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SUMMARY:Tedx
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SUMMARY:Math - CS Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mathematics invites you to a joint colloquium on "The Magnificence of Brahmagupta's Bhāvanā" by Prof. Amartya Kumar Dutta\, Director\, ISI\, Kolkata. \nThe details are as follows: \nAbstract: In this talk we will try to give a historical perspective on a profound result in mathematics due to Brahmagupta (628 CE). The result is a certain ‘law of composition’ referred to in Indian mathematics by the great Sanskrit word bhāvanā. In mathematics\, a law of composition combines (i.e.\, ‘composes’) twomathematical objects of a certain type to produce a third object of the same type. For instance\, Brahmagupta’s composition law bhāvanā combines two solutions of a given equation to generate a third solution of the equation; it also combines two polynomial expressions of a particular type to yield another expression of the same type. While Brahmagupta’s bhāvanā is now a basic and useful result in modern number theory\, its real greatness lies in its manifesting the very principle of composition in mathematics. The principle of composition lies at the heart of modern Abstract Algebra and Number Theory. A subsequent major landmark in number theory is Gauss’s composition law (1801) on ‘binary quadratic forms’\, a generalisation of an aspect of Brahmagupta’s bhāvanā. Around the beginning of the present century\, Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava stunned the world of mathematics by his discovery of new ‘composition laws’\, which simplify and provide far-reaching generalisations of Gauss’s law. \nAs a tribute to the work of Brahmagupta\, a prominent mathematics magazine which is being published from January 2017 has been named Bhāvanā. For the word bhāvanā brings to our mind a brilliant mathematical concept from a bygone era and provides a link between one of the highest peaks of ancient Indian mathematics and one of the most celebrated achievements in contemporary mathematics. \nAbout the Speaker: Prof. Amartya Kumar Dutta works in commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry\, with additional contributions to the history of mathematics. He is currently the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)\, Kolkata\, where he has spent nearly three decades in the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1994 under S. M. Bhatwadekar\, and has since built a sustained research program in algebra. His work focuses on structural questions\, including affine fibrations\, polynomial ring retracts\, residual and stable coordinates\, and Noetherian algebras. Over the years\, he has also mentored and guided numerous students\, contributing significantly to the development of the subject in India. \nAlongside his research\, Prof. Dutta has maintained a long-standing engagement with the history of mathematics\, especially ancient Indian mathematical traditions. For over 25 years\, he has delivered lectures and written articles on the history of science\, and has taught courses on Indian mathematics and modern science at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. His writings\, including a continuing series in the magazine Bhāvanā\, reflect a distinctly algebraic perspective on the evolution of mathematical ideas. He is a recipient of the INSA Teachers Award\, and the inaugural Satish C. Bhatnagar Award in History of Mathematics from the Indian Mathematical Society.  \nWe look forward to your active participation.
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SUMMARY:Student Excellence Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20260422T132500
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SUMMARY:22 April (Wed) 1:40 PM: Sixth Lecture in Ashoka History Spring Seminar Series 2026
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  \nThis talk explores how early modern Gujaratis imagined land\, sea\, and the wider world. Drawing on painted maps\, pilgrim scrolls\, and hybrid cartographic experiments produced between the Mughal and early colonial periods\, it presents Gujarat as a site where multiple spatial logics collided and coexisted. These mappings reveal vibrant circulation of techniques between the sailors\, pilots\, astrologers\, surveyors\, cultivators\, and scribes who embedded knowledge in visual — and sometimes non-visual — form.  Most of all\, they foreground relationships: between work and environment\, devotion and commerce\, sovereignty\, and plurality. \nBio:  \nSamira Sheikh is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Forging a Region: Sultans\, Traders\, and Pilgrims in Gujarat\, 1200-1500 (2010)\, and co-editor of After Timur Left (2014). Having recently completed a book on late Mughal Bharuch\, she is now working on a book and exhibition on early modern mapping practices in India. She is currently the fifth Obaid Siddiqi Chair at the Archives at NCBS\, Bangalore (2025-26).
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20260422T133000
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SUMMARY:Reliable Inference at Scale Using Graph Structure - Mansi Sood
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium announcement\nReliable Inference at Scale Using Graph Structure\nMansi Sood \nMIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems \n \n\nAbstract: As our world becomes increasingly interconnected\, the informational landscape that drives decision-making is marked by ever-expanding scale and interdependencies. Leveraging graph structure\, we develop computationally efficient alternatives to canonical subroutines that underlie inference in modern machine learning and optimization infrastructure. We discuss two key directions: First\, we optimize graph algorithms for learning from distributed data sources\, addressing a key challenge in decentralized settings- namely\, identifying simple probabilistic rules for organizing nodes to balance sparsity with reliable connectivity. Our results resolve several open problems related to the exact analysis of connectivity properties in a class of random graph models known as random k-out graphs\, widely appearing as heuristics for network design in settings with limited trust. Second\, we discuss computationally efficient alternatives to parameter learning in probabilistic graphical models. We develop methods that retain the statistical advantage of classical maximum likelihood estimation while significantly cutting computational costs in the context of high dimensional exponential family models. Summing\, our work sheds new light on how the interplay between graph structure and performance can be leveraged to push the frontiers of efficient and provably reliable algorithms. \nAbout the speaker: Mansi Sood is a Schmidt Science Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems\, working with Devavrat Shah. Her research sits at the interface of network science\, stochastic modeling\, and learning\, with the aim of developing inference algorithms for socio- technical systems that are both practical and provably reliable. Prior to this\, she received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where she was recognized with the AG Jordan Award for Outstanding Thesis and Community Impact. She completed her joint B.Tech. and M.Tech. at IIT Bombay\, where she received Excellence in Research and Mentorship Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering. Her work won a Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications and a Graduation Day Award in Information Theory and Applications. She has been twice recognized as an EECS Rising Star. For her contributions to outreach and mentorship\, she has been honored with an Unsung Hero Award at CMU and the Advanced Graduate Ambassadorship of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)\, Princeton. \n\nDate: Wednesday\, April 22\, 2026Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM\nVenue: AC-02-LR-108Email: scdlds@ashoka.edu.inWebsite: https://scdlds.ashoka.edu.in/
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on Alkali- and Alkaline Earth Metal Complexes as Catalysts for Sustainable Polymers
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Vice Chancellor's office invites you to a colloquium on "Alkali- and Alkaline Earth Metal Complexes as Catalysts for Sustainable Polymers" by Prof. V. Chandrasekhar\, Visiting Distinguished Professor\, TIFR\, Hyderabad \nAbstract: Efficient polymerization methods for the preparation of sustainable polymers such as poly (lactic acid) or poly (ε-caprolactone) and the corresponding co-polymers are important targets of research. In this context\, unsymmetrical imino─phosphanamidinate\, N-P-N ligands (Figure) were designed and synthesized\, and their reactivity with various metal precursors was studied.  In general\, such reactions proceed to afford a monoanionic chelating N-P-N motif that can bind to metal centres affording four-membered rings1-4 (Figure). Utilizing this strategy we prepared a Cs(I) complex2 and a Mg(II) complex4 which were studied by NMR and crystallography. Further\, these complexes were shown to be highly efficient catalysts for the homopolymerization of lactide and ε-caprolactone as well for the block co-polymerization of lactide with caprolactone.2\,4 These results will be presented. \n \nAbout the Speaker: Prof V. Chandrasekhar studied chemistry and obtained his PhD degree in 1982 from the Indian Institute of Science\, Bangalore and postdoctoral work at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, Massachusetts\, USA. After briefly working at the Research and Development section of the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation at Vadodara\, as a Senior Research Officer\, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1987 where he has been a full professor since 1995 until his superannuation in November 2023. He served for an additional month at IIT Kanpur as a professor. He served as the Head of the Department of Chemistry\, IIT Kanpur (2008–10)\, and as the Dean of Faculty Affairs\, IIT Kanpur (2011–12). He also worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research\, Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences\, Hyderabad\, as a Senior Professor/Dean (2012–14) and Director (2014–17)\, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER)\, Bhubaneswar\, India\, as a Centre Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research\, Hyderabad (2017-23). He is currently a visiting Distinguished Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad. His research interests are in molecular materials\, inorganic rings and polymers\, main-group organometallic chemistry and polynuclear metal assemblies. He has been a recipient of the S. S. Bhatnagar Award of the Council and Scientific Industrial Research\, India\, and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, Germany (With Prof. H. W. Roesky at Goettingen 2003 Dec-2004 June). \nHe is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences\, Bangalore\, the National Academy of Sciences\, Allahabad\, the Indian National Science Academy\, New Delhi and the World Academy of Sciences\, Trieste\, Italy. He is currently the President of the Chemical Research Society of India and the President-elect of the Asian Chemical Editorial Society. He has been on the editorial board of several journals including\, Organometallics. Currently he is on the editorial board of Dalton Transactions as an Associate Editor. His research work is documented in 460+ publications. \nWe look forward to your active participation. \nWith regards
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium | What Is “the Social” in Social Psychology?
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Psychology invites you to a colloquium by Dr. Apurv Chauhan. \nAbstract: This talk addresses a persistent difficulty in my own work and\, I suspect\, in the field more broadly. Put plainly\, social psychology still lacks a settled way of apprehending the social that moves beyond Allport’s mid‑twentieth‑century decree on the discipline’s remit. I will focus on two thematic issues to illustrate how this problem currently plays out. \nThe first concerns the way in which much of what is implied by “the social” in research is relegated to the ill‑defined conceptual rubbish bin of context. Context is routinely invoked as an explanation for empirical findings\, yet it is almost always treated as self‑evident and theoretically under‑specified. It carries few discernible commitments: almost anything seems to count\, and there is rarely consistency across studies by the same researcher\, let alone across the field. This is a serious problem\, as the context of anything is fundamentally indeterminate—it has no reliable boundary and no stable content. The only constructive response I will offer in this talk emerges from this impasse. Drawing on my fieldwork in rural India\, I outline a pragmatic attempt to sharpen our conceptualisation of context\, and our allusions to it\, through a tripartite theorisation of research context. This aims to afford the concept analytical traction without imposing false closure. \nReturning to these difficulties\, I then reflect on how my engagement with a range of theoretical perspectives has shaped my methodological decisions in the search for the social. My research group primarily works with texts (written\, transcribed\, or visually presented thoughts) and treats them as privileged yet partial traces of social life. We approach them as sites in which meaning\, positioning\, and orientation become available for analysis. This orientation has led me\, at different moments\, to privilege content\, distribution\, and temporal patterning as entry points into the social. In retrospect\, however\, these moves appear largely as methodological artefacts – whether assembled through mathematical time‑series modelling\, thematic analysis\, or dialogical approaches – that stubbornly persist. In each case\, the social became analytically tractable only by being narrowed. Some of the social\, always remained poorly captured: depending on the methodology\, this took the form of relational\, interactional\, or socio‑material processes through which texts were produced\, circulated\, and taken up. \nOne minor theoretical proposition on the research context aside\, the purpose of this talk is not to offer solutions\, but to initiate conversation\, collaboration\, and dialogue in the ongoing search for the social\, and indeed in negotiating the tension between its analytic capture and its inevitable loss. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr Apurv Chauhan is a Senior Lecturer in Social & Cultural Psychology at King’s College London where he is the Director of the Sociocultural Lab @ King’s and leads the IoPPN research theme Society\, Culture\, and Constructed Worlds. His previous appointments were at the University of Brighton and as a Canadian Institute of Health Research Fellow at University of Guelph\, Canada. Apurv is the past editor in Chief of Sage Open and currently sits on the APA task force for Indigenous Psychology and BPS National Reference Group for Poverty.  \nApurv received his PhD from London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) on a LSE full Doctoral Scholarship. Prior to this\, he received his MPhil in Social and Cultural Psychology from the University of Cambridge on a full Cambridge Trusts Scholarship. He received his BSc Hons in Psychology from Zakir Husain Delhi College\, University of Delhi. \nApurv’s research looks at social inequalities and experiences of marginality\, culture and meaning\, and traditional and new media. His upcoming book Meanings of Poverty: Alterity\, Representations\, and Dialogue is going to be published by Bloomsbury in 2027. \nWe look forward to your active participation.
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SUMMARY:Investor Awareness Session
DESCRIPTION:More about the Session: \nThis initiative is a pure investor education initiative by UTI Mutual Fund\, focused on building financial awareness and encouraging disciplined investing habits\, especially among first-time and young investors. The following topics will be covered by the speaker: \nIntroduces the F.I.R.E framework (Financial Independence\, Retire Early) as the core theme \nExplains the journey of money: \n\nIncome → Savings → Wealth creation\n\nSimplifies key financial concepts: \n\nPower of compounding\nImpact of inflation\nDifference between saving vs investing\n\nDemonstrates how small\, regular investments (SIPs) can grow into large wealth over time \nHighlights the cost of delay: \n\nStarting late significantly reduces wealth potential\nRequires much higher investment to achieve same goals\n\nUses relatable examples (lifestyle spends\, real-life scenarios) to make concepts easy to understand \nEmphasises the importance of: \n\nStarting early\nStaying consistent\nThinking long-term over short-term noise\n\nPositions SIP (Systematic Investment Plan) as: \n\nA simple\, disciplined way to invest\nIdeal for first-time investors\n\nThe speaker will also conduct a 15-minute Q&A session and will answer queries by students \n______ \nAbout the Speakers: \nVetri Subramaniam is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of UTI Asset Management Company Limited. He joined UTI AMC as Head of Equity in January 2017 and assumed the role of Chief Investment Officer in August 2021. \nPrior to joining UTI\, he was Chief Investment Officer at Invesco Asset Management Limited. He was part of the start-up team at Invesco (then Religare Asset Management) in 2008 and helped establish the firm’s proprietary investment process and the team. He started his career at Kotak Mahindra in 1992 after passing out from IIM Bangalore with a PG Diploma in Management. His experience in equity markets and investment roles at various firms from 1994 includes Kotak Mahindra\, SSKI and Motilal Oswal. He was also one of the founders of Sharekhan.com (now Mirae Asset Sharekhan)\, where he led the research and content team. He has also worked as an advisor to a UK Hedge fund on its equity investments in India during 2003-2007. \nVetri Subramaniam has more than three decades of experience in equity markets\, investment strategy\, mentorship and financial literacy advocacy. He is a frequent contributor to the media and regularly speaks on investing and markets at various forums\, including the media and educational institutions. \n  \nNeha Singh is the founder of Womoneysta (pronounced Wo-MONEY-sta)\, a financial wellness platform focused on building financial awareness and capability among individuals and communities. \nWith over 14 years of corporate experience\, Neha has worked with leading organisations\, including Standard Chartered Bank\, Kotak Mahindra Bank\, and Deloitte India. Through these roles\, she developed deep expertise in personal finance\, financial planning\, and financial education. \nShe is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP\, CM)\, a globally recognised certification in financial planning. Neha is widely recognised as a financial educator and speaker\, and her work has been featured on platforms such as UN Women and UpGrad. \nShe has also been recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equity\, is a TEDx speaker\, and serves as an empanelled faculty member with NSE Academy and personal finance faculty at The Vedica Scholars Programme.
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20260427T230000
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SUMMARY:CWC Online Summer School 2026
DESCRIPTION:CWC Summer School 2026 is now open for registration. This year's programme includes our regular workshops on Research Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences\, designed for MA and PhD cohorts. Alongside these\, we are offering a series of special interest workshops on Translation in the Classroom\, the Genre of True Crime\, Storytelling and Policy Briefs\, and Evidence in the Field.  \nAll workshops are open to applicants who meet the eligibility criteria and will be held from 18 to 23 May 2026. Further details on the workshops and the registration process are available in the Summer School Catalogue.  \nThe deadline to apply is 27 April 2026. 
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