SAGEX (Scattering Amplitudes: from Geometry to EXperiment)

The project SAGEX ran from 2018 to 2022.

Scattering Amplitudes: from Geometry to EXperiment, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission, is a unique consortium that combines an international team of academic leaders in the research area of scattering amplitudes with a selection of world-leading industrial partners. SAGEX has been created with the objective to train 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) not only to achieve far-reaching scientific goals but also to equip them with broad skills that will serve them well in either a scientific or commercial career.

More information: SAGEX-Website.


International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS)

The research school ran from 2016 until 2022.

IMPRS for Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Gravitation, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Gravitation, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory addresses fundamental questions about the nature of classical and quantum gravity and its links to the fundamental constituents of matter. The research is purely theoretical and brings together some of the most exciting challenges of modern physics and mathematics. The school started operating in January 2016 and replaces the previous IMPRS for Geometric Analysis, Gravitation and String Theory.

More information: IMPRS-Website.


Cluster BWG (Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung)

The cluster BWG ran from 2012 until 2018.

Complex problems cannot be solved within the boundaries of a single academic discipline. They require the knowledge and skills of researchers from different fields of knowledge: representatives from more than 40 different disciplines have been researching fundamental design processes in the sciences in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2012. The Interdisciplinary Laboratory brings together the humanities, the natural sciences and engineering sciences, medicine and – for the first time in basic research – design and architecture, with the objective to strengthen and enrich each discipline through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Image
There are many views on how to define what an image is. For the architectural theorist Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), an image is not just the image’s surface, but essentially everything that human beings create with minimal intervention. This broad concept of the image is one adopted by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung. The spectrum of its research includes objects, spaces, structures, forms of motion, and sounds. Each project investigates how these image-forms actively shape the knowledge that they represent.
Knowledge
Since the beginning of time, the production, transmission, and storage of knowledge has been influenced by architecture, media and tools, structures and models, information channels, and images. From the layout of laboratories to the seminar room, from chemical formulas to theoretical systems – knowledge is a historically determined form of design. New processes in data virtualisation and networking as well as digital imaging processes pose new challenges for research. The question of how much creative potential lies in a body of knowledge – which is historically contingent – can and must be addressed through critical examination of the past. Historical reflection and innovation are two sides of the same coin.
Gestaltung
Imaging and knowledge generation share many characteristics as practices: they influence perception, thought, and action. The Cluster takes the stance that creative processes make a real contribution to research in a technologically advanced knowledge society, and that research on its part should give creative processes due recognition. Examining design as the materialisation and realisation of knowledge – this is the foundation to bridge basic research and application.

More information: BWG-Website.


GK 1504 "Masse, Spektrum, Symmetrie"

The Graduate School 1504 ran from 2009 until 2018.

The Graduate School 1504 funded several PhD students at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Dresden and DESY Zeuthen.
It united a broad expertise in experimental and theoretical physics in the topics surrounding the ATLAS-experiment at the LHC, the search for new physics related to it, as well as in quantum field theory on perturbative, non-perturbative and numerical levels up to its generalization in the context of string theory.

Further information: GK-Website.

GATIS (Gauge Theory as an Integrable System)

The project GATIS ran from 2013 until 2016.

GATIS was an EU-funded initial training network (ITN) between seven research groups at European research institutions and six private sector partners.
It was active in training and research in the field of exactly solvable gauge Theories. The network organized numerous conferences, summer schools, workshops, and training courses offered by the private sector partners. A total of 17 young researchers had the opportunity of either working on a doctoral dissertation or on a one-year research project at the institutions involved.

Further information: GATIS-Website.


Einstein Project "Gravitation and High Energy Physics"

The project Gravitation and High Energy Physics ran from 2013 until 2016.

This project was financed by the Einstein Foundation Berlin. It was a collaborative project between our research group at Humboldt University (Prof. Matthias Staudacher), the Albert Einstein Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Prof. Hermann Nicolai) and Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Prof. Barak Kol).
At each of the three sites, scientists funded by the project worked on the bridge between Einstein’s theory of gravity and the Standard Model of elementary particles, formulated as quantum field theory. The project placed special emphasis on exchange between different scientific approaches. While scientists in Berlin focused on modern methods in field theory, integrability and the calculation of scattering amplitudes, the Israeli partners worked on the effective field theory approach. An intensive exchange and alignment of interests took place within the context of binational workshops.

Partner at the Hebrew University: Theoretical gravitation and high energy physics group.


CRC 647 "Space-Time-Matter. Analytic and Geometric Structures"

The collaborative research centre 647 ran from 2005 until 2016.

The collaborative research centre 647 was financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Within the CRC, scientists from the fields of mathematics and physics Humboldt University, Free University Berlin, University Potsdam and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics /Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Golm worked together.

Further information SFB-Website.


UNIFY (Unification of Fundamental Forces and Applications)

The project UNIFY ran from 2011 until 2014.

UNIFY was an EU-funded exchange network within the International Research Staff Exchange Scheme" (IRSES). The IRSES programme aims to support and strengthen research cooperation between institutions in Europe and certain non-EU states through enhanced exchange of scientists in the course of joint activities.
UNIFY supported this exchange between European institutions in Porto (Portugal), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Potsdam und Berlin (Germany), Paris (France), and partner institutions overseas in Waterloo (Canada), Stony Brook (USA), Pasadena (USA) and Tokyo (Japan). The network organized conferences and schools at the partner institutions and provided co-financing for research visits for members of the European partner institutions to the partner institutions overseas in the fields of Gauge /Gravity Duality, Cosmology and Numerical Relativity Theory, String Theory, Supergravitation, as well as Quantum Gravitation and Black Holes.