Navigating rugged landscapes:
Machine learning approach to dynamics and enhanced sampling in disorder systems, and statistical physics approaches to machine learning
November 25-28, 2025
Nevill Mott Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Jakkur, Bengaluru 560064 (Bangalore), India
About
The workshop aims to bring together experts working in seemingly different domains of glassy dynamics, biophysics, and machine learning to address the common underlying threads; investigating the rugged landscape to learn the behavior of dynamical systems. This will lead to the exchange ideas across domains initiating discussions on disruptive ideas, for instance, (i) similarities between the loss landscapes of machine learning and glassy landscapes, (ii) relationships between the stability of neural networks to adversarial attacks and the perturbation in glassy landscapes, (iii) can generative models for out-of-distribution samples be used for enhanced sampling of rare events, and (iv) can the glass structure and dynamics be characterised by learnable and interpretable low-dimensional features. The workshop will systematically address these questions and initiate discussions to narrow down and identify the key problems to be solved.
CEFIPRA
The Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA) is a model for international collaborative research in advanced areas of science and technology. Established in 1987, it is supported by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and the Ministry for Europe & Foreign Affairs, Government of France.
LPENS
The Laboratoire de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure (LPENS) is a top-tier French research unit under ENS, CNRS, and Paris universities. Formed in 2019, it integrates theory, statistical physics, astrophysics, and quantum science across five merged labs. LPENS is central to international training and research in physics, via ENS-ICFP and Institut Philippe Meyer.
JNCASR
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, is a premier autonomous institution established in 1989 by DST, GoI. It conducts cutting-edge interdisciplinary research across materials, biology, physics, and engineering sciences. Accredited NAAC A++, JNCASR is globally recognized for research excellence, patents, education, and outreach.
Workshop Coordinator
France Coordinator
Name: Giulio Biroli
Designation: Professor
Address: LPENS, 24 rue Lhomond 75005 Paris, France
Phone: +33 610897484
Email: giulio.biroli@ens.fr
India Coordinator
Name: Srikanth Sastry
Designation: Professor
Address: Theoretical Sciences Unit , Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur Campus, Bengaluru 560064, INDIA
Phone: +91 80 2208 2838 / +91 94483 86838
Email: sastry@jncasr.ac.in