 | PI Expands Board of Directors - The Honourable Kevin Lynch, a distinguished public servant with 33 years of service with the Government of Canada, and Dr. Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency, are the latest additions to Perimeter Institute's Board of Directors. |
 | PI@Ten - Director Neil Turok comments on the upcoming 10th Anniversary of PI and looks ahead |
 | Quantum Tamers Premiere - Co-produced by PI and Title Entertainment, this documentary will launch at Q2C and on TVO. |
 | Perimeter Scholars International Class of 2010 - 28 outstanding physics graduate students have converged on Waterloo to attend PSI, an innovative and intensive 10-month Masters level course being held at PI, in partnership with the University of Waterloo. |
 | Quantum to Cosmos is Coming! - Tickets are still available for Perimeter Institute’s 10th anniversary celebration, the Quantum to Cosmos Festival, being held October 15-25 right here in Waterloo, Ontario. |
 | Three New Faculty Join PI - Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Faculty members: Niayesh Afshordi; Latham Boyle; and Pedro Vieira. |
 | PI Wins Global City Award - Perimeter Institute and Canada’s Technology Triangle Inc. have been co-awarded the 2009 Global City Award from the Canadian Urban Institute |
 | Meet a Scientist - New online video resource for students is now available online. |
 | Symmetry Math Sheds Light on Fundamental Physics - A team of researchers from Perimeter Institute, Cambridge University, and Texas A&M has for the first time estimated, from mathematical symmetry arguments, the size of a fundamental imbalance pervading the subatomic world. |
 | Luis Lehner to Join PI as Associate Faculty - Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Luis Lehner as an Associate Faculty member. Dr. Lehner officially takes up his position at PI in August 2009, with a concurrent appointment at the University of Guelph. |
 | PI Associate Faculty Members Honoured - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to congratulate two of its Associate Faculty members on their recent election as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. |
 | Launching the Large Hadron Collider - CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, will circulate beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) beginning on September 10. |
 | Rob Spekkens Joins PI Faculty - Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce that Rob Spekkens has been appointed to a Junior Faculty position in Quantum Foundations. |
 | Three Leading Scientists to Join PI's SAC - Incoming Scientific Director Neil Turok is pleased to announce the appointment of three new eminent international scientists to serve on Perimeter Institute's Scientific Advisory Council. |
 | Mike Lazaridis Donates Additional $50M to PI - In a new and generous act of personal philanthropy, Mike Lazaridis has provided an additional $50 million (Canadian) to PI. This private donation increases his personal contributions to $150 million in the research institute. |
 | PI Wins NSERC's Michael Smith Award - In a special ceremony Dr. Suzanne Fortier, president of NSERC, announced on behalf of the Honourable Jim Prentice, that PI won the Council’s top award to an organization involved with science communication and promotion. |
 | Luke Santi Memorial Award - An award to be presented annually in memory of Luke Santi, a high school student, who had a passion for research and discovery, took part in a variety of extra-curricular activities, and volunteered his time in service of others. |
 | PI Associate Wins CAP-CRM Prize - PI Associate Member Richard Cleve is the recipient of the 2008 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. |
 | WMAP Results - The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has just released its 5-year data. Eiichiro Komatsu, a member of the WMAP team, gave two talks on the new data release, as part of two cosmology workshops at PI. |
 | PI Launches Perimeter Explorations - PI is now providing the first in a new series of in-class, educational resources designed to help teachers introduce and guide students through a variety of topics in physics. |
 | PI Co-Sponsors Best Student Paper - GQI will award two Best Student Paper prizes sponsored by PI and IQC at the APS March Meeting, one for theoretical work and one for experimental. |
 | Alumni wins PI's John Brodie Award - Jean Christian Boileau, former PhD student under Raymond Laflamme at the University of Waterloo and PI wins John Brodie Memorial Award. |
 | CBC Quirks and Quarks to air PI Public Lecture - A recent panel discussion about ‘The Physics of Information’ from Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), will air across Canada on CBC’s ‘Quirks and Quarks’ radio program. |
 | Director of Outreach - Perimeter Institute is seeking a highly experienced strategic manager to continue the development of our world-class outreach program. |
 | Junior Faculty Positions - PI is currently accepting applications from renowned physicists in both Cosmology and Quantum Foundations. |
 | Leonard Susskind Joins PI as an Associate Member - Renowned scientist Leonard Susskind has joined PI's Faculty as an Associate Member. Professor Susskind is widely recognized as one of the most highly creative researchers in the field of particle physics. |
 | Call for Conference Pre-proposals - Perimeter Institute recognizes that a lively program of conferences and workshops is essential to maintaining a dynamic scientific atmosphere. We welcome proposals from individuals or groups of scientists interested in organizing a workshop at PI in one of our main research areas. |
 | Event Horizons Season - The Event Horizons 2007-2008 season has been announced. Drawing upon Perimeter Institute’s successful history of attracting many distinguished artists to Waterloo region, the 2007-08 season offers several unique series and a special guest performance. |
 | PI Sponsored APS-GQI Student Award Winner Announced - Congratulations to Gleb Akselrod from the Kwiat Quantum Information Team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was announced as the winner of the best student paper prize in theoretical research at the APS March meeting. |
| Investment Welcomed by PI - The Government of Canada has renewed and increased its commitment to Perimeter Institute for the next five years. For detailed information relating to funding and a 2006 NSERC Review of the Institute’s past accomplishments and future plans, click here. |
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