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Climate change, or more appropriately, the climate "crisis", looms upon our future and is poised to become one of the most significant challenges our current and future generations will face. This exhibition, titled "Climate Chaos: We’re Just Warming Up", gives you a science informed, starkly visual impression of what this crisis will mean for your lives in urban Indian megacities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.The exhibition features interactive demonstrations and videos, like showing the link between carbon dioxide emissions and sea-level rise, the increase in frequency of extreme climate events due to a shifting global mean and a live demonstration of the discomfort of humid heat vs dry heat (a particularly coastal problem). The exhibition also features AI-generated speculative imagery of future scenarios of Indian cities, with and without climate intervention. Finally, the exhibition ends with "The Hope", demarcating steps and pointers for individuals, to build ...

Climate change, or more appropriately, the climate "crisis", looms upon our future and is poised to become one of the most significant challenges our current and future generations will face. This exhibition, titled "Climate Chaos: We’re Just Warming Up", gives you a science informed, starkly visual impression of what this crisis will mean for your lives in urban Indian megacities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.The exhibition features interactive demonstrations and videos, like showing the link between carbon dioxide emissions and sea-level rise, the increase in frequency of extreme climate events due to a shifting global mean and a live demonstration of the discomfort of humid heat vs dry heat (a particularly coastal problem). The exhibition also features AI-generated speculative imagery of future scenarios of Indian cities, with and without climate intervention. Finally, the exhibition ends with "The Hope", demarcating steps and pointers for individuals, to build ...

The Mathematical Olympiad Programme in India, which leads to the participation of Indian students in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is organized by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) on behalf of the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. This programme is one of the major initiatives undertaken by the NBHM. Its main purpose is to spot mathematical talent among pre-university students in the country.The first stage examination, the pre-Regional Mathematical Olympiad (PRMO) is a three hour examination with 30 questions. The Mathematics Teachers Association (India) coordinates this exam. Every year more than 100000 students write PRMO. The answer to each question is either a single-digit number or a two-digit number and will need to be marked on a machine-readable OMR response sheet.In order to prepare the question paper for PRMO, a Resource Generation Committee is set up by the National...

The Mathematical Olympiad Programme in India, which leads to the participation of Indian students in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is organized by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) on behalf of the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. This programme is one of the major initiatives undertaken by the NBHM. Its main purpose is to spot mathematical talent among pre-university students in the country.The first stage examination, the pre-Regional Mathematical Olympiad (PRMO) is a three hour examination with 30 questions. The Mathematics Teachers Association (India) coordinates this exam. Every year more than 100000 students write PRMO. The answer to each question is either a single-digit number or a two-digit number and will need to be marked on a machine-readable OMR response sheet.In order to prepare the question paper for PRMO, a Resource Generation Committee is set up by the National...

This will be a follow-up of the March 2019 workshop and the 2021 online workshop. As before, the program lies at the juncture of three areas:(1) Probability theory of random processes on negatively curved spaces.(2) Ergodic theory and hyperbolic dynamics (3) hyperbolic geometry.1. Probability:The 2019 workshop laid stress on random walks, while the 2021 workshop emphasized  Bernoulli percolation among topics allied with probability. While random walks on hyperbolic groups have received some attention, other random processes, such as first and last passage percolation, are in a barely nascent state. This is not due to a dearth of problems but rather that people with a dual expertise in both the relevant probabilistic methods and a feel for the geometry of negatively curved spaces, are rare.The 2021 workshop addressed this lacuna by having a set of talks on Bernoulli percolation. The 2023 workshop will deal with more advanced themes like Liouville quantum gravity.2. Ergodic theory: Invar...

This will be a follow-up of the March 2019 workshop and the 2021 online workshop. As before, the program lies at the juncture of three areas:(1) Probability theory of random processes on negatively curved spaces.(2) Ergodic theory and hyperbolic dynamics (3) hyperbolic geometry.1. Probability:The 2019 workshop laid stress on random walks, while the 2021 workshop emphasized  Bernoulli percolation among topics allied with probability. While random walks on hyperbolic groups have received some attention, other random processes, such as first and last passage percolation, are in a barely nascent state. This is not due to a dearth of problems but rather that people with a dual expertise in both the relevant probabilistic methods and a feel for the geometry of negatively curved spaces, are rare.The 2021 workshop addressed this lacuna by having a set of talks on Bernoulli percolation. The 2023 workshop will deal with more advanced themes like Liouville quantum gravity.2. Ergodic theory: Invar...

This is a followup discussion meeting on complex and algebraic geometry involving the below speakers.1. Jose Ignacio Butgos GilArakelov theory, equidistribution and algebraic dynamics: The famous Bogomolov conjecture states that, given a curve C of genus bigger or equal than 2 and defined over a number field, then there exists a number ε > 0 such that the set of algebraic points of C whose N eron–Tate height is smaller that ε is finite. This conjecture was proved by Ullmo and Zhang at the end of last century, based on a pioneering work of Szpiro, Ullmo and Zhang on equidistribution of points of small height. Arakelov theory brings geometric intuition to arithmetic and is a natural framework where to study heights and many questions related to equidistribution. In this course we will give an introduction to heights using Arakelov theory, we will discuss classical equidistribution results and their applications, putting on equal foot the arithmetic and the geometric setting. Finally we w...

We plan an intensive 1-week preparatory school, where participants interested in but new to population genetics can learn key mathematical concepts and tools (for students from a biology background), and important concepts and basic knowledge of biology and genetics (for students from a non-biology background). Scheduled a year before the next main ICTS population genetics school in 2024, the preparatory school will allow participants to strengthen their basic skills and understanding, allowing them to make the most of advanced lectures from experts in the main school. Participants will be asked to come prepared with a basic understanding of biology and computer programming and mathematics (based on suggested reading and other resources provided by email), and lectures during school will help them solidify their understanding and use it to solve simple but interesting problems in population genetics and evolution. The lectures will cover topics such as basic evolutionary forces, neutra...

This is a followup discussion meeting on complex and algebraic geometry involving the below speakers.1. Jose Ignacio Butgos GilArakelov theory, equidistribution and algebraic dynamics: The famous Bogomolov conjecture states that, given a curve C of genus bigger or equal than 2 and defined over a number field, then there exists a number ε > 0 such that the set of algebraic points of C whose N eron–Tate height is smaller that ε is finite. This conjecture was proved by Ullmo and Zhang at the end of last century, based on a pioneering work of Szpiro, Ullmo and Zhang on equidistribution of points of small height. Arakelov theory brings geometric intuition to arithmetic and is a natural framework where to study heights and many questions related to equidistribution. In this course we will give an introduction to heights using Arakelov theory, we will discuss classical equidistribution results and their applications, putting on equal foot the arithmetic and the geometric setting. Finally we w...

We plan an intensive 1-week preparatory school, where participants interested in but new to population genetics can learn key mathematical concepts and tools (for students from a biology background), and important concepts and basic knowledge of biology and genetics (for students from a non-biology background). Scheduled a year before the next main ICTS population genetics school in 2024, the preparatory school will allow participants to strengthen their basic skills and understanding, allowing them to make the most of advanced lectures from experts in the main school. Participants will be asked to come prepared with a basic understanding of biology and computer programming and mathematics (based on suggested reading and other resources provided by email), and lectures during school will help them solidify their understanding and use it to solve simple but interesting problems in population genetics and evolution. The lectures will cover topics such as basic evolutionary forces, neutra...

For a long time, the vortex equations and their associated self-dual field theories have provided a class of toy models in condensed matter theory and particle physics. But more recently, vortices (or their avatars such as stable pairs, holomorphic triples/chains, and quasi-maps) have also been attracting increasing interest from the mathematical community, proceeding from their very natural symplectic-geometric interpretation. In various contexts, a prominent role has been played by the moduli spaces of these objects -- they have been investigated from viewpoints such as geometric quantization, localization of supersymmetric gauge theories, geometric group theory and enumerative geometry. On the other hand, several constructions related to the notion of duality in QFT have also relied on vortices and their extensions. Our program is aimed at discussing recent research on vortex moduli (in their different guises, addressing their topology and geometry), as well as showcasing new develo...

For a long time, the vortex equations and their associated self-dual field theories have provided a class of toy models in condensed matter theory and particle physics. But more recently, vortices (or their avatars such as stable pairs, holomorphic triples/chains, and quasi-maps) have also been attracting increasing interest from the mathematical community, proceeding from their very natural symplectic-geometric interpretation. In various contexts, a prominent role has been played by the moduli spaces of these objects -- they have been investigated from viewpoints such as geometric quantization, localization of supersymmetric gauge theories, geometric group theory and enumerative geometry. On the other hand, several constructions related to the notion of duality in QFT have also relied on vortices and their extensions. Our program is aimed at discussing recent research on vortex moduli (in their different guises, addressing their topology and geometry), as well as showcasing new develo...