Press release from 07/01/2024

Dr. Philip Klaus Schwartz takes part in renowned conference in Lindau.

Tremendous success for a young physicist at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH): Dr. Philip K. Schwartz, a postdoc at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, is attending the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. During the conference, which began on 30 June and runs until 5 July 2024, outstanding students, doctoral candidates, and postdocs from 90 countries will meet with Nobel Prize winners to discuss the latest developments in science. The conference takes place annually in Lindau, on the shores of Germany's Lake Constance, and has a different focus each year. This year the topic is physics: energy, AI and quantum physics.

Dr. Schwartz was nominated to attend by the LUH Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The path to attending the conference is extremely demanding. Applicants have to pass a multi-stage international selection process. The selection committee comprises approximately 140 science academies, universities, foundations, and research-oriented businesses. LUH applicants by no means manage to obtain an invitation every year.

The theoretical gravitational physicist has researched and taught as a postdoc at LUH since 2020. He was previously a doctoral candidate at the university beginning in 2016. His dissertation was titled "Post-Newtonian Description of Quantum Systems in Gravitational Fields".

During the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, more than 630 junior researchers under the age of 35 and from 90 countries will meet with roughly 35 Nobel Prize winners, including Anne L'Huillier, the 2023 Nobel Prize winner for physics. Also in Lindau for the first time are Nobel Prize winners Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger (physics 2022), Didier Queloz (physics 2019), Saul Perlmutter (physics 2011) and Richard Henderson (chemistry 2017). More than 35,000 junior researchers have attended the Lindauer Nobel Laureate Meeting since the first session in 1951.

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