New Forces of Nature Posters

Welcome Katherine Johnson, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin to your classroom by downloading these free posters celebrating women in science.

Online Student Enrichment Courses

GoPhysics! provides keen students in Grades 10-12 with free online enrichment courses. Gravity and Quantum World will run from May 3-20 and include video content, interactive exercises, and Predict-Observe-Compare activities with individual feedback from the course instructor. Please share the full course details and the registration form with your students.

Last Call for EinsteinPlus

Connect with teachers from around the world, learn new strategies for your classroom, and ask physicists all those questions that keep you up at night. Apply online before Monday, April 15 to be part of Perimeter's EinsteinPlus Teacher's Workshop. 

Event Horizon Telescope

Excitement is building as the scientists of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are expected to announce a “groundbreaking result” on Wednesday, April 10, at 9 AM ET.

Perimeter will stream the live announcement from Washington, DC -- as well as a special live panel discussion at 11 AM that morning examining the implications of the announcement -- on insidetheperimeter.ca. 

Stay tuned for more details about these special events and educational resources tied to this announcement.

Live Lecture Webcast

Chad Hanna
Pennsylvania State University

Wednesday, April 3 @ 7:00 pm

For thousands of years, astronomy was restricted to what we could see with our eyes. But visible light makes up only a tiny fraction of a spectrum emitted by celestial objects.

We now know that light is not the universe’s sole means to reveal the mysteries of the heavens. Until recently, we simply lacked the windows through which to view these aspects of our universe.

Over the last few decades, astronomers have revolutionized our windows on the universe with telescopes of unprecedented sensitivity to light beyond what our eyes can see.

In his lecture, Chad Hanna will describe how these new windows have changed our view of the cosmos and what new wonders may be unveiled in the future. Read More

Mark your calendar! Watch the live webcast at 7 pm ET on Wednesday!