Thesis 2000 | Name Mark Raamsdonk | |
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Institutions University of British ColumbiaStanford UniversityPrinceton University Known for Gravity and entanglement Notable awards 1st price annual essay contest of the Gravity Research Foundation (2010) | ||
Doctoral advisor Washington Taylor | ||
Mark van raamsdonk gravitation from entanglement
Mark Van Raamsdonk is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia since 2002. 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.
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In 2009 Mark Van Raamsdonk started to work on the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity during his first sabbatical year. He published his results "Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement" as an essay in 2010, which won the first prize of the annual essay contest run by the Gravity Research Foundation.
Mark van raamsdonk entanglement entropy 1
