Annual Report 2013 - Royal Society of Chemistry

ANNUAL RSC GROUP REPORT FOR 2013
To enable us to better support our networks and their activities RSC Groups are asked to complete this form
and return it to: Interest Groups - [email protected], Local Sections – [email protected].
Or by post to; Dr Fiona McMillan, Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton
Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WF.
GROUP NAME
Submitted by
Signed (may be signed
electronically)
Date
RSC West India Section
Jayant Khandare
Dr.Khandare ( Hon. Secretary) and Dr. Sourav Pal
(Hon.Chairman)
2014-03-15
Annual General Meeting 2014 (if being held)
Date:
Last week of April 2014
Venue:
NCL Pune / IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
RSC West India EC Meetings held on :
1. 23 Dec 2013- at National Chemical Lab., Pune
2. 10 Jan 2014 TIFR
3.
Proposed Committee Meetings Dates for 2014:
Dates:
Feb 2014
Venue:
TIFR, Mumbai
May 2014
NCL, Pune
September 2014
IITB, Mumbai
Nov 2014
IISER, Pune
Financial Accounts for the year ending Feb 2014
Deadline for receipt of Financial Accounts by RSC Finance Dept:
Deadline for receipt of Annual Report by Networks:
Please list below the dates of your proposed AGM and Committee Meetings for 2014 (where applicable).
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ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN 2013 - Events
Please attach any meeting reports, newsletters or other reports which are relevant.
Please report below on activities undertaken by the Group in the past year. If you have more detailed
information about any particularly successful events, or advice for other Groups please use a separate
sheet. For more events continue as necessary.
EVENT KEY:
 Education Event
 Public Lecture
 Retired Members Event
 Scientific Conference - 1 day
 Scientific Conference - multi day
 Social Event
 Training/workshop
 Award Lecture

Event Name
Coalescence of Chemical Sciences to Confront the Future Challenges at Sir
Parashurambhau College, Pune
Event Type (key)
Educational Event
Comments
Two days Symposium held at Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune held on February
9-10, 2013
Event Name
Event Type (key)
IYC Invited Popular Lectures,
SRT Convention Center, Sophia College
th
FRIDAY, 19 July 2013
Scientific Conference – one day
Comments
Prof. Arindam.chowdhury, IITB delivered talk titiled "Visualizing DNA-Repair
Proteins in Action"
And “THE STORY OF THE AMAZING RIBOSOME” by Prof. Ruchi Anand, IITB
Event Name
Post Graduate Lecture Series –Friday,26-27 th July, 2013
Event Type (key)
Educational Event
K.E.T's V.G.Vaze College of Arts, Science & Commerce.
Prof. Krishna P. Kaliappan, IITB and
Prof. Santosh Gharpure, IITB
Comments
Topics covered
Introduction to Pericyclic reactions and Molecular Orbitals (Lecture 1)
Electrocyclic Reactions (Lecture 2)
Introduction to CycloadditionReactions and Diels-Alder Reaction(Lectures 3/4)
1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition reaction (Lecture 5)
[2+2] Cycloaddition reaction (Lecture 6)
Sigmatropic Rearrangements (Lecture 7)
Other Pericyclic Reactions (Lecture 8)
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Event Name
SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce,
Sion (W), Mumbai, Postgraduate Lecture Series On
“Advances in NMR Techniquesand Applications”
nd
rd
2 and 3 August, 2013
Educational Event
Event Type (key)
Comments
Event Name
Event Type (key)
Friday, 2nd August, 9 am
Inauguration and Key Note Address
By Prof. K.V.R. Chary(TIFR, Mumbai)
Modern Aspects of NMR
Prof. K.V.R. Chary, Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
NMR in Organic Chemistry, Theory and Interpretation.
Prof. INN Namboothiri, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
13C NMR ,DEPT 13C Chemical Shifts,proton coupled and decoupled DEPT,
Heteronuclearcoupling of carbon to 9F and 31P.
by Prof.Suvarn Kulkarni, IIT Bombay,Mumbai
Problem solving on 2D NMR (NOESY, COSY& HETCOR)
Prof. D. D. Dhavale
Head, Department of Chemistry, University of Pune
2D NMR and applications
Dr P.R.Rajamohanan
Head, NMR Division, NCL, Pune.
St. Francis De Sales, Seminary Hills, Nagpur
Half Day Symposium on Sat. 14 th Sept. 2013,
And at Institute of Science, Nagpur
Two half day symposium Nagpur
St. Francis De Sales, Seminary Hills, Nagpur
“Introduction to Supramolecular Chemistry” by Prof. V.R.Pedireddy,
Bhubaneswar
“Applications of Colloids in Biology” by Prof. Shalini Gupta, IITD
“Implications of Macromers in Biology” by Prof. Jayant Khandare, MIP, Pune
Comments
At Institute of Science, Nagpur
“Introduction to Supramolecular Chemistry” by Prof.
Bhubaneswar.
“Macromers in Biology ”by Prof. Jayant Khandare, MIP, Pune
Event Name
IIT
V.R.Pedireddy,
IYC RSC Special Grant Event
RSC-WILSON COLLEGE NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM On NEW VISTAS
CHEMISTRY,
September 28,2013 at 9.30 a.m. in Dr H J Taylor Auditorium, Wilson College
IIT
IN
Mumbai.
Event Type (key)
Comments
IYC Grant Scientific Conference - 1 day
Padmavibhushan Prof. M. M Sharma, FRS,
Former Director, ICT,Mumbai was the Chief Guest and delivered the inaugural
address.
Dr. Sourav Pal (Director,NCL,Pune)-spoke on Chemical Sciences in the
frontiers -need for interdisciplinary research
Prof. Prabhu hosted the event at Wilson College.
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Event Name
„iMPACT OF CHEMISTRY ON NANOTECHNOLOGY at Defence Institute of
Advanced Technology
Organized at Dept. of Applied Chemistry
Event Type (key)
Dates: October, 28th -29th, 2013
RSCWIS -DIAT-INDUSTRY MEET
THEME AREAS OF CONFERENCE
Nanochemistry and Bottom-up approach to Nanoscience including
bionanotechnology
Chemistry of surfactants and their role in nanotechnology
Comments
Polymer chemistry and its impact on nanotechnology
Solid-state chemistry and its role in nanotechnology
Sol-Gel chemistry for metal oxide and ceramics nano-particles.
Advanced analytical tools for chemically driven nanoparticles
Event Name
Bombay College of Pharmacy (BCP),Mumbai
“Drug Discovery and Development” On Saturday, 30th Nov, 2013
Event Type (key)
One day event for UG and PG students
Talks were delivered by
Dr. Rajiv Sharma - Piramal Enterprises
Prof. Prof. Evans Coutinho, BCP
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Piramal Enterprises
Comments
Dr. MuraliPadigaru, inSTem Bangalore
Dr. NileshDagia, Piramal Discovery Solutions
Prof. Krishna Iyer, BCP
Dr. Sujay Kulkarni, GSK, Mumbai
Event Name
Event Type (key)
National Chemical Lab. Pune 3 rd March 2014.
Special Lecture on Polyglycerol dendrimers from Lab to the Clinic by Prof Rainer
Haag, Freie University Berlin Germany.
Lecture was organized at National Chemical Lab. Polymer Chemistry Lab.
Hosted by Dr. PP Wadgaonkar, Scientist NCL Pune,
Comments
A visit to NCL Venture center was organized.
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ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN 2013 – Awards and Bursaries
Please list any awards or bursaries presented by your committee in 2013 and indicate any which will be
open for nomination/application in 2014.
1. RSC WIS organized a special invited lecture tilted “ Polyglycerol polymers, from the Lab to Clinic”
delivered by Prof. Rainer Haag, Freie University Berlin Germany, on 3 rd March 2014.
2. Joined RSC visitors- Environmental Safety at University of Pune. Jayant Khandare and Prof. Vidya
Avasare.
3. Prof Vidya Avasare attended RSC Bangalore office opening ceremony.
4. Special Lecture by Prof. Venkat Ramakrishnan (Noble Prize 2009) was organized at TIFR Mumbai
on 10 th Jan 2014 and was hosted by Prof Chary. Dinner was also hosted at President Hotel
Mumbai.
Other information/comments:
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ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE 2014
Please report below on activities proposed for 2014. For more events continue as necessary
1. Popular talk event at Sophia Woman College, Mumbai
2. Chemistry at interdisciplines of sciences- Nagpur/Jalgaon/ Nanded
3. Drug Discovery at KM Kundnani/MIP College of Pharmacy, Mumbai/Pune
4. Experimental for Secondary Students at Pune, India.
5. Basics of Chemistry, Kolhapur/Nashik for PG students.
6. RSC West India a PG Lecture series in KC/SIES College, Mumbai University.
7. RSC West India a PG Lecture series in Vaze College, Mumbai.
8. One day symposium in advances in Chemistry at Pune University/Fergusson
Events
College, Pune.
Name
9. Bi Annual RSC West India Ph.D. Students Symposium at Jaipur/Goa University
10. RSC West India Invitation lectures by outstanding Scientists/Academics (Two
venues)- ICT/IITB/IISER/NCL
11. Nanotech event at DIAT, Pune
12. RSC WIS-Design of Expt. in Chemistry and Polymers, at NCL
13. RSC crystallography event at IITB/NCL/IISER Pune
14. Polymer/Chemical Sciences event at Solapur.
Comments
PG Lectures in Organic Chemistry and NMR special lectures to be held in SIES College
and Vaze College, as an ongoing efforts by RSC West India to expose PG students to
modern approach to chemistry, as a help to their curriculum (Jan-March 2015)
Special Popular talk/PG lectures event for Women Students in Sophia College
Possibility of a joint symposium with RSC South and RSC Deccan and RSC West in IIT
Chennai, in organising a special one day symposium in Current developments in
Organic/Inorganic/Chemical Biology will be explored.
Event Name
RSC Group Committee Membership
(this information will be used to update the RSC membership database and your RSC Group web
page where appropriate)
Position
Chair
Vice Chair
Name
Dr Saurav Pal
Prof. KP Kaliappan
Dr. Jayant Khandare
Secretary
Committee Expertise
(e.g. sensor technology, food science,
Education, European legislation)
Physical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Macromolecular Chemistry, Polymer
sciences
Dates on
committee
(20xx – 20xx)
26 March 2012
26 March 2012
Dr. Jayant Khandare
26 March 2012
Dr. P Sivaswaroop
Prof. Deepa
Khushalani
Dr. Abhijit
Roychowdhury
Prof. Vidya Avasare
26 March 2012
Treasurer
Ordinary Members
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Advisors
Co-opted members
and their affiliation
26 March 2012
Prof. KVR Chary
Prof. MM Sharma
Prof. Girjesh Govil
Dr. KN Ganesh
Dr. R. Gopalan
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Sophia College Event
DIAT Pune
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RSC IYC grant event Sophia College Mumbai
Post graduate lecture series Vaze College, Mumbai
Dinner with PRf V.Ramakrishnan Nobel Prize winner 2009, Mumbai
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