Programme Schedule

07 July 2023 (Friday)

Session 1A - Special Lecture
09:30 - 10:10
K Kesava Rao
IISc, Bengaluru
Defluoridation of Drinking Water
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Session 1B: Inaugural Lectures by Fellows/Associates
10:10 - 10:30
Nitin Saxena
IIT, Kanpur
Algebra Powers Computation
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10:35 - 10:55
Ramendra S Dey
INST, Punjab
Electrochemical Synthesis of Green Ammonia: Prospects and Challenges
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11:00 - 11:20
Tea break
Session 1C: Inaugural Lectures by Fellows/Associates
11:20 - 11:40
Somnath Bharadwaj
IIT, Kharagpur
Cosmology with the Redshifted HI 21-cm Line
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11:45 - 12:05
Soumen Chakrabarti
IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Neural Graph Representation, Retrieval and Alignment
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12:10 - 12:30
Vidya M Prasad
IISc, Bengaluru
3D Snapshots into Virus Life Cycles Using Cryo-electron Tomography and Sub-Tomogram Averaging
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12:35 - 12:55
Narayan Pradhan
IACS, Kolkata
Light-emitting Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals
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13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Break
Session 1D: Symposium on Developing Chat-GPT for India: Challenges and Oppor-tunities in Building Large Language Models
Convener: Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

14:30
An Overview
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14:35 - 14:55
Partha Pratim Talukdar
CDS & CSA, IISc and Google Research India
Large Language Models for India
14:55 - 15:15
Monojit Choudhury
Microsoft Research India
Safety, Infrastructure and Language: The Three Scaling Challenges of LLMs
15:15 - 15:35
Vasudeva Varma
IIIT Hyderabad and Brane Enterprises Pvt Ltd
Leveraging Multilingual Large Language Models to Generate Grounded Ency-clopaedic Articles in Indian Languages: Challenges and Opportunities
15:35 - 16:30
Panel Discussion

16:30 - 17:00
High Tea
Session 1E: Public Lecture
18:00 - 19:00
Kavery Nambisan
A Surgeon and Novelist
Health, Education and Communities – the Future of a Nation: A Rural Surgeon’s Perspective
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19:00
Dinner

08 July 2023 (Saturday)

Session 2A - Special Lecture
09:30 - 10:10
J N Chengalur
TIFR, Mumbai
Gas and Galaxy Evolution
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Session 2B - Inaugural Lectures by Fellows / Associates
10:10 - 10:30
Veerendra K Sharma
BARC, Mumbai
Physics of the Action Mechanism of Antimicrobial Peptides
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10:35 - 10:55
B S Daya Sagar
ISI, Bengaluru
Mathematical Morphology in Geosciences and Geospatial Data Sciences
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11:00 - 11:20
Tea Break
Session 2C - Inaugural Lectures by Fellows / Associates
11:20 - 11:40
Jayasri Das Sarma
IISER, Kolkota
Mouse Hepatitis Virus-induced Neuroinflammation in an Experimental Animal Model Helps Better Understand the Complex Mechanism of Human Demyelinat- ing Disease Multiple Sclerosis.
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11:45 - 12:05
Ruchi Anand
IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Deciphering the Mechanism of Ribosomal Methyltransferase-mediated Antibiotic Resistance
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12:10 - 12:30
D Pallamraju
PRL, Ahmedabad
Aurora and Airglow: Tracers of Space Weather
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12:35 - 12:55
Soumen Basak
NII, New Delhi
Investigating Immunoregulatory Roles of Cell Signaling Crosstalk
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13:00
Lunch and Closure of the Meeting