Wednesday Colloquia

Nobel prizes for Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine and Physics-2013

by Dr. Ravindra Venkatramani(DCS), Profs. Krishanu Ray (DBS), Sreerup Raychaudhuri(DTP) (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG -66 (Lecture Theatre) )
Description
>  Nobel Prize for Chemistry:

Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel
"For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

To be presented by Dr. Ravindra Venkatramani, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR
(30 min + 10 min discussion)

>  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof
"For their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"

To be presented by Prof. Krishanu Ray, Dept. of Biological Sciences, TIFR
(30 min + 10 min discussion)

>  Nobel Prize in Physics

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs
"For the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles"

To be presented by Prof. Sreerup Raychaudhuri, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, TIFR
(30 min + 10 min discussion)
Organised by Roop Mallik, Wednesday Colloquium Coordinator