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Video Library

Since 2002 Perimeter Institute has been recording seminars, conference talks, and public outreach events using video cameras installed in our lecture theatres.  Perimeter now has 7 formal presentation spaces for its many scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and educational outreach activities, all with advanced audio-visual technical capabilities.  Recordings of events in these areas are all available On-Demand from this Video Library and on Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA)

PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics. This resource has been partially modelled after Cornell University's arXiv.org. 

QCD recursion relations from the largest time equation

Tuesday May 30, 2006
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Early stages of the universe: brane gas-driven bulk dynamics

Tuesday May 30, 2006
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We propose a new brane world scenario. In our model, the Universe starts as a small bulk filled with a dense gas of branes. The bulk is bounded by two orbifold fixed planes. An initial stage of isotropic expansion ends once a weak potential between the orbifold fixed planes begins to dominate, leading to contraction of the extra spatial dimensions. Depending on the form of the potential, one may obtain either a non-inflationary scenario which solves the entropy and horizon problem, or an improved brane-antibrane inflation model.

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Nonlocal boxes and C*-algebras

Monday May 29, 2006

Clifton, Bub, and Halvorson claim to be able to derive quantum mechanics from information-theoretic axioms. However, their derivation relies on the auxiliary assumption that the relevant probabilities for measurement outcomes can be represented by the observables (self-adjoint operators) and states of a C*-algebra. There are legitimate probability theories that are not so representable --- in particular, the nonlocal boxes of Popescu and Rohrlich.

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Mathematics and Art

Saturday May 27, 2006

Perspective, anamorph, anamorphic picture, mathematics, \'The ambassadors by Holbein\',\'A dog by Marolois\', Anamorphs by Erhard Schon\'

Physics Syllabi Around the World

Saturday May 27, 2006

Modern Physics, Syllabus, scientifically literate, populist philosophy, qualifier societies, streaming, AP courses, A-levels

Fast Optimization or the Radiation Therapy of Tumors - the Impossible Possible

Saturday May 27, 2006

Radiation Delivery, cancer, radiation therapy, electron, isocentre, planned target volume, adaptive radiotherapy, multi-leaf collimator, energy deposition, multi-beam delivery, intensity modulation, optimal radiation treatment, matrix inversion, inverse planning optimization, symmetries, fast inverse dose optimization

Web cam usage in physics experiments

Saturday May 27, 2006

web camera, video camera, precise experiments, video capture, technology, dartfish, vernier, logger-pro, video analysis, video acquisition.

Introduction to quantum technologies: quantum computers, quantum teleporters & quantum cryptography

Saturday May 27, 2006
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Quantum cryptography, quantum physics, cryptography, one-time pad, RSA, encryption, public key, decryption, private key, quantum computer, qubit, quantum key, distribution, QKD, Moore\'s Law, probability, quantum theory, complex number, beam splitter, superposition, electron orbital, Turing, quantum parallelism, EPR, Bell, information security

Al\'s Relativistic Adventures

Friday May 26, 2006

animation, special relativity, interactive, visual, Al, perspective, motion, on-line, personalized learning, empowering your imagination, thought experiments

Research,Outreach & Beyond

Friday May 26, 2006
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Howard Burton, Mike Lazaridis, RIM, Perimeter Institute, mandate, research, outreach

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