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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

arXiv:2107.03398

Non-perturbative Methods for False Vacuum Decay

with Djuna Croon and Hitoshi Murayama

arXiv:2104.10687

Asymmetric Matters from a Dark First-Order Phase Transition

with Thomas Konstandin, Robert McGehee, and Hitoshi Murayama

arXiv:1911.12342

Baryogenesis From a Dark First-Order Phase Transition

with Thomas Konstandin, Robert McGehee, Hitoshi Murayama, and Géraldine Servant

arXiv:1910.08068

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