6:00 - 9:00 pm

Reception, Registration: - Paul Martin Centre

Map to the Paul Martin Centre: Paul Martin Centre map

Poster Session

The poster boards are 4 feet wide by 3 feet high

Matthew Beach (U Guelph): The self-force in five-dimensions
Robert Jonsson (University of Waterloo): Quantum Collect-Calling
Marius Oltean (McGill University): Cosmological perturbations in antigravity
Sanjay Prabhakar (WLU): Spin control in graphene quantum dots and graphene nanoribbon Superlattices
Christopher Sutherland (University of Waterloo): Quantum control via relativistic probe atoms
Fabio Grazioso (Université de Montréal): An introduction to Information Theory and some of its applications: Black Hole Information Paradox and Renormalization Group Information Flow
Aida Ahmadzadegan (University of Waterloo): Relativistic enhancement of quantum optical metrology
Satyen Baindur(Canadian Nuclear Society): Dark Forces and Two Dark Matter Models: DDM and DDDM

    8:40 - 9:00 am

Opening remarks (DTP Chair, VP Research, Dean of Science)

    9:00 - 9:30 am
    9:30 - 9:50
    9:50 - 10:10

   10:10 - 10:40

  10:40 - 11:10
  11:10 - 11:30

Invited Talk - Christoph Simon (U Calgary): Extending the quantum domain with quantum optical systems
Katja Ried (PI): Causal Models for the Quantum World
Aharon Brodutch (U Waterloo): Weak Measurements with Operational Constraints

Coffee break

Invited Talk - Anne Broadbent (U Ottawa): Delegating Private Quantum Computations
Shima Bab Hadiashar (IQC): Communication Complexity of One-shot Remote State Preparation

    1:10 - 1:40 pm
    1:40 - 2:00
    2:00 - 2:20
    2:20 - 2:50
    2:50 - 3:10

    3:10 - 3:40

Invited Talk - Natalia Toro, (PI): Spin and Long-Range Forces: The unfinished Tale of the last Massless Particle
Muhammed Ahmady (Mount Allison U): The Application of Light Front Holographic QCD to B physics
Robin Kleiv (Fraser Valley): Exploring the Spectrum of Heavy Quarkonium Hybrids with QCD sum rules
Invited Talk - Philip Schuster (PI): Dark Forces, Dark Matter, and the GeV-Scale Discovery Frontier
Cohl Furey (PI): Charge Quantization from a number operator

Coffee break

    3:30 - 4:00 pm
    4:00 - 4:30

    4:30 - 4:40

    4:40 - 5:10
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    5:30 - 5:50

    6:30

Invited Talk - Pawel Hawrylak (NRC): Semiconductor and Graphene Quantum Dots
Invited Talk - Michel Gingras (U Waterloo) Classical and Quantum Spin State in Frustrated Magnetic Materials

Brief break

Invited Talk - Tapash Chakraborty (U Manitoba): Chasing Magnetic Butterflies in Nanoscale Fields
Sanjay Prabhakar (WLU): Geometric Spin manipulation in semiconductor dots
Gregory Morozov (U of West Scotland): Floquet-Bloch Waves Photonic Crystals with Absorption
Shyam Badu (WLU): Modeling of coarse-grained structures for the RNA nanotube using molecular dynamics simulation -->

Banquet - Senate and Board Chambers

    9:00 - 9:30 am
    9:30 - 10:00

   10:00 - 10:30

  10:30 - 10:50
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   11:40 am - 1:10 pm

Invited Talk - Tim Koslowski (UNB): Shape Dynamics
Invited Talk - Latham Boyle (PI): Non-commutative Geometry, Non-associative Geometry and the standard model of Particle Physics

Coffee break

Valerio Faraoni (U Bishops): Horizon Thermodynamics and space-time mappings
Manu Paranjape (Université de Montréal): Negative Mass Configurations in de-Sitter space
Eduardo Martin-Martinez (IQC and PI): The Echo of the Early Universe

Group picture

Lunch

    1:10 - 1:40 pm
    1:40 - 2:00
    2:00 - 2:20
    2:20 - 2:50
    2:50 - 3:10

    3:10 - 3:40

Invited Talk - Lisa Jeffrey (U Toronto): Chern Simons Gauge Theory And Symplectic Quantum Mechanics
Gang Liu (HPCVL, Queen's University): Dynamical Equations Of Periodic Systems Under Constant External Stress
Oliver Blondeau-Fournier (U Laval): The supersymmetric Ruijsenaars-schneider model and its integrability
Invited Talk - Luc Vinet (Université de Montréal): The rotation group Bivariate Krawtchouk polynomials and state transfer on a 2-d lattice
Connor Behan (UBC): Large Parameter Limit of Conformal Blocks

Coffee break

    3:40 - 4:10 pm
    4:10 - 4:40
    4:40 - 5:00
    5:00 - 5:20
    5:20 - 5:50

    5:50 - 6:00

Invited Talk - Astrid Eichorn (PI): Matter matters in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Invited Talk - Rob Myers (PI): On Space-time Entanglement
Sean Stotyn (UBC): Near Horizon Geometries and Black Hole Thermodynamics: A lesson in Limits
David Kubiznak (PI): Black Hole Chemistry
Invited Talk - Rafael Sorkin (PI/Syracuse): Gravity from Order and Number: Causal Sets

Concluding remarks

    9:00 am

Bus transfer to Sudbury for annual CAP Congress

Pick up location: Hotel Laurier, 200 King Street Residence

Drop off location: Residence Office, Laurentian University,
West Residence W120 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON, P3E-36C, tel.:705-675-4814