Invited Talks
Keynote speaker on the topic “Scour Dynamics & Turbulence Structures at Repelling Spur Dikes,” at HYDRO International 2025, 30th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering, December 18-20, 2025, Organized by National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
Taught three lectures on “gradually varied flow computation in channel networks” online from 18-19 February 2021 for Master's students of USC, Columbia, USA
"A Review of Turbulence Characteristics of Free Surface Flows in Vegetated Channels," July 19, 2015, Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering Laboratory, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.
"Sedimentation Experiments", 2nd International conference, Science and Scientist 2014, Nov 28-29, 2014, PB Siddhartha College of Arts and Science, Vijayawada, AP, India, page 60.
"Unsteady flows in Pipelines" at IIT Hyderabad, Date: Dec 27, 2013
"Unsteady flows in pipelines" at NIT Warangal, Date: Dec 20, 2013
"Fundamental experiments in sedimentation" at SIT Bhubaneswar, Date: Dec 08, 2013
Lectures Delivered in Workshops and Short Term Courses (as a Guest Speaker)
Co-Chair for Technical Session T2_4, SPARC Conclave 2026, Collaborative Research with Global Impact, Internationalization of Indian Academia for Viksit Bharat 2047, March 08 to 09 2026, IIT Kharagpur Research Park, New Town, Kolkata
A keynote lecture titled “Practical Hydraulics-Applications in Free Surface and Pressurized Flows” is delivered on March 15, 2024, Dept of CIVIL ENGINEERING, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, and GVP-Prof. V. Lakshmikantham Institute for Advanced Studies (GVP-LIAS), in association with the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts, is organizing the 4th International Conference on latest advances, contributions & applications in nonlinear analysis (LACANA) from 13th to 16th March 2024 in Virtual Mode (Hydro NIT Rourkela).
A keynote lecture titled “Practical Hydraulics-Applications in Free Surface and Pressurized Flows” is delivered on March 15, 2024, Dept of CIVIL ENGINEERING, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, and GVP-Prof. V. Lakshmikantham Institute for Advanced Studies (GVP-LIAS), in association with the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts, is organizing the 4th International Conference on latest advances, contributions & applications in nonlinear analysis (LACANA) from 13th to 16th March 2024 in Virtual Mode.
A keynote lecture titled “Practical Hydraulics-Applications in Free Surface and Pressurized Flows” is delivered on December 27, 2023 in 7-day (December 27th 2023 to 2nd January, 2024) at Karyashala Workshop on "Hydraulics Measurement Techniques and Experimental Research (WHMTER), the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Rourkela.
A keynote lecture titled “Practical Hydraulics-Applications in Free Surface and Pressurized Flows” is delivered on December 21, 2021, Dept. of CIVIL ENGINEERING, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering and GVP-Prof. V. Lakshmikantham Institute for Advanced Studies (GVP-LIAS), in association with the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts, is organizing the 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences and Applications (RAMSA-21) from 21st to 24th December, 2021 on Virtual Mode.
A keynote lecture is delivered on “Hydrodynamics of Free Surface Flows in Emergent Vegetated Channels” for 90 minutes in Intl. Conf on River Corridor Research and Management, IIT Jammu, dated 26th February 2021. This conference is funded by the “Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) Golden Jubilee Conference and LectureSeriesGrant”.
A lecture is delivered on “River Hydraulics-addressing scour and sediment problems” for 90 minutes in Five-day Faculty Development Program (ATAL AICTE) on “GIS & Remote Sensing” from 04-08 January 2021 conducted by Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Engineering JNTUK Kakinada.
Three lectures delivered on "Rain water harvesting" in the training of Nirman Sahayaks from various Gram Panchayats organized by GKCIET, Malda and funded by ISGPP-II, Panchayats and Rural Development Department, Government of West Bengal on February 07, 2020
Two lectures delivered on sediment transport in the AICTE QIP short term course "Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in Unsteady Flows” during October 14-20, 2019, Coordinators: Dr. Mohd Saud Afzal and Prof. Subhasish Dey, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India
Lecture delivered on "Similitude in open channel flows" in the short term course "GIAN Advances in Hydraulic Modeling” during December 05-16, 2016, Coordinator: Prof. Subhasish Dey, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India.
Lecture delivered on "Turbulence characteristics of free surface flow over mobile bedforms" in the short term course "ISWT/GIAN Hydrodynamics of Riverbed Erosion and Scour at Structures” during December 07-18, 2015, Coordinator: Prof. Subhasish Dey, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India.
Lecture delivered on "Numerically solving St Venant equations using FD methods" in the short term course "Advances in Numerical Simulation Techniques for Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources Management – I (ANST-HHWM-I)", during February 23-28, 2015, Organized by School of Water Resources, IIT Kharagpur, India.
Lecture delivered in 3-day workshop on "Surge Analysis and Design of Water Conveyance Systems in Lift Irrigation Schemes", Organized by NIT Warangal, India, during June 18-20, 2014 .
Short term courses/Workshops organized
A workshop titled "Smart and Sustainable Water Infrastructure - Management of Water Distribution Network using GIS and Hydraulic Modelling and the Journey to Smart Systems" under SPARC has been conducted on July 8 and 9, 2025.This course was taught by Dr Wei Zeng (Assistant Professor, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide)
A TEQIP 3 short term course titled "Fluvial Hydrodynamics and Thermo Fluids" was organized during Feb 04 -08, 2020 in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. The course provided an exposure to practical problems of hydrodynamics, hydraulic engineering and thermo fluids. Coordinators: Dr. Prashanth Reddy Hanmaiahgari, (Dept of Civil Engineering) and Dr Mahendra Vanteru (Dept of Mechanical Engineering)
Short term course titled "Practical hydraulics: Applications in free surface and pressurized flows" under GIAN has been conducted during Feb 04-15, 2019. This course was taught by Dr Martin F Lambert (Foreign Faculty), Dr. Prashanth Reddy Hanmaiahgari (Principal co-ordinator) and Dr. Subhasish Dey (Co-coordinator)
A workshop titled “Hydraulic Transients in Water Conveyance Systems " was offered during February 26 -27, 2016. The fundamentals of hydraulic transients to assist the participants in learning the causes of surges in pipelines and how to protect the pipeline system will be taught in this course. (Coordinator: Dr. Milind P Rajurkar and Dr. Prashanth Reddy Hanmaiahgari) at SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded, sponsored under TEQUIP-II.
A short-term course titled “ Hydraulic Transients in Water Conveyance Systems " was organized during Oct 07 -08, 2015. The fundamentals of hydraulic transients to assist the participants in learning the causes of surges in pipelines and how to protect the pipeline system was taught in this course. Click here (Principal Coordinator: Dr. Prashanth Reddy Hanmaiahgari)
Modelling of Fluvial Processes, June 08 2014 to June 18, 2014, Click here (Principal Coordinator: Dr. Subhasish Dey, Co-Coordinator: Dr. Prashanth Reddy Hanmaiahgari) at IIT Kharagpur, sponsored by CEC, IIT Kharagpur.