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This is a joint program of ICTS with NCBS and MechanoBiology Institute, Singapore.The understanding of biological processes at a cellular and sub-cellular scale has made a big leap forward, thanks to the availability of new microscopy tools that enable sub-diffraction resolution and high-speed live cell / tissue imaging technologies that have made the advance from a qualitative to a quantitative description possible. Recently, the application of a wide variety of techniques to mechanically manipulate single molecules or multi-cellular cell composites has allowed scientists to begin addressing the question of how organisms react to controlled mechanical cues. This two-week long program introduces a scope of  techniques to gain quantitative information of responses of the biological material (at all scales) to perturbations of a mechanical nature, and explores how the combination of theory and experiments will lead to a systematic deciphering of the physics of how living material engages...

This is a joint program of ICTS with NCBS and MechanoBiology Institute, Singapore.The understanding of biological processes at a cellular and sub-cellular scale has made a big leap forward, thanks to the availability of new microscopy tools that enable sub-diffraction resolution and high-speed live cell / tissue imaging technologies that have made the advance from a qualitative to a quantitative description possible. Recently, the application of a wide variety of techniques to mechanically manipulate single molecules or multi-cellular cell composites has allowed scientists to begin addressing the question of how organisms react to controlled mechanical cues. This two-week long program introduces a scope of  techniques to gain quantitative information of responses of the biological material (at all scales) to perturbations of a mechanical nature, and explores how the combination of theory and experiments will lead to a systematic deciphering of the physics of how living material engages...

This program is being organized as a part of the activities related to the "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013".The dynamics of geophysical phenomena are multi-scale in nature and the interaction between different scales makes the flow complex. Therefore, the system of coupled partial differential equations used in weather and climate models becomes complex which generally can only be solved numerically.The accuracy of the predictions obtained by numerical integration of these partial differential equations depends on model formulation, physical conservation principles, hypothesis and approximations used in their formulation and accuracy of numerical method used for the integration. The advanced dynamical core solvers used in atmospheric and oceanic general circulation models comprise of designing of dynamical equations of conservations, latitudinal –longitudinal mesh, discretization method, temporal integration scheme, parallelization, integration on supercomputing platforms etc. The ch...

This program is being organized as a part of the activities related to the "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013".The dynamics of geophysical phenomena are multi-scale in nature and the interaction between different scales makes the flow complex. Therefore, the system of coupled partial differential equations used in weather and climate models becomes complex which generally can only be solved numerically.The accuracy of the predictions obtained by numerical integration of these partial differential equations depends on model formulation, physical conservation principles, hypothesis and approximations used in their formulation and accuracy of numerical method used for the integration. The advanced dynamical core solvers used in atmospheric and oceanic general circulation models comprise of designing of dynamical equations of conservations, latitudinal –longitudinal mesh, discretization method, temporal integration scheme, parallelization, integration on supercomputing platforms etc. The ch...