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 String Theory Lecture 11
Monday Apr 22, 2013
Speaker(s):
Pedro Vieira
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)
Collection/Series:
12/13 PSI - Eplorations in String Theory

: 12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology Lecture 11
Monday Apr 22, 2013
Speaker(s):
Matthew Johnson
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)
Collection/Series:
12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology

: 12/13 PSI - Explorations in Condensed Matter Lecture 11
Monday Apr 22, 2013
Speaker(s):
Guifre Vidal
Xiao-Gang Wen
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)
Collection/Series:
12/13 PSI - Explorations in Condensed Matter

: 12/13 PSI - Explorations in String Theory Lecture 10
Friday Apr 19, 2013
Speaker(s):
Pedro Vieira
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)
Collection/Series:
12/13 PSI - Eplorations in String Theory

: 12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology Lecture 10
Friday Apr 19, 2013
Speaker(s):
Matthew Johnson
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)
Collection/Series:
12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology

: The imaginary part of the gravitational action and black hole entropy
Thursday Apr 18, 2013
Speaker(s):
Yasha Neiman
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)

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,
Collection/Series:
Quantum Gravity

Scientific Areas:

Quantum Gravity

: 12/13 PSI - Explorations in String Theory Lecture 9
Thursday Apr 18, 2013
Speaker(s):
Pedro Vieira
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)
Collection/Series:
12/13 PSI - Eplorations in String Theory

: 12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology Lecture 9
Thursday Apr 18, 2013
Speaker(s):
Matthew Johnson
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)
Collection/Series:
12/13 PSI - Explorations in Cosmology

: Energy and the Environment - What Physicists Can Do
Wednesday Apr 17, 2013
Speaker(s):
John Baez
(Flash Presentation, MP4 Low Res, MP3, PDF)

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.

Collection/Series:
Colloquium

Scientific Areas:

Mathematical Physics