Name: Scientre Stage: Inaugural event of Vigyan Samagam (Bengaluru)
Start: 2019-07-29T09:15:00+05:30
End: 2019-07-30T18:30:00+05:30
Location: Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, Bengaluru

Monday, 29 July 2019
09:10
09:10 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

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

09:30 About Vigyan Samagam - Praveer Asthana (Head, Mega Science Division, DST, New Delhi)

09:35 Address by Guest of Honour - Ashutosh Sharma (Secretary, DST, New Delhi)

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

09:50 Address by Chief Guest - Anil Kakodkar (Member, AEC & Chairperson, RGSTC, Mumbai)

10:05 Keynote address - Ramamurthy V.S. (Emeritus Professor, NIAS, Bengaluru)

10:35 Vote of Thanks - Reetesh Chaurasia (Scientific Officer, DAE, Mumbai)
10:40

10:40 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium

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

11:45 Technology development challenges in High Energy physics experiments: Achievements and spin-offs - V.B. Chandratre (Electronics Division, BARC, Mumbai)

12:05 India's Contribution to CMS Experiment at CERN - Seema Sharma (IISER, Pune)

12:30 Exploration of micro second old universe in the laboratory - Subhasis Chattopadhyay, (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata)

12:55 Partnership of Indian Industries and further business opportunities with CERN - Suman Sarkar (BARC, Mumbai)
13:15 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium Building
14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 MACE Gamma-Ray Telescope - A.K. Tickoo (Head, Astrophysical Sciences Division, BARC, Mumbai)
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Designing and Building the TMT: A Story of Science, Technology and People - Luc Simard (DG, HAANRC, National Research Council of Canada)

15:00 India's Participation in the TMT project - Eswar Reddy (Programme Director, India TMT & IIA, Bengaluru)

15:30 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Ajith Kembhavi (IUCAA, Pune & Chair, India TMT PMB) Annapurni Subramaniam (IIA, Bengaluru) Murali S. (CEO, General Optics Asia Ltd, Puducherry) Sreekumar P. (Director, Space Science Program Office, ISRO HQ)
16:00 Tea break
Tea break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 The Square Kilometre Array: exploring the cosmos from the dawn of time to the origins of life - Philip Diamond (Director-General, SKA Organisation)

17:00 New Science with the Square Kilometre Array: A giant leap in exploring the magical world - Nirupam Roy (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

17:30 Symbiosis between SKA and Indian Industries - Ashita Gupta (CTO, Smile Electronics Limited, Bengaluru) Sheshadri M.R. (Managing Director, Deepti Electronics & Electro Optics Ltd.) Uday Shankar N. (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru)
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 Cosmic collisions - progress and prospects for gravitational-wave astronomy - Patrick Brady (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA & Spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

10:10 LIGO-India: An Indian Mega-science (Ad)venture - Tarun Souradeep (Senior Professor, IUCAA, Pune)

10:30 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Ajith Parameswaran (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru) Bala Iyer (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru and IndIGO Consortium) Dilip Krishnaswamy (Reliance Jio Infocomm) Rajesh Gopakumar (Director, ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru)
11:00 Tea break
Tea break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium Building
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 What is common between life, the Universe and an Underground lab? - Indumathi D. (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)

12:00 Probing neutrinos using ICAL at INO - Prafulla Behera (Associate Professor, IIT Madras)

12:30 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Mohamed Saliya (Managing Director, iWave Systems, Bengaluru) N Shivakumar (Managing Director, Entec, Bengaluru) Srinivasan T,S, (INO Project Coordinator, BARC, Mumbai)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium Building
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Innovation and Inspirational Leadership - Sivathanu Pillai (Dr. DS Kothari Chair, Research & Innovation Centre, IITM)

14:30 ITER - An overview and present status - Eisuke Tada (Deputy DG, Relations coordinating officer, ITER, France)

15:00 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Narayana Rao (Former C&MD, MIDHANI) Prasanth Sakhamuri (MD, Hind High Vacuum Bengaluru) Praveen Bhatt (Head Nuclear PBU, L&T Heavy Engineering) Shrishail Padasalagi (Project Manager-IWS, ITER - India)
15:30 Tea break
Tea break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium Building
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 FAIR – Universe in the Lab - Jörg Blaurock (Technical Managing Director, GSI and FAIR)

16:30 Research at FAIR: from neutron star to cancer therapy - Supriya Das (Associate Professor, Bose Institute, Kolkata)

17:00 Panel Discussion: Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry - Juergen Gerl (FAIR Project Lead Team – Head of Sub-Project NUSTAR) Rangarao Y (Managing Director, Vacuum Techniques Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru) Sanjay Ghosh (Bose Institute, Kolkata)
17:30
17:30 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

17:30 Perspectives from Indian Industries - Suriyanarayanan S. (DGM, L&T Valves Limited)

17:40 Perspectives from Indian Industries - J.V. Nayak (Dy Director (TRM), IDEMI, Tool Room)

17:50 Perspectives from Indian Industries - Dinesh Kumar A (Managing Director, M/s CT Control Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd.)