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The Psi-Comm Podcast, powered by Chrysalis, IISER Bhopal, is where we discuss and promote interdisciplinary research in all scientific realms and highlight their societal implications. New episodes on the second Sunday of every month!

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  1. 14/04/2022

    5. Climate Change Research Governing Public Policy Making

    In this fifth episode of the Psi-Comm Podcast series, we explore the importance of integrating climate change research with public policymaking.  Described as 'a truly complex and diabolical policy problem', climate change is a new risk that is 'big, global, long-term, persistent and uncertain. Hear Mr. Arpit Chaturvedi, Co-founder and CEO of Global Policy Insights, and Prof. Eeshan Chaturvedi, Founder-Director of Environmental - Public Policy Consultancy 'EnviPol' talk about the challenges and opportunities to integrate climate change research with public policymaking. Hosts: Anirudh Arora, Thrisha S. Content Development: Anirudh Arora, Thrisha S, Sampurna Roychoudhury, Vatsala Nema, Vedant Bhutra Intro/Outro Music: Subhadip Banerjee Editing: Soham Bhar

    1 小時 8 分鐘

  2. 02/01/2022

    4. The Curious Case of Philosophy in Science: Part 2

    Explore the concept of truth in science, scientific temper in the Indian setting, exclusionary practices in the scientific community, ethics in science and curiosity, enhancement of science education, and much more in the second instalment of the podcast’s fourth episode with Prof. Sundar Sarrukai! Prof. Sundar Sarukkai is trained in physics and philosophy and has a PhD from Purdue University. He works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and the social sciences. He was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre of Philosophy and Humanities from 2010-15 and a professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies until 2019. Currently he is a visiting faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, IISc Bangalore. He is also the Co-Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India and the Series Editor for the Science and Technology Studies series, Routledge. He also founded Barefoot Philosophers.  He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science?, and two books co-authored with Gopal Guru – The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and more recently, Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His book titled JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy was published in 2020.  He has been actively taking philosophy to different communities and places, conducting philosophy workshops for children, and bringing philosophy to the public through his writing in the media and his initiative Barefoot Philosophers. His latest book is Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading and Writing, and it is being published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali. Host: Thrisha S. Content Development: Thrisha S., Rahul Krishnakumar, Vatsala Nema, Vedant Bhutra Intro/Outro Music: Subhadip Banerjee Editing: Soham Bhar

    45 分鐘

  3. 26/12/2021

    4. The Curious Case of Philosophy in Science: Part 1

    In this exciting fourth episode of the Psi-Comm podcast, explore the nature of science, reality, and knowledge through this enlightening conversation on the Philosophy of Science with our guest, Prof. Sundar Sarrukai! Understand the importance of the question of the scientific temper among scientists and how entrance exams can be discriminatory. We talk about innovative thinking, the next Nobel prize from India and much more. Prof. Sundar Sarukkai is trained in physics and philosophy and has a PhD from Purdue University. He works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and the social sciences. He was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre of Philosophy and Humanities from 2010-15 and a professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies until 2019. Currently he is a visiting faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, IISc Bangalore. He is also the Co-Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India and the Series Editor for the Science and Technology Studies series, Routledge. He also founded Barefoot Philosophers.  He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science?, and two books co-authored with Gopal Guru – The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and more recently, Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His book titled JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy was published in 2020.   He has been actively taking philosophy to different communities and places, conducting philosophy workshops for children, and bringing philosophy to the public through his writing in the media and his initiative Barefoot Philosophers. His latest book is Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading and Writing, and it is being published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali. Host: Thrisha S.  Content Development: Rahul Krishnakumar, Thrisha S., Vatsala Nema, Vedant Bhutra Intro/Outro Music credits: Shubhadip Banerjee Editing: Soham Bhar

    59 分鐘

  4. 22/08/2021

    3. Precision Engineering of Proteins

    In the third episode of the Psi-comm podcast series, we talk about the Linchpin Directed Modification (LDM) technology developed by the team led by Dr. Vishal Rai, associate professor at IISER Bhopal, with Ms. Kalyani Thakur, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Rai's lab closely associated with this project. LDM is a novel technology to label specific regions of proteins more accurately as part of a larger goal of 'precision engineering' of proteins for human benefit. Host: Ashwin Ananthanarayanan Content Development: Ashwin Ananthanarayanan, Vatsala Nema, Vedant Bhutra Intro/Outro Music credits: Shubhadip Banerjee Editing: Soham Bhar

    41 分鐘

  5. 11/07/2021

    2. Intersectional Feminism

    For the second episode in the Psi-Comm podcast series, we have with us Dr. Anandita Pan, a faculty from the Humanities and Social Sciences Department. Dr. Pan has been working extensively on caste and gender studies in India. We talk about her new book - titled “Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint”! Intrigued about Intersectional Feminism? Intersectional feminism centers the voices of those experiencing overlapping, concurrent forms of oppression in order to understand the depths of the inequalities and the relationships among them in any given context. (source: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/explainer-intersectional-feminism-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters) Host: Ishita Gupta Content Development: Anuprita Kulkarni, Vatsala Nema, Vedant Bhutra Intro/Outro Music credits: Shubhadip Banerjee Editing: Vedant Bhutra

    29 分鐘

  6. 13/06/2021

    1. Crowd & Mask Monitoring System: Understanding AI & ML

    The first episode of the Psi-Comm Podcast powered by Chrysalis features a chat with a team of four professors and 1 undergraduate student from IISER Bhopal: Dr Sujit PB, Dr Santanu Talukder, Dr Venkateshwar Rao Dugyala, Dr Mitradip Bhattacharjee and Kasi Viswanath as they discuss the AI-enabled Crowd and Mask Monitoring System they developed during the lockdown to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as give general advice to students interested in pursuing AI & ML. Hosts: Ashwin Ananthanarayanan, Rahul Krishnakumar Content Development: Ashwin Ananthanarayanan, Rahul Krishnakumar, Vatsala Nema, Vedant Bhutra Intro/Outro Music credits: Shubhadip Banerjee Editing: Vedant Bhutra

    1 小時 16 分鐘
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The Psi-Comm Podcast, powered by Chrysalis, IISER Bhopal, is where we discuss and promote interdisciplinary research in all scientific realms and highlight their societal implications. New episodes on the second Sunday of every month!

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  • 創作者
    Chrysalis
  • 活躍年份
    2021年 - 2022年
  • 單集
    6
  • 分級
    兒童適宜
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    © Chrysalis
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    Psi-Comm