Members

• Head of the Group

  • Matthias Blau

• Postdocs

  • Donald Ray Youmans (from October 2020 to September 2022)
  
  
  • Meer Ashwinkumar (from October 2023, joint appointment with the group of Susanne Reffert)
  
  
  • (No position is currently available)
  
  
  • Updated information about postdoc positions

• PhD Students

  • (No position is currently available)

• Master Students

  • Ivan Begic
  
  Please note that I am not available for the supervision of external students!

• We are members of the NCCR (National Center of Competence in Research) SwissMAP (The Mathematics of Physics)

• Close links and interactions exist with the group of Susanne Reffert

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

Research

• Quantum Gravity and String Theory


• General Relativity


• Topological Field Theory

Job Openings (Update September 2019): Updated information about postdoc positions

Current Activities

• Seminars and Journal Clubs:
  • Fields and Strings (Tuesday/Thursday)
  • AEC (Wednesday) and ITP (Friday) Seminars
  • Lunch Seminars (Thursday)


• Conference Series: GeNeZiSS Mini-Conference Series of the Swiss String Theory Community: Next Meeting: Friday May 13 2022, Bern (next meeting: autumn/winter 2022)


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


• Public Lectures: Einstein Lectures

Recent (and not so recent) Activities

• Recent Conference: String Theory and Quantum Gravity (Ascona, July 03-07 2017)


• Recent Conference: Recent Developments in String Theory (Ascona, July 20-25 2014)


• Recent School: CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory 2014 (February 3-7 2014)


• Recent Conference: The String Theory Universe (19th European Workshop on String Theory, AEC Workshop and 1st COST MP1210 Meeting) (Bern, September 2-6 2013)


• Recent School: CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory 2013 (February 4-8 2013)


• Recent Conference: 15th European Workshop on String Theory (ETHZ, September 7-11 2009)


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


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

Getting in Touch with us

• Postal Address:
  
  
  • Institut für Theoretische Physik
  • Universität Bern
  • Sidlerstrasse 5
  • CH-3012 Bern
• Telephone: +41 31 684 86 26 (Matthias Blau)
• Secretary: +41 31 684 86 31
• Fax: +41 31 684 38 21
• e-mail: typically "lastname at itp.unibe.ch" (see the ITP Staff page for details)