In recent years, compelling evidence has emerged that information theory provides a powerful way to structure our thinking about quantum gravity and quantum field theory. In turn, fundamental physics provides new classes of fascinating questions for quantum information theorists to address.

In spite of these exciting developments, high energy physics and quantum information theory remain distinct disciplines and communities, separated by significant barriers to communication and collaboration. This school has been organized by the “It from Qubit” Simons Foundation Collaboration to promote communication and learning between the two research communities. In particular we strongly encourage applications from interested students and junior researchers whose background is limited to either of the two fields but who are interested in reaching across disciplinary boundaries. The school will include both lectures and hands-on tutorials.

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

We are announcing a summer school and conference in Grenoble, France, entitled “Asymptotic Analysis in General Relativity”.

The summer school will start on the 16th of June 2014 and last two weeks. It will be followed by a one week international conference from the 30th June to the 4th July.

The summer school will consist of five mini-courses of eight hours each, given by Lars Andersson, Christian Gerard, Rod Gover, Jeremie Szeftel and Andras Vasy. The topics covered will be geometry and analysis in black hole spacetimes, quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, conformal geometry and tractor calculus with a view to applications in GR, the resolution of the bounded L2 curvature conjecture in General Relativity, microlocal analysis and wave propagation.

All information can be found on the conference webpage.

http://if-summer2014.sciencesconf.org/

To register, use the conference webpage.
The deadline for registration to the mini-courses is 12th May 2014.
The deadline for registration to the conference is 27th May 2014.

Mathematical General Relativity is a timely topic, with outstanding recent progress in the field by many authors, with growing interest both in the physics and mathematical community. The aim of the school is to provide an introduction to the topics which are currently being studied. The target audience is graduate students and postdocs, both physicists and mathematicians, interested in mathematical general relativity.

There will be 25 hours of lectures, as follows:

“Crash course on differential geometry” (speaker to be determined);
“Introduction to general relativity” by Helmut Friedrich (AEI Golm);
“Lorentzian causality” by Gregory Galloway (Miami);
“Constraint equations” by Justin Corvino (Lafayette);
“The Evolution problem in General Relativity” by Hans Ringstroem (KTH Stockholm):
“Wave equations on black hole space-times” by Gustav Holzegel (Imperial, London);

The members of the scientific committee are Robert Beig (Vienna), Piotr T. Chrusciel (Vienna), Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton), Helmut Friedrich (AEI Golm), Gregory Galloway (Miami), and Richard Schoen (Stanford).

You can apply through the web page of the school. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2014, but applications before March 15, 2014 are strongly encouraged.

Some support for local expenses will be available. Some travel support will also be available, but note that travel expenses are usually not reimbursed by the ESI. However, a grant (pending final approval) from the National Science Foundation will provide travel support for a number of qualified participants from the U.S.

From 11th to 15th of July 2011, the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain), will host a Summer School on “Quantum Information meets Statistical Mechanics” (QI&SM 2011), with the aim of exploring interfaces and emerging connections between these and related fields.

For more information, please visit our website: http://www.ucm.es/info/giccucm/Escorial2011/

The Summer School will take place at El Escorial, Spain (http://www.euroforum.es/), a nice and historic city about 50 km to the north of Madrid. See further information below and in the website.

The whole activity will focus primarily on the following topics:

1. One-Way Quantum Computation and Statistical Mechanics
2. Topological Codes and Statistical Models
3. Random Statistical Mechanical Systems and Lattice Gauge Theories
4. Quantum Information and Models of Discrete Quantum Gravity

We would be glad to have you and share with us these new developments in an interactive an open atmosphere.

Thank you and best wishes,

The organizers:
Miguel A. Martin-Delgado (UCM) and Hans J. Briegel (IQOQI, Innsbruck)

FURTHER INFORMATION

The goal of the school is to bring together scholars from quantum information theory and statistical mechanics to explore emerging connections between these fields and hopefully develop some fruitful collaborations.

The (incomplete) list of invited speakers whom we are contacting for the conference includes the following names:

Maarten Van den Nest
Gemma De las Cuevas
Robert Raussendorf
Helmut Katzgraber
Hector Bombin
A. Peter Young
John T. Chalker
Uwe-Jens Wiese
Tomotoshi Nishino
Paolo Fachi
Renate Loll
Silke Weinfurtner
Fotini Markopoulou
Rafael Sorkin
and others

The Complutense University has been holding summer courses at El Escorial since 1988 and these are given by eminent lecturers worldwide. We have been awarded the organization of one of those courses, which we want to devote to “Quantum Information meets Statistical Mechanics”.

Allow us to give you some more information about the Summer Courses held at El Escorial and organized by the Complutense University (Madrid, Spain).

In 1988, the Complutense University decided to open its doors to the most advanced knowledge in the present time and to tend a bridge between science, culture, literature etc… and the Spanish society. With this broad aim and scope, the Courses are born during each summer, organized by the General Foundation of the University. They have become an annual showcase of new knowledge and a forum of exchange of information and opinions based on the plurality and the diffusion of the advances in all the scientific areas:

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and also beyond natural sciences: Literature, Scenic Arts, etc… The Courses are, by their rigor and the ample scope of subjects treated every year, a reference for mass media and the Spanish society.

Thus, the University satisfies in this way the necessities not covered in ordinary winter courses. In the Summer Courses, the lecturers are specialists of maximum level, even Nobel prizewinners in their fields. They are accessible to the students/attendees, who can discuss with them inside and outside the classes. The speakers themselves find here an excellent opportunity for the interchange of experiences that enrich their research and professional activity.

Each Course lasts an average of five days, and it is developed in conferences and occasionally in round-tables. As a complement, all the nights takes place an activity of Scenic Arts, or a concert, a play at a theater or a movie show which is free for the speakers.

More information about the courses can be found at the following link: http://www.ucm.es/info/cv/