{"id":6654,"date":"2015-12-02T07:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2015-12-02T07:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:05:54","slug":"infosys-prize-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/infosys-prize-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys Prize- 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who will give the award, Infosys Prize -2015?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) Narendra Modi<br \/>\n(b) Pranab Mukherjee<br \/>\n(c) Arun Jaitley<br \/>\n(d) N.R. Narayana Murthy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Infosys Science Foundation on 16 November 2015 announced the names of the winners of Infosys Prize for the year 2015.<\/li>\n<li>The Infosys Prize 2015 was announced for six categories, namely, Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences.<\/li>\n<li>The winners of the Infosys Prize 2015 were evaluated by a panel of jurors comprising of esteemed scientists and professors from around the world.<\/li>\n<li>The jury chairs of the six categories are: Prof. Pradeep K. Khosla (University of California San Diego) for Engineering and Computer Science; Prof. Amartya Sen (Harvard University) for Humanities; Dr. Inder Verma (Salk Institute of Biological Sciences) for Life Sciences; Prof. Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan (New York University) for Mathematical Sciences; Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology) for Physical Sciences; and Prof. Kaushik Basu (The World Bank) for Social Sciences.<\/li>\n<li>The prize for each category consists of money prize of Rs. 65 Lakhs, a 22 karat gold medallion and a citation certificate.<\/li>\n<li>The winners will be awarded on 13 February 2016 in a ceremony at New Delhi by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>List of Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Engineering and Computer Science:<\/strong>Won by Prof. Umesh Waghmare of Theoretical Sciences Unit, of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore.<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded for his innovative use of first-principles theories and modeling in insightful investigations of microscopic mechanisms responsible for specific properties of certain materials such as topological insulators, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and graphene.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Humanities:<\/strong>Won by Prof. Jonardon Ganeri, Global Network Professor of Philosophy, New York University and Recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, King\u2019s College London, UK.<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded for his originality in interpreting and scrutinizing analytical Indian Philosophy and shedding light on dichotomy between Indian and Greek traditions of philosophical reasoning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life Sciences:<\/strong>Won by Dr. Amit Sharma, Group Leader, Structural and Computational Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded for his pioneering contributions towards deciphering the molecular structure, at the atomic level, of key proteins involved in the biology of pathogenesis of the deadly malaria parasite.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mathematical Sciences:\u00a0<\/strong>Won by Prof. Mahan Mj, Professor of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded for establishing a central conjecture in the Thurston program to study hyperbolic 3-manifolds and introduced important new tools to study fundamental groups of complex manifolds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Physical Sciences:\u00a0<\/strong>Won by Prof. G Ravindra Kumar, Professor in the Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics (DNAP), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded for his contributions to the physics of high intensity laser matter interactions.<\/li>\n<li>These results have significance to testing stellar and astrophysical scenarios.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Sciences:\u00a0<\/strong>Won by Dr. Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded for outstanding research that synthesizes military history, international politics, and strategic analysis into powerful and imaginative perspectives on India in global context.<\/li>\n<li>The Infosys Prize is awarded under the aegis of the Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust instituted in February 2009.<\/li>\n<li>The Infosys Science Foundation is funded by a corpus which today stands at over INR 130 Crore (USD 20 million)<\/li>\n<li>The first time in 2008 only Infosys Prize of mathematics was awarded.<\/li>\n<li>After the establishment of Infosys Science Foundation four more categories were included.<\/li>\n<li>The Prize was originally given across five categories: Engineering and Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences but a sixth category \u2013 the Humanities \u2013 was added in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosys-science-foundation.com\/\">http:\/\/www.infosys-science-foundation.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosys.com\/newsroom\/press-releases\/Pages\/ISF-announces-infosys-prize-2015.aspx\">http:\/\/www.infosys.com\/newsroom\/press-releases\/Pages\/ISF-announces-infosys-prize-2015.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who will give the award, Infosys Prize -2015? (a) Narendra Modi (b) Pranab Mukherjee (c) Arun Jaitley (d) N.R. Narayana Murthy Ans (b) Related facts: Infosys Science Foundation on 16 November 2015 announced the names of the winners of Infosys Prize for the year 2015. 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