Name: Theory Canada 14
Start: 2019-05-31T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2019-06-01T18:00:00-07:00
Location: UBC

Theory Canada 14

from Friday, 31 May 2019 (09:00) to Saturday, 1 June 2019 (18:00)

Monday, 27 May 2019
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Thursday, 30 May 2019
Friday, 31 May 2019
09:00 Morning 1
Morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

09:00 The Majorana-Hubbard Model - Ian Affleck (University of British Columbia)

09:30 Quantum Material Simulation with D-Wave Processors - Mohammad Amin (D-Wave Systems Inc.)

10:00 Reduced Quantum Dynamics from Observables - Jason Pollack (University of British Columbia)

10:15 Quantum Chaos and Effective Field Theory - Felix Haehl (UBC Vancouver)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Hennings 318
11:00 Morning 2
Morning 2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

11:00 The Status of the Nuclear Shell Model - Ragnar Stroberg (University of Washington)

11:30 Nuclear reactions important for astrophysics from ab initio theory - Petr Navratil (TRIUMF)

11:45 Forging the Universe's gold - Daniel Siegel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & University of Guelph)

12:15 Emergence of a Black Hole at the Centre of some Galaxies - Réjean Plamondon (Polytechnique Montréal)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Hennings 318
14:00 Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
14:00 - 15:15
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

14:00 An index for interacting topological phases - Sven Bachmann (University of British Columbia)

14:30 An Introduction to Knot Theory from String Theory - Keshav Dasgupta (McGill University)

15:00 Near-extremal Black Holes and Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity - Ashish Shukla (University of Victoria)
15:15 Coffee
Coffee
15:15 - 15:45
Room: Hennings 318
15:45 Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
15:45 - 16:45
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

15:45 From alpha clustering to homogeneous nucleonic matter - Alex Gezerlis (University of Guelph)

16:15 Two-major shell-model effective Hamiltonian from in-medium similarity renormalization group approach - Takayuki Miyagi (TRIUMF)

16:30 Investigation of the A=7 systems within the No-Core Shell Model with Continuum - Matteo Vorabbi (TRIUMF)
Saturday, 1 June 2019
09:00 Morning 3
Morning 3
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

09:00 Higher-Curvature Gravity, Black Holes, and Holography - Robie Hennigar (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

09:30 Gravitating magnetic monopole via the spontaneous symmetry breaking of pure R^2 gravity - Ariel Edery (Bishop's University)

09:45 A connection between linearized Gauss–Bonnet gravity and classical electrodynamics - Mark Baker (Western University)

10:00 On Negative Mass - Manu Paranjape (Université de Montréal)

10:15 Thermodynamic Parameters of a Boulware-Deser Black Hole from Fluid-Gravity Correspondence - Dylan Sutherland (University of Lethbridge)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Hennings 318
11:00 Morning 4
Morning 4
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

11:00 High-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy - Huan Yang (Uniersity of Guelph)

11:30 New Gravitational Probes of Dark Matter - Evan McDonough (Brown University)

12:00 On the quantum origin of a small positive cosmological constant - Saurya Das (University of Lethbridge)
12:15
12:15 - 12:30
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

12:15 DTP/WITP P R Wallace Thesis Prize Award Winners
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Hennings 318
14:00 Afternoon 3
Afternoon 3
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

14:00 Custodial symmetry and the Higgs sector - Heather Logan (Carleton University)

14:30 Interference Effects in Higgs Decays - Daniel Stolarski (Carleton University)
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Hennings 318
15:30 Afternoon 4
Afternoon 4
15:30 - 16:45
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

15:30 Sending quantum information through a quantum field - Petar Simidzija (University of Waterloo)

16:00 Quantum tasks in holography - Alex May (University of British Columbia)

16:15 Relativistic Generalized Uncertainty Principle and minimum length - Vasil Todorinov (University of Lenthbridge)

16:30 The SJ Vacuum in de Sitter Spacetime - Yasaman Yazdi (University of Alberta)