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The theme of the Fourth Summer Program on Dynamics of Complex Systems 2019 (DCS2019) is “Social Sciences & Economics”.One of the major areas of study in complexity science is in the realm of Humanities and Social Sciences that deals with the theoretical understanding of the evolution and development of societies and social thoughts - their structure, function, interaction and dynamics. Most processes here are based on collective behaviorcunder a set of evolvable norms. Studies have been done to understand how ancient societies have evolved and conditions under which they have disappeared; evolution of thoughts that influence the course of social structure; diffusion of information in collectives and emergence of innovation and new practices. Such studies involve deciphering the role of collective cognition in using technology, such as the internet and other institutions, and their role in economic activities (pricing, markets, etc.) that influence decision making under different condit...

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 2018-2019. Over a period of two weeks, the school shall aim at helping young students gain broader exposure to problem solving skills in mathematics and statistics at the undergraduate level.Specific topics that will be covered are:Mathematical ThinkingAdvanced CalculusLinear AlgebraProbability and StatisticsThere 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 range from across all sciences and the lecture will be made accessible to all the participants. Ot...

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 2018-2019. Over a period of two weeks, the school shall aim at helping young students gain broader exposure to problem solving skills in mathematics and statistics at the undergraduate level.Specific topics that will be covered are:Mathematical ThinkingAdvanced CalculusLinear AlgebraProbability and StatisticsThere 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 range from across all sciences and the lecture will be made accessible to all the participants. Ot...

Strongly interacting phases of QCD matter at extreme temperature and densities are complex and perplexing, yet they can reveal a lot about the fundamental dynamics of gauge theories. One such phase is the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), which was formed in the microsecond-old Universe and has recently been successfully recreated in the major collider experiments at CERN and BNL. Upcoming experiments will probe QCD matter further in the high baryon density regime revealing many features of the complex phase diagram. Recently new insights on cold dense QCD matter which inhabit the core of neutron stars have come from observations of new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Theoretical description of how such phases of QCD matter were formed from perturbative processes and their equilibration and thermodynamic and real-time properties pose one of the most difficult challenges in theoretical physics today.The goal of this program is to train the younger researchers comprehensively for confronting t...

Strongly interacting phases of QCD matter at extreme temperature and densities are complex and perplexing, yet they can reveal a lot about the fundamental dynamics of gauge theories. One such phase is the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), which was formed in the microsecond-old Universe and has recently been successfully recreated in the major collider experiments at CERN and BNL. Upcoming experiments will probe QCD matter further in the high baryon density regime revealing many features of the complex phase diagram. Recently new insights on cold dense QCD matter which inhabit the core of neutron stars have come from observations of new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Theoretical description of how such phases of QCD matter were formed from perturbative processes and their equilibration and thermodynamic and real-time properties pose one of the most difficult challenges in theoretical physics today.The goal of this program is to train the younger researchers comprehensively for confronting t...