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Cancer: Towards Effective Imaging and Treatment

Cancer: Towards Effective Imaging and Treatment

Jun 26, 2020 |

Won’t it be a good idea if the agent used to visualize cancer cells can also have the capacity to kill those cells? Wouldn’t it be like using one arrow to shoot two targets? Researchers at IIT Gandhinagar have developed a dual-purpose compound* that could potentially, in the future, image cancer cells as well as work like a therapeutic in a much more efficient manner. Dr. Iti Gupta is a professor in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. She, along with her research team, has come up with a two-in-one solution that could be a step towards efficient visualization...

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Alan M. Turing: Decoding A Legend

Alan M. Turing: Decoding A Legend

Jun 22, 2020 | ,

Turing laid the ground-stone for computing when trying to answer some fundamental questions about the very foundations of mathematics and logical reasoning. Popular as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, Alan Mathison Turing was a renowned computer scientist, mathematician, logician, philosopher, cryptanalyst, and theoretical biologist. He developed the famous Turing machine – a device considered as a model of a general-purpose computer (a direct precursor to the notion of software and stored program computers!). Moreover, the prestigious Turing Award (the Nobel Prize in Computing) is named after him. At the young age of 23, Turing stated...

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IITGN Speaks: The Lockdown Experience of a Mess Worker

IITGN Speaks: The Lockdown Experience of a Mess Worker

Jun 20, 2020 |

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling – but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius, renowned philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period A smiling face and a friendly personality, Prahlad Bhati has been a part of the IIT Gandhinagar family for the last three years. A native of the Daulatgarh village in the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan, where his family (parents and elder brother) lives currently, he is a resident of the Palaj village near the Institute campus. Prahlad has been a worker in the Institute mess since 2017. Earlier, he used to...

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The COVID-19 Dashboard: Aiding Optimised Testing & Post-lockdown Operations

The COVID-19 Dashboard: Aiding Optimised Testing & Post-lockdown Operations

Jun 19, 2020 |

“The best way forward is the blended comprehensive approach which puts containment as a major pillar.” — Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar have come up with an interactive means to tackle some crucial aspects of the current pandemic. The main objective behind this research is to help administrators, hospitals, and the public, efficiently plan the containment of community infection under different post-lockdown conditions. Dr. Udit Bhatia, a faculty in the Civil Engineering discipline of the Institute, along with Dr. Prasanna Venkatesh B (faculty, Physics) and a team of students have developed the MIR...

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A Sneak-Peek into the Wonders of Partition

A Sneak-Peek into the Wonders of Partition

Jun 19, 2020 | ,

Partitions form an integral as well as a wonderful part, not just of mathematics but many of its allied disciplines as well. What is partitioning? Basically, it involves math problems which have large numbers being divided into smaller parts. Partitioning is a fascinating area of mathematics and an active branch of combinatorics and number theory. This field is said to have been initiated by Euler. After him, several other eminent minds such as J. J. Sylvester, S. Ramanujan, and G. H. Hardy made significant contributions to it. Ramanujan’s advancements in this domain opened doors for some of the most...

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