Day 0: 16th December 2017

Primer on optics and spectroscopy [Teachers: Sudipta and GK]

a.  Optics refresher theory (1 hr by SM) + Lab component (2 hr; telescope building)

b.  Spectroscopy theory (1 hr by SM and 1 hr by GK) + Lab component (3 hr; Fluorimeter and Imager)

Day 1: 17th December 2017

09:30 am INAUGURATION by Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati

10:00 am to 12:30 pm: FCS component [Teachers: Sudipta and Thorsten]

Theory part 3 hrs divided by two teachers (1/2 hour deficit has to be adjusted)

2:00 pm to 5:30 pm: Ultrafast/TCSPC Component [Teachers: Trevor and GK]

Theory part for 3 hours by two teachers

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm: Parallel Lab component FCS/TCSPC with Tutorials

9:00 pm to 10:00 pm: Dinner

Day 2: 18th December 2017

9:30 am to 1:00 pm: Raman component [Teachers: Chandrabhas and Mrinalini] Theory part 3 hrs divided by three teachers: Femtosecond pulses; Time-resolved emission; TCSPC

2:00 pm to 5:30 pm: Microscopy Component [Teachers: Sudipta, Trevor and Balaji]

Theory part for 3 hours by two teachers

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm: Parallel Lab component FCS/TCSPC/TIRF with Tutorials

9:00 pm to 10:00 pm: Dinner

Day 3: 19th December 2017

9:30 am to 1:00 pm: Parallel Lab component TCSPC/FCS/TIRF with Tutorials

***********************Conference starts************************

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm:

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY (Biology, Chemistry, Materials)

2 pm / Jayant Udgaonkar / NCBS / Talk 1
2:30 pm / Edamana Prasad / Talk 2
3 pm / Mahesh Hariharan / Talk 3
3:30 pm / Sibu Mitra / Talk 4
4:00—4:30 pm / TEA BREAK
4:30 pm / Sayan Bagchi / Talk 5
5 pm / A S Achal Kumar / IITG / Talk 6
5:30 pm / Govindarajan Krishnamoorthy / IITG / Talk 7

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm: Parallel Lab component for TIRF and tutorials

9:00 pm to 10:00 pm: Dinner

Day 4: 20th December 2017

9:00 am to 1:30 pm:

Fluorescence Imaging (Bioimaging Live cells, Super resolution, Single molecule)

9 am / Ron Namaan / Talk 8
9:30 am / Thorsten Wohland / Talk 9
10 am / Senthil Arumugam / Talk 10
10:30 am / Balaji Jayaprakash / Talk 11
11:00—11:30 am / TEA BREAK
11:30 am / Trevor Smith / Talk 12
12:00 noon / Rahul Roy / Talk 13
12:30 pm / Deepak Nair / Talk 14
1 pm / Shivprasad Patil / Talk 37

1:30 pm to 4:30 pm: LUNCH and POSTERS

4:30 pm to 9:00 pm:

SERS and Raman Spectroscopy in Biology/Chemistry

4:30 pm / Chandrabhas N. / Talk 15
5 pm / Nakul C Maiti / Talk 16
5:30 pm / Ishan Barman / Talk 17
6 pm / Anindya Dutta / Talk 18
6:30—7:00 pm / TEA BREAK
7 pm / Jyotishman Dasgupta / Talk 19
7:30 pm / Ruchi Anand / Talk 20
8 pm / Arindham Chowdhury / Talk 21
8:30 pm / Oral
8:45 pm / Oral

Day 5: 21st December 2017

9:00 am to 1:30 pm: Ultrafast Phenomena in Biology

9 am / Sudipta Maiti / Talk 22
9:30 am / Sobhan Sen / Talk 23
10 am / Prasun K Mandal / Talk 24
10:30 am / Moloy Sarkar / Talk 25
11:00—11:30 am / TEA BREAK
11:30 am / Samir Maji / Talk 26
12:00 noon / E S S Iyer / Talk 27
12:30 pm / Kalyansis Sahu / IITG / Talk 28
1 pm / Oral
1:15 pm / Oral

1:30 pm to 4:30 pm: LUNCH and POSTERS

4:30 pm to 9:00 pm:

Probes for Imaging and Sensing; Intrinsic Biological Fluorescence

4:30 pm / Jaydeep Basu / Talk 29
5 pm / Ankona Dutta / Talk 30
5:30 pm / G Krishnamoorthy / Talk 31
6 pm / Subhadip Ghosh / Talk 32
6:30—7:00 pm / TEA BREAK
7 pm / Purnananda Guptasarma / Talk 33
7:30 pm / Ravi Venkatramani / Talk 34
8 pm / Atanu Singha Roy / Talk 35
8:30 pm / Tushar Kanti Mukherjee / Talk 36

Closing remarks

Speakers List

1. Dr. A. S. ACHAL KUMAR, IIT Guwahati
2. Prof. ANINDYA DATTA, IIT Bombay
3. Dr. (Ms.) ANKONA DATTA, TIFR, Mumbai
4. Dr. ARINDAM CHOWDHURY, IIT Bombay
5. Dr. Atanu Singha Roy, NIT Meghalaya
6. Dr. BALAJI JAYAPRAKASH, IISc, Bengaluru
7. Prof. Chandrabhas Narayana, JNCASR, Bengaluru
8. Dr. DEEPAK NAIR, IISc Bengaluru
9. Dr. EDAMANA PRASAD, IIT Madras
10. Prof. JAYDEEP K BASU, IISc Bengaluru
11. Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar, NCBS, Bengaluru
12. Dr. JYOTISHMAN DASGUPTA, TIFR, Mumbai
13. Prof. GOVINDARAJAN KRISHNAMOORTHY, IIT Guwahati
14. Prof. G. KRISHNAMOORTHY, ex-TIFR, Mumbai
15. Dr. ISHAN BARMAN, Johns Hopkins University, USA
16. Dr. KALYANSIS SAHU, IIT Guwahati
17. Dr. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
18. Dr. Moloy Sarkar, NISER, Bhubhaneswar
19. Dr. NAKUL C. MAITI, IICB, Kolkata
20. Dr. PRASUN K MANDAL, IISER, Kolkaa
21. Prof. Purnananda Guptasarma, IISER Mohali
22. Dr. RAHUL ROY, IISc Bengaluru
23. Dr. RAVINDRA VENKATRAMANI, TIFR, Mumbai
24. Prof. RON NAAMAN, Weizmann Institute of Science
25. Dr. (Ms.) Ruchi Anand, IIT Bombay
26. Dr. Samir K. Maji, IIT Bombay
27. Dr. SAYAN BAGCHI, NCL, Pune
28. Dr. SENTHIL ARUMUGAM, University of New South Wales, Australia
29. Dr. SHIVPRASAD PATIL, IISER, Pune
30. Dr. SIBU MITRA, NEHU, Shillong
31. Dr. E. SIVA SUBRAMANIAM IYER, IIT Goa
32. Dr. SOBHAN SEN, JNU, New Delhi
33. Dr. SUBHADIP GHOSH, NISER, Bhubhaneswar
34. Prof. SUDIPTA MAITI, TIFR, Mumbai
35. Prof. THORSTEN WOHLAND, National University of Singapore
36. Prof. TREVOR SMITH, University of Melbourne
37. Prof. Tushar Kanti Mukherjee, IIT Indore