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SUMMARY:CWC Winter School 2026
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 edition of the Centre for Writing and Communication Winter School offers a diverse range of workshops and sessions on research writing and communication within the liberal arts academy.  \n1. The Winter School on Research Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences which will be held on campus\, and is open to research students at Ashoka University (UG Fourth year\, Masters and PhD). Link to the application form: https://forms.gle/nQz4UFD1YsdsdPfq6 \n2. Online introductory workshops on niche areas of research writing (The Diary in Research: Stylistic Notes on Academic Writing\, Feminist Research: Meaning-making in Personal Interviews\, and Living Voices and Silent Files: Ethnography and the Archives). Open to all.  \n3. “Translation in the Classroom” offered in collaboration with Ashoka Centre for Translation is open to Ashoka University Faculty\, Staff and Students. Link to the application form: https://forms.gle/j1UJ5sQw8vPukGmf9 \nThe full catalogue of workshops can be viewed here. Please write to cwc@ashoka.edu.in incase of any queries. 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/cwc-winter-school-2026/
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SUMMARY:CS Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92919045446?pwd=BiTw5OrkcWt5MYCZdmTbYSJIyeX8Xy.1 \nAbstract: Respiration rate – the number of breaths per minute\, is a key physiological signal that reflects a person’s health and wellbeing. Yet\, unlike heart rate or blood pressure\, it remains one of the least monitored vital signs in both clinical and everyday settings. In this talk\, I will present a series of systems that leverage affordable sensing technologies to capture and interpret respiratory activity across different contexts. JoulesEye employs thermal imaging to monitor breathing during physical activities such as running and cycling\, enabling accurate estimation of energy expenditure comparable to gold-standard indirect calorimetry and surpassing popular smartwatches. ApneaEye extends this idea to sleep monitoring\, using thermal imaging to non-invasively detect breathing disruptions indicative of sleep apnea\, a condition affecting over a billion people worldwide. Finally\, SpiroMask explores the potential of everyday face masks as respiratory health wearables by embedding miniature audio sensors to measure breathing patterns. Validated against a clinical spirometer under American Thoracic Society standards\, it demonstrates strong agreement and scalability for community-level lung health screening. \nI will conclude with a discussion of my future research direction\, using commodity devices not only for health sensing but also for personalized intervention and feedback to promote long-term wellbeing. \nAbout the Speaker: Rishiraj Adhikary completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar\, where he specialized in Ubiquitous Computing and Health Sensing. His research focuses on developing sensing systems that leverage everyday devices to monitor and improve human health and wellbeing. His work has appeared in leading venues such as ACM IMWUT\, ACM CSCW\, ACM HEALTH\, and UbiComp/ISWC. He received the Medal for Commendation for Outstanding Research from IIT Gandhinagar during its 14th Convocation\, was a finalist for the UbiComp Gaetano Borriello Student Award (2023)\, and is a recipient of both the Fulbright Fellowship (2022) and the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF). He is currently working as a Research Data Scientist at Enercent Technologies\, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. \nWe look forward to your active participation. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/cs-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Mathematics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Mathematics is inviting you to attend a talk on November 25\, 2025. \nTitle: Convergence to the Brownian net under non-binary branching  \nAbstract: The Brownian web is a collection of one-dimensional coalescing Brownian motions starting from every point in space and time\, while the Brownian net is an extension that also allows branching. The Brownian net is proved to be the universal scaling limit of one-dimensional branching-coalescing random walks with weak binary branching and arbitrary increment distributions that have sufficient moments and it is conjectured to be the limit in case of more general (non-binary) weak branching. In this work we prove this conjecture. This work also provides a robust framework applicable for studying convergence problems to the Borwnian net under more general set up. \nThis is a joint work with Partha Sarathi Ghosh.  \nI will try to present it as a metric space problem and the main idea should be accessible to undergraduate students with a course on metric and topological spaces.   \nWe look forward to having you with us.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/mathematics-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:The Women\'s Movement in China: A Brief Overview
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines how the meaning of women’s liberation has evolved from the birth of the Women’s Liberation Movement in China to the present\, drawing evidence from changes in women’s work vis-à-vis their family and social roles. Though the birth of feminism in China coincided with the influx of western ideas of ‘women’s rights’ around the late 19th and early 20th century\, during the May Fourth Movement it melded with the movement to end the Confucian feudal order. With the establishment of the Communist Party of China\, the women’s movement intermingled with the liberation movement and ultimately came to emphasize the Marxist idea of attaining liberation through women’s economic liberation. However\, with Reform and Opening up\, women were retrenched in large numbers\, which made them rethink and question the Marxist idea of liberation; as a result\, the women’s liberation movement has come full circle\, once again resisting strong currents seeking to revive a Confucian social order.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/the-womens-movement-in-china-a-brief-overview/
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SUMMARY:The Women’s Movement in China: A Brief Overview
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/the-womens-movement-in-china-a-brief-overview/
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SUMMARY:Horror Cinema as Social Commentary
DESCRIPTION:In horror\, what we fear\, flinch at\, or are repulsed by can reveal more about the ethos we occupy than the ghastly images themselves. The session explores the social and political significance of the horror genre through films and shows within and beyond the Indian landscape. It equips participants with a vocabulary to talk about films and helps them analyze the formal techniques used in horror cinema\, promoting critical thinking and academic approaches to a mainstream subject. \nWe will engage with themes ranging from sophisticated atmospheric thrillers to so-called “low-brow” pulpy entertainment\, demonstrating how to trace patterns in horror films and situate them within a sociopolitical context. Together\, we will examine some legendary scares and probe how fear is socially constructed through a filmic language that feeds on contemporary anxieties. \nRegister here.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/horror-cinema-as-social-commentary/
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SUMMARY:Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I will review aspects of the exact $\\Lambda$CDM-like cosmological solution\, which is specified by the cosmographic solution $j(z)=1$ ($j$=cosmographic jerk parameter)\, within the framework of modified gravity theories. Although the CDM model is at a supposed disadvantage in comparis.on with a dynamical dark energy scenario when constrained through a -parametrization\, model-independent approaches\, at least up until now\, indicate a far lighter tension. In that regard\, the question of whether a cosmic evolution exactly similar to a $\\Lambda$CDM model can be achieved within the framework of a modified gravity theory is still pertinent. The existence of such solutions within a particular class of modified gravity theories is typically explored through the reconstruction method\, of which I will present some examples from the literature. However\, I will delve into deeper questions like the stability of such solutions within a modified gravity framework\, GR being a cosmological past or future attractor\, and the possibility of distinctive signatures at the perturbation level. The methodology developed to answer these questions can later on be useful to investigate the same aspects of not an exact $\\Lambda$CDM-like\, but an almost $\\Lambda$CDM-like cosmic evolution within the modified gravity framework\, which is a more realistic situation. \nAbout the Speaker: Saikat Chakraborty has obtained his MSc and PhD in Physics\, both from IIT Kanpur in 2014 and 2019 respectively. Then he served for 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher at Yangzhou University in China\, 3 months as a visiting researcher in BITS-Pilani\, 6 months as a postdoctoral researcher at North-West University in South Africa and a little more than 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Fundamental Study in Thailand. Currently\, he ia a postdoctoral researcher at the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Saikat's broad area of research is gravitation and cosmology\, with specialization\, as of now\, being mainly cosmological aspects of modified gravity theories. \nWe look forward to your active participation. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/physics-seminar/
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