Registration 9:00 - 9:30
9:30 - 10:00
Welcome Address, Prof. Raghuraman Govardhan, Chair, ME, IISc
Inaugural Address, Prof. Satyam Suwas, Dean, MS Division, IISc
RN’s Technical history, Prof. Sumit Basu, IITK
10:00 - 10:40
Role of Microstructural Investigation in Understanding the deformation and failure of hexagonal close packed materials, Prof. Satyam Suwas, IISc
Coffee Break 10:40 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
1. Fracture in Hydrogels, Prof. KRY Simha, IISc
2. Challenges in Aircraft Engines Design, Dr. Asim Ghosal, GE Aerospace
3. Forming limits of orthotropic thin sheets: predictions using porous metal plasticity, Prof. Shyam Keralavarma, IITM
4. Nanoscale Deformation Mechanics: From Individual Fibers to Fiber Bundles, Dr. Debashish Das, IISc
Lunch Break 12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
1. Dynamic Behavior of Reinforced Masonry Structures, Dr. Nanjunda Rao, IISc
2. Unraveling the Mechanics of Crazing in Polymers, Prof. Sumit Basu, IITK
3. Dynamic Behaviour of Metals under high strain rate deformations: Aerospace Perspective, Mr. Mayuresh Shete
4. Talk by Dr. Mahendra Jha
15:00 - 16:30
High Tea & Poster Session
16:30 - 18:00
18:00 - 19:00
Dinner 19:00 - 21:00