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Theoretical physicists working at a blackboard collaboration pod in the Beecroft building.
Credit: Jack Hobhouse

Davide Laurenzano

Graduate Student

Research theme

  • Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics

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  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Particle theory
davide.laurenzano@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 273628
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, room 70.13
  • About

I am a third year PhD student under the supervision of Prof. John Wheater. My work focuses on different topics in Quantum Field Theory and  Quantum Gravity. These include the BFSS matrix model, which is a supersymmetric Gauge Theory which is holographically dual to the black brane solution of type IIA supergravity and it is conjectured to fully describe the degrees of freedom of M-theory. I'm also interested in JT gravity, which is a solvable model of quantum gravity in two dimensions. One particular approach to two dimensional Quantum Gravity I am interested in is the discretization method provided by Causal Dynamical Triangulation, which consists in a triangulation of space time which preserves causality and allows to trade the gravitational path integral for a combinatorial problem. Before coming to Oxford, I did my undergraduate and masters courses at Sapienza University in Rome.

Research interests

Quantum Field Theory
Random Matrix Theories
Quantum Gravity

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