# 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.

## A model-independent search for gravitational-wave echoes

Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
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Exotic compact objects (e.g. boson stars, dark matter stars, gravastars), and certain quantum modifications to black holes (e.g. firewalls) are speculated to give out echoes'' or bursts of radiation appearing at regular time intervals due to a perturbation by any infalling matter or field. In particular, these echoes are also expected to appear soon after their formation.

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## Improvements on the methods for searching echoes

Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
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The recent detections of merging black holes allow for observational tests of the nature of these objects, such as searching for the GW echo signals proposed in some models. Tentative evidence for these was presented, found in an analysis based upon methods for GW data analysis as demonstrated on the Ligo Open Science Center. We present the results of characterising these method's behaviour when applied to the specific form of the echo signals, and address problems and improvements based on our findings.

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## Echoes from the Abyss: Tentative Evidence for Planck-Scale Structure at Black Hole Horizons

Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
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In classical General Relativity (GR), an observer falling into an astrophysical black hole is not expected to experience anything dramatic as she crosses the event horizon. However, tentative resolutions to problems in quantum gravity, such as the cosmological constant problem, or the black hole information paradox, invoke significant departures from classicality in the vicinity of the horizon. It was recently pointed out that such near-horizon structures can lead to late-time echoes in the black hole merger gravitational wave signals that are otherwise indistinguishable from GR.

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## PSI 17/18 - Quantum Field Theory II - Lecture 3

Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
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## Quantifying the evidence for black holes with GW and EM probes

Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
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## General Relativity for Cosmology - Lecture 17

Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
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## New Vistas from the Many-Instant Landscape

Tuesday Nov 07, 2017

Quantum gravity has many conceptual problems. Amongst the most well-known is the "Problem of Time": gravitational observables are global in time, while we would really like to obtain probabilities for processes taking us from an observable at one time to another, later one. Tackling these questions using relationalism will be the preferred strategy during this talk.

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## Scattering Amplitudes and the Associahedron

Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
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We establish a direct connection between scattering amplitudes for bi-adjoint scalar theories and a classic polytope--the "associahedron"--known to mathematicians since the 1960s. We find an associahedron naturally living in kinematic space. The tree level scattering amplitude is simply a geometric invariant of the associahedron called its "canonical form" [2], which is a differential form on kinematic space with logarithmic singularities on the boundaries of the associahedron.

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## Baryon-dark matter interactions and the radial acceleration relation

Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
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The radial acceleration relation is an empirical universal scaling relation between the total gravitational field and the Newtonian acceleration generated by baryons at any given radius within spiral galaxies. In this talk, I will discuss the possibility that such a relation arises from interactions between baryons and dark matter (DM), rather than from feedback processes or modifications of gravity. Starting from this premise, I will discuss what we can infer about the nature of baryon-DM interactions.

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## PSI 17/18 - Condensed Matter - Lecture 2

Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
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