Grad Seminars Schedule: Fall 2018
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


Grad Seminars Schedule: Winter 2018
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


Grad Seminars Schedule: Fall 2017
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


Grad Seminars Schedule: Winter 2017
DATE TIME ROOM SPEAKER TITLE
January 13 12:00 RPHYS 326 Tarique Hassan One loop effective potential of the standard model
January 20 12:00 RPHYS 326 Maxim Emelin Path integral approach to supersymmetric quantum mechanics
January 27 12:00 RPHYS 326 Kale Colville An Introduction to Liouville Theory
February 3 12:00 RPHYS 326 Guilherme Franzmann Varying fundamental constants - a covariant approach
February 10 12:00 RPHYS 326 Discussion of research
February 17 12:00 Bell room Evan McDonough The 5 string theories and M-theory
February 24 12:00 RPHYS 326 Gim Seng Ng Fun with space of 2d QFTs
March 3 reading week
March 10 12:00 RPHYS 326 Yan Gobeil Introduction to the Conformal Bootstrap
March 17 12:00 RPHYS 326 Ryo Namba Primordial gravitational waves
March 24 12:00 RPHYS 326 Jake Elituv Introduction to entanglement entropy
March 31 12:00 RPHYS 326 Ioannis Tsiares A centaur geometry: An interpolation between dS and AdS spacetime
April 7 12:00 RPHYS 326 Disrael Camargo Applications of unitary symmetry to particle physics


Grad Seminars Schedule: Fall 2016
DATE TIME ROOM SPEAKER TITLE
09/23/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Bryce Cyr Probing the CMB: Spectral Distortions and the Age of Precision Cosmology
09/30/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Ioannis Tsiares An example of classical chaos: Lorenz equations and strange attractors
10/07/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Yan Gobeil Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
10/28/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Laure-Anne Douxchamps Various ways to solve the information paradox
11/04/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Tarique Hassan Effective action for spontaneous symmetry breaking
11/11/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Alessandro Ricottone Quantum annealing: D-wave machine + algorithm examples
11/18/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Evan McDonough Dissipation and fluctuation of quantum fields in expanding universes
11/25/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Guilherme Franzmann Varying speed of light theories
12/02/2016 12:00 RPHYS 326 Jerome Quintin Stability of nonsingular cosmologies
12/16/2016 12:00 Piano Room Ioannis Tsiares


Grad Seminars Schedule: Winter 2016
DATE TIME ROOM SPEAKER TITLE
01/22/2016 12:00 Boardroom Thom Pijnenburg A birdseye view of Loop Quantum Gravity
01/29/2016 12:00 Boardroom Ioannis Tsiares Speed limits for entanglement
02/05/2016 12:00 Boardroom Yan Gobeil Some bounds on entropy
02/12/2016 12:00 Boardroom Kale Colville Massless particle theorems in flat space
02/26/2016 12:00 Boardroom Wei Wu The fate of the false vacuum
03/04/2016 12:00 ERP 326 Olivier Landon-Cardinal Entanglement, holography and tensor network states
03/11/2016 12:00 Boardroom Elisa Ferreira Thermal History of the Universe
03/18/2016 12:00 Boardroom Bryce Cyr Shedding light on the dark: A review of dark matter and the WIMP miracle
03/25/2016 12:00 Boardroom No talk because of Good Friday
04/01/2016 1:00 Boardroom Jerome Quintin Thermal fluctuations in the very early universe
04/08/2016 12:00 Bell room Guilherme Franzmann From Cosmology to Double Field Theory
04/15/2016 12:00 Boardroom Ioannis Tsiares New way of looking at the path integral of Quantum Mechanics
04/22/2016 12:00 Boardroom Maxim Emelin Resurgent Trans-Series in Quantum Mechanics


Grad Seminars Schedule: Fall 2015
DATE (m/d/y) TIME ROOM SPEAKER TITLE
9/11/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Organizational meeting
9/14-16/2015 CRM CRM workshop on quantum gravity
9/25/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Yan Gobeil Introduction to SUSY
10/2/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Ioannis Tsiares (Postponed)
10/9/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Ioannis Tsiares Conformal quantum mechanics
10/16/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Maxim Emelin Instantons
10/19-23/2015 CRM CRM workshop on AdS/QCD/CMT
10/30/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Evan McDonough 4d Physics from String Theory
11/6/2015 13:00 RPHYS boardroom Guilherme Franzmann Gravity as an entropic force
11/13/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Laure-Anne Douxchamps The black hole information paradox
11/20/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Rebecca Lin Cosmic strings and the origin of globular clusters
11/27/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Jerome Quintin Backreaction in cosmology, part I: averaging Einstein's equations
12/4/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Disrael Cunha The Cosmological constant problem
12/11/2015 12:00 RPHYS 326 Gim Seng Ng Inventing GR like a Venusian QFT student