Bachelor Theses

• 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

• 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:

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

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