chandigarh a titan is gone no one on horizon can fill his gap this is how panjab university vicechancellor prof arun kumar grover remembered renowned physicist stephen hawking who passed away on wednesday at the age of 76 grover a physicist himself first saw hawking at cambridge in 1980 grover said hawking visited tata institute of fundamental research tifr mumbai for the strings 2000 meeting we listened to his public lecture in homi bhabha auditorium he even danced sitting on his wheelchair in west lawns of tifr on seashore he recalled grover said ramps had to be made at several places so that he could steer his wheelchair where he wanted to it was a great experience seeing the living legend move around as a participant scientist in the event the vicechancellor saidin september 2006 prof vipin bhatnagar professor at the physics department of panjab university attended hawkings talk in a cern lab recalling his talk bhatnagar said he had a smart wheelchair which used to work in line with his eye movements he was going to the next slide and the next line only through his eye movement there was a censor attached and he also answered a few questions from the audience but it took him time to answer the questions because he had to compose answers he composed by selecting words alphabetically mixing them and making sentences the chair had an inbuilt computer which made the sentencepanjab universitys physics department is also going to organize a talk on the works and contributions of hawking we plan to organise a programme in which eminent speakers from the tricity and delhi will elaborate on the work and contributions of stephen hawking we run a programme sponsored by the department of science and technology under which we will get speakers to talk about hawkings works said dr c nagaraja kumar professor at the department of physics pu