Special Lecture Series

• Introduction to Berkovits' Pure Spinor String, Sebastian Guttenberg (University of Turin), 3 lectures, October 19-22, 2009

• Superconformal Chern-Simons theories, M2-branes and supergravity, Prof. Oren Bergman (Technion, Israel) (4 lectures), October 13-17, 2008

• Quantum Impurities in and out of Equilibrium (six lectures), Prof. Natan Andrei (Rutgers University, USA) , August 28 - September 1, 2006: :
  • The Kondo effect - simplest example of a strong correlation effect in a quantum impurity system. Failure of the perturbative approach. Introduction to the Bethe-Ansatz approach.
  • The Bethe Ansatz approach - thermodynamics of the Kondo model
  • The quantum inverse scattering problem
  • The Bethe Ansatz approach (continued)
  • The Bethe Ansatz approach to Quantum Impurities out-of-equilibrium
  • The Bethe Ansatz approach to Quantum Impurities out-of-equilibrium (continued)

  • Literature:

    • Natan Andrei, Integrable models in condensed matter physics, cond-mat/9408101

    • Pankaj Mehta and Natan Andrei, Nonequilibrium Transport in Quantum Impurity Models: The Bethe Ansatz for Open Systems, PRL 96, 216802 (2006)

• Hydrodynamik weicher Materie und ihre Anwendung in der Biologie PD Dr. H. Stark (University of Konstanz, Germany) (9 lectures), April 24 - May 28 and July 10 -28, 2006

• Chemical reactions and interacting particle systems, Prof. U. Täuber (Virginia Tech, USA) , December 13 - 14, 2005