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James Weatherall: The Physics of Wall Street
James Weatherall - University of California, Irvine
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Molly Shoichet: Engineering Change in Medicine
Molly Shoichet - University of Toronto
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Michael Cates: Bulletproof Custard: Fluids That Stop Flowing When You Push Them Too Hard
Michael Cates - University of Cambridge
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Tim Palmer: Climate Change, Chaos and Inexact Computing
Tim Palmer - University of Oxford
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Katherine Freese: The Dark Side of the Universe
Katherine Freese - The University of Texas at Austin
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Victoria Kaspi: The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars
Victoria Kaspi - McGill University
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David Wineland: Keeping Better Time: The Era of Optical Atomic Clocks
David Wineland - National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Neil Turok: The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything
Neil Turok - University of Edinburgh
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James Weatherall: The Physics of Wall Street
James Weatherall - University of California, Irvine
Twenty-first century finance is built on complex mathematical tools developed by “quants,” a different breed of investor with expertise in fields such as physics, mathematics, and computer science. These models have been the basis for both new trading strategies and new financial products, leading… -
Molly Shoichet: Engineering Change in Medicine
Molly Shoichet - University of Toronto
Imagine going beyond treating the symptoms of disease and instead stopping it and reversing it. This is the promise of regenerative medicine. In her Perimeter Institute public lecture, Prof. Molly Shoichet will tell three compelling stories that are relevant to cancer, blindness and stroke. In each… -
Michael Cates: Bulletproof Custard: Fluids That Stop Flowing When You Push Them Too Hard
Michael Cates - University of Cambridge
When small, hard particles are suspended in a fluid, they make it more resistant to flow. The higher the particle concentration, the higher the viscosity. Add enough particles and fluid stops flowing entirely, becoming a jammed solid - this makes intuitive sense. Less intuitive and more intriguing… -
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Mario Livio: Brilliant Blunders
Even the greatest scientists have made some serious blunders. "Brilliant Blunders" concerns the evolution of life on Earth, of the Earth itself, of stars, and of the universe as a whole. In this talk, astrophysicist Dr. Mario Livio will explore and analyze major errors committed by such luminaries… -
Tim Palmer: Climate Change, Chaos and Inexact Computing
Tim Palmer - University of Oxford
How well can we predict our future climate? If the flap of a butterfly’s wings can change the course of weather a week or so from now, what hope trying to predict anything about our climate a hundred years hence? In this talk I will discuss the science of climate change from a perspective which… -
Art McDonald: A Deeper Understanding of the Universe from 2 km Underground
Arthur B. McDonald - Queen's University
By creating an ultra-clean underground location with a highly reduced radioactive background, otherwise impossible measurements can be performed to study fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) was a 1,000 tonne heavy-water-based neutrino detector… -
Katherine Freese: The Dark Side of the Universe
Katherine Freese - The University of Texas at Austin
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe, from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars, constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The remaining 95 percent is a recipe of 25 percent dark matter and 70 percent dark energy, both nonluminous… -
Victoria Kaspi: The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars
Victoria Kaspi - McGill University
Neutron stars are a celestial gift to scientists. These incredibly dense collapsed stars act as very precise cosmic beacons that help shed light on some of the most challenging problems in modern physics. In her Feb. 3 talk at Perimeter Institute, astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi will explore these… -
Paul Schaffer: Get a Half-Life: Isotopes as the unlikely Hero of Modern Mediicine
Paul Schaffer - TRIUMF
Emerging techniques and technologies, drawn from many fields of science and medicine, are allowing us to peer inside the human body with unprecedented sensitivity and to probe the fundamental processes of life – in real time. TRIUMF’s Life Sciences Division is making such studies possible with… -
David Wineland: Keeping Better Time: The Era of Optical Atomic Clocks
David Wineland - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Atomic clocks are the most precise timekeepers ever built. If you could keep an advanced atomic clock running long enough, it would neither gain nor lose a single second over the entire lifespan of the universe. With the availability of spectrally pure lasers and the ability to precisely measure… -
Neil Turok: The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything
Neil Turok - University of Edinburgh
Fundamental physics has reached a turning point. The most powerful experiments ever devised are revealing the structure of the universe with unprecedented clarity. On the largest scales – the whole visible universe – and the tiniest, we are discovering remarkable simplicity, which our theories do…