Programme Schedule

3 November 2017 (Friday)

0900 – 0930
Registration
Session 1A: Inauguration and Presidential Address

0930 – 1100
Ram Ramaswamy
JNU, New Delhi
The many flavours of synchrony
1100 – 1115
Group Photograph
Venue: Amphitheatre
1115 – 1200
Tea break
Session 1B: Inaugural Lectures by Fellows
Chairperson: M M Sarin, Physical Research laboratory, Ahmedabad

1200 – 1220
Shailesh Nayak
Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi
Towards the Understanding of Triggered Earthquakes
1225 – 1245
 
Gobinda Majumder
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
A Journey to the Discovery of Higgs Boson
1250 – 1400
Lunch Break
Session 1C: Inaugural Lectures by Fellow/Associate
Chairperson: S Ananthakrishnan, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune

1400 – 1420
G D Yadav
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
Selectivity Engineering in Sustainable Production of Chemicals, Fuels and Energy from Biomass and Carbon Dioxide
1425 – 1445
Abhishek Banerjee
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
What is finiteness?
1450 - 1520
Tea break
Session 1D: Symposium: ‘New Technologies Changing our lives’
Chairperson: N Viswanadham, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

1520 – 1530
Introduction
1530 – 1600
Navakanta Bhat
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
PathShodh: A Journey from Science to Product
1600 – 1630
V Padmanabhan
Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru
Low-cost IoT to address societal challenges
1630 – 1700
A Bharadwaj
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
IoT and its Applications for Smart Cities
1700 – 1730
Jaywant H Arakeri
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Technological and scientific issues related to precision agriculture
1730 – 1740
Discussion
1740 - 1800
Tea Break
Session 1E - Public lecture
Chairperson: Ram Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

1800 - 1900
David R Syiemlieh
Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi
Percival Spear: Historian and Indophile
1930
Dinner

4 November 2017 (Saturday)

Session 2A - Special Lecture
Chairperson: S Chandrasekaran, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

0900 - 0940
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

0940 - 1000
S Sankararaman
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Restricting the rotation of triple bond through Π-stacking interactions in molecular hinges
1005 - 1025
Maneesha S Inamdar
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru
Stuck in traffic: Transport and energy regulation in blood stem cells
1030 - 1050
Tea break
Session 2C: Symposium: ‘Earth Science of the North-East’
Chairperson: R Ramesh, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar

1050 - 1100
Introduction
1100 – 1130
Devesh Walia
North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
Study on active tectonics of Shillong Plateau
1130 – 1200
Rajneesh Bhutani
Pondicherry University, Puducherry
Origin of Manipur Ophiolite Complex, Indo-Myanmar Range, North-Eastern India
1200 – 1230
Amalava Bhattacharyya
Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences, Lucknow
Changes of vegetation vis-à-vis Climate since last several thousand years at North-East India
1230 – 1300
Jyotiranjan S Ray
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Cretaceous carbonatite-alkaline-basaltic magmatism in North-Eastern India and Gondwanaland breakup
1300 – 1310
Discussion
1310 - 1400
Lunch break
Session 2D: Inaugural Lectures by Associates/Fellow
Chairperson: H M Antia, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

1400 - 1420
Aditya Kumar
Tezpur University, Tezpur
Unveiling DNA structural properties of promoter regions of prokaryotic transcriptome and their role in gene expression
1425 - 1445
D K Ojha
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Star formation in the Milky Way Galaxy
1450 - 1510
Giridhar U Kulkarni
Centre for Nano & Soft Matter Sciences, Bengaluru
From mud cracks to Optoelectronic devices – our efforts in translating invention to technology
1515 - 1535
Y Dhandapani
Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru
Geometry and topology on random point clouds
1540 - 1600
Tea break
Venue: Auditorium, Old Guest House
1600 - 1730
Business Meeting of Fellows
1730 - 1800
High Tea
Session 2E - Public Lecture
Chairperson: R Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

1800 - 1900
Sanjoy Hazarika
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, New Delhi
Dilli door Ast? The Margins, Memory and Identity
1900 – 2000
Cultural Programme
Venue: TBD
2000
Dinner

5 November 2017 (Sunday)

Session 3A: Inaugural Lectures by Associates/Fellow
Chairperson: S Sivasanker, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

0900 – 0920
K Yhoshu
Nagaland University, Lumami
Remote sensing and GIS application for geohazard studies
0925 – 0945
Ashutosh Ghosh
University of Calcutta, Kolkata
Hetero-metallic complexes derived from N2O2 donor ligands: Molecular shapes, supramolecular structures, catalysis and magnetism
0950 – 1010
Subhro Bhattacharjee
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru
Quantum matter: Life beyond symmetries
1015 – 1045
Tea break
Session 3B: Inaugural Lectures by Associate/Fellows
Chairperson: S N Tandon, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

1045 – 1105
Piyush Srivastava
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Structure recovery in graphical models
1110 – 1130
Kaustuv Sanyal
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru
Molecular evolution of the process of chromosome segregation: Lessons from fungal pathogens
1135 – 1155
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

1200 – 1240
Lalit Kumar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Targeted therapy for cancer treatment: Have we found the magic bullet!
1240
Lunch Break


Allied Events

1 November 2017 (Wednesday)

10.00 AM - 01.30 PM
The Academy Trust (TAcT) Programme for school students
Venue: St. Anthony's Higher Secondary School, Don Bosco Square, Shillong

2 November 2017 (Thursday)

03.00 PM
Editorial Board Meeting – Pramana
Venue: Committee room, New Guest House
05.00 PM
Press Conference
Venue: Committee room, Vice Chancellor's Office
05.30 PM - 06.30 PM
Meeting with Teachers
Venue: Committee room, Vice Chancellor's Office

4 November 2017 (Saturday)

09.30 AM
Editorial Board Meeting – Bulletin of Material Sciences
Venue: Committee room, New Guest House
04.00 PM
Business Meeting of Fellows
Venue: Auditorium, Old Guest House


Programme for Teachers

2 November 2017 (Thursday)

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
Visit to Sophisticated Instrumentation Facility (SAIF), NEHU, (near Central Library)
3.00 PM - 4.30 PM
Visit to Central Instrumentation Facility, School of Life Sciences
05.30 PM - 06.30 PM
Meeting with Teachers
Venue: Committee room, Vice Chancellor's Office


Programme for Spouses


The LOC will facilitate an organized tour during the meeting days to places of tourist’s interest as per the details below:

3 November 2017 (Friday)

9.00 AM – 1.00 PM
Visit to the Don Bosco Museum
1.00 PM – 2.00 PM
Lunch (NEHU Campus)
2.00 PM – 5.00 PM
Visit to Police Bazar (popular market)

4 November 2017 (Saturday)

9.00 AM – 5.00 PM
Local Sight Seeing

5 November 2017 (Sunday)

9.00 AM – 1.00 PM
On specific request

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