- E-mail: K.Wong@damtp
- Research Group:
High Energy Physics - Research Interests:
Duality, Solitons - Office Tel: 01223 765253
- Office: B0.09
- Address:
DAMTP,
Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
Wilberforce Road,
Cambridge,
CB3 0WA,
United Kingdom - More Info (internal):
lookup.cam.ac.uk
Kenny Wong
Career
- 2011-present: PhD student, DAMTP, Cambridge
- 2010-2011: MMath Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2007-2010: BA Natural Sciences (Physics), Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2004-2006: Diploma in Mathematics, The Open University
Research
My interests in theoretical physics include relativity, quantum fields and string theory.
In 2011 and 2012, I studied the AdS/CFT correspondence and its applications to strongly coupled systems. Much of my work in this period focused on building bottom-up holographic models out of basic field theory ingredients such as fermions, solitons and magnetic fields.
In 2013, I started to think about some of the topological aspects of fermions and vortices in Yang-Mills gauge theory.
You can find more about my research (including some unpublished material) in my essay submission for the 2013 Smith-Knight and Rayleigh-Knight essay prize.
I am a PhD student of Prof. David Tong and I am supported by the European Research Council.
Publications
Fluctuation and Dissipation at a Quantum Critical Point
PRL 110 (2013) 061602 arxiv:1210.1580 with David Tong
Holographic Dual of the Lowest Landau level
JHEP 1212 (2012) 039 arXiv:1208.5771 with Mike Blake, Stefano Bolognesi and David Tong
A Gapless Hard Wall: Magnetic Catalysis in Bulk and Boundary
JHEP 1207 (2012) 162 arXiv:1204.6029 with Stefano Bolognesi, Joao Laia and David Tong
Resources
I supervise IA Mathematics for Natural Sciences for Trinity College. I have made some resources for this:
- Exam technique - a video of general interest.
- Revision tips for IA NatSci maths - twelve 5-minute-long videos to help with last-minute cramming.
Talks for the Trinity Mathematical Society:
- Why do physicists need group theory? - an overview of the applications of rep theory of finite groups.
- The past, the present and the future - an exploration of the notion of causality.
Resources for graduate students:
- Renormalisation - an old-fashioned but natural approach to subject, with examples from QED.
- The equivalence principle - a proof that freely-falling non-rotating observers in GR experience the laws of SR.