Career:

2020 - present: PhD student, DAMTP, University of Cambridge

Research interest:

Boan Zhao (Andy) is interested in the formal and mathematical aspects of supersymmetric gauge theories (localisation, mirror symmetry, connections to algebraic geometry).

Supervisor:

Prof Nick Dorey

Publications:

Boundaries & Localisation with a Topological Twist

S. Crew, D. Zhang, B. Zhao - Journal of High Energy Physics: 93(2023) [arXiv:hep-th/2306.16448]

Neumann Boundary Condition for Abelian Vortices

N. S. Manton, B. Zhao - Journal of High Energy Physics: 181(2023) [arXiv:hep-th/2305.16069]

Superconformal Quantum Mechanics and Growth of Sheaf Cohomology

N. Dorey, B. Zhao - Journal of High Energy Physics: 96(2023) [arXiv:hep-th/2209.11834]

Black hole entropy from quantum mechanics

N. Dorey, R. Mouland, B. Zhao - Journal of High Energy Physics: 166(2023) [arXiv:hep-th/2207.12477]

Talks given:

Black hole entropy from quantum mechanics, Gong show, FPUK meeting, Swansea, UK, September 2022

Conformal quantum mechanics and black holes, UK-QFT meeting, Cambridge, UK, January 2023

Higgs branch localisation of 3d N=4 SQED[N] on a manifold with boundary, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2023

Hemisphere index of 3d N=4 gauge theories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2023

Neumann Boundary Condition for Abelian Vortices, DAMTP mathematical physics seminar, Cambridge, UK, November 2023

Teaching:

Cambridge Part III Quantum Field Theory example classes, 2020-2021,2021-2022,2022-2023