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Humanity's interest in the Theory of Numbers began deep in antiquity in Asia, and from there passed to Greece and the Arab world, and then on to the West. The aim of the annual Pan Asian Number Theory (PANT) Conferences is to encourage research in Number Theory in present day Asia, and especially to foster collaborations among young Asian Number Theorists. This ICTS program will incorporate the fourth PANT Conference, with previous conferences being held in Korea (2009), Japan (2010) and China (2011). The PANT Conference itself, consisting of about 20 one hour invited lectures, will take place over the four days July 23 -27, 2012, inclusive. It will be preceded by an Instructional Workshop from July 17-22, aimed at presenting in detail for graduate students and non-specialists what is known about the Bloch-Kato conjectures for the Riemann zeta function at the odd positive integers. The final day of the Workshop, meant as a transitional day into the Conference, will feature a series of ...

Humanity's interest in the Theory of Numbers began deep in antiquity in Asia, and from there passed to Greece and the Arab world, and then on to the West. The aim of the annual Pan Asian Number Theory (PANT) Conferences is to encourage research in Number Theory in present day Asia, and especially to foster collaborations among young Asian Number Theorists. This ICTS program will incorporate the fourth PANT Conference, with previous conferences being held in Korea (2009), Japan (2010) and China (2011). The PANT Conference itself, consisting of about 20 one hour invited lectures, will take place over the four days July 23 -27, 2012, inclusive. It will be preceded by an Instructional Workshop from July 17-22, aimed at presenting in detail for graduate students and non-specialists what is known about the Bloch-Kato conjectures for the Riemann zeta function at the odd positive integers. The final day of the Workshop, meant as a transitional day into the Conference, will feature a series of ...

Plasmonics with its proven role in sensing, surface-enhanced spectroscopy and energy transfer is fast evolving into a vast field with much broader scope heralding unprecedented applications. Recent advances in nano fabrication techniques have opened up novel directions: nanoscale heat transfer and thermal imaging, single molecule spectroscopy, light-matter interaction at nano scales, sub-diffraction-limited quantum information processing, biomedical imaging and diagnostics, nano-antennas for LEDs, NSOM and near-field probes etc. The list is ever-growing because of the dramatic growth of our understanding of materials sciences. With the novel meta-materials one can now push the negative refraction domain to optical frequencies. Advances in graphene-plasmonics have opened up unforeseen possibilities. One is now moving closer to the dream notion of a lab-on-a-chip.It is envisaged that the interactions at this Discussion Meeting would identify the future trends and techniques required to a...

Plasmonics with its proven role in sensing, surface-enhanced spectroscopy and energy transfer is fast evolving into a vast field with much broader scope heralding unprecedented applications. Recent advances in nano fabrication techniques have opened up novel directions: nanoscale heat transfer and thermal imaging, single molecule spectroscopy, light-matter interaction at nano scales, sub-diffraction-limited quantum information processing, biomedical imaging and diagnostics, nano-antennas for LEDs, NSOM and near-field probes etc. The list is ever-growing because of the dramatic growth of our understanding of materials sciences. With the novel meta-materials one can now push the negative refraction domain to optical frequencies. Advances in graphene-plasmonics have opened up unforeseen possibilities. One is now moving closer to the dream notion of a lab-on-a-chip.It is envisaged that the interactions at this Discussion Meeting would identify the future trends and techniques required to a...

BrainSTEM will bring together talented individuals with overlapping interests in three spheres – digital media, science, and education – to make connections, share ideas, and discuss online video, radio, webcomics, education, science, and anything else BrainSTEM.

This will be a discussion meeting on various current topics of research in String Theory. Some focus areas will be : higher spin theories and holography, transport phenomena in strongly interacting systems, applications of AdS/CFT, black holes, dynamics of membranes etc. The participants will be a selected group of experts (including younger, upcoming talent). The meeting will provide an opportunity for the participants to discuss their work and hopefully initiate new collaborations.Schedule of the Meeting: The meeting will be held over the period Jun. 11-22nd. Most particiipants will stay for one of the two weeks. We expect to have one or two informal talks per day.

This will be a discussion meeting on various current topics of research in String Theory. Some focus areas will be : higher spin theories and holography, transport phenomena in strongly interacting systems, applications of AdS/CFT, black holes, dynamics of membranes etc. The participants will be a selected group of experts (including younger, upcoming talent). The meeting will provide an opportunity for the participants to discuss their work and hopefully initiate new collaborations.Schedule of the Meeting: The meeting will be held over the period Jun. 11-22nd. Most particiipants will stay for one of the two weeks. We expect to have one or two informal talks per day.

This program will be concerned with cooperative phenomena in biological groups; common structural features behind the phenomena will be highlighted. Specifically, the aim is to focus on aspects of group behaviour that cannot be understood from the functioning of its constituent units in isolation, aspects that demand group-level ‘emergent’ properties to be invoked. The formal part of program will consist of lectures and short tutorials.It is common in biology for more than one potential or actual unit of reproduction to form part of a larger whole that is composed of similar or dissimilar units. In many cases the whole displays group-level traits that are not seen in its constituents. One looks for explanations of a particular trait in terms of proximate causes, namely the underlying physics and chemistry, and separately in terms of the evolutionary history of the group. In general, within-group effects disfavour cooperation between units and between-group effects favour cooperation. G...