Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

Theoretical Physicist
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nonperturbative Bootstrap Fellowship
McGill University

Contact & Information

📱 1-437-983-7615
📍 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC

Education

Cornell University

Ph.D., Physics

2014-2019

Thesis: Causality Constraints in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Advisor: Thomas Hartman

Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics

M.Sc., Physics

2013-2014

Thesis: Soft theorems of Graviton scattering in arbitrary dimensions

Advisor: Freddy Cachazo

York University

B.Sc., Physics (Summa Cum Laude)

2009-2013

Undergraduate Advisor: A. Kumarakrishnan

Selected Publications

"Conformal bootstrap deformations," JHEP 09, 225 (2022)

[arXiv:2111.01799]

"Calabi-Yau CFTs and random matrices," JHEP 02, 021 (2022)

[arXiv:2107.11461]

"Free partition functions and an averaged holographic duality," JHEP 01, 130 (2021)

[arXiv:2006.04839]

View all publications on INSPIRE

Conferences and Workshops

Non-perturbative Bootstrap Meeting 2022

Invited Speaker

McGill University Quantum Gravity Seminar 2022

Invited Speaker

Princeton High Energy Theory Seminar 2021

Invited Speaker

Honors and Awards

Non-Perturbative Bootstrap Fellowship

McGill University, 2022

Kadanoff Fellowship

University of Chicago, 2019

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral Program

Cornell University, 2014

Teaching Experience

Mentorship Leading to Publication

Student: Anuj Apte

University of Chicago, 2022

Conformal Bootstrap Lecture Series

Department of Physics, University of Chicago

2020

Graduate General Relativity I

Department of Physics, Cornell University

2018