July 19

08:00­­–09:15

Registration

9:15–09:45

Inauguration

9:45–10:30

Presidential Address

10:30–11:00

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 1. Chair: R N Mukherjee

11:00–11:30
CRSI Medal Lecture-1

Viresh Rawal (University of Chicago)
New Strategies and Tactics for Natural Products Synthesis

11:30–11:50
Bronze Medal Lecture-1

Parameswar K. Iyer (IIT Guwahati)
Aggregation-Induced Enhanced Emission: Functional group engineered self-assembly and condensed state properties

11:50–12:10
Bronze Medal Lecture-2

Joyanta Choudhury (IISER Bhopal)
Switchable Catalysis for Reversible Energy Storage-Delivery and CO2-Conversion to Alternative Fuel

12:10–12:40
Silver Medal Lecture

Dipak K. Palit (Mumbai University)
Ultrafast Dynamics of Hydrogen Bond Breaking and Making

12:40–14:00

Photo Session and Lunch Break

14:00–15:00

Council Meeting

14:00–16:00

Poster Session-1 (Poster nos. 1-70)

Session 2. Chair: R Murugavel

16:00–16:30
Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture

Uday Maitra (IISc)
Bioanalytical Applications of Soft Photoluminescent Materials

16:30–17:00
Special Lecture

Shridhar R. Gadre (Pune University)
A Tale of Two Molecular Scalar Fields

17:00–17:30

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 3. Chair: President, CRSI

17:30–18:15
Gold Medal Lecture-1

S. Sivaram (IISER Pune)
Excursions in Chemistry: My Affairs with Macromolecules

July 20

Session 4. Chair: S Chandrasekaran

09:30–10:15
ACES Lecture

Santanu Bhattacharya (IACS)
Highly Responsive Fluorescent Nanoscopic Assemblies for Sensing Properties of Lipid Membranous Milieu

10:15–10:45

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 5. Chair: K Srihari

10:45–11:15
CNR Rao National Prize for Chemical Research

M. Eswaramoorthy (JNCASR)
Adaptive Pores: Reversible Pore Engineering and Charge Reversal in Mesoporous Silica

11:15–11:40
Computers in Chem. Bio. 1

Sanjib Senapati (IIT Madras)
Dehydrated DNA in B-form: Ionic Liquids in Rescue

11:40–12:05
Computers in Chem. Bio. 2

Durba Sengupta (CSIR-NCL Pune)
Structure, Function and Thermodynamics of Membrane Protein Association

12:05–12:30
Computers in Chem. Bio. 3

Govardhan Reddy (IISc)
A Transiently Populated Intermediate in Prion Folding Acts as an Early Precursor in Prion Dimerization

12:30–12:55
Computers in Chem. Bio. 4

Jagannath Mondal (TIFR Hyderabad)
Mapping the Substrate Recognition Pathway in Cytochrome P450

13:00–14:00

Lunch Break

14:00–16:00

Poster Session-2 (Poster nos. 71 - 150)

Session 6. Chair: M L N Rao

16:00–16:30
International Year of the Periodic Table-1

V. Chandrasekhar (TIFR Hyderabad)
Periodic Table @ 150: Some Stories

16:30–17:00
International Year of the Periodic Table-2

Uday Maitra (IISc)
150 years of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table

17:00–17:30

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 7. Chair: President, CRSI

17:30–18:15
Gold Medal Lecture-2

H. Ila (JNCASR)
Reminiscences in Research: 1964-2019

18:20–19:30

General Body Meeting and Presentation

July 21

Session 8. Chair: R Gurunath

09:30–09:50
Bronze Medal Lecture-3

Chayan K Nandi (IIT Mandi)
Paving the Path to the Future of Carbogenic Nano Dots

09:50–10:10
Bronze Medal Lecture-4

Chada Raji Reddy (CSIR-IICT)
Annulations of Propargylic Alcohols to Heterocycles and Polycyclic Aromatics

10:10–10:30
Bronze Medal Lecture-5

Tapan Kanti Paine (IACS)
Bioinspired Approaches to Selective Catalytic Oxidations by Nonheme Iron Complexes

10:30–10:50
Bronze Medal Lecture-6

Parthasarathi Das (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)
Expanding the Medicinal Chemistry Toolbox: From Method Development to Delivery of Drug Like Molecules

10:50–11:20

Tea/Coffee Break

Session 9. Chair: D Goswami

11:20–11:40
Bronze Medal Lecture-7

Pranab Sarkar (Visva-Bharati University)
In-Silico Understanding of the Photovoltaic Performances of Hybrid Nanostructures

11:40–12:00
Bronze Medal Lecture-8

Ashutosh V. Bedekar (MS University Baroda)
Synthesis and study of conformationally twisted compounds and helical molecules

12:00–13:00

Closing Ceremony