Lecture Series on Computational Materials Science at CSIR-NML 

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Jamshedpur, Feb 26: CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur organised a lecture on ‘Computational Material Science’ on a virtual platform. This program was organized for school students and teachers under CSIR-Jigyasa Virtual Laboratory project. The main objective of the program was to establish connections with school teachers and senior students and to make science learning interesting.

Chief Scientist and Head of KRIT Division at CSIR-NML, Dr Mita Tarafder, in her address welcomed the guest speaker and the audience and introduced the CSIR Jigyasa program. She discussed the aim of making learning science effortless, innovative with scientific contents including 3D Printing and E-waste recycling that had been included in the program that would be available in the forms of videos, comics, animation, games and simulation. Dr Mita Tarafder informed the audience that as a part of this program various school-centric events like adopting a central government initiative, Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) and initiating CSIR-NML Science Clubs had been planned. She urged all to access the lectures and events of ‘Jigyasa’ program through the YouTube link of CSIR-NML.

The guest speaker of the evening program was Dr. Sunil Kumar, Sr. Scientist at CSIR-NML. He made a presentation on ‘Computational Materials Science’. He discussed about the hardware and software requirements, various operating systems and programming languages and basic concepts of atomistic simulation that included writing code and compilation and execution of code. He concluded his lecture by briefly discussing common simulation methods and their applications and software and books available on the subject.

A question and answer session followed. The virtual program was attended by more than 50 persons.