XXV Preparatory SERC School in Theoretical High Energy Physics

The next Preparatory SERC school in Theoretical High Energy Physics is to be held from October 4-30, 2009 at the Department of Physics, IIT Madras. The Director of the school is Dr. Prasanta K. Tripathy of IIT Madras.

Courses (Lecturers):

• Quantum Field Theory (S. Govindarajan, IITM);
  
• Group Theory (H.S. Sharatchandra, IMSc);
  
• Particle Physics and the Standard Model (S. Umasankar, IITB Sourov Roy, IACS );
  
• General Relativity and Cosmology (G. Date, IMSc) and
  
• Statistical Methods in Physics (D. Indumathi, IMSc)

Prerequisites: Special Theory of Relativity, Relativistic Kinematics, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism in 4-vector notation

Further details are available at the homepage of the school. Interested graduate students may visit the site for further details.