
Fulcrum Grant Awardees
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
