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Luke Santi Award winner inspired by the science behind the fiction
It started with an unzipped schoolbag and a spark of imagination. When Joscelyn van der Veen was in fifth grade, her schoolbag came unzipped. Yet she was certain – positive...
Luke Santi Award winner lauded for service and science
Ask a 10-year-old what they want to be when they grow up and you could get any kind of reply: An actor. A veterinarian. A hockey player. A nurse...
Magic at the meeting points
It was late 2013, and Perimeter Institute quantum matter researcher Roger Melko had noticed something interesting about the quantum materials he was modelling. Melko simulates “strongly correlated lattices,” exotic materials...
Jaume Gomis wins CAP-CRM Prize
Perimeter Faculty member Jaume Gomis has been awarded this year’s CAP-CRM Prize for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics . The prize, awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and the...
João Caetano and Jonathan Toledo win John Brodie Memorial Award
Given annually to a graduate student (or, in this case, a pair of students) working under the supervision of a researcher at Perimeter, the award is named in honour of...
Keep calm and carry on researching
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can, Sarah Shandera has discovered, be wasted. As a woman in what is largely a male game, the theoretical physicist has...
Krembil Foundation elevates its commitment to Canadian-based breakthroughs
When the Krembil Foundation first partnered with Perimeter Institute in 2013 , its goal was to spur scientific advances at the world’s largest independent centre for theoretical physics, introducing prestigious...
From learners to creators: Perimeter’s ninth PSI class graduates
After 10 months clambering up a steep learning curve, the 2017/18 class of Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) this week reached the pinnacle, and the view was grand. Together, the class...
Astrophysical breakthroughs earn Brockhouse Canada Prize
For their game-changing contributions to the hunt for distant explosions called fast radio bursts, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration – including Perimeter’s Kendrick Smith and Ue-Li Pen...
Lena Funcke earns Max Planck Society award
Earning a PhD is a remarkable achievement that reflects years of dedication and effort — and it’s not one that many 23-year-olds have already crossed off their “to do” lists...