20/07/2023
CCTP member E. Kiritsis' article on holographic reheating in cosmology has been highlighed on the cover of Physical Review Letters. More information can be found in news .
20/09/2021
Distinguished professor and CCTP member Dimitri Christodoulou, was awarded the Poincare Prize in Mathematical Physics. More information can be found in news .
1/08/2021
Professor T. Tomaras has unfortunately passed away due to a short illness. More information can be found in news .
19/03/2021
There is a faculty opening in High energy Physics and Cosmology at the Physics Departement of The University of Crete. More information can be found at Jobs .
11/03/2018
There is a tenured associate professor opening in High energy Physics and Cosmology at the Physics Departement of The University oc Crete. More information can be found at Jobs .
28/09/2015
CCTP member Vasilis Niarchos is the recipient of the first Messinian Prize in Science. More information at news .
21/09/2015
CCTP will host partly the ERC Grant, SM-GRAV. More information at news .
07/11/2014
A video was made recently by "Aristeia Academy" in order to give prominence to the work of CCTP center, more at news .
05/6/2014
Crete is well ranked in the Leiden ranking, more at news .
07/5/2014
University of Crete has made it to the list of the best 100 Universities that are under 50 years' old in the world for the third consecutive year, at the 48th place! More at news .
2026 Tomaras Lectureship
"DANIEL LOUIS JAFFERIS"
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The 2026 “Theodore Tomaras Physics Colloquium” will take place on October 22, Thursday, 2026, at 17:15 at the N. Petridis auditorium of the Mathematics Department of the University of Crete.
The title of the lecture will be:
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Abstract: ...............................................
Curriculum Vitae
Daniel Louis Jafferis was born in 1983, in West Haven, Connecticut. He is an American theoretical physicist, known for his research on quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theory, and string theory.
He entered Yale University in 1997, at the age 14, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 2001. He received his PhD in physics from Harvard University in 2007. His PhD thesis Topological string theory from D-brane bound states was supervised by Cumrun Vafa.
Jafferis was from 2007 to 2010 a post-doctoral fellow at Rutgers University and from June 2010 to March 2011 a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He then became assistant professor at Harvard University and today he is a tenured professor of physics at the same University.
In 2008, Jafferis was, with Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, and Juan Maldacena, one of the developers of ABJM superconformal field theory a superconformal (N=6) Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions. This is dual to M-theory in AdS4 x S7, described by M2-branes, the solutions of eleven-dimensional supergravity having three-dimensional world-volume – in AdS4 (four-dimensional anti-DeSitter space). This theory is central for the celebrated AdS/CFT correspondence.
In 2012, with Silviu Pufu, Benjamin Safdi, and Igor Klebanov, he formulated a conjecture (conjectural F-theorem) about the behavior of the free energy F in renormalization group flows of a three-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory.
In 2016, with Ping Gao and Aron C. Wall, Jafferis proposed a mechanism for traversable wormholes without exotic matter, motivated by holography. This mechanism turns out to be mathematically equivalent to the protocol known as quantum teleportation in Quantum Information Theory.
In 2012 Jafferis received the Henry Primakoff Award of the American Physical Society for "construction and study of three-dimensionals supersymmetric quantum field theories."
In 2019 he was awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize for "fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity."
