10-06-2025  Tuesday

26Mon

Vigyan Vidushi (Physics) 2025

Date: 26 May to 14 June, 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:30

Venue: NIUS Building Lecture Hall - G4

Coordinator: Prof. Anwesh Mazumdar

Vigyan Vidushi (Physics) a three-week programme to be held at HBCSE from 26 May to 14 June, 2025. About 55 women students in first year M. Sc. (Physics) are expected to attend.

02Mon

NIUS Chemistry Camp 20.2 - Exposure to Instrumental Techniques

Date: 02 to 11 June, 2025
Time: 09:00 - 17:30

Venue: Olympiad Building Lecture Hall - G1

Coordinator: Dr. Indrani Das Sen

  https://badal.hbcse.tifr.res.in/index.php/s/9H3HggMXAybcMiN

The experimental camp for NIUS Chemistry Batch 20.2 students is scheduled from June 2-11, 2025. This is in collaboration with TIFR Mumbai. There will be 50 students for the camp.

The camp will focus on both basic and advanced instrumental techniques for investigating different chemical systems and materials of interest. Students will work on mini-projects followed by presentations. The sessions at HBCSE will be held in Olympiad Building G1, 107, G7 and Chemistry labs.

10Tue

Seminar by Dr. Sehra Sahu (HBCSE Post-doctoral visiting fellow candidate)

Date: 10 June, 2025
Time: 11:00 - 12:00

Venue: Online Meeting/Video Conferencing

Coordinator: Dean's Office

As part of the HBCSE Post-doctoral visiting fellow recruitment process, Dr. Sehra Sahu will be delivering a seminar on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at 11:00 AM through an online mode (Zoom meeting application). The details of the program are as follows:

Zoom meeting Link:

https://hbcse-tifr-res-in.zoom.us/j/96189420645?pwd=b4GbtMbSw4RbwF8VkXCaILVlcHPIyG.1

Meeting ID:

961 8942 0645

Passcode:

792294

Name of the candidate:

Dr. Sehra Sahu

About the candidate:

Sehra Sahu is currently employed as an IoE Teaching Fellow at IISc Challakere. Her work primarily involves training teachers at the high school, pre-university, and graduate levels. She has been serving in this role since June 2023, shortly after submitting her PhD thesis. Sehra has lived in Karnataka for approximately ten years, pursuing both education and career opportunities. Originally from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, she was raised in Hyderabad. She is fluent in Hindi and English, and is also able to converse in Telugu and Kannada.

Title of the talk:

Symmetry as a basis of groups

Abstract of the talk:

Set of transformations that leave the object invariant forms a group. Groups themselves are beautiful in the sense it captivates symmetries of various objects. The abstractness of this theory is vital in looking at its applications in cryptography in direct or indirect forms. Her PhD work was an exploration to find the Galois group of multi-quadratic fields and their cyclotomic extensions. This group was specifically chosen due to its simplicity and rather better intuition of its extension.

One of the topics she would like to explore in detail is Platonic solids and Archimedean solids, as a part of mathematics education. Not just these are foundational tools for learning abstract algebra at high school level, these can be further expanded and worked on to learn groups of symmetries.