呱呱爆料

My current research focuses on a number of foundational questions in particle and astroparticle physics:

• The nature of dark matter, and the mechanism behind the matter-antimatter asymmetry 
• Quantum field theoretic description of complex regimes and environments
• For a full list of publications, see 

Current graduate students

• Branden Aitken (MSc)
• Kate Taylor (PhD)

Graduated students (UVic)

• Saeid Foroughi-Abari (PhD) → postdoc (Carleton)
• Kate Taylor (MSc) → PhD student (UVic)
• Matthias Le Dall (PhD) → postdoc (UVic) → data science, Scotiabank
• Patrick deNiverville (PhD) → postdoc (IBS Daejon) → postdoc (LANL)
• Xun Wang (PhD) → postdoc (Huazhong U)
• Patrick deNiverville (MSc) → PhD student (UVic)

Current Theory Group postdocs

• Eric Mefford (from September 2021)

Former postdocs

• Nikita Blinov 2021-23 (→ faculty, York U)
• Akash Jain 2018-21 (→ postdoc, Amsterdam U)
• Shohei Okawa 2018-21 (→ postdoc, Bercelona U)
• Ashish Shukla 2017-20 (→ postdoc, Perimeter; Ecole Polytechnique)
• Chien-Yi Chen (→ postdoc, Northwestern U)
• Stefan Janiszewski
• Matthias Kaminski (→ faculty, U. Alabama)
• David McKeen (→ postdoc, U. Washington; Research Scientist, TRIUMF)
• Kristan Jensen (→ postdoc, Stony Brook U; faculty, SFSU)
• John Ward (→ BC Government)
• Touko Tahkokallio
• Yudi Santoso

Course webpages for 2024/25

• Fall: 
• Fall: PHYS 423 Quantum Mechanics II
• Fall: PHYS 561 Research Skills and Professional Development (Coordinator)

Undergraduate

• PHYS415 General Relativity & Cosmology - Fall: 2009, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
• PHYS321A Classical Mechanics I - Fall: 2007, 08
• PHYS422 Electromagnetic Theory - Spring: 2006, 07, 08, 12, 13
• ASTR405 Introduction to Cosmology - Spring 2022
• PHYS490 Directed Studies: Black Holes - Spring: 2011, 2017
• PHYS490 Directed Studies: Group Theory and Particle Physics - Summer: 2018 

Graduate

• PHYS509/506B Symmetries in Particle Physics - Spring 2011, 13, 17, 18, 20
• PHYS501A/600A Intro to Quantum Field Theory - Spring: 2009(as 506B), 10(as 506B), 12, 17, 18, 20, 22
• PHYS501B/600B Advanced Quantum Field Theory - Spring: 2013, Summer: 2017, Fall: 2019
• PHYS500B Quantum Mechanics II - Spring: 2014, 15, 16
• PHYS502A Classical Electromagnetism - Fall: 2006, 07, 08, 09, 10
• PHYS580 Directed Studies: Intro to Renormalization - Spring: 2008
• PHYS580 Directed Studies: AdS/CFT Correspondence - Spring: 2010