Professors at NISER talk about their work, and the passion which drives it. We try to convey what life in academia is like, and what it's like being an academic leading some of the most important research in the country.
NiSERCast
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Professors at NISER talk about their work, and the passion which drives it. We try to convey what life in academia is like, and what it's like being an academic leading some of the most important research in the country.
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April 19, 2021
#1: A Story for Everything with Prof. Varadharajan Muruganandam
<p>Our guest in this first episode of NiSERCast is <a href="http://www.niser.ac.in/sms/professor/vmuruganandam">Prof. Varadharajan Muruganandam</a>, from the School of Mathematical Sciences at NISER. In this episode, we discuss his long journey in academia — his PhD days at IIT Kanpur, teaching at Pondicherry University, his experiences teaching in France, and setting up institutes like NISER. We also touch upon the impact of computers on academia and, in particular, research in mathematics.</p><p>Listen in to hear about his meandering journey as an Indian academic!</p><h3 id="episode-notes">Episode Notes:</h3><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar">Ravi Shankar</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnatic_music">Carnatic music</a></p><p><a href="https://mkuniversity.ac.in/new/">Madurai Kamaraj University</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Harvey_Stone">Marshall Stone</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%E2%80%93Weierstrass_theorem">Stone–Weierstrass theorem</a></p><p><a href="https://www.isical.ac.in/">Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata</a></p><p><a href="https://www.iitk.ac.in/">Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udai_Bhan_Tewari">UB Tewari</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Helson">Henry Helson</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ams.org/mr-database">Mathematical Reviews</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_analysis">Harmonic analysis</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra">Harish-Chandra</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veeravalli_S._Varadarajan">VS Varadarajan</a></p><p><a href="https://www.tifr.res.in/">Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)</a></p><p><a href="http://www.presidencycollegechennai.ac.in/">Madras Presidency College</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass%27s_elliptic_functions">Weierstrass p-functions</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker%27s_theorem">Kronecker’s theorem</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation">Stirling’s formula</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem">Four color theorem</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(mathematics)">Harmonic series</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler">Leonhard Euler</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor">Georg Cantor</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_machine">Moore machine</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card">Punch cards</a> and Intel processors (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80286">286</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386">386</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5_(microarchitecture)">Pentium</a>)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">\(\LaTeX\)</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert">David Hilbert</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein">Felix Klein</a></p><p><a href="https://www.univ-poitiers.fr/en/">University of Poitiers</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Deligne">Pierre Deligne</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Varopoulos">Nicholas Varopoulos</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao">PV Narasimha Rao</a></p><p><a href="https://uohyd.ac.in/">Hyderabad University</a>, <a href="https://www.pondiuni.edu.in/">Pondicherry University</a>, <a href="https://www.bhu.ac.in/">Benaras Hindu University</a></p><p><a href="https://mtts.org.in/s-kumaresan/">S Kumaresan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Sunder">VS Sunder</a>, and <a href="https://mtts.org.in/">Mathematics Training and Talent Search Programme</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes">René Descartes</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system">Cartesian coordinates</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy">GH Hardy</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory">George Mallory</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay">Tenzing Norgay</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_curve_theorem">Jordan curve theorem</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvalluvar">Thiruvalluvar</a></p>
April 2, 2021
#0: Introduction
<p>NiSERCast is a podcast brought to you by NISER Science Activities Club; we invite scientists as guests and talk to them about their research and what life in academia is like. In this episode, Hradini and Ayush introduce the podcast and talk about the target audience.</p><h3 id="episode-notes">Episode Notes:</h3><p><a href="https://www.niser.ac.in">National Institute of Science Education and Research</a></p><p><a href="https://nisercast.gitlab.io">NiSERCast website</a></p>
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