6th convocation-SRM University

Veerappa Moily, Union Minister for Law and Justice (second from left), with N.Chandrasekaran (centre), Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services and C.N.R.Rao (extreme right), Chairman, Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister, who received honorary doctorates at the 6th convocation of SRM University in Kattankulathur on Sunday. P.Sathyanarayanan, Vice Chancellor (left), and T.R.Pachamuthu (second from right), Chancellor, are in the picture.

News report-98th ISC @ SRM

Chennai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the 98th edition of Indian Science Congress, to be held here for five days from January 3, 2011.

The Congress, hosted by the SRM University, would be attended by over 7,000 delegates from India and abroad, including some Nobel Laureates, Indian Science Congress Association president K C Pandey reporters here on Monday.


The theme of the Congress would be 'Quality Education and Excellence in Scientific Research in Indian Universities'. The theme was chosen as there was a need to create proper facilities and environment for research in Indian universities to carry out innovative work at the cutting edge of Science and Technology, he said.

"Besides the theme session, there will be 14 sessions including on science and challenges in new power and renewable energy, climate change and food security", he said.


SRM University vice chancellor P Sathyanarayanan said that it has been proposed to conduct a space summit in collaboration with ISRO, NASA, European Space Association and Japanese Space Exploration.

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srm university vice chancellor

Prof.P. Sathyanarayanan

PARTICULARS OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR

Name Prof. P. SATHYANARAYAN
Date of Birth 21.12.1972
Postal Address SRM University
SRM Nagar
Kattankulathur -603203
Kancheepuram District
Tamil Nadu
Telephone 91 44 27454255
Fax 91 44 27452343
E- Mail vc@srmuniv.ac.in
Date of Joining as Vice Chancellor 12.8.2007
Educational Qualification B.E., (Anna University)
MS (North Eastern University, Boston, USA)
Ph.D( Southern Cross University, Australia)
Major field of Study Computer Science and Engineering
Area of specialization Management Information system

five nobel laureates participate in SRM university ISC 2011

CHENNAI: Five Nobel laureates including Tamil Nadu-born Dr Venkataraman Ramakrishnan would participate in the 98th Indian Science Congress to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in January 2011.

"For the Science Congress, five Nobel Laureates -- Dr Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, Dr Thomas A Steitz, Dr Ada E Yonath, Dr Martin Chalfie, Professor Tim Hunt have confirmed their participation," Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) General President K C Pandey told reporters on Monday.

The Prime Minister would deliver the keynote address at the event, he added.

About 50 eminent scientists from Japan, Europe and United Kingdom would participate in the four-day event which begins on January 3 at the SRM University, Kattankulathur, near here.

Stating that this was the first time that the Congress was being conducted in a 100 per cent private university, he said they were expecting around 7,000 delegates to take part.

"Our main aim is to promote science among the younger generation", he said adding 14 sessions covering almost all branches of science would be covered during the event, being held in Chennai after a gap of ten years.

SRM University Vice-Chancellor P Sathyanarayanan said a Science Congress for children would also be conducted during the event.

A 'Young Scientist Award' would be presented during the event, he said adding the process of selecting the recepient had already begun.

The focal theme of the Congress would be "Quality Education and Excellence in Scientific Research in Indian Universities", he said.

ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan, former ISRO Chairman and Planning Commission Member (Science) Dr Kasturi Rangan were also expected to take part in the event, he said.


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SRM UNIVERSITY,Chennai to host 98th Indian Science Congress
S.R.M. University of Chennai will host the 98th Indian Science Congress next year. This was decided in Trivandrum by the Council of the Indian Science Congress Association.
SRM University is a private technical university, celebrating its silver jubilee this year. It claims outstanding laboratories and infrastructure.
Osmania University of Hyderabad was a close contender for the chance to host it followed by institutes of Kolkata and Nanded.

Chennai gets this honour the Seventh Time

Chennai, the capital city of Tamilnadu would be getting the honour to host this reputed science meet the seventh time. Though Kolkata has the record of hosting the largest number of Science Congresses, ten times out of 97 so far.
The last one in Chennai was held in 1999 when Dr Manju Sharma was the General President and inaugurated by Atal Behari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minster.
Chennai had traditionally been considered the second science capital of India, the first one being Calcutta. Though Calcutta now has been replaced by Bangalore.
It may be recalled the 1st Indian Science Congress was held in Kolkata 1914 and the 2nd next year in Chennai, then called Madras. Chennai had also the distinction of having organised the Science Congress in 1929 with the only Indian Nobel Laureate Sir C.V. Raman being its General President.
Prof K. C. Pande Will be the Chennai Congress Hero
The next year Chennai would be hosting the Science Congress with Prof K C Pande as the General President. This is a departure from the tradition of electing some scientist from the government establishment as the General President.
Prof Pande is purely an academician who had been Vice Chancellor of Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut.

97 th Indian Science Congress

The 97th edition of the premier Indian Science Congress (ISC 2010) began in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday on an upbeat note with chief guest Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being accorded a traditional welcome with musical tones and invocational songs.

Kerala Governor RS Gavai, state Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan and general president of the five-day event G Madhavan Nair greeted Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur at the flower-decked venue for the inaugural function of the five-day mega event amid tight security.

Singh is accompanied by union ministers Vayalar Ravi, Prithviraj Chavan and Shashi Tharoor. Ravi and Tharoor hail from this southern state.

Minutes later, Singh was led on to the dais in a procession and seated centre-stage after the council members took their seats.

About 6,000 delegates, seated in the huge makeshift tented hall (pandal), gave a standing ovation to the prime minister and other VIPs amid claps and cheers.

Nair, a former member of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) delivered the welcome address after invocation and lighting of the lamp.

Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the congress and address eminent scientists, Nobel laureates, policy makers and students on the technology challenges and the direction in which the country should move to find innovative solutions to achieve equitable growth and development.

As the congress is being held for the first time in this Kerala capital, unprecedented security arrangements have been made, with about 1,000-policemen deployed in and around the sprawling campus of Kerala University at Karyavottam, about 15 km from the coastal city.

"The campus has been sanitised in accordance with the security measures required to protect the country's prime minister. For security reasons, we cannot share the details," a senior police officer told IANS.

Prior to delivering the inaugural address, Singh will release the plenary proceedings of the science congress and present 24 awards to noted scientists and research scholars.

The awards are instituted by the Kolkata-based Indian Science Congress Association (ICSA), the main organiser of the five-day event.

General president of the science congress and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair will outline the various programmes and activities of the 97th edition of the congress.

The green campus has been given a face-lift and its surroundings spruced up to befit the grand occasion.

Eminent scientists like MS Swaminathan, father of India's green revolution, former atomic energy secretary Anil Kakodkar, space commission member Roddam Narasimhan and Nobel laureate Irving Zucker will be the noted speakers at eight plenary sessions.

Former president APJ Abdul Kalam, distinguished scientists MGK Menon and CNR Rao and Nobel laureate Roger Tsien will deliver public lectures.

The plenary and public lectures will provide broader international perspectives and create awareness about the role of science in society.

Kalam will also inaugurate Monday the 'Children Science Congress' being held as part of the national event.

A major attraction at the congress is a science exhibition showcasing the latest scientific developments and achievements in the country.

SRM University Host 98th Indian Science Congress

SRM to Host Next Science Congress

Chennai Jan 7 – The 98th Indian Science Congress (ISC) will be held in Tamil Nadu capital Chennai Jan 3-7, 2011.

‘The next science congress will be hosted by SRM University, a deemed varsity, at its 240-acre green campus in Kattankulathur near Chennai,’ Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) president K.C. Pandey told reporters here Thursday.

The 97th session of the five-day science congress concluded Thursday in the Kerala University campus, about 15 km from this coastal city.

Kolkata-based ISCA is the main organiser of the nation’s premier science event

ISCA 2010-11/ISC 2011

ISCA/ISC 2011
PROF.K.C.PANDEY
General President of ISCA 2010-11
Dept.of Zoology Lucknow University
Lucknow-226007
Phone:+91 9793255809
www.sciencecongress.nic.in

PROF.P.SATHYANARAYANAN
Vice Chancellor,SRM University
Kattankulathur-603203
E-mail :vc@srmuniv.ac.in
www.srmuniv.ac.in/isc2011

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98th Indian Science Congress
3-7 January 2011
CHENNAI

The 98th Indian Science Congress will be held at the SRM University in Chennai, it was announced here on Wednesday. K C Pandey, former Vice Chancellor of the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, will be the General President of the event, Ashok Saxena, General Secretary of the Indian Science Congress Association told reporters here on the eve of the conclusion of the 97th Science Congress.

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