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The rescheduled FPP 2022 program updates are available at - https://www.icts.res.in/program/fpp2022 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.This program will focus on the model of first-passage percolation (FPP) --- a stochastic growth model --- and its close relatives. Stochastic growth models arise from physics and biology, and have been studied since the 1960s. Such systems address the behavior of growing interfaces, the spread of bacterial colonies, and the fluctuations of long chemical chains in a random potential.Physicists have made numerous predictions about the common behavior of models in the FPP class. One among them say that these models should have fluctuations of smaller order than is accessible with classical mathematical methods (exhibiting "super-concentration") and limiting laws that deviate from the standard Gaussian. In fact, the limiting fluctuations of models in the FPP class are thought to be universal, and appear in seemingly different contexts like random matrix theory,...

The rescheduled FPP 2022 program updates are available at - https://www.icts.res.in/program/fpp2022 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.This program will focus on the model of first-passage percolation (FPP) --- a stochastic growth model --- and its close relatives. Stochastic growth models arise from physics and biology, and have been studied since the 1960s. Such systems address the behavior of growing interfaces, the spread of bacterial colonies, and the fluctuations of long chemical chains in a random potential.Physicists have made numerous predictions about the common behavior of models in the FPP class. One among them say that these models should have fluctuations of smaller order than is accessible with classical mathematical methods (exhibiting "super-concentration") and limiting laws that deviate from the standard Gaussian. In fact, the limiting fluctuations of models in the FPP class are thought to be universal, and appear in seemingly different contexts like random matrix theory,...

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the meeting will be conducted through online lectures. Scattering amplitudes have played a central role in quantum field theory since its inception. Recent years have seen a remarkable advance in our understanding of scattering amplitudes, both for theoretical and phenomenological purposes. Apart from playing a prominent role in high-energy particle physics, these developments have far-reaching implications in a wide range; from hidden symmetries of gauge theories and gravity, to string perturbation and ambi-twistor strings, to new mathematics such as positive geometries. In particular, the search for a theory of S-Matrix has revealed surprising mathematical structures and new formulations underlying scattering amplitudes, with no reference to space and time. One line of research in the past decade has led to beautiful geometric formulations for all-loop scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM, which...

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the meeting will be conducted through online lectures. Scattering amplitudes have played a central role in quantum field theory since its inception. Recent years have seen a remarkable advance in our understanding of scattering amplitudes, both for theoretical and phenomenological purposes. Apart from playing a prominent role in high-energy particle physics, these developments have far-reaching implications in a wide range; from hidden symmetries of gauge theories and gravity, to string perturbation and ambi-twistor strings, to new mathematics such as positive geometries. In particular, the search for a theory of S-Matrix has revealed surprising mathematical structures and new formulations underlying scattering amplitudes, with no reference to space and time. One line of research in the past decade has led to beautiful geometric formulations for all-loop scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM, which...

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the meeting will be conducted through online lectures.The Discussion meet is on Zero Mean curvature surfaces (or ZMC surfaces) in Lorentz-Minkowski spaces, hyperbolic spaces, AdS-manifolds and related topics. The subject of minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space is very rich and has witnessed significant progress for more than 200 years. However the topic of maximal surfaces (ZMC surfaces) in Lorentz-Minkowski space and ZMC surfaces in hyperbolic spaces is a relatively recent one. This Discussion Meeting is aimed at enthusing faculty, students and postdocs to study and to explore this existing and exciting area of research.Eligibility Criteria: Faculty, postdocs and students with some research experience in geometry and who are interested in the area of minimal surface, maximal surface in Lorentz-Minkowski space, in hyperbolic spaces etc.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the meeting will be conducted through online lectures.The Discussion meet is on Zero Mean curvature surfaces (or ZMC surfaces) in Lorentz-Minkowski spaces, hyperbolic spaces, AdS-manifolds and related topics. The subject of minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space is very rich and has witnessed significant progress for more than 200 years. However the topic of maximal surfaces (ZMC surfaces) in Lorentz-Minkowski space and ZMC surfaces in hyperbolic spaces is a relatively recent one. This Discussion Meeting is aimed at enthusing faculty, students and postdocs to study and to explore this existing and exciting area of research.Eligibility Criteria: Faculty, postdocs and students with some research experience in geometry and who are interested in the area of minimal surface, maximal surface in Lorentz-Minkowski space, in hyperbolic spaces etc.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the school will be conducted through online lectures.This advanced level school is the eleventh in the series.This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and university level. The following courses will be offered.Nonequilibrium response theory by Urna Basu (RRI, Bengaluru, India)Topology in statistical physics by Subhro Bhattacharjee (ICTS, Bengaluru, India)Statistical mechanics of developed turbulence by Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)Statistical physics of rare events and large deviations by Yariv Kafri (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the school will be conducted through online lectures.This advanced level school is the eleventh in the series.This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and university level. The following courses will be offered.Nonequilibrium response theory by Urna Basu (RRI, Bengaluru, India)Topology in statistical physics by Subhro Bhattacharjee (ICTS, Bengaluru, India)Statistical mechanics of developed turbulence by Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)Statistical physics of rare events and large deviations by Yariv Kafri (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.  Mathematica Summer School is a unique international event in theoretical physics, with a long history of success. It has a unique format; the morning sessions are reserved for lecture sessions on theoretical aspects and in the afternoon, students and mentors get together to solve complicated problems using the software Mathematica - a popular computational tool in theoretical physics.This summer school aims to equip young researchers with skills required to use modern computational tools and to provide them a platform to interact with experts from different mathematical fields, including computer algebra systems.The topic for the 2020 edition of the Mathematica Summer School is ‘d>2 Conformal Field Theories’. It will focus on using Mathematica to explore physical and mathematical properties of conformal field theories (CFTs), in generic dimensions; an active area of modern mathematical physics. It will also cover various other aspects of CFTs, including...

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.  In 1955 Claude Chevalley achieved a breakthrough when he managed to define analogues of semisimple Lie groups over integers. By the standard procedure of tensoring, these can then be defined over any field, finite or infinite, or over any commutative ring with identity. These groups encompass all the reductive groups defined over fields and their avatars over rings. It is, therefore, no wonder that this idea immediately became immensely popular. This concept has been useful in, just to give an example, the classification of finite simple groups, the crowning glory of the last century mathematics.In this discussion meeting on `Chevalley groups and their representations’, we are going to have the following short courses of 5 lectures each. The course given by Vavilov deals with the intrinsic structure of the Chevalley groups while the other, given by Raghavan, deals with the representations of Chevalley groups with the example of GL(V), the mother of all ...

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.  Mathematica Summer School is a unique international event in theoretical physics, with a long history of success. It has a unique format; the morning sessions are reserved for lecture sessions on theoretical aspects and in the afternoon, students and mentors get together to solve complicated problems using the software Mathematica - a popular computational tool in theoretical physics.This summer school aims to equip young researchers with skills required to use modern computational tools and to provide them a platform to interact with experts from different mathematical fields, including computer algebra systems.The topic for the 2020 edition of the Mathematica Summer School is ‘d>2 Conformal Field Theories’. It will focus on using Mathematica to explore physical and mathematical properties of conformal field theories (CFTs), in generic dimensions; an active area of modern mathematical physics. It will also cover various other aspects of CFTs, including...

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.  In 1955 Claude Chevalley achieved a breakthrough when he managed to define analogues of semisimple Lie groups over integers. By the standard procedure of tensoring, these can then be defined over any field, finite or infinite, or over any commutative ring with identity. These groups encompass all the reductive groups defined over fields and their avatars over rings. It is, therefore, no wonder that this idea immediately became immensely popular. This concept has been useful in, just to give an example, the classification of finite simple groups, the crowning glory of the last century mathematics.In this discussion meeting on `Chevalley groups and their representations’, we are going to have the following short courses of 5 lectures each. The course given by Vavilov deals with the intrinsic structure of the Chevalley groups while the other, given by Raghavan, deals with the representations of Chevalley groups with the example of GL(V), the mother of all ...