Re: [silk] On research and higher education in Indian universities.

[Thejaswi Udupa]

Hi Jahnavi,

This was well worth the 60 minutes I spent on it, and loved everything
about it--the interviews (and the unreliable memories that come with many
decades having gone by), the warmth and genuineness of all the people
involved, the inclusivity you've shown in getting everyone's voice in, and
much more. Also love the touches with first day covers and newspaper
headlines bolstering the stories being told.

Thank you so much for sharing this!

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 4:46 PM Jahnavi Phalkey 
wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> I am delighted to invite you to the *online launch
> * of my first
> film, Cyclotron! The film grew out of my research on the beginnings of
> experimental nuclear physics in India, part of which was published as a
> book (*Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India*). One story
> that did not make it into the book, became this film.
>
> The film can be watched starting today until 4 October 2020
>  on the
> Bangalore International Centre screening platform - *BIC Streams*.
>
> On Sunday 27 September*,* I will be in a conversation with Shiraz Minwalla
> about the film for which you may register here
> <
> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016006872394/WN_4BAsaGTYRXmJienFbanPjg
> >
> .
>
> *About the film*:
> Cyclotron is a film about the world’s oldest functional particle
> accelerator and the people who keep it running today.
>
> Operational in 1936 at the University of Rochester, United States, it was
> built merely three years after the very first cyclotron was built by Ernest
> Lawrence at Berkeley. The entire set-up in Rochester was dismantled and
> sent to India in 1967, and is now housed at the Panjab University,
> Chandigarh. With the cyclotron, the regional university became one of the
> very few places in India for research and education in nuclear physics.
> This was otherwise possible only in the facilities of the Department of
> Atomic Energy. The cyclotron has been running for nearly fifty years in
> Chandigarh. The film explores the life and legacy of the machine as well as
> the struggles and triumphs of its technicians, researchers and students; it
> is also a comment on the state of experimental research and higher
> education in Indian universities.
>
> I much hope that you will be able to watch the film and perhaps join in the
> discussion!
>
> Warmly, Jahnavi
>
> --
> J A H N A V IP H A L K E Y
>
> Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru
> Sir Asutosh Mukherjee Visiting Professor, National Institute of Advanced
> Studies
>

Re: [silk] On research and higher education in Indian universities.

[Thaths]

Hi Jahnavi,

Thank you very much for sharing this. I just finished watching it and loved
it.

As someone who read about particle accelerators in a high school physica
textbook I never got a chance to use one in my studies. But I am the type
of nerd who gets a kick out of driving over the tunnel of the Stanford
Linear Accelerator (SLAC) every time I drive on Highway 280 near the
Stanford Campus.

There were a few things I really appreciated in your film:

1. The women Ph.D. students you included in the film talking about their
work and research.

2. You including the Cleaner (a second-generation involvement with the
Cyclotron) in the documentary

Thaths

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 4:16 AM Jahnavi Phalkey 
wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> I am delighted to invite you to the *online launch
> * of my first
> film, Cyclotron! The film grew out of my research on the beginnings of
> experimental nuclear physics in India, part of which was published as a
> book (*Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India*). One story
> that did not make it into the book, became this film.
>
> The film can be watched starting today until 4 October 2020
>  on the
> Bangalore International Centre screening platform - *BIC Streams*.
>
> On Sunday 27 September*,* I will be in a conversation with Shiraz Minwalla
> about the film for which you may register here
> <
> https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016006872394/WN_4BAsaGTYRXmJienFbanPjg
> >
> .
>
> *About the film*:
> Cyclotron is a film about the world’s oldest functional particle
> accelerator and the people who keep it running today.
>
> Operational in 1936 at the University of Rochester, United States, it was
> built merely three years after the very first cyclotron was built by Ernest
> Lawrence at Berkeley. The entire set-up in Rochester was dismantled and
> sent to India in 1967, and is now housed at the Panjab University,
> Chandigarh. With the cyclotron, the regional university became one of the
> very few places in India for research and education in nuclear physics.
> This was otherwise possible only in the facilities of the Department of
> Atomic Energy. The cyclotron has been running for nearly fifty years in
> Chandigarh. The film explores the life and legacy of the machine as well as
> the struggles and triumphs of its technicians, researchers and students; it
> is also a comment on the state of experimental research and higher
> education in Indian universities.
>
> I much hope that you will be able to watch the film and perhaps join in the
> discussion!
>
> Warmly, Jahnavi
>
> --
> J A H N A V IP H A L K E Y
>
> Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru
> Sir Asutosh Mukherjee Visiting Professor, National Institute of Advanced
> Studies
>


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[silk] On research and higher education in Indian universities.

[Jahnavi Phalkey]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am delighted to invite you to the *online launch
* of my first
film, Cyclotron! The film grew out of my research on the beginnings of
experimental nuclear physics in India, part of which was published as a
book (*Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India*). One story
that did not make it into the book, became this film.

The film can be watched starting today until 4 October 2020
 on the
Bangalore International Centre screening platform - *BIC Streams*.

On Sunday 27 September*,* I will be in a conversation with Shiraz Minwalla
about the film for which you may register here

.

*About the film*:
Cyclotron is a film about the world’s oldest functional particle
accelerator and the people who keep it running today.

Operational in 1936 at the University of Rochester, United States, it was
built merely three years after the very first cyclotron was built by Ernest
Lawrence at Berkeley. The entire set-up in Rochester was dismantled and
sent to India in 1967, and is now housed at the Panjab University,
Chandigarh. With the cyclotron, the regional university became one of the
very few places in India for research and education in nuclear physics.
This was otherwise possible only in the facilities of the Department of
Atomic Energy. The cyclotron has been running for nearly fifty years in
Chandigarh. The film explores the life and legacy of the machine as well as
the struggles and triumphs of its technicians, researchers and students; it
is also a comment on the state of experimental research and higher
education in Indian universities.

I much hope that you will be able to watch the film and perhaps join in the
discussion!

Warmly, Jahnavi

-- 
J A H N A V IP H A L K E Y

Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru
Sir Asutosh Mukherjee Visiting Professor, National Institute of Advanced
Studies