McGill Physics: CHEP seminars

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 p_T 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 p_T 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 T_c; 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 N_f 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

2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 2000/01 1999/2000 1998/99 1997/98

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 U_q(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 G_N, 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 P_t hadron-hadron correlations; Abhijit Majumder; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Abstract

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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

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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 N_f 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

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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

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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

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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

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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 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 |V_ub| 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 V_ub; 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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1999/2000

Monday, June 12th 2000, 15:30 (ERP): Measurements of V_csin 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

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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

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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