GRAVITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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Roger W. Babson, Founder
George M. Rideout, Jr., President
The trustees are pleased to announce the Awards for Essays for 2026.
1. $4,000 – The Gravitational Spectral Radio Forest: A Signature of Primordial Black Holes by P. George Christopher, email: p.georgechristopher[AT]iitb.ac.in, K. Hari, email: hari.k[AT]iitb.ac.in and S. Shankaranarayanan, email: shanki[AT]iitb.ac.in, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
2. $700 – Monogamous Entanglement Cheats at the Price of Complexity by Aude Corbeel, email: a.n.i.corbeel[AT]uva.nl and Erik Verlinde, email: E.P.Verlinde[AT]uva.nl, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
3. $600 – How Much Can Gravitons Be Squeezed? by Panagiotis Dorlis (1), email: panos_dorlis[AT]mail.ntua.gr, Nick E. Mavromatos (1,2,3), email: nikolaos.mavromatos[AT]kcl.ac.uk, Sarben Sarkar (2), email: sarben.sarkar[AT]kcl.ac.uk and Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos (1), email: sovlacho[AT]gmail.com. (1) Physics Division, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus GR15780, Athens, Greece; (2) Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; (3) Associate member, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, 15236 Penteli, Greece
4. $500 – Approaching the Surface of an Exotic Compact Object by Shokoufe Farajia,c and Samir D. Mathurb,c, aDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada, email: s3faraji[AT]uwaterloo.ca; bDepartment of Physics, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210, USA, email: mathur.16[AT]osu.edu; cPerimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
5. $400 – Apocalypse When? Solar System Constraints on an Imminent Big Rip, by Robert J. Scherrer, email: robert.scherrer[AT]vanderbilt.edu and Oem Trivedi, email: oem.trivedi[AT]vanderbilt.edu, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
Selected for Honorable Mention this year were (listed in alphabetical order):
S. Adler; Ozgur Akarsu, Leandros Perivolaropoulos, A. Emrah Yukselci and Alexander Zhuk; Dylan Akosah; Geova Alencar; Tom Banks; L. Benkoula, K. Chima, J. Kingsbury, K. Marroquin, M. Yim and T. Curtright; Panos Betzios, Paul Ghiringhelli, Ioannis D. Gialamas and Olga Papadoulaki; Andrea Di Biagio; Christian Boehmer and Eissa Al-Nasrallah; Kevin Cahill and Richard Matzner; Leonardo Chataignier, Claus Kiefer and Mritunjay Tyagi; Sayantan Choudhury; Lawrence Crowell; Charlie Cummings and Jonathan J. Heckman; Christine C. Dantas; Max Joseph Fahn and Alessandro Pesci; Thomas Forget, M. B. Paranjape and Urjit Yajnik; Marco Galoppo and Giorgio Torrieri; Jorge Gamboa and Natalia Tapia-Arellano; Shan Gao; Maurizio Gasperini; Eduardo Guendelman; Gustavo S. Habermann and Daniel A. Turolla Vanzellaz; Raymond Isichei; Vishnu Kakkat, Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers, Nigel T. Bishop, Amos S. Kubeka, Monos Naidoo, Udaykrishna Thattarampilly and Petrus J. van der Walt; Dmitris S. Kallifatides, Theodoros Papanikolaou and Emmanuel N. Saridakis; Eleni-Alexandra Kontou; Naman Kumar; Rodrigo Maier; D. G. C. McKeon, F. T. Brandt, J .Frenkel and S. Martins-Filho; Makoto Natsuume; Manju Prakash; Vaishak Prasad, Monica Rincon-Ramirez, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Eugenio Bianchi, Ish Gupta and B. S. Sathyaprakash; Karthik Rajeev; M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari and V. Taghiloo; Natarajan Shriethar; Urvi Sinha; Kristian Toccacelo; Jenny Wagner; Lan Wang.
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 2026 SPECIAL ISSUE of the International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD).