Dieter Lüst

Current position:

Chair for Mathematical Physics at the LMU-München Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in München (Home page at MPI)

Personalities:

1985 PhD at the University of München
1985-1986 Postdoc at Caltech, Pasadena, USA
1986-1988 Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute in München
1988-1990 Fellow at CERN, Geneva
1990 Habilitation at the University of München
1990-1993 Heisenbergstipendiat at CERN, Geneva
1993-2004: Full Professor (Chair: Quantum Field Theory) at the Humboldt University, Berlin
From July 1995: Editor of the international Journal "Progress of Physics"
From December 1998: External scientific member of the Max-Planck-Institut for Gravitational Physics (AEI) in Potsdam
Member of the "Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften"
2000: Leibniz-Preis of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
From December 2003: Director of the Max-Planck-Institut for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) in München
From August 2004: Full Professor (Chair: Mathematical Physics)) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München
From October 2004: Coordinator of the European RTN-network Basic Constituents, Fundamantal Forces and Symmetries of the Universe
From January 2005: Spokesman of the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics
Editor of JHEP and Classical and Quantum Gravity
2006: Humboldt-Gay-Lussac Prize of the French Minister of Sciences
Spokesman of the Elite-Master-Study Programme "Theoretical and Mathematical Physics" at the LMU/TU

Contact:

Address: Department für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Theresienstr. 37, D-80333 München, Germany
Room: 425
Tel: +49-(0)89-2180-4372 or 4373
Fax: +49-(0)89-2180-4186
E-mail: luest@theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, D-80805 München, Germany
Room: 317
Tel: +49-(0)89-32354-282
Fax: +49-(0)89-32354-501
E-mail: luest@mppmu.mpg.de

Current Fields of Interest:

String Theory
The Formulation of (Four-dimensional) Strings on Non-trivial Backgrounds and D-Brane World Models
The Low-energy Effective Action of Four-dimensional Strings, the Problem of Space-time Supersymmetry Breaking, `Phenomenological' Aspects of Four-dimensional Strings
Various Problems in Gauge Theories and Gravity

Publications (from Spires at SLAC)

Courses during the winter semester 2004:

Einführung in Stringtheorie:

Monday and Thursday, 11.00 - 13.00, room 449, General informations on the course (pdf), Übungsblatt 1 (ps), Übungsblatt 2 (pdf), Übungsblatt 3 (ps), Übungsblatt 4 (pdf), Übungsblatt 5 (ps), Übungsblatt 6 (pdf), Übungsblatt 7 (ps), Übungsblatt 8 (pdf), Übungsblatt 9 (pdf), Übungsblatt 10 (pdf), Übungsblatt 11 (pdf), Übungsblatt 12 (ps),

Courses during the summer semester 2005:

Physik II:

Thursday, 9.00 - 11.00, Grosser Physik-Hörsaal, General informations on the course (pdf), Skriptum (Thermodynamik) (pdf), for further informations see the web-page of the course,

Courses during the winter semester 2005/06:

Magnetic Monopoles, Instantons and Duality in Field and String Theory:

Monday and Thursday, 11.00 - 13.00, Room 449, Theresienstr. 37, General informations on the course (pdf).

Courses during the summer semester 2006:

Introduction to string theory:

Monday and Thursday, 11.00 - 13.00, room 449, General informations on the course (pdf), Introductory Lecture (pdf), Übungsblatt 1 (pdf), Übungsblatt 2 (pdf), Übungsblatt 3 (pdf), Übungsblatt 4 (pdf), Übungsblatt 5 (pdf), Übungsblatt 6 (pdf), Übungsblatt 7 (pdf), Übungsblatt 8 (pdf), Übungsblatt 9 (pdf), Übungsblatt 10 (pdf).

Courses during the winter semester 2006/07:

Quantenmechanik (T3):

Monday 11.00 - 13.00, Thursday 09.00 - 11.00, Theresienstr. 39B, room 052,
General informations on the course (pdf), die Übungen beginnen in der Woche 23.10.-27.10. (Gruppen A-G) bzw. am 30.10. (Gruppe H),
Scriptum (pdf),
Übungsblatt 1 (pdf), Übungsblatt 2 (pdf), Übungsblatt 3 (pdf), Übungsblatt 4 (pdf), Übungsblatt 5 (pdf), Übungsblatt 6 (pdf), Übungsblatt 7 (pdf), Übungsblatt 8 (pdf), Übungsblatt 9 (pdf), Übungsblatt 10 (pdf), Übungsblatt 11 (pdf), Übungsblatt 12 (pdf).

Die 1. Klausur findet am 14. Dezember im HS7 in der Schellingstr. 4 statt. Hilfsmittel sind nicht erlaubt. Bitte Ausweise mitbringen. Die 2. Klausur findet am 1. Februar statt. Lehrevaluation.

Courses during the summer semester 2007:

Non-perturbative Effects in Gauge Theories and in String Theory:

Monday and Thursday, 11.00 - 13.00, Room 450, Theresienstr. 37, General informations on the course (pdf).

Courses during the winter semester 2007/08:

Quantenmechanik II (T5):

Tuesday 12.00 - 14.00, Friday 12.00 - 14.00, Theresienstr. 39, room B138,
General informations on the course ,
Scriptum (pdf),
Stoffübersicht (content) (pdf),