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To schedule a seminar, contact Ryo Namba (namba AT physics DOT mcgill DOT ca) or Henry Maxfield (maxfieldh AT physics DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Wednesday) 09/06 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Guy D. Moore (T.U. Darmstadt) |
QCD Axion mass--dark matter density relation (slides) abstract |
| (Friday) 09/08 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Rudnei O. Ramos (Rio de Janeiro State U.) |
Dissipative and Stochastic Effects During Inflation (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) 09/13 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Simon Ross (Durham U.) |
Complexity and Spacetime (slides) abstract |
| (Friday) 09/15 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Justin Khoury (UPenn) |
Emergent MOND from dark matter-baryon particle interactions abstract |
| (Friday) 09/22 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook U.) |
2d chiral algebras associated to 4d superconformal field theories abstract |
| (Friday) 09/29 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Massimo Porrati (NYU) |
Factorization of IR Dynamics: Soft Black Hole Hair as Soft Wigs abstract |
| (Friday) 10/06 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Chandrima Ganguly (DAMTP, Cambridge) |
Isotropisation in cyclic universe cosmologies (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) 10/11 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Matthew Schwartz (Harvard U.) |
The Fate of the Universe abstract |
| (Friday) 10/13 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Djordje Radicevic (Perimeter Institute) |
Coarse-graining quantum mechanics abstract |
| (Friday) 10/20 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Scott Melville (Imperial College London) |
Positivity Constraints on Effective Field Theories for Cosmology/Gravity (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) 10/25 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Sachin Vaidya (Perimeter Institute) |
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Small N: Glueball masses from SU(3) Matrix Model abstract |
| (Friday) 10/27 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Sumati Surya (Perimeter Institute) |
Propagators on a Causal Set abstract |
| (Wednesday) 11/01 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Alexander (Sasha) Zhiboedov (Harvard U.) |
CANCELED (moved to 11/29) |
| (Wednesday) 11/22 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Ning Bao (UC Berkeley) |
Entanglement of Purification and Holographic Inequalities |
| (Friday) 11/24 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Nicholas Hunter-Jones (Caltech) |
Quantum chaos and late-time dynamics abstract |
| (Wednesday) 11/29 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jie-Qiang Wu (MIT) |
CANCELED |
| (Wednesday) 11/29 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Alexander (Sasha) Zhiboedov (Harvard U.) |
Conformal Bootstrap at Large Charge (CANCELED) abstract |
| (Wednesday) 11/29 | 2:00pm | MSI conference room | Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute) |
On the Path Integral for Gravity |
| (Friday) 12/01 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Shota Komatsu (IAS) |
Towards Quantum Gravity in AdS from Integrability abstract |
| (Wednesday) 12/13 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Andrew Lucas (Stanford U.) |
Constraints on hydrodynamics from many-body quantum chaos abstract |
To schedule a journal club, contact Jerome Quintin (jquintin AT physics DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Wednesday) 09/20 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Rodrigo Cuzinatto (U. Federal de Alfenas & McGill) |
Perturbations for a unified model of the dark sector abstract |
| (Wednesday) 09/27 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Daisuke Yoshida (McGill) |
Pole inflation in Jordan frame supergravity (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) 10/04 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Yan Gobeil (McGill) |
Conformal blocks for the thermal one-point function abstract |
| (Wednesday) 10/18 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jailson Alcaniz (Observatorio Nacional & McGill) |
Baryon acoustic oscillations from the SDSS galaxies angular correlation function (slides) abstract |
| (Friday) 11/03 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Sarah Harrison (McGill) |
Properties of extremal CFTs with small central charge abstract |
| (Wednesday) 11/08 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Renato Costa (U. of Cape Town & McGill) |
Chameleons in the early universe (slides) abstract |
| (Friday) 11/10 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Michael Laplante (McGill) |
On the double-counting problem in Boltzmann equations and real-intermediate state subtraction (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) 11/15 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Tokiro Numasawa (McGill) |
Global anomaly and boundary conformal field theory in 1+1 dimensions abstract |
| (Friday) 11/17 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jonathan Cornell (McGill) |
Connecting B-physics anomalies to dark matter abstract |
| (Wednesday) 12/06 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Matt Hodel (McGill) |
(Qu)Bit Threads and Holographic Entanglement abstract |
| (Friday) 12/08 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Simon Caron-Huot (McGill) |
Gravitational S-matrix from CFT dispersion relations abstract |
To schedule a grad seminar, contact Yan Gobeil (yan DOT gobeil AT mail DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Thursday) 09/14 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Ji Hoon Lee (McGill) |
Integrability in Gauge Theory |
| (Thursday) 09/21 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Anh-Khoi Trinh (McGill) |
ER=EPR and Traversable Wormholes |
| (Thursday) 09/28 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Ioannis Tsiares (McGill) |
Number Theory and Physics |
| (Thursday) 10/05 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Sigtryggur Hauksson (McGill) |
Thermal Field Theory |
| (Thursday) 10/12 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Tariq Hassan (McGill) |
Holographic 2d CFTs at small central charge |
| (Thursday) 10/19 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Everyone (McGill) |
Discussion about research |
| (Thursday) 10/26 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Guilherme Franzmann (McGill) |
An introduction to String Gas Cosmology and Beyond |
| (Thursday) 11/02 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Tal Sheaffer (McGill) |
Knot Invariants in Quantum Field Theory |
| (Thursday) 11/09 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Bryce Cyr (McGill) |
EFTs: How to study physics effectively |
| (Thursday) 11/16 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Yan Gobeil (McGill) |
Black holes as mirrors |
| (Thursday) 11/23 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Laure-Anne Douxchamps (McGill) |
Foundations of mathematics and non classical logic |
| (Thursday) 11/30 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Kale Colville (McGill) |
Introduction to modular invariance |
| (Thursday) 12/07 | 12:00pm | ERP 326 | Zahra Zahraee (McGill) |
Perturbative Quantum Gravity and its Relation to Gauge Theory |
| (Friday) 12/15 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jerome Quintin (McGill) |
Hamiltonian analysis of constrained systems: gauge transformations, degrees of freedom, and gravity as an example |