Mathematics, physics, and technology
Thibault Damour
Damour’s project will involve a group of international young scientists and high-level senior scientists in frontier research on some of the key theoretical challenges currently left open in the field of gravitation.
Medicine
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Gordon’s project aims to finance research projects for young scientists, fostering career development and training programs for icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease, Bangladesh) scientists at Washington University.
Mathematics, physics, and technology
Alessandra Buonanno
Buonanno’s project is on the history of the two-body problem in General Relativity (approx. analytical solutions, interface with numerical relativity, analytical/numerical relativity methods in LIGO’s and Virgo’s 2015 discovery of gravitational waves).
History
Marilyn Kelly and Giorgio Buccellati
The Buccellatis’ Balzan Research Project Cybernetica Mesopotamica will use “digital discourse” to create model websites on their Urkesh excavations that will serve as a new epistemic system in parallel with printed publications.
History
Saul Friedländer
Friedländer’s Balzan Research Project, extends his work on the Holocaust, seeking to transform how scholars approach bystanders in genocide by analyzing egodocuments for a nuanced understanding.