Frustrated quantum magnets provide a rich playground for interplay of quantum fluctuations and competing interactions and hence provide important theoretical and experimental settings to explore unconventional phases of condensed matter including those with subtle signatures of many-body quantum entanglement. The developments in the field is a direct outcome of successful exchange of ideas between physics and material sciences and benefits spectacular progress in our understanding of controlled synthesis of materials with interesting properties many of which have promising technological applications.The program, second of its kind, aims to bring together physicists, chemists and material scientists working on various aspects of magnetism in the Asia-Pacific region in particular to exchange results on the recent developments in different areas of quantum magnetism as well as discuss new ideas at the frontiers of both theoretical as well as experimental research in the field. It also a...
Frustrated quantum magnets provide a rich playground for interplay of quantum fluctuations and competing interactions and hence provide important theoretical and experimental settings to explore unconventional phases of condensed matter including those with subtle signatures of many-body quantum entanglement. The developments in the field is a direct outcome of successful exchange of ideas between physics and material sciences and benefits spectacular progress in our understanding of controlled synthesis of materials with interesting properties many of which have promising technological applications.The program, second of its kind, aims to bring together physicists, chemists and material scientists working on various aspects of magnetism in the Asia-Pacific region in particular to exchange results on the recent developments in different areas of quantum magnetism as well as discuss new ideas at the frontiers of both theoretical as well as experimental research in the field. It also a...
Due to unavoidable circumstances, the program "The Fargues-Fontaine Curve: Insights from Perfectoid spaces and p-adic Hodge Theory" that was to be held between Nov 26-Dec 9, 2018 stands cancelled.
Due to unavoidable circumstances, the program "The Fargues-Fontaine Curve: Insights from Perfectoid spaces and p-adic Hodge Theory" that was to be held between Nov 26-Dec 9, 2018 stands cancelled.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing an explosive phase - machines can now accomplish complex specific tasks at a level that exceeds human skills. At the basis of this performance is the ability to understand sensory input from the external world and to associate it with effective strategies to achieve a desired goal.This advanced school aims to combine different yet strongly coupled perspectives: first, theoretical approaches, which focus on principles, algorithms, and their applications to computer science; second, the relationship with experimental neuroscience, which has inspired the latest generation developments in AI and has, in turn, benefited from the ability of AI to investigate the computations underlying complex cognitive processes; third, applications such as robotics, gaming, etc.The topics covered include:Deep learning and its relation to vision and languageReinforcement learning and decision makingSensorimotor learningThe ethics of artificial intelligence and its ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing an explosive phase - machines can now accomplish complex specific tasks at a level that exceeds human skills. At the basis of this performance is the ability to understand sensory input from the external world and to associate it with effective strategies to achieve a desired goal.This advanced school aims to combine different yet strongly coupled perspectives: first, theoretical approaches, which focus on principles, algorithms, and their applications to computer science; second, the relationship with experimental neuroscience, which has inspired the latest generation developments in AI and has, in turn, benefited from the ability of AI to investigate the computations underlying complex cognitive processes; third, applications such as robotics, gaming, etc.The topics covered include:Deep learning and its relation to vision and languageReinforcement learning and decision makingSensorimotor learningThe ethics of artificial intelligence and its ...
The discussion meeting on Complex Algebraic Geometry will be centered around the "Infosys-ICTS Ramanujan lectures" of Professor Claire Voisin. Complex algebraic geometry is a rich, classical area of mathematics. We shall focus on some specific themes including, but not restricted to vector bundles over complex varieties, topology of varieties, Chow groups, etc. Participation by invitation alone
The discussion meeting on Complex Algebraic Geometry will be centered around the "Infosys-ICTS Ramanujan lectures" of Professor Claire Voisin. Complex algebraic geometry is a rich, classical area of mathematics. We shall focus on some specific themes including, but not restricted to vector bundles over complex varieties, topology of varieties, Chow groups, etc. Participation by invitation alone
Entropy is a central and fundamental concept in statistical mechanics, but considerations of entropy remain far from routine, and exhibit non-trivial and surprising aspects, particularly in soft matter phenomena. Soft matter self-assembly is replete with subtle and fascinating entropic effects. Moving away from the conventional view of entropy as a measure of disorder, current trends in soft matter self assembly increasingly have focused on the connection to information and algorithmic complexity as relevant aspects. Whether organizational principles in non-equilibrium systems may be built around entropy like concepts is an unresolved open question. Transitions in disordered matter such as the glass transition and jamming centrally involve entropy. The nature of order present in seemingly amorphous structures have been explored with concepts of entropy and information. These are some themes that will be explored in the program.The goal of the program is to bring together researchers in...
Entropy is a central and fundamental concept in statistical mechanics, but considerations of entropy remain far from routine, and exhibit non-trivial and surprising aspects, particularly in soft matter phenomena. Soft matter self-assembly is replete with subtle and fascinating entropic effects. Moving away from the conventional view of entropy as a measure of disorder, current trends in soft matter self assembly increasingly have focused on the connection to information and algorithmic complexity as relevant aspects. Whether organizational principles in non-equilibrium systems may be built around entropy like concepts is an unresolved open question. Transitions in disordered matter such as the glass transition and jamming centrally involve entropy. The nature of order present in seemingly amorphous structures have been explored with concepts of entropy and information. These are some themes that will be explored in the program.The goal of the program is to bring together researchers in...
This school is part of the annual ICTS summer schools on gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. Recent observations of GW signals from coalescing binaries of black holes and neutron stars have firmly established the field of GW astronomy. The promise of GW astronomy to address foundational questions in physics and astrophysics has been widely recognized. Physicists and astrophysicists are now coming up with novel ways of using GW observations to understand a variety of questions in fundamental physics and astrophysics. Recognizing this, the school has started to include courses which are considered to be outside to the traditional scope of GW physics. This year’s school will involve four graduate-level courses: Exotic compact objects and their gravitational-wave signatures (Andrea Maselli, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)Physics and astrophysics of electromagnetic counterparts of binary mergers (Kenta Hotokezaka, Princeton University) Dynamic formation of compact binaries in dense stell...
This school is part of the annual ICTS summer schools on gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. Recent observations of GW signals from coalescing binaries of black holes and neutron stars have firmly established the field of GW astronomy. The promise of GW astronomy to address foundational questions in physics and astrophysics has been widely recognized. Physicists and astrophysicists are now coming up with novel ways of using GW observations to understand a variety of questions in fundamental physics and astrophysics. Recognizing this, the school has started to include courses which are considered to be outside to the traditional scope of GW physics. This year’s school will involve four graduate-level courses: Exotic compact objects and their gravitational-wave signatures (Andrea Maselli, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)Physics and astrophysics of electromagnetic counterparts of binary mergers (Kenta Hotokezaka, Princeton University) Dynamic formation of compact binaries in dense stell...
