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(School: 30 Jan - 5 Feb 2012 at JNCASR)(Symposium: 6 - 8 Feb 2012 at NCBS)It has become increasingly clear in recent years that the concept of a ‘material’ goes well beyond its origins in hard condensed matter or materials science. Functional materials, such as shape memory alloys, show complex multiscale patterns of elastic domain walls. Glassy and driven materials involve nonequilibrium states of matter that go beyond conventional thermodynamics. Granular materials show stress propagation along force chains, jamming and intriguing connections with the physics of amorphous solids. Living cells and tissues are active materials displaying unique mechanical properties in their steady state, and in their response to stresses.The presently distinct fields of condensed matter physics, materials science, biological physics, and statistical mechanics, have close foundational links, and James A Krumhansl (1919-2004) had long advocated dissolving intellectual phase separations between them. In ...

Random matrix theory has found usage in a wide variety of problems in mathematics and physics. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together a diverse group of mathematicians and physicists working in some of the many areas that connect with random matrix theory.  The program will consist of a school with introductory lectures on random matrix theory in both mathematics and physics at a level accessible to graduate students and postdocs. It will be followed by a conference that will consist of a broader range of topics to highlight the latest research developments.

Random matrix theory has found usage in a wide variety of problems in mathematics and physics. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together a diverse group of mathematicians and physicists working in some of the many areas that connect with random matrix theory.  The program will consist of a school with introductory lectures on random matrix theory in both mathematics and physics at a level accessible to graduate students and postdocs. It will be followed by a conference that will consist of a broader range of topics to highlight the latest research developments.

The financial markets worldwide have seen a tremendous growth in the last four decades. This was driven largely by financial innovation riding on complex pricing and hedging formulas provided by pioneering developments in mathematical finance.  Mathematical finance also contributed strongly by providing quantitative models for investment in portfolio of assets and in managing diverse and complex market, credit and operational risks.  Financial derivatives were introduced in Indian markets in 2000. Since then they have grown tremendously in trade volume. However, India currently lacks a critical mass of researchers and practitioners adept in further developing and implementing sophisticated ideas in mathematical finance.To facilitate growth of research in this area we are conducting a two week long school and a workshop on Mathematical Finance sponsored by ICTS where the top luminaries in the field of mathematical/computational finance and financial economics teach a short course to int...

The financial markets worldwide have seen a tremendous growth in the last four decades. This was driven largely by financial innovation riding on complex pricing and hedging formulas provided by pioneering developments in mathematical finance.  Mathematical finance also contributed strongly by providing quantitative models for investment in portfolio of assets and in managing diverse and complex market, credit and operational risks.  Financial derivatives were introduced in Indian markets in 2000. Since then they have grown tremendously in trade volume. However, India currently lacks a critical mass of researchers and practitioners adept in further developing and implementing sophisticated ideas in mathematical finance.To facilitate growth of research in this area we are conducting a two week long school and a workshop on Mathematical Finance sponsored by ICTS where the top luminaries in the field of mathematical/computational finance and financial economics teach a short course to int...

The phase diagram of QCD is an object of intense theoretical interest today, since it is the only phase diagram in a relativistic quantum field theory which is open to experimental probes. In this connection, the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the RHIC in BNL is being watched with great interest by an extensive community of physicists interested in the strong interactions and nuclear matter. The BES will scan through a line in the phase diagram of QCD which passes very close to current lattice predictions for the location of the critical point of QCD. If the experiments are successful in locating the critical point of QCD, then this will be the first phase transition detected experimentally in relativistic quantum field theories, and will have enormous implications in many related fields.This topical discussion meeting, being organized as a satellite meeting of the ICTS program WHEPP XII, is a response to the enormous interest in this problem nationally and internationally. India ha...

The phase diagram of QCD is an object of intense theoretical interest today, since it is the only phase diagram in a relativistic quantum field theory which is open to experimental probes. In this connection, the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the RHIC in BNL is being watched with great interest by an extensive community of physicists interested in the strong interactions and nuclear matter. The BES will scan through a line in the phase diagram of QCD which passes very close to current lattice predictions for the location of the critical point of QCD. If the experiments are successful in locating the critical point of QCD, then this will be the first phase transition detected experimentally in relativistic quantum field theories, and will have enormous implications in many related fields.This topical discussion meeting, being organized as a satellite meeting of the ICTS program WHEPP XII, is a response to the enormous interest in this problem nationally and internationally. India ha...