FQXi Mini-Grant Winners
SPRING 2012
The following Mini-Grants, totaling $105,974, were awarded to 25 FQXi Members (from a pool of 38 applicants) to help fund networking opportunities and small research projects to advance their foundational questions work.
Awardee   |
Institution | Value  |
Project Title |
| Hector Zenil | LABORES | $1,200 | Travel for Collaboration on the connections of Computation and Biology |
| Eugene Lim | Cambridge University | $1,500 | Foundational Questions Seminar Series for Undergraduates |
| Maximilian Schlosshauer | University of Portland | $1,500 | Quantum Experience Lab for Undergraduate Students |
| Eugeny Babichev | Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay | $1,800 | Modification of gravity and black holes |
| Adrian Kent | University of Cambridge | $2,500 | Quantum Foundations visitor programme |
| Ken Olum | Tufts University | $2,514 | Anthropic reasoning and philosophy of consciousness |
| Dean Rickles | University of Sydney | $2,560 | A Quantum Gravity Sourcebook |
| Claus Kiefer | University of Cologne | $3,000 | The Fate of Singularities in Models of Quantum Cosmology |
| David Finkelstein | Georgia Tech | $3,000 | Quantum gravity and Palev statistics |
| John Donoghue | University of Massachusetts | $3,000 | Effective Field Theory and Asymptotic Safety |
| Julian Barbour | Independent | $3,000 | Films on Shape Dynamics |
| Mikhail Kozlov | Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute | $3,000 | Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants |
| Richard Woodard | University of Florida | $3,000 | Vacuum Polarization during Inflation |
| Tom Banks | University of California, Santa Cruz | $3,500 | Conference on Supersymmetry |
| Farzad Nekoogar | Multiversal Journeys | $4,000 | Promoting Cosmic Update on YouTube |
| Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano | Universiti di Pavia | $4,000 | Qu the Bit |
| Maulik Parikh | Ariozona State University | $4,000 | Visitors for Cosmology Group |
| Abraham Loeb | Harvard University | $5,000 | Novel Detection Techniques for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
| David Rideout | University of California, San Diego | $5,750 | Stimulating Quantum Gravity Research at UC San Diego |
| Joy Christian | University of Oxford | $6,000 | Investigating the Origins of Quantum Correlations |
| Richard Easther | University of Auckland | $6,000 | Numerical Relativity and the Ultra Early Universe |
| Hendrik Ulbricht | University of Southampton | $7,150 | Optomechanic molecule detector for matter-wave interference |
| Alexander Maloney | McGill University | $7,500 | Computing the Wave-function of the Universe |
| Stefano Liberati | SISSA | $10,000 | A tabletop black hole experiment |
| Steven Giddings | University of California, Santa Barbara | $11,500 | Workshop on quantum gravity |
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