Members

• Head of the Group

  • Matthias Blau

• Postdocs

  • Deb Sarkar (from July 2017)
  • Umberto Lupi (March - May 2017)
  • Jay Armas (until December 2014, and again as an Ambizione SNF fellow from January 2018)
  • Jan Rosseel (September 2015 - October 2016)

• PhD Students

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

• Master Students

  • Christoph Heiniger

• 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 groups of Jean-Pierre Derendinger and 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

Activities

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


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


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


• 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

Job Openings (Update January 2017: this position has been filled - thank you for your interest)

One opening for a postdoc position starting autumn 2017 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)