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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Theoretical Physics,Elementary Particle Physics |
| Keywords | Quantenfeldtheorie, Stringtheorie, Kompaktifizierung, Standardmodell, Kosmologie |
Current contact address
| Country | Israel |
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| City | Jerusalem |
| Institution | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Institute | Racah Institute of Physics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Hermann Nicolai | Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm |
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| Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst | Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München |
| Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst | Department für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2007 |
Programme(s)
| 2004 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Prof. Rabinovici is one of the significantly leading theoretical physicists in Isreal. He contributed to the areas of theoretical particle physics, quantum field theory and string theory. Espacially in string theory he was providing for the first time a systematic and complete description of the target space duality symmetries, which make clear that in string theory geometry and topology are not well-defined concepts anymore in contrast to quantum field theory. Furthermore he contributed a lot to the string theoretical description of Yang-Mills gauge theories. Finally he showed how cosmological models of an expanding universe can be constructed in string theory. These works sheed some new light on the nature of the big bang in string theory. During his research stay in Germany, Professor Rabinovici plans to investigate how to embed the standard model of particle physics into string theory. A concrete project is the construction of new string vacua with the gauge group of the standard model and 3 generations of quarks and leptons as well as with an inflationary phase in the very early stage of the universe. Prof. Rabinovici is strongly engaged in the peace process between Israel, the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabic world. He is a member in MESC (Middle East Scientific Collaboration), and he is the representative of Israel in SESAME (Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) which was recently opened in Jordania. In addition, he is the founder of an annual conference, which is jointly organized by colleagues from Iran, India and Israel. |