Inaugural event and unveiling of bust of Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan by Mr N R Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys.
Krishnaswami Alladi: Alladi Ramakrishnan and the early years of Matscience

High Tea

T. Ramasami: Changing Indian Science landscape since Alladi's times

Lunch

M Vidyasagar: A Strategic Roadmap for India in Generative AI (Public & Private Sectors)

Mukund Thattai: Collisions between art and science

Tea

Preeti Aghalayam: Globalization of the IITs

Madhavan Mukund

Tea

Spenta Wadia: A Brief History of a Science Initiative in India: ICTS-TIFR

K VijayRaghavan: (on zoom)

Soumya Swaminathan: Climate change, public health and equity

Banquet dinner: some reminiscences

Tea

P R Vittal

R Jagannathan: L-Matrix Theory and Generalized Clifford Algebras

A P Balachandran: Confinement and Deconfinement in Gauge Theories : A Quantum Field Theory

Lunch Break

R Parthasarathy: Quantum Yang-Mills Theory

M V N Murthy: The nature of the Neutrino: Dirac or Majorana?

T R Govindarajan: Light as Dark!

Tea

Atish Dabholkar: Science in the Developing World: Two visions for the Future (on zoom)

Manu Mathur: Disorder operators in spin systems and lattice gauge theories

George Andrews: My Debts to Srinivasa Ramanujan and Alladi Ramakrishnan (on zoom)

Cultural program: V. Subashri (Carnatic vocal), M. Shrikanth (Violin), JP Surya Nambisan (Mridangam)

Ram Murty: Some Future Directions of Number Theory

Kumar Murty: Factorization and Ramanujan Tau Function

Tea

Jean-Marc Deshouillers: Number Theory and Probability

Michel Waldschmidt: Circulant determinants and Clifford algebras

Conference concludes