We are very happy to announce that Konstantin Wiegandt, now at Humboldt University (Berlin) in the group of Jan Plefka, will be joining the CRST as a postdoctoral researcher funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Furthermore, three new PhD students will join our group in the next academic year: James McGrane and Felix Rudodph, from Cambridge, and Brenda Penante, now at Perimeter Institute (Canada). 

The CRST has been awarded a grant of 632,431 pounds from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, for the project "String Theory, Gauge Theory and Duality". The duration of the project is from 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2014. 

Gabriele Travaglini visited Andi Brandhuber during November-December 2011 at the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Andi Brandhuber is spending a one year sabbatical at the Weizmann Institute and Tel Aviv University from August 2011 to August 2012.