Quantum scientists from renowned universities come for summer school in Vietnam

The “Advanced Summer School in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity” being held between July 10 and 29 at the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education has attracted 99 scientists working at 11 top universities around the world.

It marks the first time ever such an event is held outside France, Tran Thanh Van, a Vietnamese-French physicist and chairman of Rencontres du Vietnam (Meet Vietnam), an official partner of UNESCO that organizes international scientific conferences and schools to foster exchanges between scientists in Vietnam and Asia-Pacific and their colleagues in other parts of the world.

The ongoing summer school is the 2023 edition in a biennial series of Advanced Summer Schools in High Energy Theoretical Physics traditionally held in Cargèse or Les Houches.

The 12 lecturers are scientists working at 11 universities and research institutes including Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Stanford Amsterdam, Caltech, Stony Brook, Rutgers, and Ecole Polytechnique.

There will be introductory and advanced lectures on the following topics: quantum gravity, string theory, black holes, amplitudes, holography, cosmology, quantum information theory, theoretical condensed matter, and artificial intelligence.

The organizers said the schedule offers ample room for discussions.

The 80 students attending by invitation are advanced doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows from Vietnam and abroad.

Van said he hoped the summer school would set the scene for foreign scientists to come and share with their Vietnamese counterparts the latest advances and discoveries.