Welcome

Welcome to the webhome of the String Theory group, in the Department of Physics at Queen Mary University of London.

Visitors to the group are listed here.

Activities

• NEW The conference Fundamental Physics UK: 2009 will be held from 6-7th November 2009 at Trinity College, Cambridge and is co-organised by David Berman from QMUL. This is the 3rd in a series of meetings of the UK string theory community launched in November 2007.


• We run an annual Graduate Program in String/Field Theory


• Other workshops or conferences (co-)organised by Queen Mary researchers:
  
  Charapfest , April 11th 2008, Queen Mary.
  
  Fundamental Physics UK: 2007 and 2008 , Kings College London November 2007 & 2008;
  
  The Big Draw , September/October 2007 (see also here );
  
  Advancing Collider Physics: from Twistors to Monte Carlos, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, August-October 2007;
  
  M-theory in the City , Queen Mary, 9-11 November, 2006;
  
  From Twistors to Amplitudes, Queen Mary, 3-5 November, 2005.

Recent News

October 2009

Prof MB Green FRS will take over from Stephen Hawking as the new Lucasian Professor at Cambridge (read here and here ). Prof Green is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary and his pioneering work in string theory was carried out while he was at Queen Mary between 1978 and 1993.

Postdoc Valeria Gili is awarded an ImpactQM fellowship.

Previous postdocs Paul Heslop and Yusuke Kimura move to Durham University and Oviedo University, respectively.

Two new PhD students join us: Dimitrios Korres from Amsterdam, and Jurgis Pasukonis from MIT/Imperial

September 2009

Three new postdocs are joining the group - Gang Yang, Diego Rodriguez-Gomez and Vishnu Jejjala.

May 2009

Bill Spence has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from September 2009.

February 2009

Two new PhD students will be joining us in October - Dimitrios Korres from Amsterdam, and Jurgis Pasukonis from MIT/Imperial.

January 2009

Three new postdocs will be joining us in October - Diego Rodriguez-Gomez from Princeton, funded by the EU, and Vishnu Jejjala from the IHES (Paris) and Gang Yang from the Institute for Theoretical Physics (Beijing), supported by the STFC.

Tom Brown has accepted a postdoctoral position at DESY from October 2009.

December 2008

The Centre has been awarded a Rolling Grant of £1,431,413 by the Science and Technology Facilities Council to fund research in string theory and its applications over the period 2008-2013.

More news can be found on the News page on the menu above.

Location

We are located on the north wing of the 2nd floor of the Department of Physics,
Mile End Road, London E1.
Our postal address is:

Department of Physics
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS UK

Fax: +44 (0)20 8981-9465
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882-5555

Directions to Queen Mary may be found here.