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Hanno Sahlmann has announced the formation of a new LQG group, at the APCTP in Korea. There are postdoc and PhD student positions to be filled and he indicates he would like to get them filled by this fall (which is fast approaching!)
sahlmann@particle.skipthis.uni-karlsruhe.andthis.de
Sahlmann is the S in the well-known L.O.S.T theorem which established, under fairly general assumptions, uniqueness of the holonomy/flux state space. If I'm not mistaken, his PhD advisor was Thiemann at the Einstein Institute (the T in L.O.S.T). As I recall, Sahlmann postdoc'd with Ashtekar 2003-2005 and at Utrecht 2006-2008 with Renate Loll. Since 2008 he holds a faculty position at Karlsruhe. It looks like he will lead the new LQG group.
I see that Spires lists PhD advisors:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hepnames/www?phdadv=Thiemann,+Thomas
Several new LQG groups have been established in the past couple of years---and previous groups have added permanent positions. 2008-2010 seems to have been a time of growth for the field. Probably the reasons for this are complicated---I'm not sure there is a single explanation.
To illustrate how many more Lqg venues there are now than there were a few years back, I will copy from Francesca's map. In some cases I think the primary interest of the permanent faculty listed here is in a neighboring field, but I guess it would be possible to do a Loop PhD thesis with almost any of those listed as your advisor.
AEI Berlin
Permanents: Bianca Dittrich, Daniele Oriti, Hermann Nicolai. http://www.aei.mpg.de/english/research/teams/
CPT Marseille
Permanents: Alejandro Perez, Carlo Rovelli, Simone Speziale. http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~quantumgravity/ Postdocs: Eugenio Bianchi, Muxin Han, Christian Roeken, Antonino Marcianò, Marco Valerio Battis...
LSU
Permanents: Kristina Giesel, Jorge Pullin, Parampreet Singh. http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/
QG Nottingham
Permanents: John Barrett, Kirill Krasnov, Jorma Louko. http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/research/applied_mathematics/quantum_gravity/
(Affiliated: Ed Copeland http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/particles/)
Morelia
Permanents: Alejandro Corichi, Robert Oeckl, José Zapata. http://www.matmor.unam.mx/~corichi/lqgindex.html
PennState
Permanents: Abhay Ashtekar, Martin Bojowald. Postdocs:Claudio Perini,Elena Magliaro,Jacobo Diaz Polo,William Nelson,Simone Mercuri. PhD:Miguel Campiglia, Adam Henderson, Artur Tsobanjan, Edward Wilson...
Erlangen
Permanents: Thomas Thiemann and one more faculty soon! Postdocs: Emanuele Alesci, ... PhD studens: ...
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Permanents: Laurent Freidel, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin.
IEM-QFT Madrid
Permanents: Fernando Barbero, Guillermo Mena Marugán. Postdoc: Tomasz Pawlowski. http://www.iem.csic.es/departamentos/qft/index.html
University of Warsaw
Permanent: Jerzy Lewandowski. http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~lewand/homepage.html
Beijing Normal University
Permanent: Yongge Ma http://physics.bnu.edu.cn/application/research/gravity/LQG/eng/research.html
Universität Hamburg
Permanent: Catherine Meusburger. http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/meusburger/ Postdoc: Winston Fairbain.
Florida Atlantic University
Permanent: Jonathan Engle, Warner Miller.
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Permanent: Etera Livine
Universite De Paris XI Paris Sud
Permanent: Vincent Rivasseau http://www.rivasseau.com/index.html
Tours
Permanent: Karim Noui
Universite Montpellier II
Permanent: Sergei Alexandrov
Grenoble
Permanent: Aurelien Barreau http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/ams/aurelien/
Cinvestav Zacatenco
Permanent: Merced Montesinos
Montevideo
Permanents: Rodolfo Gambini, Michael Reisenberger.
Cambridge
Permanent: Ruth M. Williams
King's College London
Permanent: Mairi Sakellariadou.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nms/physics/people/academic/sakellariadou/
UMC Utrecht
Permanent: Renate Loll http://www.phys.uu.nl/~loll/Web/title/title.html
Niels Bohr Instituttet
Permanent: Jan Ambjorn http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Permanent: Klaus Kiefer
Universität Paderborn
Permanent: Christian Fleischhack
Haverford College
Permanent: Stephon Alexander. Postdoc:Antonino Marcianò.
Western Ontario
Permanents: Daniel Christensen
McMaster University
Permanent: Seth Major. http://academics.hamilton.edu/physics/smajor/
New Brunswick
Permanents: Viqar Husain http://www.math.unb.ca/~husain/
University of Lethbridge
Permanents: Saurya Das, Arundhati Dasgupta, Mark Walton. Post-Doc: Wissam Chemissany. Students: Borislav Belchev, Ahmed Farag Ali, Ali Nassar, Steve Sidhu. http://people.uleth.ca/~saurya.das/TPG/TPG.h ...
Raman Research Institute
Permanent: Madhavan Varadarajan
University of Sydney/Macquarie University
Permanent: Daniel Terno http://www.qscitech.info/ Postdoc: Florian Girelli
American University of Beirut
Permanent: Tamer Tlas.
Kansas State University
Permanent: Louis Crane. http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/contact_info/personnel_detail?person_id=1330
Riverside
Permanent:John Baez. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html
Caltech
Permanent: Matilde Marcolli. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/
Berkeley
Permanent: Robert Littlejohn. http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/littlejohn.html
Pavia
Permanents: Mauro Carfora and Annalisa Marzuoli Students: Hal Haggard and Francesca Vidotto (2011)
Torino
Permanent: Lorenzo Fatibene http://www.dm.unito.it/personalpages/fatibene/index.htm
Sapienza University of Rome
Permanents: Giovanni Montani, Giovanni Amelino Camelia. Giovanni Montani http://www.icra.it/cgm/welcome.htm http://www.roma1.infn.it/~amelino/
Uniwersytet Wrocławski Wydział Fizyki i Astronomii Instytut Fizyki Doświadczalnej
Permanent: Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman.
Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Fizyki Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej
Permanent: Marek Szydlowski.
IUCAA Pune
Permanent: Naresh Dadhich
National Cheng Kung University
Permanent: Chopin Soo
Academia Sinica
Permanent: Hoi-Lai Yu
======================
The information for some of these is only partial. It comes from this map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...985216139270436.0004843830d27f3e6c50e&t=h&z=0
In any case, Hanno starting a LQG group at Pohang, Korea is not an isolated example. There seems to be a "Loop diaspora" in progress.
sahlmann@particle.skipthis.uni-karlsruhe.andthis.de
Sahlmann is the S in the well-known L.O.S.T theorem which established, under fairly general assumptions, uniqueness of the holonomy/flux state space. If I'm not mistaken, his PhD advisor was Thiemann at the Einstein Institute (the T in L.O.S.T). As I recall, Sahlmann postdoc'd with Ashtekar 2003-2005 and at Utrecht 2006-2008 with Renate Loll. Since 2008 he holds a faculty position at Karlsruhe. It looks like he will lead the new LQG group.
I see that Spires lists PhD advisors:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hepnames/www?phdadv=Thiemann,+Thomas
Several new LQG groups have been established in the past couple of years---and previous groups have added permanent positions. 2008-2010 seems to have been a time of growth for the field. Probably the reasons for this are complicated---I'm not sure there is a single explanation.
To illustrate how many more Lqg venues there are now than there were a few years back, I will copy from Francesca's map. In some cases I think the primary interest of the permanent faculty listed here is in a neighboring field, but I guess it would be possible to do a Loop PhD thesis with almost any of those listed as your advisor.
AEI Berlin
Permanents: Bianca Dittrich, Daniele Oriti, Hermann Nicolai. http://www.aei.mpg.de/english/research/teams/
CPT Marseille
Permanents: Alejandro Perez, Carlo Rovelli, Simone Speziale. http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~quantumgravity/ Postdocs: Eugenio Bianchi, Muxin Han, Christian Roeken, Antonino Marcianò, Marco Valerio Battis...
LSU
Permanents: Kristina Giesel, Jorge Pullin, Parampreet Singh. http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/
QG Nottingham
Permanents: John Barrett, Kirill Krasnov, Jorma Louko. http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/research/applied_mathematics/quantum_gravity/
(Affiliated: Ed Copeland http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/particles/)
Morelia
Permanents: Alejandro Corichi, Robert Oeckl, José Zapata. http://www.matmor.unam.mx/~corichi/lqgindex.html
PennState
Permanents: Abhay Ashtekar, Martin Bojowald. Postdocs:Claudio Perini,Elena Magliaro,Jacobo Diaz Polo,William Nelson,Simone Mercuri. PhD:Miguel Campiglia, Adam Henderson, Artur Tsobanjan, Edward Wilson...
Erlangen
Permanents: Thomas Thiemann and one more faculty soon! Postdocs: Emanuele Alesci, ... PhD studens: ...
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Permanents: Laurent Freidel, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin.
IEM-QFT Madrid
Permanents: Fernando Barbero, Guillermo Mena Marugán. Postdoc: Tomasz Pawlowski. http://www.iem.csic.es/departamentos/qft/index.html
University of Warsaw
Permanent: Jerzy Lewandowski. http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~lewand/homepage.html
Beijing Normal University
Permanent: Yongge Ma http://physics.bnu.edu.cn/application/research/gravity/LQG/eng/research.html
Universität Hamburg
Permanent: Catherine Meusburger. http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/meusburger/ Postdoc: Winston Fairbain.
Florida Atlantic University
Permanent: Jonathan Engle, Warner Miller.
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Permanent: Etera Livine
Universite De Paris XI Paris Sud
Permanent: Vincent Rivasseau http://www.rivasseau.com/index.html
Tours
Permanent: Karim Noui
Universite Montpellier II
Permanent: Sergei Alexandrov
Grenoble
Permanent: Aurelien Barreau http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/ams/aurelien/
Cinvestav Zacatenco
Permanent: Merced Montesinos
Montevideo
Permanents: Rodolfo Gambini, Michael Reisenberger.
Cambridge
Permanent: Ruth M. Williams
King's College London
Permanent: Mairi Sakellariadou.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/nms/physics/people/academic/sakellariadou/
UMC Utrecht
Permanent: Renate Loll http://www.phys.uu.nl/~loll/Web/title/title.html
Niels Bohr Instituttet
Permanent: Jan Ambjorn http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Permanent: Klaus Kiefer
Universität Paderborn
Permanent: Christian Fleischhack
Haverford College
Permanent: Stephon Alexander. Postdoc:Antonino Marcianò.
Western Ontario
Permanents: Daniel Christensen
McMaster University
Permanent: Seth Major. http://academics.hamilton.edu/physics/smajor/
New Brunswick
Permanents: Viqar Husain http://www.math.unb.ca/~husain/
University of Lethbridge
Permanents: Saurya Das, Arundhati Dasgupta, Mark Walton. Post-Doc: Wissam Chemissany. Students: Borislav Belchev, Ahmed Farag Ali, Ali Nassar, Steve Sidhu. http://people.uleth.ca/~saurya.das/TPG/TPG.h ...
Raman Research Institute
Permanent: Madhavan Varadarajan
University of Sydney/Macquarie University
Permanent: Daniel Terno http://www.qscitech.info/ Postdoc: Florian Girelli
American University of Beirut
Permanent: Tamer Tlas.
Kansas State University
Permanent: Louis Crane. http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/contact_info/personnel_detail?person_id=1330
Riverside
Permanent:John Baez. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html
Caltech
Permanent: Matilde Marcolli. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/
Berkeley
Permanent: Robert Littlejohn. http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/littlejohn.html
Pavia
Permanents: Mauro Carfora and Annalisa Marzuoli Students: Hal Haggard and Francesca Vidotto (2011)
Torino
Permanent: Lorenzo Fatibene http://www.dm.unito.it/personalpages/fatibene/index.htm
Sapienza University of Rome
Permanents: Giovanni Montani, Giovanni Amelino Camelia. Giovanni Montani http://www.icra.it/cgm/welcome.htm http://www.roma1.infn.it/~amelino/
Uniwersytet Wrocławski Wydział Fizyki i Astronomii Instytut Fizyki Doświadczalnej
Permanent: Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman.
Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Fizyki Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej
Permanent: Marek Szydlowski.
IUCAA Pune
Permanent: Naresh Dadhich
National Cheng Kung University
Permanent: Chopin Soo
Academia Sinica
Permanent: Hoi-Lai Yu
======================
The information for some of these is only partial. It comes from this map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...985216139270436.0004843830d27f3e6c50e&t=h&z=0
In any case, Hanno starting a LQG group at Pohang, Korea is not an isolated example. There seems to be a "Loop diaspora" in progress.
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