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Prof. Archana Pai, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
The year 2015 marked a historic discovery of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes by the two LIGO detectors. It opened a brand new branch of gravitational wave astronomy. Unique in its way, gravitational wave astronomy is complementary to its electromagnetic sister, well known in its various avatars such as optical astronomy, radio astronomy, etc. Within a decade, gravitational wave astronomy has rapidly evolved, as close to 150+ compact binary merger events have been observed, mostly harbouring black holes. These detections have solved not only old puzzles in astronomy but have also opened up new mysteries. This talk will provide a brief overview of a decade-old field of gravitational wave astronomy. It will also highlight the future projections of the field with LIGO-India.
Prof Archana Pai is a Professor at the Department of Physics, IIT Bombay. She obtained her bachelor's from Ruparel College and secured her Master's in Physics from IIT Bombay. Subsequently, she did a Ph.D. from the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune in Gravitational Wave astronomy. Post-PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at several renowned international groups. For example, she was a Henri Poincare Fellow at the Observatory of Nice, France, an INFN Fellow at the University of Rome, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein Institute, in Germany. Her broad research interests are developing signal detection algorithms for gravitational wave transients, multi-messenger astronomy and testing Einstein's theory against observations. She is a chair of LIGO India Scientific Collaboration -- a multi-institutional pan-India group of scientists who work with LIGO Scientific Collaboration. She has received several recognitions such as the N. R. Sen Young Scientist Award, the Peraiah Foundation Lecture Award, and the Vaidya Raychaudhuri Lecture Award, and shared the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
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Prof. Siddhesh Kamat, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune
Enzymes are wonderful biological catalysts that greatly enhance rates of reactions and by doing so, facilitate various metabolic processes in biology. Enzymes display exquisite selectivity and have evolved over millions of years to function at physiological conditions. In this lecture, I will aim to talk about enzyme catalyzed reactions in general, factors that affect this process, and will briefly prospect on what is known about enzyme kinetics.
Prof. Siddhesh Kamat is currently an Associate Professor, a Swarna Jayanti Fellow, and an EMBO Young Investigator in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune. Prof. Kamat completed his BTech from the Institute of Chemical Technology (former UDCT) in 2007, and a PhD from the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University in 2012. Prof. Kamat was the 9th Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellow of the American Chemical Society at the Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute. He joined IISER Pune in 2016, and is the chairperson, National Facility for Gene Function in the Health and Disease at IISER Pune. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was awarded the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences in 2024.
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Talk on "The Decade of Gravitational Wave Astronomy"
V. G. Kulkarni Memorial Auditorium
22 December, 2024 (09:30 - 10:30)
Talk on "Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions"
V. G. Kulkarni Memorial Auditorium
22 December, 2024 (10:30 - 11:30)
Infosys Award Function for the International Olympiad Medallists of 2024
V. G. Kulkarni Memorial Auditorium
22 December, 2024 (12:00 - 13:30)
Every day from 13 August to 31 December, 2024
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Every day from 13 August to 31 December, 2024
Venue: Main Building Seminar Room - 217
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Venue: Main Building Seminar Room - 217
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Venue: Main Building Seminar Room - 217
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