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Introduction to Effective Field Theory - Lecture 5A

Cliff Burgess
McMaster University

October 21, 2009

PIRSA:09100052
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Wired 24/7?

Raymond Laflamme
Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

Neil Gershenfeld
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Physics and Media Group

Steve Paikin
TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Tara Hunt

October 20, 2009

PIRSA:09100067
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Programming Bits and Atoms

Neil Gershenfeld
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Physics and Media Group

October 20, 2009

PIRSA:09100139
Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity

Miguel Paulos
École Normale Supérieure - PSL

October 20, 2009

PIRSA:09100100

Quantum Fields and Strings
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Are We Bound for Space?

Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University

Robert Richards
Odyssey Moon Ltd.

Steve Paikin
TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Karl Schroeder
Freelance Writer

October 19, 2009

PIRSA:09100066
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Life, the Universe and Nothing: Life, and Science, in an Ever Expanding Universe

Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University

October 19, 2009

PIRSA:09100017

Cosmology
Seeing Science Through Fiction

Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100169
State of the Universes

Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University

Neil Turok
University of Edinburgh

Katherine Freese
The University of Texas at Austin

Jennifer Ouellette
Freelance Writer

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100000

Cosmology
Harnessing Quantum Physics

Michele Mosca
Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

Daniel Gottesman
University of Maryland, College Park

Dorit Aharonov
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ignacio Cirac
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

Peter Shor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Mathematics

Avi Wigderson
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100032

Quantum Information
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it Yourself!

Peter Diamandis
X PRIZE Foundation

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100072
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Does Reality Have a Genetic Basis?

S. James Gates Jr.
University of Maryland, College Park

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100012
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time

Sean Carroll
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of Physics Mathematics & Astronomy

October 17, 2009

PIRSA:09100006

Cosmology

Introduction to Effective Field Theory - Lecture 5A

Cliff Burgess
McMaster University

October 21, 2009

PIRSA:09100052
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Wired 24/7?

Raymond Laflamme
Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

Neil Gershenfeld
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Physics and Media Group

Steve Paikin
TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Tara Hunt

October 20, 2009

PIRSA:09100067

In our lifetime we have seen a broad transformation in the way we interact with technology in our daily lives. And further developments in technology promise a continued impact. Are we comfortable living in a world that never shuts off? How has this technology affected us, our thinking, our relationships and the way our work works? Is technological progress always for the better? Be part of the live studio audience for this special edition of TVO's Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Programming Bits and Atoms

Neil Gershenfeld
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Physics and Media Group

October 20, 2009

PIRSA:09100139

Computer science has served to isolate programs and programmers from knowledge of the mechanisms used to manipulate information, however this fiction is increasingly hard to maintain as devices scale down in size and systems scale up in complexity. This talk will explore the consequences of exposing rather than hiding this underlying physical reality, in areas including logic automata, interdevice internetworking, intelligent infrastructure, digital fabrication and programmable matter. Breaking down these boundaries between bits and atoms can help improve not just the performance but also the relevance of information technologies for some of our greatest technological challenges and opportunities.
Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity

Miguel Paulos
École Normale Supérieure - PSL

October 20, 2009

PIRSA:09100100

Quantum Fields and Strings

Recently there has been great interest in calculating transport coefficients for field theories at large coupling, using AdS/CFT. In this talk I will discuss recent work showing how to use the membrane paradigm to easily compute the shear viscosity and conductivity in arbitrary gravity theories. In a certain sense these can be thought of as effective couplings at the black hole horizon dual to the field theory plasma. An explicit Wald-like formula for these couplings is given for a large class of generalized gravity theories.
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Are We Bound for Space?

Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University

Robert Richards
Odyssey Moon Ltd.

Steve Paikin
TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Karl Schroeder
Freelance Writer

October 19, 2009

PIRSA:09100066

Commitment to space travel has ebbed and flowed. Physicist Stephen Hawking believes the way to ensure human survival is to continue space exploration. Critics of space travel argue that Planet Earth is in dire need of our attention and resources right now. Is there a trade-off between going to space and fighting climate change, overpopulation and other earthly concerns? Be part of the live studio audience for this special edition of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Life, the Universe and Nothing: Life, and Science, in an Ever Expanding Universe

Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University

October 19, 2009

PIRSA:09100017

Cosmology

Over the last decade our picture of the universe has changed almost as much as it had in the preceding century. As a result, our picture of the future, both of the universe, and life within it, has dramatically altered as well. This talk will begin by reviewing the recent revolutionary developments in cosmology, and then address several fascinating questions that have arisen as a result of our discovery that the dominant energy of the universe resides in empty space: Can life be eternal in an eternally expanding universe,? Are the laws of physics tailored for the existence of life? What will science in the far future tell us about the universe?
Seeing Science Through Fiction

Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100169

You've heard the physicists speculate on parallel universes, space travel, and time travel. Now come and hear a physicist interview the real experts in these subjects: a bestselling science fiction writer and pioneer of virtual reality discuss what you get when you look at science through fiction.
State of the Universes

Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University

Neil Turok
University of Edinburgh

Katherine Freese
The University of Texas at Austin

Jennifer Ouellette
Freelance Writer

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100000

Cosmology

What do we really know about the universe? What mysteries are today's top cosmologists investigating? Join a discussion with leading cosmologists to hear fresh perspectives on some of the deepest questions in modern science: What is the mysterious dark matter that fills intergalactic space? Was there another universe before the big bang, and what will happen to ours in the distant future?
Harnessing Quantum Physics

Michele Mosca
Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

Daniel Gottesman
University of Maryland, College Park

Dorit Aharonov
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ignacio Cirac
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

Peter Shor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Mathematics

Avi Wigderson
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100032

Quantum Information

This panel will explore some of the deepest questions facing those who would harness the power of quantum mechanics in new quantum technologies: What are the newest and most interesting discoveries researchers have made about quantum information? What progress has been made in recent years towards experimentally harnessing quantum devices for quantum computation? What are the main motivations for building quantum information processing technologies? Drs. Aharonov and Shor appear courtesy of Institute for Quantum Computing.
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it Yourself!

Peter Diamandis
X PRIZE Foundation

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100072

Based on the success of the Ansari X PRIZE (which stimulated the creation of billion-dollar private spaceflight industry) and more recently the launch of the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE and the $10M Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, this talk explains how to incentivize breakthroughs. Traditional thinking, risk-aversion and incrementalism will cause the demise of companies unable to cope with the coming decades of disruptive innovation, while the rapid growth of key exponential technologies (Nano, Info, Bio) are empowering individuals and companies to do what only governments were able to achieve in past decades. Such technologies will drive a period of significant disruption and opportunity.
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Does Reality Have a Genetic Basis?

S. James Gates Jr.
University of Maryland, College Park

October 18, 2009

PIRSA:09100012

The ultimate construction, as a basis for fundamental theoretical physics is an imperfectly understood structure called "M-Theory" or "Superstring/M-Theory" (SSMT). In a quest to create a rigorous mathematical background for SSMT, new mathematical structures called "Adinkras" have been proposed as the appropriate objects to study. This study has led to the possibility that there exist a "DNA of Reality" which will be presented in this talk.
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time

Sean Carroll
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of Physics Mathematics & Astronomy

October 17, 2009

PIRSA:09100006

Cosmology

One of the most obvious facts about the universe is that the past is different from the future. We can turn an egg into an omelet, but can't turn an omelet into an egg. Physicists have codified this difference into the Second Law of Thermodynamics: the entropy of a closed system always increases with time. But why? The ultimate explanation is to be found in cosmology: special conditions in the early universe are responsible for the arrow of time. This talk will be about the nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before the Big Bang may be responsible for the arrow of time we observe today.

Title	Date	Collection	Type	Info
Introduction to Effective Field Theory - Lecture 5A	2009‑10‑21	Introduction to Effective Field Theory	Course	View details
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Wired 24/7?	2009‑10‑20	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Programming Bits and Atoms	2009‑10‑20	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Viscosity and conductivity in general theories of gravity	2009‑10‑20	Quantum Fields and Strings	Scientific Series	View details
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Are We Bound for Space?	2009‑10‑19	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Life, the Universe and Nothing: Life, and Science, in an Ever Expanding Universe	2009‑10‑19	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Seeing Science Through Fiction	2009‑10‑18	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
State of the Universes	2009‑10‑18	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Harnessing Quantum Physics	2009‑10‑18	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent it Yourself!	2009‑10‑18	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Does Reality Have a Genetic Basis?	2009‑10‑18	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details
Lecture Series presented by KPMG - The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time	2009‑10‑17	Quantum to Cosmos Festival - 2009		View details

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