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The String-Theory Group at the IPhT uses string theory to study gravity at its extremes: black holes and cosmology. This research is also deeply linked with a wide-ranging research program in holographic field theory. While string theory is expected to become manifest at such extreme “boundaries” of our universe, the string-theory group is also developing new methods, like generalized geometry and topological techniques, to explore how low-energy physics and small, positive cosmological constants can emerge from a description of the universe based in string theory.
Much of this research has a healthy symbiosis with other activities at the IPhT. In particular, conformal field theory, integrable systems, large-N matrix models, QCD amplitudes, gravitational waves, cosmology, and particle physics beyond Standard Model provide an invaluable background that informs and inspires the research into string theory.
The group is part of the string theory in greater Paris community.Other members of IPhT have research interests related to Physics Beyond the Standard Model, such as physicists working onCosmology, QCD and String Theory.
–>We maintain regular contacts with other members of the Mathematical Physics group (François David, Bertrand Eynard, Ivan Kostov, Dalimil Mazac, Sylvain Ribault, Didina Serban), with the scattering amplitudes group (Gregory Korchemsky, David Kosower, Matthiew von Hippel) and with the Physics Beyond the Standard Model Group.
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| Veronica Collazuol | publications | ||||||
| Gabriele Di Ubaldo | publications | ||||||
| Silvia Georgescu | publications | ||||||
| Michael Milam | publications | ||||||
| DImitrios Toulikas | publications | ||||||
Visitors (to be updated)
Short term visitors and seminar speakersVisitors during the past years —>Former Members
The string theory seminars take place in the Salle Claude Itzykson Bât 774 Orme des Merisiers on Wednesdays at 14:15
Program of the upcoming seminars
We are also involved in the organization of the
String seminars of the string theory in greater Paris community held at Institut Henri Poincare in Paris
as well as other seminar series.
Conferences
Some conferences organised by the members of the IPhT in String Theory and related topics
- 2024: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Gravity, Institut Pascal, Saclay
- 2024: Geometry and Symmetries of SCFTs, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Germany.
- 2023: Deconstructing the string ladscape, IPhT, CEA/Saclay
- 2023: Black-Hole Microstructure V, IPhT, CEA-Saclay
- 2023: Symplectic Singularities and Supersymmetric QFT, LAMFA, Amiens.
- 2023: Bootstrapping Quantum Gravity, KITP, Santa Barbara
- 2023: The Geometry, Algebra, and Physics of Higgs Bundles, Banff International Research Station (UBC Okanagan), Canada
- 2022: 5d N=1 SCFTs and Gauge Theories on Brane Webs, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook
- 2022: 26th Itzykson Meeting: Black-Hole Microstructure IV, IPhT, CEA-Saclay
- 2022: Planck 2022, Paris
- 2022: Geometry and swampland, Banff (online)
- 2021: Black-Hole Microstructure III, CEA-Saclay (online)
- 2021: Bootstrapping String Theory, Aspen Center for Physics
- 2020: Black-Hole Microstructure II, CEA-Saclay (online)
- 2020: Black-Hole Microstructure, CEA-Saclay (online)
- 2019: de Sitter constructions in string theory, IPhT, CEA-Saclay
Postdoctoral positions are available each year in the Fall. Check this page or contact any staff member of the group.
Each member of the group can be contacted via email at .
The full postal adress of IPhT is: Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA/Saclay, Bat 774 Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
Here are directions to the IPhT.
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