Astroparticle physics (Jens O. Andersen, Michael Kachelriess, Jan Myrheim, Kåre Olaussen) The origin of high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, the role of neutrinos or hypothetical particles in astrophysics and cosmology, color superconductivity, quark-gluon plasma.
Statistical mechanics (Johan Skule Høye) Studies of equations of state and correlation functions of fluids and spin systems. Studies of thermal behavior of the Casimir force.
Molecular modeling (Jon Andreas Støvneng) Quantum mechanical modeling of molecular systems. Electronic structure, vibrational spectra, chemical reactions.
The illustration shows quantum mechanical tornadoes in the electronic and protonic superconducting components of extremely compressed hydrogen