Gravity Research Foundation
PO Box 81389
Wellesley Hills MA 02481-0004
USA

Founded by Roger W. Babson

2006
Awards for Essays on Gravitation

In 2006 for our Fifty-seventh Competetion, the trustees are offering
Five Awards for short Essays for the purpose of stimulating thought and
encouraging work on Gravitation. The stipulations follow:
(1) We will make these Awards on May 15, 2006 for the best essays,
1500 words or less, on the subject of Gravitation, its theory, applications,
or effects.
(2) The First Award will be $5,000.00
The Second Award will be 1,500.00
The Third Award wll be 1,500.00
The Fourth Award will be 750.00
The Fifth Award will be 500.00
(3) Essays should be received before April 1, 2006 (3 hard copies and/or,
preferably, 1 emailed copy in PDF format). One essay only will be accepted
from each contestant. Expect email confirmation on reception.
(4) Cover pages should include essay title; authors' names, addresses and
email addresses (if available); and a summary paragraph of 125 words or less.
(5) All essays must be typewritten, double-spaced, and in English.
(6) The decision of the Judges will be final. No essays or copies can be
returned. Preference will be given to essays written especially for these
awards.
(7) The five award-winning essays will be published in the Journal of
General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG) and subsequently, in a Special
Issue of the International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD). Authors of
all other essays are free and encouraged to publish their essays after
May 15th. Authors of essays designated Honorable Mention will be invited to
submit their essays to IJMPD where these may undergo additional refereeing
at editorial descretion for possible publication.
Address: George M. Rideout, Jr, President (grideoutjr@aol.com)

Abstracts of Award-winning and Honorable Mention Essays (about 30 per year)
are available since 1960: (Abstracts $10.00 for any one year or $100.00
for whole set).

First Award Winners are available since 1949: (Reprints $10.00 or $100.00
for whole set).

Recent First Award Winners:
2005--John Ellis, CERN; N.E. Mavromatos, King's College London &
D.V. Nanopoulos, Texas A&M University
2004--Maulik Parikh, Columbia University, New York
2003--Martin Bojowald, The Pennsylvania State University
2002--Steven B. Giddings, University of California, Santa Barbara &
Stanford University, Stanford, California
2001--Csaba Csaki & Joshua Erlich, Los Alamos National Lab & Christophe
Grojean, University of California, Berkeley
2000--Arthur Lue & Erick J. Weinberg, Columbia University, New York
1999--John Ellis, CERN; N.E. Mavromatos, University of Oxford &
D.V. Nanopoulos, Texas A & M University
1998--Viqar Husain, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1997--Robert Meyers, McGill University, Quebec
1996--D.V. Ahluwalia, Los Alamos National Lab & C. Burgard, Universitat
Hamburg/DESY, II, Germany
1995--Gary T. Horowitz, University of California at Santa Barbara &
Robert Myers, McGill University, Quebec
1994--T. Damour, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France & A.M.
Polyakov, Princeton University
1993--George F. Smoot, University of California at Berkeley & Paul J.
Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
1992--Robert M. Wald, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1991--Michael S. Turner, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1990--Bruce Allen, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee