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Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Thursday Apr 28, 2011
PI Associate Faculty Member Michele Mosca has been named among the country's Top 40 Under 40 by The Globe and Mail.
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Monday Apr 25, 2011
Perimeter Institute is the North American coordinating partner for the Next Einstein Initiative and the One for Many scholarship campaign, and has so far partnered with five universities in Canada to help support African students.
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Thursday Apr 21, 2011
Perimeter Institute Associate Faculty member Niayesh Afshordi has won the Professor M.K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of India (ASI).
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Wednesday Mar 30, 2011
PI Associate Faculty Member Luis Lehner has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
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Sunday Mar 20, 2011
Perimeter members and colleagues from around the world ocme together at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Qatar.
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Sunday Mar 20, 2011
The 2011 Provincial Budget renewed funding to accelerate Perimeter's scientific research, training and educational outreach activities.
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Friday Mar 11, 2011
PI Outreach's latest video resource, Everday Einstein: GPS & Relativity, tied for second place in the Non-interactive Media category of the prestigious International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.
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Friday Mar 04, 2011
The official launch of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute will take place over three exciting days, from September 16 to 18, 2011.
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Thursday Feb 17, 2011
From June 5 - 9, Waterloo Global Science Initiative, a partnership between Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo, will host a gobal conversation on how science and technology can help solve our current energy crisis.
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Thursday Feb 03, 2011
Perimeter Institute's Director was one of six new members appointed to the national advisory board.
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Monday Jan 17, 2011
CBC Radio One's flagship current affairs program spoke with PI Board Chair Mike Lazaridis, PI Director Neil Turok, and members of PI's faculty about innovation and the importance of theoretical physics.
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Thursday Dec 09, 2010
Prof. Vidal, a leading quantum information scientist who is currently an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, will join PI's faculty in May 2011.
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Saturday Dec 04, 2010
Ms. Palk, recently retired as the President of TD Asset Management Inc., has had a distinguished career in financial services with a long record of community service.
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Saturday Dec 04, 2010
The former honour student of Bell High School in Ottawa, currently studying at McGill University, received the honour at PI's Public Lecture with Dr. Eric Mazur on December 1.
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Wednesday Dec 01, 2010
The World Innovation Summit for Education has selected PI Director Neil Turok and his AIMS Next Einstein Initiative, the centrepiece of PI Global Outreach, as one of its six winners this year.
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Monday Nov 29, 2010
Visionary investment establishes BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute, the first of five Perimeter Research Chairs.
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Wednesday Nov 17, 2010
President Barack Obama presented Professor Aharonov with the highest honour bestowed on scientists by the US government in a White House ceremony.
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Monday Nov 01, 2010
Perimeter Institute hosted a visit by the world's leading science and technology leaders during a recent Carnegie Group meeting in Ontario, Canada.
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Monday Oct 04, 2010
The past few months have seen Perimeter's Outreach team participate in the STAO conference, launch a new in-class module called Everday Einstein: GPS & Relativity, and present three successful Public Lectures, among other things.
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Friday Oct 01, 2010
PI is pleased to announce the appointment of eminent scientists Brian Greene, Renate Loll, Erik Verlinde and Birgitta Whaley to its SAC.
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Friday Oct 01, 2010
A recent episode of BBC's long-running and award winning Horizon documentary series examines big bang theories through the eyes of several noted scientists, including those at the Perimeter Institute.
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Friday Sep 24, 2010
The Next Einstein Initiative is gaining momentum with the support of the Sénégalese government, African Union and NEPAD.
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Friday Sep 24, 2010
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), the centrepiece of Perimeter Institute's Global Outreach initiative, is one of five winners of Google's Project 10100.
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Wednesday Sep 15, 2010
The first lecture of the season will take place on October 6, 2010, featuring William R. Newman, Distinguished Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, highlighting a curious fascination of Sir Isaac Newton.
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Monday Sep 13, 2010
Perimeter Institute Faculty member Lee Smolin and Associate Faculty member Richard Cleve have been honoured with Canada's highest academic accolade.
