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authored a pathbreaking monograph,
Renormalization and Effective
Field Theory
, which introduced powerful new mathematical tools
into the theory of quantum fields. Costello will join Perimeter’s
intensifying efforts in mathematical physics, working on some of the
field’s most challenging problems. The appointments of Costello and
Gaiotto were made possible thanks, in part, to a generous $4 million
investment by the Krembil Foundation.
Faculty
Perimeter welcomed several outstanding faculty members in
2012/13:
Dmitry Abanin
joined Perimeter following postdoctoral positions at
Princeton and Harvard. Abanin is a leading young condensed matter
theorist whose research aims to more deeply understand so-called
Dirac materials, whose unique quantum and electronic properties
hold tremendous potential for use in an array of new technologies.
Much of his theoretical work has been experimentally confirmed by
groups at the Max Planck Institute, University of California, Harvard
University, University of Manchester, Columbia University, and other
top institutions.
Luis Lehner
joined Perimeter’s full-time faculty after a three-year
position as a Perimeter associate faculty member cross-appointed
with the University of Guelph. Lehner is an authority on strong
gravity whose research explores cosmic phenomena that create
strong gravitational and electromagnetic events, such as the
violent collisions of binary systems. He has earned many honours,
including fellowships from the Sloan Foundation, the Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), the Institute of Physics, the
International Society for Relativity and Gravitation, and the American
Physical Society.
Kendrick Smith
joined Perimeter after postdoctoral fellowships
at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. He
is a cosmologist whose research spans both pure theory and
observation, most notably in his work mapping the cosmic
microwave background – a “snapshot” of the oldest light in the
universe. Smith collaborated with experimental teams on a number
of landmark projects including the WMAP collaboration (which won
the prestigious 2012 Gruber Cosmology prize), as well as QUIET
and the Planck collaboration.
Kendrick Smith
PI BY THE NUMBERS
Perimeter is the world’s largest theoretical
physics research community:
20
full-time faculty
12
associate faculty
cross-appointed with partner universities
34
Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs
44
postdoctoral researchers
70
graduate students
1
1
This includes 39 PhD students and 31 Perimeter Scholars International (PSI)
master’s students. All numbers reflect the Perimeter community as of July 31, 2013.