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
Talk : Research habitat: Then and Now by Prof. V.P. Sinha, Professor, 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