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Centre For Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore

The TIFR Centre in Bangalore is a part of the School of Mathematics. The Centre arose and evolved through efforts of the School, since the mid-seventies, to develop areas in applicable mathematics. Over the period, a sizable group of mathematicians was built at the Centre with expertise in the general area. Many renowned mathematicians from India and abroad have contributed to the development of the Centre. Research at advanced level is currently pursued at the Centre in both theoretical and numerical aspects of differential equations.

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For more information, please visit Centre For Applicable Mathematics

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai

HBCSE is devoted to promoting equity and excellence in science and mathematics education and to creating mass interest in science. In pursuance of these goals, it carries out a range of interrelated programmes: curriculum development in science and mathematics with special emphasis on the problems of the underprivileged, low cost laboratory development, organising Study Circles and Olympiads for promising school and college students, popularisation of science through books and other media by stressing its history, current frontiers and the linkages with society.

The Centre carries out extensive field work in rural, semi-urban and urban areas and has a strong collaborative programme with several national networks, especially the Atomic Energy Education Society. All its activities are informed by research in cognitive, linguistic, historical and socio-cultural aspects of science education. HBCSE has contributed significantly to textbook writing at national and State levels. It is the nodal Centre of the country for Olympiad programmes in different disciplines of science.

For more information, please visit HBCSE Homepage

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore

Understanding basic mechanisms of cellular processes requires knowledge of how large molecules acquire defined structures and functions. Scientists at the NCBS are using theoretical as well as experimental methods to understand how DNA sequences can determine structure and how proteins once made, fold to form specific structures. The study of how ions cross biological membranes is key to understanding how nerve cells carry information.

Studying the mechanisms by which large molecules traffic within cells, how cells divide, how they differentiate into specific types of cells and how they ultimately die is central to all of biology. All these questions are being researched at the NCBS. Information on the mechanisms by which viruses infect specific types of cells and how the body responds to such infections is crucial for the study of the biological basis of disease.

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For more information, please visit NCBS Homepage

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune

The group built the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) and has operated it from 1970. The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) project at Khodad, 80 km north of Pune, has been operational since late 1998 and is the world's largest synthesis telescope at wavelengths longer than 21 cm. NCRA has considerable expertise in the fields of design and construction of radio telescopes, including centralised control and monitoring of large antennas and low-noise receiver systems. Using the technique of lunar occultation, a unique database of radio sizes for 700 sources with few arcsecond resolution at metre wavelengths was obtained with the ORT. Several studies using the techniques of interplanetary and interstellar scintillation, observations of pulsars and radio recombination lines and searches for lines of deuterium and highly red-shifted hydrogen have been conducted over two decades using the ORT. The GMRT has already been used for several interesting studies which include highly red-shifted 21cm hydrogen absorption lines, studies of diffuse radio emission from clusters of galaxies, discovery of new galactic supernova remnants and multifrequency pulsar observations.

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For more information, visit NCRA Homepage

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), set up in 2007, is a TIFR led multi- and inter-disciplinary initiative whose main goals are to foster research, become a resource for high level education and training, and reach out to the larger society by being a node for scientific information and values.

ICTS will contribute critically to research excellence and strength in theoretical sciences through a well thought out and responsive program of research activities and the necessary education/training for the future. Along with theoretical activities in traditional areas of the physical and mathematical sciences, there will be emphasis on activities in areas overlapping traditional fields of science.

The overall scientific direction and administration of the Centre is the responsibility of a Management Board and the Centre Director, currently Spenta R. Wadia. The ICTS Advisory Council consists of eminent scientists with experience in running institutions with similar programs. A Program Committee, consisting of acknowledged leaders in different areas of science, helps in selecting program proposals for the Centre to organize.

The permanent campus of ICTS will come up at Bengaluru.

For more information, visit ICTS Homepage

Copyright : TIFR ; Author : Chaudhari Nitin ; Created on 2005-01-01 ; Last modified on 2009-11-27.