New Horizons in Physics Prize

O New Horizons in Physics Prize é um prêmio anual em física concedido desde 2012 pela Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation a jovens pesquisadores. É dotado com 100.000 dólares. Além disso a fundação concede o Fundamental Physics Prize e o Physics Frontiers Prize.

Nos bastidores da fundação está o oligarca russo Yuri Milner. Do conselho faz parte Steven Weinberg (2012), mas que não participa da seleção dos ganhadores.

Recipientes

  • 2013
    • Niklas Beisert: "For the development of powerful exact methods to describe a quantum gauge theory and its associated string theory".
    • Davide Gaiotto: "For far-reaching new insights about duality, gauge theory, and geometry, and especially for his work linking theories in different dimensions in most unexpected ways".
    • Zohar Komargodski: "For his work on the dynamics of four-dimensional field theories. In particular, his proof (with Schwimmer) of the “a-theorem” has solved a long-standing problem, leading to deep new insights".[1]
  • 2014
    • Freddy Cachazo: "For uncovering numerous structures underlying scattering amplitudes in gauge theories and gravity".
    • Shiraz Minwalla: "For his pioneering contributions to the study of string theory and quantum field theory; and in particular his work on the connection between the equations of fluid dynamics and Albert Einstein’s equations of general relativity".
    • Vyacheslav Rychkov: "For developing new techniques in conformal field theory, reviving the conformal bootstrap program for constraining the spectrum of operators and the structure constants in 3D and 4D CFT’s".
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
    • Asimina Arvanitaki, Peter W. Graham e Surjeet Rajendran: "For pioneering a wide range of new experimental probes of fundamental physics".
    • Simone Giombi e Xi Yin: "For imaginative joint work on higher spin gravity and its holographic connection to a new soluble field theory".
    • Frans Pretorius: "For creating the first computer code capable of simulating the inspiral and merger of binary black holes, thereby laying crucial foundations for interpreting the recent observations of gravitational waves; and for opening new directions in numerical relativity".
  • 2018
    • Christopher Hirata: "For fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of early galaxy formation and to sharpening and applying the most powerful tools of precision cosmology".
    • Andrea Young: "For the co-invention of van der Waals heterostructures, and for the new quantum Hall phases that he discovered with them".
    • Douglas Stanford: "For profound new insights on quantum chaos and its relation to gravity".
  • 2019
  • 2020[2]
  • 2021[3]

Referências

  1. Ver Komargodski, Schwimmer: On renormalization group flow in four dimensions, Preprint 2011
  2. «Breakthrough Prize – Winners Of The 2020 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced». breakthroughprize.org (em inglês). 5 de setembro de 2019. Consultado em 5 de setembro de 2019 
  3. «Winners Of The 2021 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced». breakthroughprize.org (em inglês). Breakthrough Prize. 10 de setembro de 2020. Consultado em 26 de setembro de 2020 

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