2017-02-18

The Future of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (April 2016, ICTS)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences    2016年6月13日
URL: http://www.icts.res.in/discussion_mee...
DATES: Monday 04 Apr, 2016 - Friday 08 Apr, 2016
VENUE : Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore

DESCRIPTION:
On 2016 February 11, two major international collaborations jointly announced the discovery of gravitational waves (GWs). The signal, produced by the collision of two black holes in the distance universe, was detected by two LIGO observatories on 2015 September 14. This confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and opens a new observational window onto the universe.
The Indian scientific community has made significant contributions to the GW science. The ICTS discussion meeting The Future of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (with an associated conference) is organized to make use of this momentum to intensify the Indian contribution to this emerging research frontier. The meeting will bring together researchers from various aspects of GW science and from related areas, with an aim to develop more active collaborations.
Discussion meeting (April 4 to April 8, 2016)
The discussion meeting is meant for active researchers in GW astronomy and related areas. Due to logistical limitations, the meeting can accommodate only 30 participants. Participation by invitation only. If you would like to get an invitation, please contact us by e-mail. On-campus accommodation will be provided to selected participants. Participants are encouraged to support their own travel. Some travel support is available for students and young scientists.
Conference: (April 6 to April 7, 2016)
The conference, open to the wider scientific community, can accommodate 100 participants. There is no registration fee. No travel support is available for conference participants. However, campus accommodation can be provided to a small number of selected participants. Please apply using the online application form. Selected applicants will be informed by March 24.
ORGANIZERS: Parameswaran Ajith, K. G. Arun and Bala R. Iyer
PROGRAM URL : http://www.icts.res.in/discussion_meeting/fgwa2016/

Welcome remarks by Rajesh Gopakumar 10:11
Advanced LIGO in the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy by Stan Whitcomb 48:55
Deciphering the discovery: Astrophysical implications of GW150914 by John Veitch 55:14
Stochastic GW background: Searches and science by Sanjit Mitra 33:30
Constraining the nuclear equation of state using GW observations of neutron.. by Arunava Mukherjee 35:48
Follow the Roar: Localisation and the Electromagnetic (EM) follow-up.. by Samaya Nissanke 36:51
Indian eyes on gravitational wave sources by Varun Bhalerao 38:50
Astrosat-LAXPC: some early results and prospects for GW by Biswajit Paul 40:58
Einstein, Quo Vadis? by B. S. Sathyaprakash 56:58
Future Detectors and their Potential by Rana Adhikari 54:18
Influence of Newtonian noise on future detector designs by Jan Harms 44:38
Modelling inpiraling binaries of compact objects by means of the.... by Guillaume Faye 39:50
Numerical simulations of binary black holes by Harald Pfeiffer 39:22
Complete waveform models in the era of gravitational-wave detections by Frank Ohme 34:29
Do astrophysical binary black holes behave as expected? Lessons from GW150914 by Walter Del Pozzo 36:28
Panel discussion: 100 years of gravitational waves by Bala R Iyer, BS Sathyaprakash, Stan Whitcomb 1:20:43

Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (2016, ICTS)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences    2016年8月10日
Monday 25 Jul, 2016 - Friday 05 Aug, 2016
VENUE
Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
APPLY
Over the last three years ICTS has been organizing successful summer/winter schools on various topics of gravitational-wave (GW) physics and astronomy. Each school from this series aimed at focussing on a particular sub-area (theory, experiment, data science, etc) of GW science. This year, the organization of such a school assumes a special significance: The first direct detection of GWs by the LIGO observatories has been announced on 11 Feb 2016. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and opens a fundamentally new observational window onto the Universe.
This year’s school will involve three graduate-level courses in theoretical GW physics. The lectures will be given by three world leading experts -- Clifford M Will (University of Florida), B. S. Sathyaprakash (Penn State University / Cardiff University), Emanuele Berti (University of Mississippi and Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon).

Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 1) by Clifford M Will 1:29:51
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 2) by Clifford M Will 1:29:46
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 3) by Clifford M Will 1:24:54
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 4) by Clifford M Will 1:39:48
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 5) by Clifford M Will 1:24:49
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 6) by Clifford M Will 1:23:00
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 7) by Clifford M Will 1:31:49
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 8) by Clifford M Will 1:30:53
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 9) by Clifford M Will 1:21:47
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 10) by Clifford M Will 57:46
Black hole perturbation theory (Lecture 1) by Emanuele Berti 1:33:10
Gravitational astronomy (Lecture 1) by B S Sathyaprakash 1:27:16
Gravitational astronomy (Lecture 2) by B S Sathyaprakash 1:27:26
Black hole perturbation theory (Lecture 2) by Emanuele Berti 1:38:09
Gravitational astronomy (Lecture 3) by B S Sathyaprakash 1:34:24
Gravitational astronomy (Lecture 4) by B S Sathyaprakash 1:33:30
Black hole perturbation theory (Lecture 3) by Emanuele Berti 1:33:29
Gravitational astronomy (Lecture 5) by B S Sathyaprakash 1:27:23
Black hole perturbation theory (Lecture 5) by Emanuele Berti 1:35:24
Black hole perturbation theory (lecture 4) by Emanuele Berti 1:21:23

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies (2015, Princeton University)

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source: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies...    2015年2月16日
Course website: https://piazza.com/princeton/spring20...

Lecture 1 — Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies 58:42
Lecture 2 — How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization 1:13:41
Lecture 3 — Mechanics of Bitcoin 1:19:50
Lecture 4 — How to Store and Use Bitcoins 1:21:12
Lecture 5 — Bitcoin Mining 1:28:15
Lecture 6 — Bitcoin and Anonymity 1:52:08
Lecture 7 — Community, Politics, and Regulation 1:14:58
Lecture 8 — Alternative Mining Puzzles 44:43
Lecture 9 — Bitcoin as a Platform 1:24:56
Lecture 10 — Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem 1:04:06
Lecture 11 — The future of Bitcoin? 1:24:06
Lecture 12 — History of Cryptocurrencies [Bonus lecture] 1:33:16

Introduction to Chemical and Biological Process Analysis by Jeffrey J. Gray (Spring 2015, Johns Hopkins University

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source: Prof. Jeffrey J. Gray at Johns Hopkins University 2015年2月12日
Lectures from Johns Hopkins University ChemBE Course 202 on Chemical and Biological Process Analysis
Lectures from the Spring 2015 course at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (540.202). The course covers material and energy balances in the context of the chemical process industry and in modern applications in life sciences and nanotechnology.
Lectures follow the textbook "Introduction to Chemical Processes" by Regina Murphy (University of Wisconsin), covering the topics of Converting the Earth's Resources into Useful Products, Process Flows, Mathematical Analysis of Material Balance Equations, Synthesis of Reactor Flow Sheets, Synthesis of Separator Flow Sheets, and Process Energy Calculations.

Introduction to Chemical Process Analysis: Why Process Analysis? - 2/11/15 11:49 *Why Process Analysis? (00:10); Murphy's Reasons (8:30)
Reactions and Matrix Equations - 2/13/15 30:45
Generation Consumption Analysis - 2/16/15 34:34
Atom Economy and Process Economy - 2/18/15 22:18
Process Flow Calculation Examples - 2/20/15 32:59
Degrees of Freedom Analysis - 2/23/15 19:58
Process Flow Calculations with Multiple Process Units - 2/25/15 23:20
Block Flow Diagram Synthesis - 2/27/15 25:17
Material Balance Mathematics - 3/2/15 34:22
Differential Material Balance - 3/4/15 23:42
Integral Material Balance - 3/6/15 28:41
Reactors - 3/9/15 36:25
Recycle! - 3/13/15 31:50
Specificity and Yield - 3/23/15 33:21
Equilibrium - 3/25/15 36:12
Separator Flowsheeting - 3/27/15 14:51
The Pi Day Anthem featuring John Sims and Vi Hart 3:27

Computational Protein Structure Prediction and Design by Jeffrey J. Gray (Fall 2014, Johns Hopkins U)

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source: Prof. Jeffrey J. Gray at Johns Hopkins University    2014年10月4日
Course 540.414/614: Protein Structure Prediction and Design
These videos were recorded from the advanced undergraduate and graduate course (540.414 and 540.614) taught at the Whiting School of Engineering of Johns Hopkins University in the Fall semester of 2014.
The course included a workshop component based on the PyRosetta tutorials available at http://www.pyrosetta.org/tutorials.
Videography by Lauren Elise Villone
Music by Should

Intro to Protein Structure Prediction and Design including Review of Protein Structure 41:07  * Why Engineer Proteins? (00:07) * Protein Structure Basics (13:30)
Protein Geometry; Molecular Energies and Forces (p1) 1:09:32
Molecular Energies and Forces (part 2) 58:50
Molecular Energies and Forces (Part 3) 30:01
Ab-Initio Protein Structure Prediction (part 1) 1:11:08
Ab-Initio Protein Structure Prediction (part 2) 33:23
Refinement of Protein Structures 1:06:12
Rotamer Libraries and Side-chain Packing (Guest lecture by Brian Weitzner) 1:05:04
Protein-Protein Docking 54:43
Loop Modeling 50:47
Non-Protein Molecules in Rosetta (Guest Lecture by Dr. Jason Labonte) 44:23
Modeling Membrane Protein Structure (Guest Lecture by Dr. Julia Koehler Leman) 45:06

London Lectures 2016 (Geological Society)

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source: GeologicalSociety    2016年3月24日

Mineral Solutions to Global Problems London_Lecture January 2016 1:02:31
Feeling the pressure in sedimentary basins_London_Lecture_February 2016 1:06:30
Deadly volcanic flows_London Lecture _March 2016 54:34
The Water Book_London Lecture_April 2016 1:02:07
What Coal Mining Hydrogeology tells us about the Real Risks of Fracking_London Lecture_May 2016 1:30:21
Groundwater and its Global Significance_London Lecture_June 216 1:02:32
A Little goes a long way_London Lecture_September 2016 1:07:55
Water on Mars_London Lecture_October 2016 1:09:46
Climate Change and Antarctica_London Lecture_November 2016 54:04

The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker - Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua


source: TED-Ed     2017年2月16日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-excepti...
Born in 1731 to freed slaves on a farm in Baltimore, Benjamin Banneker was obsessed with math and science. And his appetite for knowledge only grew as he taught himself astronomy, mathematics, engineering, and the study of the natural world. Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua details the numerous accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker.
Lesson by Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua, animation by Jun Zee Myers.

(हिन्दी / in Hindi) Basics of Sanskrit Journalism by Pankaj Mishra (University of Delhi)

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source: Cec Ugc     2016年6月7日

Yellow Journalism 57:38
Investigative Journalism 55:56
Basics of Sanskrit Journalism - VII 58:54
Sanskrit Media 57:15
Basics of Sanskrit Journalism -V 59:14
Basics of Sanskrit Journalism -V 57:42
Basics of Sanskrit Journalism -III 57:53
Basics of Sanskrit Journalism -II 59:56
Basics of Sanskrit Journalism 57:20
Post Independence Sanskrit Journalism 57:26
Patrakarita : Parivartit Swaroop 55:16
Patrakarita ke Stambh - II 59:06
Patrakarita ke Stambh - I 56:48
Modern Sanskrit Journals 1:00:03
Paribhashik Shabdawali 59:41
UPSC Sanskrit - II 59:13
Samas Prakaran - II 57:47
Samas Prakaran 42:56

What happens during a heart attack? - Krishna Sudhir


source: TED-Ed    2017年2月14日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-happen...
Approximately seven million people around the world die from heart attacks every year. And cardiovascular disease, which causes heart attacks and other problems like strokes, is the world’s leading killer. So what causes a heart attack? Krishna Sudhir examines the leading causes and treatments of this deadly disease.
Lesson by Krishna Sudhir, animation by Chadwick Whitehead.

Micro Economics by Kamlesh Gakhar (Maharshi Dayanand U, Rohtak)

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source: Cec Ugc    2016年3月3日

Lecture 1 : Introduction to Economics 1:00:51
Lecture 2 : Basics Concepts, Methodology and Assumption of Economics 57:29
Law of Equi-Marginal and Indifference Curve 56:51
Consumer's Equilibrium with Indifference Curves Analysis 57:33
Consumer's Surplus 58:23
Law of Supply and Elasticity of Supply 57:27
Applicability and Significance of Returns to a Variable Factor 59:02
Factors of Production 57:25
Economies and Diseconomies of Scale 56:59
Short Run and Long Run Cost Curve 55:46
Revenue Curves and Market Structures 54:53
Equilibrium of a Firm Price Determination Under Perfect Competition 56:29
Equilibrium of a Firm and Industry under Perfect Competition 59:24
Dynamic Changes and Industry Equilibrium under Perfect Competition 56:35
Price Discrimination : Concept and Equilibrium under Monopoly 55:41
Inefficiency Under Monopoly and Equilibrium Under Monopolistic Competition 52:07
Selling Cost and Excess Capacity under Monopolistic Competition 58:45
Comparison of Markets & Non-Collusive Oligopoly Models 58:20
Average Cost Pricing 52:42
Baumol's Theory of Sales Revenue Maximization 1:01:19
Modern Theory of Rent 56:34
Theories of Wages and Interest 1:00:44

(בעברית / in Hebrew) פיסיקה 3 + 3ח - פרופ' ארנון דר (Physics 3)

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source: Technion     2011年7月24日
פיסיקה 3 + 3ח -
מרצה: פרופ' ארנון דר
פקולטה: פיסיקה
מס קורס: 114073
Physics 3 + 3H

(בעברית / in Hebrew) פיסיקה 2 (Physics 2)

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source: Technion     2013年7月18日
פיסיקה 2 - פרופ' חנן שכטר

2015-2016 Weizmann Physics Colloquium

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source: Physics Web WIS     2016年5月2日

2015-10-29. 21st Century Alchemy: Engineered Topological Phenomena in Periodically Driven Systems Erez Berg 57:04
2015-11-05. Ergodicity, Entanglement and Many--Body Localization in Quantum Dynamics 1:03:37
2015-11-19. Supernova progenitors, coaddition & subtraction 49:13
2015-11-26. Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment 1:07:23
2015-12-03. Perturbations to worm sleep, weak and strong 1:02:42
2015-12-10. Submillimeter Astronomy – Molecules and Dust in the Universe 1:04:34
2015-12-17. Neutrino masses go to Stockholm 1:06:47
2015-12-24. Physical computation in animal collectives 1:00:51
2015-12-31. Perplexing dynamics of unentangled polymers 54:57
2016-01-07. Understanding self-replication 59:49
2016-01-21. Nonlinear Dynamics of Networks -- Braess' Paradox and the Impact of Single Links 1:01:23
2016-02-04. The Revolution of the Kepler Space Mission: Exo-planets, Bi-naries, circumbinary planets 1:04:18
2016-02-11. A spins-inside quantum processor 1:02:28
2016-02-25. Programmable ‘artificial cells’ on silicon: Bringing biology to the chip 56:06
2016-03-03. First Results from Advanced LIGO 1:16:26
2016-03-31. On the Discovery of Super-heavy Nuclei 1:06:08
2016-04-07. Aottosecond Interferometry 55:58
2016-04-21. Electromechanics: A new quantum technology 1:02:16
2016-05-19. Theoretical applications of topological insulators a new window into quantum matter 1:03:44
2016-06-23. Fighting Decoherence with Dissipation 1:05:45

Reasonable Faith UK Tour 2011 (Complete & Chronological)

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source: The Reasonable Faith Tour (UK)     2012年8月1日
This playlist features the complete archive of Dr William Lane Craig's speaking engagements from The Reasonable Faith Tour 2011: from debates to lectures, Q&A and conference discussions. Now presented in chronological order. For more resources from Dr Craig visit: www.reasonablefaith.org

"Does God Exist?" William Lane Craig vs Stephen Law. Westminster Central Hall, London, October 2011 1:57:31
William Lane Craig: The Evidence for God. Imperial College, London, October 2011 1:11:25
William Lane Craig: Can we be good without God? SOAS, London, October 2011 1:07:20
William Lane Craig: The Origins of the Universe - Has Hawking Eliminated God? Cambridge October 2011 1:39:35
WL Craig, PS Williams vs. A Copson, A Ahmed - Cambridge Union Society God Debate, Oct 2011 1:31:17
William Lane Craig vs Peter Millican: "Does God Exist?", Birmingham University, October 2011 2:18:37
Bethinking 1/6: William Lane Craig on Dawkins' Objections to Theistic Arguments 1:13:41
Bethinking 2/6: John Lennox on Stephen Hawking's "The Grand Design" 1:13:11
Bethinking 3/6: Peter J Williams on New Atheists & Old Testament (incl. The Canaanites) 51:32
Bethinking 4/6: Gary Habermas on Resurrection Evidence from Critical Scholars 56:53
Bethinking 5/6: William Lane Craig on Secularism & Islam (The Apologetic Task) 59:08
Bethinking 6/6: Questions & Discussion (WL Craig, G Habermas, PJ Williams, PS Williams) 21:32
William Lane Craig: The Evidence for Jesus's Resurrection. Southampton Guildhall, October 2011 1:33:18
BONUS AUDIO: William Lane Craig Apologetics Q&A - Oxford RZIM 2011 55:24
William Lane Craig: Is God a Delusion? Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford October 2011 1:59:49
William Lane Craig vs Peter Atkins: "Does God Exist?", University of Manchester, October 2011 1:53:02

School and Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and Evolution (2014, ICTS)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences    2014年4月2日
PROGRAM: School and Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and Evolution
PROGRAM LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/program/PGE2014
DATES: Saturday 15 Feb, 2014 - Monday 24 Feb, 2014
VENUE: Physics Auditorium, IISc, Bangalore

Just as evolution is central to our understanding of biology, population genetics theory provides the basic framework to comprehend evolutionary processes. Population genetics theory 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. Population genetics theory is thus critical to understanding many pressing issues in biology, such as the evolution of antibiotic resistance in pathogens, the formation of new species and the emergence of cooperative and altruistic behaviors.
This school aims to expose students and researchers from diverse backgrounds to the basics and the forefront of current research in population genetics. In addition to evolutionary biology students, we welcome students of mathematics, statistics, medicine, and physics who are interested in evolutionary theory. To equip students to think about issues in population genetics, we will first conduct a brief refresher course in mathematics, statistics, and basic biology including evolution and genetics. The remainder of the school will introduce and develop an understanding of population genetics theory and its applications to interesting phenomena such as the evolution of sex and recombination, phenotypic plasticity, polyploidy, and human diversification. The program will conclude with a short discussion meeting in which active researchers will discuss their recent work on aspects of population genetics theory.

Kavita Jain - Basic maths and statistics 1:15:19
Amitabh Joshi - Basic genetics 1:26:58
Kavita Isvaran - Mating systems 54:14
Praveen Karanth - Evolution I 1:25:13
TNC Vidya - Evolution II 1:20:47
Mukund Thattai - Molecular genetics 1:24:39
Sandeep Krishna - Models and simulations 1:32:25
Brian Charlesworth - DNA sequence variability and the coalescent 1:15:22
Lindi M Wahl - Modeling adaptation historical perspective 1:26:33
Brian Charlesworth - The effects of selection on variation and evolution 1:36:27
Students Talk 48:35
Michael Whitlock - Genetic load, mutation selection balance 1:32:05
Lilndi M Wahl - Modeling experimental evolution 1:22:03
Deborah Charlesworth - Modeling evolution of mating systems 1:07:03
Tutorials 50:56
Brian Charlesworth - Linkage and selection 1:36:06
Deborah Charlesworth - Evolution of sex chromosomes 1:23:46
Lindi M Wahl - Mathematical approaches to modeling extinction probabilities 1:23:30
Tutorials 53:29
Michael Deai - Dynamics and population genetics of rapid adaptation 1:31:35
Michael Whitlock - Evolution in spatially structured populations I 1:28:52
John Novembre - Methods for the analysis of population structure and admixture 1:33:35
Mlchael Desai - Pervasive selection and patterns of variation 1:31:19
Michael Whitlock - Evolution in spatially structured populations II 1:31:25
John Novembre - Methods for demographic inference from genomic scale data 1:26:34
John Novembre & Michael Desai - Tutorials 26:18
Mlchael Desai - Genome Dynamics in Experimental Evolution 1:31:53
Deborah Charlesworth - Evolution of self incompatibility 1:32:21
John Novembre - Addressing challenges from next generation sequencing 1:20:58
Students Talks 1:06:25
Yuseob Kim - Adaptive evolution in pathogen populations under complex demographic dynamics 44:57
Guha Dharmarajan - Disease dynamics in kin structured populations 46:12
Deepa Agashe - Dealing with deleterious synonymous mutations 29:34
Kavita Jain - Adaptive walks and distribution of beneficial fitness effects 34:29
Krishnamegh Kunte - Molecular and population genetics of butterfly wing patterning 47:40
Uma Ramakrishnan - Population structure in real landscapes 26:50
Hiroshi Akashi - Codon usage bias in Drosophila: Population genetics and comparative genomics of 1:00:07
Vishwesha Guttal - Codon usage bias in Drosophila: Population genetics and comparative genomics o 31:13
Narendra Dixit - The evolutionary arms race between HIV and humans: can intervention tilt the ba 45:21
Nsheeth Vishnoi - Making evolution rigorous 43:34
Farah Ishtiaq - Native versus introduced haematozoan parasites of an island colonising host Zoste 29:26
K Thangaraj - Human origin, health and disease in India 42:36
Bashisth Narayan Singh - Population genetics of Drosophila ananassae 41:40
Richard Gomulkiewicz - Evolution and the establishment of new species 44:53

Data Assimilation Research Program (2011, ICTS)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences    2013年5月28日
PROGRAM: Data Assimilation Research Program
Venue: Centre for Applicable Mathematics-TIFR and Indian Institute of Science
Dates: 04 - 23 July, 2011

DESCRIPTION:
Data assimilation (DA) is a powerful and versatile method for combining observational data of a system with its dynamical model to generate state estimates. These techniques are essential for numerical weather and climate predictions, but aplications of DA to many other scientific and engineering disciplines are emerging rapidly. DA is inherently interdisciplinary in nature and requires close collaborations and interactions between researchers in atmospheric sciences, in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, and in applied mathematics and statistics.
The Data Assimilation Research Program (DARP) is primarily aimed at developing an interest within the academic and scientific community in pure and applied research related to DA, in order to form a group of researchers, developers, and users of data assimilation systems.

The initial set of activities will consist of a "Monsoon School on Mathematical and Statistical Foundations of Data Assimilation" along with an "International Conference on Data Assimilation" at the TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
The school (04-12 July and 18-23 July) will consist of compact courses, tutorials, and hands-on laboratories on these topics during the first half. The participants will conduct short projects during the second part of the school. The expected participants are students and young researchers, as well as scientists at organizations which are interested in operational DA. The list of topics to be covered in the school is as follows.
1. Introduction -- the need for data assimilation
2. Mathematical and statistical methods for assimilation a. nudging, optimal interpolation b. variational methods c. Kalman filtering and related methods d. Statistical sampling techniques
3. Basic introduction to nonlinear dynamics and data assimilation for nonlinear systems
4. Applications to atmospheric, oceanic problems (including basic introduction to modelling)
ICTS Program

Welcome 6:53
ICTS - A new initiative in Indian science - Prof.Wadia 13:05
Prediction of the Indian Monsoon -Gadgil 40:50
Introduce speaker Christopher Jones - Amit Apte 2:06
Overview of Approaches to Data Assimilation - Christopher Jones 1:22:51
Basic setup of tutorials and matlab - Amit Apte 41:08
Introduction to inverse problems - Lakshmivarahan 1:59:14
Introduction to inverse problems - Lakshmivarahan 1:31:05
Tutorial on SVD etc - Lakshmivarahan and Amit 43:15
Participants Questions 1 6:14
Participants Questions 2 20:14
Participants Questions 3 9:30
Participants Questions 4 4:42
Dynamical systems and uncertainty - Eric Kostelich 1:22:20
3D-var and iterative techniques for nonlinear problems - Lakshmivarahan 1:38:16
Tutorial - Random variables and sampling - Elaine Spiller 45:12
Tutorial 6:46
Introduction to Dynamical Models and Theory Behind Seasonal Forecasting - David Dewitt 1:19:28
The local ensemble transform Kalman filter - Eric Kostelich 1:32:37
Brief Introduction to Probability and Simulation: -Elaine Spiller 1:17:25
Ensemble (Transform) Kalman Filter - Amit Apte 46:31
Seasonal Forecasting- David Dewitt 1:12:50
Lakshmivarahan 1:12:43
Nudging methods in geophysical data assimilation: (Part 1) - Didier Auroux 1:33:43
Inverse problems: satellite observations; interpolation - Lakshmivarahan 1:19:18
Participants Questions 22:04
Nudging methods in geophysical data assimilation:(Part 2) -Didier Auroux 1:18:28
Tutorial - Monte Carlo and Importance Sampling - Elaine Spiller 41:29
The Geometry of Data Assimilation in Maths, Physics, Forecasting and Decision Support - Lenny Smith 1:26:07
Nudging methods in geophysical data assimilation: (Part 3) - Didier Auroux 1:24:39
Participants Questions 8:07
Nudging methods in geophysical data assimilation: Hands-on lab - Didier Auroux 24:34
Brief Introduction to Probability and Simulation: Part 3 - Elaine Spiller 1:02:22
welcome talk 5:00
The Geometry of Data Assimilation 2 : Lenny Smith 1:03:41
Kalman filtering - Lakshmivarahan 1:23:09
Tutorial 16:34
Gradient descent - Emma Suckling 42:05
Projects Discussions 7:02
Welcome 1:13
Diffusive Back and Forth Nudging algorithm - Didier Auroux 34:04
Some observations on retrieval of geophysical parameters - D Jagadheesha 24:07
Testing the manifold hypothesis - Hariharan Narayanan 29:28
An Application of Extended Kalman Filter for Spacecraft Orbit Estimation - Akila S 22:02
School Participants Presentations 13:19
School Participants Presentations 16:32
Duality between estimation and control - Sanjoy Mitter 45:31
Kalman Filter Design By Tuning Its Statistics Or Gains? -Ananthasayanam Mudambi 33:56
School Participants Presentations 12:41
School Participants Presentations 8:28
School Participants Presentations 9:21
School Participants Presentations 9:56
School Participants Presentations 6:35
School Participants Presentations 1:42
Forward Sensitivity Approach to dynamic data assimilation - S. Lakshmivarahan 25:22
Towards a multi-satellite radiance assimilation in regional models - Chakravarthy Balaji 38:33
Particle filter for glider data assimilation - Elaine Spiller 29:18
Gradient descent for the point vortex model - Emma Suckling 27:52
Models of Fluid-Structure Interaction and Exact Controllability - M. Vanninathan 31:17
Indian ocean modelling: opportunities and challenges for data assimilation- P.N. Vinaychandran 27:54
Data assimilation of wind field at Kalpakkam - A S Vasudeva Murthy 16:17
Atmospheric parameters from Indian Geostationary Satellites - Pradeep Kumar Thapliyal 43:11
Impact studies with Data Assimilation using Nudging and 3DVAR - C.V. Srinivas 35:01
Assimilation of Lagrangian data - Chris Jones 44:36
3D-VAR assimilation studies over the Indian ocean region: A. Chandrasekar 22:29
Model error and data assimilation - Lenny Smith 38:18
Nonlinear Stochastic Modelling, Critical Phenomena and Entropy - K. Karmeshu 34:01
Optimal control problem for Burgers’ equation - Mythily Ramaswamy 24:13
Closing 13:52

Generalized Ramanujan Conjectures Applications (1-4) by Peter Sarnak

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences   2013年3月28日
Abstract: One of the central problems in the modern theory of automorphic forms is the Generalized Ramanujan Conjecture.We review the development and formulation of these conjectures as well as recent progress. While the general Conjecture is not known, even for GL(2), strong approximations towards it have been established and we will illustrate how these suffice for various striking applications.
ICTS Ramanujan Lectures

( 1 ) 1:26:15
( 2 ) 1:21:19
( 3 ) 1:15:10
( 4 ) 1:03:06

Recent Trends in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (2012, ICTS)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences   2013年10月7日
PROGRAM LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/program/ETDS2012
DATES: Tuesday 18 Dec, 2012 - Saturday 29 Dec, 2012
VENUE: Department of Mathematics,Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara

DESCRIPTION:
"Dynamical Systems" is an exciting and very active field in mathematics that involves tools and techniques from many areas. A dynamical system can be obtained by iterating a function or letting evolve in time the solution of an equation. Even if the rule of evolution is deterministic, the long term behavior of the system is often chaotic. Different branches of "Dynamical Systems", in particular "Ergodic Theory", provide tools to quantify this chaotic behavior of the system and to predict it in an average.
This program has been planned in two parts: 7 day Workshop (Dec 18-24, 2012) followed by 4 day Discussion Meeting (Dec 26-29, 2012). The aim is to bring together on one platform experts from around the world who are actively working in various sub-disciplines of Dynamical Systems. An important aspect of the program will be an emphasis on making it accessible to younger participants.

ETDS2012 INAUGURAL FUNCTION (1) 26:27
V. Kannan- Foreigners Fascinated By Ancient Mathematics : ETDS2012 INAUGURAL FUNCTION (2) 59:39
ETDS2012 INAUGURAL FUNCTION (3) 1:10:03
Benjamin Weiss - The Isomorphism Problem in Ergodic Theory - Recent Developments 50:56
Amos Nevo - Diophantine approximation, arithmetic groups and ergodic theory 47:28
Jaydev Artherya - Gap Distributions for the Golden L 45:14
Vasili Bernik - New connections between Dynamic Systems 44:44
Naoya Sumi - Diffeomorphisms preserving hyperbolic SRB measures 36:55
Kari Eloranta - Sequences with long range exclusions 40:51
Mythily Ramaswamy - Control of Differential Equations 39:44
Alexander Gorodnik - Z^K - actions on nilmanifolds and Diophantine approximation 41:41
Arnaldo Nogueria - Classical homogeneous multidimensional continued fraction algorithms are ergodic 55:59
Jon Aaronson - Rational weak mixing in infinite measure spaces 43:37
Barak Weiss - Examples for the horocycle owon moduli spaces 47:59
V. Kannan - Coexistence of cycle lengths for linear operators 27:03
Elon Lindenstrauss - Talk about Prof. Dani's work - 2 47:56
Francois Ledrappier - Talk about Prof. Dani's work - 1 33:49
EADS2012 27DEC 51:56
Cultural program Artists from Faculty of Performing Arts 56:52
Elon Lindenstrauss - An effective proof of the Oppenheim Conjecture 54:58
Francois Ledrappier - Entropies and rigidities of compact manifolds 46:08
Kazuhiro Sakai - Measure expansive diffeomorphisms 50:27
S. G. Dani - Lattice subgroup actions and diophantine approximation with binary quadratic forms 1:00:09
Riddhi Shah - Embeddability of infinitely divisible probability measures on Lie groups 29:07
Ravindra Kulkarni - Inductive Construction of Representations of Finite Solvable Groups 33:47
S. G. Dani - Lattice subgroup actions and diophantine approximation with binary quadratic forms (2) 32:09
Nimish Shah - Equidistribution and counting on orbits of geometrically infi nite hyperbolic groups 52:14
Tom Ward - Group automorphisms from a dynamical point of view 49:10
Mahesh Nerurkar - 36:49
Pralay Chatterjee 44:22
Vadim Kaimanovich - Random graphs, stochastic homogenization and equivalence relations 37:28
Tarun Das - C^1 - generically continuum - wise expansive homoclinic classes are hyperbolic 27:53
OPEN PROBLEMS SESSION 53:02
VALEDICTORY FUNCTION 47:25

ICTS Condensed Matter Programme 2011

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences    2013年6月14日
PROGRAM: The ICTS Condensed Matter Programme 2011
Venue: Indian Insitute of Science, Bangalore
Date: Friday 09 Dec, 2011 - Thursday 22 Dec, 2011
PROGRAM LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/program/ICMP2011
DESCRIPTION:
The ICTS Condensed Matter Programme 2011 (ICMP 2011) consists of a 10 day Winter School (December 9 to December 18) followed by a 4 day International Conference (December 19 to December 22), both to be held in IISc. Bangalore. The school will have four lecture courses focusing on the core of modern condensed matter physics, while the conference will feature four days of talks at the very forefront of our subject, delivered by a cross-section of internationally eminent speakers. The school will also feature tutorial lectures, evening colloquia and a few research seminars.

Welcoming Remarks - Prof.Spenta Wadia 15:53
C N R Rao - Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Oxides 53:11
Peter Littlewood - Polariton Condensation and Collective Dynamics 46:35
A K Sood - Femtosecond Spectroscopy of electron and Phonon relaxation in iron superconductors 47:58
D D Sarma - The curious case of NiS 41:59
Sriram Shastry - Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids 43:14
Antoine Georges - Strong correlations from Hund's rule coupling 42:04
Mohit Randeria - Viscosity of Strongly Interacting Fermi Systems 35:49
FELICITATION FUNCTION FOR T.V.Ramakrishnan 1:50:40
Zahid Hasan - Topological Surface States in Topological Insulators and Superconductors 46:35
Ashvin Vishwanath - Topological Phases in Correlated Solids 46:15
Jay Deep Sau - The return of Majorana : the end of a 75 year-old search 38:25
G Baskaran - Quantum Spin Liquids - A Status Report 49:28
Krishnendu Sengupta - Dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices 43:12
Arun Paramekanti - Chiral Mott insulator of bosons in a fully frustrated boson Hubbard model 42:23
Pinaki Majumdar - Thermal fluctuations in Fermi superfluids 52:30
E Muller-Hartmann - Wannier functions for hybridizing states of transition metal oxide chains 46:55
Arghya Tarapdher - Preformed excitons and charge-density waves in transition metal dichalcogenides 44:36
D E Logan - Two-channel Kondo physics in impurity chains and rings 53:52
Pratap Raychaudhuri - Phase fluctuations and pseudogap state in a disordered superconduct 45:50
S Ramakrishnan - Strongly correlated superconductivity in non-magnetic d-band superconductors 36:18
K Maiti - Dichotomy of pseudogap and SDW phase in CaFe2As2 - an ARPES study 50:20
S Sebastian - Nodal pocket yielding multiple quantum oscillation frequencies 38:12
Maurice Rice - A Phenomenological Theory of the Anomalous Pseudogap Phase in UnderdopedCuprates 43:52
Sasha Finkelstein - Quantum kinetic approach to the calculation of thermal transport 58:21
Chandan Dasgupta - Phenomenological Theory of Superconductivity in the Cuprates 49:40
S Ramasesha - Correlated Electronic Structure of Some Conjugated Electronic Materials 48:48
R N Bhat - Two small new pieces in a tale of two gaints 42:25
Sudhanshu Mandal - Anderson Enigma in Disordered Superconductors 43:12
Arindam Ghosh - Non-Universal Conductance Fluctuations in Graphene 42:25
A K Raychaudhuri - Ferromagnetic insulating state : Is it an electron glass 51:26
Vikram Tripathi - Transport in dilute magnetic semiconductor heterostructures 54:18
R Shankar - Anomalous Quantum Hall states in an optical lattice 43:01
V B Shenoy - Fermions in synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields 1:10:00
Concluding Remarks 10:05

Today's Research for Tomorrow's Cure (GCRC Public Forum Nov. 23rd, 2016)


source: McGill University    2016年12月16日
The Goodman Cancer Research Centre Public Forum

How to Write an Op-Ed: Getting Published in the News Media


source: Harvard University   2017年1月13日
Does your work show that headlines or clichés are wrong? Has your research revealed an unknown and timely story? If you would like to write an op-ed or an idea piece for a major newspaper, or talk well about it on radio, watch leading news editors and faculty colleagues discuss great advice. This event features:
Iris Adler, Executive Director for Programming, Podcasts and Special Projects, WBUR
James Dao, Op-Ed Editor, The New York Times
Kathleen Kingsbury, Managing Editor for Digital (former Ideas Editor), The Boston Globe
Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Moderated by Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Colombian Peace Process: The Role of the Private Sector


source: Yale University     2017年1月19日
Keynote Speech: The Havana Peace Accords and Challenges for its Implementation
Sergio Jaramillo, High Commissioner for Peace
Followed by presentations and a panel discussion - Colombian Business in the post-conflict
Carlos Enrique Cavelier, CEO of Alquería; Antonio Celia, Promigas; and Sylvia Escovar , Organización Terpel
Moderated by: Ana María Ibáñez - Rice Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow of the MacMillan Center
Panel Q&A and Commentary
Maria Victoria Llorente, Fundación Ideas para la Paz and Christo Nel, Village Leadership Consulting
Sponsored by the MacMillan Center

Religious Freedom (Lecture Series at Berkley Center)

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Epicureanism


source: Philosophical Overdose     2017年1月20日
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Epicureanism in this BBC episode of In Our Time. Epicureanism is the system of philosophy based on the teachings of Epicurus and founded in Athens in the fourth century BC. Epicurus outlined a comprehensive philosophical system based on the idea that everything in the Universe is constructed from two phenomena: atoms and void. At the centre of his philosophy is the idea that the goal of human life is pleasure, by which he meant not luxury but the avoidance of pain. His followers cast off fear of death, and were suspicious of religious superstition, marriage and politics, but placed great emphasis on friendship. Epicureanism became influential in the Roman world, particularly through Lucretius's great poem De Rerum Natura, which was rediscovered and widely admired in the Renaissance. The guests include Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and James Warren. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qf083

Analysis and Intuitions by Mark Richard (Harvard)


source: SchAdvStudy    2013年3月6日
22-02-13 Institute of Philosophy
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Professor Mark Richard (Harvard) -- Analysis and Intuitions
Knowledge and Intuitions - A one-day conference with papers on Professor Herman Cappelen's recent publication, Philosophy without Intuitions (OUP, 2012), with Professor Brain Weatherson (Michigan), Dr Ana-Sara Malmgren (Stanford), Professor Jonathan Weinberg (Arizona) and Professor Mark Richard (Harvard), with responses from the author.

"The Elements of Decision Alignment" - Mark S. Miller, Google


source: UCIBrenICS    2017年1月21日
“The Elements of Decision Alignment: Large programs as complex organizations”
Friday, January 20, 2017
FACULTY HOST:
Cristina Videira Lopes
ABSTRACT:
When one object makes a request of another, why do we expect that the second object’s behavior correctly satisfies the first object’s wishes? The need to cope with such principal-agent problems shapes programming practice as much as it shapes human organizations and economies. However, the literature about such plan coordination issues among humans is almost disjoint from the literature about these issues among objects. Even the terms used are unrelated.
Instead, these fields have much to learn from each other—both from their similarities and from the causes of their differences. We propose a framework for thinking about decision alignment as a bridge between these disciplines.
This is joint work with Bill Tulloh.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Mark S. Miller is the main designer of the E and Dr. SES distributed object-capability programming languages, inventor of Miller Columns, a pioneer of agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing, an architect of the Xanadu hypertext publishing system, a representative to the EcmaScript committee, and one of Yedalog’s creators.