Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics

9th edition (2020) - advanced methods in QFT

kolya — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:45:58 +0000

UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 outbreak this event will be postponed or cancelled

More details will be provided in due course.
Please do not book any flights or other travel arrangements at the moment.

9th edition (2020) 22nd to the 27th of June

The next edition of the Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics will take place at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India, 22nd to the 27th of June of 2020. The school topic is advanced methods in QFT. More details on the program of the school to be anounced later.

Registration will be open soon.

Lecturers include:

Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN)
Till Bargheer
Aninda Sinha (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Jason Harris (Senior developer, Wolfram Research)
Pedro Vieira (PI Canada, ICTP Brazil)
Nikolay Gromov (King's College London)

Organizers: Nikolay Gromov, Pedro Vieira, Julius [N/A]

Local Organizers: Aninda Sinha, Julius [N/A]

Registration fee: No registration fee

Accommodation and meals: Provided for the selected participants

Registration now open

Please register at
registration form.

8th edition (2016) - Random Matrix Theory and applications

pedro — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:33:32 +0000

Competition

send your solutions for the competition here

send your talks here

The next edition of the Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics will take place at Humboldt University (Campus Adlershof), Berlin, Germany, from the 15th to the 19th of August of 2016. The school topic is Random Matrix Theory and its applications. More information and the application form is available here.

Lecturers include:

Alexander Migdal "Large Matrices in Physics and Finance"
Vladimir Kazakov (ENS Paris)
Alexei Morozov (ITEP, NRNU MEPhI, IITP Moscow)
Joao Caetano (ENS Paris)
''From Integrable Field Theories to Feynman Graphs and Vice-versa via Matrix Models''
Jason Harris (Wolfram)
Nikolay Gromov (King's College London)

Registration is over

Organizers Nikolay Gromov, Vladimir Kazakov, Pedro Vieira

Registration fee The registration fee is of 100 Euro per person. It covers coffee breaks, lunches and a conference dinner (BBQ).

Accommodation The accommodation is not centrally arranged, however, we blocked some rooms in hotels on the campus and the HU guesthouse in Mitte. More information can be found here.

[Click links below for the videos.]

Conference Venue

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Adlershof
Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum, Lecture Hall 0.115
Rudower Chaussee 26
12489 Berlin

see here for more information.

7th edition (2015) - Entanglement

pedro — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:16:29 +0000

The last edition of the Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics took place at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, from the 24th to the 29th of August of 2015. The school topic was Entanglement. More information here. Lecturers:

- Horacio Casini (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina)
- Nikolay Gromov (Kings College, UK)
- Jason Harris (Wolfram Research, US)
- Juan Maldacena (Insitute for Advanced Studies, US)
- Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute, Canada)
- Guifre Vidal (Perimeter Institute, Canada)
- Wilke van der Schee (MIT, US)
- Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute, Canada)

[Click links below for the videos.]

6th edition (2014) - Selected Topics in Holography

pedro — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:06:55 +0000

The last edition of the Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics took place in Porto, Portugual, from the 21st to the 26th of July of 2014. The school was devoted to selected topics in holography. This event was part of a longer program/school taking place in July in Portugal. See here for more information. Lecturers:

Simone Giombi (Princeton University, US)
Nikolay Gromov (Kings College, UK)
Jason Harris (Wolfram Research, US)
Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute, CAN)
Toby Wiseman (Imperial College, UK)
Laurence Yaffe (University of Washington, US)

(see attachment for group photo)

5th edition (2013) - Conformal Field Theories in Higher Dimensions and the Conformal Bootstrap

pedro — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:40:22 +0000

The 5th edition of the Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics was held in Italy, in ICTP-Trieste from the 11th to the 16th of March of 2013. Application form available here. The school was be devoted to Conformal Field Theories in higher dimensions and the Conformal Bootstrap program. For a longer description see below

Lecturers:

Davide Gaiotto, Perimeter Institute, Canada
Nikolay Gromov, Kings College London, UK
Gregory Korchemsky, CEA Saclay, France
Joao Penedones, Porto University, Portugal
David Simmons-Duffin, Institute for Advanced Studies, USA
Pedro Vieira, Perimeter Institute, Canada

The event is organized partly as an activity within the GATIS network

One physical motivation for studying the four-dimensional conformal theories is to learn more about Gauge theories such as QCD. Four-dimensional CFTs also often pop up in various scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model, meant to solve puzzles related to flavor physics, the hierarchy problem, etc. Three-dimensional CFTs describe the critical behavior of condensed matter systems and holographically define quantum gravity in four dimensions.

In recent years, great progress has been achieved towards the exact solution of some three- and four-dimensional CFTs, thanks to the AdS/CFT correspondence and to the application of integrability techniques. The best known examples are N=4 SYM in d=4 and the ABJM theory in d=3, for which the exact spectrum is largely understood. A complete solution of these theories will be a major breakthrough in theoretical physics. Given the spectrum, it is very natural to ask what are the constraints of crossing symmetry on higher-point functions. Are there hidden symmetries such as the recently uncovered permutation symmetry, awaiting to be unveiled? Can Integrability help computing higher point functions?

The question can also be asked holographically, and we intend to discuss higher-point correlation functions in AdS/CFT. In particular, representations via Mellin-type integrals recently led to efficient recursion relation techniques for computing Witten diagrams.

An independent, but clearly related, line of research that has had notable recent success is the study of general bounds in CFTs that follow from crossing symmetry and unitarity. This method can also be applied to important models which are not known to be integrable, such as the 3D Ising model. Finally, we would like to see if recent insights about RG flows connecting UV and IR conformal fixed points, like the proof of the a-theorem in 4-dimensions and the F-conjecture in 3-dimensions, can be put to use in the context of the bootstrap. A possible connection with the ongoing studies of the entanglement entropy is also interesting to explore.