Werner Nahm

Werner Nahm (born 21 March 1949 in Münster ( seltzer ) ) is a German mathematical and theoretical physicists.

Life and work

Werner Nahm was a pupil of the school Philippinum Weilburg. After high school he studied from 1966 at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, where he received his diploma in physics in 1970. He received his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Bonn (Analytical solution of the statistical bootstrap model), where he was then to 1975 as a post- doctoral student. 1976 to 1982 he was a scientist at CERN. From 1982 he was a Heisenberg fellow again at the University of Bonn. In 1986 he became associate professor at the University of California, Davis. 1989 to 2002 he was a full professor at the University of Bonn. Since 2002 he is a senior professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Director of the University's School of Theoretical Physics. He is a foreign member of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

In the 1970s he worked with elementary theory, for example, bootstrap models ( the subject of his dissertation ) and the classification of graded Lie algebras, which are important in supersymmetric theories. After that, he worked mainly on the theory of magnetic monopoles, Classification of supersymmetric models, conformal field theories and their algebraic classification and classification of string models. According to him Nahm equations ( 1981) are named, systems of matrix differential equations in the complex domain, for example for the description of monopoles in Yang-Mills theories, and the Nahm transform.

In 1978 he showed that the maximum dimension of supersymmetric theories d = 11. The predicted of him d = 11 supergravity theory was later constructed little by Eugène Cremmer, Bernard Julia and Joel Scherk. Since supersymmetric theories are now favored in the context of Kaluza-Klein theories as candidates for unified field theories of elementary particles (M- theory ), Nahm has thus also determines the maximum number of eligible for space-time dimensions.

Took also conducted research about the Mayan civilization and their astronomy, for example, the role of Venus ( and their phases) in terms of calendar prediction that was important about the planning of wars with them. In his research, he Maya also worked with Linda Schele and Nikolai Grube and participated in the ongoing decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs. He also found evidence of supernova events and the observation of Mercury in the Mayan writings.

His doctoral include Katrin Wendland, Katrin Becker and Melanie Becker.

Prizes and awards

  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  • Member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society
  • 2012 Gothenburg Lise Meitner Prize of TH Chalmers
  • 2013 Max Planck Medal

Writings

  • Conformally invariant quantum field theories in two dimensions, World Scientific 1995
  • Publisher with Ling - Lie Chau: Differential geometric methods in theoretical physics: physics and geometry, Plenum Press, 1990 ( 18th International Conference on Differential geometric methods in theoretical physics, University of California, Davis 1988)
  • Publisher: interface in between physics and mathematics, (Hangzhou 1993 conference) World Scientific 1994
  • Publisher: Trieste Conference on topological methods in Quantum Field Theory, World Scientific 1991
  • Mathematical structures underlying monopoles in gauge theories, in N. Craigie " Theory and detection of magnetic monopoles in gauge theories", World Scientific 1986
  • Quantum field theories in one and two dimensions, Duke Math Journal, Vol 54, 1987, S.579 -613
  • Conformal field theory and torsion elements of the Bloch group, in Pierre Cartier, among others Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics and Geometry, Volume 2, Springer Verlag 2007
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