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IIT Guwahati Outreach Programs at University of Science & Technology Meghalaya
4th May, 2017, USTM, Meghalaya : A talk
on “The Role of Symmetries in Fundamental Physics” was delivered by Dr. Saurabh
Basu, Professor, Dept of Physics & Dean, Outreach Education Program, IIT
Guwahati. The program was organized by the Department of Physics, University of
Science & Technology Meghalaya which is in conformity with IIT Guwahati’s
operational activities aiming to create scientific temper and spearhead the
scientific awareness amongst common people and the new generation as well trough
different outreach programs. And for that matter, University of Science &
Technology Meghalaya had utilized its benefit so that students of the School of
Applied Sciences at USTM get an opportunity to learn through IIT experts.
While welcoming the guest speaker Prof. Basu, Dr. P G Rao, Vice Chancellor, USTM
had opened the dialogue with a reminder to the students of the School of Applied
Sciences, USTM that academia of science must relate to the society so that even
a common man can also understand the necessity of science in their day-to-day
life. Dr. R K Sharma, Pro Vice Chancellor, USTM had asserted that we should
learn the importance of symmetries in nature which keeps balancing and enhancing
the beauty of the Nature. He further elaborated that all the natural objects
possess some symmetry and if that symmetry gets disrupted, the entire nature
will be affected.
Prof. Saurabh Basu, the guest speaker had his lecture segregated in two parts,
one was about the outreach activities of IITs, RAA which includes spreading and
creating scientific temper in school and college, students to be encouraged to
opt for science as a career. He showed different future career prospects for the
M.Sc students at IITs across the country. In the later part, Prof. Basu analyzed
the importance of symmetry principles with respect to the laws of nature
emphasizing how symmetry plays a vital role in defining invariance from
classical mechanics to quantum mechanics. He also said that symmetry is such a
property in the physical world which leaves the object invariant or unchanged.
He had mentioned that 2016 Nobel Prize in physics was delivered for the
discovery of topological phase transition which led to a new symmetry concept in
Condensed Matter Physics. |
