319bea654449 |
Description | Seminar at Advanes in Axion Physics, TD Lee Institute |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Online workshop hosted by Shanghai TD Lee Institute, seminar topic: axiverse |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/view/axionworkshop |
Description | Seminar at CITA, Toronto |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar on axion star explosions, 9th June, University of Toronto |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Seminar at Cornell University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar on the axiverse |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Seminar at Holloway |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk on axion star explosions at RHUL |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Seminar at Oslo University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar about my research to Physics department in Oslo |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Seminar at Oxford on String Axiverse |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar on 25th May at Oxford University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Seminar at Perimeter Institute |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | seminar on axion star explosions 8th June |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Seminar for Quantum Sensors network, University of Sussex |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk at University of Sussex |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk at Bewildered Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk about dark matter at Bewildered festival 22nd July |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk at Topology Workshop of Thomas Young Centre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar about research into toplogical insulators, interdisciplinary within physics: particle physics to condensed matter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Talk for KCL Dark Matter Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Annual dark matter day event, 31st October, hosted at KCL |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.interactions.org/dark-matter-day/kings-college#:~:text=October%2031%20is%20the%20Interna... |
Description | Talk for MADMAX experiment group meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk to experimental collaboration MADMAX to promote connection of their experiment to testing string theory, based on a research paper I wrote. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Werner Israel Memorial Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at Israel Symposium, to honour the work of Werner Israel, "Walls, Bubbles, and Israel" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://indico.triumf.ca/event/332/ |
Description | Workshop at Banff International Research Station |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Applied for successful funding, organised, attended and presented at workshop on "Pushing the String Axiverse" in Banff, Canada |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
URL | https://www.birs.ca/events/2025/5-day-workshops/25w5384 |
Description | space.com article about axion star explosions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | article in space.com about my research into axion star explosions and their use to detect dark matter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.space.com/axion-stars-big-bang-dark-matter |