Relax, it’s only happening in theoretical physics—at least for now.

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Perimeter Institute Research Faculty member Mayuko Yamashita, who helps connect mathematics and physics, has been named The ...

The Leinweber Foundation donated $18 million to the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, renaming it to the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics. The total donation of $90 million is shared ...

Perimeter Institute began in the summer of 1999 when Mike Lazaridis, founder and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the successful BlackBerry, found himself in a position to help foster ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than others. While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a ...

Joining the sweeping theory of general relativity to the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics is perhaps the greatest challenge in modern physics. Each has been borne out on its own scale by ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

R. Dijkgraaf, E. Witten, "Mean field theory, topological field theory, and multi-matrix models," Nuclear Physics B, 342:486-522, 1990. Robert Dijkgraaf (Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University ...