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PPA Seventh Foundation Day Programe in association with JNCASR, Bengaluru
- 8th March, 2019
Invited Session(4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M..)
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Foundation Day Program(6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)
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Honorary Fellowship Conferment, Vote of ThanksProf. A. K. Ghosh, IIT Delhi, Secretory, PPA |
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Chief Guest, Seventh Foundation Day
- Prof. Roddam Narasimha, DST Year-of-Science Professor, JNCASR, Bengaluru
Dr Roddam Narasimha is Honorary Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, former Director of NAL, former director of NIAS. He was educated at the University College of Engineering and at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and obtained his PhD at the California Institute of Technology, USA. He joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering ,Indian Institute of Science and founded the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (now Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences). Prof Narasimha's research has been chiefly concerned with aerospace and atmospheric fluid dynamics. He is internationally known for his extensive studies of transitions between laminar and turbulent flow (going in either direction), the structure of shock waves, various characteristics of fully developed turbulent flow (e.g. their memory, the bursting phenomenon in boundary layers), the fluid dynamics of clouds, near-surface temperature distributions and eddy fluxes in tropical atmospheric boundary layers, cloud flows- an important scientific problem relevant to global climate change and the Indian monsoons. He has been closely associated with aerospace technology development in India at both technical and policy-making levels. He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, a member of the Space Commission and led conceptual studies of the Indo-French atmospheric research satellite Megha-Tropiques.He has been widely honoured for his research work as well as his scientific leadership. He is the author of more than 250 research publications, He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Foreign Associate of both the US National Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was awarded the Trieste Science Prize for Engineering Sciences for 'his distinctive and original contributions to fluid dynamics and its applications in aerospace technology and atmospheric dynamics'. He has won the Fluid Dynamics Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In India his distinctions include the Bhatnagar Prize, the Gujarmal Modi Award, the Ramanujan Award, the Aryabhata Aeard, and the Padma Bhushan, among many others. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech and was conferred the Honorary Fellowship of IISc. He is a Fellow of all the national academies of science and engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India.
Seventh Foundation Day Speaker
- Dr. K Radhakrishnan, Honorary Distinguished Advisor DOS/ISRO
Dr. Koppillil Radhakrishnan was Chairman of Space Commission, Secretary of Department of Space and Chairman of ISRO from November 2009 to December 2014. He steered India's first planetary exploration mission to Mars (alias Mangalyaan) from concept to fruition besides successfully inducting Indian Cryogenic Engine for GSLV.
An electrical engineer, inducted into ISRO in 1971, Radhakrishnan studied management at IIM-Bangalore and completed doctorate from IIT-Kharagpur. He held key roles in avionics systems, technology management, space economics and space applications for three decades at ISRO followed by a short stint in ocean observations and information. He became Director of National Remote Sensing Agency in November 2005 and later moved to Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre as Director with a key role in Chandrayaan-1 mission.
Dr. Radhakrishnan received 'Padma Bhushan' in 2014. The 'Nature' Journal chose him as one of the Ten people who mattered in the year 2014. He is recipient of more than 40 awards including Allan D Emil Memorial Award of International Astronautical Federation. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of National Academy of Science, India and Member of International Academy of Astronautics.
His biography "My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man behind the Mangalyaan Mission" was published by Penguin Random House India in 2016.
Currently, Dr. Radhakrishnan is Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIT Kanpur, besides being Honorary Distinguished Advisor at Department of Space/ISRO.
Invited Session - Seventh Foundation Day
Opto-Electronic Enhancement in Nanostructured Thin Film Photovoltaic Devices
- Prof. Praveen C Ramamurthy
Prof. Praveen C Ramamurthy received M.Sc in Polymer science in 1995 from University of Mysore and PhD degree from Clemson University in the year 2004.
He worked as a R&D Engineer in Therm-O-Disc, Mansfield, OH, USA and Research Scientist in Hoku Scientific, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He joined the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in the year 2007. He is also Associate faculty in Centre for Nano Science and Engineering and Inter Disciplinary Centre for Energy Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
His current research focuses on organic electronics including synthesis of conjugated polymer for the application in photovoltaics, and sensors.
Part of his research group works on materials for device package application and sensor for the organic volatile compound, heavy metals and biosensors. He has over 140 peer reviewed papers published and 18 patents to his credit.
Innovation Management in R & D organizations
- Dr. Indumathi Ramakrishnan
Currently heading Resil chemicals R & D for their 5 business divisions in the areas of Textiles, Plastics, Auto-car care products, Performance Chemicals and personal hygiene products. She has more than 16 years of industrial research and development experience in GE John F. Welch Technology centre for their Plastics and Silicones businesses. She has strong technical expertise in Polymers, Silicones, Silanes and Composites. She headed Sealants, Coatings, Elastomers and IP Analytics teams in Momentive Performance Materials and enabled product development from concept to launch in sealants, elastomers and coatings in global markets. She was instrumental in setting up world class & D facilities both in GE as well as in Momentive.
She has enabled Innovation consistently by delivering technology and product with novel and differentiated performance attributes, Inventor of 35 US filed patent applications and authored several articles in accredited journals. She has co-supervised ~ 11 M.Tech Thesis projects for IIT and Anna University students. She has been driving industry-academic collaborations for almost a decade and established multiple partnerships for Resil recently. She has completed her Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from IIT-Delhi and a certified PMP from University of Philadelphia.
Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) for Energy Harvesting Applications
- Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji, JNCASR
Pushing the boundaries of Polycarbonate with Polycarbonate Copolymers
Reema Sinha is a Staff Scientist at SABIC Technology Centre, Bengaluru. She has 16 years of experience in the area of research and product development of polymers for various applications in automotive, electrical and consumer electronics market.
Reema completed her Masters in Polymer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2003 and joined GE/ SABIC.
She holds several patents and external publications in the area of polymer composites.