Conférence Théorie CANADA 4

4 au 7 juin 2008

Programme

 

Le mercredi 4 juin 2008


Salle de réunion : Pavilllon Aisenstadt

18:00
Cocktail de bienvenue & inscription
Salle 6245

 

Le jeudi 5 juin 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Inscription et café croissants
Salle 1221

08:45 - 09:00
Introduction
Salle 1360

Session - Informatique Quantique
Organisateur(s) : J. Emerson (University of Waterloo)
Salle de réunion : 1360

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

12:00 - 13:30
Pause déjeuner

Session - Relativité et Gravitation
Organisateur(s) : A. Dasgupta (University of New Brunswick)
Salle de réunion : 1360

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

 

Le vendredi 6 juin 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Café croissants
Salle 1221

Session - Physique Mathématique
Organisateur(s) : R. MacKenzie (Université de Montréal)
Salle de réunion : 1360

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

12:00 - 13:30
Pause déjeuner

Session - Cosmologie
Organisateur(s) : R. Brandenberger (McGill University)
Salle de réunion : 1360

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

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

 

Le samedi 7 juin 2008

08:30 - 09:00
Café croissants
Salle 1221

Session - Cordes et Gravité Quantique
Organisateur(s) : A. Maloney (McGill University)
Salle de réunion : 1360

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