2025 High-Energy Physics Prize awarded to Jürg Gasser, Heinrich Leutwyler and Martin Lüscher We are proud to announce that the 2025 High-Energy Physics Prize of the European Physical Society has been awarded to Jürg Gasser, Heinrich Leutwyler and Martin Lüscher for ground-breaking contributions to new theoretical methods that have advanced our understanding of strong interactions in their non-perturbative regime. In particular, to Gasser and Leutwyler for the formulation of low-energy effective field theory, which opened the way to accurate predictions in hadron physics and in the standard model; to Lüscher for leading developments on the formulation of QCD on the lattice, which enabled the rigorous calculation of non-perturbative contributions to physical observables from first principles.
Precision calculation for nuclear beta decays Recent work on radiative corrections to superallowed β decays in effective field theory featured as DOE Science Highlight.
SIGN25 Workshop in Bern The 10th international SIGN25 workshop on the sign problem in QCD and beyond will take place at the University of Bern from 20th to 24th of January 2025. For further information see http://sign25.itp.unibe.ch/.
AEC The ITP is part of the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC), one of largest university groups of scientists working on particle physics in Switzerland.
AEC Visitor program The AEC maintains a visitor program directed towards scientists working in theoretical or experimental high-energy physics and related areas.
Research The research at Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP) covers a broad range of topics in particle physics.
Gilberto Colangelo ITP director As of August 1st, Gilberto Colangelo is taking over as the ITP director from Thomas Becher who has served for the past five years.
New ITP professor This August, Fernando Romero-López starts his professorship at the ITP. He is a leading expert on the numerical simulation of strongly coupled quantum field theories and the successor of Uwe-Jens Wiese.
Yannick Ulrich appointed in Liverpool Yannick Ulrich, currently an AEC fellow at the ITP, obtained a tenure track position at the University of Liverpool. The ITP congratulates him and wishes Yannick all the best for the future. Long live the Mule!
Peter Minkowski’s paper reaches 5000 citations Peter Minkowski’s 1977 paper in which he introduced the seesaw mechanism as an explanation of the smallness of the observed neutrino masses has reached 5000 citations.
Faculty prize for Simona Procacci Simona Procacci won the faculty prize for her outstanding PhD thesis: Towards a thermally complete study of inflationary predictions. The institute wishes Simona all the best in the future.
Muon g-2 Workshop in Bern The Sixth Plenary Workshop of the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative will be held at the University of Bern from 4th to 8th of September 2023. Report in CERN Courier
SNF Consolidator Grant for Martin Hoferichter Martin Hoferichter was awarded an SNF Consolidator grant for his project "Searching for physics beyond the standard model in low-energy precision observables”.
Sakurai Prize for Heiri Leutwyler Heiri Leutwyler has been awarded the 2023 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for his fundamental contributions to the effective field theory of pions at low energies, and for proposing that the gluon is a color octet.
Panda Theory prize for Bai-Long Hoid Bai-Long Hoid has received the Panda Theory PhD Prize 2022 for his doctoral thesis.
Hints of lepton flavor universality violations Science Perspective by Martin Hoferichter on recent developments that indicate where the Standard Model may be incomplete.
Eccellenza Fellowship for Valentin Hirschi Valentin Hirschi was awarded an Eccellenza assistant professorship by the SNF to carry out his project "A novel approach to perturbative computations in Quantum Field Theory” at the ITP.
New Muon g-2 Measurement An interview with Martin Hoferichter on the new muon g-2 measurement at Fermilab and his work in the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative.
Physik am Freitag Die Vorträge der Reihe "Physik am Freitag" richten sich an Gymnasiastinnen und Gymnasiasten und die interessierte Öffentlichkeit.
