PhD position

The ARISTEIA II grant “Aspects of Three-Dimensionsl CFTs” will fund a PhD student from April 2014 to July 2015. The incumbents are expected to do research, leading to a PhD degree, in three-dimensional CFTs in the context of AdS/CFT, AdS/CMT and Higher-Spin Gauge Theories. Interested candidates should send a CV and the names of three referees to petkou@physics.auth.gr. The application deadline is 7th of April 2014.

 

The “ARISTEIA II” grant

From the 5th of March 2014 I am coordinating the grant “Aspects of three-dimensional CFTs”, funded from the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology under the program “ARISTEIA II”.

The grant will run until the 31st of July 2015.

The grant will fund a one-year postdoc position, one PhD student, a number of research visits to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Thessaloniki, the research travel of the local group members and Workshop on CFTs in the Spring-Summer of 2015.