Hi Jahnavi, Thank you very much for sharing this. I just finished watching it and loved it.
As someone who read about particle accelerators in a high school physica textbook I never got a chance to use one in my studies. But I am the type of nerd who gets a kick out of driving over the tunnel of the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) every time I drive on Highway 280 near the Stanford Campus. There were a few things I really appreciated in your film: 1. The women Ph.D. students you included in the film talking about their work and research. 2. You including the Cleaner (a second-generation involvement with the Cyclotron) in the documentary Thaths On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 4:16 AM Jahnavi Phalkey <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > I am delighted to invite you to the *online launch > <https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/cyclotron/>* of my first > film, Cyclotron! The film grew out of my research on the beginnings of > experimental nuclear physics in India, part of which was published as a > book (*Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India*). One story > that did not make it into the book, became this film. > > The film can be watched starting today until 4 October 2020 > <https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/cyclotron/> on the > Bangalore International Centre screening platform - *BIC Streams*. > > On Sunday 27 September*,* I will be in a conversation with Shiraz Minwalla > about the film for which you may register here > < > https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016006872394/WN_4BAsaGTYRXmJienFbanPjg > > > . > > *About the film*: > Cyclotron is a film about the world’s oldest functional particle > accelerator and the people who keep it running today. > > Operational in 1936 at the University of Rochester, United States, it was > built merely three years after the very first cyclotron was built by Ernest > Lawrence at Berkeley. The entire set-up in Rochester was dismantled and > sent to India in 1967, and is now housed at the Panjab University, > Chandigarh. With the cyclotron, the regional university became one of the > very few places in India for research and education in nuclear physics. > This was otherwise possible only in the facilities of the Department of > Atomic Energy. The cyclotron has been running for nearly fifty years in > Chandigarh. The film explores the life and legacy of the machine as well as > the struggles and triumphs of its technicians, researchers and students; it > is also a comment on the state of experimental research and higher > education in Indian universities. > > I much hope that you will be able to watch the film and perhaps join in the > discussion! > > Warmly, Jahnavi > > -- > J A H N A V I P H A L K E Y > > Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru > Sir Asutosh Mukherjee Visiting Professor, National Institute of Advanced > Studies > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
