Webinar Series: 2020-2021

SOCIETY OF INDIAN ACADEMICS IN AMERICA (SIAA)
Presents a Webinar
on

"The role of Knowledge in Society"

Presenter:
Prof. Rohit Parikh

Date: September 13 , 2020 (Sunday)

Denver Time: 9:00 AM

New York Time: 11:00 AM

Indian Time: 8:30 PM

About the Presenter Prof. Rohit Parikh, distinguished professor of CS, Math, Philosophy at City University of New York.  Educated at Elphinstone College Mumbai and at Harvard University.  Three times winner in the Putnam mathematical competition.  Taught previously at Stanford, Panjab University, Bristol University, Boston University.  Visiting appointments at Caltech, TIFR (Mumbai), SUNY (Buffalo), Berkeley, ETH (Zurich), NYU.  Worked at Bell Labs and IBM.  Have directed 22 doctoral dissertations as shown in mathematical genealogy.  Edited several books plus one book which was dedicated to Rohit Parikh.  Former editor of IJFTCS and Journal of Philosophical Logic

The webinar is free. The SIAA-members are welcome to invite their friends, and other interested people. However, for our records, each person needs to register. We are basically interested in participation by academics. 

Please submit your Webinar Registration Form (Click here) to receive your webinar login credentials.  Stray tuned for more information! 

In the US, the webinar will be hosted by Professor Rajasekhar Vangapaty, the Secretary of SIAA. Please send  an email to Ravindra Kulkarni, <punekulk@gmail.com>, indicating your interest in this webinar activi