Fifth Indo-American Symposium
Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
April 7-10, 2013
Agra, India
Sessions:
- Battle of the Sexes
- Dark Matter / Dark Energy
- Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
- Graphs, Randomness and Computation
- Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
- Planet / Star Formation
- Quasiparticles and Semiconducting Devices
- Systems Biology and Medicine
Video Available
Battle of the Sexes
Organizers: Sutirth Dey and Todd Oakley
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Sexual Conflict
Alison Pischedda, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
SPEAKERS:Battle of the Sexes: The Resolution of Sexual Conflict
Ryan Calsbeek, Dartmouth University, USA
Interlocus Sexual Conflict and the evolution of Life-histories
NG Prasad, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India
Dark Matter / Dark Energy
Organizers: Kedar Damle and Jennifer Raaf
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:Dark Matter / Dark Energy
Subha Majumdar, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
SPEAKERS:Dark Particles of the Universe
Sudhir Vempati, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Shedding Light on Dark Energy
Marcelle Soares-Santos, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Organizers: Patrick Gonzalez and Sachchidanand Tripathi
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Mahesh Sankaran, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
SPEAKERS:High Resolution Regional Climate Downscaling
Sabin Thazhe Purayil, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
Will Animals be Able to Track Projected Changes in Climate?
Joshua J. Lawler, University of Washington, USA
Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Discovery through Experimental and Computational Approaches
Organizers: Charusita Chakravarty and Abhijit Shevade
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
Don Siegel, University of Michigan, USA
SPEAKERS:Keeping Up With the Increasing Demands For Electrical Energy Storage and Conversion: Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Materials For Energy
Jeff Sakamoto, Michigan State University, USA
Materials for Modern Rechargeable Batteries: Lithium-Based Battery as a Case Study
Aninda Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Science, India
Planet / Star Formation
Organizers: Kevin Hand and Annapurni Subramaniam
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
More Than 800 Planets: An Introduction to These Wonderful Customers for Astronomers
Sujan Kumar Sengupta, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
SPEAKERS:Low Mass Star Formation in The Solar Neighborhood
Maheswar Gopinathan, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, India
The Birth of Planets in the Solar System and Beyond
Andrew N. Youdin, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder
Graphs, Randomness and Computation
Organizers: Siddhartha Gadgil and Chad Topaz
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:Graphs, Randomness and Computation
Prahladh Harsha, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
SPEAKERS:Every Graph has a Sparse Approximation
Nikhil Srivastava, Microsoft Research, India
Tracing Information Flow Online
David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College
Quasiparticles and Semiconducting Devices
Organizers: Farinaz Koushanfar and Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Massless Electrons and Fractionally Charged Particles in Graphene
Andrea Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS:Semiconducting Nanowire Field Effect Transistor for Nanoelectronics and Nanomechanics
Mandar M. Deshmukh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Topological Quantum Computation and the Search for Non-Abelian Majorana Modes in Solid State Systems
Jay Sau, Harvard University
Systems Biology and Medicine
Organizers: Matthew Evans and Mitali Mukerji
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:Systems Biology – Linking Genotype to Phenotype
K.V. Venkatesh, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
SPEAKERS:Thinking About Fast Evolutionary Processes by Genome Analysis of Tumors and RNA Viruses
Raul Rabadan, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
From Systems Biology to the Clinics
Anurag Agrawal, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
The Indo-American Frontiers of Science symposia are sponsored by the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) in partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation to the National Academy of Sciences in organizing the Frontiers of Science symposia series.
