Symposium Program Schedule 2012
 | Registration and kit distribution | 08.45 am |
| Inauguration | 09.25 am - 09.55 am | |
| First Session | ||
| Presentation by Dr. Srikumar Banerjee followed by Q&A session | 10.00 am - 10.55 am | |
| Presentation by Dr. GR Chandak followed by Q&A session | 11.00 am - 11.25 am | |
| Presentation by Dr. BG Siddharth followed by Q&A session | 11.35 am - 12.25 pm | |
| Lunch break | 12.35 pm - 01.45 pm | |
| Second session | ||
| Science Quiz ( 5 - 6 teams from Qualified team from written round) | 02.00 pm - 03.55 pm | |
| Prize distribution | 04.00 pm - 04:15 pm | |
| Day closure with National Anthem | 04:30 pm | |
PROFESSOR PRADIP NARAYAN GHOSH
Vice-Chancellor
Office of the Vice-Chancellor : AUROBINDO BHAVAN
JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA-700 032. INDIA
MESSAGE
It gives me immense pleasure to know that the Ex-Students of Jadavpur University are going to organize a popular science symposium on January 07, 2012.
It think that it will be a great endeavor to make the science popular among the common people in a vast arena. We know that science makes technology possible. It is very mu…
Prof. A. K. Datta
Retired Professor and former Head Dept of Applied Physics
Dept of Applied Optics and Photonics University of Calcutta
92 APC Road, Kolkata 700009 Mobile 0 93 3100 6142
(Res) 033 2274 2478
BIO-DATA : Professor (Dr.) Asit K. Datta was a Professor in the newly established Department of Applied Optics and Photonics of the University of Calcutta. He is an M.Tech in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D in Applied Physics from the University of Calcutta. Professor Dat…
Professor Dorairajan Balasubramanian
Director of Research, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
ABSTRACT
The cell is the fundamental unit of all life, and has two basic minimum features that define it as living: One is that it has the informational material which allows it to make more of itself, and the second is that it must necessarily interact with its immediate environment to gain (and lose) energy/material. While the former is called its genome, the latter is defined as its metaboli…
Dr. M. K. Chattopadhyay
AcharyaPrafulla Chandra Ray (1861-1944) was one of those educationists and visionaries, through whom science-based Western education made inroads in the British- ruled India. Born in a remote village of East Bengal (now Bangladesh) he started his academic career in a local school. Subsequently his family moved to Kolkata for the sake of his higher education. He studied in Hare School and later on passed B.A from the Metropolitan Institute.
Thereafter, he went to E…
RC Chakraborty,
Visiting Professor, JUET, Guna,
Former Director of DTRL & ISSA (DRDO),
rcchak@gmail.com, www.myreaders.info
"To many readers, this article may appear as Myth and Speculation but will later agree that, it is reality".
About 5000 years ago, Roman Abacus the machine with memory was made. Since then 3500 years passed when Pascaline in 1652 invented a calculating machine that mechanized arithmetic. But then within 200 years, the Diff. Engine as a mechanical calculatin…
Partha Ghosal
Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad
Abstract
Since its invention, electron microscope has been a valuable tool in the development of scientific theory and it contributed greatly to biology, medicine and material sciences and more recently the nano technology. This wide spread use of electron microscopes is based on the fact that they permit the observation and characterization of materials on a nanometer (nm) to micrometer (um) scale. This article presen…
Susanta Dutta
Imagine Albert Einstein shouting at the pilot, "Damn, there goes my image again! How many times I told you not to fly at the speed of light when I am shaving!"
Let the story of one of the all time greats begin.
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany (14.03.1879), just like rest of us.
Europe was in political turmoil. Jews were getting the blame of financial crisis.... Many emigrated to America.
Albert's father, Hermann, and uncle, Jacob, shifted to Munich and s…
Dr. Madhab.K. Chattopadhyay
Ph.D. (Pharmacy 1990, Spl: Microbial Biochemistry)
Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR), Hyderabad 500 007 Ph# 040-2719 2545, E-mail: mkc@ccmb.res.in
Introduction
Recently we have celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore and Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy. They were born in 1861. Dr. Nilratan Sircar is one of those luminaries who, in spite of being born in the same year, remain ignored. A medical coll…
Bedadyuti Chakraborty
Ramanujan was ill. British mathematician G. H. Hardy came to see Ramanujan in the hospital which was situated in south-west London. Hardy's cab number was 1729 and he pointed the number as a dull one and unfavorable too. "No," Ramanujan replied and then told "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Those two different ways are these: 1729 =13+123 = 93 +103
Today we know 1729 as Raman…
Devika Banerjee
First year College Student University of Delaware, USA E-mail: de_banerjee@yahoo.com
(Devika Banerjee is a devoted animal-lover, who is raising awareness about tigers for a year-long Environmental Service Project. Last summer, she trained and cared for abused dogs at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) at Angell Memorial Hospital in Boston. Along with her interest in animals, she is avidly involved in athletics and the creative arts.…
C.V. Raman is one of the most renowned scientists produced by India. His full name was Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. For his pioneering work on scattering of light, C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. During those times there were not many opportunities for scientists in India. Therefore, Raman joined the Indian Finance Department in 1907. After his office hours, he carried out his experimental research in the laboratory of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science at…
Raja Rammohan Roy (1772-1833) was a reformer. He stood against the diabolical sati custom (burning of the widows with the corpse of their husbands) and ultimately persuaded the British Government to ban it. Being shocked with the parochial attitude of the followers of Hinduism and Christianity, he formed a liberal forum called Brahmo Samaj, which was open to all religious-minded people. He also made significant contribution in the formation of the structure of Bengali prose. He firmly believed t…
Dr M V Jagannadham,
Senior Principle Scientist, CCMB, Hyderabad - 500 007.
E-mail: jagan@ccmb.res.in
MV Jagannadham obtained M. Sc (chemistry) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 1987 and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in the year 1998. He became a Scientist at CCMB in Jan 1990. He worked as a post doctoral fellow at Academia sinica, Taipei, Taiwan during 1999-2000. Awarded CSIR-DAAD fellowship for Scientist exchange program 2011 He has more than 35 research papers in internationally reputed scientific journals. He worked on structure function correlation of antibacterial peptides. He is a member of the team to set up proteomics facility at CCMB. He is working on membrane proteins. He wrote a Book on the "membrane proteins of an Antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae". His current research interest is on the functional studies of outer membrane vesicles of Gram negative bacteria. He is a life member of several learned societies like Society of Biological chemists (India) and a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and also a member of the Editorial board of Proteomics Insights.
