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Dates: 10 - 12 November 2006
Venue:
University Auditorium, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya,
Indore
10 November 2006 (Friday)
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| 09.30
- 11.00 |
Inauguration and Presidential Address
by
T V Ramakrishnan, Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi
Strong correlations, local constraints,
and gauge theories for electrons in
solids |
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11.00 - 11.30 |
Tea break and group
photograph |
| 11.30 - 13.00 |
Lectures by Fellows/Associates |
| 11.30 |
TN
Guru Row, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
Intermolecular interactions in crystals:
new directions |
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| 12.00 |
Chitra
Mandal, Indian Institute of Chemical
Biology, Kolkata
9-Oacetylated sialic acids: the way
sugar speaks for the survival of cancer
cells in childhood leukaemia |
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| 12.30 |
Sanjay
Puri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi
Kinetics of phase separation and wetting
at surfaces |
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| 13.00
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Lunch break |
| 14.30
- 17.45 |
Symposium:
The state of Indian science: problems,
prospects and indicators
(Convener: R Gadagkar) |
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| 14.30 |
R
Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
Introduction |
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| 14.40 |
Aparna Basu, Fellow, GNR Genome
Informatics Knowledge Centre, New Delhi
Scientometrics and science indicators:
uses and pitfalls |
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| 15.10 |
MS Valiathan,
Manipal Academy of Higher Education,
Manipal
Indian medical research today |
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| 15.40 |
Tea break |
| 16.00 |
P Rama Rao, IARC for Powder
Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI),
Hyderabad
The status of India's higher technical
education: what is the way forward? |
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| 16.30 |
Tejaswini Niranjana, Centre
for the Study of Culture and Society,
Bangalore
Narratives of decline? Social sciences-humanities
education in India |
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| 17.00 |
T Ramasami, Secretary, Dept.
of Science and Technology, New Delhi
Some planned interventions in rejuvenating
Indian science |
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| 17.30 |
R Gadagkar,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
General discussion and concluding remarks |
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| 18.15 - 19.15 |
S Ramaseshan Memorial Public
Lecture:
MGK Menon, President, Indian
Statistical Institute, New Delhi
The changing face of science |
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| 19.30- 20.30 |
Business Meeting
of Fellows |
| 20.30 |
Dinner |
11 November 2006 (Saturday)
| 09.00
- 10.30 |
Special Lecture
Kankan Bhattacharyya, Indian
Association for the Cultivation of Science,
Kolkata
Study of organized and biological assemblies
using an ultrafast laser |
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10.30 - 11.00 |
Tea break |
| 11.00 - 13.30 |
Symposium: Genetically
modified crops
(Convener: Deepak Pental) |
| 11.00 |
Deepak Pental, Univ. of Delhi, Delhi
Breeding of mustard through conventional and molecular methods |
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| 11.30 |
Rakesh Tuli, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow
Designing promoters for regulated gene expression in transgenic plants |
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| 12.00 |
Anil Grover, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi
Production of abiotic stress-tolerant
transgenic crops: achievements and failures |
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| 12.30 |
Raju Barwale, Mahyco,
Jalna
Impact of Bollgard cotton on Indian cotton production, productivity and income of cotton farmers |
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| 13.00 |
KR Kranthi, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur
Bt and the beast |
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| 13.30
- 14.30 |
Lunch break |
| 14.30
- 17.30 |
Lectures by Fellows/Associates |
| 14.30 |
S Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore
Molecular engineering of polymeric systems |
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| 15.00 |
CS
Rajan, TIFR, Mumbai
On spectrum and arithmetic |
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15.30 |
Sandip
P Trivedi, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai
Whispers from the big bang and the
emerging landscape of string theory |
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| 16.00
- 16.30 |
Tea break |
| 16.30 |
Kalyanmoy
Deb, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur
Computational optimization: scope and
status in practical problem-solving |
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| 17.00 |
BK Thelma, University of Delhi,
Delhi
Complex diseases in humans--genome analysis
and beyond |
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| 18.30 |
Cultural Programme |
| 20.30 |
Dinner |
12 November 2006 (Sunday)
09.00 - 10.00 |
Special Lecture
R Gadagkar, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore
The functional organization of an insect
society |
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10.00
- 10.30 |
Tea break |
| 10.30 - 12.30 |
Lectures by Fellows/Associates |
10.30 |
Charusita Chakravarty, Indian
Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Mobility and order in liquids |
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11.00 |
Shankar Ghosh, Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Motion of a sphere in an oscillatory
boundary layer: an optical tweezer-based
study |
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11.30 |
GS Bhat, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Breathing tropics |
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12.00 |
Nibir Mandal, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata
Tectonics of an orogen |
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12.30-13.15 |
Lunch break |
| 13.15 |
Indore sight-seeing |
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