Note: This webpage is under construction. If you have any comments or concerns, please contact Everett Patterson via email (ea2patte[at]uwaterloo.ca).
Welcome to Prof. Robert B. Mann's Research group webpage!
We are a theoretical physics group based in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, with close ties to the Department of Applied Mathematics, the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, the Institute for Quantum Computing, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Our work covers a broad range of topics from General Relativity to Quantum Information, while also exploring what happens at their intersections such as the work being done in Relativistic Quantum Information and Black Hole Chemistry.
We have a large research group including a steady stream of international visitors allowing for collaborative explorations of questions arising at the intersection of various areas of contemporary theoretical physics.
Some of the questions that guide our work are:
How would relativity influence how a quantum computer worked?
Could we use a quantum probe to peek inside a black hole?
Is it possible that the Big Bang could be replaced with a black hole at the beginning of time?