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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