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Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Monday Jan 11, 2016
Perimeter researchers show how the largest possible structure – the curvature of the universe as a whole – can be used as a lens onto the smallest objects observable today, elementary particles.
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Wednesday Jan 06, 2016
Perimeter researchers Flavio Mercati, Elliot Nelson, and Niayesh Afshordi have won first and third places in the second annual Buchalter Cosmology Prize competition.
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Friday Dec 18, 2015
To celebrate the centenary year of Einstein’s theory of general relativity and Emmy Noether’s development of her eponymous theorems, the latest issue of Inside the Perimeter examines and celebrates science past, present, and future.
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Monday Dec 14, 2015
Perimeter takes a look back at an illuminating year of science.
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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.
