Theoretical Physics Institute

50th Anniversary Celebration

Department of Physics, University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

September 16-17, 2010

Background

This year is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Alberta, which is one of the oldest such institutions in Canada. We are planning a celebration Thursday and Friday, Sept. 16-17, 2010. We are having Lawrence Krauss (organized by the Physics Graduate Student Association), Werner Israel, David Mermin, Leonard Susskind as distinguished guest lecturers. We would like to invite you to participate in our celebration.

Distinguished Guest Speakers
Venue: 1-017 ETLC

Werner Israel

Band-Aid for Information Loss from Black Holes, Sept 16 @ 2:00

David Mermin

What Has Quantum Mechanics to Do with Factoring? Things I Wish They Had Told Me about Shor's Algorithm, Sept 16 @ 3:10

Leonard Susskind

Mechanics, Horizons, and the Puzzle of Eternal Inflation, Sept 17 @ 2:00 p.m.

Distinguished Guest Speaker
Organized by the Physics Grad Student Assn.

Laurence Krauss

Science, Nanoscience and Nonsense: From Aliens to Creationism to the Health of Democracy

Sept 17, at 4:00 p.m.    Venue: CCIS Phase II Lecture Theatre

Contributed Talks

9:00 Saurya Das

"A New Uncertainty Pinciple from Quantum Gravity and its Implications"

9:30 Rouzbeh Allahverdi

"Inflection Point Inflation"

10:30 Ariel Edery

"External Black Holes and the Classical Origin of Gravitational Entropy"

11:00 Andrei Frolov

"Preheating After Inflation: Simulating the Big Bang"

Fri, Sept 17, Room 3-65 HM Tory Bldg, catered by Upper Crust

9:00 Manu Paranjape

"Absence of Tunneling in Quantum Spin Systems"

9:30 Levon Pogosian

"Current and Future Cosmological Tests of General Relativity"

10:00 Rob Thacker

"Weak Lensing of the CMB at High-l"

Banquet