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Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Perimeter PhD graduate earns top honours for her creative research
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Tuesday Jun 12, 2018Perimeter’s Educational Outreach team partners with the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and Environmental Research Advocates to bring science resources to LA teachers.
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Thursday Jun 07, 2018
Perimeter lauded at national awards ceremony recognizing outstanding efforts in communication, media relations, and advancement.
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Thursday May 10, 2018
Perimeter Institute is among 13 partner organizations contributing to a new national hub of astroparticle physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
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Wednesday May 09, 2018
Mathematical physicist Kevin Costello has been elected a fellow in the prestigious Royal Society of London.
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Monday Apr 09, 2018
Cosmologist Will Percival and mathematicians Matilde Marcolli and Ben Webster join Perimeter as Associate Faculty.
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Thursday Mar 22, 2018
Perimeter’s flagship program to support and promote women physicists is being expanded thanks to funding from the Simons Foundation.
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Friday Mar 16, 2018
Astrophysicist Will East joined Perimeter Institute’s faculty at a time of unprecedented discovery in his field.
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Wednesday Mar 14, 2018
Stephen Hawking’s genius and indomitable energy were an inspiration to the entire Perimeter Institute research community and to millions around the world.
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Thursday Mar 01, 2018
Perimeter Institute and Chapman University’s Institute for Quantum Studies have forged a partnership to spark new collaborations.
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Thursday Feb 01, 2018
New Faculty member Neal Dalal wants to make the most of the influx of cosmological data in order to understand physics on every scale.
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Wednesday Jan 31, 2018
Representatives from the G7 nations assembled at Perimeter Institute this week to plan the 2018 G7 Summit.
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Thursday Jan 11, 2018
With second- and third-prize wins, Perimeter research is recognized at Buchalter Cosmology Prizes for fourth year running.
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Raymond Laflamme, a founding Perimeter faculty member and longtime director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, has been granted one of Canada’s highest civilian honours.
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Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Science typically advances in increments, but 2017 saw a huge leap as astronomers threw open a new window to the universe. That was just one story in a bustling year for science, and for Perimeter. Here’s a recap of the year’s highlights.
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Tuesday Dec 12, 2017
Quantum field theorist shares $100,000 award for exceptional work by researchers under the age of 40.
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Friday Dec 08, 2017
Perimeter Faculty Chair Robert Myers has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential scientists for the fourth year in a row.
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Monday Dec 04, 2017
Perimeter cosmologist Kendrick Smith shares science’s richest prize as the WMAP experiment wins the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Monday Nov 27, 2017
Ontario Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell works with Perimeter to support education and equality in science.
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Monday Nov 20, 2017
Perimeter Institute launches the Centre for the Universe, a global focal point for research into key questions in cosmology.
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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.
