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CAN 2020 workshop series on Climate Change kick-started at IITGN

CAN 2020 workshop series on Climate Change kick-started at IITGN

Feb 12, 2020 | ,

Shri S J Haider, IAS, Principal Secretary, CCD, called for a collective action to mitigate the ill-effects of climate change. A mega workshop series on Climate Change, Climate Action Now (CAN) 2020, was inaugurated today at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) by Shri S J Haider, IAS, Principal Secretary, Climate Change Department (CCD), Government of Gujarat, in presence of other distinguished guests, including Prof Sudhir Jain, Director, IITGN; Shri R D Kamboj, Director, GEER Foundation; Prof Amit Garg, Professor, Public Systems Group, IIM Ahmedabad; and Prof C N Pandey, IITGN. Delivering his inaugural speech as the Chief...

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Library Roundup

Feb 8, 2020 |

Week 6: 3 Feb 2020 - 7 Feb 2020 Book of the week: Mind Master: Winning Lessons From a Champion’s Life New...

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Experts discussed unique aspects of cognition during CogniTalks 2020

Experts discussed unique aspects of cognition during CogniTalks 2020

Feb 8, 2020 |

The Centre for Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) organised the third edition of CogniTalks yesterday to understand and deliberate on deeper and distinctive aspects of human cognition through experts from diverse fields. This year, CogniTalks 2020 had an ecologist, neuropsychologist, musician and a cartoonist, who talked about cognition from different perspectives.   Explaining the effects of ‘Musical Notes to Neural Plasticity’, Shantala Hegde, a Neuropsychologist from National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), said, “Music is a very powerful, universal behaviour. It is important to study music from a neuroscientific perspective because what...

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IITGN researchers reaching for the stars

IITGN researchers reaching for the stars

Jan 31, 2020 | ,

The team of researchers at IIT Gandhinagar provided a highly optimized template bank for both the online and offline search pipelines, a key component of the search which lead to this discovery. A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have made a significant contribution to the LIGO discovery of the heaviest binary neutron star system GW190425. The results of this discovery were recently announced and presented at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii. The team at IITGN lead by Prof Anand Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Physics, included PhD student in...

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