Commonwealth Science Conference 2014 – draft programme

Tuesday 25 November 14.00 - 15.45 Student session: National Science Seminar Complex, Indian Institute of Science. This session will be made up of short presentations (10 minutes) by selected students on the topic of their research, followed by a networking session.

Chairs: • Daya Reddy, President, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) • Professor Bob Williamson, Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne 15.45 -16.15 High tea 16.30-19.00 Opening ceremony: JN Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Master of ceremonies: Professor Anthony Cheetham FRS, Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society and CSC Co-Chair Speakers: • Sir , President of the Royal Society • Professor CNR Rao FRS, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India • More details to be confirmed 19:00 Depart for hotels Dinner to be served at hotels

Wednesday 26 November 09:00-10.30 Opening plenary session: (Kalinga Hall) Welcome from CSC co-chairs: • Professor Anthony Cheetham FRS, Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society • Professor CNR Rao FRS, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India Session Co-Chairs: • Professor Alex Halliday FRS, Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, (tbc) • Professor Raghavendra Gadagkar, President of the Indian National Science Academy Speakers: • Professor Suzanne Cory FRS, Honorary Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (Australia) • Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA) 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Entrepreneurship and innovation in India (Kalinga Hall) Chair: To be confirmed Speakers: • Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman & Managing Director, Biocon Limited (India) • N. R. Narayana Murthy, Executive Chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited (India) • Dr K Kasturirangan, Former Head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (India) 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15.30 Parallel sessions (Lalit Ashok Convention Centre)

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Wednesday 26 November 14:00-15.30 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Parallel Sessions Global health issues Mathematics, computation Materials Biomolecular Assemblies and complex systems

Co-chairs: Co-chairs: Co-Chairs: Chair: • Professor Bob Williamson, • Sir William Wakeham FREng, • Professor DD Sarma, Solid • Sir John Skehel FRS, Biological Paediatrics Royal Children's International Secretary, Royal State and Structural Secretary and Vice-President, Hospital, University of Academy of Engineering (UK) Chemistry Unit, Indian Royal Society (UK) Melbourne • Professor Vincent Olunloyo, Institute of Science • Professor Esther Mwaikambo, Department of Systems • Professor Paul Attfield FRS, Professor of Paediatrics and Engineering, University of Lagos School of Chemistry, Child Health, Hubert Kairuki (Nigeria) University of Edinburgh Memorial University (Tanzania)

Speakers Speakers Speakers Speakers • Professor Clare Gilbert, • Professor Timothy Palmer FRS, • Professor Andrew Wee, • Professor Peter Colman, Professor of International Eye Royal Society Research President, Singapore National Division Head, Structural Health, School of Professor, University of Oxford Academy of Sciences Biology, Walter and Eliza Hall Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) • Professor Ric Parker, Director Institute of Medical Research (UK) • Professor Nikola Kasabov, of Research and Technology, (Australia) • Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director, Knowledge Rolls Royce (UK) • Professor Robert Korneluk, Professor of Clinical Engineering & Discovery • Professor Umesh Waghmare, Principal Investigator, CHEO Epidemiology, Pro-Vice Research Institute (KEDRI), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Research Institute (Canada) Chancellor of Research, Auckland University of Advanced Scientific Research • Professor Satyajit Mayor, University of KwaZulu-Natal Technology (New Zealand) (India) Director, National Centre for (South Africa) • Professor Chandrashekhar Biological Sciences (India) • Professor Anne O'Garra FRS, Khare, Professor of Head, Division of Mathematics, University of Immunoregulation, National California, Los Angeles (USA) Institute for Medical Research (UK)

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Wednesday 26 November 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-17:30 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Parallel Sessions Global health issues Mathematics, computation Materials (continued) Biomolecular Assemblies (continued) (continued) and complex systems (continued) (continued)

• Professor Virander S Chauhan, • Professor Rama Govindarajan, • Professor Andrew Holmes FRS, • Professor Wolf-Dieter Schubert, Director, International Centre Tata Institute of Fundamental President, Australian Academy Department of Biochemistry, for Genetic Engineering and Research, Centre for of Science: "Challenges in University of Pretoria (South Biotechnology (India) Interdisciplinary Sciences (India) Printing Organic Solar Cells". Africa) • Professor Suzanne Garland, • Professor David Cory, Canada • Professor Mark McLachlan, • Professor David Stuart FRS, Director of the Women’s Excellence Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, MRC Professor of Structural Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Quantum University of British Columbia Biology, University of Oxford The Royal Women's Hospital Computing, University of (Canada) (Australia) Waterloo • Professor Gianluigi Botton, • Dr Firdausi Qadri, Director, • Professor Andrew Hopper FRS, Materials Science and Centre for Vaccine Sciences Head of Department, University Engineering, McMaster (CVS), International Centre for of Cambridge Computer University (Canada) Diarrhoeal Disease and Laboratory Research, Bangladesh 18:00-21:00 Reception/dinner (Lalit Ashok grounds) Before-dinner speaker (to be introduced by Professor John Pethica FRS): • Lord Martin Rees FRS, Past President of the Royal Society and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, (UK)

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Thursday 27 November 09:00-10:30 Second plenary session (Lalit Ashok Grand Ballroom – with overflow) Chairs: • Professor MRS Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research • Professor Martyn Poliakoff FRS, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society Speakers: • Professor Raghavendra Gadagkar, President of the Indian National Science Academy • Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Palaeobiologist and Head of the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town (South Africa) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-13:00 Panel discussion: Scientific advice across the Commonwealth (Kalinga Hall): Chair: Sir Peter Gluckman FRS, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister of New Zealand • Sir Mark Walport FRS, Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government (UK) • Professor Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist for Australia • Datuk Seri Dr Tan Sri Zakri Abdul Hamid, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia • Professor Anthony Clayton, Alcan Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies • Professor Costas Papanicolas, Director, Cyprus Institute 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:00 Regional presentations on science around the Commonwealth (Kalinga Hall) Co-chairs: • Professor Paul O’Brien FRS, Professor of Inorganic Materials, (tbc) • Professor Andrew Hopper FRS, President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Speakers: • Africa: Professor Daya Reddy, President, South African Academy of Science (ASSAF) • Asia: Professor Atta ur Rahman FRS, President, Pakistan Academy of Sciences • Australasia: Professor Bob Williamson, Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne • Canada: Professor Arthur Carty, former National Science Advisor • Caribbean: Professor Harold Ramkissoon, Chair, CARICOM Committee on Science Technology and Innovation • The Royal Society and the Commonwealth: Dr Julie Maxton, Executive Director, Royal Society

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Thursday 27 November 16:00-18.30 Poster and Networking session with refreshments (Siddhartha Hall) Co-Chairs (and prize giver for best poster): • Professor SM Shivaprasad. International Center for Materials Science (ICMS), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) (India) • Professor Andrew Hopper FRS, President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology 19:00-20:30 Cultural performance (Kalinga Hall) 20:30 Dinner (poolside)

Friday 28 November 09:00-10:30 Third plenary session (Lalit Ashok Grand Ballroom – with overflow) Chairs: • Professor John Pethica FRS, Physical Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society • Professor Roddam Narasimha FRS, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (India) Speakers • Sir Richard Friend FRS, Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK) • Professor Teck Seng Low, Chief Executive Officer, National Research Foundation, Singapore 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Fourth plenary session (Kalinga Hall) Chair: • Professor Arthur Carty, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (Canada) • Professor Bob Williamson, Paediatrics Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne Speakers: • Professor Linda Nazar, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo (Canada) • Professor Surujpal Teelucksingh, Professor of Adult Medicine, The University of the West Indies

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Friday 28 November 12:30-13:00 Closing ceremony (Lalit Ashok Grand Ballroom – with overflow) Summary of the conference: • Professor Martyn Poliakoff FRS, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society Closing remarks from CSC co-chairs: • Professor Anthony Cheetham FRS, Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society • Professor CNR Rao FRS, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India Prizes for posters to be awarded 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14.30 Conference ends

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