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Perimeter Institute celebrates International Women's Day 2013 by hosting two conferences

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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 beyond and one of the wildest scientific stories you are ever likely to hear.

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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 and LIGO spokesperson Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez will explore how the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration is pushing the frontiers of science and engineering to help us understand the universe.

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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.

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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.

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Curiosity is often said to drive science, but until the seventeenth century – the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution – it was regarded with suspicion and condemnation. On Wednesday, December 5, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, science writer Philip Ball will examine the rise of curiosity and its evolving role in science.

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Here’s an opportunity to win a trip for two for a six-day, two-continent science safari to some of the world’s leading scientific centres with the Massey Contest.

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On Wednesday, November 7, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, Professor Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, will bring this fascinating Higgs boson search to life and share her first-hand insights about whether the future of particle physics looks to be a dream or, maybe, a nightmare.

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The 2012 Massey Lectures feature a personal and fascinating work titled "The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos" by Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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A strange thing about black holes: they shine. The current issue of Science features a new paper by the Event Horizon telescope team – a collaboration that includes Avery Broderick, Associate Faculty at Perimeter Institute.

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“Is it the weekend yet?”… “Time flies!” … “There aren’t enough hours in a day!” – these are all phrases we hear often, and sometimes say ourselves. But what if time didn’t exist? What if we lived in a world free of alarm clocks, appointment times, and calendars?

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Researchers at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics have recently received multiple recognitions for their achievements in areas such as subatomic physics, mathematical physics, quantum field theory and quantum gravity.

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On Wednesday, May 2, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, Dr. Donald Kurtz, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Central Lancashire, will deliver a multi-media lecture exploring the relationship of music to stellar sounds.

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An international team of astronomers is planning something audacious: a $2 billion revolutionary telescope so vast and distributed, it will comprise 3,000 dishes spanning the area of an entire continent. Learn about the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) from Research Astronomer Dr. Lisa Harvey-Smith at Perimeter Institute.

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Perimeter Institute joins representatives from across Waterloo Region, Ontario, and Canada to take part in global gathering in Vancouver, B.C. This year, Perimeter Institute and close partners are participating in a series of diverse events.

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Snowflake Physics at Perimeter’s Public Lecture on February 1st. We shovel them, we hide from them, and we rejoice when they give us an extra day’s holiday. In a Canadian winter, the snowflake is everywhere.

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Join Perimeter Institute for an interactive, live webcast with PI Researchers as they discuss the latest findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN - the biggest, most ambitious scientific experiment in human history.

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On Wednesday, December 14, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture series presented by Sun Life Financial, Graham Farmelo, By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK, will examine the life of Paul Dirac, exploring where his obsessions began and why he was sometimes called ‘the strangest man’ in the modern history of physics.

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The new Templeton Frontiers Program at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics aims to catalyze path-breaking research by encouraging young scientists to pursue ambitious and daring ideas. The integrated program, supported by a $2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, centres on three research areas which are key to major advances in our understanding of the universe: Quantum Foundations and Information, Foundational Questions in Cosmology, and the Emergence of Spacetime.

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On November 2, Fay Dowker, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, UK, will describe black hole thermodynamics and argue that it is telling us that spacetime itself is granular or “atomic" at very tiny scales.