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Kenny Higginbotham
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Postdoc at Perimeter Institute • Using HEP theory and quantum info to understand quantum gravity • BS: Georgia Tech • PhD: CU Boulder
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So long CU! Thanks for the wonderful adventures 🦬
My name plate (featuring XKCD comics) outside my office at CU View of campus from the 11th floor of the Gamow tower
July 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Oh no! What have we done!?
July 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Baby’s first single-author paper!

...or is it? Turns out testing for baby universes in your AdS bulk is trickier than expected.

Check it out:
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05337
Figure from linked paper showing two bulk states: one with a baby universe, and one without. The baby universe contains the "success kid" meme.
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The summer after graduation is the perfect time to finally organize my Overleaf projects. Feels so good!
On Overleaf: "Uncategorized (0)"
June 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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First day of #TASI2025 was a success!
A picture of the CU Boulder lecture hall with the first day of TASI lectures.
June 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Discovered a new isometry last week!

V = U ( 𝟙 ⊗ |PhD〉)
In my PhD robes sitting on the University of Colorado at Boulder sign!
May 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Delayed post, but I passed my defense on Tuesday!! So thankful to all who helped make this dream a reality
A picture of myself with the title slide of my defense presentation showing my thesis title "Honey, I Shrunk the Hilbert Space: From Dualities to Non-Isometric Codes in Holography"
April 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Coming tomorrow to an arXiv listing near you!
The title page of a manuscript with title "On observers in holographic maps" by authors Chris Akers, Gracemarie Bueller, Oliver DeWolfe, Kenneth Higginbotham, Johannes Reinking, and Rudolph Rodriguez.
March 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Bummer! I used TeX for Gmail all the time. Any suggestions for an alternative?
A Chrome notification saying, "'Tex for Gmail' was turned off."
March 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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When you get assigned hot pink in the new shared Overleaf document...
Text in hot pink saying, ABSTRACT: "I am Kenough." (Barbie, 2023)
February 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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My favorite easter egg in Corsiglia's template is found in one of the appendices...
Appendix of the LaTeX thesis template with a transcript of Lt. Cmdr. Data's "Ode to Spot" from Star Trek TNG.
February 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Let the thesis writing begin!
February 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Nothing like a good Lego date night. Y’all take care of yourselves out there 🌹
January 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM