Andreas Wipf Chair for Quantum Physics at FSU Jena Contact Information: Theoretisch-Physikalisches-Institut Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Max-Wien-Platz 1 07743 Jena, Germany Tel: +49-(0)3641-947130 Fax: +49-(0)3641-947102 E-mail: wipf@tpi.uni-jena.de

Research group "quantum field theory"

Diploma and PhD Theses

Publications: Local server or spires

Skript Thermodynamik und Statistische Physik: chapters 1-4 chapters 5-6 chapters 7-11 chapters 12-14

Reviews and public talks

Transparencies of selected talks

List of lectures

Habilitation

Jena workshops

Combo-lectures of C. Dappiaggi: Jena-lectures

Combo-lectures of J. Pawlowski: Jena-lectures

Personalities:

• May 1984 PhD at the University of Zürich
• 11.1984 - 03.1986 Postdoc at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland
• 04.1986 - 12.1986 Assistant Professor at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland
• 01.1987 - 12.1987 Postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• 01.1988 - 10.1989 Postdoc at Max-Planck-Insitute in München
• 11.1989 - 05.1995 Postdoc and Privatdozent at the ETH in Zürich
• From June 1995: Full Professor (Chair: Quantum Theory) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Activities at University, Faculty and Institute:

• June 1995 - April 1998: Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics
• April 1999 - March 2001, April 2002 - March 2004: Member of the Senat
• Since 1999: Member of the Fakultätsrat
• April 2000 - March 2002: Vice-Dean of the Faculty for Physics and Astronomy
• April 2002 - March 2004: Dean of the Faculty for Physics and Astronomy

Fields of Interest:

• Nonperturbative Aspects of (supersymmetric) Field Theories
• Monopoles, Sphalerons and Instantons in Gauge Theories
• Quantum Physics in Curved Spaces: Black Hole Physics
• Conformal Field Theories: Kac-Moody and W-Algebras, WZW-Models, Toda Theories
• Quantization of 2-dimensional Gauge Theories
• External Field Problems: Effective Action, Effective Potentials, Casimir Effect, Anomalies