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SUMMARY:Planar random growth: models\, results and conjectures - Riddhipratim Basu\, ICTS-TIFR
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium announcement\nPlanar random growth: models\, results and conjectures\nby Riddhipratim Basu \n \nFaculty\, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences\, TIFR \n\nRiddhipratim Basu got his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indian Statistical Institute\, Kolkata and his Ph.D. from the Statistics department of University of California\, Berkeley. After a postdoctoral stint at Stanford he joined the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where he is currently a faculty. He is interested in various aspects of probability theory and its applications including models of random growth\, random matrices and interacting particle systems. \nAbstract: Instances of stochastic growth is ubiquitous in nature\, examples include spreading of rumour\, infection or forest fires among many others. Various mathematical models have been designed to explain large scale behaviour of such systems and have been extensively studied both in statistical physics and in probability theory over the last few decades. I shall describe some of these models\, focussing primarily in the planar case\, which are conjectured to exhibit universal features of the so called Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. I shall describe some of the major conjectures in the area and discuss a bit of what is known rigorously. \n\nDate: Wednesday\, Oct 29\, 2025\nTime: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM\nVenue: AC-02-LR-208-209\, Ashoka University CampusZoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95108410803?pwd=XOp4vvoL9JoEbMfLVbmPADvSyKFH7d.1\nWebsite: https://cdlds.ashoka.edu.in/
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/scdlds-coll08/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Seminar Series: Critical and Sociocultural Perspectives in Psychology
DESCRIPTION:Title: From Pathologization to Assimilation – Reflecting on Psy Disciplinary Responses to Queer-trans Visibility in India \nAbstract: The talk will focus on shifts within the psy disciplines in India over the last five decades since homosexuality was first depathologised within the International Diagnostic and Classification Systems and a few decades since ‘transgenderism’ first entered these systems. In tracing this history\, I will parallelly draw upon work of Indian queer-trans activists from within and outside the psy systems\, both as critical knowledge producers and practitioners as also survivors-users-consumers of psy-expert services. Finally\, the ways in which queer-trans subjects are represented in psy texts or treated in the clinic is deeply embedded within state-institutional discourses of gender-sexuality; which will form the backdrop of this talk. \nAbout the Speaker: KP/ Ketki Ranade (pronouns: they/ them) is faculty at the Center for Health and Mental Health\, School of Social Work\, TISS\, Mumbai. KP has completed their graduation in psychology from Mumbai University and later studied at TISS and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS)\, Bangalore. Before joining the School of Social Work at TISS in 2010\, KP has worked for almost a decade as a mental health service provider\, researcher and activist and has developed mental health service programs in low income urban settlements and institutions such as the Beggar's Home and Family Court in Pune and Bombay. KP's research\, writing and teaching is in the areas of mental health law\, policy\, programmes and advocacy\, LGBTQ mental health\, clinical social work and research methodology. KP is the author of 'Growing Up Gay – A critical psychosocial perspective'\, Springer (2018) and lead author of 'Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice – A Resource Book for Mental Health Practitioners in India'\, MHI (2022) as well as Trans Affirmative Mental Health Care Guidelines: results of a mixed-method inquiry in three cities of India (2023). They have edited a Special Issue of the Indian Journal of Social Work titled\, Coming Out Of The Dark: Emerging Discourse On Queer Affirmative Mental Health Practice In India in 2022. KP has served on committees of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment\, Government of India\, to develop status and planning documents for trans inclusion. They continue to advocate for queer and trans inclusion in institutions of higher education and mental health service spaces and curriculum. They have been a visiting faculty at University of Gothenburg\, Sweden (2015). \nKP's legal name is Ketki Ranade although they prefer to be addressed as KP.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/psychology-seminar-series-critical-and-sociocultural-perspectives-in-psychology/
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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The atomic hydrogen HI content of galaxies is intimately related to star formation and galaxy evolution through the baryon cycle\, which involves processes such as accretion\, feedback\, outflows\, and gas recycling. While probing the HI gas over cosmic time has improved our understanding\, direct HI detection is essentially limited to z < 0.4.  Detections beyond this redshift have made use of the stacking technique to obtain average quantities of galaxy populations. Gravitational lensing enhances the HI signal and can extend the redshift limit further. I will discuss basics of gravitational lensing and I will also describe prospects of HI lensing by cluster lenses.  \nAbout the Speaker: Jasjeet Singh Bagla is a physicist whose research interests are in the area of astronomy and cosmology.  His higher education is from Delhi University and he did his PhD at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune.  After post-doctoral stints at the University of Cambridge\, UK and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics\, he joined the Harish-Chandra Research Institute\, Allahabad as a faculty member.  His love for teaching and mentoring young students brought him to IISER Mohali in 2010 and he has been working here since then.  \nWe look forward to your active participation.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/physics-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:29 Oct (Wed) 1:40 PM: Fourth Lecture in Ashoka History Monsoon Seminar Series 2025
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The making of a “good and moral” child in colonial Kerala was a deeply contested process shaped by caste hierarchies\, missionary pedagogy\, and colonial governance. Protestant missionary societies such as the London Missionary Society\, the Church Missionary Society\, and the Basel Mission sought to transform lower-caste and impoverished children into disciplined Christian subjects through schooling\, orphanages\, and industrial training. Education was framed not merely as literacy but as a project of moral regulation and religious conversion\, instilling obedience\, cleanliness\, industriousness\, and piety. Missionaries depicted low-caste children as degraded and in need of civilizational uplift\, constructing ideals of childhood that aligned with European evangelical morality while erasing local cultural practices. Schools and textbooks cultivated virtues of self-help\, honesty\, and diligence\, drawing upon global Protestant ideals of respectability and gendered domesticity. For girls\, “moral” childhood was tied to chastity\, sewing\, and domestic labour\, whereas boys were prepared for artisanal or evangelical service. Yet\, the missionary project was neither uncontested nor unidirectional. Children and their families exercised forms of “fleeting agency”—resisting discipline\, running away from boarding schools\, or demanding literacy over menial labour—thereby shaping the limits of missionary authority. The moral child was thus produced at the intersection of coercion\, charity\, and aspiration\, as colonial regimes and indigenous communities debated the value of compulsory education and respectability. This history underscores how colonial childhood in Kerala became a terrain where morality\, caste\, and education were mutually constituted\, producing both new possibilities of dignity and enduring exclusions. \n  \nBio: Divya Kannan is Assistant Professor\, Department of History and Archaeology\, Shiv Nadar University\, Delhi-NCR. She is also the co-founder and co-convenor of the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC) and the author of Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, for which she recently won the Grace Abbott Best Book in English award from the Society for the History of Children and Youth ( SHCY).  \nLooking forward to having you with us.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/29-oct-wed-140-pm-fourth-lecture-in-ashoka-history-monsoon-seminar-series-2025/
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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\, October 29\, 2025. \nTime: 1:40 PM to 2:50 PM \nVenue: AC-04-301 \nSpeaker: Kriti Khanna  \nTitle: Credit Enforcement\, Misallocation\, and Income Disparities across Indian States \nAbstract: This paper evaluates the role of enforcement of credit contracts in explaining the income per capita disparities across Indian states.  \nFirstly\, I develop and calibrate a dynamic heterogeneous-agents general equilibrium model\, featuring voluntary and involuntary entrepreneurs\, to capture how variation in credit contract enforcement shapes financial access\, occupational choices\, and the allocation of factors of production. In the model\, state-specific enforcement capacity generates endogenous borrowing constraints that affect individuals' access to credit\, the potential scale of firms they can operate\, and the profits they can earn. Combined with labor market frictions and general equilibrium effects on wages and interest rates\, these borrowing constraints jointly determine the distribution of talent\, capital\, and labor across production units. Improved enforcement reduces misallocation and raises aggregate productivity and output per capita. Calibrating the model for Indian states\, I find that differences in credit contract enforcement explain about 6.46 percent of cross-state income disparities in 2017–18. \nSecondly\, I verify the model's predictions on occupational choices using microdata from the National Sample Surveys of Employment and Unemployment. I exploit cross-state variation in the effective impact of a major judicial reform aimed at expediting the resolution of civil suit cases —to estimate the causal effect of improved credit contract enforcement on individuals occupational outcomes.  Consistent with the model's general equilibrium mechanisms\, I find that greater judicial efficiency is associated with a lower likelihood of voluntary entrepreneurship and a tendency toward higher shares of involuntary self-employment and wage work.  \n  \nThanks & Regards\, \nManish
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/happening-today-economics-department-weekly-seminars/
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