| 1) Physical Sciences
and their impact on human civilisation |
The presentation summarises my views of how science has
changed the human civilisation.The presentation uses some cartoon
strips from Calvin and Hobbes and Ching Chow. I would like to
acknowledge their excellent cartoons that have clarified so many points
in the talk. The talk has 91 slides and takes about five hours to
deliver! |
| 2) Atoms to Astronomy |
This talk clarifies various concepts in Astornomy and
Astrophysics and include images from all over. The talk has more than
200 slides and takes about eight hours to deliver! |
| 3) Unity of Science |
This is based on the famous book "Powers of 10" by Morisson
but the pictures are Indianised and some other things have also been
added. It has about 50 slides and takes only a couple of hours to
deliver! |
| 4) High Energy
Astrophysics |
This is a talk on various aspects of the field. It has about
64 slides and takes a couple of hours to deliver! |
5) India in Space
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This talk gives an overview of India's space programmes. It
has 57 slides and can be given in about one and a half hours. |
6) On the irrelevance of being Pluto
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This talk is about the
controvercy that dethroned Pluto from the status of a planet
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7) Intelligent life in the Universe
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This is a discussion on the
possibilty of life in general and intelligent life in particular in the
Universe.
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