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Inside the Perimeter Summer 2011 inside the perimeter summer 2011 p.7 p.13 p.28 ““I’mI’m tthankfulhankful fforor thethe sstabilitytability ofof thethe proton."proton." p.14 p.13 p.27 p.3 iinn tthishis iissuessue 05/ PI Welcomes Renewed Federal and Provincial Investments 06/ Three New Faculty Appointed 08/ Eight New Distinguished Research Chairs Announced 10/ Primordial Beryllium May Shed Light on Particle Physics Stephen Hawking Centre Grand Opening The offi cial launch of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter 12/ Gottesman-Chuang Scheme Institute will take place over three exciting days, from September 16 to 18, 2011. To celebrate the expansion, the Institute’s award-winning Realized Experimentally outreach team is planning a number of activities. To learn more, go to www.pitp.ca/grandopening. Departments 03/ Neil’s Notes 04/ PI News IInsidenside tthehe PPerimetererimeter iiss ppublishedublished bbyy tthehe 17/ Publications PPerimetererimeter IInstitutenstitute fforor TTheoreticalheoretical PPhysicshysics wwww.perimeterinstitute.caww.perimeterinstitute.ca 19/ Conferences 3311 CCarolinearoline SStreettreet NNorth,orth, WWaterloo,aterloo, OOntario,ntario, CCanadaanada 24/ Global Outlook pp:: 5519.569.760019.569.7600 26/ Outreach ff:: 5519.569.761119.569.7611 30/ Culture@PI CContactontact uuss aatt [email protected]@pitp.ca On June 18, PI celebrated the sucessful completion of the second class of the Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) Masters program. 02From leftSUMMER to right: 2011 Tibra Ali, Denis Dalidovich, Callum Durnford, Robert Spekkens, Lucien Hardy, Ruth Gregory, Jeff Chen, Neil Turok, John Berlinsky, Heather Russell, and Antti Karlsson. Up, Up and Away e recently learned the unexpected ways during their extended research visits wonderful news that both each year. Wthe federal and provincial governments have decided to renew Building for the future has certainly been this year’s their investments in Perimeter theme! As I write, workers are assembling furniture Institute. and putting the fi nishing touches on our own It has been a privilege to work Starship Enterprise, the as a part of PI’s team, preparing Stephen Hawking Centre. and presenting our application. And let us offer our We’ll throw open the profound appreciation to the leaders who made these hatches September 16 to farsighted decisions in challenging economic times. 18. Plan to beam up with As they renewed their support, so should we renew your friends and explore our commitment to deliver outcomes which will make its think spaces, peer Canada and Ontario proud. through its portholes, ask some big questions, Our funding renewal is a vote of confi dence in Perimeter and have loads of mind- and our plans for the future. We have been given an bending Outreach fun. extraordinary opportunity: our challenge is to live up to it. How do you actively speed up progress in theoretical With summer’s arrival, physics, probably the most fundamental, successful, we said a fond farewell and diffi cult fi eld in all of science? to our second class of PSI Masters students. Every We need to maintain our energy and enthusiasm and day they reminded us to keep adding reinforcements. In that context, there is keep questioning and to very good news. I know you’ll join me in welcoming plunge in, no matter how to our senior faculty Guifre Vidal, newly arrived from daunting the task. To our Australia. He has pioneered new methods for solving second set of PSIons, we quantum spin systems and will strengthen and deepen have enjoyed seeing you our expertise in quantum information and condensed spreading your wings as matter physics. young scientists. Now we look forward to seeing PI is also being joined by some truly outstanding you fl y. junior faculty members. Avery Broderick and Itay Yavin, leaders in black hole astrophysics and particle I would like to recognize and thank John Berlinsky for physics respectively, have joined us as Associate his constant leadership of the PSI program, and our Faculty, appointed with the University of Waterloo and wonderful tutors, Tibra Ali, Denis Dalidovich, and Callum McMaster University, respectively (see p. 6). And Bianca Durnford, for their fantastic work and commitment Dittrich, an outstanding quantum gravity researcher over the past year. PSI couldn’t work without you! I’m who currently leads a research group in Canonical and delighted that Tibra and Denis will be returning as PSI n neil’s notes Covariant Dynamics of Quantum Gravity at the Albert Fellows, continuing to teach but also with time to do e Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany, will be joining their own research. And let us bid a teary goodbye to us in the New Year (see p. 7). Callum who will be returning to the UK. i l ’ Finally, eight senior theorists from around the world To those of you arriving, a hearty welcome! To those of s have accepted appointments as Distinguished you leaving (for now), we’ll miss you: come back soon. Research Chairs at Perimeter Institute: James Bardeen, n Ganapathy Baskaran, James Gates, Gerard ’t Hooft, Let me wish you all a brilliant summer! Frans Pretorius, Eva Silverstein, Paul Steinhardt, and o Senthil Todadri. They join Perimeter’s 19 current t DRCs. Collectively they represent an incredible array —Neil Turok e of scientifi c expertise. They will, no doubt, continue to invigorate and enliven our research community in s SUMMER 2011 03 iinsiden s i d e ttheh e pperimetere r i m e t e r ppii nnewse w s Kudos to... IncomingInc Faculty member Davide Gaiotto has won Associate Faculty member Michele Mosca was thet European Physical Society’s 2011 Gribov named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 by The Globe Medal for outstanding work by an early career and Mail. physicist in Theoretical Particle Physics and/or Field Theory “for the uncovering Distinguished Research Chair Sandu Popescu has of new facets of the dynamics of four- won the John Stewart Bell Prize for his “enormous dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories. contributions to the fi eld of quantum mechanics.” In particular, for discovering a large class of Professor Popescu, of the University of Bristol, is four-dimensional superconformal theories world-renowned for his many contributions to our and for fi nding with others important intricate understanding of nonlocality, entanglement, and the relations between two-dimensional theories of quantum foundations of statistical mechanics. gravity and four-dimensional gauge theories.” Erik Verlinde, a leading string theorist Associate Faculty member from the University of Amsterdam and Niayesh Afshordi was awarded a member of Perimeter’s Scientifi c the Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Advisory Committee, has won the 2011 Gold Medal from the Astronomi- NWO-Spinoza Prize, the highest award in cal Society of India for his contri- Dutch science. The prize carries a cash butions to our understanding of award of 2.5 million euros. the dark universe, including the distribution of plasma in galaxy Associate Faculty member Adrian Kent has been clusters, the phenomenology of awarded a Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme dark energy, and the structure of dark matter distri- Trust for his project, “Mathematical Characterization bution on small scales. of Quantum Reality.” PI Distinguished Research Chair Leo Kadanoff Associate Faculty member Luis Lehner has been has won the 2011 Isaac Newton Medal of the named a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced UK Institute of Physics for “inventing conceptual Research (CIFAR) Cosmology tools that reveal the deep implications of scale and Gravitation program. invariance on the behavior of phase transitions and dynamical systems.” Professor Kadanoff is Postdoctoral Researcher also a Lecturer in the PSI Masters program. Adrienne Erickcek has been named a Junior Fellow in Associate Faculty member Luis Lehner was awarded CIFAR’s Cosmology and Gravitation Program. a $120,000 Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Former Postdoctoral Researcher Andrei Starinets Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The DAS has won the 2011 Maxwell Medal and Prize of the UK Program aims to provide substantial resources to Insitute of Physics. outstanding research programs. PI Director Neil Turok received an honorary doctorate PI Distinguished Research Chair from the University of Ottawa in recognition of his Christopher Isham has won the scientifi c work and leadership in founding the AIMS 2011 Dirac Medal of the UK Next Einstein Initiative. Insitute of Physics for “his major contributions to the search for PhD student Sean Gryb received the 2010 John Brodie a consistent quantum theory of Memorial Prize for his academic achievements. gravity and to the foundations of quantum mechanics.” Faculty members Lee Smolin and Laurent Freidel, with colleagues Giovanni Amelino-Camelia and Sean Gryb, winner of the 2010 John Brodie Memorial Prize, Jerzy Kowalski-Gliknanwon, won second prize is congratulated by John Berlinsky, in the 2011 Gravity Research Foundation essay PI’s Academic Programs Director. competition for “Relative Locality: A Deepening of the Relativity Principle.” 04 SUMMER 2011 PI Welcomes Renewed Federal and Provincial Investments Both the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario have recently announced renewed support of $50 million each for Perimeter Institute. The $100 million will support PI’s research, training and outreach operations. In addition, the Expanding the Perimeter advancement campaign is targeting an additional $100 million in private funds, taking the successful public- private partnership to new levels. At the PI Public Lecture held in June, PI Director Neil Turok publicly thanked government representatives, saying, “We well appreciate the courage it took to renew Perimeter’s funding in these harsh economic times. On behalf of all of us who are privileged to work at Perimeter I From left to right: PI Founder Mike Lazaridis; Hon. Glen Murray, Minister of Research make this pledge to you, and to the taxpayers: and Innovation; Hon. John Milloy, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities; and PI we shall continue raising the bar and delivering Director Neil Turok.
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