The Day of Discovery

Thursday Oct 20, 2022, 8:30 AM → 7:00 PM America/Toronto

PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Avery Broderick (Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo), Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute)

Join us for a day that celebrates the advance of human knowledge!  Come and hear from scientific luminaries responsible for defining the modern landscape of physics and working to transform it in the future.  Presentations by Nobel and Breakthrough Prize winners will describe some of the most exciting topics in science today, followed by talks by Perimeter researchers on how these are being pursued now, and culminating with animated panel conversations on how breakthrough science was, is and will be done. 

https://pirsa.org/C22040

 

8:30 AM Registration

1 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Speaker: Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute)

Talk Recording (22100062)

2 Special Guest Talk - 'Science Opportunities Underground: Neutrinos and Dark Matter'

Speaker: Arthur McDonald (SNOLab)

Talk Recording (22100064)

3 Perimeter Researcher Talk - 'The Cosmic Neutrino Background on the Surface of the Earth'

Speaker: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

10:35 AM Coffee Break

4 Special Guest Talk - 'How to take a picture of a black hole'

Speaker: Sheperd Doeleman (Harvard University)

Talk Recording (22100066)

5 Perimeter Researcher Talk - 'CHIME: the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment'

Speaker: Kendrick Smith (Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo)

Talk Recording (22100067)

6 Panel Session: 'Luck vs Grit'

What is the role of luck and serendipity in discovery, and how much is sheer grit? Come hear from a Nobel laureate, Breakthrough prize winners, and several of the most exciting physicists working today on how luck -- or the lack of it -- shapes discovery.

Speakers: Arthur McDonald (SNOLab), Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute), Katie Mack, Kendrick Smith (Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo), Sheperd Doeleman (Harvard University)

Talk Recording (22100068)

12:55 PM Lunch

7 Special Guest Talk - 'The serendipitous road to a Nobel prize'

Speaker: Sir Anthony Leggett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )

Talk Recording (22100069)

8 Perimeter Researcher Talk - 'Measurement as a shortcut to long-range entangled matter'

Speaker: Timothy Hsieh (Perimeter Institute)

Talk Recording (22100070)

3:35 PM Coffee Break

9 Special Guest Talk - 'From nonlinear optics to high intensity laser physics'

Speaker: Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)

Talk Recording (22100071)

10 Perimeter Researcher Talk - 'Into the woods ... ... and through the trees to gravity, amplitudes, and CFTs'

Speaker: Sabrina Pasterski (Perimeter Institute)

Talk Recording (22100072)

11 Panel Session: 'Forest vs Trees'

Some scientific puzzles require a hyper-focussed (perhaps obsessive) attention to specific questions; others need a zoomed-out, interdisciplinary viewpoint. Some combination of both is often the route to breakthroughs. Panelists will share how they strive to see both the forest and the trees when tackling big puzzles.

Speakers: Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo), Lauren Hayward (Perimeter Institute), Sabrina Pasterski, Sir Anthony Leggett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Timothy Hsieh (Perimeter Institute)

Talk Recording (22100073)

6:00 PM Community Night