Expanding the Perimeter With The Stephen Hawking Centre at PI

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- Canada’s Perimeter Institute Shares Bold Plans for the Future

Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) has announced ambitious plans to strengthen its position as a leading research institute. The comprehensive advancement program, ‘Expanding the Perimeter’, will continue to bring together public and private sector partners with a passion for the transformative power of basic research, building on PI’s celebrated and highly successful public-private funding model.

“Perimeter Institute’s successful first decade was made possible through a unique combination of personal philanthropy and public support, from sponsors including Mike Lazaridis and the Governments of Ontario and Canada,” said PI Director Neil Turok, speaking at one of the Institute’s 10th Anniversary events. “This excellent start provides the base for our proposed expansion, and opportunities for the participation of additional partners. We welcome individuals and organizations that value the importance of basic research and wish to invest in PI”.

First Investments

The ‘Expanding the Perimeter’ announcement included an update on the 55,000 square foot expansion of the award-winning research facility. The new addition, already underway, will be known as the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute.

“We are delighted that Stephen has allowed his name to be associated with this expansion,” said Dr. Turok. “He is an inspirational figure, famous both for his cutting edge research into quantum theory and spacetime and for his excellent mentorship of young scientists. At the heart of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute will be our world-class training program, Perimeter Scholars International, helping to prepare the next generation of brilliant theoretical physicists”.

For More Information

Complete information and images from Perimeter Institute are available online at www.perimeterinstitute.ca and you can view the announcements, including comments from Professor Hawking, here at ‘PI Past, Present and Future’ (www.q2cfestival.com/play.php?lecture_id=8005).

Additional details on PI initiatives can be reviewed in this article, ‘PI(at)10: Looking Ahead’, by PI Director Neil Turok (www.perimeterinstitute.ca/News/In_The_Media/PI@Ten:_Looking_Ahead/)

For further information: For media inquiries, please contact Angela Robinson at arobinson@perimeterinstitute.ca/ +1-519-5697600 ext 5051

Source: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

For further information: For media inquiries, please contact Angela Robinson at arobinson at perimeterinstitute.ca/ +1-519-5697600 ext 5051