On December 3, join Dr. Cameron Smith as he discusses the challenges associated with interstellar voyages and long-term space settlement.
On November 6, join Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed for a journey from the infinitesimal to the infinite as he explores the links between quantum mechanics and the fabric of our universe.
New work asserts that a key technique used to probe quantum systems may not be so quantum after all, according to Perimeter postdoctoral researcher Joshua Combes and his colleague Christopher Ferrie.
On October 1, join Dr. Subir Sachdev for a leap into the remarkable world of quantum entanglement and its connections to the technological promise of superconductivity.
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics launches the 2014/2015 season of its renowned Public Lecture Series in October with a new twist – live, interactive webcast talks featuring some of the world’s pre-eminent scientists.
Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe, propose a trio of Perimeter Institute researchers in the cover story of the latest Scientific American.
Perimeter Associate Faculty member Matthew Johnson and his colleagues are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis, which to some sounds like a fanciful tale, firmly into the realm of testable science.
Pick up a pencil. Make a mark on a piece of paper. Congratulations: you are doing cutting-edge condensed matter physics. You might even be making the first mark on the road to quantum computers, according to new Perimeter research.
New research at Perimeter shows that gravitational fields around black holes might eddy and swirl.
On June 4, join Dr. S. James Gates Jr. on a journey down the path that links one of the most challenging concepts in theoretical physics to the works of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg.
The road uniting quantum field theory and general relativity – the two great theories of modern physics – has been impassable for 80 years. Could a tool from condensed matter physics finally help map the way?
Join Dr. Gianfranco Bertone at the May 7 Perimeter Public Lecture as he dives into one of the most pressing challenges in modern science – identifying the nature of dark matter.
The Waterloo Global Science Initiative has released the Equinox Blueprint: Learning 2030, a vision for redesigning high school education to best prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
Four Perimeter Institute faculty have received Early Researcher Awards from the Ontario government.
Join Kate Lunau of Maclean’s magazine in conversation with some of the science community’s emerging talent, as they share youthful perspectives on pursuing theoretical physics and investigating the big questions of our time.
Physicists are using surprising ideas and mathematical tools originating in string theory to guide research into strange materials that are cropping up in condensed matter laboratories.
A team of physicists from Perimeter Institute, the University of Waterloo, and Harvard has reached a key milestone in the pursuit of next-generation superconductors.
Join Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf at the March 5 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture to explore how ideas from quantum physics are putting modern mathematical ideas in a natural context.
Join Dr. Edward Moses at the February 5 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture to explore how the world`s most energetic laser system, the National Ignition Facility, is honing in on a virtually inexhaustible energy supply.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2013, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, join Dr. Penelope Boston on a spelunking adventure into Earth’s most extreme underground environments for a glimpse at distant worlds and life forms that may inhabit them.
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics announces a multimillion-dollar partnership with the Krembil Foundation to establish prestigious research chairs for two of the world’s top young theoretical physicists.
Perimeter Institute Associate Faculty member Avery Broderick will explore how astronomers are now imaging the horizons of black holes and attaining new insights about these enigmatic monsters in the dark.
New classroom resource designed to connect 21st century skills — creativity, critical thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, and imagination — to STEM subjects.
Governor General to preview interactive exhibits that will be featured at Perimeter Institute’s upcoming BrainSTEM: Your Future is Now Festival
Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to announce the schedule for BrainSTEM: Your Future Is Now Festival.
Jonathan Braniff to help advance Perimeter Institute’s mission and lead its long-term private fund development strategy in new role
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to announce the appointment of eight more outstanding international scientists as part of its Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs (DVRC) program.
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.
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.
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 Niels Bohr Chair in Theoretical Physics.
Perimeter Institute celebrates International Women's Day 2013 by hosting two conferences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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