Alexander Bogan
Title: Investigations of InAsP/InP Semiconductor Devices for Quantum Communication Technologies
Alyson Brooks
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Rutgers, the State U of NJ
This week we have Federico Urban (Université Libre de Bruxelles) who will tell us about:
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays are --- finally! --- showing some signs of life on the anisotropy front. I will first review the status of anisotropy searches with Telescope Array. We will then look at our joint harmonic analysis with the Pierre Auger Observatory, with special emphasis on the rôle played by the Galactic magnetic field.
The Observatory is open for public tours usually on the first Wednesday of each month, offering a chance to look through the university's telescope. This will be preceded by a short talk on astronomy (around 30 minutes) plus an opportunity to ask questions, followed by a tour of the dome. In the event of bad weather, the observing will not be possible, but the talk and tour of facilities will go ahead.
This week we have Fabio Antonini (Northwestern) who will tell us about:
Anton van Niekerk
Title: Quantum Quenches and the Holographic Duality
Michel Gingras
CIFAR
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Katanya Kuntz
UNSW Canberra, Australia
Katanya Kuntz received a BSc degree in Physics from the University of Calgary, Canada, in 2008. She received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia in 2013. Her Doctoral thesis was based on experimental quantum optics and completed under the supervision of Elanor Huntington.
Rob Hill
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Raffi Budakian
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Sadegh Raeisi
Title: Topics on the Information Theoretic Limits of Quantum Information Processing and its Implementation
Robert Brandenberger
Department of Physics, McGill University
Our scenarios of very early universe cosmology are incomplete. In particular, they are plagued by singularities. Superstring theory provides the hope of being able to resolve these singularities and provide a complete theory of the very early universe. I will discuss a model of early universe cosmology based on fundamental principles of string theory and will show that this model can be tested with current and upcoming cosmological observations.
Eduardo Martin-Martinez
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, and Perimeter Institute
Guifre Vidal
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Research
The Observatory is open for public tours usually on the first Wednesday of each month, offering a chance to look through the university's telescope. This will be preceded by a short talk on astronomy (around 30 minutes) plus an opportunity to ask questions, followed by a tour of the dome. In the event of bad weather, the observing will not be possible, but the talk and tour of facilities will go ahead.
James Martin
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo
Rob Myers
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Research
CIFAR
Kostadinka Bizheva
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Michael Hudson
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo
Your guide will take you through 13.8 billion years of cosmic history, stopping on the way at highlights such as the cosmic microwave background, gravitational lensing, dark matter and dark energy.
Janice Bruin
Waterloo Co-operative Education and Career Action, University of Waterloo
What will be covered?
Mohammad H. Hamidian
Cornell University
Edgardo Cheb-Terrab
Editor, Computer Physics Communications
Research Fellow, Mathematical Software, Maplesoft, Canada
Evan Meyer Scott, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Vadim Makarov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
G Baskaran
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Waterloo, ON
and
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Chennai 600 113, India
