Summary
The 3rd SciTech Spins lecture titled ‘Materials that Matter’ will be accompanied by laboratory demonstrations
SciTech Spins is an academic outreach initiative for students of Classes IX to XII
Why did the Titanic sink? How do firemen walk into a ball of fire? What one can learn from nature?
IIT Delhi scientists will answer these and many more such questions at the 3rd SciTech Spins lecture titled Materials that Matter.
SciTech Spins is an academic outreach initiative by IIT Delhi for school students of Classes IX to XII. The institute gives e-certificates to all registered students nominated by their respective schools who attend the lecture.
Ashok K. Ganguli of the department of Chemistry and Rajesh Prasad of the department of Materials Science and Engineering will deliver their talks at 10am on November 20. The institute will livestream the lecture on its official YouTube channel.
Ganguli’s talk titled ‘Materials in Nature and for the Future’ will focus on what one can learn from nature — fireflies, butterflies, sharks, leaves, and design new materials for smart windows, imaging of interiors of cells, protecting surfaces from bacteria, and other modern technologies for handling extreme temperatures.
Rajesh Prasad, whose talk is titled ‘Sinking of Ships and Falling of Aircrafts: The Science of Deformation’, will take the help of some simple experiments using balloons and paper strips to explain to students some interesting situations like when a steel hammer hits an ice block what breaks is ice and not the hammer but when the steel hull of Titanic hit an iceberg, it broke into two and sank.
IIT Delhi will also invite students to Open House, an annual intellectual fest that provides an ideal platform to school students to connect with some of the leading researchers in the field of Science and Technology.
Schools wishing to nominate their students for SciTech Spins may reach out to IIT Delhi through the associate dean, academic outreach and new initiatives, IIT Delhi adoni@iitd.ac.in; acadoutreach@iitd.ac.in.
The first SciTech Spins lecture titled ‘Design Thinking - A Powerful Tool for Problem Solving’ was organised on September 11, 2021. The second lecture titled ‘Learning to Learn Through Modelling’ was organised on October 23, 2021. Both lectures received an overwhelming response from students.
Last updated on 18 Nov 2021
