Programme Schedule

4th November 2021 (Friday)

Session 1A: Registration
0900 - 0930
Registration
Session 1B: Inauguration & Presidential Address
0930-1100
Umesh V Waghmare
JNCASR, Bengaluru
1100-1200
Tea Break and Group Photograph
Session 1C: Special Lecture
1200-1240
A S Raghavendra
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Uniqueness of plant mitochondria: Relevance to crop improvement and climate change
1250-1400
Lunch Break
Session 1D: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
1400 - 1420
D B Ramachary
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Discovery of sustainable organocatalytic reactions: Expansion of substrate/ catalysts scope
1425 - 1445
Aditya Bandyopadhyay
IIT, Kharagpur
Electrified fluid interfaces - Waves and pattern formation
1450-1530
Short Break
Session 1E: Symposium on “Green Energy”
1530-1535
Introduction by Convener – Ranjit Thapa
1535-1600
Ashok K Ganguli
IIT, New Delhi
Photoelectrochemical water splitting for green energy
1605-1630
S Venkata Mohan,
IICT, Hyderabad
Low-Carbon Biohydrogen: Enabling through Biorefinery
1635-1700
S Sampath, IISc, Bengaluru
IICT, Hyderabad
1705-1730
Ramendra Sundar Dey
Institute of Nano Science & Technology, Mohali
Electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction for the synthesis of ammonia: A pathway to green future
1730
Discussion
1730-1800
Short Break
Session 1F: Public Lecture
1800 - 1900
Palagummi Sainath
Mumbai
Telling the stories of rural Indians in the digital age: The People's Archive of Rural India
1930
Dinner

5th November 2021 (Saturday)

Session 2A: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
0900-0920
P Vijay Kumar
IISc, Bengaluru
The Novel (IZ4) spreading code design for NavIC’s L1 SPS signal
0925-0945
Anil K Tripathi
BHU, Varanasi
Regulatory Cascades of Alternative Sigma Factors are involved in controlling Rhizocompetence in a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium, Azospirillum brasilense
0950-1010
G R Chandak
CCMB, Hyderabad
Early life exposure and future risk of non-communicable diseases: Relevance in Indian context
1015-1035
Atul Goel
CDRI, Lucknow
Development of Donor-Acceptor Based Fluorescent Dyes for Diagnostics and Biomedical Applications
1040-1100
Tea break
Session 2B: Symposium on “Floods in the Anthropocene”
1100-1105
Pradeep P Mujumdar
Introduction by the Convener
Floods in the Anthropocene – An Overview of the Symposium
1135-1200
Subimal Ghosh
IIT, Mumbai
Extreme Precipitation under Human-Induced Climate Change
1200-1225
Arpita Mondal
IIT, Mumbai
Deciphering the role of climate change in floods
1230-1255
J Indu
IIT, Mumbai
Floods from the vantage point of Radars
1300
Discussion
1310-1400
Lunch break
Session 2C: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
1400-1420
Sourav Pal
IIT, Mumbai
Distinguished varieties in the polydisc and dilation of commuting matrices
1425-1445
Binod Sreenivasan,
IISc, Bengaluru
Understanding Earth’s magnetic reversals
1450-1510
Ullas K Seetharam
TIFR, Mumbai
You are what you eat: linking metabolism to physiology & health
1515-1535
Meena B Mahajan
IMSc, Chennai
What is hard to prove, and why?
1540-1600
Tea Break
Session 2D: Business Meeting of Fellows
1600-1730
Business Meeting of Fellows
1730-1800
Tea break
Session 2D: Public Lecture
1800-1900
Ananya Vajpeyi
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
The Modern Life of an Ancient Language
Session 2E: Cultural Programme
1900-2000
Cultural Programme
2000
Dinner

6th November 2021 (Sunday)

SESSION 3A: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
0900-0920
Prabhat Mandal
SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
A new paradigm for understanding solids
0925 - 0945
Jitendra K Bera
IIT, Kanpur
Water as a reactant in organometallic catalysis
0950-1010
P Sreenivas
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
1015 - 1045
Short Break
SESSION 3B: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
1045-1105
Suchana Taral
Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
Source-to-sink pathway of the Himalayan sediments: new evidence from the eastern Himalayan foreland
1110-1130
Gobardhan Das
JNU, New Delhi
Mycobacterium tuberculosis programs mesenchymal stem cells to establish dormancy and persistence
1135-1155
Sneha Sagarkar
SP Pune University, Pune
Reward memory recall: Role of glutamatergic neurotransmission in the dentate gyrus
SESSION 3B: Special Lecture
1200-1240
Sadiqali Rangwala
RRI, Bengaluru
Nobel Prize for Physics 2022 From Foundational Questions in Quantum Physics to Cutting Edge Technology of Today
1240
Lunch

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