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Jam Imsc20jan PDF
Jam Imsc20jan PDF
Jam Imsc20jan PDF
R. Ramanujam
jam@imsc.res.in
http://www.imsc.res.in/∼jam
Meet the scientist
TNSF organizes interactions for scientists with children: this
one in a village near Aruppukottai.
I My 12-year old guide-in-chief, Kuruvamma.
A voluntary (dis)organization.
I Started in 1980 by a group of graduate students of the
University of Madras: T R Govindarajan and T
Jayaraman among them.
I The first event was a popular lecture on quantum
mechanics by our own Rajaji.
I My involvement started with a ‘popular’ talk on Gödel’s
theorem.
I I learnt that TNSF had started a magazine in 1987.