Niklas Beisert

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Niklas Beisert (* 1977 ) is a German theoretical physicist who deals with quantum field theory. He is a professor at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Beisert is the son of the architect and art historian Anna Katharina Beisert-Zülch ( Hildesheim University ) and the architect Thomas Beisert (APB). He is the grandson of Klaus-Joachim Zülch . From 1996 he studied physics at the Technical University of Munich (Diploma 2002) and at Imperial College London as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . From 2002 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm near Potsdam. In 2004 he received his doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin with Matthias Staudacher ( The Dilation Operator of N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory and Integrability ). As a post-doctoral student , he was at Princeton University (as a fat fellow), where he became an assistant professor in 2005. From 2006 he was group leader ( duality and integrable structures ) at the MPI for Gravitational Physics near Potsdam and since 2011 he has been a professor at the ETH Zurich.

Researches

He conducts research on integrable structures and symmetries in (four-dimensional) gauge field theories and thus on the AdS / CFT correspondence related string theories . The AdS / CFT correspondence expresses an equivalence of the description of gauge theories (as they are used in the standard model of elementary particle physics ) and string theories, but has not yet been proven or disproved. He used techniques that were applied to exactly integrable systems of solid state physics (such as one-dimensional spin chains), such as the Bethe approach , applied to the case of supersymmetric gauge field theories with maximum symmetry (planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, with symmetry group PSU (2,2 | 4)), in which Joseph Minahan and Konstantin Zarembo from Uppsala University previously found indications of integrable structures. At the Strings 07 conference , the Nobel Prize winner David Gross described the resulting research developments in solving supersymmetric gauge field theories for large N as the most interesting development in string theory of the past year.

Honors

In 2005 he received the Otto Hahn Medal and in 2007 the Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society. In 2006/7 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 2013 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize .

Fonts

  • Beisert u. a. Review of AdS / CFT Integrability: An Overview , Lett. Math. Phys., 99, 2012, 3, Arxiv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annegret Lucie Henning: Klaus Joachim Zülch: his life; his work; Catalog raisonné. University of Lübeck, 2004 (dissertation), urn : nbn: de: gbv: 841-20061214374 .
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Beisert, Matthias Staudacher Long-range PSU (2.2 | 4) Bethe approaches for gauge theory and strings , Nuclear Physics B, Volume 727, 2005, pp. 1-62, Arxiv
  4. ↑ Gribov Medal. MTA Wigner Research Center for Physics, accessed October 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Beisert, Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977