We would like to announce this year’s edition of Petnica Summer Institute (PSI 2024), to be held at Petnica, Serbia on August 1-10 2024. PSI is a summer school aimed at MSc students but also junior PhD and senior BSc students. This year we are for the first time organizing two summer schools in parallel. One school is on High Energy Theory and the other on Cosmology. The schools will include lectures, problem solving and independent work.

Topics (High Energy Theory): Aspects of QFT at Finite Temperature; Introduction to Conformal Field Theories; Black Hole Physics; Introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence; 2d Quantum Gravity

Lecturers (High Energy Theory): Andreas Blommaert (SISSA, Trieste); Lorenzo Di Pietro (University of Trieste); Roberto Emparan (University of Barcelona); Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN, Geneva) [TBC]; Balt van Rees (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) [TBC]

Topics (Cosmology): Introduction to Cosmology; Early Universe Physics; Inflation; Cosmic Microwave Background; Large-Scale Structure of the Universe; Numerical Simulations and Machine Learning in Cosmology

Lecturers (Cosmology): Mateja Bošković (DESY, Hamburg); Giovanni Cabass (RBI, Zagreb); Valentina Danieli (SISSA, Trieste); Enea Di Dio (University of Geneva); Pranjal Ralegankar (SISSA, Trieste) [TBC]; Marko Simonović (University of Florence); Zvonimir Vlah (RBI, Zagreb)

All information on PSI schools can be found on the school website:

http://psi.petnica.rs/2024/description.php

where one can also fill in the application forms at http://psi.petnica.rs/2024/apply.php.

The application deadline is May 19 2024.