CV – Kevin T. Grosvenor
CURRICULUM VITAE
Kevin T. Grosvenor (Orcid ID: 0000-0002-8383-1998)
Niels Bohrweg 2, Room 234, 2333 CA Leiden
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I am a theoretical physicist. My doctoral training is in the field of high energy theory, quantum field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity with an emphasis on non-relativistic theories and aspects. I have also branched out into other areas including holography, condensed matter theory (particularly in the field of fractonic physics), information theory, and machine learning.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, 01.09.2021–Present Lorentz Institute, University of Leiden
Supervisor: Koenraad Schalm
Hallwachs-Röntgen Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Würzburg and 01.09.2018–31.08.2021 Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden Supervisors: Johanna Erdmenger and Roderich Moessner Postdoctoral Researcher, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen 01.09.2015–31.08.2018 Supervisors: Jan Ambjørn and Niels Obers
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Physics), University of California, Berkeley 14.08.2015 Dissertation: Exploring Landscapes of Naturalness with Lifshitz Field Theories. Supervisor: Petr Hoˇrava
M.A. (Physics), University of California, Berkeley 14.05.2010 B.A. summa cum laude (Physics and Mathematics), Harvard College 05.06.2008 AWARDS AND HONORS
U.C. President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at U.C. Davis (offered) 2015 U.C. Berkeley Physics Department Service Award 2015 U.C. Berkeley Endowment Fund Fellowship for Graduate Education 2009-2011 Carl and Betty Helmholz Scholarship, U.C. Berkeley 2008–2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, U.C. Berkeley 2008–2009 Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College 2008
Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics, Harvard College 2008 Harvard College Scholarship 2006
Harvard Detur Prize 2005
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Horizon 2020, European Commission 2021–2023 Grant number: 101024967; Award amount: 175,572.48 euros. CV – Page 1 of 6
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PUBLICATIONS
22. Criticality versus uniformity in deep neural networks Aleksandar Bukva, Jurriaan de Gier, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ro Jefferson, Koenraad Schalm, Eliot Schwander
(2023) [arXiv:2304.04784 [hep-th]].
21. Non-Lorentzian IIB Supergravity from a Polynomial Realization of SL(2,R) Eric Bergshoeff, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Johannes Lahnsteiner, Ziqi Yan, Utku Zorba
(2023) [arXiv:2306.04741 [hep-th]].
20. T-linear resistivity, optical conductivity and Planckian transport for a holographic local quantum critical metal in a periodic potential
Floris Balm, Nicolas Chagnet, Sam Arend, Joost Aretz, Kevin Grosvenor, Martijn Janse, Ole Moors, Jonah Post, Vladimir Ohanesjan, David Rodriguez-Fernandez, Koenraad Schalm, Jan Zaanen
(2022) [arXiv:2211.05492 [cond-mat.str-el]].
19. Fractonic Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition from a renormalization group perspective Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ruben Lier, Piotr Surówka
Phys. Rev. B 107 (2023) no. 4, 045139, [arXiv:2207.14343 [cond-mat.stat-mech]]. 18. Branched SL(2,Z) Duality
Eric Bergshoeff, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Johannes Lahnsteiner, Ziqi Yan, Utku Zorba JHEP 10 (2022) 131, [arXiv:2208.13815 [hep-th]].
17. Space-dependent Symmetries and Fractons
Kevin T. Grosvenor, Carlos Hoyos, Francisco Peña-Benítez, Piotr Surówka Front. in Phys. 9 (2022), 792621, [arXiv:2112.00531 [hep-th]]. 16. The Edge of Chaos: quantum field theory and deep neural networks Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ro Jefferson
SciPost Phys. 12 (2022) 081, [arXiv:2109.13247 [hep-th]]. 15. Towards Quantifying Information Flows: relative entropy in deep neural networks and the renormalization group Johanna Erdmenger, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ro Jefferson SciPost Phys. 12 (2022) 041, [arXiv:2107.06898 [hep-th]]. 14. Hydrodynamics of Ideal Fracton Fluids
Kevin T. Grosvenor, Carlos Hoyos, Francisco Peña-Benítez, Piotr Surówka Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043186 (2021), [arXiv:2105.01084 [cond-mat.str-el]]. 13. New Heat Kernel Method in Lifshitz Theories
Kevin T. Grosvenor, Charles Melby-Thompson, Ziqi Yan JHEP 04 (2021) 178, [arXiv:2101.03177 [hep-th]].
12. Renormalization of Galilean Electrodynamics
Shira Chapman, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ziqi Yan JHEP 10 (2020) 195, [arXiv:2007.03033 [hep-th]]
11. Information Geometry in Quantum Field Theory: lessons from simple examples Johanna Erdmenger, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ro Jefferson SciPost Phys. 8 (2020) 5, 073, [arXiv:2001.02683 [hep-th]] 10. Entanglement Entropy and Subregion Complexity in Thermal Perturbations around Pure-AdS Spacetime Aranya Bhattacharya, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Shibaji Roy Phys. Rev. D 100 (2019) no. 12, 126004, [arXiv:1905.02220 [hep-th]]. CV – Page 2 of 6
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PUBLICATIONS (continued)
9. An Action for Extended String Newton-Cartan Gravity Eric A. Bergshoeff, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ceyda S ims ek, Ziqi Yan JHEP 01 (2019) 178, [arXiv:1810.09387 [hep-th]].
8. Homogeneous Nonrelativistic Geometries as Coset Spaces Kevin T. Grosvenor, Jelle Hartong, Cynthia Keeler, Niels A. Obers Class. Quant. Grav. 35 (2018), 17, 175007, [arXiv:1712.03980 [hep-th]]. 7. Four-dimensional CDT with Toroidal Topology
Jan Ambjørn, Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki, Andrzej Görlich, Kevin Grosvenor, Jerzy Jurkiewicz Nucl. Phys. B 922 (2017) 226-246, [arXiv:1705.07653 [hep-th]]. 6. Nonrelativistic Yang-Mills Theory for a Naturally Light Higgs Boson Laure Berthier, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ziqi Yan
Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 9, 095030, [arXiv:1705.04701 [hep-th]]. 5. Quantization of Hoˇrava Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions Tom Griffin, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Charles M. Melby-Thompson, Ziqi Yan JHEP 06 (2017) 004, [arXiv:1701.08173 [hep-th]].
4. Nonrelativistic Short-Distance Completions of a Naturally Light Higgs Kevin T. Grosvenor, Petr Hoˇrava, Christopher J. Mogni, Ziqi Yan
(2016) [arXiv:1608.06937 [hep-th]]
3. Cascading Multicriticality in Nonrelativistic Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Tom Griffin, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Petr Hoˇrava, Ziqi Yan Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (2015) 24, 241601, [arXiv:1507.06992 [hep-th]]. 2. Scalar Field Theories with Polynomial Shift Symmetries Tom Griffin, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Petr Hoˇrava, Ziqi Yan Commun. Math. Phys. 340 (2015) 3, 985-1048, [arXiv:1412.1046 [hep-th]]. 1. Multicritical Symmetry Breaking and Naturalness of Slow Nambu-Goldstone Bosons Tom Griffin, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Petr Hoˇrava, Ziqi Yan Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 101701, [arXiv:1308.5967 [hep-th]]. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Information Geometry and Quantum Fields
Kevin T. Grosvenor
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol. 361 (2021). Springer, Cham. Projectable Hoˇrava Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions: Phases and Flows Kevin T. Grosvenor
J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 952 (2018) 1, 012015.
THESIS
Exploring Landscapes of Naturalness with Lifshitz Field Theories Kevin T. Grosvenor
Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley (2015). CV – Page 3 of 6
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INVITED TALKS
Using Numerical Holography to Model the Thermoelectric Transport Properties 26 Jun 2023 of Strange Metals, HET Seminar, Sogang University, Seoul. The AdS/CFT Correspondence: A Window into Strongly-Correlated Systems, 17 Mar 2023 National Seminar on Theoretical High Energy Physics, CWI/Nikhef, Amsterdam. Fractonic Renormalization and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition, 17 Jan 2023 National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines The edge of chaos: quantum field theory and deep neural networks, 21 Sep 2022 Coherence Correlations Complexity Seminar, Wrocław Dance of the Fractons, 25 Mar 2022
Delta-ITP Holography Meeting, Amsterdam
The edge of chaos: quantum field theory and deep neural networks, 03 Nov 2021 Math and Physics Seminar Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Hydrodynamics of ideal fracton fluids, Condensed Matter Seminar, MPI PKS 13 Jul 2021 Information geometry in quantum field theory, GQFI Seminar, MPI Potsdam 17 Jun 2020 Entanglement entropy and subregion complexity, University of Vienna 16 Jun 2020 Information geometry in quantum field theory, IST Lisbon 11 May 2020 RG flows of nonrelativistic gauge theories, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen 21 Feb 2020 Information geometry in quantum field theory, Nordita, Stockholm 20 Feb 2020 Information geometry in quantum field theory, University of Groningen 13 Feb 2020 Entanglement entropy and subregion complexity, Radboud University, Nijmegen 07 Feb 2020 Gauge/Gravity duality: making gravity work for us, University of Würzburg 31 Jan 2020 Can we capture many-body localization using AdS/CFT?, 10 Oct 2019 Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter (ct.qmat) Retreat, Meißen, Germany Entanglement entropy and subregion complexity, University of Amsterdam 24 Sep 2019 Entanglement entropy and subregion complexity, Perimeter Institute 10 Apr 2019 Nonrelativistic naturalness and emergent Lorentz symmetry, University of Iceland 22 May 2018 Nonrelativistic naturalness and the Higgs hierarchy problem, 15 Jan 2018 National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Newton-Cartan coset spaces, Perimeter Institute 03 Nov 2017 Nonrelativistic naturalness and the Higgs hierarchy problem, CERN 11 Oct 2017 Nonrelativistic naturalness and the Higgs hierarchy problem, Tel Aviv University 25 May 2017 Nonrelativistic naturalness and the Higgs hierarchy problem, 24 May 2017 Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem What do graphs have to do with polynomial shift invariance?, 25 May 2016 H.C. Ørsted Institute, Copenhagen
Lifshitz-type Nambu-Goldstone bosons, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen 06 Feb 2016 Polynomial shifty symmetry: from naturalness to graph theory, U.C. Berkeley 24 Sep 2014 CV – Page 4 of 6
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CONFERENCE TALKS
Non-Lorentzian IIB Supergravity, 20 Jun 2023
Gravity Beyond Riemannian Paradigm, CQUeST/APCTP, Jeju, South Korea. Neural Network / Quantum Field Theory Correspondence, 23 Jan 2023 5th Bangkok Workshop on Discrete Geometry, Dynamics, and Statistics, Bangkok. Neural Network / Quantum Field Theory Correspondence, 9 Jan 2023 10th Bangkok Workshop on High Energy Physics, Bangkok. Information Flows: from Renormalization to Neural Networks, 23.06.2022 The 4th Information Universe Conference, Groningen Hydrodynamics of ideal fracton fluids, 19.07.2021
Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Phases of Matter, B edlewo, Poland Information geometry and quantum fields, 30.07.2020 Statistical Physics, Information Geometry and Inference for Learning ’20, Les Houches Homogeneous nonrelativistic geometries as coset spaces, Group32, Prague 12.07.2018 Nonrelativistic naturalness and emergent Lorentz symmetry, 22.06.2018 Emergent Symmetries Workshop, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen Coset representation of Newton-Cartan geometry, 14.03.2018 Workshop on Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry, MITP Mainz Hoˇrava Gravity in 2+1 dimensions: phases and flows, 07.07.2017 Workshop on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry in Field theory, University of Algarve, Faro Phases of gravity with anisotropic scaling, GR21 Columbia University 07.07.2016 TEACHING
Graduate level
Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality, Course Instructor Spring 2017, 2018 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Quantum Field Theory I, Teaching Assistant, U.C. Berkeley Fall 2012, 2013 Preliminary Exam Review, Course Instructor, U.C. Berkeley 2010-2013 Developed an eight-week review course for continuing graduate students. Held two-week reviews before the exams at the start of the semesters. Undergraduate level
PHY 7C EM Waves, Optics, Relativity, and Quantum Physics Spring 2015 Teaching Assistant, U.C. Berkeley
PHY 137B Quantum Mechanics II, Teaching Assistant, U.C. Berkeley Spring 2014 PHY H7C (Honors) EM Waves, Optics, Relativity, and Quantum Physics Fall/Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant, U.C. Berkeley
PHY H7B (Honors) Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, U.C. Berkeley
PHY 8B (Premed) Electromagnetism, Optics, and Modern Physics Spring 2010, Teaching Assistant, U.C.Berkeley Fall 2008, 2009
PHY 7B Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism, Teaching Assistant Spring 2009 U.C. Berkeley
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PHY 15C Wave Phenomena, Laboratory Instructor, Harvard College Spring 2008, 2007, Fall 2006
PHY 15B Electromagnetism, Laboratory Instructor, Harvard College Spring 2006, Fall 2005 Supplementary
Undergraduate Student Learning Initiative, Developer, U.C. Berkeley 2010 - 2011 Developed a battery of undergraduate oral examination questions to assess the effectiveness of the physics program.
SUPERVISION AND MENTORSHIP
Aleksandar Bukva. With Koenraad Schalm, co-supervising his project on Chaos versus Uniformity in Machine Learning. Expected conferral date: January 2023.
Jurriaan de Gier, M.Sc. With Koenraad Schalm, co-supervised his masters thesis entitled “Neural Networks and the Renormalization Group.” Conferral date: July 2022. Eliot Schwander, M.Sc. With Koenraad Schalm, co-supervised his masters thesis entitled “Random neural networks and the edge of chaos.” Conferral date: July 2022. Julian Meusel, M.Sc. Mentored him through his masters thesis entitled “Numerical Simulations of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Spacetime using ExaHyPE.” Conferral date: September 2021. Laure Berthier, Ph.D. Supervised her project on Nonrelativistic Yang-Mills Theory during the final year of her Ph.D.
(Fall 2016 to Spring 2017) leading to a publication in Physical Review D. Christian Kragh Jespersen. Mentored him for the 2017 “Forskerspirer” program, which allows gymnasium students to immerse themselves in a self-chosen research topic. The project was about rates of ultra-rare processes in a long-lived universe.
SERVICE
I serve as a referee for the following journals: Classical and Quantum Gravity, European Physics Journal C, Journal of High Energy Physics, SciPost, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review X. SKILLS
Computing languages: shell script, Python, LaTex
Computing systems: Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB
Languages: English (native), Tagalog (native), Spanish (fluent), Danish (B1), German (A1)
Table Tennis: NCTTA rating 1272 (New England Division 2005-2008) CV – Page 6 of 6