The rufous treepie belongs to the crow family and is a smart looking noisy bird that is commonly seen and heard on campus. To the right is a magizham or a bullet wood tree, which produces small white flowers with a strong and lasting fragrance.
Illustration: Ravi Jambhekar
A new framework to study rare events in aggregation
Researchers have developed an analytical framework for studying rare events in aggregation, which can be used to understand diverse phenomena in environment and climate, biology, and materials science.
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On the trail of Euclid’s Elements
More than two millennia after Elements was written by the Greek mathematician Euclid, it made its appearance in Tamil. Mani recounts his search for this translation, writing about the influence of Elements and its many translations through the ages.
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A trapdoor to another mathematical realm
“These things don’t happen very often, I still remember seeing that picture and this really clear pattern,” Amri recalls, about an image that led to an unexpected insight connecting fractals to symmetric groups.
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Pulsars, served three ways
A pulsar is one of the final stages in a star’s life cycle, where it spins really fast, sending out a strong beam of electromagnetic radiation. Pulsars have allowed us to probe gravitational waves, which cause ripples in space-time.
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Olaf Beyersdorff: A researcher with a recurrent academic home in Chennai
Olaf Beyersdorff is a Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. We caught up with him on his recent visit to chat about his research on proof complexity, and an enduring association with IMSc.
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