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FQXi 2008 Large Grant Awardees
FQXi 2008 Large Grant Awardees

Stephon Alexander
Penn State University
Foundational Questions in Cosmology and Quantum Gravity

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
University La Sapienza
Falsifiable Quantum-Gravity Theories of Not Everything

Markus Aspelmeyer
IQOQI
Experimental Metaphysics at the Quantum-Classical Border

John Baez
UC Riverside
Categorifying Fundamental Physics

Julian Barbour
University of Oxford
Machian Quantum Gravity

Raphael Bousso
UC Berkeley
Why is the Universe Large?

Caslav Brukner
University of Vienna
Theories of Systems with Limited Information Content—Quantum Theory and Beyond

Dmitry Budker
UC Berkeley
A Laboratory Search for Temporal and Spatial Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant Using Atomic Dysprosium

Peter Byrne
Oxford University Press
The Devil’s Pitchfork: Multiple Universes, Mutually Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family

Bob Coecke
University of Oxford
The Road to a New Quantum Formalism: Categories as a Canvas for Quantum Foundations

Paul Davies
Arizona State University
Cosmological and Astrophysical Implications of Quantum Post-Selection

Jonathan Dowling
Louisiana State University
Quantum Measurement in the Timeless Universe

Tevian Dray
Oregon State University
Using Octonionic Cayley Spinors to Describe Fundamental Particles

Olaf Dreyer
MIT
Quantum Space II

Jenny Harrison
UC Berkeley
Axioms of Calculus and Mechanics

Ted Jacobson
University of Maryland, College Park
Growth of the Vacuum in Quantum Cosmology

Gaurav Khanna
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Numerical Techniques for Solving Models of Quantum Gravity

Thomas LaBean
Duke University
Experimentally Probing the Origins of Macromolecular Structure

Andrei Linde
Stanford University
Multiverse, Inflation, Life and Probabilities

A. Garrett Lisi
Theiss Research
E8 Theory

Alexander Maloney
McGill University
The Holographic Wave Function of the Universe

Laura Mersini-Houghton
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Puzzle of the Initial Conditions and the Multiverse

Ken Olum
Tufts University
Does General Relativity Permit Exotic Phenomena?

Michael Reisenberger
Theiss Research
Classical and Quantum Gravity Without Constraints

Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
Quantum Criticality and Black Holes

Saswat Sarangi
Columbia University
Transport Properties of the Multiverse

Keith Schwab
Cornell University
Probing Quantum Mechanics with Mechanical Structures

Glenn Starkman
Case Western Reserve University
Can Cosmology Survive Without Birkhoff’s Law?

Antony Valentini
Imperial College London
Hidden Variables in the Early Universe

Alexander Vilenkin
Tufts University
The Measure Problem in the Inflationary Multiverse

Richard Woodard
University of Florida
Fundamental Particles as Probes of Quantum Gravity

Yong-Shi Wu
University of Utah
Stochastic Approach to Quantum Gravity and Cosmology

Wojciech Zurek
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quantum Darwinism