Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics

15 thesises

2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017

2026

• Lee, Jaeha — Bootstrapping Universal Asymptotics of Conformal Field Theory via Thermal Effective Action (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2025

• Derda, Maria Dominika — Soft Theorems from Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2024

• Shah, Nabha Niranjan — Scattering and Gravitational Effective Field Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2020

• Lodman, Jackie Julia — Energy Non-Conservation in Quantum Mechanics (Senior thesis (Major))
• Singh, Ashmeet — Quantum Mechanical Vistas on the Road to Quantum Gravity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Yongliang — Information Scrambling in Quantum Many-Body Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2019

• Du, Song Ming — Fundamental Physics Through Gravitational Waves: From No-Hair Theorem to Quantum Structures of Black Holes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heydeman, Matthew Thomas Edwin — Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes and Algebraic Aspects of Holography from the Projective Line (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Zitao — Topological Phases of Matter: Exactly Solvable Models and Classification (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2018

• Bartolotta, Anthony Leo — The Union of Quantum Field Theory and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chatwin-Davies, Aidan Émile — Gravity Informed (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kravchuk, Petr — Spin in Conformal Field Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McKinney, Tristan James — The Effective Field Theory of Fermi Surfaces in the Vicinity of Van Hove Singularities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ye, Ke — A Symphony of Supersymmetry and Geometry: Invariants, Dualities and Chiral Rings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2017

• Pollack, Jason Aaron — Constraints on Cosmology and Quantum Gravity from Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))