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Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
Gravity and String Theory Group
Welcome to the homepage of Matthias Blau
Research Interests
My research interests include, in general,
String Theory and Quantum Gravity
General Relativity
Topological Field Theory
Geometrical and Topological Aspects of QFT
Publications and Lecture Notes
If you want to know more about this, take a look at my
and/or at the review article
I have written lecture notes on a variety of different topics over the
years. Since some of them appear to be quite popular (in particular the lecture notes on
General Relativity) I am making them available again:
Bachelor and Master Projects
If you are interested in writing your Bachelor or Master Thesis under my supervision (and you are a student at the UniBE), just get in touch with me.
Please Note:
Due to lack of time and resources, I am not available for the supervision of external students or summer internships!
Here is a list of some recent
Teaching
Current semester (Autumn 2024):
Master Course: General Relativity (in English)
Past:
Future:
Autumn: General Relativity (Master)
Spring: Klassische Feldtheorie (Bachelor)
Outreach
Appearance in the SwissGerman SRF TV
science show Einstein
in the programme dedicated to the 100th anniversary of General Relativity (in German).
Picture (© SRF): Trying to explain the Equivalence Principle to moderator Kathrin Hönegger.
Participation in the Event
at the Bernisches Historisches Museum.
Feature
Kurzauftritt in der Nachrichtensendung 10vor10 des SRF anlässlich des Todes von Stephen Hawking:
Artikel im VSAO Journal über Gravitationswellen (mit und überwiegend von Thomas Feurer)