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Our research includes a strong focus on fundamental questions about the new physics underlying the Standard Models of particle physics, cosmology, and gravity; and the nature and applications of our basic frameworks (quantum field theory and string theory) for attacking these questions.   Our research also includes a major emphasis on the novel phenomena in condensed matter physics that emerge in systems with many degrees of freedom.

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SITP Professor Peter Graham on the LIGO Discovery

Nov 18 2016
Quora Session

After the historic announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves from merging black holes by LIGO, Peter Graham answered questions on the discovery and gravitational waves in general at Quora.

180 Researchers Attend The First It From Qubit Summer School

Aug 31 2016
IN SEARCH OF A COMMON LANGUAGE

The first It From Qubit collaboration workshop and summer school was held at the Perimeter Institute in

Big Bang Inflation

Apr 19 2016
Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles

Once upon a time, about 13.8 billion years ago, our universe sprang from a quantum speck, ballooning to one million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times its initial volume (by some estimates) in less than a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

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