81st Annual Meeting
Dates : 6 to 8 November 2015
Venue : IISER, Pune
Schedule
6 November 2015 (Friday)
09.00 - 09.30
Registration
09.30 - 11.00
Inauguration & Presidential Address
Dipankar Chatterji, IISc, Bengaluru
Social behaviour in bacteria
11.00 - 12.00
Tea break and Group Photograph
12.00 - 12.50
Lectures by Fellows/Associates
12.00 - 12.20
Rama Kant, University of Delhi, Delhi
Theories for anomalous response in disordered electrodes
12.25 - 12.45
Arindam Ghosh, IISc, Bengaluru
Multifunctional electronics with atomically thin membranes
12.50 - 14.00
Lunch break
14.00 - 14.50
Lectures by Fellows/Associates
14.00 - 14.20
Susanta Roychoudhury, Saroj Gupta Cancer Center & Res. Inst., Kolkata
Mitotic stress in cancer: Tipping the balance
14.25 - 14.45
Kaushal Verma, IISc, Bengaluru
Quadrature domains and potential theory
14.50 - 15.30
Tea break
15.30 - 17.30
Symposium on "Light and Matter" (International Year of Light)
15.30
G. Ravindrakumar, TIFR, Mumbai
High intensity lasers in physics
16.00
Anunay Samanta, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Employing light as an initiator and a probe
16.30
G. Krishnamoorthy, Anna University, Chennai
Light in molecular biophysics
17.00
Deepak Nair, IISc, Bengaluru
Super resolution imaging and signal processing at synapse
17.30 - 18.00
Tea break
19.00
Cultural Programme
7 November 2015 (Saturday)
09.00 - 09.40
Special Lecture
Shubha Tole, TIFR, Mumbai
Sensational barrels in the brain: The circuitry of sensory resolution
09.40 - 10.30
Lectures by Fellows/Associates
09.40 - 10.00
K. R. Prasad, IISc, Bengaluru
Synthesis of natural products of therapeutic significance
10.05 - 10.25
A. Chockalingam, IISc, Bengaluru
Visible light communications: An emerging area in wireless
10.30 - 10.50
Tea break
10.50 - 13.00
Symposium on “General Relativity” (Centenary of the discovery)
10.50
Ghanashyam Date, IMSc, Chennai
Hundred years of general relativity - achievements and challenges
12.20
T. Padmanabhan, IUCAA, Pune
Gravity and/of Cosmos
12.50
Discussion
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch break
14.00 - 15.40
Lectures by Fellows/Associates
14.00 - 14.20
M. Ravikanth, IIT, Mumbai
Boron-dipyrromethene dyes for ion recognition studies
14.25 - 14.45
Sumantra Chattarji, NCBS, Bengaluru
To be or not to be afraid
15.40 - 16.00
Tea break
16.00 - 17.30
Business Meeting of Fellows
17.30 - 18.30
Tea break
18.30 - 19.30
Public Lecture
K Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi
Pulse to planet: Human health in the era of sustainable development
8 November 2015 (Sunday)
09.00 - 09.40
Special Lecture
Kankan Bhattacharyya, IACS, Kolkata
Single molecule spectroscopy of a single live cell
09.40 - 13.00
Lectures by Fellows/Associates
10.05 - 10.25
Nita Bhandari, Centre for Health Res. and Development, New Delhi
A new approach to treating severe acute malnutrition in children
10.30 - 11.00
Tea break
11.00 - 11.20
Ranjani Viswanatha, JNCASR, Bengaluru
Dilute magnetic semiconducting nanomaterials: Theory to reality
11.25 - 11.45
Aswin S. N. Seshasayee, NCBS, Bengaluru
Evolving chromosomes and their convergence with gene regulatory networks
11.50 - 12.10
Sharmila A. Bapat, NCCS, Pune
Cancer stem cells and stress induced evolution - understanding the drug recalcitrance phenomenon
12.15 - 12.35
Gautam Bhattacharyya, SINP, Kolkata
The hierarchy problem and physics beyond the standard model
12.40 - 13.00
Mitali Mukerji, IGIB, New Delhi
Ayurgenomics: Understanding human individuality through integration of Ayurveda and Genomics for stratified medicine
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.30 - 15.30
Special Open Lecture
James Jackson, Cambridge University, Cambridge
Probing the continents: How variations in the structure and rheology of the Lithosphere affect surface geology
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