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Gravity and String Theory Group
Bachelor and Master Projects and Theses
(Bachelorarbeiten und Masterarbeiten)
Bachelor Theses
(these will usually be offered alternatingly every 2-3 years)
- 2011
- General Subject: Canonical Quantisation, Dirac Rule, No-go Theorems and Obstructions
- Alexander Probst: Aspects of Quantization
- Lorenz Hilfiker: The Limits of Naive Quantisation
- 2013
- General Subject: Feynman Path Integral for Quantum Mechanics
- Fabienne Schneiter: The Path Integral in Quantum Mechanics
- Franziska Schranz: Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics
- 2016
- General Subject: Constrained Systems and the Dirac-Bergmann Algorithm
- Matti Zbinden: Local Symmetries and Gauge Transformations
- Marius Descombes: Dynamics of Constrained Hamiltonian Systems
- 2019
- General Subject: Symmetries, Noether Theorem(s), Variations
- Linus Vogt: Noether's First Theorem in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Classical Mechanics
- 2023
- General Subject: Symplectic Geometry and Physics
- Fabio Arz: Applications of Symplectic Geometry in Classical Mechanics and Geometric
Quantization
Master Theses
(these will usually be offered every year)
Prerequisites: very good GR Exam and interest in General Relativity and/or Geometry and related matters.
- 2009/2010
- General Subject: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time
- Philipp Germann: The Unruh-Effect
- 2010/2011
- General Subject: Black Holes as Particle Accelerators
- Michèle Lötscher: Radiale Teilchen in der Reissner-Nordström Metrik: Teilchenbahnen und
Kollision zweier Teilchen
- General Subject: Chern-Simons Gravity, Geometry and Gauge Theory
- Simone Carlo Surace: Gravity and Gauge Theory
- 2011/2012
- General Subject: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time and Hawking Radiation
- Nayara Jornod: Comparison of Hawking radiation for different observers
- Raphael Marschall: Observer Dependence of Hawking Radiation
- 2012/2013
- General Subject: Black Hole Event and Apparent Horizons and Vaidya Metrics
- Carla Gross, Anina Steinlin: Horizons of Black Holes
- General Subject: Cosmological Expansion and Local Dynamics
- Adrian Oeftiger: On the Effect of Global Cosmological Expansion on Local Dynamics
- 2014/2015:
- General Subject: Variations and various aspects of the Unruh Effect
- Fabienne Schneiter: The Unruh Effect and Variations thereof
- 2015/2016:
- General Subject: Volume of Black Holes and related issues
- Marcel Balsiger: On the Volume of Black Holes
- General Subject: Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation, the Buchdahl bound and related issues
- Steve Wenger: The Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation and bounds on stellar structure
- 2016/2017:
- General Subject: Plane Waves and Penrose Limits
- Christoph Heiniger: The Penrose Limit: Theory and Examples
- 2018/2019:
- General Subject: General Relativity and Differential Forms
- Florence Aellen: Symmetries of Gravity in the Palatini Formulation
- General Subject: Redshifts and Horizons
- Vera Pelozzi: The Gravitational Redshift inside and outside of a
Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström Black Hole
- 2019/2020:
- General Subject: Boundary Terms for the Einstein-Hilbert Action: Null Boundaries
- Witali Krochin: Boundary Terms for the Einstein-Hilbert Action
- General Subject: Gravity as a Gauge Theory
- Simona Procacci: On the Symmetry Algebras of Gravity as a Gauge Theory
- 2023/2024:
- General Subject: General Relativity, Gauge Theory, Differential Forms
- Ivan Begic: Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions and its Symmetries
- 2024/2025:
- General Subject: Kaluza-Klein Theory
- Geraldine Genz:
- Norina Michel:
- General Subject: Penrose Limits, Waves and Black Holes
- Dominic Diem:
- Niels Slotboom:
Selected Older Diploma Theses
- at the ICTP, Trieste (1997 -- 2003)
- Monica Borunda (1999): Counterterms for asymptoticallly AdS space-times
- Angel Rualdo Soto Chavez (2003): The Penrose Limits of Black
Holes and FRW Space-times (joint supervision with Martin O'Loughlin (SISSA))
- Aureliano Skirzewski (2003): Loop Quantum Cosmology: Evolution of
a Massive Scalar Field (joint supervision with Martin O'Loughlin (SISSA))
- at the Université de Neuchâtel (2003 -- 2008)
- Daniel Gerber (2004): Trapped
Submanifolds in Spacetimes with Symmetries
- Blaise Rollier (2007): L'energie quasi-locale de Brown et York
dans le contexte des geodesiques radiales (link to publication:
Brown-York Energy and Radial Geodesics)
- Harald Jerjen (2007): Cosmological
Singularity Theorems and Spatial Averages