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Jason Aaron Pollack
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
6224 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~jpollack/
604-720-7946
Research Interests:
Early-universe cosmology; quantum gravity; decoherence; effective field theory
Employment
University of British Columbia—postdoctoral fellow, Fall 2017-2020
Mark Van Raamsdonk group
Education:
Caltech—Ph.D. in Physics, 2017
Advisor: Sean Carroll
Dissertation: “Constraints on Cosmology and Quantum Gravity from Quantum Mechanics and
Quantum Field Theory”
Princeton University – A.B. in Physics, June 2012
Senior thesis on self-interacting dark matter, advisor Paul Steinhardt, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Junior paper on estimating galaxy cluster parameters, advisor Lyman Page, Spring 2011
Junior paper on explaining dark energy in cyclic cosmologies, advisor Paul Steinhardt, Fall 2010
Summer researcher with ACT and ABS CMB experimental collaborations, 2009-11
Seminars and Conference Talks:
Panel Discussion: “Non-Locality in Time,” Workshop on the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale
Structure, Princeton, February 2014
Invited Talk: “A Consistent Effective Theory of Long-Wavelength Cosmological Perturbations,”
Cosmology Group Seminar, USC, June 2014
Invited Talk: “De Sitter Space Without Quantum Fluctuations,” Quantum Foundations of a Classical
Universe, IBM Watson Research Center, August 2014
Invited Talk: “Supermassive Black Holes from Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter,” Workshop
on Astrophysics of Dark Matter, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe,
University of Tokyo, October 2015
Invited Talk: “How Decoherence Affects the Probability of Slow-Roll Eternal Inflation,” Theory Group
Seminar, UT Austin, February 2017
Invited Talk: “How Decoherence Affects the Probability of Slow-Roll Eternal Inflation,” Theory
Seminar, University of British Columbia, April 2017
Invited Talk: “Decoherence and Slow-Roll Eternal Inflation,” String Seminar, UC Berkeley, September
2017
Invited Talk: “Black Holes and the Hilbert Space of Quantum Gravity,” Gravity Seminar, University of
British Columbia, April 2018
Invited Talk: “Black Holes and the Hilbert Space of Quantum Gravity,” HEP Seminar, Michigan State
University, April 2018
Invited Talk: “Finding Structure in Hilbert Space,” Quantum Spacetime Seminar, California Institute of
Technology, May 2018
Invited Talk: “Traversible Wormholes as Quantum Channels,” High Energy Theory Seminar, California
Institute of Technology, May 2018
Teaching Assistantships:
Ph 20-22, Physics Computation courses, Caltech, 2013-7, Profs. Tom Prince and Alan Weinstein
Ph 1A, Introductory Course in Newtonian Physics, Caltech, Fall 2012, Prof. Ryan Patterson
PHY 115: Future Physics, Princeton, Fall 2011, Profs. Paul Steinhardt and Peter Meyers
Outreach and Service:
Chair, Caltech Graduate Student Council, 2015-6
ran Caltech graduate student government; set direction and priorities for year
initiated Caltech Student-Faculty Colloquium, campus-wide discussion of the Caltech graduate
program, including student-advisor relations, campus climate, diversity in admissions
sat on search committees, including for Graduate Dean, Center for Diversity Senior Director
Student representative, Dean’s Advisory Council, 2015-7
Secretary, Caltech Graduate Student Council, 2014-5
Physics option representative, Caltech Graduate Student Council, 2013-7
co-ran Physics graduate student town hall meetings, 2016
student representative, Committee for Physics Graduate Student Quality of Life, 2016
Honors and Awards:
Graduate Dean’s Award for Outstanding Community Service, Caltech, 2017
Troesh Fellow in Physics, Caltech, 2014-5
Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Princeton Physics Department, September 2011
Publications:
1. S.M. Carroll, S. Leichenauer, and J. Pollack, 2013, "A Consistent Effective Theory of Long-Wavelength
Cosmological Perturbations," Phys. Rev. D 90, 023518 (2014); arXiv:1310.2920.
2. K.K. Boddy, S.M. Carroll, and J. Pollack, 2014, "De Sitter Space Without Dynamical Quantum
Fluctuations," Found. Phys., 46, 702 (2016); arXiv:1405.0298.
3. J. Pollack, D.N. Spergel, and P.J. Steinhardt, 2015, "Supermassive Black Holes from Ultra-Strongly
Self-Interacting Dark Matter," Astrophys. J. 804, 131 (2015); arXiv:1501.00017.
4. N. Bao, C. Cao, S.M. Carroll, A. Chatwin-Davies, N. Hunter-Jones, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen,
2015, "Consistency Conditions for an AdS/MERA Correspondence," Phys. Rev. D 91, 125036 (2015);
arXiv:1504.06632.
5. K.K. Boddy, S.M. Carroll, and J. Pollack, 2015, "Why Boltzmann Brains Don't Fluctuate Into Existence
From the De Sitter Vacuum," to appear in proceedings of The Philosophy of Cosmology, K. Chamcham,
ed.; arXiv:1505.02780.
6. N. Bao, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2015, "Splitting Spacetime and Cloning Qubits: Linking No-Go
Theorems across the ER=EPR Duality," Fortschr. Phys. 63, 705 (2015); arXiv:1506.08203.
7. A. Bartolotta, S.M. Carroll, S. Leichenauer, and J. Pollack, 2015, "The Bayesian Second Law of
Thermodynamics," Phys. Rev. E 94, 022102 (2016); arXiv:1508.02421.
8. N. Bao, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2015, "Wormhole and Entanglement (Non-)Detection in the
ER=EPR Correspondence," JHEP, 2015, 126; arXiv:1509.05426.
9. N. Bao, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2016, "Entanglement Conservation, ER=EPR, and a New
Classical Area Theorem for Wormholes," JHEP, 2016, 48; arXiv:1604.08217.
10. N. Bao, A. Bouland, A. Chatwin-Davies, J. Pollack, and H. Yuen, 2016, "Rescuing Complementarity
With Little Drama," JHEP, 2016, 26; arXiv:1607.05141.
11. K.K. Boddy, S.M. Carroll, and J. Pollack, 2016, “How Decoherence Affects the Probability of Slow-
Roll Eternal Inflation,” Phys. Rev. D 96, 023539 (2017); arXiv:1612.04894.
12. N. Bao, S.M. Carroll, A. Chatwin-Davies, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2017, "Branches of the Black
Hole Wave Function Need Not Contain Firewalls," Phys. Rev. D, accepted; arXiv:1712.04955.
13. J. Pollack and A. Singh, 2018, "Towards Space from Hilbert Space: Finding Lattice Structure in Finite-
Dimensional Quantum Systems," arXiv:1801.10168.
14. A. Bartolotta, N. Yunger Halpern, and J. Pollack, 2018, "Reconciling two notions of quantum operator
disagreement: Entropic uncertainty relations and information scrambling, united through
quasiprobabilities," Nature Communications, submitted; arXiv:1806.04147.
