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28 Jul

Indian students hold tricolour aloft in globalarena

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New Delhi: Indian students have done it again. They have secured one gold, one silver, and three bronze medals in the 62nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), which was hosted by Russia from July 14 -24, 2021, and three Silver and one bronze at the 32nd International Biology Olympiad (IBO) hosted by Portugal from July 18 to 23. In all 619 students from 107 countries participated in the IMO and 304 students from 76 countries in IBO. Both the contests were held online. In IMO, a total of six students from India had participated. Pranjal Srivastava of Bengaluru secured the Gold…

25 May

IIT Delhi to create new centre to boost research in optics and photonics

The News Horizon0 CommentsNational, ScienceCSIR, DAE, DRDO, Fiber optics, ICMR, IIT Delhi, Illumination, Indian Institute of Technology, innovation, Joint Advance Technology Centre (JATC), Lasers, light, Ooptics, Optical communication, Optical imaging, Optical metrology, Optical sensors, Optics and Photonics Centre, Photonics, R&D, Remote sensing

New Delhi: In order to take teaching, research, development, and innovation in different areas of optics and photonics to a higher level, while keeping a balance between classical and modern areas, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will create a new centre named ‘Optics and Photonics Centre’. The Institute’s Board of Governors has given its approval to the creation of the new centre. Optics and photonics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and harnessing them in practical applications. To list a few, the areas covered under optics and photonics include Optical imaging, Optical metrology, Sources and detectors…