Gravity Research Foundation
PO BOX 81389
Wellesley Hills MA 02481-0004,
USA
Roger W. Babson (Founder), George M. Rideout, Jr. (President)
The trustees are pleased to announce the Awards for Essays for 2025.
1. USD 4,000 – Probing Quantum Structure in Gravitational Radiation by Sreenath K. Manikandan, Nordita, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; email: sreenath.k.manikandan[AT]su.se and Frank Wilczek, Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; T. D. Lee Institute and Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai 200240, China; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; email: wilczek[AT]mit.edu
2. USD 700 – It Costs Nothing to Teleport Information into a Black Hole by Jonah Kudler-Flam, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA; Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; email: jkudlerflam[AT]ias.edu and Geoff Pennington, Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; email: geoffp[AT]berkeley.edu
3. USD 600 – The Persistence of Non-Linear Gravitational Wave Memory by Robert R. Caldwell, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA; email: robert.r.caldwell[AT]dartmouth.edu
4. USD 500 – Quantum Optics in Curved Spacetime: Surprises and Insights by Marlan O. Scully1,2,3; email: scully[AT]tamu.edu, Anatoly A. Svidzinsky1: email: asvid[AT]physics.tamu.edu, and William Unruh1,4; email: unruh[AT]physics.ubc.ca, 1Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; 2Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; 3Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA; 4University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1
5. USD 400 – Space Cannot Stretch Too Fast by Samir D. Mathur, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; email: Mathur.16[AT]osu.edu
Selected for Honorable Mention this year were (listed in alphabetical order):
Ronald J. Adler; Stephen L. Adler; Asier Alonso-Bardaji; Ana Alonso-Serrano, Luis J. Garay and Marek Li?ka; Stefano Antonini and Pratik Rath; Benjamin Avila-Lopez, Richard MacKenzie, Fernando Mendez and M. B. Paranjape; Vijay Balasubramanian and Tom Yildirim; Tom Banks; Ning Bao and Grant N. Remmen; Per Berglund, Andrew Geraci, Tristan Huebsch, David Mattingly and Djordje Minic; Juan Calderon Bustillo, Adrian del Rio, Samson H. W. Leong and Nicolas Sanchis-Gual; Marcelo Botta Cantcheff; Subenoy Chakraborty and Madhukrishna Chakraborty; Indranil Chakraborty, Susmita Jana and S. Shankaranarayanan; Sayantan Choudhury; Christian Corda and Carlo Cafaro; Naresh Dadhich; Shiladittya Debnath; H. P. de Oliveira; Konstantinos Dialektopoulos, Theodoros Papanikolaou and Vasillios Zarikas; Joshua Erlich; Mir Faizal, Lawrence M. Krauss, Arshid Shabir, Francesco Marino and Behnam Pourhassan; Antonia M. Frassino, Robie A. Hennigar, Juan F. Pedraza and Andrew Svesko; Eduardo Guendelman; Wu-Zhong Guo; Ladina Hausmann and Renato Renner; Marc S. Klinger and Robert G. Leigh; Madhur Mehta; Meysam Motaharfar and Parampreet Singh; Y. Jack Ng and Eric Steinbring; Luciano Petruzziello, Trinidad B. Lantano Pinto, Susana F. Huelga and Martin B. Plenio; Fabrizio Pinto; Ioannis Soranidis and Daniel R. Terno; Christos G. Tsagas; Gabriel Wong.
This announcement and abstracts of award-winning and honorable mention essays are posted on our web site, http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org. The five award-winning essays are also posted on our website and will be published in the October 2025 SPECIAL ISSUE of the International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD).