PIRSA:C07018 - Einstein Plus 2007 Subscribe to podcast

Modern physics is potentially the richest, most fascinating and thought-provoking part of a high school student's exposure to the wonders and mysteries of our universe. To help teachers achieve this potential, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics has designed an international teachers' workshop. The Einstein Plus program was created by physicists at Perimeter Institute in conjunction with local and regional professional educators.

Organizer(s): Damian Pope  

Collection URL: http://pirsa.org/C07018

PIRSA:07070008  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File , MP3  , PDF) Which Format? Quantum Information, Entanglement and Nonlocality - EinsteinPlus Keynote Session Speaker(s): Jonathan Walgate Abstract: One simple way to think about physics is in terms of information. We gain information about physical systems by observing them, and with luck this data allows us to predict what they will do next. Quantum mechanics doesn't just change the rules about how physical objects behave - it changes the rule... read more Date: 04/07/2007 - 10:30 am Collection: Einstein Plus 2007 URL: http://pirsa.org/07070008/  Share:

PIRSA:07070009  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File , MP3  , PDF) Which Format? The Quantum Information Age - EinsteinPlus Keynote Session Speaker(s): Daniel Gottesman Abstract: The world at the size of individual atoms obeys very different laws of physics from those we are used to in the everyday world around us. Quantum mechanics rules, allowing atoms to be, in some sense, in more than one place at a time. Researchers all over the world are working to build "quantum com... read more Date: 10/07/2007 - 10:30 am Collection: Einstein Plus 2007 URL: http://pirsa.org/07070009/  Share:

PIRSA:07070010  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File , MP3  , PDF) Which Format? Looking for the Standard Model in Quantum Gravity - EinsteinPlus Keynote Session Speaker(s): Sundance Bilson-Thompson Abstract: This talk discusses Einstein's special and general theories of relativity in a simple manner. Some simple mathematical arguments are included. This leads to a brief description of Loop Quantum Gravity - one of the most popular way of trying to describe gravity using the ideas of quantum mechanics. I... read more Date: 11/07/2007 - 10:30 am Collection: Einstein Plus 2007 URL: http://pirsa.org/07070010/  Share:

PIRSA:07070011  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File , MP3  , PDF) Which Format? Resolving the Mystery of Dark Matter - EinsteinPlus Keynote Session Speaker(s): James Taylor Abstract: For more than 70 years, astronomers have had the uneasy suspicion that there was more to the universe than met the eye - much, much more. In the past five years, this suspicion has become a certainty. We now know for sure that normal matter and normal radiation account for only 4% of the density of ... read more Date: 20/07/2007 - 10:40 am Collection: Einstein Plus 2007 URL: http://pirsa.org/07070011/  Share: