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I'm part of the High Energy Theory Group at the Physics Department of McGill University. If you are wondering whether I am interested in advising new M.Sc. or Ph.D. students, the answer is that good students are always welcome (subject to availability of funds)! Note: I cannot accept students directly; please apply to our graduate program at http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/grads/application.html.
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My research focuses on the particle physics/cosmology interface. Recent interests include flavor nonuniversality in B meson decays, dark matter (DM) model-building, non-MSSM DM scenarios, direct detection of DM, and aspects of possible DM annihilation in the galaxy. I am also interested in models of electroweak baryogenesis or scenarios that strengthen the electroweak phase transition. In the past I have worked on brane-antibrane and other inflation models from string theory, the search for novel features in the inflation power spectrum, indicating possible signals of new physics in the CMB, and implications of the string theory landscape for the cosmological constant problem. Here is my publication list, at SLAC's high energy physics database inSPIRE.Present and past graduate students, with links to their publications
| Name | Dates | Research Area | Degree/Present (or subsequent) Position |
| Varun Muralidharan | 2023- | Dark energy model analyses | M.Sc. candidate |
| Mike Jafs | 2022- | Dark ages cosmology | M.Sc. candidate |
| Srobona Basak | 2022- | B anomalies in 2HDMs | M.Sc. candidate |
| Caitlyn Dewar | 2022- | DM effects on PTA GWs | M.Sc. candidate |
| Karishma Moorthy | 2020- | Composite dark matter | M.Sc./public sector (B.C.) |
| Guillermo Gambini | 2020-2022 | Dark sectors | Ph.D./postdoc, Sao Paolo U. |
| Benoit Laurent | 2019- | Electroweak baryogenesis, gravitational waves | Ph.D. candidate |
| Matteo Puel | 2018-23 | Dark matter cosmology | Ph.D./private sector (Italy) |
| Jean-Samuel Roux | 2018- | Mirror and hidden sectors | M.Sc./Ph.D. candidate |
| Avi Friedlander | 2017-2019 | Electroweak baryogenesis | M.Sc./Ph.D, Queen's U./public sector (ON) |
| Mir Faruk | 2017-2018 | Swampland conjectures | M.Sc., Ph.D. candidate |
| Michael Laplante | 2016-2018 | Thermal field theory | M.Sc. candidate |
| Bryce Cyr | 2015-2017 | Glueball dark matter | M.Sc./Ph.D./postdoc, Manchester U. |
| Jeremie Choquette | 2012-2018 | Dark matter indirect signals | M.Sc./Ph.D. candidate/CEGEP instructor, Dawson College |
| Zakary Whittamore | 2012-2013 | Isospin-violating DM | M.Sc. |
| Debasish Borah | 2011-2012 | Inert doublet dark matter and EWPT | Visiting Ph.D. student (Mumbai)/ Professor, IIT Guwahati |
| Philippe Giguere | 2010-2012 | Constraining MSSM | M.Sc./ Med. School |
| Vincent Poitras | 2010-2014 | Decaying dark energy | Ph.D./ Postdoctoral candidate |
| Grace Dupuis | 2010-2016 | LHC and dark matter | M.Sc., Ph.D. |
| Chao Wang | 2009-2011 | Cosmological constant in scale invariant gravity | M.Sc. / MBA candidate |
| Guillaume Laporte | 2009-2010 | Electroweak phase transition | M.Sc. / Ph.D. candidate |
| Aaron Vincent | 2006-2012 | Galactic dark matter annihilation | M.Sc.,Ph.D. / Faculty, Queen's University |
| Daniel Laycock | 2006-2008 | Dark matter excitation | M.Sc. / Ph.D. candidate, Alberta |
| Fang Chen | 2005-2012 | Cosmology/String Theory | M.Sc., Ph.D./ postdoc, KITP Santa Barbara |
| Hiroki Yamashita | 2005-2007 | Electroweak baryogenesis | M.Sc. / Barclay Capital Japan |
| Loison Hoi | 2004-2010 | Inflation and CMB | M.Sc., Ph.D./ MQF, Univ. of Waterloo |
| Neil Barnaby | 2002-2007 | Cosmological instabilities | Ph.D. / Postdoc, DAMTP |
| Aaron Berndsen | 2001-2007 | String cosmology | Ph.D. / Actuarial administrator, Manulife |
| Julie Descheneau | 2001-2003 | Codimension d > 1 braneworld cosmology | M.Sc. / instructor, CEGEP de Maisonneuve |
| Joshua Roebke | 2001-2003 | AdS soliton in d > 6 | M.Sc. |
| Luis Valcarcel | 2001-2003 | Lorentz violation from warped compactifications | M.Sc. / Ph.D.; research scientist, SES Technologies |
| Joel Trudeau | 2000-2004 | Inflation with bulk fields | M.Sc. / CEGEP instructor, Dawson College |
| Jérémie Vinet | 2000-2005 | Brane-world cosmology | Ph.D. / CEGEP instructor, Marianopolis College |
| Hassan Firouzjahi | 1999-2003 | Topics in braneworld cosmology | Ph.D. / Faculty, IPM Tehran |
| Géraldine Servant | 1997-2001 | Pheno. studies beyond the standard model | Ph.D. / Professor, IFAE, Spain |
| Patrick Girard | 1995-2000 | Effects of scattering on electroweak baryogenesis | Ph.D. / attorney, Stikeman Elliot, Montreal |
| Tanvir Rahman | 1997-1999 | Magnetic moment effects on supernova neutrinos | M.Sc. / Ph.D. in atomic physics; postdoc |
| Michael Mostoslavsky | 1996-1998 | Photosphere formation in black hole evaporation | M.Sc. / project engineer, CAE Electronics, Montreal |
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