{"id":6880,"date":"2014-05-14T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T00:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2018-04-19T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:17:37","slug":"walter-burke-institute-for-theoretical-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6880","title":{"rendered":"Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caltech has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/content\/walter-burke-institute-theoretical-physics-established-caltech\">announced<\/a> the establishment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wbitp.caltech.edu\/\">Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics<\/a>, with Hirosi Ooguri as director.  It will have a permanent endowment of around \\$74 million, with \\$30 million of that new funds from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>To get some idea of the scale of this, the recent worries about HEP theory funding in the US have been due to a drop in funding by the DOE of university research from around \\$27.5 million\/year to \\$24 million\/year.   So, a few million\/year from this endowment should help make up for that, while continuing the trend of changing over theoretical physics funding from government support to philanthropy by the .01%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: In other developments from the .01%, Physics World has the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.physicsworld.com\/2014\/05\/15\/so-do-you-fancy-winning-3m\/\">news<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/?controller=Page&#038;action=news&#038;news_id=17\">nominations are now open<\/a> for the \\$3 million Milner prize in physics. You can submit nominations <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/?controller=Page&#038;action=nominations&#038;p=1\">here<\/a>. Nominations close June 30, announcement of winners will be November 9.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also now a <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/?controller=Page&#038;action=prize&#038;p=3\">website for the Milner\/Zuckerberg $3 million mathematics prize<\/a>. Not much info there except that it will reward &#8220;significant discoveries across the many branches of the subject.&#8221;  I&#8217;m guessing that, like the other prizes, initial picks will be from Milner\/Zuckerberg themselves, with those people going on to form the committee to pick future winners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caltech has just announced the establishment of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, with Hirosi Ooguri as director. It will have a permanent endowment of around \\$74 million, with \\$30 million of that new funds from the Sherman Fairchild &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6880\">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-6880","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\/6880","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=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10215,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions\/10215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}