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Promoting Research and Innovation in Higher Education Institutions
Somak Raychaudhury
Inter-University Centre
for Astronomy and Astrophysics Pune
An autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission www.iucaa.in
National Conference of Vice-Chancellors and Directors of HEIs 2018
Teaching and Research in HEIs
• Pre-independence: pioneering work in Science
was done in Colleges and Universities
• Post-independence: emphasis has shifted to
research institutions; Universities have largely
remained outside (contrary to most countries
who do well in education)
• Within Universities: small research groups
function better than large collaborations
Scientific output from Indian HEIs is increasing in quantity, but not as much in quality (citation, impact)
Asutosh Mookherjee 1914: First Indian National Science Congress In his Presidential Address, Asutosh Mookherjee made the case for research in Universities and its funding
“……But, looking to the future, … India’s landed classes should realise that science enables us to solve difficult agricultural problems and thereby to revolutionise agricultural methods” e.g. Taraknath Palit, Rashbehari Ghosh: University Science College Rs 37.5 lakhs in 1914.
Small and large-scale Research in HEIs
• Research (mostly scientific) is of two kinds:
• Small group based research
• Large collaborative research
• HEIs in India need to get engaged in both
• This has required radical changes in
• Pedagogic practices- skill-based teaching,
problem solving, inquiry-based learning
• Bureaucracy in individual institutions
• Relation with the outside world, in
particular industry
The“Collectingfunnel”=Hornantenna
Penzias & Wilson
Nobel 1978
Jagadis Chandra Bose’s microwaves In Presidency College, Calcutta
The Synergy between Teaching and Research in HEIs
• In doing research, students gain and develop
essential skills for gathering, synthesising
and creating knowledge
• Teachers and Research Staff get fresher
insight into research conventions and habits,
and also learn how to teaching skills
It is necessary to • Bring together specialised research for many institutions • Harness skills necessary to enhance the employability of
students both within and outside of academia
Key Challenges for HEIs
• Balance between teaching and research at
Universities and Colleges
• Innovation in ways of linking research with
teaching
• Delivering 21st century skills suited to
individual student strengths (flexibility)
• Collaboration between HE institutions, HEIs
and industry
• Outreach, dissemination of achievements, and
protection of rights
IndianInstitutesofScienceEducationandResearch(IISERs)
FoundedontheconceptofResearchUniversities.
IISERsaredesignedtointegrateundergraduatescienceteachingwithhighqualityresearch.
Emphasisisonmultidisciplinarylearningandresearch
Haveadoptedopencurriculum.Studentschoosetheirownbasket-fullofcourses:allstudentsgainsufficientbreadthinbothnaturalsciencesandHumanitiesandSocialSciencesandatthesametimegaindepthina
disciplineoftheirchoice.Wepursueinquiry-basedandresearch-basedunder-graduateandgraduate
scienceeducationprograms.
…Redefiningscienceeducation
Courtesy: L Shashidhara, IISER Pune
The UGC Inter-University Centres in Physics
• Inter-University Accelerator Centre, Delhi
• Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and
Astrophysics, Pune
• UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research,
Indore
“..IUCAA,Punewassetupin1988asanautonomouscentreofexcellencetohelpinitiateandnurture,researchanddevelopmentalactivitiesinAstronomyandAstrophysicsintheUniversitysector.IUCAAwassetupwiththebasicpurposeofprovidingadvancedcentralizedfacilitiesforsubjectsnotadequatelycoveredintheuniversitydepartmentsandcolleges.“
JayantVNarlikar
Research&Development
UniversityProgrammesLarge
InternationalCollaborations
PublicOutreach
Activities at the Inter-University Centres
Teaching/LearningCentre
Visiting Associates from Universities and Colleges
IUCAA, Pune (200 HEIs) UGC-DAE CSR, Indore (350 HEIs)
LIGO-G1701635
Indo-US collaboration
Funding agencies: NSF (USA) and jointly DAE (India) & DST (India) Institutions: LIGO Lab., Caltech & MIT (USA), together with
LIGO-India:a Mega-Science project on Indian soil to build the 3rd Gravitational wave detector after the first two won a Nobel prize
1. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune 2. Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar 3. Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore 4. Directorate of Construction, Services and Estate Management (DCSEM), Mumbai
Last three affiliated to Dept of Atomic Energy, India
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NobelPrize2017:IUCAAbuiltthecoregroupforGW
researchinIndia
• IIT Gandhinagar • IIT Bombay • IISER Trivandrum • IISER Kolkata • BITS Hyderabad • and several others
15SeriesofmeetingsatIUCAAtobuildLIS&Tcommunity
Fourmeetingsin2017-18
IndianInstitutions:IUCAA,IPR,RRCAT,IITMadras,IITDelhi,IITKanpur,IISERPune,IISERTvm,IISERKolkata,TIFRMumbai,TIFRHyderabad,
ICTS-TIFR,PhysicalResearchLab.,NationalPhysicalLaboratory,Univ.ofPune&Nanded,SINPKolkata,…
http://www.gw.iucaa.in/litra2016/
Internationalexperts:RanaAdhikari(CaltechUS),
GilesHammond(GlasgowUK),KiwamuIzumi(LIGO-HanfordUS),
BrianLantz(StanfordU,US),DavidMcClelland(ANU,Aus.),
BennoWillke(AEI-Hannover,Germany)BrettShapiro(StanfordU.,US)
AndreasFriese(U.Birmingham,UK)
LIGO-IndiaSciencebuildup
Dates: August 16-18, 2016
Venue: IUCAA, Pune.
(An Autonomous Institution of the University Grants Commission)
INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE FORASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
LIGO-India:The Road AheadThis is the first LIGO-India specific meeting since it received its in-principle approval from the Government of India earlier this year.
The primary purpose of this meeting is to discuss the various activities that Indian experimenters will need to undertake in order to build and commission LIGO-India. There will be discussions on early plans for the next detectors beyond Advanced LIGO as well.
Plenary Speakers:Rana Adhikari (Caltech)Giles Hammond (Glasgow)Kiwamu Izumi (LIGO-Hanford)Brian Lantz (Stanford)David McClelland (ANU)Anil Prabhakar (IIT-Chennai)Umakant Rapol (IISER-Pune)C. S. Unnikrishnan (TIFR)Benno Willke (AEI-Hannover)
Organizing Committee
Sukanta Bose
Ajit Kembhavi
Sanjit Mitra
Somak Raychaudhury
Tarun Souradeep
Meeting website: www.gw.iucaa.in/litra2016/ | Contact: Ms. Pallavi Nalawade ([email protected])For further information on Gravitational Wave research in IUCAA visit: www.gw.iucaa.in
IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, S. P. Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India. Tel: +91 20 2560 4100 | Fax: +91 20 2560 4699
www.iucaa.in
**The image (courtesy LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations) shows the sky localization region in gray of GW150914 produced by the two LIGO detectors in the US. The small dark teardrop is what that region would have shrunk to if LIGO-India were present and had observed that event.
The Saraswati Supercluster
• Bagchi, Raychaudhury, Dabhade (IUCAA Pune)
• Sankhyayan (IISER Pune) • Sarkar (NIT Jamshedpur) • Jacob (Newman College,
Kerala)
KBC 21 Oct 2017
Key Challenges for HEIs
• Balance between teaching and research at
Universities and Colleges
• Innovation in ways of linking research with
teaching
• Delivering 21st century skills suited to
individual student strengths (flexibility)
• Collaboration between HE institutions, HEIs
and industry
• Outreach, dissemination of achievements, and
protection of rights