{"id":4567,"date":"2012-04-12T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2012-04-12T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:33:37","slug":"emerging-grant-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4567","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Grant Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that the Templeton Foundation has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\/what-we-fund\/funding-competitions\/the-physics-of-emergence\">competition for $5 million in grants<\/a> in the area of &#8220;strong emergence&#8221;, submission deadline very soon (April 16).  I&#8217;m not sure I understand their distinction between &#8220;weak emergence&#8221; and &#8220;strong emergence&#8221; (classical phase transitions are weakly emergent, quantum ones strongly emergent), but they seem to intend to support real physics research, and they&#8217;re inspired by Philip Anderson&#8217;s wonderful paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersonlocalization.com\/pdf\/more_is_different.pdf\">More is Different<\/a>.  This is a refreshing contrast to some of their other ventures I&#8217;ve written about here that tend towards encouraging pseudo-science, so I hope this one is a success and they do more things like it.<\/p>\n<p>Their other current funding opportunity, also with a deadline of April 16, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\/what-we-fund\/funding-competitions\/breaking-new-ground-in-science-and-religion\">Breaking New Ground in Science and Religion<\/a>, which is more the usual kind of thing for them.  They don&#8217;t give a total number for what they intend to spend in this area, but it appears to be much less than the $5 million going to emergence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that the Templeton Foundation has a competition for $5 million in grants in the area of &#8220;strong emergence&#8221;, submission deadline very soon (April 16). I&#8217;m not sure I understand their distinction between &#8220;weak emergence&#8221; and &#8220;strong emergence&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4567\">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-4567","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\/4567","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=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}