McMaster’s particle physics professor and researcher, Cliff Burgess, has won third place in the 2016 Bulchalter Cosmology Prize competition.

The announcement was made today at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Burgess won the prize for his paper EFT Beyond the Horizon: Stochastic Inflation and How Primordial Quantum Fluctuations Go Classical that was published in INSPIRE, the information management system for High Energy Physics.

The judging committee recognized the work as “a remarkable paper that sheds light on how quantum fluctuations exiting the Hubble scale are rendered into the classical large-scales of our Universe, detailing a process by which gravitational interaction triggers this transition.”

The Buchalter Cosmology Prize was created to encourage and recognize ideas in cosmology that have the potential to fundamentally advance our understanding of physics.