Apr 2, 2025
From Jack Hughes (Physics Chair):
For the past 75 years the Gravity Research Foundation has given out awards for essays on gravitation. As I was posting the flyer for the 2025 Awards, I happened to notice that our own Tom Banks won the award for top paper in 2024!
The winning essay is tilted "Holographic Inflation, Primordial Black Holes and Early Structure Formation" by Tom Banks (Rutgers) and Willy Fischler (UT, Austin). I was particularly interested to read their article because it allowed me to learn about the holographic model of inflation and its connection to cosmology and the properties of galaxies in the early universe being revealed by the JWST.
Their paper was published in Oct 2024 in the International Journal of Modern Physics D. Here is the direct link to the paper:
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0218271824400017
Please join me in congratulating Tom on this award!
