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Workshop / 2026

Schedule

Schedule

Day 1

February 23, 2026

  1. Registration

  2. Welcome Address

    Prof Madhumita Sengupta

    Humanities and Social Sciences, IITGN

  3. Welcome Address

    Prof Vinod Chandra

    Physics, HoD of HSS

  4. Address

    Prof Vimal Misra

    Civil Engineering, Dean R&D

  5. Address

    Prof Neeldhara Mishra

    Computer Science and Engineering, IITGN; HoMI Coordinator and Co-organiser

  6. Tea Break

  7. Why Study History of Science?

    Prof Deepak Kumar

    Retd Professor of the History of Science and Education, JNU

  8. A Perspective on Mathematics in the Sulbasutras

    Prof SG Dani

    Retd Professor, TIFR, Mumbai; currently with DAE-CEBS, Mumbai

  9. History of Computing, with Interesting (Social) Bits from Far and Near

    Prof K Gopinath

    Retd Professor, IISc Bangalore; currently Professor at Rishihood University and Guest Professor at IITGN

  10. Lunch

  11. Notes on a Historic Floorplan: A Fragmentary History of British India's First Purpose-Built Chemistry Lab

    Prof Madhumita Mazumdar

  12. The Contested Terrain of Electrification in Colonial Calcutta

    Prof Suvobrata Sarkar

  13. The Extraordinary Career of M Visvesvaraya

    Prof Aparajith Ramnath

  14. Tea Break

  15. Coding the Nation: A Genealogy of Computing as a Practice in India

    Aditya Kumar Pandey

  16. Derailing Guard? A Global History of Check-Rails

    Tilak Bhardwaj

  17. Science at the Edge of an Empire

    Anup Sharma

  18. Electrifying a Company Town

    Harsh Kumar