Strings, branes and boundary conformal field theory

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: HPMT-CT-2001-00296

Project closed

Start date 1 April 2002

End date 31 March 2006

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Total cost € 118 800,00

EU contribution € 118 800,00

Coordinated by

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

Objective

The Theoretical Physics Group at King's College London invites applications for postgraduate fellowships to be held at the EU Marie Curie Training Site "Strings, Branes and Boundary Conformal Field Theory".
The research topics covered by this programme include the following:
* strings and branes: their geometric and their world-sheet descriptions (calibrations resp. boundary CTF)
* branes in curved backgrounds (in particular group manifolds and Calabi-Yau spaces)
* non-commutativity in brane physics and string theory
* non-BPS branes
* branes in supergravity and M-theory
* higher-dimensional super conformal field theories and AdS/CFT correspondence
* (boundary) CFT and two-dimensional integrable QFTs, structure of RG flows. Members of the King's College Theory Group include Matthias Gaberdiel, Paul Howe, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Andreas Recknagel, Alice Rogers, Gerard Watts and Peter West, the postdoctoral fellows Kilian Koepsell and Frederik Roose, and about seven graduate students. The Marie Curie Training Site programme will cover stays lasting from 3 to 12 months (with slight preference given to longer stays). Candidates must be citizens of an EU or associated state, and must be registered for a Ph. D. in a country other than the UK. Financial benefits for the fellows will include a monthly allowance of 1200 Euro, reimbursement of travel costs and tuition fees. Those interested should contact Dr Andreas Recknagel (e-mail [e-mail]).For further details, see also www.mth.kcl.ac.uk. Equality of opportunity is College Policy. Female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › physical sciences › theoretical physics › string theory
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › mathematical physics › conformal field theory

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Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

BUR - Bursaries, grants, fellowships

Coordinator

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Strand ; WC2R 2LS LONDON ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data