This one-day discussion meeting celebrates the life and work of the pioneering black hole physicist C. V. Vishveshwara. The morning session will feature four scientific talks summarizing various aspects of Vishveshwara’s scientific work and will discuss the spin offs and the state of the art of these areas. The afternoon session will feature a few short talks summarizing Vishveshwara’s contribution to science popularization and science education and personal reminiscences by participants.
This one-day discussion meeting celebrates the life and work of the pioneering black hole physicist C. V. Vishveshwara. The morning session will feature four scientific talks summarizing various aspects of Vishveshwara’s scientific work and will discuss the spin offs and the state of the art of these areas. The afternoon session will feature a few short talks summarizing Vishveshwara’s contribution to science popularization and science education and personal reminiscences by participants.
This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community which is attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics.This meeting would be the 4th in this series of meetingsThis meeting will cover all the 8 Topics covered at STATPHYS meetings, namely:General and mathematical aspects rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects driven 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 matter strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase t...
This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community which is attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics.This meeting would be the 4th in this series of meetingsThis meeting will cover all the 8 Topics covered at STATPHYS meetings, namely:General and mathematical aspects rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects driven 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 matter strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase t...
Jet-substructure physics is a relatively new and exciting topic in particle physics. In collider experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment located at CERN, a typical observed event is characterised by a handful of standard constructs such as isolated leptons/photons and QCD jets. In a traditional collider physics project, these standard tagged-objects are considered to be irreducible, and only the kinematic information of these objects is used. In a typical study on collider phenomenology, for example, one uses this information in order to distinguish and identify events due to Beyond Standard Model physics (signal events) from events due to the Standard Model physics (considered background). Substructure techniques extend traditional collider phenomenology in order to extract further information out of each collider event.Given the investment and effort that the particle physics community of the world has made at the LHC, the need and importance of the proposed r...
Jet-substructure physics is a relatively new and exciting topic in particle physics. In collider experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment located at CERN, a typical observed event is characterised by a handful of standard constructs such as isolated leptons/photons and QCD jets. In a traditional collider physics project, these standard tagged-objects are considered to be irreducible, and only the kinematic information of these objects is used. In a typical study on collider phenomenology, for example, one uses this information in order to distinguish and identify events due to Beyond Standard Model physics (signal events) from events due to the Standard Model physics (considered background). Substructure techniques extend traditional collider phenomenology in order to extract further information out of each collider event.Given the investment and effort that the particle physics community of the world has made at the LHC, the need and importance of the proposed r...
String theory has come a long way, from its origin in 1970's as a possible model of strong interactions, to the present day where it sheds light not only on the original problem of strong interactions, but also on quantum gravity, black hole physics, hydrodynamics, condensed matter systems and particle physics, besides providing tools to explore new structures in quantum field theory and mathematics.String theorists from India have played a major role in the development of the subject. The meeting will celebrate the ongoing journey of String theory in the form of exposition and discussion of developments at its frontier. There will be talks by the invited speakers from all around the world covering various frontier areas of string theory.The talks will broadly cover the following areas:Black hole physicsFormal developments in String theoryApplications of gauge gravity duality to non-equilibium physicsSupersymmetric quantum field theoriesCosmologyHydrodynamicsQuantum entanglementBose-Fe...
String theory has come a long way, from its origin in 1970's as a possible model of strong interactions, to the present day where it sheds light not only on the original problem of strong interactions, but also on quantum gravity, black hole physics, hydrodynamics, condensed matter systems and particle physics, besides providing tools to explore new structures in quantum field theory and mathematics.String theorists from India have played a major role in the development of the subject. The meeting will celebrate the ongoing journey of String theory in the form of exposition and discussion of developments at its frontier. There will be talks by the invited speakers from all around the world covering various frontier areas of string theory.The talks will broadly cover the following areas:Black hole physicsFormal developments in String theoryApplications of gauge gravity duality to non-equilibium physicsSupersymmetric quantum field theoriesCosmologyHydrodynamicsQuantum entanglementBose-Fe...
Information theory and computational complexity have emerged as central concepts in the study of biological and physical systems, in both the classical and quantum realm. The low-energy landscape of classical and quantum systems can be characterized in terms of constraint satisfaction problems, with the physical behavior of these theories – for example, glassy behavior – governed by the computational complexity of such problems. Information theory also provides a language for laying the foundations of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, and plays a central role in understanding the emergence of a small number of useful parameters in models of physical and biological phenomena.This school, organized jointly by the ICTS and Brandeis University, will cover a variety of forefront research topics in physics and biology, in which information and computation play a central role:• Thermodynamics of information processing• Coding and computation in statistical mechanics• Quantum information i...
Information theory and computational complexity have emerged as central concepts in the study of biological and physical systems, in both the classical and quantum realm. The low-energy landscape of classical and quantum systems can be characterized in terms of constraint satisfaction problems, with the physical behavior of these theories – for example, glassy behavior – governed by the computational complexity of such problems. Information theory also provides a language for laying the foundations of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, and plays a central role in understanding the emergence of a small number of useful parameters in models of physical and biological phenomena.This school, organized jointly by the ICTS and Brandeis University, will cover a variety of forefront research topics in physics and biology, in which information and computation play a central role:• Thermodynamics of information processing• Coding and computation in statistical mechanics• Quantum information i...
The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is a striking example of conjectures in number theory, specifically in arithmetic geometry, that has abundant numerical evidence but not a complete general solution. An elliptic curve, say E, can be represented by points on a cubic equation as below with certain A, B ∈ Q:y2 = x3 + Ax +BA Theorem of Mordell says that that E(Q), the set of rational points of E, is a finitely generated abelian group, and thus,E(Q) = Zr ⊕ T,for some non-negative integer r and a finite group T. Here, r is called the algebraic rank of E.The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relates the algebraic rank of E to the value of the L-function, L(E, s), attached to E at s = 1.Further theoretical understanding, corroborated by computations lead to a stronger version of the BSD conjecture. This refined version of the BSD conjecture provides a very precise formula for the leading term of L(E, s) at s = 1, the coefficient of (s − 1)r, in terms of various arithmetical data atta...
The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is a striking example of conjectures in number theory, specifically in arithmetic geometry, that has abundant numerical evidence but not a complete general solution. An elliptic curve, say E, can be represented by points on a cubic equation as below with certain A, B ∈ Q:y2 = x3 + Ax +BA Theorem of Mordell says that that E(Q), the set of rational points of E, is a finitely generated abelian group, and thus,E(Q) = Zr ⊕ T,for some non-negative integer r and a finite group T. Here, r is called the algebraic rank of E.The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relates the algebraic rank of E to the value of the L-function, L(E, s), attached to E at s = 1.Further theoretical understanding, corroborated by computations lead to a stronger version of the BSD conjecture. This refined version of the BSD conjecture provides a very precise formula for the leading term of L(E, s) at s = 1, the coefficient of (s − 1)r, in terms of various arithmetical data atta...
