Teaching
Fall 2014:
Special Relativity (course homepage)
Third year bachelor level course on Special Relativity at Chalmers.
Literature: Rindler, “Relativity: Special, General and Cosmological” (2nd Ed.)
Spring 2014:
Gravitation and Cosmology (course homepage for 2014)
Master level course in General Relativity within the Master program in Physics and Astronomy at Chalmers.
Literature: Weinberg, “Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity”
and Carroll, “Lecture Notes on General Relativity”.
Fall 2013:
Special Relativity (course homepage)
Third year bachelor level course on Special Relativity at Chalmers.
Literature: Rindler, “Relativity: Special, General and Cosmological” (2nd Ed.)
Spring 2013:
Gravitation and Cosmology (course homepage for 2013)
Master level course in General Relativity within the Master program in Physics and Astronomy at Chalmers.
Literature: Weinberg, “Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity”
and Carroll, “Lecture Notes on General Relativity”.
Spring 2012:
Gravitation and Cosmology (course homepage for 2012)
Master level course in General Relativity within the Master program in Physics and Astronomy at Chalmers.
Literature: Weinberg, “Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity”
Supervision
PhD students
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-Henrik Gustafsson (started Jan 1, 2013)
Works on automorphic forms and instantons in string theory.
Master students
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-Erik Widén, Extremal Black Holes and Nilpotent Orbits.
Completed in September 2014. (Erik will be pursuing a PhD in Stockholm under the supervision of Konstantin Zarembo.)
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-Axel Radnäs, Black Holes and Solution Generating Techniques in Gravity.
Completed in September 2014. (Axel left physics and is now working for a consulting company.)
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-Henrik Gustafsson, Eisenstein Series and Instantons in String Theory.
Completed in June 2013. (Henrik is currently pursuing a PhD at Chalmers under my supervision.)
- Oskar Till, Supersymmetric Gauge Theory, Wall-Crossing and Hyperkähler Geometry.
Completed in January 2013. (Oskar is currently pursuing a PhD in Heidelberg under the supervision of Timo Weigand.)
Bachelor projects
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-From modular forms to crystals and quantum gravity (project homepage)
Bachelor project during the spring of 2015.
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-Group Theory with Applications to Black Holes (project homepage)
Bachelor project during the spring 2014. The final report is available here.
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-Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics with Applications in Mathematics (project homepage)
Bachelor project during the spring 2013, jointly supervised with Per Salomonson. The final report is available here.
- Group Theory and Symmetries in Particle Physics (project homepage)
Bachelor project during the spring 2012. The final report is available here.
Past teaching and supervision
- During the spring of 2011 I was co-organizing a seminar course at ETH, entitled “From Field Theory to String Theory”.
As part of this course, I also supervised three seminar projects within the following topics:
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*Modular invariance in conformal field theory
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*Low-energy effective actions from string theory
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*The gauge/gravity correspondence
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-During the spring of 2010, I was involved in two similar seminar courses: “Symmetries in Physics” and “Supersymmetry”.
I was then supervising the following topics:
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*Spontaneous breaking of a gauge symmetry (student: Henrik Ronellenfitsch, pdf)
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*Supersymmetry breaking (student: Nikolaus Buchheim, pdf)
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-In the spring of 2010 I was also co-supervising a master-level student project on the topic:
* T-duality in bosonic string theory (student: Pierre-Francois Rodriguez, pdf)