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Even Darwin pointed out that his ideas on categorizing species might not be the most perfect way of understanding varieties in nature. But how do you study individuals and their species individually?
What is the definition of ‘boundaries’ when you move through the behavioral terrains of the nature?
The answers to such questions can reveal a long history of evolution and in our third conversation of the fifth season of Zeroing In we set out to scratch the surface of these defining questions. In the first part of this splendid conversation with Prof. Anindya Sinha we learn and unlearn ideas of studying the nature. Prof. Sinha is currently a Professor at NIAS, Bengaluru and his research interests span a plethora of disciplines ranging from behavioral ecology to molecular genetics. He has a master’s degree in botany and a PhD. in molecular biology. Alongside his wide ranging research interests he is also passionate about scientific outreach and popularization.
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In the thread of our fifth season: from atoms to planets, we bead a very interesting segment of living beings. In the third episode, we converse with an extremely talented and charming Primatologist— Prof. Anindya Sinha, who is currently a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru.
Stay tuned for the complete episode coming out this weekend, wherein we converse with Prof. Sinha about his fascinating research on non-human primates.
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How do we measure time to the utmost precision? How do we even define time? What’s the need for a definition? And where does fundamental science really matter to the everyday affairs we go through?
The questions that subtly sit right beside our daily routines, and are conveniently pushed on the other side of the horizon more often than not — are the same questions that lend the modern world’s working mechanisms a precise meaning and synchronicity. On the crossroads of philosophy and physics, we discuss about the practical aspects of the frontier of the research directions that delineate the physical world around us with the man behind India’s first space-based atomic clock that was launched by ISRO in 2023, Prof. Thejesh N. Bandi.
Listen to the two part conversation on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube or directly visit our website— www.zeroingin.org
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From the biggest waves of the ocean to the tiniest of the atoms tick at their own frequencies. While some are extremely periodic, others shift through time.
Season theme music by: Shaun Ethan & Krishnabh Thengal.
Artwork by: Akshita Arora
In the second and final part of the conversation in the first episode of Season 5, we continue our dialogue with the distinguished physicist, Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh. In this episode, we delve deeper into her contributions to the field of Quantum Optics, as well as her experiences as a teacher and policy maker.
We talk at extent about developing the theory as well as the experimental set up for the two photon interference experiment while also traversing through her personal anecdotes and some extremely fascinating insights.
Don't miss out on this enriching conversation with Prof Ghosh, available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or directly on our website: www.zeroingin.org.
Video by: @shagun_barkodia
Season theme song by Shaun Ethan C. Phangcho and Krishnabh Thengal.
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How does the property of light change when we zoom in and look at the photons?
When we talk about ‘Quantum’ we view the universe probabilistically, that means while you are sitting in your room listening to this excerpt there’s a teeny-tiny but non-zero chance that you are currently playing foosball with the penguins in Antarctica!
Hear this exciting excerpt from a conversation where we talk about some of the pioneering works in the field that demonstrated experimental methods of probing the quantum nature of this fascinating universe we inhabit.
Stay tuned for the second half of our conversation— Zeroing In with Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh releasing this weekend!
Artwork by: Akshita Arora
Music from Pixabay.
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Quantum optics is an extremely rich and diverse field with applications ranging from super fast computers (quantum computers) to establishing a zero-failure communication system! Forming one of the most sought after fields in natural science in the present world to deepen our understanding of the universe, it holds immense potential of answering the long pressing big questions in fundamental physics, and beyond.
In our first episode of the fifth season of Zeroing In, we converse with a brilliant physicist whose contributions to this field essentially laid the foundations, while the research area was taking shape in the latter half of the 20th century. Our guest for this conversation, Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh, completed her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, New York, where among her other pioneering ideas, her thesis was based on exploring the ‘Non-classical effects in the interference of two photons’ with Prof. Leonard Mandel, widely known as one of the founding fathers of the field of Quantum Optics. Prof. Ghosh moved back to India as a professor at JNU, Delhi where she worked for the major part of her academic career. Subsequently, she moved to Shiv Nadar University as the Founding Director of Natural Sciences and later took over as the Vice Chancellor at the SNU.
She has also contributed immensely to nation building over the years as an all rounded-researcher and teacher in academia, as well as in very significant capacities as a policy maker at the apex institutions and organisations such as NCERT, DST, UGC and CSIR, among others, throughout her career.
In this first of the two part conversation with Prof. Ghosh, we discussed at length about the making of a scientist, and life in science. Diving deep, Prof. Ghosh takes us along the insightful journey of how the scientific landscape spanned in the 1980s, and through quintessential anecdotes, shares some beautiful insights from her starting years as a doctoral student, lending a closer view to a lifetime of pursuing brilliance while discovering and nurturing dexterity ranging wide across the experimental and theoretical fields of quantum optics, laser physics, non-linear optics and quantum information. Experience this rich conversation filled with beautiful insights and fascinating anecdotes on Spotify or Apple podcast or directly on our website: www.zeroingin.org
Stay tuned for the second half of this conversation, coming out in the following week!
Season theme song by Shaun Ethan C. Phangcho and Krishnabh Thengal.
Perhaps it is only fair to open this marveling season of our journey from Atoms to Planets with a conversation where we dive into the quantum world!
When we talk about interference, we consider light as a wave, while in the photoelectric effect, Einstein very revolutionarily proposed the idea of photons as particles. Sitting right in between, begs the question — how would you explain the interference of two photons!
One of the most pioneering experiments that also became a pivotal event in the story of Quantum Optics, was conceptualised and undertaken during the doctoral thesis of our guest for this episode— a fitting start to a journey studded with brilliant ideas all along—, for an extremely talented physicist and a charming human all around— Prof. Rupamanjari Ghosh.
Stay tuned for a conversation amalgamating a scientific breakthrough and personal anecdotes from a pioneering physicist!
The first part of this conversation releases this Friday on major podcast streaming platforms including Spotify and YouTube or directly head to our website: www.zeroingin.org
Artwork by: Akshita Arora.
Background music from Pixabay.
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While physicists go about explaining how the world works as it is being witnessed, mathematicians design a world with their own sets of curiosities. Everything being explored or has been explored about the physical system is merely a subset of the expanse to which the mathematical world extends.
Delving into some fundamental yet fascinating ideas of the mathematical world, we converse with Prof. Sujatha Ramdorai— famously known for her contributions to the Iwasawa theory, only to discover how much there is yet to be ventured beyond the physical dimensions.
The podcast currently has 61 episodes available.