Sequencing across species and across individuals is proceeding at a pace that far outstrips the capabilities of today’s computer technologies. Indeed, while genomic data are quadrupling every year, the available compute power can at best double each year. Further, many algorithmic approaches in bioinformatics rely on direct comparisons of nucleotide sequences and optimization combined with statistical techniques and probabilistic models that do not scale to the massive data. To achieve the biological and consequent healthcare breakthroughs promised by advances in genome sequencing, new and disruptive computing technologies must be developedBreakthroughs can be envisaged by considering how features of genomic data can inspire new computational methods. Such innovations can occur only with an interdisciplinary team of computer engineers and scientists working closely with genomic biologists and bioinformatics specialists. It is a challenge to arrive at novel computational paradigms that ...
Sequencing across species and across individuals is proceeding at a pace that far outstrips the capabilities of today’s computer technologies. Indeed, while genomic data are quadrupling every year, the available compute power can at best double each year. Further, many algorithmic approaches in bioinformatics rely on direct comparisons of nucleotide sequences and optimization combined with statistical techniques and probabilistic models that do not scale to the massive data. To achieve the biological and consequent healthcare breakthroughs promised by advances in genome sequencing, new and disruptive computing technologies must be developedBreakthroughs can be envisaged by considering how features of genomic data can inspire new computational methods. Such innovations can occur only with an interdisciplinary team of computer engineers and scientists working closely with genomic biologists and bioinformatics specialists. It is a challenge to arrive at novel computational paradigms that ...
Numerical relativity deals with solving Einstein's field equations using supercomputers. Numerical relativity is an essential tool for the accurate modeling of a wide class of astrophysical phenomena, such as the collapse of massive stars (producing supernova explosions), merger of black holes or neutron stars (potentially producing gamma-ray bursts) and accreting black holes (in X-ray binaries or in galactic centers). Such high-energy astrophysical phenomena are prime targets for the upcoming gravitational-wave-, electromagnetic- and neutrino observatories. This four-week long ICTS program includes a summer school on numerical relativity and a workshop on three interface areas (analytical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy, neutrino physics, and high-energy astrophysics) of numerical relativity. This program aspires to develop an active Indian research community in this emerging research frontier by training students in the area and linking Indian research groups working on r...
The life sciences increasingly depend on quantitative measurements, multi-scale models, and large datasets. The Monsoon School on the Physics of Life will(i) Expose undergraduate students from mathematics, physical sciences and engineering backgrounds to exciting problems in biology through research talks by biologists and physicists. Topics include: the structure and function of biomolecules; the organization of cells; the development of organisms from embryos to adults; the structure and function of the brain; populations and ecosystems; and aspects of evolution.(ii) Provide pedagogical instruction on a range of mathematical topics, so that students will be better prepared to enter Ph.D. programmes in computational biology, systems biology, biophysics, and related areas. Topics include: biophysics and soft-matter physics, ranging from aspects molecules to those of cells and tissues; information processing and decision making, at the level of cells or of the brain; stochastic processe...
The study of thermalization has become an especially hot topic of research in the past several years, and there are multiple advanced workshops on the subject. However, these have been aimed at experts in the field. There is a clear need for an instructional program targeted at educating junior researchers across the disciplines including statistical mechanics, hard and soft condensed-matter physics, biophysics, nuclear physics, string theory, and quantum information theory. This program, in the format of a school, aims at promoting an intensive discussion of thermalization ranging from its conceptual foundations to modern-day applications in complex condensed matter systems, quantum information theory, and string theory. Such a school will serve multiple purposes. First, it will train a cohort of junior researchers to approach the open problems in the field from an interdisciplinary perspective. Second, by bringing together speakers and researchers who work on various aspects of th...
The study of thermalization has become an especially hot topic of research in the past several years, and there are multiple advanced workshops on the subject. However, these have been aimed at experts in the field. There is a clear need for an instructional program targeted at educating junior researchers across the disciplines including statistical mechanics, hard and soft condensed-matter physics, biophysics, nuclear physics, string theory, and quantum information theory. This program, in the format of a school, aims at promoting an intensive discussion of thermalization ranging from its conceptual foundations to modern-day applications in complex condensed matter systems, quantum information theory, and string theory. Such a school will serve multiple purposes. First, it will train a cohort of junior researchers to approach the open problems in the field from an interdisciplinary perspective. Second, by bringing together speakers and researchers who work on various aspects of th...
Numerical relativity deals with solving Einstein's field equations using supercomputers. Numerical relativity is an essential tool for the accurate modeling of a wide class of astrophysical phenomena, such as the collapse of massive stars (producing supernova explosions), merger of black holes or neutron stars (potentially producing gamma-ray bursts) and accreting black holes (in X-ray binaries or in galactic centers). Such high-energy astrophysical phenomena are prime targets for the upcoming gravitational-wave-, electromagnetic- and neutrino observatories. This four-week long ICTS program includes a summer school on numerical relativity and a workshop on three interface areas (analytical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy, neutrino physics, and high-energy astrophysics) of numerical relativity. This program aspires to develop an active Indian research community in this emerging research frontier by training students in the area and linking Indian research groups working on r...
The life sciences increasingly depend on quantitative measurements, multi-scale models, and large datasets. The Monsoon School on the Physics of Life will(i) Expose undergraduate students from mathematics, physical sciences and engineering backgrounds to exciting problems in biology through research talks by biologists and physicists. Topics include: the structure and function of biomolecules; the organization of cells; the development of organisms from embryos to adults; the structure and function of the brain; populations and ecosystems; and aspects of evolution.(ii) Provide pedagogical instruction on a range of mathematical topics, so that students will be better prepared to enter Ph.D. programmes in computational biology, systems biology, biophysics, and related areas. Topics include: biophysics and soft-matter physics, ranging from aspects molecules to those of cells and tissues; information processing and decision making, at the level of cells or of the brain; stochastic processe...
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.
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...
