October was a particularly exciting month for our RTG, as three of our PhD candidates successfully defended their doctoral theses and officially completed their PhDs! Maria Kallimani was the first to celebrate this milestone, successfully defending her thesis entitled “Color-kinematics duality from homotopy algebras and worldline field theory” on 12 October 2026, under the supervision … Read more Three successful PhD defenses in October!
This year’s QCD Meets Gravity conference will take place from 14 to 18 December 2026 at the Erwin Schrödinger Centre in Adlershof, Berlin. Hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the conference is organised by Jan Plefka and other members of the RTG, together with researchers from the quantum field theory group at HU Berlin and DESY. … Read more QCD Meets Gravity 2026 – Registration Now Open!
On 1 October 2026, the final four members joined our RTG cohort and embarked on their PhD journeys! Pietro Borsa will conduct his research under the supervision of Valentina Forini in Adlershof. At the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Konstantinos Papadimos and Tiziano Littera will pursue their research under the supervision of Jan Steinhoff and … Read more Welcome to our new RTG PhD researchers!
Come and visit the RTG at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften. This year, we will showcase our research at the Department of Physics on the HU campus in Adlershof.
We are recruiting 4 PhD candidates in quantum field theory and gravitational physics, starting October 1, 2026 (or soon thereafter). Find out more here: https://www2.hu-berlin.de/rtg2575/openings/
Congratulations to Prof. Plefka and his team on this outstanding achievement! We are proud to announce that the journal Nature features the publication Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering by Prof. Jan Plefka and his team and highlights their work on the cover. Our colleagues present precise analytical predictions for how black holes or … Read more Prof. Jan Plefka and his team on the Cover of Nature
Loop the Loop: Virtual workshop on Feynman Calculus and its application to gravity and particle physics RTG member Raj Patil and his colleagues, Giacomo Brunello, Gaia Fontana, and Sid Smith, are organizing the Loop the Loop Workshop which will take place on 12-14th November on Zoom. It will be devoted to the study of Feynman … Read more Loop the Loop: Virtual workshop on Feynman Calculus and its application to gravity and particle physics
The RTG will be participating at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften again this year at the HU Mitte campus at Unter den Linden 6! We are excited to present the following activities (click on links for more info!): A Journey through Space and Time Swipe Right on Theoretical Physics: A Speed Dating Adventure
We are happy to announce that the German Research Foundation (DFG) has renewed funding for our Research Training Group for another 4.5 years! The first cohort of PhD students of our second funding phase will start their doctoral studies in October 2024.
The Karl-Scheel-Preis 2024 of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin has been awarded to RTG postdoc Dr. Gustav Mogull, together with Dr. Tom S. Seifert from Freie Universität Berlin. The awards ceremony is on 20.6.24 at 17:15 at the Magnus-Haus, Am Kupfergraben 7, 10117 Berlin.