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PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE

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Perimeter Institute brings great thinkers from around the world to Canada to share their ideas on a wide variety of interesting and topical subjects. These lectures and debates are aimed at non-specialists. No mathematical or scientific knowledge is necessary or assumed. Each event is explicitly tailored for the general public and everyone is welcome to attend.

Organizer(s): John Matlock  

Collection URL: http://pirsa.org/C04001

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What Banged?
Speaker(s): Neil Turok
Abstract: The evidence that the universe emerged 14 billion years ago from an event called 'the big bang' is overwhelming. Yet the cause of this event remains deeply mysterious. In the conventional picture, the 'initial singularity' is unexplained. It is simply assumed that the universe somehow sprang into ex... read more
Date: 05/03/2008 - 7:00 pm

The Curious World of Probabilities
Speaker(s): Jeffrey Rosenthal
Abstract: Probabilities and randomness arise whenever we're not sure what will happen next. They apply to everything from lottery jackpots to airplane crashes; email spam to insurance policies; medical studies to election polls. This exploration of odds and oddities will explain how a Probability Perspective ... read more
Date: 02/04/2008 - 7:00 am

Science Fiction and Reality
Speaker(s): Gerard T' Hooft
Abstract: In the recent past, rapid scientific and technological developments have had tremendous impact on human society. Notably, the personal computer, internet and mobile telephones changed the world and shrank our planet. These developments are vastly different from the forecasts by science fiction autho... read more
Date: 07/05/2008 - 7:00 am

Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The coolest stuff in the universe
Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein published three revolutionary ideas that changed forever how we view Nature. At the beginning of the 21st century Einstein's thinking is shaping one of the key scientific and technological wonders of contemporary life: atomic clocks, the best timekeepers... read more
Date: 04/06/2008 - 7:00 am

Before the Big Bang: Is There Evidence For Something And If So, What?
Speaker(s): Roger Penrose
Abstract: There is now a great deal of evidence confirming the existence of a very hot and dense early stage of the universe. Much of this data comes from a detailed study of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - radiation from the early universe that was most recently measured by NASA's WMAP satellite. But... read more
Date: 01/10/2008 - 7:00 pm

Anticipating A New Golden Age
Speaker(s): Frank Wilczek
Abstract: Our present Core Theory of matter (aka “standard model”) was born in the 1970s, a Golden Age for fundamental physics. To date it has passed every experimental test, extending – by many orders of magnitude – to higher energies, shorter distances, and greater precision than were available in t... read more
Date: 05/11/2008 - 7:00 pm

The Physics of Impossible Things
Speaker(s): Ben Schumacher
Abstract: Some things can happen in our Universe, and others cannot. The laws of physics establish the boundary between possibility and impossibility. Physicists naturally spend most of their time thinking about the possible. In this lecture, however, we will make a brief reconnaissance across the frontier to... read more
Date: 03/12/2008 - 7:00 am

From Tornadoes to Black Holes: How to Survive an Information Catastrophe
Speaker(s): Patrick Hayden
Abstract: Black holes are regions of space with gravity so strong that nothing can escape from them, not even light. This isn't science fiction - there's even a gigantic black hole at the center of our galaxy. It's hard to imagine a more effective way to irrevocably erase and destroy a computer's hard drive t... read more
Date: 01/04/2009 - 7:00 pm

Living Through Four Revolutions
Speaker(s): Freeman Dyson
Abstract: I belong to the lucky generation who survived World War Two and unexpectedly found ourselves alive and young at the dawn of four simultaneous revolutions. We were present at the creation of four new technologies that were to continue transforming the world for the following sixty-five ... read more
Date: 01/06/2011 - 7:00 pm
Tech Note: Edited and placed up June 29th

Origins of the Digital Universe
Speaker(s): George Dyson
Abstract: Some numbers mean things, and some numbers do things. Making--and breaking--that distinction was central to renowned mathematician John von Neumann’s implementation of Alan Turing’s Universal Machine in 1945-56. In this lecture, you will learn about the unlikeliest place on earth to build ... read more
Date: 18/09/2011 - 10:00 am

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