The three day Theoretical Physics Symposium of the Wolfgang-Pauli-Centre (WPC) aims at bringing together theorists from different areas, including particle physics, cosmology, mathematical physics, condensed matter theory, atomic and molecular physics, cold atoms etc. This year's topics are:
- String Theory and Mathematics
- String Theory and our Universe
- Dualities and Quantum Information
The Symposium features the award ceremony for the Hamburg prize for Theoretical Physics 2018 which is awarded to Prof. Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech, IPMU Tokyo) in an award ceremony at the Planetarium on Nov 7, 2018. The Symposium is supported by the Joachim Herz Stiftung.
Invited speakers include
- Tomoyuki Arakawa (Kyoto U)
- Christopher Beem (U of Oxford)
- Miranda Cheng (U of Amsterdam)
- Ignacio Cirac (MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching)
- Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala U)
- Albrecht Klemm (U of Bonn)
- Dieter Luest (LMU Munich)
- Masaki Oshikawa (U of Tokyo)
- Shinsei Ryu (U of Chicago)
- Sakura Schafer-Nameki (U of Oxford)
- Gary Shiu (U of Wisconsin)
- Washington Taylor (MIT)
- Senthil Todadri (MIT)
- Irene Valenzuela (Utrecht U)
- Michael Walter (U of Amsterdam)
- Timo Weigand (CERN)
Local organizing committee
Gleb Arutyunov, Volker Schomerus, Joerg Teschner, Alexander Westphal
