The plasma membrane of our cells form the first line of defence to external threats. Protein-membrane interactions dominate this landscape, playing an important role in our understanding of a myriad of bacterial and viral infections. Phenomena range from membrane-assisted protein aggregation, oligomerization and folding. Pore-forming toxins a subclass of proteins expressed by bacteria form their primary arsenal responsible for over 30 % of bacterial infections.
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Chemical reaction in convective diffusion flow fields is a common setting for problems in Chemical Engineering. The convective diffusion operator for non-uniform flow fields is generally non-self-adjoint. However, by a suitable choice of Hilbert Space and inner product, the governing operator can be shown to be self-adjoint whose spectral resolution can be used to construct solutions to many problems of engineering interest.
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Dr. Roland Goetz ( BASF - Germany) will present an overview of process development at BASF in the context of Crop Protection products using several case studies. He will highlight some strategies for safety and sustainability evaluations of chemical processes developed by his group over the years. The talk will also describe the role of the Mumbai-BASF facilities in process development and opportunities for students in process development careers.
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Deep learning has been a big buzzword in recent times. The space of deep learning has been witnessing significant transformations. At one point, deep networks were in prominence. Recently, deep operator networks are gaining much interest in the research community due to their generalization ability. In this context, the talk will mainly focus on two examples, (1) data-driven reinforcement learning using deep neural nets and (ii) process monitoring using deep operator networks.
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