18 – 20 December 2015

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 2015 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 these 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. Friday, 18th December 2015

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, Convener, KVPY 09.05 a.m. – 09.15 a.m. Remarks by Prof. Anurag Kumar Director Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 09.15 a.m. - 09.20 a.m. Vote of Thanks by Prof. G Mugesh 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Lecture 1 Session Chair: Prof. A G Samuelson Lecture: Prof. Laurie J Butler Title of the Lecture: "From Quantum Mechanics to Atmospheric Chemistry: Probing Radical Intermediates of Bimolecular Reactions” 10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. High Tea 11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Lecture 2 Session Chair: Prof. G Rangarajan Lecture: Prof. Probal Chaudhuri Title of the Lecture: "Shape of the Earth, motion of the Planets and the Method of Least Squares" 12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Lunch 2.00 p.m. - 3.15 p.m Lecture 3 Session Chair: Prof. Chanda J. Jog Lecture: Prof. Jainendra K Jain Title of the Lecture: "The incredible story of superconductivity: from discovery to applications” 03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m. Lecture 4 Session Chair: Prof. M Narasimha Murty Lecture: Prof. Parameswaran Sankaran Title of the Lecture: "Geometry: From Euclid to Bolayi and Lobachevsky” 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

2 Saturday, 19th December 2015

8.00 a.m. – 09.00 a.m. Breakfast 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Lecture 5 Session Chair: Prof. S Natarajan Lecture: Prof. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran Title of the Lecture: "Organic Synthesis: Excitement, Challenges and Introspection”

10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Tea / Coffee 11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Lecture 6 Session Chair: Prof. Arindam Ghosh Lecture: Prof. Michelle Y Simmons Title of the Lecture: “The future of computing”

12.30 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. Photo session followed by Lunch 02.00 p.m. - 03.15 p.m Lecture 7 Session Chair: Prof. Manju Bansal Lecture: Prof. Raghu Kalluri Title of the Lecture: "New Advances in the Diagnosis and Control of Cancer”

03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m. Lecture 8 Session Chair: Prof. Venkataraman V Lecture: Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri Title of the Lecture: "Burning of the Sun & Turning of the Earth:Probing Nature with Neutrinos”

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. - 06.30 p.m. High Tea 06.30 p.m. - 07.45 p.m. Cultural Program 08.00 p.m. Special Dinner at JVH Lawn (Students and Invited Guests)

3 Sunday, 20th December 2015

08.00 a.m. – 09.00 a.m. Breakfast 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Lecture 9 Session Chair: Prof. Dipankar Nandi Lecture: Prof. Avadhesha Surolia Title of the Lecture: "Glycobiology- An emerging frontier of biology A perspective based on studies with lectins” 10.45 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Tea / Coffee 11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Lecture 10 Session Chair: Prof. S. Mahadevan Lecture: Prof. Anant K Menon Title of the Lecture: "Fat and fabulous: how cells make their oily skins” 12.30 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. Lunch 02.00 p.m. - 03.15 p.m Lecture 11 Session Chair: Prof. Vikram Jayaram Lecture: Prof. Kamanio Chattopadhyay Title of the Lecture: “From quasi crystal to seashell: adventure through Serendipity and Curiosity”

03.15 p.m. - 04.30 p.m. Lecture 12 Session Chair: Prof. Kumaravel Somasundaram Lecture: Prof. Rudi Van Eldik Title of the Lecture: “Understanding the mechanisms of inorganic/bio-inorganic reactions in solution. From fundamental studies to practical applications”

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

4 Laurie Butler joined the faculty at University of Chicago in 1987. She earned her B.S. from MIT and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has made major contributions to understanding electronically non- adiabatic reaction dynamics and to developing methodology to probe the dynamics of chemical reactions that proceed through radical intermediates, particularly for key reactions in atmospheric and combustion chemistry. A fellow of the AAAS and the American Chemical Society, dozens of her Ph.D. students and undergraduate researchers have gone on to be chemistry faculty and researchers in industry and national laboratories. She Laurie J Butler co-authors the 8th edition of the seminal textbook Principles of Modern Chemistry.

Probal Chaudhuri is a Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He was an undergraduate and a postgraduate student in the same institute. Later he went to University of California at Berkeley and obtained a PhD degree in statistics there. He has made contributions in diverse areas of theoretical and applied statistics. His works on quantiles in finite and infinite dimensional spaces and the multi-scale approach in statistical smoothing are extensively cited in the literature. He is a fellow of all three national science academies in India and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in the US. He is also a recipient of the C.R. Rao National Award in Statistics, the B.M. Birla Probal Chaudhuri Science Award in Mathematics and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Mathematical Sciences.

Jainendra Jain (जैनेन्द्रजैन) is a theoretical physicist interested in unexpected quantum mechanical reorganizations that occur when a large number of particle sinteract. He is best known for his theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect, for which he predicted exotic topological particles called “composite fermions,” which have been observed experimentally and produce a host of interesting phenomena. He is currently Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Mueller professor in the Pennsylvania State University, and holds Infosys Visiting Jainendra K Jain Chair Professorship at IISc Bengaluru.

5 Professor Simmons is an ARC Laureate Fellow & Director of the highly successful ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology. She has pioneered unique technologies internationally to build electronic devices in silicon at the atomic scale, including the world's smallest transistor, the narrowest conducting wires and the first transistor where a single atom controls its operation. This work opens up the prospect of developing a silicon-based quantum computer: a powerful new form of computing with the potential to transform information processing. Professor Simmons is one of a hand full of researchers in Australia to have twice received a Federation Fellowship and now a Laureate Fellowship, the Australian Research Council's most prestigious award of this kind. Following her PhD in solar cells at the University of Durham in the UK in 1992 she became a Research Fellow at the Michelle Y Simmons Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, working with Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS in quantum electronics. In 1999, she was awarded a QEII Fellowship and came to Australia. She has won both the Pawsey Medal (2006) and Lyle Medal (2015) from the Australian Academy of Science and was, upon her appointment, one of the youngest fellows of this Academy. She was named Scientist of the Year by the New South Wales Government in 2012 and in 2014 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has recently become Editor-in-Chief of Nature Quantum Information and was just awarded the CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran is an Honorary Professor and SERB Distinguished Fellow at the Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He was a research associate at Harvard University (USA) with Prof. E.J. Corey, and at Syntex Research (Palo Alto, USA). He has published over 250 research papers in national and international journals and served as an elected member of the Bureau of IUPAC and Member of the Executive S Chandrasekaran Committee of IUPAC. He is the Chairman of the National Organic Symposium Trust (NOST), India and was the President of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) from 2012 to 2014. He was the editor-in-chief of Tetrahedron Letters published by Elsevier (2007-14) and is currently on the Board of Consulting Editors. His major research interests lie in the areas of development of new synthetic methodologies for organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, total synthesis of natural products, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, and organic materials. Parameswaran Sankaran is a Professor of Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He received his Ph.D from the University of Calgary, Canada. His current research interests include topology, representation theory Parameswaran Sankaran and group theory. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India.

6 Anant K. Menon is a Professor of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He previously held faculty appointments at The Rockefeller University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his doctorate in Chemistry at Cornell University where he used fluorescence methods to characterize the lateral diffusion and clustering of immunoglobulin E receptors at the surface of cells. As a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University he elucidated the pathway for the biosynthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins, a class of lipid-modified proteins that includes the cell surface receptor for folate, the neural cell adhesion molecule, the enzyme alkaline phosphatase and many coat proteins of protozoan parasites such as malaria and toxoplasma. His recent work focuses on problems of membrane biogenesis, Anant K Menon specifically how lipids are transported across and between membranes. His laboratory currently studies the molecular mechanisms of intracellular sterol transport, and the scramblase-mediated transbilayer movement of phospholipids. More details may be found at http://www.cornellbiochem.org/menon/.

He was inspired towards a scientific career by the `Science Talent' summer camps he attended while an undergraduate. Though many of the lectures there were way beyond his limited knowledge the enthusiasm that the speakers conveyed about the frontiers of research was infectious. He loves to teach and enjoys interacting with young minds. His research in particle physics has covered many areas including grand unified theories, extra-dimensional models, left-right symmetry, the Higgs boson, and neutrino physics.He hold the position of Sir Tarak Nath Palit Professor of Physics. Amitava Raychaudhuri

Rudi van Eldik received his education in South Africa, spent post-doctoral years in the US and Germany, and was appointed as Chair for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in 1994. Following his retirement in 2010, he is now Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and at the N. Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. His research interests focus on the mechanisms of inorganic/bioinorganic reactions with special application of high pressure and low temperature techniques. He and his research team have developed an Edutainment concept for bringing chemistry to Rudi Van Eldik the general public.

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Avadhesha Surolia is an eminent Glycobiologist at IISc, Bengaluru. Presently, he is an Honorary Professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit(MBU), IISc and holds the prestigious Bhatnagar Fellowship of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. He is internationally recognized for his seminal contributions on lectin structure and interactions, orientation and dynamics of cell surface carbohydrate receptors and protein folding, diabetes, anti- malarials and anti-cancer agents based on curcumin, flavonoids, etc. In addition, neuropathic pain, neurodegenerative disorders and the link between immunity and obsessive compulsive disorder are other areas of his Avadhesha Surolia current interest. He has been arecipient of several prestigious National and International awards.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is currently a Honorary Professor at the Materials Engineering Department at IISc. His research work primarily aims atsynthesizing newer materials through nonequillibrium processing and understanding their structure and stability at different length scales. As aforemost practitioner of the electron microscopy in the country, he utilized this tool elegantly in conjunction with other techniques to unravel the complex structure of the materials synthesized in his laboratory. He leads the Indian effort in microgravity research and is currently spearheading a large energy program which includes a major consortium of Indian and American academic institutions and industry under the joint umbrella of US and Indian science agencies and another large Indian programme for developing efficient solar energy K Chattopadhyay systems on behalf of Government of India and Government of Karnataka.

Raghu Kalluri is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Cancer Biology and the Director of the Metastasis Research Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he also holds the Rebecca and Joseph Brown Endowed Chair. In 2015, Kalluri's lab at MD Anderson received widespread attention for a discovery that could lead to a blood test that detects pancreatic cancer at an early stage, before it spreads to other organs and becomes too difficult to treat. Kalluri was honored in 2015 with the prestigious Jacob-Henie Medal for his discoveries related to autoimmune and genetic kidney diseases, organ fibrosis and cancer biology. His research has led to new methods of Raghu Kalluri diagnosis for kidney diseases, and identified diagnostic methods and therapy targets for fibrosis and cancer.

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