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The meeting will gather a small group of scientists working on specific areas of cosmology (mainly related to primary and secondary CMB, SZ clusters, non-Gaussianity, lensing) for three days of focussed discussions. The aim is to start and foster collaboration between the cosmology communities in India and abroad and expose students to contemporary cosmological studies.The meeting will coincide with the Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Lectures of ICTS to be given by Prof. Lyman Page (Princeton University). ParticipantsSudeep Das (Berkeley)    Alan Heavens (Edinburgh)Pankaj Jain (IIT-K)Sanjay Jhingan (JMI-Delhi)Dipak Munshi (Cardiff)     Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale) Biman Nath (RRI)Lyman Page (Princeton)Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (HRI)Jonathan Sievers (CITA)L. Sriramkumar (HRI)Sandip Trivedi (TIFR)Amit Yadav (IAS) Co-OrdinatorsSubha Majumdar (TIFR)Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA) LOC Subha MajumdarSatej KhedekarMukesh Dodain

The meeting will gather a small group of scientists working on specific areas of cosmology (mainly related to primary and secondary CMB, SZ clusters, non-Gaussianity, lensing) for three days of focussed discussions. The aim is to start and foster collaboration between the cosmology communities in India and abroad and expose students to contemporary cosmological studies.The meeting will coincide with the Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Lectures of ICTS to be given by Prof. Lyman Page (Princeton University). ParticipantsSudeep Das (Berkeley)    Alan Heavens (Edinburgh)Pankaj Jain (IIT-K)Sanjay Jhingan (JMI-Delhi)Dipak Munshi (Cardiff)     Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale) Biman Nath (RRI)Lyman Page (Princeton)Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (HRI)Jonathan Sievers (CITA)L. Sriramkumar (HRI)Sandip Trivedi (TIFR)Amit Yadav (IAS) Co-OrdinatorsSubha Majumdar (TIFR)Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA) LOC Subha MajumdarSatej KhedekarMukesh Dodain

This program is a part of the golden jubilee celebrations of IIT Kanpur.A Satellite Meeting of this ICTS Program will also be held at IIT Kanpur. More details are available here.Aims and scope: Strictly speaking, no macroscopic system is in thermodynamic equilibrium although, over an approriate window of time, they may appear to be in equilibrium. However, the foundation of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM) is not as well established as that developed by Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs for systems in equilibrium. Moreover, the smaller is the system, the stronger are the fluctuations. Furthermore, at sufficiently low temperatures, quantum fluctuations give rise to additional interesting properties also in systems far from equilibrium. The main aim of the ICTS program on "Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics" is to critically examine the foundations of NESM and to assess the recent progress in understanding physical phenomena in wide varieties of systems far from equilibrium.This ...

This program is a part of the golden jubilee celebrations of IIT Kanpur.A Satellite Meeting of this ICTS Program will also be held at IIT Kanpur. More details are available here.Aims and scope: Strictly speaking, no macroscopic system is in thermodynamic equilibrium although, over an approriate window of time, they may appear to be in equilibrium. However, the foundation of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM) is not as well established as that developed by Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs for systems in equilibrium. Moreover, the smaller is the system, the stronger are the fluctuations. Furthermore, at sufficiently low temperatures, quantum fluctuations give rise to additional interesting properties also in systems far from equilibrium. The main aim of the ICTS program on "Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics" is to critically examine the foundations of NESM and to assess the recent progress in understanding physical phenomena in wide varieties of systems far from equilibrium.This ...

This is a satellite meeting of the ICTS Inaugural Event The evolution of an organized structure requires linking multiple structural and functional entities in a non-random fashion. Innovation and robustness are hallmarks of the evolution of any organization. Researchers in different fields of natural sciences, engineering, social, and behavioral sciences have been studying the evolution and structural determinants of chemical, biological, social, and economic organized structures using their discipline specific tools and vocabulary, often remaining unaware of the convergence of underlying processes and ideas. This symposium, in which several senior researchers from the Santa Fe Institute, USA and other international and national experts on Complexity will participate, aims to bring a multidisciplinary perspective into a diverse set of processes spanning different fields of enquiry to identify and describe the common mechanisms that lead to the evolution of functional and structural or...

This is a satellite meeting of the ICTS Inaugural Event The evolution of an organized structure requires linking multiple structural and functional entities in a non-random fashion. Innovation and robustness are hallmarks of the evolution of any organization. Researchers in different fields of natural sciences, engineering, social, and behavioral sciences have been studying the evolution and structural determinants of chemical, biological, social, and economic organized structures using their discipline specific tools and vocabulary, often remaining unaware of the convergence of underlying processes and ideas. This symposium, in which several senior researchers from the Santa Fe Institute, USA and other international and national experts on Complexity will participate, aims to bring a multidisciplinary perspective into a diverse set of processes spanning different fields of enquiry to identify and describe the common mechanisms that lead to the evolution of functional and structural or...