CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.Suspensions of solid particles and liquid drops are ubiquitous in natural turbulent flows: riverine discharges into the open ocean, marine snow (plankton and other carbonaceous matter) in the ocean, cloud droplets, spreading of volcanic ash and dust storms. In each of them there are physical questions of importance. This meeting will bring oceanographers, cloud scientists and fluid mechanicians studying particle and droplet transport together and those making observations in contact with modellers and theorists.Plankton and other small living beings are found in relatively high concentration in the upper few metres of the ocean. The debris generated sinks to the deeper ocean, and has a major role in carbon sequestration. As they sink, hydrodynamic interactions and cohesive attractions between particles create larger particles of arbitrary shape. Droplets and ice crystals in a cloud need to come in contact and coalesce to grow into raindrops, and turbulence...
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RISK.Suspensions of solid particles and liquid drops are ubiquitous in natural turbulent flows: riverine discharges into the open ocean, marine snow (plankton and other carbonaceous matter) in the ocean, cloud droplets, spreading of volcanic ash and dust storms. In each of them there are physical questions of importance. This meeting will bring oceanographers, cloud scientists and fluid mechanicians studying particle and droplet transport together and those making observations in contact with modellers and theorists.Plankton and other small living beings are found in relatively high concentration in the upper few metres of the ocean. The debris generated sinks to the deeper ocean, and has a major role in carbon sequestration. As they sink, hydrodynamic interactions and cohesive attractions between particles create larger particles of arbitrary shape. Droplets and ice crystals in a cloud need to come in contact and coalesce to grow into raindrops, and turbulence...
The study of hydrodynamic turbulence and turbulent transport has received considerable impulse from the development of experimental, theoretical, and numerical Lagrangian techniques. Allied to this development is the increasing recognition that many aspects and implications of such studies have consequences well beyond classical turbulence. In this context, we propose a short, focused discussion meeting on recent trends at the interface of statistical physics, fluid dynamics and soft matter which deal with Lagrangian problems of particles with internal degrees of freedom as well as active and smart particles in a non-trivial fluid environment. The advances made in the last few years suggest that the interplay between particle and flow dynamics can lead to several intriguing phenomena, some of which have a direct bearing on biophysics.In particular, the main focus of the meeting is on the following themes: 1. Particles with Internal Degrees of Freedom; 2. Non-Spheric...
The study of hydrodynamic turbulence and turbulent transport has received considerable impulse from the development of experimental, theoretical, and numerical Lagrangian techniques. Allied to this development is the increasing recognition that many aspects and implications of such studies have consequences well beyond classical turbulence. In this context, we propose a short, focused discussion meeting on recent trends at the interface of statistical physics, fluid dynamics and soft matter which deal with Lagrangian problems of particles with internal degrees of freedom as well as active and smart particles in a non-trivial fluid environment. The advances made in the last few years suggest that the interplay between particle and flow dynamics can lead to several intriguing phenomena, some of which have a direct bearing on biophysics.In particular, the main focus of the meeting is on the following themes: 1. Particles with Internal Degrees of Freedom; 2. Non-Spheric...
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have postponed the original program that was scheduled for August 24-September 4, 2020. The new dates of the meeting that will be held at ICTS will be announced in due course. Meanwhile, we have planned an online precursor to the meeting which will be held during August 31-September 3, 2020.Our original program had consisted of a School and a Workshop.The aims of the School were to expose graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to essential ideas related to the physics of the early universe. The School was to begin with lectures on basic cosmological perturbation theory and alternative paradigms for the generation of the primordial perturbations. These were to be followed by lectures on the relation between models of the early universe and particle physics as well as comparison of these models with the cosmological data. We had also planned to cover emerging topics such as the non-trivial effects of gauge fields during inflation and reheatin...
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have postponed the original program that was scheduled for August 24-September 4, 2020. The new dates of the meeting that will be held at ICTS will be announced in due course. Meanwhile, we have planned an online precursor to the meeting which will be held during August 31-September 3, 2020.Our original program had consisted of a School and a Workshop.The aims of the School were to expose graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to essential ideas related to the physics of the early universe. The School was to begin with lectures on basic cosmological perturbation theory and alternative paradigms for the generation of the primordial perturbations. These were to be followed by lectures on the relation between models of the early universe and particle physics as well as comparison of these models with the cosmological data. We had also planned to cover emerging topics such as the non-trivial effects of gauge fields during inflation and reheatin...
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the meeting will be conducted through online lectures. Knots are fundamental objects of study in low dimensional topology and appear in diverse areas of sciences. Knot theory has seen tremendous progress in the recent years. The aim of this online program is to familiarise and enthuse younger researchers about the latest advances in the subject with a particular emphasis on computational aspects of (co)homological, combinatorial and polynomial invariants of knots.The pedagogical talks will be delivered by the following well-known experts in the field:(1) Abhijit Champanerkar (City University of New York, USA)(2) Andrei Vesnin (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia)(3) Jozef H. Przytycki (The George Washington University, USA)(4) Louis H. Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)(5) Mohamed Elhamdadi (University of South Florida, USA)(6) Rhea Palak Bakshi (The George Washington...
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the original program has been canceled. However, the meeting will be conducted through online lectures. Knots are fundamental objects of study in low dimensional topology and appear in diverse areas of sciences. Knot theory has seen tremendous progress in the recent years. The aim of this online program is to familiarise and enthuse younger researchers about the latest advances in the subject with a particular emphasis on computational aspects of (co)homological, combinatorial and polynomial invariants of knots.The pedagogical talks will be delivered by the following well-known experts in the field:(1) Abhijit Champanerkar (City University of New York, USA)(2) Andrei Vesnin (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia)(3) Jozef H. Przytycki (The George Washington University, USA)(4) Louis H. Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)(5) Mohamed Elhamdadi (University of South Florida, USA)(6) Rhea Palak Bakshi (The George Washington...
This conference will have talks on cutting edge research on theoretical QCD and its application of the astrophysical properties of compact stars. For the benefit of the students, there will be some lectures on stellar structure and evolution too. This program is a concise virtual version of our original program CSQCD-2020, whose description is given belowCompact stars in the QCD phase diagram (CSQCD) is a biennial international discussion meeting that brings together astroparticle physicists and astrophysicists with the aim of developing theoretical insights into the QCD phase diagram at high baryon density and its applications to the phenomenology of compact stars.With the dawn of an era of gravitational wave astronomy, CSQCD will serve as a confluence of research on multi-messenger observations of neutron stars, charting promising directions that will uncover the nature of matter in their core. This field is expected to see many breakthroughs in the coming years, with the aid of terr...
A living organism relies on the interactions of molecular constituents within itself and with its surroundings to function properly. However, it is clear that the full functionality of a living organism cannot be determined solely by its molecular makeup and interactions. Recent studies have shown that the dynamic spatial organization of different molecular components within a cell, different cells within a tissue, and different organisms within a community, play critical roles in enabling the full functionality of the organism. Furthermore, differential spatial organizations may imply a new level of functional regulation that complements the classic mechanism by molecular interactions. Understanding why and how biological functions are spatially organized requires a concerted effort from scientists of diverse backgrounds, as the spatial organization operates from the nanometer-scale of small liquid droplets condensates inside cells to centimeter-scale skin color pattern formation in a...
This conference will have talks on cutting edge research on theoretical QCD and its application of the astrophysical properties of compact stars. For the benefit of the students, there will be some lectures on stellar structure and evolution too. This program is a concise virtual version of our original program CSQCD-2020, whose description is given belowCompact stars in the QCD phase diagram (CSQCD) is a biennial international discussion meeting that brings together astroparticle physicists and astrophysicists with the aim of developing theoretical insights into the QCD phase diagram at high baryon density and its applications to the phenomenology of compact stars.With the dawn of an era of gravitational wave astronomy, CSQCD will serve as a confluence of research on multi-messenger observations of neutron stars, charting promising directions that will uncover the nature of matter in their core. This field is expected to see many breakthroughs in the coming years, with the aid of terr...
