Infosys-ICTS Turing Lectures
Alan Turing was mathematician/engineer whose landmark and revolutionary contributions laid the foundations of computing and computer science that have had a transformational impact on science, engineering and society. Computer science is certainly at the basis of the dominant technology of our times. In the Infosys-ICTS Turing Lecture Series at ICTS, eminent computer scientists, biologists and engineers are invited to deliver lectures on significant developments in their areas.
Past Lectures
The mathematics of large machine learning models
Andrea Montanari (Stanford University, USA)
11 August 2025, 16:30 to 17:30
Ramanujan lecture hall, ICTS - TIFR, Bengaluru, India
Lecture 1 (Public lecture): The mathematics of large machine learning models Date and Time : Monday, 11 August 2025, 16:30 to 17:30 Lecture 2 : Overparametrized models: linear theory and its limits Date and Time : Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 11:15 to 12:30 Lecture 3 : Dynamical phenomena in nonlinear...more
Dynamical Systems and artificial intelligence applied to data modelling in biological problems
Gabriel Mindlin (University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
21 April 2025, 16:30 to 17:30
Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bengaluru
Lecture 1 : Monday, 21 April 2025, 16:30 to 17:30 Lecture 2 : Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 16:30 to 17:30 Lecture 3 : Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 16:30 to 17:30 Title : Dynamical Systems and artificial intelligence applied to data modelling in biological problems. Abstract : Nonlinear dynamics aims to...more
An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, Social Welfare, and Dynamics
Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
04 July 2023, 16:30 to 17:30
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS
Lecture 1 (Public lecture) : Tuesday, 04 July 2023, 16:30 to 17:30 Lecture 2 : Wednesday, 05 July 2023, 09:30 to 10:30 Lecture 3 : Thursday, 06 July, 09:30 to 10:30 Title : An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, Social Welfare, and Dynamics Abstract : Artificial intelligence...more
How stable is the earth’s climate?
J. Srinivasan (Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)
01 March 2022, 09:30 to 11:00
Ramanujan Lecture Hall (and online)
Lecture 1: March 1, 2022 at 09:30 hrs Title: How stable is the earth’s climate? Abstract: The earth’s climate has undergone many fluctuations from decadal to million-year timescales. The present concern is regarding the impact of human actions on the earth’s climate. Can human actions lead to...more
Artificial intelligence: success, limits, myths and threats
Marc Mézard (Director of Ecole normale supérieure - PSL University )
06 January 2020, 16:00 to 17:30
Chandrasekhar Auditorium, ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru
Lecture 1 (Public Lecture): 6 January 2020, 4:00 PM Title: Artificial intelligence: success, limits, myths and threats Abstract : Artificial Intelligence is about to have a dramatic impact on many sectors of human activity. In the last ten years, thanks to the development of machine learning in “...more
Active processes in cells and tissues
Frank Jülicher (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
09 December 2019, 16:00 to 12 December 2019, 17:30
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru
Living matter is highly dynamic and organizes in complex patterns and spatial structures. Fundamental questions of biology are to understand how spatial patterns and morphologies emerge at the scale of cells and at larger scales in multicellular systems. Living systems are driven far from...more
The Power of Sampling
Peter W. Glynn (Stanford University, USA)
14 August 2019, 16:00 to 17:00
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
Sampling-based methods arise in many statistical, computational, and engineering settings. In engineering settings, sampling can provide an easy means of constructing distributed algrorithms that scale well and avoid the need for centralized information-gathering. In computational environments, the...more
Evolutionary dynamics and diversity in large populations
Daniel S Fisher (Stanford University, USA)
08 March 2018, 09:30 to 11:00
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
Large populations, especially microbial, are continually evolving. Understanding their evolutionary dynamics, the diversity it generates, and how this can be sustained by ecological interactions is a major challenge. These lectures will focus on key questions, developing progress using ideas from...more
The evolution of individuality and why life is hierarchically structured
Paul B. Rainey (Department of Microbial Population Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany; Laboratoire de Génétique de l’Evolution, ESPCI Paris, France & The New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand)
15 December 2017, 16:00 to 17:30
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
Life is hierarchically structured, with replicating entities nested within higher order self-replicating structures. Take, for example, multicellular life: the multicellular entity replicates, as do the cells that comprise the organism. Inside cells are mitochondria that also have capacity for...more
Complexity, Phase Transitions, and Inference
Cristopher Moore (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
28 June 2016, 16:00 to 17:00
Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bangalore
There is a deep analogy between statistical inference and statistical physics. I will give a friendly introduction to both of these fields. I will then discuss phase transitions in problems like community detection in networks, and clustering of sparse high-dimensional data, where if our data...more

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