Name: Scientre Stage: Inaugural event of Vigyan Samagam (Kolkata)
Start: 2019-11-04T15:30:00+05:30
End: 2019-11-05T17:45:00+05:30
Location: Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

Scientre Stage: Inaugural event of Vigyan Samagam (Kolkata)

from Monday, 4 November 2019 (15:30) to Tuesday, 5 November 2019 (17:45)

Monday, 4 November 2019
15:30
15:30 - 16:45
Room: Mini Threatre
Contributions

15:35 Welcome address & About Vigyan Samagam - Ranajit Kumar (Head, NCPW, DAE, Mumbai)

15:45 Address by Guest of Honour - Arijit Dutta Choudhury (Director General, NCSM, Kolkata)

15:50 Message by the Guest of Honour (Read by Mr. Arun Srivastava) - K. N. Vyas (Chairperson, AEC and Secretary, DAE, Mumbai)

16:00 Address by the Guest of Honour - Ashutosh Sharma (Secretary, DST, New Delhi)

16:10 Address by the Guest of Honour - Sekhar Basu (Former Secretary, DAE)

16:20 Address by the Chief Guest (on video) - Harsh Vardhan (Minister of Science & Technology, New Delhi)

16:40 Vote of Thanks - Praveer Asthana (Head, Mega Science Division, DST, New Delhi)
16:45

16:45 - 17:20
Room: Main Auditorium Basement

17:20 High Tea
High Tea
17:20 - 18:00
Room: Main Auditorium Basement
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
09:15
09:15 - 09:55
Room: Mini Threatre
Contributions

09:15 Welcome

09:20 Keynote address - Paolo Giubellino (Scientific Managing Director, GSI & FAIR)

09:50 Vote of Thanks
09:55
09:55 - 11:15
Room: Mini Threatre
Contributions

09:55 Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) - Bikash Sinha (Former Director, VECC & SINP, Kolkata)

10:15 Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) - Shashi Bhushan Pandey (ARIES, Nainital)

10:35 Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment (MACE) - V.K. Dhar (BARC, Mumbai)

10:55 International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) - Shishir Deshpande
11:15 Tea break
Tea break
11:15 - 11:45
Room: Main Auditorium Basement
11:45
11:45 - 13:05
Room: Mini Threatre
Contributions

11:45 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) - Somak Raychaudhury (Director, IUCAA, Pune)

12:05 European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) - Sukalyan Chattopadhyay (SINP, Kolkata)

12:25 India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) - Amitava Raychaudhuri (University of Calcutta, Kolkata)

12:45 Square Kilometer Array (SKA) - Debades Bandhopadhyay (SINP, Kolkata)
13:05 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:05 - 13:45
Room: Main Auditorium Basement
13:45
13:45 - 16:05
Room: Mini Threatre
Contributions

13:45 Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) - Mangesh Borage (RRCAT, Indore)

14:05 Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) - Viswanatha Narasimhaiah (India TMT Coordination Centre, IIA, Bengaluru)

14:25 International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) - Aparajita Mukherjee (Senior Project Manager, ITER-India)

14:45 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) - Amit Kumar Srivastava (Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar)

15:05 European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) - Debashis Das (Director, RRCAT, Indore)

15:25 India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) - Naba Mondal (DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow, SINP, Kolkata)

15:45 Square Kilometer Array (SKA) - Uday Shankar N. (RRI, Bengaluru)
16:05 Tea break
Tea break
16:05 - 16:35
Room: Main Auditorium Basement

16:35

16:35 - 17:35
Room: Mini Threatre

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