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To schedule a seminar, contact Ryo Namba (namba AT physics DOT mcgill DOT ca) or Tokiro Numasawa (tokiro DOT numasawa AT mail DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Wednesday) Sep 5 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Raghu Mahajan (Princeton) |
The Conformal Bootstrap at Nonzero Temperature abstract |
| (Wednesday) Sep 12 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Simon Ross (Durham U.) |
Generalised Gibbs Ensemble and Eigenstate thermalization in 1+1 CFTs abstract |
| (Wednesday) Sep 19 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Einan Gardi (U. of Edinburgh) |
Recent progress on long-distance singularities in QCD amplitudes abstract |
| (Friday) Sep 21 (SPECIAL INFORMAL SEMINAR) |
1:30pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Brad Cownden (U. of Manitoba) |
Gravitational Collapse in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime |
| (Wednesday) Sep 26 | 2:00pm | Bell Room (SPECIAL VENUE) | Ue-Li Pen (CITA) |
Neutrino Torquing abstract |
| (Wednesday) Oct 3 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | David McGady (Bohr Institute) |
Path integrals, finite temperature, and lattices abstract |
| (Wednesday) Oct 10 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Edgar Shaghoulian (Cornell) |
Holography at finite cutoff with a T^2 deformation abstract |
| (Thursday) Oct 11 (SPECIAL SEMINAR) |
1:30pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Chen Sun (Brown) |
Particle Phenomenology in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy abstract |
| (Tuesday) Oct 16 (SPECIAL SEMINAR) |
12:00pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Kallol Sen (Indian Institute of Science) |
Perturbative CFTs and applications abstract |
| (Wednesday) Oct 17 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Daniel Stolarski (Carleton U.) |
Probing Lepton Flavour Universality in Top Decays abstract |
| (Thursday) Oct 18 (SPECIAL SEMINAR) |
1:30pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Ariel Zhitnitsky (UBC) |
Cosmological axion field and quark nugget dark matter model abstract |
| (Monday) Oct 22 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Stefano Lucat (Utrecht U.) |
Inflation from spontaneously broken Weyl invariance in theories with torsion abstract |
| (Wednesday) Oct 24 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Laurent Freidel (Perimeter) |
The Geometry of relative locality abstract |
| (Wednesday) Oct 31 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Max Zimet (Stanford) |
K3 metrics from little string theory abstract |
| (Wednesday) Nov 7 (SPECIAL SEMINAR) |
11:00am (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Sebastian Bramberger (MPI for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute) |
Quantum bounces and real time quantum cosmology abstract |
| (Wednesday) Nov 7 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Joseph Bramante (Queen's U.) |
Asymmetric Dark Matter Exploding White Dwarfs and Converting Neutron Stars to Black Holes abstract |
| (Wednesday) Nov 14 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Kaori Fuyuto (UMass Amherst) |
CP Violation in Top Physics abstract |
| (Wednesday) Nov 21 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Deanna Hooper (RWTH Aachen U.) |
Constraining Dark Matter Interactions with Lyman-alpha Data abstract |
| (Thursday) Nov 22 (SPECIAL SEMINAR) |
1:30pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Francesc Ferrer (Washington University in St. Louis) |
Primodial Black Holes from the QCD Axion |
| (Monday) Nov 26 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Netta Engelhardt (Princeton) |
CANCELED - To be rescheduled in winter 2019 |
| (Thursday) Nov 29 (SPECIAL DATE) |
1:30pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Jarah Evslin (Lanzhou, Inst. Modern Phys.) |
Giant Monopoles as a Dark Matter Candidate abstract |
| (Friday) Nov 30 (SPECIAL SEMINAR) |
1:00pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
ERP 326 | Connor Behan (Stony Brook, YITP) |
Duality and bootstrap for the long-range Ising model abstract |
| (Wednesday) Dec 5 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Matthew Reece (Harvard) |
Photon Masses in the Landscape and Dark Photon Dark Matter abstract |
To schedule a journal club, contact Jerome Quintin (jquintin AT physics DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Monday) Sep 10 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Oscar Hernandez (Marianopolis College & McGill) |
Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Search for Cosmic Strings in CMB and 21 cm Intensity Maps abstract |
| (Monday) Sep 17 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Robert Brandenberger (McGill) |
Back-Reaction of Super-Hubble Cosmological Perturbations Beyond Perturbation Theory abstract |
| (Monday) Sep 24 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Tokiro Numasawa (McGill) |
AdS/BCFT and black hole physics abstract |
| (Monday) Oct 1 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Maxim Emelin (McGill) |
De Sitter, quantum corrections, and EFT abstract |
| (Monday) Oct 15 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Sebastian Fischetti (McGill) |
Bulk Reconstruction and Holographic Area Laws (slides) abstract |
| (Monday) Oct 29 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Jerome Quintin (McGill) |
The connection between mimetic gravity, limiting curvature, and the cuscuton abstract |
| (Monday) Nov 5 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Laure-Anne Douxchamps (McGill) |
Modular bootstrap for chiral CFTs abstract |
| (Monday) Nov 12 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Matt Hodel (McGill) |
Bulk Reconstruction as Universal Approximate Subspace Error Correction abstract |
| (Monday) Nov 19 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Guilherme Franzmann (McGill) |
Towards a T-Dual Cosmology (slides) abstract |
| (Monday) Nov 26 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Yan Gobeil (McGill) |
The Virasoro fusion kernel and its applications (slides) abstract |
| (Monday) Dec 3 | 2:00pm | ERP 326 | Takashi Toma (McGill) |
CANCELED - To be rescheduled in winter 2019 |
To schedule a grad seminar, contact Yan Gobeil (yan DOT gobeil AT mail DOT mcgill DOT ca) or Omar Chammaa (omar DOT chammaa AT mail DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Friday) Sep 14 | noon | ERP 326 | Maxim Emelin | The string swampland (part 1) |
| (Friday) Sep 21 | noon | ERP 326 | Maxim Emelin | The string swampland (part 2) |
| (Friday) Sep 28 | noon | ERP 326 | Matt Hodel | Everything you wanted to know about quantum information but were too afraid to ask |
| (Friday) Oct 5 | noon | ERP 326 | Omar Chammaa | The Kinematic Space of CFT2 and the Holographic Dictionary |
| (Friday) Oct 12 | noon | ERP 326 | Jerome Quintin | The string/black hole correspondence |
| (Friday) Oct 19 | noon | ERP 326 | Tal Sheaffer | The Cluster Decomposition Principle and Causality |
| (Friday) Oct 26 | noon | ERP 326 | Everyone | Discussion of our research |
| (Friday) Nov 2 | noon | ERP 326 | Anh-Khoi Trinh | Analytic Structure of (Simple) Correlators |
| (Friday) Nov 9 | noon | ERP 326 | Ioannis Tsiares | A Farey-tail on Partitions of Integers |
| (Friday) Nov 16 | noon | ERP 326 | Anh-Khoi Trinh | Aspects of dS/CFT |
| (Friday) Nov 23 | noon | ERP 326 | Joshua Sandor | Regge Theory in QFT, String Theory and CFTs |
| (Friday) Nov 30 | noon | ERP 326 | Ziwei Wang | Holographic systems far from equilibrium |
| (Friday) Dec 7 | noon | ERP 326 | Sigtryggur Hauksson | Jets and collider physics |