Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics

WITP Summer Student Symposium 2022
17 Aug 2022, UWinnipeg & Online

All times are Central Daylight Time. Format is zoom or UW (in-person). Click the titles for abstracts and slides where available.

Time	Speaker	Format	Title
9:20		UW	Welcome and Instructions
9:28	Rodrigo Alves Pimenta	UW	Free fermionic and parafermionic quantum spin chains
9:45	Neil Doerksen	UW	The Neutron Star Merger: GW170817
10:02	Guillaume Payeur	UW	Completely Dark Dark Matter & the de Sitter Swampland Conjecture
10:19	Hermie Monterde	Zoom	State transfer on weighted graphs with twin vertices
10:36			Coffee Break
11:15	Isabel Sander	UW	Pulsar Wind Nebulae: Powerful Cosmic Ray Accelerators
11:32	Bryce Friesen	UW	Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions
11:49	Tom Friesen	Zoom
12:06	Kyle Monkman	UW	Entanglement in topological insulators
12:34			Lunch
13:30	Jesse Elder	UW	Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
13:47	Kelvin Au	Zoom	Investigating Plasma Lensing Structures by Simulating the Propagation of Radio Wavefronts
14:04	Aaron Rossi	UW	Phase Diagram of Reheating and Axion Inflation
14:21	Arka Chatterjee	Zoom	Estimation of Spin of the Galactic Black Hole Candidate GRS 1758-258 though X-ray Spectroscopy
14:38			Snack Break
15:15	Skye Heiland	UW	Long-term NICER Monitoring of Black Hole Low-mass X-ray Binary 4U 1755-338
15:32	Naman Agarwal	UW	Holographic Complexity and Extra Dimensions
15:49	Arghya Mukherjee	Zoom	Fermion propagator in presence of a strong external magnetic field