SELECTED INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCES
- Extremal black holes, gravitational collapse and thermodynamics, talk presented at the 20th annual midwest relativity meeting, University of Guelph, November 5-6, 2010. Link.
- Extremal black holes and the classical origin of gravitational entropy, talk presented at the theoretical physics institute 50th anniversary celebration, University of Alberta, September 16-17, 2010. Link.
- Numerical simulations of gravitational collapse and the origin of gravitational entropy, invited talk at CAP Congress 2010, Toronto, June 7-11, 2010. Link.
- Dimensional reduction and variational boundary conditions: 3D scalar model as a 4D EM limit, CAP Congress 2010, Toronto, June 7-11, 2010. Link.
- Topological Casimir effect and Proca Connection, talk presented at 2009 CAP Congress, June 7-10, University of Moncton. Link.
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking via gravitation, invited talk at Theory Canada IV, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, June 4-7, 2008. Link.
- Comapct dimensions and the Casimir effect: the Proca connection, invited talk at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), The theory and practice of fluctuation-induced intercations, Santa Barbara, Aug. 29, 2008. Link.
- Interactions induced by quantum fluctuations, invited talk at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Oct. 21, 2008. Link.
- Einstein gravity from spontaneous conformal symmetry breaking. Tenth Eastern Gravity Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, May 31-June 1, 2007. Link.
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking via gravitation, invited talk at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Feb. 27, 2007. Link.
- The Dirichlet, Neumann and EM Casimir piston, invited talk at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Oct. 8, 2007. Link.
- The Casimir piston in 3+1 dimensions, invited talk at the 2007 CAP Congress Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 18, 2007.
- Empty space is not so empty: the Casimir effect, invited talk at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Sept. 26, 2006. Link.
- Multidimensional cut-off technique for massless scalar fields and its applications to Bose-Einstein condensates, presented at the 2006 APS April meeting, Dallas, TX. Link.