Environment and Sustainability Event 2023
An in-person event aimed at providing a thought leadership and research dissemination platform, engaging diverse stakeholders in the domain of environment and sustainability. Below is the full agenda for this event. The first day will consist of panel discussions followed by two days of Keynote Lectures and Lightning Talks.
Panel Discussions
"Sustainable Development - Water Resources and Public Health"
"Engineering Solutions for Environment and Sustainability"
Invited Lectures
8 Keynote Lectures (30 min each)
26 Lightning Talks (15 min each)
DAY 1
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | Inaugural Session
- Opening Remarks, Prof. Ram Ramaswamy, IIT Delhi and Prof. Satish Patil, IISc Bangalore
- Brief on ACS Publications – Beyond Chemistry, Dr. Daniel Kulp
- Welcome Address, Dr. Deeksha Gupta
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | Panel Discussion 1: Sustainable Development - Water Resources and Public Health
- Panelists: Profs. Bryan Brooks, Abhijit Mukherjee, Manish Kumar & Dr. Rashmi Chansarkar
- Moderator: Dr. Kunal Gupta
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM | Tea/Coffee [Networking]
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion 2: Engineering Solutions for the Environment and Sustainability
- Panelists: Profs. Wonyong Choi, Satish Patil, Shantanu Roy & Baerbel Sinha
- Moderator: Dr. Mihir Jha
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Vote of Thanks by ACS
7:30 PM | Dinner
DAY 2
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session 1
Keynote Lecture: "The Science of Science: Identifying Strategic Research Needs for Environmental Science, Engineering and Public Health"
- Prof. Bryan Brooks, Baylor University, USA
Keynote Lecture: "Emerging Energy Generation and Storage Technologies for Net Zero Mission"
- Prof. Satish Patil, IISc Bangalore
Lightning Talk: "Fate of pharmaceuticals in biological wastewater treatment units"
- Prof. Arya V, IIT Delhi
Lightning Talk: "Liquid and Solid Waste Valorisation for Environmental Resource Management"
- Prof. Surendra Suthar, Doon University
Lightning Talk: "Application of a composite mineralogical fingerprinting approach to investigate sediment source dynamics in a river-reservoir system"
- Prof. Renji Remesan, IIT Kharagpur
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Tea Break
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM | Session 2
Keynote Lecture: "Solar Photo(electro)catalytic Technology for Sustainable Environment"
- Prof. Wonyong Choi, Editor-in-Chief, ACS ES&T Engineering
Keynote Lecture: "Exploring Entrainment, Transport and Transformation of Key PAHs from Major Combustion Sources into Ambient Air"
- Prof. Tarun Gupta, IIT Kanpur
Lightning Talk: "Semiconductor Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation"
- Prof. Boddu S. Naidu, INST Mohali
Lightning Talk: "Development of Sustainable Techniques for Resource Recovery from Urine"
- Prof. Praveena Gangadharan, IIT Palakkad
Lightning Talk: "Characterization of Vehicular Exhaust Emissions and Super-emitters: A Tale of Two Asian Cities"
- Prof. Harish Phuleria, IIT Bombay
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Lunch
2:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Session 3
Keynote Lecture: "Benign Solvents for Enhancing the Extraction of Micropollutants from Industrial Wastewater"
- Prof. Ramesh Gardas, IIT Madras
Lightning Talk: "Potential role gas hydrates may play towards net zero CO2 target"
- Prof. Rajnish Kumar, IIT Madras
Lightning Talk: "3D distribution of South Asian aerosols"
- Prof. Tirthankar Banerjee, Banaras Hindu University
Lightning Talk: "Advancements in Heterogeneous Catalysis to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals"
- Prof. Venkata Krishnan, IIT Mandi
Lightning Talk: "Molecular fingerprinting for tracking sources of air pollution"
- Prof. Vinayak Sinha, IISER Mohali
Lightning Talk: "Air Pollutants turn into Nanodiamonds"
- Prof. Binoy Saikia, NEIST Jorhat
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Tea Break
4:45 - 6:30 PM | Session 4
Keynote Lecture: "Carbon Capture via Plants and its Sequestration via Biochar- a Pathway to achieve Net Carbon Neutrality"
- Prof. Dinesh Mohan, JNU Delhi
Lightning Talk: "Polymer Nanofilm Composite Membranes for High Precision Molecular Separation and Desalination"
- Prof. Santanu Karan, CSMCRI Bhavnagar
Lightning Talk: "Source apportionment of particulate matter over South Asia"
- Prof. Baerbel Sinha, IISER Mohali
Lightning Talk: "Polymeric Membranes: Sustainable future for clean water and environmental protection"
- Prof. Pravin G. Ingole, NEIST Jorhat
Lightning Talk: "Real-world Sustainability - Water End-use Pattern and Biochar Application"
- Prof. Manish Kumar, UPES Dehradun
Lightning Talk: "Dynamic Optimization of Indoor Air Quality, Energy Consumption, and Thermal Comfort"
- Prof. Sameer Patel, IIT Gandhinagar
7:00 PM | Dinner
DAY 3
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session 1
Keynote Lecture: "Plant Nanobiotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture"
- Prof. Gregory Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Lightning Talk: "Leveraging Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Tool to Inform Environmental Policy Making"
- Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary, IIT Kanpur
Lightning Talk: "India's multifacet Environmental Problems: Challenges and way forward"
- Prof. Kirpa Ram, Banaras Hindu University
Lightning Talk: "Investigating Climate - Crop Yield Relationship for Agricultural Resilience"
- Prof. Anand Madhukar, TERI New Delhi
Lightning Talk: "Shifting towards a Socio-technocratic Approach for Sustainable Flood Risk Management"
- Prof. Mohit Prakash Mohanty, IIT Roorkee
Lightning Talk: "Sulfate Radical Assisted Removal of Emerging Pollutants"
- Prof. Shilpi Verma, Thapar University
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Tea Break
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM | Session 2
Keynote Lecture: "Poisoned Water: interplay of nature, human and policies"
- Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur
Lightning Talk: "An Indian Land Data Assimilation System (ILDAS) for sustainable water resources management"
- Prof. Manabendra Saharia, IIT Delhi
Lightning Talk: "Development of Practicable Artificial Photosynthesis Process"
- Prof. Ibram Ganesh, ARCI Hyderabad
Lightning Talk: "Green Metallurgy for Metal Recovery from E-Waste: A Circular Approach to Sustainability"
- Prof. Subrata Hait, IIT Patna
Lightning Talk: "Development of Low-Cost High Efficiency System for Green Hydrogen Generation"
- Prof. Rohit Srivastava, PDEU Gandhinagar
Lightning Talk: "Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment - Scenarios in Delhi"
- Prof. S. Z. Ahammad, IIT Delhi
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Lunch
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