Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2023

Program Description

PiTP 2023 : “Understanding Confinement” 

Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) is an intensive two-week summer program designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The program will be held from July 10-21, 2023 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. 

REGISTRATION UPDATE: The application process is closed. Local scholars are welcome to attend the lectures, but not meals or special events.

Topics 

• Path integral for gauge theory and its lattice regularizations
• Order parameters and mechanisms of confinement
• Dynamics of Confining Strings
• Higher Form Symmetries
• Introduction to modern numerical methods
• Confinement and Gauge/String Duality
• Lower Dimensional Models for QCD

Organizing Committee

• David Gross, KITP, UCSB
• Igor Klebanov, Princeton
• Grigory Tarnopolsky, CMU

Program Lecturers

Sergei Dubovsky, NYU; Jaume Gomis, Perimeter; David Gross, KITP, UCSB; Igor Klebanov, Princeton; V. Parameswaran Nair, CCNY; João Penedones, EPFL, Lausanne; Silviu Pufu, Princeton; Nathan Seiberg, IAS; Phiala Shanahan, MIT; Mikhail Shifman, Minnesota; Grigory Tarnopolsky, CMU; Michael Teper, Oxford; Mithat Ünsal, NC State; Edward Witten, IAS.

If you have questions regarding the PiTP program, please send an email to: pitp@ias.edu. 

IAS Store

You can still purchase items from the IAS Store. If you make a purchase by end of day Monday, July 17th, it can be delivered to you on campus. 

IAS Daily Lunch Selections, Dinner, and Grocery Information

The lunch break is 1:00-2:00pm daily, but the food service area closes at 1:30pm.
You can view the selections online, updated every morning: https://www.ias.edu/dining/lunch 
(Lunch includes a main course, soup or salad, dessert and one beverage.)

The dinner break is 5:30-7:00pm, but the food service closes at 6:30. 

The IAS servery in Simons Hall also has grocery items available for purchase: https://www.ias.edu/dining/foodshop