Teaching experience
Lecturing experience
- Introduction to String Theory at the Hamburg International Summer School on Particles, Strings & Cosmology, 11th July - 5th August 2022, Hamburg, Germany.
- Introduction to String Theory, a Master's course at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021 - 2022.
- Introduction to String Theory at the Hamburg International Summer School on Particles, Strings & Cosmology, 5th - 30th July 2021, Hamburg, Germany.
- Introduction to String Theory, a Master's course at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020 - 2021.
- Topology and Geometry for Physicists at the XIII Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics, 10th - 16th September 2017, Modave, Belgium.
- Complex Geometry and Calabi-Yau Manifolds, a 12-lecture graduate course at the University of Cape Town, 2014 - 2015.
Teaching Assistant
- Introduction to String Theory, Examples Classes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020 - 2021.
- Quantum Chromodynamics, Examples Classes, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, 2015 - 2016.
- Part III Quantum Field Theory, Examples Classes, University of Cambridge, 2013 - 2014.
- Part III String Theory, Examples Classes, University of Cambridge, 2010 - 2011.
- Part II Electrodynamics, Supervisions, University of Cambridge, 2010 - 2014.
- Part II General Relativity, Supervisions, University of Cambridge, 2012 - 2013.
- Part IB Maths for Natural Sciences, Supervisions, University of Cambridge, 2010 - 2014.
Research students supervised
- Moritz Kade, PhD student, 2021 - ongoing; Co-supervisor (with Matthias Staudacher)
- Michele Galli, PhD student, 2020 - ongoing; Main supervisor
- Mattia Bocchi, PhD student, 2020 - 2021; Main supervisor
- Marc Syväri, PhD student, 2017 - 2018; Co-supervisor (with Dieter Lüst)
- Marc Syväri, Master's student, 2016 - 2017; Co-supervisor (with Dieter Lüst)
Lecture Notes and Examples Sheets
Below are lecture notes and examples sheets for some of the courses I taught.
Introduction to String Theory
Here are the lecture notes, exercise sheets and other material for the Master's course "Introduction to String Theory" that I lectured in Winter Semester 2020 - 2021 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Lecture notes:
- Lecture 1.
- Lecture 2.
- Lecture 3.
- Lecture 4.
- Lecture 5.
- Lecture 6.
- Lecture 7.
- Lecture 8.
- Lecture 9.
- Lecture 10.
- Lecture 11.
- Lecture 12.
- Lecture 13.
- Lecture 14.
- Lecture 15.
- Lecture 16.
- Lecture 17.
- Lecture 18.
- Lecture 19.
- Lecture 20.
- Lecture 21.
- Lecture 22.
Exercise sheets:
- Exercise Sheet 1.
- Exercise Sheet 2.
- Exercise Sheet 3.
- Exercise Sheet 4.
- Exercise Sheet 5.
- Exercise Sheet 6.
- Exercise Sheet 7.
- Exercise Sheet 8.
- Exercise Sheet 9.
- Exercise Sheet 10.
- Exercise Sheet 11.
- Exercise Sheet 12.
- Exercise Sheet 13.
- Exercise Sheet 14.
Other material:
Topology and Geometry for Physicists
Here are my extended lecture notes, including exercises, for a 5-hour graduate course on "Topology and Geometry for Physicists" that I lectured in September 2017 at the XIII Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics. The course covers homotopy theory, homology, cohomology and hodge theory, and fibre bundles. The complete lecture notes can be found here (published version). Otherwise, click below for the individual chapters.
Complex Geometry and Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Here are my lecture notes, including exercises, for a course on "Complex Geometry and Calabi-Yau Manifolds" that I lectured during the academic year 2014 - 2015 at the University of Cape Town.
Part III Quantum Field Theory
Here are the examples sheets and solutions for QFT in Michaelmas term 2013 - 2014.
- Examples Sheet 1. Solutions.
- Examples Sheet 2. Solutions.
- Examples Sheet 3. Solutions.
- Examples Sheet 4. Solutions.
Typed notes for this course can be found here. Note that Raven login is required. You can contact Alice Harpole (ah631 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk) for access if you are not at Cambridge.
Further good notes are David Tong's QFT lecture notes (does not cover Path Integral methods) and also Hugh Osborn's AQFT notes for the Path Integral.