Kristina Giesel
March 2025
Spring Meeting of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
The DPG Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) took place from 31 March to 4 April 2025 in Göttingen. The German Physical Society is divided into several sections, and the conference in Göttingen was the one that covered the Matter and Cosmos section, which includes particle physics, gravitation and relativity, and mathematical physics, among other things.
As part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, the speakers from GR and Mathematical Physics sections, Luciano Rezzolla and Johanna Erdmenger, organised a joint symposium on the current status of quantum mechanics and gravity. The symposium was dedicated to presenting the current state of research on quantum gravity. It brought together the perspectives of four speakers, Nils Obers, Kristina Giesel, Renate Loll and Alessia Platania, working on different approaches to quantum gravity, namely string theory, loop quantum gravity, dynamic triangulations and asymptotic safety. Denmark – the home of quantum physicist Nils Bohr – was the guest country at the DPG Spring Meeting in Göttingen and the organisers were particularly pleased to have two speakers from Denmark in the symposium
The session was well-attended and there were lively discussions after the talks. There were several parallel sessions in particle physics, GR and Mathematical Physics, covering various topics in these fields. They usually began with a longer invited talk, followed by shorter talks, with many younger researchers presenting their work in the latter.