Month: January 2022

Jan
28
2022
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By Poulami Mondal
SIMULATING COVID-19 TRANSMISSION ON THE PARAMSHAKTI SUPERCOMPUTER

SIMULATING COVID-19 TRANSMISSION ON THE PARAMSHAKTI SUPERCOMPUTER

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How do airborne diseases spread? What happens when two people in close proximity talk? How exactly does the air exchange take place? To answer all these questions and many more on the spread of the COVID-19 pathogen,  Prof. Sandeep Saha of Aerospace Engineering, his students at the institute, and collaborators in CNRS, France, Imperial College, London, UK, and Princeton University, USA  have performed a high-end simulation to study the transmission patterns of the COVID-19 pathogen by using the Paramshaakti Supercomputer. The Simulation The study, which has now been published in The Journal Of Fluid Mechanics, observed airflow and exchange between…
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Jan
27
2022
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By Poulami Mondal
The CEO of romance from IIT Kharagpur

The CEO of romance from IIT Kharagpur

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It's not every day that you come across a Metallurgical Engineer leading the world’s largest dating app conglomerate.  Sharmistha (Shar) Dubey ( B. Tech/ Metallurgy/1993)  was raised in Jamshedpur. She graduated in 1993 along with classmate Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet. With grit and determination she overcame all the challenges of being one of the handful female students on campus and finished her studies. After completing her studies she went back to Jamshedpur and worked in a steel company for a short while. She pursued a Masters from Ohio State University, USA and worked in several companies before joining Match…
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Jan
13
2022
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By Poulami Mondal
The Relics of Being & Becoming – ‘Us’

The Relics of Being & Becoming – ‘Us’

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The present is just a synoptic one on the IIT Kharagpur IKS calendar of 2022 based on the scientific realization of Being and Becoming (ontology of the Vedas as recognized by 1977 Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine), Yogakshema-complementarities of ascent and descent of human mind to and from Divinity (realized by the Scientific principles developed by International Experts like Abraham Maslow and Arnold Toynbee), The idea of Cosmic Matrix or Vedic Matarisvan (Idea of MATRIX forwarded by top International Experts namely Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, Rene Guenon, Mircae Eliade and many more Scientist like James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis on ‘Gaia’s…
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Jan
05
2022
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By Poulami Mondal
In the Name of the Flower

In the Name of the Flower

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Just like the flower she is named after, willowy and graceful, Nwe ni Kyaw walks in for her appointment with me on a bright November morning. I had requested a meeting with her to acquaint myself with this student from Myanmar who had just joined IIT Kharagpur as a doctoral research scholar in, ‘Image Processing and Machine Learning’ at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. So we get to chatting. Little had I known that the brief conversation would leave me in considerable appreciation of the spirit that was burning bright within a delicate exterior. Born in 1988 in…
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Jan
03
2022
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By Poulami Mondal
Forbes 30 Under 30 – Alumnus Prof. Srijan Kumar

Forbes 30 Under 30 – Alumnus Prof. Srijan Kumar

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IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Prof. Srijan Kumar has been included in Forbes 30 under 30 in Science, Class of 2022! Prof. Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a specialist in AI, ML, and Data Science. In his attempt to make the internet a safer place he is involved in developing Data Science and Machine Learning solutions to combat fraudsters, trolls, and other malicious entities. His research has influenced Twitter’s Birdwatch platform. It is also implemented by Flipkart. An alumnus of the 2013 batch from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Institute, Prof.…
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