Resonance in thoughts - a medium to propagate inspiration.

Sachin Tendulkar makes a point to Dinesh Karthik after wrapping up the match Posted using ShareThis

Yesterdays incident at Cuttack when Dinesh Kartik hit a stupid six and denied tendulkar a chance to score his 89th century brought many thoughts to mind  - Did tendulkar advice Kartik to play freely ?  Did Kartik feel pressurised to score at a slow rate to allow tendular a century ? How must tendulkar be feeling ? I think to me the answer is clear - Tendulkar, is not only a brilliant cricketer, he is also a role-model for cricket itself. He is upholding the standards of the game by rating an indian victory much higher than individual records. In summary, I think he advised a budding cricketer call Mr. Dinesh Kartik to play each ball on its merit - a loose ball with 6 written over it - dispatch it to where it belongs. And in the process Mr. Tendulkar has given us a lesson on what is 'cricket' !

The BBC Website on the Copenhagen Summit 2009 ( United Nations Climate Change Conference ) provides links to lot of interesting data and news videos: Where countries stand on Copenhagen An animated journey through the Earth's climate history Impact of climate change - including a report on the receding himalayan glaciers The key effects of climate change For a more rigorous analysis of whats going on with our climate, check the IPCC (intergovernmental panel on climate change) website and their assessment reports .

25 Nov. (venue: Seminar room, ISVR, Southampton) a) Dr Ben Thornber : Ben was here to present his work on large-eddy simulations of shock-induced turbulent mixing. Ben is an exciting young guy. His enthusiasm seeemed to rub off on the audience. He focussed more on fundamental numerical techniques in his talk - especially relating the numerical dissipation in finite difference simulations to entropy generation in some sense. what attracted me is the feasibility of using accurate finite difference methods for magneto hydrodynamic simulations of supernovae. Ben is  very jovial person too and I spoke to him at length about Cranfield university, where he is based as a Research Fellow in the Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science group. Cranfield is a post-graduate university for science, technology, engineering and management. Ben is based in the Department of Aerospace sciences, which is composed of a few hand-picked PhD and post-docs. Cranfield emerged out of the College of Aeronautic

Last couple of weeks have seen life being breathed into two major research facilities - one computational (supposed to make sense of experimental data) - other experimental (supposed to make sense of theoretical data). Put together, they demonstrate the scintillating synergy between theory, experiments and computations - the three corner-stones of modern research. Firstly, We at University of Southampton are now proud owners of the 74th fastest  supercomputer in the world and the fastest university-owned supercomputer in England . The new facility nicknamed ' IRIDIS-3 ' on campus will help researchers at Southampton to perform calculations that they ever dreamed of. Hopefully, researchers on campus would now dare to dream even more and push the frontiers of research at Southampton. Secondly, For a small matter, the world is now in possesion of its' highest energy particle accelerator  - the Large Hadron Collider  (LHC). The first physics at the LHC is expected in 201