ICTS is a multi- & inter-disciplinary effort with a mandate to take new initiatives on the frontiers of science, & catalyze & promote collaboration in research.
Lately, a mysterious artist has been filling the ICTS blackboards with incredible drawings and quirky words. The blackboards, which are otherwise filled with complicated equations, are getting a new character.
The artist keeps us guessing!
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#chalkart
#chalkartist
ICTS graduate student Bhanu Kiran was selected for an Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP)-Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA). Bhanu Kiran is one of three laureates worldwide to receive this honour.
#ICTS
congratulates Bhanu Kiran for this achievement.
Attention all women students across the country! Apply for our summer school program in Mathematics and Statistics. Our two-week program will broaden your exposure to mathematics and statistics problem-solving skills.
Apply by April 6th
Webpage
ICTS faculty member R. Loganayagam has received the Indian Physics Association’s N.S. Satya Murthy Memorial Award in Physics for 2022, for his “innovative work on anomalies, fluid dynamics and the non-linear Langevin equation”
ICTS-TIFR is inviting applications from undergraduate & postgraduate students for the ICTS - S. N. Bhatt Memorial Excellence Fellowship Program that will be held in the summer of 2023 (May-July).
Deadline - Dec 31st, 2022!
More info:
Tomorrow at 4:30 pm (IST) Vigyan Adda online Talk by Prof. Rohini M. Godbole (IISc, Bengaluru).
#VigyanAdda
talks are aimed at people with a background in science & undergraduate students. More info
ICTS-TIFR faculty Prof P. Ajith has been elected as part of the 2024 cohort of Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences. This is a prestigious recognition of his pioneering work on gravitational wave physics.
Rama Govindarajan
@ictstifr
elected as Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). She has contributed to different aspects of fluid mechanics, including instabilities in viscosity-stratified flows & multiphase flows involving the dynamics of bubbles, drops & particles.
In 1929, scientists discovered that the universe is expanding. However, when they measured its speed they got different answers using different methods.
A team of researchers led by Souvik Jana at the ICTS, Bengaluru, have proposed a solution to the persistent problem.
📢Apply before the deadline.
@ictstifr
, Bengaluru is inviting applications for the ICTS - S. N. Bhatt Memorial Excellence Fellowship Program - 2024
For more information visit
Deadline - 31st December 2023
Join us this evening to kick start a new lecture series- Madhava Lecture Series, with Prof. P. P. Divakaran, speaking on the 14th century Indian mathematician-astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama.
Date: 11, 13 and 14 February 2020
Time: 1600 hrs
Venue: ICTS-TIFR Campus
ICTS faculty members Subhro Bhattacharjee and Ajith Parameswaran were selected as members of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Subhro’s research interests lie in quantum many-body physics. Ajith’s research spans different aspects of gravitational-wave astronomy.
ICTS faculty member Prayush Kumar was awarded the NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for 2022. Prayush was recognised for his notable contributions to numerical relativity and gravitational wave astrophysics.
ICTS congratulates Prayush for this achievement.
Attention science and engineering students! Apply now for the
@ICTS
- S. N. Bhatt Memorial Excellence Fellowship Program 2024! Get a stipend and accommodation while working with top faculty. Open to Indian and foreign nationals.
🌐
Deadline: 31 Dec 2023
Sujata Ramdorai, a Senior Associate faculty at ICTS, has been awarded the Krieger-Nelson Prize for her exceptional contributions towards research in mathematics, by the Canadian Mathematical Society .
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#excellenceinscience
#womeninscience
ICTS Joint Faculty (with
@NCBS_Bangalore
) Shashi Thutupalli has been selected PI for Infosys-TIFR ‘Leading Edge’ grant, to elucidate the coupled roles of mechanics & chemistry in the growth dynamics of microbial populations on viscoelastic substrates.
Suvrat Raju, faculty member
@ICTS
, was awarded the 10th Nishina Asia Award 2022 for his contributions to basic physics. The award was presented to him by Takaaki Kajita (President of the Nishina Memorial Foundation and Nobel Laureate in Physics,2015) in August.
Article co-authored by Prof. Shashi Thutupalli "Two-component molecular motor driven by a GTPase cycle", was published in Nature Physics. Shashi is ICTS joint faculty with the
@ncbs_bangalore
ICTS congratulates Shashi for the publication. Full Story -
Subhro Bhattacharjee
@ictstifr
has been awarded a five-year associateship at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. The associateship will enable Subhro to spend extended periods at ICTP. Subhro’s research interests lie in quantum many-body physics.
2021 Physics
#Nobel
Laureate Prof. Giorgio Parisi will give the ICTS Distinguished lecture today @ 2 pm (IST).
Abstract: In this talk I will review the chronology of my works trying to find some logical explanation for the sequence of works I have done.
Are you a student from 6-12 grade and passionate about mathematics? Join us for a special maths circle talk where we will discuss extraordinary problems
📆Friday, November 17th, 2023 at 6 PM
Register at to receive the Zoom link
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An international team of scientists, including
#ICTS
faculty member Subhro Bhattacharjee, has observed an unusual quantum state of matter a spin-orbital liquid phase – in the pyrochlore oxide. For more details visit -
Join us for the
#KdK
Public Talk this Sunday @ 4 pm! "The goal will be to review some of the basic principles of
#quantum
physics that quantum technologies rely on, and also provide examples of how they are getting implemented in real devices" More info:
ICTS faculty member Sthitadhi Roy has been awarded a new Max Planck Partner Group. Sthitadhi will head this partnership with his counterpart Roderich Moessner from MPIKS, Dresden.
ICTS congratulates him for this achievement and wishes him continued success in his future research.
Abhishek Dhar, faculty and Dean
@ictstifr
has been awarded the pan-TIFR TAA BM Udgaonkar: Excellence in Teaching Award for 2022 in the field of Physics. This award is a testament to his exceptional skills in designing graduate coursework for his students.
ICTS Foundation Day Lecture by Ashoke Sen on Dec 27! Abstract - Discovery of dark energy in the late 90's has changed our understanding of how the universe evolves. In this talk, I shall describe what it implies for our universe billions of years from now.
Get ready to be blown away by David Tong's exceptional ability to describe complex topics with energy, enthusiasm, and clarity!
🚩ICTS Bengaluru
📆⏰20th Dec, 4 pm
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For group participation write to outreach
@icts
.res.in
ICTS Director Rajesh Gopakumar was recognised as an ‘Oustanding Referee’ by
@APSphysics
. This lifetime award is given annually to ‘recognise scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals.’
ICTS - TIFR is pleased to announce a special online lecture series by Prof. Sunil Mukhi (Adjunct Professor, ICTS-TIFR) as a centennial tribute to Prof. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri from 20th March to 28th April 2023.
Please register here:
Calling all the science enthusiasts in Bengaluru! Brace yourselves for an unforgettable experience as you get the chance to interact with none other than the legendary theoretical physicist David Tong LIVE!
20 Dec @ 4 PM
@ictstifr
campus
Register now
Subhro Bhattacharjee
@ictstifr
has received the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science & Technology
@IndiaDST
, in the physical sciences category. This fellowship is awarded to a select number of young scientists to enable them to pursue basic research.
Are you passionate about mathematics? Are you in grades 6th to 12th and live in
#Bengaluru
?
Then solve the online exploration challenge here and participate in Maths Circle:
For more details visit:
ICTS faculty members Subhro Bhattacharjee and Manas Kulkarni have been selected for the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientists 2022.
ICTS congratulates Subhro and Manas for their stellar achievement.
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#tifr
ICTS graduate student Aditya Vijaykumar has been selected for the
#Fulbright
-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship, given by the United States-India Educational Foundation
@USIEF
, enabling Aditya to work for 7 months with astrophysicist Daniel Holz
@UChicago
Professor C V Vishveshwara was well-known for his cartoons that combine science and humor. This cartoon is his humorous take on the state of Gravitational-wave astronomy over 30 years ago! He was elated to hear about LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves in 2016.
🤩Super excited to announce the prestigious ICTS Public Lecture. It's happening on Dec 20th at 4 PM
@ictstifr
Bengaluru campus.
The speaker is David Tong
@Cambridge_Uni
and he'll be talking about "On Quarks and Turbulence"
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🌐
#ICTSTIFR
faculty member Rama Govindarajan was awarded the Archana Sharma Memorial Lecture Award 2022 by the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) in recognition of her distinguished contributions to science. ICTS congratulates her for her stellar research achievements.
ICTS 1st year I-Phd student, Bikram Pain, was awarded the gold medal by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) for his stellar performance in the National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE-21).
What is the future of the Indian space programme?
Hear what A. S. Kiran Kumar thinks. He is the Vikram Sarabhai Professor at the
@isro
, Member of the Space Commission, Govt of India, and a former Chairman at the
@isro
.
YT livestream:
Graduate student Souvik Jana
@ictstifr
was awarded the pan-TIFR Sarojini Damodaran International Student Travel Fellowship
His recent research paper suggested using gravitational waves to resolve the Hubble tension in cosmology.
We are thrilled to share that Sahil Kumar Singh, student
@ictstifr
won the Best Poster Award for his work on 'Thermalization and Hydrodynamics in an Interacting Integrable System: The Case of Hard Rods' presented at ICTP
@ictpnews
Congrats, Sahil, on this fantastic achievement!
Join us to hear Prof. Rohini Godbole (Theoretical particle physicist, IISc) speak at 2021’s first session of Kuriosity during Kuarantine.
On Sunday, 24 January 2021, at 4 pm IST
The video will be livestreamed at
#icts
#KdK
#KaapiwithKuriosity
#outreach
ICTS - TIFR is pleased to announce a program "Introduction to Precision Measurements and Quantum Metrology" from 10 July 2023 to 21 July 2023.
Registration link -
Application deadline - 31 March 2023
At the inaugural International Congress of Basic Sciences held in Beijing on July 16, 2023, Rajesh Gopakumar, Lorenz Eberhardt, and Matthias Gaberdiel's research paper won the 2023 ICBS Frontiers of Science Award.
Full article🌐
The highly anticipated Vishveshwara Lecture series is back with another thrilling public lecture by B S Sathyaprakash (Penn State & Cardiff University)
📆⏰January 3, 2024 at 4 PM
🚩ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru
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Are you curious to know how high-energy physics will change with the use of machine learning?
Are you a P.hD. student or a Postdoctoral Researcher in a similar field?
Then our upcoming workshop is for you.
Link for more details:
Deadline - 15 May 2023
"Scientists are planning to place ears on the Moon in the next decade".
Yes, to detect gravitational waves, scientists are working to place their observatories on the far side of the moon where the temperature is as low as -240°C.
Know the full story -
Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture "The Future of the Indian Space Programme" by A. S. Kiran Kumar (Vikram Sarabhai Professor
@isro
& Member of the Space Commission, Govt of India).
Tuesday, April 18th, 4 PM @ Chandrasekhar Auditorium, ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru.
Researchers have found that in special scenarios, the resistance can decrease with length, which is opposite to what has been observed before.
The latest blog post explains how theoretical physicists have stumbled upon a counterintuitive finding.
Interstellar travel might still be science fiction! But modern technology allows us to probe Cosmic Frontiers using a variety of messengers. Join us for an exciting online event featuring Nobel laureate Kip Thorne and Caltech physicist Rana Adhikari
ICTS graduate student Junaid Majeed Bhat has been awarded the inaugural pan-TIFR
@TIFRScience
"S. Naranan Memorial Research Award" for his outstanding contribution in the physics of transport in linear chain systems for varied fields of research.
Calling all astrophysics fans in Bengaluru! Get ready for an amazing start to the year! Join us for a lecture on Gravitational-wave astronomy by Prof. B S Sathyaprakash, a leading expert in this field.
⏰📆3 Jan, 4 PM
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ICTS graduate student Pronobesh Maity has been selected for the prestigious KITP Graduate Fellowship Program. Pronobesh will spend 5-6 months
@KITP_UCSB
and will be guided by Nobel Prize winner David Gross during his stay at KITP.
ICTS faculty member Subhro Bhattacharjee has been awarded an Indo-Swedish Initiation grant for collaboration with Sergej Moroz of Karlstadt University.
ICTS congratulates Subhro for continuing on his strong research track.
🇮🇳Republic Day 2024 celebrations at ICTS 🇮🇳
Prof. Rama Govindarajan unfurled the tricolor and delivered a speech emphasizing the significance of research in basic sciences, the need to conserve air and water, and India's commitment to achieving a net-zero emissions target.
Dr. Gautam Menon's (Professor of Physics and Biology at Ashoka University), Kuriosity during Kuarantine talk will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel, ICTStalks on Sunday, 19 July 2020, at 4.00 pm. For more info, click the link.
@AshokaUniv
ICTS Organised Meet the Author - Ananyo Bhattacharya to discuss the book 'The Man From The Future'. He talked about von Neumann’s incredible mathematical ideas and demonstrated why his legacy is omnipresent in our lives today.
Link:
2021 Physics
#Nobel
Laureate Prof. Giorgio Parisi will give the ICTS Distinguished lecture on 16 December from 14:00 hrs to 16:00 hrs (IST).
More information :
ICTS - TIFR, Bengaluru invites applications from highly motivated candidates interested in pursuing doctoral research in physical sciences through CSIR - UGC NET/GATE/JEST stream.
Deadline: 14 May 2023
For more information visit:
Queries At: gs
@icts
.res.in
Subhro Bhattacharjee
@ictstifr
has received the Indian Physics Association’s "Buti Foundation Award for Excellence in Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics & Biophysics 2022" for his work in theoretical condensed matter physics & quantum critical systems
Are you interested in turbulence, field theory, statistical mechanics, and critical phenomena? Then ICTS-TIFR has a program for you. For more details visit .
Deadline: 29 September, 2023.
For queries write to us at turb.fields
@icts
.res.in
Samriddhi Sankar Ray
@ictstifr
has been awarded the new prestigious SERB-Science & Technology Award for Research (SERB-STAR). This award is instituted by SERB to recognize & reward outstanding performance of Principal Investigators of SERB Projects.
Rohini Devasher and Elisa Storelli have been awarded the Connect India residency!
The Swiss and Indian artists will do a residency at
@ictstifr
and
@CERN
to develop a research-based art project.
Congratulations!
Visit the link to know more:
ICTS International Advisory Board member Subir Sachdev has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society. Prof. Sachdev is Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University.
ICTS congratulates him for this recognition & outstanding contribution to science.
Applications invited for Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop 2024 Study Hub! Calling all postgrads, PhD candidates, and undergraduates. Get hands-on with cutting-edge tools used by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration.
📆Deadline Mar 31
More info
Maths Circles are a group of carefully selected students, who meet regularly to discuss carefully chosen mathematical explorations. ICTS does have a database of those problems. Feel free to solve them :)
TIL that
@ictstifr
maintains a searchable database of the problems that have been discussed across math circles:
Session-wise PDFs here:
This is a very nice resource! 🤩
Have you ever wondered how the gravitational-wave data is analysed?
Then this workshop is for you!
ICTS Astrophysics & Relativity group is organising a Study Hub of the Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop 2023.
For more details and to register, visit
Delighted to announce the fruit of our labor - the magnificent GeoSphere! The entire team
@ictstifr
worked tirelessly for hours to bring this geodesic dome to life. We take great pride in our achievement and would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the
@ccl_iitgn
team.
YouTube livestream link for the Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture "The Future of the Indian Space Programme" by A. S. Kiran Kumar (Vikram Sarabhai Professor
@isro
and Member of the Space Commission, Govt of India).
Tuesday, April 18th, 4 PM!
First Kaapi with Kuriosity of 2024! 🎉
Speaker: Abhay Deshpande
Date and time: 28-01-2024, 4PM.
Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium
For more information:
Applications are invited for the TIFR Interdisciplinary Programme in the Physics of Life, through CSIR - UGC NET/GATE/JEST for students with a background in physics, engineering, & computer science.
Details:
Deadline: May 27, 2023
Queries: pol
@icts
.res.in
Rohini Devasher and Elisa Storelli have started their residency at
@ictstifr
!
Over the next few weeks, the selected artists for Connect India will engage with the scientific community at ICTS to develop a research-based artistic project.
Read more:
ICTS - TIFR will be conducting a summer course program on "The Fascinating world of flows" by Rama Govindarajan (ICTS- TIFR) and Samriddhi Sankar Ray (ICTS - TIFR) twice a week between 13 June to 06 July 2023
Please register before 31st March 2023.
Link:
Recently ICTS & RRI jointly organised the Math Circles, a programme for school students who are inclined towards mathematics. These are fortnightly sessions that happen once in two weeks or at weekends for a few hours to discuss carefully chosen mathematical explorations.
Join us today at ICTS, 06:00 PM for the 'Kolam, A Western Perspective' by Claudia Silva. Where she will discuss the ethnomathematical and anthropological aspects of Kolam.
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#tifr
Dr. Maneesha Inamdar from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, speaks about stem cells and the future of regenerative stem cell therapy, at ICTS's Summer School for Women in Mathematics and Statistics.
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#womeninSTEM
#stemcellresearch
#science
The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bengaluru is inviting applications for the Postdoctoral Program 2024 (Summer Cycle).
Interested candidates should apply online before 15 July 2023. For more information, please visit
Two renowned mathematicians and a theoretical physicist with close ties to ICTS, were among the recipients of the Padma Awards this year.
ICTS International Advisory Board member S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, received the Padma Vibhushan.
Join our team at
@ictstifr
and be part of groundbreaking research on "Non-local description of anomalous heat transport". We're looking for highly motivated individuals driven to make an impact. Apply for the position of JRF
Visit to learn more and apply.
As part of the outreach activity, ICTS organised ''Kolam, A Western Perspective', an event where the speaker Claudia Silva talked about the ethnomathematical and the anthropological aspects of Kolam. The talk was followed by a workshop by Jayanthi Murugesh, a kolam artist.
ICTS faculty member Subhro Bhattacharjee & former Post Doc Fellow Adhip Agarwala in collaboration with Johannes Knolle & Roderich Moessner demonstrated a theoretical realization of a Kitaev “non-Fermi” spin liquid, selected as Editor's suggestion
@PhysRevB
Students at the ICTS-RRI maths circle show how much fun solving a math problem can be. See for yourself the joy and excitement that comes from exploring math with others. If you want to join a vibrant community of math enthusiasts, check the webpage.
🌐
#KdK
talk by Krish Ashok (Author of 'Masala Lab') is scheduled on Sunday, Oct 17th, 4 pm (IST). "This talk will take the oriental mystique out of Indian cooking & use simple, high-school
#science
to explain what's happening behind the scenes.." more info
The Vishveshwara Lecture on Supermassive black holes by Prof. Priyamvada Natarajan, will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel- ictstalks. Viewers can participate in the Q and A session at the end of the lecture.
#VishveshwaraLectures
#icts
#blackholes
Join us for an exciting online event featuring Nobel laureate Kip Thorne and Caltech physicist Rana Adhikari on Aug 19 (tomorrow) at 7pm IST!
Registration: