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, Bengaluru
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

13.00

Lunch break

14.30 - 17.45

Symposium: The state of Indian science: problems, prospects and indicators
(Convener: R Gadagkar)

14.30

R. Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Introduction

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, Bengaluru
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, Bengaluru
General discussion and concluding remarks

18.15 - 19.15

S Ramaseshan Memorial Public Lecture:
MGK Menon, President, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
The changing face of science

19.30- 20.30

Business Meeting of Fellows

20.30

Dinner

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, Bengaluru
Molecular engineering of polymeric systems

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15.00

C. S. 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

09.00 - 10.00

Special Lecture
R Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
The functional organization of an insect society

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, Bengaluru
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