ELQ 301 Seminar / Communication Skills 2015-16 Semester I
Sessions Wed: 5-7p, 2LT1. Instructor: Uday Khankhoje


Sessions

1. 26 Aug 2015. Introductory session. Reading from Richard Dawkin's "The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writings". In particular, an excerpt from Godel, Escher, Bach: a veiled dialogue on Godel's incompleteness theorem between Achilles and the Tortoise. Related links: Zeno, incompleteness.
2. 09 Sept 2015. Discussions on how to make good presentations. Reference material posted here. Presentations on the conjugate gradient method by (1) Avinash Patel, and (2) Abhishek Anand.
3. 24 Sept 2015. More discussions on how to make effective presentations. Presentations on (3) "Converting CO2 to CH3OH" by Nakul Bahmania and on (4) "Photocatalysts for Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Solar Energy" by Nikhil Agrawal.
4. 30 Sept 2015. Some tips on writing math in LaTeX. More here. Presentations (5),(6) on the 2014 Physics Nobel Prize, "Blue LEDs" by Akshay Singla and Bhavya Bandaru.
5. 14 Oct 2015. Guest lecture on "Talking Science to the Public" by Dr. Sarita Alhawat.
6. 28 Oct 2015. Talks by Arnav Kansal, Akash Baghel, Shubham Yadav.
7. 04 Nov 2015. Talks by Srinath, Amandeep Arora, Anshul Jain.

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