Christof Gattringer Professor for Computational Elementary Particle Physics Institut für Physik, FB Theoretische Physik Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Universitätsplatz 5 8010 Graz, Austria Tel.: [+43] (316) 380 5235 Fax.: [+43] (316) 380 9820 Email: christof.gattringer_at_uni-graz.at

Research

• Lattice QCD
• QCD at finite temperature and density
• Hadrons and their excitations
• Topological objects in confinement and chiral symmetry breaking
• Grassmann variables in lattice QFT and statistical mechanics

Publications

• INSPIRE database

Current PhD and diploma projects

• Boundary conditions as a tool in lattice QCD (PhD), Julia Danzer
• New approaches to QCD related sign problems (PhD), Ydalia Delgado-Mercado
• Lopps, surfaces and Grassmann variables in lattice QFT and spin systems (PhD), Alexander Schmidt
• Cluster and percolation properties in SU(4) Yang-Mills theory (Dipl.), Michael Dirnberger
• Fugacity expansion in lattice QCD (Dipl.), Jesenka Usanovic


• Doktoratskolleg Hadrons in Vacuum, Nuclei and Stars

Former students

• Alexander Schmidt, Center coheren domains in lattice gauge theory (Dipl. 2010)
• Daniel Mohler, Spectra and properties of excited hadrons (PhD 2009)
• Erek Bilgici, Signatures of confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in spectral quantities of lattice Dirac operators (PhD 2009)
• Markus Pak, Lattice regularized chiral fermions (Dipl. 2008)
• Julia Danzer, Excited state spectroscopy in the GN model (Dipl. 2007)
• Markus Limmer, Lattice simulation of the Gross-Neveu model (Dipl. 2006)
• Verena Hermann, Monte Carlo simulation of the Gross-Neveu model in a fermion loop representation (Dipl. 2006)

Teaching

• Theoretische Mechanik (WS 11/12)
• Computergrundkenntnisse und Programmieren (WS 11/12)
• Spezialseminar Gitter QCD (WS 11/12)
• Computerorientierte Physik (SS 11)
• Quantenmechanik (SS 11)
• Projektpraktikum Theoretische Physik (SS 11)
• Computational Physics I (WS 10/11)
• Theoretische Mechanik Lehramt (WS 10/11)
• Statistische Physik (SS 10)
• Projektpraktikum Theoretische Physik (SS 10)
• Spezialseminar Gitter QCD (SS 10)
• Computergrundkenntnisse und Programmieren (WS 09/10)
• Computerorientierte Physik (WS 09/10)
• Computational Physics II (WS 09/10)
• Oberseminar (SS 09)
• Einfürung in die Mathematischen Methoden (WS 08/09)
• Einfürung in die Quantenmechanik (WS 08/09)
• Übungen zu Einfürung in die Quantenmechanik (WS 08/09)
• Computational Physics I (WS 08/09)
• Computational Physics II (WS 08/09)
• Theoretische Mechanik (SS 08)
• Übungen zur Theoretischen Mechanik (SS 08)
• Interdisziplinäres Seminar (SS 08)
• Computerorientierte Physik (SS 08)
• Theoretische Mechanik (WS 07/08)
• Theoretische Mechanik (WS 07/08)
• Übungen zur Theoretischen Mechanik (WS 07/08)
• Computergrundkenntnisse und Programmieren (WS 07/08)
• DissertantInnenseminar in Physik I (Theoretische Physik)
• Mathematische Methoden III (SS 07)
• Übungen zu Mathematische Methoden III (SS 07)
• Computational Physics I: Lineare Algebra (SS 07)
• Praktikum zu Computational Physics I (SS 07)
• Projektpraktikum Theoretische Physik (SS 07)
• Theoretische Mechanik (WS 06/07)
• Übungen zur Theoretischen Mechanik (WS 06/07)
• Computational Physics II: Monte Carlo Methoden (WS 06/07)
• Praktikum zu Computational Physics II (WS 06/07)
• Programmieren in C++ (WS 06/07)

Last changed 01.10.2011