lectures/ideas: 02/28/17

2017-02-28

The Legacy of Emmy Noether (2016, ICTS Bangalore)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 2016年9月7日
PROGRAM LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/discussion_mee...
DATES: Monday 29 Aug, 2016 - Tuesday 30 Aug, 2016
VENUE: Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore
Emmy Noether (1882-1935) is well known for her famous contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Noether’s mathematical work has been divided into three ”epochs”. In the first (1908-19), she made contributions to the theories of algebraic invariants and number fields. Her work on differential invariants in the calculus of variations, Noether’s theorem, has been called ”one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the development of modern physics”. In the second epoch (1920-26), she began work that changed the face of abstract algebra. In her classic paper Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen (Theory of Ideals in Ring Domains, 1921) Noether developed the theory of ideals in commutative rings into a tool with wideranging applications. She made elegant use of the ascending chain condition, and objects satisfying it are named Noetherian in her honor. In the third epoch (1927-35), she published works on noncommutative algebras and hypercomplex numbers and united the representation theory of groups with the theory of modules and ideals. In addition to her own publications, Noether was generous with her ideas and is credited with several lines of research published by other mathematicians, even in fields far removed from her main work, such as algebraic topology.
In ICTS-TIFR, we shall celebrate the work of this remarkable mathematician and physicist in this two day discussion meet.
The topics will include the following:
Noether's Theorem in Classical Dynamics: Continuous Symmetries and Conservation Laws for physical systems.
Applications of Noether theorem in particle physics, condensed matter physics, gravity and string theory.
Noether's pioneering contributions to Commutative Algebra and other fields of pure mathematics.
Application deadline: 01 July, 2016
Support for train travel by students and postdocs will be provided as per rules. Due to limited funds, faculty applicants are requested to find an alternative travel support.
For more information, contact program@icts.res.in

Noether’s Theorem in Classical Dynamics : Continuous Symmetries by N. Mukunda 1:02:25
Origin and Development of Valuation Theory by Sudesh Khanduja 1:02:03
Interplay of symmetries and other integrability quantifiers in finite by Lakhsmanan Muthusamy 1:04:50
Noether's theorem and particle physics by Rohini Godbole 57:30
Noether's works in Topology by Indranil Biswas 49:26
Noether's theorems and their growing physical relevance by Joseph Samuel 59:42
Emmy Noether in Erlangen and Göttingen by Ravi Rao 1:18:43
Symmetries and Condensed Matter physics by Subhro Bhattacharya 56:06
Emmy Noether’s ideas in Gravity, Black holes and AdS/CFT by Loganayagam 1:10:05

Dynamical System by Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

CHANDRASEKHAR LECTURE SERIES (2015, ICTS Bangalore)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 2015年12月21日
PROGRAM URL: http://www.icts.res.in/program/NESP2015
DATES: Monday 26 Oct, 2015 - Friday 20 Nov, 2015
VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore

DESCRIPTION :
This program will be organized as an advanced discussion workshop on some topical issues in nonequilibrium statstical physics. The aim of the program is to bring together active researchers to discuss outstanding problems. The main areas of focus in the workshop will be
Heat and particle transport in low dimensional systems.
Large deviation functions and fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems.
Localization and thermalization.
The workshop also aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas in statistical physics so as to initiate exchange of ideas and generate collaborations among them.
The program will consist of short lectures by invited participants on the first day of each week and the rest of the time will be available for discussions. There will also be some pedagogic lectures on the following topics
Localization and thermalization (David Huse, week 1)
Fluctuating hydrodynamics (Herbert Spohn, week 1)
Macroscopic fluctuation theory (Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, week 2)
Exact results in heat conduction (Cedric Bernardin and Stefano Olla, week 2)
ORGANIZERS :
Cedric Bernardin, Abhishek Dhar, Joel Lebowitz, Stefano Olla, Sanjib Sabhapandit, Keiji Saito and Herbert Spohn
CHANDRASEKHAR LECTURE SERIES

Introduction to Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Theory in one-dimensional systems by Herbert Spohn 1:43:37
Random Matrix Theory and the dynamics of nonequilibrium interfaces by Herbert Spohn 1:18:21
Cross Magneto-Mechanical Effects in Amorphous Solids with Magnetic Degrees of Freedom 1:00:57
Plasticity and Material Failure in Amorphous Solids(Chandrasekhar Lecture II) by Itamar Procaccia 1:15:47
Micro Big-Bangs and Quantized Vortex Dynamics in Turbulent Quantum Fluids 1:08:50
Quantum entanglement in macroscopic matter (Lecture 3) 1:20:16
Quantum entanglement in macroscopic matter (Lecture 2) 1:22:05
Quantum entanglement in macroscopic matter (Lecture 1) 1:25:54
New Dialogues: Entanglement, Holography and Renormalization (Chandrasekhar Lecture Series) 1:13:34
Holographic Entanglement Entropy (Chandrasekhar lecture II) 1:33:15
Entanglement & C-theorems (Chandrasekhar lecture III) - part 1 1:07:30
Entanglement & C-theorems (Chandrasekhar lecture III) - part 2 46:02

GdR Dynamo (2015, IISc Bangalore)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 2015年12月9日
PROGRAM LINK: www.icts.res.in/program/GDR2015
DATES: 01 Jun, 2015 - 12 Jun, 2015
VENUE: ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore
DESCRIPTION:
Dynamo or self-induced magnetic field generation in nature and laboratory is a very important area of research in physics, astrophysics, geophysics and solar physics. The problem has remained largely unsolved for a century due to its nonlinear nature. This field is multidisciplinary with active involvement from theoreticians, experimentalists, and computational scientists. Considering the importance of this problem in various fields, a large number of complex large-scale simulations and experiments have been performed, which provide very valuable insights into dynamo mechanisms including dynamo reversals. Many simulations and several large-scale experiments have been planned for further exploration of dynamo processes.
ORGANIZERS:
Emmanuel Dormy,
Stephan Fauve,
Samriddhi Sankar Ray,
Binod Sreenivasan,
Mahendra Verma

Theory of MHD by Alexander Schekochihin (Part 1) 54:13
Theory of MHD by Alexander Schekochihin (Part 2) 1:11:54
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Andy Jackson (Part 1) 1:12:39
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Andy Jackson (Part 2) 19:46
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Andy Jackson (Part 3) 19:54
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Andy Jackson (Part 4) 1:04:10
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Chris Jones (Part 1) 1:12:56
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Chris Jones (Part 2) 12:34
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Chris Jones (Part 3) 1:12:56
Geo and Solar Dynamo by Chris Jones (Part 4) 28:47
Astrophysical Dynamos by Kandaswamy Subramanian (Part 1) 1:39:48
Astrophysical Dynamos by Kandaswamy Subramanian (Part 2) 1:12:42
Astrophysical Dynamos by Kandaswamy Subramanian (Part 3) 25:12
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Experiments/Liquid Metals by Cary Forest (Part 1) 1:11:57
Experiments/Liquid Metals by Cary Forest (Part 2) 23:28
Experiments/Liquid Metals by Cary Forest (Part 3) 1:18:38
Box Code: Tarang by Mahendra Verma (Part 1) 1:12:56
Box Code: Tarang by Mahendra Verma (Part 2) 17:30
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Torsional waves in the Earth’s core by Christopher Andrew Jones (and welcome remarks) 44:54
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Convective Dynamos at Infinite Prandtl Number by David Hughes 38:35
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Buoyancy Instabilities in Weakly Collisional Magnetized Plasmas by Prateek Sharma 31:46
Energy Trasfers, Spectrum, and Flux in Quasi-Static MHD Turbulence by Sandeep Reddy 24:25
Poster Session/Discussions 2:40
What have we learned from the Von Karman Sodium experiment by Francois Petrelis 1:04:58
The present status of the DRESDYN project by Frank Stefani 40:48
Instabilities in electromagnetically driven flows by Christophe Gissinger 29:50
Instabilities in electromagnetically driven flows by Christophe Gissinger 34:18
Effects of flow inhomogeneity in turbulent dynamo by Nobumitsu Yokoi 17:50
Bounds on Joule dissipation for convective dynamos by Thierry Alboussiere 33:32
Dynamo onset as a first-order transition by Rahul Pandit 31:01
The fate of the k^-2 spectrum in strong MHD turbulence by Vassilios Dallas 25:28
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Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics (2013, ICTS Winter School)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 2014年2月20日
PROGRAM: ICTS Winter School on Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics
DATES: Monday 23 Dec, 2013 - Saturday 28 Dec, 2013
VENUE: Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
PROGRAM LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/program/GWS2013
A worldwide network of detectors are currently involved in an exciting experimental effort for the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). There is also an ongoing proposal to build a GW detector, called LIGO-India, in India with significant international collaboration. Not only that GW astronomy will open up a fundamentally new observational window to the Universe, the experimental effort for GW detection has been driving precision measurement science for the last few decades.
The ICTS Winter School in Experimental GW Physics is meant to train students, young scientists and engineers on the instrumental science and technology for GW astronomy. The school will feature an intense series of lectures and hands-on sessions covering a number of topics including interferometry, highly stabilized lasers, control systems, etc.

Inauguration 33:11
Peter R Saulson - Overview of gravitational waves and detectors (Waves and sources) 1:06:01
Rana Adhikari - Overview of gravitational waves and detectors (Survey of past and present detectors) 52:33
Peter R Saulson - Interaction of waves and detectors 1:10:29
Oliver Puncken - The advanced LIGO pre-stabilized laser (PSL) 1:12:16
Oliver Puncken - Laser diagnostics and developmental tools 1:11:04
Peter R Saulson - Shot noise and Radiation Pressure noise (Classic view /Poisson fluctuations) 58:46
Rana Adhikari Shot noise and Radiation Pressure noise (Vacuum fluctuations / quantum noise propaga 59:27
Peter R Saulson - Theory of Linear Systems (Basics) 47:34
Oliver Puncken - Thermo-optical effects 1:17:01
Peter R Saulson - Vibration isolation (Passive systems) 57:58
Rana Adhikari - Vibration isolation 1:11:16
Peter R Saulson - Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Plane wave picture, static...) 25:34
Rana Adhikari - Thermal noise (Coatings, noise cancellation, generalized coordinates) 27:11
Rana Adhikari - Introduction to Finesse 23:49
Oliver Puncken - Stabilization of the PSL 1:06:11
Peter R Saulson - Thermal noise (Brownian noise, Zener damping, thermo-elastic noise) 1:10:18
Rana Adhikari - Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities 50:38
Peter R Saulson - Control Systems (Basics (feedback)) 53:32
Rana Adhikari - Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Matrix approach for interferometer fields) 1:04:32
Oliver Puncken - Installation and Integration of the PSL 1:13:15
Rana Adhikari - Control Systems 53:37
Peter R Saulson - Details of current detectors (Specifications) 59:55
Rana Adhikari - Details of current detectors (Stories about current and past detectors) 58:27
Peter R Saulson - Future detectors (Space) 53:51
Experiments 2:31
Optics of Fabry-Perot cavities (Higher order transverse modes, geometric.... by Rana Adhikari 1:04:23

Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior; The Parental Brain; The Amazing Teen Brain

source: University of California Television (UCTV) 2017年2月1日
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Three fascinating presentations explain how deeper understanding of neurological development reveals the basis of behavior and what factors can cause behavioral impairment, from external factors such as stress to critical periods of neurological growth and change in adolescence. Recorded on 12/02/2016. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [2/2017] [Science] [Show ID: 31756]

Environmental Science by Arun Kumar Srivastava

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source: Cec Ugc 2014年11月6日

Fly Ash ( Part - II ) 50:40
Environmental Impact 45:44
Air Pollution 56:19
Ozone 56:07
Plate Tectonics 57:49
Water Resources 57:26
Environmental Pollution 50:47
Bio Aerosols - II 54:25
Bio Aerosols - Part 1 48:31
Science Communication through Science Film 53:18
Agricultural Meteorology 54:15
Gases Pollutants 49:53
Particle Size Distribution 51:31
Indoor Air Quality and Health 44:57
Application of Aerosols 58:23
Forest Resources, Sustainability and its Importance 53:56
Radiation and Environment - Part 2 56:11
Cloud Formation -I 49:43
Cloud - II 54:31
Atmospheric Radiation 50:14
Patentability Requirement in India : Nonobviousness 57:37
Atmospheric Radiation 53:59
Atmospheric Radiation - IV 53:44
ISO 14000 54:43
ISO 14000 - II 55:20

(בעברית / in Hebrew) אבני פינה - יצירות מופת בספרות א' (Literature Masterpieces) 2009

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source: Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2009年10月22日
יצירות מופת בספרות עולם א'
ד"ר יואב רינון
2009-10
קורס מספר 10510
תכנית אבני פינה - תחום רוח
MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE - I
מטרתנו להציג בפני הסטודנטים טווח רחב של יצירות מופת ספרותיות החל מהעת העתיקה ועד הרנסנס. הלימוד מובנה בסדר כרונולוגי, החל מיצירותיו של הומרוס ה"איליאדה" וה"אודיסיאה", שהועלו על הכתב במאה ה-8 לפנה"ס, וכלה בשניים ממחזותיו של שקספיר, "המלך ליר" ו"הסערה", שנוצרו במאה ה-17. בכל שיעור נדון ביצירה או ביצירות ספרותית, ננתח את ההיבטים התוכניים והאסתטיים שלהן, ונבהיר מדוע יש לראות בהן יצירת מופת. בין היצירות שנלמד: הטרגדיה "מדיאה" של אוריפידס, ה"מטמורפוזות" של אובידיוס, ו"הקומדיה האלוהית" של דנטה. דגש מיוחד יינתן לאופן שבו ניתן ללמוד מיצירות אלה על המציאות וכן על האופן שבו הן רלוונטיות לחיינו שלנו כאן ועכשיו, שנים רבות לאחר שנכתבו. בין הנושאים שיידונו: יחסים בין בני משפחה, אהבה ומלחמה, דת, ארוטיות ומיניות. במקביל לחלק מהשיעורים תילמד גם יצירת מופת בתחום ביקורת הספרות, "מימזיס" של אריך אאורבך, שעוסקת בייצוגיה הספרותיים של המציאות בתרבות המערב.
The aim of this course is to offer the students a vast range of literary masterpieces, starting with the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer which were written during the 8th century B.C., and terminating with Shakespeare's King Lear and The Tempest, two texts from the 17th century A.D. During the lessons we shall discuss many literary works, analyzing their content and their aesthetic aspects and thus elucidating the reasons for their being a part of the "Classical" canon. Among the texts we will read are Euripides' Medea, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Dante's Divine Comedy. A special emphasis will be given to the didactic aspects of these texts, namely to what we can learn from them regarding our reality, and to their relevance to our life in the here and now, so many years after their conception. Among the topics to be discussed in the lessons are: relationships within the nuclear family, love and war, religion, eroticism and sexuality. In addition, in some of the lessons we shall learn a masterpiece of literary criticism, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis, which is dedicated to an analysis of the representation of reality in Western literature.

Anna Akbari: "Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2017年1月26日
Dr. Anna Akbari channels her background as a sociologist and entrepreneur to explain how to find happiness and success in her book "Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness".
She explains the path toward these goals with an approach that focuses on experimenting and learning from it.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/Ns9Zpj.

Living Longer with Better Health | RSA Replay

source: The RSA 2017年1月26日
We are all aware that we are living longer – and for some of us, that’s a scary prospect, especially when we consider that it has been estimated that by 2030 there will be 2 million people aged over 65 without adult children to look after them. And 230,000 of those will be in need of more than 20 hours' care a week and yet will have no informal support. But, what if we lived longer AND with better health?
Speakers: Anna Dixon, Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing Better; Steve Iliffe, Emeritus Professor of Primary Care for Older People at University College London; Mike Adamson, Chief Executive of the British Red Cross; and Neil Mesher, CEO of Philips UKI and co-chair of the Ministerial Medical Technology Strategy group
Chair: Charlotte Alldritt, Director of Public Services and Communities, RSA

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Inferring animal social networks and leadership (David Jacoby)

source: The Royal Society 2017年1月11日
We speak to Dr David Jacoby from ZSL, London about his recent research paper 'Inferring animal social networks and leadership: applications for passive monitoring arrays' recently published in our interdisciplinary journal, Interface. David and his co-authors provide the first evidence of long-term, spatially extensive social processes in wild sharks, and some of the results were rather surprising.

Defending Physicalism with Edwin C. May

source: New Thinking Allowed 2017年1月25日
Edwin C. May, PhD, was involved in the military intelligence psychic spying program, popularly referred to as Stargate, for over twenty years. During the last decade, he was the director of research for that program. In this context, he produced over a hundred scientific publications. His academic training was in experimental nuclear physics. He is coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West and also Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory. He is the coeditor of a two volume anthology titled Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science.
Here he maintains that the materialist or physicalist position regarding the mind-body problem could, in principle, be falsified – if evidence for post-mortem survival or reincarnation can be produced that significantly overcomes the alternative explanation of living agent psi. He points out that the dualist position suffers from the problem of explaining how anything non-material can interact with the brain. Even physical particles such as neutrinos do not interact with the brain at all. As something of a digression, he explains how research on Decision Augmentation Theory has shown that purported experiments on micro-PK actually offer evidence of precognition.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on June 17, 2016)

Competition and the Regulation of the Legal Services Market

source: London School of Economics and Political Science 2017年1月27日
The Competition and Markets Authority, prompted by concerns raised by interested parties that the legal services sector might not be working as well as it should, launched a study into the legal services market in January 2016 focusing on individual consumers’ and small businesses' experience of purchasing legal services in England and Wales. In its interim report, the CMA found some important problems in the functioning of the market to the detriment of consumers. The final report, which is due by the 12 January 2017 statutory deadline, will explore in full the hurdles to competition in the legal services market and make proposals for the appropriate remedies as well as recommendations for the regulatory framework of the legal services market. This will be the first public discussion of the report, which is likely to make a significant impact on a market with an annual turnover of £11-12 billion.
Robert Bourns is President of the Law Society of England and Wales.
Niamh Dunne is Assistant Professor at LSE Law.
Rachel Merelie is Senior Director at the Competition and Markets Authority.
Paul Philip is Chief Executive of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority.
Julia Black is Interim Director of LSE and Professor of Law at LSE.
LSE Law (@lselaw) is an integral part of the School's mission, plays a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

Sonja Francis at Caltech: Make Like a Tree

source: caltech 2017年1月26日
As a Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech, Sonja Francis spent two and half years reaching for a brass ring in sustainability science. Along with Caltech colleagues at the Resnick Sustainability Institute and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, she sought to mimic the magic of plant life by efficiently turning carbon dioxide into usable fuel. Her quest for the right catalyst was personal: She worries about how pollution from burning fossil fuels is affecting living things both inland and off the coast of her native Trinidad and Tobago. After combing through hundreds of candidates, one day Francis finally saw the reaction she was looking for.

In this video, Francis (who moved on to become a lecturer at Princeton in fall 2016) talks about the motivation behind her investigations, her Caltech journey, and her bubbling breakthrough moment.
Visit http://breakthrough.caltech.edu to learn how Break Through: The Caltech Campaign is supporting talented, creative scholars like Sonja Francis.
Video produced by Caltech in association with Smartypants Pictures. ©2016 California Institute of Technology

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