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.

1243369Bulbul Chakraborty 该奖项支持美印热化高级研究所：从玻璃到黑洞，将于 2013 年夏季在班加罗尔印度科学研究所举行。高级研究所 (ASI) 是由布兰代斯大学联合开发的项目以及 USPI Bulbul Chakraborty 和印度同行 Spenta Wadia 领导下的国际理论科学中心 (ICTS)弦理论家和 ICTS 主任，ICTS 是印度首屈一指的塔塔基础研究所（孟买）的一个新的跨学科机构。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据中心地位，但有关热化基本过程及其如何从可逆微观动力学中产生的基本问题仍然没有答案。尽管如此，近几十年来，由于新的实验技术以及统计力学、弦理论和量子信息论理论家的贡献，已经取得了重大进展。拟议的学院将促进对热化的深入讨论，范围从其概念基础到复杂凝聚态物质系统、量子信息理论和弦理论的现代应用。 ASI 的科学目标是提供热化问题的跨学科观点，并为不同领域中出现的思想的交叉融合创建一个论坛。 夏季学院将邀请一批年轻科学家参与经典热化和量子热化的基础知识以及对这些问题的理解现状的讨论。各个子领域的专家都被选在学校讲学，为学生提供应对该领域挑战所需的核心知识。 布兰代斯和 ICTS 的组织者在领导合作研究和组织国际暑期学校方面拥有良好的记录。他们在 ASI 的作用是通过教程和小组讨论在各个子领域之间架起桥梁，从而将讲座中涵盖的主题联系起来。参与者将从理论物理学中竞争性地选出，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美国和印度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的基本问题，并介绍该领域的一些世界领先者。 传播计划包括专业制作视频并在网上发布。印度的合作机构 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。最近在班加罗尔推出的 GLORIAD 将进一步增强 ASI 的影响力，该系统为研究和教育提供专用的高带宽光纤连接。