The trustees are pleased to announce the
Awards for Essays for 2008.
1. |
$5,000 |
Gravity: The Inside Story by T. Padmanabhan, IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India; email: paddy@iucaa.ernet.in. |
2. |
$1,500 |
Noncommutative Gravity, a "No Strings Attached" Quantum-Classical Duality, and the Cosmological Constant Puzzle by T.P. Singh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India; email: tpsingh@tifr.res.in. |
3. |
$1,000 |
On the Physical Interpretation of Asymptotically Flat Gravitational Fields by Carlos Kozameh1, Ezra T. Newman2, and Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza3, 1FaMaF, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; 3Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáiticas de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apartado Postal 1152, 72001, Puebla, Pue., México; email: kozameh@famaf.unc.edu.ar, newman@pitt.edu, gsilva@fcfm.buap.mx. |
4. |
$750 |
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, the Operator Product Expansion, and Dark Energyby Stefan Hollands1 and Robert M. Wald2, 1School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 3XQ, UK; 2Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; email: HollandsS@Cardiff.ac.uk, rmwa@uchicago.edu. |
5. |
$500 |
The Delocalized Effective Degrees of Freedom of a Black Hole at Low Frequencies by Barak Kol, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel; email: barak.kol@phys.huji.ac.il. |
Selected for Honorable Mention this year were (listed in alphabetical order) Emil T. Akhmedov, Terry Pilling, and Douglas Singleton; R. Aldrovandi and J.G. Pereira; J. Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll; Rabin Banerjee; T. Banks; John D. Barrow and Christos G. Tsagas; Tirthabir Biswas; R. Brout; H.P. de Oliveira, J. Damiâo Soares, and E.V. Tonini; Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin; M. Gasperini; Steven S. Gubser; Song He and Hongbao Zhang; L. Herrera; Veronika E. Hubeny, Shiraz Minwalla, Mukund Rangamani, and Mark Van Raamsdonk; Michael Kavic, Djordje Minie, and John Simonetti; Ali Kaya; Kirill Krasnov and Yuri Shtanov; Lawrence M. Krauss, James Dent, and Glenn D. Starkman; G. Lessner; Tsvi Piran and Nir J. Shaviv; Syksy Rasanen; C. Sivaram; John Swain; David J. Toms; C.S. Unnikrishnan and G.T. Gillies; P.S. Wesson, B. Mashhoon, and J.M. Overduin.
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.