Triangle Seminars
June 2020
Jun
2020
Description:
Mathematica Summer School is a unique international event in theoretical physics, with a long history of success. It has a unique format; the morning sessions are reserved for lecture sessions on theoretical aspects and in the afternoon, students and mentors get together to solve complicated problems using the software Mathematica - a popular computational tool in theoretical physics.
This summer school aims to equip young researchers with skills required to use modern computational tools and to provide them a platform to interact with experts from different mathematical fields, including computer algebra systems.
The topic for the 2019 edition of the Mathematica Summer School is Γ’β¬Λd>2 Conformal Field TheoriesΓ’β¬β’. It will focus on using Mathematica to explore physical and mathematical properties of conformal field theories (CFTs), in generic dimensions; an active area of modern mathematical physics. It will also cover various other aspects of CFTs, including integrability, holography, conformal bootstrap, topological sectors and mathematical aspects.
Lecturers include :
Till Bargheer, Hannover University and DESY
Nikolay Gromov, KingΓ’β¬β’s College London
Jason Harris, Wolfram
Aninda Sinha, Indian Institute of Science
Pedro Vieira, Perimeter Institute and ICTP Γ’β¬β SAIFR
Alexander Zhiboedov, CERN
Registration is open to PhD students, early PostDocs and advanced undergraduate and masters students in Theoretical Physics
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 22 February 2020
CONTACT US: msstp2020@icts.res.in
PROGRAM LINK: https://www.icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/msstp2020
For any further details feel free to contact:
Julius,
Mathematics Department,
King's College London
Email: julius.julius@kcl.ac.uk
Mathematica Summer School is a unique international event in theoretical physics, with a long history of success. It has a unique format; the morning sessions are reserved for lecture sessions on theoretical aspects and in the afternoon, students and mentors get together to solve complicated problems using the software Mathematica - a popular computational tool in theoretical physics.
This summer school aims to equip young researchers with skills required to use modern computational tools and to provide them a platform to interact with experts from different mathematical fields, including computer algebra systems.
The topic for the 2019 edition of the Mathematica Summer School is Γ’β¬Λd>2 Conformal Field TheoriesΓ’β¬β’. It will focus on using Mathematica to explore physical and mathematical properties of conformal field theories (CFTs), in generic dimensions; an active area of modern mathematical physics. It will also cover various other aspects of CFTs, including integrability, holography, conformal bootstrap, topological sectors and mathematical aspects.
Lecturers include :
Till Bargheer, Hannover University and DESY
Nikolay Gromov, KingΓ’β¬β’s College London
Jason Harris, Wolfram
Aninda Sinha, Indian Institute of Science
Pedro Vieira, Perimeter Institute and ICTP Γ’β¬β SAIFR
Alexander Zhiboedov, CERN
Registration is open to PhD students, early PostDocs and advanced undergraduate and masters students in Theoretical Physics
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 22 February 2020
CONTACT US: msstp2020@icts.res.in
PROGRAM LINK: https://www.icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/msstp2020
For any further details feel free to contact:
Julius,
Mathematics Department,
King's College London
Email: julius.julius@kcl.ac.uk
Posted by: julius.julius@kcl.ac.uk
February 2020
Feb
2020
Description:
After a short break, we're back with the Early Researcher Triangle Seminars! This time we have Rahim Leung from Imperial. Find details of the talk below.
Date: 26/02/2020 (Wednesday)
Time: 17:30
Place: North Wing B4, Strand Campus, King's College London
Title: Introduction to Supergravity
Abstract: In this seminar, I will provide a survey of a set of milestone solutions to supergravity. These solutions, ranging from the simple flat space solution, to the more intricate brane solutions, have brought about paradigm shifts in our understanding of supergravities and string theory as a whole. As part of this survey, I will start from the simplest solutions and move on to the more complicated ones, and show how they were first thought up and derived. One criticism of supergravities is that they do not allow solutions with a localised 4-dimensional de Sitter vacuua. I will show that there exists variant supergravities that support spacetimes with more than one time signature that do in fact admit localised 4-dimensional de Sitter vacuua, and that these theories can be related to the usual supergravities by a web of dualities. Hopefully, by the end of this seminar, you will all have a better understanding of how solutions to supergravity can be obtained, and if you already know all of these solutions beforehand, have a better appreciation of the importance of these solutions.
After a short break, we're back with the Early Researcher Triangle Seminars! This time we have Rahim Leung from Imperial. Find details of the talk below.
Date: 26/02/2020 (Wednesday)
Time: 17:30
Place: North Wing B4, Strand Campus, King's College London
Title: Introduction to Supergravity
Abstract: In this seminar, I will provide a survey of a set of milestone solutions to supergravity. These solutions, ranging from the simple flat space solution, to the more intricate brane solutions, have brought about paradigm shifts in our understanding of supergravities and string theory as a whole. As part of this survey, I will start from the simplest solutions and move on to the more complicated ones, and show how they were first thought up and derived. One criticism of supergravities is that they do not allow solutions with a localised 4-dimensional de Sitter vacuua. I will show that there exists variant supergravities that support spacetimes with more than one time signature that do in fact admit localised 4-dimensional de Sitter vacuua, and that these theories can be related to the usual supergravities by a web of dualities. Hopefully, by the end of this seminar, you will all have a better understanding of how solutions to supergravity can be obtained, and if you already know all of these solutions beforehand, have a better appreciation of the importance of these solutions.
Posted by: rishi.mouland@kcl.ac.uk