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, May 31, 2019 (9:00 a.m.) to Saturday, June 1, 2019 (6:00 p.m.)

Monday, May 27, 2019
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Friday, May 31, 2019
9:00 a.m. Talks: Morning 1
Morning 1
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

9:00 a.m. The Majorana-Hubbard Model - Ian Affleck (University of British Columbia)

9:30 a.m. Quantum Material Simulation with D-Wave Processors - Mohammad Amin (D-Wave Systems Inc.)

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

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

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

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

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

12:15 p.m. Emergence of a Black Hole at the Centre of some Galaxies - Réjean Plamondon (Polytechnique Montréal)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
2:00 p.m. Talks: Afternoon 1
Afternoon 1
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

2:00 p.m. An index for interacting topological phases - Sven Bachmann (University of British Columbia)

2:30 p.m. An Introduction to Knot Theory from String Theory - Keshav Dasgupta (McGill University)

3:00 p.m. Near-extremal Black Holes and Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity - Ashish Shukla (University of Victoria)
3:15 p.m. Coffee
Coffee
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
3:45 p.m. Talks: Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

3:45 p.m. From alpha clustering to homogeneous nucleonic matter - Alex Gezerlis (University of Guelph)

4:15 p.m. Two-major shell-model effective Hamiltonian from in-medium similarity renormalization group approach - Takayuki Miyagi (TRIUMF)

4:30 p.m. Investigation of the A=7 systems within the No-Core Shell Model with Continuum - Matteo Vorabbi (TRIUMF)
Saturday, June 1, 2019
9:00 a.m. Talks: Morning 3
Morning 3
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Higher-Curvature Gravity, Black Holes, and Holography - Robie Hennigar (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

9:30 a.m. Gravitating magnetic monopole via the spontaneous symmetry breaking of pure R^2 gravity - Ariel Edery (Bishop's University)

9:45 a.m. A connection between linearized Gauss–Bonnet gravity and classical electrodynamics - Mark Baker (Western University)

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

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

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

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

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

12:15 p.m. DTP/WITP P R Wallace Thesis Prize Award Winners
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
2:00 p.m. Talks: Afternoon 3
Afternoon 3
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Custodial symmetry and the Higgs sector - Heather Logan (Carleton University)

2:30 p.m. Interference Effects in Higgs Decays - Daniel Stolarski (Carleton University)
3:00 p.m. Coffee
Coffee
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
3:30 p.m. Talks: Afternoon 4
Afternoon 4
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Room: Hennings 318
Contributions

3:30 p.m. Sending quantum information through a quantum field - Petar Simidzija (University of Waterloo)

4:00 p.m. Quantum tasks in holography - Alex May (University of British Columbia)

4:15 p.m. Relativistic Generalized Uncertainty Principle and minimum length - Vasil Todorinov (University of Lenthbridge)

4:30 p.m. The SJ Vacuum in de Sitter Spacetime - Yasaman Yazdi (University of Alberta)

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