Research internship program
When applying to Perimeter’s PSI START program, applicants have the option to apply for a research internship in person at Perimeter. Interns will spend between twelve and sixteen weeks at Perimeter Institute and work on projects alongside Perimeter researchers.
Examples of past research internship projects
Computational Physics
- Sparse grids
Cosmology
- Constraining fundamental physics with cosmological data and machine learning
- Cross-correlation between stochastic gravitational wave background and other cosmological backgrounds
- Universe with a thermal origin
Geometry and Algebraic Geometry
- Geometry of flag configuration
Mathematical Physics
- Resolving time travel paradoxes
Quantum Fields and Strings
- Entanglement in two-dimensional gauge theory
Quantum Foundations
- Applications of automated symmetry decomposition: quantum chemistry, quantum causality
- Automating the decomposition of group representations
- Was Dirac right when he said that interference between two different photons never occurs?
- Resolving time travel paradoxes
Quantum Gravity
- Conformal boundary conditions in the CS formulation of three-dimensional gravity
- How realistic are warp drives?
Quantum Information
- Deriving statistics inequalities from measuring quantum states
- Out-of-time-order-correlators as an indicator of chaos?
- Understanding the chirality of quantum states
- Quantum many-body physics on quantum hardware
Quantum Matter
- Identifying topological order using unsupervised machine learning
- Quantum many-body physics on quantum hardware
- Range of entanglement in spin chains
Strong Gravity
- Sparse grids
- How realistic are warp drives?
- Resolving time travel paradoxes
- Spacetime algebra for numerical relativity
- Tidal effects for compact objects in scalar-tensor theories
The PSI START program is supported by Michael Serbinis and Laura Adams.