Schedule - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Time	Speaker	Topic	Location
6:30 pm		Pick up from Ron Eydt Village	REV
6:45 - 7:00 pm		Registration	Atrium
7:00 - 9:00 pm		Wine and Cheese Reception	Black Hole Bistro
9:00 pm		Bus from PI to REV	PI

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Contributed talks will be 15 minutes in length with 5 minutes for questions for a total talk time of 20 minutes.

Time	Speaker	Topic	Location
8:00am		Bus pick-up from REV	REV
8:15am		Breakfast at PI and Conference Registration	Black Hole Bistro
9:00am		Opening Remarks	Theater
9:10am	Vicky Kaspi McGill University	Neutron Stars and Fundamental Physics	Theater
10:10am		Coffee Break	Black Hole Bistro
10:30am		Panel	Theater
12:00pm		Lunch	Black Hole Bistro
1:00pm	Aida Ahmadi University of Calgary	Determination of Total C180 Column Density in Oriion KL	Theater
	Alina Chen He McGill University	Searching for Neutron Stars in Disguise with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory	Theater
	Nikta Javanfar Queen's University	Detection of magnetic fields in cool supergiants	Theater
2:00pm		Midsession Break
2:10pm	Miriam Diamond Carleton University	Exploring Dark Matter in Leptophilic Two-Higgs-Doublet Model	Theater
	Anna McCoy Perimeter Institute	Gamma Ray Bursts and the Principle of Relative Locality	Theater
	Miok Park University of Waterloo	Deformations of Lifsitz Holography in Higher Dimensions	Theater
	Johanna Karouby McGill University	Radiation Instability for a Matter Bounce	Theater
3:30pm		Coffee Break	Black Hole Bistro
3:50pm	Aleksandra Petrova Kasan Federal University	Quantum Vacuum Polarisation Effects and the Estimation of the Stabel Vacuum Lifetime in the Field of a Superheavy Necleus	Theater
	Shohreh Rahmati University of Lethbridge	Vacuum Polarization in Quantum Gravity	Theater
	Francesca Vidotto Centre de Physique Theorique Marseille	What's the Entropy of Gravity?	Theater
4:50pm	Fotini Markopoulou	Creating Spacetime	Theater
6:00pm		Bus pick-up from PI to REV	PI

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Time	Speaker	Topic	Location
7:30am		Walk from REV to IQC	REV
8:00am		Breakfast at IQC	IQC
8:30am	Michele Mosca	Introduction to Quantum Information Processing	RAC1 2009
9:30am	Stacey Jeffery Institute for Quantum Computing	A Brief Introduction to Quantum Cryptography	RAC1 2009
	Shelby Kimmel Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Super-polynomial Speed-up for a a Quantum Computer on Boolean Trees	RAC1 2009
	Lidia del Rio ETH Zurich	Thermodynamics and Information	RAC1 2009
10:30am		Coffee Break	IQC
10:50am	Monika Deivat University of Calgary	On the Existence of a Residue Entrangled State in eLOCC Transformations	RAC1 2009
	Lucy Liuxuan Zhang University of Toronto	Mathematics and Topological Quantum Computation	RAC1 2009
	Chloe Bureau-Oxton Sherbrooke University	Introduction to Spin Qubits in Lateral Quantum Dots	RAC1 2009
	Sophie Rochette Universit de Sherbrooke	Introduction to Spin Control in Lateral Quantum Dots and Micro-Magnets Characterization	RAC1 2009
12:10pm		Lunch	IQC
1:10pm	Catherine Holloway Institute for Quantum Computing	Quantum Key Distribution Over Active Telecom Fibres	RAC1 2009
	Xiaoya Judy Wang McGill University	Theory of Heavy-Hole Spin Echoes	RAC1 2009
	Khulud Almutairi University of Calgary	Generating Two-Photon Entangled States in a Driven Two-Atom System	RAC1 2009
2:10pm		Mid-session Break	RAC1 2009
2:20pm	Biljana Indovski Brock University	Structural, Electronic, Magnetic, and Thermal Properties of Pb2-xLaxCrO5	RAC1 2009
	Cathryn Parsons Acadia University	MnSi Epitaxial Thin Films: Structure and Magnetic Properties	RAC1 2009
	Maryam Taheri Brock University	Impact of Gd-site Doping on Magnetic, Transport and Specific Heat Behavior of Multi-Ferroic Gd2CuO4	RAC1 2009
	Mercedes Martinson University of Saskatchewan	Density Functional Theory: A New Computational Approach for XAS of Solids	RAC1 2009
3:40pm		Coffee Break	IQC
4:00pm		Lab tour	IQC
5:30pm		Walk to REV
6:30pm		Bus pick-up from REV to PI	REV
7:00pm		Banquet at PI	Black Hole Bistro
10:00pm		Bus pick-up from PI to REV	PI

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Time	Speaker	Topic	Location
7:45am		Bus pick-up from REV to PI	REV
8:00am		Breakfast at PI	Black Hole Bistro
8:30am	Melanie Campbell	A Physicist’s View of the Eye	Theater
9:30am	Marjorie Gonzalez University of British Columbia	Spatial Analysis of Positron Emission Tomography Images Using 3D Moment Invariants	Theater
	Vanessa Punal Oakland University	A Perturbation Solution of the Mechanical Bidomain Model	Theater
	Di Wan University of Calgary	Scattering Kernel for Aperture Modulated Total Body Irradiation	Theater
10:30am		Coffee Break	Black Hole Bistro
10:50am	Chloe Malbrunot University of British Columbia / TRIUMF	Measurement of the Pion Branching Ratio at TRIUMF; a Sensitive Probe in the Search for New Physics	Theater
	Corina Nantais Queen's University	Measurement of the Radiopurity of Acrylic for the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment	Theater
	Marisa Smith Mount Allison University	Using Antimatter to Aid in the Design of Safer More Efficient Nuclear Power Plants	Theater
	Hoimonti Rozario Univesity of Lethbridge	Spectroscopic Study of Atmospheric Trace Gases	Theater
12:10pm		Conference Photo	TBA
12:20pm		Lunch	Black Hole Bistro
1:20pm	Fang Chen McGill University	QCD Confinement at Finiate Chemical Potential and the Gravity Dual	Theater
	Jiae Kim University of British Columbia	Neutrino Mass and Oscillation	Theater
	Corey Rae McRae University of Western Ontario	Exploring the Viscoelastic Properties of PAA Phantoms	Theater
	Natasha Holmes University of British Columbia	Physics Education Research: Helping Students Become Better Scientists	Theater
2:40pm		Mid-session Break	Theater
2:50pm	Adriana Predoi-Cross University of Lethbridge	Progress and Challenges for Canadian Women Physicists	Theater
3:50pm		Coffee Break	Black Hole Bistro
4:10pm		Best Talk Presentation	Theater
4:20pm	Neta Bahcall Princeton University	The Dark Side of the Universe	Theater
5:20pm		Closing Remarks	Theater

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