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 2046 West 41st Avenue |
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 |