About Me

I am a PhD student in the Relativity and Gravitation research group in DAMTP, working under the supervision of Dr. Harvey Reall and Dr. Pau Figueras. Currently, I study black holes in higher dimensions through numerical methods such as the simulation of Ricci flows. I was an undergraduate student at Emmanuel College, where I am still currently affiliated with. I earned an MMath in 2012 after having completed Part III Mathematics, which was the culmination of four years of studies in the Mathematical Tripos. For contact details, please consult my DAMTP profile page.

Teaching

I am supervising Part II Electrodynamics in Michaelmas Term 2012. Here are some notes based on what I wrote for myself back in 2010: PDF (last updated 18 October 2012).

Previous Work

In 2012, I submitted my Part III essay on the topic of Global Isometric Embeddings and their application to Black Hole Thermodynamics. If anyone is interested, a PDF version of this can be found here . (In writing this essay, I have assumed that the reader is familiar with concepts covered in the Part III Black Holes course. For those who wish to do some background reading, I can recommend Prof. Townsend's excellent lecture notes.)

In the summer of 2011, I worked as an undergraduate researcher in the GK Batchelor Fluid Dynamics Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Nathalie Vriend and Dr. Jim McElwaine. I looked at how a column of granular materials collapses under the influence of gravity; in particular what happens when such a column is composed of two materials of significantly different properties. The result was rather interesting: a mixed column could spread significantly further than single-material ones. The experimented was documented in my report . This work has since be expanded upon by Joshua Caplan in his Part III essay project.