PhD Fellowships in Physics, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Germany (2015-2016)

The International Max Planck Research School for Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries (IMPRS-PTFS) invites applications for PhD Fellowships in Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics and Astroparticle Physics.

The IMPRS-PTFS is a combined effort of the Max-Planck-Institute für Kernphysik in collaboration with the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. The PhD school offers highly qualified students the possibility to perform research in a variety of fields, asking questions such as:

What is the mechanism responsible for the breaking of the electroweak symmetry and the Higgs particle? Are fermions and bosons related by supersymmetry? What lies behind the existence of generations of quarks and leptons? Are lepton number or baryon number conserved quantities? Is CPT and Lorentz invariance conserved? Are fundamental constants really constant? What are the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and of chiral symmetry at high temperatures? How is the matter-antimatter symmetry violated and how does it lead to the baryon asymmetry of the Universe? What are the properties of Dark Matter and Dark Energy? Both theoretical and experimental perspectives are covered in the school.

The theoretical and experimental description and interpretation of the involved systems in a fundamental manner requires sound and in particular very broad knowledge of a variety of research fields. We will provide students a solid education in the above mentioned fields of research, with particular emphasis on inter- and crossdisciplinarity. Regular seminars, workshops and soft-skill courses will further broaden the intellectual horizon of the students, giving them excellent perspectives for the future.

Further details:
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