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Alumni wins PI's John Brodie Memorial Award
Jean-Christian Boileau, a Ph.D student under the supervision of Raymond Laflamme at the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute from 2002 to 2007, has been awarded the John Brodie Memorial...
New grads, alumni, and instructors celebrate 10 years of Perimeter Scholars International
When former Director Neil Turok first arrived at Perimeter Institute in 2009, he was struck by something immediately. “Where are the students?” he asked. As a hub for some of...
Perimeter Institute and Canada partner on growing science & technology capacity globally
During a special visit to Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) tied to the centre’s Global Outreach activities, the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper announced new federal funding of...
Perimeter initiatives lauded by CCAE
After a resounding debut last year at the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) awards, Perimeter Institute this year took home awards for initiatives in educational outreach and...
Advancing global science
When Ali Assem Mahmoud arrived in Waterloo after a more than 9,000 kilometre journey from his home in Cairo, Egypt, in 2017, he became one of the tiny handful of...
Celebrating the sixth class of Perimeter Scholars International
In a ceremony filled with laughter and some tears, the 2015 class of Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) commemorated an intense year of physics, friendships, and plenty of coffee. Thirty-three students...
African leaders show support for AIMS-Next Einstein initiative
Support from African leaders is adding momentum to the AIMS-Next Einstein Initiative (NEI) , an ambitious plan to create a coordinated network of 15 African Institutes for Mathematical Science (...
Perimeter congratulates 2018 Nobel laureate Donna Strickland of University of Waterloo
When informed by a reporter that she was only the third woman in history to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, Donna Strickland responded incredulously: “Really?” Strickland, who...
Next Einstein Initiative recognized as world changing idea with US$ 2m award from Google
As part of a project to fund world-changing ideas, Google has awarded US$2 million to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) for its Next Einstein Initiative (NEI) , a...