Category: awards

We are proud to announce that Prof. Nikolaos (‘Nick’) Mavromatos (King’s College London and National Technical University of Athens) has received the prestigious John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics (IOP) to those whose distinguished contributions have helped advance the field of theoretical, including computational and mathematical, physics. The 2023 edition of this prize recognizes Professor Nikolas Mavromatos “for fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, especially the suggestion of quantum gravity-induced modifications of the vacuum optical properties, a proposition that led to a new arena of theoretical and experimental investigation.”

The active role played by Prof. Mavromatos in CA18108 activities has been essential for the success of our Action. Congratulations, Nick!

More information:

• Institute of Physics announcement
• King’s College London announcement

Celia Escamilla-Rivera (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico) and Geovanny Rave (Escamilla’s master’s student) were awarded Honorable Mention in the 2023 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation for their essay “On primordial gravitational waves in Teleparallel Gravity”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06987

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where they deepen in the simplicity and universality of the waveform
of a binary black hole coalescence.

Julio Arrechea and Carlos Barceló (Institute of Astrophysics of
Andalusia) have been awarded an Honorable Mention
in the 2023 Gravity Research Foundation Awards for Essays on Gravitation
with their essay titled “Stellar equilibrium on
a physical vacuum soil” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07939). This essay
explores the relevance of the quantum vacuum as a key aspect behind the
existence of new figures of stellar equilibrium.

Congratulations to all of them!

Licia Verde, CA18108 Action participant, has received the prestigious “Rey Jaime I” Spanish award on “Basic Research” in its 2021 edition. Our sincere congratulations!

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We are proud to announce that the essay “Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Infrared”, (arXiv:2104.00802 [gr-qc]), which contributes to our COST CA18108 Action, has won the second prize in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition.

Congratulations to the authors! From left to right in the photograph: Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada), Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman (University of Wroclaw, Poland), Robert G. Leigh (University of Illinois, USA), and Djordje Minic (Virginia Tech, USA).

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Action participants Diego Rubiera-García (UCM, Madrid, left photograph) and Gonzalo Olmo (IFIC, Valencia, right photograph) are among the winners of the Universe 2021 Best Paper Awards. The journal has selected their paper

Nonsingular Black Holes in ƒ (R) Theories
By: Gonzalo J. Olmo and Diego Rubiera-Garcia
Universe 2015, 1(2), 173–185

as one of the three winning papers, after a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads.

The authors explain about their work:

“The paper Nonsingular Black Holes in ƒ(R) Theories studies the structure of a family of static, spherically symmetric space-times generated by an anisotropic fluid and governed by a quadratic ƒ(R) theory. We found solutions that represent black holes with the central singularity replaced by a finite size wormhole, and showed that time-like geodesics and null geodesics with nonzero angular momentum never reach the wormhole throat due to an infinite potential barrier. For null radial geodesics, it takes an infinite affine time to reach the wormhole. This means that the resulting space-time is geodesically complete and, therefore, nonsingular despite the generic existence of curvature divergences at the wormhole throat.”

Our congratulations to both researchers!

Two Action participants, Celia Escamilla-Rivera (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, ICN-UNAM) and Diego Rubiera-Garcia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), have recently received 2019 IOP Publishing Outstanding Reviewer awards by their work as reviewers for Classical & Quantum Gravity, one of the main journals in the field within the scope of our COST Action CA18108.

With these awards, IOP Publishing recognizes excellence in reviewing, and each year their journal editorial teams  select the best reviewers of the year based on the quality, quantity and timeliness of their reviews.

Congratulations to both researchers!

More info:
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/classical-quantum-gravity-2019-reviewer-awards/
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/reviewer-awards/

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Action participants Prof. Eduardo Guendelman (right photograph) and his PhD student David Benisty (left photograph) have been awarded 2nd prize in the international competition organized by the Gravity Research Foundation, with the paper entitled “Lorentzian Quintessential Inflation”.  Their work deals with the vacuum energies in the early and late universe, a relevant subject within the scope of our Action. Our congratulations to both researchers!

More info: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/news/gravity_research.aspx