CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDIES

Indian Instiute of Science, Bangalore

Invites you to a Seminar on


The Pursuit and Evaluation of Science –

Do we need new paradigms for both?

at the

Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Thursday, February 2, 2006

PROGRAM

9:00 a.m - 9:15 a.m.

Introduction
Raghavendra Gadagkar

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Chair

A. K. Sood
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

9:15 a.m - 10:00 a.m.

Measures and Mismeasures of Science
P. Balaram

Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m

Research and Research Infrastructures as a bedtest for new approaches
Carlo Rizzuto

Elettra Laboratory, Sincrotrone Trieste

10:45 a.m. –11:15 a.m COFFEE BREAK

Chair


Sundar Sarukkai

National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m


What we need is a critical dialogue between existing and emerging paradigms
Yehuda Elkana

Central European University, Budapest


12:00 p.m – 12:45 p.m

Frontier research - a new paradigm for Europe and how to implement it
Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny

Wissenschaftszentrum Wien, Wien

12:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m LUNCH

Chair


Uday Balakrishnan

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


2:00 p.m – 2:45 p.m

Evaluation and its unintended effects in the German system
Joachim Nettelbeck

Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin


2:45 p.m – 3:30 p.m

Pursuit of Science by Women: realities and hopes
Rohini Godbole

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m COFFEE BREAK

Chair

Rahul Pandit

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

4:00 p.m – 4:45 p.m


Levelling the playing field: How can we take full advantage of the new technologies?

Subbiah Arunachalam

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation


4:45 p.m – 5:30 p.m

What drives excellence in science - industrial and defence interest or unattached individual brilliance?
Sanjay Biswas
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

 

 

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