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This years's grants have been announced.
A total of 2.7 million was awarded. FQXi is set up to support investigation of foundational questions. Here is a sampling of the awards, chosen with a hefty componenent of randomness. Gives an idea of some of the kinds of things FQXi supports.Stephon Alexander Penn State $65,000 Foundational Questions in Cosmology and Quantum Gravity
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia University La Sapienza $65,000 Falsifiable Quantum-Gravity Theories of Not Everything
John Baez UC Riverside $131,865 Categorifying Fundamental Physics
Julian Barbour Oxford University $99,563 Machian Quantum Gravity
Bob Coecke Oxford University $89,981 The Road to a New Quantum Formalism: Categories as a Canvas for Quantum Foundations
Ted Jacobson University of Maryland at College Park $82,127 Growth of the Vacuum in Quantum Cosmology
Gaurav Khanna University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth $15,166 Numerical Techniques for Solving Models of Quantum Gravity
A. Garrett Lisi Theiss Research $77,222 E8 Theory
Michael Reisenberger Theiss Research $55,918 Classical and Quantum Gravity Without Constraints
to see the full list of the 33 awardees
http://www.fqxi.org/
http://www.fqxi.org/large-grants/awardees
A total of 2.7 million was awarded. FQXi is set up to support investigation of foundational questions. Here is a sampling of the awards, chosen with a hefty componenent of randomness. Gives an idea of some of the kinds of things FQXi supports.Stephon Alexander Penn State $65,000 Foundational Questions in Cosmology and Quantum Gravity
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia University La Sapienza $65,000 Falsifiable Quantum-Gravity Theories of Not Everything
John Baez UC Riverside $131,865 Categorifying Fundamental Physics
Julian Barbour Oxford University $99,563 Machian Quantum Gravity
Bob Coecke Oxford University $89,981 The Road to a New Quantum Formalism: Categories as a Canvas for Quantum Foundations
Ted Jacobson University of Maryland at College Park $82,127 Growth of the Vacuum in Quantum Cosmology
Gaurav Khanna University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth $15,166 Numerical Techniques for Solving Models of Quantum Gravity
A. Garrett Lisi Theiss Research $77,222 E8 Theory
Michael Reisenberger Theiss Research $55,918 Classical and Quantum Gravity Without Constraints
to see the full list of the 33 awardees
http://www.fqxi.org/
http://www.fqxi.org/large-grants/awardees
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