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This meeting which is ICTS-IISc joint program will discuss recent progress on the black-hole information paradox, and the question of whether AdS/CFT can provide a useful description of the interior of black holes.Long ago, Hawking found that the thermal radiation from black-holes appeared to be in conflict with the unitarity of quantum mechanics. It was believed, especially after the advent of the AdS/CFT correspondence, that Hawking's calculation was not precise enough to provide a paradox, and that small effects in the CFT would reconcile Hawking radiation with unitarity.Recently, there have been several claims, starting with the work of Mathur, and followed by the work of Marolf, Polchinski and others that this is impossible; rather unitarity implies that quantum effects modify the structure of the horizon of the black-hole.This meeting will take stock of the claims and counter-claims in the literature. Broadly speaking, the following positions have been articulated:1) quantum effe...

This meeting which is ICTS-IISc joint program will discuss recent progress on the black-hole information paradox, and the question of whether AdS/CFT can provide a useful description of the interior of black holes.Long ago, Hawking found that the thermal radiation from black-holes appeared to be in conflict with the unitarity of quantum mechanics. It was believed, especially after the advent of the AdS/CFT correspondence, that Hawking's calculation was not precise enough to provide a paradox, and that small effects in the CFT would reconcile Hawking radiation with unitarity.Recently, there have been several claims, starting with the work of Mathur, and followed by the work of Marolf, Polchinski and others that this is impossible; rather unitarity implies that quantum effects modify the structure of the horizon of the black-hole.This meeting will take stock of the claims and counter-claims in the literature. Broadly speaking, the following positions have been articulated:1) quantum effe...

Sequencing across species and across individuals is proceeding at a pace that far outstrips the capabilities of today’s computer technologies. Indeed, while genomic data are quadrupling every year, the available compute power can at best double each year. Further, many algorithmic approaches in bioinformatics rely on direct comparisons of nucleotide sequences and optimization combined with statistical techniques and probabilistic models that do not scale to the massive data. To achieve the biological and consequent healthcare breakthroughs promised by advances in genome sequencing, new and disruptive computing technologies must be developedBreakthroughs can be envisaged by considering how features of genomic data can inspire new computational methods. Such innovations can occur only with an interdisciplinary team of computer engineers and scientists working closely with genomic biologists and bioinformatics specialists. It is a challenge to arrive at novel computational paradigms that ...