News
Official news about, and announcements from, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Thursday Aug 03, 2017High-schoolers from across the globe dive deeply into science together at Perimeter’s International Summer School for Young Physicists.
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Monday Jul 17, 2017
How Perimeter Institute’s annual summer camp for teachers is transforming classrooms around the world.
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Thursday Jun 22, 2017
The inaugural Employee Recommended Workplace Awards, based on surveys of employees, recognized Perimeter Institute for its inspiring, healthy, and family-focused environment.
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Friday Jun 16, 2017Eighth class of Perimeter Scholars International urged to pursue truth, no matter where it takes them.
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Tuesday May 30, 2017
Four talented physicists have been recruited as the next group of Emmy Noether Visiting Fellows at Perimeter Institute.
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Thursday May 25, 2017
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.
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Monday Apr 24, 2017
IQC Executive Director's work in quantum processing cited as among the most influential developments in the field.
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Wednesday Jan 18, 2017
For the third time in the award’s three years, Perimeter researchers have won two of the three Buchalter Cosmology Prizes on offer.
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Science is a participatory endeavour. When people from diverse backgrounds come together in the spirit of open-minded inquiry, great discoveries can be made. Yet it's not always clear where or when those breakthroughs will come.
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
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.
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Tuesday Dec 06, 2016
Supported by Ontario’s Ministry of Education, Perimeter has released four new educational resources aimed at students in Grades 5 to 8.
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Sunday Dec 04, 2016
Asimina Arvanitaki has won the New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation – an award that recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers.
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Monday Nov 28, 2016
Students, teachers, and families explored the Power of Ideas exhibition at Perimeter Institute before it blazes a trail across Canada during Innovation150.
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Wednesday Nov 23, 2016Perimeter Faculty member Laurent Freidel’s new research aims to revisit and revise the very notion of space.
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Monday Nov 21, 2016
Perimeter’s Robert Myers was the only physicist based in Canada among the top scientists in Thomson Reuters’ recent citation analysis.
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Monday Nov 14, 2016
New observable identified by Perimeter researchers provides alternate route to probe certain quantum gauge theories.
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Thursday Nov 10, 2016
An Honorary Fellowship from the Institute of Physics is among a number of recent acknowledgements from the science community for Neil Turok.
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Wednesday Nov 09, 2016
The inaugural PSI Winter School was meant to provide a glimpse of research life. Now it has produced a bonus: results.
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Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
The UNESP-SAIFR-PERIMETER partnership will encourage international collaboration in theoretical physics research, training, and educational outreach.
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Friday Nov 04, 2016
Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada hosts Perimeter for an information session on the Institute’s national and international roles in research, training, and educational outreach.
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Tuesday Oct 11, 2016
About two-thirds of the lithium that should be in the early universe is missing. Perimeter researcher Maxim Pospelov thinks a hypothetical new particle – particle X – may have kept it from being formed.
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Tuesday Oct 04, 2016
Duncan Haldane, a professor of physics at Princeton University and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute, shares the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Thursday Sep 29, 2016Fifty delegates from 27 countries visited Perimeter Institute this week to learn how fundamental, collaborative research helps spur an ecosystem of innovation.
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Monday Sep 26, 2016
Two Perimeter postdoctoral fellows will soon head to the United States and Germany to pursue research seeded in Waterloo.
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Tuesday Sep 13, 2016
Perimeter researchers use measurements from the Event Horizon Telescope to test Einstein’s theory with the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
