Meetings Organized by THEP Group

2022

(Hybrid) Numerical Methods in Theoretical Physics 2022
Period: May 16-20, 2022
Venue: APCTP, Pohang, South Korea
Organizers: Anosh Joseph (IISER Mohali, India), Byungmin Kang (KIAS, South Korea), Dario Rosa (IBS, South Korea), Masaki Tezuka (Kyoto University, Japan), Junggi Yoon (APCTP, South Korea)
Brief Description of the Meeting: The program aims to bring together different communities of theoretical physicists working on numerical methods to investigate those types of questions. Cross-fertilizing ideas and finding common ground should inspire new ways of thinking about these problems and stimulate more rapid progress.

2021

(Online) Shivalik HEPCATS Meeting - Winter 2021
Period: December 18, 2021
Venue: IISER Mohali, India
Total Participants: 54 persons
Organizers: Main Organizer - Anosh Joseph; Co-organizers - Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Harvinder Kaur Jassal, Kinjalk Lochan, Ambresh Shivaji, and K.P. Yogendran.
Brief Description of the Meeting: The Shivalik HEPCATS Meeting series are intended to foster discussions and collaborations among researchers in and around the Shivalik range of the Himalayas. These meetings take place, ideally once every six months, at various institutes located in the region. The acronym HEPCATS stands for High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Theory and Simulations. The organizers of the Shivalik HEPCATS Meeting — Winter 2020 were Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Harvinder Kaur Jassal, Anosh Joseph, Kinjalk Lochan, Ambresh Shivaji, and K.P. Yogendran. The speakers of the meeting were Hemant Rathi (IIT Roorkee), (Swati Gavas, IISER Mohali), Vamika Longia (IISER Mohali), Ayan Chatterjee (Central University of Himachal Pradesh), Pinaki Roy (IISER Mohali), Gopal Yadav (IIT Roorkee), Suraj Chopra (IISER Mohali), Misba Afrin (Jamia Millia Islamia), Sanjay Pant (IIT Ropar), Shafqat Ul Islam (Jamia Millia Islamia), Nisha Chahal (NIT Jalandhar), Jasjeet Bagla (IISER Mohali), K.P. Yogendran (IISER Mohali).

(Online) Shivalik HEPCATS Meeting - Winter 2020
Period: January 30, 2021
Venue: IISER Mohali, India
Total Participants: 41 persons
Organizers: Main Organizer - Anosh Joseph; Co-organizers - Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Harvinder Kaur Jassal, Kinjalk Lochan, Ambresh Shivaji, and K.P. Yogendran.
Brief Description of the Meeting: The Shivalik HEPCATS Meeting series are intended to foster discussions and collaborations among researchers in and around the Shivalik range of the Himalayas. These meetings take place, ideally once every six months, at various institutes located in the region. The acronym HEPCATS stands for High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Theory and Simulations. The organizers of the Shivalik HEPCATS Meeting — Winter 2020 were Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Harvinder Kaur Jassal, Anosh Joseph, Kinjalk Lochan, Ambresh Shivaji, and K.P. Yogendran. The speakers of the meeting were Navdeep Singh Dhindsa (IISER Mohali), Rahul Sharma (IISER Mohali), Hironori Hoshino (IIT Ropar), Gopal Yadav (IIT Roorkee), Pramod Sharma (IISER Mohali), Ayan Chatterjee (Central University of Himachal Pradesh), Nitin Joshi (IIT Ropar), Mandeep Kaur (IISER Mohali), Ashish Meena (IISER Mohali), Md Sabir Ali (IIT Ropar), Jagbir Singh (Panjab University), Minati Biswal (IISER Mohali), and Arpith Kumar (IISER Mohali).

(Online) Nonperturbative and Numerical Approaches to Quantum Gravity, String Theory, and Holography
Period: January 18-22, 2021
Venue: ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India
Total Participants: 42 persons
Organizers: David Berenstein (University of California - Santa Barbara, USA), Simon Catterall (Syracuse University, USA), Masanori Hanada (University of Surrey, UK), Anosh Joseph (IISER Mohali, India), Jun Nishimura (KEK, Japan), David Schaich (University of Liverpool, UK), and Toby Wiseman (Imperial College London, UK).
Brief Description of the Meeting: The goal of the ICTS program ‘Nonperturbative and Numerical Approaches to Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography’ is to bring together theorists working in areas of lattice field theory, string theory and quantum gravity, to discuss the state of art nonperturbative methods and numerical approaches to tackle current and relevant research problems. The program has strong pedagogical component as it also aims to build a growing community of theoretical scientists in India, to engage more in nonperturbative field theories interconnecting string theory,  supersymmetric/superconformal field theories, quantum black holes, gravity, and holography. The speakers of the program were Simon Catterall (Syracuse University, USA), Shailesh Chandrasekharan (Duke University, USA), Pau Figueras (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Daisuke Kadoh (National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan), Jack Laiho (Syracuse University, USA), Jun Nishimura (KEK, Japan), David Schaich (University of Liverpool, UK), Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton, UK), Brian Swingle (University of Maryland, USA), Sandip Trivedi (TIFR, India), and Mithat Unsal (North Carolina State University, USA).

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