[Translate to English:] Angewandte Theoretische Physik - Prof. Dr. P. E. Blöchl

• Ab-initio Computersimulationen der elektronischen und atomaren Struktur von Festkörpern und Molekülen.
• Materialprozesse auf atomarer Skala. Katalytische Reaktionsmechanismen und Biochemie.
• Entwicklung neuer Simulationsmethoden.
• Erweiterungen der Projektor Augmentierten Ebenen Wellen-(PAW-)Methode und der Car-Parrinello-(CP-)PAW Simulationssoftware.

Applied Theoretical Physics - Prof. Dr. P. E. Blöchl

• First-principles simulations of the electronic and atomic structure of materials and molecules.
• Materials processes on the atomic scale, catalytic mechanisms and biochemistry.
• Development of new simulation methods.
• Further development of the projector augmented wave method and the CP-PAW simulation package.

Quantum Dynamics of Many Particle Systems - Prof. Dr. T. Kirchner

• Development and application of methods und algorithmns that describe time-dependent Many-Particle-Quantum Systems
• Time-dependent density functional theory
  
• High potential atomic diffusion process
  
• Laser-aided electron dynamics in atomic percussions
• Light-Material-Interactions: Fragmentation of atoms and molecules in intensive laserfields

Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics - Prof. Dr. D. Mayer

• Thermodynamical formalism in the theory of dynamic systems
• ergodic properties of continous fraction development
• Transfer Operator access to dynamic Zetafunktions
• Quantum chaos and Theory of periodic funktions for geodetical flows
• scaling group theory of cyclic images with singularities