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(All times are Indian Standard Time GMT+5:30)
| Day 1 : 12-Feb-2021 (Friday) | ||
| Session 1 (Download PDF) (Live Telecast from Auditorium SVVV, Indore) |
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| 10:30-12:15 | Inaugural Session (Online joining after 10:00) Conference Portal: https://nls-29.webconevents.com/ |
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| 10:30-11:10 |
ILA Perspective for NLS-29 : Shri S. V. Nakhe, President, ILA Presidential address : Prof. Upinder Dhar, VC, SVVV, Indore Address by "Special Guest" : Shri Purushottamdas Pasari, Chancellor, SVVV, Indore Address by "Special Guest" : Shri Debashis Das, Director, RRCAT, Indore |
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| 11:10-11:30 | Address by Chief Guest: Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy, Chairman, DRDO |
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| 11:35-12:15 | Keynote Address: Prof. Raman Kashyap, Montreal, Canada “Photonics Gone Rogue” |
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| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 2 Advanced Laser Technologies & Applications Session Coordinator: Dr B N Upadhyaya Session Chair: Dr. Alok Ray |
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| 13:00-13:30 | IT-01 Prof. Philippe Grelu, Uni. Bourgogne, France “Pulses and patterns in ultrafast fiber lasers: the dissipative soliton approach” |
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| 13:30-14:00 | IT-02 Dr. Shaju K. Albert, IGCAR, India “Laser Welding in Fabrication of FBR fuel pins: Metallurgical Considerations” |
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| 14:00-14:30 | IT-03 Prof. Michalis N. Zervas, Uni. Southampton, UK “Power Scaling Limits in High Power Fibre Lasers” |
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| Session 3 : Oral Presentation of Paper ( 3 min + 2 min) | ||
| 14:30-16:45 (135 min.) |
OPP-1A (24 nos.) Category 1:Physics & Technology of Lasers Refer Annexure OPP-1A |
OPP-1B (25 nos.) Category 9: Laser Spectroscopy & Application Refer Annexure OPP-1B |
| 16:45-17:00 | Break | |
| Session 4 Lasers in Fiber based Instrumentation Session Coordinator: Dr. Om Prakash Session Chair: Shri Viraj P. Bhanage |
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| 17:00-17:30 | IT-04 Dr. Umesh Tiwari, CSIO, Chandigarh “Optical Fiber Biosensors: Principles and Applications” |
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| 17:30-18:00 | IT-05 Prof. Sanjeev Raghuvanshi, IIT, ISM (Dhanbad) “Advancement of Speciality Fibre Optic sensors for In Situ monitoring” |
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| 18:00-18:30 | IT-06 Dr. Aseem Singh Rawat, BARC, Mumbai “Laser based measurements and perimeter intrusion detection” |
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| Day 2 : 13-Feb-2021 (Saturday) |
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| Session 5 | |||
| 5A Ultra Short, Ultra Intense Laser Plasma Interaction Session Coordinator: Dr. A. Moorti Session Chair: Prof. R P Sharma |
5B Applications of laser in Chemistry, Biology and Materials Coordinator : Dr. J Jayabalan Session Chair :Dr. Anindya Datta |
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| 10:00-10:30 | IT-07 Prof. Donald Umstadter, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA “Physics and Applications of Scattering with Extreme Light” |
IT-08 Dr. Mohammed Ahmed, RIKEN, Japan “Probing Ultrafast Dynamics of Water at Aqueous Interfaces with Femtosecond Two-Dimensional Heterodyne-Detected VSFG Spectroscopy” |
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| 10:30-11:00 | IT-09 Prof. Chan Joshi, UCLA, USA “Plasma Acceleration- What were we thinking in those early days and where are we headed?” |
IT-10 Prof. Sachin Dev Verma, IISER, Bhopal Visualization of charge separation at the in-plane organic heterojunctions using pump-probe microscopy |
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| 11:00-11:30 | IT-11 Prof. G. Ravindra Kumar, TIFR, India “Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Relativistically Hot Plasmas” |
IT-12 Prof. S. K. Sarkar, BARC & SP Pune University “Making the Stories Come True: Molecular Laser Isotope Separation to Coherent Control” |
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| 11:30-11:45 | Break | ||
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| 6A Non-linear Optics Session Coordinator: Dr. J. Jayabalan Session Chair: Prof. D. N. Rao |
6B Quantum & Atom Optics Session Coordinator: Dr. Sunil Verma Session Chair: Dr S R Mishra |
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| 11:45-12:15 | IT-13 Dr. Sai Santosh Kumar Raavi, IIT Hyderabad “Novel multifunctional organic chromophores for non-linear optical applications” |
IT-14 Dr. Harshawardhan Wanare, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India “Quantum Interference based approach to Nonlinear Optics” |
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| 12:15-12:45 | IT-15 Prof. K. V. Adarsh, IISER, Bhopal “Flatland Nonlinear Optics” |
IT-16 Dr. Y. B. Kale, University of Bermingham, UK “A quantum of science’ for the future technologies” |
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| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch Break | ||
| Session 7 Oral Presentation of Paper ( 3 min + 2 min) |
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| 13:45-16:15 (150 min) |
OPP-2A (29 nos.) Category 3: Laser Materials, Devices and Components (14 nos.) Category 6: Lasers in Material Science (15 nos.) Refer Annexure OPP-2A |
OPP-2B (28 nos.) Category 2: Lasers in Nuclear Science & Technology (4 nos.) Category 7: Lasers Plasma Interaction (10 nos.) Category 8: Lasers in Industry and Defence (2 nos.) Category 10: Lasers in Chemistry, Biology & Medicine (12 nos.) Refer Annexure OPP-2B |
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| 16:15-18:00 | Break | ||
| Session 8 Ultrafast Lasers Session Coordinator: Dr. P. K. Mukhopadhyay Session Chair: Dr. K. S.Bindra |
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| 18:00-18:30 | IT-17 Prof. F. Ömer Ilday, Uni. Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey “Multi-GHz Burst-Mode Fiber Lasers” |
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| 18:30-19:00 | IT-18 Prof. RuedigerPaschotta, RP Photonics, Germany “Solid-state Lasers for Ultrashort Pulse Generation” |
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| 19:00-19:30 | IT-19 Prof. Frank W. Wise, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA “Spatiotemporal Mode-Locking in Fiber Lasers” |
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| Session 9 Lasers Additive Manufacturing Session Coordinator: Dr C. P Paul Session Chair: Dr. U. Chandra Sekar |
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| 19:30-20:00 | IT-20 Prof. EhsanToyserkani University of Waterloo, Canada “Advancement in Monitoring and Quality Assurance Paradigms for Laser Powder-Bed Fusion” |
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| 20:00-20:30 | IT-21 Prof. Andrew Pinkerton, Uni. Lancaster, UK “Towards a Predictive Model of Direct Metal Deposition” |
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| 20:30-21:00 | IT-22 Prof. J. Ram Kumar, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur “Post processing of LAM components” |
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| Day 3 : 14-Feb-2021 (Sunday) | ||
| Session 10 Ph. D. Thesis Presentations (Parallel Session) |
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| 10:00-11:30 | ThP – A (6 nos., 15 minutes each) Session Coordinator : S. G. Nakhate Refer Annexure ThP-A |
ThP – B (6 nos., 15 minutes each) Session Coordinator Dr. S. K. Majumder Refer Annexure ThP-B |
| 11:30-11:45 | Thesis presentation (2 nos., 3 min + 2 min(Q&A) ) Refer Annexure ThP-C |
Thesis presentation (3 nos., 3 min + 2 min(Q&A) ) Refer Annexure ThP-D |
| 11:45-12:00 | Break | |
| Session 11 Presentations from Industries (Coordinators : Shri P. Saxena & Dr. C. P. Paul) |
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| 12:00-13:00 | 1. Presentation of Incubation Centre, RRCAT (10 min.) 2. Presentations of M/S ATOS Instruments, Banglore (15 min) 3. Presentations of M/S PG Tech Pvt Ltd., Indore (15 min) 4. Presentations of M/S Research India, Bhopal (10 min) 5. Presentations of M/S New Age Instruments, Gurugram (10 min) |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 12 Oral Presentation of Paper ( 3 min + 2 min) |
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| 14:00-16:15 (135 min.) |
OPP-3A (27 nos.) Category 11: Lasers & Fiber based Instrumentation (12 nos.) Category 12: Electronics and Instrumentation for Lasers(15 nos.) Refer Annexure OPP-3A |
OPP-3B (28 nos.) Category 4: Non linear, Quantum and Atom Optics (19 nos.) Category 5: Ultrafast lasers & Applications (9 nos.) Refer Annexure OPP-3B |
| 16:15-16:30 | Break | |
| Session 13 Laser applications in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine Session Coordinator: Dr. S. K. Majumder Session Chair: Prof. N. Ghosh |
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| 16:30-17:00 | IT-23 Prof. Igor Meglinski, Aston Uni. UK “Functional brain diagnosis with dynamic light scattering imaging approach at broken ergodicity conditions” |
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| 17:00-17:30 | IT-24 Prof. Martin Leahy, National Uni. of Ireland “Lasers and Nanotechnology in Regenerative Medicine” |
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| 17:30-18:00 | IT-25 Prof. Alex Vitkin, Uni. Toronto “Shedding light on radiotherapy: functional optical coherence tomography for radiobiological micro vascular imaging” |
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| 18:00-18:15 | Break | |
| Session 14 Special Evening Talk |
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| 18:15-19:15 | ST-01 Prof. Martin Olivier, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) “Plasmonic technologies for alloyed and hybrid metasurfaces” Coordinator : Dr. S K Majumdar Introducer: Prof. N. Ghosh |
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| 19:15-20:00 | Break | |
| 20:00-21:00 | ST-02 Prof. Rainer Weiss, MIT, USA (Physics Nobel Laureate 2017) “The beginnings of gravitational wave astronomy: current state and future” Coordinator: Dr. Sendhil Raja, Introducer: Prof. Somak Raychaudhary, Director, IUCAA |
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| Day 4 : 15-Feb-2021 (Monday) | ||
| Session 15 | ||
| 15 A Laser Materials and Devices Session Coordinator: Dr Sunil Verma Session Chair : Dr D K Aswal |
15 B Laser applications in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine Session Coordinator: Dr S. K. Majumder Session Chair : Prof. Renu John |
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| 10:00-10:30 | IT-26 Prof. Binay Kumar, Univ. of Delhi, Delhi “Growth of Single Crystals by Various Techniques for Optical, Piezoelectric and Communication Applications” |
IT-27 Prof. Jessica Ramella, Florida International University , USA “Design of wearable devices for underserved populations” |
| 10:30-11:00 | IT-28 Dr. Muthu Senthil Pandian, S SN Institution, Chennai “Development of High Quality Nonlinear Optical (NLO) Single Crystals for Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) Applications” |
IT-29 Prof. Dalip Singh Mehta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi “Quantitative phase microscopy and nanoscopy using partially spatially coherent laser light: Improvement on image sharpness, phase noise, resolution and speckle free imaging” |
| 11:00-11:30 | IT-30 Dr. N. Vijayan, NPL, New Delhi “Growth of Potential Nonlinear Optical Single Crystals by Melt and Solution Growth Techniques” |
IT-31 Dr. Kamal Kant Sharma, NUS, Singapore “Investigation of Dengue infectivity and dynamics using Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)” |
| 11:30-11:45 | Tea Break | |
| Session 16 Laser Spectroscopy & Applications Session Coordinator: Dr V B Tiwari Session Chair : Dr S G Nakhate |
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| 11:45-12:15 | IT-32 Prof. B. K. Sahoo, PRL, Ahmedabad “Atomic probe of nuclear properties” |
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| 12:15-12:45 | IT-33 Prof. Ashok Mohapatra, NISER, Bhuvaneshwar “Dynamical phase transition in mirrorless optical parametric oscillator” |
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| 12:45-13:15 | IT-34 Prof. Alika Khare, IIT Guwahati “Some of the Applications of Laser Induced Breakdown” |
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| 13:15-14:15 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 17 LIGO Science and Technologies Session Coordinator: Dr Sendhil Raja Session Chair : Dr Shashank Chaturvedi, Director, IPR |
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| 14:15-14:45 | IT-35 Dr. David H. Reitze, Caltech, USA “The Advanced LIGO Gravitational-wave Detector: A Discovery Machine” |
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| 14:45-15:15 | IT-36 Prof. Rana Adhikari, Caltech, USA “Future of Gravitational Wave Detection Technology” |
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| 15:15-15:30 | Tea Break | |
| Session 18 | ||
| 15:30-16:30 | Award Presentation and Closing Ceremony | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Closure of NLS-29 | |
| 17:00-18:00 | ILA General Body Meeting | |