Speakers Aamod Vikas Desai IIT Madras Dr. Asheesh Kumar University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun Ayana Ghosh IIT Madras Chaitanya Sharma Yamijala IIT Madras Guido Clever Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Hemachandra Kotamarti IIT Madras Hiroyuki Isobe The University of Tokyo, Japan Jemmis D Eluvathingal IISc, Bangalore Kevin Stamplecoskie Queen's University, Canada Kuntal Manna IIT Delhi Maik Finze Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg Manfred M Kappes Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Nonappa Tampere University, Finland Partha Sarathi Mukherjee IISc, Bangalore Paul Weiss University of California, USA Pijush Ghosh IIT Madras Thalappil Pradeep IIT Madras, India Prakash Chandra Mondal IIT Kanpur Raj Kumar Dutta IIT Roorkee Rajnish Kumar IIT Madras Ramesh Gardas IIT Madras Ritu Gupta IIT Delhi Peter W Roesky Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Sayanti Chatterjee IIT Roorkee Sebastian C Peter JNCASR, Bangalore Sundargopal Ghosh IIT Madras Thomas Thundat University at Buffalo, USA Venkata Krishnan IIT Mandi Vijayamohanan Pillai IISER Tirupati