IIT Gandhinagar's seminar to discuss historical evolution of prominent scientific ideas
IIT Gandhinagar students, faculty, and anyone interested will be able to attend the online seminars free but will have to register online by September 5.
Anu Parthiban | September 1, 2022 | 01:45 PM IST
GANDHINAGAR: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) will organise the third edition of the “Seminar Series on History of Ideas’ on September 10, 2022, from 3 to 5 pm, with two online seminars on the historical evolution of prominent ideas and fundamental breakthroughs in science.
The seminar series is curated by IITGN faculty Professor Sudipta Sarkar. Students, faculty members, and anyone interested will be able to attend the online seminars free but will have to register online by September 5, 2022, on the following link: https://tinyurl.com/historyideas.
The first seminar on “Darwin’s Theory of Evolution: Importance and Implications” will be delivered by Professor Rhitoban Ray Choudhury from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali. It will discuss the historical overview of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and its implications for biological sciences.
Also read | IIT Delhi Fee Hike: MTech students protest against '100% fee hike', demand affordable education
In the second seminar, Professor Leslee Lazar from IIT Gandhinagar will explain“The History of the Brain Sciences: From a Cooling Device to Computing Device”. He will talk about some of the interesting aspects of brain sciences, the institute said.
The “Seminar Series on History of Ideas” was launched by IITGN in November 2021. This year, the series aims to discuss the historical evolution of prominent ideas and fundamental breakthroughs in science.
“The motivation behind this series is to know how these remarkable ideas came into existence and what were the influences and reactions of the community as well as the broader society on them. In the last two series, prominent scientists gave seminars on the history of Quantum Mechanics, Soft Matter Physics, Relativity Theory, and the History of Algorithms,” the institute said.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Lok Sabha Election 2024: Over 50 students, teachers arrested over past 5 years
- Diversity and inclusion ‘all on paper’, writes a transgender activist on experience at work
- ‘This is terrible’: West Bengal teachers who fought recruitment scam dismayed by cancellation
- More women joining engineering with scholarships, affirmative action in admission, placements
- BTech in Marathi: How PCCOE Pune is showing the way
- ‘We hope to admit students from outside Kerala’: CET Trivandrum principal
- IIIT Bangalore plans to launch BTech programmes, says director
- COMEDK UGET ‘model exam’ for engineering colleges: Executive Secretary
- Top IT companies have cut thousands of jobs in past months, reports on headcounts show
- Project to attract foreign students to IITs still a work-in-progress