Dr Akshat Pandey
Statistical mechanics seeks to discover mathematical structure that explains universal emergent phenomena in the physical world, or in the world of physically motivated theories. While randomly located impurities ("disorder") might appear to be a mere complication in this program, they frequently give rise to novel physics, and enrich the conceptual framework of statistical mechanics, most notably the theory of critical phenomena. I aim to construct organising principles in the theory of disordered systems, with an emphasis on phases and phase transitions dominated by disorder.
Before I started my Fellowship at All Souls, I was a PhD student at Stanford University, advised by Steve Kivelson. You can find my thesis here. Before that, I was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge.