About

I’m Jamie Sullivan, a Brinson Prize Fellow hosted at MIT in the Center for Theoretical Physics.

I build models of large-scale structure and try to learn something physical from them along the way. Some of that learning comes from modern statistical inference tools, which I’ve also spent some time developing. I am interested in numerical methods and models of all kinds, especially those that can be understood rigorously. I’m an author of the differentiable Boltzmann solver Bolt (with Zack Li). I’m also a contributor to the high-performance N-body simulation code HACC. To see more of my code (at your own risk) head over to my github page.

I was previously a PhD student in the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics working with Uroš Seljak where I was a DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellow and a DoE Office of Science Graduate Student Research awardee.

While in the Bay area, I had the wonderful experience of serving as STEM faculty at Mount Tamalpais College for a couple of years. Through MTC, I taught Intermediate Algebra, Physics I (with Lab), and Statistics for college credit in San Quentin State Prison as lecturer/co-instructor. See more here.

Some of my talk slides and paper links can be found here.

News

“Recent Ph.D James Sullivan Awarded 2024 Brinson Prize”

“CSGF Welcomes 2018-2019 Incoming Class of 25”

UT Dean’s Honored Graduates Announcement

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