Education

- Ph.D. in Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 2024
            Supervised by Dr. Willy Fischler

- B.A. in Math/Physics, Reed College, 2018
            Thesis supervised by Dr. Joel Franklin and Dr. Lyudmila Korobenko 

Positions Held

• Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College (2024 - present)
• Physics Departmental Associate, Reed College (2018-2019)

Fellowships & Awards

• KITP Scholar 2025-2027, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics 
• John A. Wheeler Graduate Fellowship in Physics, UT Austin (2023)
• Graduate Student Teaching Award, UT Austin (2023)
• Michiro Naito Endowed Fellowship in Physics, UT Austin (2021)
• Dean’s Strategic Fellowship, UT Austin (2019)
• Academic Commendation, Reed College (2018)
• McGill Lawrence Internship Award, Reed College (2018)
• Winter Travel Fellowship, Reed College (2017)
• Summer Internship Award, Reed College (2016)
• Student Opportunity Grant, Reed College (2016)

Courses Taught

• Sarah Lawrence College
  
  • Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Information (Spring 2025)
  • General Physics II: Electromagnetism (Spring 2025)
  • General Physics I: Mechanics (Fall 2024)
  • Introduction to Relativity (Fall 2024)
    
  • Independent Study: Advanced Research in Theoretical Physics (Fall 2024)
• University of Texas at Austin
  
  • Introduction to Physical Science I: Mechanics and Heat (Fall 2021 - Spring 2024)
  • Introduction to Physical Science II: Electricity, Light, and Optics (Spring 2023)

Publications and Preprints

1. W. Fischler, H. Krishna, and  S. Racz, "There is more to the de Sitter horizon than just the area" (arxiv:2412.12097 [hep-th])
2. W. Fischler and S. Racz, "Plato Meets de Sitter, or de Sitter’s Allegory of the Cave" (arxiv:2405.08080 [hep-th])
3. E. Caceres S. Eccles, J. Pollack, and S. Racz, "Generic ETH: Eigenstate Thermalization beyond the Microcanonical" (arxiv:2403.05197 [quant-ph])
4. J. Couch, P. Nguyen, S. Racz, G. Stratis, and Y. Zhang, "One-Half Reflected Entropy is Not a Lower Bound for Entanglement of Purification" (arxiv:2309.02506 [quant-ph])
5. B. Kent, S. Racz, and S. Shashi, "Scrambling in Quantum Cellular Automata" (Phys. Rev. B 107, 144306, arxiv:2301.07722 [quant-ph])
6. V. Cuomo,  V. P. Debattista, S. Racz, et al., "Testing for Relics of Past Strong Buckling Events in Edge-on Galaxies" (MNRAS Volume 518, Issue 2, January 2023, arxiv:2210.12255 [astro-ph.ga])
7. S. Eccles, W. Fischler, T. Guglielmo, J. Pedraza, and S. Racz, "Speeding Up the Spread of Quantum Information in Chaotic Systems" (HEP 12 (2021) 019, arxiv:2108.12688 [hep-th])

Presentations

• "de Sitter’s Cave", High Energy Theory Seminar, City College of New York, November 2024
• "de Sitter’s Cave", High Energy Theory Seminar, Syracuse University, October 2024
• "Warping the Cosmological Horizon", Sarah Lawrence College Science Symposium, May 2024
• "Warping the Cosmological Horizon", Southwest Strings 2024, Texas A&M, March 2024
  
• "Quantum Lessons from Classical Gravity", Sarah Lawrence College Seminar, February 2024
• “Scrambling in Clifford Quantum Cellular Automata”, Southwest Strings 2023, University of Arizona at Tuscon, March 2023
• “Eigenstate Thermalization with Conserved Charges”, Southwest Strings 2022, University of Texas at Austin, March 2022
  
  

• "Scrambling in Clifford Quantum Cellular Automata", Quantum Information, Quantum Matter and Quantum Gravity, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, September 2023
• "ETH Beyond the Microcanonical", It From Qubit, Perimeter Institute, Canada, July 2023
• "Eigenstate Thermalization with Conserved Charges", Strings, University of Vienna, Austria, July 2022

Service

• Mentor, Gender Minorities in Physics, UT Austin (Fall 2023 - Summer 2024)
• Directed Reading Program, UT Austin (Fall 2022 - Summer 2024)
• 3rd Grade Math Outreach Teacher, Portland, OR (2017-2018)

Groups & Committees

• Leader, Gender Minorities in Physics, UT Austin (Spring 2020 - Summer 2024)
• Member, Graduate Welfare Committee, UT Austin (Fall 2020 - Spring 2022)

Skills & Certificates

• Microcredential in Promoting Active Learning, ACUE (October 2023)
• Inclusive Classrooms Leadership Certificate Seminar, UT Austin (April 2023)