Dr Vinod Kumar Saranathan, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, SIAS and Dr Annu Jalais, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SIAS have co-authored an article on the history of blue colour in nature and culture, titled La couleur bleue : des pigments à l’auto-assemblage, published in Photoniques, the official journal of the French Optical Society.
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Dr Sushant Raut, Assistant Professor of Physics, SIAS, Krea University has been invited to deliver lectures at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Bangalore as a part of their Understanding the Universe through Neutrinos school (22 April to 3 May, 2024). This programme is aimed at PhD students who are starting their research in particle physics. Dr Raut will train the students in simulating long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments which help us to probe the masses of subatomic particles and the symmetries underlying their interactions.
Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS, Krea University, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University won The Ashoka-Sage Prize for Critical Writing at the Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium held at Ashoka University on 6-7 April, 2024, for their paper presentation titled Form and Formula – Reflections on Teaching Technical & Journalistic Writing in Mathematics.
In this paper, Dr Vivek Tewary and Sayantan Datta draw upon their experience of teaching the Writing and Communication in Mathematics course at Krea University to design a possible framework for writing courses in Mathematics. The course taught math writing in technical and journalistic registers. To read research articles in mathematics, we make use of writing pedagogy techniques developed at the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea and find that these are in resonance with how expert mathematicians read mathematics. We also juxtapose the technical and journalistic registers to highlight the aims, concerns and disciplinary contours of the two styles of writing.
The two-day Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium was organised by the Undergraduate Writing Programme (UWP) at Ashoka University, in partnership with Sage, to “explore writing pedagogies and how these can deepen the thinking of students in higher education.”
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Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University, along with Professor Sawmya Ray, IIT Guwahati, delivered an invited talk titled Not just work, but a respectable work: Caste, Gender, and Employment at the International Conference Celebrating 100 Years of Sociology in India, organised by the University of Hyderabad on 1-3 April, 2024.
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Dr Suchika Chopra, Assistant Professor of Economics, SIAS, Krea University has been chosen for the Junior Scholar Intensive Training (JSIT) program scheduled for June 2024. This program, hosted by the UW-Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center (UW RDRC) and supported by the United States Social Security Administration Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC), is a weeklong research training initiative. Its purpose is to provide mentored training to 15 scholars who are researching social safety nets, social insurance, and retirement and disability issues. Specifically, Dr Chopra will be working on understanding how state policies such as Medicare and Medicaid protect near-retirement households from the financial risk of healthcare expenses.
Additionally, on 9 February, 2024, Dr Chopra presented her paper titled Understanding the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany: Asset Value vs. Asset Ownership at the Annual Conference on Economics and Finance hosted by BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. This paper documents and investigates the gender wealth disparity among married and cohabiting couples in Germany, highlighting that this disparity stems from both differences in asset ownership at the extensive margin and differences in wealth given asset ownership at the intensive margin.
A book review by Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University, titled Book review: Sudha Pai, D. Shyam Babu and Rahul Verma (Ed), Dalits in the New Millenium has been published in the recent issue of the Indian Journal of Human Development.
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Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Neha Mishra and Sayantan Datta from the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University, and Dr Vivek Tewary from SIAS, Krea University will be part of the Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium on How can writing pedagogies build critical thinking among students in higher education? organised by Ashoka University on 6–7 April, 2024.
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University and Associate Professor of Literature, SIAS, Krea University will conduct a writing workshop at Ashoka University entitled Giving Feedback for Revision: A Writing Pedagogy Essential on 5 April, 2024 as a pre-event to their 2-day writing symposium.
Dr Anannya Dasgupta will also deliver the Opening Keynote address, “Is it a thing yet?”: Writing Pedagogy in India. Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice, CWP, will speak on Cultivating Dispositions for Critical Thinking: Networks of Support & Feedback in Writing Pedagogies. Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, CWP will deliver a talk titled A Neuroscientist Takes on Writing Pedagogy. Sayantan Datta and Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS, Krea University will spek on Form and Formula – Reflections on Teaching Technical & Journalistic Writing in Mathematics.
This workshop will be attended by faculty of the Undergraduate Writing Programme (who teach the first year writing courses), members of the Centre for Writing and Communication, Teaching Fellows, and interested faculty members from different departments eager to gain insights into effective strategies for addressing their students’ writing-related needs.
A paper titled Charting Paths to Recovery: Navigating Traumatic Brain Injury Comorbidities through Graph Theory–Exploring Benefits and Challenges, co-authored byDr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, SIAS, Krea University and Kaustav Mehta, a Biological Sciences student, SIAS PG Batch of 2023-24 has been published in the Brain Organoid and Systems Neuroscience Journal.
About the paper
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are characterized by widespread complications that exert a debilitating effect on the well-being of the affected individual. TBIs are associated with a multitude of psychiatric and medical comorbidities over the long term. Furthermore, no medications prevent secondary injuries associated with a primary insult. In this perspective article, the authors propose applying graph theory via the construction of disease comorbidity networks to identify high-risk patient groups, offer preventive care to affected populations, and reduce the disease burden. They describe the challenges associated with monitoring the development of comorbidities in TBI subjects and explain how disease comorbidity networks can reduce disease burden by preventing disease-related complications. They further discuss the various methods used to construct disease comorbidity networks and explain how features derived from a network can help identify subjects who might be at risk of developing post-traumatic comorbidities. Lastly, they address the potential challenges of using graph theory to successfully manage comorbidities following a TBI.
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Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Dean (Academic) and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, SIAS, Krea University has been awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship for her research on migration, ecology and borders in Bengal. She will be a visiting fellow at the Queen’s University, Belfast, for three months.
Dr Rakshi Rath, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SIAS, Krea University, and Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University co-presented their paper titled On the Face of It: from Monumental Images to Collective Actions at the Workshop Seminar Twenty-First Century Media? Affective Bodies, Crowds, and Collectives, organised by ICAS:MP TM 7 module, in collaboration with CSDS and Sarai, on 21-23 March, 2024.
This international workshop was focused on site-specific contributions mapping 21st-century media, addressing material and environmental questions for media and political aesthetics. The paper brings theories of Philosophy and Psychology in critical conversation with each other around social ontology, media aesthetics, and political psychology in an attempt to forge new interdisciplinary frameworks for social action.
