Name: Scientre Stage: Inaugural event of Vigyan Samagam (Mumbai)
Start: 2019-05-08T09:15:00+05:30
End: 2019-05-09T18:05:00+05:30
Location: Nehru Science Centre, Worli, Mumbai

Scientre Stage: Inaugural event of Vigyan Samagam (Mumbai)

from Wednesday, 8 May 2019 (09:15) to Thursday, 9 May 2019 (18:05)

Monday, 6 May 2019
Tuesday, 7 May 2019
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
09:15
09:15 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:25 Welcome address - Ranajit Kumar (Head, NCPW, DAE, Mumbai)

09:30 About Vigyan Samagam - Arun Srivastava (Secretary, AEC & Head, ICPD, DAE, Mumbai)

09:35 Address by Guest of Honour - K.N. Vyas (Chairperson, AEC and Secretary, DAE, Mumbai)

09:40 Address by Guest of Honour - Ashutosh Sharma (Secretary, DST, New Delhi)

09:45 Address by Guest of Honour - A D Choudhury (Director General, NCSM, Kolkata)

09:50 Address by Guest of Honour - Frédérick Bordry (Director for Accelerators and Technology, CERN, Geneva)

09:55 Address by Guest of Honour - Andreas Baum (Ambassador of Switzerland to India, New Delhi)

10:00 Address by Chief Guest - V. K. Saraswat (Member, NITI Aayog & Chancellor, JNU, New Delhi)

10:15 Keynote address - VijayRaghavan K. (Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, New Delhi)

10:45 Vote of Thanks - Praveer Asthana (Head, Mega Science Division, DST, New Delhi)
10:50

10:50 - 11:20

11:20 High Tea
High Tea
11:20 - 11:45
Room: Auditorium Building
11:45
11:45 - 13:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:45 CERN-India Collaboration Perspectives - Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN, Geneva)

12:05 CERN Accelerators and future projects - Frédérick Bordry (Director for Accelerators and Technology, CERN, Geneva)

12:25 Indian Contributions in CERN - Purushottam Shrivastava (AD, Proton Accelerator Group, RRCAT, Indore)

12:45 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - B.S. Jagadeesh (Distinguished Scientist, BARC, Mumbai) Brajesh Choudhary (Spokesperson, India-CMS collaboration) Sudhir Raniwala (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur)
13:15 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium Building
14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Doing Business with CERN - Anders Unnervik (Head, Procurement and Industrial Service, CERN)
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:30 FAIR, the Universe in the Laboratory - Paolo Giubellino (Scientific Managing Director, GSI & FAIR)

14:50 FAIR: the next generation accelerator, a technology marvel - R.K. Bhandari (Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi)

15:10 Indian industries at FAIR - Subhasis Chattopadhyay (Programme Director, FAIR Project)

15:30 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Peter Senger (Head of CBM Department, GSI Darmstadt) Sibaji Raha (Bose Institute, Kolkata) Y. S. Mayya (Raja Ramanna Fellow, Department of Atomic Energy)
16:00 Tea break
Tea break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium Building
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Neutrinos: New Window to the Universe - Amol Dighe (Dean, Graduate Studies, TIFR, Mumbai)

16:50 Why INO (India-based Neutrino Observatory)? - Vivek Datar (Project Director, INO, TIFR, Mumbai)

17:10 Spin-offs and societal benefits of INO project - Satyanarayana Bheesette (Scientific Officer (H), INO, TIFR, Mumbai)

17:30 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Anita Behere (Head, Electronics Division, BARC, Mumbai) Nitin Amte (General Manager (R&D), Essar Steel India Limited, Hazira) Prabhakar S.P. (Scientific Officer (H), BARC, Mumbai)
Thursday, 9 May 2019
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 India's Plasma Science & Technology Program and Spin-offs - Shashank Chaturvedi (Director, IPR, Gandhinagar)

09:50 The ITER Project: “the way” to new energy - Laban Coblentz (Head, Communications, ITER, France)

10:10 India’s participation in ITER – Technology challenges and Industry response - Ujjwal Baruah (Project Director, ITER-India)

10:30 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Arun Chakraborty (Project Manager, Diagnostic Neutral Beam, ITER-India) Balasubramanian K. (Director, NFTDC, Hyderabad) Rajiv Dusane (P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor in Nanotechnology, IIT Bombay) Rajkumar Panjwani (President, Cryo Scientific Division, INOX India (P) Ltd.)
11:00 Tea break
Tea break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium Building
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 The Gravitational Wave Astronomical Revolution: India's Emerging Role - David Reitze (Executive Director, LIGO Laboratory)

11:50 LIGO-India Project - Optical Instrumentation at its limits! - Sendhil Raja (Head, Laser & Optical Instrumentation Section, RRCAT)

12:10 LIGO India - opportunities for the industry - Subroto Mukherjee (Head LIGO Division, IPR, Gandhinagar)

12:30 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Anish Bekal (Forbes Marshal Pvt Ltd, Pune) Archana Pai (IIT Bombay) Somak Raychaudhury (Director, IUCAA, Pune) Sukanta Bose (Professor, IUCAA, Pune)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium Building
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 The Square Kilometre Array : an Astronomer's Dream Science Machine - Robert Braun (Science Director, SKA Organisation)

14:20 Technology challenges on the road to designing and building the SKA - Yashwant Gupta (Centre Director, NCRA, TIFR, Pune)

14:40 Indian industry engagement in the SKA : current status and future prospects - Yogesh Wadadekar (NCRA, TIFR, Pune)

15:00 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Prabu Thiagaraj (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru) Snehal Valame (Persistent Systems, Pune) Vikas Kumthekar (Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Pune)
15:30 Tea break
Tea break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium Building
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Thirty Meter Telescope - Ravinder Bhatia, (Associate Project Manager, TMT Project)

16:20 Challenging technology horizons for expanding discovery space - Ramaprakash A.N. (IUCAA, Pune)

16:40 Building Distributed Telescope Control System for TMT - Mushtaq Ahmed (Architect, ThoughtWorks, Pune)

17:00 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Anupama G.C. (Dean, IIA, Bengaluru & President, ASI) Jayant Murthy (Director (Ag), IIA, Bengaluru) Ramaprakash A.N. (IUCAA, Pune) Surendra Vaidya (Executive VP & Business Head, Godrej Aerospace)
17:30
17:30 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

17:30 Perspectives from Indian Industries - Rambabu Nuni (Executive Director (Nuclear), ECIL)

17:35 Perspectives from Indian Industries - Mani T.T. (Co-founder and Managing Director, Avasarala)

17:40 Perspectives from Indian Industries - Subhrojyoti Roy (Sr. Scientist, TCS Research and Innovation)

17:45 Perspectives from Indian Industries - Shankar G. (Director, Metallic Bellows (India) Pvt. Ltd.)

17:50 Closure of Scientre Stage - Satyanarayana Bheesette (INO/TIFR, Mumbai)