Winnipeg Institute
for Theoretical Physics

WITP

WITP 2024 Summer School and Student Symposium
21-23 August 2024
Room 2L17, University of Winnipeg

PRELIMINARY STUDENT TALK SCHEDULE

August 21

Time Speaker Title
1:30-1:45Naman Agarwal EFT for Volume Modulus in Type IIB String Theory
1:45-2:00Cole Coughlin Polytopes and the Standard Model
2:00-2:15Craig McRae How do we define anti-matter? The CPT Theorem and Discrete Symmetries
2:15-2:30Brett Meggison 3PI 3-Vertex
2:30-2:45Bryce Friesen Dynamics of early time gluon fields in relativistic heavy ion collisions
2:45-3:00Kaene Soopramania Dynamics of early time gluon fields in relativistic heavy ion collisions

August 22

Time Speaker Title
1:30-1:45Brandon Wittmeier Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
1:45-2:00Kyle Wittmeier and Zachary Ireland Assessing Parameters of Single-Field Inflation Models on the Production of Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates
2:00-2:15Smit Panchal Self-interacting fuzzy dark matter
2:15-2:30Isabel Sander Pulsar Wind Nebulae as PeVatrons
2:30-2:45Andrew Czezowski Bethe-Heitler Cross Sections and Exclusive Scattering Experiments
2:45-3:00Alex Hayes A Minimal Model of Dark Matter in String Theory

August 23

Time Speaker Title
9:30-9:45Rebecca Man A Systematic X-Ray Study of an Enigmatic Class of Neutron Stars: the Central Compact Objects
9:45-10:00Florent Thibault Are Supermassive Stars in Primordial Halos a Source of Observable Gravitational Waves?
10:00-10:15Brock KlippensteinFast Analytical-Numerical Hybrid Methods for Solving the Cosmic Ray Fokker-Planck Equation
10:15-10:30Chloe Green Exploring Weak Hadamard Matrix Properties
10:30-10:45Ethan Wiebe Beam and Target Asymmetries in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering