18 – 20 December 2015

The aim of the annual National Science (Vijyoshi) Camps

is to provide a forum for interactions between bright

young students and leading researchers in various

branches of science and mathematics. With boundaries

between disciplines fast disappearing, these camps serve

as an ideal platform for the young participants to get an

exciting global viewpoint of questions relating to basic

sciences as well as application oriented themes.

As in the previous meetings, a comprehensive programme

has been designed for the participants. This includes

thought provoking lectures followed by a round of

discussion at the end of each day's programme. Apart

from all these the previous meetings have ultimately

served to motivate and inspire the participants by

bringing them together, in what is hoped will be their first

step towards a career in research in the basic sciences and

mathematics.

2015

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08.00 a.m. – 09.00 a.m. Breakfast

09.00 a.m. – 09.30 a.m. Inauguration

09.00 a.m. – 09.05 a.m. Welcome speech by Prof. P.K. Das, Convener, KVPY

09.05 a.m. – 09.15 a.m. Remarks by Prof. Anurag KumarDirectorIndian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

09.15 a.m. - 09.20 a.m. Vote of Thanks by Prof. G Mugesh

9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Lecture 1 Session Chair: Prof. A G SamuelsonLecture: Prof. Laurie J Butler

Title of the Lecture: "From Quantum Mechanics toAtmospheric Chemistry: Probing Radical Intermediates of Bimolecular Reactions”

10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. High Tea

11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Lecture 2Session Chair: Prof. G RangarajanLecture: Prof. Probal Chaudhuri

Title of the Lecture: "Shape of the Earth, motion of thePlanets and the Method of Least Squares"

12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Lunch

2.00 p.m. - 3.15 p.m Lecture 3 Session Chair: Prof. Chanda J. JogLecture: Prof. Jainendra K Jain

Title of the Lecture: "The incredible story ofsuperconductivity: from discovery to applications”

03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m. Lecture 4Session Chair: Prof. M Narasimha MurtyLecture: Prof. Parameswaran Sankaran

Title of the Lecture: "Geometry: From Euclid to Bolayi and Lobachevsky”

04.30 p.m. - 05.00 p.m Tea / Coffee

05.00 p.m. - 06.00 p.m. Tutorials (All Speakers)

06.00 p.m. -07.00 p.m. Session on Experiments - Batch - 1

08.00 p.m. Dinner - Students at JVH Lawn

Friday, 18th December 2015

8.00 a.m. – 09.00 a.m. Breakfast

9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Lecture 5

Session Chair: Prof. S Natarajan

Lecture: Prof. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran

Title of the Lecture: "Organic Synthesis: Excitement,

Challenges and Introspection”

10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Tea / Coffee

11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Lecture 6

Session Chair: Prof. Arindam Ghosh

Lecture: Prof. Michelle Y Simmons

Title of the Lecture: “The future of computing”

12.30 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. Photo session followed by Lunch

02.00 p.m. - 03.15 p.m Lecture 7

Session Chair: Prof. Manju Bansal

Lecture: Prof. Raghu Kalluri

Title of the Lecture: "New Advances in the Diagnosis

and Control of Cancer”

03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m. Lecture 8

Session Chair: Prof. Venkataraman V

Lecture: Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri

Title of the Lecture: "Burning of the Sun & Turning of the

Earth:Probing Nature with Neutrinos”

04.30 p.m. - 05.00 p.m Tea / Coffee

05.00 p.m. - 06.00 p.m. Tutorials (All Speakers)

06.00 p.m. - 06.30 p.m. High Tea

06.30 p.m. - 07.45 p.m. Cultural Program

08.00 p.m. Special Dinner at JVH Lawn

(Students and Invited Guests)

Saturday, 19th December 2015

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08.00 a.m. – 09.00 a.m. Breakfast

9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Lecture 9

Session Chair: Prof. Dipankar Nandi

Lecture: Prof. Avadhesha Surolia

Title of the Lecture: "Glycobiology- An emerging frontier of

biology A perspective based on studies with lectins”

10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Tea / Coffee

11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Lecture 10

Session Chair: Prof. S. Mahadevan

Lecture: Prof. Anant K Menon

Title of the Lecture: "Fat and fabulous:

how cells make their oily skins”

12.30 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. Lunch

02.00 p.m. - 03.15 p.m Lecture 11

Session Chair: Prof. Vikram Jayaram

Lecture: Prof. Kamanio Chattopadhyay

Title of the Lecture: “From quasi crystal to seashell:

adventure through Serendipity and Curiosity”

03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m. Lecture 12

Session Chair: Prof. Kumaravel Somasundaram

Lecture: Prof. Rudi Van Eldik

Title of the Lecture: “Understanding the mechanisms of

inorganic/bio-inorganic reactions in solution. From

fundamental studies to practical applications”

04.30 p.m. - 05.00 p.m High Tea

05.00 p.m. - 06.00 p.m. Tutorials & Concluding remarks

06.00 p.m. - 07.00 p.m Session on Experiments - Batch - 2

Sunday, 20th December 2015

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Laurie J Butler

Laurie Butler joined the faculty at University of Chicago in 1987. She earned her B.S. from MIT and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has made major contributions to understanding electronically non-adiabatic reaction dynamics and to developing methodology to probe the dynamics of chemical reactions that proceed through radical intermediates, particularly for key reactions in atmospheric and combustion chemistry. A fellow of the AAAS and the American Chemical Society, dozens of her Ph.D. students and undergraduate researchers have gone on to be chemistry faculty and researchers in industry and national laboratories. She

thco-authors the 8 edition of the seminal textbook Principles of Modern Chemistry.

Probal Chaudhuri is a Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He was an undergraduate and a postgraduate student in the same institute. Later he went to University of California at Berkeley and obtained a PhD degree in statistics there. He has made contributions in diverse areas of theoretical and applied statistics. His works on quantiles in finite and infinite dimensional spaces and the multi-scale approach in statistical smoothing are extensively cited in the literature. He is a fellow of all three national science academies in India and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in the US. He is also a recipient of the C.R. Rao National Award in Statistics, the B.M. Birla Science Award in Mathematics and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Mathematical Sciences.

Probal Chaudhuri

Jainendra Jain (जैनेन्द्रजैन) is a theoretical physicist

interested in unexpected quantum mechanical reorganizations that occur when a large number of particle sinteract. He is best known for his theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect, for which he predicted exotic topological particles called “composite fermions,” which have been observed experimentally and produce a host of interesting phenomena. He is currently Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Mueller professor in the Pennsylvania State University, and holds Infosys Visiting Chair Professorship at IISc Bengaluru.Jainendra K Jain

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Michelle Y Simmons

S Chandrasekaran

Srinivasan Chandrasekaran is an Honorary Professor and SERB Distinguished Fellow at the Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He was a research associate at Harvard University (USA) with Prof. E.J. Corey, and at Syntex Research (Palo Alto, USA). He has published over 250 research papers in national and international journals and served as an elected member of the Bureau of IUPAC and Member of the Executive Committee of IUPAC. He is the Chairman of the National Organic Symposium Trust (NOST), India and was the President of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) from 2012 to 2014. He was the editor-in-chief of Tetrahedron Letters published by Elsevier (2007-14) and is currently on the Board of Consulting Editors. His major research interests lie in the areas of development of new synthetic methodologies for organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, total synthesis of natural products, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, and organic materials.

Professor Simmons is an ARC Laureate Fellow & Director of the highly successful ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology. She has pioneered unique technologies internationally to build electronic devices in silicon at the atomic scale, including the world's smallest transistor, the narrowest conducting wires and the first transistor where a single atom controls its operation. This work opens up the prospect of developing a silicon-based quantum computer: a powerful new form of computing with the potential to transform information processing. Professor Simmons is one of a hand full of researchers in Australia to have twice received a Federation Fellowship and now a Laureate Fellowship, the Australian Research Council's most prestigious award of this kind. Following her PhD in solar cells at the University of Durham in the UK in 1992 she became a Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, working with Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS in quantum electronics. In 1999, she was awarded a QEII Fellowship and came to Australia. She has won both the Pawsey Medal (2006) and Lyle Medal (2015) from the Australian Academy of Science and was, upon her appointment, one of the youngest fellows of this Academy. She was named Scientist of the Year by the New South Wales Government in 2012 and in 2014 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has recently become Editor-in-Chief of Nature Quantum Information and was just awarded the CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science.

Parameswaran Sankaran

Parameswaran Sankaran is a Professor of Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He received his Ph.D from the University of Calgary, Canada. His current research interests include topology, representation theory and group theory. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India.

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Rudi Van Eldik

Rudi van Eldik received his education in South Africa, spent post-doctoral years in the US and Germany, and was appointed as Chair for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1994. Following his retirement in 2010, he is now Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and at the N. Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. His research interests focus on the mechanisms of inorganic/bioinorganic reactions with special application of high pressure and low temperature techniques. He and his research team have developed an Edutainment concept for bringing chemistry to the general public.

Anant K Menon

Amitava Raychaudhuri

Anant K. Menon is a Professor of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He previously held faculty appointments at The Rockefeller University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his doctorate in Chemistry at Cornell University where he used fluorescence methods to characterize the lateral diffusion and clustering of immunoglobulin E receptors at the surface of cells. As a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University he elucidated the pathway for the biosynthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins, a class of lipid-modified proteins that includes the cell surface receptor for folate, the neural cell adhesion molecule, the enzyme alkaline phosphatase and many coat proteins of protozoan parasites such as malaria and toxoplasma. His recent work focuses on problems of membrane biogenesis, specifically how lipids are transported across and between membranes. His laboratory currently studies the molecular mechanisms of intracellular sterol transport, and the scramblase-mediated transbi layer movement of phosphol ip ids. More detai ls may be found at http://www.cornellbiochem.org/menon/.

He was inspired towards a scientific career by the `Science Talent' summer camps he attended while an undergraduate. Though many of the lectures there were way beyond his limited knowledge the enthusiasm that the speakers conveyed about the frontiers of research was infectious. He loves to teach and enjoys interacting with young minds. His research in particle physics has covered many areas including grand unified theories, extra-dimensional models, left-right symmetry, the Higgs boson, and neutrino physics.He hold the position of Sir Tarak Nath Palit Professor of Physics.

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K Chattopadhyay

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is currently a Honorary Professor at the Materials Engineering Department at IISc. His research work primarily aims atsynthesizing newer materials through nonequillibrium processing and understanding their structure and stability at different length scales. As aforemost practitioner of the electron microscopy in the country, he utilized this tool elegantly in conjunction with other techniques to unravel the complex structure of the materials synthesized in his laboratory. He leads the Indian effort in microgravity research and is currently spearheading a large energy program which includes a major consortium of Indian and American academic institutions and industry under the joint umbrella of US and Indian science agencies and another large Indian programme for developing efficient solar energy systems on behalf of Government of India and Government of Karnataka.

Raghu Kalluri is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Cancer Biology and the Director of the Metastasis Research Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he also holds the Rebecca and Joseph Brown Endowed Chair. In 2015, Kalluri's lab at MD Anderson received widespread attention for a discovery that could lead to a blood test that detects pancreatic cancer at an early stage, before it spreads to other organs and becomes too difficult to treat. Kalluri was honored in 2015 with the prestigious Jacob-Henie Medal for his discoveries related to autoimmune and genetic kidney diseases, organ fibrosis and cancer biology. His research has led to new methods of diagnosis for kidney diseases, and identified diagnostic methods and therapy targets for fibrosis and cancer.

Avadhesha Surolia

Raghu Kalluri

Avadhesha Surolia is an eminent Glycobiologist at IISc, Bengaluru. Presently, he is an Honorary Professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit(MBU), IISc and holds the prestigious Bhatnagar Fellowship of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. He is internationally recognized for his seminal contributions on lectin structure and interactions, orientation and dynamics of cell surface carbohydrate receptors and protein folding, diabetes, anti-malarials and anti-cancer agents based on curcumin, flavonoids, etc. In addition, neuropathic pain, neurodegenerative disorders and the link between immunity and obsessive compulsive disorder are other areas of his current interest. He has been arecipient of several prestigious National and International awards.

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