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2023: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - XIV

  1. Statistical mechanics of complex networks by Sitabhra Sinha (IMSc, Chennai)
  2. Bacterial Chemotaxis by Sakuntala Chatterjee (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
  3. Physics of the Glass Transition by Ludovic Berthier (University of Montpellier, France)
  4. Stochastic Resetting by Arnab Pal (IMSc, Chennai)
  5. Hydrodynamics of lattice gases by Herbert Spohn (Technical University of Munich)
  6. Collective dynamics of complex systems by Ram Ramaswamy (IIT Delhi)

2022: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - XIII

  1. Statistical physics of Turbulence — Jérémie Bec (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice)
  2. Spin glasses — Chandan Dasgupta (ICTS and IISc, Bangalore) 
  3. Stochastic chemical reaction networks — Supriya Krishnamurthy (Stockholm University, Stockholm)
  4. Pattern formation in Biology  — Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy (ICTS, Bangalore)
  5. Stochastic Gradient Descent and Machine Learning — Praneeth Netrapalli (Google Research India, Bangalore)
  6. Statistical physics of long-range systems — Stefano Ruffo (SISSA, Trieste) and Nicolò Defenu (ETH Zürich, Zürich)

2021: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - XII

  1. Introduction to Statistical field theories of athermal systems by Bulbul Chakrabarty (Brandeis University, US)
  2. Out of equilibrium dynamics of complex systems by Leticia Cugliandolo (Sorbonne University, France)
  3. Introduction to open quantum systems by Manas Kulkarni (ICTS, Bangalore)
  4. Dyson Brownian motion, free fermions and connections to Random Matrix Theory by Gregory Schehr (Sorbonne University, France)
  5. Non-equilibrium and periodically driven quantum systems by Arnab Sen (IACS, Kolkata)
  6. Markov processes and applications by Hugo Touchette (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

2020: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - XI

  1. Nonequilibrium response theory by Urna Basu (RRI, Bengaluru, India)
  2. Topology in statistical physics by Subhro Bhattacharjee (ICTS, Bengaluru, India)
  3. Statistical mechanics of developed turbulence by Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
  4. Statistical physics of rare events and large deviations by Yariv Kafri (Technion -
  5. Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

2019: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - X

  1. From classical elasticity to topological mechanics by Tom Lubensky (UPENN., USA)
  2. Statistical physics of hard rods by Deepak Dhar (IISER, Pune)
  3. Statistical physics of biological evolution by Joachim Krug (Cologne, Germany)
  4. Random matrix theory and related topics by Satya N. Majumdar (Orsay, France) 
  5. Heat transport in low-dimensional systems by Abhishek Dhar (ICTS, Bangalore)
  6. Extremes and records by Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI, Bangalore)

2018: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - IX

  1. Preparatory​ lecturers by Abhishek​ Dhar​ ​(ICTS) and​ Sanjib​ Sabhapandit (RRI)
  2. Stochastic​ density​ functional​ theory​ for​ interacting​ Brownian​ particles by David​ ​Dean​ (Bordeaux,​ France)
  3. Mechanics​ of​ wrinkling,​ folding,​ and​ crumpling by Narayanan​ ​Menon​ (UMASS,​ USA)
  4. Network Dynamics by Sandeep Krishna (NCBS) and Shashi Thutupalli (NCBS-ICTS)
  5. Quantum​ computation by Peter​ ​Young​ (UCSC,​ USA)
  6. Quantum​ chaos,​ random​ matrices​ and​ statistical​ physics by Arul​ ​Lakshminarayan​ (IIT​ Madras,​ Chennai)
  7. Interacting​ particle​ systems by Anupam​​ Kundu​ (ICTS,​ Bangalore)

2017: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - VIII

  1. Preparatory lectures by Abhishek Dhar (ICTS) and Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI)
  2. Critical dynamics by Uwe C Täuber (Virginia Tech, USA)
  3. Thermalization in quantum systems by Subroto Mukerjee (IISc, Bangalore)
  4. Non-equilibrium statistical physics: Introductory examples by Sidney Redner (Santa Fe USA)
  5. Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics by John Cardy (UC Berkeley, USA)
  6. Macroscopic fluctuation theory by Tridib Sadhu (TIFR, Mumbai)
  7. Statistical physics of active matter by (Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore)

2016: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - VII

  1. Preparatory lectures by Abhishek Dhar (ICTS) and Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI)
  2. Renormalization group theory by Mustansir Barma (TCIS, TIFR, Hyderabad)
  3. Quantum critical phenomena by Kedar Damle (TIFR, Mumbai)
  4. Interacting particle systems by Martin R. Evans (Edinburgh, UK); 
  5. Population genetics by Kavita Jain (JNCASR, Bangalore)
  6. Exactly solved models by R. Rajesh (IMSc, Chennai)
  7. Driven diffusive systems by Gunter Schütz (Jülich, Germany)

2015: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - VI

  1. Introductory lectures on statistical physics - Abhishek Dhar (ICTS) and Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI)
  2. Introduction to soft matter physics - D. Pine (NewYork)
  3. Directed percolation and Sandpile models - D. Dhar (TIFR)
  4. Statistical Mechanics of Systems with Long-Range Interactions - D. Mukamel (Weizmann Institute)
  5. Interacting particle systems - M. Barma (TIFR)
  6. Physics of Molecular Motors - D. Chowdhury (IITK)
  7. Large deviation functions and fluctuation relations in nonequilibrium systems - S. Sasa (Kyoto)

2014: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - V

  1. Introduction to stochastic processes – Abhishek Dhar and Sanjib Sabhapandit
  2. Introduction to fluid dynamics and turbulence - Jayanta Bhattacharjee
  3. Dissipative quantum systems - Sushanta Dattagupta
  4. Bethe Ansatz: technique and applications - Kirone Mallick
  5. Introduction to random matrix theory - Satya Majumdar
  6. Introduction to statistical field theory – Sumit Das

2013: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - IV

  1. Theoretical methods in soft matter physics - Ronojoy Adhikari (IMSc, Chennai)
  2. Models of nonequilibrium physics - Satya N. Majumdar (LPTMS Orsay, France)
  3. Anomalous diffusion - Ralf Metzler (University of Potsdam and Tampere UT)
  4. Kinetics of phase transitions - Sanjay Puri (JNU, Delhi)
  5. Introduction to soft matter physics - V. A. Raghunathan (RRI, Bangalore)
  6. Introduction to biomolecular networks - Anirvan Sengupta (Rutgers, USA)

2012: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - III

  1. Physics of polymers - S. M. Bhattacharjee (IOP, Bhubaneshwar)
  2. Measuring nonequilibrium fluctuations - S. Ciliberto (ENS Lyon, France)
  3. Introduction to stochastic processes and dynamical systems - A. Dhar and S. Sabhapandit (RRI, Bangalore)
  4. Dynamical systems and fluctuation relations - G. Gallavotti (University of Rome, Italy)
  5. Nonequilibrium work relations and fluctuation theorems - C. Jarzynski (University of Maryland, US)
  6. Brownian motion on curved surfaces - J. Samuel (RRI, Bangalore)

2011: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - II

  1. Nonlinear dynamics and chaos - V. Balakrishnan (IITM, Chennai)
  2. Physics of granular matter - Eli Ben-Naim (LANL, US)
  3. Critical phenomena and renormalization group - Chandan Dasgupta (IISc, Bangalore)
  4. Turbulence in nonequilibrium systems - R. Rajesh (IMSc, Chennai)
  5. Nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum systems - Marcos Rigol (Georgetown University, US)
  6. Quantum spin systems, quenching and entanglement - Diptiman Sen (IISc, Bangalore)

2010: Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - I

  1. Interacting particle systems- Mustansir Barma (TIFR, Mumbai)
  2. Transport and linear response theory- Abhishek Dhar (RRI, Bangalore)
  3. Exactly solved models - Deepak Dhar (TIFR, Mumbai)
  4. Introduction to fluid mechanics - Rama Govindarajan (JNCASR, Bangalore)
  5. Introduction to biological physics - Gautam Menon (IMSc, Chennai)
  6. Coarse-grained dynamical models - Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore)
  7. Stochastic processes - Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI, Bangalore)