News – Institute for Theoretical Physics III Chair for Quantum Gravity

2025 Blaumann’s Loop Quantum Gravity School in Les Houches,

Earlier in September, Ashay Sathe, Roman Kemper, and Martin Zeiss from the Institute for Quantum Gravity participated in the 2025 Blaumann’s Loop Quantum Gravity School in Les Houches, facing Mont Blanc on the French side. The school gathered young researchers from diverse areas of theoretical phy...

Bridging High and Low Energies in Search of Quantum Gravity 2025

The COST Action BridgeQG First Annual Conference, titled "Bridging High and Low Energies in Search of Quantum Gravity 2025", was held from June 7–10, 2025, at the Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies in Paris. The event brought together over 100 participants in pers...

FAU² 2025

We’re pleased to announce that the FAU² Seminar on Quantum Gravity is returning this year, following the success of last year’s edition! 🗓 May 20–22, 2025  📍 FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, ECAP Laboratory This seminar brings together speakers working across a range of quantum gravity approaches—including ...

Obituary for Frieder Lenz

Frieder Lenz was born on 12 November 1942. In 1962, he began studying physics at the University of Freiburg. He completed his doctorate in 1971 under the supervision of the renowned nuclear physicist Hans Marschall. His dissertation already made a significant impact: he laid the foundations for a mo...

Report: Bad Honnef Physics School on Searching Quantum Gravity in the Sky

In the 3rd week of February of 2025, the German Physical Society (DPG) Bad Honnef Physics school on Searching quantum gravity in the sky was organized at the Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef under the BridgeQG COST action. The 5-day long school, that was attended by roughly 70 masters and PhD students fr...

DIPHER 24 – DIVERSITY IN PHYSICS FOR THE DIVERSITY OF PHYSICS – ERLANGEN 2024

We are pleased to announce the DIPHER-24 Conference, which will take place at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) from 5th to 7th November. The event is co-organised by members of Institute for Theoretical Physics III (Quantum Gravity), in collaboration with other contributors fr...

Linked-in Page

We are happy to introduce our LinkedIn page for the Institute for Quantum Gravity at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

FAU^2 workshop on quantum black holes and the relation to asymptotic infinity 25.-27.06.24 at ECAP Lab

The FAU^2 focus workshop is to promote scientific exchange between different quantum gravity groups world wide on recent results and open questions on quantum black holes and the relation to asymptotic infinity. It is organised by the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and...