# 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.

## Embedding DBI inflation in Scalar-tensor theory

Wednesday Feb 16, 2011
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The availability of high precision observational data in cosmology means that it is possible to go beyond simple descriptions of cosmic inflation in which the expansion is driven by a single scalar field. One set of models of particular interest involve the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action, arising in string cosmology, in which the dynamics of the field are affected by a speed limit in a manner akin to special relativity. In this talk, I will introduce a scalar-tensor theory in which the matter component is a field with a DBI action.

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## String Theory Review - Lecture 3

Wednesday Feb 16, 2011
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## Quantum Information Review - Lecture 3

Wednesday Feb 16, 2011
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## The instability of 5 dimensional black strings

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011
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## The Planck Satallite: First Science Results and Future Prospects

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011
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## Present status (and near-term expectations) for gravitational-wave observations using ground-based laser interferometers

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011
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## Constraining Primordial Magnetism

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011
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Primodial magnetic fields are a potentially interesting origin for cosmic magnetism. Such fields can leave an interesting signal not only in the CMB temperature and polarization, but in structure at low redshift, contributing to the matter power spectrum and SZ effect at small scales. I will talk about the reasons for considering primordial fields, their origin and evolution, and how their observational consequences constrain their nature.

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## Recent results from simulating accretion and jets in strong gravity environments

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011
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## Muon Capture Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Properties

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011
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We show that ordinary and radiative muon capture impose stringent constraints on sterile neutrino properties. In particular, we consider a sterile neutrino with a mass between $40$ and $80~{\rm MeV}$ that has a large mixing with the muon neutrino and decays predominantly into a photon and light neutrinos due to a large transition magnetic moment. Such a model was suggested as a possible resolution to the puzzle presented by the results of the LSND, KARMEN, and MiniBooNE experiments.

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## Beyond the Standard Model - Lecture 2

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011

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