IIT Delhi’s 4th SciTech Spins lecture for school children on December 18

IIT Delhi scientists from the Department of Physics will explain about the universe and its history to the students.  

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will host the fourth SciTech Spins lecture for schoolchildren titled “Unraveling Nature: From the Galaxies to the Quantum Realm” on December 18. IIT Delhi scientists Suprit Singh, Abhishek Muralidhar Iyer and Tarun Sharma from the Department of Physics will explain about the universe and its history to the students.  

SciTech Spins is an academic outreach initiative by the institute for the school students especially for classes 9 to 12. Questions such as “Can electrons walk through walls? What do atoms look like? Why does matter have a mass? How can sky be used as a laboratory?” will be taken up by the speakers during the lecture divided into two parts.  

In the first part titled “A Brief History of the Universe: From the Big Bang to the Present”, Suprit Singh will take the students on a tour of the universe from its beginnings. While the second part to be delivered by Iyer and Sharma will dive into the world of elementary particles. 

Giving a glimpse of their lecture, the team said, “One of the fundamental challenges of the human race is to understand nature in all its manifestations. This includes objects as large as galaxies and stars to the fundamental particles like the electrons. Over the past several centuries, our understanding has undergone a process of steady evolution. The talk will attempt to retrace the important steps in this progression and eventually lead to our understanding today.” 

The lecture will also be live streamed on the institute’s official YouTube channel- https://youtu.be/KZspUbQUFO8. The third SciTech Spins lecture titled “Materials that Matter” accompanied by laboratory demonstrations was held on November 20. 

IIT Delhi is giving e-certificates to all registered students nominated by their respective schools who attend the lecture. They will also be invited to ‘Open House’, an annual intellectual fest organised by IIT Delhi, which provides an ideal platform to school students to connect with some of the leading researchers in the field of science and technology.  

Schools may reach out to IIT Delhi through its Associate Dean, Academic Outreach & New Initiatives (adoni@iitd.ac.in; acadoutreach@iitd.ac.in) to nominate their students for SciTech Spins lecture series. 

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