Mark Van Raamsdonk

Mark Van Raamsdonk
Fields Physics
Institutions
Alma mater Princeton University
Thesis  (2000)
Doctoral advisor Washington Taylor
Known for
  • Gravity and entanglement
Notable awards

Mark Van Raamsdonk is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia since 2002.[1] 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.[2]

In 2009 Mark Van Raamsdonk started to work on the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity during his first sabbatical year.[3] He published his results "Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement" as an essay in 2010,[4] which won the first price of the annual essay contest run by the Gravity Research Foundation.[5]

References

  1. "Mark Van Raamsdonk page on the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the UBC web site". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  2. "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.
  3. "The quantum source of space-time". Nature Publishing Group. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  4. Van Raamsdonk, Mark (19 June 2010). "Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement.". General Relativity and Gravitation. 42: 2323–2329. doi:10.1007/s10714-010-1034-0.
  5. "Award essays by year". Gravity Research Foundation. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
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