The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics (BCTP) is a research center for theoretical particle physics, cosmology, string theory and quantum gravity at the University of California at Berkeley.[1]
| Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics | |
| City: | Berkeley, California |
| Country: | United States |
| Affiliations: | University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Established: | 2000 |
| Type: | Theoretical physics |
| Director: | Yasunori Nomura |
| Faculty: | Mina Aganagic Raphael Bousso Mary Gaillard Ori Ganor Lawrence John Hall Petr Horava Hitoshi Murayama Geoffrey Penington Benjamin Safdi |
| Staff: | Christian Bauer Simon Knapen Zoltan Ligeti Dean Robinson |
The BCTP houses theoretical physics research at Berkeley and has close links to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).[2] It is located in Old LeConte Hall on the Berkeley campus.[3] Though the BCTP itself was founded at the turn of the 21st century, Berkeley has a rich history in the field of theoretical particle physics, with prominent former physicists including Manhattan project director Robert Oppenheimer; Nobel Laureates Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and David Gross; Breakthrough Prize winners John Schwarz, Joseph Polchinski, and Nima Arkani-Hamed; Sakurai Prize winners Mary Gaillard, Leonard Susskind, and Lisa Randall; as well as Dirac Medal winners Bruno Zumino and Stanley Mandelstam.[4] The current senior members consist of 10 UC Berkeley faculty and 4 LBNL staff members.[5]