FQXi Mini-Grant Winners
All results are sorted by Mini-Grant value, from low to high.
Spring 2007
In the Fall 2007 Mini-Grant Round, FQXi received 24 Applications from its 95 Members (at the time), totaling over US$180K. Sixty percent of the applications requested US$6K or less. Funds were solicited for workshops, travel, and small research projects. 18 Winners, totaling just over US$100K, with an average award of about US$5750, were selected by the lottery process described here. The deadline for this round was October 15, Winners were notified on November 13, and the majority of payments were released in three months or less.
All results are sorted by Mini-Grant value, from low to high.
Spring 2007
In the Fall 2007 Mini-Grant Round, FQXi received 24 Applications from its 95 Members (at the time), totaling over US$180K. Sixty percent of the applications requested US$6K or less. Funds were solicited for workshops, travel, and small research projects. 18 Winners, totaling just over US$100K, with an average award of about US$5750, were selected by the lottery process described here. The deadline for this round was October 15, Winners were notified on November 13, and the majority of payments were released in three months or less.
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| Olaf Dreyer | Imperial College | $1,500 | Support travel to investigate consequences of a theory of quantum gravity for early universe cosmology |
| Maulikh Parikh | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics | $2,000 | Create presentations to teach foundational questions in physics to laypeople in India |
| Vitaly Vanchurin | Tufts University | $3,000 | Support travel for collaborators working on an alter-native approach to the measurement problem |
| Claus Keifer | University of Cologne | $3,000 | Support travel for collaborators working on theories of quantum primordial black holes |
| Ekkehard Peik | PTB | $3,799 | Provide copies of conference proceedings on Atomic Clocks and Fundamental Constants to all participants |
| Maximillian Schlosshauer | University of Melbourne | $4,000 | Organize series of talks on foundational problems of quantum mechanics in Australia |
| A. Garrett Lisi | Fractured Atlas | $4,000 | Create an interactive website displaying the elementary particle fields corresponding to the E8 polytope |
| Rafael Sorkin | Syracuse University | $4,000 | Purchase a license for a program to simulate complex percolation |
| Robert Spekkens | Cambridge University | $4,193 | Completion of textbook on interpretations of quantum mechanics |
| Thanu Padmanabhan | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics | $5,000 | Travel support for discussions on an approach to emergent gravity and dark energy |
| Jos Uffink | University of Utrecht | $5,000 | Support travel to Perimeter Institute via teaching re-placement |
| Stephen Wolfram | Wolfram Research | $5,600 | Support 4 attendees to the 2008 NKS Summer School |
| Tanmay Vachaspati | Case Western Reserve University | $6,000 | Support travel related to project on quantum field theory |
| Fotini Markopoulou | Perimeter Institute | $7,000 | Support travel and local expenses for participants to workshop on quantum information theory |
| Matthew Leifer | Perimeter Institute | $7,500 | Support travel and other costs for speakers at APS meeting |
| Dmtry Budker | UC Berkeley | $10,000 | Support graduate students working on the gravitational potential dependence of alpha |
| Stephon Alexander | Pennsylvania State University | $13,000 | Support travel to mini-workshop on topics at the in-terface between quantum gravity |
| Christopher Isham | Imperial College | $15,000 | Partially support a postdoc to continue work begun on main FQXi grant |
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