# 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 surprising relation between N=2 gauge theory in 4 dimensions and pure quantum gravity in 3 and 2 dimensions

Tuesday Jul 21, 2009
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## Non-Gaussianity from non-equilibrium physics

Tuesday Jul 21, 2009
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Non-equilibrium processes such as inflationary preheating or the ekpyrotic bounce can turn fluctuations of light scalar fields into potentially highly non-Gaussian curvature perturbations. I show how these perturbations can be calculated at fully non-linear level using lattice field theory simulations. As concrete examples, I present results for preheating in chaotic inflation and resonant curvaton decay.

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## Cosmological gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence

Tuesday Jul 21, 2009
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Recently there has been renewed interest in cosmological gravity, namely 3d gravity coupled to a Chern-Simons term with parameter $\mu$, following claims that at $\mu =1$ the theory becomes chiral and stable. In this talk we will investigate cosmological gravity by setting up a concrete holographic dictionary with a dual 2d field theory and we will demonstrate that the theory is in fact not chiral in the limit $\mu = 1$. Instead our holographic dictionary implies that at $\mu =1$ the dual field theory becomes a logarithmic CFT (LCFT).

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## Bubbles in Eternal Inflation: A Classic(al) Effect

Tuesday Jul 21, 2009
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Cosmological bubble collisions arising from first order phase transitions are a generic consequence of the Eternal Inflation scenario. I will present our computational strategy for generating and evolving these bubbles in 3+1 dimensions and in a self-consistently expanding background. I will show the existence of classical field transitions--the classical nucleation of bubbles during collisions--which can dramatically alter the canonical description of eternal inflation.

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## Challenges for a quantum theory of the universe

Saturday Jul 18, 2009
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I review three challenges faced by attempts to develop a quantum theory of the universe and examine possible relationships between them. 1) The clock ambiguity: The choice of time parameter leads to profound ambiguities. 2) The choice of state: I contrast the de Sitter equilibrium picture with eternal inflation. 3) The Born rule crisis: The born rule is insufficient to construct probabilities in a large multiverse without additional rules or assumptions (as discussed by Don Page).

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## The null energy condition and its violators

Saturday Jul 18, 2009
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## Holography for cosmology

Saturday Jul 18, 2009
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We propose a holographic description of four dimensional single scalar inflationary universes, in particular asymptotically de Sitter cosmologies and power-law inflation. We show how cosmological observables such as the primordial power spectrum and non-gaussianities are encoded in correlation functions of a three dimensional QFT.

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## Black Holes localized on the brane

Saturday Jul 18, 2009
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In Randall-Sundrum single-brane (RS-II) model, it was conjectured that there is no
static large black hole localized on the brane based on adS/CFT correspondence. Here we consider the phase diagram of black objects in the models extended from the RS-II model. We propose a scenario for the phase diagram consistent with the classical black hole evaporation conjecture. The proposed scenario indicates the existence of a rich variety of the families of black objects. We present several side evidences that support the whole picture.

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## Dark Matter in Holographic Geometry

Friday Jul 17, 2009
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## Insightful D-branes

Friday Jul 17, 2009
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We will describe black holes in AdS with hyperbolic horizons, and obtain a holographic description of the region inside the horizon, focusing on the dynamics of the scalar fields in the dual gauge theory. This leads to a proposal for a dual description of D-branes falling through the horizon of any AdS black hole. The proposal uses a field-dependent time reparameterization in the field theory. We relate this reparametrization to various gauge invariances of the theory. Finally, we speculate on information loss and the black hole singularity in this context.

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