News
Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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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.
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Friday Feb 07, 2014
Alex Landry, a first-year physics student at Mount Allison University, has earned Perimeter’s Luke Santi Memorial Award in recognition of his outstanding academic achievement and community involvement.
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Thursday Feb 06, 2014
Perimeter researchers are trying to find out how far one can tweak general relativity and still end up with the universe we observe. Their method? Adding “hair” to black holes.
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Thursday Jan 30, 2014
The Fields-Perimeter Africa Postdoctoral Fellowship, now accepting applicants for its second term, has enabled Benin native Dine Ousmane Samary to pursue frontier research in Canada.
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Thursday Jan 23, 2014
Perimeter researchers have solved a long-standing problem in quantum field theory by mathematically “cutting soap bubbles into pieces.”
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Wednesday Dec 18, 2013
We all intuitively perceive that time flows in only one direction – from past to future – and Templeton Frontiers Fellow Flavio Mercati is developing an innovative point of view on this so-called arrow of time.
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Thursday Dec 12, 2013
Now that we’ve discovered ways to build large quantum systems, we need to figure out how they change through time. Enter Perimeter Faculty member Dmitry Abanin and his new laws of quantum many-body dynamics.
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Wednesday Dec 11, 2013
The latest edition of Inside the Perimeter contains news, science, and a special keepsake poster.
