Monday, November 30, 2009

HRI Summer School on Gravitation & Cosmology (May 10-22, 2010)

A school on Gravitation and Cosmology will be held at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) during the period May 10-22, 2010. The school is open to final year Bachelor's and Master's students, and the aim of the school will be to introduce students to the field of Cosmology.

Information about the school is available at the HRI web-site at the following URL:

  http://www.hri.res.in/~ssgc/

L. Sriramkumar and T. Roy Choudhury
(on behalf of the organising committee)



Thursday, November 19, 2009

The International School On Strings And Fundamental Physics

The Munich string theory group is organizing the International School On Strings And Fundamental Physics. The two-week school is aimed at students and postdocs working in the area of string theory. The school will be held in Munich/Garching, July 25 – August 6, 2010.

More details are available at the school website. One of the points made in the site is the following:

The aim is to give excellent people who cannot get funding from their home institute the possibility to participate in an international event, and to encourage worldwide contacts and collaborations within the scientific community.


Students and Post-docs from India are encouraged to apply to the school.