| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
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| (Friday) Sep 14 | noon | ERP 326 | Maxim Emelin | The string swampland (part 1) |
| (Friday) Sep 21 | noon | ERP 326 | Maxim Emelin | The string swampland (part 2) |
| (Friday) Sep 28 | noon | ERP 326 | Matt Hodel | Everything you wanted to know about quantum information but were too afraid to ask |
| (Friday) Oct 5 | noon | ERP 326 | Omar Chammaa | The Kinematic Space of CFT2 and the Holographic Dictionary |
| (Friday) Oct 12 | noon | ERP 326 | Jerome Quintin | The string/black hole correspondence |
| (Friday) Oct 19 | noon | ERP 326 | Tal Sheaffer | The Cluster Decomposition Principle and Causality |
| (Friday) Oct 26 | noon | ERP 326 | Everyone | Discussion of our research |
| (Friday) Nov 2 | noon | ERP 326 | Anh-Khoi Trinh | Analytic Structure of (Simple) Correlators |
| (Friday) Nov 9 | noon | ERP 326 | Ioannis Tsiares | A Farey-tail on Partitions of Integers |
| (Friday) Nov 16 | noon | ERP 326 | Anh-Khoi Trinh | Aspects of dS/CFT |
| (Friday) Nov 23 | noon | ERP 326 | Joshua Sandor | Regge Theory in QFT, String Theory and CFTs |
| (Friday) Nov 30 | noon | ERP 326 | Ziwei Wang | Holographic systems far from equilibrium |
| (Friday) Dec 7 | noon | ERP 326 | Sigtryggur Hauksson | Jets and collider physics |
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Monday) Jan 15 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Yan Gobeil | Integral geometry and holography |
| (Monday) Jan 22 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Discussion about research | N/A |
| (Monday) Jan 29 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Ioannis Tsiares | Dualities in theoretical physics |
| (Monday) Feb 12 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Matt Hodel | Quantum error correction in holography |
| (Monday) Feb 19 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Omar Chammaa | On the Infrared Structure of Gauge Theory |
| (Monday) Feb 26 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Maxim Emelin | Lorentzian time and instantons |
| (Monday) Mar 5 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Andrzej Pokraka | Spinor helicity formalism for all masses and spins |
| (Monday) Mar 12 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Avi Friedlander | Electroweak Baryogenesis |
| (Monday) Mar 19 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Omar Chammaa | On the Infrared Structure of Gauge Theory: Part II |
| (Monday) Mar 26 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Anh-Khoi Trinh | The simplest quantum field theories |
| (Monday) Apr 2 | 12:00pm | Bell room | No talk because of Easter Monday | N/A |
| (Monday) Apr 9 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Ioannis Tsiares | Liouville's equation and geometry |
| (Monday) Apr 16 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Matt Hodel | Non-Equilibrium EFTs and Hydrodynamics |
| (Monday) Apr 23 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Mir Mehedi Faruk | Topological objects in field theory |
| (Monday) Apr 30 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Jake Elituv | Calculating amplitudes with supergraphs |
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Thursday) 09/14 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Ji Hoon Lee (McGill) |
Integrability in Gauge Theory |
| (Thursday) 09/21 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Anh-Khoi Trinh (McGill) |
ER=EPR and Traversable Wormholes |
| (Thursday) 09/28 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Ioannis Tsiares (McGill) |
Number Theory and Physics |
| (Thursday) 10/05 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Sigtryggur Hauksson (McGill) |
Thermal Field Theory |
| (Thursday) 10/12 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Tariq Hassan (McGill) |
Holographic 2d CFTs at small central charge |
| (Thursday) 10/19 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Everyone (McGill) |
Discussion about research |
| (Thursday) 10/26 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Guilherme Franzmann (McGill) |
An introduction to String Gas Cosmology and Beyond |
| (Thursday) 11/02 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Tal Sheaffer (McGill) |
Knot Invariants in Quantum Field Theory |
| (Thursday) 11/09 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Bryce Cyr (McGill) |
EFTs: How to study physics effectively |
| (Thursday) 11/16 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Yan Gobeil (McGill) |
Black holes as mirrors |
| (Thursday) 11/23 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Laure-Anne Douxchamps (McGill) |
Foundations of mathematics and non classical logic |
| (Thursday) 11/30 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Kale Colville (McGill) |
Introduction to modular invariance |
| (Thursday) 12/07 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Zahra Zahraee (McGill) |
Perturbative Quantum Gravity and its Relation to Gauge Theory |
| (Friday) 12/15 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jerome Quintin (McGill) |
Hamiltonian analysis of constrained systems: gauge transformations, degrees of freedom, and gravity as an example |
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
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| January 13 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Tarique Hassan | One loop effective potential of the standard model |
| January 20 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Maxim Emelin | Path integral approach to supersymmetric quantum mechanics |
| January 27 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Kale Colville | An Introduction to Liouville Theory |
| February 3 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Guilherme Franzmann | Varying fundamental constants - a covariant approach |
| February 10 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Discussion of research | |
| February 17 | 12:00 | Bell room | Evan McDonough | The 5 string theories and M-theory |
| February 24 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Gim Seng Ng | Fun with space of 2d QFTs |
| March 3 | reading week | |||
| March 10 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Yan Gobeil | Introduction to the Conformal Bootstrap |
| March 17 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Ryo Namba | Primordial gravitational waves |
| March 24 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Jake Elituv | Introduction to entanglement entropy |
| March 31 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Ioannis Tsiares | A centaur geometry: An interpolation between dS and AdS spacetime |
| April 7 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Disrael Camargo | Applications of unitary symmetry to particle physics |
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Bryce Cyr | Probing the CMB: Spectral Distortions and the Age of Precision Cosmology |
| 09/30/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Ioannis Tsiares | An example of classical chaos: Lorenz equations and strange attractors |
| 10/07/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Yan Gobeil | Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics |
| 10/28/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Laure-Anne Douxchamps | Various ways to solve the information paradox |
| 11/04/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Tarique Hassan | Effective action for spontaneous symmetry breaking |
| 11/11/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Alessandro Ricottone | Quantum annealing: D-wave machine + algorithm examples |
| 11/18/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Evan McDonough | Dissipation and fluctuation of quantum fields in expanding universes |
| 11/25/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Guilherme Franzmann | Varying speed of light theories |
| 12/02/2016 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Jerome Quintin | Stability of nonsingular cosmologies |
| 12/16/2016 | 12:00 | Piano Room | Ioannis Tsiares |
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/22/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Thom Pijnenburg | A birdseye view of Loop Quantum Gravity |
| 01/29/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Ioannis Tsiares | Speed limits for entanglement |
| 02/05/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Yan Gobeil | Some bounds on entropy |
| 02/12/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Kale Colville | Massless particle theorems in flat space |
| 02/26/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Wei Wu | The fate of the false vacuum |
| 03/04/2016 | 12:00 | ERP 326 | Olivier Landon-Cardinal | Entanglement, holography and tensor network states |
| 03/11/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Elisa Ferreira | Thermal History of the Universe |
| 03/18/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Bryce Cyr | Shedding light on the dark: A review of dark matter and the WIMP miracle |
| 03/25/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | No talk because of Good Friday | |
| 04/01/2016 | 1:00 | Boardroom | Jerome Quintin | Thermal fluctuations in the very early universe |
| 04/08/2016 | 12:00 | Bell room | Guilherme Franzmann | From Cosmology to Double Field Theory |
| 04/15/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Ioannis Tsiares | New way of looking at the path integral of Quantum Mechanics |
| 04/22/2016 | 12:00 | Boardroom | Maxim Emelin | Resurgent Trans-Series in Quantum Mechanics |
| DATE (m/d/y) | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
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| 9/11/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Organizational meeting | |
| 9/14-16/2015 | CRM | CRM workshop on quantum gravity |
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| 9/25/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Yan Gobeil | Introduction to SUSY |
| 10/2/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Ioannis Tsiares | (Postponed) |
| 10/9/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Ioannis Tsiares | Conformal quantum mechanics |
| 10/16/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Maxim Emelin | Instantons |
| 10/19-23/2015 | CRM | CRM workshop on AdS/QCD/CMT |
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| 10/30/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Evan McDonough | 4d Physics from String Theory |
| 11/6/2015 | 13:00 | RPHYS boardroom | Guilherme Franzmann | Gravity as an entropic force |
| 11/13/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Laure-Anne Douxchamps | The black hole information paradox |
| 11/20/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Rebecca Lin | Cosmic strings and the origin of globular clusters |
| 11/27/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Jerome Quintin | Backreaction in cosmology, part I: averaging Einstein's equations |
| 12/4/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Disrael Cunha | The Cosmological constant problem |
| 12/11/2015 | 12:00 | RPHYS 326 | Gim Seng Ng | Inventing GR like a Venusian QFT student |