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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. 

12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology Lecture 11

Monday Apr 22, 2013
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12/13 PSI - Explorations in Condensed Matter Lecture 11

Monday Apr 22, 2013

12/13 PSI - Explorations in String Theory Lecture 10

Friday Apr 19, 2013
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12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology Lecture 10

Friday Apr 19, 2013
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The imaginary part of the gravitational action and black hole entropy

Thursday Apr 18, 2013
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I present a candidate for a new derivation of black hole
entropy. The key observation is that the action of General Relativity in
bounded regions has an imaginary part, arising from the boundary term. The
formula for this imaginary part is closely related to the Bekenstein-Hawking
entropy formula, and coincides with it for certain classes of regions. This
remains true in the presence of matter, and generalizes appropriately to
Lovelock gravity. The imaginary part of the action is a versatile notion,

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12/13 PSI - Explorations in String Theory Lecture 9

Thursday Apr 18, 2013
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12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology Lecture 9

Thursday Apr 18, 2013
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Energy and the Environment - What Physicists Can Do

Wednesday Apr 17, 2013
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The global warming
crisis is part of a bigger transformation in which humanity realizes that the
Earth is a finite system and that our population, energy usage, and the like
cannot continue to grow exponentially. While politics and economics pose the
biggest challenges, physicists are in a good position to help make this
transition a bit easier. After a quick review of the problems, we discuss a few
ways physicists can help. 


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12/13 PSI - Explorations in String Theory Lecture 8

Wednesday Apr 17, 2013
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12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology Lecture 8

Wednesday Apr 17, 2013
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