Philosophy
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics "...is an independent, resident-based research institute devoted to foundational issues in theoretical physics...." And I read that Stephen Hawking will participate soon. What happened to "experimental physics"? This is not a "balanced think tank".
Nine leading researchers are to join Stephen Hawking as visiting fellows at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada. The researchers, who include string theorists Leonard Susskind from Stanford University and Asoka Sen from the Harisch-Chandra Research Institute in India, will each spend a few months of the year at the institute as "distinguished research chairs". They will be joined by another 30 top scientists to be announced at a later date.
The Perimeter Institute was founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, chief executive of Research in Motion – the company that makes Blackberry wireless handheld devices. Home to more than 60 resident researchers, the institute focuses on areas such as cosmology, particle physics and quantum gravity. Hawking was made the institute's first distinguished research chair last November, while his Cambridge University colleague Neil Turok was appointed as the executive director of the institute last May.
There has been criticism though that the institute focuses too heavily on particle physics and cosmology and does not carry out any research in theoretical condensed-matter physics. However, one of the new chairs -- condensed-matter physicist Xiao-Gang Wen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – thinks that the subject will increase in prominence at the Perimeter Institute.
"The methods used in condensed-matter physics and other areas in the institute such as quantum gravity are very similar," says Wen, who will spend every summer at the institute. "I get the impression the institute is looking for people in condensed-matter physics whose work overlaps with the research already performed there."
The other new chairs, who will all keep positions at their home universities, include Yakir Aharonov from Chapman University and Tel Aviv University, who shared the Wolf Prize in 1998; Juan Ignacio Cirac, director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany; and Harvard University condensed-matter theorist physicist Subir Sachdev.
They will be joined by string theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; the Princeton University cosmologist Neta Bahncall at Princeton University; and Gia Dvali at the New York University's center for cosmology and particle physics.
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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics "...is an independent, resident-based research institute devoted to foundational issues in theoretical physics...." And I read that Stephen Hawking will participate soon. What happened to "experimental physics"? This is not a "balanced think tank".
"Top scientists join Hawking at Perimeter Institute"
by
Michael Banks
February 10th 2009
physicsworld.com
by
Michael Banks
February 10th 2009
physicsworld.com
Nine leading researchers are to join Stephen Hawking as visiting fellows at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada. The researchers, who include string theorists Leonard Susskind from Stanford University and Asoka Sen from the Harisch-Chandra Research Institute in India, will each spend a few months of the year at the institute as "distinguished research chairs". They will be joined by another 30 top scientists to be announced at a later date.
The Perimeter Institute was founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, chief executive of Research in Motion – the company that makes Blackberry wireless handheld devices. Home to more than 60 resident researchers, the institute focuses on areas such as cosmology, particle physics and quantum gravity. Hawking was made the institute's first distinguished research chair last November, while his Cambridge University colleague Neil Turok was appointed as the executive director of the institute last May.
There has been criticism though that the institute focuses too heavily on particle physics and cosmology and does not carry out any research in theoretical condensed-matter physics. However, one of the new chairs -- condensed-matter physicist Xiao-Gang Wen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – thinks that the subject will increase in prominence at the Perimeter Institute.
"The methods used in condensed-matter physics and other areas in the institute such as quantum gravity are very similar," says Wen, who will spend every summer at the institute. "I get the impression the institute is looking for people in condensed-matter physics whose work overlaps with the research already performed there."
The other new chairs, who will all keep positions at their home universities, include Yakir Aharonov from Chapman University and Tel Aviv University, who shared the Wolf Prize in 1998; Juan Ignacio Cirac, director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany; and Harvard University condensed-matter theorist physicist Subir Sachdev.
They will be joined by string theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; the Princeton University cosmologist Neta Bahncall at Princeton University; and Gia Dvali at the New York University's center for cosmology and particle physics.
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S. Hawking to Canada
Hawking--England or Canada...makes no difference
Philanthropy and science
Theoretical physics...philosophy/sci-fi?
- Stephen Hawking At Perimeter Institute
Prestige more than science. "Ontario institute finally gets Stephen Hawking" by San Grewal June 5th, 2010 Toronto Star Talk about winning the brain-drain wars. Ontario has landed what may be the best one in the world. After years of waiting and academic...
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