FFP10 - TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics (FFP10) Perth, Western Australia

November 24-26, 2009

FFP10
FFP10 - Tenth International Symposium

Scientific Program



Tuesday November 24th

Wednesday November 25th

Thursday November 26th

Poster session

 


Tuesday Nov 24th

Physics Atrium

9:00AM

 
 
Registration
 
 

Ross Lecture Theatre

12:45PM

Opening ceremony
J. Hartnett, VC. A. Robson, B.G. Sidharth, D. Osheroff

Chairman: B.G. Sidarth

1:30PM

G. 't Hooft (60') Chairman: B.G. Sidharth
Gravity and the Quantum:
the World may not be what it seems

2:30PM

J. Pullin (30')
Solving the problem of time in quantum gravity with Dirac observables

3:00PM

Tea break (Physics Atrium)

Chairman: M. Kovalyov

3:30PM

G. Milburn (30')
Engineered quantum systems

4:00PM

H. Price (40')
Time’s Arrow and Eddington’s Challenge

4:40PM

M. Tobar (30')
Fundamental Tests of Physics in the Photon Sector using Ultra-Precise Oscillators

Winthrop Hall

6:00PM
 
 

D. Osheroff
Warren-Marshall lecture
How Advancements in Science are Made


 


Wednesday Nov 25th

Ross Lecture Theatre

Chairman: D. Alonso

9:00AM

M. Kovalyov (30')
What happens to linear properties as we move from linear equations describing certain phenomena

9:30AM

V. Flambaum (30')
Variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks: theory and observations

10:00AM

R. Ruffini (30')
Gamma Ray Bursts and fundamental physics

10:30AM

Tea break (Physics Atrium)

Chairman: A. Roberts

11:00AM

T. Mendonça (30')
Physics of ultra-cold and Rydberg plasmas

11:30AM

D. Alonso (30')
Escape dynamics of photons from two fixed extreme Reissner-Nordström black holes

12:00PM

P. Drummond (30')
First-principles many-body theory for ultra-cold atoms

12:30AM

Lunch (Physics Atrium)

Chairman: J. Pullin

1:30PM

B. G. Sidharth (30')
Alternative Routes to Gravitation

2:00PM

D. Blair (20')
Testing General Relativity in the Strong Field Limit with a World Wide Network of Gravitational Wave

2:20PM

T. Ohira (20')
Resonance with Stochastic Time

 


Ross Lecture theatre


Room 2.15

 


Chairman: J. Pullin


Chairman: P. Journeau

2:40PM


T. Ralph
Violation of Quantum Mechanical Uncertainty Relations in the Presence of Closed Timelike Curves


Z. Gh. Moghaddam
Casimir Effect and boundray conditions

3:00PM

Tea break (Physics Atrium)

 


Chairman: V. Flambaum


Chairman: M. Tobar

3:30PM


D. Dolce
Quantum mechanics from periodic dynamics: the bosonic case


C. Fulton
Analyses of the 2dF Deep Field

3:50PM


M. Seriu
Fundamental effects in the measurement of quantum vacuum fluctuations


J. Hartnett
Electromagnetic waves in an expanding 5D universe

4:10PM


M. Keskin
Dynamic phase transitions in the kinetic spin-1/2 metamagnetic Ising system under a time-dependent magnetic field within the effective-field theory


R. Booth
Predicted behaviour of a universe with a low photon-baryon ratio

4:30PM


J-E.He
New methods for measuring gravitational constant


R. Povey
Microwave cavity search for paraphotons

Physics Atrium

4:50PM


Posters with drinks (1 hour 20 mins)

UniClub


7:00PM
 


Conference Banquet


Poster session


M. Abbasnezhad


Acoustic waves in e-p-i plasma for weakly relativistic


B. Bligh


Does Electromagnetic Radiation Have Entropy? The carnot Cycle Revisited


S. K. Chung


Accelerated Searches of Gravitational Waves Using Graphics Processing Units


J. Dickau


Do Thermodynamic Entropy and Quantum Non-locality Have a Common Basis?


S. Goradia


From Qubits to Cosmology


S. Goradia


Newtonian Gravity in Natural Units


J-E. He


On physical realism


S. Hooper


Fast Detection of Gravitational Waves using IIR Filters


M. Karimi


Dust acoustic in dusty plasmas with electrons, variable dust charge and nonthermal ions


J. Kitching


Chip-Scale Atomic Magnetometers


V. Korotkikh


Constants of nature: the view from arithmetic


J. Moret-Bailly


Astrophysics needs coherent and parametric spectroscopy


 


Thursday Nov 26th

Ross Lecture Theatre

Chairman: P. Drummond

9:20AM

A. Roberts (40')
Effectively model dynamics, deterministic and stochastic, across multiple space and time scales

10:00AM

D. Alonso (30')
Dynamics of time correlation functions and stochastic quantum trajectories methods in Non-Markovian systems

10:30AM

Tea break (Physics Atrium)

Chairman: T. Mendonça

11:00AM

P. Shukla (30')
Nonlinear Nanostructures in Dense Quantum Plasmas

11:30AM

H. Kroger (30')
Percept Switches in Binocular Rivalry: Dynamics of Nucleation and Domain Walls

12:00PM

R. Triay (30')
Dark energy: fiction or reality?

12:30AM

Lunch (Physics Atrium)

Chairman: R. Triay

1:30PM

M. Lachièze-Rey (30')
Category theory and Physics

 


Ross Lecture theatre


Room 2.15

 


Chairman: R. Triay


Chairman: H. Price

2:00PM


K. Howard
Causal structure of general relativistic spacetimes


A. Fowler
Precise Predictions for Higgs Production in Neutralino Decays for the CP-violating MSSM

2:20PM


S. G. Kamath
A derivation of the scalar propagator for a planar model in curved space


C. Brannen
Position, Momentum, and the Standard Model Fermions

2:40PM


P. Journeau
Emergence of dimensions in cosmology


M. Sheppeard
Ternary logic in lepton mass quantum numbers

3:00PM

Tea break (Physics Atrium)

 


Chairman: H. Kroger


Chairman: P. Abbott

3:30PM


T. O'Kane
Vertex renormalization, regularization and geophysical flows


S. Tyler
Higher loop effective potentials in supersymmetric theories

3:50PM


J. Wojdylo
Cold, dilute spinless particles interacting via a weak, finite-range potential: an application of asymptotic approximation of integrals in computational physics


J. Pienaar
Computational Consequences of the ‘Event Operator’ Formalism in Quantum Optics

4:10PM


J. Wang
Quantum random walk, physical implementation, and potential applications


J. Novak
Chiral formulation for hyperKahler sigma models on cotangent bundles of symmetric spaces

4:30PM


E. Howell
Using temporal distributions of transient events to characterize cosmological source populations


B. S. Lakshmi
Variants of the Klein-Gordon equation

4:50PM


P. Nurwantoro
Computation of superconducting surface sheaths in a sphere of type II superconducting material


F. Payandeh
Divergent Integrals of QED in Krein Space Quantization

Ross Lecture Theatre

5:10PM

PANEL DISCUSSION
"What do you see as exciting future developments in physics?"
G. 't Hooft, P. Shukla, B.G. Sidharth, R. Triay, G. Milburn

6:10PM


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