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The aim of the SATPP is to provide exposure/training to postdoctoral fellows and advanced/mature theoretical particle physics students in the final years of their PhDs, who already have a fair amount of expertise in quantum field theory and topics in particle physics. The goal is not just to provide details of the spectrum of ideas/mechanisms but also to supply essential technical tools that will allow the young researchers to think about these critically and constructively. As a pilot for this school, this year we begin with “Selected Topics in Effective Field Theories (EFTs).” EFTs, which provide systematic ways of “describing” the physics of a scale using only the relevant degrees of freedom, have become essential tools for  understanding our universe. From describing the unknown at the TeV scale or above, to understanding/calculating observables involving mesons, baryons.  EFTs are increasingly turning out to be the appropriate language. In this edition, the school will span two we...

This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics.This meeting will be the 9th in the series. The following list of topics, that are covered in STATPHYS meetings of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, will be covered in this discussion meeting.General and mathematical aspectsRigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc.Out-of-equilibrium aspectsDriven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc.Quantum fluids and condensed matterStrongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall ef...

This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics.This meeting will be the 9th in the series. The following list of topics, that are covered in STATPHYS meetings of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, will be covered in this discussion meeting.General and mathematical aspectsRigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc.Out-of-equilibrium aspectsDriven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc.Quantum fluids and condensed matterStrongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall ef...

From the ominous conclusion “there is no treatment” mentioned in the ancient Egyptian Edwyn Smith papyrus, to a remarkable recent clinical trial on rectal cancer patients using dostarlimab – where all 12 enrolled patients achieved complete remission with no recurrence for up to 25 months of follow up, our understanding of cancer and its treatment has progressed immensely over the years. Yet, the majority of cancer types remain untreatable due to eventual development of drug resistance and metastasis, and newer approaches to understanding the fundamental principles of cancer are much needed. With the advent of advanced sequencing and imaging techniques and ever-increasing resolution and throughput of current experimental technologies, mathematical and computational approaches in cancer are now witnessing a revolution. There is a rapidly increasing effort to use theoretical tools as orthogonal approaches to understand and control the evolution of this disease. Recent mathematical modelin...