• Dipole Cosmology: Revisiting Our Universe with a Flow 

      Mondol, Ranjini
      In this thesis, we explore an ansatz alternative to the FLRW classes of spacetimes for our Universe, in light of observations that exhibit anisotropies at late times. Despite the existence of these anisotropies beyond ...
    • New Dispersive Techniques for Quantum Field Theories 

      Bhat, Faizan
      Quantum field theory has been remarkably successful in describing interactions of elementary particles, particularly through perturbative methods. However, many important regimes — including strong coupling and quantum ...
    • Thermal one point functions in large $N$ vector models and holography 

      Kumar, Srijan
      This thesis develops analytic methods to evaluate thermal one point functions in holography and a class of conformal field theories(CFT) described by large $N$ vector models. For planar charged black holes in $AdS_{d+1}$ ...