Awards for Perimeter Institute Researchers - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

A listing of awards/prizes received by Perimeter Institute's researchers follows below. Additional honours appear via the curriculum vitae of individual researchers – some of which are accessible via links to individual homepages through the ‘Scientific Research’ section of this website.

2009

Name	Category	Award	Research Area
Freddy Cachazo	Faculty	2009 Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society	Superstring Theory
Lee Smolin	Faculty	2009 AAPT Klopsteg Memorial Award	Quantum Gravity
Jaume Gomis	Faculty	2009 Early Researcher Award	Superstring Theory
Fotini Markopoulou	Faculty	2009 Third Juried Prize, FQXi Essay Contest	Quantum Gravity
Steve Weinstein	Affiliate	2009 Third Juried Prize, FQXi Essay Contest	Quantum Foundations

2008

Name	Category	Award	Research Area
Richard Cleve	Associate	2008 CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics	Quantum Information
Raymond Laflamme	Associate	2008 Premier's Discovery Award	Quantum Information
Cliff Burgess	Associate	2008 Royal Society Fellow	Particle Physics
James Forrest	Affiliate	2008 APS Fellow	Polymer Physics
Raymond Laflamme	Associate	2008 Royal Society Fellow	Quantum Information
Eric Poisson	Affiliate	2008 APS Fellow	Gravitational Physics
Yidun Wan	Graduate Student	2008 John Brodie Memorial Prize	Quantum Gravity

2007

Name	Category	Award	Research Area
Alex Buchel	Associate	2007 Early Researcher Award	Superstring Theory
Thomas Thiemann	Associate	2007 Basilis Xanthopolous Prize (shared with Martin Bojowald, Penn State)	Quantum Gravity
Dan Christensen	Affiliate	2007 - 08 Distinguished Research Professorship	Quantum Gravity
Hoi-Kwong Lo	Long Term Visitor and Affiliate	2007 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement	Quantum Information
Richard Bond	Affiliate	2007 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering	Astrophysics
Aephraim Steinberg	Affiliate	2007 NSERC Steacie Fellowship	Quantum Optics
Jean Christian Boileau	Graduate Student	2007 John Brodie Award	Quantum Information

2006

Name	Category	Award
Freddy Cachazo	Faculty	2006 Early Researcher Award
Thomas Thiemann	Associate Member	2006 Early Researcher Award
Mohammad H. Ansari	Graduate Student	2006 John Brodie Memorial Award
Rob Myers	Faculty	2006 Royal Society Fellow

2005

Name	Category	Award
Rob Myers	Faculty	2005 CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Eric Poisson	Affiliate	2005 CAP Herzberg Medal for Outstanding Achievement by a Physicist ages 40 or less
Cliff Burgess	Associate	2005 Killam Research Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts
Raymond Laflamme	Associate	2005 Ivey Foundation Fellow at CIAR
Raymond Laflamme	Associate	2005 Medaille Grande Escolle de l’Association des Diplom´es de l’Universit´e Laval

2004

Name	Category	Award
Etera Livine	Postdoctoral Researcher	2004 Prize of the Thesis, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France
Daniel Terno	Postdoctoral Researcher	2004 Linkage International Award (co-recipient), Australian Research Council
Justin Malecki	Undergraduate	2004 UW Alumni Gold Medal in the Faculty of Science

2003

Name	Category	Award
Daniel Gottesman	Faculty	2003 List of MIT Technology Review's World's Top Young Innovators
Daniel Gottesman	Faculty	2003 Named as CIAR Scholar in Quantum Information Processing program
Fotini Markopoulou	Faculty	2003 Topical Lecture, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2002

Name	Category	Award
Rob Myers	Faculty	2002 CAP/CRM Award in recognition of exceptional achievements in theoretical and mathematical physics
Fotini Markopoulou	Faculty	2002 Young Researchers Competition in Physics, Princeton
Raymond Laflamme	Associate	2002 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) Fellow in the Quantum Information Program
Raymond Laflamme	Associate	2002 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information
Raymond Laflamme	Associate	2002 Premier Research Award

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