News
Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Monday Sep 23, 2013
Canada's Governor General, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, got a first-hand look at the interactive exhibits that will be showcased during Perimeter Institute's upcoming BrainSTEM Festival.
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Friday Sep 20, 2013
Dave Doucette and Jason Jennings, both long-time members of Perimeter Institute’s Teacher Network, have been named among the 2013 recipients for the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Awards for Excellence in High School/CEGEP Physics Teaching.
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Wednesday Sep 18, 2013
Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce the creation of the Anaximandros Scholarship, which will support the education and training of exceptional young physicists.
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Friday Sep 13, 2013
A team of researchers that includes Perimeter Faculty member Freddy Cachazo has invented a new system for calculating what happens when particles interact – a result likely to have wide implications for physics and mathematics.
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Friday Aug 30, 2013
Perimeter Scholars International attracts many exceptional graduate-level students from around the world. Its newest class includes its youngest-ever student, Jacob Barnett, whose innate passion for physics is chronicled in the best-selling book, The Spark, and who was recently profiled in Maclean’s magazine.
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Friday Aug 23, 2013
Perimeter researchers Itay Yavin and Maxim Pospelov have posited a new force of nature to explain the seeming shrinking of the proton.
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Friday Aug 09, 2013
Perimeter congratulates Visiting Fellow David Skinner on winning Journal of Physics A’s “Best Paper Prize” for 2013. The prize is awarded to Skinner and collaborator Lionel Mason for their paper titled “Amplitudes at weak coupling as polytopes in AdS5.”
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Friday Aug 09, 2013
Perimeter Institute congratulates Postdoctoral Researcher Eugenio Bianchi, who has just been recognized by his peers in the loop quantum gravity community with the inaugural Bronstein Prize.
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Tuesday Jul 16, 2013
In the quest to bridge the gap between the physics of the very large and the very small, Perimeter Postdoctoral Researcher Steffen Gielen and collaborators have achieved an important milestone that brings to mind the adage “what’s old is new again.”
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Friday Jul 12, 2013
Computational physics – that is, tackling physics problems using numerical tools implemented on computers – is of increasing importance in modern physics. Here’s a glimpse of computational physics at Perimeter.
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Monday Jul 08, 2013
Perimeter Institute’s Educational Outreach team recently visited Singapore as part of the Institute’s efforts to share its award-winning modern physics resources and expertise internationally.
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Thursday Jul 04, 2013
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has announced the recipients of its 2013 Discovery Grants, including seven researchers from Perimeter Institute.
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Wednesday Jul 03, 2013
Perimeter bids farewell to the fourth class of Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) students.
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Friday Jun 28, 2013
Perimeter Institute would like to congratulate PhD candidates João Caetano and Jonathan Toledo on winning the John Brodie Memorial Award.
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Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
Perimeter Institute has established new collaboration agreements with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and with both TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, and SNOLAB, Canada’s underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics.
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Monday May 27, 2013
Jonathan Braniff joins the Institute as its Chief Advancement Officer.
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Wednesday May 22, 2013
Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of eight more outstanding international scientists as part of its Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs (DVRC) program.
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Wednesday May 22, 2013
The winner of the Science Safari contest visits Perimeter and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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Thursday Apr 11, 2013
Perimeter Faculty member Luis Lehner’s pioneering work in gravitational physics has been recognized by the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG).
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Friday Apr 05, 2013
Perimeter Institute Founder and Board Chair Mike Lazaridis has been named the 2013 Visionary of the Year by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).
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Tuesday Mar 26, 2013
The Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton, has recently launched a new venture called Ideas Roadshow, a multimedia magazine in which Burton, as host and CEO, conducts in-depth interviews with a wide variety of leading experts.
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Tuesday Mar 19, 2013
Perimeter Faculty member Davide Gaiotto and Perimeter Distinguished Visiting Research Chair Stephen Hawking are among those being honoured at the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize Ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The ceremony, hosted by actor Morgan Freeman, can be viewed via a live webcast on the CERN website at 3:15 pm EST.
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Friday Mar 15, 2013
Dr. Neil Turok has been appointed to a second term as Director. He will also become the inaugural Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Niels Bohr Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute.
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Thursday Mar 14, 2013
Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute, delivered the 2012 CBC Massey Lectures to sold-out audiences across Canada. Turok’s lectures, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos, are a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future. The lectures can be enjoyed anytime through iTunes, or purchased as a book from House of Anansi Press.
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Friday Mar 08, 2013
Perimeter Institute is pleased to announce its first appointments to the Emmy Noether Fellows program, Claudia de Rham and Sara Pasquetti.
