Science and Research committee  The Perimeter Institute was really the brainchild of Mike Lazaridis. You may know him as the inventor of the BlackBerry. He built the first modern cellphone, this device that we're all dependent on now. He realized that what he had there, in a BlackBerry, was really dependent on

Science and Research committee  With regard to the associate program, we worked for many years with an associate at the University of Victoria, actually. Unfortunately, he's no longer there. I believe that largely for personal reasons, he moved to the United States recently, to Minnesota. That was the farthest

Science and Research committee  Okay, sorry.

Science and Research committee  Yes.

Science and Research committee  We're very fortunate in that I work with blackboards such as the one behind me. I don't have an experimental lab. It was very easy for me and my colleagues here to take our work home and interact via Zoom. It did slow us down. We were successful, though, in recruiting at all lev

Science and Research committee  That's right.

Science and Research committee  The full-time faculty are here in Waterloo. Ninety per cent of them are affiliated or adjunct. For instance, I'm an adjunct faculty at University of Waterloo as well, which allows me to work with students and teach courses. The associates or the part-time faculty are roughly hal

Science and Research committee  We've had very generous support from both the federal government and the Ontario government. Slightly more than a third of our funding comes from private philanthropy—from donors and foundations, etc. Currently, at the federal level, we're participating in a new program that is

Science and Research committee  We actually try to encourage that by exposing the trainees here at Perimeter to the opportunities that lie outside of academia. This takes the form of workshops and presentations by industry leaders, just so that they have an idea of what the possibilities are beyond the confines

Science and Research committee  That's a big topic. It's a strategic direction that we're trying to advance. We've had successes with outreach to high school students. At the master's level, we've reached gender parity in our all of our programs. It's fair to say that with more senior levels at the faculty le

Science and Research committee  We have an effort going on. I would say it's not to recruit, but rather to support Ukrainian scientists, and in fact all researchers who have been affected by the war. In particular, we're working at the level of post-docs and graduate students, trying to identify talent and prov

Science and Research committee  I'd be happy to do that. Thank you.

Science and Research committee  Sure. We are really a resource, in many respects, for the country—or I feel we are. If we start on the side of academia, I mentioned the joint appointments that we make with nearby universities to try to draw talented researchers into the university system here. We also have affi

Science and Research committee  My apologies for what happened earlier. I'm not sure what happened. In any event, my name is Rob Myers. I'm the director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics here in Waterloo, Ontario. I'd like to start by thanking the committee for the important work you're doing

Science and Research committee  That's a great question. It's a real challenge. My alma mater is the University of Waterloo. I'm a graduate of the co-op program. One possibility that we're working on is extending that program to the graduate level to try to connect the students here with internships with local