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 The
Albert Einstein
MINERVA Center
for Theoretical Physics was established in 1980 with the generous donation of
an endowment fund from the Bundes Ministerium für Forschung und Technologie
(BMFT) of the Federal Republic of Germany, through the joint committee for
German-Israeli Scientific Cooperation (Minerva). The main emphasis of the
Center is to foster high level research in theoretical physics, while
promoting International collaborations of Israeli theorists, with emphasis on
those with German scientists. The Center supports human-contact activities,
such as theoretical physicists visiting from abroad and consultants working
with different theory groups in the Institute. The Center also supports,
partially or fully, small topical meetings and workshops. Naturally, most of
the activity of the Center is related to research projects based at the
Faculty of Physics, but considerable support has also been lent to
appropriate projects in the Faculty of Chemistry and, to a lesser extent, in
the Faculty of Mathematics. The support from the Center plays an important
role in almost all the research in theoretical physics at the Institute.
The research in Theoretical Physics at Weizmann Institute ranges from the
most abstract aspects of string theory, through Astrophysics, to
down-to-earth problems in Optics and Statistical and Condensed-Matter
Physics. The illustrations in this page were chosen to give some idea of this
greatly varying range of research. They are concerned with some of the issues
on which Weizmann Institute theoreticians are currently working.
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