It is a well known fact that the beautiful world of
Engineering has emerged from basic sciences. To express
love towards basic sciences a one day science meet was
organized by Department of Mathematics and Physical
sciences on 16 February 2008.
The first lecture was delivered by Dr. V. Chandrashekaran,
Scientist ‘G’ DMRL. He in his lecture touched
upon the current areas of research going on in DMRL
and other research institutes in the field of magnetic
materials and superconductivity. Many students have
shown keen interest in the lecture and after the session
discussed with him about magnetic levitation. During
lecture also many questions were posed by the audience,
which Dr. Chandrashekaran had explained lucidly.
The second lecture was delivered by Dr. N. S. N. Pandit,
Director, CQM, Osmania University. His lecture was on
the role of Statistics in Engineering. He had given
very apt examples to make his point.
The third lecture was delivered by Dr V. Siva Rama Prasad,
Principal Nalla Malla Reddy Engineering College. The
lecture was very energetic and was received by the audience
very well. Few specific problems on number theory were
discussed in the lecture. He explained formula to find
k consecutive composite numbers. He posed and answered
the question “Is there any recurrence formula
for determining pn.” for which the answer is no.
He discussed few concepts on perfect numbers and gave
a formula to check whether a given prime number of form
2k-1 is perfect or not..
Elocution competition was conducted first
in the afternoon session. The judges for Elocution competition
were Dr. G. V Rao Prof and head Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Dr. Sastry Professor of CSE Department and
Dr. Bhaskara Murthy Professor and Head Department of Electronics
and Communication Engineering. The topic for the Elocution
competition was “Is Science boon to man kind”.
There were about eleven participants for the competition.
