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Fotini G. Markopoulou-Kalamara ((ギリシア語:Φωτεινή Μαρκοπούλου-Καλαμαρά); born April 3, 1971) is a Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics. She was a faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and was an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo. ==Career== Markopoulou received her Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1998 and held postdoctoral positions at the Albert Einstein Institute, Imperial College, and Penn State University. She shared First Prize in the Young Researchers competition at the Ultimate Reality Symposium in Princeton, New Jersey. She has been influenced by researchers such as Christopher Isham who call attention to the unstated assumption in most modern physics that physical properties are most naturally calibrated by a real-number continuum. She, and others, attempt to make explicit some of the implicit mathematical assumptions underpinning modern theoretical physics and cosmology. In her interdisciplinary paper "The Internal Description of a Causal Set: What the Universe Looks Like from the Inside", Markopoulou instantiates some abstract terms from mathematical category theory to develop straightforward models of space-time. It proposes simple quantum models of space-time based on category-theoretic notions of a topos and its subobject classifier (which has a Heyting algebra structure, but not necessarily a Boolean algebra structure). For example, hard-to-picture category-theoretic "presheaves" from topos theory become easy-to-picture "evolving (or varying) sets" in her discussions of quantum spacetime. The diagrams in Markopoulou's papers (including hand-drawn diagrams in one of the earlier versions of "The Internal Description of a Causal Set") are straightforward presentations of possible models of space-time. They are intended as meaningful and provocative, not just for specialists but also for newcomers. In May 2006, Markopoulou published a paper with Lee Smolin that further popularized this Causal Dynamical Triangulation (CDT) Theory by explaining time slicing of the Ambjorn–Loll CDT model as result of gauge fixing. Their approach relaxed the definition of the Ambjorn–Loll CDT model in 1 + 1 dimensions to allow for a varying lapse. In a move away from physics in 2012, Markopoulou enrolled and studied on the Innovation Design Engineering double masters (MA+MSc) at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2014. Her two graduation projects were a solo project; Cityzen,〔http://www.rca.ac.uk/students/fotini-markopoulou/〕 a digital voting system using values based data analytics, and ''MyTempo''; a group project with Nell Bennett, Andreas Bilicki and Jack Hooper. ''MyTempo'' won the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprise (Design Category) 2014 〔https://www.db.com/unitedkingdom/docs/4326_DBACE_2014_Winners_FINAL_8.pdf〕 and was exhibited at the John Lewis Future Store.〔http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/rca-exhibition-helps-john-lewis-celebrate-150/〕 After Graduating Markopoulou and her colleagues founded ''Team Turquoise'', a company that researches psycho-physiology, the way in which a person's mind and body affect one-another to create technology that changes how we perceive, feel and behave.〔http://www.tturquoise.com/our-team-ks/〕 ''MyTempo'' was rebranded to become ''doppel'' and in June 2015 was launched on Kickstarter.〔http://kck.st/1ejqZlU〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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