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Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
Gravity and String Theory Group
Welcome to the homepage of Matthias Blau
Research Interests
My research interests include, in general,
- String Theory and Quantum Gravity
- General Relativity
- Topological Field Theory
- Geometrical and Topological Aspects of QFT
and more recently, and specifically,
- Plane Waves and Penrose Limits in Supergravity and String
Theory
- Singularities and Time-dependent Backgrounds in Quantum Gravity
- Geometry of Schrödinger Space-Times and non-relativistic variants of the AdS/CFT correspondence
Publications and Lecture Notes
If you want to know more about this, take a look at my
and/or at the recent review article
I have written lecture notes on a variety of different topics over the
years. Since some of them appear to be quite popular (in particular the lecture notes on
General Relativity) I am making them available again:
Teaching
- Autumn 2008: Bern
- Master Course:
General Relativity (in English)
- Spring 2009: Neuchâtel
- Bachelor Course: Classical Field Theory (in French)
Topics to be covered: Differential
Equations (Frobenius), Legendre, Bessel, Hypergeometric etc.;
Distributions; Classical Field Theory proper (Variational
Calculus for Fields, Noether's Theorem, Energy, Solitons, ...)
- Bachelor Course: Quantum Mechanics II (in French)
Topics to be covered: Magnetic Field,
Spin and Angular Momentum, Addition of Angular Momenta, Stationary and
Time-dependent Perturbation Theory etc.
- Autumn 2009: Bern
- Master Course:
General Relativity (in English)
-
PhD Course: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time (in English)
- Spring 2010:
Neuchâtel Bern
- Bachelor Course:
Géométrie et Symétries en Physique
(Geometry and Symmetries in Phyics, in French)
Matrix Lie groups and Lie algebras, Geometry of Minkowski Space-Time, Relativistic and Non-relativistic
Space-Time Symmetry Groups
- Spring 2010: Bern
- Bachelor Course:
Klassische Feldtheorie (Classical Field Theory, in German):
- Autumn 2010:
-
Master and PhD Course: Selected Topics in General Relativity (in English)
Part I: Cosmology, Part II: Exact Solutions, de Sitter and anti de Sitter, Penrose Diagrams
for cosmological and black hole space-times, etc.
- Spring 2011:
- Bachelor Course: Klassische Feldtheorie (in German)
- Master Course: General Relativity (in English)
- Autumnn 2011:
- Master Course: General Relativity (in English)
- PhD/Graduate Course: Selected Topics in General Relativity (in English)
Spring 2012:
- Bachelor Course: Klassische Feldtheorie (in German)
Autumn 2012:
- Master Course: General Relativity (new: 3+1 hours; in English)
- Monday 13-15, Tuesday 12-14, Room 119
Spring 2013:
- Bachelor Course: Klassische Feldtheorie
- Vorlesung: Mittwoch 10h -- 12h, Übungen Dienstag 13h -- 14h (beides in Hörsaal 119)
- PhD/Graduate Course - Friday 14-16
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