FQXi Mini-Grant Winners
SPRING 2011
In the Spring 2011 Mini-Grant round, FQXi received 38 Applications from the 194 FQXi Members, totaling more than $210,000 in requests. Members solicited funds for workshops, travel, small research projects, and other creative ideas. The official Mini-Grant Lottery distributed just under $78,000 to 17 winners, with an average award of $4,600 and a median of $3,600.
Awardee   |
Institution | Value  |
Project Title |
| Matthew Leifer | University College London | $1,500 | London Quantum Foundations Meeting |
| Abraham Loeb | Harvard University | $1,675 | Long-Term Future of Cosmology |
| Craig Hogan | University of Chicago | $2,000 | Holometer Team Internal Review |
| Steven Carlip | UC Davis | $2,185 | The Small Scale Structure of Spacetime |
| Eugene Lim | Cambridge University | $2,875 | Visitor Support for Bubble Collision Research |
| Raphael Bousso | UC Berkeley | $3,000 | Travel for Collaboration |
| Dean Rickles | University of Sydney | $3,000 | A Jim Anderson Festschrift |
| Fred Adams | University of Michigan | $3,500 | The Ultimate Fate of Dark Matter Halos |
| Lawrence Hall | UC Berkeley | $3,600 | Neutrino Masses and the Multiverse |
| John Baez | Centre for Quantum Technologies | $5,000 | The Octonions in Fundamental Physics |
| Hiranya Peiris | University College London | $5,000 | Travel for Collaboration on Exoplanets |
| Joy Christian | Oxford University | $5,500 | Probing the Planck Scale with Cosmic Neutrinos |
| Bob Coecke | Oxford University | $5,600 | Automated Diagrammatic Quantum Reasoning |
| Robert Brandenberger | McGill University | $6,000 | Self Adjoint Extensions and Resolution of Cosmological Singularities |
| Farzad Nekoogar | Multiversal Journeys | $7,475 | Updating & Upgrading MVJ website |
| Edward Anderson | Universite Paris 7 Denis Diderot | $10,000 | Travelling for Meetings with Problem of Time Experts |
| Sabine Hossenfelder | NORDITA | $10,000 | Workshop on 'Non-locality: Aspects and Consequences' |
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