News
Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Friday Sep 26, 2014
New measurements of galactic dust cast doubt on the claimed detection of gravitational waves from this past March.
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Wednesday Sep 24, 2014
New work asserts that a key technique used to probe quantum systems may not be so quantum after all, according to Perimeter postdoctoral researcher Joshua Combes and his colleague Christopher Ferrie.
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Thursday Sep 11, 2014
Raffi Budakian, a new Perimeter Associate Faculty member, bridges theory and experiment with cutting-edge approaches to glimpsing the world of the very small.
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Tuesday Sep 09, 2014
Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada.
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Friday Aug 29, 2014
Happy Birthday, ISSYP! Perimeter’s theoretical physics summer camp for high school students turned 10 this year.
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Thursday Aug 07, 2014
Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe, propose a trio of Perimeter Institute researchers in the cover story of the latest Scientific American.
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Friday Jul 25, 2014
How do you get black holes and quantum mechanics into high school classrooms? EinsteinPlus shows teachers some neat new tricks.
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Thursday Jul 17, 2014
Perimeter Associate Faculty member Matthew Johnson and his colleagues are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis, which to some sounds like a fanciful tale, firmly into the realm of testable science.
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Thursday Jul 03, 2014
Pick up a pencil. Make a mark on a piece of paper. Congratulations: you are doing cutting-edge condensed matter physics. You might even be making the first mark on the road to quantum computers, according to new Perimeter research.
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Wednesday Jul 02, 2014
Three members of Perimeter Institute’s faculty have been awarded Discovery Grants as part of the recent round of funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
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Wednesday Jun 25, 2014Perimeter congratulates the fifth class to complete the Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) master’s program.
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Wednesday Jun 11, 2014
The secret to powerful quantum computing lies in a special kind of context, says new theoretical research.
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Tuesday May 06, 2014
For his visionary contributions to accelerating leading-edge research in fundamental physics, Mike Lazaridis has been elected to the national academy of science in the UK.
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Wednesday Apr 23, 2014
The road uniting quantum field theory and general relativity – the two great theories of modern physics – has been impassable for 80 years. Could a tool from condensed matter physics finally help map the way?
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Wednesday Apr 16, 2014
The Waterloo Global Science Initiative has released the Equinox Blueprint: Learning 2030, a vision for redesigning high school education to best prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
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Tuesday Apr 15, 2014
Canada’s leading news magazine, Maclean’s, has profiled a dozen of Canada’s future leaders – including Perimeter doctoral student Lauren Hayward.
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Friday Apr 04, 2014
Four Perimeter faculty have received Early Researcher Awards from the Ontario government.
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Monday Mar 31, 2014
Educators across the UK can now share the power, joy, and wonder of theoretical physics using Perimeter Institute’s award-winning classroom resources.
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Monday Mar 24, 2014
Researchers are using surprising ideas and mathematical tools originating in string theory to guide research into strange materials that are cropping up in condensed matter laboratories.
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Thursday Mar 20, 2014
A team of physicists from Perimeter Institute, the University of Waterloo, and Harvard has reached a key milestone in the pursuit of next-generation superconductors.
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Monday Mar 17, 2014
Update (May 19, 2014): There have been recent developments relevant to the article below. For more information, see:
- The talk given at Princeton on May 15 by Raphael Flauger (New York University and the Institute for Advanced Study)
- The Workshop on Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- A less technical article in The Washington Post
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Friday Mar 07, 2014
Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of five exceptional young scientists to its Emmy Noether Fellowships program.
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Thursday Mar 06, 2014
Asimina Arvanitaki, previously of Stanford, studies “particle physics without the colliders.”
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Thursday Feb 27, 2014
Perimeter researchers Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster are investigating whether long-range forces can be mediated by continuous spin particles. They’ve found more than they bargained for.
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2014
Perimeter Faculty member Dmitry Abanin has earned a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship for his leading-edge explorations into condensed matter physics.
