SELECTED INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCES
- The Coleman--Weinberg mechanism in a Weyl invariant theory: application to a magnetic monopole, invited talk at IARD 2014, June 2014, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
- Formation of Condensate during Collapse to a Charged Black Hole in Scalar Electrodynamics, 15th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics (CCGRRA15), May 2014, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.
- Quantum corrections for the magnetic monopole in AdS space: trace anomaly and dimensional transmutation, invited talk at conference in honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson, Aug. 2013, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Trace anomaly for the magnetic monopole in curved space: introducing a scale via quantum corrections, CAP Congress 2013, June 2013, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC.
- Black hole free energy during the collapse of charged matter, invited talk at University of Vermont, Burlington VT, Oct. 2012.
- Quantum corrections to the gravitationally coupled magnetic monopole: residual conformal symmetry and trace anomaly, 22nd Midwest Relativity Meeting, Sept. 2012 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
- Black hole free energy during charged collapse, Theory Canada 7, June 2012, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB.
- Black hole free energy during charged collapse, APS April meeting 2012, Atlanta, GA.
- Black hole entropy and numerical results for gravitational Lagrangian as free energy, 14th Eastern Gravity Meeting, June 2011, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
- Black hole entropy and numerical results for the free energy during gravitational collapse, CAP Congress 2011, June 2011, St. John’s NL.
- Extremal black holes, gravitational collapse and thermodynamics, talk presented at the 20th annual midwest relativity meeting, University of Guelph, November 5-6, 2010. Link.
- Extremal black holes and the classical origin of gravitational entropy, talk presented at the theoretical physics institute 50th anniversary celebration, University of Alberta, September 16-17, 2010. Link.
- Numerical simulations of gravitational collapse and the origin of gravitational entropy, invited talk at CAP Congress 2010, Toronto, June 7-11, 2010. Link.
- Dimensional reduction and variational boundary conditions: 3D scalar model as a 4D EM limit, CAP Congress 2010, Toronto, June 7-11, 2010. Link.
- Topological Casimir effect and Proca Connection, talk presented at 2009 CAP Congress, June 7-10, University of Moncton. Link.
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking via gravitation, invited talk at Theory Canada IV, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, June 4-7, 2008. Link.
- Comapct dimensions and the Casimir effect: the Proca connection, invited talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), The theory and practice of fluctuation-induced intercations, Santa Barbara, Aug. 29, 2008. Link.
- Interactions induced by quantum fluctuations, invited talk at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Oct. 21, 2008. Link.
- Einstein gravity from spontaneous conformal symmetry breaking. Tenth Eastern Gravity Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, May 31-June 1, 2007. Link.
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking via gravitation, invited talk at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Feb. 27, 2007. Link.
- The Dirichlet, Neumann and EM Casimir piston, invited talk at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Oct. 8, 2007. Link.
- The Casimir piston in 3+1 dimensions, invited talk at the 2007 CAP Congress Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 18, 2007.
- Empty space is not so empty: the Casimir effect, invited talk at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Sept. 26, 2006. Link.
- Multidimensional cut-off technique for massless scalar fields and its applications to Bose-Einstein condensates, presented at the 2006 APS April meeting, Dallas, TX. Link.