Sahitha Karapitiya was selected to present his work at the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) for their Annual International Meeting in 2023. He is the only participant from Sri Lanka. He received his undergraduate degree in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Peradeniya. The title of his research is "Simulation of the Temperature Profile of Coffee Beans Roasted Under Far-Infrared Radiation" done under the...

Ayodhya Sovis Wickramasooriya is doing her Post Graduuate studies in Agricultural economics at the University of Goettingen, Germany. She is a graduate from the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka and she completed her bachelors in Agriculture Business Management. Agricultural economics is a branch of economics that focuses on the study of agricultural production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services related to agriculture. The field of agricultural economics is concerned with...

I invited Kethmi Hettige to talk about the Z-score. For those who did A/Ls in Sri Lanka - this is a life deciding equation. Kethmi received her Bachelors in Industrial Statistics and Mathematical Finance from the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo. She is currently doing her PhD in Singapore. 00:00 About Z-score 00:59 Origins of the equation 01:52 Statistical measure 04:30 Mean,SD can be subjective 05:33 Why use it for A/Ls? 06:46 How to calculate it? 10:35 Problem with 2011...

රසායනික බන්ධන විවිධ පරිමාණ වලින් - Computational ව්‍යාපෘතියක් කරමු Let's do a computational chemistry project using OpenMM (39:42) How do chemists understand a chemical bond? Molecular orbital theory helps us understand this. If you haven't watched the previous videos you can check it out here: 1. Quantum Vs Classical mechanics - https://youtu.be/EsRlDKCi2EM 2. What is a chemical bond? https://youtu.be/oERFHqewf_A Many thanks to Dulitha Prasanna for joining the podcast to talk...

This is the second video about Quantum Mechanics. We will be talking about chemical bonding - what is the physical understanding of a chemical bond? If you haven't watched the first video you can check it out here: Quantum Vs Classical mechanics - https://youtu.be/EsRlDKCi2EM Many thanks to Dulitha Prasanna for joining the podcast to talk about Quantum Mechanics. Stay tuned for more videos. 00:00 Second video 01:36 Hatree-Fock Theory 03:06 Joint probability 10:10 Wave functions as...

Many thanks to Dulitha Prasanna for joining the podcast to talk about Quantum Mechanics. Stay tuned for more videos. 00:00 Our definition of "Quantum" 01:01 Dulitha's story 04:24 Classical Vs Quantum Mechanics 06:31 Newton's Vs Coulomb's law 07:39 Newton's law has its problems 09:29 Problems with Rutherford's theory 13:20 Need of Quantum theory 21:23 Wavefunctions 30:59 Density 37:50 Is electron cloud true? 39:42 Computational Quantum Chemistry 40:45 From one electron to two

Chaturanga Wengappuliarachchi did Biological Sciences for his A/Ls and decided to go to the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL).He completed the Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Physics and conducted research in the following topic: “PVA/(2-Propanol) based bee-honey (core) and povidone-iodine (sheath) coaxial electrospun beads on string nanofibrous scaffold for controlled drug release" at the research labs of OUSL and NIFS (National Institute of Fundamental Studies). He will be starting...

Many thanks to Indrajith for accepting my invitation again. Here we wanted to talk about the advantages of using LinkedIn to make connections and decide where your next career should be.  00:39 LinkedIn with other social media apps 02:29 Benefits of making connections 09:25 What makes you stand out 11:00 Building trust and accountability 13:48 How to present yourself? 17:06 Content creation on LinkedIn 18:27 Profile picture is necessary 19:57 Header  24:39 Contact...

Hasitha Eranda is a Theoretical Physicist at UC Irvine, California. He did his bachelors at the Department of Physics in the University of Colombo. He is currently working on searching for relic galaxy candidates in N-body cosmological simulations.  You can find more details about his work from this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.09720.pdf 00:00 About Hasitha 02:01 Final year project in UOC 03:07 PhD thesis - Cosmological simulations 05:07 How to be a Theoretical Physicist? 09:09...

Chalinda Abeykoon is the Managing Partner for nVentures, an early-stage VC fund focusing on fintech startups, licensed under the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He has been working with startups for almost 15 years, mentoring over 3,000 entrepreneurs. Over the years he has helped launch over 50 startups across South & Southeast Asia. He is a recipient of the prestigious Chevening Fellowship from the University of Oxford. Chalinda blogs about the startup world and you can check it here...

Cris Silva is a dynamic researcher, innovator, and community builder with a passion for biotechnology and bioeconomy. He has completed numerous research projects with leading institutions and is skilled in identifying new opportunities in the field. He is an effective communicator and the founder and executive director of Benzyme Ventures, a thriving community of bio enthusiasts, students, and scientists committed to developing the bioeconomy.  To connect with Cris: Personal LinkedIn -...

Dr. Shamane Siriwardhana has been part of the Augmented Human Lab and received his PhD from University of Auckland, New Zealand. In this podcast we talk about NLP (Natural Language Processing) and it's applications. He obtained his Bachelors from University of Peradeniya in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. Shamane is currently working as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at SAILTHRU. AH Lab website: https://ahlab.org/ Some of his work: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02627 00:00...

Vectors are present is Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. In  this video I try my best to understand what Dr. Kasun Fernando has to  say - from a purely Mathematics point of view. 01:02 What is a vector? 15:59 Vectors in Physics 22:14 Matrices and Vectors 33:59 Dot product and cross product 43:26 Maxwell's Equations 47:12 Sources and Sinks (Dynamical systems) 49:35 Infinite dimensions 55:25 Axiom of choice

Blockchain is a technology that is revolutionizing many fields. Ashen Bandara is the Co-Founder and CEO at zynergyx Technologies. His company specializes in delivering Blockchain related services. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Information Technology at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) More info about Blockchain can be found here: Slides made by Ashen:...

Indrajith Ekanayake is a Technical Trainer at Codification (based in the UK) and a visiting lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka. He obtained his Bachelors from the University of Plymouth in Computer Software Engineering. We wanted to talk about the difference in teaching at an Academic level and Industrial level.  00:00 Intro 02:23 Academia Vs Industry 09:05 University Education Vs Industrial demand  10:13 Importance of languages 20:37 Professionals teaching students 21:55...

Dr. Kasun Bandara is an aspiring Computer Scientist and researcher, keen on the disciplines of Data Science, Machine Learning, and time series forecasting. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and worked as a Software Engineer for WSO2, later went to the Monash University in Australia for his PhD.   0:00:00 Intro 0:00:16 What is Computer Science? 0:04:37 Software Developers/Engineers 0:07:36 IT - Information Technology  0:09:41...

Today's episode we will talk about the cross-section of biology and computer science. Warren Manuel and Prabath Meemaduma both obtained their Bachelors from the Faculty of Science at the University of Colombo, specializing in Bioinformatics. They are currently pursuing their PhDs in the same field. Warren is at the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics (Houston, Texas) and Prabath is at the UMass Lowell Biochemistry Department.  Recommended courses and resources from Prabath: "This...

Dr. Channa De Silva is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Western Carolina University. Dr. De Silva teaches chemistry and carries out research in the areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and computational chemistry. He is open for collaborations with Sri Lankan students. You can contact him via email: [email protected] Slides for this talk can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z4iDGi-noqIozOCMo5RZyHcYzbErinZa/view?usp=sharing 00:00 Channa's story 03:30 Computational...

Let's dive into the history of imaginary numbers - what gave rise to them?  Dr. Kasun Fernando received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He did his Bachelors from the University of Colombo.  He is currently a junior visitor at Centro di Recerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He is primarily interested in the interplay among Dynamical Systems, Probability Theory and Statistics, and applying Machine Learning techniques to...

Let's talk about Cyber Security (Information Security) with Shihan Annon. He started small in Sri Lanka from his boss' garage. Under the leadership of Nabhan Akeel they established a partnership with Eguardian from Singapore and expanded globally to other countries. He is an accomplished Technocrat and entrepreneur, playing a key role as Chief Visionary Officer defining and driving global strategy of LIMRA’s IT cluster. 00:58 What made you interested? 04:00 using Linux (IRC) 04:44 Story of...

Dr. Muditha Senarath -Yapa is the head of John Keells Research and the Vice President of John Keells Holdings. Let's take a look at his story from School to Undergraduate to Post Graduate and then entering the industry.   01:12 School Days 24:54 Coming back home 28:06 Switching Research Areas 30:53 Returning to Sri Lanka 34:42 John Keels investing in Nano Tech 38:48 Listening to Ravi Fernando 41:02 How Industry works 51:32 on humility

Today’s guest is Dr. Chandanamali Punchihewa. She is a Scientist with extensive experience in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Drug Discovery. Founded Genelabs Medical (Pvt) Ltd in order to perform high-complexity genetic tests that have not been available in Sri Lanka. She was one of the first batches of students who specialized in the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry program at the University of Colombo. She obtained her PhD from the University of Arizona, USA and did her postdoc at...

Let's talk about the uses of Applied Mathematics with Sanjaya Ariyawansa. Sanjaya is currently following is Masters in Economics at Oxford University, UK. He graduated from the University of Colombo with a BSc in Mathematics (Hons).   00:00 About Sanjaya 01:23 Why Mathematics? 02:57 Economics/Social Science 05:43 Teaching to Commerce students 10:45 Maths in the private sector 16:55 Advice to Commerce/Arts/Tech students 21:54 Listening to discussions 24:09 Future jobs  27:00 Future plans 30:34...

Jayathma Wickramanayake is a Sri Lankan born international civil servant who currently serves as the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth. She did her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo.  00:00 About Jayathma 00:25 Jayathma's work 01:35 What is youth? 03:30 What is the UN? 08:43 Countries similar to us 13:40 How countries develop 14:58 Definition of 'developed'  19:41 America is not developed yet 21:58 Issues with GDP 25:17 Types of...