Schedule for: 17w2694 - Contemporary Topics in Mathematical Physics
Beginning on Friday, October 27 and ending Sunday October 29, 2017
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).
| Friday, October 27 | |
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| 07:00 - 10:00 | Check-in and Welcome Reception (Drinks and Snacks) (TCPL 201) |
| 16:00 - 19:30 |
Check-in begins (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre - open 24 hours) ↓ Note: the Lecture rooms are available after 16:00. (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre) |
| 19:30 - 22:00 |
Lectures (if desired) or informal gathering in 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall (if desired) ↓ Beverages and a small assortment of snacks are available in the lounge on a cash honour system. (TCPL or Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110)) |
| Saturday, October 28 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast ↓ A buffet breakfast is served daily between 7:00am and 9:00am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening Remarks, Organizers (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Jürgen Fuchs: Conformal Field Theory Correlators (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Don Page: Anthropic Estimates for Many Parameters of Physics and Astronomy (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Mark Walton: (Augmented) Phase-Space Quantization (TCPL 201) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Marcus Berg: Loops of gauge fields, gravitons, and strings (TCPL 201) |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Joseph Maciejko: Superconducting Dirac fermions and mirror symmetry (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ A buffet lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Thomas Creutzig: Intro to logarithmic conformal field theory (TCPL 201) |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch (Sally Borden) (TCPL 201) |
| 13:00 - 13:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Frank Marsiglio: More than 100 years of superconductivity: do we need a paradigm shift? (TCPL 201) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Vincent Bouchard (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Natalia Ivanova: Contemporary tools for stellar interactions (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break (TCPL 201) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Rodrigo Fernandez: Open issues in neutron star merger astrophysics (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dmitri Pogosyan: Connectivity of the Cosmic Web (TCPL 201) |
| 19:00 - 21:30 | Dinner (Pizza & drinks) (TCPL 201) |
| Sunday, October 29 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Terry Gannon: Moonshine – old and new (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Richard Sydora: Measures of Statistical Complexity and Dynamical System Applications (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Yasaman Yazdi: Spacetime Entanglement Entropy: From Continuum Geometries to Discrete Causal Sets (TCPL 201) |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break (TCPL 201) |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Rufus Boyack: Importance of amplitude collectives mode in the path integral approach to Fermi superfluids (TCPL 201) |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Fenglong You: What is mirror symmetry? (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Checkout by Noon ↓ 2-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (Corbett Hall Lounge, TCPL, Reading Room) until 15:00 on Sunday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon. There is no coffee break service on Sunday afternoon, but self-serve coffee and tea are always available in the 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall. (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre) |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Chun Chen: A New Type of Many-Body Majorana Zero Modes in Fermionic Flux Ladder Model (TCPL 201) |
