Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics

Short description: Research center at the University of California, Berkeley

The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics (BCTP) is a research center for theoretical particle physics, cosmology, string theory and quantum gravity at the University of California at Berkeley.[1]

Berkeley Center for Theoretical PhysicsEstablished| 2000

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Research type| Theoretical physics
Director| Yasunori Nomura
Faculty| Mina Aganagic
Raphael Bousso
Mary Gaillard
Ori Ganor
Lawrence John Hall
Petr Horava
Hitoshi Murayama
Geoffrey Penington
Benjamin Safdi
Staff| Christian Bauer
Simon Knapen
Zoltan Ligeti
Dean Robinson
Location| Berkeley, California, United States
Affiliations| University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

## About

The BCTP houses theoretical physics research at Berkeley and has close links to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).[2] It is located in Old LeConte Hall on the Berkeley campus.[3] Though the BCTP itself was founded at the turn of the 21st century, Berkeley has a rich history in the field of theoretical particle physics, with prominent former physicists including Manhattan project director Robert Oppenheimer; Nobel Laureates Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and David Gross; Breakthrough Prize winners John Schwarz, Joseph Polchinski, and Nima Arkani-Hamed; Sakurai Prize winners Mary Gaillard, Leonard Susskind, and Lisa Randall; as well as Dirac Medal winners Bruno Zumino and Stanley Mandelstam.[4] The current senior members consist of 10 UC Berkeley faculty and 4 LBNL staff members.[5]

## References

1. ↑ "BCTP Research". https://bctp.berkeley.edu/research.html.
2. ↑ "Home" (in en-US). https://www-theory.lbl.gov/wordpress/.
3. ↑ "Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics". https://bctp.berkeley.edu/index.html.
4. ↑ "BCTP History". https://bctp.berkeley.edu/history.html.
5. ↑ "BCTP Members". https://bctp.berkeley.edu/members.html.

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