Program Schedule
| Day – 1, 24th July 2009 (Friday) | |
| 8:30 onwards | Registration, Tea/Coffee and Breakfast |
| 10:00 – 11.00 | Welcome address by Prof. S.C. Sahasrabudhe, IEEE Fellow and Director, DA-IICT Inauguration by Prof. S.C.Sahasrabudhe |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tea/Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12.30 | Keynote address "Computing for Human Experience: Sensing, Perception, Semantics, Social Computing, Web 3.0, and beyond" by Prof. Amit Sheth, IEEE Fellow, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar & Director, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA. |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:45 | Session I Emerging Research Opportunities: India's Perspective Session Chair: Shri Manish Bharadwaj, IAS, Director, Technical Education, Government of Gujarat. Speakers: "Role of Intellectual Property in emerging technologies" by Dr. P K Chakrabarti, GE Global Research, Bangalore "Telecommunications and Networking Some Issues, Trends and Future Directions" Prof. S L Maskara, JIIT University, Noida "Vocal tract shape estimation for visual speech training aids" Prof P.C. Pandey, Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session II Imperative finer aspects in research Session Chair: Prof. V.P. Sinha, Professor, DA-IICT Speakers: "Keys to effective writing and publishing of research articles", Prof. Anish Mathuria, Professor and Dean (R&D), DA-IICT "How to write successful research proposals" by Prof. Prabhat Ranjan, Professor DA-IICT "Scholarly Information Sources in Support of Research" by Dr. T.S. Kumbar, Senior Deputy Librarian, Resource centre, DA-IICT |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Meet the Experts | 19:00 – 20:30 | Dinner at Club House |
| Day - 2, 25th July 2009 (Saturday) | |
| 8:00 onwards | Tea/Coffee and Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 11:15 | Session III Academics and Research Session Chair: Prof.Urjit Yagnik, Professor and Dean Student, IIT Gandhinagar Speakers: "Some Research Challenges in Solar Energy" by Prof. Naresh D. Jotwani, Director, School of Solar Energy, PDP University, Gandhinagar "Research Areas in Geomatics" by Prof. A R Dasgupta, Distinguished Professor, BISAG, Gandhinagar "Panoramic Mosaicing and Video Geo registration – Advanced Technologies of Computer Vision" by Dr. (Mrs) Jharna Majumdar, Professor and Dean R&D, NMIT, Bangalore. |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Tea/Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Session IV Research in Industry Session Chair: Prof. Samaresh Chatterji, Professor & Dean Academic Programmes, DA-IICT Speakers: "A Web of Our Own" by Dr. Amit A. Nanavati, Research Staff Member, IBM India Research Lab "Research opportunities in Industry: an ICT domain perspective" by Dr. S. Jagannathan, Head of Technology Innovation, Patents and Publications, Tata Elxsi Limited, Bangalore "Present and Future of embedded computing" by Dr. Amit Bhatt, ARM Technologies, Bangalore "Industry sponsored R&D in Universities in India – Needs and challenges" Dr. Madhu Mehta, M.D. Anjaleem |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch at Club House |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Presentation by Prof. Anil Roy, Chair, IEEE Gujarat Section |
| 14:45 - 16:15 | Session V Panel Discussion Theme: Role of research for societal development Moderator: Prof. S.C. Sahasrabudhe, Director, DA-IICT Panelist: Shri Manish Bharadwaj, IAS, Director, Technical Education, Government of Gujarat Prof. P. C. Pandey, Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay Shri Rajkumar, IAS, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat Prof. S.C.Sahasrabudhe, Director, DA-IICT Prof. S.L. Maskara, Professor, JIIT University, Noida Prof. T.P. Ramarao, Professor, IIM Ahmedabad |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Concluding Remarks and Valedictory Recommendation |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Tea/Coffee break |
