CERN – SEENET-MTP – ICTP PhD Training Program
Bucharest 2025 PhD School
"Modern Methods in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology"
July 1-6, 2025, Bucharest-Magurele
This school is part of the 3rd cycle (2024-2026) of the the CERN – SEENET-MTP – ICTP PhD Training program, which supports participation of advanced MS students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from SEENET-MTP countries and the wider CEE area in a chain of connected, high-level regional schools.
The Bucharest 2025 PhD School on "Modern Methods in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology" will take place during the period July 1-6, 2025 on the Bucharest - Magurele platform. We suggest the arrival day to be the 30th of June since the school will effectively start in the morning of July 1st.
Lecturers (see details of the lectures):
Calin Lazaroiu (IFIN-HH, Department of Theoretical Physics)
Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)
Jackson Levi Said (Institute of Space Science and Astronomy, University of Malta)
Pavel Putrov (ICTP, Trieste)
Raul Jimenez (Univ. of Barcelona)
The lectures will start from the introductory level and build up to the research level. They will be followed by tutorial and discussion sessions. The lectures will be held in hybrid format, being streamed on Zoom.
Additional guest lectures by:
Emilian Dudas (CNRS & CPHT-Ecole Polytechnique)
Ignatios Antoniadis (LPTHE Sorbonne Univ.) - Talk
Ioannis Rizos (Univ. of Ioannina) - TBC
Support for accommodation and/or travel will be provided for a limited number of participants. Early registration is advised.
This school will be followed by two other related events, which you may also want to attend
- the SEENET-MTP Workshop and Assessment Meeting (July 7-8, 2025), organized at University Politehnica of Bucharest - register here.
- the BPU12 congress (July 8-12, 2025), organized at University Politehnica of Bucharest - register here.
Organizing Committee
- Mirela Babalic (Dept. of Theoretical Physics, IFIN-HH, Bucharest)
- Virgil Băran (University of Bucharest, Romania)
- Aurelian Isar (Dept. of Theoretical Physics, IFIN-HH, Bucharest)
- Ioan Ursu (Dept. of Theoretical Physics, IFIN-HH, Bucharest)
- Gian Giudice (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
- Goran Djordjevic (Faculty of Science, Nis, Serbia)
- Joan Elias Miro (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
- Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
- Radoslav Rashkov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Organizers & Sponsors: CERN, SEENET-MTP, ICTP, EPS, IFIN-HH, BPU, UB, SciResCareer
