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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The simplest living cells – bacteria – exhibit phenomena that are fascinating for physicists and mathematicians. In an environment that is rich in nutrients\, bacterial cells grow in size and divide into two daughter cells. Controlled experiments on single cells have tracked how the size of the cell and the abundances of chemicals inside it change with time as the cell grows and divides. Some unexpected patterns in the average behaviour of these variables as well as their fluctuations are seen. The talk will describe some of these phenomena and the puzzles they generate. The growing cell has thousands of internal chemicals reacting with each other as well as a net influx of matter from the environment. The observations seem to suggest an interesting mathematical structure for the underlying dynamical system describing the cell. \nAbout the Speaker: Sanjay Jain's current research interests are in the physics of life\, the origin of life problem\, and the causes of collapse in highly networked systems such as ecosystems and social systems. He did his B.Sc. Physics (Hons.) at St. Stephen’s College and M.Sc. at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics\, University of Delhi. He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics (1987) from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research\, Mumbai and did post-doctoral work at the physics departments of Brown and Harvard Universities (1987-92)\, working on string theory\, quantum gravity\, quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. He was Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at the Centre for Theoretical Studies\, Indian Institute of Science\, Bengaluru (1992-2004) where he started working on complex systems. In 2002 he joined the Department of Physics and Astrophysics\, University of Delhi as Professor\, where he later became Head of the Department and Senior Professor. He is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute\, a former Addie and Harold Broitman Member at the Simons Center for Systems Biology\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/physics-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Happening Today | Economics Department | Weekly Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Economics invites you to their weekly seminar on Wednesday\, February 12th\, 2025. \nTime: 1:40 PM to 2:50 PM \n Venue: AC04-301 \nSpeaker: Prof. Ritwik Banerjee \nTitle: " Interpreting  Intolerance" \nAbstract: Intolerance\, in its various forms\, undermines the fabric of a cohesive society by breeding division and animosity among individuals or groups based on differences in beliefs\, identities\, or ideologies. In this paper\, we study whether people are willing to pay to block the views of others that they do not concur with. We design an experiment where participants are exposed to a series of vignette-based decisions and reveal their personal and social appropriateness norms. The vignettes are randomly assigned; thus\, some participants are exposed to vignettes consistent with their views\, while others see vignettes inconsistent with their views. Subsequently\, the participants reveal their a) willingness to pay to prevent the spread of a view; b) willingness to split an amount with people with different personal norms. Our results show that people are willing to pay a positive amount to prevent the spread of views\, which increases if the views are inconsistent with their personal norms. Our construct of intolerance predicts a context-free measure of intolerance and an incentivized willingness to block consequential posters incongruous with one's political beliefs in the 2024 US election.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/happening-today-economics-department-weekly-seminars/
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SUMMARY:CS Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Algorithm design and analysis has been primarily guided by the measure of worst-case complexity for many reasons including robustness\, ease of composing them\, and also well-understood guarantees. On the other hand\, it has also been criticized for being narrow and single-track in its evaluation of efficiency of algorithms on a large class of inputs. Sometimes\, the worst-case scenarios are considered as exceptions in which case\, we may be missing out on the performance of more commonly occurring inputs. Average case analysis requires assumptions about the input distribution that are not known or measurable.\nWe consider a measure called universal complexity/optimality that can address this gap\, albeit\, more difficult to achieve\, and has been gaining some recognition. Further\, we will try to relate this to a class of algorithms known as oblivious algorithms that could be a useful paradigm for attaining universal optimality. We will illustrate this using some simple examples but far from any general theory. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: Professor Sandeep Sen is a senior Computer Scientist whose research interests lie in the areas of Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science. His focus areas include randomized algorithms\, dynamic graph algorithms\, geometric algorithms and approximation\, and memory hierarchy models where several of his algorithms are among the best known in the literature for the corresponding problems. Prior to joining Ashoka University\, he was a Professor of CSE in IIT Delhi where he held Chair positions and served in leadership roles like Head of the Department and Dean of Faculty. He had also been Dean\, the School of Engineering in SNIOE. Professor Sen had several stints in Industry research laboratories like Bell Laboratories\, IBM Research and MSR. He holds a Ph.D. from Duke University\, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and a B.Tech. in CSE from IIT Kharagpur. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/cs-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: \"Global Philosophy and the Trouble with Positionality\"
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to a colloquium talk by Ralph Weber on Wednesday 12 February at 13:30 in AC02 LR208. \nTitle: “Global Philosophy and the Trouble with Positionality” \nAbstract: Comparative philosophy is often presented today as “global\,” “cosmopolitan\,” “fusion\,” or “post-comparative.” The intention is to have a more global scope in what counts as philosophy and\, at the same time\, to be more inclusive of standpoints. A key term is “positionality.” In this talk\, I address a tension between globality and positionality and explore to what extent positionality can be translated philosophically into a sort of perspectivism\, with the solution to the tension then coming to rely on the very possibility of a non-relativist perspectivism. Drawing on two stories\, Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes el memorioso and The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant (including its Jain version exemplifying the doctrine of anekāntavāda)\, I distinguish hard-to-reconcile variants of perspectivism. In this way\, I intend to shed light on what exactly the epistemic value of positionality is for attempts to practice global philosophy and how to deal with positionality as an enabling and constraining condition. \nBio: Ralph Weber was born in 1974 in Johannesburg\, South Africa. He studied Political Science (politics\, economics and law) at the University of St. Gallen and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Further\, he studied at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa and the University of Peking\, after which he worked as teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Political Science (Prof. Roland Kley) at the University of St. Gallen\, where in 2007 he obtained his doctorate and was teaching the history of political ideas and political theory until 2018. Between 2008 and 2014\, Weber has been employed as post-doctoral researcher and senior researcher and lecturer (Oberassistent) at the University Research Priority Program “Asia and Europe” at the University of Zurich. In December 2014\, Weber began his work as an Assistant Professor of European Global Studies at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel. In 2016\, he successfully completed his habilitation in Philosophy (venia legendi: comparative philosophy) at the University of Zurich. At the University of Basel\, he holds full examination and promotion rights in Political Science\, Philosophy\, and European Global Studies. In February 2020\, he was appointed Associate Professor. From 2017 to 2021\, Ralph Weber was president of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/philosophy-colloquium-global-philosophy-and-the-trouble-with-positionality/
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SUMMARY:Get an Edge: Building Stronger Profiles with PIPPAMS & Ashoka University
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/get-an-edge-building-stronger-profiles-with-pippams-ashoka-university/
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