Physics 490 Schedule - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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2008 Courses

New Horizons in Fundamental Physics

Schedule and Assignments

Physics 490 Schedule

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All lectures will be held at Perimeter Institute, in the Bob Room.

Week	Speaker	Topic	Assignments	Resources
January 8 - 10	Owen Maroney	Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Interferometry, measurement and interpretation. Beyond the quanta.	Assignment 1 Solution 1	Slides - January 8 Slides - January 10 Book List
January 15 - 17	Owen Maroney	Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Interferometry, measurement and interpretation. Beyond the quanta.		Slides - January 15 Slides - January 17
January 22 - 24	Xiao Liu	String Theory: Strings vs. particles. Branes and Holography in quantum gravity.	Assignment 2 Solution 2	Book List
January 29 - 31	Xiao Liu	String Theory: Strings vs. particles. Branes and Holography in quantum gravity.	Assignment 3 Solution 3	Book List 2
February 5 - 7	Simone Speziale	Loop Quantum gravity: Constrained systems, meaning of diffeomorphism invariance, loops and spin networks.	Assignment 4 Solution 4
February 12 - 14	Simone Speziale	Loop Quantum gravity: Constrained systems, meaning of diffeomorphism invariance, loops and spin networks.
February 26 - 28	Philip Goyal	Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Interferometry, measurement and interpretation. Beyond the quanta.	Assignment 5 Assignment 6 Solutions 5 & 6	Slides - February 26
March 6	Aninda Sinha	String Theory: Strings vs. particles. Branes and Holography in quantum gravity.	No assignment this week
March 11 - 13	Sarah Croke	Quantum Information Theory: Teleportation, quantum key distribution, and quantum algorithms.	Assignments 7 & 8 Solutions 7 & 8	Book List Slides - March 11 Slides - March 13
March 18 - 20	Sarah Croke	Quantum Information Theory: Teleportation, quantum key distribution, and quantum algorithms.		Slides - March 18
March 25 - 27	Andrew Tolley	Cosmology: A brief history of our cosmic beginnings, Cosmic Microwave Background. How galaxies form and the existence of dark matter.	Assignment 9 Solution 9	Book List
April 1 - 3	Andrew Tolley	Cosmology: A brief history of our cosmic beginnings, Cosmic Microwave Background. How galaxies form and the existence of dark matter.

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