Carl Bouchard

I enjoy figuring stuff out; mathematics, physics, and programming turn out to be great tools for that.

About

Hello! My name is Carl and I am broadly interested in problems in string theory, quantum field theory, and machine learning. When I am not doing physics, I am working in tech.

I graduated from Imperial College London with an Msc in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces (Distinction; 78%) in 2025. And did my masters research on moduli spaces and brane constructions of theories with 8 supercharges under the supervision of Professor Amihay Hanany (88%; PDF)

Currently, I am doing an internship at a start up working as an AI engineer on improving inference times for agentic workflows. Before this, I worked for the Digital Campus team at Imperial on various backend and analytics tools, such as for the 3D campus map application and the occupancy analytics system.

Notes and Worked Solutions

I wrote up some lecture notes on string theory (PDF). They are still quite rough in certain places, this may or may not change in the future :)

I am currently working through some of the homework problems in String Theory and M-Theory by Becker, Becker, and Schwarz. And my solutions can be found here:

  1. The bosonic string (13 solutions)
  2. Conformal field theory and string interactions (12 solutions)
  3. String with world-sheet supersymmetry (10 solutions)
  4. Strings with space-time supersymmetry (coming soon..)