News
November 2006
The String Theory Group at Queen Mary hosted a workshop on M-theory from November 9 - 11, 2006. For further information and links to talks please consult the workshop webpage: M-theory in the CityValeria Gili , from the University of Pavia, Italy, joins us on a postdoctoral fellowship from the Foundation Boncompagni-Ludovisi.
October 2006
We started our new Graduate Program in String/Field Theory in October 2006. For more details and information on this years schedule consult the following webpage: Graduate Program in String/Field TheoryTwo new postdoctoral researchers join us: Yusuke Kimura from Tokyo, funded by a JSPS Fellowship from Japan followed by a two year position supported by a PPARC Rolling Grant, and Paul Heslop from Cambridge, funded on a three year position by the EPSRC.
Three new PhD students join us - Vincenzo Calo (from Italy, funded by Queen Mary), Andrew Low (from Durham, funded by PPARC), and Daniel Thompson (from Imperial College, funded by PPARC).
Two of our 4th year PhD students, James Bedford and John Ward, have secured funding which will enable them to spend time at CERN during their final year.
August 2006
Dr Sanjaye Ramgoolamwas awarded an International Short Visits Grant by the Royal Society, to support the visit to Queen Mary during January/February 2007 of Dr. Nicolaos Toumbas from the University of Cyprus.February 2006
Final year PhD student Costis Papageorgakis has accepted an offer of a postdoctoral position at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai.December 2005
Queen Mary researchers have been invited to be part of the organising committee for the programme Advancing Collider Physics: from Twistors to Monte Carlos (Organizers: A. Brandhuber, V.Del Duca, N. Glover, D. Kosower, G. Passarino, W.J. Spence, G. Travaglini and D. Zeppenfeld). This will be held from August 27th 2007 to October 26th 2007 at the new Galileo Galilei Institute in Arcetri, Florence. Further details are available here.Dr Sanjaye Ramgoolam has been awarded a Royal Society Science Networks grant, to support the visit to Queen Mary during May/June 2006 of Prof. Robert de Mello Koch from University of Witswatersrand, South Africa.
November 2005
The Workshop From Twistors to Amplitudes was held at Queen Mary, which brought together 70 leading international researchers in this new field in order to review recent developments and promote new interactions and progress. All talks are available onlineOctober 2005:
The new postdoc Kostas Zoubos arrives from the State University of New York (Stony Brook). He is funded on a two year position by a PPARC Special Programme Grant.Four new PhD students join us - Tom Brown (from Cambridge, funded by PPARC), Adele Nasti (from Naples, funded by Queen Mary), Andrew Sellers (from Manchester, funded by PPARC) and Massimiliano Vincon (from Queen Mary, funded by Queen Mary).
September 2005:
Dr Andreas Brandhuber is awarded the Ludwig Boltzmann prize of the Austrian Physical Society (OePG)The new postdoc Lilia Anguelova arrives from the University of Michigan, funded by our European Union Framework 6 TMR grant Superstrings. Her position is for two years.