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Lunar exploration has become a strategic objective of space agencies worldwide. These programs offer extraordinary opportunities for science as well. Gravitational-wave (GW) detection on the Moon already emerged as a revolutionary idea during the Apollo era. Today, technologies exist to realise a GW detector on the Moon. Lunar detectors would have the capability to open the decihertz band to GW observations with enormous opportunities for breakthrough GW and multi-messenger observations. The goal of this meeting is to discuss mission concepts for lunar GW detection, payload technologies, GW science, as well as lunar geophysics, which plays a crucial role in the planning of these missions. This meeting also will include scientists who are working on other mission concepts for decihertz GW detection to facilitate a meaningful exchange of ideas and techniques. Another aim of this meeting is to help to step up the Indian presence in the international efforts to prepare a science white pape...

In the last few decades the ΛCDM paradigm has been firmly established as the “Standard Model” of cosmology. While this phenomenological model is known to be a good fit for most existing data, some tensions have come to light in recent years. In addition, with the flood of data expected from current and future cosmological surveys and laboratory experiments, we will be in a position to go beyond such a phenomenological description by critically examining the pillars on which this model is grounded, and deepening our understanding of the fundamental physics from which it emerges.This in-person workshop on the Less Travelled Path to the Dark Universe (LTPDU) will bring together particle physicists and cosmologists from all over the world to address current questions and new directions in cosmological probes of fundamental physics — including the search for Dark Matter beyond the WIMP paradigm, the nature of Dark Energy, inflationary physics, neutrino physics, and the status and role of va...

In the last few decades the ΛCDM paradigm has been firmly established as the “Standard Model” of cosmology. While this phenomenological model is known to be a good fit for most existing data, some tensions have come to light in recent years. In addition, with the flood of data expected from current and future cosmological surveys and laboratory experiments, we will be in a position to go beyond such a phenomenological description by critically examining the pillars on which this model is grounded, and deepening our understanding of the fundamental physics from which it emerges.This in-person workshop on the Less Travelled Path to the Dark Universe (LTPDU) will bring together particle physicists and cosmologists from all over the world to address current questions and new directions in cosmological probes of fundamental physics — including the search for Dark Matter beyond the WIMP paradigm, the nature of Dark Energy, inflationary physics, neutrino physics, and the status and role of va...

Climate change, or more appropriately, the climate "crisis", looms upon our future and is poised to become one of the most significant challenges our current and future generations will face. This exhibition, titled "Climate Chaos: We’re Just Warming Up", gives you a science informed, starkly visual impression of what this crisis will mean for your lives in urban Indian megacities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.The exhibition features interactive demonstrations and videos, like showing the link between carbon dioxide emissions and sea-level rise, the increase in frequency of extreme climate events due to a shifting global mean and a live demonstration of the discomfort of humid heat vs dry heat (a particularly coastal problem). The exhibition also features AI-generated speculative imagery of future scenarios of Indian cities, with and without climate intervention. Finally, the exhibition ends with "The Hope", demarcating steps and pointers for individuals, to build ...

Climate change, or more appropriately, the climate "crisis", looms upon our future and is poised to become one of the most significant challenges our current and future generations will face. This exhibition, titled "Climate Chaos: We’re Just Warming Up", gives you a science informed, starkly visual impression of what this crisis will mean for your lives in urban Indian megacities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.The exhibition features interactive demonstrations and videos, like showing the link between carbon dioxide emissions and sea-level rise, the increase in frequency of extreme climate events due to a shifting global mean and a live demonstration of the discomfort of humid heat vs dry heat (a particularly coastal problem). The exhibition also features AI-generated speculative imagery of future scenarios of Indian cities, with and without climate intervention. Finally, the exhibition ends with "The Hope", demarcating steps and pointers for individuals, to build ...