RSS Channels IndexPerimeter Institute Public Lecture: In Praise of Weakness June 5
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, physics Professor Aephraim Steinberg tackles the complexities of measurement within the field of quantum mechanics.
5/14/2013 10:00 AM EDT
Learn to Love Calculus at Perimeter Institute on May 1
On Wednesday, May 1, 2013, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, Jennifer Ouellette explains how she embraced the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years, and learned to love calculus.
4/17/2013 10:30 AM EDT
Perimeter Re-Appoints Neil Turok and Creates New Chair
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Ontario, Canada, is pleased to announce the re-appointment of Director Neil Turok to a second five-year term. In addition, Dr. Turok will be the inaugural chairholder of the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis...
3/15/2013 11:45 AM EDT
Women and Science: A Celebration of International Women’s Day at Perimeter Institute
Perimeter Institute celebrates International Women's Day 2013 by hosting two conferences
3/4/2013 12:45 PM EST
The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals at Perimeter’s Public Lecture on March 6
On Wednesday, March 6, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, physicist Dr. Paul Steinhardt will describe the search for the first natural quasicrystal, an adventure to the ends of the Earth and...
2/19/2013 10:00 AM EST
Catching Einstein’s Wave and Seeing Black Holes at Perimeter’s Public Lecture on February 6
How is a worldwide community of scientists using 16 kilometres of wide vacuum tubes to catch “ripples of space-time”? On Wednesday, February 6, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, physicist...
1/16/2013 2:00 PM EST
Xiao-Gang Wen and the 500 Phases of Matter
Forget solid, liquid, and gas: there are in fact more than 500 phases of matter. In a major paper in today’s issue of Science, Perimeter Faculty member Xiao-Gang Wen reveals a modern reclassification of all of them.
12/21/2012 4:30 PM EST
Davide Gaiotto and Stephen Hawking Among Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Award Winners
Davide Gaiotto, a Perimeter Institute faculty member, and Stephen Hawking, a Perimeter Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, along with other celebrated physicists, have been awarded prizes from the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation.
12/11/2012 6:00 AM EST