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Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Thursday Dec 03, 2015
The international EHT research team, including Perimeter's Avery Broderick, has measured for the first time the magnetic fields that contribute to black hole growth.
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Thursday Nov 26, 2015
Running sophisticated simulations on a powerful supercomputer, an international research team has glimpsed the unique turbulence that fuels stellar explosions.
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Monday Nov 16, 2015
Perimeter talks with virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier about “fashionable” science, the problems with money, and whether we should make math physical.
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Friday Nov 06, 2015
Sean Begy, a first-year science student at Queen’s University, has won this year’s Luke Santi Award for Student Achievement.
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Friday Nov 06, 2015
Ontario’s Ministry of Education and Perimeter Institute have launched a project to reach more of Ontario’s youth, including those in underserviced areas, through expanded Perimeter programming.
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Monday Nov 02, 2015
New elementary school outreach program starts with a guided tour of the cosmos.
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2015
Physics has lost a true pioneer as well as a friend and inspiration to many in Leo Kadanoff, whose insights helped shape our modern understanding of nature.
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Monday Oct 19, 2015
Emmy Noether Fellow Sarah Shandera finds the best response to lingering inequality in science is to ditch the anger and funnel that energy into her work.
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2015
Perimeter Institute congratulates Board member Arthur B. McDonald on winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Monday Oct 05, 2015
Perimeter Institute has been invited by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston to serve as a “Nominating Partner” for the Governor General’s Innovation Awards.
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2015
Perimeter collaborators propose a new way to compare vastly different theories: go through the corners.
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Friday Sep 18, 2015
How important is imagination in physics? CBC Ideas host Paul Kennedy asks Perimeter Institute researchers. Listen to their answers in the CBC Podcast.
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Wednesday Sep 16, 2015
Perimeter physicist Matteo Smerlak helps uncover a new predator-prey power law that shapes biomass scaling across ecosystems.
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Tuesday Aug 25, 2015
The From Discretuum to Continuum Initiative aims to bridge the gap between the subatomic scale and spacetime.
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Tuesday Jul 28, 2015
The International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP) gives likeminded high-schoolers from around the world a chance to get hands-on with physics at Perimeter Institute.
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Monday Jul 13, 2015
EinsteinPlus workshop brings together teachers from around the world to re-imagine physics in the classroom.
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2015
Perimeter researchers Peng Ye and Zheng-Cheng Gu put forward a theory to create bosonic topological insulators by condensing the vortex lines in a Bose-Einstein condensate, and it could lead to “impossible” anyons on the surface.
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Monday Jun 29, 2015
Congratulations to the sixth class to complete PI’s “theoretical physics boot camp,” the Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) master’s program.
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Monday Jun 22, 2015Perimeter has forged strategic new partnerships that will inject more than $4 million into fundamental research, training, and outreach at the Institute.
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Thursday Jun 18, 2015
Three Perimeter researchers have received Early Researcher Awards from the Ontario government.
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Wednesday Jun 17, 2015
The most dazzling discoveries in science often arise when subjects – or problems – collide. That is the idea behind Convergence, Perimeter’s first alumni reunion, and it’s the focus of the latest issue of the Inside the Perimeter magazine.
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2015
Perimeter Institute is building a team of researchers and students to conduct leading-edge analysis of astrophysical data collected by the Event Horizon Telescope.
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Thursday May 21, 2015
Could black holes be the universe’s own accelerator experiments, churning out signals that may unveil exotic new particles – perhaps even the elusive dark matter?
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Tuesday May 05, 2015
Perimeter Associate Faculty member Maxim Pospelov has proposed a new method of hunting for dark matter using atomic clocks.
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Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
An experimental collaboration involving Perimeter postdoctoral researcher Daniel Brod shows that scattershot boson sampling works, and allows an almost fivefold increase in data collection speed.
