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Dec
20
Stranger than fiction
December 20, 2006 | 2 Comments
Sometimes science can be stranger than fiction.
Like this innovative way to settle an age old controversy - that of whether brain cells can form anew after birth it is a well known fact that brain cells once formed are not made again. unlike say for example the skin cells which are shed and then replaced. [...]
Dec
20
Ramujan Prize for Indian mathematician
December 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Just read on the BBC News site that an Indian mathematician, Dr. Sujatha Ramadorai of Tata Instititue of Fundamental Research has been awarded the Ramajuan Prize. She won it for her contributions to the ‘arithemetics of algebraic varieties and for her work on non-commutative Iwasawa theory‘. Congratulations doc!
Nice to see that it’s an Indian that [...]
Dec
18
Hello World!!
December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
High time I did post here, before more people start doubting my very existence. Had planned initially to blog on something else, but that didn’t happen. That’s a long story, and I will not repeat it here.
As this is going to be an introductory post, I think I shall tell you about what I [...]
Dec
5
On Being a Grad Student
December 5, 2006 | 1 Comment
If you’ve been following this blog for a bit you’ve obviously noticed the little strip of the latest PhD comics along the top.
PhD Comics is written and drawn By Jorge Cham, a one time grad student at Stanford University and used to be published in their student newspaper but now appears in a number of [...]