2008 Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology
Awardee   |
Institution | Value  |
Project Title |
| Gaurav Khanna | University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth | $15,166 | Numerical Techniques for Solving Models of Quantum Gravity |
| Peter Byrne | Oxford University Press | $35,000 | The Devil's Pitchfork: Multiple Universes, Mutually Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family |
| Richard Woodard | University of Florida | $37,128 | Fundamental Particles as Probes of Quantum Gravity |
| Olaf Dreyer | MIT | $50,000 | Quantum Space II |
| Laura Mersini-Houghton | UNC at Chapel Hill | $50,000 | The Puzzle of the Initial Conditions and the Multiverse |
| Saswat Sarangi | Columbia University | $50,000 | Transport Properties of the Multiverse |
| Tevian Dray | Oregon State University | $51,393 | Using Octonionic Cayley Spinors to Describe Fundamental Particles |
| Michael Reisenberger | Theiss Research | $55,918 | Classical and Quantum Gravity Without Constraints |
| Raphael Bousso | UC Berkeley | $60,067 | Why is the Universe Large? |
| Ken Olum | Tufts University | $60,274 | Does General Relativity Permit Exotic Phenomena? |
| Alexander Vilenkin | Tufts University | $63,000 | The Measure Problem in the Inflationary Multiverse |
| Glenn Starkman | Case Western Reserve University | $64,760 | Can Cosmology Survive Without Birkhoff's Law? |
| Stephon Alexander | Haverford College | $65,000 | Foundational Questions in Cosmology and Quantum Gravity |
| Giovanni Amelino-Camelia | University La Sapienza | $65,000 | Falsifiable Quantum-Gravity Theories of Not Everything |
| Yong-Shi Wu | University of Utah | $68,744 | Stochastic Approach to Quantum Gravity and Cosmology |
| Markus Aspelmeyer | IQOQI | $69,187 | Experimental Metaphysics at the Quantum-Classical Border |
| Caslav Brukner | University of Vienna | $69,600 | Theories of Systems with Limited Information Content - Quantum Theory and Beyond |
| Paul Davies | Arizona State University | $70,000 | Cosmological and Astrophysical Implications of Quantum Post-Selection |
| Wojciech Zurek | Los Alamos National Laboratory | $75,000 | Quantum Darwinism |
| A. Garrett Lisi | Theiss Research | $77,222 | E8 Theory |
| Subir Sachdev | Harvard University | $80,934 | Quantum Criticality and Black Holes |
| Ted Jacobson | University of Maryland at College Park | $82,127 | Growth of the Vacuum in Quantum Cosmology |
| Jenny Harrison | UC Berkeley | $85,000 | Axioms of Calculus and Mechanics |
| Bob Coecke | Oxford University | $89,981 | The Road to a New Quantum Formalism: Categories as a Canvas for Quantum Foundations |
| Julian Barbour | Oxford University | $99,563 | Machian Quantum Gravity |
| Jonathan Dowling | LSU | $102,061 | Quantum Measurement in the Timeless Universe |
| Antony Valentini | Imperial College London | $113,138 | Hidden Variables in the Early Universe |
| Alexander Maloney | McGill University | $117,120 | The Holographic Wave Function of the Universe |
| John Baez | UC Riverside | $131,865 | Categorifying Fundamental Physics |
| Thomas LaBean | Duke University | $134,326 | Experimentally Probing the Origins of Macromolecular Structure |
| Keith Schwab | Cornell University | $161,012 | Probing Quantum Mechanics with Mechanical Structures |
| Andrei Linde | Stanford University | $164,179 | Multiverse, Inflation, Life and Probabilities |
| Dmitry Budker | UC Berkeley | $170,000 | A Laboratory Search for Temporal and Spatial Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant Using Atomic Dysprosium |
| TOTAL | $2,683,765 |
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