Foundation Day Lectures
Outstanding scientists and academicians are invited to deliver the ICTS Foundation Day Lectures, to commemorate the occasion of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the ICTS Campus that happened on 28th December 2009.
Upcoming Lectures
Two paradoxes in the theory of games
Deepak Dhar (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru)
27 December 2024, 16:00 to 17:30
ICTS Campus
​ ​ ​ ​ Abstract: Children, even non-human love to play games, and it is clearly a fun-activity. The mathematical theory of games can however be...more
Past Lectures
Dimensions: 1,2,3,4...
Mahan Mj (TIFR, Mumbai)
13 December 2023, 16:00
Chandrasekhar auditorium, ICTS-TIFR
Abstract : Starting from Euler's formula for planar graphs, we will sketch how topology has developed over close to 4 centuries now. We will focus...more
The edge of a cell: a living fabric
Satyajit Mayor (NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore)
13 December 2022, 17:30 to 19:00
Chandrasekhar Auditorium, ICTS
Abstract: The edge of a living cell is a flimsy four nanometer wide lipidic membrane bilayer that separates the outside of the cell from the inside...more
The Future of Our Universe
Ashoke Sen (ICTS – TIFR, Bengaluru)
27 December 2021, 17:30 to 19:00
Chandrasekhar Auditorium, ICTS (Only for fully vaccinated ICTS members)
Discovery of dark energy in the late 90's has changed our understanding of how the universe evolves. In this talk, I shall describe what it implies...more
Generalized Hydrodynamics
Herbert Spohn (Technical University Munich, Germany)
26 December 2020, 17:00 to 18:00
ICTS-TIFR, Online
In 1757 Leonhard Euler discovered the equations governing the dynamical behavior of fluids. Since then the hydrodynamic method has been applied with...more