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.

Preheating after Multi-Field Inflation

Wednesday May 20, 2009
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We investigate the feasibility of explosive particle production via parametric resonance or tachyonic preheating in multi-field inflationary models by means of lattice simulations. We observe a strong suppression of resonances in the presence of four-leg interactions between the inflaton fields and a scalar matter field,

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Bispectrum signatures of modifications to the inflationary vacuum

Wednesday May 20, 2009

Modifications of the initial-state of the inflaton field can induce a departure from Gaussianity and leave a testable imprint on the higher order correlations of the CMB and large scale structures in the Universe. I will discuss general vacuum state modifications in the case of a canonical single-field action, after adding a dimension 8 higher order derivative term, and DBI models of inflation.

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Holographic Systematics of D-Brane Inflation

Wednesday May 20, 2009
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Deformed gauge theories and their string duals

Tuesday May 19, 2009
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Gauge theories with deformed products of fields in the lagrangian
constitute an interesting generalization of the gauge/string duality.
We review a systematic procedure to find the string duals of such
theories, called the TsT transformation, and illustrate its properties
by means of a few examples.

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Quantum Gravitation and the Renormalization Group

Wednesday May 13, 2009
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In my talk I will provide an overview of the applications of Wilson's

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Branes and Quantization

Sunday May 10, 2009

Symplectic Vortices and a Quantum Kirwan map

Sunday May 10, 2009
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"A Hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ gives rise to a gauge theoretic deformation of the
Cauchy-Riemann equations, called the symplectic vortex equations. Counting solutions of these equations over the complex plane leads to a quantum version of the Kirwan map. In joint work with Christopher Woodward, we interpret this map as a weak morphism of cohomological field theories."

Groupoids of Connections and Higher-Algebraic QFT

Sunday May 10, 2009
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This talk will discuss, illustrated by a toy example, how to construct "higher-algebraic" quantum field theories using groupoids. In particular, the groupoids describe configuration spaces of connections, together with their gauge symmetries, on spacetime, space, and boundaries of regions in space. The talk will describe a higher-algebraic "sum over histories", and how this construction is related to usual QFT's, and particularly the relation to the case of the Chern-Simons theory.

Spaces of Linear Modules on Regular Graded Clifford algebras

Sunday May 10, 2009
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The space of regular noncommutative algebras includes regular graded Clifford algebras, which correspond to base point free linear systems of quadrics in dimension n in P^n. The schemes of linear modules for these algebras can be described in terms of this linear system. We show that the space of line modules on a 4 dimensional algebra is an Enriques surface called the Reye congruence, and we extend this result to higher dimensions.

Hamiltonian structure of isomonodromic deformations of rational connections on the Riemann sphere

Sunday May 10, 2009
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The classical "split" rational R-matrix Poisson bracket structure on the space of rational connections over the Riemann sphere provides a natural setting for studying deformations. It can be shown that a natural set of Poisson commuting spectral invariant Hamiltonians, which are dual to the Casimir invariants of the Poisson structure, generate all deformations which, when viewed as nonautonomous Hamiltonian systems, preserve the generalized monodromy of the connections, in the sense of Birkhoff (i.e., the monodromy representation, the Stokes parameters and connection matrices).

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