Mark Van Raamsdonk

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Mark Van Raamsdonk
Alma mater Princeton University
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions
Thesis Making the most of zero branes and a weak background [1]  (2000)
Doctoral advisor Washington Taylor

Mark Van Raamsdonk is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia since 2002. [2] Before that, he was a postdoc at Stanford University from 2000 until 2002 and studied as a graduate student at Princeton University from 1995 until 2000 when he received his PhD under the supervision of Washington Taylor. Before that, he did a combined mathematics/physics undergraduate degree at University of British Columbia where he graduated with what is believed to be the highest GPA in the university's prior history. [3]

In 2009 Mark Van Raamsdonk started to work on the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity during his first sabbatical year. [4] He published his results "Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement" as an essay in 2010, [5] which won the first prize of the annual essay contest run by the Gravity Research Foundation. [6] Van Raamsdonk is a member of the "It from Qubit" collaboration, which was formed in 2015. [7]

Mark Van Raamsdonk plays the saxophone and has organized a concert series at UBC, inspired by a similar one that existed during his time at Princeton. [8] [9]

In 2021, Van Raamsdonk published a short picture book titled "The Hot and Cold Adventures of Mr. Brick". [10]

References

  1. ↑ Bryan, Jim (2010). "Most memorable titles". Math Overflow. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
  2. ↑ "Mark Van Raamsdonk page on the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the UBC web site". University of British Columbia . Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Home page of Mark Van Raamsdonk on the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the UBC web site". University of British Columbia . Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Cowen, Ron (2015). "The quantum source of space-time". Nature. 527 (7578). Nature Publishing Group: 290–293. Bibcode:2015Natur.527..290C. doi:10.1038/527290a. PMID   26581274 . Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Van Raamsdonk, Mark (19 June 2010). "Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement". General Relativity and Gravitation. 42 (10): 2323–2329. arXiv: 1005.3035 . Bibcode:2010GReGr..42.2323V. doi:10.1007/s10714-010-1034-0.
  6. ↑ "Award essays by year". Gravity Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "It from Qubit: People". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
  8. ↑ "Affleck and Van Raamsdonk receive the 2014 CAP medal and award". UBC. 2014-04-11. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
  9. ↑ Moseley, Caroline (1998-04-20). "A break from equations". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
  10. ↑ Van Raasmdonk, Mark (2021). The Hot and Cold Adventures of Mr. Brick. ISBN   979-8747309470.
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