2009 Annual Report - Perimeter Institute

Awards
Freddy Cachazo accepts the 2009 Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society.
The Institute’s researchers are recipients of many awards and
honours. Highlights from the last year appear below:
• Faculty member Freddy Cachazo was awarded the Gribov Medal from
the European Physical Society (EPS) “for his research with others
that led to significant simplifications in the calculation of scattering
amplitudes in both gauge theories and gravity ones.”
• Associate Faculty members Raymond Laflamme and Cliff Burgess
were inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society, the highest scholarly
accolade awarded in Canada.
• Faculty member Jaume Gomis received a 2009 Early Researcher
Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario.
• Faculty member Lee Smolin was awarded the 2009 Klopsteg Memorial
Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for
“extraordinary accomplishments in communicating the excitement of
contemporary physics to the general public.”
• Work by Robert Spekkens et al. was selected for inclusion in the
New Journal of Physics’ “Best of 2008” issue.
• Faculty member Fotini Markopoulou won a prize from the Foundational
Questions Institute (FQXi) for her essay “Space does not exist,
so time can.”
• Chris Fuchs was elected Chair of the American Physical Society’s
Topical Group on Quantum Information (to begin 2011).
• Postdoctoral fellow Sarah Croke won the 2008 QEP group thesis prize
from the Institute of Physics (UK).
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