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Contact
nellhall@berkeley.edu
Education
University of California, Berkeley
August 2018 - Present
Doctoral Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
August 2014 - June 2018
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Thesis: Photon Isolation and Jet Substructure
Awards and Fellowships
Doug Tuttle and Lynn Brantley Fellowship, 2021
Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation, 2018
Joel Matthew Orloff Award for Service, MIT, 2017
History Undergraduate Writing Prize, MIT, 2017
Publications
Asymmetric Dark Matter May Not Be Light
with Robert McGehee, Bethany Suter, and Hitoshi Murayama
Non-perturbative Methods for False Vacuum Decay
with Djuna Croon and Hitoshi Murayama
Asymmetric Matters from a Dark First-Order Phase Transition
with Thomas Konstandin, Robert McGehee, and Hitoshi Murayama
Baryogenesis From a Dark First-Order Phase Transition
with Thomas Konstandin, Robert McGehee, Hitoshi Murayama, and Géraldine Servant
Photon isolation and jet substructure
with Jesse Thaler
JHEP 1809, 164 (2018) arXiv:1805.11622
Invited Talks
False vacuum decay in strongly-interacting dark sectors
Aspen Center for Physics winter workshop: A Rainbow of Dark Sectors, March 25, 2021
Other Conference Talks
Non-perturbative methods for false vacuum decay
Strong and Electroweak Matter, June 30, 2021.
Matter Through the Looking Glass
University of Tokyo, Berkeley Week at Kavli IPMU, January 14, 2020.
Anisotropic Dielectric Tensors in 2D Heterostructures
MIT, Harvard-MIT Undergraduate Physics Research Conference, October 1, 2016.
Seminars
Non-perturbative methods for false vacuum decay
University of Florida, October 29, 2021.
Non-perturbative methods for false vacuum decay
Helsinki Institute of Physics, October 20, 2021.
Non-perturbative methods for false vacuum decay
TRIUMF, October 13, 2021.
Non-perturbative methods for false vacuum decay
University of Toronto, September 30, 2021.
Non-perturbative methods for false vacuum decay
UC Berkeley, BCTP 4D Seminar, April 26, 2021.
Matter Through the Looking Glass
UC Berkeley, BCTP 4D Seminar, June 15, 2020.
Photon Isolation and Jet Substructure
MIT, LHC/BSM/DM Journal Club, September 29, 2017.
Research Experience
Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
February 2019 - Present
Advisor: Hitoshi Murayama
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
February 2017 - June 2018
Advisor: Jesse Thaler
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
February 2017 - May 2017
Advisor: Janet Conrad
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
June 2016 - December 2016
Advisor: Marin Soljacic
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
June 2015 - August 2015
Advisor: Boris Khaykovich
Teaching
Berkeley Physics 111B: Advanced Experimental Lab
Spring 2019
Graduate Student Instructor
Berkeley Physics 8.B: Introductory Physics 2
Fall 2018
Graduate Student Instructor
MIT 8.13: Junior Lab
Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Leadership Experience
Society of Physics Students
Secretary: June 2017 - May 2018
Vice President: June 2016 - May 2017