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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:Psychology Online Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Human beings display a huge gamut of flexible behaviors across lifespan that defines healthy well-being. Whether it is keeping your sanity when a car appears in front of you from the wrong side of traffic or how certain behaviors such as language comprehension and fluid intelligence remain conserved across lifespan\, flexibility to adapt to situation is the hallmark of positive mental health and well-being. Often\, a disruption in flexibility can subserve as a biomarker to neurological and mental disorders. In this talk I will apply David Marr’s tripartite principle to understand information processing to account for flexible behaviors into computational\, representational and implementational levels of analysis. Accordingly\, I present how emotion regulation/ flexibility unfold in space and time while listening to naturalistic auditory stimuli such as music and how understanding the dynamics of this computation can offer avenues to understand mental well-being. Taking the help of lifespan time scale of healthy ageing\, I will demonstrate how neurocompensatory mechanisms guiding flexible behavior can be represented in  structural and functional brain network complexity. Subsequently\, using the approach of whole-brain connectome modelling which our research group has pioneered for different use cases\, I will demonstrate how the multi-scale interactions implemented in the neural system such as neurotransmitter kinetics affecting local cortical excitability can drive the neurocompensatory changes that are captured at the representational level. Finally\, I will end the talk by discussing how understanding flexible behaviors can be a key to guide future studies of societal impact such as dementia affecting Indian populations and metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr Arpan Banerjee completed his Bachelors in Science with Honours in Physics from Presidency College\, Calcutta and Masters in Science Physics from University of Pune (specialization Non Linear Dynamics\, Dissertion – General Relativity). Following his PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences\, Florida Atlantic University and post-doctoral work at NYU and NIH\, USA he joined National Brain Research Centre\, India. For just over a decade in NBRC\, his lab has contributed to diverse areas of systems and cognitive neuroscience from sensory processing\, attention\, emotion\, cognitive development across ageing trajectories and disorders of mental health. He has developed network neuroscience tools to analyze brain imaging and neurophysiology data fMRI/EEG/MEG\, set up and ran several behavioral and brain imaging studies involving EEG and fMRI. Dr Banerjee’s lab is one of the pioneers of applying a digital twin approach – whole-brain connectome models onto several task and resting brain dynamics data to gain systems-level insights to diseases and healthy brain functioning. Dr Banerjee has mentored several PhD students\, post-doctoral fellows and research assistants who have went on to take research careers in academia and industry. Currently\, Dr Banerjee is the Convenor of Working Group on Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) constituted by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)/ International Standards Organization (ISO) to develop International Standards for BCI and serving his second/ final term (2025-2028)\, an elected position among P-15 countries. Dr Banerjee has served the editorial boards of premier journals in the field\, viz.\, NeuroImage\, Imaging Neuroscience\, BMC Neuroscience and Discover Neuroscience (formerly Neural Development). He is an Associate Editor at Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Dr Banerjee has received many prestigious fellowships throughout his career e.g.\, Swartz Foundation post-doctoral fellowship (2007-2009) and Ramlingaswami fellowship (2012). He has been the recipient of funding from Department of Biotechnology and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports\, Govt of India (2024-2027); Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2023-2025) and awarded the Innovative Biotechnologist Research Award (2013). He was elected Fellow (Medical Sciences 2024) in the National Academy of Sciences in India (NASI) and Associate Fellow (Health Sciences 2025) in the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). \nWe look forward to your active participation.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/psychology-online-seminar/
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