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The program will bring together three different communities working on (i) closed quantum systems with time dependent Hamiltonians (including Many Body Localization) (ii) open quantum systems, and realistic descriptions of the external environment and (iii) gauge theory of coupling between matter and radiation.  Each of these communities has the potential to gain from interactions with the other two. These three fields also demonstrate areas where there is a valuable interplay between theory and experiment. Many of these problems are at a scale where brute force numerical calculations fail, and so the ability to build “quantum simulation” experiments, and to correctly interpret their results becomes crucial.Topics to be covered- Terahertz and Infrared driven quantum matter- Shaken Optical Lattices and Cold Atoms- Floquet time crystals- Localization-delocalization physics in quasi-periodically driven systems- Dynamics of gauge theoriesEligibility Criteria: Graduate students, postdoctora...

The program will bring together three different communities working on (i) closed quantum systems with time dependent Hamiltonians (including Many Body Localization) (ii) open quantum systems, and realistic descriptions of the external environment and (iii) gauge theory of coupling between matter and radiation.  Each of these communities has the potential to gain from interactions with the other two. These three fields also demonstrate areas where there is a valuable interplay between theory and experiment. Many of these problems are at a scale where brute force numerical calculations fail, and so the ability to build “quantum simulation” experiments, and to correctly interpret their results becomes crucial.Topics to be covered- Terahertz and Infrared driven quantum matter- Shaken Optical Lattices and Cold Atoms- Floquet time crystals- Localization-delocalization physics in quasi-periodically driven systems- Dynamics of gauge theoriesEligibility Criteria: Graduate students, postdoctora...

The school is designed to encourage women to take up physics as a career. The sessions will be centered on some simple physics experiments,  conducted by the students, or as demonstrations. The subsequent discussion will focus on theoretical aspects motivated by  the experiments and explore physical ideas and theory in an open ended manner, so as to bring out the excitement and interconnectedness of the subject. This school will run in parallel with a school for women in mathematics. There will be some common lectures  by invited speakers and we will encourage  interaction between the participants in the two schools.  Participants will be required to stay on the ICTS campus in order to maximally benefit from the school.Eligibility criteria: The school is open to women studying only in Karnataka colleges for a bachelor’s degree with physics as a subject, and are entering their second or third year. This is a residential school and the selected participants will be fully supported. No re...

The summer school is intended for women students studying in first year B.A/B.Sc./B.E./B.Tech. or equivalent degree and having Mathematics as one of the major subjects/courses, during the academic year 2022-2023. Over a period of two weeks, the school aims to have around 70 participants, helping them gain broader exposure to problem solving skills in mathematics and statistics at the undergraduate level.All selected participants will need to attend the entire two week duration of the school.Specific topics that will be covered are:Linear AlgebraCalculusProbability and Statistics Mathematical ProgrammingThere will be problem solving sessions across topics.Each topic will have a brief introductory lecture session on a focus area followed by problem-solving sessions on it. The participants are expected to work together to solve the problem sheets that will be given out in these sessions. Each day will also feature two popular science lectures by distinguished researchers. The topics will ...

The school is designed to encourage women to take up physics as a career. The sessions will be centered on some simple physics experiments,  conducted by the students, or as demonstrations. The subsequent discussion will focus on theoretical aspects motivated by  the experiments and explore physical ideas and theory in an open ended manner, so as to bring out the excitement and interconnectedness of the subject. This school will run in parallel with a school for women in mathematics. There will be some common lectures  by invited speakers and we will encourage  interaction between the participants in the two schools.  Participants will be required to stay on the ICTS campus in order to maximally benefit from the school.Eligibility criteria: The school is open to women studying only in Karnataka colleges for a bachelor’s degree with physics as a subject, and are entering their second or third year. This is a residential school and the selected participants will be fully supported. No re...

The summer school is intended for women students studying in first year B.A/B.Sc./B.E./B.Tech. or equivalent degree and having Mathematics as one of the major subjects/courses, during the academic year 2022-2023. Over a period of two weeks, the school aims to have around 70 participants, helping them gain broader exposure to problem solving skills in mathematics and statistics at the undergraduate level.All selected participants will need to attend the entire two week duration of the school.Specific topics that will be covered are:Linear AlgebraCalculusProbability and Statistics Mathematical ProgrammingThere will be problem solving sessions across topics.Each topic will have a brief introductory lecture session on a focus area followed by problem-solving sessions on it. The participants are expected to work together to solve the problem sheets that will be given out in these sessions. Each day will also feature two popular science lectures by distinguished researchers. The topics will ...

The ICTS Astrophysics & Relativity group will organize a Study Hub of the Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop 2023 at the ICTS campus. The workshop will include a set of lectures followed by hands-on tutorial sessions. Participants will get to learn state-of-the-art data analysis tools used by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration to detect and analyse the gravitational wave signals from compact binary mergers.The Study Hub will run on May 16th and May 17th. The workshop is only open to individuals residing in the Bangalore area. ICTS is unable to provide accommodation. There will be shuttle buses available from IISc to ICTS (Shuttle pick up point: IISc gate opposite BHEL Office) and return to IISc. Eligibility: The workshop is meant for postgraduate and PhD students interested in GW astronomy and related fields. A small number of highly motivated final-year undergraduate students will also be considered. Participants are expected to know programming in Python and have a basic understan...

The ICTS Astrophysics & Relativity group will organize a Study Hub of the Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop 2023 at the ICTS campus. The workshop will include a set of lectures followed by hands-on tutorial sessions. Participants will get to learn state-of-the-art data analysis tools used by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration to detect and analyse the gravitational wave signals from compact binary mergers.The Study Hub will run on May 16th and May 17th. The workshop is only open to individuals residing in the Bangalore area. ICTS is unable to provide accommodation. There will be shuttle buses available from IISc to ICTS (Shuttle pick up point: IISc gate opposite BHEL Office) and return to IISc. Eligibility: The workshop is meant for postgraduate and PhD students interested in GW astronomy and related fields. A small number of highly motivated final-year undergraduate students will also be considered. Participants are expected to know programming in Python and have a basic understan...

This workshop brings together experts in algebraic topology, commutative algebra, and the modular representation theory of finite groups. There are many points of contact between these areas of mathematics. The focus of the workshop will be on duality phenomena and also on classification problems in various tensor-triangulated categories that arise naturally in these fields. The derived category of a commutative ring—an interesting object in its own right—often serves as a (simpler) model for the stable category of a finite group, and also the stable homotopy category in topology. There are many similarities between these categories, for example the possession of a triangulated structure with a compatible symmetric product, but also notable differences; in particular, the stable homotopy category is significantly more complicated. Nevertheless, ideas and notions that arose in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry have been transplanted fruitfully to modular representation theory a...

This workshop brings together experts in algebraic topology, commutative algebra, and the modular representation theory of finite groups. There are many points of contact between these areas of mathematics. The focus of the workshop will be on duality phenomena and also on classification problems in various tensor-triangulated categories that arise naturally in these fields. The derived category of a commutative ring—an interesting object in its own right—often serves as a (simpler) model for the stable category of a finite group, and also the stable homotopy category in topology. There are many similarities between these categories, for example the possession of a triangulated structure with a compatible symmetric product, but also notable differences; in particular, the stable homotopy category is significantly more complicated. Nevertheless, ideas and notions that arose in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry have been transplanted fruitfully to modular representation theory a...