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PI/APC Workshop on Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics
October 24 - 28, 2005
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On August 16 and 17 a small group of scholars representing several fields convened at PI for two days of discussion on a topic that intrigued all of them: do the laws of nature have to be fixed and eternal, or could they evolve in time?
Follow this link for more information and to view the speakers and agenda.
Quantum Information, Computation and Logic Workshop: Exploring New Connections
July 17 - 22, 2005
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Summer School: Strings, Gravity & Cosmology
June 20 - July 8, 2005
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Great Lakes Geometry Conference
April 30-May 1, 2005
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This event was hosted at Perimeter Institute and was organized by:
- Hans U. Boden (McMaster)
- Finnur Lárusson (Western)
- B. Doug Park (Waterloo)
- Mainak Poddar (Waterloo)
The Scientific Committee included:
- Ronald Fintushel (Michigan)
- Robert Myers (Perimeter)
- Yongbin Ruan (Wisconsin-Madison)
For more information visit the conference homepage at: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/GLGC/
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6th PI/UT/CITA Workshop (CIAR Cosmology & Gravity Focus Group)
Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Monday April 11, 2005
Also sponsored by the Cosmology and Gravity Program
of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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This mini-workshop will be the next of an ongoing series of one-day meetings between researchers at Perimeter, CITA and University of Toronto. These meetings are held to share new ideas and encourage interactions in our common fields of interest: superstrings, cosmology, particle theory and quantum gravity.
The meeting will be held in the fourth floor seminar room of the Perimeter Institute on Monday April 11th. As usual, the format of the meeting will be a series of short 30-minute talks to seed informal discussion. The seminars will start at 11:30am -- refreshments will be available starting at 11:00am.
Organizers:
Speakers:
- Anupam Mazumdar (NORDITA): Constraints on string scale and coupling from non-Gaussianity
- Koenraad Schalm (Columbia): Cosmological effective actions imply new physics in the CMB
- Ewan Stewart (KAIST/CITA): Modular Cosmology
- Gary Shiu (Wisconsin/PI): What is String Phenomenology?
- Yuri Levin (CITA): LIGO -- Astronomical Observatory and Physics Playground
- Panel on Precision Cosmology (Three short 10 min presentations):
- J. Sievers (CITA): News from CBI
- S. Majumdar (CITA): w from LSS
- D. Podolsky (CITA): EOS in very early universe
Generalized Geometries in String Theory
February 15-17 & March 1-3
Calabi-Yau manifolds are often used to describe the hidden dimensions of string theory and these intricate geometries have proven to be a rich topic of research in both physics and mathematics. Recently, however, Hitchin has pioneered the study of more general geometries, which has lead to interesting developments in both formal and physical aspects of string theory. Marco Gualtieri, Yi Li and Mariana Grana will be giving lecture series on various aspects of generalized geometries and their applications in string theory.
Click here to view the minicourse homepage
The Fields Institute Nigel Hitchins information webpage may be found here.
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Current Status and Future Directions
January to April, 2005
A technical but pedagogical introduction to the problems associated with developing a consistent understanding of the nature of objective reality in light of quantum theory
Follow this link for seminar notes and MediaSite live recordings.
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