The SciTech Spins lecture series is an academic outreach project by the institute for the school students, especially from classes 9 to 12.
Professor Yama Dixit of IIT Delhi’s Centre for Atmospheric Sciences will present the lecture titled ‘Learning from the Past – Climate and Civilization Changes’ as part of the SciTech Spins Lecture. The talk will also be live on the official YouTube channel of IIT Delhi.
“In this lecture, I will talk about how to reconstruct past climate using chemistry of natural materials like lake and ocean sediments, which store information of past rainfall and temperature variability,” said Prof Yama Dixit, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi.
Schools can reach out to adoni@iitd.ac.in; acadoutreach@iitd.ac.in Associate Dean, Academic Outreach and New Initiatives, IIT Delhi to nominate their students for the SciTech Spins lecture series.