Rolf Schimmrigk
Ph.D. Habil.

Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Ave.
South Bend, IN 46634
Email: netahu@yahoo.com
rschimmr@iusb.edu

Dirac number: 3
Erdös number: 4

RESEARCH: Supported by NSF

Interests: String Theory (Emergence of Spacetime)
Black Holes and Entropy
Early Universe

Applications of arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory to physics
(-> emergent spacetime program, automorphic black holes)

Publications: Selected papers
Papers in the arXiv
Papers at SLAC
Papers at MathSciNet
Student
projects

Mark Klefoth (IUSB)
Project: Black hole entropy via the entropy function formalism
Supported by NSF (2012)

William Hammer (IUSB)
Project: Black hole entropy in N=4 theories
Supported by NSF (2011)

Kayleigh Cassella (IUSB)
Project: Automorphic black holes as probes of spacetime
Nucl. Phys. B858 (2012) 317 - 335; arXiv: 1110.6077 [hep-th]
Supported by NSF (2010)

Joshua Eby (IUSB)
Project: Black hole entropy via tunneling
Supported by NSF (2010)

Daniel Stalvey (IUSB)
Project: Modular symbols

Nate Vander Werf (IUSB)
Project: String modularity in dimension 2

Noah Cooper (IUSB)
Project: Early universe

Savan Kharel (IUSB)
Project: String modularity of mirrors of rigid Calabi-Yau varieties
Fields Inst. Publ. 54 (2008) 43 - 69; arXiv: 0908.1256

Joey Tyson (KSU)
Project: Arithmetic aspects of the CFT/CY relation

Steven Stewart (KSU)
Project: Complex Multiplication Symmetry in String Theory
Nuclear Physics B700 (2004) 463 - 489; arXiv: hep-th/0312319

Sean Underwood (GSW)
Project: The Shimura-Taniyma conjecture and conformal field theory
J. Geom. Phys. 48 (2003) 169 - 189; arXiv: hep-th/0211284

Earlier student projects

Some references in the literature

CLASSES:

Electives: S405: General Relativity
Spring 2011 		S405: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Spring 2010 		S405: Quantum Field Theory
Spring 2008 		P473: Introduction to String Theory
Fall 2006
Advanced level: P453: Quantum Mechanics
Spring 2011 		P441: Classical Mechanics
Fall 2012 		P331: Electromagnetism
Fall 2009 		P321: Techniques in Theoretical Physics
Fall 2005
Intro: P221: Physics I: Mechanics
Spring 2010 		P222: Physics II: Electromagnetism
Fall 2012 		A190: Galaxies and the Universe
Spring 2011

The importance of physics

Links:
arXiv
Astronomy picture APS
Spires
Hubble page AAPT
K-theory archive
Physics today American Institute of Physics

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