long ago, I did my undergraduate in ~~Theoretical Physics~~ Mathematics in Trinity College Dublin

notes accompanying a journal club introduction to Matrix Theory: notes

slides for an online talk I gave to the TCD Theoretical Physics Society at some point in lockdown in 2020, about what it's like being (trying to be?) a theoretical physicist: slides

links to research talks I gave, mostly from the golden pandemic age of online talks:

Seminar on ``Solutions from generalised U-duality'', Exceptional Geometry Seminar Series, Feb 2022 - slides and recordings

Review talk on ``Introduction to T/U-duality Invariant Formalisms'', Junior Duality and Integrability workshop, Feb 2021 - slides and recording

Seminar on ``Exploring Exceptional Drinfeld Geometries'', Integrability, Duality and Deformations seminar series, Oct 2020 - slides and recordings

Seminar on ``Non-relativistic duality and TTbar deformations'' - Exceptional Geometry Seminar Series, May 2020 - slides and recording

Overview talk on ``Non-Geometry and Exotic Branes'' at the conference Geometry and Duality in AEI Potsdam, Dec 2019: video and slides

Gong show talk on ``Orbifolds and Orientifolds as O-folds'' at the conference Strings, July 2019: video (skip to 5 mins 15 secs) and slide

random talk generator

General Relativity

MSc in Physics & Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2019-20 to 2021-22

Gravity, from the black death to black holes. I made lecture notes (of course I did)

Introduction to String Theory

Undergraduate and Graduate Summer School, Nesin Mathematics Village, Turkey, 2016

A short (10 hour) summer school course (at this rather unique maths village in Turkey) which I based very closely on Paul Townsend's Cambridge lecture notes. The starting point is just Hamiltonian mechanics. Here are scans of my handwritten lecture notes:

1. Hamiltonian mechanics & relativistic point particle

2. Classical closed strings

3. Classical open strings

4. Quantum open and closed strings

5. Summary and Discussion

old notes. Where does the time go?