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GRAVITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

 

The trustees are pleased to announce the
Awards for Essays for 2009.

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1.

$6,000

Instability of Black Hole Horizons with Respect to Electromagnetic Excitations by Alexander Burinskii, Gravity Research Group, NSI, Russian Academy of Sciences, B. Tulskaya 52 Moscow 115191 Russia;
e-mail: bur@ibrae.ac.ru

2.

$1,500

On Vacuum Density, the Initial Singularity and Dark Energy by Saulo Carneiro 1,2 and Reza Tavakol1, 1Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK; 2Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, 40210-340, Brazil;
e-mail: saulo.carneiro@pq.cnpq.br , r.tavakol@qmul.ac.uk

3.

$1,000

Gravitation, Thermodynamics, and the Bound on Viscosity by Shahar Hod, The Hadassah Institute, Jerusalem 91010, Israel;
e-mail: shaharhod@gmail.com

4.

$750

Inflation, Quantum Fields, and CMB Anisotropies by Iván Agulló1, José Navarro-Salas1, Gonzalo J. Olmo2, and Leonard Parker3, 1Departamento de Física Teórica and IFIC, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Facultad de Física, Burjassot-46100, Valencia, Spain; 2Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5 Canada; 3Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201;
e-mail: ivan.agullo@uv.es , jnavarro@ific.uv.es , olmo@iem.cfmac.csic.es , leonard@uwm.edu

5.

$500

Signatures of an Emergent Gravity from Black Hole Entropy by Cenalo Vaz, RWC and Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0011;
e-mail: cenalo.vaz@uc.edu

Selected for Honorable Mention this year were (listed in alphabetical order) Odylio D. Aguiar, Joaquim J. Barroso, Rubens M. Marinho Jr., Guilherme L. Pimentel, and Michael E. Tobar; D. V. Ahluwalia; E. Babichev, C. Deffayet, and R. Ziour; Orfeu Bertolami; N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr and Pierre Vanhove; Carl Brannen; K. A. Bronnikov and Oleg B. Zaslavskii; Christian Corda; Hristu Culetu; E. I. Guendelman; Sándor Hegyi; Adam D. Helfer; Viqar Husain; Vishnu Jejjala, Michael Kavic, Djordje Minic, and Chia-Hsiung Tze; Alejandro Jenkins; Jose Beltrán Jiménez and Antonio L. Maroto; Jean-Luc Lehners, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Neil Turok; R. Maier and I. Damião Soares; Samir D. Mathur; Michael Maziashvili; Adam Moss and Douglas Scott; Wei-Tou Ni; T. Padmanabhan; Federico Piazza; Boudewijn F. Roukema; S. Shankaranarayanan; C. Sivaram and Kenath Arun; C. S. Unnikrishnan and G.T. Gillies; Mark Van Raamsdonk; Asher Yahalom.

Abstracts of award-winning and honorable mention essays will be posted when ready on this web site: http://gravityresearchfoundation.org/abstracts.html.
The five award-winning essays will be published in the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG) and subsequently, in a special issue of the International Journal of Modern Physics D (lJMPD). They will also be posted at a later date on this site.

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