Sylvain Carrozza

Sylvain Carrozza Sylvain Carrozza

Maître de conférences (associate professor)

Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne

About me

I am a mathematical physicist working primarily at the intersection of gravitational physics, quantum theory and combinatorics. I have worked extensively on group field theory and tensor models, which are higher order generalizations of the theory of random matrices. The large $N$ limit of random tensors has been used to investigate (Euclidean) quantum gravity in dimension $d ≥ 3$, and to probe the strongly-interacting regime of quantum field theory. I am currently exploring applications of similar techniques to quantum information, more specifically to the theory of multipartite entanglement. In addition, I am interested in the mathematics of gauge and gravitational theories in the presence of space-time boundaries (including asymptotic ones). In this context, I have worked on covariant phase space methods designed to capture the dynamical effects of boundary degrees of freedom (or edge modes).

Interests
  • Classical and quantum gravity
  • Quantum field theory
  • Random tensors
  • Quantum information
Education
  • PhD in Mathematical Physics, 2013

    Université Paris-Sud 11 (now Paris-Saclay)

  • Agrégation de Mathématiques, 2010

    École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

  • Master in Theoretical Physics, 2009

    École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Academic employment

 
 
 
 
 
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne
Maître de conférences (associate professor)
September 2022 – Present Dijon, France
 
 
 
 
 
Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Radboud Excellence Fellow (postdoc)
October 2020 – September 2022 Nijmegen, Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Postdoctoral Fellow
October 2016 – September 2020 Waterloo, Canada
 
 
 
 
 
LaBRI
Postdoctoral Fellow
October 2015 – September 2016 Bordeaux, France
 
 
 
 
 
Centre de Physique Théorique
Postdoctoral Fellow
October 2013 – September 2015 Marseille, France

Doctoral studies

 
 
 
 
 
Université Paris-Saclay (formerly Paris-Sud 11)
PhD student and teaching assistant
September 2010 – August 2013 Orsay, France
 
 
 
 
 
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
IMPRS student (resident PhD student)
September 2010 – August 2013 Potsdam, Germany

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