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Title	Electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor based microfluidic biosensor
Speaker	Dr. Siddhartha Panda
Affiliation	Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 17 April 2013 2:00 pm at Room No.202
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Title	Conduct of Monetary Policy in India: Issues and Challenges
Speaker	Dr. Amaresh Samantaraya
Affiliation	Reader, Department of Economics, School of Management, Pondicherry University.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 10 April 2013 3:30 pm at Room No.127
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Title	Introduction to Hedging of Financial Derivatives : A Discrete-time approach
Speaker	Dr. Easwar Subramanian
Affiliation	Scientist in TCS Innovation Labs.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 10 April 2013 3:30 pm at Room No.126
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Title	SCOPE OF CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING IN UPSTREAM OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Speaker	Mr. Varanasi. S. H. Rama Rao
Affiliation	L&T Ramboll.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 10 April 2013 2:00 pm at Room No.202
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Title	Green Engineering-A borderless science
Speaker	Prof.Pogaku Ravindra
Affiliation	Director of Oil and Gas engineering at University Malaysia Sabah.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 10 April 2013 2:00 pm at Room No.202
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Title	Nonlinear light scattering spectroscopy and its relevance for probing the biological molecules at hidden soft matter and planar interfaces
Speaker	Dr. Kailash
Affiliation	Laboratory for Fundamental Biophotonics, Institute of Bioengineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Date & Time	Monday, 8 April 2013 3:30 pm at Room No.129
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Title	Resonant and non-resonant x-ray scattering studies on the rare earth iron borate multiferroics and on the iron chalcogenides
Speaker	Dr. Dinesh
Affiliation	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg.
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Date & Time	Monday, 8 April 2013 12:00 pm at Room No.129
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Title	Flow structures in lid driven cavities: non-Newtonian fluids
Speaker	Prof. Abhijit Deshpande
Affiliation	Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 3 April 2013 2:00 pm at Room No.202
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Title	EXISTENCE THEORY FOR SOLUTION OF HIGHLY NONLINEAR EQUATIONS AND DEGREE THEORY
Speaker	Prof. P C DAS
Affiliation	NISER Bhubneswar, formerly at IIT Kanpur.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 2 April 2013 11:30 am at Room No.126
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Title	Science and Technology of Japan: Recent Topics and Future Prospectus
Speaker	Prof. Yuichiro AnZai
Affiliation	Advisor to the IITH Consortium of Japan and the President of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Date & Time	Thursday, 21 March 2013 4:00 pm at LH-3
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Title	Science Fiction: a Thought-Tool for Our Times
Speaker	Dr. A. Giridhar Rao
Affiliation	International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad).
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 20 March 2013 3:30 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	EFFECT OF SHAPE & ORIENTATION OF HEATED OBJECTS ON FREE CONVECTION IN POWER-LAW FLUIDS
Speaker	Prof. Raj Chhabra
Affiliation	Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 20 March 2013 2:00 pm at Room No. 202
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Title	Translational Biomedical Engineering: Innovating at the Scale of Life
Speaker	Dr. Jonathan Pillai
Affiliation	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 20 March 2013 2:00 pm at Room No. 232
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Title	IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (IMS)
Speaker	Dr. Atul Gosalia
Affiliation	Alcatel-Lucent USA.
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Date & Time	Monday, 18 March 2013 3:00 pm at LH-1
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Title	Power Electronics Toward the Era of Distributed Generations
Speaker	Prof. ISE
Affiliation	IITH - Japan Collaboration Advisory Committee member.
Date & Time	Monday, 18 March 2013 1:00 pm at LH-1
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Title	Attachment styles and Images of God among Hindus, Muslims, and Christians in India
Speaker	Dr. Diana Monteiro
Affiliation	Counseling psychologist and director, Hyderabad Academy of Psychology.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 13 March 2013 3:30 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Emerging Trends In Analog Design -A little bit of Analog, a whole lot of Digital
Speaker	Dr. Bibhudatta Sahoo
Affiliation	Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Amrita University, Amritapuri, India.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 6 March 2013 3:00 pm at LH-1
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Title	Quark and Gluon Angular Momenta Contributions to Nucleon Spin
Speaker	Dr. Mridupawan Deka
Affiliation	JINR, Russia.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 5 March 2013 3:30 pm at Room No. 129
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Title	Graph-based Large-scale Knowledge Harvesting from Text
Speaker	Dr. Partha Pratim Talukdar
Affiliation	Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 26 February 2013 2:00 pm at Room No. 205
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Title	Health, fitness and beauty: "mediated" meanings
Speaker	Dr. Usha Raman
Affiliation	Department of Communication, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communications, Central University of Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 20 February 2013 3:30 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Gender, Public Spaces, and Safety
Speaker	Dr. A. Suneetha
Affiliation	Senior Fellow and Coordinator, Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 13 February 2013 3:30 pm at LH-1
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Title	Light-Sound interaction in micro- and nano-structures: novel physics and applications
Speaker	Dr. Ravi Pant
Affiliation	CUDOS ARC Centre of Excellence, Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 13 February 2013 3:00 pm at Room No. 129
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Title	Dynamic Characterization and Shock Response of Aerospace Materials under Thermo-Mechanical Loads
Speaker	Dr. Sandeep Abotula
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Date & Time	Friday, 8 February 2013 11:30 am at LH-2
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Title	Design Under Uncertainty with Physics-based Models - Laser Peening Study
Speaker	Dr. Ramana Grandhi
Affiliation	Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 6 February 2013 3:30 pm at LH-2
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Title	Attachment styles and Images of God among Hindus, Muslims, and Christians in India
Speaker	Dr. Diana Monteiro
Affiliation	The Hyderabad Academy of Psychology.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 6 February 2013 3:30 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Numerical prediction of nanoparticles formation in flames
Speaker	Dr. Thirumalesha Chittipotula
Affiliation	International Max Planck Research school, Madeburg, Germany.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 6 February 2013 2:00 pm at Room No. 202
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Title	NMR as a local probe for ferromagnetic correlation and quantum criticality in 3d and 4f electron systems
Speaker	Dr. Panchanan Khuntia
Affiliation	Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 6 February 2013 12:00 noon at Room No. 129
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Title	Across the Fence: Looking at and beyond the social sciences in India
Speaker	Dr. R. Srivatsan
Affiliation	Senior Fellow, Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 23 January 2013 3:30 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Elliptic curves and Cryptography
Speaker	Prof. Rajat Tandon
Affiliation	Dept.of Mathematics, University of Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 23 January 2013 2:30 pm at Room No. 126
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Title	Mechanistic insights into the histone code and cytosine methylated DNA read-out and interpretation by chromatin associated modules
Speaker	Dr. Rajakumara Eerappa
Affiliation	FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology Foundation (IFOM), Milan, Italy.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 23 January 2013 10:30 am at Room No. 134
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Title	Poems on things, poems as things: The materiality of twentieth-century poetry
Speaker	Dr. Nandini Ramesh Sankar
Affiliation	PhD, Cornell University.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 23 January 2013 10:00 am at Room No. 127
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Title	Lattice Strain Partitioning for Quantication of Deformation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Materials
Speaker	Dr. Viswanath
Affiliation	IISc as a postdoc in Aerospace Department and has a PhD from Brown University.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:30 am at LH-2
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Title	Energy flow from a battery to a conducting wire
Speaker	Prof. M.K. Harbola
Affiliation	Department of physics,Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:30 am at Room No. 129
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Title	Improved Volume Diagnosis Throughput Using Dynamic Design Partitioning
Speaker	Prof.Sudhakar M. Reddy
Affiliation	Department of ECE, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 9 January 2013 2:00 pm at LH-2
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Title	Stochastic simulations and scaling law for field emission-driven microscale gas breakdown
Speaker	Dr. A. Venkattraman
Affiliation	Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 8 January 2013 10:00 am at Ground Floor Conference Room
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Title	Institutional Access, Democratic Articulation, and Self-Organized Adaptation to Climate Change
Speaker	Dr. Ashwini Chhatre
Affiliation	Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Date & Time	Friday, 4 January 2013 2:30 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Detecting domain-fluxing botnets through DNS traffic analysis
Speaker	Prof. Narasimha Reddy
Affiliation	(Fellow of IEEE and ACM) from the Texas A&M University, USA.
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Date & Time	Friday, 4 January 2013 2:00 pm at LH-1
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Title	Transport: from passive diffusion to active swimming
Speaker	Dr. P. Sekhar Burada
Affiliation	University of Gottingen, Germany.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 3 January 2013 3:00 pm at Room No. 129
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Title	On Network (Un)Fairness and Reservations in Cloud Data Centers
Speaker	Prof. Ramana Rao Kompella
Affiliation	Purdue University, USA.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 2 January 2013 3:30 pm at LH-1
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Title	Catalyst Coating in Micro Channel Reactors using Drop on Demand Inkjet Printing Technology
Speaker	Dr. Aswani Mogalicherla
Affiliation	Micro Process Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 2 January 2013 2:00 pm at Room No. 132
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Title	An Advanced Integrer Programming Based Hybrid Optimization Search Methodology for Robotic Assembly of Electronic Printed-Circuit Boards
Speaker	Dr. Anupam Seth
Affiliation	Lead Technical Architect at American Express Technologies' (AET) Big Data Labs, USA.
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Date & Time	Friday, 28 December 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 127
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Title	Hierarchical Organisation, Liquid Crystallinity and Micro-macro-Structure Tunability of Bacterial Cellulose
Speaker	Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal
Affiliation	University of Cambridge, UK.
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Date & Time	Friday, 21 December 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 213
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Title	A synergy-based brain-machine interface for dexterous control of prosthetic hands
Speaker	Dr. Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri
Affiliation	Research Faculty, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Date & Time	Friday, 14 December 2012 10:00 am at Room No. 132
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Title	Epitaxial oxides on Silicon for CMOS and Beyond
Speaker	Prof. H.J Osten
Affiliation	Head, Institute of Electronic Materials and Devices, Leibnitz university of Hannover, Germany.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 12 December 2012 10:00 am at LH-2
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Title	Analysis and Design of Variable Angle Tow Composite Plates
Speaker	Dr. Gangadharan
Affiliation	University of Bristol.
Date & Time	Friday, 7 December 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 232
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Title	Ultra high intense laser matter interaction and their applications
Speaker	Dr. Bhuvanesh Ramakrishna
Affiliation	Institut für radiation Physik, Helmholtz Zentrum, Dresden Rossendorf, Germany and Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 5 December 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 131
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Title	Free energy landscape reconstruction of native folding prion protein
Speaker	Dr. Amar Nath Gupta
Affiliation	Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
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Date & Time	Friday, 30 November 2012 2:30 pm at Room No. 129
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Title	BIOINSPIRED CONJUGATED MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND DEVICES
Speaker	Prof. Faiz Mohammad
Affiliation	Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002 (India).
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Date & Time	Thursday, 22 November 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 130
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Title	BIOINSPIRED CONJUGATED MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND DEVICES
Speaker	Dr Saravanan Matheshwaran
Affiliation	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)Heidelberg, Germany.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 22 November 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 134
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Title	Process Safety
Speaker	Prof. J. P. Gupta
Affiliation	Director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology.
Date & Time	Friday, 16 November 2012 2:30 pm at Room No. 202
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Title	Understanding and supporting conceptual design synthesis of multiple state mechanical devices
Speaker	Dr Somasekhar
Affiliation	Prospective faculty candidate for Mechanical Department.
Date & Time	Friday, 9 November 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 205
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Title	Talk
Speaker	Dr. C.G.Balaji
Affiliation	Associate Director in Research Centre Imarat (RCI), DRDO.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 7 November 2012 3:30 pm at LH-2
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Title	Comprehending visual thinking and reading
Speaker	Dr. Koumudi Patil
Affiliation	Koumudi Patil, Faculty, HSS & Design Programme, IIT Kanpur.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 7 November 2012 11:30 am at LH-2
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Title	Nonequilibrium matter
Speaker	Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy
Affiliation	TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad.
Date & Time	Tuesday, 6 November 2012 3:30 pm at LH-3
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Title	Multiscale Modeling of Polymeric and Metallic Materials based on Molecular Dynamics
Speaker	Dr. Dhiraj Mahajan
Affiliation	Postdoctoral fellow in Ruhr University, Germany.
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Date & Time	Friday, 2 November 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 205
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Title	Financial Sector Reforms and Financial Access in India
Speaker	Dr. N.R. Bhanumurthy
Affiliation	Professor of Economics, National Institute Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 31 October 2012 3:30 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Special Topics in Fatigue
Speaker	Prof. Raghu Prakash
Affiliation	HOD, Machine Design Section, IIT Madras.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 31 October 2012 3:30 pm at Room No. 205
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Title	Frontiers of Particle Physics
Speaker	Prof. Brajesh C. Choudhary
Affiliation	Delhi University.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 31 October 2012 3:30 pm at LH-1
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Title	Function Approximation through Fuzzy Inference Systems
Speaker	Mr. Sayantan Mandal
Affiliation	Research Scholar, IIT Hyderabad.
Date & Time	Tuesday, 30 October 2012 3:30 pm at Room No. 126
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Title	Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI): Alternative Engine Combustion Mode
Speaker	Mr. Rakesh Mourya
Affiliation	PhD from IIT Kanpur.
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Date & Time	Friday, 26 October 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 205
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Title	Feminist Counselling: Bridging the personal and the structural
Speaker	Dr. U.Vindhya
Affiliation	Professor of Psychology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 17 October 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Impact of Silicon surface modification on transport behavior of MOS capacitors
Speaker	Dr. Ranjith Ramadurai
Affiliation	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mat. Sc. and Engg., IIT Hyderabad.
Date & Time	Friday, 12 October 2012 2:30 pm at Room No. 118
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Title	Total control on Oxide Nanostructures
Speaker	Prof. Hidekazu Tanaka
Affiliation	Head, "Department of Functional Nanomaterials and Nanodevices" Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center ISIR, Osaka University.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 11 October 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 129
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Title	Resilience to Clustering: Analyzing the Dynamics in Evolving Networks
Speaker	Dr. Bivas Mitra
Affiliation	Samsung Electronics.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 11 October 2012 2:30 pm at Room No. 205
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Title	Stem Cell Therapy for ocular surface reconstruction- Long term outcome
Speaker	Dr. V. S. Sangwan
Affiliation	MD, Associate Director, L V Prasad Institute and Head of the Cornea and Anterior segment, Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Services.
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Date & Time	Monday, 8 October 2012 3:30 pm at LH-1
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Title	Solid fuel combustion - from wood to rocket propellants
Speaker	Mr S Varunkumar
Affiliation	IISc Bangalore.
Date & Time	Friday, 5 October 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 118
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Title	The Determinants of ICT Diffusion in Emerging Market Economies: Is There Evidence of Convergence Club?
Speaker	Dr. Badri Narayan Rath
Affiliation	Department of Liberal Arts,IIT Hyderabad.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 3 October 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Granular Flow modelling and nuclear imaging in tumbling mills
Speaker	Dr. Indresan Govender
Affiliation	Department of Physics, University of Cape Town.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 3 October 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 132
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Title	Vision and challenges for the aerospace industry
Speaker	Mr. Mahender Reddy
Affiliation	Boeing Research & Technology, Seattle, USA.
Date & Time	Tuesday, 25 September 2012 11:00 am at LH-3
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Title	The Gateway to Libration!! Through Education??!!
Speaker	Prof. Satish V. Kailas
Affiliation	Department of Mehanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
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Date & Time	Friday, 21 September 2012 2:00 pm at LH-2
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Title	Fuzzy Implications: An Algebraic Study
Speaker	Mr. Nageswara Rao Vemuri
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 18 September 2012 5:00 pm at Room No. 126
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Title	Role of technology in the evolution of Hyderabad
Speaker	Mr. Serish Nanisetti
Affiliation	National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, Orissa.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 12 September 2012 5:00 pm at LH-3
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Title	Fe based Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Materials
Speaker	Dr. Bhaskar Majumdar
Affiliation	Advanced Magnetics Group, DMRL Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 12 September 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 131
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Title	MODELS OF LIQUIDS AND MODEL PARAMETERS
Speaker	Prof. Parthasarathy Ray
Affiliation	(Retd) from University of Calcutta Department of Chemical Engineering.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 12 September 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 132
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Title	The Higgs Boson Discovery and What it Means to Us
Speaker	Prof. S. Raychaudhuri
Affiliation	Department of Theoretical Physics in TIFR.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 5 September 2012 3:30 pm at LH-3
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Title	Awakening the leader in you-the Gandhian Way
Speaker	Mrs. Shobana Radhakrishna and Mr. Ravi Chopra
Affiliation	Eminent Citizen’ in the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 5 September 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	The Development of Micro and Nanotechnology
Speaker	Prof. Rudra Pratap
Affiliation	Chairperson of the Center for Nanoscience and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Date & Time	Friday, 31 August 2012 11:00 am at LH-2
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Title	Overview of Identification and Control Research in Structural Engineering at the University of Waterloo
Speaker	Dr. Sriram Narasimhan
Affiliation	University of Waterloo.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 30 August 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 133
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Title	Landscapes of Hope and Opportunity? An analysis of ‘blame’ and its role in the recovery of ‘disaster’ affected places
Speaker	Dr. Arvind Susarla
Affiliation	Head of Centre for Regional Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 29 August 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Regional Earth System Prediction for India: Optimal Physics and Applications
Speaker	Prof. Raghu Murthugudde
Affiliation	University of Maryland, USA.
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Date & Time	Monday, 27 August 2012 3:30 pm at LH-3
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Title	Biometric Rich Gestures: A Touching Farewell to Passwords?
Speaker	Dr. Nasir Memon
Affiliation	Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York University ,U.S.A.
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Date & Time	Friday, 24 August 2012 3:30 pm at LH-1
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Title	Magnetically driven electronic phase separation in rare-earth hexaboride
Speaker	Dr. Pintu Das
Affiliation	Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 23 August 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 129
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Title	Can Investors Gain from investing in Certain Sectors?
Speaker	Prof. Paresh Narayan
Affiliation	Deakin University, Australia.
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Date & Time	Friday, 17 August 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Modelling fluid flows in micro and nano devices: the challenge of non-equilibrium behavior
Speaker	Dr. Nishanth Dongari
Affiliation	University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK).
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Date & Time	Friday, 17 August 2012 1:00 pm at Room No. 213
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Title	New experimental insight into the mechanisms of nanoplasticity
Speaker	Prof. Werner Skrotzki
Affiliation	Director, Instutute for Structure Physics, Technical University Dresden, Germany.
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Date & Time	Friday, 17 August 2012 10:00 am at Room No. 213
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Title	MOLECULAR IMAGING : FUTURE TRENDS
Speaker	Dr. Sikandar Shaikh
Affiliation	Yashoda Hospital Hyderabad.
Date & Time	Friday, 17 August 2012 10:00 am at Room No. 202
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Title	A case for case studies: Studying health and healing through ethnographic methods
Speaker	Prof. Joyce Flueckiger
Affiliation	Department of Religion, Emory University, USA.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 16 August 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 127
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Title	Computational studies on the selectivity and functions of riboswitches
Speaker	Dr. U Deva Priyakumar
Affiliation	Centre for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics, IIIT Hyderabad.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 14 August 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 134
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Title	Medical image analysis
Speaker	Dr. Suryaprakash Kompalli
Affiliation	Research Scientist at HP Labs India.
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Date & Time	Monday, 13 August 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 202
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Title	Electrohydrodynamics in drops and capsules
Speaker	Dr. Rochish Thaokar
Affiliation	Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 8 August 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 132
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Title	Development of a robust algorithm for multi-objective optimization (MOO) and its application to industrial FCCU
Speaker	Dr. Sankararao Boddupalli
Affiliation	Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 11 July 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 132
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Title	Characterization and Therapeutic Targeting of ETS Negative Prostate Cancer
Speaker	Dr. Bushra Ateeq
Affiliation	Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Ann Arbor, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 6 July 2012 2:30 pm at Room No. 134
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Title	Mathematica and Wolfram System modular software
Speaker	A team from "Wolfram"
Date & Time	Friday, 6 July 2012 10:00 am at LH-1
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Title	Some instability problems in stratified flows
Speaker	Dr Harish N Dixit
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 2 July 2012 11:30 am at Conference Room
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Title	Raman Spectroscopy studies and its applications in early diagnosis of Cancer
Speaker	Dr Murali Krishna
Affiliation	Cancer Research Institute, Advanced Center for Treatment, Research and Education In Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Center (TMC), Mumbai.
Date & Time	Monday, 2 July 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 132
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Title	A Micromechanical approach to Thermomechanics of Pebble Beds in Fusion Reactors
Speaker	Dr Ratna Kumar Annabattula
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 27 June 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 123
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Title	Anharmonic acoustic technique for detection of surface-bound particles
Speaker	Dr. Sourav Ghosh
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 21 June 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 132
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Title	Compressive Sensing, Sparse Representations and Dictionary Learning for Computer Vision
Speaker	Prof. Rama Chellappa
Affiliation	University of Maryland, College Park.
Date & Time	Friday, 8 June 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 126
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Title	Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Applications in Sensor Devices
Speaker	Dr. Atanu Sengupta
Affiliation	Senior scientist working with Real-Time Analyzers Inc., USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 6 June 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 132
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Title	Insight into DNA intercalation using combined optical tweezers and line scanning fluorescence microscopy
Speaker	Dr. ChandraSekhar U. Murade
Affiliation	Physics of Complex Fluids, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 10 May 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 134
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Title	Understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis
Speaker	Dr. Divijendra Natha Reddy, Sirigiri
Affiliation	Department of Biochemistry and Mol biology George Washington University.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 7 May 2012 11:00 am at Room No. 134
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Title	Green Data Centers
Speaker	Mr. Navin Sharma
Affiliation	University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 4 May 2012 11:00 am at LH-2
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Title	Tuning the light propagation and emission using photonic band gap structures
Speaker	Dr. Rajesh V. Nair
Affiliation	Physics group, BARC.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 23 April 2012 12:00 noon at Room No. 131
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Title	Application of Materials Science & Engineering in Practical Problem Solving in Automotive Electronics and Aerospace Industries – Some Case Studies
Speaker	Dr. Sanjay K. Thakur
Affiliation	Supplier Development Leader, Rolls-Royce Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 20 April 2012 10:30 am at Room No. 213
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Title	Shake, rattle and sort: Understanding segregation in granular mixtures
Speaker	Prof. Ishan Sharma
Affiliation	Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 19 April 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 121
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Title	Solid-state Joining and Processing of Aerospace Materials
Speaker	Dr. G. Madhusudhan Reddy
Affiliation	Head, Metal Joining Group, DMRL, Hyderabad.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:30 am at LH-2
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Title	Determining the neutrino mass hierarchy and sterile parameters via atmospheric neutrinos
Speaker	Dr. Pomita Ghoshal
Affiliation	HRI.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 11 April 2012 3:30 pm at Room. No.131
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Title	Promotion of cultivation and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP’s) and phytochemical exploration of MAP’s for future drug discovery
Speaker	Dr. Sastry Kakaraparthi
Affiliation	CIMAP, Hyderabad.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 4 April 2012 2:00 pm at Room. No.132
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Title	Engineering Nanomedicine
Speaker	Dr. Jyotsnendu Giri
Affiliation	Research associate with NIH/NIST/&National Acad of Science USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:00 am at Conference Room 1
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Title	Biomimetic materials for tissue engineering applications
Speaker	Dr. Anand Khandwekar
Affiliation	Research Associate at Department of Bioengineering, Massachusetts Instituite of Technology, MA, USA
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:00 am at Conference Room 1
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Title	Novel Applications of Cornea Biomechanics in Clinical Diagnosis
Speaker	Dr. Abhijit Sinha Roy
Affiliation	Senior Research Associate at Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Saturday, 17 March 2012 10:00 am
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Title	Atherosclerosis
Speaker	Dr. Sudhir Naik
Affiliation	Senior Consultant Cardiologist & Co-coordinator of Clinical Research and Education at Apollo Health City, Hyderabad.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 14 March 2012 1:30 pm at Room No. 132
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Title	Materials Chemistry of Sensors
Speaker	Dr. T.Gnanasekaran
Affiliation	Associate Director, Chemistry group, IGCAR Kalpakkam.
Date & Time	Friday, 2 March 2012 2:30 pm at Room No. 213
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Title	Discrete-Cyclic Dichotomy and Motor Redundancy: An examination using multi-finger force production tasks
Speaker	Dr. Varadhan SKM
Affiliation	Kinesiology (Neural control of movement) from Penn State University, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:00 am at Conference Room 1
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Title	RECENT ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Speaker	Dr. Nagesh . R. Iyer
Affiliation	Director, Structural Engineering Research Center (SERC).
Date & Time	Monday, 27 February 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Control Design for Achieving Walking and Running on a Compliant Bipedal Robot
Speaker	Dr. Koushil Sreenath
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Researcher, GRASP Lab, Univ. of Pennsylvania.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 22 February 2012 3:30 pm at LH-2
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Title	Unmanned Air Vehicles and Autonomy
Speaker	Dr. Siva S. Banda
Affiliation	Chief Scientist of the Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 20 February 2012 11:30 am at LH-2
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Title	ANSYS CIVIL FEM tools
Speaker	Mr. Avinash
Affiliation	Technical Officer from ANSYS CIVIL- FEM.
Date & Time	Friday, 17 February 2012 2:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Pumping of Concrete Admixtures in Concrete Self Compacting Concrete & Hot weather concreting
Speaker	Mr. Anuj Maheshwari
Affiliation	Technical Head Ultra Tech Cement.
Date & Time	Thursday, 16 February 2012 2:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Analysis of Acoustic Streaming Induced Levitation and Rotation in a Piezo based Ultrasonic MEMS motor using FSI simulations
Speaker	Dr Manoj Pandey
Affiliation	Cornell University, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 16 February 2012 11:30 am at Conference Room
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Title	Macromolecules at solid-liquid interfaces
Speaker	Dr Amit Kumar Dutta
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Research Associate at National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 132
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Title	Durability of Concrete structures through surface protection by Waterproofing
Speaker	Dr. Anil K. Kar
Affiliation	President, ASCE India Section.
Date & Time	Thursday, 9 February 2012 3:30 pm at Room No. 133
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Title	Non expansive maps and fixed points
Speaker	Prof. S. P. Singh
Affiliation	Visiting Scientist at the University of Western Ontario, London ON, Canada.
Date & Time	Thursday, 9 February 2012 3:30 pm at Room No. 126
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Title	Hydrostatic Pressure Induced Activation of Sodium Hydrogen Exchanger in Optic Nerve Head Astrocytes: Role of Calcium
Speaker	Dr Amritlal Mandal
Affiliation	Post-doctoral Research Associate University of Arizona, Dept. of Physiology, 1501 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 134
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Title	Buckling-driven self-formation of microchannels
Speaker	Dr Ratna Kumar Annabattula
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 9 February 2012 11:30 am at Conference Room
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Title	Smart-grids for India: Can Solar Energy Become Dominant Power Source?
Speaker	Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Affiliation	Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 6 February 2012 2:30 pm at LH-2
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Title	New Developments in the Processing and Properties of Ultrafine-grained Metals
Speaker	Prof. Terence G. Langdon
Affiliation	University of Southampton, U.K and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 2 February 2012 3:30 pm at LH-1
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Title	From Macromolecular Structure to Polymer Processing: Bridging Length and Time Scales
Speaker	Dr. Ashish K. Lele
Affiliation	Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering Group, Polymer Science & Engineering Division at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 1 February 2012 3:30 pm at LH-3
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Title	Mechanics of Lattice Materials and Structures
Speaker	Dr. A. Srikantha Phani
Affiliation	Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor,Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:30 am at LH-3
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Title	Towards scaling-based framework for flood forecasting: Role of rainfall variability
Speaker	Dr. Pradeep VMandapaka
Affiliation	Postdoctoral Scientist, MeteoSwiss, Switzerland.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 25 January 2012 3:00 pm at Room No. 133
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Title	Paradigm shift from Job Seeker to Jobs Creator thru Innovation
Speaker	Mr. DSK Rao
Affiliation	Indian national is the Founder Director of GYANTECH INFORMATION SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 25 January 2012 2:00 pm at LH-3
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Title	Efficient Approaches for the Reduction of Precious Metals: Intermetallic and Morphological Controlled Catalytic Centers are Promising
Speaker	Dr. G. Saravanan
Affiliation	NIMS, Japan.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 24 January 2012 4:00 pm at Room No. 130
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Title	ARM and its processor for future generation
Speaker	Dr. Sadanand Gulwadi
Affiliation	University Program Manager, ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Date & Time	Tuesday, 24 January 2012 2:00 pm at LH-3
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Title	An Engineer’s Perspective of Design of Nanoscale Asperities in Several Template Materials
Speaker	Prof. Sadhan C. Jana
Affiliation	Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, OH, USA.
Date & Time	Monday, 23 January 2012 3:30 pm at LH-1
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Title	Chromatin, transcription and somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes
Speaker	Dr. Prashant Kodgire
Affiliation	Department of Molecular Genetics, and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 20 January 2012 11:30 am at Room No. 134
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Title	Fracture mechanics of Concrete - An Overview
Speaker	Dr. S. Raviraj
Affiliation	Professor of Civil Engineering, SJCE Mysore.
Date & Time	Friday, 20 January 2012 9:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Tsunami Hazards along east and west coast of India
Speaker	Dr. Kirti srivatsava
Affiliation	Senior principal scientist , NGRI, Hyderabad.
Date & Time	Thursday, 19 January 2012 3:30 pm at Room No. 133
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Title	Earthquake Hazards
Speaker	Dr. D Srinagesh
Affiliation	Chief Scientist, NGRI, Hyderabad.
Date & Time	Thursday, 19 January 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 133
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Title	Universal extra-dimension at LHC
Speaker	Dr. Swarup Kumar Majee
Affiliation	NTU, Taipei, Taiwan.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 16 January 2012 4:00 pm at Room No. 129
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Title	Understanding Virus-Host Interactions
Speaker	Dr. Suchita Bhattacharyya
Affiliation	Nomis Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 16 January 2012 10:00 am at Room No. 134
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Title	In situ Evaluation of Supersolidus liquid phase sintering phenomena of stainless steel 316L densification and distortion:
Speaker	Dr. Ravi Bollina
Affiliation	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BVR PAPER INDUSTRIES PVT. LTD, INDIA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 12 January 2012 9:00 am at Room No. 213
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Title	Controlled release formulations for immuno-regulation: towards a synthetic tolerogenic dendritic cell
Speaker	Dr. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala
Affiliation	Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 10 January 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 134
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Title	Ultrasonic Waves for NDE and SHM – Experiment and Modelling
Speaker	Prof T Kundu
Affiliation	Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Professor of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Date & Time	Monday, 9 January 2012 11:30 am at LH-2
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Title	dwell over our decade long experiences in developing, deploying and managing science gateways and the changing trends in this landscape of grid middleware within United States TeraGrid and now XSEDE projects
Speaker	Dr. Suresh Marru
Affiliation	The Indiana University
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 2 January 2012 2:00 pm at Room No. 205
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Title	Yoga and Meditation for Well being?: A Scientific Study
Speaker	Prof Ramesh Rao
Affiliation	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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Date & Time	Friday, 30 December 2011 11:00 am at LH2
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Title	Nano Oxides : Structures, Defects, and Redox activities in catalysts
Speaker	Prof. Siu-Wan Chan
Affiliation	Prof. Dept. of Appl. Phys. & Appl. Math. Columbia University, USA
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 29 December 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 213
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Title	Applications of Finite Element Analysis Using Examples from Small and Large Deformation Mechanics
Speaker	Prof. Raghu Echempati
Affiliation	Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of M. E. Graduate Programs, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kettering University, Flint, MI 48504 (U.S.A.)
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 27 December 2011 11:30 am at LH2
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Title	Advanced transmission electron microscopy of nanostructured materials
Speaker	Dr. C.V.S.Kiran
Affiliation	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Date & Time	Tuesday, 27 December 2011 11:00 am at LH2
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Title	Short- Cut- Journey in the life time of a Chemist
Speaker	Prof. Ian Fleming
Affiliation	Emeritus Professor Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 21 December 2011 3:00 pm at Room No. 130
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Title	Needs and Utilization of Scanning Electron Microscopy-Electron Back Scatter Diffraction technique
Speaker	Dr. Ubhi Singh
Affiliation	Senior EBSD Application Scientist, Oxford Instruments, UK
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 20 December 2011 11:30 am at Room No. 213
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Title	Surface Mounted Metal-Organic Frameworks (SURMOFs)
Speaker	Prof. R. A. Fischer
Affiliation	Chair Professor of Inorganic Chemistry II, Bochum, Germany
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 9 December 2011 11:15 am at Room No. 130
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Title	Germ Cell specific Proteins can decide the fate of early embryonic or cancerous cells in mammals
Speaker	Dr. Monika Sachdev
Affiliation	Scientist, Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 29 November 2011 11:30 am at Room No. 134
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Title	Natural Products' Inspiration: Development of Novel Metal‐Mediated Cycloisomerizations
Speaker	Dr. C. V. Ramana
Affiliation	Division of Organic Chemistry, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India
Date & Time	Friday, 25 November 2011 4:00 pm at Room No. 130
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Title	Immobilized Metal Ion-containing Ionic Liquids: Preparation, Structure and Catalytic Performances in Organic Reactions
Speaker	Prof. Takehiko Sasaki
Affiliation	Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan
Date & Time	Monday, 21 November 2011 3:00 pm at Room No. 130
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Title	Crystallographic Textures in the Study of Advanced Materials
Speaker	Prof. Ranjit Kumar Ray
Affiliation	Visiting Scientist, R & D Division,Tata Steel, Jamshedpur
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 17 November 2011 2:00 pm at Room No. 213
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Title	Role of delivery technologies in innovative medicines
Speaker	Prof. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar
Affiliation	Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 16 November 2011 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall 1
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Title	A Novel Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA repair enzyme Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (TDP1): Insights into Topoisomerase1-induced DNA Damage and Human disease
Speaker	Dr. Benu Brata Das
Affiliation	Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH USA
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 16 November 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 134
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Title	If it's not Arithmetic, What is Mathematics?
Speaker	Prof. Michael N. Bleicher
Affiliation	University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 15 November 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 106
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Title	Transparent Electrodes from Nanomaterials for Flexible Devices
Speaker	Dr. Sukanta De
Affiliation	School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Tuesday, 8 November 2011 4:00 pm at Room No. 131
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Title	Attractor Mechanism in Extremal Black Holes
Speaker	Dr. B. Chandrasekhar
Affiliation	Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 2 November 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 129
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Title	Structure and local electronic properties of atomic nanowires on a Cu-nitride surface: tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy investigations
Speaker	Dr. K. Bhattacharjee
Affiliation	Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 2 November 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 129
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Title	Granular Materials:Modeling and Applications
Speaker	Dr. Amlan Datta
Affiliation	Assistant Vice President, Corporate R&D centre of Aditya Birla Group
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 2 November 2011 11:00 am at Lecture Hall-1
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Title	Civil Engineering & Development(Inaugural Lecture on the eve of Inauguration of ASCE India Section-Southern Chapter)
Speaker	Prof. M. R. Madhav
Affiliation	Visiting Professor, IIT Hyderabad & Professor Emeritus, JNT University, Hyderabad, India
Date & Time	Friday, 21 October 2011 6:00 pm at Lecture Hall-3
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Title	Microfluidic Technology as a New Frontier for Chemical Engineers: Experiences of a Start-up Company
Speaker	Dr. Dhananjaya Dendukuri
Affiliation	CEO & Co-Founder, Achira Labs Pvt. Ltd
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 19 October 2011 2:00 pm at Lecture Hall-1
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Title	Strength of Stiffened Composite Plates under Axial and Out-of-plane Loading
Speaker	Dr. Rahima Shabeen
Affiliation	Asst Prof , Anna University.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 19 October 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Active Vibration Control : Theoretical background and Experimentation
Speaker	Dr. S. Raja
Affiliation	Scientist F, Group Head, Dynamics and Adaptive structures, Structural technologies division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 14 October 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Myoelectric human-machine interfaces and the role of neuroplasticity in prosthetic and orthotic applications
Speaker	Dr. Anirban Dutta
Affiliation	Universitatsmedizin, Gottingen, Germany
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Monday, 10 October 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 134
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Title	Case studies on Geotechnical Failures
Speaker	Prof S R Gandhi
Affiliation	Head Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 6 October 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Smart materials and structures : Aerospace applications
Speaker	Dr. S. Raja
Affiliation	Scientist F, Dynamics and Adaptive structures, Structural technologies division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore.
Date & Time	Tuesday, 4 October 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Applications of Nanomaterials in Health, Energy and Environment: An Indian Perspective
Speaker	Dr. Tata N. Rao
Affiliation	ARCI, Hyderabad
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 132
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Title	Computing and Tradition of Engineering
Speaker	Prof. Kesav Nori
Affiliation	Prof. Nori was a faculty member at the Dept. of CSE, IITK, and Executive Vice President at TCS. He is currently a visiting Professor at IITH.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 21 September 2011 2:00 pm at Lecture Hall-1
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Title	Some Recent Developments in Instability and Patterning of Thin Polymer Films
Speaker	Dr. Rabibrata Mukherjee
Affiliation	Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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Date & Time	Friday, 9 September 2011 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall-1
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Title	Solving inverse problems via machine learning in knowledge recovery
Speaker	Prof. R. Vemuri
Affiliation	University of California, Davis
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 8 September 2011 2:00 pm at Room No. 126
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Title	Deformation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline/Ultra-ne grained Materials
Speaker	Dr. Viswanath Chinthapenta
Affiliation	Solid Mechanics Division Brown University
Abstract & Bio -Data	Dr. Viswanath Chinthapenta Presentation and Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 25 August 2011 11:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	Spectral Modeling of Gas Radiation in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows
Speaker	Dr. Ankit Bansal
Affiliation	The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 19 August 2011 10:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	East Japan Great Earthquake M9.0: its Disaster and Impact
Speaker	Prof. Yozo FUJINO
Affiliation	University of Tokyo, JAPAN.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 19 August 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Probabilistic Methods in Cancer Biology
Speaker	Prof. M. Vidyasagar
Affiliation	Cecil & Ida Green Professor, Head Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas.
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 10 August 2011 03:30 pm at Lecture Hall 3
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Title	Emergency Management Issues from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Speaker	Dr. Satish Ukkusuri
Date & Time	Monday, 8 August 2011 11:30 am at Room No. 133
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Title	Phospholipid vesicles and polymer brushes: Applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering
Speaker	Dr. Sameer Jadhav
Affiliation	Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
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Date & Time	Friday, 29 July 2011 10:00 am at Room No. 121
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Title	Structure-Property Relationship in Materials Using Electron Beam Techniques
Speaker	Dr.Balaji Birajdar
Affiliation	Centre for Nano analysis and electron microscopy, University of Erlangen, Germany
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 12 July 2011 4:00 pm at Conference Room
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Title	Rugged Electrical Power Switching in Semiconductors
Speaker	Prof. Krishna Shenai
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Date & Time	Monday, 4 July 2011 11:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	Hydrodynamical instability in liquid chromatographic columns
Speaker	Dr. Manoranjan Mishra
Affiliation	Dept. of Mathematics, IIT Ropar
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 29 June 2011 11:00 am at Lecture Hall-1
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Title	Printed Electronics: An overview
Speaker	Prof. Arved C. Huebler
Affiliation	Institute for Print and Media Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 28 June 2011 11:00 am at Lecture Hall-2
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Title	Simulating Travel Behavior under Traffic Information and Individual Day pattern
Speaker	Dr. Debasis Basu
Affiliation	Post Doctoral Scholar, Department of Environment science and Policy, University of California at Davis., CA
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Date & Time	Monday, 20 June 2011 11:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	A memory saving algorithm for computing eigenvalue approximations of quantum systems
Speaker	Dr. V. Ravi Chandra
Affiliation	Postdoctoral fellow at MPIPKS, Dresden and Technion, Haifa, Israel.
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Date & Time	Monday, 13 June 2011 11:30 am Conference Room 2
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Title	Multistatic Radar
Speaker	Prof. Rajan Srinivasan
Affiliation	CR Rao AIMSCS (Advanced Institute of Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science in Hyderabad, India)
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 24 May 2011 4:00 pm at Conference Room
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Title	Thermal Degradation in Gold-Aluminum (Au-Al) Ball Bonds
Speaker	Dr. Narendra J. Noolu
Affiliation	Professor Shantanu Bhattacharya currently teaches at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 20 April 2011 11:30 am Room No. 203
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Title	Seismic Design of Pile Foundations
Speaker	Dr. Gopal Madabhushi
Affiliation	Reader in Geotechnical engineering, Asst Director (Schofield Centre) & Fellow (GirtonCollege) , University of Cambridge, Cambridge , U.K.
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Date & Time	Monday, 18 April 2011 3:00 pm at Room No. 121
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Title	Selective precipitation of fullerene (C60) nano/micro structure and its applications
Speaker	Dr. Marappan Sathish
Affiliation	Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Date & Time	Friday, 15 April 2011 4:00 pm at Room No. 213
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Title	Development of Innovative CFRP Decked Bulb-T Beam Highway Bridge System
Speaker	Dr. Bibhuti Bhushan Das
Affiliation	Center for Innovative Materials Research, Lawrence Technological University,  Southfield  Michigan 48075  USA.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	Microfluidics and BioMEMS for clinical diagnstics and detection
Speaker	Dr. Shantanu Bhattacharaya
Affiliation	Professor Shantanu Bhattacharya currently teaches at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 13 April 2011 03:00 pm Lecture Hall-1
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Title	Energy, Environment and Smart Grid
Speaker	Dr Yasushi Harada
Affiliation	Dept. of Smart Systems Research, Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 6 April 2011 03:00 pm Lecture Hall-1
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Title	Atomistic modeling of complex chemical systems: From water to energy materials
Speaker	Dr. Bhabani S Mallik
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Date & Time	Thursday, 23 March 2011 9:00 am at Room No. 120
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Title	Isoperimetric problems
Speaker	Prof. Bleicher
Affiliation	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Date & Time	Thursday, 18 March 2011 11:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	Japanese Manufacturing Technology and The Implementation of Systematic Innovation
Speaker	Dr. Manabu SAWAGUCHI
Affiliation	Professor at WASEDA University, Graduate School Creative and Engineering, Department of Business Design and Management.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 17 March 2011 02:00 pm Lecture Hall-2
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Title	Superconductive Electronics
Speaker	Mr. Kazuo Saitoh
Affiliation	Laboratory Manager, Advanced Research Lab., Hitachi Ltd.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 9 March 2011 03:00 pm Lecture Hall-2
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Title	Latest Trends in Nano, Micro and Macro Mechanical and Tribological Characterization of thin films, coatings, bulk materials, lubricant etc.
Speaker	Mr. Vishal Khosla
Affiliation	Manager, Technical Divisiont with CETR Inc. USA.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 2 March 2011 10:00 am Conference Room
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Title	Ubiquitous Mobile Computing and Associated Communication Challenges
Speaker	Dr. Bharat Doshi
Affiliation	Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC) at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Date & Time	Monday, 28 February 2011 10:00 am Conference Room
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Title	Limit cycles of thermoacoustic oscillations in gas turbine combustors" abbreviated as LIMOUSINE
Speaker	Dr. - Ing. Panduranga Reddy Alemela
Affiliation	University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Laboratory of Thermal Engineering.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 24 February 2011 01:00 pm Room No. 203
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Title	Fuzzy random regression analysis
Speaker	Prof. J. Watada
Affiliation	Waseda University, Japan
Date & Time	Friday, 18 Feburary 2011 11:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	Application of Language and Signal Processing and Machine Learning to Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics
Speaker	Dr. Madhavi Ganapathiraju
Affiliation	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at University of Pittsburgh.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:00 pm Conference Room
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Title	DNA as a Versatile Reagent: Structural Component for Branched Networks and Catalyst for Organic and Bioorganic Reactions
Speaker	Dr. Madhavaiah Chandra
Affiliation	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 15 Feburary 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 213
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Title	Process and Product research in specialty steel and carbon steel industry
Speaker	Dr. Murli Collur
Affiliation	Arcellor-Mittal
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Date & Time	Thursday, 3 Feburary 2011 11:00 am at Room No. 213
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Title	Chemistry in Confined Space: Chemistry in water-soluble cavitands and dendrimers
Speaker	Dr. J. Nithyanandhan
Affiliation	Post Doctoral Associate, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 27 January 2011 01:00 pm Room No. 203
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Title	Optical Character Recognition: Technical Challenges and Industry
Speaker	Dr. Masashi Koga
Affiliation	Sr. Researcher, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:00 pm Lecture Hall
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Title	Experimental Investigation of Pulsed Flames.
Speaker	Dr. Sangras
Affiliation	Assistant Professor,IIT Madras.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 13 January 2011 11:00 am Conference Room
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Title	Coordinating Multiple Moving Objects: From Robots to Microdroplets.
Speaker	Dr. Srinivas Akella
Affiliation	Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 11 January 2011 3:00 pm Conference Room
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Title	Large Eddy Simulation (LES) Modelling of Computational Combustion.
Speaker	Dr. Sreenivasa Rao Gubba
Affiliation	Leeds University.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 11 January 2011 11:30 am Conference Room
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Title	Dielectric Behavior of Epoxy Based Composites with Nanosized Alumina Fillers AND Biomimetic Design of Composite Materials for Protective Structures.
Speaker	Dr. Parimal Maity
Affiliation	Post‐Doctoral research associate (June 2009 ‐ July 2010) at Composite Vehicle Research Center in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, USA.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 5 January 2011 11:00 am Conference Room
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Title	R&D Activities at CALIT2, UC San Diego
Speaker	Dr. Ramesh Rao
Affiliation	Director of the University of California, San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 29 December 2010 12:00 pm Lecture Hall
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Title	Independently-Verifiable Secret-Ballot Elections
Speaker	Dr. Poorvi L. Vora
Affiliation	Associate Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 28 December 2010 03:00 pm Lecture Hall
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Title	Integrated Hardware-Software Approaches to Software Security
Speaker	Dr. Bhagi Narahari
Affiliation	Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The George Washington University.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:00 pm Lecture Hall
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Title	Faster Simulation of Counting Classes
Speaker	Dr. Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram
Affiliation	PhD student at College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
Date & Time	Monday, 20 December 2010 02:00 pm Lecture Hall
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Title	Asymmetric catalysis: Advances and Application in total synthesis Beyond Chiron approach
Speaker	Dr. Ravi P. Singh
Affiliation	Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Date & Time	Thursday, 16 December 2010 02:00 pm Lecture Hall 2
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Title	Journey with Organic Molecules: A Drug Discovery Perspective
Speaker	Dr. Parthasarathi Das
Affiliation	Discovery Chemistry, Aurigene Discovery Technologies Ltd. Hyderabad-500049.
Date & Time	Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:00 pm Room No. 213
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Title	Information Storage
Speaker	Dr. Yoshimasa (Yoshi) Masuoka
Affiliation	Senior Manager, The 3rd. Department, Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi. Ltd.
Date & Time	Wednesday, 27 October 2010 03:00 pm Lecture Hall
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Speaker	Dr. Hiroshi ESAKI
Affiliation	Professor Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo Director, WIDE Project Director, Green University of Tokyo Project Vice President, Japan Network Information Center Executive Director, IPv6 Promotion Council Japan.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 30 September 2010 10:15 am Conference Room
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Title	DC Micro grids and Distribution Systems for Residences
Speaker	Dr. Toshifumi ISE
Affiliation	Professor, Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering,　Graduate School of Engineering,　Osaka University Member, IITH - Japan Collaboration Advisory Committee.
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 14 September 2010 14:00 at Lecture Hall
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Title	Rational ligands designing, metal assisted self-assembly and catalysis
Speaker	Dr. Samir H. Chikkali
Affiliation	HIMS, Homogeneous and Supramolecular Catalysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Date & Time	Friday, 3 September 2010 03:30 pm at Room No. 213
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Title	Challenges in Computational Biology: What Lies Beyond BLAST?
Speaker	Prof. M. Vidyasagar
Affiliation	Cecil & Ida Green Professor, Head Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas.
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 1 September 2010 03:30 pm at Lecutre Hall
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Title	Rapid Manufacturing of Metallic Object.
Speaker	Dr. Suryakumar
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Date & Time	Saturday, 21 August 2010 01:30 pm at Conference Room
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Title	Electrostatic solid lubrication assisted machining for performance improvement of machining process.
Speaker	Dr. Suresh Kumar Reddy
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Date & Time	Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:00 am at Conference Room
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Title	Microsystem for flow cytometry in marine life sensing and on-chip bacteria detection.
Speaker	Dr. Ashis Sen
Affiliation	Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati
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Date & Time	Thursday, 19 August 2010 12:00 pm at Conference Room
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Title	CANON INDIA: It's success in India and beyond
Speaker	Mr. Kensaku KONISHI
Affiliation	President & CEO, Canon India Pvt. Ltd.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 18 August 2010 4:00 pm at Conference Room
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Title	Global Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Regeneration and Joint Research for Campus Development (Tentative).
Speaker	Dr. Yozo FUJINO
Affiliation	Head, Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration, and Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. Member, IITH - Japan Collaboration Advisory Committee
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Date & Time	Thursday, 18 August 2010 3:00 pm at Conference Room
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Title	TODAI Today: Its recent activity.
Speaker	Dr. Yoichiro Matsumoto
Affiliation	Managing Director, Executive Vice President and Professor Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. Representative, a chair school of the IITH Consortium of Japan-cum-Chair, IITH - Japan Collaboration Advisory Committee
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Date & Time	Thursday, 18 August 2010 2:00 pm at Conference Room
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Title	Spatial Interference Suppression Algorithms and Performance for 4G Wireless Networks.
Speaker	Dr. Shirish Nagaraj
Affiliation	DMTS and Technical Manager, Systems and Technologies, Motorola Inc.
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Date & Time	Thursday, 10 August 2010 3:00 pm at Conference Room
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Title	WIDE Project: Its potential to contribute to IITH
Speaker	Dr. Jun MURAI
Affiliation	Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japanese research team leader, SATREPS-DISANET (Information Network for Natural Disaster Mitigation and Recovery) Project, Founder of WIDE Project, Chair of AI3 Project, Chair of SOI Asia Project
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Date & Time	Sunday, 18 July 2010 10:05 am at Hyderabad International Convention Centre
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Title	A Particle Filter Approach to Identification of Nonlinear Processes under Missing Observations
Speaker	Dr. Bhushan Gopaluni
Affiliation	Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada
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Date & Time	Thursday, 15 July 2010 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Nanoparticles of rare earth oxides
Speaker	Dr. Suresh Babu
Affiliation	Advanced Materials Processing Analysis Center (AMPAC), Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE), University of Central Florida (UCF),USA
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 1 May 2010 10:00 am at Lecture Hall
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Title	The Round Complexity of Verifiable Secret Sharing
Speaker	Dr. Arpita Patra
Affiliation	Theoretical Computer Science Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Madras
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Date & Time	Friday, 14 May 2010 5:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Perfectly Reliable and Secure Message Transmission Tolerating Mobile Adversary
Speaker	Dr. Ashish Choudhury
Affiliation	Theoretical Computer Science Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Madras
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Date & Time	Friday, 14 May 2010 4:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	NICT Japan Delegation
Speaker	Dr. Hiroshi Kumagai
Affiliation	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Date & Time	Friday, 14 May 2010 4:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	On Design and Development of Autonomous Cognitive Access Point (CogAP) for Wireless LANs
Speaker	Dr. Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma
Affiliation	California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2)
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 5 May 2010 9:00 am at Lecture Hall
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Title	On Improving Fairness and Throughput Performance in Wireless Mesh Networks
Speaker	Dr. Venkataramana Badarla
Affiliation	Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 21 April 2010 2:30 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Silicon Nano-technology
Speaker	Dr. Digh Hisamoto
Affiliation	Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. Kokubunji, Tokyo 185-8601, Japan
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Date & Time	Thursday, 15 April 2010 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Interacting Physically with Robots and Virtually on Global Campus
Speaker	Dr. Yuichiro Anzai
Affiliation	Professor of Information and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Executive Advisor for Academic Affairs and Former President, Keio University
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 7 April 2010 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	IT Storage
Speaker	Mr. Akira Fujibayashi
Affiliation	Hitachi Ltd
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 31 March 2010 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Opportunities for Higher Studies at NUS
Speaker	Dr. Sanjib Kumar Panda
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Wednesday, 10 March 2010 2:15 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Fundamentals of OFDM systems
Speaker	Dr. Sarma Gunturi
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Date & Time	Thursday, 4 March 2010 2:45 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Bioinformatics and related technologies
Speaker	Dr. Asako Koike
Affiliation	Senior Researcher, Hitachi Research Lab, Hitachi, Ltd
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 24 February 2010 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Mechanics and micro-mechanism of Advanced Engineering Materials
Speaker	Dr. Anamika Prasad (Stanford University)
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Date & Time	Friday, 19 February 2010 3:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Why systems thinking matters
Speaker	Rakesh C Pandey
Affiliation	Independent Consultant and Former Director of Research, Bose Corporation
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Date & Time	Monday, 15 February 2010 4:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	ARM processor Roadmap
Speaker	Dr. Amit Bhatt
Affiliation	MD of ARM, Bangalore
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Date & Time	Wednesday, 10 Feburary 2010 4:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Cognitive and cooperative communication models for spectrum sharing in wireless networks
Speaker	Dr. Ashish Pandharipande
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Thursday, 7 January 2010 3:45 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Image Quality Assessment
Speaker	Dr. Sumohana Channappayya
Abstract & Bio -Data	Abstract & Speaker Profile
Date & Time	Friday, 18 December 2009 11:00 am at Lecture Hall
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Title	Latest Technology trends and changing market expectations
Speaker	Sandeep Goel
Affiliation	Chief Executive's position at Acuvate
Date & Time	Tuesday, 17 November 2009 4:00 pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	Environment and Energy
Speaker	Dr. Koyo KATSURA
Affiliation	Senior Chief Scientist, Hitachi Research Lab, Hitachi, Ltd
Date & Time	Tuesday, 3 November 2009 4:00pm at Lecture Hall
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Title	The Grand Challenges Facing the Globe: How would you address them?
Speaker	Dr. D. Balasubramanian
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Date & Time	Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 4:00pm at Lecture Hall