Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Physics Department
Email: joseph_takach@berkeley.edu
Advisor: Nicholas Rodd
Office: TBD
What I do
My interests broadly lie in the intersections between field theory, particle phenomenology, and quantum measurement. I am currently finishing up some papers in the ultralight dark matter world detailing how the quantum central limit theorem universally washes out non-gaussian statistics in any realistic detector. More generally, I am interested in how coarse graining constrains observable statistics in quantum systems. Besides that, I am beginning work on the QuIPS experiment.
Academic career
I attended Oregon State University as an undergraduate, where I obtained dual BSc degrees in Physics and Mathematics in 2024. I also had a brief REU at UC Davis in 2023, where I worked with Prof. Markus Luty on lattice Hamiltonian truncation for strongly coupled field theories.Â