• Bachelor of Science (with Honours) in Mathematics (2005), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Honours thesis entitled: A geometric approach to temperature.
• Ph.D. in Physics (2009), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Doctoral thesis entitled: A study of one-dimensional quantum gases.
• Postdoctoral Researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2010).

Research Interests:

• Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute alkali gases
• Superfluidity
• Fluctuation induced forces
• One dimensional quantum fluids

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Drag force on an impurity below the superfluid critical velocity in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate. A. G. Sykes, M. J. Davis and D. C. Roberts. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085302 (2009).
2. Non-local pair correlations in the 1D Bose gas at finite temperature. P. Deuar, A. G. Sykes, D. M. Gangardt, M. J. Davis, P. D. Drummond, and K. V. Kheruntsyan. Phys. Rev. A. 79, 043619 (2008).
3. Spatial Nonlocal Pair Correlations in a Repulsive 1D Bose gas. A. G. Sykes, D. M. Gangardt, M. J. Davis, K. Viering, M. Raizen, and K. Kheruntsyan. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 160406 (2008).
4. Excitation spectrum of bosons in a finite 1D circular waveguide via the Bethe ansatz. A. G. Sykes, P. D. Drummond and M. J. Davis. Phys. Rev. A. 76, 063620 (2007).