Add to Calendar 2025-08-27T11:00:00 2025-08-27T12:00:00 50 Years of Black Hole Evaporation and 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics Event Information: Please join us to commemorate Bill Unruh's 80th birthday with this special talk and refreshments! Guests are welcome to arrive 15 minutes early for coffee, tea and snacks.    For those unable to attend in person, please join us online via zoom at: Zoom ID: 363 131 3491 Passcode: co4tangent   Bio:  William Unruh is a Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia who has made seminal contributions to our understanding of gravity, black holes, cosmology, quantum fields in curved spaces, and the foundations of quantum mechanics, including the discovery of the Unruh effect. His investigations into the effects of quantum mechanics of the earliest stages of the universe have yielded many insights, including the effects of quantum mechanics on computation. Dr. Unruh was the first Director of the Cosmology and Gravity Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1985-1996). His many awards include the Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (1982), the Herzberg Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1983), the Steacie Prize from the National Research Council (1984), the Canadian Association of Physicists Medal of Achievement (1995), and the Canada Council Killam Prize. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. [From the Perimeter Institute website: Bill Unruh | Perimeter Institute]    Links: Bill's faculty page: unruh | UBC Physics & Astronomy Bill's webpage from the Perimeter Institute: Bill Unruh | Perimeter Institute Read this article: "Detection of Unruh effect a possibility": Detection of Unruh effect a possibility | UBC Physics & Astronomy Watch him on video: "Interview with Bill Unruh": Youtube Video series See his lecture, "Ligo is Quantum" here: “Ligo is Quantum” by Dr. Bill Unruh - YouTube   Event Location: Henn 318