spintwo.net jens boos | theoretical gravity & high energy physics

Talks

  • Kilometer-scale ultraviolet regulators and astrophysical black holes
  • DPG Spring Meeting 2024
  • University of Gießen, Germany
  • Monday, March 11, 2024, 5:05pm
  • slides: lcg-v1.pdf
  • Asymptotic nonlocality
  • Theory seminar, Van Swinderen Institute
  • University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Thursday, January 6, 2022, 3:00pm
  • slides: asymptotic-nonlocality-v1.pdf
  • Topological defects and regularity in non-local gravity
  • DPG Meeting of the Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK)
  • Parallel Session GR10 - “Scalar-tensor and non-local gravity theories”
  • Thursday, September 2, 2021, 5:45pm
  • slides: topology-v1.pdf
  • Effects of Non-Locality in Gravity and Quantum Theory
  • 2021 DTP/WITP P R Wallace PhD thesis prize talk
  • DTP Annual Business Meeting, Canadian Association of Physicists
  • Monday, June 14, 2021, 1:20pm
  • slides: cap-wallace-thesis-prize-v2.pdf
  • Regular solutions in weak-field infinite-derivative theories: Green function approach
  • Quantum Gravity, Higher Derivatives & Nonlocality
  • Online workshop, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Thursday, March 11, 2021, 12:30pm
  • slides: green-v1.pdf; recording: watch it here
  • Unexpected features of non-locality: resonant particle production
  • High Energy Theory group seminar
  • William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
  • Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 2:00pm
  • slides: non-local-particles-v1.pdf
  • Effects of Non-Locality in Gravity and Quantum Theory
  • Ph.D. defense
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 2:00pm
  • slides: phd-defense-v3.pdf
  • Ultrarelativistic objects in non-local infinite-derivative gravity
  • High Energy Theory group seminar
  • William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
  • Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 3:00pm
  • slides: gyraton-v1.pdf
  • Was ist eigentlich ein schwarzes Loch? (English: What is a black hole?)
  • Rotary Club Oberhausen Antony–Hütte
  • Hotel NH, Oberhausen, Germany
  • Friday, December 20, 2019, 1:00pm
  • slides: rotary-2019-boos.pdf
  • Black holes and mathematical sandpaper
  • The Tenth Annual Symposium for Graduate Physics Research
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Thursday, September 26, 2019, 9:45am
  • slides: gpsa-symposium-2019-boos.pdf
  • Non-local “ghost-free” gravity
  • Mitarbeiterseminar
  • University of Cologne, Germany
  • Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 4:00pm
  • slides: ghost-free-gravity-v2.pdf
  • An exact Kerr–(A)dS black hole solution with torsion and curvature
  • Gravity seminar
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Friday, April 12, 2019, 12:30pm, CCIS 4-285
  • slides: kerr-torsion-v3.pdf
  • Black holes and Einstein's end of eternity
  • Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition 2019
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Tuesday, March 26, 2018, 5:00pm, Convocation Hall
  • recording: watch it here
  • Quantum-mechanical scattering on a delta potential in ghost-free theory
  • Gravity seminar
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Friday, November 2, 2018, 2:00pm, CCIS 4-285
  • slides: non-local-scattering-v3.pdf
  • An exact stationary string configuration attached to a rotating black hole
  • The Ninth Annual Symposium for Graduate Physics Research
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Friday, October 19, 2018, 9:45am, CCIS 4-196
  • slides: strings-gpsa-symposium-v1.pdf
  • Principal Killing strings in higher-dimensional Kerr-NUT-(A)dS geometries
  • Joint Canada Asia Pacific Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 2:40pm, CCIS L1-140
  • slides: principal-killing-strings-pres-v2.pdf
  • Linearized short-distance modifications of Einstein's General Relativity
  • Graduate Weekend 2018
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Saturday, March 3, 2018, 13:20
  • slides: graduate-weekend-presentation-boos.pdf
  • Cosmic strings in stationary black hole geometries: stringy matter and principal Killing strings
  • Mitarbeiterseminar
  • University of Cologne, Germany
  • Tuesday, January 9, 2018, 12:00
  • slides: principal-killing-strings-pres-v1.pdf
  • Curvature tensors in a 4D Riemann–Cartan space: Irreducible decompositions and superenergy
  • Geometric Foundations of Gravity in Tartu
  • University of Tartu, Estonia
  • Tuesday, August 29, 2017, 17:00
  • slides: estonia-v1.pdf
  • The Bel-Robinson tensor as an irreducible piece of the Bel tensor
  • Mathematical Physics and General Relativity Symposium in Honor of Professor Ivor Robinson
  • University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
  • Sunday, May 7, 2017, 16:30
  • slides: robinson-v2.pdf
  • Quasi-normal modes: what can ringing black holes tell us about quantum gravity?
  • The Seventh Annual Symposium for Graduate Physics Research
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Friday, September 23, 2016, 13:00
  • slides: gpsa-colloquium-presentation-boos.pdf
  • Poincaré gauge theory and its deformed Lie algebra - mass-spin classification of elementary particles
  • PSI Student Seminar
  • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Friday, December 4, 2015
  • slides: 18_deformed_poincare_algebra_v1.pdf
  • Classical aspects of Poincaré gauge theory of gravity
  • Quantum gravity group meeting
  • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Wednesday, November 11, 2015
  • slides: 18_classical_aspects_pgt_v2.pdf
  • Differential forms: from classical force to the Wilson loop
  • Perimeter Scholars International seminar (“psiminar”)
  • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Wednesday, September 2, 2015, 19:00
  • slides: 17_diff.pdf
  • Plebański–Demiański solution of general relativity and its expressions quadratic and cubic in curvature: analogies to electromagnetism
  • 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting 2015
  • La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
  • Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 15:00
  • slides: 05_elm_inv_pres_v2.pdf
  • Poincaré gauge theory of gravity — An Introduction
  • BCGS weekend seminar
  • Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
  • Sunday, April 19, 2015
  • slides: bad_honnef_2015_pres_v2.pdf