ICTS

The steady increase in computational power of information processors over the past half-century has led to smart phones and the internet, changing commerce and our social lives. Up to now, the primary way that computational power has increased is that the electronic components have been made...more

Thirty-five years after it was postulated as a key component of the theory of weak interactions, the Higgs boson was discovered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Since that time, many decay modes of the Higgs boson have been observed, indicating couplings of the Higgs boson in good accord...more

General relativity and quantum mechanics were crowning achievements of physics in the 20th century, and their unification has been left as our homework in the 21st century. Superstring theory is our best candidate for the unification. Although predictions of the theory are typically at extremely...more

Abstract : A perspective on large N theories: their role in quantum field theory, in gauge-gravity dualities and an introduction to the SYK model. This lecture is a part of Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology 2018more

Calabi-Yau manifolds play an important role in physics owing to the part they play in passing from a 10-dimensional string theory vacuum to the observed world of four dimensions. The process of calculating the four - dimensional quantities usually involves a calculation of certain period integrals...more

In this talk we propose a new definition of science based on the distinction between the activity of scientists and the product of that activity: the former is denoted (lower-case) science and the latter (upper-case) Science. These definitions are intended to clarify the nature of scientific...more

The theory of holomorphic vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface is a vast "non-abelian" generalisation of the classical theory of the Jacobian variety. The Jacobian, a complex torus, arose in the work of Abel, Jacobi and Riemann on abelian integrals on compact Riemann surfaces. The non-...more

The GR session has been planned to commemorate and celebrate 100 years of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity on the afternoon of Friday, 26th June, 2015 at the Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru. This special session will be chaired by Prof. Gary Horowitz, University...more

Everywhere we turn these days, we find that networks can be used to describe relevant interactions.In the high tech world, we see the Internet, the World Wide Web, mobile phone networks, and a variety of online social networks.In economics, we are increasingly experiencing both the positive and...more

Understanding whether (and how often) a mathematical expression takes a square value is a problem that has fascinated mathematicians since antiquity. In this lecture a survey of this problem, starting from its independent origins in many cultures in ancient times to some of the major advances of...more