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‘The line is getting fuzzier’: asteroids and comets may be more similar than we thinkWhile specimens may not be large, it turns out such dust particles are reforming scientists’ conception of asteroids and comets and are enough to reconstruct entire scenes in the history of the solar system.
Asteroids and comets are primitive bodies left over from early in solar system formation, so the more we can know about their composition, the more we know about where they formed. Those asteroids that formed in the same neighbourhood as comets tend to be closer in composition to them.
Shiv Nadar University, Chennai, has appointed Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya as its first Vice Chancellor.
Mr. Bhattacharyya was earlier the director (officiating) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Apart from three decades of a teaching career, he has also been the director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee.
University Chancellor R. Srinivasan said the V-C would steer the University along with a team of acclaimed academicians and industry mentors to create an enabling environment that blends academic rigour, culture of research and sustained industry engagement.
Mr. Bhattacharyya is the author of several books on structural engineering. He has been associated with the IIEST (Shibpur), BITS (Pilani) and the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). He has been a visiting faculty at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany and the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.
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Chennai: Shiv Nadar University Chennai, the third initiative in higher education by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, today announced the appointment of Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya as the University’s Founding Vice Chancellor. Prof. Bhattacharyya is a widely acclaimed academician and was previously the Director (officiating) at IIT Kharagpur. In a career spanning over three decades, Prof. Bhattacharyya has demonstrated outstanding scholarship in his field, rigor for academic excellence and support for the faculty’s role in achieving this, driving pedagogical redesign as well as commitment to teaching and research. He has also been the Director of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) – Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) in Roorkee.
Who is Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya; Shiv Nadar University s new Founding VC
Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya is acclaimed academia with over three decades of experience, during which he has demonstrated exceptional scholarship in his field. He is now Founding VC of Shiv Nadar University, Chennai.
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Professor Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya has been appointed Founding Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University Chennai. The announcement was made on Wednesday by the university and this appointment provides Bhattacharyya academic and administrative leadership at the university. In a press release, Shiv Nadar University said Bhattacharyya will help achieve the institute s vision of becoming a pioneering institution of higher education, setting new global academic benchmarks and revolutionizing the education landscape in the country.
. Claus Roll is a director of research and program development for OSA Europe.
In a recent article, we offered an overview of the general funding schemes in Germany, the European Union’s largest economy. We noted there that areas explicitly described as “optical technologies” received a total of €245.8 million of public funding in 2020 but that the total funding for optics and photonics is likely much larger, with much of it “hidden” in other domains like electronic systems, microsystems, nanotechnology and materials technologies.
The remaining articles in this series will drill down into funding via specific channels and agencies within that overall picture. In this story, we look at optics and photonics funding by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, or DFG) an independent research-funding organization serving all branches of science and the humanities at universities and non-university research institutions.