Members

• Head of the Group

  • Matthias Blau

• Postdocs

  • Jay Armas

• PhD Students

  • Blaise Rollier (finished October 2012)
  • (No other position is currently available)

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

  We are members of the EU-COST Action The String Theory Universe

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

  Close links and interactions exist with the group of Jean-Pierre Derendinger

Research

• Quantum Gravity and String Theory


• General Relativity


• Topological Field Theory

Activities

• 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)


• Conference Series: GeNeZiSS Mini-Conference Series of the Swiss String Theory Community: (will be resumed/revived in 2015)


• 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 January 2015: position has beeen filled)

Subject to the availability of funding, one or two openings for positions starting autumn 2015 may be available in the Gravity and String Theory Group. See this page for details.

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)