Tremendous success for a young physicist at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH): Dr. Philip K. Schwartz, a postdoc at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, is attending the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. During the conference, which began on 30 June and runs until 5 July 2024, outstanding students, doctoral candidates, and postdocs from 90 countries will meet with Nobel Prize winners to discuss the latest developments in science. The conference takes place annually in Lindau, on the shores of Germany’s Lake Constance, and has a different focus each year. This year the topic is physics: energy, AI and quantum physics.
Dr. Schwartz was nominated to attend by the LUH Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The path to attending the conference is extremely demanding. Applicants have to pass a multi-stage international selection process. The selection committee comprises approximately 140 science academies, universities, foundations, and research-oriented businesses. LUH applicants by no means manage to obtain an invitation every year.
Philip Schwartz studied physics and mathematics at Leibniz University Hannover, then subsequently completed the Master’s degree programme titled Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge (UK). He completed his doctoral studies at the LUH Institute of Theoretical Physics, where he has subsequently researched and taught gravitational physics as a postdoc since 2020. On the one hand, he focuses on the theoretical description of quantum systems in gravitational fields, in order to enable controlled predictions for precision tests of the general theory of relativity with the help of quantum optics experiments. On the other, he investigates mathematical aspects of the description of weak gravitational fields in so-called modified gravitational theories.
During the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, more than 630 junior researchers under the age of 35 and from 90 countries will meet with roughly 35 Nobel Prize winners, including Anne L’Huillier, the 2023 Nobel Prize winner for physics. Also in Lindau for the first time are Nobel Prize winners Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger (physics 2022), Didier Queloz (physics 2019), Saul Perlmutter (physics 2011) and Richard Henderson (chemistry 2017). More than 35,000 junior researchers have attended the Lindauer Nobel Laureate Meeting since the first session in 1951.
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