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Ep. 15 : Conversation with Ranjini Bandyopadhyay - The Soft Matter Physicist
Ranjini is an experimental soft condensed matter physicist. She is a Professor at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru.
Ranjini's lab webpage : https://ranjinibandyopadhy.wixsite.com/complexfluids
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Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 14 : Conversation with Amitabh Joshi - The Beautiful Mind
Amitabh Joshi is a Professor in EVOLUTIONARY AND ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY UNIT at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Adv Sci Research, Bengaluru. He is also a poet in Urdu and English (and occasionally, Persian).…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 13 : Conversation with Saptarshi Basu - Dreams, Droplets and Fluid Dynamics
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Saptarshi Basu is a ‘Pratt and Whitney Chair Professor’ at Mechanical Engineering departmen…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 12 : Conversation with Nagaraj Balasubramanian - Cell Biologist with a sense of Aesthetics
Nagaraj is a cell biologist and an Associate Professor of Biology at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
He is a scientist who interfaces with society and has a keen sense of a…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 11 : Conversation with Seema Sharma - The Experimental Particle Physicist
Seema Sharma is an experimental particle physicist who was also part of the experimental discovery of Higgs Boson at CERN. She is an Associate Professor, in the department of physics at the Indian in…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 10 : Conversation with Sutirth Dey - The Evolutionary Biologist
Sutirth Dey is an evolutionary biologist. He is a Professor of Biology at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. In this conversation we discussed about his own evolution as a biol…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 9 : Conversation with Aditi Sen (De) - The Quantum Information Theorist
Aditi Sen (De) is a Professor at HRI, Allahabad. We had a freewheeling conversation on her biography, research on quantum information, motherhood, her experience of working in Europe and India. Also,…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 08 : Gripping History of Laser Invention
I tell the story behind laser invention. It is a story of human imagination, tenacity, invention of a device, intense competition, blame and humor. I discuss how cold-war era USA created an environme…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 6: Importance of Failed Experiments
How does science approach failure and ignorance? What is an experiment? What can we learn from a failed experiment? How ignorance plays a relevant role in science and technology? I discuss these and …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 5 : Ashkin's Story - no prize to Nobel prize
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“The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of Americ….” Accessed May 31, 2023. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factory. Ashkin, Arthur. Optical Trapping And …Published on 2 years, 7 months ago