String Theory

Section A of the SFB focuses on String Theory. The main points of interest are

• improving the mathematical foundations of String Theory,

• studying D-branes as dynamical objects from a mathematical, as well as from a particle physics point of view,

• developing the cosmological and particle physics aspects of String Theory,

• studying the connection between QCD and String Theory.

Projects

• A1 — Particle Physics from String Compactifications (Particle Physics/String Theory)
  Wilfried Buchmüller, Jan Louis
• A3 — Strings and QCD (Particle Physics/String Theory)
  Jochen Bartels, Volker Schomerus
• A4 — Mathematical Foundations of String Theory (Mathematics/String Theory)
  Christoph Schweigert
• A6 — Mathematical Aspects of String Compactifications (Mathematics/String Theory)
  Jan Louis, Vicente Cortés, Bernd Siebert
• A8 — Integrability in Two-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (Mathematics/String Theory)
  Ingo Runkel, Jörg Teschner
• A9 — Loops and Legs (Mathematics/String Theory)
  Bernd Kniehl, Rutger Boels