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ICTS is organizing a one-day workshop to celebrate and discuss the recent results in Cosmology from the Planck mission. Planck is a space observatory of the European Space Agency and is designed to observe the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background. Results from the first-year observation of Planck have been published recently. The workshop will focus on various implications of these results on our understanding of the Universe. The workshop will feature invited talks from several eminent cosmologists.To participate, register by email to planck2013@icts.res.in by April 12. Participation is limited to the first 30.

This is a joint program of ICTS with NCBS and MechanoBiology Institute, Singapore.The understanding of biological processes at a cellular and sub-cellular scale has made a big leap forward, thanks to the availability of new microscopy tools that enable sub-diffraction resolution and high-speed live cell / tissue imaging technologies that have made the advance from a qualitative to a quantitative description possible. Recently, the application of a wide variety of techniques to mechanically manipulate single molecules or multi-cellular cell composites has allowed scientists to begin addressing the question of how organisms react to controlled mechanical cues. This two-week long program introduces a scope of  techniques to gain quantitative information of responses of the biological material (at all scales) to perturbations of a mechanical nature, and explores how the combination of theory and experiments will lead to a systematic deciphering of the physics of how living material engages...

This is a joint program of ICTS with NCBS and MechanoBiology Institute, Singapore.The understanding of biological processes at a cellular and sub-cellular scale has made a big leap forward, thanks to the availability of new microscopy tools that enable sub-diffraction resolution and high-speed live cell / tissue imaging technologies that have made the advance from a qualitative to a quantitative description possible. Recently, the application of a wide variety of techniques to mechanically manipulate single molecules or multi-cellular cell composites has allowed scientists to begin addressing the question of how organisms react to controlled mechanical cues. This two-week long program introduces a scope of  techniques to gain quantitative information of responses of the biological material (at all scales) to perturbations of a mechanical nature, and explores how the combination of theory and experiments will lead to a systematic deciphering of the physics of how living material engages...

This program is being organized as a part of the activities related to the "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013".The dynamics of geophysical phenomena are multi-scale in nature and the interaction between different scales makes the flow complex. Therefore, the system of coupled partial differential equations used in weather and climate models becomes complex which generally can only be solved numerically.The accuracy of the predictions obtained by numerical integration of these partial differential equations depends on model formulation, physical conservation principles, hypothesis and approximations used in their formulation and accuracy of numerical method used for the integration. The advanced dynamical core solvers used in atmospheric and oceanic general circulation models comprise of designing of dynamical equations of conservations, latitudinal –longitudinal mesh, discretization method, temporal integration scheme, parallelization, integration on supercomputing platforms etc. The ch...

This program is being organized as a part of the activities related to the "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013".The dynamics of geophysical phenomena are multi-scale in nature and the interaction between different scales makes the flow complex. Therefore, the system of coupled partial differential equations used in weather and climate models becomes complex which generally can only be solved numerically.The accuracy of the predictions obtained by numerical integration of these partial differential equations depends on model formulation, physical conservation principles, hypothesis and approximations used in their formulation and accuracy of numerical method used for the integration. The advanced dynamical core solvers used in atmospheric and oceanic general circulation models comprise of designing of dynamical equations of conservations, latitudinal –longitudinal mesh, discretization method, temporal integration scheme, parallelization, integration on supercomputing platforms etc. The ch...