Neil Turok, 2010 WISE Award
December 2010

As part of its quest to recognize innovative educational initiatives that have had a transformative impact on societies, the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) has selected Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok and his AIMS Next Einstein Initiative as one of six winners for the 2010 WISE Awards.

Lee Smolin and Richard Cleve, Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
September 2010

Faculty member Lee Smolin and Associate Faculty member Richard Cleve were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Canada’s highest academic accolade. Professors Smolin and Cleve join PI Faculty members Robert Myers, Cliff Burgess, and Raymond Laflamme, who are also RSC Fellows.

Christopher Fuchs, International Quantum Commincation Award, QCMC
August 2010

PI researcher Christopher Fuchs won the International Quantum Communication Award from the International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation (QCMC) for his “outstanding contributions to the theory of quantum communication including quantum state disturbance”.

Parampreet Singh, S. Chandrasekhar Post-Doctoral Award
July 2010

Postdoctoral Researcher Parampreet Singh was honoured with the 2010 S. Chandrasekhar Award of the International Society on General Relativity in Gravitation. The award is given to the best presentation by a postdoctoral researcher in the tri-annual meeting of the Society.

Niayesh Afshordi, Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, NSERC
July 2010

Associate Faculty member Niayesh Afshordi was awarded a Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), one of only eight Accelerator awards given across Canada in Physics in 2010.

Zhengfeng Ji, "Best Paper Award," STOC 2010
June 2010

Postdoctoral researcher Zhengfeng Ji, with collaborators, won the “Best Paper Award” at STOC 2010 for having solved a major open problem in quantum computational complexity.

Giulio Chiribella, 2010 Hermann Weyl Prize
June 2010

Postdoctoral researcher Giulio Chiribella was awarded the 2010 Hermann Weyl Prize from the International Colloquium for Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics.

Cliff Burgess, 2010 Canadian Association of Physics-Centre de recherches mathématiques (CAP-CRM) Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
April 2010

Associate Faculty member Cliff Burgess was awarded the 2010 Canadian Association of Physics-Centre de recherches mathématiques (CAP-CRM) Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, the highest honour in theoretical physics in Canada, for his “broad and deep contributions to theoretical physics”.

Federico Piazza, "Best of 2009" by the New Journal of Physics
April 2010

Postdoctoral researcher Federico Piazza's paper “The IR-completion of gravity: what happens at Hubble scales?” was named among the “Best of 2009” by the New Journal of Physics.  

Michele Mosca, CIFAR Fellow
February 2010

PI Associate Faculty member Michele Mosca was named a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Fellow in the Quantum Information program, and as one of Waterloo Region’s ‘Top 40 Under 40’.

Fotini Markopoulou, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
November 2009

Faculty member Fotini Markopoulou was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (to be held at the Albert Einstein Institute).

Michele Mosca, NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant

An NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) grant of $750,000 over 3 years was awarded to Associate Faculty member Michele Mosca and partners in Waterloo, Calgary, and Montreal to support research on fundamental and applied quantum key distribution networks.

Neil Turok, Honourable Mention, 2009 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition

“The Return of the Phoenix Universe” by Director Neil Turok et al  received an Honourable Mention at the 2009 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition.

PI Director Neil Turok was named a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Fellow in the Cosmology and Gravitation program.

Jaume Gomis, Early Researcher Award
August 2009

Faculty member Jaume Gomis was awarded $100,000 from Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation to support his work into new phases of matter and string theory. Dr. Gomis and his team are developing new theoretical tools to study observables in gauge theories with the aim of predicting previously unknown states of matter, which can ultimately be investigated experimentally.