No living organism escapes evolutionary change. Evolutionary biology thus connects all biological disciplines. To understand the processes driving evolution, we need a theoretical framework to predict and test evolutionary changes in populations. Population genetics, which is often regarded as a cornerstone of evolutionary biology, allows quantitative predictions of evolutionary processes, integrating mathematical and statistical concepts with fundamental biological principles of genetic inheritance and processes such as mutation and selection.The Third Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution (PGE2018) aims to expose students and researchers from diverse backgrounds to the basics and the forefront of current research in population genetics. We welcome students of biology, mathematics, medicine, physics, and statistics who are interested in evolutionary theory to this program. The school will introduce and develop an understanding of population genetics and quantitative ge...
No living organism escapes evolutionary change. Evolutionary biology thus connects all biological disciplines. To understand the processes driving evolution, we need a theoretical framework to predict and test evolutionary changes in populations. Population genetics, which is often regarded as a cornerstone of evolutionary biology, allows quantitative predictions of evolutionary processes, integrating mathematical and statistical concepts with fundamental biological principles of genetic inheritance and processes such as mutation and selection.The Third Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution (PGE2018) aims to expose students and researchers from diverse backgrounds to the basics and the forefront of current research in population genetics. We welcome students of biology, mathematics, medicine, physics, and statistics who are interested in evolutionary theory to this program. The school will introduce and develop an understanding of population genetics and quantitative ge...
This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community which is attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics.This meeting would be the 5th in this series of meetingsThis meeting will cover all the 8 Topics covered at STATPHYS meetings, namely:General and mathematical aspects rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc. Quantum fluids and condensed matter strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase tr...
This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community which is attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics.This meeting would be the 5th in this series of meetingsThis meeting will cover all the 8 Topics covered at STATPHYS meetings, namely:General and mathematical aspects rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc. Quantum fluids and condensed matter strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase tr...
The program "Nonperturbative and Numerical Approaches to Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography" aims to bring together theorists working in the areas of lattice field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity to discuss the state of the art nonperturbative methods and numerical approaches to tackle current and relevant problems in string theory and holography.The program via its strong pedagogical component, aims also to build and grow a community of theorists in India who would contribute to problems in nonperturbative field theories interconnecting string theory, supersymmetric/superconformal field theories, quantum black holes, gravity and holography.The content of this program can be broadly divided into five topics: Lattice Supersymmetric Field Theories: Recent developments in realizing N = 4 supersymmetry on the lattice (including ideas on regulating flat directions, static quark potential, anomalous dimension of Konishi operator), N = 1 supersymetry on lattice (includin...
The program "Nonperturbative and Numerical Approaches to Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography" aims to bring together theorists working in the areas of lattice field theory, string theory, and quantum gravity to discuss the state of the art nonperturbative methods and numerical approaches to tackle current and relevant problems in string theory and holography.The program via its strong pedagogical component, aims also to build and grow a community of theorists in India who would contribute to problems in nonperturbative field theories interconnecting string theory, supersymmetric/superconformal field theories, quantum black holes, gravity and holography.The content of this program can be broadly divided into five topics: Lattice Supersymmetric Field Theories: Recent developments in realizing N = 4 supersymmetry on the lattice (including ideas on regulating flat directions, static quark potential, anomalous dimension of Konishi operator), N = 1 supersymetry on lattice (includin...
The study of turbulent fluid flow has always been of immense scientific appeal to engineers, physicists and mathematicians because it plays an important role across a plethora of known phenomena, extending from the quantum mechanical all the way to cosmological scales. The purpose of this discussion meeting is to bring together researchers who have made key contributions in various areas of turbulence to describe their latest research results and discuss open problems.The talks will be in the broad areas listed below and will cover the spectrum from homogeneous isotropic turbulence to situations where shear breaks isotropy (as in the ocean, the atmosphere, solar fluid dynamics, and in engineering flows) to turbulent convection (as in the rotating Sun) and quantum turbulence:Basic turbulenceIsotropic and homogeneous turbulenceQuantum turbulenceCosmological turbulence Boundary layers and lab flowsGeophysical and astrophysical flowsThis meeting will be held around the Infosys - ICTS Subra...
The study of turbulent fluid flow has always been of immense scientific appeal to engineers, physicists and mathematicians because it plays an important role across a plethora of known phenomena, extending from the quantum mechanical all the way to cosmological scales. The purpose of this discussion meeting is to bring together researchers who have made key contributions in various areas of turbulence to describe their latest research results and discuss open problems.The talks will be in the broad areas listed below and will cover the spectrum from homogeneous isotropic turbulence to situations where shear breaks isotropy (as in the ocean, the atmosphere, solar fluid dynamics, and in engineering flows) to turbulent convection (as in the rotating Sun) and quantum turbulence:Basic turbulenceIsotropic and homogeneous turbulenceQuantum turbulenceCosmological turbulence Boundary layers and lab flowsGeophysical and astrophysical flowsThis meeting will be held around the Infosys - ICTS Subra...
The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effort of high energy theorists from China, India, Japan and Korea to give young researchers in Asia an opportunity to come together and learn about the latest developments in high energy theory, from leading experts on the subject.The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS 2018) will focus on the following topics (lecturers in parentheses)Conformal Bootstrap (Luis Alday (Univ. of Oxford, UK))Cosmology (Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, USA))Scattering Amplitudes (Freddy Cachazo (PITP, Canada))Supersymmetric gauge theories (Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR, India))Bulk reconstruction (Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN,Switzerland))SYK Model (Vladimir Rosenhaus (KITP, USA)) + a special lecture by David Gross (KITP, USA)QFT dynamics in 2+1 dimensions (Nathan Seiberg (IAS, USA))Soft Theorems (Ashoke Sen (HRI, India))As part of the school activities we will also have a Kavli Distinguished Lecture by David Gross (Jan. 8th), ...
The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effort of high energy theorists from China, India, Japan and Korea to give young researchers in Asia an opportunity to come together and learn about the latest developments in high energy theory, from leading experts on the subject.The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS 2018) will focus on the following topics (lecturers in parentheses)Conformal Bootstrap (Luis Alday (Univ. of Oxford, UK))Cosmology (Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, USA))Scattering Amplitudes (Freddy Cachazo (PITP, Canada))Supersymmetric gauge theories (Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR, India))Bulk reconstruction (Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN,Switzerland))SYK Model (Vladimir Rosenhaus (KITP, USA)) + a special lecture by David Gross (KITP, USA)QFT dynamics in 2+1 dimensions (Nathan Seiberg (IAS, USA))Soft Theorems (Ashoke Sen (HRI, India))As part of the school activities we will also have a Kavli Distinguished Lecture by David Gross (Jan. 8th), ...
