Date:� 17-19 April 2016 (arrival at 12:00 on Sunday afternoon)

Venue and Accommodation: �Old Thorns Manor�Hotel, Longmoor Rd, Griggs Green, Liphook, Hampshire GU30 7PE. For directions see�here. All accommodation and meals are prepaid and covered by SEPnet. �Reasonable travel expenses will be covered by SEPnet and can be claimed through your GRADnet Administrator at your institution. To register: here�, deadline Friday, 26 March�2016 (Logon to the VRE first) No two researchers would ever completely agree on the definition of a strongly correlated system;�however they may very roughly be described as materials where the correlations between�electrons induced by interactions make the behaviour of the material `interesting�. This interactive two-and-a-half day residential workshop is designed for PhD students who would�benefit from learning more about this subject. The course will consist of three short lecture�courses of three lectures each, covering both the theoretical concepts necessary to understand�strongly correlated systems, as well as how one would probe them experimentally. The course will�be self-contained, assuming only a knowledge of quantum mechanics and undergraduate level�solid state physics. It should therefore be beneficial to students working on both theoretical and/or�experimental projects. In addition to the lectures, the workshop will have tutorials with question sheets relating to the�lectures, which is also an opportunity to ask many questions and continue further discussions with�all of the lecturers. There will also be a poster session, some evening seminars, and a skills�session focussing on scientific communication. For any more information, please contact Sam Carr (s.t.carr@kent.ac.uk). Lecture Courses: 1. The unstable Fermi Gas � Jorge Quintanilla (Kent) This course will introduce the concepts and formalism central to many body physics, covering�topics such as second quantisation, the Fermi liquid, mean field theories, and correlations. 2. Non-Fermi liquids � Anna Posazhennikova (RHUL) This course will continue on from the first, and demonstrate some of the fascinating states that may�occur when Fermi-liquid theory breaks down but without forming an ordered state; examples�include the Kondo-effect, quantum criticality, and heavy Fermion materials. 3. Probes of Condensed Matter � Silvia Ramos (Kent) This course will cover a few of the common techniques used to experimentally probe condensed�matter systems; and show how these techniques reveal the correlations and other theoretical�aspects discussed in the other two courses. This workshop contributes 10�hours towards physics�skills training. The full agenda is here:�2016 GRADnet Strongly Correlated Workshop Timetable