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Robert Myers, Director and BMO Isaac Newton Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute
Great science requires great research infrastructure.
Perimeter Institute – an independent, global hub for theoretical physics research, training and outreach – is an example of a cutting-edge facility that attracts outstanding physicists and students from across the globe to collaborate in an area of science where breakthroughs can literally change the world.
Perimeter’s facility was designed as a laboratory for collaboration and discovery. While it is a stand-alone organization with resident physicists, there are many partnerships with organizations throughout Canada on joint talent and scientific activities that have led to groundbreaking scientific insights and helped to raise national research impact.
Investments from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) enabled the construction of the original facility in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, plus an expansion called the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute, helping to create the foundation for what has become a world-leading centre of theoretical physics.
The fundamental research happening at Perimeter – and with colleagues across the country – is putting Canada at the forefront of a new understanding of our universe and laying the foundation of future technologies.
These are exciting times: longstanding scientific challenges are coming within reach. The fundamental research happening at Perimeter – and with colleagues across the country – is putting Canada at the forefront of a new understanding of our universe and laying the foundation of future technologies.
Multidisciplinary research at Perimeter ranges from quantum information to cosmological investigations, and the facility has played key roles for Canada in developing the area of quantum intelligence (at the nexus of quantum information and artificial intelligence), in partnering on humanity’s first ever photo of a black hole and in contributing to the success of the Canadian CHIME telescope team with unique software.
Twenty-five years of investments from the CFI have given an enormous boost to Canadian science. Canadians can be proud of living in a country where there is strong support for research and where thoughtful organizations like the CFI make this support concrete.
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