Scientre Stage: Inaugural event of Vigyan Samagam (Kolkata)

Asia/Kolkata
Auditorium (Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046)

Auditorium

Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

Arun Srivastava (Secretary, AEC & Head, ICPD, DAE, Mumbai), Ranajit Kumar (Head, NCPW, DAE, Mumbai)
Description
In order to highlight the value and impact of fundamental research to a broad cross-section of audience including students, academicians and industry, and to further strengthen India's participation in mega-science projects, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) are jointly organising a multi-venue mega-science exhibition, Vigyan Samagam. All are welcome to visit the exhibition. The following eight mega-science collaborations will be showcased in Vigyan Samagam: European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment (MACE) Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) A first-of-its-kind, Vigyan Samagam shall be hosted in a caravan mode at four major Indian cities as per the following schedule: Mumbai: 8th May to 7th July, 2019 Bengaluru: 29th July to 28th September, 2019 Kolkata: 4th November to 31st December, 2019 Delhi: 21st January to 20th March, 2020 "Scientre Stage" is the inaugural, 2-day science event at each of the four cities, including the formal inauguration ceremony itself. Participation in the "Scientre Stage" is by invitation only.
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Participants
  • A Laxmi
  • A. Kundu
  • A. Mukhopadhyay
  • A. R. Sule
  • A. Roy
  • A.D. Choudhury
  • Abhi Modak
  • Abhijit Bhattacharyya
  • Abhijit Majumdar
  • Achintya Roy
  • ADITYA KUMAR MANDAL
  • Ahindra Kumar Biswas
  • Ajit K. Mohanty
  • Ajit Kumar
  • AJIT ROY
  • Ajith Kembhavi
  • AJOY Biswas
  • Akash Bairagi
  • Amar Deo Chandra
  • Amartya Thakur
  • Amit Ghosh
  • Amit K. Shrivastava
  • Amit Roy
  • Amlan Chakraborti
  • Amrita Bhanja Chowdhury
  • Amrita Bhanja chowdhury
  • Amrita Goswami
  • Anand Dayal
  • Anand Kumar Dubey
  • Anand Rajagopal
  • Anandamay Mukhopadhyay
  • Anil Prabhakar
  • Anindita Karmakar
  • Anindita Nandi
  • Anindita Sarkar
  • Anirban Saha
  • Anjali Bhatter
  • Anjan DuttaGupta
  • Ankita Rojariya
  • Annapurni Subramaniam
  • Annapurni Subramaniam
  • Ansuman Das
  • Anupam Pal
  • Anupama G C
  • Anuradha Gupta
  • Anuradha Lohia
  • Apar Agarwal
  • Aparajita Mukherjee
  • Apollo Kasliwal
  • Appu Dhara
  • Arabinda Nayak
  • ARGHYADEEP BASU
  • ARIFUL HOQUE
  • Arihant Kumar Jain
  • ARIJIT CHAKRABORTY
  • Arijit Mukherjee
  • Arijit Ray
  • ARIJIT SAR
  • Arijit Sen
  • Arindam Kumar Sikdar
  • Arindam Sen
  • Arjun Dawn
  • Arka Chatterjee
  • Arka Mukherjee
  • ARKAPRAVA ROY
  • ARNAB MAJUMDER
  • ARNAB PAL
  • Arnab Panda
  • Arnab Paul
  • Arnab Sarker
  • Arpita Ganguly
  • Arpita Roddanavar
  • Arunava Chakrabarti
  • Arup Bandyopadhyay
  • Asis Chatterjee
  • Atasi Pal
  • AVIJIT SEN
  • AVIK PAUL
  • Ayan Sourav Bera
  • B M B Ghalib
  • Bala Iyer
  • Banani Talapatra
  • BAPI KULU
  • BHABANI SANKAR TRIPATHY
  • Bharat Doshi
  • Bhushan Patwardhan
  • Bidhan chandra Mandal
  • Bidyut Chakrabarty
  • Bikash Sinha
  • Bipula Sarkar
  • BISHAKHA BANERJEE
  • Biswajit Banerjee
  • Biswanath Manna
  • C.K. Das
  • Chandan Singh
  • Chandana Bhattacharya
  • Chandrama Chowdhury
  • Chandrasekhar Ghosh
  • Chinmay Nandi
  • Chinmay Shahi
  • CHINMOY BISWAS
  • Chirag Singh Mukherjee
  • Chrisphin Karthick
  • D. P. Singh
  • Debabrata Bepari
  • Debades Bandyopadhyay
  • Debajyoti Sarkar
  • Debalina Bhattacharya
  • Debalina Nandy
  • Debartha Karjee
  • Debashish Das
  • Debashish Datta
  • Debasish Majumdar
  • DEBASISH MAJUMDAR
  • Debiprosad Duari
  • DEBJANI BANERJEE
  • Deborshi Chakraborty
  • Debparno Sarkar
  • Deep Chatterjee
  • Deepraj Parida
  • Devesh Kumar
  • Dhruba Gupta
  • DIBYENDU MONDAL
  • Dibyendu Nandi
  • Dilshad Sulaiman
  • Dinesh Jonnavithula
  • Dinesh Kumar Srivastava
  • Dipannita Pal
  • DIPENDU HALDER
  • Dusmanta Patra
  • Ekata Nandy
  • Enakshi Dey
  • Eshita Mondal
  • G Ravi
  • G. Halder
  • G. Seal
  • G. Shaikh
  • Gargi Chaudhuri
  • Gargi Sau
  • Gaurab Samanta
  • Gautam Bhattacharyya
  • Gautam Bhattacharyya
  • Gautam Gangopadhyay
  • Gayathri N. Banerjee
  • Gitesh Sikdar
  • Gopal Mukherjee
  • Gopi Patel
  • Gorachand Das
  • Guruprasad Kar
  • HIMADRI SEKHAR MONDAL
  • Hitesh Pandya
  • I. Sanyal
  • Indraneel Das
  • Indraneel Ghose
  • Indranil Das
  • Injamul Haque Molla
  • Ishita Mandal
  • J.N. Dowarah
  • Jajati Nayak
  • Jane Alam
  • Jayant Kumar
  • Jayantilal Solanki
  • Jhilam Sadhukhan
  • Jogender Saini
  • JOYDEEP CHATTERJEE
  • Joydeep Ghosh
  • Joydip Nandi
  • K. Das
  • K. Muraleedharan
  • K. R. Kasturirangan
  • K.K. Chowdhury
  • K.S. Murali
  • Kaivalya Panchal
  • Kajari Haldar
  • Kajari Majumdar
  • Kanan Datta
  • Kanik Palodhi
  • Kaushik Banerjee
  • KOUSTAV PAL
  • Kuldeep Yadav
  • Kumar T S
  • Laxmi Anumakonda
  • Lekha Mondal Chowdhury
  • Loobdhak Ghosh
  • Madhumita Das
  • Madhusudan Dey
  • Mahammad Hasanujjaman
  • Mahfuzur Rahaman
  • Mainak Bandyopadhyay
  • Manas Maity
  • Manas Maity
  • Mangesh Borage
  • Manirujjamam Chowdhury
  • Manjori Ray
  • Manju Singh
  • MANJULA ATHOTA
  • Manjunath Bestha
  • Masudur Rahaman
  • Md Sohel Hoque
  • Md Sohel Reja
  • Md. Rafi Shaik
  • Mitali Mandal
  • Mohammad Asif Bhat
  • Mohammad Asif Bhat
  • Mohammad Rafi Shaik
  • Monabi Basu
  • Monomit Ghosh
  • Mouma Das
  • Moumita Mondal
  • Moumita Sinha
  • Mridul Bose
  • Muklesur Rahaman
  • N. Dasgupta
  • NAJMUL SK
  • Narayan Banerjee
  • Narinder P. Singh
  • Nayana Majumdar
  • Nilanjana Ray
  • Niloy Ghosh
  • Om prakash Dash
  • P. Ghosh
  • P. Mukhopadhyay
  • P. Satyanarayan
  • P. Sreekumar
  • P.K. Bagh
  • P.S. Saha
  • PALLABI MRIDHA
  • Paramita Mukherjee
  • Parnika Das
  • Partha Dhara
  • Partha Ghosh
  • PARTHA HALDER
  • Partha Pratim Bhaduri
  • Partha Pratim purkait
  • Paulomi Paul
  • Pawan Kumar
  • Payel Bakshi
  • Pijushpani Bhattacharjee
  • PIKLU SANTRA
  • Prabal Chattopadhyay
  • Prabal Kumar Chattopadhyay
  • Pradeep Chandra
  • Prakash Dey
  • Pralay Das
  • Pramod Grover
  • Pranan Bhattacharya
  • PRANTIK NANDI
  • Prasanna Deshmukh
  • Prashanth Panigrahi
  • Pratap Roy
  • Pratik Majumdar
  • Pratyay Roy
  • Pratyusava Baral
  • Pratyush Dey
  • Premomoy Ghosh
  • Pritam Mondal
  • Priyanka Roy Chowdhury
  • Probir Roy
  • PRONAY SARKAR
  • Prottoy Das
  • Purushottam Shrivastava
  • R. Das
  • R. Nath
  • R. V. Rajakumar
  • Raghuraj Singh
  • Rahi Nath
  • Rahul Bandyopadhyay
  • Rahul Gupta
  • Rahul Sardar
  • Rajarshi mondal
  • Rajarshi Ray
  • Rajarsi Thakur
  • Rajesh Nayak
  • Rajib Kumar Basu
  • Rajnish Jain
  • Rama Sarma Dhulipati
  • Ramaprakash A N
  • Ramkrishna Das
  • Ramya Sethuram
  • RANADEEP GHOSH DASTIDAR
  • Ranjan Sen
  • Ranjini Menon
  • Ranjit Shaw
  • Ratna Koley
  • RATNAMAY KOLAY
  • Ravi A. V. Kumar
  • Ravi Kumar
  • Ravi Subhrahmanyan
  • Ravishankar Raman
  • Rishav Sinha
  • Ritaban Chatterjee
  • Ritek Chowdhury
  • Ritesh Singh
  • RITUPARNA KUNDU
  • Rohan Lal Kshetry
  • Roma Roy
  • Roni Biswas
  • ROUNAK DHAR
  • Ruchi Pandey
  • Rudrapriya Das
  • Rupa Chatterjee
  • S k Thakur
  • S. Das
  • S. Kumar
  • S. Majumder
  • S. Sen
  • S. V. Nakhe
  • S.P. Pathak
  • S.S. Ghosh
  • Sabyasachi Manna
  • Sadaf Ali Nafees
  • Saikat Biswas
  • Saiyad Ali
  • Sajad Ahmad Bhat
  • Sajal Gupta
  • Sajal Gupta
  • Samadrita Basu
  • Samar Das
  • Samir Dhurde
  • SAMIR SARKAR
  • Samistha De
  • Sampita Das
  • SAMPRITI ROY
  • Samrat Ghosh
  • Sanchari Thakur
  • Sandip Chakrabarti
  • Sandip Pal
  • Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
  • Sanjay Bajirao
  • Sanjay Chaubey
  • Sanjay Ghosh
  • Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla
  • Sanjib Muhuri
  • Sanjit Mitra
  • Sannik Acharya
  • Santanu De
  • Saptarshi Gole
  • Sarbajit Pal
  • Sarbari Guha
  • Sarmishtha Bhattacharya
  • Sarmistha De
  • Satyabrata Datta
  • Satyanarayana Bheesette
  • Saumyadip Samui
  • Saumyadip Samui
  • Sayak Chatterjee
  • SAYAN MAITY
  • Sendhil Raja
  • Shafqat Ali
  • Shantanu Bhabal
  • Shantanu Sahoo
  • SHAONWITA PAL
  • Shashank Chaturvedi
  • Shashi Bhushan Pandey
  • SHATANIK BHATTACHARYA
  • SHIBNATH SHAW
  • SHINJINI PAL
  • Shishir Deshpande
  • SHIVSHANT CHAUHAN
  • Shradha Tiwari
  • Shreecheta Chowdhury
  • Shreejit Chakraborty
  • Shreetama Ray
  • Shreya Roy
  • Shreyan Sadh
  • Shreyashi Acharya
  • Shreyashi Biswas
  • Shri Bharat Kumar Jain
  • Shri Debashis Das
  • Shri Bheesette
  • Shri Milind Goverdhan
  • Shuaib Ahamad Khan
  • Sibsankar Giri
  • SIDDHARTHA BISWAS
  • Sidharth Kumar Prasad
  • Sinjini Chandra
  • Sk Faruque Ahmed
  • Smitha Subramanian
  • Smritikana Patra
  • Sneha Mallick
  • Sohel Rana
  • Somak Raychaudhury
  • Somnath Bharadwaj
  • Soumanti Chakraborty
  • Soumen Mondal
  • Soumendra Kishore Roy
  • Soumita Biswas
  • Soumitra Paul
  • Soumitra Sengupta
  • Soumya Bhowmik
  • SOUMYARANJAN DASH
  • SOURADEEP PAL
  • Sourav Pal
  • Sourav Porey
  • Sourav Sarkar
  • Sourav Sarkar
  • Sourav Srivastava
  • Souvanik Goswami
  • Souvik De
  • SOUVIK KAR
  • SOUVIK ROY
  • Souvik Roy
  • Spandita Mitra
  • SREEKUMAR MN UNNITHAN
  • Sreeparna Ganguly
  • SREYAN BHOWMICK
  • Srikanta Karmakar
  • SRIPAN MONDAL
  • Sristi Jaiswal
  • Subha Mitra
  • Subha Samanta
  • Subhabrata Chaudhuri
  • subhadip pal
  • SUBHAJIT HAZARI
  • Subhajit Kar
  • SUBHAJYOTI HAZRA
  • SUBHAM GHOSH
  • Subhankar Samanta
  • Subhash Kumar Abhishek
  • Subhasis Chattopadhyay
  • Subhendu Das
  • Subhojyoti Mondal
  • Subhrajit Mukherjee
  • Subhrajit Mukherjee
  • Subir Ghosh
  • SUBIR ROY
  • Subir Sarkar
  • Subroto Mukherjee
  • Suchandra Dutta Dutta
  • Suchetana Chatterjee
  • Sudipta Moshat
  • Sujay Chattopadhyay
  • Sukalyan Chottpadhyay
  • Sukanta Bose
  • Sukanya Bhattacharyya
  • Sukhvinder kaur Solan
  • Suman Das
  • Suman Sarkar
  • SUMI MUKHOPADHYAY
  • Sumit Saha
  • Sumit Som
  • Sumit Som
  • Sunil Batesar
  • Sunil Batesar
  • Sunita Sahoo
  • Supratik Pal
  • Supratik Pal
  • Supriya Das
  • Supriyo Mitra
  • SURAJ ALI
  • Surendra Kumar Gour
  • Susanta Kumar Pal
  • Sushant Kumar Singh
  • Susnata Seth
  • SWARNENDU BHATTACHARYA
  • SWARNENDU JANA
  • Swastik Chowbay
  • SWETA BARADIA
  • Sweta Ghosh
  • SYED MASUD ALI
  • Tamal Ghosh
  • Tamal Ghosh
  • TAMALI BANERJEE
  • Tamali Basu
  • TANIA DATTA
  • TANIA DATTA
  • Tanuka Chattopadhyay
  • Tapas Samanta
  • Tapash Bhattacharjee
  • TARUN KUMAR MUKHERJEE
  • Tarun Souradeep
  • Tilak Kumar Ghosh
  • Tilanjan Ray Chaudhuri
  • Tirthankar Roychoudhury
  • Tumpa Bhattacharya
  • Tushar kanti Das
  • Ujjwal Baruah
  • Umesh Kumar
  • Upala Mukhopadhyay
  • Utsav Bose
  • UTTARAN GHOSH
  • V.S. Ramachandran
  • Vaibhav Pal
  • Vaishali Naik
  • VAZIR AHAMED SHEIK
  • Vikas Jain
  • Vikas Singhal
  • Vinod Singh Negi
  • VIR K DHAR
  • VISHWA THEJA C
  • Viswanatha Narasimhiah
  • Vivek Kumar Singh
  • Wadut Shaikh
  • Wahab Uddin
  • WRITABRATA DEY
  • Writabrata Sengupta
  • Y Nabhiraj
  • Yashwant Gupta
  • Yogendra Pathak Viyogi
  • Zubayer Ahammed
Dr. Satyanarayana Bheesette (TIFR)
  • Monday, 4 November
    • Inauguration Mini Threatre

      Mini Threatre

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

      Convener: Dr Supriya Das (Bose Institute, Kolkata)
      • 15:30
        Welcome and Lighting of Lamp
      • 1
        Welcome address & About Vigyan Samagam
        Speaker: Mr Ranajit Kumar (Head, NCPW, DAE, Mumbai)
        summary
      • 2
        Address by Guest of Honour
        Speaker: Mr Arijit Dutta Choudhury (Director General,ย NCSM, Kolkata)
        summary
      • 3
        Message by the Guest of Honour (Read by Mr. Arun Srivastava)
        Speaker: Mr K. N. Vyas (Chairperson, AEC and Secretary, DAE, Mumbai)
        summary
      • 4
        Address by the Guest of Honour
        Speaker: Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Secretary, DST, New Delhi)
        summary
      • 5
        Address by the Guest of Honour
        Speaker: Mr Sekhar Basu (Former Secretary, DAE)
      • 6
        Address by the Chief Guest (on video)
        Speaker: Dr Harsh Vardhan (Minister of Science & Technology, New Delhi)
      • 7
        Vote of Thanks
        Speaker: Dr Praveer Asthana (Head, Mega Science Division, DST, New Delhi)
        summary
    • Inauguration of Exhibitions Main Auditorium Basement

      Main Auditorium Basement

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

    • 17:20
      High Tea Main Auditorium Basement

      Main Auditorium Basement

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

  • Tuesday, 5 November
    • Keynote Address Mini Threatre

      Mini Threatre

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

      Convener: Dr Das Supriya (Bose Institute, Kolkata)
      • 8
        Welcome
      • 9
        Keynote address
        Speaker: Prof. Paolo Giubellino (Scientific Managing Director, GSI & FAIR)
        Slides
        summary
      • 10
        Vote of Thanks
    • India and Mega Science Mini Threatre

      Mini Threatre

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

      Convener: Prof. Ramaprakash A.N. (IUCAA, Pune)
      • 11
        Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)
        Speaker: Prof. Bikash Sinha (Former Director, VECC & SINP, Kolkata)
        Slides
        summary
      • 12
        Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
        Speaker: Dr Shashi Bhushan Pandey (ARIES, Nainital)
        Slides
        summary
      • 13
        Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment (MACE)
        Speaker: Dr V.K. Dhar (BARC, Mumbai)
        Slides
        summary
      • 14
        International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
        Speaker: Dr Shishir Deshpande
        Slides
        summary
    • 11:15
      Tea break Main Auditorium Basement

      Main Auditorium Basement

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

    • India and Mega Science Mini Threatre

      Mini Threatre

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

      Convener: Prof. Ramaprakash A.N. (IUCAA, Pune)
      • 15
        Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
        Speaker: Prof. Somak Raychaudhury (Director, IUCAA, Pune)
        Slides
        summary
      • 16
        European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)
        Speaker: Dr Sukalyan Chattopadhyay (SINP, Kolkata)
        Slides
        summary
      • 17
        India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)
        Speaker: Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri (University of Calcutta, Kolkata)
        Slides
        summary
      • 18
        Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
        Speaker: Dr Debades Bandhopadhyay (SINP, Kolkata)
        Slides
        summary
    • 13:05
      Lunch Break Main Auditorium Basement

      Main Auditorium Basement

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

    • Mega Science and Industry Mini Threatre

      Mini Threatre

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

      Convener: Prof. Vivek Datar (TIFR, Mumbai)
      • 19
        Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)
        Speaker: Dr Mangesh Borage (RRCAT, Indore)
        Slides
        summary
      • 20
        Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
        Speaker: Mr Viswanatha Narasimhaiah (India TMT Coordination Centre, IIA, Bengaluru)
        Slides
        summary
      • 21
        International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
        Speaker: Ms Aparajita Mukherjee (Senior Project Manager, ITER-India)
        Slides
        summary
      • 22
        Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
        Speaker: Dr Amit Kumar Srivastava (Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar)
        Slides
        summary
      • 23
        European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)
        Speaker: Mr Debashis Das (Director, RRCAT, Indore)
        Slides
        summary
      • 24
        India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)
        Speaker: Prof. Naba Mondal (DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow, SINP, Kolkata)
        Slides
        summary
      • 25
        Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
        Speaker: Dr Uday Shankar N. (RRI, Bengaluru)
        Slides
        summary
    • 16:05
      Tea break Main Auditorium Basement

      Main Auditorium Basement

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

    • Industry Session Mini Threatre

      Mini Threatre

      Science City, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, Kolkata, 700046

      Conveners: Mr Anand Dayal (Indo-Danish Tool Room, Jamshedpur for TMT), Mr Arun Srivastava (Secretary, AEC, Mumbai), Ms Manjula A. (Senior DGM, CAD/ECIL, Hyderabad for CERN/FAIR), Mr Narayan Mirji (Vice President Marketing, Paharpur Cooling Towers Ltd.), Mr Rahul Gupta (Regional Manager Engineering Services, DesignTech Systems Ltd.), Mr Vivek Mohile (Persistent Systems, Pune for SKA)