Schedule—Theory Canada 8
| Thursday 23 May | ||
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| 7:00‐9:00 pm | Cleghorn Room (2nd Floor McGreer): reception, registration, poster session (cash bar available) | |
| Poster Session - Cleghorn Room (2nd Floor McGreer) | ||
| #1 | Mohammad Bagher Askari | [Paper Withdrawn] |
| #2 | Andres Zambrano | Evolving Apparent Horizons in the McVittie Spacetime |
| #3 | Valerio Faraoni | Dynamical apparent horizons in inhomogeneous Brans-Dicke universes |
| #4 | Adamantia Zampeli | Dirac fields in BTZ |
| #5 | Vincent Genest | The Clebsch-Gordan/Racah coefficients of sl_{-1}(2) and orthogonal polynomials of the Bannai-Ito scheme |
| #6 | Lorne Nelson | Constraining theories of gravity using gravitational radiation reaction |
| #7 | Mirabeau Saha | [Paper Withdrawn] |
| Friday 24 May | ||
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| 8:40‐9:00 am | Opening Remarks (LOC Chair, DTP Chair, VP Academic M. Childs) - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | |
| Theoretical Condensed Matter - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | ||
| Chair: René Côté | ||
| 9:00‐9:30 | André-Marie Tremblay | A tale of two metals: How strong interactions can destroy an ordinary metal |
| 9:30‐10:00 | Adrian Del Maestro | Superfluidity in low dimensional quantum fluids |
| 10:00‐10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30‐10:50 | Zhigang Wu | Dissipative dynamics of trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates |
| 10:50‐11:10 | Shunji Matsuura | Phase transition in Renyi Entropy |
| 11:10‐11:30 | Wei Wu | Phase Transitions and Single-Particle Dynamics of Hubbard Models on Honeycomb Lattice |
| 11:30‐11:50 | Maxime Charlebois | Mott p-n junctions in layered materials |
| 12:00‐1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| Gravitation and Cosmology - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | ||
| Chair: Edward Wilson-Ewing | ||
| 1:30‐2:00 | Eric Poisson | Gravitational self-force approach to extreme mass-ratio inspirals |
| 2:00‐2:30 | Robert Brandenberger | Alternatives to Cosmological Inflation |
| 2:30‐2:50 | Evan McDonough | The singularity problem, bouncing universes, and the CMB |
| 2:50‐3:10 | Oscar Hernandez | How to see the dark: signatures of strings and other things in the 21 cm radiation from high-redshift hydrogen |
| 3:10—3:40 | Coffee break | |
| 3:40‐4:00 | William Donnelly | Entanglement entropy of gauge fields |
| 4:00‐4:20 | Nils Deppe | Critical phenomena in higher dimensional Lovelock gravity |
| Quantum Information - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | ||
| Chair: Gabor Kunstatter | ||
| 4:30‐5:00 | Patrick Hayden | Where and when can a qubit be? |
| 5:00‐5:10 | GROUP PHOTO | |
| 6:00‐8:00 pm | Banquet (Cleghorn Room) | |
| 8:00 pm | Provigo Lecture (Bishop Williams Hall - Johnson 200) | |
Flying:High and Fast in Space; | ||
Bjarni Tryggvason (Retired Astronaut) | ||
| Saturday 25 May | ||
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| Quantum Information (continued) - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | ||
| 9:00‐9:30 | David Poulin | Two dimensional quantum memories |
| 9:30‐9:50 | Olivier Landon-Cardinal | Local topological order inhibits thermal stability in 2D |
| 9:50‐10:10 | Solomon Owerre | Macroscopic quantum spin tunneling with two interacting spins |
| 10:10‐10:40 | Coffee break | |
| Mathematical Physics - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | ||
| Chair: Tom Steele | ||
| 10:40‐11:10 | Noah Graham | Scattering theory calculations of Casimir energies |
| 11:10‐11:30 | Edward Wilson-Ewing | Perturbations in Loop Quantum Cosmology |
| 11:30‐11:50 | Jonathan Ziprick | Twisted flat-cell geometries in the loop gravity phase space |
| 12:00‐1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| Mathematical Physics (continued) - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | ||
| 1:30‐2:00 | Luc Vinet | Reflections on/in superintegrable models |
| 2:00‐2:20 | John Dixon | BRST Cohomology of free massless theories gives rise to `Extraordinary Invariants' |
| 2:20‐2:40 | Patrick Desrosiers | Beta-ensembles of random matrices: dualities, perturbations, and phase transitions |
| String Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Subatomic Theory - Bishop Williams Hall (Johnson 200) | ||
| Chair: Patrick Labelle | ||
| 2:40‐3:10 | Cliff Burgess | Walking the Planck with a String-Inflated Lifevest |
| 3:10‐3:40 | Amanda Peet | Low-lying string state mixing in the D1-D5 orbifold CFT |
| 3:40‐4:10 | Coffee break | |
| 4:10‐4:30 | Wei Chen | Mass spectrum of heavy quarkonium hybrids |
| 4:30‐4:50 | Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya | Searching for new interactions in the LHCb era |
| 4:50‐5:10 | Ruben Sandapen | Testing AdS/QCD using diffraction and radiative B decays |
| 5:10‐5:30 | Matthew Williams | Accidental supersymmetry and the renormalization of co-dimension 2 branes |
| 5:30‐5:40 | Concluding Remarks | |