Seminars

Profile: Dr. Arun Chandavarkar is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Joint Managing Director at Biocon Limited one of Asia’s leading bio-pharmaceuticals companies. Biocon’s focus on innovation and affordable biopharmaceuticals targeting chronic disease like diabetes oncology and autoimmune conditions would enhance access for these patients worldwide. Dr. Chandavarkar has played a critical role in the evolution of Biocon during the past 25 years of his association with the Company. He graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai and holds a Ph.D.

Abstract: We will begin by reminding the audience about the assumptions on which the research university of today has been built. We will then discuss the nature of science and how scientists work the nature of research and what drives it and what motivates a research scholar to pursue a programme of study and research leading to a Ph.D. degree. We will try to identify the characteristics of a good researcher. We will then briefly discuss the creative process as delineated by the now famous split-brain experiments and stress the importance of nurturing intuition.

Brief Profile: B.E (Chemical) – University of Roorkee (now IIT) - 1991 -1995 M.Eng (Chemical) – Nus Singapore -2000 -2002 Master Black Belt – Lean and Six Sigma – Singapore - 2006 Chartered Engineer – IChemE UK - 2009 15 Years of Experience in Pharma Industry in Technical Engineering and Project Management Worked in 3 different countries India Singapore & UK Present Designation : General Manager Global Capital Projects - GlaxoSmithKline 

Abstract: A granular system of particles undergoing dissipative collisions show inhomogeneous density clustering under many circumstances. We focus on two types of problems: (i) the system is perturbed locally in space and (ii) the full system is globally perturbed initially and then left to cool freely. Scaling theories based on conservation laws and event driven molecular dynamics simulations of hard spheres provide two theoretical tools to study such systems. The scaling exponents of various statistical quantities evolving with time (e.g.

Abstract: With advances in nano/biosciences there has been a prominent shift towards miniaturization of technology which has become an integral part of our everyday life. Nano/Micromotors (also referred to as nano/microbots) is a relatively new concept involving self-propelled autonomous microstructures that can be manipulated within aqueous environments for diverse applications like environmental sensing and remediation site-directed drug delivery and cell/tissue manipulation among others.

Abstract: Electrowetting (EW) on dielectric is one of the most convenient techniques accepted for manipulation of liquid droplets in micro-fluidic chips as also in adaptive optics and POC devices. The external voltage brings electric charge density at a liquid-solid interface which results in changing of wetting angle as a function of voltage magnitude. In normal circumstances a water-hydrophobic polymer shows formation of electric double layer (EDL) due to preferential adsorption of water ions at liquid-solid interface.

P. D. Samudra is Managing Director and CEO of thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions India Pvt. Ltd (earlier known as Uhde India Private Limited) the largest subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions - Process Technologies a Business Unit of ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG. ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG is a Business Area of ThyssenKrupp AG of Germany a diversified technology and materials Fortune 500 Company and one of the largest conglomerates in Europe.

Abstract : Metallic glasses with magnetic components exhibit fascinating cross-effects between mechanical and magnetic responses. Magnetostriction and Barkhausen Noise are just a few of these effects. I will describe microscopic models of magnetic glasses and a theory to explain some of the interesting effects that are typical to such systems.Short Biography of the speaker: Dr. Bhaskar Sen Gupta has done his BSc and MSc at the University of North Bengal. He completed his PhD with Prof.

Short biography: Experience :8 yrs in IPCL Baroda – Operations and Technical services [Olefins Project] 5 yrs in EIL Delhi – Process Engineer 30 yrs in Reliance Industries Mumbai as Project Director

Abstract: The free energy of an interface formed between two condensed phases such as a crystal and its melt or between a condensed phase and a solid substrate is an important parameter governing the growth and nucleation of a crystal from its melt the wetting behavior of a crystal near a wall and many other interfacial phenomena. However a direct determination of the free-energy is not possible in experiments and indirectly the available estimates are unreliable.