Conference on luminescence & its applications from Feb 7

Over 200 scientists across India to attend the conference

Dr Seguei Sekatskii from Russia will be specially invited speaker

Raipur, February 04, 2011

Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) will host the Luminescence Society of India’s (LSI) three-day National conference on Luminescence and its Applications-2011 (NCLA-2011) this year from February 7-9. The chief guest during the inaugural session of the conference would be former scientist of National Physical Laboratory Ahmedabad and expert member from Department of Science and Technology New Delhi R Bhattacharya. The specially invited speaker in the conference would be Dr Seguei Sekatskii from Russia. The LSI will be represented by its secretary Dr KVR Murthy who hails from Baroda (Gujarat) and is senior teaching faculty at Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Besides LSI and RSU, Disha Institute of Management and Technology (DIMAT) will be the organising partner of the conference. Where the full-day sessions of February 7 and 9 would be held in Sir CV Raman hall at varsity’s School of Physics and Astrophysics (SOSPA), the sessions of February 8 would be conducted in DIMAT.

Dr RN Baghel from SOSPA and convener of the organising committee for NCLA-2011 informed besides presenting their research papers, the experts would also discuss over energy saving measures through luminescence in the conference.

He informed that over 200 scientists, research scholars and experts in the different fields of luminescence from various parts of the country would attend the country. “This includes about fifty participants from Chhattisgarh,” he said.

He further informed that the conference would also comprise of a special technical session during which the different research teams would give presentation on current activities with a view to facilitate collaboration between different groups and to help buildup task forces directed towards achieving well defined goals in making a destination for technological and engineering solutions to the lightening and other luminescence related solutions.

The group leaders would be encouraged to become the part of president LSI, Secretary LSI or chairman Technical Committee. “Our objective to organise the conference would be accomplished if any two groups would express their interest in joint presentation and propose work on cutting edge areas of luminescence,” he said.

After the inaugural session of the conference on February 7, Dr PK Gupta from Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology Indore (RRCAT) will address the participants followed by lecture programmes of Dr AK Singhvi and Dr BP Chandra in the evening session.

The invited speakers for the conference are – Dr Ajay Ghosh – National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, Dr BN Jagatap – Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai, Dr AS Pradhan, Professor Singh – PRl, Dr SV Moharil – Nagpur, Dr D Harnath – NPL New Delhi, Dr MK Bhede – BARC, Dr B Bhattacharya – Kolkata, Dr H Pal, Dr MS Kulkarni, Dr PD Sahare – Delhi University, Dr N Veeraiah, Dr Jayasankar, Dr Chaurasia – BARC, Professor Ramrakhani – Jabalpur, Dr Amar Sinha – BARC, Professor S Bhushan, Professor SK Omanwar, Dr MP Chougankar – BARC, Professor Madhvan Pillai – Trivendrum and Dr Sudarshan – BARC.

The other perspective speakers would be –Mularidharan, Marimuttu, Dr suryamurthy – IGCAR, Dr Bakshi, Dr Bhushan Dabker, Manoj Mahapatra, Munish Kumar, Mahesh P Gaonkar, Dr YC Nagar – Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), any student from PRL, Basantha from Manipur, Dr SJ Dhoble, Professor Appa Rao from Osmania University (OU), PY Reddy from OU and professor from SOSPA - Dr RN Baghel, Dr RS Kher and Dr DP Bisen.

The invited experts in the conference would from 16 fields -  photoluminescence, cathodoluminescence & ionoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence, ML, EL and LL chemiluminescence, bioluminescence / sensors, theoretical aspects of luminescence, nanophosphors: physics and materials, luminescence dating, industrial application of phosphors, thermo luminescence: radiation effects and dosimetry, organic luminescence and OLEDs, luminescence in amorphous materials, low temperature luminescence, luminescence in gemstones and diamonds, luminescence instrumentation and role of luminescence in allied applications.