Special Lecture Series
- Mini course on applications of AdS/CFT, Rene Meyer (Uni Würzburg), October 2-6, 2023
- Quantum Theory - From the Foundations to Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Jürg Fröhlich (ETH Zürich), November 25 - December 10, 2019
- Noncommutative geometry and physcis, Alain Connes (Collège de France, IHES and Ohio State University), March 1-3, 2016
- Studying Bethe Ansatz and Allied Integrable Models using Numerical Renormalization Groups, Robert Konig (Brookhaven National Laboratory), June 15-26, 2015
- Non-Abelian Bosonization, Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory), May 14-23, 2014
- QFT, Feynman rules and Renormalization, Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN), January 10-25, 2012
- The Geometry of Space-time and the Concept of Mass, Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University, USA), 2 lectures, May 12-13, 2011
- Toric Geometry and Sage, Volker Braun (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), April 26-29, 2011
- Introduction to Berkovits' Pure Spinor String, Sebastian Guttenberg (University of Turin), 3 lectures, October 19-22, 2009
- Superconformal Chern-Simons theories, M2-branes and supergravity, Prof. Oren Bergman (Technion, Israel) (4 lectures), October 13-17, 2008
- Quantum Impurities in and out of Equilibrium (six lectures), Prof. Natan Andrei (Rutgers University, USA) , August 28 - September 1, 2006:
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- The Kondo effect - simplest example of a strong correlation effect in a quantum impurity system. Failure of the perturbative approach. Introduction to the Bethe-Ansatz approach.
- The Bethe Ansatz approach - thermodynamics of the Kondo model
- The quantum inverse scattering problem
- The Bethe Ansatz approach (continued)
- The Bethe Ansatz approach to Quantum Impurities out-of-equilibrium
- The Bethe Ansatz approach to Quantum Impurities out-of-equilibrium (continued)
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Literature:
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Natan Andrei, Integrable models in condensed matter physics, cond-mat/9408101
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Pankaj Mehta and Natan Andrei, Nonequilibrium Transport in Quantum Impurity Models: The Bethe Ansatz for Open Systems, PRL 96, 216802 (2006)
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- The Kondo effect - simplest example of a strong correlation effect in a quantum impurity system. Failure of the perturbative approach. Introduction to the Bethe-Ansatz approach.
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Hydrodynamik weicher Materie und ihre Anwendung in der Biologie PD Dr. H. Stark (University of Konstanz, Germany) (9 lectures), April 24 - May 28 and July 10 -28, 2006
- Chemical reactions and interacting particle systems, Prof. U. Täuber (Virginia Tech, USA) , December 13 - 14, 2005