Richard Kerner

Richard Kerner was born on January 3, 1943, in Furmanova, URSS. He obtained his baccalaureate at the Reytan High School (Liceum im. Tadeusza Reytana) in Warsaw, studied at the University of Warsaw from 1960 to 1965, where he obtained his master under the supervision of Andrzej Trautman. He continued his formation at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, and defended his doctoral thesis in 1975 On certain applications of the Yang–Mills theory, with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and André Lichnerowicz as advisors[3]

Kerner conducted his career as a professor and researcher at the University Pierre and Marie Curie,[4] at the Laboratory of Relativistic Mechanics from 1969 to 1985, at the Laboratory of Elementary Particles from 1985 to 1990, as Director of the Laboratory of Relativistic Cosmology from 1990 to 2001, then at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Condensed Matter.[5]

Kerner was an invited researcher at the University of Utrecht in 1976, at the Joseph-Louis Lagrange Institute in Torino, in 1981, at the CERN in Geneva in 1983 and 1988, at the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy at the University of Florence (LENS), in 2006, and at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória in 2013.

Kerner is the author of more than 200 scientific publications in theoretical physics, and of several books on physics. Kerner is currently Professor Emeritus at Pierre and Marie Curie University.

• Our Celestial Clockwork, World Scientific, 2021.
• Méthodes classiques de physique théorique, Ellipses, 2014.
• Models of agglomeration and glass transition, Imperial College Press, 2006.
• Physics on manifolds, with André Lichnerowicz and Moshé Flato, Springer, 1994.
• Relativité, with Murat Boratav, Ellipses, 1991.
• Géométrie et physique, with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat[6] and André Lichnerowicz, Journées relativistes de Marseille-Luminy, 1985.
• Sur certaines applications de la théorie du champ de Yang et Mills, physics thesis, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, 1975.
• Generalization of the Kaluza-Klein theory for an arbitrary non-abelian gauge group, Annales de l'I.H.P. Physique théorique, Tome 9 (1968) no. 2, pp. 143-152.
• Geometrical background for the unified field theories : the Einstein-Cartan theory over a principal fibre bundle, Annales de l'I.H.P. Physique théorique, Tome 34 (1981) no. 4, pp. 437-463.
• Cosmology without singularity and nonlinear gravitational Lagrangians, General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 14, N°5 (1982) pp. 453-469.
• Noncommutative differential geometry of matrix algebras, Michel Dubois‐Violette, Richard Kerner, John Madore, Journal of Mathematical Physics Volume 31, N°2 (1990) pp. 316-322.
• Self-assembly of icosahedral viral capsids: the combinatorial analysis approach, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Condensed Matter at the Pierre and Marie Curie University.
• Discrete groups and internal symmetries of icosahedral viral capsids, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Condensed Matter at the Pierre and Marie Curie University

• Yang–Mills theory
• Condensed matter physics
• Special Relativity
• General Relativity