Here you can find: a collection of my public talks and popular articles.
And some news clippings:
- Q & A with the experts: The problem with herd immunity and COVID-19 (Radio interview with Mike Farwell Show, 570 News @43:27 minutes, Nov. 2020)
- Exploring herd immunity in fighting COVID-19 (interview with Kitchener 570 News radio, Nov. 2020)
- Fighting COVID-19 with Physics (interview with the local CTV station in Kitchener-Waterloo, Nov. 2020)
- My seminar at Fields Institute as part of COVID-19 Math Modelling Seminar Series:
- My interview with Beyond the Books podcast about Black Holes (July 2020)
- اندر اسرار سیاهچاله ها, کرم چاله ها, سفید چاله ها و آتش پاره ها
- Musta aukko säteilee (Tähdet ja avaruus, Mar. 2020)
- Black holes shouldn’t echo, but this one might. Score 1 for Stephen Hawking? (Live Science, Jan. 2020)
- Black Hole Echoes: Video and Transcript (Backreaction, Jan. 2020)
- Stephen Hawking thought black holes were ‘hairy’. New study suggests he was right (Big Think, Jan. 2020)
- Weird World of Quantum Black Holes –“May Confirm Stephen Hawking’s Hypothesis” (The Daily Galaxy, Jan. 2020)
- Gravitational wave echoes may confirm Stephen Hawking’s hypothesis of quantum black holes (Waterloo News, Jan. 2020)
- جاهد عابدی و نیایش افشردی برندگان جایزه بوکالتر کیهان شناسی 2019
- 2019 Buchalter Cosmology Prize goes to Iranian researchers (IRNA, Jan. 2020)
- PERIMETER RESEARCH RECOGNIZED AGAIN BY BUCHALTER COSMOLOGY PRIZE (Perimeter News, Jan. 2020)
- The Buchalter Cosmology Prize Announcement (235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, HI, 6th of Jan. 2020)
2019
- Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity (New Scientist, Nov. 2019), PDF copy
- Big Bang BOMBSHELL: Are we living inside a HUGE higher dimensional black hole? (Express.co.uk, June 2019)
- دنگ و فنگ بیگ بنگ ،دی جی کالا، خرداد †۱۳۹۸
- داستان مه بانگ ,خرداد ۱۳۹۸
- Ripple Effect (Discover Magazine, May 2019)
- New Scientist creates a Crisis-Anticrisis Pair (Backreaction, Jan. 2019)
- Crisis at the heart of Physics (New Scientist, Jan. 2019) , PDF copy
2018
- Perimeter congratulates 2018 Nobel laureate Donna Strickland of University of Waterloo (Sep. 2018)
- Black holes test the limits of Einstein’s relativity (Astronomy Magazine, Sep. 2018)
- Here be Dragons! (Physics 10, University of Waterloo, September 2018; keynote, PDF)
- Understanding Black Holes (Perimeter Institute Educational Video, Aug. 2018)
- Clarity on cosmic rays from deep beneath Antarctic ice (Inside the Perimeter, Jul. 2018)
- The Other 99 Percent: My keynote lecture for EinsteinPlus workshop at Perimeter Institute
- The space-time echoes that point to a new theory of reality (New Scientist, June 2018)
- کشف فیزیکی جدید، فراتر از نسبیت عام اینشتین توسط دانشمندان ایرانی, خرداد ۱۳۹۷
- Echoes of gravitational waves could point to quantum gravity (Physics World, May 2018)
- On Holographic Universe, Media Spin & the Iranian Brain Drain (my interview with Suzan Mazur, Apr. 2018)
- A black hole merger… merger… merger (Backreaction, Apr. 2018)
- Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein’s Theory (Quanta Magazine, Mar. 2018)
2017
- How do you prove that Earth is older than 10,000 years? (Backreaction, Nov. 2017)
- Scientists think they’ve spotted some of the universe’s ‘missing’ matter and it could be a lot (CBC news, Oct. 2017)
- The Other 99 Percent: My public lecture for Kitchener-Waterloo Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (Oct. 2017)
- The universe from a hologram? (Inside Perimeter, Apr. 2017)
- My public lecture on Big Bang and Holography, for the Belmont Astronomy Society (Apr. 2017)
- Echoes of a Black Hole (Aeon, Mar. 2017)
- When and Where Does Zordon Exist? (Inverse, Mar. 2017)
- Einstein’s Test (I, Science 36, p 13, Mar. 2017)
- Universum võis olla selle algusaegadel hologramm (Eesti Rahvusringhääling, Feb. 2017)
- My radio interview with Ira Flatow on Science Friday, NPR, about Big Bang and Holography (Feb. 2017)
- My interview with Radio Canada International about the Big Bang (Feb. 2017)
- Could the universe actually be a flat hologram? (Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 2017)
- My radio interview with CBC Kitchener-Waterloo about Holographic Cosmology (Feb. 2017)
- Are we living in a holographic universe? New study suggests that it’s possible (CBC News, Feb. 2017)
- Lost in space? A brief guide to the ‘holographic principle’ of the universe (Guardian, Jan. 2017)
- Surge la primera evidencia de que nuestro universo es un holograma (LaJornada, Jan. 2017)
- You Aren’t Living in a Hologram, Even if You Wish You Were (Gizmodo, Jan. 2017)
- Mind blown: The entire universe could be a hologram (USA Today, Jan. 2017)
- Study reveals evidence that the universe is a hologram (Waterloo News, Jan. 2017)
- What is the speed of dark? (Gizmodo, Jan. 2017)
- Rätselhaftes Echo aus Schwarzem Loch (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Jan. 2017)
- Did light break its own speed limit? (Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo, Jan. 2017)
- Setting space on fire (CQG+, Jan. 2017)
2016
- Was Einstein wrong? Controversial theory claims the speed of light is not a constant (Wired, Dec. 2016)
- Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is 100 Years Old, But May Not Last (Inverse, Dec. 2016)
- پژواکی از مغاک: شواهدی از ساختارهایی به اندازه پلانک در افق سیاهچاله ,آذر ۱۳۹۵
- Echoes from the Abyss (One Universe at a Time, Dec. 2016)
- A Light Change (One Universe at a Time, Dec. 2016)
- LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown (Nature News, Dec. 2016)
- Has LIGO Already Discovered Evidence For Quantum Gravity? (Forbes.COM, Dec. 2016)
- Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed, and They’re Trying to Prove It (Vice Motherboard, Dec. 2016)
- Theory challenging Einstein’s view on speed of light could soon be tested (Guardian, Nov. 2016)
- دانشمند ایرانی در پی به چالش کشیدن نظریه انیشتین , پاییز ۱۳۹۵
- Could Einstein Have Been Wrong About The Speed Of Light? (Forbes.COM, Nov. 2016)
- Gravity may have chased light in the early universe (New Scientist, Nov. 2016)
- 5 Alternative Theories to the Big Bang (July 2016)
- گفتگو با مجله دانستنیها، زمستان ۱۳۹۴
- رصد امواج گرانشی، دریچه‌ای تازه به جهان ,زمستان ۱۳۹۴
- Much Ado around Nothing: The Cosmological non-Constant Problem (Backreaction, Feb. 2016)
- مشاهده کوچک‌ترین ذرات بنیادی از دریچه بزرگ‌ترین ساختار جهان با روش کیهان‌شناس ایرانی ,زمستان ۱۳۹۴
- آسمان مانند یک مرز ,زمستان ۱۳۹۴
- فیزیکدان ایرانی برنده جایزه کیهان شناسی بوکالتر شد, زمستان ۱۳۹۴
- The Sky as a Limit (Perimeter Institute News, Jan. 2016)
- Cosmology Prizes for Challenging Research (Jan. 2016)
- گفتگوی #منوتوخبر با دکتر نیایش افشردی، اخترفیزیک‌دان ایرانی ,زمستان ۱۳۹۴
- Waterloo astrophysicists win third in Buchalter Cosmology Prize competition (Jan. 2016)
2015
- “Changing what we know” our work featured in the UW state of the university report (Oct. 2015)
- Equation Series: Proof Restaurant in Uptown Waterloo (Apr. 2015)
- Detecting Black Hole Firewalls (FQXi podcast, Mar. 2015)
- Do black hole firewalls have observable consequences? (Backreaction, Feb. 2015)
2014
- Black Hole at the Birth of the Universe (Perimeter Institute News, Aug. 2014)
- The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time (Scientific American, Aug. 2014)
- (۱۳۹۳, در جستجوی مادۀ تاریک با همگرایی گرانشی ضعیف گذری (مقاله در فیزیک روز
- Jos voit lukea Suomen, tässä suosittu artikkeli työmme!
2013
- Bye Bye Big Bang! (FQXi podcast, Oct. 2013)
- Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe? (Nature News, Sep. 2013)
2010
- Cosmic bubble made cold spot in big bang afterglow (New Scientist, Jun 2010)
- Looking for Cosmic Clues (Waterloo Region Record, Mar. 2010)
- گفتگو با نشریه گاما ,بهار ۱۳۸۶
