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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · 18d

For more on the book see Sumana Ramanan's webpage sumanaramanan.in

Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · 18d

Delhi launch of Sumana Ramanan's "The Secret Master", a musical detective story which explores the secret of the life, art and milieu of the singer, Arun Kashalkar. The book is also an excavation of Khayal's history and a meditation on its aesthetics and contemporary practice.

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · 18d

Interested in joining the Computer Science PhD program at TIFR? See below for details.

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research @tifr.res.in · 29d

Apply to TIFR’s Graduate School 2026 for our MSc, PhD, and Integrated MSc–PhD programs.

We invite eligible candidates to join our vibrant academic community & contribute to cutting-edge fundamental science research across disciplines.

Know more: www.tifr.res.in/academics/gs...

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · May 8

Congratulations, Neha!

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research @tifr.res.in · May 8

Dr. Neha Sangwan has been awarded the 2025 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award by the IEEE Information Theory Society (@ieee_itsoc) for her work on secure communication in adversarial networks.

Official @IEEEAwards citation here: www.itsoc.org/news/2025-th...

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · May 8

“Combinatorics, complexity and information: It is entropy that counts", a workshop celebrating Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and his contributions.

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research @tifr.res.in · Apr 17

Big news in physics! The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to over 13,500 scientists across ATLAS, CMS, ALICE & LHCb at CERN's LHC — including TIFR's Department of High Energy Physics.

@cmsexperiment.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social

#BreakthroughPrize #TIFR

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Mar 13

Interested in joining the PhD program in Learning, Information and Data Sciences at TIFR, Mumbai? GATE-based applications are open now. Last date: 31 March 2025.

See STCS admissions page for more details:
tcs.tifr.res.in/web/admissions

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Feb 1

Announcing the STCS Vigyan Vidushi 2025: A 2-week summer school for women students with a background in CS, EE and related areas. The programme aims to promote research in computer science as a career option among women students. For more details, see www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~stcs-vv-25/

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Jan 14

ICTS programs are typically recorded and posted on its YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@ICTStalks

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research was founded in 2007. Its aim is to foster excellence in the basic sciences through its programs, ...

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Jan 13

The program includes a 2-day event on “Combinatorics, complexity and information: It is entropy that counts", a workshop celebrating Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and his contributions.

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Jan 13

Irit Dinur, Venkat Guruswami and I are organizing a 2-week program on HDX and Codes at ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, India. See attached poster for more details and how to apply for the program.

www.icts.res.in/program/HDXa...

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Jan 2

Congratulations, Sreejata!

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research @tifr.res.in · Jan 2

We are thrilled to announce that the work of Sreejata Bhattacharya, a graduate student in the School of Technology & Computer Science at #TIFR-Mumbai, is one of the joint winners of the Best Student Paper Award in the upcoming Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2025) conference.

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Jan 1

Congratulations Sreejata !

Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Dec 27

Dr. Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of modern India passes away. India owes him a lot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmoha...

Manmohan Singh - Wikipedia

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Prahladh Harsha @prahladh.bsky.social · Nov 20

The third election of the year I have been following closely and the second I voted in: the 2024 Maharastra Legislative Assembly Elections.

My left index finger marked by the purple-black indelible ink, manufactured by Mysore Paints & Varnish Ltd., as proof that I voted today (20 Nov 2024).

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