Graduate Student

Zach Curtis-Ginsberg

Pronouns: He/Him

Email: curtisginsbe@wisc.edu

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Research Advisor: Justin Vandenbroucke

Year of Admission: 2022

Websites: IceCube, CTA, Fermi

Research Interests: High-Energy Astrophysics, Particle Astrophysics

I did my undergrad at University of Chicago where I worked in instrumentation and commissioning for two ultra-high-energy neutrino detectors: RNO-G (Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland) & BEACON (Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos).

I currently work for Professor Vandenbroucke on developing the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) for future work as part of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO).

Hassan ElSayed

Email: hassan.elsayed@wisc.edu

Chamberlin Hall 2320

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Research Advisor: Gary Shiu

Year of Admission: 2023

Websites: Home Page, String Theory, Theoretical Cosmology, AI Physics

Research Interests: I am currently working in theoretical high-energy physics, at the interface of quantum gravity, quantum information & mathematics. My research includes observable algebras and holography in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spaces; the black hole information problem and Page curves beyond the weak-gravity limit; and consistency & positivity constraints on saddle-point approximations to gravitational path integrals. I am also working on exploiting quantum simulations of SYK models in order to probe and learn more about information scrambling, evaporation, and recovery.

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