Popular Science Lecture - 62

Our Wondrous and Complex World


Venue: Anna Centenary Library,
Kotturpuram
Chennai

August 05, 2023
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Organised by Anna Centenary Library &
Tamil Nadu Science Forum

About Program







This is part of its efforts to popularize science to the general public and students who are pursuing science as their career. TNSF attempt to focus on students on higher science as everyone knows that learning of science at college within the curriculum is not enough to acquire holistic knowledge of science at the appropriate time. Hence, to fill the gap between what students are acquiring through the curriculum and what it is required, TNSF is planning its activities on higher science to students who are pursuing higher education.



About the Lecture


In the past few years we have increasingly become aware of the interrelatedness of many phenomena on the “human scale”. Many such phenomena cannot be analysed through a reductionist approach and need to be understood at a systems level. This has given rise to the area termed complexity science and in this talk, Prof. Ram Ramaswamy will discuss this field through select examples.

கடந்த சில ஆண்டுகளில், "மனித அளவில்" பல நிகழ்வுகளின் ஒன்றோடொன்று தொடர்புடையது பற்றி நாம் அதிகளவில் அறிந்திருக்கிறோம். இதுபோன்ற பல நிகழ்வுகளை குறைப்புவாத அணுகுமுறை மூலம் பகுப்பாய்வு செய்ய முடியாது மற்றும் அமைப்பு மட்டத்தில் புரிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும். இது சிக்கலான அறிவியல் என்று அழைக்கப்படும் பகுதிக்கு வழிவகுத்துள்ளது மற்றும் இந்த உரையில், பேராசிரியர் ராம் ராமசாமி தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்ட எடுத்துக்காட்டுகள் மூலம் இந்தத் துறையைப் பற்றி விவாதிப்பார்.

SCHEDULE

Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm - August 05, 2023

Attendenace Registration starts at 10:30 am

4:00 pm

Introduction

11:10 pm

Prof. Ram Ramaswamy
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Our Wondrous and Complex World

12:00 pm

Q & A

Speakers

Prof. Ram Ramaswamy

Prof. Ram Ramaswamy

Prof. Ram Ramaswamy retired from the Jawaharlal Nehru University where he taught from 1986 till October 2018, in the School of Physical Sciences, and the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences. From 1983 to 1986, he was at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
Between 2011 and 2015 he served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad. Educated at Madras University, IIT Kanpur, and Princeton University, Prof. Ramaswamy’s research interests have, over the years, been in aspects of theoretical chemistry, statistical physics, molecular dynamics and computational and systems biology. He is the author of over 200 peer reviewed publications and has edited about 30 books and conference proceedings. He has mentored 35 Ph. D. students at TIFR, JNU, University of Hyderabad, and IIT Delhi.
An elected Fellow of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, and the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, he served as President of the Indian Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2018. Currently, he is Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry at IIT Delhi.

Venue

Anna Centenary Library
Kotturpuram
Chennai

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