Speakers Prof. Rahul Banerjee IISER, Kolkata, India 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. Ramesh Gardas IIT Madras, India Prof. Pijush Ghosh IIT Madras, India Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh 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. Pradipta Purkayastha IISER, Kolkata, India Prof. Biswarup Pathak IIT Indore, India Prof. Amitava Patra INST, Mohali Prof. T. Pradeep IIT Madras, India Prof. Sara E. Skrabalak Indiana University, USA Prof. Kunnikuruvan Sooraj IIT Madras, India Prof. Hyeon Taeghwan Seoul National University, S. Korea Prof. Satoshi Takeya AIST, Japan Prof. Tiju Thomas IIT Madras, India Prof. Paul Weiss University of California, USA Prof. Jianping Xie National Uinversity of Singapore Prof. Chaitanya Sharma Yamijala IIT Madras, India