DATE: |
Fri, June 3, 2005 |
VENUE: Chemistry 150 (UBC) |
TIME |
PLENARY SPEAKER |
TITLE/DETAILS |
0915-0930 |
Opening Remarks |
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0930-1000 |
Douglas Scott |
The standard cosmological model |
1005-1035 |
Robert Brandenberger |
Moduli stabilization in string gas cosmology |
1035-1105 |
Refreshments |
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1105-1135 |
Lev Kofman |
Origin of matter in the universe |
1140-1210 |
James Cline |
Aspects of brane-antibrane inflation |
1210-1400 |
Break for Lunch |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |