Members

• Head of the Group

  • Matthias Blau

• Postdocs

  • Jelle Hartong (until autumn 2011, now at NBI Copenhagen)
  • Giuseppe Milanesi (until autumn 2011)

• PhD Students

  • Blaise Rollier
  • (No other position is currently available)

• The work of this group is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation

Research

• Quantum Gravity and String Theory


• General Relativity


• Topological Field Theory

Activities

• Recent School: CERN Winter School on Strings, Supergravity, and Gauge Theory (January 24-28 2011)


• Recent Conference: 5-th European Workshop on String Theory (ETHZ, September 7-11 2009)


• Recent Conference: Strings, M-Theory and Quantum Gravity (Ascona, July 25-30 2010)


• Conference Series: GeNeZiSS Mini-Conference Series of the Swiss String Theory Community: Next meeting: Geneva, Friday 04 May 2012


• Graduate Courses: Advanced Courses for PhD students given in the framework of the Graduate School of the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics


• Seminars and Colloquia (usually on Wednesdays and Fridays - announcements can be found here)


• Public Lectures: Physik am Samstag Public lectures on various aspects of physics for high-shool students and a general audience (in German).


• Public Lectures: Einstein Lectures

Openings (Update March 2012)

Getting in Touch with us

• Postal Address:
  
  
  • Institut für Theoretische Physik
  • Universität Bern
  • Sidlerstrasse 5
  • CH-3012 Bern
• Telephone: +41 (0)31 631 86 26 (Matthias Blau)
• Secretary: +41 (0)31 631 86 31
• Fax: +41 (0)31 631 3821
• e-mail: typically "lastname at itp.unibe.ch" (see the ITP Staff page for details)