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Welcome

Welcome to Centre for Mathematical Physics, a research centre composed of people drawn from Mathematics and Physics at The University of Queensland. The centre began in 1999 and the Director is Dr Jon Links of Mathematics.

Aims of the CMP

• To pursue and promote research in mathematical physics
• To strengthen connections between our Disciplines and other disciplines within the University
• To cooperate and interact with other centres, both within Australia and abroad
• To organize an active programme of visitors to the Centre for seminars and for joint research projects

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Mathematical Physics? Then come to the Postgraduate Information Days held each year at UQ Mathematics.

Information is available on current and available PhD/Honours projects.

Ongoing Research at the CMP

• Lie theory
• Quantum groups, quantum affine algebras
  
• Supersymmetry, supergeometry
  
• Knot theory, 3-manifold invariants
  
• Integrable models in statistical mechanics
  
• Foundations of quantum mechanics
  
• Algebraic methods in quantum chemistry
  
• Quantum field theory
  
• Quantum chaos
  
• Analogue models of general relativity
  

News and Events:

• ANZIAM2008, 3-7 Feb, Katoomba
• Geometry and Integrability, 6-12 Feb, Melbourne
• Statistical-Mechanics and Quantum-Field Theory Methods in Combinatorial Enumeration, 21-25 Apr, Cambridge, UK
• The 99th Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Conference, 11-13 May, Rutgers, USA
• New Paths Towards Quantum Gravity, 12-16 May, Holbaek, Denmark
• Topological Aspects of Solid State Physics, 2-20 Jun, Tokyo
• Exactly Solvable Models and Their Applications to Cold-Atom Systems, 20-22 Jun, Hong Kong
• Liouville Field Theory and Statistical Models, 21-24 Jun, Moscow
• Wonders of Gauge Theory and Supergravity, 23-28 Jun, Paris/Saclay
• Integrable Quantum Systems and Solvable Statistical Mechanical Models, 30 Jun - 5 Jul, CRM, Montreal
• 9th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics, 8-12 July, Taipei
• Stochastic Loewner Evolution and Scaling Limits, 4-9 Aug, CRM, Montreal
• Strings 2008, 18-23 Aug, CERN, Switzerland
• International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks, 1-3 Oct, Canberra
• Frontiers of Degenerate Quantum Gases, 20-24 Oct, Tsinghua University, Beijing
• Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress, 30 Nov - 5 Dec, Adelaide
• 7th Australia - New Zealand Mathematics Convention, 8-12 Dec, Christchurch, New Zealand
• The 100th Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Conference, 13-16 Dec, Rutgers, USA

Links to Centres for some of our collegues and collaborators

• Mathematical Physics at the Australian National University
• Statistical Mechanics & Combinatorics at the University of Melbourne
• Theoretical Physics at the University of Tasmania
• Department of Physics at the UFRGS, Brazil
• Theoretical Physics at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
• Faculty of Physics at the University La Laguna, Tenerife
• Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, Japan
• Mathematics Department, Hunan University, China
• Physics and Astronomy, University of Cantebury, New Zealand
• Department of Sciences Technical University of Crete, Greece