UGC-NRCBS Madurai Kamaraj University Summer School on Bioacoustics

Madurai Kamaraj UniversityPalkalai Nagar, Madurai 625 021
UGC-NRCBS Summer School on Bioacoustics 14–26 March 2011

UGC-Networking Resource Centre in Biological Sciences School of Biological Sciences UGC-NRCBS, Madurai Kamaraj University invites applications from research scholars, post-docs,young faculty members and scientists of Indian universities/research institutions for the Summer School on ‘Bioacoustics’ to be held from 14 to 26 March 2011. The summer school will provide hands-on training on various methods of audio and video recording and analysis in bats and insects with reference to ecology and behaviour. Vocalizations by animals are used for species identification and phylogeny. The detailed instruction and application form can be downloaded from the UGCNRCBS.

Summer School on Functional Analysis (Mathematics) at IMSC, Chennai

What is this all about?
SUMMER SCHOOL ON FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AT IMSC, CHENNAI
There will be a three weeks workshop on ``Functional Analysis" from 27th June (Sunday) to July 16th (Saturday) at the basic level of the following topics:

1. Geometric aspect of Banach Space.
2. Spectral analysis of a self-adjoint operator,
3. Distribution Theory,
4. Harmonic Analysis,

SERC Summer School on Solid State and Materials Chemistry at IISc, Bangalore

What is this all about?
3rd SERC Summer School on Solid State and Materials Chemistry
17 June to 7 July 2010
Organized by Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit ,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Applications are invited from Ph.D. students, post-docs and young faculty in the general area of Solid
State and Materials Chemistry for participation in the above summer school. Please apply giving the
following details:
1. Name, Institutional address and e-mail
2. Current status in your Institute/Department/University
3. Name of the supervisor
4. Area of research
5. Brief write-up of your current research, list of publications (if any)

Students and post-docs are requested to arrange for a letter of recommendation from their research
supervisors. You may enclose all these information and send it by post, e-mail or fax.
The Convener, 3rd SERC Summer School on Solid State and Materials Chemistry
Address: Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Malleshwaram,
Bangalore 560 012 OR e-mail: serc_school_2010@sscu.iisc.ernet.in OR Fax: 080-2360 1310

Last date for application: 23 April 2010

Website Details: http://www.iisc.ernet.in/

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3rd IIA - PennState Astrostatistics School in Bangalore

What is this all about?
The 3rd IIA - PennState Astrostatistics School
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University (USA) are jointly organising an 8-day school in fundamental statistical inference as applicable to astrophysical problems for practising astrophysicists. This is the third school in the series.

Motivation
Given that empirical astrophysics is an observational science, the importance of rigorous application of statistical methods to astrophysical data analysis cannot be overstated. Moreover, empirical astrophysics research has seen a paradigm shift in recent years in that it routinely involves data mining of large multiwavelength data sets, requiring complex automated processes that must invoke a very diverse set of statistical techniques. Our Astrostatistics Schools are designed to meet this new challenge by providing a strong conceptual foundation in modern statistics as well as a repertoire of state-of-the-art statistical tools applicable to astrophysical problems.

Content
The school is designed for all levels of practising astrophysicists wishing to enhance their grasp of the application of statistics to their research. The content of the school will broadly follow the pattern of the previous schools (2007, 2008). In addition to lectures, there will be a heavy emphasis on hands-on tutorials using software tools implemented in the public-domain multi-platform R computing environment, which, besides being open-source, is the current standard in research-level statistical computation. There will be opportunities for participants to brainstorm with the faculty of the school on their research problems which involves the application of statisticial methods. There will be a session where papers from the astrophysics literature will be discussed.

Organisers
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics, located in Bangalore, is a premier institution devoted to research in astrophysics and other allied areas in physics. The Center for Astrostatistics, Pennsylvania State University (USA), is an interdisciplinary research centre at the interface of astrophysics and statistics, where researchers from both disciplines collaborate to share and develop methodologies in order to meet the modern challenges of empirical astrophysics.

Venue
The school will be held on the picturesque campus of the Vainu Bappu Observatory (VBO), a field station of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA). This campus is located near the village of Kavalur in the Javadi Hills in Tamil Nadu. The nearest train stations are Vaniambadi and Jolarpettai, from where road transport to the Observatory will be arranged by IIA. The Observatory campus is about a three-and-a-half hour drive from the IIA-Bangalore campus, from where also, road transport to VBO will be arranged by IIA.

Costs and Financial Support
Board, lodging and transport from Bangalore or the nearest train stations to the Observatory will be covered by the school for all the participants. Participants are required to find their own travel funds to travel to Bangalore or these train stations. However, some limited travel funds are available for deserving participants from institutions within India, especially from the university sector.

How to Apply
Participation in the school is open to practising astrophysicists at all levels. The number of participants will be limited to about 30. An application may be submitted on-line and this is the strongly preferred method. If there are difficulties with this, applications filled in the prescribed downloadable form (MS_Word/ OpenOffice/ Text/ pdf), may be submitted via email to astrostat@iiap.res.in . Particular attention must be paid to demonstrating the relevance of the school to the applicant's research. The deadline for receiving the completed application forms is the 25th March, 2010. In addition, applicants who are yet to obtain a Ph.D. degree should arrange to have two confidential recommendations from persons who can judge the applicant's academic abilities and the relevance of the school to the applicant's research. These recommendations, also on the prescribed recommendation form (MS_Word/ OpenOffice/ Text/ pdf), should be emailed separately by the recommenders to astrostat@iiap.res.in by the 25th March, 2010. Post-Ph.D. applicants need not arrange for recommendation letters but must attach their curriculum vitae and list of research publications to the completed application form. Those that participated in the first or second IIA-PennState Astrostatistics schools (2007 or 2008) are discouraged from applying for the 3rd school.

The Co-ordinators
The IIA-PennState Astrostatistics School
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Bangalore 560 034

Website Details: http://www.iiap.res.in/astrostat/

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Summer School on Predictability of Weather and Climate at CAOS, IISC Bangalore

Summer School on Predictability of Weather and Climate

Organised by Divecha Centre for Climate Change and Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Instructor V. Krishnamurthy
(Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Institute of Global Environment and Society, Calverton, MD        and
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences George Mason University, Fairfax, VA)

Venue Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, IISc, Bangalore

Duration Two weeks starting on 17 May 2010

Activity 15 hours of lectures each week and project work using observed and coupled model data

Course description: This course, designed for graduate students and post-docs, covers the fundamental
aspects of the predictability of weather and climate using simple nonlinear dynamical models, observations and large weather forecasting systems.

Applications
If you wish to participate, please send a CV along with your research interest to the address (postal or e-mail) below.Selected participants will be informed by early April 2010. Outstation participants will be paid II class/III AC train fare as per their eligibility and provided accommodation on twin sharing basis.

For correspondence, contact:
V. Venugopal, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012.
e-mail: venu@caos.iisc.ernet.in; Tel.: (080) 2293-3073;

Application Deadline: 25 MARCH 2010.

Website Details: http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/

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Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics at IUCAA | Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

What is this all about?
Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics  at IUCAA, Pune

Duration
The summer school for students will be held for five weeks during May-June of every even-numbered year. It is designed to introduce students to the exciting fields of astronomy and astrophysics (A+A). No previous knowledge of A+A is necessary, though familiarity with the basic principles of mathematics and physics is required.

We expect to have about 35 students in the programme. The school will consist of lectures covering the fundamentals of A+A as well as recent developments in the field. In addition, participants will take part in individual projects under suitable guidance. The lecturers for the school will be drawn from the leading A+A centres in India. There is a possibility for a few motivated students to spend an additional week at IUCAA after the school.

Who Can Apply?
Students completing their first year of MSc or third year of BTech may apply. Exceptionally bright and motivated students completing their BSc in physics may also apply.

Applications
To apply, write on plain paper your 1. name, 2. sex, 3, date of birth, 4. address for communication, 5. qualifications (standard X onwards) with institution/year/subjects/class/grade/percentage of marks, 6. short write-up giving motivation for applying, 7. previous summer schools attended (if any), 8. names and addresses of two referees (who should be teachers, project guides, etc.), and 9. signature with date.

The applicant should request the referees to send their confidential recommendations under separate envelopes. Applications and referee reports should reach
The Coordinator,
Core Programmes,
IUCAA,
Post Bag 4,
Pune 411 007
by the fourth week of January. Selected candidates will be informed by the third week of February.

They will be provided with travel, board and lodging for the duration of the school.

Important Note: The summer school is conducted only in even-numbered years.

For questions, send email to Dr V. Chellathurai at vch followed by @iucaa.ernet.in

Website Details: http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/

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courtesy: IUCAA