International Centre for Theoretical Sciences Courses

Mineral Mapping & Volatiles at the Lunar Poles

Explore lunar mineral mapping and volatiles at the poles in this talk on gravitational-wave detection missions, discussing technological advancements and scientific opportunities for breakthrough observations.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Radar Observations of the Lunar Poles by Sriram Saran Bhiravarasu

Explore radar observations of lunar poles, discussing techniques, findings, and implications for future lunar missions and scientific understanding of Earth's celestial neighbor.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Digital Elevation Model of Lunar Poles with Cameras On-Board Chandrayaan-2 by Amitabh

Explore lunar pole topography using Chandrayaan-2 cameras to create digital elevation models, advancing our understanding of the Moon's polar regions.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Overview of the Indian Lunar Exploration Program by Tirtha Pratim Das

Explore India's lunar missions, their scientific objectives, and future plans. Gain insights into the country's space exploration efforts and contributions to lunar research.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

LGWA Science White Paper by Silvia Piranomonte and Andrea Melandri

Explores lunar gravitational-wave detection concepts, technologies, and scientific opportunities in the decihertz band, discussing mission planning and potential breakthroughs in multi-messenger astronomy.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Quantum Electron Optics Using Quantum Hall Edge States by Biswajit Karmakar

Explore quantum electron optics using quantum Hall edge states, delving into condensed matter physics and its applications in quantum information processing.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Josephson Relation, Fractional Charge and Abelian Statistics of Anyons by Manohar Kumar

Explore Josephson relation, fractional charge, and Abelian statistics of Anyons in this condensed matter physics lecture, bridging quantum information and advanced theoretical concepts.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Nuclear Star Clusters to Intermediate-Mass Black Holes by Joseph Silk

Explore the formation of massive black holes through nuclear star clusters, their potential gravitational-wave signatures, and implications for understanding cosmic origins.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Critical Phenomena Through the Lens of the Ising Model by Hugo Duminil-Copin

Explore critical phenomena in the Ising model, a powerful tool for understanding cooperative phenomena in statistical physics, with insights on recent progress in three and four dimensions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Looking into the Future of High-Energy Particle Physics by Gian Giudice

Explore the future of high-energy particle physics, covering LHC discoveries, naturalness, symmetry paradigms, and emerging concepts like multiverse theory and dynamical relaxation models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

It Is Entropy That Counts by Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

Explore Shannon entropy's applications in combinatorics and computer science, including randomized two-party communication complexity and quantum communication complexity of Set Disjointness problem.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

An Introduction to the AdS-CFT Correspondence by David Berenstein

Explore the AdS/CFT correspondence in theoretical physics with David Berenstein. This lecture introduces key concepts and principles of holography in string theory and quantum gravity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Supersymmetric Black Holes, The Superconformal Index and Phases

Explore supersymmetric black holes, superconformal index, and AdS/CFT phases. Delve into entropy calculations, matrix integrals, and competing free energies in quantum gravity and string theory.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Minimal Surfaces

Explore zero mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean 3-space, their mathematical aspects, and natural occurrences as idealized soap films. Recommended: Review complex analysis concepts.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Entangled Officers of Euler: A Quantum Solution to a Classically Impossible Problem

Explore quantum solutions to Euler's 36 officers problem, a classically impossible combinatorial puzzle. Discover connections to orthogonal Latin squares, entanglement, and quantum information theory.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video