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Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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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.
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2015
Pedro Vieira has been awarded the prestigious Gribov Medal by the European Physical Society.
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Thursday Apr 02, 2015
Researchers have used a never-before-observed phenomenon called quantum distillation to turn an ultra-cold Bose-Einstein condensate into something even colder – and potentially more useful.
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Monday Mar 23, 2015
Correlation does not imply causation – unless it’s quantum. That’s the message of surprising new work from Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing.
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Wednesday Mar 18, 2015
Efforts to reduce environmental impact put Perimeter Institute in elite company.
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Wednesday Mar 11, 2015
New research at Perimeter shows that gravitational fields around black holes might eddy and swirl.
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Friday Mar 06, 2015
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, Perimeter’s “Inspiring Future Women in Science” conference gave more than 200 high school girls a glimpse into the lives of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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Monday Feb 23, 2015
Perimeter Faculty member Pedro Vieira has earned a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship for his explorations into the foundations of quantum field theory.
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Wednesday Feb 18, 2015
Perimeter researchers Yidun Wan and Ling-Yan Hung have taken an important step toward using topologically open surfaces like cylinders for quantum computation.
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Tuesday Feb 10, 2015
Latham Boyle wanted to enhance a proposed gravitational wave detector. Instead, he and Kendrick Smith may have stumbled upon a new type of crystal.
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Friday Feb 06, 2015
Miles Cranmer, a first-year physics student at McGill University, has earned Perimeter’s 2014 Luke Santi Memorial Award in recognition of his achievements in the classroom, in the lab, and in his community.
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Tuesday Feb 03, 2015
New research has overturned a widely publicized claim about the beginnings of the universe.
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Thursday Jan 08, 2015
Perimeter researcher Michal P. Heller has created a shortcut to understand primordial matter in its most extreme state.
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Tuesday Jan 06, 2015
Perimeter Faculty member Lee Smolin and his collaborator, Marina Cortês, were awarded the inaugural Buchalter Cosmology Prize at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington.
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Wednesday Dec 03, 2014
The latest teaching kit from Perimeter helps turn household items into tools that explain the universe.
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Tuesday Nov 18, 2014
Visiting Fellow Eduardo Martin-Martinez has been recognized for the potential of his research into relativistic quantum information.
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Tuesday Nov 11, 2014
Perimeter Faculty members Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster have won a New Horizons in Physics Prize. The $100,000 award recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers and is awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which evolved as an expansion of the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation.
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Thursday Oct 30, 2014
Perimeter Institute announces its Tensor Networks Initiative, aimed at supporting a new research approach with utility across a number of areas.
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Wednesday Oct 29, 2014
Time flies straight ahead like an arrow, never backtracking, and a Perimeter postdoc has co-authored a Physical Review Letters paper that offers an explanation as to why.
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Friday Oct 17, 2014
New research from Perimeter shows that two of the strangest features of quantum mechanics – entanglement and negative energy – might be two faces of one coin.
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Friday Sep 26, 2014
New measurements of galactic dust cast doubt on the claimed detection of gravitational waves from this past March.
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Wednesday Sep 24, 2014
New work asserts that a key technique used to probe quantum systems may not be so quantum after all, according to Perimeter postdoctoral researcher Joshua Combes and his colleague Christopher Ferrie.
