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Seminars in Hadronic Physics

Friday, November 1st, 2024, 09:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Applications of Gaussian Process Emulators in the context of the RHIC BES program
Hendrik Roch
Wayne State University
Abstract
Friday, September 13th 2024, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions
Qun Wang
University of Science and Technology of China
Abstract
Friday, May 10th 2024, 09:30 (Online/R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Speed of sound from ultracentral nucleus-nucleus collisions using the mean transverse momentum
André Veiga Giannini
Grande Dourados Federal University
Abstract
Friday, May 3rd 2024, 13:30 (Online/R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics: foundations, stability and solutions
Masoud Shorki
Goethe University
Abstract
Friday, March 15th 2024, 09:30 (Online/R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The ultra-strong electromagnetic field in heavy-ion collisions and its impact on the directed flow of charged particles in the STAR experiment
Diyu Shen
Fudan University
Abstract
Friday, March 1st 2024, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Quark-gluon plasma and jet-induced medium response in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Zhong Yang
Central China Normal University
Abstract
Friday, February 23rd 2024, 13:30 (room 326/Online)
Tracing the baryon number in relativistic isobar collisions at RHIC
Gregoire Pihan
Wayne State University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 20th 2024, 09:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103/Online)
Jets: a useful tool to study nuclear media
Gojko Vujanovic
University of Regina
Abstract
Friday, February 16th 2024, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105/Online)
Pre-equilibrium photon and dilepton production from the early stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Philip Plaschke
Bielefeld University
Abstract
Friday, January 19th 2024, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The hidden gauge theory of relativistic hydrodynamics, and what is a “fluid” of 50 particles?
Giorgio Torrieri
State University of Campinas
Abstract
POSTPONED: Friday, January 12th 2024, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The hidden gauge theory of relativistic hydrodynamics, and what is a “fluid” of 50 particles?
Giorgio Torrieri
State University of Campinas
Abstract
Friday, December 8th 2023, 10:30 ()
Exploring QCD matter properties with SMASH and the SMASH-vHLLE hybrid Approach
Hannah Elfner (Petersen)
Goethe University
Abstract
Friday, November 24th 2023, 13:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
The Hadronic-to-Quark-Matter Combustion (HQMC) as a reactive-diffusive-hydrodynamic problem
Rachid Ouyed
University of Calgary
Abstract
Friday, November 17th 2023, 13:00 (Online, shown in Piano Room - room 211)
Probing the QCD Phase Diagram via Thermal Dilepton Radiation: Status and Future Opportunities
Yiding Han
Rice University
Abstract
Friday, November 10th 2023, 13:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Jet Energy Loss in Evolving QGP
Rouzbeh Modarresi Yazdi
McGill University
Abstract
Friday, October 20th 2023, 13:00 (Piano room - room 211)
Polarization and helicity of lambda hyperons across RHIC-BES energies
Xiang-Yu Wu
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 3rd 2023, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
QCD in the cores of neutron stars
Aleksi Kurkela
University of Stavanger
Abstract
Wednesday, April 19th 2023, 10:30 (Boardroom - room 105/Online)
Pursuing Precision for Gluon Saturation Observables
Farid Salazar
UCLA
Abstract
Wednesday, April 5th 2023, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Possible Phase Transitions from Hadronic to Quark Matter Inside Neutron Stars
Jan-Erik Christian
Goethe Universität
Abstract
Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Bayesian constraints on the initial stage and the neutron skin of Pb-208 using Trajectum
Govert Nijs
Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, March 8th 2023, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Jet as a multi-scale probe for quark-gluon plasma
Yasuki Tachibana
Akita Intl. University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 15th 2023, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Nuclear modification of hadronic structure: status and prospect
Pia Zurita
Regensburg University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 1st 2023, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Thermalization of a hard parton in a QCD plasma
Ismail Soudi
Wayne State University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 13th 2022, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
The equation of state of dense nuclear matter from heavy-ion collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen
Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Washington
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2022, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Coherent parton energy loss: from colliders to cosmic rays
Greg Jackson
Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Washington
Abstract
POSTPONED: Tuesday, November 15th 2022, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
The speed of sound of dense nuclear matter from heavy-ion collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen
Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Washington
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2022, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Phenomenology of the non-equilibrium QCD dynamics in heavy-ion collisions
Sören Schlichting
Bielefeld University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2022, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Jet Quenching and Jet Transport Coefficients in the Quark Gluon Plasma
Abhijit Majumder
Wayne State University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 4th 2022, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Relativistic spin-(magneto)hydrodynamics
Amaresh Jaiswal
National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
Abstract
Tuesday, September 20th 2022, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Counting the protons in neutron star MXB 1659-29
Melissa Mendes
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, May 9th 2022, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
Transport of hard probes through glasma
Alina Czajka
National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw
Abstract
Monday, May 2nd 2022, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
Probing neutron-star matter in the laboratory
Tetyana Galatyuk
GSI/TU Darmstadt
Abstract
Monday, April 25th 2022, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
The fluid nature of the QGP
Huichao Song
Peking University
Abstract
Monday, March 28th 2022, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
Hot QCD matter in the influence of electromagnetic fields
Manu Kurian
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, February 21st 2022, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Simulating real-time dynamics of nuclear matter on a quantum computer
James Mulligan
University of California, Berkeley & LBNL
Abstract
Monday, February 7th 2022, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
Exotic matter in neutron stars
Veronica Dexheimer
Kent State University
Abstract
Monday, January 24th 2022, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
Fluctuating yet deterministic hydrodynamics and critical point
Xin An
North Carolina University, Chapel Hill
Abstract
Friday, January 14th 2022, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
Jet-induced medium response in heavy-ion collision
Wei Chen
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Tuesday, December 7th 2021, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103 -/Zoom)
Anomalous diffusion in QCD matter
Yacine Mehtar-Tani
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Zoom)
All-order medium-induced radiation: from static to dynamic media
Carlota Andrés
Centre de Physique Théorique, École Polytechnique
Abstract
Tuesday, November 9th 2021, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103 -/Zoom)
Imaging the nuclear structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Jiangyong Jia
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 26th 2021, 10:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103 -/Zoom)
Hydrodynamic description of the baryon-charged quark-gluon plasma
Lipei Du
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 24th 2021, 10:00 (Tele-seminar)
Experimental results of thermal photon production in heavy ion collisions
Wenqing Fan
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 16th 2021, 10:00 (Tele-seminar)
Exploring jet transport coefficients in the quark-gluon plasma
Amit Kumar
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 23rd 2021, 10:00 (Tele-seminar)
Parton energy loss in a hard-soft factorized approach
Tianyu Dai
Duke University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 3rd 2021, 10:00 (Tele-seminar)
Heavy quarks embedded in glasma
Alina Czajka
National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw
Abstract
Wednesday, January 27th 2021, 09:00 (Tele-seminar)
Dynamical core–corona picture from small to large colliding systems
Yuuka Kanakubo
Sophia University
Abstract
Friday, December 4th 2020, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Mapping out the phase diagram of QCD in hadronic transport
Agnieszka Sorensen
UCLA
Abstract
Monday, November 9th 2020, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Quark matter in the cores of neutron stars
Aleksi Kurkela
University of Stavanger
Abstract
Monday, February 17th 2020, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Shedding light on photon and dilepton spectral functions
Greg Jackson
University of Bern
Abstract
Wednesday, September 25th 2019, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Effective and temperature-dependent viscosities in a hydrodynamically-expanding QCD plasma
Jean-François Paquet
Duke University
Abstract
Monday, August 5th 2019, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103))
Neutron star equation of state - Introduction
Chang-Hwan Lee
Pusan National University
Thursday, November 22nd 2018, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The Strongest Material in the Universe - Neutron Star Crusts
Matthew Caplan
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2018, 10:30 (Piano Room - room 211)
Bulk observables within a hybrid approach for heavy ion collisions with SMASH afterburner
Sangwook Ryu
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2018, 16:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Soft and Hard Probes of Topological Properties in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Shuzhe Shi
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 17th 2018, 16:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note special time and venue
Studying out-of-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma with QCD kinetic theory
Aleksas Mazeliauskas
University of Heidelberg
Abstract
Thursday, February 22nd 2018, 15:15
Higher-order corrections to jet quenching
Yacine Mehtar-Tani
University of Washington
Abstract
Tuesday, February 20th 2018, 14:30 (Room 326)
Note special day and venue
Tidal Love number of neutron stars and gravitational waves
Chang-Hwan Lee
Pusan National University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 16th 2018, 15:00 (room 326)
Note special venue
Interfaces between hydrodynamics and transport for heavy ion collisions
Dmytro Oliinychenko
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Abstract
Tuesday, November 21st 2017, 14:00
Photon emission from quark-gluon plasma out of equilibrium
Sigtryggur Hauksson
Nuclear Theory Group, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 10th 2017, 14:00
Shear viscosity and resonance lifetimes in the hadron gas
Jean-Bernard Rose
Frankfurt University
Abstract
Thursday, May 11th 2017, 14:30
Exploring the QCD phase diagram - SMASH, gluonic hot spots and deep learning
Hannah Petersen
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Abstract
Thursday, April 20th 2017, 14:30
Insights into jet quenching within a hybrid strong/weak coupling model
Daniel Pablos
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, March 30th 2017, 14:30
Hybrid approach to relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the RHIC BES energies
Chun Shen
Brookhaven National Lab
Abstract
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016, 14:00
Is there a low pT anomaly in the pion momentum spectrum at LHC?
Pasi Huovinen
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2016, 14:00
Note special day
Hydrodynamical noise and Gubser flow
Li Yan
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 3rd 2016, 14:30
Note special time
The Initial Phase in High Energy Nuclear Collisions: How Far Can We Go With Analytic Solutions?
Rainer J. Fries
Cyclotron Insitute & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2016, 14:00
Energy and centrality dependence of the jet transport coefficient q̂ at RHIC and LHC: a new puzzle
Carlota Andrés Casas
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Abstract
Monday, March 14th 2016, 14:00
Global Hyperon Polarization in Ultra-relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions Measured by the STAR Experiment at RHIC
Mike Lisa
Ohio State University
Abstract
Thursday, September 17th 2015, 11:00
Note special time
Relativistic hydrodynamics at large gradients
Michal P. Heller
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, July 7th 2015, 14:00
Dynamical photon production in partonic transport
Moritz Greif
Goethe University Frankfurt
Abstract
Thursday, April 16th 2015, 14:00
Self-consistent Cooper-Frye particlization of a viscous fluid and its applications to LHC heavy-ion physics
Zachary Wolff
Purdue University
Abstract
Thursday, April 9th 2015, 14:00
Nonzero initial state flow, granularity, and its effects on flow harmonics
Jaki Noronha-Hostler
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, April 2nd 2015, 14:00
New insights of collective phenomena in pp, pA and AA collisions at the LHC
Wei Li
Rice University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 24th 2015, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Constraining the QCD Equation of State at High Temperatures Using Heavy-Ion Collisions
Evan Warren Sangaline
Michigan State University
Abstract
Thursday, March 19th 2015, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special time
Relativistic hydrodynamic models at finite net baryon density
Akihiko Monnai
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, February 19th 2015, 14:00
Anisotropic jet quenching in semi-Quark-Gluon Plasmas with magnetic monopoles
Jiechen Xu
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, February 12th 2015, 14:00
Temperature dependence of eta/s: Elusive goal just around the corner
Pasi Huovinen
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität
Abstract
Thursday, December 4th 2014, 11:00
Note special time
Chiral superfluidity in quark matter
Tigran Kalaydzhyan
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 25th 2014, 14:00
Note special day
Thermal hydrodynamical fluctuations and observables in heavy ion collisions
Clint Young
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Thursday, November 13th 2014, 14:00
The Heavy Flavor Tracker at STAR: Performance and current status
Michael Lomnitz
Kent State University
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 2014, 14:00
From nuclei to neutron stars via microscopic mass models
John Michael Pearson
Département de physique, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, September 23rd 2014, 14:00
Note special day
Signatures of phase transition from transport model calculations for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions
Swagato Mallik
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
Abstract
Thursday, April 10th 2014, 14:00
Isotropization in heavy ion collisions at high energy
François Gelis
Saclay
Abstract
Thursday, January 16th 2014, 14:00
STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker: Physics goals and status
Michael Lomnitz
Kent State University
Abstract
Thursday, October 17th 2013, 14:00
What proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions can tell us about QCD at high density
Adam Bzdak
BNL
Abstract
Thursday, October 3rd 2013, 14:00
The dilepton measurements at STAR
Lijuan Ruan
BNL
Abstract
Wednesday, June 19th 2013, 14:30 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note special day, time and venue
Event-by-Event Viscous Photon Emission in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
C. Shen
The Ohio State University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 26th 2013, 14:00
Note special day
Exploring the Universe's Highest Energy Densities at the LHC
Dragos Velicanu
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, March 21s 2013, 14:00
Anisotropic Hydrodynamics
Michael Strickland
Kent State University
Abstract
Thursday, March 14th 2013, 14:00
Numerical simulation of hydrodynamical noise in heavy-ion collisions
Clint Young
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Thursday, February 28th 2013, 14:00
Quarkyonic Matter: theory and phenomenology
Giorgio Torrieri
FIAS & Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, February 21st 2013, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note special venue
Spinodal density enhancements in fluid dynamical simulations of relativistic nuclear collisions
J. Steinheimer
LBNL
Abstract
Thursday, January 31st 2013, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The thermal photon rate at next-to-leading order
Jacopo Ghiglieri
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, January 17th 2013, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Direct photon measurement at RHIC
Takao Sakaguchi
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, December 6th 2012, 11:00 (room 326)
Event by event azimuthal correlations and flow at the LHC
Anthony Timmins
University of Houston
Abstract
Thursday, November 29th 2012, 14:00
Viscous Hydrodynamic Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions from RHIC to LHC
Chun Shen
Ohio State university
Abstract
Tuesday, November 27th 2012, 14:00
Note special day
Measurement of Direct Photons in Pb-Pb Collisions at √s= 2.76 TeV: First Results from ALICE
Daniel Lohner
Alice collaboration & Heidelberg University
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2012, 14:00
Converting a viscous fluid to particles
Denes Molnar
Purdue University
Abstract
Friday, November 16th 2012, 13:30 (room 326)
Note special day, time and venue
Flow measurements from ATLAS
J. Jia
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Thursday, November 8th 2012, 14:00
Mapping the hydrodynamic response to the initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions
Matthew Luzum
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 1st 2012, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Event-by-event distribution of azimuthal asymmetries in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
Gabriel Denicol
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, May 1st 2012, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Fluctuating glasma initial conditions and flow in heavy-ion collisions
Björn Schenke
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, April 10th 2012, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
KNO scaling in pp / pA at LHC: theoretical motivation and why it matters for AA
Adrian Dumitru
Baruch College
Abstract
Tuesday, March 27th 2012, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Chiral and deconfining aspects of QCD transition at finite temperature
Peter Petreczky
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Jet Propagation in Hot and Dense Media from Effective Field Theory
Francesco d'Eramo
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, March 1st 2012, 15:00 (room 326)
Hydrodynamic flows from RHIC to LHC
Chun Shen
Ohio State University
Abstract
Thursday, February 2nd 2012, 15:00 (room 326)
A blast-wave model with two freeze-outs
Kang-Seog Lee
Chon-Nam University
Abstract
Thursday, December 15th 2011, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Bulk viscosity, particle spectra and flow in heavy-ion collisions
Kevin Dusling
NCSU
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Thermal Bottomonium Suppression
Michael Strickland
Gettysburg College
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2011, 15:00 (Room 326)
Fluctuations and Equilibration in the AdS/CFT
Derek Teaney
SUNY Stony Brook
Abstract
Wednesday, September 28th 2011, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Soft Photons from transport and hydrodynamics
Bjørn Bäuchle
Universität Frankfurt
Abstract
Thursday, June 2nd 2011, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day
Viscous hydrodynamic radial and elliptic flow from RHIC to LHC
Chun Shen
Ohio State University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, May 10th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Viscous hydrodynamic radial and elliptic flow from RHIC to LHC
Chun Shen
Ohio State University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Quantifying the initial state granularity and triangular flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Hannah Petersen
Duke University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 30th 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Some Challenges and Opportunities for Hard Probes
Rainer J. Fries
Texas A&M University and RIKEN/BNL Research Center
Abstract
RESCHEDULED: Thursday, November 25th 2010, 15:00 (room 326)
J/ψ production and elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Taesoo Song
Texas A&M University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 16th 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Heavy quark energy loss near the QCD phase transition
Jorge Noronha
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 26th 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Collision geometry fluctuations, triangular flow and two-particle correlations in heavy ion collisions
Burak Alver
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, October 7th 2010, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The physics of the QCD critical point
Mikhail Stephanov
University of Illinois, Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, September 9th 2010, 15:00 (room 326)
High pT π0 azimuthal anisotropy measurement from PHENIX: the influence of initial geometry and implication for the jet quenching
Jiangyong Jia
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Interactions between jets and the hot, dense QCD medium
Guangyou Qin
Duke University
Abstract
Thursday, April 29th 2010, 15:00 (room 326)
Note special day, time and venue
Charmonium above deconfinement as an open quantum system
Clint Young
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Heavy quarkonium near Tc
Su Huong Lee
Yonsei University
Abstract
Thursday, March 4th 2010, 15:00 (Room 326)
Note special day, time and venue
Lattice based Equation of State and its effect on the hydrodynamical evolution
Pasi Huovinen
Goethe University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 2nd 2010, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Quarkyonic Chiral Spirals
Toru Kojo
Brookhaven National Laboratory - RBRC
Abstract
Tuesday, December 1st 2009, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
A factorization based approach to jet modification in an arbitrary medium
Abhijit Majumder
Ohio State University
Abstract
Thursday, November 5th 2009, 16:00 (room 326)
Note special day, time and venue
Viscosity at RHIC - Challenges and Open Problems
Paul Romatschke
University of Washington, Seattle
Abstract
Thursday, October 29th 2009, 16:00 (room 326)
Note special day, time and venue
What do we know about the shear-viscosity of QCD matter?
Steffen Bass
Duke University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 6th 2009, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The Long Slow Death of the HBT Puzzle
Scott Pratt
Michigan State University
Abstract
Thursday, September 17th 2009, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day and time
The hydrodynamics of non-conformal fluids from gauge/gravity duality
Todd Springer
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 24th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Long Range Rapidity Correlations in the Glasma and the Near Side Ridge in Heavy Ion Collisions
Raju Venugopalan
BNL
Abstract
Tuesday, March 17th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Electromagnetic signatures of the Color Glass Condensate
Jamal Jalilian-Marian
Baruch College, CUNY
Abstract
Tuesday, March 10th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Viscosity effects on quarkonium states in a deconfined QCD plasma
Adrian Dumitru
City University of New York & RIKEN BNL
Abstract
Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Jet Propagation and Mach Cones in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Barbara Betz
Goethe-University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time
Covariant and self consistent vertex corrections for pions and isobars in nuclear matter
Felix Riek
Texas A-M
Abstract
Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Falsifying AdS/CFT Drag or pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss with A+A at RHIC and LHC
William Horowitz
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Simulating elliptic flow with viscous hydrodynamics
Kevin Dusling
SUNY, Stony Brook
Abstract
Tuesday, October 14th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The Ridge, The Glasma, and Radial Flow
Sean Gavin
Wayne State University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 30th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Instabilities of an anisotropically expanding non-Abelian plasma
Michael Strickland
Gettysburg College
Abstract
Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Jet energy loss in stable and unstable non-Abelian plasmas
Björn Schenke
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, June 26th 2008, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day and time
Stellar Matter in supernova Explosions and Nuclear Multifragmentation
Alexandre Botvina
Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Tuesday, March 18th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Parton distribution functions in soft-collinear effective theory
Junegone Chay
Korea University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Single photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions
Dinesh Srivastava
Variable Energy Cyclotron Center
Abstract
Tuesday, November 20th 2007, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Open charm meson in finite temperature nuclear matter
T. Mizutani
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The QCD critical point in heavy ion collisions
Chiho Nonaka
University of Nagoya
Abstract
Monday, September 10th 2007, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Collisional Energy Loss - A welcoming component for jet quenching phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions
Munshi Golam Mustafa
Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Abstract
Thursday, August 2nd 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Mach cone shock waves at RHIC
J. Ruppert
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 24th 2007, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Probing the Quark Gluon Plasma with Jets and Jet Correlations
Abhijit Majumder
Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham
Friday, July 13th 2007, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Dimuon transverse momentum spectra as a tool to characterize the emission region in heavy-ion collisions
Thorsten Renk
University of Jyväskylä & University of Helsinki
Abstract
Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Is there a “most perfect fluid” consistent with quantum field theory?
Thomas Cohen
University of Maryland
Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Thoughts on early thermalization in AA collisions and nuclear matter in supercritical fields
Kirill Tuchin
Iowa State University/Riken-Brookhaven Research Center
Abstract
Tuesday, December 12th 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Heavy Quark Bound States Above Deconfinement
Agnes Mocsy
BNL
Abstract
Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
How can AdS/CFT be useful for heavy-ion physics?
Pavel Kovtun
KITP, UCSB
Abstract
Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
From color glass to glasma and plasma
Tuomas Lappi
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The Quark-Gluon Liquid at RHIC
Gunther Roland
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, October 3rd 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Four-charged-pion decay of ρ0(770) and the a1-ρ-π Lagrangian
Peter Lichard
Silesian University in Opava & Czech Technical University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
What does the rho-meson do? NA60's dimuon experiment and in-medium modifications of vector-mesons
Joerg Ruppert
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 17th 2006, 14:00 (ERP - Room 326)
D-meson in a cold nuclear matter: a self-consistent coupled channels approach
Tetsuro Mizutani
Virginia Tech
Abstract
Wednesday, April 12th 2006, 16:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Particle production in field theories coupled to strong external sources
Raju Venugopalan
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Wednesday, April 5th 2006, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Critical point of strongly interacting matter: would it be observed?
Rashid Mehdiyev
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 14:15 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Parton propagation in dense nuclear matter
Ivan Vitev
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, February 16th 2006, 13:45 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Space-time evolution of bulk QCD matter at RHIC: 3-D hydro + UrQMD model
Chiho Nonaka
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Tuesday, February 14th 2006, 14:15 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Anisotropy of flow and the order of phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Pasi Huovinen
Univeristy of Virginia
Abstract
Monday, February 13th 2006, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Particle production in a field theory coupled to a strong external source
François Gelis
SPhT, Saclay
Abstract
Rescheduled: Friday, December 2nd 2005, 14:30 (Room 326)
Parton Recombination: A comprehensive model for bulk hadronization at RHIC?
Steffen Bass
Duke University
Abstract
Friday, November 25th 2005, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Thermodynamics of large Nf at finite chemical potential for weak and strong couplings
Andreas Ipp
Institute for Nuclear Theory, Trento
Abstract
Friday, November 18th 2005, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Quark Recombination
Rainer Fries
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Wednesday, November 16th 2005, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Plasma Instabilities in the Melting Color Glass Condensate
Paul Romatschke
Bielefeld University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 15th 2005, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Nuclear modification of jet multiplicities
Igor Dremin
Lebedev Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, October 25th 2005, 13:00 (room 326)
Joint Nuclear Theory/Informal Pizza Seminar
The role of plasma instabilities in quark-gluon plasma equilibration
Peter Arnold
University of Virginia
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2005, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Heavy Ion Collisions, Diffusion, AdS/CFT, and the Euclidean Lattice
Derek Teaney
Stony Brook University
Abstract


Past Theory HEP Seminars

Formerly Informal Pizza Seminars

Monday, November 25th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Probing Light Fields with Neutron Stars
Jamie McDonald
Manchester
Abstract
Monday, November 18th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Twisted Riemann Bilinear Relations and Cuts of Feynman Integrals
Franziska Porkert
U. Bonn, Phys. Inst., BCTP
Abstract
Monday, November 11th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: New Physics and New Tools
Cara Giovanetti
NYU
Abstract
Monday, November 4th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Simplicity of In-In correlators
Chandramouli Chowdhury
U. Southampton
Abstract
Monday, October 28th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Causality constraints on EFTs
Sera Cremonini
Lehigh University
Abstract
Monday, October 21st, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Ringdown at finite coupling
Mathew Dodelson
Harvard
Abstract
Monday, October 7th , 2024, 11:00 (online only)
Detecting microHz Gravitational Waves with Binary Resonances
Joshua Foster
Fermilab
Abstract
Monday, September 30th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Holographic thermal correlators and quasinormal modes from semiclassical Virasoro blocks
Mukund Rangamani
UC Davis
Abstract
Monday, September 16th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
On the Physics and Differential Geometry of Top-Down Holographic QCD at Intermediate Coupling
Aalok Misra
IIT, Roorkee
Abstract
Monday, September 9th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Minimal Areas from Entangled Matrices
Alexander Frenkel
Stanford
Abstract
Wednesday, August 28th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
The complex Liouville string
Beatrix Muehlmann
McGill
Abstract
Monday, July 29th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Effective group field theory metric for the universe
Lisa Mickel
University of Sheffield
Abstract
Monday, June 3rd 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Determinant operators in N=4 SYM
Frank Coronado
ETH-Zuric
Abstract
Monday, May 27th 2024, 13:00 (room 326/online)
Note special time
Absorptive Effects and Classical Black Hole Scattering
Callum Jones
UCLA
Abstract
Monday, May 13th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
The fate of stringy non-invertible symmetries
Miguel Montero
IFT Madrid
Abstract
Monday, May 6th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
A New Antipodal Duality from the Perturbative Amplitude Bootstrap
Andrew McLeod
University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Monday, April 15th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Axion Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves Detection with Microwave Cavities
Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo
IPhT, Saclay
Abstract
Monday, April 8th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Three Point Amplitudes and Emergent Symmetries in Matrix Theory
Aiden Herdershee
IAS
Abstract
Monday, March 25th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
3d quantum gravity and Virasoro TQFT
Scott Collier
MIT
Abstract
Monday, March 18th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Axion clouds around pulsars
Sam Witte
Oxford
Abstract
Monday, February 26th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Dynamical black hole tides from scattering amplitudes
Julio Parra Martinez
UBC
Abstract
Monday, February 12th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Holography and Regge Phases at Large U(1) Charge
Giulia Fardelli
Boston University
Abstract
Monday, January 29th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
ALP Anarchy
Fran Chadha-Day
Durham
Abstract
Monday, January 22nd 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Celestial Holography from the Outside In
Sruthi Narayanan
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, January 16th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
Double scaled SYK from 3D de Sitter gravity
Herman Verlinde
Princeton
Abstract
Monday, January 8th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
The dynamics of vacuum decay
Matt Johnson
York University & Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, November 27th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Black Hole Archaeology
Jeremy Sakstein
University of Hawaii
Abstract
Monday, November 20th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Massive gravity is not positive
Giulia Isabella
UCLA
Abstract
Monday, November 13th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Dark Matter from Early Universe Neutrino Oscillation
Yue Zhang
Carleton U
Abstract
Monday, November 6th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Gravitational Imprints of Early Matter Domination
Jessie Shelton
UIUC
Abstract
Monday, October 30th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Time-Dependent Backgrounds of 1+1 Dimensional String Theory
Bruno Balthazar
NYU
Abstract
Monday, October 23rd 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Infinite Distance Limits and Factorization
John Stout
Harvard University
Abstract
Monday, October 16th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Gravitational observables
Dionysios Anninos
King's College London
Abstract
Monday, October 2nd 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Deriving the Simplest Gauge/String Duality
Edward Mazenc
ETH Zürich
Abstract
Monday, September 25th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
A symmetry algebra in double-scaled SYK
Henry Lin
Stanford
Abstract
Monday, September 18th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Gravity Amplitudes from Double Bonus Relations
Shruti Paranjape
UC Davis
Abstract
Monday, September 11th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Comments on entanglement and meeting in the black hole interior
Alex May
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, August 1st 2023, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/online)
Note special day, time and venue
Evanescent integrals from local subtraction
Alessandro Georgoudis
Nordita
Abstract
Thursday, July 20th 2023, 13:30 (room 326/online)
Note special day and time
Lessons from Quantum Strings for Quantum Gravity
Yuri Makeenko
ITEP
Abstract
Wednesday, July 12th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
S-matrix as a boundary observable
Diksha Jain
Tata Institute
Abstract
Monday, July 10th 2023, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/online)
Note special venue
Varying Newton’s constant, dark matter, and gravity at short distances
Saurya Das
University of Lethbridge
Abstract
Wednesday, June 14th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
de Sitter state in string theory
Archana Maji
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Abstract
Wednesday, May 31st 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
Chern-Simons Field Theory Invariants
P. Ramadevi
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Abstract
Monday, May 29th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Cosmology meets cohomology: differential equations for FRW correlators
Andrzej Pokraka
Brown University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 24th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
Gravity as a phase of matter
Gregoire Mathys
Cornell
Abstract
Monday, May 15th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Non-invertible Symmetry in Nature
Shu-Heng Shao
C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University
Abstract
Monday, May 8th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
3d gravity and gravitational entanglement entropy
Gabriel Wong
Harvard
Abstract
Monday, May 1st 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Early dark energy, quantum gravity, and cosmic tensions
Michael Toomey
Brown University
Abstract
Monday, April 24th 2023, 12:00 (online)
Cosmological Perturbations in Double Field Theory
Allison Pinto
Humbolt University
Abstract
Monday, April 17th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets
Marilena Loverde
University of Washington
Abstract
Monday, April 3rd 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Entropies, Algebras, and UV Fixed Points
Jonathan Sorce
MIT
Abstract
Monday, March 27th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Horizons are Watching You
Gautam Satishchandran
Princeton
Abstract
Monday, March 20th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Celestial Conformal Colliders
Sabrina Pasterski
Perimeter
Abstract
Monday, March 13th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Gluon scattering in AdS at finite string coupling
Shai Chester
Harvard
Abstract
Monday, March 6th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Evaluating one-loop string amplitudes
Sebastian Mizera
IAS
Abstract
Monday, February 27th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Landau Singularities and the Geometry of On-shell Spaces
Hofie Hannesdottir
IAS
Abstract
Monday, February 20th 2023, 12:00 (online)
Putting Generalized Symmetries to Work for Particle Physics
Seth Koren
University of Chicago
Abstract
Monday, February 13th 2023, 12:00 (online)
Axion Production in High-Energy Astrophysical Plasmas
Anirudh Prabhu
Princeton
Abstract
Monday, January 30th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Decorrelating regions of spacetime using split flow
Nima Lashkari
Purdue University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 11th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
Exploring High Frequency GWs with Magnons
Asuka Ito
QUP, KEK Japan
Abstract
Monday, December 12th 2022, 12:00 (online)
Positivity Constraints on EFTs and Geometric function theory
Prashanth Raman
Indian Institute of Science
Abstract
Monday, December 5th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Neutrino physics from heaven and earth
Thomas Schwetz-Mangold
KIT
Abstract
Monday, November 28th 2022, 12:00 (online)
3d gravity, SL(2,R) Chern Simons theory and Teichmuller TQFT
Lorenz Eberhardt
Institute for Advanced Study
Abstract
Monday, November 14th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Open EFTs and Decoherence of Primordial Fluctuations
Cliff Burgess
Perimeter Institute & McMaster University
Abstract
Monday, November 7th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Low-energy EFT causality bounds
Victor Pozsgay
Imperial College
Abstract
Monday, October 31st 2022, 12:00 (online)
Non-standard neutrino scenarios and the cosmos
Olga Mena
Valencia, IFIC
Abstract
Monday, October 24th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
WIMP Dark Matter In An Unusual Cosmological History
Seyda Ipek
Carleton University
Abstract
Monday, October 17th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Direct detection of dark matter far from the weak scale
Ben Lehmann
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, October 12th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Note special day
Ultralight Dark Matter from A(LPs) to U(LPs)
Evan McDonough
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
Monday, October 3rd 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Horizon Scattering, Partition Functions, and Edge Modes
Y. T. Albert Law
Harvard University
Abstract
Monday, September 26th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Three tales of crosscaps
Shota Komatsu
CERN
Abstract
Monday, September 19th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
A Celestial Matrix Model
Charles Marteau
UBC
Abstract
Monday, September 12th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Condensation and Evaporation of Boson Stars
Sergey Sibiryakov
McMaster University
Abstract
Wednesday, August 24th 2022, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
The Strong Sphaleron Rate from the Euclidean Lattice
Guy Moore
Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Abstract
Thursday, June 23rd 2022, 12:00 (Room 326/Tele-seminar)
Note special day
Quasi-Characters and the Classification of 2d CFT With Two Primaries
Sunil Mukhi
IISER, Pune
Abstract
Monday, May 16th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Dark photon (and axion) stars
Edward Hardy
Liverpool
Abstract
Monday, May 9th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Real-Time Vacuum Decay: From the Lattice to the Lab
Jonathan Braden
CITA
Abstract
Monday, May 2nd 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Allowable metrics in quantum cosmology
Jean-Luc Lehners
Albert-Einstein-Institute
Monday, April 25th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Double Copy of Yang-Mills and Double Field Theory
Olaf Hohm
Humboldt University Berlin
Abstract
Monday, April 11th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Giant gravitons in Twisted Holography
Davide Gaiotto
PI
Abstract
Monday, April 4th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
A Shorter Path to Celestial Currents
Sabrina Pasterski
PI
Abstract
Monday, March 28th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Celestial w + infinity symmetries and asymptotic charge dynamics
Ana Maria Raclariu
PI
Abstract
Monday, March 21st 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Low Energy Effective Theory for Axion Strings
Michael Dine
Santa Cruz
Abstract
Monday, March 14th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Mixed-state entanglement and information recovery in evaporating black holes
Shreya Vardhan
MIT
Abstract
Monday, March 7th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Rethinking the origin of neutrino masses: the role of gravity
Lena Funcke
MIT
Abstract
POSTPONED:Monday, February 21st 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Davide Gaiotto
PI
Monday, February 14th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Probing Dark Gauge Forces with a High-Energy Muon Beam Dump
Cari Cesarotti
Harvard
Abstract
Tuesday, February 8th 2022, 11:15 (Tele-seminar)
Special Theory HEP Seminar
Gravitational entropy and the flatness, homogeneity and isotropy puzzles
Neil Turok
Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Monday, February 7th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
The discovery potential of astrometric weak lensing
Cristina Mondino
PI
Abstract
Monday, January 31st 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
The Hubble Tension: A Particle Physics Perspective
Miguel Escudero
TUM
Abstract
Monday, January 24th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Late time behaviour of OTOC
Zhenbin Yang
Stanford
Abstract
Monday, January 17th 2022, 13:00 (Tele-seminar)
Dark Radiation vs Hagedorn Strings
Andrew Frey
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
Monday, January 10th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
de Sitter vacua in string theory: from the landscape to the swampland
Mariana Grana
CEA/Saclay
Abstract
Monday, December 20th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Bounds on Regge growth of flat space cattering from bounds on chaos
Suman Kundu
TIFR
Abstract
Monday, December 13th 2021, 10:30 (Tele-seminar)
Quantum field theories without infinities and naturalness
Mikhail Shaposnikov
EPFL
Abstract
Monday, December 6th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Unlocking Dark Matter Physics out of Astrophysical Data Sets
Cora Dvorkin
Harvard
Abstract
Monday, November 29th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Aspects of Rotating Black Holes in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity
Leah Jenks
Brown University
Abstract
Monday, November 22nd 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
On-shell Scattering Amplitudes from Massive Supergravity
Laura Johnson
Abstract
CANCELLED: Monday, November 15th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
de Sitter vacua in string theory: from the landscape to the swampland
Mariana Grana
IPhT CEA/Saclay
Monday, November 8th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Dark Matter from Axion Strings
Malte Buschmann
Princeton
Abstract
Monday, November 1st 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Bootsrability for 1d defect CFT
Julius Julius
King's College London
Abstract
Monday, October 25th 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Comments on matrix integrals & de Sitter space
Beatrix Muehlmann
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, October 18th 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Doors to Darkness: Phenomenology of Dark Matter Portal Interactions
Saniya Heeba
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, October 4th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Finetuning, naturalness, and the next good theory
James Wells
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Abstract
Monday, September 27th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Bootstrap bounds for hyperbolic manifolds
James Bonifacio
University of Cambridge
Abstract
Monday, September 20th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Toy models for monogamy and bags of gold paradoxes
Joydeep Chakravarty
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
Abstract
Monday, September 13th 2021, 11:00 (Tele-seminar)
Note special time
Holography of Information and Massive Islands
Suvrat Raju
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
Abstract
Wednesday, July 14th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Note special day
Backreaction in Quantum Cosmology
Susanne Schander
FAU Erlangen and Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, July 12th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Can we prove that cosmic structures are of quantum mechanical origin?
Vincent Vennin
APC, Paris
Abstract
Monday, June 28th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Thermal de Sitter and the Swampland
Alek Bedroya
Harvard
Abstract
Monday, June 14th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Bubble-Of-Nothing Decay of the de Sitter Universe
Benjamin Lillard
UIUC
Abstract
Monday, June 7th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Topics in inflationary cosmology: reheating, gauge fields and gravitational waves
Kaloian Lozanov
UIUC
Abstract
Monday, May 31st 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Distant Strings on the Swampland
Irene Valenzuela
Harvard University
Abstract
Monday, May 17th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Wormholes, islands, and ER = EPR
Arjun Kar
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Monday, May 3rd 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
A dark seesaw at low scales: applications to the MiniBooNE and (g-2) puzzles
Matheus Hostert
University of Minnesota & Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, April 26th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Catastrophic Production of Slow Gravitinos
Evan McDonough
Chicago
Abstract
Monday, April 12th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Tensionless Strings in Four Dimensions and the Swampland
Timo Weigand
Heidelberg
Abstract
Monday, March 29th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Solving cosmology puzzles with holographic cosmology and transition to standard RD cosmology
Horatiu Nastase
Sao Paulo, IFT
Abstract
Monday, March 22nd 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Path integrals, black holes and the beginning of the universe
Jean-Luc Lehners
Albert Einstein Institute
Abstract
Monday, March 15th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
The Weak Scale as a Trigger
Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo
IPhT, Saclay
Abstract
Monday, March 8th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
A Model of Couplings
Jonathan Heckman
UPenn
Abstract
Monday, March 1st 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
S-matrix constraints on de Sitter and on black holes
Gia Dvali
LMU & MPP, Munich
Abstract
Monday, February 22nd 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Probing primordial features with the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
Sebastien Renaux-Petel
IAP, Paris
Abstract
Monday, February 15th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
P not PQ
Isabel Garcia
KITP, UCSB
Abstract
Monday, February 8th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
De Sitter Quantum Breaking, Swampland Conjectures and Thermal Strings
Ralph Blumenhagen
MPP, Munich
Abstract
Monday, February 1st 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Wave dark matter
Lam Hui
Columbia
Abstract
Monday, January 25th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Chern-Weil Global Symmetries and How Quantum Gravity Avoids Them
Ben Heidenreich
UMass Amherst
Abstract
Monday, January 18th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Positivity with Gravity
Claudia de Rham
Imperial College
Abstract
Monday, January 11th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Island Finder
Raphael Bousso
Berkeley
Abstract
Monday, December 14th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Non-adiabatic and non-local behavior in effective theories
Martin Bojowald
Penn State
Abstract
Monday, December 7th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
The trouble with spatial curvature
Sunny Vagnozzi
Kavli Institute for Cosmology, IoA, Cambridge
Abstract
Monday, November 30th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Gauge Invariant Target Space Entanglement and Holography
Sumit Das
Kentucky
Abstract
Monday, November 23rd 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
The problem with a small and positive cosmological constant
Thomas Van Riet
KU Leuven
Abstract
Monday, November 16th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Covariant Phase Space and Soft Factorization in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
Temple He
UC Davis
Abstract
Monday, November 9th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Probing gravity and dark energy in the era of multi-messenger cosmology
Alessandra Silvestri
Leiden University
Abstract
Monday, November 2nd 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Emergence of (3+1)-dimensional expanding space-time from the Lorentzian IKKT matrix model
Jun Nishimura
KEK and SOKENDAI, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract
Monday, October 26th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Charming CP Violation
Yuval Grossman
Cornell University
Abstract
Monday, October 19th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Cosmological Open Quantum Systems
Sarah Shandera
Penn State
Abstract
Tuesday, October 13th 2020, 13:00 (Tele-seminar)
Note special day and time
Cosmology Beyond Equilibrium: Science with CMB spectral distortions
Jens Chluba
University of Manchester
Abstract
Monday, October 5th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Topological Gravity as the Early Phase of Our Universe
Georges Obied & Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
Monday, September 28th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-seminar)
Anomalies in gravitational charge algebras of null boundaries and black hole entropy
Antony Speranza
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, September 21st 2020, 13:00 (Tele-seminar)
Dirac Branes for Dirichlet Branes
Andrew Frey
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, April 1st 2020, 12:30
Dong-Gang Wang
Leiden University
Wednesday, January 29th 2020, 12:30
A model of quantum gravity with emergent spacetime
Sung-Sik Lee
Perimeter
Abstract
Friday, November 8th 2019, 12:30
Note special day
The Electroweak Phase Transition: A Collider Target
Michael Ramsey-Musolf
University of Massachusetts Armhest
Abstract
Wednesday, November 6th 2019, 12:30
Near-extremal black holes and Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity
Ashish Shukla
University of Victoria
Abstract
Wednesday, October 9th 2019, 12:30
A New Prescription for Conformal Blocks and Correlators
Valentina Prilepina
Université Laval
Abstract
Thursday, September 26th 2019, 12:30
Special Theory HEP Seminar
On Phase Transitions in Classically Scale Invariant Models
Ville Vaskonen
King's College London
Abstract
Wednesday, September 18th 2019, 12:30
Signatures of unitarity in semiclassical black hole evaporation
Henry Maxfield
UC Santa Barbara
Abstract
Friday, September 13th 2019, 12:30
Note special day
Search optimization and Dynamical Criticality on the String Landscape
Justin Khoury
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Wednesday, September 4th 2019, 12:30
Properties of a non-singular bounce in Bianchi I space-times
Edward Wilson-Ewing
University of New Brunswick
Abstract
Thursday, August 15th 2019, 12:30
Special Theory HEP Seminar
First Result for a Full Two-Loop Five-Gluon Amplitude
Simone Zoia
Max Planck Institute for Physics
Abstract
Monday, August 5th 2019, 12:30
Special Theory HEP Seminar
A coaction on generalised hypergeometric functions
Samuel Abreu
Université Catholique de Louvain
Monday, July 15th 2019, 12:30
Special Theory HEP Seminar
Analytic functionals and Polyakov bootstrap in Boundary CFTs
Apratim Kaviraj
École normale supérieure & Institut de Physique Théorique Philippe Meyer
Abstract
RESHEDULED: Thursday, May 30th 2019, 14:30
Note special time
Sphere packing, quantum gravity and extremal functionals
Dalimil Mazáč
YITP, Stony Brook
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, May 29th 2019, 12:30
Sphere packing, quantum gravity and extremal functionals
Dalimil Mazáč
YITP, Stony Brook
Abstract
Tuesday, May 21st 2019, 12:00
Special Theory HEP Seminar
Stringy ER=EPR
Daniel Jafferis
Harvard
Wednesday, May 8th 2019, 12:30
Effective field theory of gravity and finite size effects
Ira Rothstein
Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, May 2nd 2019, 12:30
A new renormalized stress-energy tensor and the cosmological constant problem
Yigit Yarnic
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, April 24th 2019, 12:30
Scattering Amplitudes for Spinning Black Holes
Alfredo Guevara
Perimeter Institute/University of Waterloo
Abstract
Wednesday, April 17th 2019, 12:30
JT Gravity as a Matrix Integral
Phil Saad
Stanford
Abstract
Wednesday, April 10th 2019, 12:30
Virasoro analytic bootstrap and the bound state spectrum of 3D quantum gravity
Scott Collier
Harvard
Abstract
Wednesday, April 3rd 2019, 12:30
Boundary-corner contributions to entanglement entropy
Clément Berthiere
Pekin University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 20th 2019, 12:30
Some Applications of Hyperbolic Geometry to Superstring Perturbation Theory
Faroogh Moosavian
Perimeter
Abstract
Wednesday, February 27th 2019, 12:30
Solvable models and multipoint conformal blocks
Vladimir Rosenhaus
IAS
Abstract
Wednesday, February 20th 2019, 12:30
Scattering Amplitudes from Intersection Theory
Sebastian Mizera
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, February 6th 2019, 12:30
Devin Walker
Dartmouth College
Monday, February 4th 2019, 12:30
Note special day
The Neutrino Puzzle: Anomalies, Interactions, and Cosmological Tensions
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
Harvard
Abstract
Wednesday, January 30th 2019, 12:30
On the Road to Cosmic Censorship: A Holographic Argument for Penrose's Inequality
Netta Engelhardt
Princeton
Wednesday, January 16th 2019, 12:30
Symmetries and twining genera in symmetric orbifolds of K3
Roberto Volpato
University of Padova
Abstract
Wednesday, December 5th 2018, 14:00
Photon Masses in the Landscape and Dark Photon Dark Matter
Matthew Reece
Harvard
Abstract
Friday, November 30th 2018, 13:00
Note special day and time
Duality and bootstrap for the long-range Ising model
Connor Behan
Stony brook, YITP
Abstract
Thursday, November 29th 2018, 13:30
Note special day and time
Giant Monopoles as a Dark Matter Candidate
Jarah Evslin
Lanzhou, Institute of Modern Physics
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2018, 13:30
Special Theory HEP Seminar
Primodial Black Holes from the QCD Axion
Francesc Ferrer
Washington University
Wednesday, November 21st 2018, 14:00
Constraining Dark Matter Interactions with Lyman-alpha Data
Deanna Hooper
RWTH Aachen U.
Abstract
Wednesday, November 14th 2018, 14:00
CP Violation in Top Physics
Kaori Fuyuto
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Abstract
Wednesday, November 7th 2018, 14:00
Asymmetric Dark Matter Exploding White Dwarfs and Converting Neutron Stars to Black Holes
Joseph Bramante
Queen's University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 7th 2018, 11:00
Special Theory HEP Seminar
Quantum bounces and real time quantum cosmology
Sebastian Bramberger
Albert Einstein Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, October 31st 2018, 14:00
K3 metrics from little string theory
Max Zimet
Stanford University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 24th 2018, 14:00
The Geometry of relative locality
Laurent Freidel
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, October 22nd 2018, 14:00
Note special day
Inflation from spontaneously broken Weyl invariance in theories with torsion
Stefano Lucat
Utrecht U.
Abstract
Thursday, October 18th 2018, 13:30
Note special day and time
Cosmological axion field and quark nugget dark matter model
Ariel Zhitnitsky
UBC
Abstract
Wednesday, October 17th 2018, 14:00
Probing Lepton Flavour Universality in Top Decays
Daniel Stolarski
Carleton University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2018, 12:00
Perturbative CFTs and applications
Kallol Sen
Indian Institute of Science
Abstract
Thursday, October 11th 2018, 13:30
Note special day and time
Particle Phenomenology in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Chen Sun
Brown University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 10th 2018, 14:00
Holography at finite cutoff with a T2 deformation
Edgar Shaghoulian
Cornell
Abstract
Wednesday, October 3rd 2018, 14:00
Path integrals, finite temperature, and lattices
David McGady
Bohr Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, September 26th 2018, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special venue
Neutrino Torquing
Ue-Li Pen
CITA
Abstract
Wednesday, September 19th 2018, 14:00
Recent progress on long-distance singularities in QCD amplitudes
Einan Gardi
University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Wednesday, September 12th 2018, 14:00
Generalised Gibbs Ensemble and Eigenstate thermalization in 1+1 CFTs
Simon Ross
Durham
Abstract
Wednesday, September 5th 2018, 14:00
The Conformal Bootstrap at Nonzero Temperature
Raghu Mahajan
Princeton University
Abstract
Friday, July 6th 2018, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time and venue
Varieties of Quantum Measurements
N. D. Hari Dass
Tata Institute for Fundamental Reserarch, Hyderabad
Abstract
Wednesday, July 4th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Infinite additional symmetries in heterotic (1,0) sigma models
Marc-Antoine Fiset
University of Oxford
Abstract
Tuesday, July 3rd 2018, 12:30
Note special day
On Lorentz-invariant massive spin-2 theories
Atsushi Naruko
Tohoku University
Abstract
Friday, June 22nd 2018, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time and venue
Gravitational wave forest from string axiverse
Yuko Urakawa
Nagoya University
Abstract
Wednesday, June 6th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Knot polynomials from Chern-Simons theory and their string theoretic interpretation
Pichai Ramadevi
Indian Institute of Technology
Abstract
Friday, May 25th 2018, 12:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Huajia Wang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, May 24th 2018, 12:00
Special Theory HEP Seminar
Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation
Nikhil Anand
Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
Tuesday, May 8th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Concentrated Dark Matter
Scott Watson
Syracuse University
Abstract
Friday, May 4th 2018, 12:30
A Phase Diagram for Gravitational Collapse in AdS
Andrew Frey
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
Wednesday, April 25th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Decomposing strongly coupled states: conformal bases and Hamiltonian truncation
Brian Henning
Yale
Abstract
Friday, April 20th 2018, 12:30
Primordial Standard Clocks as a Direct Probe of the Scenario of the Primordial Universe
Xingang Chen
Harvard CfA
Abstract
Friday, April 13th 2018, 12:30
The Holographic Shape of Entanglement and Einstein's equations
Onkar Parrikar
UPenn
Abstract
Friday, April 6th 2018, 12:30
Quantum Black Holes in the Sky: from Quantum Gravity to Astrophysics and Cosmology
Niayesh Afshordi
Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Holographic Description of 2D Conformal Block in Semi-Classical limit II: Non-Vacuum Module Case
Jie-Qiang Wu
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, March 21st 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Gravitational waves from the sound of a first-order phase transition
David J. Weir
U. of Helsinki
Abstract
Friday, March 2nd 2018, 12:30
TBA
Thomas Dumitrescu
Harvard
Wednesday, February 28th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
One-loop Colour/Kinematics Duality from the Worldsheet
Yvonne Geyer
IAS
Abstract
Thursday, February 22nd 2018, 12:00
Dual Boundary Conditions in 3d SCFT's
Note special day and time
Natalie Paquette
Caltech
Abstract
Friday, February 16th 2018, 12:30
Lessons on integrability from little string theory
Mina Aganagic
UC Berkeley
Friday, January 26th 2018, 12:30
Conformal Bootstrap at Large Charge
Alexander Zhiboedov
Harvard
Abstract
Wednesday, January 17th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Causality, Null Energy, and the Length Operator
Thomas Hartman
Cornell
Abstract
Friday, January 12th 2018, 12:30
Observational Signature of High Spin at the Event Horizon Telescope
Alex Lupsasca
Harvard
Abstract
Wednesday, December 13th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
Constraints on hydrodynamics from many-body quantum chaos
Andrew Lucas
Stanford
Abstract
Friday, December 1st 2017, 12:30
Towards Quantum Gravity in AdS from Integrability
Shota Komatsu
IAS
Abstract
Wednesday, November 29th 2017, 14:00 (MSI Conference Room
Special Theory HEP Seminar
On the Path Integral for Gravity
Neil Turok
Perimeter Institute
CANCELLED: Wednesday, November 29th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
Conformal Bootstrap at Large Charge
Alexander (Sasha) Zhiboedov
Harvard University
Abstract
Friday, November 24th 2017, 12:30
Quantum chaos and late-time dynamics
Nick Hunter-Jones
Caltech
Abstract
Wednesday, November 22nd 2017, 12:30
Note special day
Entanglement of Purification and Holographic Inequalities
Ning Bao
Caltech
Friday, October 27th 2017, 12:30
Field Propagators on a Causal Set
Sumati Surya
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, October 25th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Small N: Glueball masses from SU(3) Matrix Model
Sachin Vaidya
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Friday, October 20th 2017, 12:30
Positivity Constraints on Effective Field Theories for Cosmology/Gravity
Scott Melville
Imperial College London
Abstract
Friday, October 13th 2017, 12:30
Coarse-graining quantum mechanics
Djordje Radicevic
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, October 11th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
The Fate of the Universe
Matthew Schwartz
Harvard University
Abstract
Friday, October 6th 2017, 12:30
Isotropisation in cyclic universe cosmologies
Chandrima Ganguly
DAMTP, Cambridge
Abstract
Friday, September 29th 2017, 12:30
Factorization of IR Dynamics: Soft Black Hole Hair as Soft Wigs
Massimo Porrati
NYU
Abstract
Friday, September 22nd 2017, 12:30
2d chiral algebras associated to 4d superconformal field theories
Leonardo Rastelli
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Friday, September 15th 2017, 12:30
Emergent MOND from dark matter-baryon particle interactions
Justin Khoury
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Wednesday, September 13th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
Complexity and Spacetime
Simon Ross
Durham University
Abstract
Friday, September 8th 2017, 12:30
Dissipative and Stochastic Effects During Inflation
Rudnei O. Ramos
Rio de Janeiro State University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 6th 2017, 12:30
QCD Axion mass-dark matter density relation
Guy Moore
Institut fur Kernphysik, T.U. Darmstadt
Abstract
Thursday, July 13th 2017, 12:00
B decay anomalies from nonabelian horizontal symmetry
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, June 22nd 2017, 12:00
Perfect bounce in quantum cosmology
Steffen Gielen
Imperial College, Perimeter Institute & CITA
Abstract
Thursday, June 1st 2017, 12:00
Bootstrap, Coset and Monster CFT
Sunil Mukhi
IISER
Thursday, May 25th 2017, 12:00
Out-of-time-order correlators and effective field theory
Felix Haehl
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, May 4th 2017, 12:00
Universal dynamics near quantum critical points
William Witczak-Krempa
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, April 27th 2017, 12:00
M-theory and knots: first steps towards gaining physical intuition on knot invariants
Veronica Errasti Diez
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, April 20th 2017, 12:00
Supersymmetry Breaking by Fluxes
Savdeep Sethi
U Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, April 13th 2017, 12:00
Covariant c-flation
Guilherme Franzmann
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, April 6th 2017, 12:00
Unwinding the amplituhedron
Hugh Thomas
UQAM
Abstract
Thursday, March 30th 2017, 12:00
Siegel Modular Forms and Black Hole Entropy
Alex Belin
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Thursday, March 23rd 2017, 12:00
Information loss from partition functions at late times
Ethan Dyer
Stanford
Abstract
Wednesday, March 22nd 2017, 16:00
Note special day and time
Probing Inflationary Universe with 21cm fluctuations
Tomo Takahashi
Saga University
Thursday, March 16th 2017, 12:00
LLM vs EPR=ER
Joan Simon
University of Edinburgh & Perimeter Institute
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, March 16th 2017, 12:00
Genuine Cosmic Hair
David Kastor
UMass Amherst
Abstract
Friday, March 10th 2017, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue, day and time
Approaches to Inflationary Cosmology
Junichi Yokoyama
University of Tokyo
Thursday, March 9th 2017, 12:00
The effective field theory approach to cosmological perturbation theory
Simon Foreman
CITA
Abstract
Friday, March 3rd 2017, 14:00
Note special time and day
Stratifying On-Shell Cluster Varieties
Jacob Bourjaily
Niels Bohr International Academy
Abstract
Friday, March 3rd 2017, 12:00
Note special day
Towards a “hydrodynamic” approach to density matrices in quantum chaotic systems
Nima Lashkari
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 12:00
The Analytic Structure of Non-Global Logarithms
Duff Neil
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2017, 12:00
From axion inflation to leptons, baryons and cosmological magnetic fields
Evangelos Sfakianakis
University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Abstract
Thursday, February 2nd 2017, 12:00
What else can you do with solvable approximations?
Dror Bar-Natan
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, January 26th 2017, 12:00
Applications of Complexity Theory to High Energy Physics
Ning Bao
Caltech
Tuesday, January 24th 2017, 12:00
Joint Theory HEP/CPM Seminar
Renormalization group flows and boundary states in conformal field theories
John Cardy
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Monday, January 23rd 2017, 15:00
Note special day and time
Detecting Dark Energy with Atom Interferometry
Clare Burrage
Nottingham University
Abstract
Thursday, January 19th 2017, 12:00
Entanglement entropy and conformal field theory
Yan Gobeil
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2017, 12:00
Emergent Friedmann dynamics with a quantum bounce from quantum gravity condensates
Edward Wilson-Ewing
MPI Potsdam
Abstract
Tuesday, January 10th 2017, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Joint MSI/Theory HEP Seminar
Small Scale Structure of the Universe as seen by pulsars and FRBs
Ue-Li Pen
CITA, University of Toronto & Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, December 15th 2016, 13:00
Physics in Moonshine
Paul de Lange
University of Kentucky
Abstract
Friday, December 9th 2016, 14:00
Note special day
Group Field Theory Condensate Cosmology
Mairi Sakellariadou
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, December 8th 2016, 13:00
A Hot Metallic Hydrogen Cloud Around QCD Axion Stars
Joshua Berger
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
Thursday, December 1st 2016, 13:00
A 2D Stress Tensor for 4D Gravity
Prahar Mitra
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, November 24th 2016, 13:00
Anti-brane dynamics in flux compactifications
Stefano Massai
Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, November 17th 2016, 13:00
Emergent spacetime through indices
Nathan Benjamin
Stanford
Abstract
Wednesday, November 16th 2016, 12:00
Note special day and time
Structure of Kahler potential for D-term inflationary attractor models
M. Yamaguchi
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Thursday, November 10th 2016, 13:00
Natural SUSY at 13 TeV: not quite dead yet
Angelo Monteux
Rutgers
Abstract
Friday, November 4th 2016, 14:00
Note special day and time
Boundary Terms and Three-Point Functions: An AdS/CFT Puzzle Resolved
Dan Freedman
MIT/Stanford
Abstract
Thursday, October 27th 2016, 13:00
Information Loss in AdS3/CFT2
Jared Kaplan
John Hopkins
Abstract
Thursday, October 20th 2016, 13:00
Intergalactic Magnetic Field Observations and their Fundamental Implications
Tanmay Vachaspati
Arizona State
Abstract
Thursday, October 13th 2016, 13:00
A Cardy Formula for Three-Point Coefficients: How the Black Hole Got its Spots
Alex Maloney
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, October 6th 2016, 13:00
Theta and Large N SQCD
Patrick Draper
UMass
Abstract
Thursday, September 29th 2016, 13:00
Shape Dependence of Entanglement Entropy and Modular Hamiltonians
Onkar Parrikar
UPenn
Abstract
Thursday, September 22nd 2016, 13:00
Small string quantisation in curved space and tubular geometry
Partha Mukhopadhyay
IMSc, Chennai
Abstract
Thursday, September 15th 2016, 13:00
Quantum error correction and toy models of holography
Yan Gobeil
McGill
Abstract
Friday, November 4th 2015, 14:00
Note special day and time
Dan Freedman
MIT
Thursday, September 8th 2016, 13:00
Entanglement shadows in LLM geometries
Simon Ross
Durham
Abstract
Wednesday, August 31st 2016, 11:00
Note special day and time
Physical Implications of the Chiral Anomaly - from Condensed matter Physics to Cosmology
J. Froehlich
ETH Zuerich
Monday, August 29th 2016, 12:00
Note special day and time
Exponential Networks and representations of quivers
Johannes Walcher
Heidelberg
Wednesday, August 24th 2016, 12:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note special day, time and venue
Aspects of Ising-nematic quantum critical point
Ipsita Mandal
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, April 20th 2016, 12:00
Stereoscopic CFT Tools for Holography
James Sully
SLAC
Abstract
Wednesday, April 6th 2016, 12:00
Semiclassical OPE coefficients from 3D gravity
Chi-Ming Chang
Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, March 31st 2016, 11:30
Note special day and time
Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry
Eric Bergshoeff
Groningen
Abstract
Wednesday, March 23rd 2016, 12:00
The Random Bond Ising Model
David Simons-Duffin
IAS
Abstract
Wednesday, March 16th 2016, 12:00
Negative Energy and the Focussing of Light Rays
Aron Wall
IAS
Abstract
Wednesday, February 24th 2016, 12:00
Fermions on the Anti-Brane
Evan McDonough
McGill
Wednesday, February 3rd 2016, 12:00
The nilpotent chiral superfield
Timm Wrase
Vienna University of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, February 2nd 2016, 11:30 (Piano Room - 211)
Note special day, time and venue
Dark matter models: the diary of a particle phenomenologist
Yann Mambrini
CNRS-Université Paris XI
Abstract
Wednesday, January 20th 2016, 11:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Please note special time and venue
Charged Topological Entanglement Entropy
Shunji Matsuura
Niels Bohr Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, December 16th 2015, 12:00
Chaos in quantum channels
Dan Roberts
MIT
Abstract
Wednesday, December 9th 2015, 12:00
Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds and symmetries of K3 CFTs
Sarah Harrison
Harvard
Abstract
Wednesday, December 2nd 2015, 12:00
Galilean creation of the inflationary universe
Jun'ichi Yokoyama
University of Tokyo & IPMU
Monday, November 30th 2015, 12:00
Note special day
Studying cosmological perturbations in generalized gravitational theories
Yuki Watanabe
University of Tokyo
Wednesday, November 25th 2015, 12:00
S-Duality, Janus Configurations and Quadratic Reciprocity
Ori Ganor
Berkeley
Abstract
Wednesday, November 18th 2015, 12:00
Scalar-Vector Bootstrap
Daniel Robbins
Texas A & M
Abstract
Wednesday, November 11th 2015, 12:00
A. Liam Fitzpatrick
Boston University
Wednesday, November 4th 2015, 12:00
Resurgence, quantum geometry and complex instantons
Gokce Basar
University of Maryland
Abstract
Wednesday, October 28th 2015, 12:00
Cracks in the Standard Model?
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 7th 2015, 12:00
Modular forms and black hole entropy
Edgar Shaghoulian
UCSB
Abstract
Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 12:00
Near-Horizon Magnetospheres of Rapidly Spinning Black Holes
Alex Lupsasca
Harvard University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 23th 2015, 12:00
Alex Maloney
McGill
Wednesday, September 9th 2015, 12:00
Wormholes, ETH & random matrices
Simon Ross
Durham University
Abstract
Tuesday, June 30th 2015, 15:00
Entanglement and gravity in three dimensions
Henry Maxfield
Durham University
Abstract
Wednesday, June 10th 2015, 12:00
Lie algebraic formulation of tt* equations and topological strings
Murad Alim
Harvard University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 12:00
Witten index and Wall crossing
Heeyeon Kim
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, May 19th 2015, 12:00
Note special day
Entanglement Entropy in AdS3/CFT2: anomalies and fake gaps
Alejandra Castro
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Wednesday, May 13th 2015, 12:00
Geoids in General Relativity
Marius Oltean
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Friday, May 8th 2015, 12:00
Note special day
Holographic duals of conformal blocks
Eric Perlmutter
Princeton University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 29th 2015, 12:00
Entanglement, Spacetime, and Quantum Error Correction
Xi Dong
Stanford University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 22nd 2015, 12:00
Geometry and Information in 2d Conformal Field Theory
Thomas Hartman
Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, April 9th 2015, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Joint Theory HEP/Astrophysics Seminar
From precision to accuracy: cosmology with large imaging surveys
Hiranya Peiris
University College London
Abstract
Wednesday, April 8th 2015, 12:00
Large N matrices and finite systems
Dionysios Anninos
IAS
Abstract
Wednesday, March 18th 2015, 12:00
Universal Spectrum of 2d Conformal Field Theory in the Large c Limit
Christoph Keller
Rutgers University
Monday, March 16th 2015, 12:10
Note special time
Putting Inflation to the Test
Pieter Daniel Meerburg
Princeton University
Abstract
Thursday, January 29th 2015, 13:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special day, time and venue
Eccentric compact object mergers
Frans Pretorius
Department of Physics, Princeton University
Wednesday, January 28th 2015, 12:00
How well can we really know the scale of inflation?
Scott Watson
Syracuse University
Abstract
Thursday, January 22nd 2015, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day, time and venue
The early stages of high-energy heavy-ion — from nucleon structure towards the onset of thermalization (Part II)
Soeren Schlichting
Heidelberg University
Wednesday, January 21st 2015, 12:00
Consistent massive graviton on arbitrary backgrounds
Cédric Deffayet
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Abstract
Monday, January 19th 2015, 12:00
The early stages of high-energy heavy-ion — from nucleon structure towards the onset of thermalization
Soeren Schlichting
Heidelberg University
Wednesday, January 14th 2015, 12:00 (Room 326)
A ΛCDM Bounce Scenario
Edward Wilson-Ewing
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Abstract
Wednesday, December 17th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Classification of all 6D SCFTs
Jonathan Heckman
University of North Carolina
Wednesday, December 10th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Gravitational Interaction of the Higgs and Dark Matter
Jing Ren
University of Toronto
Abstract
Wednesday, December 3rd 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Holographic C-function
Vishnu Jejjala
University of the Witwatersrand
Wednesday, November 26th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Elementary Goldstone Higgs and Dark Matter
Alanne Tommi
University of Jyvaskyla
Abstract
Monday, November 17th 2014, 12:00
Quantum supergravity and exact holography
João Miguel Vieira Gomes
DAMTP Cambridge
Abstract
Wednesday, November 12th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Dark Matter - Neutrino Interactions: Solving the Small Scale Structure Problem and its Implications
Bridget Bertoni
University of Washington
Abstract
Wednesday, November 5th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
The Eightfold way of Fluid: Eight kinds of transport coefficients and their effective field theory
Loganayagam Ramalingam
IAS Princeton
Monday, November 3rd 2014, 12:00
A unified description of inflation and dark energy
Wali Hossain
Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia
Abstract
Wednesday, October 29th 2014, 12:00
Monopole Operators on the Coulomb branch
Amihay Hanany
Imperial College
Abstract
Tuesday, October 27th 2014, 12:00
Note special day
Dynamics of the chiral phase transition - Universal fluctuations near criticality
David Mesterhazy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract
Wednesday, September 24th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
E-string elliptic genus from domain walls
Guglielmo Lockhart
Harvard University
Abstract
Monday, September 22nd 2014, 12:00
Modulated Preheating and CMB Anomalies
Zhiqi Huang
CITA
Abstract
Monday, September 15th 2014, 12:00
Multi-boundary wormholes and holographic entanglement
Simon Ross
Durham University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 12:00
Spacetime curvature and the Higgs stability during inflation
Tommi Markkanen
University of Helsinki
Abstract
Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 12:00
Can we have a healthy violation of the NEC?
Francis Duplessis
Arizona State University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 12:00 (room 326)
Stringy Corrections from (Almost) Classical Supergravity
Andrew Frey
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
Wednesday, June 18th 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
New physics from Flavor experiments: Opportunities and Challenges
Alakabha Datta
University of Mississippi
Abstract
Friday, June 13th 2014, 11:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special time
Probing gas distribution with gravitational lensing and CMB maps
Yin-Zhe Ma
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Wednesday, June 11th 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
3d & 5d holomorphic blocks for SUSY gauge theories
Fabrizio Nieri
University of Surrey
Abstract
Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 12:00 (room 326)
Note special day
String Amplitudes and the Omega-Deformed Gauge Theory
Ahmad Zein Assi
CERN
Abstract
Friday, May 30th 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
M-theory interpretation of the real topological string
Nicolo Piazzalunga
SISSA
Abstract
Wednesday, May 28th 2014, 12:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note special venue
Stochastic ElectroDynamics with Spin (SEDS) as a new foundation of Special Relativity (SR) and of Quantum ElectroDynamics (QED)
Francesco Barbero
UQAM
Abstract
Friday, May 16th 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Running couplings with a vanishing scale anomaly
Carlos Tamarit
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Friday, May 2nd 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Cosmic Rays from Higgs Portal Dark Matter
Wei Xue
SISSA
Abstract
Wednesday, April 30th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Shedding New Light on Sterile Neutrinos
Brian Shuve
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, April 29th 2014, 12:00 (room 326)
Note special day
Relative entropies in conformal field theory
Nima Lashkari
Stanford University
Abstract
Friday, April 25th 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Gauge Theories in the Landscape: From Deformation Theory to Dark Matter
Jim Halverson
KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract
Wednesday, April 23rd 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
The future of weak gravitational lensing in cosmology
Ludovic Van Waerbeke
UBC
Abstract
Wednesday, April 16th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Partially Massless Gravity
Kurt Hinterbichler
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, April 2nd 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Testing quantum gravity with pulsars
Ue-Li Pen
University of Toronto
Abstract
Friday, March 28th 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Non-renormalizability of the classical-statistical approximation
Thomas Epelbaum
IPhT Saclay
Abstract
Wednesday, March 26th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Stochastic Inflation Revisited: A Self-Consistent Recursive Approach and Applications
Laurence Perreault Levasseur
University of Cambridge
Abstract
Friday, March 21st 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Wild and tame scalar-tensor black holes
Valerio Faraoni
Bishop's University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 19th 2014, 12:00 (Room 326)
Black Holes Catalyse Vacuum Decay
Ruth Gregory
Durham University
Abstract
Friday, January 31st 2014, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Transient reductions of the inflaton speed of sound in the Cosmic Microwave Background
Ana Achucarro
Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University
Abstract
Friday, January 17th 2014, 12:00
Note special day and time
Quantum Tunneling in Real Time
Neil Turok
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, January 15th 2014, 12:00
Note special day and time
Why are the effective equations of loop quantum cosmology so accurate?
Edward Wilson-Ewing
Louisiana State University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 17th 2013, 13:00
New nonlinear massive gravity and its cosmological application
Emmanuel Saridakis
National Technical University of Athens
Abstract
Tuesday, November 26th 2013, 13:00
Non-equilibrium fermion production on the lattice
Daniil Gelfand
Heidelberg
Abstract
Tuesday, November 12th 2013, 13:00
Topological defects and generalised orbifolds
Nils Carqueville
Simons Center, Stony Brook
Abstract
Thursday, November 7th 2013, 13:00
A Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence for generalized Kaehler manifolds
Ruxandra Moraru
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Tuesday, November 5th 2013, 13:00
Localization and holography in N=2 gauge theories
Alex Buchel
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, October 29th 2013, 13:00
Refined BPS Invariants of del Pezzo and half K3 Calabi-Yau manifolds
Maximilian Poretschkin
Bonn University
Abstract
Thursday, October 17th 2013, 13:00
Collective Fields, Holography and RG Flows in dS/CFT
Sumit Das
University of Kentucky
Abstract
Tuesday, October 15th 2013, 13:00
Price for a NEC-violation
Alex Vikman
CERN
Abstract
Thursday, October 10th 2013, 13:00
Galileons, Modified Gravity and New Field Theories
Mark Trodden
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Thursday, October 3rd 2013, 13:00
The charge radius of the proton
Gil Paz
Wayne State
Abstract
Tuesday, September 24th 2013, 15:00
Note special time
The Conformal Standard Model
Hermann Nicolai
MPG Potsdam
Abstract
Monday, September 23rd 2013, 13:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special day and venue
Inflationary models after Planck
Jerome Martin
IAP Paris
Thursday, September 12th 2013, 13:00
Generalized orbifolds of Landau-Ginzburg models
Daniel Plencner
LMU Munich
Abstract
Thursday, August 29th 2013, 13:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note special venue
On charged black holes in Nonlinear ghost-free Massive Gravity
Caixia Gao
University of Mississippi
Abstract
Monday, July 29th 2013, 14:00
Deformed gauged SO(8) supergravities: what can they tell us about M-theory?
Bernard de Wit
Amsterdam NIKHEF & Utrecht University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 23rd 2013, 12:00
Model independent constraints on warm hidden dark matter
Subinoy Das
RWTH Aachen
Abstract
Wednesday, July 17th 2013, 14:00
Cool Horizons for Entangled Black Holes
Alex Belin
McGill
Abstract
Friday, July 12th 2013, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
An Infalling Observer in AdS/CFT and the Information Paradox
Suvrat Raju
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Abstract
Monday, July 8th 2013, 13:00
Note special day and time
The N = 4 Superconformal Bootstrap
Balt van Rees
Stony Brook
Abstract
Friday, July 5th 2013, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time and venue
Multiplicity-free quantum 6j-symbols for Uq(SU(N))
Zodinmawia Tlau
India Institute of Technology Bombay
Abstract
Friday, June 21st 2013, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special time and venue
Knot invariants from Chern-Simons theory (part I)
Satoshi Nawata
NIKHEF - Amsterdam
Abstract
Wednesday, June 19th 2013, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special time, day and venue
Knot invariants from Chern-Simons theory (part I)
Satoshi Nawata
NIKHEF - Amsterdam
Abstract
Tuesday, June 18th 2013, 14:00
Note special time
Introduction to Knot Theory
Sam Selmani
McGill
Tuesday, May 21st 2013, 14:00
Note special time
Entanglement, edge states, and gauge symmetry
William Donnelly
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Tuesday, May 21st 2013, 12:00
Tracking down the top quark forward backward asymmetry
Peter Winslow
TRIUMF
Abstract
Tuesday, May 7th 2013, 12:00
Some Applications of Computational Algebraic Geometry to String and Particle Phenomenology
Yang-Hui He
London/Oxford
Abstract
Friday, May 3rd 2013, 12:00
Torsion Gravity for Fermionic Matter: the Einstein and Weyl theories
Luca Fabbri
University of Bologna
Abstract
Friday, April 26th 2013, 12:00
f(T) Gravity and Cosmology
Emmanuel N. Saridakis
University of Athens
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 23rd 2013, 13:00
Shamil Shakirov
UC Berkeley
Tuesday, April 16th 2013, 13:00
Light states in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter
Jonathan Maltz
Stanford
Friday, April 12th 2013, 12:00
Why is the generalized second law true?
Aaron Wall
UCSB
Tuesday, April 9th 2013, 12:00
Eliminating Ghost and Anisotropy in Bouncing Cosmology
Taotao Qiu
National Taiwan University
Friday, April 5th 2013, 12:00
Wang Yi
IPMU
Tuesday, April 2nd 2013, 13:00
Vacuum decay mediated by topological defects
Richard MacKenzie
Université de Montréal/McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 19th 2013, 12:30
Note special time
Orthogonal Technicolor with Isotriplet Dark Matter on the Lattice
Ari Hietanen
Odense
Abstract
Friday, March 15th 2013, 12:00
Gauging the Way to MFV
Gordan Krnjaic
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, March 12th 2013, 13:00
Inflation models and non-Gaussianities before Planck
Yi Wang
IPMU
Abstract
Friday, March 1st 2013, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
The geometry of the quantum Hall effect
Dam Son
Chicago
Abstract
Friday, February 22nd 2013, 12:00
Electroweak Phase Transition, Higgs Diphoton Rate, and New Heavy Fermions
Hooman Davoudiasl
BNL
Abstract
Friday, February 15th 2013, 12:00
Mode mixing in angle and rapidity in a hydrodynamic description of heavy ion collisions
Derek Teaney
Stony Brook
Abstract
Friday, February 8th 2013, 12:00
Some applications of 3d holography to condensed matter
Thomas Faulkner
IAS
Wednesday, February 5th 2013, 13:00
Note special day and time
Entanglement entropy in de Sitter space
Guilherme Pimentel
Princeton
Abstract
Monday, February 4th 2013, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day, time and venue
Black hole hair and electromagnetic signatures of merging and collapsing compact objects
Maxim Lyutikov
Purdue
Abstract
Friday, January 25th 2013, 12:00
Tidal stretching of gravitons into classical strings: Application to jet quenching with AdS/CFT
Peter Arnold
University Of Virginia
Friday, January 18th 2013, 12:00
Multifield Reheating and the Fate of the Primordial Observables
Ewan Tarrant
University of Nottingham
Abstract
Friday, January 11th 2013, 12:00
Holographic description of the cosmological singularity
Misha Smolkin
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, December 11th 2012, 13:00
The MHV-vertex Expansion for Gravity Amplitudes
Sayeh Rajabi
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, December 4th 2012, 13:00
Searching for early-universe relics in the CMB
Matthew Johnson
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, November 29th 2012, 13:00
Carving out the Space of Conformal Field Theories
David Poland
Yale University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 27th 2012, 13:00
Note special day
Light sates in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter
Shamik Banerjee
Stanford University
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2012, 13:00
Solution to the ghost problem in fourth-order derivative theories and its implications for gravity and astrophysics
Philip Mannheim
University of Connecticut
Abstract
Tuesday, November 20th 2012, 13:00
Gravity duals to boundary subsets
Joanna Karczmarek
UBC
Abstract
Thursday, November 15th 2012, 13:00
Anomaly-Induced Transport and Thermodynamics
Kristan Jensen
University of Victoria
Abstract
Tuesday, November 13th 2012, 13:00
Exact Results in D=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Jaume Gomis
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, November 8th 2012, 13:00
Recent progress on de Sitter S-matrix
Ian Morrison
University of Cambridge
Abstract
Tuesday, November 6th 2012, 13:00
The Wave Function of the Universe in Higher Spin Gravity
Daniel Harlow
Princeton University
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2012, 13:00
Gamma Rays at 130 GeV and How They Might Come from Dark Matter
Andrew Frey
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
Tuesday, October 23rd 2012, 13:00
M5-branes from gauge theories on the 5-sphere
Seok Kim
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2012, 13:00
Holographic slow-roll inflation
Paul McFadden
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, October 9th 2012, 13:00
2D to 4D Correspondence: Towers of Kinks versus Towers of Monopoles
Pavel Bolokhov
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Thursday, October 4th 2012, 13:00
Fate of cosmological solutions in massive gravity
Emir Gumrukcuoglu
IPMU
Abstract
Tuesday, October 2nd 2012, 13:00
Superconformal algebra and Jack superpolynomials.
Pierre Mathieu
Université Laval
Abstract
Tuesday, September 18th 2012, 13:00
Dynamics of heavy-ion collisions and thermalization of weakly-coupled non-abelian plasmas
Sören Schlichting
Universität Heidelberg
Abstract
Tuesday, September 11th 2012, 13:00
Probing Charged Excited States of Dark Matter
Haipeng An
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, August 30th 2012, 13:00
Weakly coupled M-branes
Sunil Mukhi
Tata Institute
Abstract
Thursday, August 23rd 2012, 13:00
Einstein-Cartan Theory as an Averaged Theory of Gravity
Juliane Behrend
U. Utrecht
Abstract
Thursday, July 26th 2012, 13:00
Cosmological Inflation and the Quantum Measurement Problem
Vincent Vennin
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Abstract
Tuesday, July 24th 2012, 13:00
Anomalous High Energy Dependence in Inflationary Density Perturbations
Yi Wang
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 10th 2012, 13:00
Forward and Inverse Algorithms
Siddharth Dwivedi
IIT Bombay
Abstract
Tuesday, July 10th 2012, 11:00 (R.E. Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time and venue
Studying wave optics in exoplanet microlensing light curves
Sohrab Rahvar
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Friday, July 6th 2012, 15:00
Note unusual day and time
On Emergent Geometries and the Example of AdS5XS5
Frank Ferrari
Université libre de Bruxelles
CANCELLED: Wednesday, July 4th 2012, 15:00
Note unusual day and time
Liam McAllister
Cornell University
Thursday, June 28th 2012, 13:00
Density Perturbations from Curvatons Revisited
Takeshi Kobayashi
CITA & PI
Abstract
Tuesday, June 26th 2012, 13:00
Heterotic Torsional Backgrounds, Threshold Corrections and Mock Modular Forms
Dan Israel
IAP
Abstract
Monday, June 25th 2012, 13:00
Note special day
Chris Beem
SCGP
Tuesday, June 19th 2012, 13:00
On 4d/2d correspondence with 8 and 4 supercharges
Peter Koroteev
Minnesota
Abstract
Thursday, June 7th 2012, 13:00
Self-accelerating universe from non-linear massive gravity
Chunshan Lin
IPMU
Abstract
Tuesday, June 5th 2012, 13:00
Higher Spin Generalization of the 6-Vertex Model and Macdonald Polynomials
Tiago Dinis
Concordia
Abstract
Friday, June 1st 2012, 14:30
Note special time and day
Chern-Simons Theory and Topological Strings
Ramadevi Pichai
IIT Bombay
Abstract
Friday, May 25th 2012, 13:00
Aspects of Large Volume D3/D7 μ-Split SUSY
Aalok Misra
IIT Roorkee
Abstract
Tuesday, May 1st 2012, 13:00
Vincent Bouchard
University of Alberta
Thursday, April 26th 2012, 13:00
Warped Dimensional Reduction
Andrew Frey
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 13:00
Scattering from N=4 to N=0
Simon Caron-Huot
IAS
Abstract
Tuesday, April 17th 2012, 13:00
Temperature dependence of Standard Model CP violation and Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis
Aleksi Vuorinen
Bielefeld University
Tuesday, April 10th 2012, 13:00
No-boundary measure in string theory
DongHan Yum
CQUeST
Abstract
Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 13:00
Singularity resolution inside radiating 2-D black holes
Gabor Kunstatter
University of Winnipeg
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, March 15th 2012, 13:00
Neil Turok
Cambridge
Tuesday, March 13th 2012, 13:00
Holographic fermions
David Vegh
Simons Center, Stony Brook
Abstract
Thursday, March 8th 2012, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Geometry and Connectedness of Heterotic String Compactifications with Fluxes
Xenia C. de la Ossa
Oxford
Abstract
Tuesday, March 6th 2012, 13:00
D-Brane and O-Plane Actions from String Amplitudes
Katrin Becker
Texas A&M
Thursday, March 1st 2012, 13:00
Dipole deformed background — holography and string spectrum
Wei Song
Harvard
Abstract
Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 13:00
BPS spectra of N=2 QFT in 4d
Murad Alim
Harvard
Abstract
Thursday, February 23rd 2012, 13:00
Non-extremality and the IR limit of large N QCD
Mohammed Mia
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 21st 2012, 13:00
How much do mathematicians understand about the AdS/CFT correspondence?
Alberto Enciso
ICMAT & CSIC
Abstract
Thursday, February 16th 2012, 13:00
Alfred Mueller
Columbia
Tuesday, February 14th 2012, 13:00
Closed Strings in Open String Field Theory
Ivo Sachs
Universität München
Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2012, 13:00
How to Measure the Speed of Gravity
Manu Paranjape
Groupe de physique des particules, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, February 7th 2012, 13:00
Chaos in String Theory
Archisman Ghosh
University of Kentucky
Abstract
Monday, January 23rd 2012, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Composite Higgs, Dark Matter and Inflaton
Francesco Sannino
CP3 Origins
Abstract
Thursday, January 19th 2012, 13:00
Black Hole Design
Maria J. Rodriguez
Harvard University
Abstract
Thursday, January 12th 2012, 13:00
Scalar Perturbations in Loop Quantum Cosmology
Ed Wilson-Ewing
Penn State
Abstract
Tuesday, January 10th 2012, 13:00
Backreaction on the luminosity-redshift relation from gauge-invariant light-cone averaging
Ido Ben-Dayan
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, December 6th 2011, 13:00
RECAST - A framework for extending the impact of existing analyses
Itay Yavin
McMaster University & Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, December 1st 2011, 13:00
Wei Song
Harvard
Tuesday, November 29th 2011, 13:00
Ben Burrington
University of Toronto
Monday, November 28th 2011, 13:00
Eternal Symmetree
Douglas Stanford
Stanford
Abstract
Tuesday, November 15th 2011, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
(0,2) quantum cohomology
Sheldon Katz
UIUC
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2011, 13:00
Constraints on String Cosmology
Callum Quigley
Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2011, 13:00
Shedding (sun)light on dark matter direct detection
Josef Pradler
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2011, 13:00
Single field inflation beyond slow-roll
Johannes Noller
Imperial College London
Abstract
Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 13:00
Constraining dark matter properties using current and future direct detection experiments
Charlotte Strege
Imperial College London
Abstract
Thursday, October 6th 2011, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops, Flux tubes and Integrability
Pedro Vieira
Perimeter Institute
Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 13:00
Currents in cosmic strings and associated cosmology
Patrick Peter
IAP
Abstract
Thursday, September 29th 2011, 13:00
Sphere partition functions and Z-minimization in 3 dimensions
Daniel Jafferis
Harvard
Tuesday, September 27th 2011, 14:00 (McConnell Engineering Bldg., Room 103S)
Joint THEP/CS Seminar
Black holes and qubits
Michael Duff
Imperial College London
Abstract
Tuesday, September 27th 2011, 12:30
Note special time
Collapse of small-scale density perturbations during preheating and production of gravitational waves
Jerome Martin
IAP
Abstract
Tuesday, September 13th 2011, 13:00
Flows involving Lifshitz spacetimes
Simon Ross
Durham University
Abstract
Thursday, September 8th 2011, 13:00
Results in 2D causal set quantum gravity
Sumati Surya
Raman Research Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, September 6th 2011, 13:00
Monopole operators and dualities in 3d CS matter theories
Mauricio Romo
UCSB
Abstract
Friday, September 2nd 2011, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day, time and venue
K3 surfaces, modular forms, and non-geometric heterotic compactifications
David Morrison
Abstract
Thursday, September 1st 2011, 13:00
Note special day and time
Cosmology meets quantum gravity: a chiral signature in the CMB?
Joao Magueijo
Imperial College London
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, August 30th 2011, 13:00 (Piano room - room 211)
Note special date, time and venue
Omid Saremi
University of California, Berkley
Thursday, August 25th 2011, 13:00
Note special day and time
The Structure and Interpretation of Quasi-Boundary States
Yin Zheng
Abstract
Monday, August 22nd 2011, 13:00
Note special date and time
Origami of a Gaiotto Curve from a Seiberg-Witten Curve
Chan Youn Park
Caltech
Abstract
Thursday, August 4th 2011, 12:00
Note special day
Average evolution of locally inhomogeneous universes
Alexander Wiegand
Universität Bielefeld
Abstract
Monday, August 1st 2011, 15:00
Note special day and time
Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Rob Myers
Perimeter Institute
Monday, August 1st 2011, 12:00
Special Joint Theory and Astrophysics Seminar
How Sensitive is the CMB to a Single Lens?
Anastasia Fialkov
Tel Aviv University
Abstract
Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 13:00 (Piano room - room 211)
Note special time and venue
New Results in Gravity Duals of Cascading Chern-Simons Theories
Peter Ouyang
Purdue University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 19th 2011, 13:00
Note special day and time
High-energy string-brane collisions: an instructive gedanken experiment?
Gabriele Veneziano
Collège de France
Abstract
Monday, July 18th 2011, 13:00 (Piano room - room 211)
Note special day, time and venue
Scale Invariance from Spontaneous Breaking of Conformal Symmetry
Justin Khoury
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Tuesday, June 7th 2011, 15:00
Note special day and time
Wilson loops and scattering amplitudes
Simon Caron-Huot
IAS
Wednesday, May 25th 2011, 12:00
String Theory on Warped AdS3 and Virasoro Resonances
Josh Lapan
KITP
Abstract
Wednesday, May 4th 2011, 12:00
Effective Field Theories for heavy quarkonium at finite temperature
Jacopo Ghiglieri
Technische Universität München
Abstract
Wednesday, April 13th 2011, 12:00
Does a quantum particle know its own energy?
Rafael Sorkin
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, April 11th 2011, 12:00
Note special day
How are 1+1-dimensional quantum field theories applicable to condensed matter systems?
David Sénéchal
Université de Sherbrooke
Abstract
Wednesday, April 6th 2011, 12:00
Holographic Non Fermi Liquids
Diego Hofman
Harvard University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 30th 2011, 12:00
Dark Matter + Sommerfeld Enhancement: Benchmarks for Cosmic Ray Excesses
Tracy Slatyer
Institute for Advanced Study
Abstract
Wednesday, March 23rd 2011, 12:00
Quantum Field Theory Without Lagrangians
Brian Wecht
University of Michigan
Abstract
Monday, March 21st 2011, 12:00
Note special day
Precision tests of AdS/CFT integrability from strings in the AdS light-cone gauge
Simone Giombi
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, March 16th 2011, 12:00
Mixed axion-LSP dark matter from SUSY models with implications for LHC
Howard Baer
University of Oklahoma
Abstract
Wednesday, March 9th 2011, 12:00
Supergravity and string/F-theory vacua in six dimensions
Washington Taylor
MIT
Abstract
Friday, March 4th 2011, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference room - room 103)
Note special day, time and venue
Quantization and Mirror Symmetry
Sergei Gukov
Caltech
Abstract
Wednesday, February 16th 2011, 12:00
Hydrodynamic fluctuations and correlation functions
Pavel Kovtun
University of Victoria
Abstract
Wednesday, February 9th 2011, 12:00
Holographic dual of free field theory
Michael Douglas
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, 12:00
Poincare-Invariant QFTs on the Noncommutative Moyal Plane
Sachindeo Vaidya
Indian Institute of Science
Abstract
Thursday, January 27th 2011, 15:00
Note special time and day
How the Large Angle Properties of the CMB Challenge Concordance Cosmology
Glenn Starkman
Case Western Reserve University
Abstract
Monday, January 24th 2011, 12:00
Note special day
Massive gravity and the Galileon
Claudia de Rham
Université de Genève
Abstract
Wednesday, January 19th 2011, 12:00
Sequestering in String Compactifications
David Marsh
Cornell University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 12th 2011, 12:00
Cosmic strings from pseudo-anomalous Fayet-Iliopoulos U(1) in D3/D7 brane inflation
Rhiannon Gywn
King's College
Abstract
Friday, January 7th 2011, 12:00
Special Joint High Energy and Astrophysics Seminar
Model-Independent Constraints on Inflation from the CMB
Cora Dvorkin
University of Chicago
Abstract
Monday, December 6th 2010, 13:00
DBI Inflation: Cold vs Warm
Yi-Fu Cai
Arizona State University
Abstract
Monday, November 29th 2010, 13:00
Towards a microscopic description of the Kerr/CFT correspondence
Wei Song
Harvard
Abstract
Wednesday, November 24th 2010, 13:00
Note special day
Intrinsically Quantum-Mechanical Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem
Philip Mannheim
University of Connecticut
Abstract
Monday, November 22nd 2010, 13:00
Non-Gaussianities from the Effective Theory Approach to Inflation
Matteo Fasiello
INFN
Abstract
Thursday, November 18th 2010, 13:05
Note special day and time
Higher Spin Theories on AdS3 and Large N 2d Minimal Model CFTs
Matthias Gaberdiel
ETH Zurich
Monday, November 15th 2010, 13:00
Kubo Formulae for Second-Order Hydrodynamic Coefficients
Kiyoumars Sohrabi Anaraki
McGill
Abstract
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Monday, November 8th 2010, 13:00
General Covariance in Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point
Petr Horava
Berkeley
Monday, November 1st 2010, 13:00
de Sitter - esque Holography?
Dio Anninos
Harvard
Abstract
Monday, October 25th 2010, 13:00
S-duality, Superconformal Index, and 2d TQFT
Shlomo S. Razamat
Stoney Brook
Monday, October 18th 2010, 13:00
Wilsonian Approach to Fluid/Gravity Duality
Cindy Keeler
Harvard
Abstract
Thursday, October 7th 2010, 13:05
Note special day and time
Supersymmetry Breaking and Gauge Mediation
Zohar Komargodski
IAS
Abstract
Monday, October 4th 2010, 13:00
Chiral Operators on Hypermultiplet Moduli Spaces
Noppadol Mekareeya
Imperial College
Abstract
Monday, September 27th 2010, 13:00
Neutrino Mass from the Top Down
Paul Langacker
IAS
Thursday, September 23rd 2010, 13:00
Note special day
Hunting Chameleons
Anne Davis
Cambridge University
Abstract
Monday, September 20th 2010, 13:00
Galilean Genesis
Alberto Nicolis
Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 12:00
Note special day
Supersymmetry and Moduli Stabilization in Heterotic M-theory
Lara Anderson
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Monday, September 13th 2010, 12:00
Nonabelian (2,0) Tensor Multiplets and 3-algebras
Constantinos Papageorgakis
King's College
Abstract
Tuesday, September 7th 2010, 12:00
Quantum information and entanglement in holographic theories
Matthew Headrick
Brandeis University
Abstract
Thursday, August 26th 2010, 13:30
Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories
Simon Caron-Huot
IAS
Abstract
Monday, August 16th 2010, 13:30
A Matter Bounce By Means of Ghost Condensation
Chunshan Lin
USTC & McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 13:30
Note special day
Gravity in higher dimensions
Naresh Dadhich
IUCCA
Abstract
Friday, July 9th 2010, 13:30
Note special day
Analytical Study of Mode Coupling in Hybrid Inflation
Laurence Perreault Levasseur
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 13:30
Note special day
A Terminal Velocity on the Landscape - Particle Production near Extra Species Loci in Higher Dimensions
Thorsten Battefeld
Princeton University
Abstract
Monday, July 5th 2010, 13:30
Triangle anomalies in hydrodynamics
Dam Son
University of Washington
Abstract
Wednesday, June 2nd 2010, 13:30
Note special day
An action principle in discrete and continuum space-times
F. Finster
University of Regenburg
Abstract
Wednesday, May 19th 2010, 16:00
Note special day, time and venue
Fermi Seas around Black Holes
Tom Hartman
Harvard University
Abstract
Monday, May 17th 2010, 13:00
Note special time
Superhorizon fluctuations and acoustic oscillations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Saumia Pandiat Sankar
Institute of Physics, India and Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, May 14th 2010, 13:30
Note special day
Bouncing Alternatives to Inflation
P. Peter
IAP
Wednesday, May 12th 2010, 13:30
Note special day
The Causal Structure of the CMB
Raul Abramo
University of Sao Paolo and Princeton University
Monday, May 10th 2010, 13:30
D-Instantons in Type II and F-theory
Mirjam Cvetic
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, May 3rd 2010, 13:30
Conformal Structure of Black Holes
Alejandra Castro
McGill
Abstract
Monday, April 19th 2010, 13:30
Enthalpy and Thermodynamics of Lovelock Black Holes: extended First Law and Smarr Mass Formula
Jennie Traschen
University of Massachusetts
Abstract
Monday, April 12th 2010, 13:30
Preheating in the Higgs as Inflaton Model
Guy Moore
McGill
Abstract
Monday, March 29th 2010, 13:30
The Unruh effect - An intimate dialogue between QFT and QIT
Kamil Bradler
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 24th 2010, 13:30
Note unusual day
A Gravity Dual to Quantum Hall Plateau Transitions
Joshua Davies
UBC
Abstract
Monday, March 8th 2010, 13:30
Warped Radion Inflation
Joel Trudeau
McGill
Abstract
Friday, March 5th 2010, 13:30
Note special day
Backreaction as an alternative to dark energy and modified gravity
Syksy Rasanen
CERN
Abstract
Wednesday, March 3rd 2010, 13:30
Note special day
Signatures of Minimal F-theory GUTs
Jonathan Heckman
IAS
Abstract
Monday, March 1st 2010, 13:30
Resonant non-Gaussianity
Enrico Pajer
Cornell University
Abstract
Monday, February 15th 2010, 13:30
Magnetic Fields Injected During Baryogenesis
Tanmay Vachaspati
Case Western Reserve University
Monday, February 8th 2010, 13:30
Exciting dark matter: normal mass hierarchy vs inverted mass hierarchy
Fang Chen
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, February 1st 2010, 13:30
Pomeron Mediated Scattering Processes in AdS/QCD
Nelia Mann
University of Chicago
Wednesday, January 27th 2010, 15:45
Note special day and time
F-theory and Neutrinos: Kaluza-Klein Dilution of Flavor Hierarchy
Jihye Seo
Harvard
Abstract
Monday, January 18th 2010, 13:30
Extracting cosmological information from 21cm surveys
Ue-Li Pen
CITA
Monday, January 11th 2010, 13:30
Note special time
Is the world left-right symmetric?
Urjit Yajnik
Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai & McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 15th 2009, 13:00
Holographic Effective Theories for Condensed Matter Physics
Brian Sheih
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 8th 2009, 13:00
Signatures of Axion Monodromy Inflation
Gang Xu
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 1st 2009, 13:00
The structure of correlation functions in single field inflation
Sarah Shandera
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Abstract
Monday, November 30th 2009, 14:00
Note special day and time
Quantum Backreaction in Cosmology
Tomislav Prokopec
Utrecht University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 2009, 13:00
Much Ado About Parton Showers
Michael Peskin
SLAC
Thursday, November 19th 2009, 12:00
Note special day and time
Superconformal PSU(1,1|2) sigma models
Thomas Creutzig
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 13:00
Progress on the topological string
Johannes Walcher
CERN Theory Division
Abstract
Monday, November 16th 2009, 12:00 (Burnside Hall, room 719A)
Note special day, time and venue
Enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, and algebraic cycles
Johannes Walcher
CERN Theory Division
Abstract
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009, 13:00
IR renormalization of GN, and the Cosmological Constant problems
Subodh Patil
École Polytechnique
Tuesday, October 27th 2009, 13:00
D3-brane Potentials from AdS/CFT Spectroscopy
Daniel Baumann
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Thursday, October 22nd 2009, 13:00
Note special day
A phase-space operator method for string worldsheet theory and general covariance
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Abstract
Tuesday, October 20th 2009, 13:00
Hidden Surprises in Dark Matter
David Morrissey
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, October 7th 2009, 12:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day, time and venue
Topologically Massive Gravity and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
Kostas Skenderis
University of Amsterdam
Tuesday, October 6th 2009, 13:00
Phenomenological Aspects of Solutions to Cosmic Singularities
Yifu Cai
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, September 29th 2009, 13:00
Trans-Planckian Scattering
Gabriele Veneziano
College de France & CERN
Tuesday, September 22nd 2009, 13:00
Hydrodynamic Long-time tails From Anti de Sitter Space
Omid Saremi
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 13:00
Holography for non-relativistic theories
Simon Ross
Durham University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 13:00
Some issues concerning non-Gaussianity
Yi Wang
McGill University
Thursday, August 20th 2009, 13:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Inflation in the Cosmic Landscape
Jiajun Xu
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, August 4th 2009, 13:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note unusual venue
Matrix Inflation
Hassan Firouzjahi
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences
Abstract
Tuesday, July 14th 2009, 13:00
Mirror symmetry and topological string with D-branes
Johannes Walcher
CERN Theory Division
Tuesday, June 23rd 2009, 13:00
Real-Time Techniques for Thermal QCD
Marcus Tassler
Universität Münster
Abstract
Thursday, June 18th 2009, 13:00
Nongaussian Fluctuations from IR Cascading During Inflation
Neil Barnaby
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, May 19th 2009, 13:00
The Bursts and the Beads (gravitational waves from broken cosmic superstrings)
Ben Shlaer
Tufts University
Abstract
Friday, May 15th 2009, 13:00
Note special day
Applications of Large Volume Swiss Cheese Compactifications
Aalok Misra
Indian Institute of Technology
Thursday, May 7th 2009, 13:00
Charge and Flux Quantization in Gravity Duals of Three Dimensional Gauge Theory
Peter Ouyang
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
Tuesday, May 5th 2009, 13:00
A landscape of superconducting membranes
Frederik Denef
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 28th 2009, 13:00
The gauge dual of Romans mass
Alessandro Tomasiello
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 21st 2009, 13:00
Twist duality for flux backgrounds of type II and heterotic String Theory from Generalized Complex Geometry
David Andriot
Université de Paris
Abstract
Tuesday, April 7th 2009, 13:00
Inflation with a stringy minimal length, reworked
Subodh Patil
Humboldt Universitat
Abstract
Tuesday, March 31st 2009, 13:00
Codimension-two brane inflation
Hyun Min Lee
McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 24th 2009, 13:00
Higher derivative corrections to the Kerr/CFT correspondence
Yuji Tachikawa
Institute for Advanced Study
Abstract
Wednesday, March 18th 2009, 13:00
Note special day
Reevaluating the WIMP Miracle
Scott Watson
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, March 17th 2009, 13:00
Probing strongly coupled gauge theories with AdS/CFT
Sera Cremonini
University of Michigan
Abstract
Monday, March 9th 2009, 12:00
Note special day and time
Holographic Superconductors
Gary Horowitz
University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract
Thursday, March 5th 2009, 13:00
Aspects of Holographic Superconductors
Anindya Mukherjee
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, March 3rd 2009, 13:00
Holographic Description of AdS2
Alejandra Castro
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, February 17th 2009, 13:00
Pure gravity, extremal CFTs and constraints from modularity
Christoph Keller
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 10th 2009, 13:00
Holographic Gauge Mediation
Francesco Benini
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 27th 2009, 13:00
Superconformal Wilson loop operators and exact computations in the N=4 super Yang-Mills
Vasily Pestun
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 20th 2009, 13:00
Minimal Simple de Sitter Solutions
Shajid Haque
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
Tuesday, January 13th 2009, 13:00
A warped/minimal understanding of closed string vacua
Bret Underwood
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 2nd 2008, 13:00
Orientiholes: Black hole technology applied to flux compactifications
Megha Padi
Harvard
Abstract
Tuesday, November 25th 2008, 13:00
Flavor D7-branes and KS theory
Anatoly Dymarsky
Stanford
Abstract
Thursday, November 20th 2008, 13:00
Holographic Superconductivity
Pallab Basu
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 13:00
Cosmological Signals From the End of Brane Inflation
Louis Leblond
Texas A&M
Abstract
Tuesday, November 11th 2008, 13:00
Surface Operators and Seiberg Duality
Ketan Vyas
Caltech
Abstract
Wednesday, November 5th 2008, 13:00
Note special day
Cosmology of the Lee-Wick Model
Robert Brandenberger
McGill University
Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 13:00
Dark Matter, Gauge Mediation & CFTs
Daniel Green
Stanford University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 13:00
Quantum and thermal vacuum decay in de Sitter space
Adam Brown
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 13:00
The Kerr/CFT correspondence
Wei Song
Harvard
Abstract
Wednesday, October 22nd 2008, 13:00
Note special day
Exploring a new peak in the heterotic landscape
Vincent Bouchard
Harvard
Abstract
Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 16:00
Note unusual time
Abelian fibrations and Flux-Geometry duality
Gao Peng
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, October 16th 2008, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Symmetry of Leptonic Generations
C.S. Lam
McGill/UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, October 14th 2008, 13:00
Holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling
Aninda Sinha
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Friday, October 10th 2008, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day, time and venue
Ghostbusting: Reviving quantum theories that were thought to be dead
Carl M. Bender
Washington University at St. Louis
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 2008, 13:00
Thermal inflation, gravitational waves, baryogenesis and dark matter
Wan-il Park
KAIST
Abstract
Thursday, October 2nd 2008, 13:00
What is known about the M2 branes
Daniel Jafferis
Rutgers University
Abstract
Thursday, September 18th 2008, 13:00
String creation and effective field theory
L-Y. Hung
DAMTP
Abstract
Tuesday, September 9th 2008, 13:00
Heating up Galilean Holography
Simon Ross
Durham University
Abstract
Monday, September 8th 2008, 13:00
Note special day
Wilson loops at strong coupling and holography
Jaume Gomis
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, September 4th 2008, 13:00
The Isospectral Fruits of Representation Theory: Quantum Graphs and Drums
Gilad Ben-Shach
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, August 28th 2008, 14:00
Note special time
Spacetime graininess, UV/IR mode mixing and Non-Gaussian statistics in the CMB
Subodh Patil
Humboldt University of Berlin
Abstract
Thursday, August 14th 2008, 14:00
Note special time
Averaging Quintessence Cosmologies
Iain Brom
Heidelberg
Abstract
Thursday, July 10th 2008, 14:00
Note special time
Deconfinement transition in N=4 SYM with fundamental matter
Pallab Basu
UBC
Abstract
Wednesday, July 9th 2008, 13:00
Note special day
Recent developments in M2-brane theory
Chong-Sun Chu
Durham University
Tuesday, Tuesday July 8th 2008, 13:00
Time dependent AdS/CFT and null singularity
Chong-Sun Chu
Durham University
Abstract
Thursday, June 19th 2008, 13:30
Note special time
f(R) Gravity: Successes and Challenges
Valerio Faraoni
Bishop's University
Abstract
Friday, June 13th 2008, 13:00
Note special day
An alternative mechanism to produce scale-invariant fluctuations
Joao Magueijo
Imperial College
Thursday, June 12th 2008, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special venue
Nonlocal Inflation
Neil Barnaby
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, June 3rd 2008, 13:00
Non-Gaussianity in models with mixed inflaton and curvaton
Tomo Takahashi
Saga University & Stanford
Abstract
Tuesday, May 27th 2008, 13:00
Susy breaking and Susy/Non-susy duality in extended moduli space
Jihye Seo
Harvard
Abstract
Friday, May 2nd 2008, 13:00
Note special day
Mechanics of (super) conducting cosmic strings and vortons
Brandon Carter
Observatoir de Paris-Meudon
Thursday, May 1st 2008, 13:00
Gravity on the Largest Scales and Cosmic Acceleration
Justin Khoury
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, April 24th 2008, 13:00
One-loop Partition Functions of 3D Gravity
Simone Giombi
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 22nd 2008, 13:00
A Holographic Superconductor
Chris Herzog
Princeton University
Abstract
Thursday, April 17th 2008, 13:00
Cosmic Strings and Small-Angle CMB Temperature Anisotropies
Aurelian Fraisse
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 13:00
Observing multi-throat brane inflation
Xingang Chen
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, March 27th 2008, 13:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Albion Lawrence
Brandeis University
Tuesday, March 25th 2008, 13:00
Torsion and Supersymmetry Breaking
Brian Wecht
Institute for Advanced Study
Abstract
Thursday, March 20th 2008, 13:00
The Casimir force in theories with extra dimensions
Mariana Frank
Concordia University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 18th 2008, 13:00
Subodh Patil
Humboldt Universitat
Thursday, March 13th 2008, 13:00
Tachyons that don't bite & gluinos condensing at the CCNI
Joel Giedt
RPI
Abstract
Tuesday, March 11th 2008, 13:00
3D N=1 SYM Chern-Simons theory on the Lattice
Joshua Elliot
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 4th 2008, 13:00
Quantum Resolution of Cosmological Singularities using AdS/CFT
Ben Craps
Vrije University & Solvay Institute
Abstract
Thursday, February 21st 2008, 13:00
Testing the k3 Component in the Primordial Perturbation Power Spectrum
Loison Hoi
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 19th 2008, 13:00
The c.c. problem and codimension-2 branes
Claudia de Rham
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, February 14th 2008, 13:00
Sequestered Dark Matter
Benedict von Harling
University of Heidelberg
Abstract
Thursday, February 7th 2008, 13:00
Cosmic inflation through time
Ghazal Geshnizjani
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, February 5th 2008, 13:00
Physics Beyond the Horizon
Niayesh Afshordi
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, January 31st 2008, 13:00
Black holes as mirrors
Patrick Hayden
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 13:00
Entropy Modes at the End of Brane Inflation
Andrew Frey
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 13:00
Magnetogenesis from Cosmic String Loops
Mark Wyman
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, January 10th 2008, 13:00
Tomislav Prokopec
Utrect University
Tuesday, December 11th 2007, 13:00
Warped String Phenomenology: Cosmology and Particle Physics
Bret Underwood
University of Wisconsin
Abstract
Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 13:00
Deformed Chiral Rings of Toric Varieties
Josh Guffin
UIUC
Abstract
Tuesday, November 27th 2007, 13:00
Manifestly Gauge-Invariant General Relativistic Perturbation Theory
Kristina Giesel
Max Planck Institute
Abstract
Monday, November 19th 2007, 13:00
Note special day
Topology from Cosmology
Vijay Balasubramanian
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Tuesday, November 13th 2007, 13:00
Reheating in Brane Inflation
Aaron Berndsen
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 6th 2007, 13:00
Partition Functions of 3D Pure Gravity
Xi Yin
Harvard
Abstract
Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 13:00
Comments on Twistor strings: Old and New
Parameswaran Nair
City College of New York
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2007, 13:00
Note special day
Some aspects of cosmic superstrings in brane inflation
Hassan Firouzjahi
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 13:00
Heavy quark diffusion in perturbative QCD at next-to-leading order
Simon Caron Huot
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 13:00
Moduli Stabilization and String Geometry
Katrin Becker
Texas A&M
Tuesday, October 2nd 2007, 13:00
Puff Field Theory
Ori Ganor
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Friday, September 28th 2007, 13:00 (Room 326)
Note special day and venue
Metastable kinks in the orbifold
Manuel Toharia
University of Maryland & Syracuse University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 25th 2007, 13:00
Kaluza-Klein braneworld cosmology with static internal dimensions
Sugumi Kanno
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 13:00
Horace Stoica
Imperial College
Tuesday, September 11th 2007, 13:00
Conformal invariance on orbifolds and excitations of singularity
Zheng Yin
University of Science and Technology of China
Abstract
Wednesday, August 22nd 2007, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special Pizza Seminar
Emergent Inflation
Stephon Alexander
Penn State University
Abstract
Thursday, July 19th 2007, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special Pizza Seminar
Polygamy of Entanglement of Assistance: Dual Monogamy Inequality for Entanglement
Som Bandyopadhyay
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, July 13th 2007, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special Pizza Seminar
(Non-)Perturbative Aspects of Black Hole Attractors and Moduli Stabilization for Two-Parameter Calabi-Yau's
Aalok Misra
ICTP
Abstract
Thursday, May 31st 2007, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special Pizza Seminar
Brane inflation à la KKLT: a review and WMAP3 outlook
Larissa Lorenz
McGill University
Abstract
Friday, May 25th 2007, 14:00 ( Boardroom - room 105)
Special Pizza Seminar
Some Hidden and Overlooked Structures at Future Null Infinity in Maxwell, GR and Einstein-Maxwell Theory
Ted Newman
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract
Thursday, May 10th 2007, 14:00 (Board Room - room 105)
Special Pizza Seminar
Composite dark energy, the coincidence problem and modified gravity
Rolando Cardenas
Universidad Central De Las Villas
Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 13:30 (Board Room - room 105)
Special Pizza Seminar
String Junctions and 1/4 BPS Black Holes
Sunil Mukhi
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 13:00
Fate of Kaluza-Klein Black Holes: Evaporation or Excision?
Sugumi Kanno
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 13:00
Generalized and gaussian coherent states for quantum systems with degenerate discrete energy spectra
Véronique Hussin
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 13:00
Moduli stabilization and mirror symmetry in non-geometric backgrounds
Katrin Becker
University of Texas A&M
Abstract
Thrusday, April 19th 2007, 14:00
Special Theory Seminar
Mach's Holographic Principle
Maulik Parikh
IUCAA/Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, April 17th 2007, 13:00
A rigorous treatment of energy extraction from the Kerr black hole
Niky Kamran
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 10th 2007, 13:00
Breakdown of linear cosmological perturbation theory near de Sitter spacetime
Bojan Losic
University of Alberta
Abstract
Tuesday, March 27th 2007, 13:00
CANCELLED
A rigorous treatment of energy extraction from the Kerr black hole
Niky Kamran
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 13:00
A note on the moduli-induced gravitino problem
Natalia Shuhmaher
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 13th 2007, 13:00 (Room 326)
String Compactification and Brane Inflation
Gary Shiu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
Tuesday, March 6th 2007, 13:00
Cuscuton Cosmology: Dark Energy meets Modified Gravity
Ghazal Geshnizjani
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
Tuesday, February 13th 2007, 13:00 (Room 326)
Recent progress in brane-antibrane inflation and uplifting
Jim Cline
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 6th 2007, 13:00
Nonperturbative verification of supersymmetry on the lattice
Joel Giedt
Univeristy of Minnesota
Abstract
Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 13:00
Resolution of Cosmological Singularities: a Workshop Report
Robert Brandenberger
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 23rd 2007, 13:00
Cosmological Consequences of the Formation of Cosmic Strings
Martin Landriau
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin & Danish National Space Center
Abstract
Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 13:00
P-adic inflation
Neil Barnaby
McGill Univeristy
Thursday, December 14th 2006, 14:00
Note special day and time
Lorentz violation and Generation of Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
Pavel Bolokhov
University of Victoria & St. Petersburg State University
Tuesday, December 12th 2006, 13:00
Ensemble of Kähler Moduli Inflation
Sergey Prokushkin
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, December 5th 2006, 13:00
Gerasimos Rigopolous
Univeristy of Utrecht
Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 13:00
Solutions to Six-Dimensional Supergravity
Cliff Burgess
Perimeter Institute & McMaster Univeristy
Abstract
Tuesday, November 21st 2006, 13:00
Nonlinear Structure Formation and “Apparent” Acceleration: an Investigation
Alessio Notari
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 13:00
A Hologram of QCD
Takemichi Okui
Johns Hopkins University & University of Maryland
Abstract
Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 13:00
MSSM flat direction inflation
Rouszbeh Allahverdi
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 13:00
Note special day
Baryogenesis below the TeV scale
Federico Urban
Ferrara University & INFN Ferrara
Abstract
Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 13:00
D5/D7-brane boundstate in a conifold background
Rhiannon Gwyn
McGill University
Wednesday, October 18th 2006, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note this is a special Pizza-less Pizza seminar
Instabilities in Gauss-Bonnet cosmology
Gianluca Calcagni
University of Sussex
Abstract
Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 13:00
Loop Quantum Gravity effects in the Early Universe
Parampreet Singh
Penn State
Abstract
Tuesday, October 10th 2006, 13:00
M-theory Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Amjad Ashoorioon
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Wednesday, October 4th 2006, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day and venue
Mathematically Speaking, What is Supersymmetry?
James Sylvester Gates, Jr
University of Maryland
Abstract
Tuesday, September 26th 2006, 13:00
The Cooper Instability and the Cosmological Constant Problem
Stephon Alexander
Penn State University
Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 13:00
The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model from heterotic string theory
Vincent Bouchard
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, September 12th 2006, 13:00
Comparing QCD and N=4 Super-Yang-Mills: Shear viscosity
Guy Moore
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 5th 2006, 13:00 (Board Room - room 105)
Note special venue
“The axis of Evil”: reporting results on anisotropy and non Gaussianity in the CMB
Joao Magueijo
Perimeter Institute
Tuesday, July 25th 2006, 13:00
Low scale gravity mediation with warped extra dimension and collider phenomenology on the hidden sector
Nobuchika Okada
Abstract
Tuesday, July 4th 2006, 12:00
Note special time
Warped Spectroscopy
Andrew Frey
Caltech
Abstract
Wednesday, June 28th 2006, 13:00
Note special day
Instabilities in non-abelian plasmas
Dietrich Bodeker
CERN & Bielefeld University
Abstract
Tuesday, June 27th 2006, 13:00
Warped brane inflation and cosmic string tension
Hassan Firouzjahi
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, June 26th 2006, 13:00
Warped brane inflation and cosmic string tension
Hassan Firouzjahi
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, May 30th 2006, 12:30
Note the unusual seminar time
Nonlinearity in the gravitational lensing and its applications to cosmology
Marina Shmakova
Friday, May 26th 2006, 13:00
Note unusual day
Mimicking Lambda with a spin-two ghost condensate
Claudia de Rham
McGill
Abstract
Friday, May 19th 2006, 12:30
Note unusual day and time
Particle physics catalysis of thermal Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Maxim Pospelov
University of Victoria/Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, May 16th 2006, 13:00
Decoherence and Primordial Fluctuations
Patrick Martineau
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, May 9th 2006, 13:00 (ERP - room 118)
Note special venue
Orientifolds and Bubbling Geometries in String Theory
Sunil Mukhi
Tata Institute
Abstract
Thursday, May 4th 2006, 13:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Note special venue
D-strings, Supergravity Cosmic Strings and Fermion Zero Modes
Anne-Christine Davis
Cambridge & DAMTP
Abstract
Tuesday, May 2nd 2006, 13:00 (Room 118)
Note special venue
Black hole singularities in Yang-Mills theories
Guido Festuccia
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, April 25th 2006, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special venue
Dynamics of the string theory landscape
Senarath de Alwis
Perimeter Institute & Colorado University
Abstract
Thursday, April 20th 2006, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day and venue
Accelerated expansion from structure formation
Syksy Rasanen
Abstract
Tuesday, April 18th 2006, 13:00
The Boundary as Distant Stars: Mach's Principle in General Relativity
Justin Khoury
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, April 11th 2006, 13:00
Inflationary spectral indices and potential reconstruction
Loison Hoi
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, March 23rd 2006, 13:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day and venue
A road towards reheating MS(SM) degrees of freedom
Anupam Mazumdar
Nordita
Abstract
Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 13:00
Possible Origin of Dark Matter as a Fluctuating Remnant of Inflation
Robert Brout
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Tuesday, March 14th 2006, 13:00
Early stages of the universe: brane gas-driven bulk dynamics
Natalia Shuhmaher
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 28th 2006, 13:00
Towards an Alternative to Inflationary Cosmology
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Abstract
Friday, February 24th 2006, 12:30
Note special day and time
Observations of Magnetic Fields in Giant Molecular Clouds and in the Surrounding Interstellar Regions
Huabi Li
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 14th 2006, 13:00
Nongaussianity and Spectral Distortion from Tachyonic Preheating
Neil Barnaby
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 8th 2006, 12:15 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Confining the electroweak model to a brane
Gonzalo Palma
Cambridge University
Tuesday, February 7th 2006, 13:00
Illuminate the dark energy and see the backreaction! Take the universe as it is: structured FRW
Reza Mansouri
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 31st 2006, 13:00
String Theory and Cosmology
Horace Stoica
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 31st 2006, 13:00
String Theory and Cosmology
Horace Stoica
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 13:00
Supersymmetry on the Lattice
Joshua Elliott
McGill
Tuesday, January 17th 2006, 13:00
A graceful exit for Old Inflation and a solution to the Hierarchy Problem
Alessio Notari
McGill
Abstract
Friday, January 13th 2006, 13:30
Note special day and time
Producing a Scale-Invariant Spectrum of Perturbations in a Hagedorn Phase of String Cosmology
Ali Nayeri
Harvard
Abstract
Tuesday, January 10th 2006, 13:00
Gravitational Waves in a Codimension Two Braneworld
Claudia de Rham
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, January 5th 2006, 13:00
Note special day
Supersymmetric Dirac Leptogenesis and Neutrino Phenomenology
Manuel Toharia
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, December 6th 2005, 13:00
Present and Future Constraints on the Total Lifetime of the Universe
Jan Michael Kratochvil
Stanford
Friday, December 2nd 2005, 13:00
Gauge Theories from String Theory: Geometric Transitions
Anke Knauf
University of Maryland & Hamburg University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2005, 13:00
Non-equilibrium Physics of the Very Early Universe
Dmitry Podolsky
CITA
Abstract
Thursday, November 24th 2005, 13:00
Cosmological Aspects of Loop Quantum Gravity
Johannes Brunnemann
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
Abstract
Tuesday, November 22nd 2005, 13:00
Flavor backreacted supergravity backgrounds and meson Regge trajectories
Diana Vaman
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2005, 13:00
Self-T-Dual Brane Cosmology and The Cosmological Constant
Olindo Corradini
Università di Bologna
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2005, 13:00
Inflation with w=+1
Subodh Patil
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 25th 2005, 13:00 (room 326)
Joint Nuclear Theory/Informal Pizza Seminar
The role of plasma instabilities in quark-gluon plasma equilibration
Peter Arnold
University of Virginia
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2005, 13:00
Leaving the Swampland: The Relevance of String Dynamics
Sera Cremonini
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 11th 2005, 13:00
Multibrane Inflation
Jim Cline
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 4th 2005, 13:00
String Gas Cosmology
Thorsten Battefeld
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 27th 2005, 13:00
Gravity and Gauge Theory
Keshav Dasgupta
McGill University
Abstract
Friday, September 23rd 2005, 12:30
Note special day and time
Thermalization after inflation in SUSY
Rouzbeh Allahverdi
TRIUMF
Abstract
Tuesday, September 13th 2005, 13:00
Non-Perturbative Instabilities as a Solution of the Cosmological Moduli Problem
Natalia Shuhmaher
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 5th 2005, 13:00
Mass-radius relations for solitonic stars
Prashanth Jaikumar
Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, June 7th 2005, 13:00
Progress in the Gauge Theory/Gravity Correspondence
Jeff Murugan
Brown University & University of Cape Town
Wednesday, March 23rd 2005, 13:00
Cosmological effective actions and new physics in the CMB
Könraad Schalm
Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, March 22nd 2005, 13:00
TBA
Alessio Notari
McGill
Friday, March 18th 2005, 15:00
Note special day and time
From Black Holes to the Primordial Power Spectrum
Maulik K. Parikh
Columbia University
Tuesday, March 15th 2005, 13:00
The Endpoint of Brane-Antibrane Inflation
Neil Barnaby
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 8th 2005, 13:00
Plasma instabilities in nonequilibrium QCD
Guy D. Moore
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 1st 2005, 13:00
Moduli Stabilization in String Gas Cosmology
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 22nd 2005, 13:00
r-process nucleosynthesis from compact stars
Prashanth Jaikumar
Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, February 15th 2005, 13:00
Magnetic Field Evolution by Hall and Thermomagnetic Effects in Neutron Stars
Andrew Cumming
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 8th 2005, 13:00
Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions - Photons and Jet Quenching
Thorsten Renk
Duke University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 1st 2005, 13:00
Stringy Dark Energy, Primordial Inflation and the Cosmic Coincidence Problem
Tirthabir Biswas
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 25th 2005, 13:00
(Pre-)Thermalization after Inflation
Juergen Berges
Heidelberg University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 11th 2005, 13:00
Back-Reation and the Trans-Planckian Problem of Inflationary Cosmology
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Friday, November 26th 2004, 11:00 (ERP room 305
Note special day, time and room
Strings and the cosmo
Edna Cheung
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, November 16th 2004, 13:00
Is a past finite order the inner basis of spacetime?
Rafael D. Sorkin
Perimeter Institute & Syracuse University
Abstract
Friday, November 5th 2004, 13:00
Note special day
Gravity solutions for decaying branes
John Wang
National Taiwan University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 26th 2004, 13:00
Codimension-2 branes: Episode 2: The cosmological constant strikes back
Jérémie Vinet
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 19th 2004, 13:00
Constraints on neutrino masses from thermal leptogenesis
Alessio Notari
Mcgill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 12th 2004, 13:00
The Cosmology of Massless String Modes: Radii Stabilization in GR
Subodh Patil
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 5th 2004, 13:00
Analytical Approach to SU(2) and SU(3) Thermodynamics
Ralf Hofman
University of Heidelberg
Abstract
Tuesday, September 21st 2004, 13:00
Holographic Cosmology
Thorsten Battefeld
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 14th 2004, 13:00
Stress Energy as Seen by Unruh's Detector
Björn Garbrecht
University of Heidelberg
Abstract
Thursday, September 9th 2004, 13:00
Note special day
The dihadron fragmentation function and high Pt hadron-hadron correlations
Abhijit Majumder
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract

2003/04

Tuesday, August 10th 2004, 13:00
ROSEBUD: More Obsessing about SLEDs
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, July 14th 2004, 13:00
Note special day
Pondering the φ puzzle
Kevin Haglin
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Saint Cloud State University
Abstract
Wednesday, July 7th 2004, 13:00
Higgless Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Note special day
Christophe Grojean
CEA Saclay & University of Michigan
Abstract
Monday, July 5th 2004, 13:00
Note special day
Warped unification, proton stability and dark matter
Geraldine Servant
University of Chicago
Abstract
Monday, June 28th 2004, 13:00
Note special day
Constructing Confinement?
Eric Swanson
University of Pittsburg
Abstract
Friday, June 4th 2004, 11:30
Note special day and time
Chameleon Scalar Fields and Awaiting Surprises for Tests of Gravity in Space
Justin Khoury
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, June 1st 2004, 13:00
Effective nuclear interactions and neutron star cooling
Achim Schwenk
Ohio State University
Abstract
Friday, May 21st 2004, 13:00 (ERP room 305)
Note special day and venue
Holography, decoding geometry and Poincare recurrences
Raul Rabadan
Princeton
Abstract
Tuesday, May 11th 2004, 13:00
On the nature and stability of Cosmic Strings
Louis Leblond
Cornell
Abstract
Monday, May 10th 2004, 13:00
Cosmic Back Reaction to All Orders in the Long Wavelength Limit
Harry Chi-Sing Lam
McGill
Abstract
Friday, May 7th 2004, 13:00
Note special day
Tachyon condensation at c=1
Joanna L Karczmarek
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, May 4th 2004, 13:00
Problems With Complex Actions
Manu Paranjape
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, April 20th 2004 12:30
Note special time
Can we test Leptogenesis?
Balaji Katlai
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 14th 2004, 13:00
Note special day
Brane-Antibrane Inflation from String Theory
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 6th 2004, 13:00
Mirage resolution of cosmological singularitites
Frederic Leblond
University of Chicago
Abstract
Monday, March 29th 2004, 12:30
Note special time and day
Studying Hot Star Winds with High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy
Patrick Wojdowski
MIT
Tuesday, March 23rd 2004, 13:00
Tachyon Defect Formation and Reheating in Brane-Antibrane Inflation
Neil Barnaby
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 16th 2004, 13:00
Photon Radiation from Bare Quark Stars
Prashanth Jaikumar
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 9th 2004, 13:00
Stability of the cosmic strings produced in brane inflation
Horace Stoica
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 2nd 2004, 13:00
Effective actions and precision calculations of the Casimir effect
Yashar Aghababaie
McGill
Abstract
Monday, February 16th 2004, 13:30
Note special time and day
The Incredible Double-Pulsar Binary J0737-3039: A pulsar `Holy Grail' at last
Scott Ransom
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 10th 2004, 13:00
MSSM as a source for all matter and perturbations
Anupam Mazumdar
McGill
Tuesday, February 3rd 2004, 13:00
Title to be announced
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Monday, January 19th 2004, 12:45
Note special day and time
Back Reaction of Cosmological Perturbations: A Way to Tame the Cosmological Constant?
Robert Brandenberger
Brown University & McGill University
Tuesday, January 13th 2004, 13:00
(Generalising the) cosmology of codimension-two braneworlds
Jeremie Vinet
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 16th 2003, 13:00
Transport phenomena in heavy-ion reactions
Lijun Shi
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 13:00
New Methods for Obtaining CP-Violating Phases from B Decays
David London
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 13:00
Testing parity in CMB spectra
Balaji Katlai
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 25th 2003, 13:00
Why I don't believe we live on a spacetime lattice
Guy D. Moore
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 18th 2003, 13:00
Measuring Neutron Star Temperatures and Ages
Victoria M. Kaspi
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 11th 2003, 13:00
Neutrino bremsstrahlung rates for Neutron stars
Prashanth Jaikumar
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 4th 2003, 13:00
Brane Inflation with Plenty of Defects
Horace Stoica
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 28th 2003, 13:00
A small cosmological constant from six-dimensional supergravity braneworlds?
Yashar Aghababaie
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 21st 2003, 13:00
Strings in Gravimagnetic Fields
Konstantin Savvidis
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Monday, October 20th 2003, 13:30
Note special day and time, and no pizza
Quintessence, Inflation and the Shape Moduli
Tirthabir Biswas
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 7th 2003, 13:00
Neutrinos, Supersymmetry Breaking and Baryon Asymmetry of The Universe
Rouzbeh Allahverdi
TRIUMF
Abstract
Tuesday, September 30th 2003, 13:00
Manifestation of TeV Gravity
Argyris Nicolaidis
University of Thessaloniki
Tuesday, September 23rd 2003, 15:30
Implications of minimal-duration inflation
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 17th 2003, 13:30
Note special time
The Color Glass Condensate and RHIC data
Raju Venugopalan
BNL
Abstract
Tuesday, September 16th 2003, 13:00
Electroweak precision contraints in the SU(6)/Sp(6) little Higgs model
Thomas Gregoire
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, September 9th 2003, 13:00
Comparisons of Exact to Approximate Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Corrections
A.P. Contogouris
McGill University & University of Athens
Abstract

2002/03

Thursday, August 7th 2003, 13:00
Spontaneous Baryogenesis in Flat Directions
Masahide Yamaguchi
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, August 5th 2003, 13:00
Branonium
Fernando Quevedo
DAMTP Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
Friday, July 4th 2003, 14:00
Colorful Quark-Gluon Plasma
Stanislaw Mrowczynski
Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies
Abstract
Thursday, July 3rd 2003, 13:00
The Standard Model from Non-Commutative Complex Projective Spaces
Brian Dolan
National University of Ireland
Abstract
Tuesday, May 6th 2003, 13:00
Why the Cosmological Constant May Be Small but Nonzero
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 29th 2003, 13:00
Towards a Non-Singular Theory of Gravity
Damien Easson
McGill
Abstract
Friday, April 25th 2003, 13:00
Bouncing Universes and Cosmological Perturbations
Patrick Peter
IAP, Paris
Tuesday, April 15th 2003, 13:00
The Riemann Zeta Function: A physisict's perspective
R.K. Bhaduri
McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 8th 2003, 13:00
Pretty Pictures of PWN, or what happens when you spin a powerful magnet really fast
Mallory Roberts
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 1st 2003, 13:00
Searching For Extra Dimensions
C.S. Lam
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 19th 2003, 13:00
What Can Solar Neutrinos Tell Us About the Solar Radiative Zone?
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 11th 2003, 13:00
Spontaneous Localization of Bulk Matter Fields
Stefan Groot Nibbelink
University of Victoria
Abstract
Tuesday, March 4th 2003, 13:00
M-theory on G2 Holonomy Manifolds
Adil Belhaj
Rabat University & Concordia University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 18th 2003, 13:00
Gazing at the Setting Sun: The Last Photons from the CERN SPS Program
Charles Gale
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 11th 2003, 13:00
Eternal Inflation without Quantum Gravity
George F.R. Ellis
University of Cape Town
Abstract
Monday, February 10th 2003, 13:00
Renormalization Group Methods in the Nuclear Many-Body Problem: Application to Neutron matter
Achim Schwenk
Ohio State University
Abstract
Thursday, February 6th 2003, 13:00
Searching for a Gravitational Scalar at the LHC
Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 4th 2003, 13:00
Interaction Corrections to Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensation Temperature
Guy Moore
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 28th 2003, 13:00
Dilepton Emission from Dense Quark Matter
Prashanth Jaikumar
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 21st 2003, 13:00
Little Higgs
Thomas Gregoire
Abstract
Thursday, January 16th 2003, 13:00
Classical and Quantum Theory of Cosmological Perturbations
Robert Brandenberger
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 14th 2003, 13:00
Wavelet Analysis in Physics and Applied Science
Igor Dremin
Lebedev Institute of Physics
Abstract
Tuesday, January 7th 2003, 13:00
An Ode to Effective Lagrangians
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Tuesday, December 17th 2002, 13:00
Introduction to Neutron Stars - The Sequel
Maxim Lyutikov
McGill
Tuesday, December 10th 2002, 13:00
Introduction to Neutron Stars
Maxim Lyutikov
McGill
Thursday, December 5th 2002, 13:00
Pertubative Evaluation of Glueball Superpotentials
Marc Grisaru
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 3rd 2002, 13:00
On D-brane topology change
Garnik Alexanian
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, November 26th 2002, 13:00
SUSY Breaking and Moduli Stabilization in a Gauged 6D SUGRA
Yashar Aghababaie
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, November 21st 2002, 13:00
Space-Like Branes in String Theory
Robert Myers
Perimeter Institute & McGill University & University of Waterloo
Abstract
Tuesday, November 19th 2002, 13:00
Status and Perspectives of Double Beta Decay
Kai Zuber
Oxford
Abstract
Tuesday, November 12th 2002, 13:00
Is Inflation Sensitive to Very High Energy Physics?
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 5th 2002, 13:00
MSSM Flat Directions: Why Bother about Them?
Anupam Mazumdar
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, October 31st 2002, 13:00
Stability at disk level for non-supersymmetric string models
Raul Rabadan
CERN
Abstract
Tuesday, October 29th 2002, 13:00
Solitons in the Noncommutative Maxwell-Chern-Simons Theory
Manu Paranjape
Univesité de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, October 25th 2002, 13:30
Note special time and day
Trans-Planckian Physics and Inflationary Cosmology
Robert Brandenberger
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 22nd 2002, 13:00
Minimal Model for Genome Evolution and Growth
H.C. Lee
Dept of Physics and Dept of Life Science, National Central University &Centre de Reserche Mathématique, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, October 15th 2002, 13:00
How to Steal Internet Secrets
Chi-Sing Lam
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 8th 2002, 13:00
Let the Partons Cascade
Dinesh Srivastava
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata
Abstract
Tuesday, October 1st 2002, 13:00
Hadronic Production of Tau Neutrinos
Ubi Wichoski
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, September 27th 2002, 13:15
Please note special day and time
Where Does The Standard Model Come From?
Quaisar Shafi
Bartol Research Inst.
Abstract
Tuesday, September 24th 2002, 13:00
Pressure in Large Nf QCD
Guy Moore
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 17th 2002, 13:00
The Menace of the Rolling Tachyon
Jim Cline
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 10th 2002, 12:15
Color superconductivity and implications for neutron star cooling
Prashanth Jaikumar
McGill University
Abstract

2001/02

Monday, June 17th 2002, 12:15
Note special time
Radiation reaction in gravitating systems
Eric Poisson
University of Guelph
Abstract
Thursday, June 13th 2002, 13:15
Please note special time
Inflation from D - anti-D brane annihilation
Stephon Alexander
Imperial College
Monday, May 13th 2002, 13:15
Note special day and time
String Networks on Orbifolds
Richard Easther
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, May 9th 2002, 12:00
Note special day and time
Measuring the CP phase Alpha from B -> K(*)K(*) Decays
Alakabha Datta
Université de Montréal
Friday, May 3rd 2002, 12:15
Note special day and time
Is Nothing Sacred? Bounding Preferred Frame Effects in the Brane-World
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 23rd 2002, 12:10
Please note special time
Brane - Antibrane Inflation
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Tuesday, March 19th 2002, 12:00
Dileptons and photons from coarse-grained microscopic dynamics and from hydrodynamics compared to experimental data
Joe Kapusta
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Tuesday, February 26th 2002, 12:00
Propagation of light in a gravitational field
Vesselin Petkov
Concordia University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 19th 2002, 13:10
Order rho2 Corrections to Randall-Sundrum-I Cosmology
Jérémie Vinet
McGill
Abstract
Monday, February 11th 2002, 14:00
Note special time and day
Some Negativity about Negative Tension
Mark Trodden
Syracuse
Abstract
Tuesday, February 5th 2002, 13:10
Taking a closer look at the dilepton spectrum of a quark gluon plasma
Abhijit Majumder
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 15th 2002, 13:10
Neutrino Oscillations in Five Dimensions
C.S. Lam
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 4th 2001, 13:10
Stability of 6-D Warped Brane Worlds
Jim Cline
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 20th 2001, 13:10
The Stringy Quantum Hall Effect
John Brodie
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, November 5th 2001, 13:10
Exact Results in 5D from Instantons and Deconstruction
Erich Poppitz
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, October 30th 2001, 13:10
Balance Functions as a Signal of late-stage Hadronization at RHIC
Scott Pratt
Michigan State University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 23rd 2001, 13:10
Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant Driven by Dark Matter and Cosmological Constant
Maxim Pospelov
McGill University and UQAM
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2001, 13:10
Quark Masses, Mixing and CP Violation from a six-dimensional Brane World
David Dooling
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 9th 2001, 13:10
Issues in Non-Equilibrium Field Theory
Richard Holman
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 2nd 2001, 13:15
Brane Gas Cosmology
Damien Easson
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, September 6th 2001, 13:10
Doubly Gauge Invariant Formalism of Brane-World Cosmological Pertubations
Shinji Mukohyama
Victoria University
Abstract

2000/01

Wednesday, August 8th 2001, 13:15
Photon Emission from the Quark Gluon
Guy Moore
University of Washington
Abstract
Friday, May 18th 2001, 13:00
(Note special day and time)
The Ekpyrotic Universe
Justin Khoury
Princeton
Abstract
Tuesday, May 15th 2001, 13:00
(Note special time)
Wilson loop in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory: A test of the Maldacena conjecture
Gordon W. Semenoff
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, May 8th 2001, 13:00
Results related to brane world physics
Frederic Leblond
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, May 1st 2001, 13:15
Mass(less)ness in (A)dS
Andrew Waldron
Brandeis
Abstract
Thrusday, April 26th 2001, 13:00
Looking for a color glass condensate in Deeply Inelastic Scattering and in Heavy Ion Collisions
Raju Venugopalan
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday, April 25th 2001, 13:15
De Sitter space and string theory
Djordje Minic
USC
Abstract
Tuesday, April 10th 2001, 13:15
From Academia to Space Industry: my personal experience
Ariel Edery
Abstract
Tuesday, April 3rd 2001, 13:15
Classical sequential growth dynamics for causal sets
Raphael Sorkin
Syracuse
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2001, 13:15
Note special day
The low energy dynamics of non-BPS branes
Neil Lambert
Kings College
Abstract
Tuesday, March 6th 2001, 13:15
Locally Localized Gravity
Andreas Karch
MIT
Tuesday, February 13th 2001, 13:15
Lectures on large and warped extra dimensions
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 23rd 2001, 13:15
A Small Cosmological Constant from Warped Compactification with Branes
Hassan Firouzjahi
McGill
Abstract
Friday, December 15th 2000, 13:15
Boundary Conditions in N=2 RCFT
Johannes Walcher
CERN and Zurich, ETH
Wednesday, November 22nd 2000, 13:15
Attractor flows, particle spectra and composite black holes
Frederik Denef
Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, November 21st 2000, 13:15
Photon production by a quark-gluon plasma
François Gelis
Brookhaven
Abstract
Thursday, November 9th 2000, 13:15
Half-Branes and Kaluza Klein monopoles
Don Marolf
Syracuse
Abstract
Tuesday, November 7th 2000, 13:15
Horizon states and quasi-normal modes of anti-deSitter black holes
V. Suneeta
IMSc, India
Abstract
Thursday, November 2nd 2000, 13:15
Contact interactions on D-branes
Kharim Benakli
CERN
Abstract
Tuesday, October 31st 2000, 14:00 (Note special time)
Non-abelian brane intersections and fuzzy geometry
Neil Constable
McGill
Tuesday, October 24th 2000, 13:15
Fractional Branes and Black Hole Entropy
Neil Constable
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 3rd 2000, 13:15
What might we learn from neutrino oscillations?
Harry C.S. Lam
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, September 19th 2000, 13:15
Recent Results in Brane Cosmology
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract

1999/2000

Wednesday, June 28th 2000, 13:00
Status and Perspectives of Neutrino Physics
Kai Zuber
Universität Dortmund
Abstract
Tuesday, June 27th 2000, 13:00
Superconformal Algebras on the Boundary of AdS3
Jorgen Rasmussen
Lethbridge
Abstract
Tuesday, June 20th 2000, 13:00
Casimir Energy of a Relativistic Perfect Fluid confined to a D-dimensional cube
Ariel Edery
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, June 8th 2000, 13:00
The physics of Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Qing-Hui Zhang
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, May 30th 2000, 13:00
Matter Effects on Neutrino Oscillations
Irina Mocioiu
Stony Brook
Abstract
Friday, May 26th 2000, 13:00
Aspects of Holography
Vatche V. Sahakian
Cornell
Abstract
Friday, April 28th 2000, 13:00
Isospin Violation effects in epsilon'/epsilon
German Valencia
University of Iowa
Abstract
Thursday, April 20th 2000, 13:00
Effect of particle collisions on the baryon asymmetry of the universe
Patrick Girard
McGill University and Stikeman Elliot
Abstract
Tuesday, April 18th 2000, 13:00
Cosmology with extra dimensions
John Terning
Harvard University
Thursday, March 23rd 2000, 13:00
Stabilizing the fifth dimension in the Randall Sundrum Scenario
Mark Wise
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, March 21st 2000, 13:00
The Rotating Ellipsoidal Membranes
Konstantin G. Savvidis
Neils Bohr Institute
Abstract
Thursday, March 16th 2000, 13:00
The search for TeV scale Gravity
David Atwood
Iowa State
Abstract
Tuesday, March 14th 2000, 13:00
An Honest Quantum Dice
C.S. Lam
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, March 9th 2000, 13:00
Nuclear Liquid-Gas Phase Transition in Heavy-Ion Collision
Suk-Joon Lee
Department of Physics, Rutgers University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 7th 2000, 13:00
Black holes in Bose-Einstein condensates
James R. Anglin
Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

1998/99

Tuesday, June 1st 1999, 13:00
Black hole analogs in superfluid Helium 3
Ted Jacobson
Maryland
Abstract
Tuesday, May 18th 1999, 13:00
Spacetime Duality and Superduality
Martin Kamela
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, May 4th 1999, 13:00
The QCD of Pizza
Greg Mahlon
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 27th 1999, 13:00
GRB's on the WWW
D. Hanna
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 20th 1999, 13:00
Phase Structure and Topological Confinement of Anyons
Manu Paranjape
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, April 13th 1999, 13:00
Inflation with Extra Dimensions
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 6th 1999, 13:00
The Bright Side of Dark Matter
Ariel Edery
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 30th 1999, 13:00
Relativistic theory of nuclear many-body problem
Abhee K. Dutt-Mazumder
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 23rd 1999, 13:00
Hot Baryon Number Violation: The Whole Grubby Story
Guy Moore
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 9th 1999, 13:00
Effect of fluctuations on cosmologically significant neutrino parameter space constraints obtained from a type II Supernova
Tanvir Rahman
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 2nd 1999, 13:00
MSSM predictions for the electric dipole moment of 199Hg atom
Maxim Pospelov
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Tuesday, February 16th 1999, 13:00
How I Spent My Winter Vacation: News from Weak Interactions and Neutrinos 99
Cliff Burgess
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 8th 1998, 13:00
Quantization of multi-Skyrmions
Patrick Irwin
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 1998, 13:00
AdS/CFT, QCD and YOU
Neil Constable
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 17th 1998, 13:00
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Guy Moore
Physics Department, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 10th 1998, 13:00
Using Quasars to Measure the Growth and Evolution of Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
Jean Quashnock
University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, October 27th 1998, 13:00
Building a Field Theory Based on MOND
Ariel Edery
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 29th 1998, 13:00
Is the universe a Hologram?
C.S. Lam
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 22nd 1998, 13:00
Money: the fifth fundamental force of nature!
Peter Bamert
Abstract


HEP Theory Journal Club

Wednesday, November 27th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
A Superfluid Dark Matter Cosmic String Wake
Aline Favero
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Plasmon production of axions and dark photons in anisotropic plasmas: the effect of magnetic fields
Nirmalya Brahma
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
The Regge Limit of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude
Clement Virally
University of Oxford
Abstract
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Formation of defects associated with both spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking
Michiru Uwabo
Ochanomizu University/IBS
Abstract
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Anomalies, gravitational axions, and neutrinos
Heliudson Bernardo
Brown University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Nonperturbative uses of Feynman diagrams: from the Hydrogen atom to Black holes
Miguel Correia
McGill University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
A Superfluid Dark Matter Cosmic String Wake
Aline Favero
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Photon self-energy at all temperatures and densities in all of phase space
Hugo Schérer
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 25th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Spherical symmetry in effective loop quantum gravity
Edward Wilson-Ewing
University of New Brunswick
Abstract
Wednesday, September 18th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Glauber-Sudarshan States and Wheeler-De Witt equation
Bohdan Kulinich
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 11th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Statistics of three-dimensional black holes from Liouville line defects
Viraj Meruliya
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 4th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
A new observable for holographic cosmology
Keivan Namjou
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 10th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Gravity of String Theory: Formalism and Test
Jeong-Hyuck Park
Sogang University
Wednesday, April 3rd 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
2D Conformal Field Theories and Resurgence
Viraj Meruliya
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 20th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Accretion onto Oscillating Cosmic String Loops
Jiao Hao
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 6th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Brane motion in a compact space: adiabatic perturbations of brane-bulk
Fangyi Guo
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 14th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Cosmological Production of Kalb-Ramond-like Particles
Christian Capanelli
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 7th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Static sphere observers and geodesics in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime
Mir Mehedi Faruk
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 31st 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Effective mass and symmetry breaking in the IKKT matrix model from +compactification
Samuel Laliberté
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 24th 2024, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Distance conjecture, species scale, and the pattern
Brian McPeak
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 13th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Joydeep Chakravarty
McGill
Wednesday, January 24th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Brian McPeak
McGill
Wednesday, November 29th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
q-CFTs from Quantum Groups
Shounak De
Brown University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 22nd 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Crossing beyond scattering amplitudes
Mathieu Giroux
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 15th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Nonperturbative Anomalous Thresholds
Miguel Correia
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 1st 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs
Yin-Chen He
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, October 18th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Higher-point lightcone bootstrap in the comb channel: double-twist data and triple-twist anomalous dimensions
Lorenzo Quintavalle
Université Laval
Abstract
Wednesday, October 11th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Dark Matter at Finite Temperature
Saniya Heeba
McGill
Wednesday, October 4th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Liouville theory and the Weil–Petersson geometry of moduli space
Keivan Namjou
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 27th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Phantom fluid cosmology: constraints and direct detection
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, September 27th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Cosmological Production of Kalb-Ramond-like Particles
Christian Capanelli
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, September 13th 2023, 11:00 (room 326/online)
Superfluid dark matter flow around cosmic strings
Aline Favero
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 17th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
The Flavor of QCD axion dark matter
Gonzalo Alonso-Alvarez
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 3rd 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Holographic cameras: an eye for the bulk
imon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, April 19th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Holographic cameras: an eye for the bulk
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 12th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Conformal Bootstrap Universality between c>25 and c<1 two-dimensional CFTs
Yiannis Tsiares
IPhT, Saclay
Abstract
Wednesday, April 5th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Resurgence and Conformal Blocks in AdS/CFT
Viraj Meruliya
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 29th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Early Structure Formation from Cosmic String Loops in Light of Early JWST Data
Hao Jiao
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Holographic cameras: an eye for the bulk
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 8th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Gravitational positivity bounds: implications for the swampland program
Junsei Tokuda
Abstract
Wednesday, March 1st 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Matrix duality in twistor space
Frank Coronado
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 22nd 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Searching for the fundamental nature of dark matter in the cosmic large-scale structure
Keir Rogers
Dunlap Institute, UofT
Abstract
Wednesday, February 15th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
The Hilbert Space of Quantum Gravity and Holography of Information in de Sitter space
Joydeep Chakravarty
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 25th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Holographic Violations of ETH and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Nima Afkhami-Jeddi
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 18th 2023, 12:00 (room 326/online)
On the flat-space structures of AdS amplitudes
Yue-Zhou Li
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 30th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Non-relativistic physics in AdS and its CFT dual
Zahra Zahraee
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 23rd 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Leptogenesis and Gravity Waves from a SUSY-breaking Phase Transition
Jim Cline, Benoit Laurent, Jean-Samuel Roux
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, November 9th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
The Uses and Abuses of Wormholes
Alex Maloney
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 2nd 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
SYK Lindbladian
Tokiro Numasawa
Tokyo University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 26th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Blazar constraints on neutrino-dark matter scattering
Matteo Puel
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 19th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Axions, stimulated decay, and CMB spectral distortions
Gonzalo Alvarez Alonso
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 5th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Loop-by-loop Differential Equations for Dual Elliptic Feynman Integrals
Mathieu Giroux
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, September 28th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Zahra Zahraee
McGill
Wednesday, September 21st 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
The inheritance of energy conditions
Heliudson de Oliveira Bernardo
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 14th 2022, 12:00 (room 326/online)
Emergent Cosmology From Matrix Theory
Samuel Laliberté
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 25th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Holomorphic Chern-Simons theories and twisted holography
Yehao Zhou
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Gauge-Invariant Corrections to the Expansion Rate
Vincent Comeau
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 4th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Applications of dispersive CFT Sum Rules
Anh-Khoi Trinh
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 20th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Causality and modifications to Einstein's gravity
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 13th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Direct collapse black holes from superconducting cosmic strings
Bryce Cyr
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 6th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
The strange physics of dark baryons
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, March 30th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Gauge-Invariant Corrections to the Expansion Rate
Vincent Comeau
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 23rd 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Goldstino condensates and anti-brane uplifts
Maxim Emelin
Padua University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 16th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Towards a Dark-Sector model from String Theory
Heliudson de Oliveira Bernardo
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 9th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Probing the neutrinophilic Z' at the DUNE near detector
Garv Chauhan
Louvain University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 23rd 2022, 13:00 (Tele-journal)
Note special time
Constraints on Heavy Neutral Leptons interacting with a singlet scalar
Guillermo Gambini
McGill & Campinas State
Abstract
Wednesday, February 16th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Minimal warm inflation and TCC
Vahid Kamali
Bou Ali Sina
Abstract
Wednesday, February 9th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Neutrino Physics Through Atomic Reactions
Pedro Pasquini
Tsung-Dao Lee Institure
Abstract
Wednesday, February 2nd 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
One problem in a ‘melon’ (milion)
Mathieu Giroux
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 26th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Handling constraints: the good, the bad and the ugly
Veronica Errasti Diez
LMU Munich
Abstract
Wednesday, January 19th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
The duals of Feynman integrals
Andrzej Pokraka
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 12th 2022, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Superspin chains from superstring theory
Faroogh Moosavian
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, December 15th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Exploring the dualities of massive gauge theories: Aμ vs. Bμν
Anamaria Hell
LMU Munich
Abstract
Wednesday, December 8th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Astrophysical plasmas, phase space, and searches for new particles
Katelin Schutz
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, December 1st 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Discriminating between theories of the very early universe
Jerome Quintin
AEI, Potsdam
Abstract
Wednesday, November 24th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Testing Cosmological solutions in M theory (part 1)
Mir Mehedi Faruk
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 17th 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Gravity from symmetry
Laurent Freidel
Perimeter
Abstract
Wednesday, November 10th 2021, 12:00 (>Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Absence of CP violation in the strong interactions
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, November 3rd 2021, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Mir Mehedi Faruk
McGill
Wednesday, October 27th 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
An extension of the correlation/amplitude duality in planar N=4 SYM
Frank Coronado
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 20th 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Critical study of electroweak baryogenesis from light fermion sources
Benoit Laurent
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 6th 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Gauging SU(3) of lepton flavor
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 29th 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105/Zoom)
Gravity from Averaging CFTs
Alex Maloney
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 22nd 2021, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Novel axion and ALP territory
Belen Gavela Legazpi
UAM
Abstract
Wednesday, September 15th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
The flat-space limit of AdS/CFT
Yue-Zhou Li
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 8th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-seminar)
Emergent Cosmology from Matrix Theory
Samuel Laliberté
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, June 2nd 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Quantum Metric Perturbations and the Hubble Rate
Vincent Comeau
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 26th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
EFT of biased tracers of the cosmological matter field
Katelin Schutz
MIT & McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 19th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Contracting Cosmologies and the Swampland
Heliudson de Oliveira Bernardo
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 12th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Solving QFTs with Conformal Truncation
Nikhil Anand
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 5th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Baryogenesis and gravity waves from a first-order electroweak phase transition
Benoit Laurent
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 21st 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Duals of Feynman Integrals, I: Differential Equations
Andrzej Pokraka
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 14th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
A New Universe inside of a Black Hole?
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 7th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Helicity basis in three dimensional CFT
Yue-Zhou Li
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 31st 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Moduli and Graviton Production during Moduli Stabilization
Mesbah Alsarraj
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, March 24th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Sidan Ah
McGill
Wednesday, March 17th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Explorations in Non-Orientable 2d CFTs
Yiannis Tsiares
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 10th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journel)
Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from B Mesons
Gonzalo Alonso-Alvarez
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, February 17th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Explorations in Non-Orientable 2d CFTs
Yiannis Tsiares
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 10th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Dispersive CFT Sum Rules
Anh-Khoi Trinh
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 3rd 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Coadjoint Orbits of Gravitational Edge Modes
Faroogh Moosavian
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 27th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Particle production during slow-roll inflation and quantum gravity
Vahid Kamali
Bu-Ali Sina & McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 20th 2021, 12:00 (Tele-journal)
Note special time
Causality and (scalar) effective theories
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 13th 2021, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Detecting quantum entanglement in the sky
Suddhasattwa Brahma
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, December 9th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Cusp-to-core conversion from late-time dark matter oscillations
Guillermo Gambini
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, December 2nd 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Bootsrapping 2-loop 5-gluon amplitudes from kinematical limits
Mathieu Giroux
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 25th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
More on Vacuum Energies in 2+1 CFTs
Sebastian Fischetti
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 18th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Liouville theory and the quantum geometry of hyperbolic surfaces
Keivan Namjou
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 11th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Global symmetries & gravity: the QCD axion quality problem
Gonzalo Alonso-Alvarez
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 4th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
de Sitter space in the string landscape
Keshav Dasgupta
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 21st 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Light Dark Photon as Dark Matter from Inflation
Ziwei Wang
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 14th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
The leading trajectory in the 2+1D Ising CFT
Zahra Zahraee
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 7th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Heavy-light correlators in high dimensions
Yue-Zhou Li
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 30th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Gravity as an Ensemble Average
Alex Maloney
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 23rd 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Distorting the CMB Spectrum with Topological Defects
Bryce Cyr
McGill
Abstract
Monday, September 14th 2020, 12:30 (Tele-journal)
Secret neutrino interactions with ultralight dark matter
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Monday, April 13th 2020, 12:30
Ekpyrotic Cosmology with a Zero-Shear S-Brane
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Abstract
Monday, April 6th 2020, 12:30 (tele-seminar)
A little theory of everything
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
POSTPONED: Monday, April 6th 2020, 12:30
Zahra Zahraee
McGill
POSTPONED: Monday, March 30th 2020, 12:30
Bryce Cyr
McGill
POSTPONED: Monday, March 23rd 2020, 12:30
Guillermo Gambini
Campinas State University
POSTPONED: Wednesday, March 18th 2020, 12:30
Note special day
Keshav Dasgupta
McGill
Monday, February 24th 2020, 12:30
Mirror dark matter structure formation
Jean-Samuel Roux
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 19th 2020, 12:30
Note special day
New holographic theories from n=2 minimal models
Sarah Harrison
McGill
Abstract
POSTPONED: Monday, February 17tn 2020, 12:30
New holographic theories from n=2 minimal models
Sarah Harrison
McGill
Abstract
Monday, February 10th 2020, 12:30
Dispersion relation(s) for conformal theories
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
Monday, January 27th 2020, 12:30
Local Subsystems in Gauge Theory and Gravity
Faroogh Moosavian
McGill
Abstract
Monday, January 20th 2020, 12:30
Casimir Energies in 2+1 QFTs
Sebastian Fischetti
McGill
Abstract
Monday, January 13th 2020, 12:30
Black hole microstates form mass deformations in the SYK model
Tokiro Numasawa
McGill
Abstract
Monday, December 9th 2019, 12:30
Relativistic treatment of dark thermalization
Takashi Toma
McGill
Abstract
Monday, December 2nd 2019, 12:30
α-corrected abstract
Heliudson Bernardo
McGill
Abstract
Monday, November 25th 2019, 12:30
From Infinity to Four Dimensions: Higher Residue Pairings and Feynman Integrals
Andrzej Pokraka
McGill
Abstract
Monday, November 18th 2019, 12:30
String Gases and the Swampland
Samuel Laliberté
McGill
Abstract
Monday, November 11th 2019, 12:30
The many uses of colored scalars
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Monday, October 28th 2019, 12:30
The simplest four-point correlation function in N=4 SYM
Frank Coronado
McGill
Abstract
Monday, October 21st 2019, 12:30
Trans-Planckian Censorship and Inflationary Cosmology
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Wednesday, October 16th 2019, 12:30
Note special day
On the Poincare dual of Feynman integrals
Andrzej Pokraka
McGill
Abstract
Monday, October 7th 2019, 12:30
Consistent cosmological models in era of the Swampland
Suddho Brahma
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 2nd 2019, 12:30
Note special day
Universal asymptotics of OPE coefficients in CFT2
Yiannis Tsiares
McGill
Abstract
Monday, September 30th 2019, 12:30
Eternal inflation and swampland conjecture
Ziwei Wang
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, September 25th 2019, 12:30
Rescheduled from Monday
Universal asymptotics of OPE coefficients in CFT2
Yiannis Tsiares
McGill
Abstract
Monday, September 16th 2019, 12:30
De Sitter Space and EFT Breakdown
Maxim Emelin
McGill
Abstract
Monday, September 9th 2019, 12:30
Quantum Gravity constraints as well as observational constraints
Vahid Kamali
Bou-Ali-Sina University
Abstract
Monday, April 29th 2019, 12:30
A Charged Modular Bootstrap For Chiral CFTs
Kale Colville
McGill
Abstract
Monday, April 15th 2019, 12:30
Superconducting strings, Critical Currents, Vorton Stability, and Cosmological Constraints
Samuel Laliberté
McGill
Abstract
Monday, April 8th 2019, 12:30
Are Black Hole Orbits in Maximal Supergravity Solvable?
Zahra Zahraee
McGill
Abstract
Monday, April 1st 2019, 12:30
Probing pseudo-Goldstone dark matter
Takashi Toma
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 27th 2019, 12:30
Note special day
A High-Bias, Low-Variance introduction to Machine Learning
Omar Chammaa
McGill
Abstract
Monday, March 25th 2019, 12:30
Positive cosmological constant solutions from M theory
Mir Mehedi Faruk
McGill
Abstract
Monday, March 18th 2019, 12:30
Constraining signatures of Cosmic Strings at Reionization
Bryce Cyr
McGill
Abstract
Monday, March 11th 2019, 12:30
Dissipative Dark Matter and the formation of a Dark Disk
Matteo Puel
McGill
Abstract
Monday, February 25th 2019, 12:30
Scalar Double-trace Deformations in AdS/CFT
Anh-Khoi Trinh
McGill
Abstract
Monday, February 18th 2019, 12:30
Non-Gaussianity and cosmological collider physics
Ziwei Wang
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Wednesday, February 13th 2019, 12:30
Note special day
Spin Glasses and Complexity
Omar Chammaa
McGill
Abstract
Monday, February 11th 2019, 12:30
The geometry of KLT relations
Andrzej Pokraka
McGill
Abstract
Monday, January 28th 2019, 12:30
Finite temperature strings, T-duality and the Unruh effect in String Theory
Heliudson Bernardo
Sao Paulo State University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 23rd 2019, 12:30
Note special day
de Sitter Holography, Entanglement Entropy, and TT
Matt Hodel
McGill
Monday, January 21st 2019, 12:30
Generalized Global Symmetries
Tal Sheaffer
McGill
Abstract
Monday, January 14th 2019, 12:30
Spacetime singularity in inflationary universe
Daisuke Yoshida
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Monday, December 3rd 2018, 14:00
Takashi Toma
McGill
Monday, November 26th 2018, 14:00
The Virasoro fusion kernel and its applications
Yan Gobeil
McGill
Abstract
Monday, November 19th 2018, 14:00
Towards a T-Dual Cosmology
Guilherme Franzmann
McGill
Abstract
Monday, November 12th 2018, 14:00
Bulk Reconstruction as Universal Approximate Subspace Error Correction
Matt Hodel
McGill
Abstract
Monday, November 5th 2018, 14:00
Modular bootstrap for chiral CFTs
Laure-Anne Douxchamps
McGill
Abstract
Monday, October 29th 2018, 14:00
The connection between mimetic gravity, limiting curvature, and the cuscuton
Jerome Quintin
McGill
Abstract
Monday, October 15th 2018, 14:00
Bulk Reconstruction and Holographic Area Laws
Sebastian Fischetti
McGill
Abstract
Monday, October 1st 2018, 14:00
De Sitter, quantum corrections, and EFT
Maxim Emelin
McGill
Abstract
Monday, September 24th 2018, 14:00
AdS/BCFT and black hole physics
Tokiro Numasawa
McGill
Abstract
Monday, September 17th 2018, 14:00
Back-Reaction of Super-Hubble Cosmological Perturbations Beyond Perturbation Theory
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Abstract
Monday, September 10th 2018, 14:00
Deep Reinforcement Learning to Search for Cosmic Strings in CMB and 21 cm Intensity Maps
Oscar Hernández
Marianopolis College & McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 9th 2018, 12:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Correlators from Supergravity
Anh-Khoi Trinh
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 2nd 2018, 12:30
Effective string theory
Andrzej Pokraka
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 18th 2018, 12:30
Gravitational waves from low-energy inflation by particle production
Ryo Namba
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 11th 2018, 12:30
Signature of Cosmic String Wakes in N Body Simulations
Disrael Cunha
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 4th 2018, 12:30
Orbits of the Supersymmetric Black Holes in N=8 Supergravity
Zahra Zahraee
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, March 23rd 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Superselection Sectors and Soft Modes in AdS/CFT
Jamie Sully
McGill
Friday, March 16th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
From the BFKL equation to the all-order infrared behaviour of high-energy scattering amplitudes
Joscha Reichel
University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Friday, February 23rd 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Entanglement Entropy and Link Invariants
Tal Sheaffer
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 21st 2018, 12:30
KdV charges and Generalized Gibbs Ensemble in 2D CFT
Ioannis Tsiares
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 14th 2018, 12:30
Bopp-Podolsky black holes and the no-hair theorem
Rodrigo Cuzinatto
Universidade Federal de Alfenas & McGill
Abstract
Friday, February 9th 2018, 12:30
Note special day
Axionic landscape for marginal Higgs stability
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, February 7th 2018, 12:30
Constraints on Higher Spin CFT2
Kale Colville
McGill
Abstract
Friday, February 2nd 2018, 12:30
Note special day
A view of the bulk from the worldline
Henry Maxfield
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, January 31st 2018, 12:30
Nonsingular spacetimes with limiting curvature
Jerome Quintin
McGill
Abstract
Friday, December 8th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
Gravitational S-matrix from CFT dispersion relations
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, December 6th 2017, 12:30
(Qu)Bit Threads and Holographic Entanglement
Matt Hodel
McGill
Abstract
Friday, November 17th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
Connecting B-physics anomalies to dark matter
Jonathan Cornell
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 15th 2017, 12:30
Global anomaly and boundary conformal field theory in 1+1 dimensions
Tokiro Numasawa
McGill
Abstract
Friday, November 10th 2017, 12:30
Note special day
On the double-counting problem in Boltzmann equations and real-intermediate state subtraction
Michael Laplante
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, November 8th 2017, 12:30
Chameleons in the early universe
Renato Costa
University of Cape Town & McGill
Abstract
Friday, November 3rd 2017, 12:30
Note special day
Properties of extremal CFTs with small central charge
Sarah Harrison
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 18th 2017, 12:30
Baryon acoustic oscillations from the SDSS galaxies angular correlation function
Jailson Alcaniz
Observatorio Nacional & McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 4th 2017, 12:30
Conformal blocks for the thermal one-point function
Yan Gobeil
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 27th 2017, 12:30
Pole inflation in Jordan frame supergravity
Daisuke Yoshida
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, September 20th 2017, 12:30
Perturbations for a unified model of the dark sector
Rodrigo Cuzinatto
Universidade Federal de Alfenas and McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, June 6th 2017, 12:00
Applied Top-Down Holographic Large-N Thermal QCD and G-Structures via Delocalized SYZ Mirrors
Aalok Misra
IIT Roorkee
Tuesday, May 30th 2017, 12:00
Entanglement, Replicas and Thetas
Sunil Mukhi
IISER
Tuesday, May 16th 2017, 12:00
Twistors for Anti-de Sitter physics
Alex Arvanitakis
Cambridge
Abstract
Tuesday, May 2nd 2017, 12:00
Scaling, recovery and renormalization monotones
Nima Lashkari
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, April 25th 2017, 12:00
Tensor network and (p-adic) AdS/CFT
Arpan Bhattacharyya
Fudan University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 18th 2017, 12:00
Analytical On-shell Calculation of Higher Order Scattering
Zahra Zahraee
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 11th 2017, 12:00
Holographic Computational Complexity
Adam Brown
Stanford
Abstract
Tuesday, April 4th 2017, 12:00
Emergent gravity and the dark universe
Laure-Anne Douxchamps
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 28th 2017, 12:00
Effective holographic observables
Lampros Lamprou
Stanford
Abstract
Tuesday, March 21st 2017, 12:00
The Fate of a Contracting Universe and the State of Matter at High Density
Jerome Quintin
McGill
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, March 14th 2017, 12:00
Evolving Black Holes in slow-roll Inflation
Jennie Traschen
UMass Amherst
Abstract
Tuesday, February 21st 2017, 12:00
The planar four-loop cusp anomalous dimension in QCD
Johannes Henn
Mainz
Tuesday, February 14th 2017, 12:00
The Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture
Ioannis Tsiares
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 7th 2017, 12:00
A unifying description of dark energy
David Langlois
Laboratoire Astroparticules et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot
Abstract
Tuesday, January 31st 2017, 12:00
Topological Field Theory and Knots from M-theory
Keshav Dasgupta
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 17th 2017, 12:00
A Quark-Gluon-Plasma inspired cosmological scenario
Melissa Mendes
McGill & University of Campinas
Abstract
Tuesday, January 10th 2017, 12:00
Quantum Transitions through Cosmological Singularities
Sebastian Bramberger
MPI Potsdam
Abstract
Tuesday, December 13th 2016, 13:00
Small Scale Challenges (and Solutions) for Lambda-CDM
Jonathan Cornell
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 6th 2016, 13:00
Quasilocal energy and its cosmological applications
Valerio Faraoni
Bishop's University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2016, 13:00
Is Electroweak Baryogenesis Dead?
Jim Cline
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016, 13:00
Second quantized MSW strings on K3 fibrations
Callum Quigley
University of Alberta
Abstract
Tuesday, November 15th 2016, 13:00
Loops in AdS from Crossing Symmetry
Eric Perlmutter
Princeton
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2016, 13:00
Witten diagrams and the geometry of conformal blocks
Eliot Hijano
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2016, 13:00
Double Field Theory: an Introduction
Guilherme Franzmann
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 25th 2016, 13:00
Holographic description of entanglement entropy and conformal block in AdS3/CFT2
Jie-Qiang Wu
Peking University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2016, 13:00
Observational constraints to a unified cosmological model
Rodrigo Rocha Cuzinatto
Federal University of Alfenas
Abstract
Tuesday, October 11th 2016, 13:00
Vector field phenomenology during inflation
Ryo Namba
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 4th 2016, 13:00
Renormalization group coefficients and the S-matrix
Simon Caron-Huot
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, September 27th 2016, 13:00
Constraining Conformal Field Theories with W Symmetry
Kale Colville
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, September 20th 2016, 13:00
Geometry from Bulk Entanglement
Maxim Emelin
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, September 13th 2016, 13:00
QCD strings and their effective string description
Hari Dass
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
Abstract
Tuesday, September 6th 2016, 13:00
Coupled Dark Energy - Dark Matter from Axion - Gauge Field Coupling
Robert Brandenberger
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 19th 2016, 12:00
Interpretations of the galactic centre gamma-ray excess
Jonathan Cornell
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 5th 2016, 12:00
Preheating in Axion Inflation Models
Evan McDonough
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 29th 2016, 12:00
Soft Hair on Black Holes
Gim Seng Ng
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, March 22nd 2016, 12:00
Cosmological singularities in holography
Marjorie Schillo
Leuven
Abstract
Tuesday, March 8th 2016, 12:00
Constructing Microstates for the BTZ Black Hole
Kale Colville
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 23rd 2016, 12:00
Consistency of Scalar Potentials from Quantum de Sitter Space
Jean-François Fortin
Université Laval
Abstract
Tuesday, February 16th 2016, 12:00
25 orders of magnitude “we” simply ignore in evolution of the baby universe!
Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, February 9th 2016, 12:00
Interacting dark matter and dark energy, how crazy is that?!
Jerome Quintin
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 19th 2016, 12:00
The LHC 750 GeV Diphoton excess
Jim Cline
Tuesday, January 12th 2016, 12:00
Partition Functions in Even Dimensional AdS via Quasinormal Mode Methods
Cindy Keeler
Niels Bohr Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, December 15th 2015, 12:00
The weak gravity conjecture and its implications in AdS/CFT
Yan Gobeil
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, December 8th 2015, 12:00
The BCFW recursion relations for scattering amplitudes (and their extension to AdS)
Laure-Anne Douxchamps
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Abstract
Tuesday, December 1st 2015, 12:00
Higgsing the stringy higher spin symmetries
Ida Zadeh
Brandeis University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 2015, 12:00
Cosmic Strings and the Origin of Globular Clusters
Rebecca Lin
McGill
Tuesday, November 17th 2015, 12:00
Gravitation from Entanglement in holographic CFTs
Thom Pijnenburg
Amsterdam
Abstract
Tuesday, November 10th 2015, 12:00
The idea of Entanglement Renormalization: the MERA tensor network and relation to AdS/CFT
Ioannis Tsiares
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 3rd 2015, 12:00
Cosmology with Goldstone bosons
Djuna Croon
Sussex
Abstract
Tuesday, October 27th 2015, 12:00
Thermalization: results, issues, perspectives
Thomas Epelbaum
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, October 6th 2015, 12:00
Large N thermal QCD and its gravity dual
Keshav Dasgupta
Abstract
Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 12:00
Accelerating Universe from Trans-Planckian Tail Effects
Leila Graef
Abstract
Tuesday, September 22nd 2015, 12:00
Disruption of Cosmic String Wakes by Gaussian Fluctuations
Disrael Cunha
Abstract
Tuesday, September 8th 2015, 12:00
Junyu Liu
University of Science and Technology of China
Monday, April 27th 2015, 12:00
Lorentzian Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity
Niky Kamran
Abstract
Monday, April 20th 2015, 12:00
String universality for symmetric product orbifolds
Alex Maloney
Monday, March 23rd 2015, 12:00
Towards a No-Go Theorem in Bouncing Cosmology
Jerome Quintin
Abstract
Monday, March 9th 2015, 12:00
The principle of stationary nonconservative action: basic formalism and the Navier-Stokes action
Dave Tsang
Abstract
Monday, February 23rd 2015, 12:00
Observing the black hole interior in AdS/CFT
Ian Morrison
Abstract
Monday, February 16th 2015, 12:00
Bounding the heat trace of a Calabi-Yau manifold
Marc-Antoine Fiset
Monday, February 9th 2015, 12:00
Role of Cosmic String Loops in Galaxy Formation
Robert Brandenberger
Normal day/time:
Mondays at 12:00


Experimental HEP Seminars

Wednesday, October 18th 2017, 14:30
Joint Particle and Astroparticle Physics & Experimental HEP Seminar
Neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors
Michelle Dolinski
Drexel University
Abstract
Monday, October 16th 2017, 14:30
Joint Particle and Astroparticle Physics & Experimental HEP Seminar
ANTIHYDROGEN: Its Capture and Interrogation
Art Olin
TRIUMF
Abstract
Tuesday, April 7th 2015, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Sharpening tools for direct detection of low mass WIMPs at SNOLAB
Gilles Gerbier
Queen's University
Abstract
Thursday, February 5th 2015, 16:00 (room 305A/B)
Developing a water Cherenkov Optical TPC for neutrino detection
Eric Oberla
University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, April 22nd 2014, 14:30
Studying Radiative Quarkonium Decays in Experiment
Bryan Fulsom
SLAC
Abstract
Thursday, October 24th 2013, 14:30
New Cyclotrons for Neutrino Physics
Janet Conrad
MIT
Monday, September 23rd 2013, 15:30 (room 305B)
Cross section measurements of dilepton states in ATLAS
Aldo Saavedra
University of Sydney
Abstract
Wednesday, October 10th 2012, 14:30
LHCb Experiment: An Example of Concrete Achievement
Annabelle Chuinard
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, May 10th 2012, 14:30 (Room 305 A/B)
Special Experimental HEP Seminar
Measurement of the proton's weak charge at the Qweak experiment
Jean-François Rajotte
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 14:30 (B.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Digital Hadron Calorimeter — for a future lepton collider
Lei Xia
Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
Wednesday, February 29th 2012, 14:30
ATLAS Standard Model Photon Cross Section Results
Mark Stockton
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 30th 2011, 15:30
Anomalous baryon production in p+p and Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC
Vasili Topor Pop
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, May 18th 2011, 15:30
Angular correlations in minimum bias events and other recent results in soft physics at D0 and ATLAS
Camille Bélanger-Champagne
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, May 18th 2011, 15:30
Angular correlations in minimum bias events and other recent results in soft physics at D0 and ATLAS
Camille Bélanger-Champagne
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 6th 2011, 15:30
Results and Prospects for the T2K Neutrino Oscillation Experiment
Mark Hartz
University of Toronto
Abstract
Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, 15:30
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Status, Initial Results and Future Prospects
Darren Grant
University of Alberta
Abstract
Wednesday, November 3rd 2010, 15:30
Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavity R&D at Toronto
William Trischuk
University of Toronto
Abstract
Wednesday, October 13th 2010, 15:30
ALPHA - On the Road to Trapped Antihydrogen
Scott Menary
York University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 28th 2010, 13:30
Note special day and time
Evidence of an Asymmetry in B Meson Matter-Antimatter Oscillations
Wendy Taylor
York University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 3rd 2010, 16:00 (Room 305)
Note special venue
Measuring the Gluon Polarizations of Protons with Jets at RHIC
David Staszak
UCLA
Abstract
Wednesday, January 13th 2010, 16:00
Search for Dark Matter with PICASSO
Viktor Zacek
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, January 6th 2010, 16:00 (Room 305)
The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope: status and first results
Anthony Brown
Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
Abstract
Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 16:00 (Room 305)
Measuring Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
Javier Gonzalez
Universidad de Granada
Abstract
Monday, November 23rd 2009, 15:30
Note special day and time
Latest TWIST on Muon Decay
Art Olin
TRIUMF & University of Victoria
Abstract
Wednesday, November 18th 2009, 16:00
Measuring the Mass of Neutrinos
Kevin Graham
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 11th 2009, 16:00
The Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Experiment
Leslie Camilleri
Columbia
Abstract
Wednesday, November 4th 2009, 16:00
Kaon Spectroscopy with B-Mesons
Hulya Guler
McGill University & Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, October 21st 2009, 16:00
ATLAS Higgs Searches Beyond the Standard Model
Chris Potter
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, October 7th 2009, 16:00
The Next Bubble to Burst
Raphael Galea
NRC, Ottawa
Abstract
Wednesday, June 3rd 2009, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time and venue
Bottomonium: recent results
Gérard Bonneaud
Paris VI-VII
Abstract
Wednesday, January 21st 2009, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special venue
Extraction of Active and Sterile Neutrino Mixing Parameters with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Gordana Tešić
Physics Department, Carleton University
Abstract
Monday, January 12th 2009, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special day, time and venue
Dark matter search: review on direct and indirect detection experiments
Gilles Gerbier
CEA Saclay
Abstract
Wednesday, January 7th 2009, 16:00
Fresh news from ATLAS
David Côté
DESY
Abstract
Wednesday, November 26th 2008, 16:00
The Flavour of Things to Come: Prospects for the SuperB Project
Steven Robertson
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note unusual venue
T2K: Beaming Neutrinos from Sea to Sea
Alysia Marino
University of Toronto
Abstract
Wednesday, October 8th 2008, 16:00
À la recherche de la matière perdue: Dark Matter, Cryogenic Particle Detectors, and Brittle Fracture
Philippe Di Stefano
IPNL
Abstract
Wednesday, October 1st 2008, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The White Elephant: Υ Physics at the BaBar B-factory
Steve Sekula
Ohio State University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 16:00
Search for Heavy Quarks Above the Top at Hadron Colliders
Anupama Atre
FNAL
Abstract
Wednesday, May 7th 2008, 15:30
ROOT Tutorial
Malachi Schram
McGill
Abstract
Wednesday, April 9th 2008, 16:00
TeV Gamma Rays with the Milagro and HAWC experiments
Jim Linnemann
Michigan State University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 26th 2008, 16:00
Life after HEP
Pat Saull
NRC
Abstract
Wednesday, March 5th 2008, 16:00
Muon Physics of the 70's-80's: Decay Measurements
François Corriveau
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, December 12th 2007, 16:00
Recent Results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF)
Andreas Warburton
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 21st 2007, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The XENON Dark Matter Search
Elena Aprile
Columbia University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 14th 2007, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Cosmic Rays, Star Spots and Aliens: Some Alternative Applications of Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
Jamie Holder
University of Delaware
Abstract
Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 16:00
Emergency Radiation Mapping
Laurel Sinclair
Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada
Abstract
Wednesday, September 26th 2007, 16:00
Measurement of pionium (π+π- hydrogen-like state) lifetime to test low energy QCD predictons
Cibrán Santamarina Ríos
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 19th 2007, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time and venue
Something Old, Something New
Juan Collar
University of Chicago
Abstract
Wednesday, June 13th 2007, 15:30
Measurement of |Vub| from the decay B0→π l ν, using a loose neutrino reconstruction technique, at BaBar
David Côté
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 15:30
The first result of the MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment
Teppei Katori
Indiana University / Fermilab
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2007, 15:30
Testing the Higgs mechanism
Heather Logan
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 7th 2007, 15:30
A TPC for the T2K ND280 Experiment
Marie Di Marco
DPNC, Université de Genève
Abstract
Wednesday, February 28th 2007, 15:30
Probing Electroweak Top Quark Couplings at Hadron Colliders
Uli Baur
SUNY Buffalo
Abstract
Tuesday, February 27th 2007, 11:00 (Room 305)
The top quark: a “charged” topic
Veronique Boisvert
University of Rochester
Abstract
Monday, February 5th 2007, 14:00
The Latest from MiniBooNE
Hirohisa Tanaka
MiniBooNE/Princeton University
Abstract
Monday, January 29th 2007, 14:30 (UdM, Laboratoire RJA Lévesque, Salle 104)
The Top Mass at CDF and the Final Preparation for ATLAS
Jean-François Arguin
ATLAS/LBNL
Abstract
Friday, January 26th 2007, 13:30 (ERP - room 305)
Evidence for single top production at the D0 experiment
Yann Coadou
Dzero/SFU
Abstract
Thursday, January 4th 2007, 14:00
Note special day and time
Status and Potential of the CMS Experiment
Dominique Fortin
University of California, Riverside
Abstract
Friday November 3rd 2006, 13:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Joint Seminar with the School of Computer Science
Entanglement entropy, black holes and holography
Stephen Hsu
University of Oregon
Abstract
Friday, June 23rd 2006, 10:30 (Leacock 132)
Note special venue
Decays: Recent Theoretical Developments
David London
Université de Montréal
Thursday, April 6th 2006, 15:00 (Room 326)
New B Physics Results from DZero
Wendy Taylor
York University
Abstract
Monday, March 27th 2006 and Tuesday, March 28th 2006
Mini-workshop on calorimetry
Pierre Petroff
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Lineaire, Université de Paris-Sud
Abstract
Wednesday, February 15th 2006, 15:30
Measurements of charmed hadrons production in deep inelastic scattering with ZEUS
Roberval Walsh
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 8th 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Searching for Dark Matter with DEAP at SNOLAB
Marc Boulay
Queen's University
Abstract
Wednesday, December 14th 2005, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Search for gaugino production in R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA
Chi-Nhan Nguyen
Hamburg Universität
Abstract
Wednesday, February 16th 2005 (ERP, room 305)
Measurement of a CKM matrix element Vub
Kim Hojeong
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday January 26th 2005, 15:30 (ERP room 305)
First results from the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST)
Marie Di Marco
Queen's University
Abstract
Wednesday, December 1st 2004, 15:30 (ERP)
SNO+: SNO with Liquid Scintillator
Mark Chen
Queen's University
Abstract


CHEP Particle Astrophysics Seminars

Friday, December 9th 2005, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Out of Africa:The latest results from the H.E.S.S. telescopes array
Anthony M. Brown
Durham University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2005, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103))
Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole
Andreas Gross
University of Dortmund
Abstract
Wednesday, November 23rd 2005, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
TRACER (Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation)
Patrick (Jojo) Boyle
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2005, 14:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The Nature and Origin of Cosmic Rays or Tickling the Knee with CREAM
Stéphane Coutu
Penn State University
Abstract


Past Montréal Joint High Energy Physics Seminars
Séminaires Conjoints de Physique des Hautes Energies à Montréal

Friday, March 30th 2012, 13:30
A paradigm shift in physics until 2025 because of the LHC?
David Côté
CERN
Abstract
Wednesday, February 22nd 2006, 10:30 (UdM, Pavillon Roger Gaudry, V-221)
More on the Adiabatic Approximation in Quantum Mechanics
Richard Mackenzie
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, February 10th 2006, 10:00 (UdM, Pavillon Roger Gaudry, V-221)
Neutrinos and Higgs bosons in the left-right model
Ken Kiers
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, February 9th 2006, 15:30 (UdM)
New Research Opportunities at the Future FAIR facility in Darmstadt (Germany)
Marielle Chartier
University of Liverpool
Wednesday, January 18th 2006, 11:00
B->φK* Decays: short story about CP Violation, Strong Interactions and New Physics
Alejandro Szynkman
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, December 15th 2005 (UdM)
Light Scalar Top Quarks and Dark Matter at the Linear Collider
Caroline Milstene
Fermilab
Abstract
Rescheduled: Friday, December 2nd 2005, 13:30 (UdM)
CASTing for Solar Axions at CERN
Michael Hasinoff
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, December 1st 2005, 10:00 (ERP - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The ATLAS strategy for Higgs detection
Cibrán Santamarina Rios
CERN
Abstract
Wednesday, November 30th 2005, 15:30 (ERP - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Charm School for Physicists: On the Impact of CLEO-c Results
David Asner
Carleton University
Abstract
Monday, October 24th 2005, 15:30 (UdM)
Probing the Weak Interaction Spacetime Structure with Muon Decay
Art Olin
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, October 5th 2005, 13:30 (ERP R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Classical Simulations of Quantum Fields
Tzahi Yavin
York University
Abstract
Friday, August 26th 2005, 15:30 (ERP - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Calibration of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter. Reconstruction of events with non-pointing photons from GMSB SUSY models
Damien Prieur
Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
Abstract
Wednesday, August 24th 2005, 15:30 (ERP - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
A Search for the Rare Decay B->τ+τ- at the BaBar Experiment
Chris Potter
University of Oregon
Abstract
Tuesday, August 23rd 2005, 10:30 (ERP - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special time
Search for Technicolor Particle at D0
Lorenzo Feligioni
Boston University
Abstract
Thursday, August 4th 2005, 15:00 (ERP - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The ATLAS experiment: construction and supervision
Helfried J. Burckhart
CERN
Abstract
Thursday, April 21st 2005, 15:30 (UdM, Pavillon Roger Gaudry, salle Z-255)
Mass, Mixing, and the Neutrino Renaissance
Kevin Graham
Queen's University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 6th 2005, 15:30 (UdM, Pavillon Rauger Gaudry, salle Z-255)
Challenges of the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
Richard Teuscher
Enrico Fermi Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, April 5th 2005, 15:30 (UdM, Pavillon Rauger Gaudry, salle Z-209)
Selected Charm Readings From CLEO
David Asner
Cornell
Abstract
Wednesday, March 9th 2005, 15:30 (UdM)
Les développements récents à ISAC-TRIUMF
Pierre Bricault
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, February 9th 2005, 15:30 (ERP)
A Bayesian Revolution in Spectral Analysis
Phil Gregory
UBC
Abstract
Friday, January 28th 2005, 15:00 (UdM - Pavillon Z, Z-215)
The role of breathers in the anomalous decay of luminescence
Lawrence S. Schulman
Physics Department, Clarkson University
Abstract
Thurday, December 2nd 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Phenomenology of the Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions scenario
Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin
McGill / Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, November 16th 2004, 11:00 (ERP: R.E. Bell Conference room - room 103)
Note special time and room
Strangeness and the Discovery of Quark Gluon Plasma
Johann Rafelski
Department of Physics, University of Arizona
Abstract

2003/04

Tuesday, August 10th 2004, 10:30 (UdM)
Note special time
Multiplicity distributions in elementary particle physics
Roberto Ugoccioni
Torino
Abstract
Thursday, July 15th 2004, 10:30 (UdM)
Edelweiss et la recherche de WIMP par grand froid
Jules Gascon
Université Claude Bernard
Abstract
Wednesday, May 26th 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Un nano saut quantique : La création à Montréal d un Institut des Sciences et des Technologies du Rayonnement! Pourquoi pas?
Philippe Leblanc
Centre de recherche du CHUM/TeXion inc.
Abstract
Friday, May 14th 2004, 15:00 (ERP R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Resonances and statistical hadronization phenomenology
Giorgio Torrieri
University of Arizona
Abstract
Thursday, May 6th 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Search for Double Beta Decay with the EXO Experiment
Jean-Luc Vuilleumier
Neuchâtel
Abstract
Thursday, April 29th 2004, 15:30 (ERP, R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Open Charm Production at Hera
Sanjay Padhi
McGill University/DESY
Abstract
Thursday, April 22nd 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Search for a non-standard violation of time-reversal invariance
Pierre Depommier
Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, April 15th 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Dust from Reionization
Erik Elfgren
Luleå, Sweden
Abstract
Thursday, February 12th 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Observing Signals of Extra Spatial Dimensions with ATLAS
Georges Azuelos
TRIUMF/Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, February 5th 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Production of Dilepton Events at CDF
Reda Tafirout
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, January 15th 2004, 15:30 (UdM)
Discovery potential in the 2 Higgs Doublet Model at D0 experiment
Pierre-Antoine Delsart
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, November 28th 2003, 10:30 (ERP 326)
Please note special time and room
The Trans-Planckian problem of inflation
Jerome Martin
IAP, Saclay
Thursday, November 27th 2003, 13:45 (ERP 326)
The Fate of the Alpha Vacua
Please note special time and room
Richard Holman
Carnegie Mellon
Thursday, October 23rd 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
A brief introduction to high-energy elastic hadron scattering
Emerson Luna
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Abstract
Thursday, September 11th 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
The CERN-Gran Sasso Neutrino Program
Dominique Duchesneau
Lapp, Annecy
Abstract

2002/03

Monday, August 18th 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
The ATLAS High Level Trigger
Véronique Boisvert
CERN
Abstract
Friday, July 4th 2003, 11:30 (UdM)
Transient vacuum structures and baryon asymmetry of the Universe
Urjit Yajnik
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Abstract
Tuesday, May 27th 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
Produits-triples et brisure CP dans les désintégrations des Lb dans le Modèle Standard et au-delà
Wafia Ben Salem
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, May 16th 2003, 11:00 (UdM)
Black hole entropy and quasi-normal modes
Gabor Kunstatter
Univ. of Winnipeg
Abstract
Thursday, March 27th 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
Apercevons nous peut-être l'ombre du gluino à l'horizon?
Hannes Jeremie
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, March 13th 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
Search of a Standard Model Higgs Boson in ATLAS using Vector Boson Fusion
Rachid Mazini
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, Friday March 7th 2003, 12:00 (ERP - room 326)
Recent rare B decay results from the BaBar experiment
Steven Robertson
SLAC
Abstract
Thursday, March 6th 2003, 14:00 (UdM)
Physics with b quarks at the Tevatron
Wendy Taylor
SUNY at Stony Brook
Abstract
Friday, February 28th 2003, 12:00 (ERP - room 326)
Desperately Seeking SUSY
Isabel Trigger
CERN
Abstract
Thursday, February 27th 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
Double Beta decay
Kai Zuber
Monday, February 24th 2003, 14:00 (UdM)
Neutrino Oscillation Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Scott Oser
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Thursday, February 13th 2003, 15:30 (UdM)
Exploring the cosmic ray spectrum
Ubi Wichoski
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, December 19th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
CompHEP and CompHEP-PYTHIA interface in High Energy Physics
Alexander Belyaev
University of Florida
Abstract
Thursday, December 12th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
Prospects for Higgs bosons discovery of the LHC
Ketevi A. Assamagan
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Monday, December 9th 2002, 15:30
The Color Glass Condensate
Larry McLerran
Nuclear Theory Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, November 28th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
It takes glue to study the `Glue'
Zisis Papandreou
University of Regina
Abstract
Wednesday, November 20th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
The CDMS Dark Matter Experiment
Richard Gaitskell
Brown University
Abstract
Thursday, November 14th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
CLEO-c and CESR-c: A New Frontier of Electroweak and QCD Physics
Kamal Benslama
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 7th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
L'Astrophysique des Particules - un plan de route
Viktor Zacek
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, October 31st 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
SNO
J. Farine
Laurentian University
Abstract
Friday, October 4th 2002, 15:30 (ERP)
The search for the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC: status and perspectives
Steffen A. Bass
Department of Physics, Duke University
Abstract
Thursday, October 3rd 2002, 15:30 (ERP - Boardroom - room 104)
Note special room
Recent Results and Future Prospects of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II Experiment
Tarek Saab
Physics Department, Standord University
Abstract

2001/02

Thursday, June 20th 2002, 14:30 (UdM)
Please note special time
Astrophysical and Cosmological Production of tau neutrinos
Ubi Wichoski
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, June 14th 2002, 14:30 (UdM)
Note special time
Generalized coherent states, star products and fuzzy manifolds
Garnik Alexanian
Syracuse University
Abstract
Monday, June 10th 2002, 15:30 (ERP)
First Neutral Current Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Scott Oser
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Thursday, June 6th 2002, 14:30 (UdM)
Super-Yang-Mills theory in the PP-wave limit
Gordon W. Semenoff
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Thursday, May 2nd 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
Quantum field theory methods applied to quantum wires
Sumathi Rao
Harish Chandra Research Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, April 17th 2002, 15:00 (ERP)
Note special time
The AMS Experiment: Cosmic Ray Measurements in Space
Markus Cristinziani
Université de Genéve
Abstract
Monday, April 8th 2002, 15:30 (ERP, room 326)
Experimental observables to study the isospin-dependence of the nuclear equation of state
Betty Tsang
Department of Physics & Astronomy, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Michigan State University
Thursday, March 28th 2002, 15:30 (UdM
The Casimir Energy of a Relativistic Perfect Fluid confined to a D-dimensional Hypercube
Ariel Edery
S I Solutions
Abstract
Wednesday, March 13th 2002, 15:30 (ERP)
Heavy Flavour Physics at HERA
Alessandro Bertolin
McGill University
Abstract
Friday, February 8th 2002, 13:00 (ERP)
ANTARES, a Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea
J. Carr
CPPM Marseille
Abstract
Thursday, January 31st 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
Eternal Inflation and Past Incompleteness
Alan Guth
Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT
Abstract
Thursday, January 24th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
Cosmology, dark matter and the PICASSO Project
Marie di Marco
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, January 18th 2002, 11:30 (ERP)
(Note special time and day)
The ISiS data set: baseline data for the study of thermal multifragmentation and the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition
Luc Beaulieu
Département de Physique, de Génie Physique et d'Optique, Université Laval
Abstract
Thursday, January 17th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
Preliminary CLEO-III Rare B-decay Results
Kamal Benslama
Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, January 17th 2002, 11:00 (UdM, local 253 Pavillon René J-A Lévesque)
Vortices and the real time dynamics of the Abelian Higgs model in 2D
Luis Bettencourt
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, January 10th 2002, 15:30 (UdM)
Medical X-Ray Imaging with Scattered Photons
Paul C. Johns
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, December 19th 2001, 15:30 (UdM)
Mesures de précision électrofaibles et objets massifs non identifiés
Helenka Przysiezniak
Annecy-le-Vieux
Abstract
Friday, November 30th 2001, 15:30 (UdM: Pavillon Principal, D-560)
Radioactive Beams: A new Frontier
Alan Shotter
TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, November 22nd 2001, 15:30 (UdM)
Determining alpha and gamma at B Factories via Direct and Indirect CP Violation
David Atwood
Iowa State University
Abstract
Thursday, November 1st 2001, 15:30 (UdM)
Medical X-Ray Imaging with Scattered Photons
Paul C. Johns
Carleton University
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2001, 15:30 (UdM)
Mesure indirecte du spectre de masse des événements à quatre fermions obtenus des désintegrations hadroniques du Z0
Hannès Jérémie
Université de Montréal
Abstract

2000/01

Thursday, August 30th 2001, 15:30
The radioactive ion beam project at VECC-Calcutta: present status and future plans.
Alok Chakrabarti
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta
Wednesday, August 22nd 2001, 15:30
The change of the 7Be decay rate in different environments and the implications for the solar neutrino problem
Amlan Ray
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta
Wednesday, June 20th 2001, 15:30 (ERP)
Search for strange matter
Sanjay K. Ghosh
Theory Group, TRIUMF
Abstract
Tuesday, May 22nd 2001, 15:00 (ERP)
Quintessence or cosmological constant - what is the dark energy in the universe?
Christof Wetterich
University of Heidelberg
Abstract
Wednesday, April 25th 2001, 15:30 (LPN)
Recent news from the vacuum? The Muon g-2 Experiment at Brookhaven
Lee Roberts
Boston University
Abstract
Wednesday, April 18th 2001, 15:30 (ERP)
A Warped and Braneless approach to the Cosmological Constant problem
Bob Holdom
University of Toronto
Thursday, April 5th 2001, 15:30 (LPN)
CDF-II: Microvertex en Silicium et la Physique du B
William Trischuk
University of Toronto
Abstract
Friday, March 30th 2001, 10:00
Note special time
Mesure des doses et fluences aux facilités hadroniques employées aux études de dommages par irradiation au LHC
Elena León Florián
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2001, 15:30 (ERP)
New Results from BaBar
Marko Milek
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, March 15th 2001, 15:30 (LPN)
The ATLAS Trigger: Challenges and Expected Performance
Monika Wielers
TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, February 1st 2001, 10:30 (ERP)
Note special time
Top Physics at the Tevatron
Pierre Savard
Abstract
Wednesday, January 31st 2001, 15:30 (ERP)
Travelling Faster than the Speed of Light in Non-commutative Geometry
Aki Hashimoto
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Abstract
Monday, January 29th 2001, 15:30 (ERP)
Tests of the Electroweak Gauge Theory at LEP2
Alain Bellerive
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, January 25th 2001, 15:30 (LPN)
New Physics Searches with Photonic Final States at LEP2
P. Krieger
Carleton University
Abstract
Wednesday, January 10th 2001, 15:30 (ERP)
OPAL celebrates the standard model
Richard Hemingway
IPP/Carleton
Thursday, November 30th 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
Beta Decay with Laser Traps: Search for Scalars
John Behr
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, November 29th 2000, 15:30 (ERP)
Results from the K2K experiment
Chris Walter
Boston University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 22nd 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
Determination of CP-phase gamma with possibility of new physics
C. S. Kim
Yonsei University
Abstract
Thursday, November 16th 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
The (N)ALTA Project: A New Partnership in Education and Research in the Area of Cosmic Ray Physics
Jim Pinfold
Universté d'Alberta
Abstract
Wednesday, November 8th 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
Neutrino Mass: The Present and the Future
Boris Kayser
National Science Foundation
Abstract
Monday, November 6th 2000, 15:30 (ERP)
Fluctuation of rare particles as a measure for chemical equilibration
Sangyong Jeon
LBNL
Abstract
Wednesday, November 1st 2000, 15:30 (ERP)
High Energy Cosmic Ray Composition and the CASA-BLANCA Detector
Joe Fowler
Princeton University
Abstract
Friday, October 20th 2000, 10:30
(Note special time)
Heavy quarkonium as a probe of QCD dynamics
Dmitri Kharzeev
Physics Department and RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
Wednesday, October 18th 2000, 15:30 (ERP)
PICASSO: how it works, present and future
Louis Lessard
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Wednesday, September 6th 2000, 15:30
Science results and perspectives in VHE gamma-ray astronomy: an overview
Armen Atoyan
Yerevan Physics Institute
Abstract

1999/2000

Monday, June 12th 2000, 15:30 (ERP)
Measurements of Vcsin W decays at LEP2
Alain Bellerive
University of Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, June 1st 2000, 15:00 (ERP)
Cosmological entropy bounds and the arrow of time
Prof. Gabriele Veneziano
CERN
Thursday, June 1st 2000, 13:30 (ERP)
Status of pre-big bang cosmology
Prof. Gabriele Veneziano
CERN
Wednesday, May 17th 2000, 15:30 (ERP)
The Physics of SNO
Clarence Virtue
Laurentian University
Abstract
Thursday, May 11th 2000, 15:30 (ERP)
Neutron Production in Deep Inelastic Proton-positron Scattering at HERA-DESY
Dr. Maurício Barbi
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, April 10th 2000, 13:30 (ERP)
From AMANDA to Ice Cube (one year at the South Pole)
Nick Starinsky
Abstract
Thursday, March 16th 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
Tests of T and CPT symmetries in the kaon system
Philippe Bloch
CERN
Abstract
Monday, March 13th 2000, 15:40 (ERP)
Note special time
Infrared Surprises in Noncommutative Field Theories
Mark Van Raamsdonk
Princeton University
Abstract
Monday, February 28th 2000, 15:40
(Note special time)
Five Dimensions from Four: On Dimensional Transmogrification
Vijay Balasubramanian
Harvard University
Thursday, February 17th 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
Excited quark production at the LHC
Rashid Mehdiyev
Thursday, February 10th 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
Les études de la tenue aux radiations des calorimètres à argon liquide d'ATLAS
Claude Leroy
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, February 3rd 2000, 15:30 (LPN)
A Higgs or not a Higgs? That is the question
Cliff Burgess
McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, November 24th 1999, 15:30 (UQAM)
Direct and Indirect Observational Constraints on the supersymmetric/superstring dark matter
Maxim Pospelov
Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota
Abstract
Wednesday, October 13th 1999, 15:30
Nuclear disassembly and signatures of phase transition
S. K. Samaddar
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, October 6th 1999, 15:30
The Solar Neutrino Problem and Astrophysical S Factor
Byron K. Jennings
TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, September 30th 1999, 15:30
A conceptual design of a next generation nucleon decay/neutrino detector
Akira Konaka
TRIUMF
Abstract
Wednesday, September 15th 1999, 15:30
Triple Gauge Boson Coupling at OPAL
Isabel Trigger
Université de Montréal
Abstract

1998/99

Tuesday, July 6th 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
Charmonium dissociation in hadronic matter
Kevin Haglin
St. Cloud State University
Tuesday, June 8th 1999, 15:30
High invariant mass dimuon production and suppression
Sangyong Jeon
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, May 20th 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
Status and Perspectives of Neutrino Oscillation Searches
Dr. Kai Zuber
Universität Dortmund
Abstract
Thursday, May 13th 1999, 15:30 (LPN)
In vivo pharmacology with PET: More than a pretty picture
Thomas Ruth
TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, April 22nd 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
Latest Results from Super-K and Introduction to K2K
Chris Walter
Boston University
Abstract
Friday, April 9th 1999, 14:00
Preheating, Parametric Resonance and General Relativity
Richard Easther
Brown University
Abstract
Thursday, March 18th 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
Physics Prospects with ATLAS at the LHC
John Parsons
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, March 11th 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
Relativistic Corrections to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effects for Clusters of Galaxies
Prof. Naoki Itoh
Sophia University, Tokyo
Abstract
Wednesday, March 10th 1999, 15:00 (UQAM)
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Dr. C. Hargrove
Carleton University
Abstract
Thursday, March 4th 1999, 15:30 (ERP
New Results from KTeV
Vivian Odell
Fermilab
Abstract
Thursday, February 25th 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
BTeV: Getting to the Bottom of CP Violation
Scott Menary
York University
Abstract
Thursday, January 21st 1999, 15:30 (LPN)
The dynamics of flavor
Bob Holdom
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, January 14th 1999, 15:30 (LPN)
Formation of Hawking Radiation photospheres around decaying microscopic black holes
Jim Cline
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, January 7th 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
Milagro - A New TeV Look at the Sky
Prof. Jordan Goodman
University of Maryland
Abstract
Thursday, January 7th 1999, 14:00 (ERP)
The modular group and the quantum Hall effect
Prof. Brian Dolan
National University of Ireland
Abstract
Tuesday, January 5th 1999, 15:30 (ERP)
Improved actions, dynamical fermions and hadronic string breaking in 3D lattice QCD: Lessons for the real world
Prof. Howard Trottier
Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Monday, December 14th 1998, 15:30 (LPN)
Oscillations de neutrinos: l'expérience I216 au CERN
Mathieu Doucet
CERN
Abstract
Thursday, November 26th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Be-7 Solar Neutrinos and the Borexino Experiment
Professor Mark Chen
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
The Anatomy of a Soluble Statistical Model for Nuclear Fragmentation
Subal Das Gupta
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, November 23rd 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Alpha and Gamma, How to Capture The Big Angles of The Unitarity Triangle
David Atwood
Iowa State University
Abstract
Thursday, November 19th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Artificial Neural Network Analysis in High Energy Physics
Marko Milek
McGill University
Abstract
Thursday, November 12th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Probing the QCD evolution at HERA using jet observables
Michael Riveline
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, November 9th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Precision Muon Decay at TRIUMF
Prof N. Rodning
University of Alberta
Abstract
Thursday, October 29th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Multiphoton inelastic light-by-light scattering
Professor Adrian Melissinos
University of Rochester
Abstract
Wednesday, October 28th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Interactions at Cosmic Ray Energies and Extensive Air Showers Experiments
V. Topor Pop
McGill University
Abstract
Monday, September 21st 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Chiral Disorder in QCD
Prof. Ismail Zahed
Departement of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook
Abstract

1997/98

Friday August 28th 1998, 10:30 (LPN)
Stratgies et mthodes de recherches des particules supersymtriques au LHC avec du dtecteur ATLAS
Ahmed Benelfassi
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Friday, May 22nd 1998, 15:30 (LPN)
Precision Measurement of Michel Parameters in Muon Decay at TRIUMF
Jean-Michel Poutissou
TRIUMF
Abstract
Thursday, May 7th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Semileptonic Branching Fraction of b Hadrons: The Plot Thickens
Pauline Gagnon
CRPP Ottawa / CERN
Abstract
Tuesday, May 5th 1998, 15:30 (LPN)
Mass Gap and Confinement in (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills Theory
Dimitra Karabali
Rockefeller University
Abstract
Monday, May 4th 1998, 15:30 (LPN)
Branes in M(atrix) Theory
V.P. Nair
Abstract
Thursday, March 26th 1998, 15:30 (LPN)
Neutrino Oscillations with Reactor Antineutrinos
Lev A. Mikaelyan
Institut Kurchatov, Moscou
Abstract
Thursday, March 19th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Atmospheric muons and the question of neutrino mass
Stephane Coutu
Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 18th 1998, 15:30 (LPN)
Les fonctions de structure du photon à OPAL
Mathieu Doucet
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, March 12th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
Dilepton Production Probing Meson Properties in Nuclear Matter
Axel Drees
SUNY at Stony Brook
Abstract
Thursday, March 5th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
Steve Ritz
Columbia University
Abstract
Thursday, February 19th 1998, 15:30 (ERP)
The PICASSO Project in Montreal
Viktor Zacek
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 1997, 15:30 (LPN)
La recherche du boson de Higgs avec le détecteur ATLAS
Pierre Savard
Université de Montréal
Abstract