N ation al Scien ce Cam p (V ijyosh i) - 2014

8 - 10 November 2014
National Science Camp
(Vijyoshi) - 2014
at J.N. Tata Auditorium
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru - 560012, India
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 this, 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.
Coordinator
Prof. Puspendu K. Das
Convener
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru - 560 012
A Program of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Organised by
KISHORE VAIGYANIK PROTSAHAN YOJANA
and
INSPIRE PROGRAM
Saturday, 8th November 2014
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, Coordinator, VIJYOSHI Camp 2014
09.05 a.m. – 09.10 a.m.
Welcome speech by
Prof. Anurag Kumar, Director,
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
09.10 a.m. – 09.25 a.m.
Inaugural address by
Prof. K VijayRaghavan, Secretary
DST, Govt. of India
09.25 a.m. – 09.30 a.m.
Vote of Thanks
9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 1
Prof. Diptiman Sen
Dr. J. Georg Bednorz
Title of the Lecture: "The Fascination of Science: Dreaming
allowed?”
10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m.
High Tea
11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 2
Prof. K. Chattopadhyay
Prof. Anurag Kumar
Title of the Lecture: "Information Transport:
From Bit Carriers to the Internet”
12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.
Lunch
2.00 p.m. - 3.15 p.m
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 3
Prof. T.N. Guru Row
Prof. Gautam R Desiraju
Title of the Lecture: "Crystallography for all”
03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 4
Prof. H.S. Savithri
Prof. Aseem Z Ansari
Title of the Lecture: "Writing new blueprints for life:
Ignoring scientific boundaries in the pursuit of userprogrammed genomes and living systems”
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
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Sunday, 9th November 2014
08.00 a.m. – 09.00 a.m.
Breakfast
9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 5
Prof. Gautam Bharali
Prof. Gregery T. Buzzard
Title of the Lecture: "From pure mathematics to
mathematical identification of impurities”
10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m.
Tea / Coffee
11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 6
Prof. P.S. Anil Kumar
Prof. Rohini M Godbole
Title of the Lecture: "How do we know what lies
within?”
12.30 p.m. - 02.00 p.m.
Photo session followed by Lunch
02.00 p.m. - 03.15 p.m
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 7
Prof. E.D. Jemmis
Prof. Dan Stack
Title of the Lecture: "Activation of Dioxygen and Substrate
Hydroxylation at Simple Copper Complexes:
Biological Insights”
03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 8
Prof. Ananthanarayana B
Prof. M. K. Sanyal
Title of the Lecture: "Can we organize molecules to form
materials we need?”
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. - 6.30 p.m.
High Tea
06.30 p.m. - 07.45 p.m.
Cultural Program
08.00 p.m.
Special Dinner at JVH Lawn
(Speakers, Students and Invited Guests)
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Monday, 10th November 2014
08.00 a.m. – 09.00 a.m.
Breakfast
9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 9
Prof. T.K. Chakraborty
Prof. R. V. Hosur
Title of the Lecture: "The pleasure of doing Science”
10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m.
Tea / Coffee
11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 10
Prof. K Muniyappa
Prof. Erik C. Boettger
Title of the Lecture: "The world of microbiology - two sides
of a coin”
12.30 p.m. - 02.00 p.m.
Lunch
02.00 p.m. - 03.15 p.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 11
Prof. Umesh Varshney
Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar
Title of the Lecture: "How do proteins fold,
unfold and misfold”
03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m.
Session Chair:
Lecture:
Lecture 12
Prof. G. Rangarajan
Prof. Divakar Viswanath
Title of the Lecture: “The normal distribution from
Gauss to Kalman”
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
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He is well known for his discovery of high
temperature superconductivity in ceramics
for which he shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in
Physics with K. Alex Muller.
J. Georg Bednorz
Anurag Kumar
Gautam Desiraju
His area of research is communication
networking, specifically, modelling, analysis,
control, and optimisation problems arising in
communication networks and distributed
systems. Recently his research has focused
primarily on wireless networking. From 1988
to 2003 he was the Coordinator at IISc of the
Education and Research Network Project
(ERNET), a UNDP and Government of India
national program that established India's first
wide-area packet switching network. He is the
current Director of IISc.
He has played a major role in the development
and growth of the subject of crystal
engineering. He is noted for gaining
acceptance for the theme of weak hydrogen
bonding among chemists and
crystallographers. His books on crystal
engineering (Elsevier, 1989and World
Scientific 2010) and the weak hydrogen bond
in structural chemistry and biology (OUP,
1999) are particularly well known. He is the
Immediate Past President of the International
Union of Crystallography.
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Aseem Z Ansari
Gregery T. Buzzard
R. V. Hosur
Dr. Ansari received his B.Sc in Chemistry and Biology
and was drawn to a career in scientific research after a
summer internship with Professor Obaid Siddiqi at the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in
Bombay. His PhD research, at the interface of inorganic
chemistry and molecular biology, revealed a new
mechanism by which metals control gene circuits. He
actively continues to cross boundaries of traditional
scientific disciplines to understand the central
question of biology, namely how genomes give rise to
living sentient beings.
Based on his own transformative experience as a
summer intern nearly 25 years ago, he has developed
Indo-US internship programs for biologically inclined
students (Khorana Program) and for all scientific
disciplines that do not overlap with biology (S. N. Bose
Program).
Greg Buzzard earned undergraduate degrees in
computer science and violin performance at Michigan
State University and a PhD in mathematics from the
University of Michigan. He joined the faculty of the
math department at Purdue in 2002, where he became
head of the department in 2013. His research interests
focused originally on dynamics in several complex
variables and have expanded in recent years to include
applications of mathematics to biology and
engineering. His work cuts across traditional
boundaries in science and mathematics. He is a
passionate and popular teacher of math at all levels,
for which he has won many laurels.
He has made outstanding contributions in the area of
Biomolecular NMR, Structural Biology and Biophysical
Chemistry. He has developed new multidimensional
NMR techniques, novel strategies and software
packages for quantitative macromolecular structure
determination. He discovered new structural motifs in
DNA quadruplexes. He is presently working on the
structures and dynamics of large proteins, proteinprotein complexes, protein folding, self-association
and multistranded nucleic acid structures by NMR and
other spectroscopic methods.
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Dan Stack
His main research interests are in the area of synthetic
inorganic and organic chemistry, interrogating
mechanisms of dioxygen activation and subsequent
substrate oxidation to inform on the design of new
discrete metal catalysts. Inspiration comes from
metalloenzymes that are capable not only of
remarkable organic hydroxylations but also highly
energy efficient transformations such the reduction of
dioxygen to water. Extending catalytic chemistry
beyond the constraints of a protein matrix is our
ultimate goal.
He works in the areas of surface physics, nanoscience
and nanotechnology. Specific research interests
include structure-property correlation in lowd imen s io n al systems, s catterin g stu d y o f
structural/magnetic correlations, structure and
morphology of solid and liquid interfaces, charge
ordering and electronic transport in nano-structured
materials, synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques and
growth mechanism of multilayer structure
Milan K Sanyal
Much of his research work is centered around
numerical algorithms and an ongoing effort is to derive
solvers of the Navier-Stokes equation at high Reynolds
numbers. Other contributions include a detailed study
of the iconic Lorenz attractor and a well known result
on the rate of growth of random Fibonacci sequences.
Divakar Viswanath
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Erik C. Boettger
Jayant Udgaonkar
Rohini Godbole
Erik Boettger studies the role of ribosomal
components in protein synthesis, in antibiotic action
and in human disease, with an aim on identifying
mechanisms of and therapeutic targets in ribosome
dysfunction. In collaboration with the ETH he has
started a synthetic biology approach in drug discovery
by combining molecular genetics with chemical
synthesis, i.e. use genetic mutants to guide the
synthesis of novel amino glycoside compounds with
the view to develop derivatives with altered drugtarget interaction.
His work is focused on observations of real instances of
protein folding, unfolding and misfolding, a
complementary and ground-truthing approach to
algorithm-based models. Using small proteins (e.g.
barstar, monellin), and techniques that monitor shape
changes with nano-to-microsecond resolution, we are
answering questions fundamental to solving the selfpacking puzzle: Do proteins take shape gradually or in
fits and starts? Is there only one folding sequence for
each protein? How sensitive is folding to cellular
conditions? What comes first - an "outline" of the
shape or its details? We are also applying our expertise
to protein unfolding and most recently to misfolding an all-too-common problem that can cause proteins to
aggregate into fibrillar masses, most tragically causing
the neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease.
She has worked extensively on different aspects of
particle phenomenology. Her work regarding hadronic
structure of high-energy photons outlined a variety of
ways in which to study it. This work also had
implications for the design of next generation electron
positron colliders, due to the possible large hadronic
backgrounds. She has also suggested innovative ways
to search for the top quark, Higgs bosons and other
new particles at the high-energy particle colliders. At
present her focus is on findings ways to search for
physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics,
through a study of the properties of the newly
discovered Higgs boson.
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