3 5 December Prof. G Mugesh Convener Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru

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1 3 5 December 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. Prof. G Mugesh Convener Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru

2 Saturday, 3rd December a.m a.m. Breakfast a.m a.m. Inauguration a.m a.m. Welcome speech by Prof. G. Mugesh, Convener, KVPY a.m a.m. Remarks by Prof. Anurag Kumar Director Indian Institute of Science a.m a.m. Vote of Thanks by Prof. Satyam Suwas 9.30 a.m a.m. Lecture 1 Prof. V. Venkataraman Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar Title of the "String theory and Quest for Quantum Spacetime a.m a.m. Photo session followed by High Tea a.m p.m. Lecture 2 Prof. Phoolan Prasad Prof. K. Sandeep Title of the "Differentiability of functions and solutions of differential equations p.m p.m. Lunch 2.00 p.m p.m Lecture 3 Prof. Umesh Varshney Prof. D.N. Rao Title of the "Exploring the invisible Universe that is in us - The Human Microbiome p.m p.m. Tutorials p.m p.m Tea / Coffee p.m p.m. Session on Experiments - Batch - 1 Prof. Santanu Mukherjee Prof. Anil Kumar - Magic and Science: The Art of ACTIVE Learning and Research 2

3 Sunday, 4th December a.m a.m. Breakfast 9.30 a.m a.m. Lecture 4 Prof. Gadadhar Misra Prof. B.V. Rajarama Bhat Title of the "Toss of a coin a.m a.m. Tea / Coffee a.m p.m. Session on Experiments - Batch p.m p.m. Lunch p.m p.m Lecture 5 Prof. P.K. Das Prof. P. Balaram Title of the "Chemical Communication in Biology p.m p.m. Lecture 6 Prof. A.G. Samuelson Prof. Uday Maitra Title of the "Chemistry is Fun p.m p.m High Tea p.m p.m. Tutorials p.m p.m. Cultural Program 3

4 Monday, 5th December a.m a.m. Breakfast 9.30 a.m a.m. Lecture 7 Prof. Arindam Ghosh Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy Title of the Active matter matters a.m a.m. Tea / Coffee a.m p.m. Visit to Laboratories p.m p.m. Lunch p.m p.m Lecture 8 Prof. P. Kondaiah Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan Title of the Understanding a natural acoustic communication network p.m p.m Tutorials p.m p.m. Concluding remarks p.m p.m High Tea and Departure 4

5 Rajesh Gopakumar Rajesh Gopakumar did his undergraduate studies in physics at the Indian Institute for Technology at Kanpur. He then went on to do his doctoral work at Princeton University. He received his Ph.d. in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. David Gross (Nobel Laureate, Physics 2004). After a few years as research associate at Harvard University, he joined HRI in He also held a visiting membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton from Gopakumar is a theoretical physicist at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences-TIFR, Bangalore. Gopakumar's work has been on topics in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory, particularly at the interface of these two subjects. He is the recipient of the 2004 B. M. Birla Science Prize, the 2006 ICTP Prize and the 2006 Swarnajayanthi Fellowship as well as the 2015 JC Bose Fellowship of the DST. He is the recipient of the Shanti SwarupBhatnagar award in the physical sciences for He received the 2013 TWAS award in the physical sciences and ad 2013 GD Birla Award for scientific research. He was also elected a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) in 2008, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) in 2014 and of the The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in He is also a founding member (now alumnus) of the Global Young Academy (GYA). Sandeep K Sandeep Kunnath did his master's degree (M. Sc) in University of Calicut,1996, PhD : University of Mumbai (TIFR), 2002, Postdoc : University of ome 3, Rome, Italy, University of Pierie and Marie Curie, Paris, France. University of Cergy Pontoise, Paris, France. Currently Prof. Sandeep is working a TIFR Centre for Applicable mathematics, Bangalore. 1 Santi Swarup Bhatnagar award, B.M. Birla Science Prize in Mathematics for the year Elected as the Young associate of Indian Academy of Science, Awarded INSA medal for young scientist, D. Narasimha Rao is currently a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He received his Ph.D. degree from IISc in 1982 and then carried out post doctoral research at National Institute of Health, USA ( ), University of Basel, Switzerland ( ) and Cambridge University, UK ( ). Professor Rao was conferred the PS Sarma Memorial Award (1997), CV Raman Young Scientist Award (1999), Professor YT Thathachari Award for Biological and Medical Sciences (2007), and JC Bose Fellow ( ). He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, National Academy of D Narasimha Rao Sciences (India), Allahabad and Indian National Science Academy. His research interest include DNA-Protein interactions using restriction/modification enzymes, DNA mismatch repair proteins as model systems. 5

6 Anil Kumar is currently a Professor at IIT Bombay, in the Department of Chemistry, Center for excellence in Nanoelectronics, National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education and National Center for Excellence in Technologies for Internal Security. His group's research interest are in the area of continuous flow processes and printable optoelectronic devices based on conjugated polymers. In this direction, the main focus is on the development of handheld explosive sensors, electrochromic devices, thin film optoelectronic devices and transparent conductor etc. They have developed a state of the art continuous flow process Anil Kumar lab and also conduct regular training programs and workshops in Continuous Flow Process to train the next generation of human resources in this important emerging technology. Apart from research, his other hobbies are teaching, sports, magic and music. He has developed an outreach program based on "Science & Magic" to promote teaching and practice of science among students of different level. Magic and Science: The Art of "ACTIVE" Learning and Research Abstract: By Anil Kumar Dept. of Chemistry, Center for Excellence in nanoelectronics and National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education, IIT Bombay Have you ever wondered how one thinks about research and how one gets scientific ideas to work on. How serendipities happen? Why serendipities do not happen around us? Do you often feel that you could have done wonderful research if you were born a century earlier? Do you feel that most of the high impact research has already been done and there is nothing much left to discover any more. Do you feel lost when people say that this is the age of Nanotechnology and previous century was the age of Polymers? If yes, then you should attend this talk. This talk is primarily designed for young and upcoming science and engineering students who want to pursue or are pursuing research as career. I will address some of these issues and will use MAGIC TRICKS to answer few. Talk will take some classical examples of research breakthrough from history and discuss how and why these evolved and what it takes to do breakthrough research. Prof. Anil Kumar will also discuss examples wherein knowledge was a boon and examples where knowledge was a bane. This talkwill also leave you with many research ideas which are still looking for solutions and hopefully one of you will come out with the right solution in near future. He will use magic tricks based on scientific principles to invoke discussion on how to think scientifically and how to be the most sought after scientist o rengineer. He will also teach you many of the magic tricks which you can perform anytime anywhere. There will be many more magic tricks which will be pure amusement. 6

7 B.V. Rajarama Bhat Rajarama Bhat did B. Stat, M. Stat. and Ph.D in Mathematics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and New Delhi. Ph.D in Mathematics under the guidance of Prof K R Parthasarathy, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Post-doctoral research in University of Pisa, Italy and Fields Institute, Canada. Joined Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore in Awards: INSA Young Scientist, Swarnajayanthi & Bhatnagar prize. Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and Indian National Sciences Academy, Delhi. Chief Editor of the journal Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences-Mahematical Sciences. Currently Professor & Head, Stat-Math Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. Loves mathematics and trees. Padmanabhan Balaram obtained his B.Sc. (1967) from Poona University, M.Sc. (1969) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and Ph.D. (1972) in chemistry from the Carnegie- Mellon University, USA. He worked as a Research Associate at the Harvard University ( ) with Prof. RB Woodward of the Department of Chemistry. On return to India, he joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore as a Lecturer (1973), and then became Assistant Professor (1977), Associate Professor (1982) and finally a Professor in He was Director of the Institute from He has contributed extensively to the area of molecular P. Balaram biophysics and chemical biology in a career spread over four decades. As the Editor of Current Science from 1995 to 2013 he authored over 300 editorials on a wide range of topics of interest to the scientific community in India. He has been associated with a number of advisory bodies of the government including the National Knowledge Commission ( ), the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister ( ) and the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Union Cabinet(SAC-C, 2001-). Professor Balaram is a recipient of several awards and honours, including Padma Shri (2002); Padma Bhushan (2014). He is a Fellow of Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore; INSA, New Delhi and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Uday Maitra Uday Maitra is currently a Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has received several awards/honors, which include: Silver Medal, Chemical Research Society of India, Materials Research Society of India Medal, Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, J.C. Bose National Fellowship, A.V. Rama Rao Foundation Prize Lecture, JNCASR, CDRI Drug Research Award, S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences, Millennium medal (Indian Science Congress Association), Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include chemistry of bile acids, hydrogels and organogels, dendrimers and nanomaterials. 7

8 The viscosity of a glass of bacteria-laden water goes up if I kill the bacteria. Little bits of wire on a vibrating surface can form a flock and migrate. Catalyst-tipped colloids seek out their reactant and signal to each other. The nucleus of a cell sitting on a polymer pad rotates spontaneously. These disparate weird phenomena all take place in Active Matter -- in which energy is injected directly to the individual constituents, which transduce it into organised movement. I will talk about this new paradigm for mechanics and fluctuations in living materials, and highlight our group's achievements. BIO: born Lucknow, 1957; education: High School -- The Sriram Ramaswamy Modern School, New Delhi 1973; BS (high hons) University of Maryland 1977; PhD University of Chicago Career: Postdoc, U Penn ; on the faculty of the Dept of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, 1986-present; Professor since on leave as Centre Director of the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad. Current research interests: Nonequilibrium, soft-matter and biological physics (early research publications: general relativity and gravitation); widely recognised for his research on active matter, a field he helped create. Honours: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2016; Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society 2016; H K FirodiaVijnanRatna Award 2016; Infosys Prize for the Physical Sciences 2011, Shanti SwarupBhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences 2000; G. D. Birla Prize for Science, 2006; Fellow, Indian National Science Academy & Indian Academy of Sciences; Rohini Balakrishnan received her Ph.D. in Biology (Neurogenetics) in 1991from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). She then carried out postdoctoral research in bioacoustics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada from , followed by a second postdoc at the University of Erlangen, Germany ( ). She joined IISc in 1998, where she is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Centre for Ecological Sciences. Her current research is on acoustic communication in Rohini Balakrishnan animals, focusing on crickets and bats as study systems, where she examines the physiology and ecology of acoustic signal production and reception. She has pioneered insect bioacoustics research in India and also collaborates widely with electrical and mechanical engineers in interdisciplinary projects at the interface of biology and engineering. 8