2024-04-11 (administrative) Y2 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2024-01-01 --- 2024-03-31 Q9 reporting period
2024-03-25 (publication) Paper titled "Hamiltonian analysis of the BFCG theory for a strict Lie 2-group" published:
A. Miković, M. A. Oliveira and M. Vojinović, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys.26, 3783 (2022).
Official DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.2022.v26.n10.a10, unofficial draft version: arXiv:1610.09621. The paper should have been published in 2022, but the publication process was finished only in March 2024.
2024-03-19 (administrative) Y2 administrative and financial reports submitted to Science Fund.
2024-03-09 (publication) Paper titled "Higher category theory and n-groups as gauge symmetries for quantum gravity" published:
B. Nikolić, D. Obrić, T. Radenković, I. Salom and M. Vojinović, Jour. Phys. Conf. Ser.2667, 012019 (2023).
2024-02-27 (milestone) Another draft paper appeared on the arXiv: arXiv:2402.17675.
2024-02-23 (administrative) Q8 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2024-02-06 (administrative) Q8 administrative report submitted to Science Fund.
2024-01-15 (administrative) Q8 financial report submitted to Science Fund.
2023-10-01 --- 2023-12-31 Q8 reporting period
2023-12-18 (milestone) Software library reached the targeted milestone --- after 130 commits to GitHub repository by four contributors, the software has reached a total of 12867 lines of code.
2022-12-01 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the evening news report "Vesti u 18", produced by TV Prva (watch the recording), talking about scientists returning from diaspora to Serbia.
2023-11-27 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović guest appearance on the TV show "Morning programme" (Jutarnji program), produced by TV Kurir (watch the recording), talking about meteor showers.
2023-11-15 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the science TV show "Vrt fizike", produced by Institute of Physics Belgrade (watch the recording), talking about scientists returning from diaspora to Serbia. The interview has been noted by mainstream media sources, notably the daily journal Novosti.
2023-10-24 (dissemination) Tijana Radenković public lecture titled "Why quantum gravity" of the series "Quantum Gravity - Holy Grail of Modern Physics", organized by the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (read the slides, recording will be available soon).
2023-10-23 (administrative) Q7 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2023-10-17 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović public lecture titled "Why fields in curved spacetime" of the series "Quantum Gravity - Holy Grail of Modern Physics", organized by the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (read the slides, recording will be available soon).
2023-10-15 (administrative) Q7 financial and administrative reports submitted to Science Fund.
2023-10-10 (dissemination) Bojan Nikolić public lecture titled "Why field theory" of the series "Quantum Gravity - Holy Grail of Modern Physics", organized by the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (read the slides, recording will be available soon).
2023-10-03 (dissemination) Igor Salom visit to the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, participating in scientific discussions with Prof. Nenad Manojlović and Prof. Aleksandar Miković (photo 1, photo 2, photo 3, photo 4, photo 5, photo 6).
2023-10-03 (dissemination) Danijel Obrić public lecture titled "Why general relativity" of the series "Quantum Gravity - Holy Grail of Modern Physics", organized by the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (read the slides, recording will be available soon).
2023-07-01 --- 2023-09-30 Q7 reporting period
2023-09-26 (dissemination) Igor Salom public lecture titled "Why quantum mechanics" of the series "Quantum Gravity - Holy Grail of Modern Physics", organized by the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (read the slides, recording will be available soon).
2023-09-18 (PhD thesis) Congratulations to our team member Danijel Obrić, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled:
"T-dualization of bosonic string and type IIB superstring in presence of coordinate dependent background fields".
The text of the thesis is available (PDF file), the thesis presentation (slides), as well as photos from the event (photo 1, photo 2, photo 3).
2023-09-15 (PhD thesis) Congratulations to our former team member Ilija Ivanišević, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled:
"Courant algebroids in bosonic string theory".
The text of the thesis is available (PDF file), and the thesis presentation (slides).
2023-08-22 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović guest appearance on the TV show "Morning programme" (Jutarnji program), produced by TV Kurir (watch the recording), talking about the sea currents and the dangers of casual swimming in the sea.
2023-08-14 (dissemination) Guest visit of our team member from diaspora, Dr. Aleksandar Miković, from the Group of Mathematical Physics (GFMUL), University of Lisbon, Portugal, and the blackboard discussion during the meeting with Dr. Marko Vojinović at the Institute of Physics, Belgrade (photo 1, photo 2, photo 3, photo 4, photo 5)
2023-07-31 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović poster presentation of current research about the emergence of spacetime at the international conference It from Qubit 2023 - IfQ-2023 (view the poster).
2023-05-30 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović guest appearance on the TV show "RTS Lab" titled "To the Moon and back" (Do Meseca i nazad), produced by Radio Televizija Srbije (watch the recording), talking about the Moon, its properties and its influence on Earth.
2023-05-03 (dissemination) Joint lecture by Rade Živaljević (MISANU), Marko Vojinović (Institute of Physics), Božidar Jovanović (MISANU) and Slobodan Vujošević (University of Montenegro), titled "Discussion on space and time", as part of the Colloquium in Mechanics, organized by Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (watch the recording). This lecture is part of the joint collaboration with the Project "Integrability and Extremal Problems in Mechanics, Geometry and Combinatorics" (MEGIC), grant number 7744592, Program "IDEAS" of the Science Fund of Republic of Serbia.
2023-04-30 (dissemination) Second online meeting and discussion about foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, participants: Dr. Cristi Stoica (Romania), Dr. James Fulwood (China), Dr. Igor Salom (Serbia), Dr. Marko Vojinović (Serbia) (see photo 1, see photo 2)
2023-04-29 (dissemination) First online meeting and discussion about foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, participants: Dr. Cristi Stoica (Romania), Dr. Igor Prlina (Serbia), Dr. James Fulwood (China), Dr. Igor Salom (Serbia), Dr. Marko Vojinović (Serbia) (see photo 1, see photo 2, see photo 3)
2023-04-28 (dissemination) Guest visit of Dr. James Fulwood from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and his lecture titled "Quantum dynamics as a pseudo-density matrix" given at the Facutly of Physics, University of Belgrade (read the invitation letter, see the photo)
2023-04-24 (administrative) Q5 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2023-04-20 (publication) Paper titled "Operational interpretation of the vacuum and process matrices for identical particles" published:
R. Faleiro, N. Paunković and M. Vojinović, Quantum7, 986 (2023).
2023-04-18 (administrative) Y1 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2023-04-15 (administrative) Q5 financial and administrative reports submitted to Science Fund.
2023-01-01 --- 2023-03-31 Q5 reporting period
2023-03-23 (administrative) Y1 financial and administrative reports submitted to Science Fund.
2023-03-20 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović guest appearance on the live TV show "Mi danas", produced by K1 Televizija (watch the recording), talking about astronomy, measuring time, and Einstein's view on quantum mechanics.
2023-03-08 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the TV show "LIČNO sa Petrom Latinovićem", produced by MONDO (read the article, watch the recording), talking about time travel, black holes, gravity, and how to distinguish science from pseudoscience.
2023-03-01 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the popular science magazine "Planeta", talking about LISA gravitational wave observatory, James Webb space telescope, and their importance for fundamental physics (read the article).
2023-02-07 (administrative) Q4 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2023-02-03 (dissemination) Tijana Radenković presentation of current research and project proposal at the GHSNG2023 Workshop (read the slides).
2023-02-03 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović presentation of current research and project proposal at the GHSNG2023 Workshop (read the slides).
2023-02-03 (workshop) International GHSNG2023 Workshop organized and held at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade (see photos)
2023-01-12 (administrative) Q4 financial and administrative reports submitted to Science Fund.
2022-10-01 --- 2022-12-31 Q4 reporting period
2022-12-22 (milestone) Software library reached the stage of successful basic functionality --- after 97 commits to GitHub repository by four contributors, the software has reached a total of 9696 lines of code.
2022-12-07 (dissemination) Igor Salom lecture at the Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (see the abstract, see a photo), talking about the Nobel prize in physics for 2022 and the end of the era of mechanicism.
2022-12-02 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović lecture during the visit of 100 students of Valjevo Grammar School to the Institute of Physics Belgrade (see a photo), talking about what it means to be a physicist and career opportunities in science for young people.
2022-11-12 (publication) Paper titled "Equivalence principle in classical and quantum gravity" published:
N. Paunković and M. Vojinović, Universe8, 598 (2022).
2022-10-26 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović lecture at the TQFT Club Seminar, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (see the abstract, read the slides, watch the recording), talking about the insights into the Standard Model and quantum gravity from higher gauge theory.
2022-10-24 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović lecture at the Group of Mathematical Physics (GFMUL), University of Lisbon (read the slides), talking about the operational verification of the existence of a spacetime manifold.
2022-10-17 (administrative) Q3 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2022-10-13 (administrative) Q3 financial and administrative reports submitted to Science Fund.
2022-10-06 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović guest appearance on the live TV show "Mi danas", produced by K1 Televizija (watch the recording), talking about the Nobel prize in physics for 2022.
2022-10-04 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the science TV show "Za sve postoji vreme", produced by Radio Televizija Srbije (watch the recording), talking about the notion of time and gravity.
2022-07-01 --- 2022-09-30 Q3 reporting period
2022-09-30 (milestone) Second draft paper appeared on the arXiv: arXiv:2210.00133.
2022-09-27 (administrative) Final pieces of hardware equipment procured.
2022-09-01 (administrative) Substitution of team members: Tijana Radenković is going on maternity leave (congratulations!), while Ilija Ivanišević will be substituting her (welcome!).
2022-07-27 (administrative) Q2 financial and administrative reports accepted by Science Fund.
2022-07-22 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović presentation of current research and QGHG-2021 project at the international Loops 22 conference (read the slides).
2022-07-14 (administrative) Q2 financial and administrative reports submitted to Science Fund.
D. Cvijetić, N. Korolija and M. Vojinović, "Infrastructure for Simulating n-Dimensional Simplicial Complexes", IcEtran 2022 Proceedings, Novi Pazar, Serbia (2022), pages 590-594.
D. Cvijetić, N. Korolija and M. Vojinović, "Possibilities for Parallelizing Simplicial Complexes Simulation", IcEtran 2022 Proceedings, Novi Pazar, Serbia (2022), pages 595-599.
2022-06-06 (administrative) A procurement contract for laptops and server equipment signed.
2022-06-04 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the science popularization TV show "Nauka je u modi", produced by Radio Televizija Srbije (watch the recording), talking about a range of topics in quantum and gravitational physics.
2022-05-20 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović lecture at the GPF group, Institute of Physics Belgrade (see the abstract, read the slides, watch the recording), talking about the interplay between quantum gravity and quantum information theory.
2022-05-20 (administrative) Q1 financial and administrative reports submitted to Science Fund.
2022-05-14 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the TV show "Dokument", produced by Radio Televizija Vojvodine (watch the recording), talking about the legacy of Albert Einstein and the perception of modern physics by general society.
2022-05-01 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interviews for the popular science magazine "Planeta", talking about the cosmological origin of hydrogen (read the first article), and about the role of hydrogen in the history and development of quantum machanics (read the second article) .
2022-04-24 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the "Solaris" radio show, produced by Radio Beograd 2 (listen to the recording), about weak interaction and the W boson.
2022-04-09 (administrative) A public procurement request for laptops and server equipment announced (see the announcement).
2022-01-01 --- 2022-03-31 Q1 reporting period
2022-03-29 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović guest appearance on the live TV show "Mi danas", produced by K1 Televizija (watch the recording), talking about static electricity in daily life.
2022-03-24 (administrative) A procurement contract for the HPC machine and equipment signed.
2022-03-17 (administrative) A public procurement request for laptops and server equipment announced (see the announcement).
2022-03-05 (administrative) A public procurement request for the HPC machine and equipment announced (see the announcement).
2022-02-11 (software development) First code commit to GitHub repository.
2022-02-11 (dissemination) Marko Vojinović interview for the Ivan Kosogor podcast (watch the recording), about quantum physics, general relativity, time travel, and daily life of a scientist.
