1) Speaker: Dr Thalappil Pradeep
Date: 18th March 2022
Time: 5:30pm to 7pm
Topic: Spring Of Chemistry
Venue: EEE Auditorium (Offline GL)
Description: Dr Thalappil Pradeep is an Institute Professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M). He is the recipient of the prestigious Padma Shri award for his contribution to the field of Science and Engineering. He is also an institute chair professor and the main lead of the development of the International Centre for Clean Water development. He has completed his studies at prestigious universities, including the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, University of California Berkley and Purdue University. He also held visiting positions at Purdue University, Leiden University (Netherlands), EPFL (Switzerland), Institute of Chemistry (Taiwan), Pohang University of Science and Technology (South Korea) and the University of Hyogo (Japan).
2) Speaker: Dr Rakesh Aggarwal
Date: 19th March 2022
Time: 3pm to 4pm
Topic: Covid Vaccines
Description: Dr Rakesh Aggarwal is the Director of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry. He is a renowned gastroenterologist known for his contributions in the studies involving gastrointestinal diseases, liver diseases and viral hepatitis. He is also the recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2002, which is one of the highest Indian science awards. He has completed his education at some of the most reputed medical universities like AIIMS Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
3) Speaker: Dr Santosh Radha
Date: 20th March 2022
Time: 11am to 12pm
Topic: Quantum Computing
Description: Mr Santosh Radha is a quantum computing expert at Agnostiq, who enjoys leading and working on numerical and theoretical experiments and open-source projects. Being an alumnus of NIT Trichy, his journey from being a student of the Production Department to becoming an expert in quantum computing at Agnostiq is indeed fascinating and captivating.
4) Speaker: Dr Mark Sundahl
Date: 20th March 2022
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Topic: Space Laws
Description: Dr Mark Sundahl is a Professor at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Prof Sundahl’s expertise lies in space laws and focuses on the business, legal and policy issues arising from the increase in space activity from the private sector. He has delivered various lectures around the world. He currently serves as a member of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee as well as the International Institute of Space Laws.
5) Speaker: Dr Ramgopal Rao
Date: 20th March 2022
Time: 4pm to 5pm
Topic: Electronic Devices and Nanoelectronics
Description: Dr Valipe Ramgopal Rao is the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D). He was a P.K.Kelkar Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay before taking over as Director of IIT Delhi. Prof. Ramgopal Rao has more than 480 publications in various journals, and 49 patents in the areas of Electron devices and Nanoelectronics. He was the first elected chairman for the Indian Section of the American Nano Society. He is also the recipient of multiple prizes, including the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship, Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize, Infosys prize, Techno-Visionary award from the Indian Semiconductor Association in 2020, the IBM faculty award in 2007, and the IEEE EDS Education award in 2020, besides many others.