Hi, my name is Justin Kulp…
… and I am a PhD student the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. My supervisors are Davide Gaiotto and Jaume Gomis. This site is a place for me to keep a record of my projects and research, past, present, and future, as well as interesting links and resources. I hope it will act as a sort of virtual scrapbook.
I graduated from Perimeter Scholars International at the Perimeter Institute in 2019. My CV and some more detailed accounts of my research can be found on this website. Before that, I graduated with an HBSc. in Mathematics and a minor in Physics from Lakehead University in 2017.
My current research focuses on studying quantum field theory as a subject in its own right: mostly from a high energy theory perspective, but there is overlap with mathematical physics and condensed matter. I also have a passing interest in particle phenomenology. In particular, I have been focusing on topological aspects of quantum field theories, anomalies, and defects, especially in the context of TFT and CFT. My publications and public presentations are available on this site.
When I’m not pretending to be a physicist or mathematician, I can be found playing guitar or at the gym. The icon for this site is a “thick” Penrose rhomb that has been inflated using the associated inflation rules for a few iterations.
What I’m Doing: Current Research
I’m currently working on projects studying:
- Holomorphic twists of SUSY QFTs
- Applications of celestial holography;
- Aperiodic tilings and their application to physics.
I also have a growing interest in AdS/CFT and the conformal and S-matrix bootstrap programs.
In the picture is the {3,7}-tiling of the hyperbolic plane (in black) and its dual tiling (in grey). Strips of the tiling are coloured according to a particular algorithm. More details to come in the future…
What I’ve Done: Past Research
Recently, I’ve worked on projects on
- Orbifolds and other topological manipulations of 2d Quantum Field Theories
- Fermionic minimal models
- Crossing symmetry in Chern-Simons Matter theories