Adam Ritz

Adam Ritz
Position
Professor of Physics & Astronomy
University of Victoria
Contact
Office: Elliott 115
250-721-7731
Credentials

BSc (Tasmania), MSc (Melbourne), PhD (Imperial College, London), Fellow (American Physical Society)

Area of expertise

Theoretical physics

I'm a member of the UVic Particle Theory Group, and my research interests include:

  • Particle and astroparticle phenomenology
  • Formal aspects of quantum field theory

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 INSPIRE
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

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
Employment
2024 (winter)
2014-2022
2017-date
2011-2017
2005-2011
2004-2005
1999-2003
1998-1999		 Associate Dean Research (Acting)
Department Chair
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Fellow (Theoretical Division)
Research Fellow (DAMTP, Caius College)
Research Associate (FTPI)		 University of Victoria
University of Victoria
University of Victoria
University of Victoria
University of Victoria
CERN
University of Cambridge
University of Minnesota
Education
1995-1998
1995-1995
1991-1994		 PhD
MSc
BSc(Hons)		 Imperial College (U London)
University of Melbourne
University of Tasmania