Prof. Eduardo Guendelman of the Department of Physics was invited recently to become a member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FXQi).
The Institute’s missions is to catalyze, support, and disseminate research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.
FQXi supports research into foundational questions in physics and cosmology via private donations. Established in 2006, FQXi has already given away over US$12M in grants to top scientists at research institutions worldwide.
While one of FQXi's most vital tasks is to provide funding for cutting-edge research and outreach projects that might otherwise languish, FQXi felt it could do more, by helping to forge and maintain useful collaborations between a worldwide community of specialists working in these fields. To this end, a formal program of FQXi Membership was launched.
Guendelman researches the Cosmological Constant Problem and its impact both in particle physics and in cosmology; The hierarchy problem and the strong CP problems in particle theory; Yang Mills theories and confinement, solitons, instantons and tunneling problems in cosmology including the quantum creation of baby universes.
