For the first time, “a more extensive programme” of Nobel Prize-related events will take place in India in less than a fortnight from now, a posting on the official website of the prestigious prize, Nobelprize.org, said on Sunday.
Between October 30 and November 6, 2014, a number of events are being organised in New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune.
The schedule of events will include a seminar, besides university lectures and round-table discussions with the Nobel Laureate in Physics (2006), Prof. George Smoot and Prof. Finn Kydland, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2004), says the release.
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Also, New Delhi will host a travelling exhibition, ‘The Nobel Prize: Ideas Changing the World.’ It will be open to the members of the public from October 31 to December 11.
A seminar in New Delhi on the subject, ‘How can scientific creativity deliver the greatest benefit to humankind’, will have an opening speech by the former President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Prof. George Smoot will deliver the keynote address. A couple of lectures exploring the topic, ‘Mapping the Universe and its History’ will also be delivered during the India programme by Prof. George Smoot.
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“Studies have allowed us to determine what happened over billions of years with amazing certainty and accuracy and some of the findings are surprising,” says the release explaining that theme.
Students at the IIT-Delhi as well as the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will have the opportunity to take part in his lectures, says the release.
Prof. Finn Kydland will address lectures on the topic, ‘Economic Policy and Growth of Nations.’
These lectures will be at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai and at the Savitribai Phule University in Pune.
“In large parts of the world, the business environment is characterised by an extent of uncertainty that is unprecedented over the past several decades. The main reason, according to Prof. Kydland, is the lack of clarity in economic policymaking,” says the Nobel website.
Adjacent to the events, the travelling exhibition on the Nobel Prize will be on at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi, it said.
Documents and rare objects on display will include “flasks from Alfred Nobel’s laboratory and a note pad of Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature.”
The exhibition is free of charge to the public, the release on the website added.