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
Past Lectures
The fishnet model - a playground for large N holography
Amit Sever (Tel Aviv University, Israel & CERN, Geneva)
24 June 2019 to 26 June 2019
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Bangalore
Lecture 1: Monday, 24 June 2019 at 14:30 Lecture 2: Tuesday, 25 June 2019 at 14:30 Lecture 3: Wednesday, 26 June 2019 at 11:30 Abstract After two...more
3D gravity, Chern-Simons theory, and Wilson lines
Alejandra Castro (University of Amsterdam)
01 March 2019, 10:00
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Bangalore
Lecture 1 Date & Time: Monday, 25 February 2019, 11:30 AM Lecture 2 Date & Time: Thursday, 28 February 2019, 11:00 AM Lecture 3 Date &...more
The Analytic S-matrix Bootstrap
Alexander Zhiboedov (Theory Division, CERN, Geneva)
29 January 2019 to 31 January 2019
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Bangalore
Lecture 1 : Jan 29, 2019 at 11:00 am Lecture 2 : Jan 30, 2019 at 11:00 am Lecture 3 : Jan 31, 2019 at 11:00 am The S-matrix bootstrap is an old idea...more
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
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