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Perimeter cosmologist Kendrick Smith shares science’s richest prize as the WMAP experiment wins the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Perimeter Institute launches the Centre for the Universe, a global focal point for research into key questions in cosmology. 

Subir Sachdev has won the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society – an award that recognizes outstanding research in theoretical statistical physics.

As one of six Sofja Kovalevskaja Award winners, Perimeter postdoc Matteo Smerlak will apply statistical mechanics and mathematics to Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Former IQC Director targets the problems impeding efforts to create a robust quantum computer.

How Perimeter Institute’s annual summer camp for teachers is transforming classrooms around the world.

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.

For the third time in the award’s three years, Perimeter researchers have won two of the three Buchalter Cosmology Prizes on offer.

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. 

Asimina Arvanitaki has won the New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation – an award that recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers.