2010 The Nature of Time
Awardee   |
Institution | Value  |
Project Title |
| Joanna Karczmarek | University of British Columbia | $40,000 | The nature of time, emergent spacetimes and nonabelian physics |
| Ted Jacobson | University of Maryland | $43,029 | Growth of the vacuum in quantum cosmology |
| Lee Smolin | Perimeter Institute | $47,500 | Physical and cosmological consequences of the hypotheses of the reality of time |
| Joseph Polchinski | University of California, Santa Barbara | $54,329 | Gauge/Gravity Duality and the Emergence of Time and Space |
| Wayne C. Myrvold | The University of Western Ontario | $56,650 | Quantum State Evolution, Ontology, and Relativity |
| Steven Giddings / Donald Marolf | University of California, Santa Barbara | $60,862 | Locality and the emergence of space and time |
| Gerard James Milburn | The University of Queensland | $64,250 | Deriving spacetime as a relational consequence of thermodynamics |
| John Barrow | University of Cambridge | $71,158 | Science Fiction, Science Fact: On the Frontiers of Physics |
| Andrew Strominger | Harvard University | $73,000 | The Nature of Time in Asymptotically de Sitter Universes |
| Paula Apsell | WGBH Educational Foundation | $74,327 | "The Nature of Reality" Physics Column on NOVA |
| Ken Olum | Tufts University | $88,252 | Does general relativity permit time travel? |
| John Donoghue | University of Massachusetts Amherst | $89,610 | Time and Emergent Symmetry |
| Gregor Weihs / Caslav Brukner | University of Innsbruck / University of Vienna | $95,520 | Higher-order Interferences and Time in Alternatives to Quantum Theory |
| Raphael Bousso | University of California, Berkeley | $101,872 | The Future of the Multiverse |
| Edward Anderson | Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot | $102,000 | The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity |
| Craig Callender | University of California, San Diego | $102,263 | What Makes Time Special |
| David Anthony Lowe | Brown University | $102,975 | Holographic approaches to gravity and the arrow of time |
| Stefano Pironio / Jonathan Barrett | Universite Libre de Bruxelles / Royal Holloway, University of London | $110,397 | Time and the Structure of Quantum Theory |
| David Rideout | UCSD | $110,400 | Time in Quantum Causal Set Histories |
| Bob Coecke | Oxford University | $111,609 | A relativistic universe of interacting quantum processes |
| Hiranya V. Peiris | University College London | $112,331 | Detecting signatures of eternal inflation using WMAP and Planck data |
| Julian Barbour | Oxford University | $123,280 | The Nature of Time and the Structure of Space |
| Hendrik Ulbricht | University of Southampton | $140,490 | Testing quantum theory by de Broglie interference of polystyrene spheres and viruses |
| TOTAL | $1,976,104 |
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