Homepage of Yoann Launay
Training Theoretical Physicist in Quantum Cosmology.
PhD student at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
CentraleSupélec French engineer.

I'm Yoann and you're on my personal website.

I'm a PhD student in Quantum Cosmology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Photo of Yoann Launay. The essence of this website is multiple but mainly profesional and functional - hence a deliberately minimalist pattern.
On this website, you will be able to find out more about:

  • My personal path if you wonder or prospect.
  • Material/Information if you are one of my students.
  • My everyday Physics if you bother.
  • More Physics if you're starting from scratches.

Highlighted posts

Blog

My latest recorded talk -- Early Universe From Home 2025

Non-Linear General Relativity for Stochastic Inflation: My PhD thesis in 12 sketches

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News

  • (16/03/2025) Now confirmed: as part of my PhD requirements, I will be doing a placement, which I chose to do at Featurespace from April and for six months!
  • (12/02/2025) My third PhD article and first with spacetime simulations is out! see pre-print
  • (11/02/2025) An interesting article where my simulations are featured.
  • (05/01/2025) My second PhD article is out! see pre-print
  • (02/04/2024) I will be one of the Smith-Knight and Rayleigh-Knight 2024 Prize recipients!
  • (16/01/2024) I published my first article in cosmology! see pre-print
  • (1/11/2023) My first feature article for Bluesci, see n°58 article (page 26).
  • (1/11/2023) New book review article in Bluesci n°57, see article (page 5).
  • (7/04/2023) G-research grant obtained! see article.

They financed my work and gave me support

  • Featurespace
  • DiRAC UK
  • DAMTP.
  • G-research.
  • Data-intensive CDT program.
  • UKRI.
  • Wolfson College.
  • CentraleSupélec Alumnis.

Randomizer

December 2024
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Caius College hosting the traditional Christmas GR Dinner and Stephen's room.
August 2024
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The London Lego exhibition, contemplating the fundamental bricks of life.
July 2024
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The Water Clock of Southwold, Suffolk. Time flows.
June 2024
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Somewhere lost in one of many great museums in Cambridge.
May 2024
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Boreals in Cambridge.
April 2024
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West End in London. Is it for work?
March 2024
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Local wall of fame in Lyon, including André-Marie Ampère.
January 2024
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Time feels special in Greenwich.
December 2023
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Christmasy Munich for a Cambridge/Max Planck Institute meeting and talk.
November 2023
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Visiting my supervisor and Newcastle.
September 14th, 2023
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A big man in Florence.
August 30th, 2023
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Rock'n'Roll Physics at BUSSTEPP23 Summer School in Liverpool.
April 23rd, 2023
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Whipple museum: big bible on the shield?
March 27th, 2023
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Great St Mary's church, spring activated.
March 14th, 2023
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DAMTP on Pi/Hawking/Einstein day.
February 25th, 2023 .
Back in Faraday's times at Trinity Buoy Wharf's lighthouse, London.
December 6th, 2022 .
Christmas Oxford after my first GRChombo Meeting.
December 1st, 2023 .
Winter evening spot of DAMTP.