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Lectures
ORGANIZERS
CALIBRE, ICTS-TIFR
DATE & TIME
26 October 2026, 00:00 to 27 October 2026, 00:00
VENUE
Madhava Lecture Hall (ICTS-TIFR)

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The Centre for Artificial Learning and Intelligence for Basic Research and Education (CALIBRE)  is organising a two-day symposium bringing together researchers from academia and industry to foster interdisciplinary collaborations across biology, mathematics, physics, and computer science. The symposium will feature talks from postdoctoral fellows, faculty members, and industry experts working at the interface of artificial intelligence, computation, and the natural sciences.


The symposium will provide a platform to discuss recent advances, emerging opportunities, and challenges in applying AI/ML approaches to fundamental scientific problems. Through a diverse programme of talks and discussions, the event aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange, encourage new collaborations, and explore how AI can accelerate discovery across the physical, mathematical, and life sciences.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92539650068?pwd=CWIntuxWtGDdbCoymrvL6vEAS4YbjN.1

Meeting ID: 925 3965 0068

Passcode: 202626


Many Worlds Seminar

As part of the symposium, the Many Worlds Seminar will feature Dr. Sushrut Thorat, who will speak on “Neural Networks as Scientific Instruments.” The talk will explore how neural networks can be used as controllable experimental systems to investigate mechanistic questions about cognition and the brain. Through examples from visual learning and representational drift, the talk will illustrate how computational models can help turn qualitative ideas about biological processes into testable scientific predictions.


The goal is to have

  • Research talks by postdoctoral fellows, faculty members, and industry experts
  • Opportunities for collaboration across disciplines and between academia and industry
  • Future directions and Interdisciplinary perspectives on AI and Biology


The symposium will be of interest to postdoctoral fellows, faculty members, graduate students, researchers, and industry professionals interested in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their applications to fundamental scientific research.

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CALIBRE Symposium 2026
Monday, 26 October 2026
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:15 to 09:30 Rajesh Gopakumar (Centre-Director, ICTS-TIFR) Introduction
09:30 to 10:15 Rituparno Mandal (Raman Research Institute ) Learning in Soft Matter
10:15 to 11:00 Shrisruti Sriraman (NCBS-TIFR) Spatial transcriptomic study of invasion markers in oral squamous cell carcinoma
11:00 to 11:30 - Tea Break
11:30 to 12:15 Shaon Chakrabarti (NCBS-TIFR) (Disentangled) Representation Learning of the Mammalian Circadian Clock
12:15 to 13:00 Paras Chopra (Lossfunk, Bengaluru) How to Build a Theory of Consciousness
13:00 to 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 to 14:45 Osheen Sharma (NCBS-TIFR) From Cellular Phenotypes to Cell States: Understanding Drug Response Across Scales
14:45 to 15:30 Akshay S H (ICTS-TIFR) Explosive Synchronization in Networks of Type-I Neurons.
16:00 to 17:00 Sushrut Thorat (Lossfunk) Neural Networks as Scientific Instruments
19:00 to 20:30 - Dinner
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Time Speaker Title Resources
09:30 to 10:15 Upinder S. Bhalla (NCBS-TIFR) Data, data everywhere, but a bot can't use it to think.
10:15 to 11:00 Maanasa Natrajan (ICTS-TIFR) Learning Continuously and Discovering Structure in Brains and Machines
11:00 to 11:30 - Tea Break
11:30 to 12:15 Bruno Barton-Singer (NCBS-TIFR) Emergence in magnets, zebrafish and fruit flies
12:15 to 13:00 Shreyank Goel (ICTS-TIFR) Inertialess flow dynamics in microfluidics
13:00 to 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 to 14:45 S. Roshan Kumar (NCBS-TIFR) Learning to Learn: What the zebrafish larva can teach AI
14:45 to 15:30 Akshit Goyal (ICTS-TIFR) Predicting perturbation responses in high-dimensional non-equilibrium systems