Theory CANADA 4 Conference

June 4-7, 2008

Program
 

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Meeting room : Pavilllon Aisenstadt

18:00
Opening Reception & Registration
Room 6245

 

Thursday, June 5, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Registration and Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221

08:45 - 09:00
Opening remarks
Room 1360

Session - Quantum Information
Organizer(s) : J. Emerson (University of Waterloo)
Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 09:30
Patrick Hayden
(McGill University)
Privacy, Acceleration and the Unruh Effect
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Stephen Bartlett
(University of Sydney)
Identifying Phases of Matter that are Universal for Quantum Computation
Abstract
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:20 - 10:40
Robin Blume-Kohout
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
What is the Use of Tomography?
Abstract
10:40 - 11:00
Marcus Silva
(University of Waterloo)
Searching for Noiseless Subsystems via Scalable Experiments
Abstract
11:00 - 11:20
Barry Sanders
(University of Calgary)
Time-ordered Decompositions of Exponential Operators Generated by Time-dependent Hamiltonians
Abstract
11:20 - 11:40
Jay Gambetta
(University of Waterloo)
Superconducting Qubits Coupled to Resonant Cavities: Quantum Optics on a Chip
Abstract
11:40 - 12:00
André Allan Méthot
(University of Waterloo)
Entanglement Simulation and Channels
Abstract

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break

Session - Relativity and Gravitation
Organizer(s) : A. Dasgupta (University of New Brunswick)
Meeting room : 1360

13:30 - 14:00
Frans Pretorius
(Princeton University)
High Speed Black Hole and Soliton Collisions
Abstract
14:00 - 14:30
Rafael D. Sorkin
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics / Syracuse University)
Direct Transmission of Light Along Causal Links
Abstract
14:30 - 14:50
Coffee break
Room 1221
14:50 - 15:20
Fotini Markopoulou
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Quantum Graphity: A Model of Emergent Locality
Abstract
15:20 - 15:40
Andrew DeBenedictis
(Simon Fraser University / P.I.M.S)
On the Singularity Issue in Loop Quantum Gravity
Abstract
15:40 - 16:00
Ariel Edery
(Bishop's University)
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Via Gravitation
Abstract
16:00 - 16:20
Sanjeev Seahra
(University of New Brunswick)
Braneworld Cosmological Perturbations
Abstract
16:20 - 16:40
Catherine Meusburger
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Quantum Double and Kappa Poincaré Symmetries in 3d Gravity and Chern-Simons Theory
Abstract

 

Friday, June 6, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221

Session - Mathematical Physics
Organizer(s) : R. MacKenzie (Université de Montréal)
Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 09:30
Niky Kamran
(McGill University)
Wave equations in Kerr geometry
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Pierre Mathieu
(Université Laval)
Quasi-particles in Conformal Field Theory
Abstract
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:20 - 10:40
Vardarajan Suneeta
(University of Alberta)
Investigating Off-shell Stability of String Vacua
Abstract
10:40 - 11:00
Marco Bertola
(Concordia University)
Random Matrix Models and Isomonodromic Tau Functions
Abstract
11:00 - 11:20
Robert Mann
(University of Waterloo)
Negative Energy, Instability, and AdS/CFT
Abstract
11:20 - 11:40
Johan Brannlund
(Dalhousie University)
Holonomy, Decomposability and Relativity
Abstract
11:40 - 12:00
Saurya Das
(University of Lethbridge)
Effects of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle on Quantum Mechanics
Abstract

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break

Session - Cosmology
Organizer(s) : R. Brandenberger (McGill University)
Meeting room : 1360

13:30 - 14:00
Ue-Lin Pen
(University of Toronto)
21cm Cosmology
Abstract
14:00 - 14:20
Olivier Doré
(University of Toronto)
Detection of Gravitational Lensing in the CMB
Abstract
14:20 - 14:40
Latham Boyle
(University of Toronto)
Binary Black Hole Merger: Symmetry and the Spin Expansion
Abstract
14:40 - 15:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:00 - 15:30
Justin Khoury
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Degravitation and Cosmic Acceleration
Abstract
15:30 - 15:50
Claudia de Rham
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Cascading Gravity and Degravitation
Abstract
15:50 - 16:10
Masahide Yamaguchi
(Stanford University and Aoyama Gakuin University)
D-term chaotic inflation in supergravity and leptogenesis
Abstract
16:10 - 16:30
Neil Barnaby
(University of Toronto)
Nonlocal Inflation
Abstract

19:00
Banquet - Restaurant Rodos Bay (5583 avenue du Parc)

 

Saturday, June 7, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221

Session - Strings and Quantum Gravity
Organizer(s) : A. Maloney (McGill University)
Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 09:30
Mark Van Raamsdonk
(University of British Columbia)
Black Hole Dynamics From Atmospheric Science
Abstract
09:30 - 10:00
Moshe Rozali
(University of British Columbia)
Cold Nuclear Matter In Holographic QCD
Abstract
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:20 - 10:40
Omid Saremi
(McGill University)
Heat Kernels and Quantum Gravity in 3-dimensional Anti de Sitter Space
Abstract
10:40 - 11:00
Robert McNees
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
On Quark Masses in Holographic QCD
Abstract
11:00 - 11:20
Gaetano Bertoldi
(University of Toronto)
Large N Double Scaling Limits in 4d Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Matrix Models
Abstract
11:20 - 11:40
Joanna Karczmarek
(University of British Columbia)
Time Dependence and Holography in c=1 the Matrix Model
Abstract
11:40 - 12:00
Keshav Dasgupta
(McGill University)
On Warped Heterotic Axion
Abstract

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