Imag(In)Ing Salmonella Lifestyles by Linda Kenney, & 2nd session @ICTStalks

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Imag(In)Ing Salmonella Lifestyles by Linda Kenney, & 2nd session

Non Relativistic EFTs (Lecture 2) by Abhishek Mohapatra

Electronic Energy Migration In Proteins And Their Assemblies by Aarat Kalra

Height Function Transformations of Minimal Surfaces by Sam K Mathew

Dynamical Structure of the Intertropical Convergence Zone by Divya Praturi

$A model for Thernophoresis of Colloidal protein by Mayank Sharma Discussion Meeting: 11th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting ORGANIZERS: Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (RRI India), Abhishek Dhar (ICTS-TIFR, India), Kavita Jain (JNCASR, India), Rahul Pandit (IISc, India), Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI India) and Samriddhi Sankar Ray (ICTS-TIFR, India) DATE & TIME: 27 April 2026 to 29 April 2026 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bengaluru This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics. This meeting will be the 11th in the series. The following list of topics, that are covered in STATPHYS meetings of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, will be covered in this discussion meeting. General and mathematical aspects Rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects Driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc. Quantum fluids and condensed matter Strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase transitions, quantum information, entanglement, Lüttinger liquid, spin liquid, etc. Disordered and glassy systems Percolation, spin glasses, structural glasses, metallic glasses, jamming, glass transition, algorithmic problems, etc. Biological physics Molecular motors, single and multicellular dynamics, bacteria, swimmers, spatio-temporal organization, biological membranes, biopolymer folding, genomics, biological networks, evolution models, evolutionary game theory, etc. Soft matter Simple and complex fluids, active matter, molecular and ionic fluids,wetting, self-assembly, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, microemulsions, foams, membranes, colloids, granular materials, etc. Nonlinear physics Dynamical systems, chaos (classical and quantum), pattern formation, chemical reactions, hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence (classical and quantum), etc. Interdisciplinary and complex systems Networks and graphs, epidemics, econophysics, social phenomena, traffic flow, ecology, etc. CONTACT US ispcm@icts.res.in PROGRAM LINK https://icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/ispcm2026$ $Diffusion in a Wedge Geometry: First-passage Statistics Under Stochastic Resetting by Prasad V V Discussion Meeting: 11th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting ORGANIZERS: Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (RRI India), Abhishek Dhar (ICTS-TIFR, India), Kavita Jain (JNCASR, India), Rahul Pandit (IISc, India), Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI India) and Samriddhi Sankar Ray (ICTS-TIFR, India) DATE & TIME: 27 April 2026 to 29 April 2026 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bengaluru This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics. This meeting will be the 11th in the series. The following list of topics, that are covered in STATPHYS meetings of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, will be covered in this discussion meeting. General and mathematical aspects Rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects Driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc. Quantum fluids and condensed matter Strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase transitions, quantum information, entanglement, Lüttinger liquid, spin liquid, etc. Disordered and glassy systems Percolation, spin glasses, structural glasses, metallic glasses, jamming, glass transition, algorithmic problems, etc. Biological physics Molecular motors, single and multicellular dynamics, bacteria, swimmers, spatio-temporal organization, biological membranes, biopolymer folding, genomics, biological networks, evolution models, evolutionary game theory, etc. Soft matter Simple and complex fluids, active matter, molecular and ionic fluids,wetting, self-assembly, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, microemulsions, foams, membranes, colloids, granular materials, etc. Nonlinear physics Dynamical systems, chaos (classical and quantum), pattern formation, chemical reactions, hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence (classical and quantum), etc. Interdisciplinary and complex systems Networks and graphs, epidemics, econophysics, social phenomena, traffic flow, ecology, etc. CONTACT US: ispcm@icts.res.in PROGRAM LINK: https://icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/ispcm2026$

Lecture 2 String Theory 2: Fermionic Strings by Ashoke Sen (2025-01-23)

$Arrested Relaxation in A Disorder-Free Coulomb Spin Liquid by Souvik Kundu Discussion Meeting: 11th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting ORGANIZERS: Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (RRI India), Abhishek Dhar (ICTS-TIFR, India), Kavita Jain (JNCASR, India), Rahul Pandit (IISc, India), Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI India) and Samriddhi Sankar Ray (ICTS-TIFR, India) DATE & TIME: 27 April 2026 to 29 April 2026 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bengaluru This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics. This meeting will be the 11th in the series. The following list of topics, that are covered in STATPHYS meetings of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, will be covered in this discussion meeting. General and mathematical aspects Rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects Driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc. Quantum fluids and condensed matter Strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase transitions, quantum information, entanglement, Lüttinger liquid, spin liquid, etc. Disordered and glassy systems Percolation, spin glasses, structural glasses, metallic glasses, jamming, glass transition, algorithmic problems, etc. Biological physics Molecular motors, single and multicellular dynamics, bacteria, swimmers, spatio-temporal organization, biological membranes, biopolymer folding, genomics, biological networks, evolution models, evolutionary game theory, etc. Soft matter Simple and complex fluids, active matter, molecular and ionic fluids,wetting, self-assembly, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, microemulsions, foams, membranes, colloids, granular materials, etc. Nonlinear physics Dynamical systems, chaos (classical and quantum), pattern formation, chemical reactions, hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence (classical and quantum), etc. Interdisciplinary and complex systems Networks and graphs, epidemics, econophysics, social phenomena, traffic flow, ecology, etc. CONTACT US ispcm@icts.res.in PROGRAM LINK https://icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/ispcm2026$ $Non-reciprocal Binary-fluid Turbulence by Rahul Pandit Discussion Meeting: 11th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting ORGANIZERS: Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (RRI India), Abhishek Dhar (ICTS-TIFR, India), Kavita Jain (JNCASR, India), Rahul Pandit (IISc, India), Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI India) and Samriddhi Sankar Ray (ICTS-TIFR, India) DATE & TIME: 27 April 2026 to 29 April 2026 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bengaluru This is an annual discussion meeting of the Indian statistical physics community attended by scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, from across the country, working in the broad area of statistical physics. This meeting will be the 11th in the series. The following list of topics, that are covered in STATPHYS meetings of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, will be covered in this discussion meeting. General and mathematical aspects Rigorous results, exact solutions, probability theory, stochastic field theory, phase transitions and critical phenomena at equilibrium, information theory, optimization, etc. Out-of-equilibrium aspects Driven systems, transport theory, relaxation and response dynamics, random processes, anomalous diffusion, fluctuation theorems, large deviations, out-of-equilibrium phase transitions, etc. Quantum fluids and condensed matter Strongly correlated electrons, cold atoms, graphene, mesoscopic quantum phenomena, fractional quantum Hall effect, low dimensional quantum field theory, quantum phase transitions, quantum information, entanglement, Lüttinger liquid, spin liquid, etc. Disordered and glassy systems Percolation, spin glasses, structural glasses, metallic glasses, jamming, glass transition, algorithmic problems, etc. Biological physics Molecular motors, single and multicellular dynamics, bacteria, swimmers, spatio-temporal organization, biological membranes, biopolymer folding, genomics, biological networks, evolution models, evolutionary game theory, etc. Soft matter Simple and complex fluids, active matter, molecular and ionic fluids,wetting, self-assembly, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, microemulsions, foams, membranes, colloids, granular materials, etc. Nonlinear physics Dynamical systems, chaos (classical and quantum), pattern formation, chemical reactions, hydrodynamic instabilities, turbulence (classical and quantum), etc. Interdisciplinary and complex systems Networks and graphs, epidemics, econophysics, social phenomena, traffic flow, ecology, etc. CONTACT US ispcm@icts.res.in PROGRAM LINK https://icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/ispcm2026$

Extreme clustering in cloud droplets by Rama Govindarajan