U.S.-India Advanced Studies Institute on Thermalization: From Glasses to Black Holes, Bangalore, Summer 2013.

美印热化高级研究所：从玻璃到黑洞，班加罗尔，2013 年夏季。

• 批准号: 1243369
• 负责人: Bulbul Chakraborty
• 金额: $ 9.33万
• 依托单位: Brandeis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-01 至 2017-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1243369&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; India; Advanced; Studies; Institute

1243369Bulbul Chakraborty This award supports the U.S.-India Advanced Studies Institute on Thermalization: From Glasses to Black Holes to be held at the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, Summer 2013. The Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) is an endeavor developed jointly by Brandeis University and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) under the leadership of USPI Bulbul Chakraborty and Indian counterpart Spenta Wadia, renowned string theorist and Director of the ICTS, a new interdisciplinary institution of India's premier Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Our understanding of the macroscopic world is based mostly on analyses of equilibrium states. These, however, are distinctive in that they retain no memory of the initial state, and are stationary in time. Despite the centrality of the concept of thermal equilibrium to modern physics, basic questions regarding the fundamental process of thermalization and how it emerges from reversible microscopic dynamics are still unanswered. Nonetheless, in recent decades significant progress has been made due to new experimental techniques and the contributions of theorists from statistical mechanics, string theory, and quantum information theory. The proposed school will promote an intensive discussion of thermalization ranging from its conceptual foundations to modern-day applications in complex condensed matter systems, quantum information theory, and string theory. The scientific goal of the ASI is to provide a cross-disciplinary view of the problem of thermalization and create a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas that have emerged in the different fields. The summer institute will engage a cadre of junior scientists in the discussion of both the fundamentals of classical and quantum thermalization and the current state of understanding of these questions. Experts across subfields have been chosen to lecture at the school and provide students with core knowledge needed to appreciate the challenges in the field. The organizers from Brandeis and ICTS have a proven record in leading collaborative research and organizing international summer schools. Their role at the ASI is to build bridges between the subfields through tutorials and small group discussions, which will tie together topics covered in lectures. Participants will be competitively selected from theoretical physics and include advanced graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty. Thermalization is timely and an area of high importance among theoretical physicists. Broader impacts include fostering international collaborations among the scientific communities of senior and junior scientists from the U.S. and India. The ASI will introduce a new generation of talented young scientists to a fundamental question in theoretical physics and to some world leaders in the field. The dissemination plan includes the professional production of videos that will be made available online. The partner institution in India, ICTS is providing administrative, intellectual, and generous financial support that will ensure the success of the summer institute. The ASI's impact will be further enhanced by the recent launching in Bangalore of GLORIAD that provides dedicated high-band-width fiber-optic connectivity for research and education.

1243369 Bulbul Chakraborty该奖项支持美国-印度热化高级研究所：从眼镜到黑洞，将于2013年夏季在印度科学研究所举行，班加罗尔。高级研究所（ASI）是布兰迪斯大学和国际理论科学中心（ICTS）在USPI Bulbul Chakraborty和印度同行Spenta Wadia的领导下共同开发的一项奋进，Spenta Wadia是着名的弦理论家和ICTS主任，这是印度首屈一指的塔塔基础研究所的新跨学科机构，孟买。我们对宏观世界的理解主要基于对平衡态的分析。 然而，它们的独特之处在于它们不保留初始状态的记忆，并且在时间上是静止的。尽管热平衡概念在现代物理学中占有中心地位，但有关热化的基本过程以及它如何从可逆微观动力学中出现的基本问题仍然没有得到解答。尽管如此，近几十年来，由于新的实验技术和统计力学、弦理论和量子信息理论的理论家的贡献，已经取得了重大进展。拟议的学校将促进热化的深入讨论，从其概念基础到复杂凝聚态系统，量子信息理论和弦理论的现代应用。 意大利航天局的科学目标是提供一个关于热化问题的跨学科观点，并为不同领域出现的想法的相互交流创造一个论坛。 暑期研究所将邀请一批年轻科学家讨论经典和量子热化的基本原理以及对这些问题的理解现状。跨子领域的专家已被选中在学校讲课，并为学生提供所需的核心知识，以欣赏该领域的挑战。 来自布兰迪斯和ICTS的组织者在领导合作研究和组织国际暑期学校方面有着良好的记录。他们在ASI的作用是通过教程和小组讨论在子领域之间建立桥梁，这将把讲座中涉及的主题联系在一起。参与者将从理论物理中竞争性地选出，包括高级研究生，博士后和初级教师。热化是及时的，也是理论物理学家高度重视的领域。 更广泛的影响包括促进来自美国和印度的高级和初级科学家科学界之间的国际合作。ASI将向新一代有才华的年轻科学家介绍理论物理学中的一个基本问题和该领域的一些世界领导者。 传播计划包括专业制作视频，将在网上提供。印度的伙伴机构ICTS正在提供行政、智力和慷慨的财政支持，以确保暑期学院的成功。最近在班加罗尔启动了GLORIAD，为研究和教育提供专用的高带宽光纤连接，这将进一步加强意大利空间局的影响。