# 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.

## Probing cosmic flows through the kinematic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect

Monday Aug 10, 2015

Beyond its primary fluctuations, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) contains a wealth of information on the large-scale structure of the universe, which it illuminates as a backlight. The baryon momentum field is thus imprinted on the CMB through the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Current small-scale high-sensitivity CMB experiments make this effect detectable, providing a unique handle on peculiar velocities and baryon physics.

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Monday Aug 10, 2015

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## PSI 2015/2016 Welcome/Orientation

Monday Aug 10, 2015

9:30 am - Neil Turok, Director, Perimeter Institute

10:30 am - Jennifer Yuen, Counselling Services, UW

11:00 am - Michael Duschenes, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer

11:20 am - Break

11:30 am - Sheri Keffer and Patti Butler, People and Culture

11:45 am - Dan Lynch, Bistro

12:00 pm - Dawn Bombay, Library

## Structure formation with hot particles

Monday Aug 10, 2015
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I will describe a novel method for simulating nonlinear structure formation in cosmologies that have hot or warm collisionless species. After introducing the method, I will show results of our simulations for universes with massive neutrinos, and warm dark matter simulations.

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## Welcome and Opening Remarks

Monday Aug 10, 2015
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## Exotic Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Friday Jul 31, 2015
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Extensions of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs sector often predict the existence of new vacua and can feature novel patterns of symmetry breaking in the early universe. In this talk, I will discuss the implications of such scenarios for electroweak scale cosmology, baryogenesis, and Higgs phenomenology. I will focus on two classes of models, one involving a gauge singlet scalar field and the other an inert SU(2) doublet scalar.

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## Constructions and Noise Threshold of Hyperbolic Surface Codes

Wednesday Jul 29, 2015
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An essential component of scalable quantum computing is the ability to reliably protect quantum information from decoherence. Such protection can in principle be achieved via the use of quantum error correcting codes.

We discuss a construction to obtain families of quantum codes based on regular tilings of surfaces with constant negative curvature. This construction results in two-dimensional quantum codes whose tradeoff between encoding rate and protection is more favorable than for the standard surface code.

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## Information complementarity: A new paradigm for decoding quantum incompatibility

Tuesday Jul 28, 2015
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The existence of observables that are incompatible or not jointly measurable is a characteristic feature of quantum mechanics, which is the root of a number of nonclassical phenomena, such as uncertainty relations, wave--particle dual behavior, Bell-inequality violation, and contextuality.

However, no intuitive criterion is available for determining the compatibility of even two (generalized) observables, despite the overarching importance of this problem and intensive efforts of many researchers over more than 80 years.

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## Properties of a non-Abelian chiral spin-1 spin liquid

Tuesday Jul 28, 2015
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In this talk, we will analyze the properties of the bosonic $\nu = 1$ Moore-Read state when used to build a state

which is strongly believed to be a non-Abelian spin-1 chiral spin liquid state [1]. In this state the bosonic $\nu = 1$

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## Poster Presentation for ISSYP 2015

Friday Jul 24, 2015
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