The aim of this programme is to bring together mathematicians and logicians working on/interested in various topics in the border of model theory, topology and set theory. The leading themes are topological dynamics and descriptive set theoretic methods in model theory. Apart from state of art lectures by leading experts, three tutorials, each consisting of 3 one-hour talks are being planned. The meeting will give opportunity for discussion and collaboration between experts from different but related parts of logic. This may result in the future in discovering new interactions between model theory, topology and set theory.

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Speakers

• Professor Probal Chaudhuri, Kolkata, India

  Comparing Populations: $D^2$ and Beyond

• Professor Saitou Naruya, Mishima, Japan

  Distance Matrix Methods for Reconstruction of Population History

• Sir Walter F. Bodmer, Oxford, U.K.

  Population Structure and the Characterisation of Human Populations

• Dr. Analabha Basu, Kalyani, India

  Understanding Population Structure in a Country with Widespread Admixture-Endogamy Duality

The Session will begin with remarks by Professor Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Director, ISI, and Professor Pabitra Banik, Professor-in-Charge, Biological Sciences Division, ISI. Professor Partha Majumder will introduce the theme of the Symposium.

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PReMI: Aims and Achievements

The primary goal of the conference is to present state-of-the-art scientific results, encourage academic and industrial interaction, and promote collaborative research and developmental activities in Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and related fields, involving scientists, engineers, professionals, researchers and students from India and abroad. The conference is held every two years making it an ideal platform for researchers to share their views and experiences in the said areas. PReMI'05 was the first in this series that was held in Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata with participants from Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, China, Germany, Poland, Italy, Israel and Turkey. The successive editions were held in ISI, Kolkata, India (2007); IIT, Delhi, India (2009); Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia (2011); ISI, Kolkata, India (2013); and Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (2015).

This time PReMI is back to Kolkata. Particular emphasis of PReMI'17 is placed on data mining, soft computing, bioinformatics, biometrics, video and image analysis, big data analytics, as well as various upcoming pattern recognition/image processing problems. There is a pre-conference tutorial, keynote talks and invited talks, delivered by speakers of international repute from both academia and industry.

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Abstract

Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) are well-established tools for probabilistic exploration of dependence structures using precision (inverse covariance) matrices. We present a Bayesian method for estimating the precision matrix in GGMs. The method leads to a sparse and adaptively shrunk estimator of the precision matrix, and thus conduct model selection and estimation simultaneously. We extend this method in a regression setup with the presence of covariates. We consider both the linear as well as the nonlinear regressions in this GGM framework. We discuss a few applications of the proposed models.

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A mini Symposium on big data and large scale computing will be organized on December 27, 2017 at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre as a part of 125th Birth Anniversary of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis celebration. In todays world, ability to store, manage, and analyze large-scale data generated by humans and machines has a critical impact on decision making in every business, scientific discovery, social and environmental challenges. This mini symposium deals with different aspects of data science, efficient data processing, large scale computing (distributed and parallel computing).

The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for new developments and applications in the area of big data and large scale computing. Leading scientists, experienced researchers and practitioners, as well as younger researchers will come together to exchange knowledge in this area and to explore new directions in large scale computing.

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An international conference in Statistics and Probability will be held at the Kolkata campus of the institute from January 2—4, 2018. There will be a number of invited and contributed talks on different topics of Statistics and Probability. Please join us by participating in this conference.

For contributed talks we encourage abstract submissions through our website. For further details please contact us at the following email address: pcm125.conf@gmail.com.

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A three days International Symposium on Operations Research and Game Theory: Modeling and Computation will be organized during January 9-11, 2018 at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre to celebrate the 125th Birth Anniversary of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis. The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for new developments and applications of Operations Research and game theory. Leading scientists, experienced researchers and practitioners, as well as younger researchers will come together to exchange knowledge and to build scientific contacts. This symposium will provide an excellent opportunity to disseminate the latest major achievements and to explore new directions and perspectives, and is expected to have a broad international appeal, dealing with topics of fundamental importance in Operations Research and other related sciences (Economics, Physics, Management Science and Engineering).

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As part of celebration of the 125 th birth year of the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute, Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the North-East Centre of the Institute, Tezpur, Assam, is organizing a Winter School on Mathematics for College Students for final year students with major/ honours in Mathematics, of the North-Eastern states during 16-20 January 2018. This workshop would be held at the North-East Centre of the Institute which is located within the premises of Tezpur University.

The aim of this School is to nurture the students of Mathematics by giving them extensive training in Mathematics at undergraduate level by eminent professors of the Indian Statistical Institute. Such a training by well-known teachers and researchers would give them an exposure to the rigour yet beauty of Mathematics as a subject and motivate them to pursue higher studies in this subject.

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Abstract

This lecture will provide an overview of ongoing research on the role of communities and networks in economic development of India and China. By overcoming both market and state failures, they represent important independent drivers of the development process. The first half of the lecture will focus on the role of communities defined by social or geographic proximity in explaining variations in the pace and direction of industrial entrepreneurship in mid-19th century India and contemporary China. The second half will examine the role of economic and political networks in agricultural development and rural inequality in West Bengal villages, and the scope for harnessing local networks to improve targeting of rural development programs.

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Distinguished Speakers

• Professor Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
  Director, Indian Statistical Institute

• Dr. R.B. Barman
  Chairman, National Statistical Commission

• Professor Partha Pratim Majumder
  Distinguished Professor, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics

• Professor Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni
  Distinguished Professor, Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana

• Professor Arunava Sen
  Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre

• Professor Probal Chaudhuri
  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

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