Grace Colverd, MRes, MPhysPhil

Projects
Find details of my latest research and other musings

Carbon Removal Verification through River Mapping
Eion Carbon provides robust carbon removal through enhanced rock weathering. I have been working with the Eion team since their founder gave a talk in Cambridge. I built this web app to help them understand the potential carbon leakage post-CarbonLockTM application for sites in the USA. Leakage would occur if river conditions (such as pH) exceed the ocean threshold. Explore more at http://downstream.eioncarbon.com/.

Autamatic damage detection after Hurricanes in the Southern USA.
Quick damage assessment after natural disasters is key to improving survival rates. In this project, I created an algorithm to automatically detect damaged buildings via high-resolution satellite data and generate damage maps of local regions. Download the full report here.

Gauge Theories, Polytopes and Hilbert Series
For my Physics masters thesis, I calculated the volume of a class of Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds corresponding to two-interior point lattice polytopes. This project won an award for Best Project in Particle and Nuclear Physics at the University of Oxford. My work was published in the Journal of High Energy Physics along with my collaborators Jiakang Bao and Prof. Yang Hui-He. You can read the whole paper here.

‘Analogy is not identity.’ Need anything more be said about whether there is such a thing as a thermodynamics of black holes?
As part of my philosophy of physics thesis, I discussed the role of Hawking radiation in the thermodynamics of black holes. Download the full essay here