Selected Essays

Sur les Symétries Fondamentales et Accidentales(1).pdf

On Fundamental and Accidental Symmetries (French)
[Philosophy of Science]

In this essay I give a review of common definitions of and distinctions between fundamental and accidental symmetries in philosophy of physics. I specifically give a detailed discussion of Peter Kosso’s definitions and propose an extension to those.

AdS/CFT in Many-Body Physics.pdf

Review of the AdS/CFT Correspondence & its Applications to Many-Body Systems

I give a quick overview of the general theory of relativity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. I then discuss how the latter can have applications related to many-body physics, and give a few examples with calculations.