The PSIminar is an independent self-organized seminar of the PSI Year 2012 at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. The talks and discussions focus mainly on topics of mathematics and theoretical physics, but they are open for everything which might enlarge the perimeter of a young physicist. Speakers are mainly elected among the PSI students themselves, but we are also happy to have PhD students, postdocs and faculty members giving a talk.
Contact: lucas.hackl@perimeterinstitute.ca - find us on facebook
| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Speaker
|
Notes |
| During the Review Courses |
1
|
08/01/2012 |
Introduction to Exterior Calculus |
Lance Boyer |
- |
2
|
13/01/2012 |
Summary: Differential Topology and Geometry |
Lucas Hackl
|
PDF |
3
|
22/01/2012 |
Introduction to Loop Quantum Gravity |
Andrzej Banburski |
PDF |
4
|
25/01/2012 |
Operator Theory and Quantum Mechanics |
Mark Penney |
PDF |
5
|
01/02/2012 |
Introduction to Galois Theory
|
Dalimil Mazáč |
PDF |
6
|
10/02/2012
|
Principal Bundles |
Jacob Winding
|
PDF |
7
|
20/02/2012 |
Hopf Fibration |
Robert Schuhmann |
- |
8
|
24/02/2012 |
Homology and Cohomology |
Ye Ellis Yuan |
PDF |
9
|
03/03/2012 |
Graph Theory |
Jonathan Blackmann |
- |
| During the Reading Week |
10
|
16/03/2012 |
Wine tasting for Physicists |
Alexandre Vincard-Emard |
PDF |
| During the Exploration Courses |
11
|
21/03/2012 |
Variable speed of light theories |
Sayed Ali Hamed Mosavian |
PDF |
12
|
28/03/2012 |
Monte Carlo Methods in Particle Physics |
Lenny Evans |
PDF |
13
|
30/03/2012 |
Go (Introduction to the game and strategies) |
Peifeng Liu
|
ZIP |
14
|
05/04/2012 |
Modern Didactics in Physics
|
Hjalmar Eriksson |
PDF |
15
|
11/04/2012
|
Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians |
Carl Bender
|
PDF |
16
|
27/04/2012 |
Introduction to Symplectic Geometry
|
RG: Geometric Quantization
|
PDF |
During the Essay project
|
17
|
30/04/2012
|
Spinor Helicity Formalism and MHV Amplitudes |
Grigory Sizov &
Brenda Penante |
PDF |
18
|
04/05/2012
|
Chern-Simon Theory |
Eduardo Tremea Casali |
- |
19
|
11/05/2012
|
LaTeX Skill Training
|
Henrik Gustafsson
|
1 2
|
20
|
12/05/2012 |
Discussion with Nobel laureate 't Hooft |
Gerardus 't Hooft |
- |
21
|
18/05/2012 |
Invariance of Spacelike Topology |
Steven Harris |
- |
22
|
25/05/2012 |
Spacetime could be simultaneously continuous
and discrete, in the same way that information
can be |
Achim Kempf |
- |
Maybe in another year
|
| - |
- |
Lattice Gauge Theory |
|
|
| - |
- |
Homotopy |
Mark Penney
|
|
| - |
- |
Geometric Quantization
|
RG: Geometric Quantization
|
|
-
|
- |
Quantization of Constrained Systems
|
Lucas Hackl
|
|
-
|
- |
Bayesian statistics
|
Robert Schuhmann
|
|
-
|
- |
Current Research Topics |
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