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This advanced level school is the eighth in the series. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and university level. The following courses will be offered.Preparatory lectures by Abhishek Dhar (ICTS) and Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI)Critical dynamics by Uwe C Täuber (Virginia Tech, USA)Thermalization in quantum systems by Subroto Mukerjee (IISc, Bangalore)Non-equilibrium statistical physics: Introductory examples by Sidney Redner (Santa Fe USA)Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics by John Cardy (UC Berkeley, USA)Macroscopic fluctuation theory by Tridib Sadhu (TIFR, Mumbai)Statistical physics of active matter by (Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore) Registration opens on 1 December 2016 

This advanced level school is the eighth in the series. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and university level. The following courses will be offered.Preparatory lectures by Abhishek Dhar (ICTS) and Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI)Critical dynamics by Uwe C Täuber (Virginia Tech, USA)Thermalization in quantum systems by Subroto Mukerjee (IISc, Bangalore)Non-equilibrium statistical physics: Introductory examples by Sidney Redner (Santa Fe USA)Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics by John Cardy (UC Berkeley, USA)Macroscopic fluctuation theory by Tridib Sadhu (TIFR, Mumbai)Statistical physics of active matter by (Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore) Registration opens on 1 December 2016 

Buoyancy plays a major role in the dynamics of atmosphere and interiors of planets and stars, as well as in engineering applications. This field has witnessed major advances in recent times in modeling, experiments, and numerical simulations.This program on modeling, experiments, and numerical  aspects of buoyancy-driven flows will bring together researchers working in the areas of astrophysics, fluid turbulence, nonlinear physics, and condensed matter physics. The program is planned as a 4 day school followed by a 5 day discussion meeting.Beside courses of lectures, the school will also contain tutorials on numerical methods. There will be lectures in the discussion meeting on recent results by experts in the field. The aim of the discussions is to foster long-term collaborations among the participants. The topics of the discussion meeting include buoyancy-driven turbulence, Nusselt and Reynolds number scaling, flow reversals, atmospheric applications, rotating convection, etc.Topics of t...

Buoyancy plays a major role in the dynamics of atmosphere and interiors of planets and stars, as well as in engineering applications. This field has witnessed major advances in recent times in modeling, experiments, and numerical simulations.This program on modeling, experiments, and numerical  aspects of buoyancy-driven flows will bring together researchers working in the areas of astrophysics, fluid turbulence, nonlinear physics, and condensed matter physics. The program is planned as a 4 day school followed by a 5 day discussion meeting.Beside courses of lectures, the school will also contain tutorials on numerical methods. There will be lectures in the discussion meeting on recent results by experts in the field. The aim of the discussions is to foster long-term collaborations among the participants. The topics of the discussion meeting include buoyancy-driven turbulence, Nusselt and Reynolds number scaling, flow reversals, atmospheric applications, rotating convection, etc.Topics of t...

DARK MATTER AND THE SEARCH FOR PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL"Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest."- Jalal-ud-din Rumi of Balkh (1207 - 1273)High energy Physics today has, in a sense, literally entered into a Dark Age. We know for about two decades that the Universe is mainly dark, with more than a quarter being Dark Matter, and roughly two-thirds being Dark Energy. It is only the remaining five percent or so of the Universe which we have been able to investigate thoroughly, and even here all that we have is a very successful  phenomenological model – which we proudly call the Standard Model – which itself has plenty of loopholes. At the moment, both on the theoretical and experimental front, therefore, high energy physicists are essentially groping in the dark for answers to these puzzles. This is a good moment, therefore, to introspect, and it is in this context that the thought-provoking words quoted above become especially relevant, for it is by probing the p...

DARK MATTER AND THE SEARCH FOR PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL"Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest."- Jalal-ud-din Rumi of Balkh (1207 - 1273)High energy Physics today has, in a sense, literally entered into a Dark Age. We know for about two decades that the Universe is mainly dark, with more than a quarter being Dark Matter, and roughly two-thirds being Dark Energy. It is only the remaining five percent or so of the Universe which we have been able to investigate thoroughly, and even here all that we have is a very successful  phenomenological model – which we proudly call the Standard Model – which itself has plenty of loopholes. At the moment, both on the theoretical and experimental front, therefore, high energy physicists are essentially groping in the dark for answers to these puzzles. This is a good moment, therefore, to introspect, and it is in this context that the thought-provoking words quoted above become especially relevant, for it is by probing the p...