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SUMMARY:Autism Awareness Month
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, April is observed as World Autism Awareness Month\, with an aim to support the creation of fulfilling lives and relationships for persons with autism. This month also acts as a marker of the work that has been done so far\, and the road that lies ahead of us in our pursuit of enabling the inclusion and acceptance of persons with autism in our university. To observe this month\, the OLS planned a series of events and activities to promote and foster feelings of warmth and acceptance among the Ashoka community\, specifically in the context of appreciating and accepting neurodiversity around us. \nAs a kickstart\, the OLS put up posters across the campus listing a few ways in which we can extend a hand of friendship to our peers who are on the autism spectrum. The idea was to encourage the Ashoka community to pause for a moment and engage with the poster to understand and implement some of the inclusive practices highlighted through it\, so as to make our neurodiverse peers feel more at home at Ashoka. \n \nOn April 12\, the OLS had invited two organizations\, Action for Autism (AFA) and Action for Ability Development and Inclusion (AADI)\, for the Spring Haat organized by the Student Life Office. Both the organizations set up their stalls\, showcased the products made by people with autism and other disabilities\, and engaged with various students\, staff\, and faculty at the stalls. Along with this\, there was an interactive activity organized to explore the common understanding of autism amongst the Ashoka community members and put down questions that might have about it. The purpose was to initiate a conversation around autism and neurodiversity on the Ashoka campus. Later\, the responses were collated\, the Ashoka community was encouraged to reflect on their connotations\, and common questions were addressed for the purpose of increasing awareness about autism. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \nThe OLS encourages those curious to learn more about autism or create inclusive spaces around themselves to reach out to the office\, for the month may have drawn to a close\, but the dialogue on autism must continue. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/autism-awareness-month/
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SUMMARY:VISUAL ARTS Colloquium: Critical Zone: The Earth Below Our Feet | Vasanthi Mariadass
DESCRIPTION:This paper reflects on an international collaborative project “Critical Sciencing Zone\,” along with works from the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2019)\, which responded to the flood and landslides in Karnataka and Kerala. The critical condition of the thin layer of the earth’s crust known scientifically as critical zone is of immense concern in this paper. \nI am tracing the inclination for vertical movements and aspirations to reach the sky\, that accelerate technology to the detriment of the Earth. Postmodern theories that specifically use elements from nature\, will be useful to frame radical shifts in perspective\, and hence re- think our relation to the earth. This paper will speculate through art works and fundamentally emphasize learning through cognitive\, experiential and affective processes in order to acknowledge and recognize Nature. In short\, my aim is to examine\, interrogate\, discover perspectives and manufacture other discourses. \n“The Earth\,” he said\, “has a skin\, and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called ‘Man’.”                                                                       \n                                                                                                                                                                        Friedrich Nietzsche\, Thus Spoke Zarathustra \nDr. Vasanthi Mariadass did her MA and Ph.D. in Film Studies and Critical Theory from Indiana University of Pennsylvania\, US. She is a faculty\, researcher\, and dean for New Humanities and Design at Srishti Manipal Institute for Art Design and Technology\, Bengaluru.   \nCurrently\, she has an Erasmus exchange program with Aegean University in Greece (2021-2026). She has collaborated on a research project for six years (2013 – 2019) with Freiburg University\, Offenburg University\, and IISC. She has jointly conceptualized the research project “Critical Zone: The Earth Below our Feet.” (Published in Designing Sustainability for All. Vol 3. Edited by Marcelo Ambrosio Carlo Vezzoli. Published by Edizioni\, POLI design. Milano Polytechnico\, Italy.) In addition\, the project output included online publications\, “Fragments.” Mbody e.V.-Kunstlerische Forschung in Medien\, Somatik\, Tanz und Philosophie\, Freiburg/Germany\, and “Rhizome” Online Publication in Metaspace\, 2018.  \nEarlier\, she has co-curated a retrospective and workshop on German Filmmaker Harun Farocki with Goethe Institute\, Bangalore\, and facilitated a film workshop with Farocki titled “Labour in One Shot.” Her research stay includes Humboldt University\, Berlin\, and Gothenburg University\, Sweden. She was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program\, New York.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/visual-arts-colloquium-critical-zone-the-earth-below-our-feet-vasanthi-mariadass/
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SUMMARY:Physics Department: Paper presentations for the subject breadth evaluation| Souradeep Sengupta
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk will review applications of machine learning to quantum many-body physics\, primarily centering around Carleo et al.\, Science 355\, 602–606 (2017)\, “Solving the quantum many-body problem with artificial neural networks”\, with additional references as and when required. I shall first briefly discuss the computational challenges of quantum many-body physics\, as well as 20th century techniques for dealing with the curse of dimensionality in these problems\, such as quantum Monte Carlo and tensor networks. I will spend a little time discussing how the scaling behaviour of entanglement entropy of the quantum system determines the efficiency and accuracy of the numerical approximation. Then I shall discuss what machine learning is\, and how it brings in a new paradigm for attacking this problem. I shall discuss ideas like reinforcement learning\, artificial neural networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines in a way accessible to people with a physics background\, as well as how neural networks help us deal with massive entanglement. I shall finally work through in detail the variational Neural Quantum State (NQS) framework Carleo and Troyer used for efficiently and accurately calculating the ground state and describing the unitary time evolution of two model quantum systems – the transverse field Ising model and the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model. 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/physics-department-paper-presentations-for-the-subject-breadth-evaluation-souradeep-sengupta/
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