Clone of People
The Bose group investigates experimental protocols to test the quantum nature of gravity. This includes a close collaboration with experimentalists cooling and levitating large masses. |
The Oppenheim group is exploring an alternative to quantum gravity, in which spacetime remains classical while quantum theory is modified resulting in an intrinsic breakdown in predictability that is mediated by spacetime itself. |
Peter Barker’s research has concentrated on the cooling, manipulation and transport of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles in optical tweezers. He is exploring levitated nano-mechanical systems for quantum sensing. |
Associate Faculty (Mathematics)
Prof Christian G Boehmer is the Head of Department of UCL Mathematics. His main research is in General Relativity and Cosmology. He is working on theories of gravity which can be used as effective descriptions to models where certain symmetries are broken at small scales. Such models can describe spacetimes where singularities are avoided by the effects of the new gravitational modes. |
Rod Halburd works on integrable systems, the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations, general relativity and complex analysis. He is working on the transition region in which the motion of a mass orbiting a black hole changes from in-spiral to plunge. In general relativity, planar gravitational waves and axis-symmetric stationary vacuum spacetimes are described by integrable systems, as is the geodesic structure of several physically important spacetimes. A major theme in his research is the detection of integrability, not only in differential equations, but also in discrete and quantum systems. |
Rosemary Harris’s research interests focus on stochastic non-equilibrium processes including: interacting particle systems, large deviations, fluctuation relations, as well as applications. |
Betti Hartmann’s research is General Relativity and Field Theory, including non-linear phenomena in flat and curved space-time, in particular black holes and (topological and non-topological) solitons, with applications to astrophysics, cosmology, condensed matter, and biophysics. Her current research includes applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence; solitons and black holes in AdS space-time; predictions of Grand Unified models and Superstring Theories for the primordial universe, in particular formation of topological defects |
Associate Faculty (Computer Science)
Tony Cubitt is interested in many things, amongst which are mathematically rigorous toy models of AdS/CFT duality and it’s connections with quantum error correction and Hamiltonian simulation. |
Lluis Masanes is interested in discrete holography and quantum casuality. |
Associate Faculty (Physics and Astronomy)
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