! !! ! Fulbright Visiting Scholar Prof. Anju Bhasin from Jammu University (India) will give a lecture on Global Collaboration, Big Data - A journey of India to the Beginning of the Universe ! ! Tuesday, May 12th at 2:00 PM 140 Ross Hall Haskell Indian Nations University The Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF) allows Fulbright Visiting Scholars who are currently in the United States to travel to other higher education institutions across the country. Each year some 800 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar grants for advanced research and university lecturing. The purpose of the OLF is to allow these scholars to share their specific research interests, speak on the history and culture of their home country, exchange ideas with U.S. students, faculty and community organizations, become better acquainted with U.S. higher education, and create linkages between their home and host institutions and CIES. ! ! ! ! Professor Anju Bhasin, is an experimental Physicist studying High Energy Nuclear Collisions. Her research focuses on studying the properties of ultra-dense and hot matter created in these collisions, recreating the conditions that prevailed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang. She is a Full Professor in Physics at the University of Jammu, Jammu, India. Her team at Jammu works for the ALICE experiment at CERN, the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Lab, and for CBM at Fair, Germany. Author of over 313 scientific papers, she has been awarded several recognitions, among which the are the Commonwealth Fellowship by Association of Commonwealth Universities, Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship by the European Commission, Brussels at University of Birmingham, UK. Based on the her scientific contributions, in 2014-2015 she has been awarded the Fulbright Academic and Professional Fellowship by the J. Williams Fulbright Foundation, Washington D.C at the Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, Berkeley, USA. She has been active in International collaboration, and has promoted and had key roles in several programs funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; Department of Atomic Energy; University Grants Commission and numerous bilateral agreements like UKIERI. She also serves in the International Advisory Committee of many scientific conferences worldwide. ! ! There is no charge for attending the lecture. Fulbright campus representatives and interested faculty are encouraged to attend. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Global Collaboration, Big Data - A journey of India to the Beginning of the Universe! ! ! Professor Anju Bhasin! ! Collaborative projects and international cooperation are the keys to successful large-scale scientific facilities. In different fields many examples of such “Big Science” projects can be detailed. These international ambassadors of science support knowledge transfer and transmit our human heritage to the younger generations empowered to lead in the coming decade. One of the shining example of international collaboration is embodied in particle and nuclear physics research. Experimental Particle and Nuclear Physics is a huge human experiment, bringing together an unprecedented number of scientists, working towards the same goal to unravel the mystery of the first few quivering moments about when the Universe was created. Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are geared towards this goal. I will present in this talk a journey of India in unravelling the mysteries of the Universe and its role.! ! Local organizers:! The University of Kansas, Department of Physics and Astronomy, International Programs and The Commons ! Haskell Indian Nations University