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 Phil Halper on YouTube (see below), which discusses my paper on inflation in quantum quadratic gravity.
- 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
- Video by Sabine Hossenfelder (below), which discusses my paper on inflation in quadratic gravity
- Article by Quanta Magazine about my paper on extensions before inflation
- UWaterloo Applied Math highlighted the above Quanta article
- Article written by Leah Crane for the New Scientist 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 written by Rohail T. for Quantum Zeitgeist about my paper on inflation in quantum quadratic gravity
- Article by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Press Office about my paper suggesting our universe may be “small”
- 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
More press that mentions my paper on inflation in quantum quadratic gravity (yet more can be found here):
- ÉTS (in French)
- Perimeter Institute
- University of Waterloo
- Sciencepost 1 (in French), Sciencepost 2
- GNT (in French)
- Cambridge Today
- SlashDot
- EurekAlert!
- Phys.org
- Universe Today
- The Brighter Side
- Time News 1, Time News 2
- Gizmodo
- IFL Science
- Yahoo 1, Yahoo 2
- SciTechDaily
- MyScience
- SciExplore
- Ingenieur.de (in German)
- Olhar Digital (in Portuguese)
- Inovação tecnológica (in Portuguese)
- CPG (in Portuguese)
- Muy interesante (in Spanish)
- Science Daily
- ssbcrack
- Top Tech News
- The Debrief
- Gagets 360
- Mirage News
- inkl 1, inkl 2
- Daily Kos
- Neo science hub
More mentions of my paper on extensions before inflation:
- Battle of the Big Bang, a popular book by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper
- Big Think 1, Big Think 2, Big Think 3, Big Think 4
- Wired
- Presse-citron (in French)
- Spektrum (in German)
- Futur-en-seine (in French)
- Science springs
- Cultura cientifica (in Spanish)
More mentions of my paper suggesting our universe may be “small”: