Community, Outreach and Press
Community
- I was one of the organizers of the conference 50 Years of Horndeski Gravity: Exploring Modified Gravity held at the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo the week of July 15, 2024
- In 2020 I organized a Winter School on Theoretical Cosmology at Nordita
- At McGill I was the hep-th journal club organizer
Outreach
- Interviewed by NiklasOPF on YouTube (see below), which discusses my paper on extensions before inflation.
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Talk for Cégep students at Marianopolis College, “Unveiling the Big Bang”, Montréal, 23/01/2024
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Talk for the Club mathématique de l’Université de Sherbrooke entitled “Les mathématiques du Big Bang (The mathematics of the Big Bang)”, Sherbrooke, 12/10/2023
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Interviewed for a documentary by Phil Halper released on YouTube (see below), which discusses my paper on extensions before inflation.
Some of the clips were reused in this video:
- Public talk as part of the Astronomy on Tap event (“Astronomie en fût” in French) entitled “L’univers a-t-il eu un commencement? (Did the universe have a beginning?)”, Pub L’Île Noire, Montréal, 25/04/2017
Finally Jérôme Quintin from @mcgillu who will explain how the Universe began. #AstroMcGill #AstroEnFut pic.twitter.com/Be0jiZv3cT
— AstroMcGill (@AstroMcGill) April 26, 2017
- During my undergraduate years, I was a guide at the Bishop’s University Observatory
Press
- Video by PBS Space Time (below), which discusses my paper on extensions before inflation
- Article by Quanta Magazine about my paper on extensions before inflation
- UWaterloo Applied Math highlighted the above Quanta article
- Article by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Press Office about my paper suggesting our universe may be “small”
- Article on Universe Today about my paper suggesting our universe may be “small”
- Article on Phys.org about my paper suggesting our universe may be “small”
- Article written by Bernard Carr for the New Scientist, which discusses the possibility of primordial black holes from “before the big bang”, mentioning my work on the subject
- Article written by Charles Choi for NOVA about my paper on interacting dark energy and dark matter
- Article (in Portuguese) written by Cientistas Feministas about super-massive black holes, which mentions my paper on the seeds of super-massive black holes
- Article on Phys.org about my paper on cataclysmic variables