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Theory Seminars already given this term; See the list of The Upcoming Theory Seminars

Date	Who	Title
Sun Jan 28	Robert Raussendorf UBC	tba
Mon Jan 12	Roman Jackiw MIT	SEMINAR CANCELLED: Lorentz violating modifications in traditional Lorentz invariant theories
Fri Aug 14	Jan von Delft Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich	The Kondo exciton: non-equilibrium dynamics after a quantum quench in the Anderson impurity model
Mon Aug 17	Ralf Schuetzhold Universitaet Duesburg-Essen/ Germany	Dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism
Mon Sep 14	Jesko Sirker University of Kaiserslautern	Diffusion and ballistic transport in spin chains
Mon Sep 21	David Morrissey TRIUMF	Hidden Surprises in Dark Matter
Mon Sep 28	Yifu Cai Institute of HEP, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing	Developments on Bounce Cosmology and its perturbations
Mon Oct 05	Jonathan Oppenheim University of Cambridge	Fundamental destruction of information, black holes and conservation laws
Wed Oct 07	Ghazal Geshnizjani Perimeter Institute	Exploring the cosmological observations for signatures of extra dimensions
Mon Oct 19	Stephen Godfrey TRIUMF/Carleton	Discovery and Identification of s-channel Resonances at the LHC
Mon Oct 26	Alkistis Pourtsidou SFU	Cosmic strings with junctions
Mon Nov 02	Andrei Frolov SFU	TBA
Mon Nov 09	Adam Ritz Unversity of Victoria	Probing new infrared physics with CMB polarization
Mon Nov 16	Aurel Bulgac University of Washington	The unitary Fermi gas: so simple and yet so complex!
Mon Nov 23	seminar cancelled	seminar cancelled
Mon Nov 30	Domenico Giuliano Universita della Calabria	Coherent tunneling of Pairs of Cooper pairs in Josephson networks with an impurity
Mon Jan 04	Dave Bacon University of Washington	Adiabatic Cluster State Quantum Computing
Mon Jan 11	Ion Garate UBC	Current-Induced Spin Torques in Uniformly Magnetized Ferromagnets
Mon Jan 18	Jorge Vinals McGill University	Pattern formation in extended systems
Mon Jan 25	Dam Tanh Son University of Washington	Viscosity at strong coupling
Mon Feb 01	David Feder University of Calgary	Measurement-based quantum computing in a fermionic ground state
Mon Feb 08	Joshua Davis UBC	A Gravity Dual to Quantum Hall Plateau Transitions
Mon Mar 01	seminar cancelled	seminar cancelled
Mon Mar 08	Roman Jackiw MIT	Fractional charge: the physics of zero-energy eigenmodes
Mon Mar 15	no seminar today	no seminar today
Mon Mar 22	Michelle Johannes Center for Computational Materials Science, NRL	A theoretical/computational approach to Li ion battery materials
Mon Mar 29	Gil Refael California Inst. of Technology	Geometrical approach to the dynamics of spinor condensates
Mon Apr 19	Srinivas Raghu Stanford University	Hidden quasi one-dimensional superconductivity in Sr2RuO4
Mon Jun 28	Chandre Dharma-wardana NRC, Ottawa	Strongly correlated electronic systems in the quantum and WDM regimes
Mon Aug 09	Jesko Sirker Universitaet Kaiserslautern/ Germany	Finite temperature fidelity susceptibility for one-dimensional quantum systems
Tue Sep 07	Joseph Imry Weizmann Institute	Slow relaxation and aging in electron glasses (mainly), a universal random distance matrix description
Mon Sep 13	Jason Alicea Caltech	The quest for Majorana fermions in solid state systems
Mon Sep 20	Michael Uhlmann UBC	System size scaling of topological defect creation in a second-order dynamical quantum phase transition
Mon Sep 27	Eric Woolgar University of Alberta	Quasilocal mass and geometric flow problems
Mon Oct 04	Douglas Scott UBC	Big Bang Theory
Mon Oct 18	Marina Guenza University of Oregon	Coarse-Graining and Dynamics of Macromolecular Systems
Mon Oct 25	Josef Pradler Perimeter Institute	Recent developments in non-standard big bang nucleosynthesis scenarios
Mon Nov 01	Fei Zhou UBC	What can we learn about quantum gases from 2- or 3-atom problems ?
Mon Nov 08	Cosimo Bambi IPMU, Tokyo University	Measuring the spin parameter of astrophysical black hole candidates
Mon Nov 15	Don Page University of Alberta	Agnesi Weighting for the Measure Problem of Cosmology
Mon Nov 22	Eva Silverstein	Inflationary theory, String Theory and the CMB
Mon Jan 10	Don Marolf UCSB	Falling into a Generic Black Hole
Mon Jan 24	Zhengcheng Gu KITP	Tensor-net states: a new perspective on many-body quantum systems.
Mon Jan 31	Don Witt UBC	Soap bubbles to Seiberg-Witten invariants: A different perspective on marginally outer trapped surfaces and gravity
Mon Feb 14	Domenico Giuliano Universita della Calabria	Stabilizing a fluctuation resistant two-level quantum system via coupling to Luttinger liquid leads
Mon Feb 21	Andreas Schnyder Max Planck Institute	Surface flat bands and topological order in superconductors without inversion symmetry
Mon Feb 28	Ilia Solov'yov U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Magnetoreception mechanisms in birds - towards the discovery of the sixth sense
Mon Mar 14	Federico Urban UBC	The luminous side of Dark Energy
Mon Mar 21	Mark van Raamsdonk UBC	Entanglement entropy in quantum field theory and gravity
Mon Mar 28	Harry Lam UBC	Possible symmetry of the three fermion generations
Mon Apr 04	Philip Argyres University of Cincinnati	Dynamics of compactified gauge theories