Gravity Research Foundations Awards 2007

[ccdantas]

http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/announcements.html"

Congratulations to S. Carlip for the first prize.

 

[marcus]

http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/announcements.html"

Congratulations to S. Carlip for the first prize.

And congratulations to those who placed as well


Symmetries, Horizons, and Black Hole Entropy by Steve Carlip (UC Davis)

How Black Holes Form in High Energy Collisions by Nemanja Kaloper and John Terning (UC Davis)

Heavy Ion Collisions and Black Hole Dynamics by Steven S. Gubser (Princeton)

How Many Black Holes Fit on the Head of a Pin? by Frederik Denef and Gregory W. Moore (Belgium's KU Leuven and Rutgers)

The Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology by Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer (Case Western Reserve and Vanderbilt)

It's remarkable that the top two prizes went to people at UC Davis
Davis looks more and more like a major gravity department
It is where John Baez student Derek Wise chose for postdoc, and it is where our new member A.P. is a freshman
and the main gravity honcho there, Steve Carlip, won the top essay prize. It helps to make it visible to us.

Also noticeable that so many of the prize essays were about black holes this time.

 

[ccdantas]

And congratulations to those who placed as well

yes, of course

Many papers on black holes this year.

 

[marcus]

Many papers on black holes this year.

Yes. Four out of the five!
and two of those explicitly about collision.

Christine, thanks for sharing this news. It is interesting in several ways.

 

[chrisina]

... and no ST or LQG paper since 2005 ...

 

[Demystifier]

... and no ST or LQG paper since 2005 ...

Yes, I have already noted that they stimulate "alternative" approaches.

 

[rewebster]

Is this foundation ( http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/index.html ) the only one that gives such an award?

 

[marcus]

Is this foundation ( http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/index.html ) the only one that gives such an award?

Only one I know that has an annual essay contest in gravity physics.