Epigenetics centre inaugurated at IISER

The Cluster Computing Facility,however will be open to all departments in IISER to facilitate complex calculations.

Addressing the students,Sibal said,“You are the ones dreaming about a future for India. As long as we listen to you,the nation is going to do fine. In all these 62 years,we did not listen to you. We’re just facilitators. If the nation wants double digit growth figures,we have to provide an atmosphere of absolute trust and freedom to our scientists as they are the ones laying the foundations of our future.”

Appreciating the efforts of IISER in involving its research scholars in under-graduate teaching,Sibal said,“By 2020,we will have 220 million schoolgoing kids. Thus,we will need enormous human resource as faculty members. I am very passionate about promoting science and technology in this nation. It is a kind of a personal commitment for me,though I myself have been a student of history and a very bad student of politics.”

Sibal also commended the efforts of IISER at promoting inter-disciplinary studies and said that the old systems of creating water tight compartments between different areas of science have been done away with in most countries as there are no barriers to learning.

“Knowledge is the only thing in today’s world that does not need visas”,added Sibal on a lighter note.

Prof Krishna N Ganesh,Director,IISER Pune said,“Here we’re trying to move away from traditional pedagogy and promote original thinking. The Cluster computer facility here will simulate those complex calculations that cannot be done experimentally,including molecular dynamics and non-linear dynamics.

SIU plans campus in Muscat
Symbiosis International University will soon establish its campus in Muscat in Oman. “S B Mujumdar had come to Muscat recently and we had a talk about setting up a campus in Oman. Symbiosis will very soon come to Oman,” said Pankaj Khimji,director,Khimji Ramdas Group,Muscat,Sultanate of Oman. Mujumdar confirmed the same. Juan Alfredo Pinto Saavedra,Ambassador of Colombia to India said that a prominent university in Colombia will soon tie-up with Symbiosis for various courses.