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.
Introduction
Prof. Ram Ramaswamy
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Our Wondrous and Complex World
Q & A
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.