Research conference (Held jointly with Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-IISER, Pune)
This is the first such event in the history of Indian science where a research conference is being held for class X-XII students. At the conference participants of academy’s program of “Discovering Little Scientists” presented their research work. It is one of the unique and most successful program where little scientist get a platform to present their research work, followed by poster exhibition.
Interactive sessions
Platform presentations by the students were interspersed with highly interactive sessions of globally acclaimed scientists and physicians on the topic given below.
Lecture Topic | Speaker |
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Life without Chemistry | Dr. K. N. Ganesh, Director, IISER,Pune |
Excitements in Biology | Dr. L. S. Shashidhara, Prof and coordinator of Bio-sciences, IISER, Pune |
Indian space program | Dr.Pramod Kale, Former Director, ISRO Lab, Thiruvananthapuram |
Cancer genetics | Dr. Rajiv Sarin, Director, ACTREC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai |
What can we learn from Nature | Dr. A. A. Natu, IISER, Pune |
The sea world | Dr. Mahesh Zingde, Former Director, NIO, Goa. |
First successful heart transplant in Western India | Dr. Sanjeev Jadhav, Chief Heart Surgeon, Jehangir Hospital, Pune |
Monsoon | Dr. Sulochana Gadgil, Meteorologist, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Bangalore |
The science behind mobile phones | Dr. Bhas Bapat, Professor of Physics, IISER, Pune |
Ethics in biomedical research | Dr. M. G. Deo, Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine |