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The Laboratory

The Centre de Physique Théorique is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 7332) under multiple institutions: CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, and the University of Toulon.

The CPT in the pine forest

Contact Information

  • Director: Alain Barrat
  • Deputy Director: Laurent Raymond
  • Administrative and Financial Manager: Catherine Levet
  • Communication Officer: Thierry Masson
  • Safety Officer: Catherine Levet

Address
Centre de Physique Théorique
Campus de Luminy, Case 907
163 Avenue de Luminy
13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France

Contacts
Tel: +33.4.91.26.95.00
Fax: +33.4.91.26.98.66
Email: secretariat

Laboratory Overview

Research RESEARCH

8 research teams organized into 3 thematic areas:

  • Fundamental Interactions
  • Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter
  • Classical and Quantum Dynamical Systems

More than 110 publications per year in 150 journals
About 8 workshops and/or conferences organized each year

Education and supervision EDUCATION & SUPERVISION

Teaching at Bachelor, Master and IUT levels
Co-coordinator of the Master2 P3TMA: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics / Particle Physics and Astroparticles

More than 10 Master internships per year

Doctoral schools:

  • Physics and Sciences of Matter – ED 352
  • Sea and Marine Sciences – ED 548
  • Mathematics and Computer Science – ED 184
  • Cognition, Language, Education – ED 356
  • Physics in Île-de-France – ED 564
  • Particles, Hadrons, Energy, Nuclei, Instrumentation, Imaging, Cosmos and Simulation – ED576 10 PhD theses defended per year

Staff STAFF

60 CNRS / AMU / UTLN researchers and faculty members
5 technical and administrative staff
More than 25 PhD students
More than 15 postdoctoral researchers
More than 20 visiting researchers

Collaborations and networks COLLABORATIONS & NETWORKS

AMIDEX Foundation
Labex Archimède & Labex OCEVU
PR2I – Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral Research Cluster
FRUMAM – Federation of Mathematics Research Units of Marseille
FCM-ITER Research Federation – Magnetic Confinement Fusion, Mediterranean Sea Cluster
CENTURI Convergence Institute

Laboratory LABORATORY

2640 m² on 3 floors
210 offices
2 lecture halls with 50 seats
3 meeting rooms
1 videoconference room

Computing COMPUTING FACILITIES

6 physical servers
More than 20 virtual servers
Cluster of 8 servers dedicated to computing
Connection to the RENATER network