{"id":4100,"date":"2011-10-28T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2011-10-30T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T20:04:07","slug":"templeton-frontiers-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"Templeton Frontiers Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/perimeterinstitute.ca\">Perimeter Institute<\/a> announced yesterday a new partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\">Templeton Foundation<\/a>, in the form of something to be called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca\/News\/In_The_Media\/Breaking_New_Paths%3A_Templeton_Frontiers_Program_Established_at_Perimeter_Institute\/\">Templeton Frontiers Program<\/a>.  The research areas to be supported are &#8220;quantum foundations and information, foundational questions in cosmology, and the emergence of spacetime.&#8221;  A $2 million grant from Templeton will pay for three postdocs, as well as other programs in this area.<\/p>\n<p>The previous major Templeton effort in this area was the $8.8 million dollars in grants a few years ago that funded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fqxi.org\">FQXI<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not aware whether FQXI is still getting money from Templeton, or if it has successfully found other sources of funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  I hadn&#8217;t realized this, but over the last year, the Templeton Foundation has awarded an even larger sum of money in direct individual grants (for details, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\/what-we-fund\/grant-search\/results\/taxonomy%3A2?page=1\">here<\/a>).  They&#8217;ve made about $2.4 million in grants for research in the area of foundations of quantum theory, and another $1.1 million in grants in mathematics\/logic, emphasizing foundational results on the limits of mathematics.  These are quite large sums relative to the previously available research funding in these particular areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perimeter Institute announced yesterday a new partnership with the Templeton Foundation, in the form of something to be called the Templeton Frontiers Program. The research areas to be supported are &#8220;quantum foundations and information, foundational questions in cosmology, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4104,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}