Registrations are invited for Kaapi with Kuriosity Talk Session on Understanding Animal Societies by ICTS-TIFR and Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru. It is open to all.
The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, established in 2007, is a multi and interdisciplinary centre.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) is administered by Bangalore Association for Science Education (BASE). The BASE is devoted to science popularisation and non formal science education.
Kaapi with Kuriosity is a monthly public lecture series organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), in collaboration with the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium and other educational institutions in Bengaluru.
The aim of the talks in this series is to stimulate the curiosity of the public towards the myriad aspects of science. The setting for these talks will be informal with a lot of scope for open discussions. The scientific background assumed will not be beyond the school level. As such, they are easily accessible to school/college students, families and working professionals interested in science.
If we look at animals around us, we find that they live in different kinds of societies. Can we explain the diverse lives of social animals? Socioecological theory offers a framework to do so. In this talk, we explore the reasons for sociality and consider how ecological circumstances can influence the evolution of different social organisations and structures.
T.N.C. Vidya graduated with her PhD, in 2005, on the population genetic structure and phylogeography of the Asian elephant at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and partly at Columbia University, New York. She was a post-doctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, before joining the Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, in 2008.
She is a Professor at JNCASR and is primarily interested in animal behaviour, socioecology, and evolution. Her lab group set up the Kabini Elephant Project, focusing on the long-term monitoring of the behaviour and ecology of individually-identified Asian elephants.
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Sunday, 03 November, 2024.
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium.
Both online and offline.
Interested participants can register online via this link.
Email: info[at]icts[dot]res[dot]in
