News and Announcements

• 23.11.2009
  Starting Nov. 24, we offer supplementary seminars to the course of Quantum Mechanics (TP3, Prof. Polyakov). The aim of the seminar is to give interested students an opportunity to study advanced topics related to Quantum Mechanics. We plan to discuss and work out the following topics:
  • 1) Supersymmetric QM
  • 2) Quantisation of systems with constraints
  • 3) Path integrals. Instantons in QM
  • 4) Quasiclassics and Maslov index
  Each of these topics can be developed into a Bachelor work! First meeting: Nov 24, 10ct, NB6/167


• 22.05.2009
  Last week the BaBar collaboration reported very interesting resuts on exclusive processes in two-photon collisions. See talk of Selina Li at PHOTON 2009 conference in Hamburg . The most surprizing results are presented on pages 16 and 17!


• 13.03.2009
  On Monday, March 16th we organize a special session HADRONS AND CHIRAL SYMMETRY in honor of Professor Klaus Goeke.


• 23.02.2009
  June 8-10 in Edinburgh we organize a workshop on New Narrow Nucleon N* (NNNN). We plan to discuss exciting possibility that there exist a narrow excitation of the protons and neutrons which could be overlooked in the past. Look up the news from September 25, 2008 below.


• 08.12.2008
  The LEPS group at SPRING-8 accelerator in Osaka announced confirmation of their pioneering signal for exotic baryon Theta+. The LEPS group lead by Takashi Nakano were the first who reported evidence for Theta+ exotic baryon in year 2003. Now, after 5 years of hard and careful work, they confirmed their pioneering observation with new data. Their new paper gives details of their elegant analysis and presents very strong and consise evidence for the existence of Theta+.


• 20.11.2008
  Starting Nov. 24, every Monday (8:30, NB6/173) we offer supplementary seminars to the course of Theoretical Mechanics (TP1, Prof. Polyakov). The aim of the seminar is to give interested students an opportunity to study advanced topics related to the Theoretical Mechanics. We plan to discuss and work out the following topics:
  • 1) Solitons
  • 2) Classical String Theory
  • 3) Parametric resonances
  • 4) Introduction to integrable systems. Adiabatic invariants
  • 5) Lagrange mechanics on manifolds.
  Interested students are cordially invited to take part in the seminar!!!


• 07.10.2008
  It is decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 to Yoichiri Nambu for "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics", and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature". Dr. Nambu is awarded for his works on spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry in strong interactions. The physics we are working on !


• 25.09.2008
  Paper by Kuznetsov and Polyakov about observation of a non-strange member of the anti-decuplet "New Narrow Nucleon N*(1685)" is published in a recent issue of the JETP Letters. Also, take a look at the short story by V. Nabokov "The Circle" (in Russian is here).


• 20.09.2008
  We (Kivel, Polyakov, Vladimirov) have found a way to compute leading chiral logarithms (LLs) essentially to an unlimited order, see our preprint 0809.3236 and results for LL coefficients up to 33 loops:)


• 20.09.2008
  "The Erasmus Mundus Consortium "Multidisciplinary capacity-building for an improved economic, political and university co-operation between the European Union and the Russian Federation" is happy to announce a call for applications"!!! For more information visit http://tu-dresden.de/internationales/erasmus_mundus.


• 20.09.2008
  Prof. Mark Strikman has recieved a renewed Humboldt Foundation Research Award "in recognition of his academic achievements and his contribution to cooperation with German specialist collegues". Mark will be visiting TPII in summer 2009.


• 19.09.2008
  Prof. Dmitri Diakonov is visiting TPII as a Mercator Professor. Starting in the middle of October he will give a series of lectures (4 hrs/week) on non-perturbative methods in QFT. First meeting: Oct. 15th, 14 c.t., NB6/173.