SCHEDULE OF SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA
2013

 

Wednesday 5 June
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Cumrun Vafa,
Harvard University, MA
M-strings[Abstract] 
 
11.00 a.m
ICTS Lecture Hall, IISc Campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

 

Friday 19 April
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Satya Majumdar,
LPTMS, France
Random Convex Hulls: Applications to Ecology and Animal Epidemics[Abstract] 
 
04.00 p.m
ICTS Lecture Hall, IISc Campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

Thursday 18 April
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS, Kolkata)
Dynamics of ultracold bosons in optical lattices[Abstract] 
 
04.00 p.m
ICTS Lecture Hall, IISc Campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

Wednesday 17 April
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS, Kolkata)
Junctions of Dirac materials [Abstract] 
 
04.00 p.m
ICTS Lecture Hall, IISc Campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

Wednesday 17 April
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Sidhartha Goyal,
KITP UCSB,
California, USA
Evolut ionary dynam ics and m itochondr ial genome m ainten ance[Abstract] 
 
11:30 a.m.
ICTS Lecture Hall, IISc Campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

Tuesday 16 April
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Sidhartha Goyal,
KITP UCSB,
California, USA
Understanding evolution quantitatively[Abstract] 
 
04.00 p.m
ICTS Lecture Hall, IISc Campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

 

Friday 5 April
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Anirvan Sengupta,
Department of Physics and Astronomy and BioMaPS Institute Rutgers University
Regulating Looping in Genome [Abstract] [Video] 
 
04.00 p.m
Main Faculty Hall, IISc, Bangalore

 

 

 

Friday 15 March
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Dario Vincenzi,
Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonne, University of Nice, Sophi-Antipolis, France.
Orientation of non-spherical particles in an axisymmetric random flow.[Abstract] 
 
04.00 p.m
Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

Wednesday 27 Feb
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Prof. Gautam Mandal
Quantum quench in matrix models: Dynamical phase transitions, Selective equilibration and the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble (hep-th 1302.0859)[Abstract] 
 
02:30 p.m
Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Monday 11 Feb
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Amit Apte
When nonlinearity meets uncertainty: a Bayesian perspective on data assimilation. [Abstract] 
 
02:00 p.m
Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

Thursday 7th Feb
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Prof. Takeshi Matsumoto, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
Large-scale lognormality in turbulence modelled by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Monday 7 Jan
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Dhrubaditya Mitra, NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden
Can Planetesimals form by collisional fusion? [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

 

 

2012

 

Monday 17 Dec
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Onuttom Narayan
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
Linear Response Formula for Open Systems [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Wednesday 12 Dec
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Upendra Harbola
(Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc)
Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Thermodynamics of Quantum Heat Engines [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Wednesday 11 Jul
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Lav R. Varshney
(Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France)
On Optimal Synaptic Information Storage: Shannon Meet Cajal [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

 

Friday 22 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Sammriddhi Shankar Ray
(Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France)
Sticky Elastic Collisions and The Effect of Hydrodynamic Interactions [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Thursday 21 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Sammriddhi Shankar Ray
(Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France)
Statistical Mechanics and Turbulence [Abstract] 
 
11:30 a.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Tuesday 19 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
T. Padmanabhan
(Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune)
Secret Life of The Spacetime [Abstract] 
 
11:30 a.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Tuesday 19 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Arvind Kumar
(University of Freiburg, Germany)
Implications of Spiking Activity Correlations for Network Dynamics and Data Analysis [Abstract] 
 
10:00 a.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Monday 18 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Arvind Kumar
(University of Freiburg, Germany)
Parkinson's Disease: A Disease of Brain Dynamics [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Wednesday 13 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Suvrat Raju
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)
Scattering Amplitudes and ADS/CFT Correlators [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Tuesday 12 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
P. Ajith
(LIGO & Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
Interfacing Analytical and Numerical Relativity for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy [Abstract] 
 
11:30 a.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Monday 11 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
P. Ajith
(LIGO & Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech, USA)
The Gravitational-Wave Window to The Universe [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Lecture hall, ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore

 

 

Tuesday 29 Feb
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Subroto Mukerjee
IISc
Thermalization and Integrability in Quantum Systems: Insights from Transport and Level Statistics [Abstract] 
 
04:00 p.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

 

Friday 17 Feb
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Lakshminarayan Srinivasan
(UCLA)
Stochastic optimal control as a theory of Brain-Machine Interface Operation [Abstract] [Slide]
 
09:30 p.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Thursday 16 Feb
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Lav R.Varshney
(IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
Information flow limits in connectomes [Abstract] [Slide]
 
09:30 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

 

Sanjoy Mitter
(MIT)
Probabilistic models in neuroscience [Abstract] [Slide]
 
11:00 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Wednesday 15 Feb
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Lav R.Varshney
(IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
Information flow limits in connectomes [Abstract] [Slide]
 
09:30 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

 

Sanjoy Mitter
(MIT)
Probabilistic models in neuroscience [Abstract] [Slide]
 
11:00 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Monday 23 Jan
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University, USA
Quantum entanglement and the phases of matter [Abstract]
 
04:00 p.m
Auditorium, New Physical Sciences Building, Near D-Gate IISc

 

2011

 

Monday 05 Dec
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Pallab Basu
Oklahoma State University
An Excursion in AdS/CMT [Abstract]
 
10:30 a.m
DTP Seminar Room (A 304)*, TIFR

 

Monday 14 Nov
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Abhishek Dhar,
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Current fluctuations and large deviation functions in heat transport [Abstract]
 
02:30 p.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Friday 29 Jul
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Girish S Agarwal
Oklahoma State University
Super Resolution and Beating Shot Noise Limit by Entangled Photons [Abstract]
 
02:30 p.m
Auditorium, Physical Sciences Building, IISc

 

Tuesday 5 Jul
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Pallab Basu
University of Kentucky
Non –Intergability in string theory
 
02:30 p.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Thursday 16 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Justin David
CHEP, IISc
Classical Intergrability in the BTZ black hole
 
09:30 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Romesh K. Kaul
IMSc
Topological parameters in gravity
 
11:00 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Wednesday 15 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place:
Aninda Sinha
CHEP, IISc
Astrophysical Implications of a viscosity bound
 
9:30 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Shiraz Minwalla
TIFR
A theory of dissipative superfluid hydrodynamics
 
11:00 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Friday 10 Jun
Speaker:
Topic:
Time:
Place
Gautam Mandal
TIFR

Holographic RG
 
09:30 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS

 

Rajesh Gopakumar
HRI, Allahabad
Holographic Minimal Models
 
10:45 a.m
Seminar Room, ICTS