Andreas Wipf

Andreas Wilhelm Wipf (born December 14, 1954 ) is a German theoretical physicist.

Andreas Wipf studied physics at the ETH Zurich , where he graduated in 1980. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Zurich in 1984 with a thesis on Some Results on Magnetic Monopoles and Vacuum Decay (doctoral supervisor : Norbert Straumann ) and was a post-doctoral student at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies until 1986 (1986 as Assistant Professor), where he worked closely with Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh , 1987 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory , 1988/89 at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and 1989 to 1995 at the ETH Zurich , most recently as a private lecturer. He completed his habilitation in 1994 in Zurich on the subject of Symmetries, Reductions and Quantization of Gauge Theories .

Since 1995 he has been a university professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , where he was director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1995 to 1998 and 2013 to 2016. He was a member of the university senate several times and was dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy from 2002 to 2004 and from 2017.

Wipf deals with lattice gauge theories and their simulation, not perturbative quantum field theory , super symmetric field theory, field theory in curved spaces for example in black holes, field theories ( Kac-Moody- and W algebras, tool change models , Toda theories), quantization of two-dimensional calibration field theories , Problems with external fields (effective effects and potentials, Casimir effect , anomalies ) and monopoles , instantons and sphalerons in gauge field theories.

From 2009 to 2018, Wipf was the spokesman for the DFG Graduate School 1523 Quantum and Gravitational Fields in Jena. He is co-author of a series of textbooks on theoretical physics. From 1995 to 2010, with Jan Louis , Steffen Trimper (University of Halle), Klaus Sibold and Klaus Kroy (University of Leipzig), he organized the series of lectures at the Central German Universities of Halle, Leipzig and Jena Physik Combo , which took place on weekends, based on a corresponding model in French-speaking Switzerland. From 2005 to 2011 he was editor of the Annalen der Physik and since 2015 series editor of Graduate Texts in Physics at Springer. In 2013 he organized the DPG spring conference in Jena and since 2015 he has headed the DPG professional association Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Physics .

From 1996 to 2016 he organized the Saalburg summer school Foundations and New Methods in Theoretical Physics with Arthur Hebecker, Olaf Lechtenfeld, Ivo Sachs and Stefan Theisen .

Fonts

• Statistical Approach to Quantum Field Theory, Lecture Notes in Physics 864 , Springer 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-33105-3 .
• with Matthias Bartelmann , Björn Feuerbacher, Timm Krüger, Dieter Lüst , Anton Rebhan : Theoretical Physics , Springer Spectrum 2015 (with mathematical contributions by Florian Modler and Martin Kreh), ISBN 978-3-642-54618-1 .
  • Also in four individual volumes (Volume 1 Mechanics, Volume 2 Electrodynamics, Volume 3 Quantum Mechanics, Volume 4 Thermodynamics and Statistics) 2018

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Jena