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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI, Perimeter, PITP) is an independent research centre in foundational theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1999. [1] The institute's founding and major benefactor is Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Mike Lazaridis. [2]
Lee Smolin (/ ˈ s m oʊ l ɪ n /; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto.
In 2019, Myers was appointed Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. [1] [2] where he holds the BMO Financial Group Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics. [3] He served as Perimeter Institute's Faculty Chair from 2011 to 2018. He is also an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. [4]
With an initial donation of $100 million from Mike Lazaridis (founder of Blackberry), the Perimeter Institute is one of the “world’s foremost centers for research, graduate training, and educational outreach in theoretical physics, uniting public and private partners, and the world’s best scientific minds, in a shared enterprise to ...
In January 2018, Mack became an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University and a member of the university's Leadership in Public Science Cluster. [18] [19] She joined the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in June 2022 as the inaugural Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication.
Lucien Hardy (born 1966) is a British-Canadian theoretical physicist currently based at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada.. Hardy is best known for his work on the foundation of quantum physics, including the Hardy's paradox thought experiment, and his influential work in quantum field theory, which seeks to reconcile quantum mechanics to general relativity.
Neil Geoffrey Turok OC HonFInstP (born 16 November 1958) is a South African physicist.He has held the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh since 2020, [2] and has been director emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics since 2019. [3]
Asimina Arvanitaki (born 1980) is a Greek theoretical physicist and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] [3] In 2017, she was awarded the New Horizons in Physics prize.