KOLKATA KALAN

 
THE CALCUTTA COLLOQUIUM

 
 

Historically Kolkata has always had a very strong academic and scientific base. Many of the greats of Indian science have carried out their main work in the city : from Prafulla Chandra Roy and Jagadish Chandra Bose to Sir. C.V. Raman, Meghnad Saha and Satyendranath Bose. Great educationists like Sir Ashutosh Mookerjee and Prashanta Moholanobis and philanthropers like Mahendralal Sarkar brightened its academic landscape. Besides the two universities of Calcutta and Jadavpur, Kolkata also has several research institutes of renown : the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, the Jagadish Bose Institute, the Indian Statistical Institute, the Institute of Chemical Biology and the Central Glass and Ceramics Research Instiute, to name a few. Central facilities like the Variable Energy Cyclotron and the Inter University Consortium of the UGC are thriving in the city.
 
Despite this, it has been felt that there doesn't exist a forum in which the scientists working in these educational and research centres of excellence can come together for discussion and deliberation. "The Kolkata Kalan" is an attempt to provide such a forum and S.N. Bose National Centre, the youngest member of the group, will be its venue. On the first Friday of every month Kolkata scientists will meet and listen to and discuss with a renowned scientist from the city.


 
 

 THE NEXT KALAN 
 
 
March 6, 2003   
Prof. P.T. Manoharan

 
 
 
 

 THE KALANS SO FAR 
 
 

Friday 5 April, 2002 Glimses of Engaging Excellence Prof. Bikash Sinha, S.I.N.P. and V.E.C.C.
Friday 3 May, 2002 Role of Physics in Mathematics Prof. Kalyan B Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute
  and vice versa  
Friday 7 June, 2002 Opportunities in Experimental Sciences Prof. Ajit K Sinha, Inter University Consortium
  with Accelerators  
Friday 5 July, 2002 Time Reversal Invariance Prof. H.S. Mani, S.N. Bose National Centre
  in Particle Physics  
Friday 2 August, 2002 Materials Science at the Core of Prof. H.S. Maity, C.G.C.R.I.
  Modern Technology : a few examples  
Friday 6 September, 2002 Chemistry at the turn of Prof. Debashis Mukherjee, I.A.C.S.
  the Century  
Friday 4 October, 2002 Experiments at the V.E.C.C. Prof. Rakesh Bhandari, V.E.C.C.
Friday 8 November, 2002 Nanomaterials Science Prof. Dipankar Chakravorty, I.A.C.S.
Friday 6 December, 2002 What is Life ? Prof. D. P. Burma, B.H.U.
Friday 3 January, 2003 Risks in possessing and deploying Prof. R. Rajaraman, J.N.U.
  Nuclear Weapons  
Friday 7 February, 2003 Seeds of Change Prof. M.Y. Mohan Ram, Centre for Environmental Management of degraded ecosystems
Friday 6 March, 2003 Supersymmetry in Quantum Mechanics Prof. Avinash Khare, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar

 

  FUTURE KALANS 
 
 

April - Prof. P. T. Manoharan
 
 
 
 

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