Media Release
Mangalore, Dec 8: St Aloysius College (Autonomous) is organizing an international workshop on Applications on Nanotechnology to Energy, Environment and Biotechnology (NANO EEB) from December 14 to 16.
The workshop will be inaugurated by Dr V S Acharya, minister for higher education at the Eric Mathias Hall of the college here on December 14. Rector of the St Aloysius College Institutions will preside over the inaugural function.
More than 100 delegates consisting of researchers, teachers, representatives from industry, postgraduate students of physical and biological sciences from many universities and colleges from all over the country have registered.
International and national speakers and the topics in the workshop include:
International
Prof Dr K V Rao, Prof Dr Lars Berglund & Dr Lyubov Belova, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Prof Dr Juan Munoz, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Dr José Gonzalo, Institute of Optics, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Prof Dr Kannan Krishnan & Prof Dr Marise Nerad, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Prof Dr Joseph Delhalle, Prof Dr Zineb Mekhalif & Mr Praveen Martis, University of Namur, Belgium
Dr M Krishna Kumar, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore
National
Dr Raju Raghurama, Honeywell Research Labs, Bangalore
Prof Dr Prafulla K. Jha, Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar
Dr M. Sivakumar & Dr Saravana Kumar, Amrita University Coimbatore
Dr S F D’Souza, BARC, Mumbai
Dr Shashi Kiran Nivas, St Aloysius College, Mangalore
Dr Anand Narayan, Selco, Ujire
Topics
Metamagnets
Chemical sensors for environmental monitoring
Nanoscience for biotechnology
Nano and environmental chemistry
Nanostructured cellular technology (wood, natural materials)
Chemical processing for functional nanomaterialsTailoring and patterning novel materials at a nanoscale
Nanoscience and environmental issues
Mechanically alloyed nanomaterials
Nano films on metal oxide surfaces.
Surface modification of carbon nanotubes with metal nanocrystals
Synthesis, characterisation and applications of semiconductor nanoparticles
Applications of atomic layer deposition (ALD) in nanofabrication’
Synthesis of nanomaterials using femtosecond lasers.
In addition young researchers will be presenting papers on their research work.