Harold Steinacker

The motivation of my research is the long-term quest towards a quantum theory of fundamental interactions including gravity. Specifically, I'm developing and following an approach known as „Matrix Theory“, focusing on the IKKT or IIB matrix model. This can be viewed as a constructive approach to string theory, which avoids the "landscape" problem and its inherent lack of predictivity.The underlying matrix model is extremely simple, and leads naturally to a quantum structure of space-time. A central aspect of this programe is to establish a suitable notion of quantum geometry, which is fairly well developed by now. The goal in the next years is to develop further the required mathematical framework and tools,
to understand the emergent physics on such quantum space-times, and to assess the physical viability of the framework.

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Open to Master projects.
(requires a strong background in theoretical & mathematical  physics, as well as numerical skills).