Escudo UNAM

Department of Gravitation and Field Theory

 Escudo UNAM

Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM
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Overview

The Department of Gravitation and Field Theory is one of five departments within the Institute for Nuclear Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Research at our Department focuses mainly on classical and quantum aspects of field theory, in particular gravitation, various branches of mathematical physics, biological and statistical physics, the early universe and relativistic astrophysics --- several other subjects show up occasionaly on our radars. We pride ourselves in maintaining a very diverse profile: recent projects deal with, e.g., mathematical aspects of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity, numerical simulation of two-black-hole collisions, Lorentz symmetry violations, the Hopf algebra structure of renormalization, membrane and macromolecule conformations, exotic molecules in intense magnetic fields, genetic dynamics and econophysics, relativistic astrophysics, and several more.
Our group currently consists of twelve faculty members, one postdoc, and several graduate students. There is a reasonable influx of international visitors throughout the year and, thanks to university and federal funding, we are often able to reciprocate. We are also actively involved with the graduate and undergraduate program of the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM, and the organization of several local and international meetings, some of which have by now become standard features of the annual conference agenda, like the workshops and schools sponsored by the Gravitation and Mathematical Physics Division of the Mexican Physical Society.

Faculty

Name

Position

Main fields of interest

Phone:

+5255 56.22.47.39

e-mail (user@nucleares.unam.mx)






Miguel Alcubierre Inv. Tit. B Numerical Relativity
Ext. 342
malcubi
Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos Inv. Tit. B
Mathematical physics
Ext. 327
chryss
Jemal Guven
Inv. Tit. C
Extended objects, biophysics
Ext. 335
jemal
Dario Núñez
Inv. Tit. B
Relativistic Astrophysics
Ext. 343
nunez
Hernando Quevedo
Inv. Tit. C
Exact solutions, black holes, cosmology
Ext. 341
quevedo
Marcos Rosenbaum
Inv. Tit. C
Mathematical physics
Ext. 362
mrosen
Michael Ryan
Inv. Tit. C
Quantum cosmology
Ext. 331
ryan
Marcelo Salgado
Inv. Tit. A
Numerical relativiy, cosmology, compact objects
Ext. 366
marcelo
Chris Stephens
Inv. Tit. C
Statistical physics, field theory, complex systems
Ext. 328
stephens
Daniel Sudarsky
Inv. Tit. C
Black holes, cosmology, quantum aspects of spacetimes
Ext. 329
sudarsky
Roberto Sussman
Inv. Tit. B
Relativistic thermodynamics, dynamics of fluids in GR
Ext. 334
sussman
Alexander Turbiner
Inv. Tit. C
Mathematical Physics, non-perturbative and algebraic methods
Ext. 326
turbiner

Staff
Head of the Department
Hernando Quevedo

Secretary
Miss Trinidad Ramírez
E-mail: fengari
Phone: +52 55 56.22.46.90
Fax: +52 55 56.22.46.93
Postdocs
Name Main fields of interest

Phone:

+5255 56.22.47.39

e-mail

(user@nucleares.unam.mx)
Alberto Sanchez Moreno
 Geometric methods, geometrothermodynamics
 Ext. 371
 asanchez

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  • Communications In Mathematical Physics
  • General Relativity and Gravitation
  • International Journal of Modern Physics A
  • International Journal of Modern Physics D
  • Journal of Mathematical Physics
  • Living Reviews in Relativity
  • Modern Physics Letters A
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  • Nature
  • Physical Review A
  • Physical Review D
  • Physical Review Letters
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    Mail address

    Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM
    Departamento de Gravitación y Teoría de Campos
    Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-543, México 04510 D.F.
    MEXICO
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