On the occasion of obtaining the science «Oscar»

Mohammed bin Rashid: "Ahmed Al Muhairi is an Emirati physicist we are proud of in our Arab world."

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, congratulated the young Emirati physicist Ahmed Eid Al Muhairi on winning the prestigious "New Horizons" prize in physics, thanks to his research on black holes in space.

His Highness said in a tweet posted on his official account on “Twitter” yesterday: “We congratulate the son of the Emirates, the physicist Ahmed Al-Muhairi, for winning the prestigious NewHorizon Prize in Physics, for his research on black holes in space.

Ahmed is doing post-doctoral studies in physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

An Emirati physicist we are proud of in our Arab world ».

The official account of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum published a picture of His Highness and the distinguished Emirati physicist, when His Highness honored him with the “Emirates Pride” medal in January 2019, where he was honored as the first Emirati to receive post-doctoral admission to the Institute for Advanced Studies. At Princeton University in the United States, for obtaining a PhD in physics from the University of California, and for the best PhD thesis award at the University of California level in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering.

The official account of His Highness also published another photo of Al-Muhairi while practicing his advanced work and research at the university.

The breakthrough prize foundation, also called the "Oscar of Science", announced that Emirati physicist Ahmed Al Muhairi, along with his team of four scientists, won the New Horizon prize, thanks to his discovery of calculating the content of quantum information of the black hole and its radiation.

In addition to Al Muhairi, the team consists of Nita Engelhardt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Henry Maxfield of the University of California - Santa Barbara, and Geoff Pennington of the University of California - Berkeley.

The New Horizon Award is highly regarded in the scientific and academic circles around the world, and has a wide media impact, as it is called the "Oscar for Science", and a group of art stars and celebrities participate in the annual ceremony every year.

News related to the award and its winners is spread across various universities and news channels.

The New Horizon award was launched by a coalition of founders of the world's largest technology and digital investment companies, most notably Sergey Brin, founder of Google, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and Yuri, Julia Milner, Anne Wojcicki.

The awards are sponsored by the personal foundations created by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huating (Chinese Tenet Corporation), Jack Ma (Alibaba Company), Yuri, Julia Milner, Anne Wojcicki.

The New Horizon Prize honors transformative discoveries in the life sciences, physics and mathematics.

It is considered one of the most valuable scientific prizes, as it distributed more than $ 250 million in prizes that 3000 scientists have won since its launch in 2012.

This year's edition offers a total of $ 18.75 million in prize money.

Given the current situation and the outbreak of the Coronavirus, this year the honor was held from a distance rather than in a private ceremony.

There are three categories for the award, the first breakthrough prize, which is valued at $ 3 million, and six winners have been announced at this year's edition.

As for the second track, it is concerned with the New Horizon Prize and the prize value is $ 100 thousand. Six winners have been announced in this year's session, including the Emirati physicist Ahmed Al Muhairi and his team.

As for the third track, it is a special prize for young women scientists, valued at $ 50,000, whose name is Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, an Iranian scientist who is one of the most prominent young scholars, who died in 2017, and three winners of this award have been announced in this year's session.

It is noteworthy that Dr. Ahmed Eid Al-Muhairi, who was nicknamed "The Einstein Fellow", was born in 1986 and is the first Emirati to receive an acceptance for post-doctoral studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University in the United States, the most prominent institute for theoretical physics research in the world. The world-famous physicist Albert Einstein worked on it in the last 20 years of his life.

Al Muhairi received a PhD in Physics from the University of California in the United States of America, and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Toronto in the Engineering Science Program - Specialization in Physics- and the Best PhD Thesis Award at the University of California in the United States in the field of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Engineering.

The young Emirati scientist devotes his time to promoting physical research, and has completed research that has been cited more than 1,500 times by other researchers around the world.

Fellow Einstein

Born in 1986.

- Received the New Horizon award for discovering the computation of the content of quantum information of a black hole and its radiation.

- He holds the "Emirates Pride" medal, being the first Emirati to gain admission to post-doctoral studies at Princeton University.

He won the "Oscar of Science" with his team of four scientists for his advanced research on black holes in space.

He puts his scientific effort into the edifice in which the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein worked in the last 20 years of his life.

He won the best PhD thesis award at the University of California, USA, in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering.

He carried out research cited by researchers around the world more than 1500 times.

Ambition

Ahmed Al Muhairi affirmed his intention to continue his research in order to reach a greater understanding of the reality of the structure of the universe, as he aspires to be a successful model that encourages young people to study science and enroll in subtle scientific disciplines, and to contribute to the consolidation of the importance of scientific research in society, praising the role of the UAE government and the Ministry of Affairs The Presidency and Scholarships Office provide scholarships and scholarships for students, and support them throughout their studies.

New Horizon award

It is highly regarded in the scientific and academic circles around the world, and has a wide media reputation.

Launched by a coalition of founders of the world's largest technology and digital investment companies, it honors transformative discoveries in physics and mathematics.

Focuses on honoring transformative discoveries in the life sciences, physics, and mathematics. 

Quantitative error correction

Emirati physicist Ahmed Eid Al Muhairi and his research team prepared an innovative study aimed at addressing articulated problems in quantum computers. Al Muhairi and his team noticed that the same code needed to stop errors in quantum computers might give the fabric of space-time its own durability as well. Quantum error, in the artificial holographic universe - if not the real universe - and this principle makes the fabric of space and time appear as a network of quantum particles.

In 2014, Al-Muhairi and his team reached an amazing result, after performing calculations indicating that the apparent appearance of spacetime works like a quantum error correction code completely.

And they published a paper in the Journal of High Energy Physics in which they guessed that spacetime is in itself a symbol in the anti-cosmos de Sitter, and this research paper sparked a wave of activity in the quantum gravity community, and new codes were discovered to correct quantum errors that attract more properties of space-time.

Al-Muhairi explained the idea of ​​black holes, saying, “The first thing we learned from Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity is that space is a moving thing that can expand and if there is a high mass in space, gravity around this mass is so strong that space can expand and make what we call the hole. Black, and pulls everything until light cannot escape from these black holes, indicating that the most famous of these holes that are in the center of every galaxy and are huge and their gravity is very strong.

He added, “In his general theory of relativity, gravity, Albert Einstein is defined as the fabric of time and space.

The bending around massive objects, which makes the ball ejected in the air along a straight line through space-time, bends again towards the Earth, so physicists believe that gravity must have a deeper quantum origin, similar to the fabric of space-time.

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One million dollars is the value of "New Horizon" prizes ... and 3000 scientists have won them since its launch in 2012.

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