Emmy Noether Research Group
“Gauge Fields from Strings”

This independent junior research group is funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the period 2012-2017.

Our research addresses current issues in the framework of the string/gauge correspondence, emphasizing their relation and qualitative reference to quantum chromodynamics as well as the “cross-fertilization” of established gauge-theoretical tools to strings and vice versa.

News

• The Springer Thesis Award 2016 has been awarded to Edoardo Vescovi (former PhD student in our group, supervised by V. Forini) for his PhD Thesis “Perturbative and non-perturbative approaches to string sigma-models in AdS/CFT”.  Edoardo’s dissertation, nominated by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, will be published in Springer Theses, a book series to recognize outstanding doctoral research.

• We co-organize – together with Adam Brown (Stanford), Guy Gur-Ari (Stanford), Masanori Hanada (YITP/Hakubi Center), Yasuaki Hikida (YITP), Goro Ishiki (Tsukuba), Jun Nishimura (KEK), Masaki Shigemori (QMUL/YITP), Tadashi Takayanagi (YITP) – the Workshop Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography to be held on April 3-7 2017 at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP). Registration is now open, see the relevant paragraph here.

• Congratulations to Edoardo Vescovi for his PhD graduation with highest honors (Summa Cum Laude). The dissertation  “Perturbative and non-perturbative approaches to string sigma-models in AdS/CFT” has been discussed on October 5th 2016 at the presence of Valentina Forini (supervisor), Jan Plefka (second referee), Radu Roiban (external referee), Rainer Sommer and Ted Masselink.

• The Carl Ramsauer Prize 2016 of the Berlin Physical Society has been awarded to Lorenzo Bianchi (former PhD student in our group, supervised by V. Forini) for his PhD Thesis “Perturbation theory for string sigma models”. The ceremony took place at the Institute of Physics of the University of Postdam on November 23rd 2016, see details here.

• Our recent results on string theory via lattice quantum field theory methods were presented by Valentina Forini here, a talk which obtained the GATIS Award 2016 for the best talk (by a junior speaker) at IGST 2016.

• The Lise-Meitner Prize 2016 of the Humboldt University Berlin – Institute for Physics for the Category “Oustanding Master Thesis” has been awarded to Alexander Jahn, who carried out his work on “Holographic Entanglement Entropy of Local Quenches in AdS4/CFT3” at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, under the external supervision of Prof. Tadashi Takayanagi (internal supervision: Valentina Forini).

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