ITMP Seminar "Strings in AdS3, boundary currents, and the Schwarzian"
Speaker: Prof. Sameer Murthy, King's College London
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is February 15, 2025
Full-time PhD Postgraduate Fellowships
The application deadline is May 10, 2025
Senior Researcher Positions (Professorial Level) in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is April 1, 2025
ITMP Seminar "The Price of Abandoning Dark Matter Is Nonlocality"
Speaker: Prof. Richard Woodard, University of Florida
Early Admissions for ITMP Master's Program are now open
Admission period: November 15, 2024 - March 1, 2025
ITMP Seminar "The Giant Graviton Expansion from Bubbling Geometry"
Speaker: Evan Deddo, University of Michigan
ITMP Seminar "Gravitational Waves from High Temperature Strings"
Speaker: Dr. Ratul Mahanta, University of Winnipeg
ITMP Seminar "The Schwarzian from gauge-theories"
Speaker: Dr. Alejandro Cabo-Bizet, University of Salento
ITMP Seminar "Exact semiclassical results for scaling dimensions of composite operators in the \phi^4 theory"
Speaker: Prof. Oleg Antipin, Rudjer Boskovic Institute
MASTER'S PROGRAM GRADUATES 2024
The first group of students from the English-taught Master's program "Geometry and Quantum Fields" graduated in 2024, along with the fourth group from the Master's program "Quantum Gravity and Mathematical Physics."
ITMP Seminar "A kinematical Erlanger Programme"
Speaker: Prof. Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill, University of Edinburgh
ITMP Seminar "High energy scattering of strings in AdS"
Speaker: Maria Nocchi, University of Oxford
The International MSc program "GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM FIELDS" opens for Admission
Interview registration deadline: July 10, 2024
ITMP Seminar "Balance Laws as Test of Gravitational Waveforms"
Speaker: Prof. Lavinia Heisenberg, University of Heidelberg
ITMP Seminar "Gravity and TTbar flows in higher dimensions"
Speaker: Prof. Roberto Tateo, University of Turin
ITMP Seminar "Closed string origin of thermal entropy"
Speaker: Dr. Indranil Halder, Harvard University
ITMP Seminar "Uniqueness of supersymmetric AdS_5 black holes"
Speaker: Dr. Sergei Ovchinnikov, ITMP MSU
ITMP Seminar "Supersymmetric CP^1 deformation and Conformal limits"
Speaker: Dr. Anton Pribytok, Steklov Mathematical Institute RAS & University of Padua
ITMP Seminar "Gravitational bound waveforms from amplitudes"
Speaker: Dr. Riccardo Gonzo, University of Edinburgh
ITMP Seminar "Classical and quantum codes, 2d CFTs and holography"
Speaker: Prof. Anatoly Dymarsky, University of Kentucky
ITMP Seminar "Higher spin symmetry/gravity and 3d bosonization duality"
Speaker: Dr. Evgeny Skvortsov, University of Mons
ITMP Seminar "High-Energy Behavior of Scattering Amplitudes in Theories with Purely Virtual Particles"
Speaker: Dr. Marco Piva, University of Warsaw
ITMP Seminar "Trace Anomalies, RG Flow and Scattering Amplitudes"
Speaker: Dr. Biswajit Sahoo, King's College London
ITMP Seminar "Shift Symmetries, Equivalence of EFTs and Time-Like Extra Dimensions"
Speaker: Prof. Kurt Hinterbichler, Case Western Reserve University
Full-time PhD Postgraduate Fellowships
The application deadline is May 10, 2024
Senior Researcher Positions (Professorial Level) in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is April 1, 2024
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is February 15, 2024
ITMP Seminar "Conformal Renormalization of anti-de Sitter gravity"
Speaker: Prof. Rodrigo Olea, Universidad Andres Bello
ITMP Seminar "Duality-Invariant Non-linear Electrodynamics and Stress Tensor Flows"
Speaker: Dr. Christian Ferko, University of California, Davis
ITMP Seminar "Scattering on effective strings and compactified membranes"
Speaker: Dr. Fiona Seibold, Imperial College London
ITMP Seminar "Chiral phase transition in Gross-Neveu model"
Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Zarembo, Nordita & Niels Bohr Institute
ITMP Seminar "Large N Partition Functions, Holography, and Black Holes"
Speaker: Prof. Nikolay Bobev, KU Leuven
ITMP Seminar "Ghosts without runaway instabilities"
Speaker: Prof. Cedric Deffayet, Ecole Normale Superieure, LPENS
ITMP Seminar "New probes of the string spectrum"
Speaker: Dr. Chrysoula Markou, University of Mons
ITMP Seminar "Stacking and balancing casual causality – Diagnosing (a)causality in the EFT of gravity"
Speaker: Calvin Chen, Imperial College London
ITMP Seminar "Bootstrapping the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude"
Speaker: Dr. Tobias Hansen, University of Oxford
ITMP Seminar "Trace anomaly in relativistic stars"
Speaker: Dr. Ignacio Reyes, University of Amsterdam
ITMP Seminar "Stability of nonsingular Cosmologies in Galileons with Torsion"
Speaker: Mauricio Valencia-Villegas, ITMP MSU
ITMP Seminar "Zero charge and confinement in turbulence"
Speaker: Prof. Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute of Science
ITMP Seminar "Self-dual gravity and color/kinematics duality in AdS4"
Speaker: Dr. Arthur Lipstein, Durham University
ITMP Seminar "The role of symmetry for finding black holes in scalar tensor theories"
Speaker: Prof. Mokhtar Hassaine, University of Talca
Arkady Tseytlin was honored with the Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize
The Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize is an international award for theoretical physics
ITMP Seminar "The String Axiverse in 2023"
Speaker: Dr. David Marsh, King's College London
ITMP Seminar "A New Gravitational Action for the Trace Anomaly"
Speaker: Prof. Gregory Gabadadze, New York University
ITMP Seminar "Can dilaton be QCD axion?"
Speaker: Dr. Anna Tokareva, Imperial College London
ITMP Seminar "Classical Vs Quantum gravity: gravity induced entanglement revisited"
Speaker: Prof. Eduardo Martin-Martinez, University of Waterloo
ITMP Seminar "Black holes and vacuum decay"
Speaker: Dr. Andrey Shkerin, University of Minnesota, FTPI
ITMP Seminar "Multiparticle production in λϕ^4 theory: method of singular solutions and numerical results"
Speaker: Bulat Farkhtdinov, INR RAS & MIPT, Moscow
ITMP Seminar "Deterministic chaos and Integrable Systems"
Speaker: Dr. Stefano Negro, New York University
Full-time PhD Postgraduate Fellowships
The application deadline is May 10, 2023.
ITMP Seminar "Unifying Constructions of Non-Invertible Symmetries"
Speaker: Xiang Zhao, EPFL Lausanne, FSL
ITMP Seminar "QFT in AdS instead of LSZ"
Speaker: Xiang Zhao, EPFL Lausanne, FSL
ITMP Seminar "Finite Features in Holography"
Speaker: Dr. Dionysios Anninos, King’s College London
ITMP Seminar "Automorphic symmetry and AdS String novel integrable deformations"
Speaker: Anton Pribytok, Trinity College, Dublin
ITMP Seminar "Angular Momentum Loss Due to Tidal Effects in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion"
Speaker: Dr. Carlo Heissenberg, Uppsala University and NORDITA
Admission to the Master’s program “Geometry and Quantum Fields” is now open
A joint program with MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
ITMP Seminar "AdS/BCFT from Bootstrap: Construction of Gravity with particle & brane"
Speaker: Dr. Yuya Kusuki, Caltech and Wako, RIKEN
ITMP Seminar "R-matrix formulation of affine Yangian of \hat{gl}(1|1) and integrable systems of N=2 superconformal field theory"
Speaker: Dr. Alexey Litvinov, Landau ITP, Chernogolovka
ITMP Seminar "Intersecting D-brane models and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon"
Speaker: Francois Rondeau, Cyprus University
ITMP Seminar "Chiral Approach to Massive Higher Spins"
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Ochirov, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences
ITMP Seminar "Exact off-shell Sudakov form factor in N=4 SYM"
Speaker: Dr. Leonid Bork, ITEP, Moscow
An outstanding theoretical physicist Academician Valery Anatolievich Rubakov died on 19 October 2022
ITMP Seminar "Phase transitions in the dark Universe"
Dr. Sabir Ramazanov, CEICO, Prague
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is February 1, 2023
Senior Researcher Positions (Professorial Level) in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is April 30, 2023
ITMP Seminar "An Effective Field Theory for Large Oscillons"
Speaker: Vasily Maslov, ITMP
ITMP Seminar "Recent developments in higher spin gravity"
Speaker: Evgeny Skvortsov, University of Mons
ITMP Seminar "Colorful particles and fields in low dimensions"
Speaker: Dr. Euihun Joung, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
The English-language Master's program "Geometry and Quantum fields" opens for admission
Admission to the program commences on June, 15
ITMP Seminar "Invariant traces of the flat space chiral higher-spin algebra as scattering amplitudes"
Speaker: Dr. Dmitry Ponomarev, ITMP MSU
ITMP Seminar "q-Virasoro constraints and the algebra of Wilson loops in 3d"
Speaker: Dr. Luca Cassia, Uppsala University
ITMP Seminar "Null Wilson loop with Lagrangian insertion in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory"
Speaker: Dmitry Chicherin, Annecy LAPTH
ITMP Seminar "How Pauli-Villars’ regularization tells the Nambu-Goto and Polyakov strings apart"
Speaker: Dr. Makeenko Yuri M, ITEP Moscow
ITMP Seminar "Recursion Relations for Five-Point Conformal Blocks and Beyond: A Practical Approach"
Speaker: Dr. Valentina Prilepina, ITMP
ITMP Seminar "Exact quantization"
Speaker: Barak Gabai, Harvard University
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics starting in autumn 2022
The application deadline is June 1, 2022.
ITMP Seminar "Anomaly-free scale symmetry and gravity "
Speaker: prof. Mikhail Shaposhnikov, EPFL Lausanne
ITMP Seminar "Graviton Scattering in AdS at Two Loops"
Speaker: Dr. Ellis Ye Yuan, Zhejiang University
ITMP Seminar "On moduli stabilisation, de Sitter spacetime and inflation from string compactifications"
Speaker: prof. Fernando Quevedo, Cambridge University
ITMP Seminar "On AdS3 Holography"
Speaker: Jan Troost, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Senior Researcher Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Application deadline is extended till June 30, 2022.
Full-time PhD Postgraduate Fellowships
Application deadline is extended till May 1, 2022.
ITMP Seminar "Quantum Gravity on a Manifold with boundaries: Schrödinger Evolution and Constraints"
Speaker: Dr. Jose Alejandro Rosabal, ITMP MSU
ITMP Seminar "Horava gravity as palladium of locality, unitarity and renormalizability: methods and results"
Speaker: Dr. Andrei O. Barvinsky, Lebedev Institute, ITMP
Universiade "Lomonosov" in Mathematics and Mechanics
Applicants to the master's program "Geometry and Quantum Fields"will receive benefits upon admission to the program. Register before February 26
ITMP Seminar "JT - deformed CFTs as non-local CFTs"
Speaker: Dr. Monica Guica, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Saclay
ITMP THIRD ANNIVERSARY
ITMP MSU was established on December 25, 2019
ITMP Seminar "Classical solutions and semiclassical expansion of non-relativistic strings in AdS5xS5"
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Fontanella, ITMP
ITMP Seminar "A Puncture in the Euclidean Black Hole"
Speaker: prof. Nissan Itzhaki, Tel Aviv University
ITMP Seminar "Disforming the Kerr metric"
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Anson, ITMP
ITMP Seminar "Infinite symmetries and Ward identities in celestial holography"
Speaker: Dr. Hongliang Jiang, Queen Mary University of London
Admission to the master’s program “Geometry and Quantum Fields” is now open
ITMP MSU jointly with MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics are now accepting applications for 2022/2023 academic year
ITMP Seminar "Colour-kinematic duality, double copy and homotopy algebras"
Speaker: Dr. Tommaso Macrelli, Surrey University
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is February 1, 2022.
Senior Researcher (Professorial Level) Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is April 30, 2022.
Full-time PhD Postgraduate Fellowships
The application deadline is March 1, 2022.
ITMP Seminar "Surface operators in the 6d N=(2,0) theories"
Speaker: Dr. Maxime Trepanier, ITMP
ITMP Seminar "Love and Naturalness"
Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Ivanov, Princeton IAS & INR RAS
ITMP Seminar "Stress tensor and conformal correlators"
Speaker: prof. Andrei Parnachev, Trinity College Dublin
ITMP Seminar "Sigma models as Gross-Neveu models"
Speaker: Dr. Dmitry Bykov, Steklov Mathematical Institute, ITMP MSU
The first English-taught master’s program in Mathematics opens at Lomonosov Moscow State University
A joint master’s program of ITMP MSU and the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics “Geometry and Quantum Fields” opens for admission on November 15, 2021
ITMP Seminar "Unitarization in Kaluza Klein theory and the Geometric Bootstrap"
Speaker: Dr. Kurt Hinterbichler, Case Western Reserve University
ITMP Seminar "Non-perturbative gravitational effects in cosmology"
Speaker: Dr. Victor Gorbenko, Stanford University
ITMP Seminar "Black holes in scalar-tensor theories"
Speaker: Dr. Eugeny Babichev, The University Paris-Saclay
ITMP Seminar "Black holes on a conifold with fluxes"
Speaker: prof. Alex Buchel, Perimeter Institute
ITMP Seminar "Comments on Large Charge and N=4 SYM"
Speaker: Dr. Shota Komatsu, CERN and Princeton IAS
ITMP Seminar "Integrable Systems and Spacetime Dynamics"
Speaker: Kristiansen Lara, University of Santiago, Chile
ITMP Seminar "Celestial CFT Correlators and Conformal Block Decomposition"
Speaker: Dr. Angelos Fotopoulos, Northeastern University, Boston
ITMP Seminar "Inflation and reheating with Higgs inflation and related models"
Speaker: Dr. Fedor Bezrukov, University of Manchester
ITMP Seminar "Probing boundary states at finite coupling"
Speaker: Dr. Edoardo Vescovi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University
ITMP Seminar "Thermal correlators in CFT and black holes"
Speaker: prof. Jorge Guillermo Russo, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and University of Barcelona, Barcelona
ITMP Seminar "Exceptional world-volume currents and their algebras"
Speaker: Dr. David Osten, ITMP
ITMP Seminar "Models for a vast energy range: particles meet gravity and cosmology"
Speaker: Alberto Salvio, University of Rome Tor Vergata
ITMP Seminar "Losing the trace to discover dynamical Newton or Planck constants"
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Vikman, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
ITMP Seminar "Supergravity excitations of stringy geometries"
Speaker: Associate Prof. Oleg Lunin, SUNY-Albany
ITMP Seminar "Integrated four-point correlators in N=4 SYM"
Speaker: dr. Congkao Wen, Queen Mary University of London
ITMP Seminar "Towards the Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude in AdS5xS5"
Speaker: prof. Paul Heslop, Durham University
Senior Researcher Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is June 30, 2021
ITMP Seminar "Chaotic scattering with a highly excited string"
Speaker: Dr. Vladimir Rosenhaus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
ITMP Seminar "Spinning and spinless two-particle dynamics from gravitational scattering amplitudes"
Speaker: Prof. Radu Roiban, Penn State University
ITMP Seminar "O(D,D) and string alpha'-corrections"
Speaker: Linus Wulff, Masaryk University
ITMP Seminar "Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory"
Speaker: Ricardo Monteiro, Queen Mary University of London
ITMP Seminar "Holographic correlators and emergent Parisi-Sourlas supersymmetry"
Speaker: Xinan Zhou, Princeton University
ITMP Seminar "Scattering from production in 2d"
Speaker: Piotr Tourkine, Paris LPTHE, CERN
ITMP Seminar "The O(N) vector model at large charge: EFT, large N and resurgence"
Dr. Domenico Orlando, INFN Turin, University of Bern
Videos of 2020 Research Seminars
Please visit our YouTube channel
ITMP Seminar "Loops in Holography"
Speaker: Prof. Ivo Sachs, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
ITMP Seminar "RG Limit Cycles and "Spooky" Fixed Points in Perturbative QFT"
Speaker: Fedor Popov, Princeton University
ITMP Seminar "Large-N localization and quiver CFT"
Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Zarembo, Niels Bohr Institute, Nordita
ITMP Seminar "Scattering in chiral strong backgrounds"
Speaker: Dr. Tim Adamo, University of Edinburgh
ITMP Seminar "Closed strings and weak gravity condition from higher-spin causality"
Speaker: Dr. Sandipan Kundu, Johns Hopkins University
ITMP Seminar "Event shapes, the light-ray OPE and superconvergence"
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Zhiboedov, CERN
ITMP Seminar "Modification of the radiation definition in odd dimensions"
Speaker: Mikhail Khlopunov, ITMP
ITMP Seminar "On double elliptic integrable system: characteristic determinant and Manakov triple"
Speaker: Dr. Andrei Zotov, Steklov Mathematical Institute RAS
Fellowships for PhD Students
The application deadline is June 1, 2021
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
The application deadline is February 1, 2021
Full-time PhD Fellowships
The application deadline is March 15, 2021
ITMP Seminar "Production of massive particles from the decay of a free massless field"
Speaker: Ariel Arza, ITMP
ITMP seminar "Hamiltonian structures of the spin Ruijsenaars-Schneider models"
Speaker: Gleb Arutyunov, University of Hamburg
ITMP Seminar "Constrained modified gravities: generalized unimodular gravity and beyond"
Speaker: Nikita Kolganov, ITMP
ITMP seminar "Schwarzschild black hole thermodynamic entropy on a nice slice"
Speaker: Dr. Jose Alejandro Rosabal, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang
New Educational Program "Fundamental Mathematics and Mathematical Physics"
Students of 2-6 years of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics are invited
ITMP seminar "Gauge/gravity duality and the phenomenology of hadrons"
Speaker: Dr. Frederic Brunner, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
ITMP seminar "Current Algebra and Generalised Geometry"
Speaker: Dr. David Osten, Ludwig Maximilian University/Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich
Chairman of Scientific Council of ITMP, ACADEMICIAN OF RAS VALERY RUBAKOV WAS HONORED WITH HAMBURG PRIZE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
The award ceremony takes place in November, 2020.
ITMP seminar “Introduction to the TT̄ deformation”
Speaker: Dr. Riccardo Conti, Turin University
ITMP seminar "Efficient Rules for All Conformal Blocks: A Dream Come True"
Speaker: Dr. Valentina Prilepina, Laval University
ITMP seminar “The echo method for axion dark matter detection”
Speaker: Dr. Ariel Arza, ITMP
Summer school is postponed
New dates will be fixed later
ITMP seminar "Polyvector deformations in supergravity and the string/M-theory dynamics"
Speaker: Dr. Ilya Bakhmatov, ITMP
ITMP seminar “Review on higher-spin theories”
Speaker: Dr. Dmitry Ponomarev, ITMP
ITMP seminar "Some aspects of massive gravity and Horndeski theory"
Professor Mikhail S. Volkov, Université de Tours, France
Extension of time application for the full-time PhD postgraduate fellowships
The application deadline is March 15, 2020.
BASIS Foundation and ITMP Summer school
The Summer school will be held from the 20th of July till the 1st of August, 2020
ITMP offers several fellowships for PhD students to start on October 1, 2020.
The application deadline for a fellowship is June 1, 2020.
ITMP celebrates 1 year since establishment
On December 25, 2018 the Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics was established
ITMP announces several full-time PhD postgraduate fellowships, to start on October 1, 2020
The application deadline is March 1, 2020.
Call for Postdoctoral Positions in ITMP
The application deadline is February 01, 2020.
ITMP WINTER SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS OF 3-4 YEARS
The Winter school will be held from the 1st till the 9th of February, 2020
ITMP Research Seminar
The first ITMP research seminar will be held on October 9 (Wednesday) at 18:00
Public lecture by Professor Marc Henneaux
A public lecture by Marc Henneaux, professor at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), will be held on October 8 (Tuesday) at 18:00
Состоялся первый набор на магистерскую программу "Квантовая гравитация и математическая физика"
На магистерскую программу "Квантовая гравитация и математическая физика" поступили 7 человек
Видеозапись лекции Михаила Шифмана "Вторая жизнь квантовой теории поля"
Опубликована видеозапись лекции
Продолжается прием заявок на конкурсы постдоков и аспирантов в ИТМФ
Срок окончания подачи заявок - 1 июля 2019 года
Начался прием документов на магистерскую программу "Квантовая гравитация и математическая физика"
Физический факультет и ИТМФ МГУ запускают совместную магистерскую программу “Квантовая гравитация и математическая физика”. Прием документов на программу продлится до 20 июля 2019 года. Занятия начнутся с 1 сентября 2019 г.
В ИТМФ состоялась Международная конференция
Конференция в честь открытия института проходила в МГУ с 10 по 12 июня
Презентация магистерской программы "Квантовая гравитация и математическая физика"
Опубликовано видео со дня открытых дверей
International conference “Recent Advances in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions”
Registration deadline is May 28, 2019
Стипендии для поступающих в магистратуру и аспирантуру физического факультета МГУ
Крайний срок подачи заявок - 1 июня 2019 года
Собеседование в совместную магистратуру ИТМФ и Физического факультета МГУ
9 апреля (вторник) состоится собеседование для поступающих на магистерскую программу "Квантовая гравитация и математическая физика"
Дуальность струн и калибровочных полей
28 марта (четверг) в 17:10 состоится открытая лекция д.ф.-м.н. Цейтлина Аркадия Александровича, директора ИТМФ, профессора Imperial College London
День открытых дверей в ИТМФ
15 марта в 17:10 состоится в ИТМФ состоится презентация новой магистерской программы
ITMP WAS ESTABLISHED
Institute was founded by order of rector V.A. Sadovnichy in December 2018