Library Roundup
Week 45: 19 Nov 2018 - 23 Nov 2018 Book of the week: Origin Story: A big history of everything New...
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Author: External Communications
NICEE-organised inter-school quiz on earthquake tips at IITGN
The quiz is an annual event organised by NICEE for promoting the cause of ensuring an earthquake-resistant built environment in the country. It is aimed at including school children in the process of spread the message of seismic safety, as they are the future leaders of the nation. The institute recently hosted a preliminary round of the inter-school quiz on Earthquake Tips on November 24, for National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE), IIT Kanpur. School teams from Gujarat, comprising four students each, participated in the preliminary quiz rounds which were based on the publication Earthquake Tips by Dr C...
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CCL IITGN exhibited unique learning toys at the National Science, Math and Environment Exhibition
The Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar is one among the chosen few institutes to participate at the 45 th National Science, Math and Environment Exhibition for school students which began today at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad. The CCL team is exhibiting more than 100 of it’s 250 unique experiential toys and models including Enigma machine, walking spider and 812 piece 500 triangle geodesic ball that it has designed for hands-on learning of Science and Math. The CCL stall at the state invitees dome received an overwhelming response from the school children,...
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Faculty and students take lessons in assessing nanosafety
A Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) course on Nanosafety: Biological & Environmental interaction of nanoparticles concluded today at the institute. It was conducted by Prof Jamie Lead, director, Smart State Center for Environmental Nanoscience & Risk, University of South Carolina, and Dr Superb Misra, assistant professor, Materials Science and Engineering, IITGN during November 19-22. The unique physicochemical properties of nanomaterials have led to an increasing use of nanomaterials/nano-embedded products. Therefore, there is a need for understanding how nanomaterials interact with biological and environmental systems. Unique physicochemical properties of nanomaterials also render unique challenges to our body’s defense mechanism in dealing...
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Symposium on ‘Frontier Problems in Physics’ at IITGN
The symposium aims at promoting and fostering a research atmosphere at IITGN with lectures by scientists on cutting-edge research topics, and discussions on open problems in physics with students and young researchers. The physics discipline at the institute hosted a two-day symposium on Frontier Problems in Physics during November 20-21. Eminent scientists delivered lectures on outstanding research areas in theoretical and experimental physics during the symposium. Prof Rajesh Gopakumar from ICTS, Bengaluru talked about String Theory and Quantum Gravity; Prof Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya from HRI, Allahabad spoke about High Energy Particle Physics; Prof Amlan J Pal of IACS, Kolkata discussed Nanoscience,...
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