Schedule

4 February 2011
09:30 - 09:33 Invocation Song by NISER / KIIT Students
09:33 - 09:35 Lighting of the lamp by Dignitaries
09:35 - 09:40 Welcome Address by T.K. Chandrashekar, Director, NISER
09:40 - 09:45 Welcome Address by A.S. Kolaskar, Vice-Chancellor, KIIT
09:45 - 09:50 Presidential Address by V. Krishnan
09:50 - 09:55 Remarks by Secretary - Uday Maitra
09:55 - 10:30 Presidential Lecture by V. Krishnan
10:30 - 11:00 High Tea
Session - I, Chair : A. Chakravorty
11:00 - 11:30 Silver Medal 1 by V. Chandrasekhar : Phosphorus-Supported Ligands: Versatile Coordination Platforms for the Assembly of Molecular Materials
11:30 - 12:00 Silver Medal 2 by Vishwakarma Singh : Allylsaligenin to (±)-Platencin
12:00 - 12:30 Silver Medal 3 by R.N. Mukherjee : Metal-Coordinated Radicals. Bioinorganic and Inorganic Perspectives
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:30 Poster Session with Tea
14:00 - 15:30 Council Meeting
IYC : International Year of Chemistry
Session - II, Chair : V. Krishnan
16:30 - 17:30 IYC Talk 1 by C.N.R. Rao : Evolution of Physical Chemistry
17:30 - 18:30 IYC Talk 2 by H.W. Roesky : Chemical Curiosities
19:00 - 20:00 Cultural Programme - Odissi Dance by Meera Das
20:00 - 21:30 Conference Dinner
5 February 2011
Session - III, Chair : S. Chandrasekaran
09:00 - 09:45 CNR Rao Award Lecture by J.K.M. Sanders : Adventures in  Molecular Recognition: Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry and Supramolecular Nanotubes
09:45 - 10:15 Silver Medal 4 by P.R. Vasudeva Rao : Chemistry for Fast Reactors and Fuel Cycle
10:15 - 10:45 Tea
Chair : V. Krishnan
10:45 - 12:45 Chemical education Programme : Science Teacher Presentation and Award Ceremony
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Poster Session with Tea
Session - IV, Chair : K. Bhattacharya
16:00 - 16:30 CNR Rao National Prize Lecture in Chemical Sciences by R. Murugavel : Seeking Insights into the Formation of Framework Structures
16:30 - 17:00 CRSI Medal 1 by P.V. Kamat : Nanostructure Semiconductor Assemblies for Next Generation Solar Cells
17:00 - 17:30 D. Ranganathan  Memorial Lecture by Amitabha Chattopadhyay : Role of Membrane Cholesterol in the Function of Serotonin1A Receptors: Implications in Health and Disease
17:30 - 18:00 Tea
18:00 - 19:00 General Body Meeting
Session - V, Chair : V. Krishnan
19:00 - 19:45 Gold Medal Lecture by P. Natarajan : Photoprocesses of metal complexes and dyes in solution and in nanoporous materials: evolution from milliseconds to femtoseconds
20:00 - 21:00 Dinner
6 February 2011
Session - VI, Chair : R. N. Mukherjee
09:00 - 11:00Mini symposium on Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry...
  M. Ravikanth : Design and synthesis of boron-dipyrromethene based fluorescent systems
S.P. Rath : Control of Spins by Ring Deformations: A Novel Series of Oxo and Hydroxo Bridged Fe(III) Bisporphyrins
P.S. Mukherjee : Self-Assembly of Molecular Architectures and Self-Sorting in Multicomponents Assembly
A. Dey : "Clicked" Iron Porphyrin Catalysts for O2 Activation
J.N. Behera : Conducting Metal-Organic Frameworks
11:00 - 11:30 Tea
Seesion - VII, Chair : T. Ramasami
11:30 - 12:00 CRSI Medal 2 by V. Ramamurthy : Chemistry in a Capsule: Controlling excited state processes through confinement and weak interactions
12:00 - 12:45 Closing remarks by V. Krishnan
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
5th CRSI-RSC Joint Symposium in Chemistry
Seesion - I, Chair : R. Jones
14:00 - 14:15 Opening Remarks
14:15 - 14:45 Lecture 1 by Rein Uljin : Gel-phase Nanotechnology: Building on the building blocks of life
14:45 - 15:15 Lecture 2 by P.K. Das : Chemical applications of second harmonic light scattering from solution
15:15 - 15:45 Lecture 3 (UK) Tony Hooper : Will allelopathy drive chemists underground? C-glycosylflavonoid chemistry in plants.
15:45 - 16:15 Tea
Seesion - II, Chair : T.K. Chandrashekar
16:15 - 16:45 Leture 4 by R.B. Sunoj : Probing Mechanism and Stereoselectivity in Asymmetric Organic Reactions through Transition State Modeling
16:45 - 15:15 Leture 5 (UK) by Lesley Yellowlees : Potential Solar Energy Dyes: Characterisation of Redox-Active Ligands and their Transition Metal Complexes.
17:15 - 17:45 Leture 6 (IN) by Jitendra Bera : Synergism in Organometallic Catalysis
17:45 - 18:00 Closing Remarks