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Mar
16
2019

Ruby Aikat Wins Best Paper Award at NCRACH 2019

By Sarbeswar Sahoo

Ruby Aikat received the Best Paper Award at the National Conference on Recenet Advances in Cognition and Health (NCRACH) 2019. Ms. Ruby Aikat, part-time PhD scholar presented a paper "Is imagery Dependent on sensory feedback? Implications for therapeutic usage of imagery". Ruby’s thesis investigates the role of mental imagery in a movement-restricted sample (spinal cord injured patients). Results from her study show that mental imagery in the spinal cord injured patients might be independent of sensory feedback, and that movement (time) remain unaffected by mental imagery.

Mar
16
2019

Shambhovi Mitra Wins Best Paper Award at NCRACH 2019

By Sarbeswar Sahoo

Shambhovi Mitra delivered a talk that won the Best Paper award at the National Conference on Recent Advances in Cognition and Health (NCRACH) 2019. Ms. Shambhovi Mitra, a part-time PhD scholar presented a paper titled, "Does autonomic nervous system impairment influence coping in spinal cord injured patients?”. Results from her doctoral work suggests that even at the lowest severity level, specific component of heart rate variability (low frequency) in the spinal cord injured patients predicts subjective response such as acceptance of the injury.

Feb
13
2019

Candidates Shortlisted for English Language Instructor (Visiting Position)

By arjun ghosh

On the basis of the written test held on 13 Feb 2019, the following candidates have been shortlisted for the interview. The interview would be held at 4.30PM on 13 Feb 2019 in the office of the Head of the Department, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 5th Floor, Main Building, IIT Delhi.

Candidates are to carry all documents for verification.

The names appear in reverse alphbetical order:

Jan
22
2019

First Annual Conference in Economics

By Sourabh B Paul

Transitioning to Middle Income: Challenges and Pathways for India
February 21-22, 2019

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is organizing the first Annual Conference in Economics (ACE) during February 21-22, 2019. Theme of the inaugural conference is Transitioning to Middle Income: Challenges and Pathways for India.

Dec
03
2018

IIT Delhi HSS PhD (Dec 2018): Applicants Selected For Interviews

By Samar Husain

The following candidates (see attached pdf) have been shortlisted for Ph.D. interviews at the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi to be held on 4th December 2018.

Kindly report to the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences office (MS 611, 5th Floor IITD main building) at 9:00 am tomorrow, i.e., 4th December 2018. Please bring all your original documents for verification purposes.

Dec
01
2018

Ruhi Sonal wins TCS Research Scholarship!

By Sourabh B Paul

Ruhi Sonal, fourth year PhD student (Economics, HUSS, IIT Delhi) has been selected for the prestigious TCS Research Scholarship in computing sciences. It is flagship program of TCS to provide a major fillip for quality research in areas such as computer sciences and engineering, information systems and technology, and software engineering. Ruhi is working on decision-theoretic frameworks to understand real-life choice problems and network formation games in social networking.

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