News
Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Thursday Nov 16, 2017
Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab lauds Perimeter for its role at the foundation of economic growth.
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Monday Oct 30, 2017
Subir Sachdev has won the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society – an award that recognizes outstanding research in theoretical statistical physics.
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Thursday Oct 26, 2017
Graeme Ko, a first-year physical sciences student at the University of Waterloo, has won this year’s Luke Santi Memorial Award for Student Achievement.
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Thursday Oct 26, 2017
As one of six Sofja Kovalevskaja Award winners, Perimeter postdoc Matteo Smerlak will apply statistical mechanics and mathematics to Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Monday Oct 02, 2017
The research pursued by three new Faculty members at Perimeter Institute will advance understanding in a highly promising field.
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Wednesday Sep 20, 2017
Former IQC Director targets the problems impeding efforts to create a robust quantum computer.
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Thursday Aug 03, 2017High-schoolers from across the globe dive deeply into science together at Perimeter’s International Summer School for Young Physicists.
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Monday Jul 17, 2017
How Perimeter Institute’s annual summer camp for teachers is transforming classrooms around the world.
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Thursday Jun 22, 2017
The inaugural Employee Recommended Workplace Awards, based on surveys of employees, recognized Perimeter Institute for its inspiring, healthy, and family-focused environment.
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Friday Jun 16, 2017Eighth class of Perimeter Scholars International urged to pursue truth, no matter where it takes them.
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Tuesday May 30, 2017
Four talented physicists have been recruited as the next group of Emmy Noether Visiting Fellows at Perimeter Institute.
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Thursday May 25, 2017
For more than 150 years, Canada has been a land of inquiry, innovation, and opportunity. That is just the beginning. The latest issue of Inside the Perimeter magazine explores the ideas and the science that have shaped – and are shaping – Canada as it turns 150.
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Monday Apr 24, 2017
IQC Executive Director's work in quantum processing cited as among the most influential developments in the field.
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Wednesday Jan 18, 2017
For the third time in the award’s three years, Perimeter researchers have won two of the three Buchalter Cosmology Prizes on offer.
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Science is a participatory endeavour. When people from diverse backgrounds come together in the spirit of open-minded inquiry, great discoveries can be made. Yet it's not always clear where or when those breakthroughs will come.
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Joscelyn van der Veen, a first-year student studying mathematical physics at the University of Waterloo, has won this year’s Luke Santi Award for Student Achievement.
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Tuesday Dec 06, 2016
Supported by Ontario’s Ministry of Education, Perimeter has released four new educational resources aimed at students in Grades 5 to 8.
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Sunday Dec 04, 2016
Asimina Arvanitaki has won the New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation – an award that recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers.
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Monday Nov 28, 2016
Students, teachers, and families explored the Power of Ideas exhibition at Perimeter Institute before it blazes a trail across Canada during Innovation150.
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Wednesday Nov 23, 2016Perimeter Faculty member Laurent Freidel’s new research aims to revisit and revise the very notion of space.
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Monday Nov 21, 2016
Perimeter’s Robert Myers was the only physicist based in Canada among the top scientists in Thomson Reuters’ recent citation analysis.
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Monday Nov 14, 2016
New observable identified by Perimeter researchers provides alternate route to probe certain quantum gauge theories.
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Thursday Nov 10, 2016
An Honorary Fellowship from the Institute of Physics is among a number of recent acknowledgements from the science community for Neil Turok.
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Wednesday Nov 09, 2016
The inaugural PSI Winter School was meant to provide a glimpse of research life. Now it has produced a bonus: results.
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Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
The UNESP-SAIFR-PERIMETER partnership will encourage international collaboration in theoretical physics research, training, and educational outreach.
