Report of the Science Academies Lecture Workshop on “Materials Physics and Chemistry” March 09-10, 2018 

A two day Science Academies Lecture Workshop was held in DKM College for Women (A), Vellore – 632 001, March 09-10, 2018. The Lecture Workshop was organized by Department of Physics, DKM College for Women (A) in association with Science Academies Bangalore under the leadership of Prof. S. Natarajan, Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore as Convener and Dr. N. Jabena Begum, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, DKM College for Women (A), Vellore as Coordinator.

The aim of this Science Academies’ lecture Workshop on “Materials Physics and Chemistry”, a highly multidisciplinary topic of contemporary research interests among various scientific disciplines ranging from physics, chemistry, materials, nanotechnology, etc. This workshop also aims to provide a good platform for researchers, academicians and scientist to discuss share and promote their research work in the field of Materials science and Nanotechnology.

In this Science Academies’ lecture-workshop, a total of 8 lectures (each of the 4 resource persons gave 2 lectures on each day) of 90 minutes duration (75 min lecture & 15 min discussion) were delivered by the four eminent Indian scientists/teachers covering the fundamental aspects and applications of Materials in various fields. About 200 participants (faculty, Research Scholars and PG students) were actively present in this two days’ event.

The distinguished Resource Persons invited were

(1). Professor S. Natarajan, FNA., FASc., FNASc.,

Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU)

Indian Institute of Science (IISc.)

Bangalore-560 012

 (2). Professor R. Ramaraj, FNA., FASc., FNASc.,

School of Chemistry

Madurai Kamaraj University

Madurai-625 021

(3). Professor P. Anil Kumar

 Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Science (IISc.)

Bangalore

(4). Dr. V. Subramanian
Sr. Principal Scientist
Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute
Adyar, Chennai – 600 020