Date: Friday August 22, 2025
Location: Room 2L17, University of Winnipeg
| Time | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:45-10:00 | Opening Remarks | — |
| Session I: 10:00-11:00 | ||
| 10:00-10:20 | Brandon Wittmeier | New Models of the Universe, a No Boundary Perspective |
| 10:20-10:40 | Michael Astwood | Higher Geometry and Quantization |
| 10:40-11:00 | Param Upadhyaya | Modelling Loops with Quantum Phase Estimation |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | — |
| Session II: 11:30-12:30 | ||
| 11:30-11:50 | Anish Madaan | Probing Various States of an Ultra Luminous X-Ray (ULX) Source through X-Ray Spectroscopy |
| 11:50-12:10 | Brock Klippenstein | Parallel Mean Free Path of Energetic Particles in Turbulent Magnetic Fields with a Varying Mean Component |
| 12:10-12:30 | Rav Kannangara and Berengere Walle | Modelling Fuzzy Dark Matter with Physics Informed Neural Networks |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | — |
| Session III: 1:30-2:30 | ||
| 1:30-1:50 | Dario Lorenzoni | Spectators Strike Back: Light Scalar Fields Foster Primordial Black Holes |
| 1:50-2:10 | Smit Panchal | Analysis of parameter space of cosmic inflation model Light scalar fields and PBH formation using MCMC |
| 2:10-2:30 | Karalee Reimer | Quantum Loop Corrections to the Mixing of Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions |
| 2:30-3:00 | Break | — |
| Session IV: 3:00-4:00 | ||
| 3:00-3:20 | Naman Agarwal | Systematics of Dimensional Reduction in String Theory |
| 3:20-3:40 | Tammi Chowdhury | Higgs Inflation Revisited |
| 3:40-4:00 | Kavi Amitkumar Desai | Analytic Study of UV & IR-Divergences for Moller Scattering at 1-Loop Level in QED |
| 4:00-4:05 | Closing Words | — |