Institut de physique théorique - DRF (IPhT)

Laboratory presentation

The IPHT research focuses on major topics of modern theoretical physics: High energy physics, cosmology, quantum gravitation, string theory, exact methods and mathematical physics, condensed matter physics, quantum physics, statistical physics, out of equilibrium physics, biophysics.
These theoretical methods are successfully applied to interdisciplinary subjects such as computer science (constraint satisfaction, error correcting codes, analysis of search algorithms), biology (genetic and evolutionary models), epidemiology (controlling the spread of infectious diseases), or quantitative study of geographic and urban networks using the mathematical apparatus of statistical mechanics.