Home Page Of
Professor Ashok
Sengupta
Department
of Mechanical Engineering, and
Nuclear Engineering and Technology Programme
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, INDIA
Fax:
+91 0512 2597408/ 2590007
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, INDIA
E-mail:
osegu@iitk.ac.in
Telephone:
+91 0512 2597035 (Office)/ 2598705 (House)
In: Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2009 Edition
"The research that has the most profound impact on knowledge and understanding, and so often that which ultimately has the most profound impact on everyday life, is that driven by curiosity rather than immediate application. In a world in which funding bodies tend to support research that is programmatic and promises predetermined deliverables, the
Founding Director (effectve January 1, 2007)
"The research that has the most profound impact on knowledge and understanding, and so often that which ultimately has the most profound impact on everyday life, is that driven by curiosity rather than immediate application. In a world in which funding bodies tend to support research that is programmatic and promises predetermined deliverables, the
Founding Director (effectve January 1, 2007)
Camp: Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
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"The research that has the most profound impact on knowledge and understanding, and so often that which ultimately has the most profound impact on everyday life, is that driven by curiosity rather than immediate application. In a world in which funding bodies tend to support research that is programmatic and promises predetermined deliverables,freedom provided by the Institute to its Faculty and Members is increasingly rare. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarship – the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge – (it) is dedicated to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge."
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"The research that has the most profound impact on knowledge and understanding, and so often that which ultimately has the most profound impact on everyday life, is that driven by curiosity rather than immediate application. In a world in which funding bodies tend to support research that is programmatic and promises predetermined deliverables,freedom provided by the Institute to its Faculty and Members is increasingly rare. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarship – the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge – (it) is dedicated to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge."
"How
does the irreversibility of macroscopic phenomena arise? It certainly
dos not come from the fundamental laws of physics, because these are
all reversible. Each individual (forward) event would look perfectly
reasonable viewed in reverse, but when we add them all together we
obtain a process which would look stupid run backwards. How can we
obtain an irreversibe process from the combined effect of very many
reversible processes? Unfortunately we are not quite at the stage where
we can formulate a convincing answer. Howecer, the essential
irreversibility of macroscopic phenomena is one of the key results of
statistical thermodynamics" --- Richard Fitzpatrick, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanis: An Intermediate Level Course
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Is Quantum Mechanics an effective linear representaion of the nonlinear multifunctional holism of maximal illposedness? What, Why? ChaNoXity
International Workshop: Mathematics &
Physics of Complex and Nonlinear Systems, IIT Kanpur,
March 2004
Organized
Session: Ill Posed Problems
and Complex Dynamical Systems, Catania, Italy
July 2000
"The important point in our general understanding of social systems is
that self-organizing systems can break symmetry and create real
behavioural differences between populations that were hitherto
identical. This means that a system with internal diversity can evolve
qualitatively over time, and this diversity doesn't even need to be
real. It only needs to reside as a 'speculation' in an actor's mind and
that may be enough for non-linear interactions to amplify into a real
presence. "Our example shows us that the evolutionary
diversity of systems emerges from within them and can fashion their
evolutionary pathway." --- P. M. Allen, M. Strathern and J. S. Baldwin In Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems, Eds: R. R. McDaniel, Jr. and D. J. Driebe, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2005)