String Theory Lectures

The ICTS-Infosys string theory lectures are delivered by leading physicists in current areas of research in string theory as well as closely related areas influenced by developments in string theory. These lectures start at a level suited to a beginning graduate student and advance to current open ended research problems in these topics.

Upcoming Lectures

Musings on entanglement entropy in string theory

Raghu Mahajan (Princeton University)

21 January 2019 to 24 January 2019

Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Bangalore

Lecture 1: Jan 21, 2019 at 11:00 am Lecture 2: Jan 23, 2019 at 11:00 am Lecture 3: Jan 24, 2019 at 11:00 am Abstract: Entanglement entropy in quantum...more

Past Lectures

4D Supersymmetric Dynamics from 6D

Sergei Razamat (Technion, Israel)

11 December 2018 to 13 December 2018

Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Bangalore

Lecture 1 : Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 11:00 AM Lecture 2 : Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 11:00 AM Lecture 3 : Thursday, 13 December 2018, 10:00 AM...more

Aspect of De Sitter Space

Dionysios Anninos (King's College London, United Kingdom)

29 October 2018 to 01 November 2018

Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS campus

We overview some aspects of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes at the classical and quantum level. We discuss some features of the late time de...more

Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Information Paradox in 2d CFT

Jared Kaplan ( Johns Hopkins University, USA )

06 December 2017, 14:30 to 16:00

Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Campus, Bangalore

I will discuss how black hole thermodynamics in 2+1 dimensional gravity arises universally from 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory at large...more