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The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effort of high energy theorists from China, India, Japan and Korea to give young researchers in Asia an opportunity to come together and learn about the latest developments in high energy theory, from leading experts on the subject.The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS 2022) will focus on the following topics (lecturers in parentheses)1. Black hole information paradox (Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study, USA))2. Conformal and S-matrix Bootstrap (Simon Caron-huot (McGill University, Canada))3. QFT/CFT in condensed matter physics (Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago, USA))4. The Gravitational S-Matrix (Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India))5. Machine Learning (Yang-Hui He (LIMS, Royal Institution, UK))6. Holography, CFT, entanglement (Tom Hartman (Cornell University, USA))7. Tensionless AdS/CFT (Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland))8. Dark matte...

The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effort of high energy theorists from China, India, Japan and Korea to give young researchers in Asia an opportunity to come together and learn about the latest developments in high energy theory, from leading experts on the subject.The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS 2022) will focus on the following topics (lecturers in parentheses)1. Black hole information paradox (Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study, USA))2. Conformal and S-matrix Bootstrap (Simon Caron-huot (McGill University, Canada))3. QFT/CFT in condensed matter physics (Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago, USA))4. The Gravitational S-Matrix (Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India))5. Machine Learning (Yang-Hui He (LIMS, Royal Institution, UK))6. Holography, CFT, entanglement (Tom Hartman (Cornell University, USA))7. Tensionless AdS/CFT (Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland))8. Dark matte...

The aim of the School will be to introduce graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to essential ideas and recent developments related to the physics of the early universe. The School will begin with lectures on cosmological perturbation theory and alternative paradigms (such as inflation and the bouncing scenarios) for the generation of the primordial perturbations. They will be followed by lectures on the relation between models of the early universe and particle physics as well as comparison of these models with the available and forthcoming cosmological data. These lectures will be complemented with lectures on topics of considerable interest today such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy and the generation of gravitational waves in the early universe and their observational imprints.Eligibility criteria: The meeting will be open to Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty working in the area. We also intend to permit senior Master's and advanced undergraduate s...

The aim of the School will be to introduce graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to essential ideas and recent developments related to the physics of the early universe. The School will begin with lectures on cosmological perturbation theory and alternative paradigms (such as inflation and the bouncing scenarios) for the generation of the primordial perturbations. They will be followed by lectures on the relation between models of the early universe and particle physics as well as comparison of these models with the available and forthcoming cosmological data. These lectures will be complemented with lectures on topics of considerable interest today such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy and the generation of gravitational waves in the early universe and their observational imprints.Eligibility criteria: The meeting will be open to Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty working in the area. We also intend to permit senior Master's and advanced undergraduate s...

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded, in part, to Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University of Rome ``for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.'' In a uniquely diverse career, Professor Parisi has made, and continues to make, pioneering contributions in several areas of statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, disordered and complex systems. This discussion meeting assembles experts to help understand the scale of Parisi's work in all these areas as well as place them in the context of the outstanding questions of today.As a part of this discussion meeting, Giorgio Parisi will deliver the ICTS distinguished lecture on 16 December, 2021.Speakers:Roberto BenziChandan DasguptaIrene GiardinaSmarajit KarmakarJorge KurchanEnzo MarinariMarc MezardGiorgio ParisiV. RavindranSrikanth SastryHerbert SpohnGilles TarjusAngelo VulpianiSpenta WadiaFrancesco ZamponiEligibility criteria: Registration is open to PhD student...

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded, in part, to Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University of Rome ``for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.'' In a uniquely diverse career, Professor Parisi has made, and continues to make, pioneering contributions in several areas of statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, disordered and complex systems. This discussion meeting assembles experts to help understand the scale of Parisi's work in all these areas as well as place them in the context of the outstanding questions of today.As a part of this discussion meeting, Giorgio Parisi will deliver the ICTS distinguished lecture on 16 December, 2021.Speakers:Roberto BenziChandan DasguptaIrene GiardinaSmarajit KarmakarJorge KurchanEnzo MarinariMarc MezardGiorgio ParisiV. RavindranSrikanth SastryHerbert SpohnGilles TarjusAngelo VulpianiSpenta WadiaFrancesco ZamponiEligibility criteria: Registration is open to PhD student...

How organisms sense the world and generate behaviors is an exciting question that has motivated neuroscientists over more than a century. Neural command for generating behavioral output arises from operations at multiple scales, ranging from the flip-flops of ion channels to dynamics in circuits comprising ensembles of neurons. New tools to genetically manipulate organisms, monitor and perturb neural activity, and advanced microscopy that enables large scale imaging of neurons in vivo have yielded a hitherto unprecedented quantum of data with high resolution. Quantitative approaches are needed to mine these data sets for generating testable hypotheses regarding nervous system function. This is the tenth school in the series on Quantitative Systems Biology, held alternately at Trieste and Bangalore. The school responds to the strong need, especially at the Ph.D. and postdoc level, for providing scientists with a broad exposure to quantitative problems in the study of living systems. The...

How organisms sense the world and generate behaviors is an exciting question that has motivated neuroscientists over more than a century. Neural command for generating behavioral output arises from operations at multiple scales, ranging from the flip-flops of ion channels to dynamics in circuits comprising ensembles of neurons. New tools to genetically manipulate organisms, monitor and perturb neural activity, and advanced microscopy that enables large scale imaging of neurons in vivo have yielded a hitherto unprecedented quantum of data with high resolution. Quantitative approaches are needed to mine these data sets for generating testable hypotheses regarding nervous system function. This is the tenth school in the series on Quantitative Systems Biology, held alternately at Trieste and Bangalore. The school responds to the strong need, especially at the Ph.D. and postdoc level, for providing scientists with a broad exposure to quantitative problems in the study of living systems. The...

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,  the discussion meeting will be conducted through online lectures.The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has now reached a major milestone in its development after the discovery of Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC, CERN, in 2012. Since the first observation of this new scalar state, detailed investigations of its properties have increasingly confirmed it to be consistent with the SM Higgs boson. While SM is a highly successful theory of the fundamental particles and their interactions at the lowest length scale probed so far in experiments, it has serious shortcomings. New fundamental interactions are required to address them. The main focus of particle physics community at present involves searching for these new theories/interactions and associated new particles.  One of the most popular theories that go beyond SM is “Super-Symmetry (SUSY)” theory.  However, this theory requires the presence of new set of particles (su...