Physics student and researcher. When I'm not thinking about physics, economics or math, I like to take pictures, read books, travel and bike, listen to the Talking Heads, etc...

Sitemap

A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there is an XML version available for digesting as well.

Pages

Posts

Learning to Drive

6 minute read

Published:

I only met uncle Jacques once. We were in Bathurst, on the shores of Atlantic New Brunswick. He had just left his second wife to get back together with his first. He was a fisherman. Our interactions were infrequent, unremarkable, and bordered on uncomfortable. But he told the tale of his last few months, and I was attentive. I was in Gaspé and drove straight down to Montréal, he said. An eight-hour trip, eyes on the road, lost in a dizzy focus. Beyond the destination, there was another. I drove to clear my head, to guide myself and stay on my tracks. When you drive, you’re forced to stay within your lane. Bound by a set of rules, confined to pre-existing models. Resisting, at all times, the call of the void. To steer off in one direction or another. I may have been paraphrasing – he did only speak French, after all. But I remember that metaphor still, as it finds its way back to me staring out the passenger seat window. As I am stopped at a red. As I turn at a bend. And it came to me yesterday, as I lived the near three hours of Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s latest feature.

The Aharanov-Bohm Effect

5 minute read

Published:

What is the vector potential, really? Besides a mathematical trick envoked to exploit the fact that the magnetic is always incompressible, undergraduates (such as myself) were never shown a satisfying explanation. We go through our electromagnetism classes spiting it, thinking to ourselves that “if the universe were more symmetric, it wouldn’t exist!” when in fact the truth could not be more different. This strange potential function is undoubtedly the most used and applied field in all of physics, and its importance to the theory of quantum mechanics, from lattice gauge theory to particle physics, cannot be overstated. In what follows, I hope to convince you, a young physicist of limited knowledge and strong conviction, that this potential is not simply a mathematical construct. That it is perhaps the piece with the deepest and most resonant consequences.

Blog Post number 2

less than 1 minute read

Published:

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

Blog Post number 1

less than 1 minute read

Published:

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

portfolio

publications

talks

teaching

Modern Physics & Relativity

Undergraduate course, McGill University, Department of Physics, 2019

Undergraduate teaching assistant for PHYS 260 (modern physics & relativity), the honours special relativity and introductory quantum mechanics course.

Calculus III

Undergraduate course, McGill University, Department of Physics, 2020

Teaching assistant for MATH 222 (Calculus III), the introductory multivariable calculus course.

Quantum mechanics

Undergraduate course, McGill University, Department of Physics, 2021

Teaching assistant for PHYS 357 (Honours Quantum Physics), the honours quantum mechanics course.

Statistical mechanics

Undergraduate course, McGill University, Department of Physics, 2022

Teaching assistant for PHYS 362 (Statistical Mechanics), the honours statistical mechanics course.