Programs
ICTS provides a platform for researchers working on diverse subjects to congregate during high-quality programs of varying durations. These highly interactive sessions endorse research areas that are especially contemporary, important and intellectually challenging. The programs contribute to transforming the way people approach research, venture into unexplored directions, nurture new frontiers of science and encourage collaborations. ICTS also encourages cross-disciplinary immersions and collaborations between theorists and experimentalists, and fosters research areas of importance to India.
Current programs
Dynamics of Complex Systems - 2017
10 May 2017 to 08 July 2017
Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
This Summer Program on Dynamics of Complex Systems is second in the series. The theme for the program this year is Mathematical Biology. Over the past decades, the focus of many of those working in...more
  • Organizers: 
    Amit Apte, Soumitro Banerjee, Pranay Goel, Partha Guha, Neelima Gupte, Amitabha Nandi, Ram Ramaswamy, G. Rangarajan and Somdatta Sinha
  • Application deadline:  26 March 2017
  • Contact:  dcs  ictsresin
Upcoming programs
Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - VIII
28 June 2017 to 14 July 2017
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru
This advanced level school is the eighth in the series. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of...more
  • Organizers: 
    Abhishek Dhar and Sanjib Sabhapandit
  • Application deadline:  31 January 2017
  • Contact:  bssp  ictsresin
Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
17 July 2017 to 28 July 2017
Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
This school is a part of the annual ICTS summer schools in gravitational wave astronomy. This year’s school will focus on the physics and astrophysics of compact objects, in particular, of neutron...more
  • Organizers: 
    Parameswaran Ajith, K. G. Arun and Bala R. Iyer
  • Application deadline:  20 May 2017
  • Contact:  gwschool  ictsresin
Open Quantum Systems
17 July 2017 to 04 August 2017
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
There have been major recent breakthroughs, both experimental and theoretical, in the field of Open Quantum Systems. The aim of this program is to bring together leaders in the Open Quantum Systems...more
  • Organizers: 
    Abhishek Dhar, Manas Kulkarni, Jason Petta, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Sadiq Rangwala, Dibyendu Roy and Rajamani Vijayaraghavan
  • Application deadline:  01 December 2016
  • Contact:  oqs  ictsresin
Large deviation theory in statistical physics: Recent advances and future challenges
14 August 2017 to 13 October 2017
Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru
Large deviation theory made its way into statistical physics as a mathematical framework for studying equilibrium systems, and is now increasingly used for studying nonequilibrium systems driven in...more
  • Organizers: 
    Arvind Ayyer, Frank den Hollander, Abhishek Dhar, Juan P. Garrahan, Christopher Jarzynski, Manjunath Krishnapur, Tony Lelievre, Sanjib Sabhapandit and Hugo Touchette
  • Application deadline:  28 February 2017
  • Contact:  ldt  ictsresin
Geometry, Groups and Dynamics (GGD) - 2017
06 November 2017 to 24 November 2017
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru
The program focuses on geometry, dynamical systems and group actions. Topics are chosen to cover the modern aspects of these areas in which research has been very active in recent times. The program...more
  • Organizers: 
    C. S. Aravinda, Shrikrishna Dani, Krishnendu Gongopadhyay and Athanase Papadopoulos
  • Application deadline:  31 May 2017
  • Contact:  ggd2017  ictsresin
Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology
04 December 2017 to 22 December 2017
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru
The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), are organizing a Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology (...more
  • Organizers: 
    Sidhartha Goyal, Kavita Jain, Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy, Luca Peliti and Mukund Thattai
  • Application deadline:  01 July 2017
  • Contact:  qsb2017  ictsresin
J-Holomorphic Curves and Gromov-Witten Invariants
25 December 2017 to 04 January 2018
Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bangalore
Holomorphic curves are a central object of study in complex algebraic geometry. Such curves are meaningful even when the target has an almost complex structure. The moduli space of these curves (...more
  • Organizers: 
    Somnath Basu, Rukmini Dey and Ritwik Mukherjee
  • Contact:  jhgw2017  ictsresin
Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology 2018
08 January 2018 to 18 January 2018
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effort of high energy theorists from China, India, Japan and Korea to give young researchers in...more
  • Organizers: 
    Minxin Huang, Sangmin Lee, Sungjay Lee, Loganayagam R, Suvrat Raju, Tadashi Takayanagi, Masahito Yamazaki and Gang Yang
  • Application deadline:  15 September 2017
  • Contact:  kaws2018  ictsresin
Third Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution
05 March 2018 to 17 March 2018
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
No living organism escapes evolutionary change. Evolutionary biology thus connects all biological disciplines. To understand the processes driving evolution, we need a theoretical framework to...more
  • Organizers: 
    Deepa Agashe and Kavita Jain
  • Contact:  popgen2018  ictsresin
School on Cluster Algebras
08 December 2018 to 22 December 2018
Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
In 2000, S. Fomin and A. Zelevinsky introduced Cluster Algebras as abstractions of a combinatoro-algebraic phenomenon that is found in many different areas throughout mathematics. Defined as a sub-...more
  • Organizers: 
    Ashish Gupta and Ashish K Srivastava
  • Contact:  cluster_alge  ictsresin
Past programs