Name: 2026 Theory Canada 18
Start: 2026-06-19T03:45:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-20T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Université de Montréal (MIL campus)

2026 Theory Canada 18

from Friday, 19 June 2026 (03:45) to Saturday, 20 June 2026 (20:00)

Monday, 15 June 2026
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Friday, 19 June 2026

08:45 Welcome

08:45 - 09:00
Room: A-4502
09:00 Plenary: Emergent cosmology from matrix theory (P.R. Wallace PhD Thesis prize winner Samuel Laliberté)
Emergent cosmology from matrix theory (P.R. Wallace PhD Thesis prize winner Samuel Laliberté)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: A-4502
Contributions

09:00 Emergent cosmology from matrix theory - Samuel Laliberté (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology OIST)
09:45 Gravitation and Cosmology: I
I
09:45 - 10:45
Room: A-4502
Contributions

09:45 Conversion between Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves at Medium Boundaries - Serge Hamoudou (McMaster University)

10:05 Polarization Formalism for Photon–Gravitational Wave Mixing Around Magnetars - Jean-Simon Côté (Université Laval)

10:25 Quintessential Dark Energy crossing the Phantom divide - Varun Muralidharan (McGill University)
Quantum Information: I
I
09:45 - 10:45
Room: A-2553
Contributions

09:45 Photon-number cumulants of Gaussian states - Yanic Cardin (Polytechnique Montréal)

10:05 Perspective on quantum clocks - Kobra Mahdavipour (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary)

10:25 Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Networks with a Fermionic Layer - Ayana Sarkar (Universite de Sherbrooke)
10:45 Refreshment break
Refreshment break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: A-4502
11:15 Condensed Matter Theory: I
I
11:15 - 12:35
Room: A-2553
Contributions

11:15 Unconventional Ginzburg-Landau theory: a common pathway to novel physics - Kirill Samokhin (Brock University)

11:35 Magnetic long-range order at finite temperature in two-dimensional hyperbolic lattices - Alexander Hickey (University of Alberta)

11:55 Bulk-Boundary Correspondence for Semi-Infinite One-Dimensional Topological Insulators from Exceptional Points of the Analytically Continued Bloch Hamiltonian - Ilya Iakoub (Université de Montréal)

12:15 Finite-Size Effects in Quantum Metrology at Strong Coupling: Microscopic vs Phenomenological Approaches - Ali Pedram (University of Calgary)
Particles and Fields: I
I
11:15 - 12:35
Room: A-1502
Contributions

11:15 Radiative & dark-Higgs effects on complex scalar dark matter - Lilianna Hariasz (Simon Fraser University)

11:35 Uses and abuses of dimension-zero scalar fields - James Cline (McGill University, (CA))

11:55 Dynamics of nucleation in thermal phase transitions - Andrey Shkerin

12:15 Freeze-in Dark Matter from a Conformal Higgs Sector Extension - Tianyi Xie (McGill University)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:00
Room: A-4502
14:00 Relativity and Gravitation: I
I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: A-1502
Contributions

14:00 Stability of Homogeneous minimal hypersurfaces in the Page space and Y^{p,q} Sasaki-Einstein manifolds - Natalia Gherghel (McMaster University)

14:20 Gravitating Nielsen-Olesen vortices in anti de-Sitter space (AdS3) - Ariel Edery

14:40 Mass comparison theorems for gravitational instantons - Hari Kunduri (McMaster University, Mathematics and Physics)
Strings and Quantum Gravity: I
I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: A-2553
Contributions

14:00 Charge conjugation symmetry and Monodromy defects in Cern-Simons theory - Federico Ambrosino (Perimeter Institute)

14:20 Bootstrapping Massive Spin-2 Scattering Amplitudes - Julia Pasiecznik (McGill University)

14:40 Higher symmetries and 4d quantum gravity - Florian Girelli (University of Waterloo)
15:00 Refreshment Break
Refreshment Break
15:00 - 15:20
Room: A-4502
15:20 Plenary: Primordial Black Holes in 30 Min (Encieh Erfani)
Primordial Black Holes in 30 Min (Encieh Erfani)
15:20 - 15:50
Room: A-1502
Contributions

15:20 Primordial Black Holes in 30 Min - Encieh Erfani (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
16:00 Particles and Fields: II
II
16:00 - 17:20
Room: A-2553
Contributions

16:00 Impact of Vector like quarks in Rare B decays - Maryam Bibi (St. Francis Xavier University)

16:20 SU(3)-flavour symmetry breaking in B->DP decays - Rida Boumris (Montreal university)

16:40 Short-Range Contributions to Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay from Ab Initio Nuclear Theory - Alex Todd (McGill University)

17:00 SubTropica or Quantum Field Theory for Babies - Mathieu Giroux (McGill University)
Relativity and Gravitation: II
II
16:00 - 17:20
Room: A-1502
Contributions

16:00 Near the horizon of a non-extremal black hole - Paul Fitzsimons (McMaster University)

16:20 Boundary Data for Local Boundaries in General Relativity - Antonia Seifert (Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo)

16:40 Tunnelling across a trapped region and out of a black hole - Edward Wilson-Ewing (University of New Brunswick)

17:00 A Solution to the Hubble Tension Problem - Réjean Plamondon
17:20 Reception
Reception
17:20 - 18:20
Room: A-4502
Saturday, 20 June 2026
09:00 Plenary: Dynamical Algebra and Superintegrability (Luc Vinet)
Dynamical Algebra and Superintegrability (Luc Vinet)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: A-1502
Contributions

09:00 Dynamical Algebra and Superintegrability: The Generic Model on the Two-Sphere - Luc Vinet (Université de Montréal)
09:45 Gravitation and Cosmology: II
II
09:45 - 10:45
Room: A-1502
Contributions

09:45 Dark Energy Bubble as Dynamical Dark Energy: Properties and CMB Constraints - Batia Friedman-Shaw

10:05 Unified Standard Model with Emergent Gravity-Effective Field Theory: First Successful Unification of Gravity with the Standard Model - Farrukh Ahmed Chishtie
Strings and Quantum Gravity: II
II
09:45 - 10:45
Room: A-2553
Contributions

09:45 Stability of R-Charged Membranes - lucas Brown (University of Western Ontario)

10:05 Static and axisymmetric black holes in improved GUP: theory and phenomenology - Saeed Rastgoo (University of Alberta)

10:25 Relational Quantum Black Holes: Bounce and Singularity Resolution - Paolo Fragolino (University of Alberta)
10:45 Refreshment break
Refreshment break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: A-4502
11:15 Condensed Matter Theory: III
III
11:15 - 12:35
Room: A-2553
Contributions

11:15 Unconventional Pairing in interacting Ladders - Sourav Biswas (University of Alberta)

11:35 Signatures of electronic band topology in the electrostatics of Chern insulator junctions - Ion Garate

11:55 A study of new types of states in generalized SSH systems - Kylian Lionnet

12:15 Equation of State under External Stress from Crystals to Non-crystals - Gang Liu
Particles and Fields: III
III
11:15 - 12:35
Room: A-1502
Contributions

11:15 Bootstrapping Gravity with Crossing Symmetric Dispersion Relations - Celina Pasiecznik (McGill University)

11:35 Conformal inversion in the pion - Ruben Sandapen (Acadia University)

11:55 Anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking and Seiberg-Witten theory - Cyrus Robertson Orkish

12:15 The Analytic Functional in the Conformal Bootstrap - Zechuan Zheng (Perimeter Institute)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:00
Room: A-4502
14:00 Mathematical Physics
14:00 - 15:00
Room: A-2553
Contributions

14:00 Exotic differential seven spheres and the two qubit phase space - Manu Paranjape

14:20 Exact critical-temperature bounds for two-dimensional Ising models - Igor Boettcher (University of Alberta)

14:40 High-Performance Computational Modeling of Optical Turbulence and Discrete-Time Chaos in the Ikeda Map - Rahul Nivash
Relativity and Gravitation: III
III
14:00 - 15:00
Room: A-1502
Contributions

14:00 General Set of Noetherian Energy-Momentum Tensors in Linearized Gravity - Lydia Taylor (University of Western Ontario)

14:20 Energy-Momentum Tensor Uniqueness for Scalar Fields - Sean Snider (Western University)

14:40 Marginally-outer trapped surfaces in spacetimes with cosmological constant - Kam To Billy Sievers (McMaster University)
15:00 Refreshment break
Refreshment break
15:00 - 15:20
Room: A-4502
15:20 Plenary: Topological States Across Platforms (Tami Pereg-Barnea)
Topological States Across Platforms (Tami Pereg-Barnea)
15:20 - 15:50
Room: A-1502
Contributions

15:20 Topological States Across Platforms - Tami Pereg-Barnea
16:00 Strings and Quantum Gravity: III
III
16:00 - 17:20
Room: A-2553
Contributions

16:00 Wormholes and the Imaginary Distance Bound - Alexander Maloney (Syracuse University)

16:20 On observers, fixed geometry states, and generalized entanglement wedges - Chris Waddell (Perimeter Institute)

16:40 Probing spacetime fluctuations with observables - Robin Oberfrank (Perimeter Institute)

17:00 Quantum Geometry from Commutators - Vahid Kamali
Quantum Information: III
III
16:00 - 17:20
Room: A-1502
Contributions

16:00 A Unified Framework for Locally Stable Phases - Raz Firanko (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, IQC)

16:20 Collective Quantum Phenomena in Astrophysical Media - Fereshteh Rajabi (McMaster University)

16:40 Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis as a quantum resource for linear algebra problems - Thomas Baker (Department of Physics & Astronomy and also of Chemistry, University of Victoria)

17:00 Do $\psi$-Ontic Models Capture the Reality of Pure Quantum States? A Response from Measure Theory - Doyeong Kim (University of Calgary)