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A three-day summit of talks from Academia and Industry
A three-day summit of talks from Academia and Industry
The Mechanical Sciences Young Investigators Meet (MSYIM) 2026 is envisioned as a three-day summit featuring a blend of academic and industry talks, and open forums focused on emerging research in Mechanical Sciences. Building on the success of previous editions, this premier event aims to foster vibrant scientific exchange and strengthen the nationwide community of early-career researchers.
This unique meeting brings together early-career researchers, doctoral scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty from engineering and allied disciplines across India. By providing a dedicated platform for presentation, discussion, and collaboration, MSYIM 2026 seeks to catalyze new ideas and enduring research partnerships.
The program spans core and interdisciplinary topics, including solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, robotics, and manufacturing, with sessions tailored to highlight cutting-edge developments and applications in these areas. Through keynote talks, contributed presentations, and informal dialogue, participants will engage with contemporary scientific challenges and chart directions for future research.
Message from HoD, ME
Message from HoD, ME
Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to see the third edition of MSYIM. The symposium, with its sharp focus on young academicians and high academic quality, has already established itself as a distinguished platform. We are glad to host you at IIT Kanpur, and we hope that you will have a memorable time sharing your research work. I personally am looking forward to attend several of the symposium’s sessions.
Best wishes,
Anurag Gupta, Professor & Head
Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Theme of meeting
Theme of meeting
Day 1
Day 1
Day 2
Day 2
Day 3
Day 3
Speakers
Speakers
IIT Gandhinagar
IISc Bengaluru
IIT Kanpur
IIT Jodhpur
IIT Kharagpur
IIT Guwahati
IIT Kanpur
IIT Delhi
IIT Kanpur
IIT Ropar
IIT Kanpur
IIT Delhi
Sponsors
Sponsors
Diamond Sponsor
Diamond Sponsor
Day-1 (13th March, Friday)
Day-1 (13th March, Friday)
Inaugural Session (09:00 – 09:30)
09:00 – 09:10 Dr. Manjesh Singh: Opening remarks
09:10 – 09:20 Prof. Anurag Gupta (Head, ME): Welcome address and felicitation of guests
09:20 – 09:30 Prof. Manindra Agrawal (Director, IITK) Address by the Chief Guest
Talk from DRDO Young Scientist Laboratory (09:30-10:00)
09:30 – 10:00 Dr. R. Ramakrishnan (Director, DYSL-SM, Hyderabad): "Smart materials’ requirements for defence applications"
Session 1 (10:00 – 11:00) Complex Flows
Session Chair: P. K. Panigrahi
10:00 – 10:30 Gaurav Chopra: "Understanding transitions in fluid flows from a complex systems perspective"
10:30 – 11:00 Prateek Anand: "Inertial migration of spheroids in channel flow"
Tea break (11:00 – 11:30)
Session 2 (11:30 – 13:00) Mechanics, Materials, and Modelling
Session Chair: Mohit Law
11:30 – 12:00 Heena Khanchandani: "Hydrogen embrittlement in metallic materials"
12:00 – 12:30 Srihari Dodla: "Multiscale material modelling"
12:30 – 13:00 K. P. Krishnaraj: "The dynamical origin of Bernal’s limit in sphere packing"
Lunch (13:00 – 14:30)
Session 3 (14:30 – 16:30) Machine Learning and Soft Matter
Session Chair: P. Venkitanarayanan
14:30 – 15:00 Ganesh Kolappan Geetha: "Bridging Imaging, Wave Physics, and Digital Twins for Next-Generation SHM"
15:00 – 15:30 Preetika Karnal: "Adhesion of soft and rough elastomers"
15:30 – 16:00 Ashish Pal: "Data fusion using Kalman-filtering"
16:00 – 16:30 Nitesh Arora: "Emergence of large-scale patterns in soft quasicrystals"
Tea break (16:30 – 17:00)
Gala Dinner (19:30 onward)
Day-2 (14th March, Saturday)
Day-2 (14th March, Saturday)
Session 5 (09:00 – 10:30) Expert talk by PAC Members
Session Chair: Anurag Gupta, Head Mechanical
Panel Discussion: "Evolving Landscape: Funds, Facts, and Future"
Invited Panellists: Prof. Sanjay Mittal, Prof. Bishakh Bhattacharya, and Prof. Ashish Garg
Tea break (10:30 – 11:00)
Session 6 (11:00 – 13:00) Experiments and Computations in Solid Mechanics
Session Chair: Pankaj Wahi
11:00 – 11:30 Ankur Chauhan: "Irradiation effects in novel alloys"
11:30 – 12:00 Rajendra Kumar Munian: "Low-Velocity Impact Response and Post-Impact Performance of Laminated Composite Structures"
12:00 – 12:30 Harini Subramanian: "On the curing process induced residual stress evolution in fibre-reinforced polymer composites"
12:30 – 13:00 Ashutosh Bijalwan: "Structure-Preserving Discretization for Optimal Control of Mechanical Systems"
Lunch (13:00 – 14:30)
Session 7 (14:30 – 16:30) Transport phenomena in biological to geophysical systems
Session Chair: Arun Saha
14:30 – 15:00 Ritabrata Thakur: "Shear and strain in geophysical turbulence: implications for mixing"
15:00 – 15:30 Siddhartha Mukherjee: "Transport of aqueous polymer solutions through deformable microchannels"
15:30 – 16.00 Harshad Sanjay Gaikwad: "Oxygen Transport through Dynamic Shapes of RBCs in Arteriole-Sized Channels"
16:00 – 16:30 Shyam Sunder Gopalakrishnan: "Stability characteristics of the flow past a cylinder planar shear"
Tea break (16:30 – 17:00)
Session 8 (17:00 – 19:00) Advanced Manufacturing
Session Chair: Niraj Sinha
17:00 – 17:30 Sponsor Talk
17:30 – 18:00 Ashwani Pratap: "Time-dependent sub-aperture adaptive grinding and polishing"
18:00 – 18:30 Pikee Priya: "Enhancing Printability of AA6061 during Laser Powder Bed Fusion through Inoculation"
18:30 – 19:00 Rajit Ranjan: "Efficient numerical modelling and computational design for Additive Manufacturing"
Dinner (19:30 onward)
Day–3 (15th March, Sunday)
Day–3 (15th March, Sunday)
Session 9 (09:00 – 11:00) Mechanics of Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical-Biological systems
Session Chair: Ishan Sharma
09:00 – 09:30 Nikhil Walani: "Mechanoprotection in biological cells to transient stretches"
09:30 – 10:00 Sankalp Tiwari: "Buckling of a soap film bounded by an elastic loop"
10:00 – 10:30 Ambatipudi Mani Kalyani: "Thermochemical Pathways for Industrial Decarbonization: From Combustion and CO₂-Ready Processes to Clean Fuels"
10:30 – 11:00 Chunendra K. Sahu: "Density-driven flows and mixing in subsurface porous media"
Tea Break (11:00 – 11:30)
Session 9 (11:30 – 12:30) Statics and Dynamics
Session Chair: Anindya Chatterjee
11:30 – 12:00 Tanmay Dutt Mathur: "Analysis tools and test facilities for aero drive system development"
12:00 – 12:30 Arpit Agrawal: "Predicting material behavior in extreme pressure and temperature"
Valedictory Session (12:30 – 13:00)
Lunch (13:00 – 14:00)
Good Bye!
The Venue
The Venue
Organizing Team
Organizing Team
IIT Kanpur
IIT Kanpur
IIT Kanpur
IIT Kanpur
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