Warped Wilson Line Inflation
Ivonne Zavala - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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Our Quirky Quantum World
Richard Epp - University of Waterloo , Raymond Laflamme
CMS status at LHC and outlook for 2009
Giovanni Franzoni - University of Minnesota
Introduction to the Bosonic String Part B
Alex Buchel - Western University
Introduction to the Bosonic String
Alex Buchel - Western University
Towards macroscopic quantum superpositions & Theory of knots of light
Dirk Bouwmeester - University of California, Santa Barbara
The large-scale structure of the Universe as a probe of fundamental physics
Patrick McDonald - University of Toronto
Mini-Course on Mach's Principle - Lecture 2
Sean Gryb - University of Groningen
Braneworld Black Holes
Ruth Gregory - King's College London
Crystal Melting and Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Masahito Yamazaki - University of Tokyo
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Warped Wilson Line Inflation
Ivonne Zavala - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
I will discuss the possibility that a 'Wilson line' degree of freedom can play the role of an inflaton in a warped flux compactification, in the context of the DBI inflationary scenario. I will show how warped DBI Wilson line inflation offers an attractive alternative to ordinary (position field)… -
Our Quirky Quantum World
Richard Epp - University of Waterloo , Raymond Laflamme
Our universe is unquestionably quantum in nature. What does this mean? Why does it matter? What’s in it for me? Join us for a fun and fascinating session on “what you need to know about the quantum.” Find out why we can’t live without it. Discover what’s so unbelievably quirky about it. And learn… -
CMS status at LHC and outlook for 2009
Giovanni Franzoni - University of Minnesota
Over the last two years, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector has been installed in the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and commissioned to its full functionality. The CMS detector successfully collected beam halo and beam dump data, while the beams were circulating in the LHC… -
Introduction to the Bosonic String Part B
Alex Buchel - Western University
This course provides a thorough introduction to the bosonic string based on the Polyakov path integral and conformal field theory. We introduce central ideas of string theory, the tools of conformal field theory, the Polyakov path integral, and the covariant quantization of the string. We discuss… -
Introduction to the Bosonic String
Alex Buchel - Western University
This course provides a thorough introduction to the bosonic string based on the Polyakov path integral and conformal field theory. We introduce central ideas of string theory, the tools of conformal field theory, the Polyakov path integral, and the covariant quantization of the string. We discuss… 
Graviton propagator from EPRL spinfoam model
We derive geometric correlation functions in the new spinfoam model with coherent states techniques, making connection with quantum Regge calculus and perturbative quantum gravity. In particular we recover the expected scaling with distance for all components of the propagator. We expect the same…-
Towards macroscopic quantum superpositions & Theory of knots of light
Dirk Bouwmeester - University of California, Santa Barbara
To interface photons with solid-state devices, we investigated the coupling of optically active quantum dots with optical micro- and nano-cavities. Initial experimental progress have led to the unexpected observation of ultra low threshold lasing of a photonic crystal defect mode cavity embedded… -
The large-scale structure of the Universe as a probe of fundamental physics
Patrick McDonald - University of Toronto
We have only scratched the surface of the potential for using large-scale structure (LSS) as a probe of fundamental physics/cosmology, i.e., quantitatively, we have only measured a small fraction of a percent of the accessible LSS information. Future measurements will probe dark energy, inflation… -
deBroglie-Bohm and the Timeless Mechanics of Jacobi
A standard canonical quantization of general relativity yields a time-independent Schroedinger equation whose solutions are static wavefunctions on configuration space. Naively this is in contradiction with the real world where things do change. Broadly speaking, the problem how to reconcile a…-
Braneworld Black Holes
Ruth Gregory - King's College London
Braneworlds are a fascinating way of hiding extra dimensions by confining ourselves to live on a brane. One particular model (Randall-Sundrum) has a link to string theory via living in anti de Sitter space. I'll describe how the ads/cft correspondence has been used to claim that a braneworld black… -
Crystal Melting and Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Masahito Yamazaki - University of Tokyo
Motivated by recent mathematical developements in non-commutative Donaldson-Thomas theory, we construct a new statistical mechanicalmodel of crystal melting to count BPS bound states of D0 and D2 branes on a single D6 brane wrapping an arbitrary toric Calabi-Yau threefold. We also discuss the wall…