09.00 - 09.30

Registration
(Venue: Lecture Hall Complex)

09.30 - 10.00

Inauguration and introduction of Fellows

Session 1A

Presidential Address

10.00 - 10.45

Ram Ramaswamy, JNU, New Delhi
Chimeras: A spontaneous emergence of dynamical disorder

10.45 - 11.30

Book Release
A Life in Science – Author: Prof. C N R Rao,
Published by Penguin Random House India

11.35 - 12.00

Group Photograph & Tea break

Session 1B

Inaugural Lectures of Fellows/Associates
Chairperson: Subrata Ghosh, IACS, Kolkata

12.00 - 12.20

Arun Chattopadhyay, IIT, Guwahati
Decorating the surface of a quantum dot with molecules

12.25 - 12.45

Sanjib K. Agarwalla, IoP, Bhubaneswar
Neutrino Oscillation Parameters: Present Status and Future Roadmap

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12.50 - 14.00

Lunch break

Session 1C

Inaugural Lectures of Fellows
(Venue: Auditorium – Visitors’ Hostel)
Chairperson: Probir Roy, Kolkata

14.00 - 14.20

Javed N Agrewala, IMTECH, Chandigarh
Caerulomycin A suppresses arthritis symptoms by expanding regulatory T cells

14.25 - 14.45

A Raghuram, IISER, Pune
From calculus to number theory

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14.50 - 15.30

Tea break

Session 1D

Walter Kohn Memorial Symposium
(Venue: Visitors’ Hostel)
Chairperson: H R Krishnamurthy, IISc, Bengaluru

15.30

T V Ramakrishnan, BHU, Varanasi
Walter Kohn and the Rise of Condensed Matter Physics

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16.00

Swapan K Ghosh, BARC, Mumbai
Density functional theory for materials modeling at different length scales: A legacy of Walter Kohn

16.30

Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, SN Bose Natl. Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Beyond the conventional DFT: Life with “U”

17.00

Umesh V Waghmare, JNCASR, Bengaluru
Electrons in a Crystal: Localized versus Extended Orbitals

17.30 - 18.00

Tea break

Session 1E

Public lecture
(Venue: L5 — Lecture Hall Complex)
Chairperson: Ram Ramaswamy, JNU, New Delhi

18.00 - 19.00

Rajendra Singh, Tarun Bharat Sangh, Alwar (Rajasthan)
Indigenous knowledge system of water management in India

Session 2A

Special Lecture
(Venue: Auditorium – Visitors’ Hostel)
Chairperson: Subhash Chaturvedi, IISER Bhopal

09.00 - 09.40

Sunil Mukhi, IISER, Pune
Academic Ethics in India: What We Must Do

Session 2B

Inaugural Lectures of Fellows/Associates
Chairperson: S Thangavelu, IISc, Bengaluru

09.40 - 10.00

Pradyut Ghosh, IACS, Kolkata
Recognition, Sensing, Separation of Anions

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10.05 - 10.25

Ankur A. Kulkarni, IIT, Mumbai
Towards a convex-analytic view of impossibility results in stochastic control and information theory

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10.30 - 10.50

Tea break

Session 2C

Symposium “Our Second Genome”
Chairperson: Partha P Majumder, NIBMG, Kolkata

10.50

Partha P. Majumder, NIBMG, Kolkata
An Overview of Our Second Genome

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11.10

Sharmila S Mande, TCS, Pune
Gut Microbiome and Health

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11.40

Vineet K. Sharma, IISER, Bhopal
Novel insights into The Human Microbiome

12.10

Souvik Mukherjee, NIBMG, Kolkata
The Microbiome in Skin Health and Disease

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12.40

Shekhar C Mande, NCCS, Pune
The Indian human microbiome initiative

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13.00 - 14.00

Lunch break

Session 2D

Inaugural Lectures of Fellows/Associates
Chairperson: P N Pandita, IISc, Bengaluru

14.00 - 14.20

G C Anupama, IIA, Bangalore
Time Domain Astronomy - Explosive Transients

14.25 - 14.45

S Ganesh, IIT, Kanpur
Role of non-coding RNAs in cellular stress response

14.50 - 15.10

K N Balaji, IISc, Bengaluru
Mycobacteria scapegoat host epigenetic factors and non-coding RNAs to sneak through host immune responses

15.15 - 15.35

Anshu Pandey, IISc, Bengaluru
Chemistry with bigger atoms

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15.40 - 16.00

Tea break

16.00 - 17.30

Business Meeting of Fellows
(Venue: L3 – Lecture Hall Complex)

17.30 - 18.00

Tea break

Session 2E

Public Lecture
Chairperson: Ram Ramaswamy, JNU, New Delhi

18.00 - 19.00

Ravi Korisettar, Dr VS Wakankar Archaeological Research Institute, Dharwad
Importance of the Vindhya Basin in the Prehistory of the Indian Subcontinent

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19.00 - 20.00

Dinner

20.00

Cultural Programme
Mehfil-e-Sama, A Qawwali Night by Emerald The Band
(Venue: L5– Lecture Hall Complex)

Session 3A

Inaugural Lectures of Fellows/Associates
(Venue: Auditorium – Visitors’ Hostel)
Chairperson: S S Sane, IIT-Bombay

09.00 - 09.20

Krishna P Kaliappan, IIT, Bombay
Domino strategy to synthesis of natural products and heterocycles

09.25 - 09.45

Appa Rao Podile, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Transglycosylation by bacterial chitinases

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09.50 - 10.10

N Ravishankar, IISc, Bengaluru
Intriguing Structure and Transport Behaviour of Ultrathin Single Crystalline Gold Nanowires

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10.15 - 10.35

B. Anand, IIT, Guwahati
Homing mechanism of the CRISPR-Cas Adaptive Immune System

10.40 - 11.00

Tea break

Session 3B

Inaugural Lectures of Fellows/Associates
Chairperson: S V Bhat, IISc, Bengaluru

11.00 - 11.20

Tirthankar Bhattacharyya, IISc, Bengaluru
What do analytic functions look like?

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11.25 - 11.45

Pratap Raychaudhuri, TIFR, Mumbai
Low temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy

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11.50 - 12.10

G R Tripathy, IISER, Pune
Re-Os geochronology: Clues for past marine and atmospheric conditions

Session 3C

Special Lecture
Chairperson: S Chandrasekaran, IISc, Bengaluru

12.15 - 13.00

Amitabh Joshi, JNCASR, Bengaluru
Experimental ecology and evolution in the laboratory

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch