FIRST

HBNI interaction meeting in Chemical Sciences

With great pleasure, we would like to inform you that the 1st HBNI interaction meeting in Chemical Sciences is being organized at the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, during 18-20 January 2023, by the School of Chemical Sciences.
The discussion meeting aims to bring together colleagues working in the different areas of chemistry in the DAE units (such as BARC Mumbai, IGCAR-Kalpakkam, SINP-Kolkata, and HBNI - Central office) and promote interaction. In addition, the meeting is aimed to initiate several collaborative programs among the faculties, scientists, and students with expertise in different research areas within the DAE units.

• PATRON •
Prof. Sudhakar Panda, Director, NISER

About Us

The School of Chemical Sciences at NISER aims to impart high quality undergraduate and postgraduate level of knowledge to students coupled with cutting edge research activity by the faculty and the students of the school. In addition to traditional organic, inorganic, physical, and theoretical chemistry areas, the school embarks on teaching and research activity in the interface areas of biology, material sciences, and medicine. The school offers one of the best integrated M. Sc. programme in the country and the syllabus is designed not only to teach basic principles but also to have hands on practical experience by doing research projects as a part of the curriculum. The School of Chemical Sciences also offers integrated Ph.D., regular Ph.D., and post-doctoral fellowship programmes in various research areas of chemistry.

Advisory Committee

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A K Mohanty

BARC

B Venkatraman

IGCAR

G Bhattacharyya

SINP

P D Naik

HBNI

A K Tyagi

BARC

S Kannan

BARC

T K Ghanty

BARC

N Sivaraman

IGCAR

H Pal

HBNI

D K Maity

HBNI

C V S B Rao

IGCAR

P Saha

SINP

A Srinivasan

NISER

Organising Committee

All faculty members of School of Chemical Sciences, NISER.

Sharanappa Nembenna

Convener

Himansu Sekhar Biswal

Co-convener

A Srinivasan

NISER

Bhargava B L

NISER

Chandra Shekhar Purohit

NISER

C Gunanathan

NISER

Jogendra Nath Behera

NISER

V Krishnan

NISER

Moloy Sarkar

NISER

Nagendra K Sharma

NISER

P C Ravikumar

NISER

Prasenjit Mal

NISER

S Peruncheralathan

NISER

Sanjib Kar

NISER

Subhadip Ghosh

NISER

Sudip Barman

NISER

Upakarasamy Lourderaj

NISER

Arindam Ghosh

NISER

Bidraha Bagh

NISER

Bishnu Prasad Biswal

NISER

Dipak Samanta

NISER

Speakers

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Prof. SUNDARGOPAL GHOSH
IIT-MADRAS

INVITED TALKS

A C Bhasikuttan

BARC

V Sudarsan

BARC

Dimple P. Dutta

BARC

R S Ningthoujam

BARC

A K Satpati

BARC

J A Mondal

BARC

Dibakar Goswami

BARC

Kathi Sudarshan

BARC

A Bhattacharyya

BARC

K A Dubey

BARC

Madhav B Mallia

BARC

D K Maity

HBNI

Dulal Senapati

SINP

CVS Brahmananda Rao

IGCAR

N Ramanathan

IGCAR

R Kumaresan

IGCAR

A Sreeramamurthy

IGCAR

Satendra Kumar

IGCAR

S Nembenna

NISER

Himansu S Biswal

NISER

Prasenjit Mal

NISER

S Peruncheralathan

NISER

Nagendra K Sharma

NISER

B L Bhargava

NISER

Subhadip Ghosh

NISER

Bidraha Bagh

NISER

Schedule of Talks

08:00 - 10:45

08:00 - 09:30 | Registration

09:30 - 10:30 | Inauguration

10:30 - 10:45 | Tea Break

10:45 - 13:15

Keynote Lecture | 10:45 - 11:45 | Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh, IIT Madras
Structural Paradigms in Metallaborane Chemistry

IL-1 | 11:45 - 12:15 | Dr. A. C. Bhasikuttan, BARC
Functionalized Supramolecular Assemblies: Platform For Unlimited Opportunities

IL-2 | 12:15 - 12:45 | Dr. Dulal Senapati, SINP
Innovative Ideas In Developing Nanoscale Materials For Energy, Sensing, And Therapeutics

IL-3 | 12:45 - 13:15 | Dr. C. V. S. Brahmananda Rao, IGCAR
Mass Spectrometry: An Inevitable Tool for Nuclear Industry

13:15 - 14:45 | LUNCH BREAK

PS-1 | 14:45 - 16:30 | POSTER SESSION (PP-1 ~ PP-25)
Chairman: Prof. Y. K. Bharadwaj
Convener: Prof. P A Hassan
Members: Prof. Musharaf Ali, Dr C. S. Purohit, Dr. Sudip Barman

16:30 - 17:30

IL-4 | 16:30 - 17:00 | Prof. D. K. Maity, HBNI
Theoretical and Computational Techniques: Towards Deeper Understanding and Prediction

IL-5 | 17:00 - 17:30 | Dr. Himansu S. Biswal, NISER
Noncovalent Interactions with Carbon: Experimental Challenges

17:30 - 18:00 | Tea/Snacks Break

18:00 - 19:00

IL-6 | 18:00 - 18:30 | Dr. V. Sudarsan, BARC
Materials For Sustainable Lighting And Clean Energy Applications

IL-7 | 18:30 - 19:00 | Dr. A. K. Satpati, BARC
Electrochemical/Spectroelectrochemical Tools In Probing Interfacial Processes

19:30 - 21:30 | DINNER

09:30 - 11.00

IL-8 | 09:30 - 10:00 | Dr. Dimple P. Dutta, BARC
Battery Storage Technologies for India's Green Push

IL-9 | 10:00 - 10:30 | Dr. R. S. Ningthoujam, BARC
Rare-earth Doped Phosphors for Light Emitting Display, Light Harvesting and Biological Applications

IL-10 | 10:30 - 11:00 | Dr. Sharanappa Nembenna, NISER
Unusual Zinc(I) Dimers and Zinc(II) Hydrides: Synthesis and Their Catalytic Studies

11:00 - 11:15 | Tea/Snacks Break

11:15 - 13:15

IL-11 | 11:15 - 11:45 | Dr. Dibakar Goswami, BARC
Research and Development of Functional Organic Molecules

IL-12 | 11:45 - 12:15 | Dr. Kathi Sudarshan, BARC
Nuclear Chemistry and, Nuclear Probes in Material Science

IL-13 | 12:15 - 12:45 | Dr. Prasenjit Mal, NISER
Supramolecular Catalysis in Organic Synthesis

IL-14 | 12:45 - 13:15 | Dr. S. Peruncheralathan, NISER
α-Arylacetonitriles as Versatile Synthons for the Synthesis of Indolo Fused Heterocycles

13:15 - 14:45 | LUNCH BREAK

PS-2 | 14:45 - 16:30 | POSTER SESSION (PP-26 ~ PP-45)
Chairman: Prof. C. N. Patra
Convener: Prof. T. Das
Members: Dr. V Krishnan, Dr. S Peruncherlathan, Dr. Moloy Sarkar

16:30 - 17:30

IL-15 | 16:30 - 17:00 | Dr. J. A. Mondal, BARC
Laser Spectroscopy at the "Molecular" and "Macroscopic" Surfaces

IL-16 | 17:00 - 17:30 | Dr. R. Kumaresan, IGCAR
Molten Salt Based Electrochemical Preparation of Metals And Alloys From Oxide Precursors

17:30 - 18:00 | Tea/Snacks Break

18:00 - 19:00

IL-17 | 18:00 - 18:30 | Dr. Nagendra K. Sharma, NISER
Parenting of Ignored Natural Molecule Tropolone

IL-18 | 18:30 - 19:00 | Dr. Bidraha Bagh, NISER
Sustainable and Selective Oxidation of Primary Alcohols: Aerobic and Peroxidative Oxidations Catalyzed by Base Metals (Cu and Fe)

19:30 - 21:30 | DINNER

09:00 - 11:00

IL-19 | 09:00 - 09:30 | Dr. A. Bhattacharya, BARC
Actinide Chemistry: Separation, Speciation, and Structural Aspects

IL-20 | 09:30 - 10:00 | Dr. Dr. Madhav B Mallia, BARC
Chemical Approaches For Radiopharmaceutical Development: An Overview of Radiopharmaceutical Research in BARC

IL-21 | 10:00 - 10:30 | Dr. B. L. Bhargava, NISER
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Intrafibril and Fibril - Membrane Interactions

IL-22 | 10:30 - 11:00 | Dr. Subhadip Ghosh, NISER
Fascinating Photophysical Properties of Perovskite Nanocrystals

11:00 - 11:15 | Tea/Snacks Break

11:15 - 13:15

IL-23 | 11:15 - 11:45 | Dr. Satendra Kumar, IGCAR
Probing The Coordination Environment Of Lanthanide Complexes By Luminescence Spectroscopy

IL-24 | 11:45 - 12:15 | Dr. N. Ramanathan, IGCAR
High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Cold Isolated Molecules

IL-25 | 12:15 - 12:45 | Dr. K. A. Dubey, BARC
Recent Advances in the Radiation Processing of Polymers for Industrial and Environmental Applications

IL-26 | 12:45 - 13:15 | Dr. A. Sreeramamurthy, IGCAR
A brief introduction to Chemical Sensors - Necessity and Challenges

13:15 - 14:45 | LUNCH BREAK

14:45 - 16:30 | LAB VISIT

16:30 - 17:00 | Tea/Snacks Break - Photo Session

17:00 - 18:00 | VALEDICTORY FUNCTION

18:00 - 18:30 | High Tea

How to Reach NISER?

1. By Air: NISER is located about 30 kms from the airport. You can reach NISER by a taxi.
2. By Train: The nearest railway station to NISER is the Khurda Road Junction, which is about 5 kms from NISER. You can also take a train to Bhubaneswar railway station. After reaching Bhubaneswar railway station, one can either take another train to Khurda Road junction or take a taxi to reach NISER.
See Map

Sponsors

[Parent] : Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India
[Host] : National Institute of Science Education and Research

M/s Inkarp Instruments (P) Ltd.
M/s Laser Science
M/s Thermo Fisher Scientific Instruments
M/s M.N. Serve
M/s Class One S & T (P) Ltd.
M/s Pfeiffer Vacuum Ltd.
M/s IR Technology Services (P) Ltd

Contacts

Postal contact address:

Convener: Dr. S Nembenna
Co-Convener: Dr. H S Biswal
HBNI Interaction Meeting
School of Chemical Sciences
National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
PO: NISER, Via: Jatni, District: Khurda, Odisha - 752050

 

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