University of York scientists foster India links
Posted on 18 February 2008
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore is hosting a visit by York scientists this week which will involve a joint collaborative research seminar focussing on biology, computer science and nanotechnology.
The IISc is playing a key role in the exciting economic developments in India
Professor Brian Cantor
The seminars will build and consolidate continuing international and interdisciplinary research collaborations between specialists in York and the IISc.
The Director of the IISc Professor P. Balaram and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of York, Professor Brian Cantor, will sign a Memorandum of Understanding to formalise the research links between the two institutions.
Topics under discussion at the two-day seminar range from discovering ways of improving the treatment of human muscle disease to human-computer interaction and language processing in computers.
The seminars will also focus on investigations of the ways plants cope with adverse ground and climatic conditions to help to develop more robust food crops; nanospintronics which promises to revolutionise data storage, and electron microscopy.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Brian Cantor, who is leading the York delegation, said: "The IISc is playing a key role in the exciting economic developments in India. It is a great privilege to share our ideas with IISc researchers. We have a mutual interest in building international communities of scholars and students that are inter-disciplinary and global in their outlook."
He is accompanied by 10 York academics including Professor John Sparrow (Biology); Dr Suresh Manandhar (Computer Science) and Professor Pratibha Gai and Profesor Ed Boyes (Nanotechnology).
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Notes to editors:
- The University of York, founded in 1963, has over 11,000 students, 3,000 staff and more than 30 academic departments and research centres. It is ranked 74th in the current QSS/Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities. York is one of Britain’s leading research-intensive universities, and has ambitious plans for expansion. This includes plans for a 50% growth in student numbers - much of it focused on postgraduate and international students - and significant research expansion and spin-out activity as the University develops the potential of its intellectual property. More information at www.york.ac.uk.
- More information about the Indian Institute of Science at www.iisc.ernet.in/.