The Emmy Noether Initiatives at Perimeter Institute include:
- Inspiring Future Women in Science Events: Featuring leading women physicists, engineers, mathematicians, media personalities, and more, these annual events for high school students are an important first step in supporting and encouraging women in the sciences.
- International Summer School for Young Physicists: This annual two-week program brings together 40 Canadian and international high school students for an exciting and challenging look at life and work in a world-leading physics institute. Perimeter ensures that half of the attendees each year are young women.
- Undergraduate Theoretical Physics Summer Program: Twenty exceptional undergraduate students will join Perimeter Institute's research community for a fully-funded two-week summer program. From this group, ten students will be selected to continue in a paid research internship. This program is an excellent opportunity to participate in groundbreaking research at a world-leading theoretical physics institute.
- Perimeter Scholars International: An intensive, one-year master’s degree program, PSI stresses problem solving and teamwork, rather than rote learning and grading. Women make up around one-third of PSI students, and graduate with powerful, widely applicable skills.
- PhD Students and Postdoctoral Fellows: Perimeter PhD students interact with research leaders from around the world, laying the foundation for a future career in physics. Our postdoctoral program provides unique mentoring for intellectually adventurous young theorists, who go on to flourish as independent researchers.
- The Simons Emmy Noether Fellows Program: Timed to support women at a critical stage of their career, six annual fellowships enable visiting scientists to spend up to a year in Perimeter’s thriving, multidisciplinary community. Fellows collaborate, network, and pursue their work in a unique, ambitious, and family-friendly environment.
- Faculty Positions and Research Chairs: Unlike traditional university positions, Perimeter faculty members have no mandatory teaching duties and few administrative burdens. Research Chairs are provided additional supports for their cutting-edge research, enabling them to pursue breakthrough science.
FURTHER EXPLORATION:
- Who was Emmy Noether?
- Meet some of the scientists these initiatives support
- Meet the Emmy Noether Council
Emmy Noether Initiatives are part of Perimeter Institute’s ongoing efforts to effect real change in the longstanding under-representation of women in physics. To that end, Perimeter makes particular efforts to: sponsor and host conferences and workshops devoted to women in physics; use educational outreach and communications channels to showcase the contributions women make to physics; strive toward gender equity in Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) master’s programs and other training programs; and tailor individual fellowship opportunities to outstanding women researchers.