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📣 PhD student position 📣

Join our institute in Potsdam, Germany! We offer an ERC-funded PhD student positions at the @mpi_grav in Potsdam.

We are particularly interested in hiring creative, proactive and motivated candidates who flourish at working in a vibrant, interdisciplinary and synergistic group. Successful candidates will join the research group “Symmetries in Gravity and Amplitudes” with the Quantum Gravity and Unified Theories division.

The PhD research will focus on mathematical structures of scattering amplitudes, more specifically amplitudes associated with Riemann surfaces as they appear in string theory.

The successful applicant will conduct their research projects at the AEI in Potsdam, and they will have to enrol and receive their PhD degree from the Humboldt University in Berlin. The expected duration of the PhD is three to four years. Applicants are required to have a Master degree by the start of the PhD program.

ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1201947/phd-mascamp
📅 Deadline for full consideration: 15 January 2025

📣 PhD student position 📣

Join our institute in Potsdam, Germany! We offer an ERC-funded PhD student positions at the @mpi_grav in Potsdam.

We are particularly interested in hiring creative, proactive and motivated candidates who flourish at working in a vibrant, interdisciplinary and synergistic group. Successful candidates will join the research group “Symmetries in Gravity and Amplitudes” with the Quantum Gravity and Unified Theories division.

The PhD research will focus on mathematical structures of scattering amplitudes, more specifically amplitudes associated with Riemann surfaces as they appear in string theory.

The successful applicant will conduct their research projects at the AEI in Potsdam, and they will have to enrol and receive their PhD degree from the Humboldt University in Berlin. The expected duration of the PhD is three to four years. Applicants are required to have a Master degree by the start of the PhD program.

ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1201947/phd-mascamp
📅 Deadline for full consideration: 15 January 2025

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'The original promise was to describe the physics of this universe, unify all forces of nature... This has not happened. And now we hear this actually is not such a big deal. ... Imagine Moses after 40 years of wandering in the desert, you would say,...this idea of a promised land is not such a big thing. Look how much we've learned about the desert. We've learned so much about the sand. Who cares about the promised land? What do you think people would say to him? And yet here we are." --Edward Frenkel #physics #stringtheory
"I was recently invited to a string theory conference. And it was a very interesting experience for me... I saw that it’s not a very healthy kind of situation. ... The fact...is that the original promise of string theory, which was to describe this universe ... has not worked out. And nobody knows how, in principle, it could work. ... Yet, this is not acknowledged. And how can you move forward ... if you're not acknowledging that your original program failed?" https://youtu.be/n_oPMcvHbAc?t=9716 #edwardfrenkel #physics #stringtheory
…it took me a long time to decide to write this book. I personally dislike conflict and confrontation. … I kept hoping someone in the center of string-theory research would write an objective and detailed critique of exactly what has and has not been achieved by the theory. That hasn’t happened.
—Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next #stringtheory #physics #book
Because string theory is such a high-risk venture—unsupported by experiment, though very generously supported by the academic and scientific communities—there are only two ways the story can end. If string theory turns out to be right, string theorists will turn out to be the greatest heroes in the history of science. … On the other hand, if string theorists are wrong, they can’t be just a little wrong. … Theirs will be a cautionary tale of how not to do science…
—Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next #physics #stringtheory #science