65__200PM__5-12-15_Anju Bhasin

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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
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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.
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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.
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There is no charge for attending the lecture.
Fulbright campus representatives and interested faculty are encouraged to attend.
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Global Collaboration, Big Data - A journey of India to
the Beginning of the Universe!
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Professor Anju Bhasin!
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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.!
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Local organizers:!
The University of Kansas, Department of Physics and
Astronomy, International Programs and The Commons !
Haskell Indian Nations University