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SUMMARY:Beyond a Spherical Horse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Approximations in Physics
DESCRIPTION:Abstract : Our understanding of the physical world in modern times has progressed\,  due\, in part\, to posing idealized\, often minimal\, questions and finding crisp answers. We will start with Feynman's choice of the atomic hypothesis as the most important understanding of the natural world and explore simple and obvious examples of its great utility in understanding even the macroscopic world. It will end with speculations about its limitations and where other paradigms might yield important insights\, missing in this extremely successful approach. \nSpeaker Bio: Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya\, Director of TCG-CREST\, is a condensed matter physicist and works primarily on dynamical aspects of disordered\, soft and granular systems. Educated at Presidency College\, Kolkata\, University of Delhi and Northwestern University in the USA\, he did post-doctoral research at the Magnet Laboratory at MIT and at the University of Chicago. He spent two decades at the Corporate Laboratories of Exxon Corporation and the NEC Corporation in New Jersey\, US before returning to India as Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He was a former C.V. Raman Professor of the Physics Department\, Ashoka University. 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/beyond-a-spherical-horse-reasonable-and-unreasonable-approximations-in-physics/
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SUMMARY:Unsolved Problems in Biology discussion | Dr. Alok Bhattacharya | Sep 16th\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:About Speaker: \nAlok Bhattacharya is Professor of Biology.  He is the recipient of Robert McNamara Fellowship (World Bank)\, Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Development Award\, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and JC Bose Fellowship\, and is a fellow of Indian National Science Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences. He also served as one of the Vice Presidents of INSA. Following his Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University\, India\, he trained at the National Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School\, USA. He spent a large part of his independent career at the Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, where his scientific interests were in the area of infectious diseases\, biology of parasitic pathogens and genomics. He is credited with helping to set up one of the first teaching and research programs on Bioinformatics and Computation Biology in India. His current research interests are rare diseases\, computational genomics and biology of pathogenic parasites. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/unsolved-problems-in-biology-discussion-dr-alok-bhattacharya-sep-16th-2022/
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