Student Talks on Trending Topics in Theory 2019

17th to 25th July @ IISER, Bhopal

Student Talks on Trending Topics in Theory 2019 is a discussion meeting on topics in theoretical physics organised by and for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working in India. This meeting in spirit, is similar to the Modave Summer School on Mathematical Physics, held in Belgium every year. We hope to enable an interactive environment for students and postdocs working in areas like string theory, quantum field theory and general relativity and adjoining areas of theoretical condensed matter, mathematical physics.

The participants will primarily be graduate students from their last three years and postdoctoral fellows during their first two years, this age bracket will merely be the one given preference. We are open to younger participants and more senior postdocs depending on logistical constraints.

The primary aims of the meeting (in no particular order) are:

• • To bring together graduate students and postdocs working in India into a vibrant community by stimulating academic interaction with each other.

  • To provide enough exposure to various new research topics culminating in thriving research ventures.

  • To open channels of communication between students and postdocs who work in string theory and other field theoretic areas.

  • To facilitate and encourage student collaborations.

  • To enhance the teaching and speaking experience of students.

  • To foster an environment where students can get useful feedback about their ideas in a low-pressure setting.

The ST4 2019 will be held during 17th to 25th of July 2019, at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal. Registration for this event is closed.

The first edition of this workshop (ST4 2017) was held at the Chennai Mathematical Institute in May 2017 and the second workshop (ST4 2018) was held at NISER, Bhubaneswar in July 2018. 

This year's meeting is funded by IISER, Bhopal and is being organised by Graduate students at IISER, CMI, ICTS, IIT Gandhinagar, NISER and BITS-Pilani.

The organisers are enormously grateful to Prof. Suvankar Dutta at IISER, Bhopal for his Financial support.