Program - India Science Festival

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	Seeing is believing: Imaging cancer progression inside our body
	Abhijit De
	ACTREC, India	Healthcare

	Getting everyone an ambulance in time: How math can help!
	Lavanya Marla
	UIUC, USA	Healthcare

	Science, public health, literature: What happens when you bring them together? (Tentative)
	Sunetra Gupta
	Oxford, UK	Healthcare

	Arogya Swaraj: Achieving health freedom by empowering individuals and communities
	Abhay Bang
	SEARCH, India	Healthcare

	What bio-robots teach us about fighting diseases
	Ritu Raman
	MIT, USA	Healthcare

	Facebook and Health: Understanding public health through social media data! (Tentative)
	Rumi Chunara
	UIUC, USA	Healthcare

	"India Alliance: Advancing Discovery and Innovation to Improve Health" by Dr. Vasan Sambandamurthy, CEO, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance

		Healthcare

	Superbugs - What Africans have to fear and how we can contain them
	Iruka Okeke
	Univeristy of Ibadan, Nigeria	Healthcare

	Will 21st Century Robots Partner With Humans?
	Rodney Brooks
	MIT, USA	Robotics

	Training robots to talk to humans, teaching humans talk to robots (Tentative)
	Emily Cross
	University of Glasgow, UK	Robotics

	Mobility Redefined: Innovations that Enable Independence
	Sujatha Srinivasan
	IIT, India	Robotics

	What can robots see and what can they not?
	Peter Corke
	QUT, Australia	Robotics

	Farming Robots: Swarm of robots to revolutionize agriculture
	Girish Chowdhary
	UIUC, USA	Robotics

	Making robots fly: Navigating the hardest terrains
	Sebastian Scherer
	CMU, USA	Robotics

	The European Space Agency: Once explorers, always explorers
	Mark McCaughrean
	ESA, Netherlands	Space

	Life beyond Earth: What makes a planet habitable?
	Dimitra Atri
	NYUAD, UAE	Space

	Democratizing space - How Africa launched its first nanosatellite to space
	Robert Van Zyl
	FSATI, South Africa	Space

	A talk with Anita Sengupta: The engineer who designed the parachute to land Curiosity on Mars! (Tentative)
	Anita Sengupta
	USC/Former NASA, USA	Space

	The next space revolution: Living and working in space
	Erika Wagner
	Blue Origin, USA	Space

	Aliens, Astrobiology and Exoplanets - In search for life in space
	Daniel Angerhausen
	ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Space

	An evening with ex-NASA astronaut, Tony England!
	Anthony England
	UMDearborn, USA	Space

	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	SCICOMM

	Can numbers and equations help tame COVID-19?
	Lav Varshney
	UIUC, USA	General

	Making the world around us intelligent - Internet of things
	Sanjay Sarma
	MIT, USA	General

	Getting adverserial AI to secure us from hackers
	Una-May O'Reilly
	MIT, USA	General

	Uncovering the dark secrets harboured by our universe
	Priyamvada Natarajan
	Yale, USA	General

	How COVID also infected AI models: Why did they fail?
	Pawan Deshpande
	Domino Data Lab, USA	General

	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	SCICOMM

	Auria Kathi: An AI artist on the cloud!
	Sleeba Paul
	Perleybrook Labs LLC, India	SCICOMM

	Joining the dots: Science through tribal art and folk songs
	Bitasta Das
	IISc, India	SCICOMM

	An interview with the author of the Sci-Fi book, the Bird Farm
	Varun Aggarwal
	Founder, India Science Fest, India	SCICOMM

	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	SCICOMM

A billion hungry people - should science be the priority for India?
Sanjay Sarma(MIT), Cong Cao(University of Nottingham Ningbo, China), Priyamvada Natarajan(Yale University)	Policy

New models of doing and funding science - what the future holds.
Vidur Mahajan(CARING), Vivek Jayaraman(HHMI), Narendra Ahuja(UIUC), Dhananjaya Dendukuri(Achira Labs), Bishesh Kanhal(NAAMII)	Industry

Elephant's head for Ganesh – did ancient Indians know how to transplant organs?
Rajesh PN Rao(University of Washington), VS Ramachandran(University of California), R. Gopu(Tamil Heritage Trust), Tashan Mehta, Saurabh Chandran and Shubha Tole(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)	History

Do our brains use the same principles as deep learning?
Rajesh PN Rao(University of Washington), Subbarao Kambhampatti(ASU), UP Bhalla(National Centre for Biological Science), Venkatesh N. Murthy(Harvard University), Sunita Sarawgi(IIT Bombay)	Neuroscience

From Lab to Market
Kunal Upadhyay, Taslim, Amitabh Kant, Renu Swarup	Industry

Is deep learning the nirvana of AI?
Milind Tambe(Harvard University), Manish Gupta(Google), Payal Arora(Erasmus School of Philosophy), Arnav Kapur(MIT)	Artificial Intelligence

Why and how to build an MIT in India?
P. J. Narayanan(IIIT Hyderabad), Cong Cao(University of Nottingham Ningbo, China), Rajesh Gopakumar(ICTS-TIFR), Sanjay Sarma(MIT) and Anil Sahastrabudhe	Society and Policy

The many roads taken - life as a scientist, policy-maker or entrepreneur
Anna Agarwal(Centre for Policy Research), Pramod Varshney(Syracuse University), Ramesh Hariharan(Strand Life Sciences) and Nisheeth Vishnoi(Yale University)	Career

Why science needs women?
Gagandeep Kang(Translational Health Science and Technology Institute), Minnie Vaid(Little Doc Productions), Gargi B DasGupta(IBM)	Society

Yin-yang: Science of Art, Art of Science
Harshit Agarwal(Adobe Design Lab), Pawan Sinha(MIT), Jahnavi Phalkey(Science Gallery, Bengaluru), Vijayendra Mohanty	Arts

Machines, Medicine and You: Is Indian healthcare ready for AI?
Santanu Bhattacharya(Airtel), Ashwin Naik(Manah Wellness), Rahul Matthan(Trilegal), Satchit Balsari(Harvard Medical School), Sunita Nadhamuni(Dell EMC)	Health and Data Privacy

Gene Editing: How to get science to impact society - Opportunity and Challenges
Ramarao Damerla, Sanjeev Galande, Cong Cao, Sudheendra Rao Moderated by: Shambhavi Naik	Policy

Should science be priority for India - the fastest growing economy?
Rajan Navani, Cong Cao(University of Nottingham Ningbo, China), Spenta Wadia(TIFR), Payal Arora(Erasmus School of Philosophy), Varun Aggarwal(Aspiring Minds)	Policy

Workshops for Kids

Postcard Program and Space Exploration with Club for the Future	Sunday 10th Jan 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Maker Studio with Avishkaar	Saturday 16th Jan 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Science Made fun with Wonderlab - Ages 3-6	Saturday 23rd Jan 2021, 12:00 AM - 1:00 PM

SCIFARI - a science storytelling demo for kids	Saturday 30th Jan 2021, 12:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Science Made fun with Wonderlab - Ages 7-10	Sunday 31st Jan 2021, 12:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Games for Kids

Drawing Competition(Session 1)	Sunday 10th Jan 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Science JAM	Friday 22nd Jan 2021, 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM

Model Making Competition	Friday 22nd Jan 2021, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Drawing Competition(Session 2)	Sunday 31st Jan 2021, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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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
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
12:00pm-12:55pm		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
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
BREAK \| AI DRIVERLESS VEHICLE RUN
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
2:45pm-3:45pm	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
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
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
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
1:15pm-2:10pm		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)
BREAK \| AI DRIVERLESS VEHICLE RUN
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
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
3:35pm-4:35pm	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
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


	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
	Friday, 29th Jan 7:00 pm - 7:15 pm	"India Alliance: Advancing Discovery and Innovation to Improve Health" by Dr. Vasan Sambandamurthy, CEO, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance
	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


	Robotics
	Sunday, 3rd Jan 9:10 pm - 10:00 pm	Will 21st Century Robots Partner With Humans? Rodney Brooks, MIT, USA
	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 7:15 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) Bittu Rajaraman (Head of the Department, Psychology, Associate Professor of Biology and Psychology, Ashoka University), Moderated by Dr. Suraj Yengde, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
	Sunday, 31st Jan 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	How to get ready in skills of the future & secure future jobs (Panel Discussion) Mr. Amit Aggarwal (Co-Architect FutureSkills & CEO IT-ITES SSC NASSCOM), Dr. Sekar Viswanathan (Vice-President, VIT), Mr. Sai Prakash Leo Muthu (Chairman and CEO, Sairam Group of Institutions), Vaishali Phatak, (Global Head - Diversity and Inclusion, Technical Learning, Tech Mahindra)


	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


	WEEK 1
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
	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
	9:10 pm - 10:00 pm	Will 21st Century Robots Partner With Humans? Rodney Brooks, MIT, USA

Tuesday, 5th Jan
	7:00 pm - 7:45 pm	The European Space Agency: Once explorers, always explorers Mark McCaughrean, ESA, Netherlands

Friday, 8th Jan
	5:45 pm - 7:00 pm	Quiz (Game) Quiz
	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


	WEEK 2
Saturday, 9th Jan
	11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Live Lab Tour with STRAND Life Sciences (Demonstration) Lab Tour with STRAND Life Sciences
	12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Science Illustrations with Ipsa Jain (Workshop) Ipsa Jain
	6:15 pm - 7:00 pm	Seeing is believing: Imaging cancer progression inside our body Abhijit De, ACTREC, India
	7:15 pm - 8:00 pm	Can numbers and equations help tame COVID-19? Lav Varshney, UIUC, USA
	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
	11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Postcard Program and Space Exploration with Club for the Future (Workshop) Club for the future
	12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Drawing Competition (Game) Drawing Competition
	6:15 pm - 7:00 pm	Life beyond Earth: What makes a planet habitable? Dimitra Atri, NYUAD, UAE
	7:15 pm - 8:00 pm	Making the world around us intelligent - Internet of things Sanjay Sarma, MIT, USA
	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, 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

Friday, 15th Jan
	6:00 pm - 7:15 pm	Science Pictionary (Game) Science Pictionary
	8:00 pm - 8:45 pm	Science, public health, literature: What happens when you bring them together? (Tentative) Sunetra Gupta, Oxford, UK


	WEEK 3
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
	6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Arogya Swaraj: Achieving health freedom by empowering individuals and communities Abhay Bang, SEARCH, India
	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
	8:15 pm - 9:00 pm	Getting adverserial AI to secure us from hackers Una-May O'Reilly, MIT, USA
	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
	11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Educators 2020 : Rethinking conversations on colourism with Jyoti Gupta (Workshop) Jyoti Gupta
	12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Science Storytelling with Usha Venkatraman (Workshop) Usha Venkatraman
	4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Training robots to talk to humans, teaching humans talk to robots (Tentative) Emily Cross, University of Glasgow, UK
	5:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Mobility Redefined: Innovations that Enable Independence Sujatha Srinivasan, IIT, India
	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
	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)
	8:15 pm - 9:00 pm	Uncovering the dark secrets harboured by our universe Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale, USA
	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

Tuesday, 19th Jan
	8:15 pm - 9:00 pm	Getting everyone an ambulance in time: How math can help! Lavanya Marla, UIUC, USA
	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

Friday, 22nd Jan
	4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	What can robots see and what can they not? Peter Corke, QUT, Australia
	4:45 pm - 6:00 pm	JAM (Game) JAM
	6:00 pm - 7:15 pm	Science Pictionary (Game) Final Round of Science Pictionary
	7:00 pm - 7:45 pm	What bio-robots teach us about fighting diseases Ritu Raman, MIT, USA


	WEEK 4
Saturday, 23rd Jan
	12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Science Made fun with Wonderlab - Ages 3-6 (Workshop) Wonderlab
	5:30 pm - 6:15 pm	Auria Kathi: An AI artist on the cloud! Sleeba Paul, Perleybrook Labs LLC, India
	6:15 pm - 7:00 pm	Joining the dots: Science through tribal art and folk songs Bitasta Das, IISc, India
	7:15 pm - 8:00 pm	The next space revolution: Living and working in space Erika Wagner, Blue Origin, USA

Sunday, 24th Jan
	11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Exploring Phytopia with Science Gallery Bengaluru (Workshop) Science Gallery Bengaluru
	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
	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
	7:15 pm - 8:00 pm	Facebook and Health: Understanding public health through social media data! (Tentative) Rumi Chunara, UIUC, USA
	8:15 pm - 9:00 pm	Farming Robots: Swarm of robots to revolutionize agriculture Girish Chowdhary, UIUC, 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
	5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Model Making (Game) Final presentation of Model Making Competition
	7:00 pm - 7:15 pm	"India Alliance: Advancing Discovery and Innovation to Improve Health" by Dr. Vasan Sambandamurthy, CEO, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance
	7:15 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


	WEEK 5
Saturday, 30th Jan
	12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	SciFari - Exploring science through stories - with Usha Venkatraman (Demonstration) SciFari - Exploring science through stories
	5:30 pm - 6:15 pm	Superbugs - What Africans have to fear and how we can contain them Iruka Okeke, Univeristy of Ibadan, Nigeria
	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
	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
	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
	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
	12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Science Made fun with Wonderlab - Ages 7-10 (Workshop) Wonderlab
	1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Drawing Competition (Game) Drawing Competition
	6:15 pm - 7:00 pm	Making robots fly: Navigating the hardest terrains Sebastian Scherer, CMU, USA
	7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	How to get ready in skills of the future & secure future jobs (Panel Discussion) Mr. Amit Aggarwal (Co-Architect FutureSkills & CEO IT-ITES SSC NASSCOM), Dr. Sekar Viswanathan (Vice-President, VIT), Mr. Sai Prakash Leo Muthu (Chairman and CEO, Sairam Group of Institutions), Vaishali Phatak, (Global Head - Diversity and Inclusion, Technical Learning, Tech Mahindra)
	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) Bittu Rajaraman (Head of the Department, Psychology, Associate Professor of Biology and Psychology, Ashoka University), Moderated by Dr. Suraj Yengde, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
	9:00 pm - 9:45 pm	An evening with ex-NASA astronaut, Tony England! Anthony England, UMDearborn, USA