James Pringle

For my next suggested viewing material I have chosen the Perimeter Institute Public Lectures Series. The Perimeter Institute was founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis and Howard Burton. The institute has around 60 resident researchers, but more interestingly plays host to hundreds of visiting international researchers each year for collaborations and workshops. Some of these visiting “guests” give a public lecture, which the Perimeter Institute puts on their website for everyone to view, for free naturally.

The topics are wide-ranging from cosmology, particle physics, quantum foundations, quantum gravity, quantum information theory, and superstring theory, among others. If you’re someone who enjoys being challenged or simply wants to be awed then these lectures won’t dissappoint. I don’t think I have gotten through any of them without getting lost at some point. It’s not exactly lazy, afternoon viewing for most people, but if you’re sick of watching endless, cute, cat videos then this may be something a little more stimulating.

I watched most of these lectures many months ago, but I believe I have chosen a few that stood out to me to be more interesting or entertaining. The first link, however, takes you to the page with the complete list.

1. Perimeter Institute Public Lectures Series
2. Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe

   William Phillips

3. The Curious World of Probabilities

   Jeffrey Rosenthal

4. The Black Hole Wars

   Leonard Susskind