Winnipeg Institute
for Theoretical Physics

WITP

WITP Summer Student Symposium 2016
25 Aug 2016, Room 3M69, Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg

Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule.

Time Speaker Title
9:15Welcome
9:30Philipp Jaeger Measuring Topological Invariants: Lohschmidt echo in the SSH-Model
9:55Ben Guest Peering deeper into the plerionic supernova remnant G21.5-0.9
10:20Coffee Break
10:40L.J. Zhou Firewall creation in curved space-time under spherical symmetry
11:05Paul Mikula Gradient flow in the Ginzburg‑Landau model for superconductivity
11:30Donovan Allum Modeling the formation of non-singular black holes in spherical symmetry
11:55Lunch
13:00Darren Flynn Non-Archimedean fields: A laboratory for the infinite and the infinitesimal
13:25Will Grafton On the convergence and analytical properties of power series on non-Archimedean field extensions of the real numbers
13:50Brett Meggison Renormalization of scalar nPI effective theories in 4 dimensions
14:15Snack Break
14:45Brad Cownden Modelling gravitational collapse in Anti-de Sitter space
15:10Raphael Hoult Black hole formation in AdS4 with varying boundary conditions