PhD Fellowships - Student at Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst.

 Heidelberg. The PhD school offers highly qualified students the possibility to perform research in a variety of fields: scientists involved in the IMPRS attack the frontiers of our knowledge on fundamental physics from all sides, be it with low-energy neutrino and Dark Matter investigations, ultraprecise ion traps and storage rings, or with high-energy LHC physics. Both theoretical and experimental perspectives are covered in the school. Typical questions we deal with are: what is the mechanism responsible for the breaking of the electro-weak symmetry? Are fermions and bosons related by supersymmetry? What lies behind the existence of generations of quarks and leptons? Are lepton number or baryon number conserved quantities? Is CPT and Lorentz invariance conserved? Are fundamental constants really constant? What are the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and of chiral symmetry at high temperatures? How is the matter-antimatter symmetry violated and how does it lead to the baryon asymmetry of the Universe? What are the properties of Dark Matter and Dark Energy? The theoretical and experimental description and interpretation of the involved systems in a fundamental manner requires sound and in particular very broad knowledge of a variety of research fields. In this exciting and timely scenario we will provide students a solid education in the above mentioned fields of research, with particular emphasis on inter- and crossdisciplinarity. Regular seminars and workshops will further broaden the intellectual horizon of the students, giving them excellent perspectives for the future. The <a href="http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/imprs-ptfs">webpages</a> of the IMPRS give more information on the involved faculty and the application procedure.