Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Lethbridge
Standing
(L to R): Mark Walton, Wissam Chemissany, Ahmed Farag Ali, Saurya Das, Borislav
Belchev, Sourav Sur.
Sitting:
Arundhati Dasgupta.
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Faculty: Profs. Saurya Das, Arundhati
Dasgupta,
Mark
Walton. Post-Doctoral Fellows: Drs. Wissam
Chemissany.
Graduate Students: Borislav
Belchev, Ahmed
Farag Ali,
Ali Nassar. What we do: 1. Research and collaborations in
Theoretical Physics (Members’ Research can be found in their respective
homepages). 2. Teach Graduate Courses in Physics.
Courses:
I.
Introduction
to Quantum Gravity, Physics 7990 (Instructor: A. Dasgupta, Fall 2008. Outline). 3. Weekly Journal Clubs (Wednesdays,
D-460, 2:00 PM). 4. Organize Monthly Public Lectures on
Physics, in collaboration with the Perimeter Institute: List of Public Lectures: 1. LHC – World’s most powerful
microscope – John Ellis and Robert Orr. 2. From
Einstein to Quantum Information – Anton Zeilinger. 5.
Host scientific visitors. 6. Sometimes celebrate after a fruitful (as defined
by us) discussion. Representative
Publications: 1.
Borislav
Belchev, Mark A. Walton, On Wigner functions and a
damped star product in dissipative phase-space quantum mechanics. 2.
Saurya
Das, Elias C. Vagenas, Universality
of Quantum Gravity Corrections. 3.
Arundhati
Dasgupta, The
gravitational path integral and trace of the diffeomorphisms. 4.
Ahmed
Ali, Saurya Das, Elias C Vagenas, Discreteness
of Space from the Generalized Uncertainty Principle. Positions: We are always looking for new
members. If you are interested in becoming a Graduate Student, Post-Doc or a
Summer Research Student in our group, feel free to get in touch with one of
us (Email addresses can be found in their respective homepages). |