Fotini Markopoulou

Positions Held

• 7-10/2010, Santa Fe Institute, Visiting Professor
• 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

• A. Hamma and F.Markopoulou, Background independent condensed matter models for quantum gravity, New J. Phys. 13 (2011) 095006, arxiv: 1011.5754
• F. Caravelli and F. Markopoulou, Properties of Quantum Graphity at Low Tempera- ture, Phys.Rev.D84:024002,2011, arxiv: 1008.1340
• I. Premont-Schwarz, A. Hamma, I. Klich and F. Markopoulou, Lieb-Robinson bounds for commutator-bounded operators, Physical Review A Vol. 81, No. 6 (2010), arxiv: 0912.4544
• A. Hamma, F. Markopoulou, S.Lloyd, F. Caravelli, S. Severini, K.Markstrom, A quantum Bose-Hubbard model with evolving graph as toy model for emergent spacetime, Phys.Rev.D 81, 104032 (2010), arxiv: 0911.5057
• Fotini Markopoulou, Simone Severini, A note on observables for counting trails and paths in graphs, JMMA, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2009, arxiv: 0906.0043
• A. Hamma, F. Markopoulou, S.Lloyd, F. Caravelli, S. Severini, K.Markstrom, A quan- tum Bose-Hubbard model with evolving graph as toy model for emergent spacetime, Phys.Rev.D 81, 104032 (2010) (arxiv: 0911.5057
• 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
• Fotini Markopoulou, Isabeau Premont-Schwarz, Conserved Topological Defects in Non-Embedded Graphs in Quantum Gravity, Class.Quant.Grav.25:205015,2008, arxiv: 0805.3175
• Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, Simone Severini, Quantum Graphity: a model of emergent locality, Phys.Rev.D77:104029,2008, arxiv: 0801.0861
• Fotini Markopoulou, Conserved Quantities in Background Independent Theories, J.Phys.Conf.Ser.67:012019,2007, arxiv: gr-qc/0703027
• Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin, Disordered locality in loop quantum gravity states, Class.Quant.Grav.24:3813-3824,2007, arxiv: gr-qc/0702044
• 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
• Eli Hawkins, Fotini Markopoulou, Hanno Sahlmann, Evolution in Quantum Causal Histories, Class.Quant.Grav. 20 (2003) 3839, arxiv: hep-th/0302111
• Trapped surfaces and emergent curved space in the Bose-Hubbard model, Francesco Caravelli, Alioscia Hamma, Fotini Markopoulou, Arnau Riera, arxiv: 1108.2013
• 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
• Planck-scale models of the Universe, gr-qc/0210086, Chapter contribution to Science and Ultimate Reality: quantum theory, cosmology and complexity, edited by JD Barrow, PCW Davies and CL Harper, CUP 2004.

Seminars

• Gravity as Thermodynamics, SISSA Trieste (9/2011)
• FQXi Conference, Setting Time Aright, Copenhagen (8/2011)
• Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, Traunkirchen Academy os Sciences, Austria (7/2011)
• El Escorial Summer School: Quantum Information meets Statistical Physics (7/2011)
• U. Innsbruck, Quantum Information (7/2011)
• Queen Mary College (3/2011)
• Quantum spacetime, from discreteness to continuum, Orsay Paris (3/2011)
• Mathematical, physical and conceptual aspects of Quantum Gravity, Paris (3/2011)
• University of Potsdam, Quantum Information and Quantum Optics (3/2011)
• University of Oxford, Computer Science (3/2011)
• Theoretical Physics Institute, Marseille (3/2011)
• DAMTP, Cambridge (3/2011)
• Imperial College (3/2011)
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich (2/2011)
• Albert Einstein Insitute, Golm (1/2011)
• U. Maryland (10/2010)
• Penn State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (10/2010)
• Caltech, Quantum Information (10/2010)
• Santa Fe Institute (10/2010)
• U. New Mexico, Quantum Information (9/2010)
• U. Utrecht, Theoretical Physics (6/2010)
• Quantum Gravity seminar
• PIRSA:09100014, Lecture Series presented by KPMG - Creating Spacetime, 2009-10-25, Quantum to Cosmos Festival - Tickets Available starting TUE. Sep 8, 2009