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Anthony Short

University of Bristol

Foundations 2023: Journal Launch Event and Early Career Travel

$8,625

2023

Carlo Rovelli

University of Western Ontario

Participation Loop School and Loop Conference

$4,600

2023

James Crutchfield

University of California, Davis

Workshop on Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics

$10,000

2023

Jorge Pullin

Louisiana State University

Loops 24 travel support

$11,500

2023

Sebastian Deffner

University of Maryland

PT-symmetric quantum heat engines

$4,981

2023

Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov

Purdue University

Contextuality, (in)determinism, and free will

$3,025

2022

Ettore Minguzzi

University of Florence, Italy

Cosmic censorship revisited

$5,500

2022

Guilherme Franzmann

Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics

Workshop on theoretical and conceptual foundations of quantum physics

$5,000

2022

James Owen Weatherall

University of California, Irvine

Closing the Loop on Inflationary Cosmology

$2,070

2022

Moshe Shay Ben-Haim

Hebrew University and Yale University

Machine Learning Clustering of Aware and Unaware Learning Data

$1,955

2022

Otfried Guehne

University of Siegen

Lecture Series on Quantum Foundations

$6,275

2022

Patricia Palacios

University of Salzburg

Causation and Complexity

$3,520

2022

Tim Andreas Koslowski

Universität Würzburg

World Model for Quantum Shape Dynamics

$11,000

2022

Tejinder Pal Singh

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Gravitation, and quantum theory, as emergent phenomena

$1,000

2022

Mairi Sakellariadou

King's College London

Children's book on Astrophysics

$1,200

2022

Ian Durham

Saint Anselm College

Autonomous Boolean networks as an ontology for integrated information theory

$11,155

2022

Clarice D. Aiello

University of California, Los Angeles

Workshop: Chiral-induced spin selectivity through a quantum lens

$11,500

2021

Catalina Curceanu

LNF-INFN

Mini-workshop: Consciousness: what can we learn by testing quantum mechanics in various physical systems going from particles to stars?

$3,600

2021

Lajos Diosi

Eotvos Lorand University

Does wavefunction collapse generate gravity?

$3,450

2021

Eleanor Knox

King's College London

New Journal “Philosophy of Physics"

$10,000

2021

Chiara Marletto

University of Oxford

A podcast series on "Agent-based irreversibility" and its implications for physics, life and beyond

$4,000

2021

Felicity Meakins

University of Queensland

Human consciousness of magnetoreception

$11,574

2021

Tomasz Paterek

University of Gdansk

Wanders of light

$6,600

2021

Lev Vaidman

Tel Aviv University

Who am I in the framework of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

$7,590

2021

Larissa Albantakis

University of Wisconsin

Conscious(ness) Realist – Publication Reviews and Commentaries

$4,037

2020

Lee Altenberg

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Pandemic Brain Trust Safety Net

$1,150

2020

Jeffrey Bub

University of Maryland

Illustrations for quantum-thermodynamics book for the public

$5,000

2020

Samuel Colin

Theiss Research

Research visit to the CBPF and UERJ (Rio de Janeiro)

$3,675

2020

Catalina Curceanu

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati – INFN

Con-fluences: gravity related collapse studies meet research on quantum vibrations in microtubules. Research visit at University of Alberta, Edmonton

$2,200

2020

Bianca Dittrich

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Computing quantum space times

$10,500

2020

Christopher Fuchs

Art and Science Laboratory; University of Massachusetts

Testing QBism: Can an artificial agent learn the Born rule?

$7,590

2020

Eduardo Guendelman

Ben Gurion University

Bahamas Conference on Gravity, Particle Physics and Cosmology

$4,000

2020

Samir Mathur

The Ohio State University

Modeling biological evolution using inflationary cosmology potentials

$5,750

2020

Simon Saunders

Oxford University

Visualising the Everett interpretation

$6,050

2020

Cristhiano Duarte Silva

International Institute of Physics – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Impedance Collective – Investigating and Promoting Diversity

$6,900

2020

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

University of New Hampshire

Cite Black Women+ in Physics Project

$15,000

2020

Ana Belen Sainz

University of Gdansk

Women in quantum information science: a database

$7,000

2020

Mairi Sakellariadou

King's College London

Astrophysics is also for girls

$4,450

2020

Johannes Kleiner

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Catalyzing a Mathematical Science of Consciousness

$9,300

2020

Paul Davies

Arizona State University

What is a thought?

$12,000

2020

George Musser

Scientific American

Travel Support for Book Project on Physics, Neuroscience, and A.I.

$2,625

2020

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Consciousness in the Physical World

$2,875

2020

Ana Belen Sainz

University of Gdansk

Q-Turn 2020 Workshop: Changes Paradigms in Quantum Science

$7,000

2020

Daniel Sudarsky

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Black Hole Information Puzzle/ Workshop

$5,000

2020

Guido Bacciagaluppi

Utrecht University

Prospects for Relativistic Collapse

$6,000

2019

Eugenio Bianchi

Penn State University

Agency in isolated quantum systems

$6,000

2019

Samuel Colin

Theiss Research

Research visit to the CBPF and UERJ (Rio de Janeiro)

$2,625

2019

Catalina Curceanu

LNF-INFN

Mini-workshop: Experimental and theoretical inquiries of the intelligence and agency in plants (as prototype of non-human biological systems)

$2,600

2019

Steven Gratton

University of Cambridge

"The Future of Science" Conference

$7,000

2019

Adrian Kent

University of Cambridge

Consciousness Colloquia

$3,500

2019

Wayne C. Myrvold

The University of Western Ontario

John Bell Institute program support

$8,000

2019

Daniel Sudarsky

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Studies on Entropy and the status of "Conservation laws"

$2,300

2019

Naotsugu Tsuchiya

Monash University

Intelligence and consciousness in the physical world

$8,050

2019

Sara Imari Walker

Arizona State University

Physics of Math

$5,000

2019

Alexei Grinbaum

CEA/IRFU

UK and European Foundations of Physics-2020

$2,500

2019

Amedeo Balbi

Università di Roma Tor Vergata

The distribution of intelligent agents in the universe

$2,500

2019

Angelo Bassi

University of Trieste

Doctoral School “Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics”, in honor of the late Prof. Giancarlo Ghirardi 

$5,000

2019

Catalina Curceanu

LNF-INFN

Agency and Intelligence in the physical world at the INSPYRE-2020 International School

$3,000

2019

Damien Alexander Easson

Arizona State University

FQXi Arizona-Prague MoU Collaboration

$4,393

2019

Daniel E Sudarsky

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Collapse theories, Black  Holes,  and Cosmology

$1,200

2019

Hector Zenil

Oxford Immune Algorithmics

AUTOMATA 2020

$9,500

2019

Jenann Ismael

Columbia University

Support for John Bell Institute

$6,000

2019

Masahiro Hotta

Tohoku University

Quantum AI Detectors

$5,750

2019

Sean Carroll

California Institute of Technology

Causality and Complexity

$4,000

2019

Thomas L Curtright

University of Miami

Miami 2019 and BASIC 2020

$4,600

2019

Matthias Kleinmann

University of Siegen

Philosophy & Physics workshop "New Perspectives on Quantum (Non-)Locality"

$6,900

2019

Adrian Kent

University of Cambridge

Modelling Observers in Classical and Quantum Physics

$2,500

2018

Alexei Grinbaum

CEA

What’s in the input/output distinction?

$2,000

2018

Amedeo Balbi

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata

Modeling the spatiotemporal distribution of observers in the universe

$3,000

2018

Angelo Bassi

University of Trieste

Is there a reality without an observer?

$4,000

2018

Benjamin Dribus

William Carey University

Constraints on Observation in Discrete Spacetime

$3,000

2018

Bob Coecke

Oxford University

10 years of ZX calculus meeting

$4,000

2018

Borivoje Dakic

Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

The notion of predictability in physics

$3,500

2018

Carlo Rovelli

Samy Maroun Center

The role of the observer in temporarily and quantum mechanics.

$10,000

2018

Catalina Curceanu

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, LNF-INFN

Pilot experiment on biophotons: which are the properties of a living system to be an observer?

$2,500

2018

Christian Wuthrich

University of Geneva

Split Summer School in Philosophy of Physics

$4,500

2018

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

John Wheeler: Radical Conservative

$8,000

2018

Eduardo Guendelman

Physics Dept. Ben Gurion University

Two Bahamas Conferences on Particle Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology

$6,000

2018

Flavio Mercati

Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome

Observers in Quantum Gravity 2 Workshop

$10,000

2018

Franco Nori

RIKEN

Control and observation of macroscopic quantum states

$11,000

2018

Gaurav Khanna

UMass Dartmouth

Observers and Observation in a Minimal Modal Interpretation of Quantum Theory

$4,000

2018

Ivette Fuentes

University of Nottingham

Benasque session on Relativistic Quantum Observers

$11,260

2018

Ralph Willox

Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo

Non locality, causality and stability in nonlinear quantum theories

$4,600

2018

Samuel Colin

Theiss Research

Early universe in the de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory

$4,725

2018

Sebastian Deffner

University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

Thermodynamics of quantum information

$5,750

2018

Tejinder Pal Singh

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

A new length scale for quantum gravity

$1,050

2018

Andrew J. S. Hamilton

University of Colorado at Boulder

The Future of Physics

$8,625

2018

Angelo Bassi

University of Trieste

Doctoral School in honor of the late prof. GianCarlo Ghirardi “Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics”

$4,945

2018

Chiara Marletto

University of Oxford

Connecting agents, irreversibility, and the arrow of complexity

$9,000

2018

Christopher Fuchs

University of Massachusetts Boston

Encapsulated Agents in Quantum Theory: Re-examining Wigner's Friend

$7,000

2018

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

Archetypes in Physics and Cosmology

$6,500

2018

Eduardo Guendelman

Ben Gurion University

Child universe creation collaboration

$2,300

2018

Ian Durham

Saint Anselm College

Modeling Consciousness: A Workshop on Formal Approaches to the Mind-Body Problem

$4,686

2018

Jorge Pullin

Louisiana State University

A hospitable universe

$2,875

2018

Lajos Diosi

Wigner Research Centre for Physics

Tangible classical variables to coexist with a quantum world

$3,000

2018

Larissa Albantakis

University of Wisconsin, Madison

What caused this action?

$6,494

2018

Matthew Johnson

Perimeter Institute

Workshop on Simulating Vacuum Decay in the Lab

$7,500

2018

Tim Maudlin

New York University

John Bell Institute Faculty Meeting

$7,400

2018

Fred Adams

University of Michigan

Observers and the Multiverse

$2,000

2017

Tommaso Bolognesi

CNR – ISTI

Mutual Information in weakly-coupled process-algebraic mutual observers

$3,400

2017

Dmitry Budker

Helmholtz Institute Mainz

Observer invariance and violation of Local Lorentz Invariance in low energy experiments

$5,000

2017

Bernard Carr

Queen Mary, University of London

Physics of the Observer Outreach Lecture

$3,500

2017

Samuel Colin

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas

Research visit to the University of Tokyo

$2,625

2017

Catalina Curceanu

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, LNF-INFN

Mini-workshop: Observers and Observations from Underground to Space

$4,900

2017

Lajos Diosi

Wigner Research Centre for Physics

Gravity related modifications of non-relativistic quantum theory

$2,000

2017

Tevian Dray

Oregon State University

Magic Squares of Lie Groups

$8,050

2017

Thomas Durt

Ecole Centrale de Marseille-Institut Fresnel

In quest of manifestations of self-gravity at the quantum scale : from theory to experiment.

$1,344

2017

Steven Gratton

Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University

Quantum Reasoning for Everyday Life

$8,456

2017

Craig Hogan

University of Chicago

Measurement of Fluctuations in the Inertial Frame

$3,000

2017

Sabine Hossenfelder

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

Tag Clouds against Groupthink

$15,000

2017

Tim Koslowski

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Workshop on Quantum Spacetime

$5,000

2017

Jan-Ake Larsson

University of Linkoping

Mini-workshop on ontological models and quantum computation

$10,000

2017

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Physics of the Observer – A Documentary Film

$9,200

2017

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

Oral history interviews of Penrose and Isham

$4,500

2017

Hendrik Ulbricht

University of Southampton

Rotational tests of quantum mechanics and gravity

$2,500

2017

Jamie Vicary

Department of Computer Science

PUBLIC WORKSHOP: "BUILD YOUR OWN QUANTUM COMPUTER!"

$1,500

2017

Matt Visser

Victoria University

Observer-dependent Entropy

$10,000

2017

Peter Byrne

Art & Science Laboratory

Observing Antisocial Organizations and the Emergence of Hidden Fragility: Modeling Terrorism and Counterterrorism as a Complex Adaptive Sociotechnical System

$6,000

2017

Adan Cabello

Universidad de Sevilla

The emergence of Born's rule: A tale of two observers observed by a third one

$3,000

2017

David Craig

Le Moyne College

Consistent histories formulation of loop quantum cosmology and spin foams

$2,500

2017

Catalina Curceanu

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, LNF-INFN

The interplay between gravity and the collapse of the wave function: research visit at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Hungary)

$1,800

2017

Lidia del Rio

ETH Zurich

Q-turn: changing paradigms in science.

$12,000

2017

Domenico Giulini

Leibniz University of Hannover

Workshop “Rethinking Foundations of Physics”

$3,800

2017

Shelly Goldstein

Rutgers University

Entropy and the Observer

$3,000

2017

Sean Gryb

University of Bristol

Observers in the Cosmos: the Role of Scale and Time

$9,000

2017

Michael Hall

Griffith University

Can Quantum Properties Exist Without Observers?

$3,100

2017

John Harding

New Mexico State University

Edinburgh Workshop on Quantum Theory

$1,500

2017

Nick Huggett

University of Illinois at Chicago

The First Biennial Midwest Summer School in Philosophy of Physics

$1,725

2017

Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Centre for Quantum Technologies

Reality (Un)Check

$1,800

2017

Kevin Knuth

University at Albany

Present Influence Theory and Observer-Based Quantum Mechanics as Inference

$5,470

2017

Matthew Leifer

Chapman University

Second Meeting of California Quantum Interpretation Network

$4,600

2017

Tim Maudlin

New York University

Split Entropy Summer School

$5,000

2017

Subodh Patil

Niels Bohr Institute

Thematic workshop on emergent symmetries

$10,000

2017

Steven Savitt

University of British Columbia

In Search of Passing Time

$2,875

2017

Maximilian Schlosshauer

University of Portland

Research Project: Observers in Quantum Mechanics, Bell's Inequalities, and Protective Measurements

$2,875

2017

Glenn Starkman

Case Western Reserve University

Observing the actual universe

$5,000

2017

Andrew Strominger

Harvard University

Conference travel funds

$4,000

2017

Tommaso Tufarelli

University of Nottingham

Illustrated book on the role of the observer in the interpretations of quantum mechanics

$3,600

2017

Hendrik Ulbricht

University of Southampton

The quantum and the gravity

$2,000

2017

Silke Weinfurtner

The University of Nottingham

Detecting Unruh radiation?

$10,000

2017

Alexander Wilce

Susquehanna University

Observers, Measurements and Decoherence in General Probabilistic Theories

$6,000

2017

Gerardo Adesso

University of Nottingham

Quantum Roundabout 2016

$2,000

2016

Jeffrey Barrett

University of California, Irvine

Quantum Mechanics and Observation

$3,000

2016

Bianca Dittrich

Perimeter Institute

Boundary Observables in 3D Quantum Gravity

$5,000

2016

Steven Gratton

Kavli Institute and Cambridge University

New Thoughts 3

$3,575

2016

Sabine Hossenfelder

FIAS

Physics Music Videos

$6,000

2016

Masahiro Hotta

Tohoku University

Physics of the Observer

$3,500

2016

Claus Kiefer

University of Cologne

Support of Invited Speakers at DICE 16

$3,000

2016

Tim Koslowski

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Pure Shape Dynamics Description of Gravity

$6,000

2016

Matthew Leifer

Chapman University

Institute for Quantum Studies Visitor Program

$9,775

2016

Flavio Mercati

Perimeter Institute

Emergence of Observers in Shape Dynamics in Mexico

$2,500

2016

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Development of a Video Clip on Misconceptions About the Multiverse

$9,775

2016

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

Travel to Workshop on Dashed Hopes – What Hasn't Worked in Quantum Gravity (and Why))?

$4,000

2016

David Rideout

University of California, San Diego

Observers in Complex Networks

$2,500

2016

Susanne Still

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Partial Travel Support to Attend FQXi's 5th International Conference

$1,000

2016

Vitaly Vanchurin

University of Minnesota

Observers as Quantum and/or Classical Computers

$3,000

2016

Anton Zeilinger

IQOQI – Wien

The Observer as an Object of Physics in Interaction-Free Quantum Imaging

$1,000

2016

Carlos Barcelo

Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia

Gravity's land

$10,000

2016

Jeffrey Bub

University of Maryland

New Directions in the Foundations of Physics

$4,600

2016

Paul Busch

University of York

Categories of Incompatibilities as Quantum Constraints on Observers

$8,000

2016

Erik Curiel

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

The Philosophy of Howard Stein, and Its Contemporary Influence

$4,000

2016

Giacomo D'Ariano

Universita' di Pavia

The Observer of the particle in quantum field theory

$2,500

2016

Lidia del Rio

ETH Zurich

Summer school on Observers and Quantum Foundations

$5,000

2016

Ian Durham

Saint Anselm College

Travel support for the 2017 RQI-N conference and for ongoing collaborations on relativistic quantum information

$6,164

2016

Christopher Fuchs

University of Massachusetts Boston

Why the Quantum? A Video Series

$4,500

2016

Eduardo Guendelman

Ben Gurion University

Bahamas Conference on Gravity, Particles and Cosmology

$6,000

2016

Andrew Hamilton

JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder

Observers Inside Black Holes

$5,750

2016

Olimpia Lombardi

CONICET-University of Buenos Aires

Support of Invited Speakers for the VIth Conference on Quantum Foundations: The Problem of the Observer in Quantum Mechanics

$3,175

2016

Samir Mathur

The Ohio State University

Workshop on `Physics of the Observer'

$10,000

2016

Flavio Mercati

University of Rome `La Sapienza'

Quantum-mechanical observers and relativistic observers meet at the Planck scale

$8,000

2016

Renaud Parentani

Universite Paris-Sud 11

Observing the entanglement of phonons in atomic BEC

$2,000

2016

Maulik Parikh

Arizona State University

Research Travel Support

$2,000

2016

Jorge Pullin

Louisiana State University

Models of downward causation and observers

$3,200

2016

Carlo Rovelli

Samy Maroun Center

The observer in a quantum gravity event

$3,000

2016

Ruediger Schack

Royal Holloway, University of London

QBist causal networks

$3,650

2016

Maximilian Schlosshauer

University of Portland

Stealthy Observation in a Quantum World

$2,500

2016

Andrew Strominger

Harvard University

STRINGS 2017 tel aviv

$1,500

2016

Vitaly Vanchurin

University of Minnesota

A Study of Multiverse Puzzles

$4,000

2016

Alexander Vikman

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Paris-Prague collaboration

$2,300

2016

James Weatherall

University of California, Irvine

Workshop on Bohrification

$5,000

2016

Giulio Chiribella

University of Hong Kong

Workshop on Quantum Interaction and Causal Structure

$10,000

2015

Hyung Choi

Greenville College

The nature of light explored through hyper-entanglements?

$3,500

2015

Christopher Fuchs

University of Massachusetts Boston

Workshop on the Quanta within the Quantum

$6,643

2015

Alexei Grinbaum

CEA-Saclay/LARSIM

Information-theoretic reconstructions at "Big Picture" physics conference

$1,000

2015

Olimpia Lombardi

CONICET-University of Buenos Aires

Organization of the Vth Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

$6,000

2015

Flavio Mercati

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Books on Shape Dynamics

$2,000

2015

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Development of video clips on misconceptions in Theoretical Physics

$6,900

2015

Jorge Pullin

Louisiana State University

Black hole evaporation in a quantum space-time

$2,875

2015

Sumati Surya

Raman Research Institute

Quantum Dynamics of Causal Sets: the next frontier

$5,000

2015

Jan Pieter van der Schaar

University of Amsterdam

Extended visit Prof. Parikh

$4,000

2015

Edward Anderson

Universite Paris 7 Denis Diderot

Background Independence in Conformal and Supersymmetric Theories

$4,000

2015

Gerardo Adesso

The University of Nottingham

Quantum Roundabout: <A HREF="http://quantumroundabout.weebly.com/" target="Quantum"> Student Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics </A>

$2,000

2014

Angelo Bassi

University of Trieste

Quantum Mechanics in Space

$3,500

2014

Jacob Biamonte

ISI Foundation

Intensive Work Session on ”Categorical Foundations of Network Theory”

$12,500

2014

Steven Carlip

University of California, Davis

Shape Dynamic Black Holes

$1,150

2014

Steven Gratton

Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University

More New Thoughts About the Universe

$1,600

2014

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiverse Journeys

Updating MVJ website

$3,450

2014

Renaud Parentani

Universite Paris-Sud 11

Engineering Black hole-White hole pairs

$2,000

2014

Jorge Pullin

Louisiana State University

Nonlocal theories from loop quantum gravity

$2,875

2014

Maximilian Schlosshauer

University of Portland

Quantum Random Numbers, Correlations, and the Physics of Information

$3,000

2014

Thomas Sotiriou

University of Nottingham

Gravity and Experiment

$5,000

2014

Larus Thorlacius

University of Iceland

Visitor Program in Fundamental Physics

$6,000

2014

Antony Valentini

Clemson University

Hidden Variables and Large-Scale Cosmic Anomalies

$2,000

2014

Vitaly Vanchurin

University of Minnesota

Cosmology Visitor Program

$4,000

2014

Hector Zenil

Laboratoire de Recherche Scientifique (LABORES)

New directions in research on Cellular Automata and Information Biology

$2,300

2014

Fred Adams

University of Michigan

The Arc of Cosmic Complexity

$2,000

2014

Adam Brown

Stanford University

Mini-conference on foundational questions

$1,000

2014

Otfried Gühne

University of Siegen

Lecture Series on Quantum Foundations at Siegen University

$5,300

2014

Alan Guth

MIT

Testing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics with Cosmological Observations

$1,500

2014

Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Centre for Quantum Technologies

Three men and the Bell theorem

$2,500

2014

Tim Koslowski

University of New Brunswick

Spacetime from quantum dynamics

$4,500

2014

Jan-Åke Larsson

University of Linköping

Mini-workshop on discrete structures in quantum mechanics

$10,000

2014

Corinne Manogue

Oregon State University

Magic Squares of Lie Groups

$4,025

2014

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Clarifying theoretical Physics misconceptions for local Journalists

$5,750

2014

Benjamin Shlaer

Brandeis University

Early Universe Cosmolgoy

$1,000

2014

Carlo Rovelli

Aix-Marseille University

Foundation of the Samy Maroun Center for the research on Space, Time and the Quantum

$5,000

2014

Lee Smolin

Perimeter Institute

Unification and fermions within quantum spacetime

$3,500

2014

James Weatherall

University of California, Irvine

Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories

$5,000

2014

Tom Banks

UC Santa Cruz

Empowering students to attend a watershed event in fundamental physics

$5,000

2013

Angelo Bassi

University of Trieste

Collapse models: theory, phenomenology, experiments

$3,967

2013

David A. Craig

Le Moyne College

Consistent Probabilities in Loop and Spin-Foam Quantized Cosmologies

$1,500

2013

Ken Olum

Tufts University

Paradoxes of anthropic reasoning

$2,491

2013

Jonathan Oppenheim

University College London

LINQS visitors program and website

$2,000

2013

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

Foundations of Dualities: A Special Issue

$4,700

2013

David Rideout

University of California, San Diego

Lorentzian Discrete Quantum Gravity

$3,450

2013

Maximilian Schlosshauer

University of Portland

Revolutionizing Quantum Mechanics Teaching Through Quantum Information

$3,500

2013

Tejinder Pal Singh

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Constraints on the nonlinear Schrodnger equation from observed collective macroscopic quantum phenomena

$2,000

2013

Andrew Strominger

Harvard University

travel to string conference

$1,800

2013

Vitaly Vanchurin

University of Minnesota

Fundamental problems in cosmology visitor program

$3,450

2013

Alexander Vikman

CERN

"Participation at ""Tales of Lambda"" and FQXi 4th International Conferences"

$1,610

2013

Silke Weinfurtner

SISSA

Analogue relativistic quantum information

$7,000

2013

Hans F. Westman

IFF, CSIC

Loops 2013

$1,200

2013

Ken Wharton

San Jose State University

Collaboration on retrocausal approaches to quantum theory

$2,000

2013

Hector Zenil

Laboratoire de Recherche Scientifique LABORES

The Nature of Computation and the Physics of Information

$2,200

2013

Edward Anderson

DAMTP, Cambridge

Problem of Time Between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

$5,000

2013

Eugeny Babichev

Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay

Participation at NEB 15 – ”Recent Developments in Gravity"

$1,150

2013

Jeffrey Barrett

University of California, Irvine

IPP Workshop on Gauge Symmetry

$3,000

2013

Jonathan Dowling

Louisiana State University

Closed Timelike Curves and Quantum Information Processing

$5,000

2013

Jenann Ismael

University of Arizona

On the Relationship Between Physics and Phenomenology: Why Bergson and Merleau-Ponty Are Relevant to the Physics of Time

$3,500

2013

Gaurav Khanna

UMass Dartmouth

Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics

$2,000

2013

Stefano Liberati

SISSA

Experimental Searches for Quantum Gravity: A Conference for Setting the Next Years' Agenda in Quantum Gravity Phenomenology

$5,000

2013

Eugene Lim

King's College London

Information Theoretic Bounds on Cosmology

$1,700

2013

George Musser

Nordita

Workshop for Science Writers in Quantum Physics

$6,000

2013

Maximilian Schlosshauer

University of Portland

Quantum Physics and Information: A Single-Photon Interference Experiment for Undergraduate Students

$3,050

2013

Hendrik Ulbricht

University of Southampton

Optical Particle Detection and Alignment for Quantum Superposition Experiments

$3,400

2013

Antony Valentini

Clemson University

Quantum Cosmology with York Time

$6,000

2013

Sara Imari Walker

Arizona State University

"Power of Information" Conference Proceedings

$3,500

2013

Hector Zenil

LABORES

Algorithmic Randomness and the Physics of Information and Computation

$2,400

2013

Abraham Loeb

Harvard University

Novel Detection Techniques for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

$5,000

2012

Adrian Kent

University of Cambridge

Quantum Foundations visitor programme

$2,500

2012

Alexander Maloney

McGill University

Computing the Wave-function of the Universe

$7,500

2012

Claus Kiefer

University of Cologne

The Fate of Singularities in Models of Quantum Cosmology

$3,000

2012

David Finkelstein

Georgia Tech

Quantum gravity and Palev statistics

$3,000

2012

David Rideout

University of California, San Diego

Stimulating Quantum Gravity Research at UC San Diego

$5,750

2012

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

A Quantum Gravity Sourcebook

$2,560

2012

Eugene Lim

Cambridge University

Foundational Questions Seminar Series for Undergraduates

$1,500

2012

Eugeny Babichev

Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay

Modification of gravity and black holes

$1,800

2012

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Promoting Cosmic Update on YouTube

$4,000

2012

Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano

Universiti di Pavia

Qu the Bit

$4,000

2012

Hector Zenil

LABORES

Travel for Collaboration on the connections of Computation and Biology

$1,200

2012

Hendrik Ulbricht

University of Southampton

Optomechanic molecule detector for matter-wave interference

$7,150

2012

John Donoghue

University of Massachusetts

Effective Field Theory and Asymptotic Safety

$3,000

2012

Joy Christian

University of Oxford

Investigating the Origins of Quantum Correlations

$6,000

2012

Julian Barbour

Independent

Films on Shape Dynamics

$3,000

2012

Ken Olum

Tufts University

Anthropic reasoning and philosophy of consciousness

$2,514

2012

Maulik Parikh

Ariozona State University

Visitors for Cosmology Group

$4,000

2012

Maximilian Schlosshauer

University of Portland

Quantum Experience Lab for Undergraduate Students

$1,500

2012

Mikhail Kozlov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants

$3,000

2012

Richard Easther

University of Auckland

Numerical Relativity and the Ultra Early Universe

$6,000

2012

Richard Woodard

University of Florida

Vacuum Polarization during Inflation

$3,000

2012

Stefano Liberati

SISSA

A tabletop black hole experiment

$10,000

2012

Steven Giddings

University of California, Santa Barbara

Workshop on quantum gravity

$11,500

2012

Tom Banks

University of California, Santa Cruz

Conference on Supersymmetry

$3,500

2012

Fred Adams

University of Michigan

The Ultimate Fate of Dark Matter Halos

$3,500

2011

Edward Anderson

Universite Paris 7 Denis Diderot

Travelling for Meetings with Problem of Time Experts

$10,000

2011

John Baez

Centre for Quantum Technologies

The Octonions in Fundamental Physics

$5,000

2011

Raphael Bousso

UC Berkeley

Travel for Collaboration

$3,000

2011

Robert Brandenberger

McGill University

Self Adjoint Extensions and Resolution of Cosmological Singularities

$6,000

2011

Steven Carlip

UC Davis

The Small Scale Structure of Spacetime

$2,185

2011

Joy Christian

Oxford University

Probing the Planck Scale with Cosmic Neutrinos

$5,500

2011

Bob Coecke

Oxford University

Automated Diagrammatic Quantum Reasoning

$5,600

2011

Abraham Loeb

Harvard University

Long-Term Future of Cosmology

$1,675

2011

Lawrence Hall

UC Berkeley

Neutrino Masses and the Multiverse

$3,600

2011

Craig Hogan

University of Chicago

Holometer Team Internal Review

$2,000

2011

Sabine Hossenfelder

NORDITA

Workshop on 'Non-locality: Aspects and Consequences'

$10,000

2011

Matthew Leifer

University College London

London Quantum Foundations Meeting

$1,500

2011

Eugene Lim

Cambridge University

Visitor Support for Bubble Collision Research

$2,875

2011

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Updating & Upgrading MVJ website

$7,475

2011

Hiranya Peiris

University College London

Travel for Collaboration on Exoplanets

$5,000

2011

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

A Jim Anderson Festschrift

$3,000

2011

Alexander Vikman

CERN, Theiss Research

Collaboration with young Russian physicists

$1,500

2011

Andrew Strominger

Harvard University

Travel to Munich String Conference

$1,500

2011

David Finkelstein

Georgia Tech

Quantum spacetime

$2,000

2011

Dean Rickles

University of Sydney

Rationalising Physics: A Defence of Selective Subjectivism

$2,500

2011

Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano

Dipartimento di Fisica "A. Volta"

Informational principles for Quantum Theory

$3,000

2011

Hector Zenil

LABORES

Time and Computation

$1,500

2011

Jonathan Oppenheim

University College London

Foundations video conference and visitor program

$1,500

2011

Julian Barbour

Independent

Films on Shape Dynamics

$3,000

2011

Ken Wharton

San Jose State University

Retrocausation and Time Symmetry

$1,000

2011

Lawrence Hall

University of California, Berkeley

Implications of a Light Higgs for the Multiverse

$3,600

2011

Maximilian Schlosshauer

Theiss Research

Textbook on the foundations of quantum theory

$2,000

2011

Renaud Parentani

Universite Paris-Sud 11

Hawking Radiation in dissipative field theories

$1,500

2011

Silke Weinfurtner

SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies

Quantum gravity without borders

$5,000

2011

Simon Saunders

Oxford University

Philosophy of Cosmology

$6,500

2011

Tejinder Pal Singh

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Cosmological constraints on modifications of quantum mechanics

$1,500

2011

Tevian Dray

Oregon State University

A new look at the Freudenthal magic square

$4,600

2011

Thanu Padmanabhan

IUCAA

Gravity as an emergent phenomenon

$5,000

2011

Thomas Sotiriou

SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies

Lorentz violating gravity seminars

$2,000

2011

Tim Maudlin

New York University

Workshop on the Low-Entropy Initial State of the Universe

$4,600

2011

Alexander Maloney

McGill University

Diverse Approaches to Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology

$10,000

2010

Sabine Hossenfelder

NORDITA

Courageous Postdoc Award

$1,200

2010

Eugene Lim

Columbia University

Travel Support for Work on Bubble Collisions

$3,400

2010

Steven Savitt

University of British Columbia

The Now in Physics

$3,255

2010

Mikhail Kozlov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

High Precision Laboratory Experiments to Study Fundamental Symmetries

$4,000

2010

Maulik Parikh

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Nature of Gravity

$3,000

2010

Raphael Bousso

University of California, Berkeley

Eternal Inflation: A Visitor Program

$6,000

2010

Gheorghe Paraoanu

Aalto University

Quantum Gravitation on a Silicon Chip

$6,000

2010

Stefano Finazzi

SISSA

Participation in Spanish Relativity Meeting ERE2010

$1,500

2010

Thomas Sotiriou

University of Cambridge

Lorentz Violations and Gravity Theory

$7,000

2010

Lawrence Hall

University of California, Berkeley

Multiverse Predictions for the LHC

$3,600

2010

Ettore Minguzzi

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Joining Causality with Casuality

$2,500

2010

Alexander Vikman

CERN

Galileon Workshop and US visits

$3,600

2010

Antony Valentini

Clemson University

Quantum Foundations at Clemson University

$5,000

2010

Claus Kiefer

University of Cologne

Quantum Fate of Cosmological Singularities and the Arrow of Time

$8,000

2010

Daniele Oriti

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Emergent Time From No Space

$5,000

2010

Gaurav Khanna

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Applying HPC Techniques to CDT Simulations

$3,750

2010

George Musser

Scientific American

Travel Support for Outreach on Quantum Foundations

$2,500

2010

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

University La Sapienza

Theories of Not Everything

$5,000

2010

Greg Laughlin

University of California Santa Cruz

Relativistic Finance – A Solution to the Fermi Paradox?

$2,500

2010

Ian Durham

Saint Anselm College

Bell's Theorem and Thermodynamics

$7,700

2010

Jeffrey Bub

University of Maryland

New Directions in the Foundations of Physics

$2,500

2010

Joy Christian

University of Oxford

A Book on Bell’s Theorem and Quantum Entanglement

$12,000

2010

Maximilian Schlosshauer

Niels Bohr Institute

Interview Book on Quantum Foundations

$1,500

2010

Richard Easther

Yale University

Signatures of the Ultra-Early Universe

$5,000

2010

Scott Thomas

Rutgers University

Webcasts of High Energy Physics Seminars

$1,500

2010

Stefano Liberati

SISSA

Gravity as Thermodynamics: Towards the Microscopic Origin of Geometry

$5,000

2010

Tejinder Singh

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Quantum Mechanics Without Time, The Consequent Nonlinearity, and Its Implications for the Measurement Problem

$3,000

2010

Tom Banks

University of California, Santa Cruz

Confronting Challenges in Theoretical Physics

$5,300

2009

Jose Blanco-Pillado

Tufts University

"Challenges in Theoretical Cosmology" Conference

$10,000

2009

Craig Callender

University of California, San Diego

Time, Space and Probability

$4,920

2009

John Donoghue

University of Massachusetts

Variable couplings: Research visit to complete work with Prof. Thibault Damour at the IHES

$1,800

2009

Olaf Dreyer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emergent Gravity

$5,000

2009

Richard Easther

Yale University

Eternal and Stochastic Inflation: Collaboration Support

$4,000

2009

Brian Greene

Columbia University

Predictions and Inferences in a Multiverse

$6,500

2009

Eugene Lim

Columbia University

Travel to the Eternal Inflation Workshop at Trieste

$2,400

2009

Craig J. Hogan

University of Chicago

Conceptual Design of a Holographic Time Machine

$6,000

2009

Keith Schwab

California Institute of Technology

Gordon Conference on Mechanical Systems at the Quantum Limit

$7,500

2009

John W. Barrett

Nottingham University

The spin foam lectures

$5,280

2009

Adrian Kent

University of Cambridge

Foundations of Physics Travel and Workshop Programme

$10,000

2009

Ettore Minguzzi

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Exchanging ideas on spacetime

$2,500

2009

Maulik Parikh

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Arrows of Time, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity

$2,000

2009

Richard Tumulka

Rutgers University

Explanations of the Symmetrization Postulate

$6,000

2009

Vitaly Vanchurin

University of Munich

Many worlds of cosmological perturbations

$5,000

2009

Steven Weinstein

University of Waterloo

The Laws of Nature

$12,000

2009

Gaurav Khanna

University Massachusetts Dartmouth

Summer support for graduate student to extend scope of MS thesis

$3,750

2009

Olaf Dreyer

MIT

What is mass?

$2,000

2008

Ekkehard Peik

PTB

Invited Talk on Variations of Constants at APS DAMOP Meeting

$2,350

2008

Ken Olum

Tufts University

Philosophical issues in the Boltzmann brain paradox

$3,120

2008

Fotini Markopoulou

Perimeter Insitute

Quantum information and quantum gravity

$3,500

2008

Fred Adams

University of Michigan

<a href = "/adams-fate-of-the-sun?phpMyAdmin=lyx9K67uCpGX844-CXGFAIoExHd&phpMyAdmin=0u6fEVN8-yVlyTvTZRNrPG85Ip9">The Ultimate Fate of the Sun</a>

$3,600

2008

Julian Barbour

Oxford University

Path-Integral Quantization of Jacobi Mechanics

$4,000

2008

Daniele Oriti

Utrecht University

Discrete constituents of emerging spacetime

$4,500

2008

Abraham Loeb

Harvard University

Future of Cosmology

$4,800

2008

Steven Gratton

Cambridge University

New Thoughts about the Universe

$5,000

2008

Farzad Nekoogar

Multiversal Journeys

Updating <a href = "http://www.multiversaljourneys.org" target = "website">MVJ</a> website

$5,700

2008

Adrian Kent

Cambridge University

Foundations of Physics Visitor Exchange Programme

$8,000

2008

George Ellis

Cape Town University

Fundamental Issues in Quantum Gravity

$10,000

2008

Simon Saunders

Oxford University

Everett at 50

$11,740

2008

Tanmay Vachaspati

IAS

Mini-workshop on QFT, Gravity and Tests

$14,400

2008

Paul Davies

Arizona State University

The Nature of the Laws of Physics

$15,000

2008

Louis Crane

Kansas State University

Model Categories and Quantum Gravity

$3,000

2008

Mikhail Kozlov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Laboratory searches for variation of the fundamental constants

$4,000

2008

Howard Barnum

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Operational Characterizations of Quantum Theory

$4,500

2008

Richard Woodard

University of Florida

Collaborative Work on the Graviton Propagator in de Sitter Space

$4,500

2008

Peter Byrne

Fractured Atlas

Devil's Pitchfork Goes to Oxford

$4,600

2008

Carlo Rovelli

Université de la Méditerranée

English translation of a book on the Nature of Science

$6,000

2008

Bob Coecke

Oxford University

Categories, Logic and the Foundations of Physics

$7,500

2008

Greg Laughlin

University of California at Santa Cruz

Development of a Mission Profile to the Alpha Centauri System

$7,500

2008

A. Garrett Lisi

Theiss Research

Science Hostel

$8,000

2008

Tanmay Vachaspati

Case Western Reserve University

Handedness in cosmology

$9,000

2008

Urs Schreiber

University of Hamburg

QFT and Differential Nonabelian Cohomology

$9,000

2008

Dmitry Budker

University of California at Berkeley

An Independent Test of the Sokolov Effect

$10,000

2008

Matt Visser

Victoria University

The New Zealand Seminars

$10,000

2008

Robert Brandenberger

McGill University

Holographic Cosmology

$12,000

2008

Greg P. Laughlin

UC Santa Cruz

Create a prediction <a href = "http://www.oklo.org" target = "website">market</a> for the frequency of occurance of habitable Earth-like planets in the galaxy, which is used by <a href = "http://www.space.com/news/070116_ap_space_online.html" target = "article">amateur</a> and professional astronomers alike

$3,000

2007

Richard Easther

Yale University

Purchase of a server to facilitate collaboration on work begun with main FQXi grant

$3,180

2007

Jorge Pullin

Louisiana State University

Support travel for collaborators working on the measurement problem in quantum mechanics

$2,468

2007

Maulik Parikh

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Support travel to disseminate <a href = "http://fqxi.org/documents/Parikh.pdf" target ="pdf">results</a> of research on Mach's Principle

$4,000

2007

John Baez

UC Riverside

Upgrade website: <a href = "http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html" target = "baez">This Week's Finds in Mathematics</a>

$2,000

2007

Adrian Kent

University of Cambridge

Support travel for collaborators working on quantum foundations

$2,000

2007

Fred C. Adams

University of Michigan

Produce <a href = "http://fqxi.org/adamsmovies" target = "movies">movies</a> of the future evolution of the universe with a cosmological constant

$2,400

2007

Louis Crane

Kansas State University

Support travel for collaborators working on topos over a quantaloid as a setting for quantum gravity

$3,000

2007

Steven B. Giddings

UC Santa Barbara

Support of <a href="http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~giddings/sbgw/" target="ucsb">Santa Barbara Gravity 2007 Workshop</a> on nonlocality, observables, black holes and cosmology

$6,000

2007

Lee Smolin

Perimeter Institute

Support travel for collaborators working on a book about the nature of time in physics and cosmology — in progress

$6,000

2007

Abraham Loeb

Harvard University

Support research on <a href ="http://fqxi.org/documents/Loeb.jpg" target ="forecast">forecasting the future of the local group of galaxies using computer visualization</a>

$6,000

2007

Sara Seager

MIT

Support of a post-doc on research related to main FQXi grant

$6,143

2007

Steven T. Gratton

University of Cambridge

Develop numerical simulations of eternal inflation and <a href="http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~stg20/cuda/index.html" target="cam">resources webpage</a>

$7,000

2007

Dmitry Budker

UC Berkeley

Support of technicians needed to work on <a href="http://fqxi.org/documents/Budker.pdf" target = "laser">laser stabilization systems</a> for main FQXi grant

$7,500

2007

Roderich Tumulka

Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet

Support a <a href = "http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/shellyfest/" target = "workshop">workshop</a> on Quantum Reality: Ontology, Probability, Relativity

$8,000

2007

Caslav Brukner

Vienna University

Support <a href=" http://www.quantum.at/talksevents/vienna-symposium.html" target="vienna">Vienna Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics 2007</a> at which several FQXi Members will participate and/or speak

$10,000

2007

Paul Davies

Arizona State University

Support a <a href = "http://beyond.asu.edu/multimedia.html" target = "workshop">workshop</a> on quantum effects in biological nanostructures

$12,000

2007

Renata Kallosh

Stanford University

Support a <a href = "http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~bond/ciar/agm08/cifar08_talks.html" target = "workshop">workshop</a> on cosmology and fundamental physics

$15,000

2007

Christopher J. Isham

Imperial College

Support a series of <a href = "http://categorieslogicphysics.wikidot.com/" target = "workshop">workshops</a> on "Categories, Logic and Foundations of Physics"

$15,000

2007

Olaf Dreyer

Imperial College

Support travel to investigate consequences of a theory of quantum gravity for early universe cosmology

$1,500

2007

Maulikh Parikh

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Create presentations to teach foundational questions in physics to laypeople in India

$2,000

2007

Christopher Isham

Imperial College

Partially support a postdoc to continue work begun on main FQXi grant

$15,000

2007

Stephon Alexander

Pennsylvania State University

Support travel to mini-workshop on topics at the in-terface between quantum gravity

$13,000

2007

Dmtry Budker

UC Berkeley

Support graduate students working on the gravitational potential dependence of alpha

$10,000

2007

Matthew Leifer

Perimeter Institute

Support travel and other costs for speakers at APS meeting

$7,500

2007

Fotini Markopoulou

Perimeter Institute

Support travel and local expenses for participants to workshop on quantum information theory

$7,000

2007

Tanmay Vachaspati

Case Western Reserve University

Support travel related to project on quantum field theory

$6,000

2007

Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram Research

Support 4 attendees to the 2008 NKS Summer School

$5,600

2007

Jos Uffink

University of Utrecht

Support travel to Perimeter Institute via teaching re-placement

$5,000

2007

Thanu Padmanabhan

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Travel support for discussions on an approach to emergent gravity and dark energy

$5,000

2007

Robert Spekkens

Cambridge University

Completion of textbook on interpretations of quantum mechanics

$4,193

2007

Rafael Sorkin

Syracuse University

Purchase a license for a program to simulate complex percolation

$4,000

2007

Maximillian Schlosshauer

University of Melbourne

Organize series of talks on foundational problems of quantum mechanics in Australia

$4,000

2007

A. Garrett Lisi

Fractured Atlas

Create an interactive website displaying the elementary particle fields corresponding to the E8 polytope

$4,000

2007

Ekkehard Peik

PTB

Provide copies of conference proceedings on Atomic Clocks and Fundamental Constants to all participants

$3,799

2007

Vitaly Vanchurin

Tufts University

Support travel for collaborators working on an alter-native approach to the measurement problem

$3,000

2007

Claus Keifer

University of Cologne

Support travel for collaborators working on theories of quantum primordial black holes

$3,000

2007

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