Category: Department Events

A lecture by Prof. Suresh Babu At 5.30 pm on Wednesday, the 25th of January, a group of faculty and students assembled at the Central Lecture Theatre for the first lecture organised by the faculty association, in an upcoming series of lectures. This sort of faculty colloquium is a continuation of a tradition of regular…

Mathematical and Astronomical Texts from Ancient Mesopotamia by Prof Lis Brack-Bernsen   Prof Brack-Bernsen began the talk with a historical introduction of Mesopotamia. Often regarded as one of the cradles of world civilizations, Mesopotamia flourished on the Tigris-Euphrates river system and was home to the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian Empires. The earliest evidences of Mesopotamian mathematics…

Words Matter: Some Challenges of Communication in Global Engineering Teams by Elizabeth Keating   Prof Elizabeth Keating’s talk was centred on a three-year longitudinal study of global engineering teams, collaborating from four countries: India, Romania, Brazil and the US, which discusses some of the challenges faced by the engineers in understanding each other. Prof Keating’s study is…

R&D Lecture Series: 13th January 2017 The Department’s R&D Lecture Series began with Professor Mathangi Krishnamurthy welcoming the audience and introducing Mr. Vikram Raghavan. Mr. Raghavan is lead counsel at an organization in Washington D.C. and is interested in India’s constitutional history. He is the founder of a blog titled Law and Other Things. He…

Exploring Human Capital in a Reassessment of Identity in Rural Indonesia and its Implications for the Indian Subcontinent   The Department hosted Dr Maskota Delfi and Dr Johan Richard Weintré for a talk on the 18th of October’16. The speakers were introduced to the audience by Dr Vivek Neelakantan, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department. Dr…