Faculty

	Fotini Markopoulou (on leave) PhD Imperial College (1998) Quantum Gravity
	Phone:	(519) 569-7600 x8631
	Email:	fmarkopoulou[at]perimeterinstitute.ca

Fotini received her Ph.D. from Imperial College (1998). Previous postdoctoral positions were held at the Albert Einstein Institute, Imperial College London, and Penn State University.

Affiliations

University of Waterloo (adjunct)

Positions Held

• 1-8/2008, Keck Center for Quantum Computing, MIT, Visiting professor
• 2001-2002, Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Assistant professor (resigned)
• 2000-2001, Albert Einstein Institute, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Postdoctoral Researcher
• 1999-2000, Imperial College London, Postdoctoral Researcher
• 1997-1999, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State University, Postdoctoral Researcher

Awards

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2010-2012
• Third prize, Essay on the Nature of Time, Foundational Questions Institute
• First prize in the Science and Ultimate Reality Young Researchers Competition in honor of J.A. Wheeler, Princeton

Recent Publications

• Fotini Markopoulou, Simone Severini, A note on observables for counting trails and paths in graphs, JMMA, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2009, arxiv: 0906.0043, 2009-05-29
• Alioscia Hamma, Fotini Markopoulou, Isabeau Premont-Schwarz, Simone Severini, Lieb-Robinson bounds and the speed of light from topological order, Phys.Rev.Lett.102:017204,2009, arxiv: 0808.2495, 2008-08-01
• Fotini Markopoulou, Isabeau Pr?mont-Schwarz, Conserved Topological Defects in Non-Embedded Graphs in Quantum Gravity, Class.Quant.Grav.25:205015,2008, arxiv: 0805.3175, 2008-05-20
• Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, Simone Severini, Quantum Graphity: a model of emergent locality, Phys.Rev.D77:104029,2008, arxiv: 0801.0861, 2008-01-06
• Fotini Markopoulou, Conserved Quantities in Background Independent Theories, J.Phys.Conf.Ser.67:012019,2007, arxiv: gr-qc/0703027, 2007-03-05
• Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin, Disordered locality in loop quantum gravity states, Class.Quant.Grav.24:3813-3824,2007, arxiv: gr-qc/0702044, 2007-02-07
• Sundance O. Bilson-Thompson, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin, Quantum gravity and the standard model, Class.Quant.Grav.24:3975-3994,2007., arxiv: hep-th/0603022, 2006-03-03
• Mohammad H. Ansari, Fotini Markopoulou, A statistical formalism of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, NPB 726 (2005) 494-509, arxiv: hep-th/0505165, 2005-05-18
• Eli Hawkins, Fotini Markopoulou, Hanno Sahlmann, Evolution in Quantum Causal Histories, Class.Quant.Grav. 20 (2003) 3839, arxiv: hep-th/0302111, 2003-02-14
• A quantum Bose-Hubbard model with evolving graph as toy model for emergent spacetime, Alioscia Hamma, Fotini Markopoulou, Seth Lloyd, Francesco Caravelli, Simone Severini, Klas Markstrom, arxiv: 0911.5075, 2009-11-27
• Space does not exist, so time can, Fotini Markopoulou, arxiv: 0909.1861, 2009-09-10
• Quantum Graphity, Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin, arxiv: hep-th/0611197, 2006-11-17
• Towards Gravity from the Quantum, Fotini Markopoulou, arxiv: hep-th/0604120, 2006-04-18
• Constrained Mechanics and Noiseless Subsystems, Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, arxiv: gr-qc/0601028, 2006-01-09
• Geometry from quantum particles, David W. Kribs, Fotini Markopoulou, arxiv: gr-qc/0510052, 2005-10-11
• New directions in Background Independent Quantum Gravity, arxiv: 0703097, Chapter contribution to Approaches to Quantum Gravity, edited by D. Oriti (C.U.P., Cambridge, 2007, 2007-03-01

Seminars

• Network models for quantum gravity, Emergent Gravity IV, UBC
• Quantum Gravity, Plenary Talk, FQXi Conference, Azores
• Spin systems for emergent geometry and gravity, Physics at the Planck scale, Wroclaw
• Quantum graphity: a model of emergent locality in quantum gravity, Simon Fraser University
• Quantum graphity: a model of emergent locality in quantum gravity, U. Calgary
• Quantum Graphity: a model of emergent locality in quantum gravity, Center for Quantum Computing, Cambridge
• Quantum Graphity: a model for emergent locality in quantum gravity, UBC
• Two ways to derive a spacetime in quantum gravity, Theory Colloquium, UBC
• Quantum Graphity: A model of emergent locality, DICE 08, Castiglioncello
• Emergent Gravity, MIT
• APS March Meeting, Quantum information meets quantum gravity topical session
• Emergent geometry and matter in quantum gravity, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Quantum Graphity: emergent space and matter, APS New Orleans
• Keynote talk: IEEE Aerospace Conference
• Emergent Locality in Quantum Gravity, LMU
• Two ways to derive a spacetime in quantum gravity, Colloquium, Dartmouth
• Quantum Gravity and Emergent Locality, Utrecht
• Quantum gravity as a problem in condensed matter physics, Colloquium, Boston College
• Quantum Gravity and Emergent Locality, Condensed Matter Meets Gravity, Lorenz Center, Leiden
• Quantum Graphity and Emergent Locality, Plenary talk, Loops 2007, Morelia, Mexico
• Quantum Graphity and Emergent Locality, Emergent Gravity, SISSA Trieste
• Plenary talk: DICE 2006, Piombino, Italy
• Rapporteur presentation: Quantum Gravity in the Americas, Penn State University
• Quantum Gravity in the Americas, Penn State University
• Keynote talk: Theory Canada 2, Perimeter Institute
• Keynote talk: Great Plains Operator Algebra Symposium, University of Iowa
• Canadian Operator Algebras Symposium, Guelph
• Keynote talk: Non-linear systems organization, Architecture and Design, U. Pennsylvania
• Loops 2005, AEI Golm
• Plenary talk: Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity IV, Sardinia
• Theory Canada 1, UBC
• Plenary talk: New directions in the foundations of physics, Washington DC
• Laird Lecture, Univ. of Western Ontario