Time | Turing Lawn | Hodgkin Huxley Lawn | CV Raman Auditorium | Feynman Show and Tell Theatre |
10:30am-11:15am | Outside-In: Bringing the world into our brains Shubha Tole, TIFR |
What machines can and cannot see: Progress over forty years Narendra Ahuja, ITRA |
Ajanta - A Pigment of our Glorious Imagination S. Swaminathan, Tamil Heritage Trust |
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11:15am-12:00pm | Has the terminator arrived - AI becomes smarter than humans? Subbarao Kambhampati, ASU |
How do we form our memories and how do we know where to look for them? US Bhalla, NCBS |
Black holes: Beacons in our search for a quantum theory of space-time Spenta Wadia, ICTS-TIFR |
InQuizitive India - hunt for the next quiz wiz (Science Game) |
12:00pm-12:55pm | Embodied brains and disembodied minds: a neurological perspective on human nature VS Ramachandran, UCSD |
ISF TYT Talk 1 Angira Rastogi |
ISF TYT Talk 2 Anchal Varshney |
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Genomic Quirks: How our Genes make or break us? Ramesh Hariharan, Strand Life Sciences |
Teaching Machines to Read and Write Our Language Sunita Sarawgi, IIT-B |
Speculative Fiction: Imagining the Future Tashan Mehta, Author, The Liar's Weave |
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12:55pm-1:40pm | Technologies for Development: Can Cloud and AI Cross the Digital Divide? Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research India |
Humans are not alone, AI discriminates too: Controlling bias in AI Nisheeth Vishnoi, Yale |
New models of doing and funding science - What the future holds. Vivek Jayaraman, Narendra Ahuja, D. Dendukuri, Bishesh Khanal Moderated by: Pankaj Mishra |
Exhibit Talks - AI Driverless car - Ati Motors - Genetically modified flies - Science in action: CSpark Research |
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2:00pm - 2:45pm | Project Prakash: Merging Science and Service Pawan Sinha, MIT |
The Next Billion Users: Can Mobile, Internet, and AI include the masses? Payal Arora, Erasmus School of Philosophy |
Why reinforcement learning is the next big thing in AI? Ravindran Balaraman, IIT-M |
SketchPad - unleash your imagination (Science Game) |
2:45pm-3:45pm | ISF PYP Talk 1 Ankit S. Gupta |
ISF PYP Talk 2 Anubhav Mishra |
ISF TYT Talk 3 Vikas Vazhaiyal |
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Extended Intelligence: Coupling Human and Artificial Intelligence Arnav Kapur, MIT |
Do our brains use the same principles as deep learning?Rajesh PN Rao, Subbarao Kambhampati, US Bhalla, Nandini Chatterjee Moderated by: Venkatesh Murthy |
Blood on a chip: Technology for diagnostic tests at doctor's offices Dhananjay Dendukuri, Achira Labs |
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3:45pm-4:30pm | Can science tell us who we are? Mani Bhaumik, UCLA |
How did China become a science superpower in two decades? Cong Cao, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China |
Can AI democratize healthcare innovation: Learnings from Nepal Bishesh Khanal, NAAMI |
Exhibit Talks - Pollution @ your fingertip - AI to smile: Aspiring Minds - App to analyze Cough |
4:30pm-5:15pm | Can AI do more than adding dog ears to selfies - like fighting social injustice and improving society? Milind Tambe, Harvard & Google Research India(Affiliate) |
The many roads taken - life as a scientist, policymaker or entrepreneur Anna Agarwal, Ramesh Hariharan, Amit Aggarwal, Anil Sahasrabudhe Moderated by: Nisheeth Vishnoi |
AI and Art: Human Machine continuum Harshit Agrawal, Adobe Design Lab |
Elephant’s head for Ganesh – did ancient Indians know how to transplant organs? Rajesh PN Rao, VS.Ramachandran, R. Gopu, Shubha Tole Moderated by: Saurabh Chandra |
5:20pm | Keynote Remarks: Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds | |||
5:30pm-6:45pm | Should science be priority for India - the fastest growing economy? Rajan Navani, Spenta Wadia, Cong Cao, Payal Arora Moderated by Varun Aggarwal |
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7:00pm-7:45pm | Evening Program: Role of AI in changing cinema Vani Tripathi, Prahlad Kakar Moderated by: Dwarika Prasad Uniyal |
Time | Turing Lawn | Hodgkin Huxley Lawn | CV Raman Auditorium | Feynman Show and Tell Theatre |
10:15am | Opening Remarks by Venkatesh Murthy, Harvard University | |||
10:25am | Special Remarks by Manoj Kumar, Social Alpha | |||
10:35am-11:45am | Lab to Market: Experiments, Challenges, Success Stories and way forward Manoj Kumar, Taslimarif Saiyed, B. Ravindran Moderated by: Chintan Vaishnav |
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11:45am-12:30pm | Brain 2.0 - Connecting human brains and machines Rajesh PN Rao, UWash |
Should we shoot the world's deadliest messengers or just disarm them through genetic engineering? Suresh Subramani, TIGS |
GPUs – From computer games to computer vision PJ Narayanan, IIITH |
Interview Mission Mangal: Why women are not from Venus? Minnie Vaid in conversation with Niyaatii Swami |
12:30pm-1:15pm | Google AI research: Global impact and opportunity for India Manish Gupta, Google Research India |
How insects make smart decisions using past experience and internal models of the world Vivek Jayaraman, HHMI |
Do Indian public health issues differ from the world-how to prevent, diagnose and cure? Gagandeep Kang, THSTI |
Ying-Yang: science of art, art of science Harshit Agarwal, Pawan Sinha, Vijayendra Mohanty, Tashan Mehta, Moderated by: Jahnavi Phalkey |
1:15pm-2:10pm | Gene Editing: How to get science to impact society - Opportunity and Challenges Ramarao Damerla, Sanjeev Galande, Cong Cao, Sudheendra Rao Moderated by: Shambhavi Naik |
ISF TYT Talk 4 Anand Bhardwaj |
ISF PYP Talk 3 Sivaranjani S |
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Stephen Hawking's legacy in fundamental physics Rajesh Gopakumar, ICTS-TIFR |
AI to make lives better: Agriculture, Food, Waste management and more Gargi Dasgupta, IBM |
InQuizitive India - hunt for the next quiz wiz (Science Game) |
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2:30pm-3:30pm | Machines, Medicine and You: Is Indian healthcare ready for AI? | Plenary organized by LMSAI, Harvard University Ashwin Naik, Santanu Bhattacharya, Sunita Nadhamuni, Rahul Matthan; Moderated by: Satchit Balsari |
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3:35pm-4:35pm | ISF TYT Talk 5 Nitesh Mishra |
ISF PYP Talk 4 Rajesh Thangavel Yadav |
ISF PYP Talk 5 Arush Gupta |
Exhibit Talks - Tinker with electronics - Brain Science in Action - Climate change, responsible consumption and the role of technology - Shubham Bansal, Leap Club - AI robot at your service |
Why and how to build an MIT in India? PJ Narayanan, Rajesh Gopakumar, Bharat Agarwal, Jayant B. Udgaonkar Moderated by: Pawan Sinha |
Solving problems using AI: Going beyond deep learning Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds |
Microbes in your mouth: Veg-Non Veg study using mobile DNA sequencer Ramesh Hariharan and Raja Mugasimangalam |
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4:35pm-5:20pm | Tamasoma Jyotisha Gamaya: The Men who knew Zero to Infinity R Gopu, THT & Badri Sheshadri, Synprosoft |
Is deep learning the nirvana of AI? Payal Arora, Arnav Kapur, Bishesh Khanal Moderated by: Manish Gupta |
Why science needs women? Minnie Vaid, Venkatesh Murthy, Shambhavi Naik, Karishma Kaushik Moderated by: Kavya Narayanan |
Science JAM - "60 seconds to go" (Science Game) |
5:30pm-5:45pm | Closing Ceremony and Prize Distribution | |||
6:00pm-6:45pm | Evening Program: Comedy by Nishant Tanwar |
TYT: Talk Your thesis Talks |
TYT 1: Angira Rastogi: Search for physics beyond the standard model |
TYT 2: Anchal Varshney: Mechanism to control unstart phenomena in scramjets |
TYT 3: Vikas Vazhaiyal: How to teach a robot to perform a brain surgery |
TYT 4: Anand Bhardwaj: Factor affecting lift generation in insects and birds |
TYT 5: Nitesh Mishra: Coevolution of Virus and bNAbs decoded in identical twins |
PYP: Perform Your Project Talks |
PYP 1: Ankit Santosh Gupta: Anveshan: Voice controlled robotic arm |
PYP 2: Anubhav Mishra: Controlling humans and their free will |
PYP 3: Sivaranjani S.: Battery-less UPS system using flywheel |
PYP 4: Rajesh Thangavel Yadav: Duo-vent: AI-enabled smart ventilation system |
PYP 5: Arush Gupta: KnightCryption: Algorithm inspired from sanskrit poetry |
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11:45-12:45: Genetically modified flies |
12:55-1:25: Tinkering Labs |
2:30-4:30: CSpark Research |
4:40-5:10: Tinkering Labs |
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12:30-1:00: Tinkering Labs |
1:10-2:10: Genetically modified flies |
3:35-4:35: Genetically modified flies |
4:45-5:15: Tinkering Labs |
RoundTables |
DAY 2: PhD Student Roundtable: Improving PhD programs in India |
DAY 2: Nasscom Round Table: Industry-academia research collaborations - examples of successes |
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Healthcare | |||
Saturday, 9th Jan 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Seeing is believing: Imaging cancer progression inside our body Abhijit De, ACTREC, India | ||
Sunday, 10th Jan 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | COVID 19 - Masks, Vaccines and Lockdowns: Rights or Wrongs? (Panel Discussion) Dr. Amar Jesani (Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics), Dr. Richard Cash (Senior Lecturer, Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Prof Jennifer Leaning (Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Moderated by Prof. Satchit Balsari (Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School) | ||
Tuesday, 19th Jan 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Getting everyone an ambulance in time: How math can help! Lavanya Marla, UIUC, USA | ||
Friday, 15th Jan 8:00 pm - 8:45 pm | Science, public health, literature: What happens when you bring them together? (Tentative) Sunetra Gupta, Oxford, UK | ||
Saturday, 16th Jan 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Arogya Swaraj: Achieving health freedom by empowering individuals and communities Abhay Bang, SEARCH, India | ||
Saturday, 16th Jan 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Ancient Indian medicine: Nirvana or no good - how do we find? (Panel Discussion) Shantanu Abhyankar (Staunch allopath, obstretician and gynaecologist), P Rammanohar (Research Director, Amrita School of Ayurveda), Ajit Kulkarni (Director of Homoeopathic Research Institute, Satara & Pune), Pulok Mukherjee (Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable DeveloPMent), Moderated by Anuradha Varanasi | ||
Saturday, 16th Jan 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Modern Biology (Panel Discussion in association with Tata Institute for Genetics and Society) Dr. Amita Sehgal (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine), Prof. Venkatesan Sundaresan (Distinguished Professor, Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences University of California), Dr. Sonia Sen (Senior Scientist, Developmental Neurobiology, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society), Prof. Vivek Malhotra (Research Professor and Coordinator of the Cell & Developmental Biology Programme, CRG, Barcelona), Moderated by Prof. Suresh Subramani (Distinguished Professor,Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Molecular Biology, Global Director, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society) | ||
Sunday, 17th Jan 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Healthcare for a billion: Research in India, for India (Panel Discussion) Ravdeep Singh Anand (Founder and President, DART), K Srinath Reddy (President, Public Health Foundation of India), Ramesh Hariharan (CTO at Strand Life Sciences), Vidur Mahajan (Head of Research at CARING, Associate Director at Mahajan Imaging), Moderated by Kavya Narayana | ||
Sunday, 17th Jan 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Mental Health (Panel Discussion in association with Librum) Shekhar Saxena (Co-Founder at Librum, Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health), Neha Kirpal (Co-Founder at Librum, Social Entrepreneur & Mental Health Ambassador) | ||
Friday, 22nd Jan 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm | What bio-robots teach us about fighting diseases Ritu Raman, MIT, USA | ||
Sunday, 24th Jan 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm | Facebook and Health: Understanding public health through social media data! (Tentative) Rumi Chunara, UIUC, USA | ||
Saturday, 30th Jan 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | Superbugs - What Africans have to fear and how we can contain them Iruka Okeke, Univeristy of Ibadan, Nigeria | ||
Sunday, 31st Jan 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | Small is wonderful - Treating diseases with tiny nano-particles and RNA-based drugs Dan Peer, Tel Aviv University, Israel | ||
Robotics | |||
Sunday, 3rd Jan 9:10 pm - 10:00 pm | Will 21st Century Robots Partner With Humans? Rodney Brooks, MIT, USA | ||
Sunday, 10th Jan 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Swachh Robots: Sanitation robots that sense and act underwater Prabhu Rajagopal, IIT, India | ||
Sunday, 17th Jan 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm | Training robots to talk to humans, teaching humans talk to robots (Tentative) Emily Cross, University of Glasgow, UK | ||
Sunday, 17th Jan 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm | Mobility Redefined: Innovations that Enable Independence Sujatha Srinivasan, IIT, India | ||
Friday, 22nd Jan 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | What can robots see and what can they not? Peter Corke, QUT, Australia | ||
Sunday, 24th Jan 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Farming Robots: Swarm of robots to revolutionize agriculture Girish Chowdhary, UIUC, USA | ||
Sunday, 31st Jan 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Making robots fly: Navigating the hardest terrains Sebastian Scherer, CMU, USA | ||
Space | |||
Tuesday, 5th Jan 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm | The European Space Agency: Once explorers, always explorers Mark McCaughrean, ESA, Netherlands | ||
Sunday, 10th Jan 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Life beyond Earth: What makes a planet habitable? Dimitra Atri, NYUAD, UAE | ||
Saturday, 16th Jan 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm | Democratizing space - How Africa launched its first nanosatellite to space Robert Van Zyl, FSATI, South Africa | ||
Tuesday, 19th Jan 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm | A talk with Anita Sengupta: The engineer who designed the parachute to land Curiosity on Mars! (Tentative) Anita Sengupta, USC/Former NASA, USA | ||
Saturday, 23rd Jan 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm | The next space revolution: Living and working in space Erika Wagner, Blue Origin, USA | ||
Tuesday, 26th Jan 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm | Aliens, Astrobiology and Exoplanets - In search for life in space Daniel Angerhausen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland | ||
Friday, 29th Jan 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Making your imprint on Space : How everyone can become a Space Scientist (Panel Discussion) Bidushi Bhattacharya (Former NASA Scientist, Founder and CEO of Astropreneurs HUB), Shanmuga Subramanian (Citizen Space Scientist), Rishabh Nakra (Founder and Admin, Secrets of the Universe), Srimathy Kesan (Founder and CEO, SpaceKidz India), Moderated by Sonal Katyal | ||
Sunday, 31st Jan 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm | An evening with ex-NASA astronaut, Tony England! Anthony England, UMDearborn, USA | ||
General | |||
Friday, 8th Jan 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Science and Sports - Science empowering paratheletes (Panel Discussion - Tentative) Deepa Malik (President of Paralympic Committee of India, Paralympic Olympian Medalist), Satyapal Singh (Head Coach, Indian Paralympic Team), Manish Rana (Sports Scientist, Former Associate with India Paralympic Team), Moderated by Shantanu Srivastava | ||
Saturday, 9th Jan 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm | Can numbers and equations help tame COVID-19? Lav Varshney, UIUC, USA | ||
Saturday, 9th Jan 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Can science fascinate our nation, like cricket or Bollywood does? (INAUGURAL PANEL DISCUSSION) Usha Zehr (Director and CTO at Mahyco Private Limited), Varun Aggarwal (Founder of India Science Fest), Manish Jain (Associate Teaching Professor, Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar), Moderated by Barkha Dutt | ||
Sunday, 10th Jan 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm | Making the world around us intelligent - Internet of things Sanjay Sarma, MIT, USA | ||
Tuesday, 12th Jan 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Can science yield economic output? (Panel Discussion) Amitabh Shrivastava (Managing Partner at July Ventures LLP), Vandana Sarda (Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, Business Management (SPJIMR)), Premnath Venugopalan (Head, NCL Innovations; Head, IP Group; Scientist, NCL; Director, Venture Center), Vijay Chandru (Co-founder and Director at Strand Life Sciences, Pioneer at AIFoundry), Varun Aggarwal (Founder, India Science Fest, Co-Founder at Aspiring Minds), Moderated by Amitabh Shrivastava | ||
Saturday, 16th Jan 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Getting adverserial AI to secure us from hackers Una-May O'Reilly, MIT, USA | ||
Sunday, 17th Jan 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Uncovering the dark secrets harboured by our universe Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale, USA | ||
Sunday, 24th Jan 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Role of private universities in building India's research ecosystem : Will India have its own Stanford? (Panel Discussion) Sandeep Sancheti (VC, SRM University of Science and Technology), Sunder Ramaswamy (VC, Krea University), Vineet Gupta (Founder and Trustee, Ashoka and Plaksha University), Philip Altbach (Founding Director & Research Professor, Center for International Higher Education), Rupamanjari Ghosh (VC, Shiv Nadar University), Moderated by Philip Altbach | ||
Saturday, 30th Jan 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Deeptech: The next frontier for Indian startups (Panel Discussion) Sourabh Gupta (Founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai), Awais Ahmed (Founder and CEO, Pixxel), Geetha Manjunath (Founder, CEO and CTO, NIRAMAI), Siraj Dhanani (Founder and CEO at InnAccel), Moderated by Nistha Tripathi | ||
Saturday, 30th Jan 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm | How COVID also infected AI models: Why did they fail? Pawan Deshpande, Domino Data Lab, USA | ||
Sunday, 31st Jan 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Bias in STEM - Does science have a single shade? (Panel Discussion) Ansley Booker (Director, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Mercer University), Sandhya Vishweshariah (Professor, Department of Molecular Reproduction, DeveloPMent and Genetics, IISc), Satendra Singh (Associate Professor of Physiology, Co-founder of Health Humanities Group at University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi) | ||
Sunday, 31st Jan 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | FutureSkills (Panel Discussion) | ||
SCICOMM | |||
Sunday, 3rd Jan 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Taal Se Taal Mila - Bringing Scientists and Entrepreneurs Together (Panel Discussion) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Executive Chairperson, Biocon Limited), Devi Shetty (Chairman and Founder, Narayana Health), Prof. K Vijay Raghavan (PSA, Govt. of India) Moderated by Prof. Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School | ||
Sunday, 3rd Jan 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Introducing Science Gallery Bengaluru's next exhibition CONTAGION - Exploring the phenomenon of the transmission of emotions, behaviours, and diseases Janhavi Phalkey, Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru, India | ||
Sunday, 17th Jan 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm | The Man Who Knew Infinity - Representing STEM in Literature and Cinema Robert Kanigel (Science Biographer) and Ken Ono (Mathematician), Science Writer and Author/ Mathematician, USA | ||
Saturday, 23rd Jan 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | Auria Kathi: An AI artist on the cloud! Sleeba Paul, Perleybrook Labs LLC, India | ||
Saturday, 23rd Jan 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Joining the dots: Science through tribal art and folk songs Bitasta Das, IISc, India | ||
Sunday, 24th Jan 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | Music of Science, Science of Music: The play of science and art (Panel Discussion) Shantala Hegde (Associate Professor, Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Center, NIMHANS), Vinod Vidwans (Professor & ex-Chair, School of Fine & Performing Arts, FLAME University), Andreas Bergsland (Associate Professor, Music Technology Program at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)), Manasi Kulkarni (Musician and Associate Lead: Clinical and Scientific Affairs at PierianDx), Moderated by Anurag Tagat | ||
Saturday, 30th Jan 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm | An interview with the author of the Sci-Fi book, the Bird Farm Varun Aggarwal, Founder, India Science Fest, India | ||
Saturday, 30th Jan 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Science for ALL: Archiving Science and bringing it to the public Venkat Srinivasan (NCBS) and Sarah Iqbal (DBT India Alliance), Moderated by Ananya Dasgupta, NCBS/ DBT India Alliance, USA/India | ||
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