SFU Cosmology Seminar Archives

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2024

2025-03-19 15:30 in P8445A - David Miller (UBC): Probing stellar evolution with the white dwarf initial-final mass relation
2025-03-12 15:30 in P8445B - Yukari Uchibori (UBC): The quest to capture dark energy
2025-01-24 14:30 in BLU9660 - Dragan Huterer (Michigan): Cosmological results from DESI (physics colloquium)
2025-01-22 15:30 in P8445A - Kazuya Koyama (ICG, Porstmouth): Theory activities in Euclid

2023

2023-11-07 14:00 in P8445B - Marcin Sawicki (Saint Mary’s): JWST’s distant universe as seen by CANUCS
2023-10-31 14:00 in P8445B - Shinji Mukohyama (YITP, Kyoto): Dynamical approach to the cosmological constant revisited
2023-09-14 13:00 in P8445B - Prajval Shastri (Indian Institute of Astrophysics): Different angles on accreting supermassive black holes

2022

2023-05-09 11:30 in Zoom - José Tomás Gálvez Ghersi (Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Peru): Dimensional deformation of sine-Gordon breathers into oscillons
2023-04-11 17:00 in Zoom - Shinji Mukohyama (Kyoto): Effective field theory of black hole perturbations with timelike scalar profile
2023-01-25 13:00 in P8445A - Rajendra Gupta (Ottawa): Do fundamental constants vary on cosmological time scale?
2023-01-24 14:00 in P8445A - Bartolomeo Fiorini (Queen Mary): Studying large-scale structure probes of modified gravity with COLA
2022-11-08 11:00 in P8445A - Daniel Jiménez Aguilar (University of the Basque Country): The dynamics of domain wall strings
2022-10-25 14:00 in P8445A - Victor Pozsgay (Imperial College, London): Low-energy EFT causality bounds
2022-10-05 14:30 in P8445B - Chi-kwan Chan (Steward Observatory, U. of Arizona): Resolving the galactic center black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
2022-10-04 11:00 in Zoom - Chad Briddon (Nottingham): Using SELCIE to investigate screened scalar field models sourced by complex systems

2021

2022-04-14 15:00 in P8445A - Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi (CITA): Dimensional deformation of sine-Gordon breathers into oscillons
2022-03-08 12:30 in P8445A - Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University): Electroweak monopoles, magnetic fields, and topological defect formation

2020

2020-09-15 12:00 in Zoom - Sashwat Tanay (University of Mississippi): Integrability of eccentric, spinning black-hole binaries up to second post-Newtonian order

2019

2020-07-28 12:00 in Zoom - José Tomas Gálvez Ghersi (University of Mississippi): A fixed point for black hole distributions
2020-07-07 12:00 in Zoom - Joanna Woo (Simon Fraser Univeristy): Machine learning as a tool for astrophysics
2020-07-02 14:30 in Zoom - Jack Gegenberg (University of New Brunswick): Collapse of a rotating shell in 3+1 dimensions (special seminar)
2020-06-16 12:00 in Zoom - Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser Univeristy): Primordial non-Gaussianity from preheating
2020-06-02 12:00 in Zoom - Leo Stein (University of Mississippi): Gravitational-wave tests of GR with simulations of beyond-GR theories
2020-05-19 12:00 in Zoom - José Tomas Gálvez Ghersi (University of Mississippi): Numerical renormalization group-based approach to secular perturbation theory
2020-05-12 12:00 in Zoom - Levon Pogosian (SFU): Relieving the Hubble tension with primordial magnetic fields
2020-02-28 14:30 in C9000 - Sara Ellison (University of Victoria): Clash of the Titans: Galaxy mergers in the nearby Universe (physics colloquium)
2020-02-26 14:30 in P8445B - Paul Wiegert (University of Western Ontario): Interstellar asteroids and comets: what are they and where do they come from?
2020-02-14 14:30 in C9000 - Katie Mack (North Carolina State University): Dark matter: a cosmological perspective (physics colloquium)
2020-01-20 15:00 in P8445B - Francesc Ferrer (Washington University): Gravitational wave signals of early universe axion dynamics
2019-12-03 14:30 in P8445B - Ludovic Van Waerbeke (UBC): Axion Quark Nuggets: a candidate for baryonic, cold and strongly interacting dark matter
2019-11-26 14:30 in P8445B - Joanna Woo (SFU): Primer on machine learning for astronomy
2019-11-19 14:30 in P8445B - Richard Shaw (UBC): Probing Dark Energy with CHIME
2019-10-22 14:30 in P8445B - Arif Babul (UVic): Cosmology with galaxy clusters
2019-10-08 14:30 in P8445B - Douglas Scott (UBC): Evaporating evidence for Hawking points
2019-09-17 14:30 in P8445B - Andrei Frolov (SFU): Dust is everywhere
2019-09-10 14:30 in P8445B - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg/SFU): What can quantum gravity tell us about the beginning and end of time?

2018

2019-02-05 15:00 in P8445B - Andrew Long (University of Michigan): Dark photon dark matter from a network of cosmic strings
2019-01-17 10:30 in P8445B - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): Lost Horizons: The Dynamics of Singularity Resolution in General Relativity
2018-11-21 15:30 in P8445B - Jia Liu (Princeton): Cosmology with massive neutrinos
2018-09-21 14:30 in AQ3150 - Rob Caldwell (Dartmouth College): Polarization of the cosmic gravitational wave background (physics colloquium)

2017

2018-08-16 13:30 in P8445B - Shinji Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics): Minimalism in modified gravity
2018-03-29 13:30 in P8445B - Michael Desrochers (UBC): Topological vacuum energy
2018-03-16 14:30 in WMC3260 - Frans Pretorius (Princeton University): The dynamical, strong-field regime of General Relativity (physics colloquium)
2018-03-15 13:30 in P8445B - Hideki Maeda (Hokkai-Gakuen University): Exact black hole formation from a conformally coupled scalar field in three dimensions
2018-03-09 14:30 in WMC3260 - Ken Clark (Queen's University): Dark matter: How to hunt for the unknown (CAP Lecture)
2018-03-01 13:30 in P8445B - Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State): Search for intergalactic magnetic fields and implications
2018-01-31 14:30 in P9449 - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): Gradient Flow of Holographic Superconductors
2018-01-24 14:30 in P8445B - Yuri V. Gusev (Lebedev Research Center in Physics, Moscow): Thermal radiation of finite size emitters
2018-01-16 13:00 in P8445B - Vitaly Vanchurin (University of Minnesota Duluth): General Relativity from non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum information
2017-10-04 13:30 in P8445B - Gwendolyn Eadie (University of Washington): The Milky Way meets hierarchical Bayes

2016

2017-04-04 14:00 in P8445B - Kiyoshi Masui (UBC): Fast Radio Bursts: Mysterious flashes from cosmological distances
2017-03-10 14:30 in C9000 - Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC): Gravity and entanglement (physics colloquium)
2017-01-31 14:00 in P8445B - David Langlois (APC, Paris): Degenerate higher order scalar tensor theories beyond Horndeski
2017-01-24 14:00 in P8445B - Daniele Steer (APC, Paris 7): Alternatives to General Relativity: Counting the degrees of freedom in "Horndeski-like" theories
2016-10-14 14:30 in C9000 - Keith Vanderlinde (Dunlap Institute): Cosmology, cell phones, and video games: Mapping dark energy with CHIME (physics colloquium)

2015

2016-08-04 14:30 in P8445B - Alexander Vikman (IoP of the Czech Academy of Sciences): Canonical exorcism for cosmological ghosts
2016-03-17 14:30 in P8445B - Francesc Ferrer (Washington University in St Louis): Managing astrophysical uncertainties in dark matter detection
2016-03-01 15:00 in P8445B - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): Formation and evaporation of nonsingular black holes in new 2d gravity
2015-11-06 14:30 in C9000 - John Kormendy (University of Texas at Austin): Supermassive black holes in galaxy nuclei: Coevolution (or not) of black holes and host galaxies (physics colloquium)
2015-10-30 14:30 in C9000 - Mark Halpern (UBC): Measuring the acceleration history of the Universe with CHIME (physics colloquium)

2014

2015-03-05 14:00 in P8445A - Scott Chapman (Dalhousie University): Studying the epoch of inflation with the cosmic microwave background
2015-01-26 12:00 in P8445B - Gong-Bo Zhao (NAOC, Beijing and ICG, Portsmouth): Cosmological tests of gravity
2015-01-20 15:30 in P8445B - Alessandra Silvestri (Lorentz Institute, Leiden): Testing gravity within the EFT framework of cosmic acceleration
2015-01-12 12:00 in P8445B - Misao Sasaki (YITP, Kyoto University): Reviving open inflation
2014-11-20 16:00 in P8445A - Micah Brush (SFU): 3D cosmological observables in spherical coordinates
2014-11-06 16:00 in P8445A - Tomas Galvez (SFU): Bimetric models of gravity and cosmology in the early universe
2014-10-30 16:00 in P8445A - Yun Li (SFU): Primordial magnetic fields
2014-10-23 16:00 in P8445A - Yuting Wang (NAOC Beijing): Cosmological forecasts for galaxy surveys using multi-tracer techniques
2014-10-03 14:30 in AQ3005 - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): The black hole information loss problem: Is there light at the end of the tunnel? (physics colloquium)
2014-10-02 16:00 in P8445A - Gabor Kunstatter (University of Winnipeg): The stability of AdS spacetime in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
2014-09-03 16:15 in P8445A - Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC): Searching for missing baryons

2013

2014-08-15 14:00 in P8445B - Dmitri Pogosyan (University of Alberta): Topology of the Universe from Planck CMB data
2014-05-06 16:00 in Saywell 10081 - Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago): The Quantum and the Cosmos (public lecture)
2014-04-08 14:00 in P8445B - Zhiqi Huang (CITA, University of Toronto): Inflation trajectories after Planck and BICEP2
2014-03-04 14:00 in P8445B - Thomas Kephart (Vanderbilt University): Helicity conservation and generalized Beltrami fields
2014-01-28 14:00 in P8445B - Ivan Agullo (Louisiana State University): Conformal anomaly and primordial magnetic fields
2013-11-19 14:00 in P8445B - Jes Ford (UBC): Weighing galaxy clusters with weak lensing magnification
2013-11-12 14:00 in P8445B - Jun-Qi Guo (SFU): Spherical collapse in f(R) gravity
2013-11-01 14:30 in AQ3150 - Neil Turok (Perimeter Institute): On quantum tunnelling (physics colloquium)
2013-10-29 14:00 in P8445B - Levon Pogosian (SFU): Primordial magnetism in CMB polarization
2013-10-22 14:00 in P8445B - Alireza Hojjati (SFU): Cosmology with strong lensing time delays
2013-10-08 14:00 in P8445B - Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC): Cosmic peculiar velocity field
2013-10-04 14:30 in AQ3150 - Joseph Polchinski (KITP): The black hole information paradox, alive and kicking (physics colloquium)
2013-10-01 14:00 in P8445B - Ali Narimani (UBC): Minimal parameterizations for modified gravity
2013-09-20 14:30 in AQ3150 - Christopher Stubbs (Harvard University): The dark energy crisis in the longer term (physics colloquium)
2013-09-10 14:00 in P8445B - Andrei Frolov (SFU): Intermittent non-Gaussianity

2012

2012-11-22 13:30 in P8445B - Alireza Hojjati (Institute for the Early Universe, Ewha W. U.): Strong lensing and time-delay measurements
2012-11-08 15:00 in P8445A - Alireza Hojjati (Institute for the Early Universe, Ewha W. U.): Lyman-alpha forest as a cosmological probe

2011

2012-03-08 14:00 in P8445B - Jarah Evslin (IHEP, Beijing): Galaxy-sized monopoles as dark matter?
2012-02-23 14:00 in P8445B - Jonathan Thornburg (Indiana University): Modelling extreme mass ratio binary black hole inspirals for eLISA
2012-02-07 14:00 in P8445B - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab): Gravitational lensing
2012-01-17 14:00 in P8445B - Levon Pogosian (SFU): Fables of reconstruction: controlling bias in the dark energy equation of state
2011-11-29 14:00 in P8445B - Daniel Thomas (Imperial College): Making gravity count: Cluster numbers and other cosmological observables in model independent modified gravity
2011-11-25 14:30 in AQ3149 - Levon Pogosian (SFU): Lambda, w and beyond (physics colloquium)
2011-11-22 14:00 in P8445B - Jun-Qi Guo (SFU): Scalar wave propagation in Schwarzschild metric in some usual coordinates
2011-11-15 14:00 in P8445B - Archisman Ghosh (University of Kentucky): Cosmological singularities and AdS/CFT
2011-11-01 14:00 in P8445B - Andrei Frolov (SFU): Critical collapse and solitons in classical conformal field theory
2011-10-25 14:00 in P8445B - Ali Narimani (UBC): Dimensionless cosmology
2011-10-21 15:30 in AQ3149 - Andrei Frolov (SFU): Staring at the sky (physics colloquium)
2011-10-18 14:00 in P8445B - Yin-Zhe Ma (UBC): Cosmology on large and small cosmic scales
2011-09-15 14:00 in P8445B - Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University): Primordial magnetic fields from the electroweak epoch

2010

2011-03-18 15:30 in B9201 - Lam Hui (Columbia University): Equivalence principle and cosmic acceleration (physics colloquium)
2011-03-15 14:00 in P8445B - Lam Hui (Columbia University): Bubble collisions in the early universe
2011-03-04 15:30 in B9201 - Ed Copeland (University of Nottingham): Models of dark energy (physics colloquium)
2011-03-01 14:00 in P8445B - Ed Copeland (University of Nottingham): Scaling solutions in cosmology
2011-01-14 15:30 in AQ3154 - John Mather (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): James Webb Space Telescope: Progress and scientific promise (physics colloquium)
2010-12-07 14:00 in P8445B - Kris Starosta (SFU): Shell structure of nuclei and evolution of the Universe
2010-11-09 14:00 in P8445B - Cosimo Bambi (IPMU): Accretion process in Kerr space-time with arbitrary value of the spin parameter
2010-10-19 14:00 in P8445B - Adam Moss (UBC): Precision cosmology defeats void models for acceleration
2010-09-22 14:00 in P8445A - Wolfgang Rau (Queen's University): Dark matter search with CDMS and SuperCDMS
2010-09-14 14:00 in P8445B - Stephane Coutu (PennState): Highest energy physics with the Pierre Auger Observatory

2009

2010-02-09 13:30 in P8445A - Jun-Qi Guo (SFU): Dynamics of the homogeneous universe of the logarithmic f(R) model
2010-01-12 13:30 in P8445A - Levon Pogosian (SFU): Cosmological tests of General Relativity - A look at the principals
2009-12-03 16:00 in P8445? - Neil Barnaby (CITA): Nonlocal inflation
2009-12-03 14:00 in P8445B - Adam Moss (UBC): Dark energy: Violations of isotropy and homogeneity
2009-12-01 14:00 in P8445A - Neil Barnaby (CITA): Nongaussian fluctuations from particle production during inflation
2009-11-03 14:00 in P8445A - Federico Urban (UBC): The QCD nature of dark energy
2009-10-20 14:00 in P8445A - Alkistis Pourtsidou (University of Nottingham): Cosmic strings with junctions
2009-10-08 14:00 in P8445A - Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter Institute): Stellar black holes, and the origin of cosmic acceleration
2009-09-29 14:00 in P8445A - Yifu Cai (IHEP, China): An alternative to inflation: matter bounce cosmology
2009-09-11 14:30 in AQ3153 - Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria/Perimeter): Dark forces (physics colloquium)

2008

2009-07-21 14:00 in P8445B - Daniele Steer (APC, Paris): Multi-field DBI inflation: primordial perturbations and non-Gaussianities
2009-05-05 14:00 in P8445B - Justin Khoury (University of Pennsylvania): Cascading gravity
2009-03-27 14:30 in AQ3182 - Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University): The impact of the last 13 billion years and of the first 10-35 seconds on the CMB (physics colloquium)
2009-03-10 14:00 in P8445A - Phil Gregory (UBC): Mining for extra-solar planets with a Bayesian MCMC Kepler periodogram
2009-03-03 14:00 in P8445A - John Ward (University of Victoria): Gravitational wave constraints on multi-brane inflation
2009-02-24 14:00 in P8445A - Adam Ritz (University of Victoria): Probing pseudoscalar perturbations with CMB polarization
2009-02-20 14:30 in AQ3182 - Mark Trodden (Syracuse University): Gravitational approaches to cosmic acceleration (physics colloquium)
2009-02-03 14:00 in P8445A - Subinoy Das (UBC): Late forming dark matter
2009-01-27 14:00 in P8445A - Edward Chapin (UBC): Detecting massive star-forming galaxies at z>1 using BLAST and SCUBA-2 submillimetre wavelength surveys
2009-01-23 14:30 in P8445B - Fotini Markopoulou (Perimeter): Two ways to derive a spacetime in quantum gravity
2008-11-14 14:30 in AQ3181 - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University): String theory and the very early universe (physics colloquium)
2008-10-02 14:00 in IRMACS - Andrei Frolov (SFU): A singularity problem with f(R) dark energy
2008-09-25 14:00 in IRMACS - Dmitri Korotkin (Concordia University): Canonical quantization of Einstein-Rosen gravitational waves with two polarizations

2007

2008-08-14 11:00 in SSB7109 - Prashanth Jaikumar (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT, India): Astrophysics of dense quark matter
2008-05-13 11:00 in P8445B - Mark Wyman (Perimeter Institute): N-body Degravitation
2008-04-01 12:30 in IRMACS - James Zibin (UBC): Restraining void models for cosmological acceleration
2008-03-28 14:30 in AQ3181 - Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts University): Many worlds in one (physics colloquium)
2008-02-22 14:30 in AQ3181 - Andrei Frolov (SFU): Simulating the Big Bang (physics colloquium)
2008-02-07 13:30 in SSB7172 - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab): Fundamental physics from space (special colloquium)
2008-02-07 10:30 in IRMACS - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab): Dark matter vs. modified gravity
2008-02-05 12:30 in IRMACS - Aaron Berndsen (SFU): Long-lived relics in warped reheating
2008-01-31 13:00 in AQ4150 - Saurya Das (University of Lethbridge): Black holes and the problem of information loss (CAP Lecture)
2008-01-24 13:30 in SSB7172 - John Moffat (University of Toronto/Perimeter): Modified gravity and its consequences for astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology
2008-01-22 12:30 in IRMACS - Richard Battye (University of Manchester): Constraints on inflation models which predict cosmic strings
2008-01-15 12:30 in IRMACS - Mustafa Amin (Stanford/KIPAC): A framework for probing gravity and dark energy on cosmological scales
2007-11-29 14:30 in IRMACS - Henk Hoekstra (University of Victoria): Weak lensing by large scale structure
2007-11-13 14:30 in SSB7172 - Gong-Bo Zhao (SFU): Dark energy perturbation and its application on cosmology
2007-10-30 14:30 in SSB7172 - Alessandra Silvestri (Syracuse University): Scale-dependent growth of structure in viable f(R) theories
2007-10-23 14:30 in SSB7172 - Wan-Il Park (KAIST): A scenario of baryogenesis compatible with thermal inflation, and preheating
2007-10-05 14:30 in K9500 - Douglas Scott (UBC): The Standard Cosmological Model (physics colloquium)

2006

2007-05-03 13:00 in P8445B - Tanmay Vachaspati (Case Western Reserve University): Formation of black holes
2007-04-24 14:00 in P8445B - Evgeny Sorkin (UBC): The pinching black strings
2007-04-19 13:00 in P8445B - Eric Peng (HIA/DAO, Victoria): Globular cluster systems and the early evolution of galaxies
2007-04-12 13:00 in P8445B - David Rapetti (KIPAC/Stanford): X-ray galaxy clusters as cosmological probes
2007-04-03 14:00 in SSB7109 - Christian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse): Do quantum excitations of the inflaton decay?
2007-03-27 14:00 in SSB7109 - Shinji Mukohyama (University of Tokyo): Cosmology with warped flux compactification
2007-03-23 12:30 in P8445B - Ira Wasserman (Cornell): Dynamics of the r mode instability of neutron stars
2007-03-22 13:00 in P8445B - Ira Wasserman (Cornell): The neutron star in 1930 -- and today (special colloquium)
2007-03-08 13:00 in P8445B - Catherine Heymans (UBC): Probing dark matter and dark energy with weak gravitational lensing
2007-02-01 13:00 in P8445B - Adam Moss (UBC): Dark energy and the rubber band
2007-01-16 14:00 in SSB7109 - Bojan Losic (University of Alberta): Aspects of nonlinear perturbation theory in cosmology
2007-01-11 13:00 in P8445B - Krzysztof Sliwa (Tufts University): Supersymmetry for particle physicists
2006-12-05 13:00 in P8445B - Jasper Wall (UBC): Submillimetre galaxies and star-formation in the early Universe
2006-11-30 14:00 in P8445B - Marco Peloso (University of Minnesota): The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating
2006-11-23 14:00 in P8445B - Veselin Filev (University of Southern California): Adding flavors in AdS/CFT correspondence
2006-11-22 12:45 in P8445B - Ingrid Stairs (UBC): Relativistic binary pulsars
2006-10-04 12:45 in P8445A - Serge Winitzki (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich): Predictions in eternally inflating universe
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