FQXi Mini-Grant Winners
All results are sorted by Mini-Grant value, from low to high.
SPRING 2009
In the Spring 2009 Mini-Grant round, FQXi received 37 Applications from the FQXi Membership, totaling more than US$274K in requests. Funds were solicited for workshops, travel, and small research projects. 18 Winners, totaling just over US$99K, with an average award of about US$5500, were selected by the lottery process described here.
Awardee   |
Institution | Value  |
Project Title |
| John Donoghue | University of Massachusetts | $1,800 | Variable couplings: Research visit to complete work with Prof. Thibault Damour at the IHES |
| Maulik Parikh | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics | $2,000 | Arrows of Time, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity |
| Eugene Lim | Columbia University | $2,400 | Travel to the Eternal Inflation Workshop at Trieste |
| Ettore Minguzzi | Università degli Studi di Firenze | $2,500 | Exchanging ideas on spacetime |
| Gaurav Khanna | University Massachusetts Dartmouth | $3,750 | Summer support for graduate student to extend scope of MS thesis |
| Richard Easther | Yale University | $4,000 | Eternal and Stochastic Inflation: Collaboration Support |
| Craig Callender | University of California, San Diego | $4,920 | Time, Space and Probability |
| Vitaly Vanchurin | University of Munich | $5,000 | Many worlds of cosmological perturbations |
| John W. Barrett | Nottingham University | $5,280 | The spin foam lectures |
| Tom Banks | University of California, Santa Cruz | $5,300 | Confronting Challenges in Theoretical Physics |
| Richard Tumulka | Rutgers University | $6,000 | Explanations of the Symmetrization Postulate |
| Brian Greene | Columbia University | $6,500 | Predictions and Inferences in a Multiverse |
| Keith Schwab | California Institute of Technology | $7,500 | Gordon Conference on Mechanical Systems at the Quantum Limit |
| Adrian Kent | University of Cambridge | $10,000 | Foundations of Physics Travel and Workshop Programme |
| Steven Weinstein | University of Waterloo | $12,000 | The Laws of Nature |
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