Title:

FQX Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology

Principal Investigator:

Professor Max Tegmark
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

Professor Anthony N. Aguirre
Department of Physics
University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz CA)

Grantee:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA)

University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz CA)

Description:

This grant established the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) and the Foundational Questions Consortium (FQXc) for networking, and the sponsoring of research grants, mini-grants, contests and conferences. Their focus is on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.

Program web site:
http://www.fqxi.org/

Additional Information

Grant Recipients

Professor Fred Adams Department of Physics
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor MI)

Markus Aspelmeyer, Researcher
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Vienna Austria)

Professor Dmitry Budker
Department of Physics
University of California – Berkeley (Berkeley CA)

Professor Louis Crane
Department of Mathematics
Kansas State University (Manhattan KS)

Professor John Donoghue
Department of Physics
University of Massachusetts – Amherst (Amherst MA)

Olaf Dreyer, Research Associate
Department of Physics
Imperial College (London UK)

Professor Richard Easther
Department of Physics
Yale University (New Haven CT)

Professor Steven Giddings
Department of Physics
University of California – Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CA)

Professor Brian Greene
Department of Physics
Columbia University (New York NY)

Christopher Isham,
Department of Physics
Imperial College (London UK)

Justin Khouri, Faculty
Perimeter Institute (Waterloo Canada)

Paul Kwiat, John Bardeen Professor of Physics and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Physics
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign (Urbana IL)

Matthew Leifer, Postdoctoral Fellow
Perimeter Institute (Waterloo Canada)

Professor Janna Levin
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Barnard College (New York NY)

A. Garrett Lisi, member
Fractured Atlas (New York NY)

Professor Abraham Loeb
Department of Astronomy
Harvard University (Cambridge MA)

Fotini Markopoulou, Faculty
Perimeter Institute (Waterloo Canada)

Farzad Nekoogar
Multiversal Journeys (Encino CA)

Professor Ken Olum
Department of Physics,
Tufts University (Medford MA)

Ekkehard Peik, Head of Working Group
PTB 9 (Braunschweig Germany)

Jorge Pullin, Horace C. Hearne Jr. Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge LA)

Simon Saunders, Reader in Philosophy of Physics and University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science
Departments of Philosophy and Physics
Oxford University (Oxford UK)

Professor Keith Schwab
Department of Physics
Cornell University (Ithaca NY)

Sara Seager, Staff Scientist
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Carnegie Institution (Washington DC)

Professor Eva Silverstein
Department of Physics
Stanford University (Stanford CA)

Robert Spekkens, Royal Society USA/Canada Research Fellow
Cambridge University (Cambridge UK)

Roderich Tumulka
Mathematisches Institut
Eberhard-Karls-Universität (Tübingen Germany)

Antony Valentini, Long Term Visitor
Perimeter Institute (Waterloo Canada)

Professor Alexander Vilenkin, Director
Tufts Institute of Cosmology
Department of Physics
Tufts University (Medford MA)

Professor Xiao-Gang Wen
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA)