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In the contemporary era of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in which physicists worldwide are hoping to find answers to many outstanding questions of particle physics, complementary attempts to look for new physics via non-accelerator probes are very significant. The field of CP violation is vast and is growing rapidly and independently in different research areas. It interconnects many areas such as particle, nuclear, atomic, molecular and solid state physics and involves experimental, theoretical and computational  methods. This ICTS program on CP violation (PCPV 2013) will bring together practitioners from such diverse fields as particle, nuclear and atomic physics, both experimental and theoretical, who have an interest in CP violation, on a single platform.The program will be organized in two parts:(i) Advanced School: 7-18 Feb, 2013(ii) Workshop: 19-23 Feb, 2013Many leading experts from different countries will give lectures in the school on various aspects of CP violation which w...

In the contemporary era of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in which physicists worldwide are hoping to find answers to many outstanding questions of particle physics, complementary attempts to look for new physics via non-accelerator probes are very significant. The field of CP violation is vast and is growing rapidly and independently in different research areas. It interconnects many areas such as particle, nuclear, atomic, molecular and solid state physics and involves experimental, theoretical and computational  methods. This ICTS program on CP violation (PCPV 2013) will bring together practitioners from such diverse fields as particle, nuclear and atomic physics, both experimental and theoretical, who have an interest in CP violation, on a single platform.The program will be organized in two parts:(i) Advanced School: 7-18 Feb, 2013(ii) Workshop: 19-23 Feb, 2013Many leading experts from different countries will give lectures in the school on various aspects of CP violation which w...

This meeting is being organized as a part of the activities related to the "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013".The scientific themes of the Ramanujan Lectures by Prof. Majda will be modelling of wave phenomena in the tropics, study of convection and relations to clouds, and filtering or assimilation of chaotic signals in complex systems such as the atmosphere.The discussion meeting centred around these lectures will mainly cover the following topics:Mathematical theory of tropical meteorologyObservations and numerical simulations of these phenomenaRole of clouds and convection in the tropicsPrediction and data assimilation techniquesConvection in the tropics occurs across scales, from the scale of little eddies of a few mm or less to that of clouds to the planetary scale Walker and Hadley circulations. These scales continuously interact and exchange energy. Unlike in most other fluid mechanical phenomena, the energy transfer could be a two way process in the tropical atmosphere i.e. ene...

This meeting is being organized as a part of the activities related to the "Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013".The scientific themes of the Ramanujan Lectures by Prof. Majda will be modelling of wave phenomena in the tropics, study of convection and relations to clouds, and filtering or assimilation of chaotic signals in complex systems such as the atmosphere.The discussion meeting centred around these lectures will mainly cover the following topics:Mathematical theory of tropical meteorologyObservations and numerical simulations of these phenomenaRole of clouds and convection in the tropicsPrediction and data assimilation techniquesConvection in the tropics occurs across scales, from the scale of little eddies of a few mm or less to that of clouds to the planetary scale Walker and Hadley circulations. These scales continuously interact and exchange energy. Unlike in most other fluid mechanical phenomena, the energy transfer could be a two way process in the tropical atmosphere i.e. ene...

Neurodegeneration, a broad symptom which arises out of several different dysfunctions, is prevalent in aging populations, and it mostly affects people after 50 years of age. There are both hereditary and sporadic cases. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Charcot Marie Tooth Type 2A (CMT2A), and a variety of different dementia are some examples. Recent research suggests that aberrant intracellular transport and mutations in the motor protein genes can induce such disorders in model organisms and humans. Recent reports also indicate that loss of mitochondrial transport, as well as the slow axonal transport, can induce dementia and neurofibrillary plaques in the brain. In view of these and other related developments, a large body of research has been launched world-wide to elucidate the connection between defective axonal transport and neurodegeneration. This ICTS program, jointly organized by faculties from TIFR, IIT Bombay and UC San Diego, will highlight this new area of research....