| Department of Physics Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute Belur Math, Howrah 711202 West Bengal, India |
Nov 23 – Dec 12, 2015 contact: Location: Map Google Map |
List of Participants The School will be held in the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
| Main Courses:
Introduction to Topology with examples from physics In addition, there will be Recap Courses and Tutorials. |
Online application Deadline: 17th July 2015 (In case of any problem with submission, please contact ) Recommendation Letter (for Ph. D. Scholars) to be sent to |
| List of Speakers |
| Introduction to Topology
Atreyee Bhattacharya (Dept. of Mathematics, RKMVU) Dhiraj Kulkarni (Dept. of Mathematics, RKMVU) Kingshook Biswas (Dept. of Mathematics, RKMVU) Mahan Mj (Dept. of Mathematics, RKMVU) Samik Basu (Dept. of Mathematics, RKMVU) Soma Maity(Dept. of Mathematics, RKMVU) Somnath Basu (Dept. of Mathematics, RKMVU) |
| Examples from physics / Tutorials:
Siddhartha Sen (Trinity College, Dublin) Somendra Mohan Bhattacharjee (Dept. of Physics, RKMVU/IOP) |
| Crash course on Group theory
Bobby Ezhuthachan (Dept. of Physics, RKMVU) |
| (i) Introduction to Qunatum Hall Effect and Topological Insulators. (ii) Dirac, Weyl and Majorana Fermions (iii) Graphene and Topological Insulators Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS, Kolkata) |
| Quantum Geometry and Topology
R. Shankar (IMSC, Chennai) |
| Abelian and non-abelian anyons
Sumathi Rao (HRI, Allahabad) |
| (i) Geometry in random walks (background material) (ii) Probabilistic topology of entangled paths Sergei Nechaev (LPTMS,Paris) |
| Braid group, vertex models and knot invariants
P. Ramadevi (IIT Mumbai) |
| Topology, geometry and quantum interference in condensed matter physics
Alexander Abanov (Stony Brook, USA) |
| Topological Quantum Computation
Jiannis Pachos (Leeds, UK) |
| TBA
Ashoke Sen (HRI, Allahabad) |
Organizers:
Somen Bhattacharjee, RKMVU, web: http://www.iopb.res.in/~somen (on leave from Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)
Mahan Mj., RKMVU; web: http://maths.rkmvu.ac.in/~mahan
Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, RKMVU; web: http://phy.rkmvu.ac.in/~abhijit/
The school is funded by SERB-DST, New Delhi