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Theory Canada I Conference Schedule

DATE: Thurs, June 2, 2005 VENUE: Hennings 318 (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
1800-20:00 Reception  

DATE: Fri, June 3, 2005 VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC)
TIME PLENARY SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0915-0930 Opening Remarks  
0930-1000 Douglas Scott The standard cosmological model
1005-1035 Robert Brandenberger Moduli stabilization in string gas cosmology
1035-1105 Refreshments  
1105-1135 Lev Kofman Origin of matter in the universe
1140-1210 James Cline Aspects of brane-antibrane inflation
1210-1400 Break for Lunch  
  Parallel Session 1a VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC)
1400:1420 Gabor Kunstatter Highly damped ringing modes of generic single horizon black holes
1420-1440 Robert Mann Cosmological implications of a minimal length hypothesis
1440-1500 Saurya Das Is entanglement entropy proportional to horizon area?
1500-1520 Don Witt Topological fermions
1520-1540 Randy Kobes Superresonance in acoustic black holes
1540-1600 Refreshments  
  Parallel Session 2a VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC)
1600-1620 Frank Marsiglio A quantum mechanical description of magnetization reversal
1620-1640 Byron Southern Topological phase transitions in frustrated magnets
1640-1700 André-Marie Tremblay Dynamic variational principle and the phase diagram of high-temperature superconductors
1700-1720 TBA  
  Parallel Session 1b VENUE: Chemistry 124 (UBC)
1400:1420 Louis Marchildon Are Bohmian trajectories just like the ether?
1420-1440 Max Metlitski A new mechanism for inducing currents on superconducting strings
1440-1500 Rainer Dick Superheavy dark matter
1500-1520 Tom Steele Radiative electroweak symmetry breaking beyond leading logarithms
1520-1540 Howard Trottier Precise determination of the strong coupling from realistic lattice QCD
1540-1600 Refreshments  
  Parallel Session 2b VENUE: Chemistry 124 (UBC)
1600-1620 Tom Osborn Magnetic quantization over Riemannian manifolds
1620-1640 Mark Walton Star quantization of infinite potential walls
1640-1700 Marc De Montigny Lorentz-like formulation of Galilean field theories
1700-1720 Rajat Bhaduri WKB for shape invariant potentials and periodic orbit theory

DATE: Sat, June 4, 2005 VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC)
TIME PLENARY SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0930-1000 Lee Smolin Particle physics from loop quantum gravity
1005-1035 Fotini Markopoulou Quantum error correction and the low energy problem in quantum gravity
1035-1105 Refreshments  
1105-1135 Andrzej Czarnecki Anomalous magnetic moments of free and bound leptons
1140-1210 Michael Luke QCD, factorization and b quarks: some recent results
1210-1400 Break for Lunch  
  Parallel Session 3a VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC)
1400:1420 Valerio Faraoni Possible fates for the accelerating universe
1420-1440 Viqar Husain Black holes: quantum trapping and singularity resolution
1440-1500 Olaf Dreyer Background independence, the cosmological constant problem and EPR
1500-1520 Bojan Losic Super-Hubble backreactions in slow-roll inflation
1520-1600 Refreshments  
  Parallel Session 4a VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC)
1600-1620 Sreeram Valluri A study of the gravitational waveform from pulsars
1620-1640 Glen Goodvin Tunneling of a diatomic molecule incident upon a potential barrier
1640-1700 Harry Lam Neutrino 2-3 symmetry and inverted hierarchy
1700-1720 Gordon Drake Isotope shifts, QED, and halo nuclei
  Parallel Session 3b VENUE: Chemistry 126 (UBC)
1400:1420 Jurij Darewych Variational method for few-body relativistic bound states in QFT
1420-1440 Leslie Ballentine The emergence of classical behavior from quantum mechanics
1440-1500 André Méthot Bell inequalities without inequalities and pseudo-telepathy
1500-1520 Barry Sanders Deterministic entanglement of assistance in quantum networks
1520-1540 Daria Ahrensmeier Entanglement in adiabatic quantum computation
1540-1600 Refreshments  
  Parallel Session 4b VENUE: Chemistry 126 (UBC)
1600-1620 Vladimir Miransky Nondecoupling phenomena in QED in a magnetic field and noncommutative QED
1620-1640 Gabriel Karl Quantum and classical variations
1640-1700 Randy Lewis The pion form factor from twisted mass lattice QCD
1700-1720 Maxim Pospelov Lorentz violation and supersymmetry
1930 onward Dinner Reception Golden Ocean
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DATE: Sun, June 4, 2005 VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC)
TIME PLENARY SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0930-1000 Peter Krieger IPP and the NSERC SAP long range planning exercise
1005-1035 Ian Affleck Nano-devices and boundary conformal field theory
1035-1105 Refreshments  
1105-1135 Cliff Burgess Supersymmetric large extra dimensions and the cosmological constant
1140-1210 Krishna Rajagopal Unveiling the phases of QCD matter


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