For the past 75 years the Gravity Research Foundation has given out awards for essays on gravitation. Professor Tom Banks won the award for top paper in 2024!
The winning essay is tilted “Holographic Inflation, Primordial Black Holes and Early Structure Formation” by Tom Banks (Rutgers) and Willy Fischler (UT, Austin). It discussed the holographic model of inflation and its connection to cosmology and the properties of galaxies in the early universe being revealed by the JWST.
Their paper was published in Oct 2024 in the International Journal of Modern Physics D. Here is the direct link to the paper: