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Innovate UK and the Government of India, via the Newton Fund, invite registrations for their competition on technology solutions for society in India. This aims to fund collaborative technological solutions that address clean technology, affordable healthcare or use of electronic system design and manufacture technologies to provide solutions to particular societal challenges. The specific challenges within this are:

•large-area flexible electronics and internet of things, to help provide affordable energy, healthcare or education;

•challenges related to the environment or cities that affect the wider population of India;

•devices for internal security, particularly for natural disaster management;

•medical electronics that address the needs of remote communities;

•infrastructure that uses technology to solve the challenges of sustainability and resilience India faces in mobility, energy and information and communication technology;

Projects must be collaborative, and include a UK lead applicant and an Indian one. The project lead must be a business on the UK side and must show that India is the principal market for the project.

The total budget is worth up to £1.6 million and projects are worth £350,000 to £450,000, over a period of 12 to 24 months. Small businesses may receive up to 45 per cent of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses may receive 35 per cent and large businesses may receive 25 per cent for experimental development work packages. Small businesses may receive up to 70 per cent of their eligible project costs, medium-sized businesses may receive 60 per cent and large businesses may receive 50 per cent for industrial research.

Thermodynamic entropy is uncertainty and its apparent production is brought about by the complex dynamics of the world when we fail to attend to all of its details. I'd like to describe the modern framework of stochastic thermodynamics that underpins this and provides a connection between dynamics and thermodynamics. I shall illustrate how the expectation value of stochastic entropy production can serve as a measure of the irreversibility of processes such as heat conduction. By investigating the mechanics of measurement and feedback, we'll also consider the attempts of Maxwell's demon to subvert the second law of thermodynamics. It is possible to imagine scenarios where thermodynamic entropy is actually reduced but it turns out that even demons have to abide by certain dynamical rules that protect the second law.

The RCUK Energy Programme (RCUKEP), led by EPSRC, would like to encourage the participation of UK researchers in the current .

In particular the RCUKEP will support the UK component of proposals including US/UK collaboration in the following specific areas from Appendix A of the US call document:

• Radioisotope Retention in Graphite and Graphitic Materials (RC-2)
• Materials Ageing and Degradation (RC-5)
• Reactor Safety Technologies (RC-7)
• Advanced Waste forms (FC-1.3) including; Waste forms development- Thermodynamics of waste glasses and melts (FC-1.3a), Fuel Processing Off-Gas Management- Tritium separations technology (FC-1.3b), Fuel processing Off-Gas management- Rb interaction with container materials (FC-1.3c).
• Advanced Fuels (FC-2) including; Reactor pool side non-destructive characterization techniques for advanced fuel concepts (FC-2.1) and Extreme performance metal alloy cladding for fast reactors (FC-2.2), critical heat flux for accident tolerant fuels (FC-2.3).
• Used Nuclear fuel disposition: Disposal (FC-4).
• Nuclear Energy Advanced modelling and simulation (NEAMS-1) including only; NEAMS 1.1 (Atomistic and mesoscale modelling and simulation of nuclear fuels, cladding and reactor structural materials), NEAMS 1.2 (Macroscale fuel performance), NEAMS 1.4 (Thermal Hydraulics) and NEAMS 1.5 (Structural Mechanics).