Useful info for visitors can be found at: Visitor Info.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Friday) Jan 12 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Alex Lupsasca (Harvard U.) |
Observational Signature of High Spin at the Event Horizon Telescope abstract |
| (Wednesday) Jan 17 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Thomas Hartman (Cornell U.) |
Causality, Null Energy, and the Length Operator abstract |
| (Friday) Jan 26 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Alexander Zhiboedov (Harvard U.) |
Conformal Bootstrap at Large Charge abstract |
| (Friday) Feb 16 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley) |
Lessons on integrability from little string theory |
| (Thursday) Feb 22 (SPECIAL DATE & TIME) |
12:00pm | ERP 326 | Natalie Paquette (Caltech) |
Dual Boundary Conditions in 3d SCFT's abstract |
| (Wednesday) Feb 28 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Yvonne Geyer (IAS) |
One-loop Colour/Kinematics Duality from the Worldsheet abstract |
| (Friday) Mar 2 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Thomas Dumitrescu (Harvard U.) |
None provided |
| (Wednesday) Mar 21 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | David J. Weir (U. of Helsinki) |
Gravitational waves from the sound of a first-order phase transition abstract |
| (Wednesday) Mar 28 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jie-Qiang Wu (MIT) |
Holographic Description of 2D Conformal Block in Semi-Classical limit II: Non-Vacuum Module Case abstract |
| (Friday) Apr 6 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter) |
Quantum Black Holes in the Sky: from Quantum Gravity to Astrophysics and Cosmology (slides) abstract |
| (Friday) Apr 13 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Onkar Parrikar (UPenn) |
The Holographic Shape of Entanglement and Einstein's equations abstract |
| (Friday) Apr 20 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Xingang Chen (Harvard CfA) |
Primordial Standard Clocks as a Direct Probe of the Scenario of the Primordial Universe abstract |
| (Wednesday) Apr 25 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Brian Henning (Yale) |
Decomposing strongly coupled states: conformal bases and Hamiltonian truncation abstract |
| (Friday) Apr 27 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Huajia Wang (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
CANCELED |
| (Friday) May 4 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Andrew Frey (U. of Winnipeg) |
A Phase Diagram for Gravitational Collapse in AdS abstract |
| (Tuesday) May 8 (SPECIAL DATE) |
12:30pm | ERP 326 | Scott Watson (Syracuse U.) |
Concentrated Dark Matter abstract |
| (Thursday) May 24 (SPECIAL DATE & TIME) |
12:00pm | ERP 326 | Nikhil Anand (Johns Hopkins U.) |
Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation abstract |
| (Friday) May 25 | 12:30pm | Boardroom (SPECIAL VENUE) |
Huajia Wang (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
None provided |
| (Wednesday) June 6 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Pichai Ramadevi (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai) |
Knot polynomials from Chern-Simons theory and their string theoretic interpretation abstract |
| (Friday) June 22 | 12:00pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
Bell Room (SPECIAL VENUE) |
Yuko Urakawa (Nagoya U.) |
Gravitational wave forest from string axiverse abstract |
| (Tuesday) July 3 (SPECIAL DATE) |
12:30pm | ERP 326 | Atsushi Naruko (Tohoku U.) |
On Lorentz-invariant massive spin-2 theories abstract |
| (Wednesday) July 4 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Marc-Antoine Fiset (Oxford) |
Infinite additional symmetries in heterotic (1,0) sigma models abstract |
| (Friday) July 6 | 12:00pm (SPECIAL TIME) |
Bell Room (SPECIAL VENUE) |
N. D. Hari Dass (Tata Inst. for Fundamental Reserarch, Hyderabad) |
Varieties of Quantum Measurements abstract |
To schedule a journal club, contact Jerome Quintin (jquintin AT physics DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Friday) Jan 19 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | No Journal Club | Discussion with Alan Guth |
| (Wednesday) Jan 31 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jerome Quintin (McGill U.) |
Nonsingular spacetimes with limiting curvature abstract |
| (Friday) Feb 2 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Henry Maxfield (McGill U.) |
A view of the bulk from the worldline abstract |
| (Wednesday) Feb 7 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Kale Colville (McGill U.) |
Constraints on Higher Spin CFT2 (slides) abstract |
| (Friday) Feb 9 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jim Cline (McGill U.) |
Axionic landscape for marginal Higgs stability abstract |
| (Wednesday) Feb 14 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Rodrigo Cuzinatto (U. Federal de Alfenas & McGill) |
Bopp-Podolsky black holes and the no-hair theorem (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) Feb 21 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Ioannis Tsiares (McGill U.) |
KdV charges and Generalized Gibbs Ensemble in 2D CFT abstract |
| (Friday) Feb 23 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Tal Sheaffer (McGill U.) |
Entanglement Entropy and Link Invariants abstract |
| (Friday) Mar 16 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Joscha Reichel (U. of Edinburgh & McGill) |
From the BFKL equation to the all-order infrared behaviour of high-energy scattering amplitudes abstract |
| (Friday) Mar 23 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Jamie Sully (McGill U.) |
Superselection Sectors and Soft Modes in AdS/CFT |
| (Wednesday) Apr 4 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Zahra Zahraee (McGill U.) |
Orbits of the Supersymmetric Black Holes in N=8 Supergravity abstract |
| (Wednesday) Apr 11 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Disrael Cunha (McGill U.) |
Signature of Cosmic String Wakes in N Body Simulations (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) Apr 18 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Ryo Namba (McGill U.) |
Gravitational waves from low-energy inflation by particle production (slides) abstract |
| (Wednesday) May 2 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Andrzej Pokraka (McGill U.) |
Effective string theory abstract |
| (Wednesday) May 9 | 12:30pm | Boardroom (SPECIAL VENUE) |
Anh-Khoi Trinh (McGill U.) |
N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Correlators from Supergravity abstract |
| (Wednesday) May 23 | 12:30pm | ERP 326 | Oscar Hernandez (Marianopolis College & McGill) |
CANCELED - To be rescheduled in fall 2018 |
To schedule a grad seminar, contact Yan Gobeil (yan DOT gobeil AT mail DOT mcgill DOT ca).
| DATE | TIME | ROOM | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Monday) Jan 15 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Yan Gobeil | Integral geometry and holography |
| (Monday) Jan 22 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Discussion about research | N/A |
| (Monday) Jan 29 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Ioannis Tsiares | Dualities in theoretical physics |
| (Monday) Feb 12 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Matt Hodel | Quantum error correction in holography |
| (Monday) Feb 19 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Omar Chammaa | On the Infrared Structure of Gauge Theory |
| (Monday) Feb 26 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Maxim Emelin | Lorentzian time and instantons |
| (Monday) Mar 5 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Andrzej Pokraka | Spinor helicity formalism for all masses and spins |
| (Monday) Mar 12 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Avi Friedlander | Electroweak Baryogenesis |
| (Monday) Mar 19 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Omar Chammaa | On the Infrared Structure of Gauge Theory: Part II |
| (Monday) Mar 26 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Anh-Khoi Trinh | The simplest quantum field theories |
| (Monday) Apr 2 | 12:00pm | Bell room | No talk because of Easter Monday | N/A |
| (Monday) Apr 9 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Ioannis Tsiares | Liouville's equation and geometry |
| (Monday) Apr 16 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Matt Hodel | Non-Equilibrium EFTs and Hydrodynamics |
| (Monday) Apr 23 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Mir Mehedi Faruk | Topological objects in field theory |
| (Monday) Apr 30 | 12:00pm | Bell room | Jake Elituv | Calculating amplitudes with supergraphs |