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This three day discussion meeting on String theory will focus on five areas1) The exact counting of black hole entropy.2) The black hole information paradox.3) AdS/CMT.4) Hydrodynamics and Gravity.5) Higher Spin theories and their holographic duals. We will have a session devoted to each of these topics. Each session will consist of a review talk followed by a moderated discussion. 

This three day discussion meeting on String theory will focus on five areas1) The exact counting of black hole entropy.2) The black hole information paradox.3) AdS/CMT.4) Hydrodynamics and Gravity.5) Higher Spin theories and their holographic duals. We will have a session devoted to each of these topics. Each session will consist of a review talk followed by a moderated discussion. 

The school aims to provide students and researchers an introduction to the field of quantum information, computation and communication. Topics that will be covered include introduction to quantum information and computation, quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, NMR based quantum computing, solid state quantum computing, quantum optics and quantum photonics. The purpose is to provide young participants an idea about the wide scope of the rapidly expanding area of quantum computation science from leading international experts. This will also act as a satellite meeting to the conference being organized by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computation in Bangalore during 7-11 January 2013.This will also act as a satellite meeting to the conference being organized by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computation in Bangalore during 7-11 January 2013. The conference website is: http://cts.iisc.ernet.in/CQIQC/ICQIQC/index.html

The school aims to provide students and researchers an introduction to the field of quantum information, computation and communication. Topics that will be covered include introduction to quantum information and computation, quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, NMR based quantum computing, solid state quantum computing, quantum optics and quantum photonics. The purpose is to provide young participants an idea about the wide scope of the rapidly expanding area of quantum computation science from leading international experts. This will also act as a satellite meeting to the conference being organized by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computation in Bangalore during 7-11 January 2013.This will also act as a satellite meeting to the conference being organized by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computation in Bangalore during 7-11 January 2013. The conference website is: http://cts.iisc.ernet.in/CQIQC/ICQIQC/index.html

Quantum computation is one of the most fundamental and important research topics today, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. A fault tolerant computation scheme, such as that protected against dephasing or decay of quantum information, is crucial for this purpose. It has been known for some time that a class of quasi-particles of non-abelian braiding statistics, such as the Majorana fermions, can be an excellent platform to achieve such a topologically protected quantum computation. While recent discovery of the Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires have boosted the quantum computation community, other material platforms, in particular graphene, are also being researched extensively. Much research is directed towards electron-electron interaction and non-trivial p-type superconductivity in graphene with the ultimate aim to create and detect Majorana fermions in these systems. This Discussion Meeting on "Advances in Graphene, Majorana fermions, and Quantum Computa...

Quantum computation is one of the most fundamental and important research topics today, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. A fault tolerant computation scheme, such as that protected against dephasing or decay of quantum information, is crucial for this purpose. It has been known for some time that a class of quasi-particles of non-abelian braiding statistics, such as the Majorana fermions, can be an excellent platform to achieve such a topologically protected quantum computation. While recent discovery of the Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires have boosted the quantum computation community, other material platforms, in particular graphene, are also being researched extensively. Much research is directed towards electron-electron interaction and non-trivial p-type superconductivity in graphene with the ultimate aim to create and detect Majorana fermions in these systems. This Discussion Meeting on "Advances in Graphene, Majorana fermions, and Quantum Computa...

"Dynamical Systems" is an exciting and very active field in mathematics that involves tools and techniques from many areas. A dynamical system can be obtained by iterating a function or letting evolve in time the solution of an equation. Even if the rule of evolution is deterministic, the long term behavior of the system is often chaotic. Different branches of "Dynamical Systems", in particular "Ergodic Theory", provide tools to quantify this chaotic behavior of the system and to predict it in average.This program has been planned in two parts: 7 day Workshop (Dec 18-24, 2012) followed by 4 day Discussion Meeting (Dec 26-29, 2012). The aim is to bring together on one platform experts from around the world who are actively working in various sub-disciplines of Dynamical Systems. An important aspect of the program will be an emphasis on making it accessible to younger participants.The workshop will begin with lectures on basic Ergodic Theory followed by lectures on Topological Dynamics, ...

"Dynamical Systems" is an exciting and very active field in mathematics that involves tools and techniques from many areas. A dynamical system can be obtained by iterating a function or letting evolve in time the solution of an equation. Even if the rule of evolution is deterministic, the long term behavior of the system is often chaotic. Different branches of "Dynamical Systems", in particular "Ergodic Theory", provide tools to quantify this chaotic behavior of the system and to predict it in average.This program has been planned in two parts: 7 day Workshop (Dec 18-24, 2012) followed by 4 day Discussion Meeting (Dec 26-29, 2012). The aim is to bring together on one platform experts from around the world who are actively working in various sub-disciplines of Dynamical Systems. An important aspect of the program will be an emphasis on making it accessible to younger participants.The workshop will begin with lectures on basic Ergodic Theory followed by lectures on Topological Dynamics, ...

The areas of quantum condensed matter physics and quantum information have made substantial theoretical and experimental progress in recent years. Some of such advances are discovery of materials such as graphene and topological insulators whose low energy quasiparticles obey effective Dirac equations, prediction of existence of Majorana fermions as effective low-energy quasiparticles of condensed matter systems, and theoretical and experimental progress in quantum computation.This mini program, organized in the format of a school, is geared towards presenting the basic physics and current status of these topics to both graduate students and researchers from other sub-fields of condensed matter physics. The school will have three pedagogical lectures by each of the four lecturers on graphene, topological insulators, non-Abelian quantum matter and quantum computation.