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(All times are Indian Standard Time GMT+5:30)

Day 1 (12-Feb)

Day 1 : 12-Feb-2021 (Friday)
Session 1 (Download PDF) (Live Telecast from Auditorium SVVV, Indore)
10:30-12:15	Inaugural Session (Online joining after 10:00) Conference Portal: https://nls-29.webconevents.com/
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
11:10-11:30	Address by Chief Guest: Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy, Chairman, DRDO
11:35-12:15	Keynote Address: Prof. Raman Kashyap, Montreal, Canada “Photonics Gone Rogue”
12:15-13:00	Lunch Break
Session 2 Advanced Laser Technologies & Applications Session Coordinator: Dr B N Upadhyaya Session Chair: Dr. Alok Ray
13:00-13:30	IT-01 Prof. Philippe Grelu, Uni. Bourgogne, France “Pulses and patterns in ultrafast fiber lasers: the dissipative soliton approach”
13:30-14:00	IT-02 Dr. Shaju K. Albert, IGCAR, India “Laser Welding in Fabrication of FBR fuel pins: Metallurgical Considerations”
14:00-14:30	IT-03 Prof. Michalis N. Zervas, Uni. Southampton, UK “Power Scaling Limits in High Power Fibre Lasers”
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
17:00-17:30	IT-04 Dr. Umesh Tiwari, CSIO, Chandigarh “Optical Fiber Biosensors: Principles and Applications”
17:30-18:00	IT-05 Prof. Sanjeev Raghuvanshi, IIT, ISM (Dhanbad) “Advancement of Speciality Fibre Optic sensors for In Situ monitoring”
18:00-18:30	IT-06 Dr. Aseem Singh Rawat, BARC, Mumbai “Laser based measurements and perimeter intrusion detection”

 

Day 2 (13-Feb)

Day 2 : 13-Feb-2021 (Saturday)
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
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”
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
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”
11:30-11:45	Break
Session 6
	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
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”
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”
12:45-13:45	Lunch Break
Session 7 Oral Presentation of Paper ( 3 min + 2 min)
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
16:15-18:00	Break
Session 8 Ultrafast Lasers Session Coordinator: Dr. P. K. Mukhopadhyay Session Chair: Dr. K. S.Bindra
18:00-18:30	IT-17 Prof. F. Ömer Ilday, Uni. Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey “Multi-GHz Burst-Mode Fiber Lasers”
18:30-19:00	IT-18 Prof. RuedigerPaschotta, RP Photonics, Germany “Solid-state Lasers for Ultrashort Pulse Generation”
19:00-19:30	IT-19 Prof. Frank W. Wise, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA “Spatiotemporal Mode-Locking in Fiber Lasers”
Session 9 Lasers Additive Manufacturing Session Coordinator: Dr C. P Paul Session Chair: Dr. U. Chandra Sekar
19:30-20:00	IT-20 Prof. EhsanToyserkani University of Waterloo, Canada   “Advancement in Monitoring and Quality Assurance Paradigms for Laser Powder-Bed Fusion”
20:00-20:30	IT-21 Prof. Andrew Pinkerton, Uni. Lancaster, UK “Towards a Predictive Model of Direct Metal Deposition”
20:30-21:00	IT-22 Prof. J. Ram Kumar, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur “Post processing of LAM components”

 

Day 3 (14-Feb)

Day 3 : 14-Feb-2021 (Sunday)
Session 10 Ph. D. Thesis Presentations (Parallel Session)
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)
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)
13:00-14:00	Lunch Break
Session 12 Oral Presentation of Paper ( 3 min + 2 min)
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
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”
17:00-17:30	IT-24 Prof. Martin Leahy, National Uni. of Ireland “Lasers and Nanotechnology in Regenerative Medicine”
17:30-18:00	IT-25 Prof. Alex Vitkin, Uni. Toronto “Shedding light on radiotherapy: functional optical coherence tomography for radiobiological micro vascular imaging”
18:00-18:15	Break
Session 14 Special Evening Talk
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
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

 

Day 4 (15-Feb)

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
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
11:45-12:15	IT-32 Prof. B. K. Sahoo, PRL, Ahmedabad “Atomic probe of nuclear properties”
12:15-12:45	IT-33 Prof. Ashok Mohapatra, NISER, Bhuvaneshwar “Dynamical phase transition in mirrorless optical parametric oscillator”
12:45-13:15	IT-34 Prof. Alika Khare, IIT Guwahati “Some of the Applications of Laser Induced Breakdown”
13:15-14:15	Lunch Break
Session 17 LIGO Science and Technologies Session Coordinator: Dr Sendhil Raja Session Chair : Dr Shashank Chaturvedi, Director, IPR
14:15-14:45	IT-35 Dr. David H. Reitze, Caltech, USA “The Advanced LIGO Gravitational-wave Detector: A Discovery Machine”
14:45-15:15	IT-36 Prof. Rana Adhikari, Caltech, USA “Future of Gravitational Wave Detection Technology”
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