By PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Added: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 UTC

Thanks to John for the link.

See:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

Some new resources regarding quantum information and other areas of modern physics are now available online.

These include Prof. Raymond Laflamme of PI and IQC on "Harnessing the Quantum World" in which he shows how qubits of information can be manipulated. He also shares images that detail the potential computational horsepower that quantum computing may one day
provide.

Another talk features Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna, on "From Einstein to Quantum Information" in which he recounts, in pictures, quantum teleportation experiments and how such techniques may benefit our communications technologies of the future.

Other presentations in this online series range well beyond quantum information and include Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford, on "Before the Big Bang" and Prof. Frank Wilczek, of MIT and Nobel Prize Laureate, on "Anticipating A New Golden Age".

The full catalogue of multi-media presentations are now viewable online:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

via Perimeter Institute and feature a unique split-screen image so that you can listen to the talk while examining all of the PowerPoint and animated images in detail.

About Perimeter Institute

Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ( http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca ) is an independent, non-profit, scientific research and educational outreach organization where international scientists cluster to push the limits of our understanding of physical laws and develop new ideas about the very essence of space, time, matter and information. The award-winning research centre provides a multi-disciplinary environment to foster research in areas of Cosmology, Particle Physics, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Information, Superstring Theory, and related areas. The Institute, located in Waterloo, Ontario, also provides a wide array of educational outreach activities for students, teachers and members of the general public in order to share the joy of scientific research, discovery and innovation. In partnership with the Governments of Ontario and Canada, Perimeter Institute continues to be a successful
example of private and public collaboration in science research and education.

See:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

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