IITGN to organise a three-day international conference on Ecology
Gandhinagar: The Humanities and Social Sciences discipline at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) is organising a three-day international conference on ‘Affect, Embodiment and Ecology: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives’ from March 2-4, 2020. The conference is co-sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and will comprise panel discussions by participants and three keynote talks […]
Read More →IITGN inaugurates state-of-the-art Transmission Electron Microscopy facility
Gandhinagar: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) recently inaugurated a state-of-the-art Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) facility on its campus. Installed at a total cost of about Rs. 12 crore, this facility is one of its kind in the entire state of Gujarat and is one of the few such microscopes in the country. Transmission Electron […]
Read More →CAN 2020 workshop series on Climate Change kick-started at IITGN
Gandhinagar:A mega workshop series on Climate Change, Climate Action Now (CAN) 2020, was inaugurated today at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) byShri S J Haider, IAS, Principal Secretary, Climate Change Department (CCD), Government of Gujarat, in presence of other distinguished guests, including Prof Sudhir Jain, Director, IITGN; Shri R D Kamboj, Director, GEER […]
Read More →Dr Nanditha Krishna will highlight India’s traditions of nature conservation and sacred ecology at IIT Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar: A historian, environmentalist and author Dr Nanditha Krishna will be at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) to give two lectures on “Sacred ecology of India”. These lectures are part of the fourth edition of the Indian Knowledge Systems semester course being conducted at IITGN on the theme of ‘The Ancient Idea of […]
Read More →IITGN and GEER Foundation collaborate to organise a mega workshop series on Climate Change – CAN 2020
Gandhinagar: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), in collaboration with Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation Gandhinagar, is all set to organise a mega workshop series on Climate Change called, Climate Action Now (CAN) 2020. This workshop series will be spread over three months (February, March and April 2020), 15 workshop days, and three […]
Read More →Prof Neelkanth Chhaya to give two lectures on “Concepts and Practices of Architecture across India” at IITGN
Gandhinagar: Prof Neelkanth Chhaya, an eminent architect and academic,will deliver two lectures at the Indian Institute of Gandhinagar (IITGN) on “Concepts and Practices of Architecture across India”, as a part of the fourth edition of the Indian Knowledge Systems semester course being conducted on the theme of ‘The Ancient Idea of India’.The lectures are scheduled […]
Read More →IITGN researchers reaching for the stars – Made a key contribution to the LIGO discovery of the heaviest binary neutron star system
Gandhinagar:A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have made a significant contribution to the LIGO discovery of the heaviest binary neutron star systemGW190425. The results of this discovery were recently announced and presented at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii.The team at IITGN lead by […]
Read More →IIT Gandhinagar Director Prof Sudhir Jain awarded the Padma Shri
Gandhinagar:IIT Gandhinagar Director Prof Sudhir Jain was awarded the Padma Shri for distinguished service in the field of Science & Engineering at this year’s Republic Day. Dr Jain is currently serving his third term as director of IITGN, which he joined as the founder director in June 2009. He described this achievement as “a collective […]
Read More →CPWD sets up Research & Development Cell at IITGN Research Park
Gandhinagar: The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has set up a Research & Development (R&D) Cell at the Research Park of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) to undertake research and development for projects of interest to CPWD. The R&D Cell of CPWD, aimed at finding efficient solutions to the real problems faced on the […]
Read More →A unique semester course at IITGN to unfold ‘The Idea of Ancient India’
Gandhinagar:The fourth edition of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar’sunique semester elective course, Introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems(IKS), offered by the Humanities and Social Sciences discipline, will be conductedfrom January to April 2020. The theme for this year is ‘The Idea of Ancient India’, which will offer a wide-ranging introduction to ancient India’s intellectual, scientific and […]
Read More →Leaders from academia and industry to ponder over the way forward for IITGN
Gandhinagar: The 9th Academic Advisory Council (AAC) and 10th Leadership Conclave (LC) of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) will be held on January 03 and 04, 2020 respectively. During the two days, eminent academicians and industry stalwarts from India and overseas and IITGN faculty members will make recommendations on major strategic initiatives of […]
Read More →Global academic and industry think-tanks strategise ideas at the 10th Leadership Conclave of IITGN
Gandhinagar: The 10th Leadership Conclave (LC) of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) held today on campus brought together some of the best leading minds from various academic and industrial fields, who shared their knowledge and experience to recommend strategies to the Institute for its way forward on the next decade. The Conclave started […]
Read More →Torchbearers of academia discuss plans for academic excellence during the 9th Academic Advisory Council at IITGN
Gandhinagar: The 9th Academic Advisory Council (AAC) of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) was held today with illustrious external academicians from India and overseas as well as IITGN faculty members. The AAC of IITGN is organised annually to reflect upon academic priority areas for IITGN. The day-long deliberations started with the council participants […]
Read More →‘India kiKhoj’ engrossed students from Caltech and IITGN to comprehend many layers of India
Gandhinagar:Enabling yet another set of students from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) andthe Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) understand and appreciate multiple facets that form this country, India kiKhoj 2019, week-long India immersion program designed by IIT Gandhinagar, concluded on December 22, 2019. The eighth edition of this unique cultural immersion program had […]
Read More →Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar: ‘Winter Institute in Digital Humanities’ (WIDH), one of a kind winter school designed to explore and understand digital studies across several disciplines such as Humanities, Social Sciences, Design and Computation Sciences concluded yesterday at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN). This international workshop was designed and organised collaboratively by IIT Gandhinagar and the […]
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