Simmons-Duffin, David

Committee Member — 18 thesises

• Dadras, Pouria — Black Holes and Entanglement Entropy (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Aike — Bootstrapping the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Archipelago and Skydiving Algorithm (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Jaeha — Bootstrapping Universal Asymptotics of Conformal Field Theory via Thermal Effective Action (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hunter-Jones, Nicholas R. — Chaos and Randomness in Strongly-Interacting Quantum Systems (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Junyu — Does Richard Feynman Dream of Electric Sheep? Topics on Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Computing, and Computer Science (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Cyuan-Han — Energy Correlators, Dispersive Sum Rules, and Modular Bootstrap in Conformal Field Theories (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Tzu-Chen — From Building Blocks to Theories: EFThedron and a Haagerup TFT (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Yixin — Geometric Constraints on CFT-Like Data at Genus 0, 1, and 2. (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koloğlu, Murat — Light and Heat: Nonlocal Aspects in Conformal Field Theories (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Landau, Yakov — Light Rays Illuminating the Universe (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Jae Hong — Measurement of R(D) and R(D*) Using Semileptonic Tags and Hadronic τ Decays (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roberts, Brenden Carlisle — New Tensor Network Methods and Studies of Criticality in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shah, Nabha Niranjan — Scattering and Gravitational Effective Field Theory (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Derda, Maria Dominika — Soft Theorems from Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kravchuk, Petr — Spin in Conformal Field Theory (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jagadale, Mrunmay Milind — T[M] Theories and Quantum Topology: Enlarged Moduli Spaces, Categorification, and Modularity (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spodyneiko, Lev — Topological Invariants of Interacting Gapped Quantum Materials and Transport Phenomena (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moss, Alexander Lorenzo — Ultraviolet Scalar Unification and Gravitational Radiation Reaction from Quantum Field Theory (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))