HU Institutional Strategy: KOSMOS Summer University 2016 – Integrability for the Holographic Universe

The KOSMOS Summer University focuses on “Integrability for the Holographie Universe”, a topic that unifies the mathematical quest for exact results with holographic gravity, one of the greatest recent advances in theoretical physics. We will organise the summer university in three parts. Firstly, a school will present young researchers with the state-of-the-art techniques in the field and challenge their problem-solving abilities. Unconventionally, the problem solving will be based on the symbolic calculus software “Mathematica” of Wolfram Research Inc., the most used tool for research in this area. Secondly, we will host the highest-profile international conference of the field, “Integrability in Gauge and String Theory” (!GST 2016). This will showcase the latest results in this domain and bring to Berlin its most active researchers. lt will thereby maximize the international visibility of the KOSMOS Summer University. Lastly, highly unconventional again, a focus program with few talks and plenty of time for discussions will foster interactions and new collaborations between beginning and established researchers. Given its interdisciplinary nature, we intend to organize our program at the ideally suited Campus Adlershof, using IRIS facilities as much as possible. Our partners will be Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, King's College in London, and the Marie-Curie ITN network “GATIS”. The latter will provide significant co-financing of 66,000 Euro. This would allow us to extend the usual two-week format of KOSMOS summer universities to our above ambitious plan of fifteen full work days over a three week period. We intend to realise the summer university with the help of two KOSMOS Fellows. The senior Fellow would be Prof. Vladimir Kazakov, a world leading mathematical physicist. The junior Fellow would be Dr. Nikolay Gromov, among the best young scientists in this research area, and a Mathematica expert.