The College Union and its Allied Associations for evening college was inaugurated on 19.07.2018 at 2.00 p.m. The Chief guest of the day was Dr.S. Mythili, M.Com., M.Phil., Ph.D., Principal, Sri Agilandashwari Womens college, Wandhiwash. she lighted the Kuthu Vilaku and gave the inaugural address.

 Dr. G. Bhavani Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce presented the welcome address.

Our principal mam, Dr.P.N. Sudha  introduce our chief guest and address the gathering.

Respected Secretary sir Er. D. Maninathan, B.E., felicitated the cheif guest with small momento.

Mrs. B. Arulmozhi, Head of the Department , Department of Computer Applications presented the minutes of Union inauguration of the year 2018-2019. The elected candidates list was read by Dr. J. Hema priya, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology. The induction of college union and its allied Association has done by our chief guest Dr. Mrs. S. Mythili.

The honourable chief guest Dr. S. Mythili has delivered the inaugural address . she talk about today youth development.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Vinita Ernest, Head, Department of Bio technology.

The College Union and its Allied Associations was inaugurated on 13.07.2018 at 10.00 a.m. The Chief guest of the day was Dr. M. Jaya Sri Rani, Principal, KMG College of Arts and Science, Gudiyattam. She lighted the Kuthu Vilaku and gave the inaugural address.

The office bearers have taken the oath on that day.

The College reopens for the academic year 2018 – 2019 on Monday, the 18th June of 2018.

Report on One day Seminar

                One day seminar on “Applications of Physics in various Fields” was organized by Department of Physics, DKM College for Women (Autonomous),Vellore on 16^th March 2018. The Department requested Dr. R. Vadamalar, Asst. Professor, Department of Physics, GMAC, Vellore and Mr. A. Ubaithulla Baig, Head & Assistant Professor,Department of Physics, Mailam  Engg. College, Mailam to be the Resource Persons for the one day Seminar.

 After the inaguration, first lecture was started at 10.15 A.M by Dr. R. Vadamalar, Asst. Professor, Department of Physics, GMAC, Vellore who had delivered the lecture on “Applications of Ultrasonics”.  The lecture gave information about the present applications of ultrasonics in various fields. She also added several medicinal applications in interior regions of human body, which remains unexplored, inspite of its usefulness in specific ailment that are used traditionally.

The next lecture was delivered by Mr.A. Ubaithulla Baig, Head & Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Mailam  Engg.  College,Mailam entitled “Basics of Nanotechnology”.

He elaborated that the nanomaterials are probably more deep-seated in our culture than most of us realize. Transportation, housing, clothing communication, reaction and food production and virtually every segment of our daily lives is influenced to one degree or another by materials. He also discussed that the nanomaterials have contributed to the advancement of a number of technologies, including medicine and health, information and communication, national security and space, transportation, structural materials, arts and literature, textiles, personal hygiene, agriculture and food science and the environment.

  Valedictory function was started at 12.45 P.M. Annual report of the Physics Association was read by Ms. B. Sangamithra, (I Maths) Association Secretary followed by feedback session. Dr. R. Vadamalar, Asst. Professor, Department of Physics, GMAC, Vellore distributed the attendance certificate to the participants.

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REPORT FOR THE IV- NATIONAL CONFERENCE

5^TH JANUARY 2018

The national level conference on “Emerging trends in Chemical and Biological Sciences” was conducted by the department of chemistry on 5^th January 2018 under UGC autonomous fund.

More than 185 delegates from various institutions and companies and 255 candidates from the host college registered to participate in the conference. The inaugural session was started with the prayer song and lighting the kuthuvillakku.

The welcome address was given by Mrs. N. Thenmozhi, HOD of chemistry. Dr. M. Nagarathinam, Organising secretary explained about the theme of the conference. Dr. P. N. Sudha, Principal gave the presidential address. The souvenir was released by our secretary Thiru D. Maninathan.

Dr. K. Subramani, Associate Professor of chemistry, Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi delivered the inaugural address. Our secretary Thiru D. Maninathan felicitated the gathering. Dr. T. Gomathi, Organising secretary gave vote of thanks.

The first key note address on the topic “ Newer Chemical Entities as Therapeutic Agents”  was delivered by Dr. M. G. Sethuraman, Professor of Chemistry and Director, IQAC, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dinigul. He explained about the quantitative molecular modeling and data search which are the methods of Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD).

The second key note address on the topic “ Process Chemistry: Introduction and Innovation”  was delivered by Dr. M. Suresh Babu, Scientist, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Hyderabad. He explained about the development of Drug substances or Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) which involve linear synthesis or convergent synthesis with multiple steps. He explained about the process feasibility and process optimization which are the sequence of steps involved in the development of any API.

Totally 52 abstracts were accepted and published in the souvenir and they were called upon to present their research articles in the conference. Paper presentation was started in the afternoon session. 15 research papers were presented by the research scholars. There were 15 poster presentations. The presentations were judged by the judges on the basis of innovations, way of presentation, characterization and applications of their work.

The valedictory session was started with the welcome address given by Dr. N. Dhanam, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. P. N. Sudha, Principal, D. K. M. College, Vellore gave valedictory address and distributed the prizes for the prize winners and certificates for the participants from various institutions.

The feedback was given by the participants from various institutions. They appreciated the excellent arrangements and hospitality rendered by the department of chemistry and asked to continue this in the forthcoming years also. The conference ended with the National Anthem.

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