3 November 2017 (Friday)
Session 1A: Inauguration and Presidential Address
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0930 – 1100
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Ram Ramaswamy
JNU, New Delhi
The many flavours of synchrony
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1100 – 1115
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Group Photograph
Venue: Amphitheatre
Session 1B: Inaugural Lectures by Fellows
Chairperson: M M Sarin, Physical Research laboratory, Ahmedabad
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1200 – 1220
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Shailesh Nayak
Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi
Towards the Understanding of Triggered Earthquakes
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1225 – 1245
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Gobinda Majumder
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
A Journey to the Discovery of Higgs Boson
Session 1C: Inaugural Lectures by Fellow/Associate
Chairperson: S Ananthakrishnan, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
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1400 – 1420
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G D Yadav
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
Selectivity Engineering in Sustainable Production of Chemicals, Fuels and Energy from Biomass and Carbon Dioxide
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1425 – 1445
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Abhishek Banerjee
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
What is finiteness?
Session 1D: Symposium: ‘New Technologies Changing our lives’
Chairperson: N Viswanadham, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
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1520 – 1530
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Introduction
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1530 – 1600
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Navakanta Bhat
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
PathShodh: A Journey from Science to Product
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1600 – 1630
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V Padmanabhan
Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru
Low-cost IoT to address societal challenges
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1630 – 1700
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A Bharadwaj
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
IoT and its Applications for Smart Cities
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1700 – 1730
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Jaywant H Arakeri
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Technological and scientific issues related to precision agriculture
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1730 – 1740
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Discussion
Session 1E - Public lecture
Chairperson: Ram Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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1800 - 1900
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David R Syiemlieh
Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi
Percival Spear: Historian and Indophile
4 November 2017 (Saturday)
Session 2A - Special Lecture
Chairperson: S Chandrasekaran, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
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0900 - 0940
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R Bhatia
Ashoka University, Sonepat
Averaging of positive definite matrices
Session 2B: Inaugural Lectures by Fellows
Chairperson: Veena K Parnaik, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
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0940 - 1000
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S Sankararaman
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Restricting the rotation of triple bond through
Π-stacking interactions in molecular hinges
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1005 - 1025
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Maneesha S Inamdar
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru
Stuck in traffic: Transport and energy regulation in blood stem cells
Session 2C: Symposium: ‘Earth Science of the North-East’
Chairperson: R Ramesh, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
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1050 - 1100
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Introduction
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1100 – 1130
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Devesh Walia
North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
Study on active tectonics of Shillong Plateau
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1130 – 1200
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Rajneesh Bhutani
Pondicherry University, Puducherry
Origin of Manipur Ophiolite Complex, Indo-Myanmar Range, North-Eastern India
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1200 – 1230
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Amalava Bhattacharyya
Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences, Lucknow
Changes of vegetation vis-à-vis Climate since last several thousand years at North-East India
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1230 – 1300
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Jyotiranjan S Ray
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Cretaceous carbonatite-alkaline-basaltic magmatism in North-Eastern India and Gondwanaland breakup
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1300 – 1310
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Discussion
Session 2D: Inaugural Lectures by Associates/Fellow
Chairperson: H M Antia, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
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1400 - 1420
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Aditya Kumar
Tezpur University, Tezpur
Unveiling DNA structural properties of promoter regions of prokaryotic transcriptome and their role in gene expression
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1425 - 1445
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D K Ojha
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Star formation in the Milky Way Galaxy
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1450 - 1510
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Giridhar U Kulkarni
Centre for Nano & Soft Matter Sciences, Bengaluru
From mud cracks to Optoelectronic devices – our efforts in translating invention to technology
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1515 - 1535
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Y Dhandapani
Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru
Geometry and topology on random point clouds
Venue: Auditorium, Old Guest House
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1600 - 1730
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Business Meeting of Fellows
Session 2E - Public Lecture
Chairperson: R Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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1800 - 1900
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Sanjoy Hazarika
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi
Dilli door Ast? The Margins, Memory and Identity
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1900 – 2000
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Cultural Programme
Venue: TBD
5 November 2017 (Sunday)
Session 3A: Inaugural Lectures by Associates/Fellow
Chairperson: S Sivasanker, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
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0900 – 0920
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K Yhoshu
Nagaland University, Lumami
Remote sensing and GIS application for geohazard studies
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0925 – 0945
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Ashutosh Ghosh
University of Calcutta, Kolkata
Hetero-metallic complexes derived from N2O2 donor ligands: Molecular shapes, supramolecular structures, catalysis and magnetism
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0950 – 1010
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Subhro Bhattacharjee
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru
Quantum matter: Life beyond symmetries
Session 3B: Inaugural Lectures by Associate/Fellows
Chairperson: S N Tandon, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune
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1045 – 1105
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Piyush Srivastava
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Structure recovery in graphical models
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1110 – 1130
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Kaustuv Sanyal
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru
Molecular evolution of the process of chromosome segregation: Lessons from fungal pathogens
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1135 – 1155
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Swapan K Datta
Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
Biofortified Rice with stable enhanced Nutrition
Session 3C - Special Lecture
Chairperson: S S Krishnamurthy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
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1200 – 1240
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Lalit Kumar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Targeted therapy for cancer treatment: Have we found the magic bullet!