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Welcome! I'm currently a postdoc at ETH Zürich in the group of Yilin Wang. I studied at University of Bonn advised by Eveliina Peltola.

Sid in Oberwolfach with snow

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Office HZ G46
ETH Zürich
Department of Mathematics
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Research interests

Here is a non-exhaustive list of topics I'm interested in:

Research [arXiv]

Talks & More

Feb.
2026		 Helsinki,
Aalto Univ.		 Seminar on Mathematical Physics
Talk: "Generalized Loewner potentials"
Feb.
2026		 Kilpisjärvi "Interplay of conformal geometry and integrability"
Talk: "Complex deformations of the unit circle"
Jan.
2026		 Bonn, Univ.
 Promotionskolloquium
Talk: "On the conformal anomaly"
Sept.
2025		 Paris,
Institut Pascal		 Program CFT: Algebraic, Topological and Probabilistic approaches in CFT
Talk: The conformal anomaly in various approaches to CFT
July
2025		 Bonn, Univ. BIGS poster session
Poster: "Two-loop Loewner potentials and CFT partition functions"
May–
Aug.
2025		 Bonn, HIM Trimester program "Probabilistic methods in quantum field theory"
Organizer: Junior research seminar series with Harini Desiraju, Léonie Papon
Organizer: Minicourse series with Léonie Papon
Jan.
2025		 SwissMAP,
Les Diablerets		 "2025 Winter school in mathematical physics"
Poster: "Two-loop Loewner potentials and CFT partition functions"
Nov.
2024		 Oberwolfach Workshop "Critical phenomena of the XY model"
Talk and report: "Two-loop Loewner potentials" [DOI]
July
2024		 Bonn, Univ. Stochastic analysis seminar of Prof. Sturm's group
Talk: "From the conformal anomaly to the Virasoro algebra"
June
2024		 Bonn, Univ. BIGS poster session
Poster: "Applications of real determinant line bundles"
May
2024		 Oberwolfach Workshop "Statistical Physics and Random Surfaces"
Invited participant
Apr.
2024		 Bonn, Univ. Hausdorff Graduate Colloqium
Talk: "An exposition to random conformal geometry"
Bonn, MPIM Physical math seminar
Talk: "Fundamental aspects of conformal field theory and their mathematical formulations"
Mar.
2024		 Hamburg "Workshop on new directions in conformal field theory"
Talk: "The real determinant line bundle"
Jan.
2024		 SwissMAP,
Les Diablerets		 "2024 Winter school in mathematical physics"
Talk: "The conformal anomaly and Kähler geometry of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces"
June
2023		 South Korea Conference "Random conformal geometry and related fields in Jeju"
Invited participant
May
2023		 Berlin Spring school "Three facets of gravity"
Poster: "From the conformal anomaly to the Virasoro algebra"
Sept.
2022		 Trieste, SISSA Summer school "From statistical physics to random geometry"
Talk: "From the Weyl anomaly formula to the Virasoro algebra"
June
2022		 Helsinki ICM satellite conference "Probability and mathematical physics 2022"
Poster: "From the Weyl anomaly formula to the Virasoro algebra"
Mar.
2022		 Berkeley, MSRI Program "The analysis and geometry of random spaces"
Program associate
Talk: "The Liouville action in the setting for Malliavin-Kontsevich-Suhov loop measures"
in the learning seminar "The ubiquitous Diff(S¹)"
Jan.
2022		 SwissMAP,
Les Diablerets		 "2022 Winter school in mathematical physics"
Talk: "Real valued 1D genus 0 modular functors for the Weyl anomaly"
Oct.
2021		 Online Reading group organized by Eveliina Peltola
Talk: "Real determinant lines and modular functors"
2020 Scholarship Funded by the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam (DIA)
Blog post (Dutch)