Mathematical physics in Zagreb had some hi points few decades ago with late Vladimir (Jurko) Glaser (Gorizia 1924.- Geneve 1984.), a quantum field theorist well known for Epstein-Glaser renormalization. He and many others at some point worked at least part time at Institute Ruđer Bošković, including late professors Z. Janković (applied mathematics, analytical mechanics), Emil Coffou (numerical analysis, quantum mechanics), Pavao Senjanović (group theory in particle physics, quantum field theory), Eduard Prugovečki (mathematics of quantum theory),
as well as Andro Mikelić (web), Krešimir Veselić (PDEs of mathematical physics, numerical analysis; web), Tristan Huebsch (Calabi-Yau manifolds, now at Howard University, cv.html) etc.
Mathematical physicists at IRB, Division of Theoretical Physics, include notably Larisa Jonke, Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis, Anđelo Samsarov.
As of around 2014 a group for mathematical and theoretical physics was a part of the theoretical physics “division” at IRB (link) and was lead by Stjepan Meljanac (web), specialized in group theoretic methods in physics and applications of Lie and noncommutative algebras, including physics on noncommutative space-time. People in the group included Anđelka Andraši (renormalization in perturbative QCD, especially in Coulomb gauge; long collaboration with J.C. Taylor from Cambridge), Velimir Bardek (collective field theory; Calogero-type integrable models; deceased in 2016.), Zoran Škoda (noncommutative algebraic geometry, mathematical physics), Anđelo Samsarov (noncommutative space-time, Calogero-type models), Davor Palle (cosmology, Einstein-Cartan gravity).
The center for marine research at IRB has employed Mathieu Dutour Sikirić (web), who worked in soliton theory and integrable models early in his career and is now working in combinatorics, Lie theory, combinatorial and computational geometry etc.
There is some collaboration of mathematical physicists from IRB with Marijan Mileković (U. of Zagreb, Physics Department, now retired), Dragutin Svrtan (U. of Zagreb, Mathematics Department, now retired) and Saša Krešić-Jurić (University of Split, mathematics). Igor Baković works on physics-motivated category theory, especially on mathematics of stacks, higher bundles and gerbes; he defended his thesis under mathematical physicist Branislav Jurčo at LMU in Munich. He left IRB in late 2009 and is now in Split. Mathematics department in Zagreb has also a strong group working in vertex operator algebras, including Mirko Primc, Dražen Adamović, Ozren Perše (and Antun Milas, who has a position in United States). This group grew out of a group in representation theory some members of which studied physics at the beginning of their careers. Mathematician Ivan Mirković at University of Massachusets at Amherst has much interest in interface between geometric representation theory and physics; he is now retired at Zagreb and researchwise active. Representation theory group in Zagreb is strong (let us mention Pavle Pandžić, Hrvoje Kraljević, Marko Tadić, Goran Muić, Marcela Hanzer etc. and ex-patriates in Utah, Goran Savin and Dragan Miličić) and was created partly by vision of late Svetozar Kurepa who had interest in physics, especially quantum mechanics and helped diversification from functional analysis seminar into the direction of representation theory. Some other people from that historical seminar diversified into applied mathematics.
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