Vegard Falmår

PhD Research Fellow, OsloMet
Affiliation: MatMod group at the Department of Computer Science
Researcher IDs: ORCID, ResearchGate
Email: vegard.falmaar@oslomet.no
Address: Pilestredet 35, PS916

About me

My background lies in theoretical physics with a focus on low-energy quantum mechanics and scientific computing. I have a bachelor’s degree in Physics and Astronomy and a master’s degree in Theoretical Physics completed in the spring of 2024, both from the University of Oslo. The title of my master’s thesis is “SIC-POVMs — Three Ways of Getting to the Bottom of Them”.

I also have several years of experience as a mathematics teacher in high school, and a keen interest in the ways we teach and understand science, in particular quantum mechanics.

Research Interests

Together with the members and collaborators of the REGAL project, I am analysing procedures from density-functional theory (DFT) and studying how these can be applied to models from quantum electrodynamics. In particular, we are currently studying the quantum Rabi model and the generalised Dicke model.

I further plan to study topological defects in Bose-Einstein condensates, as well as how techniques from computational quantum chemistry can find use within the fields of machine learning and computer graphics.

I also spend some time thinking about how both students and researchers, as well as the general public without formal education in the joys of physics, understand and visualise the concepts in quantum physics; a theory which can be quite unintuitive compared to the behaviour we have come to expect from macroscopic objects in our everyday lives.

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