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The ICTS Astrophysics & Relativity group will organize a Study Hub of the Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop 2023 at the ICTS campus. The workshop will include a set of lectures followed by hands-on tutorial sessions. Participants will get to learn state-of-the-art data analysis tools used by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration to detect and analyse the gravitational wave signals from compact binary mergers.The Study Hub will run on May 16th and May 17th. The workshop is only open to individuals residing in the Bangalore area. ICTS is unable to provide accommodation. There will be shuttle buses available from IISc to ICTS (Shuttle pick up point: IISc gate opposite BHEL Office) and return to IISc. Eligibility: The workshop is meant for postgraduate and PhD students interested in GW astronomy and related fields. A small number of highly motivated final-year undergraduate students will also be considered. Participants are expected to know programming in Python and have a basic understan...

The ICTS Astrophysics & Relativity group will organize a Study Hub of the Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop 2023 at the ICTS campus. The workshop will include a set of lectures followed by hands-on tutorial sessions. Participants will get to learn state-of-the-art data analysis tools used by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration to detect and analyse the gravitational wave signals from compact binary mergers.The Study Hub will run on May 16th and May 17th. The workshop is only open to individuals residing in the Bangalore area. ICTS is unable to provide accommodation. There will be shuttle buses available from IISc to ICTS (Shuttle pick up point: IISc gate opposite BHEL Office) and return to IISc. Eligibility: The workshop is meant for postgraduate and PhD students interested in GW astronomy and related fields. A small number of highly motivated final-year undergraduate students will also be considered. Participants are expected to know programming in Python and have a basic understan...

This workshop brings together experts in algebraic topology, commutative algebra, and the modular representation theory of finite groups. There are many points of contact between these areas of mathematics. The focus of the workshop will be on duality phenomena and also on classification problems in various tensor-triangulated categories that arise naturally in these fields. The derived category of a commutative ring—an interesting object in its own right—often serves as a (simpler) model for the stable category of a finite group, and also the stable homotopy category in topology. There are many similarities between these categories, for example the possession of a triangulated structure with a compatible symmetric product, but also notable differences; in particular, the stable homotopy category is significantly more complicated. Nevertheless, ideas and notions that arose in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry have been transplanted fruitfully to modular representation theory a...

This workshop brings together experts in algebraic topology, commutative algebra, and the modular representation theory of finite groups. There are many points of contact between these areas of mathematics. The focus of the workshop will be on duality phenomena and also on classification problems in various tensor-triangulated categories that arise naturally in these fields. The derived category of a commutative ring—an interesting object in its own right—often serves as a (simpler) model for the stable category of a finite group, and also the stable homotopy category in topology. There are many similarities between these categories, for example the possession of a triangulated structure with a compatible symmetric product, but also notable differences; in particular, the stable homotopy category is significantly more complicated. Nevertheless, ideas and notions that arose in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry have been transplanted fruitfully to modular representation theory a...

The tremendous success of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations, by WMAP and Planck, have heralded an era in precision cosmology. The large scale structures (LSS) in our Universe, particularly at low redshifts, have also been mapped out in great detail over the last decade by surveys such as SDSS. Ongoing surveys such as the DES, KiDS and HSC are pushing this frontier to higher redshifts. The near future will see further advances with DESI, PFS, Euclid and LSST continuing the legacy of wide area surveys. We will also get data in X-ray from eROSITA, and 21 cm surveys such as CHIME and BINGO followed by SKA in the not so far future. Hand-in-hand, the next generation CMB S4, CMB-HD observations are on the cards; especially CMB polarization and spectral distortion experiments would provide an unprecedented view of the early Universe allowing us to look far beyond the last scattering surface.The proposed program aims to :  Expose young researchers to the forefront of Cosmology rese...

The tremendous success of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations, by WMAP and Planck, have heralded an era in precision cosmology. The large scale structures (LSS) in our Universe, particularly at low redshifts, have also been mapped out in great detail over the last decade by surveys such as SDSS. Ongoing surveys such as the DES, KiDS and HSC are pushing this frontier to higher redshifts. The near future will see further advances with DESI, PFS, Euclid and LSST continuing the legacy of wide area surveys. We will also get data in X-ray from eROSITA, and 21 cm surveys such as CHIME and BINGO followed by SKA in the not so far future. Hand-in-hand, the next generation CMB S4, CMB-HD observations are on the cards; especially CMB polarization and spectral distortion experiments would provide an unprecedented view of the early Universe allowing us to look far beyond the last scattering surface.The proposed program aims to :  Expose young researchers to the forefront of Cosmology rese...

Asian-Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM) was formed on August 1, 2022, in online mode, with the support of the CWM members of the IMU, in order to facilitate interactions among women mathematicians in these regions. AOWM hopes to provide an empathetic platform to women mathematicians to share their concerns, and to highlight and bring to the forefront their achievements.In this connection, we will have the first (hybrid) meeting of the AOWM under the auspices of ICTS, Bangalore. One of the primary goals of this meeting is to decide the future course of academic activities in these regions. We also plan to have a number of lectures by distinguished as well as young promising women mathematicians. Further, we will have interactive sessions in hybrid mode with women students and postdocs from all over the world to enlighten them on various career opportunities in research, and the means and support systems available to overcome any challenges they might meet in their pursuits. Eligibili...

Asian-Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM) was formed on August 1, 2022, in online mode, with the support of the CWM members of the IMU, in order to facilitate interactions among women mathematicians in these regions. AOWM hopes to provide an empathetic platform to women mathematicians to share their concerns, and to highlight and bring to the forefront their achievements.In this connection, we will have the first (hybrid) meeting of the AOWM under the auspices of ICTS, Bangalore. One of the primary goals of this meeting is to decide the future course of academic activities in these regions. We also plan to have a number of lectures by distinguished as well as young promising women mathematicians. Further, we will have interactive sessions in hybrid mode with women students and postdocs from all over the world to enlighten them on various career opportunities in research, and the means and support systems available to overcome any challenges they might meet in their pursuits. Eligibili...

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...

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...