Nanoscience

Event

The workshop would comprise of 2-3 days of lectures-cum-demonstrations on various topics/fields of nanoscience, ranging from nanoelectronics to carbon nanotubes, spintronics to ferrofluids to alternate energy applications, the lectures being given by eminent scientists in the country working in these fields.

To give you a taste of what to expect, we intend to include demonstrations on FEDs (Field Emission Displays - the successors of LCDs & Plasma displays), liquid crystal sensors, "Smart" paper, Carbon Nanotubes based Fuel cells, White LEDs, Magnetic Ferrofluids for preferential transmission of light...and many more.

The workshop is open to all, and would also involve visits to the lab facilities in the institute that made this workshop possible in the first place.

Speakers

Dr. Arindam Ghosh
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
IISc, Bangalore

Topic: Nanoelectronics and its applications
Date: 4th October

Dr. Ghosh currently heads the "Low temperature Nanoelectronics Group" at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research group primarily works on investigation of the effects of nanoscale confinement on the electrical and structural properties of several different material systems.

Currently their research interest lies in the following areas/systems:

1. Metallic nanowires, nanoparticles and related systems
2. Strongly interacting semiconductor nanostructures; New quantum states in quantum dots, nanotubes and other nanostructures
3. Carbon electronics: Electron transport in Graphene
4. Physics of smart systems, Nano/Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS/MEMS)

Dr. P. Jayachandran MD,
Assistant Professor-Occupational Medicine,
Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute,
Chennai

Topic: Medical Applications of Nanomaterials
Date: 3rd October

Dr. P. Jayachandran is a practicing clinician with more than 15 years of clinical experience in the field of general medicine and cardiology. He has a post graduate degree in clinical physiology and is currently responsible for co-ordinating academic activities related to the degree, certificate and short term training programmes in occupational health. He is also involved in performing on site medical assessments as a part of the departmental occupational health and safety consultancy services.

However, apart from being a practicing clinician, Dr. Jayachandran is also involved in research pertaining to the medical applications of Nanomaterials and would be speaking on the areas of medicine where such nanomaterials have enormous potentials in application, where developments have already taken place and on the scope for such research. He would also be enlightening us on how nanomaterials would be able to improve the practice of Medicine in the future.

Dr. Pushaan Ayyub
Professor,
Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics & Material Sciences,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Mumbai

Topic: Metal nanorod arrays provide new solutions for classical problems
Date: 4th October

A Professor in the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics & Material Sciences at TIFR, Dr. Ayyub is currently in charge of the Nanomaterials activity, as well as the X-ray Diffraction and Electron Microscopy Facilities at TIFR. His areas of research include the study of basic physical properties such as superconductivity, ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism and the electronic band structure when the particle size is reduced to the nanometer regime, and in particular

1. Unique physical properties of one-dimensional nanostructures (nanorods and nanotubes)
2. Superconductivity in nanostructured metals
3. Raman spectroscopy of nanostructured systems
4. High resolution electron microscopy

Dr. Ayyub is also currently a Member of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials since and has been an invited speaker at many international conferences. He has to his credit, over 100 refereed research publications in the nanoscience area. Quite recently also, Dr. Ayyub and his co-workers have demonstrated that a bare metal can be made hydrophobic by coating its surface with metal nanowires.

Dr. B.S. Murty
Professor,
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology ,
Madras

Prof. B.S. Murty works on the broad areas of structure-property correlations, phase transformations, nanostructured materials, metallic glasses, quasicrystalline materials, intermetallics, grain refinement and in-situ composites. Having done his post-graduation in the field of Metallurgy from the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr. Murty has been a professor at IIT-Kharagpur and now at IIT-Madras, and also a visiting/guest scientist in Germany & Japan. Apart from being a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee (2007), he is also currently a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering & a Member of the National Committee on Nanotechnology.

Schedule

FAQs

1. What are the pre-requisites for participation in the Nanoscience Workshop?
   There are no specific pre-requisites for attending the workshop. Participants are only expected to have a general idea about the field of Nanoscience, and an interest in learning more about the subject.
2. Is there any registration fee for the Workshop?
   No. The registration for this event is entirely free of cost. The purpose of registration is mainly to restrict the number of participants, in case it exceeds our capacity to accommodate.
3. What are the details of the registration process?
   The registration for this event will be conducted on a daily basis, and will be held DURING SHAASTRA, at the Hospitality desk. Interested participants can register at the Hospitality desk during each morning of Shaastra by filling out a Nanoscience Workshop-specific registration form (that would be provided by us), for the Lectures and Demonstrations held on that day. Hence, registration for each day will be independent of the registration for the previous days. There will be a limit to the number of people who can register for each day (approximately 60), owing to constraints in accommodating any more in the lecture hall and in the labs for demos.
4. What is the content of the workshop?
   A. The workshop will be conducted as a series of lectures demonstrations. Each day of the workshop will contain 1-2 lectures and demonstrations/lab-visits. The purpose of these lectures and demonstrations is to provide the participant with a taste of the field of Nanoscience, and research happening in this field. The exact content and schedule of the lectures and demonstrations shall be put up in the website as and when they are finalized.
5. Will accommodation be provided for participants?
   This issue is handled by the Hospitality section of Shaastra-2008; hence the participants are requested to contact them.
6. Is it a team/individual event?
   The event is entirely individual, as the nature of the lectures/demonstrations do not provide scope for group-participation.
7. Are any certificates provided for participation in the event?
   No. The event expects to provide the participants with an introduction to the field of Nanoscience. It does not include a mechanism to judge the extent of progress made by the participant over the course of the lectures and demonstrations, hence it is not possible to provide certificates of participation.
8. Does the program include any paper presentations?
   No. As mentioned earlier, the workshop consists purely of lectures and demonstrations. Participants are not expected to give performances/presentations during or after the workshop.

Contacts

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