Contact
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Room 4N29
David Rittenhouse Laboratory
Department of Physics and Astronomy
209 South 33rd Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396, USA.
- Email: klevers(at)sas.upenn.edu
Research Interest
- String theory
- Geometry in String Theory
Advisors
Curriculum Vitae
- Curriculum Vitae (01/22/2013): PS • PDF
Publications
- From SPIRES
- Diploma thesis, On the Resolution of Orbifold
Singularities in Heterotic String Theory: PS • PDF
(submitted on 2007.11.28)
The above files are not the submitted version. Minor typos are corrected.
Scholarships
2008.11 ~ 2011.04
2007.10 ~ 2011.04
2003.10 ~ 2007.12
Teaching
- Winter term 2012: Substitute lecturer "Introduction into Quantum Mechanics", Prof. Cvetic.
- Summer term 2012: Substitute lecturer "Introduction into Elementary Particle Physics", Prof. Cvetic.
- Winter term 2011: Substitute lecturer "Quantum Field Theory I", Prof. Cvetic.
- Summer term 2008: Exercises for "Theoretical Particel Physics II", Prof. Nilles.
Exercise Session: Monday, 8-10 Uhr, SR1 Physikalisches Institut.
- Exercise01 (pdf): Basic facts about SU(2) and its representations.
- Exercise02 (pdf): Roots, weights, Dynkin labels and the Cartan matrix.
- Exercise03 (pdf): Orthonormal basis, fundamental weights, symmetry breaking and SU(5), SO(10).
- Exercise04 (pdf): Symmetry breaking of SU(5), Higgs mass corrections.
- Exercise05 (pdf): Lorentz group, SL(2,C), Weyl spinors and Grassmann variables.
- Exercise06 (pdf): The SUSY Algebra and Chiral Representations.
- Exercise07 (pdf): SUSY invariant action and the Wess-Zumino Model.
- Exercise08 (pdf): Vectorsuperfiels, Super Yang-Mills theories, matter couplings.
- Exercise09 (pdf): SUSY Breaking, F- and D-term breaking, Mass formula and Goldstino.
- Exercise10 (pdf): The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
- Exercise11 (pdf): Non-linear sigma model, SUGRA definitions, Polonyi model.
- Exercise12 (pdf): No-Scale SUGRA.
- Winter term 2007: TeXing the lecture notes for "Mathematik fuer Physiker III" (pdf) (ps)
Education
2008.01 ~ 2011.05
2003.10 ~ 2007.12
2002.10 ~ 2003.07
FFF-Student, University of Bonn
Bachelor courses in physics attended as a pupil
(first and second term)
1998 ~ 2003