What is IARS?
International Advanced Research School (IARS) is an intensive
graduate/postgraduate program in those research subfields of
physics as outlined in those pages. It is not an official
diploma program and its fundamental aim is to promote the
scientific level of research students and young researchers in
an internationally challenging environment. The advanced school
is planned in collaboration between the Institute of Theoretical
and Applied Physics (ITAP/Marmaris), Bilkent University (Ankara) and the Feza Gürsey
Institute/Istanbul. In each of these subfields, a number of
researchers plan an advanced curricular program for
training PhD candidates and postgraduate researchers on current
research subtopics in that specific field. The content of the
package is aimed at comprising a complete set of advanced studies in
that field starting from the basic concepts, methods and
formalisms to more advanced and current state-of-the-art
developments. Presentations are performed at the traditional
blackboard-chalk style with the visual technology only as an aid.
In these packages yearly short term intensive research training courses
ranging from a week to four weeks are offered to international
participants. The participants are selected on the basis of
their background and they are expected to attend the full
three-year package.
IARS has three modules:
1) Regular IARS workshops: The content of the regular workshops
are in the "Fields of Research Training and Program" pages.
IARS assistantships: The participants are required to fulfill
all the requirements of IARS lectures including homeworks,
examinations, numerical studies and in class problem solving
sessions. IARS assistants supervise the problem sessions as well
as grade homeworks.
IARS lecture note assistantships: Most lectures are stored in
the digital environment for the IARS lectures library. IARS
lecture note assistants are selected among the volunteering
participants who are responsible in writing the lecture notes in
a book format within a short interval after each IARS regular
workshop. Lecture notes are compiled in Turkish.
2) Frontiers-in-Physics Workshops: Irregular meetings on the
frontier topics of the time with the goal of introducing the
most recent developments to the particicpants. This module can
be opened depending on the need felt by the corresponding
subgroup organizers. One yearly Frontiers-in-Physics meeting is
recommended to each sub group. Announced at shortest, two months
in advance.
3) Brain storming workshops: Irregular research sessions on a
specific topic with invited lecturers using chalk, blackboard
and computer. Participants can have direct access to modes of
thinking and brainstorming targetted to solving the problem.
This module can be opened by the need felt by the corresponding
sub group organizers. One yearly such brain storming session is
recommended to each sub group. Announced at shortest, two months
in advance.
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