Speakers Prof. Ngong Kodiah Beyeh Oakland University, USA Prof. Josef Breu University of Bayreuth, Germany Prof. Indranath Chakraborty IIT, Kharagpur, India Prof. Dillip Kumar Chand IIT Madras, India Prof. Rajendra Singh Dhayal Central University of Punjab, India Prof. Stefanie Dehnen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Prof. Ramesh Gardas IIT Madras, India Prof. Manfred Kappes Head, Institue of Physical Chemistry Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Dr. Monika Kucerakova Czech Academy of Sciences , Czech Republic Prof. Rajnish Kumar IIT Madras, India Prof. Uzi Landman Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Sukhendu Mandal IISER, Thiruvanathapuram, India Prof. Saptarshi Mukherjee IISER, Bhopal, India Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan JNCASR, India Prof. Yuichi Negishi Tohoku University, Japan Prof. Nonappa Tampere University, Finland Prof. Thangavelu Palaniselvam IIT Madras, India Prof. Biswarup Pathak IIT Indore, India Prof. Amitava Patra INST, Mohali Prof. T. Pradeep IIT Madras, India Prof. Pradipta Purkayastha IISER, Kolkata, India Prof. Sara E. Skrabalak Indiana University, USA Prof. Satoshi Takeya AIST, Japan Prof. Hyeon Taeghwan Seoul National University, S. Korea Prof. Thomas Thundat University at Buffalo Prof. Paul Weiss University of California, USA Prof. Chaitanya Sharma Yamijala IIT Madras, India