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IIT K REACH Symposium 2010
October 10-12, 2010
Venue: Outreach Auditorium, IIT Kanpur
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Abstracts of Talks
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Using HPC for understanding of Fluid Flows S. Mittal
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208 016
Abstract
A summary of our recent research efforts to understand fluid flows, by using computational methods, is presented. Stabilized finite element methods are employed to compute fluid flows at various Reynolds and Mach numbers including those that involve moving boundaries. Some of the flow problems arise from practical applications while others add to understanding of certain fundamental issues in fluid mechanics. Most of the applications require large scale computing. To that extent, where-ever possible, our in-house codes have been parallelized using MPI libraries. On a 64-processor Linux cluster the implementation has resulted in super-linear speed-up for large grids. One of the several problems studied is the flow in an air-intake of a high speed engine. A mixed compression intake for a Mach=3 flow is considered. Viscous effects as well as boundary layer bleed are modeled. The buzz instability is observed in certain cases. Both, little and big buzz are found. Their frequency is related to the super-harmonics of the intake duct which acts as an open-closed organ pipe. The role of bleed in controlling the buzz oscillations is studied
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An Applications Perspective of High-Performance Computing
S. Sherlekar [email protected]
Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd., #23-56P, Outer Ring Road, Devarabeesanahalli, Varthur Hobli, Bellandur Post, Bangalore-560103
Abstract
While raw computing power gives some indication of capability, an HPC system is only as good as the applications that run on it. The talk will give a brief perspective of the application domains, indicate the computing challenges faced by each domain and provide some ideas on how these challenges can be met. The exciting thing is that with an increasingly large number of cores being integrated into one die, HPC will soon become mainstream. The implications for India will be outlined.
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From sequence analysis to simulations: Applications of high-performance computing in modern biology
R. Sankararamakrishnan [email protected]
Department of Biological Science and Bioengineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-208 016
Abstract Explosion in different types of biological data together with increase in computing power has enabled the researchers to investigate complex and seemingly intractable biological problems. The nature of such problems could be studied at different levels including genetic, molecular, cellular and even at organismal level. Systems biology, gene circuits, genome evolution, protein structure universe and dynamics of inter-connected networks are some of the examples which require fusion between biology, computation and other fields including mathematics, physics and chemistry. In this talk, I will explain three different biological problems that have seen tremendous progress in recent years due to advances in high- performance computing. Finding an evolutionary relationship for a given set of protein or nucleotide sequences is a challenging task. Even for 10 sequences, the number of possible rooted trees would be close to 34 million. Phylogenetic methods like "Maximum likelihood" attempts to find the best tree among all possible trees that gives the highest probability. Similarly, finding the lead drug and optimizing it for a given biomolecular target requires so many degrees of freedom to be optimized. Likewise, attempts to simulate large molecular machines like ribosomes that exceed 2 million atoms are some of the complicated biological problems that were beyond reach even in the beginning of this century. Applications of high performance computing in tackling such complex systems will be discussed in this talk
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Automatic Parallelization of Programs
Vibha Patel and Sanjeev K.Aggarwal [email protected]
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur- 208 016
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As high performance computers become ubiquitous, reducing the complexity of parallel programming has become increasingly important. Exploiting parallelism from sequential program is one of the outstanding challenges of modern computer science. The success of each innovation in computer architecture has been dependent on the ability of compiler technology to provide efficient language implementations for that innovation. A natural implication to this approach is to make compilers responsible for automatically transforming code to take advantage of parallelism. In this talk we present an overview of different compiler optimization techniques, program analysis and code generation issues of different architectures.
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Will HPC ever meet the demands of weather and climate
forecasting?
P. Goswami
CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS) Bengaluru- 560 037
Abstract
The exponential growth of High Performance Computing (HPC), both in terms of computer power and storage, in recent years is well known; the projections are equally encouraging. It may, therefore, appear out of place to ask whether there will be any shortage of HPC power in future, for any problem however complex. At a trivial level, answer to such a question, of course, is obvious. Given that weather and climate are represented by continuous dynamical equations, no computing (with today’s conceptual setting) can ever represent these equations in an isomorphic way. However, even in a practical setting of numerical representation, HPC may find it an insurmountable challenge to meet the growing and projected needs of weather and climate forecasting. This need is driven by growing acceptance of utility as well as indispensability of weather and climate forecasts, and hence increasing user demands; the projected and conceivable demands can certainly dwarf today’s HPC might. The talk will address these and related issues.
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Molecular simulations and HPC@IITK
A. Chandra
Department of Chemistry and Computer Centre Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur- 208 016
Abstract We discuss different molecular simulation methods that are used to study chemical dynamics in various phases of chemical systems such as solids, liquids, clusters and interfaces. The simulations methodologies range from empirical potential based classical molecular dynamics to first principles molecular dynamics where electronic structure of chemical systems is taken into account explicitly. Combination of the two methods such as QM/MM simulations are also discussed. Several applications of these methods to various chemically significant systems are presented. Hardware requirements for such studies, especially to take those studies to next levels of length and time scales and the possible role of new HPC system at IITK in providing necessary hardware infrastructure are also discussed.
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Lighting up Human Tissue to Detect Tumors
Asima Pradhan
Department of Physics and Centre for Laser Technology Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur- 208 016
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Biomedical Optics is a rapidly developing field where optical principles are being exploited to study bio-systems. Growth in the field of lasers, fiber optics and associated technologies has helped in the growth of activities in this area. Optical methods, due to their non-invasive nature, are providing novel approaches for medical imaging, diagnosis and therapy. Motivated by the fact that unlike conventional diagnostics techniques, spectroscopic measurements on human tissue may offer noninvasive, nondestructive and near real time detection of disease, fluorescence, Raman and elastic scattering spectroscopic approaches are being actively pursued for their diagnostic potential. Among these techniques, fluorescence spectroscopy has particularly been investigated for diagnosis of cancer, taking advantage of the native fluorescence from tissue components, such as proteins and enzymes and their subtle changes during progress of disease. Also, morphological changes in terms of density of cells and nuclear to cytoplasmic size changes, seen in growing tumors, are well reflected via elastic scattering. However, the major difficulty encountered in using optical techniques is the fact that multiple scattering within tissue leads to spreading of light beam and loss of directionality that results in image blurring. Various approaches such as coherence gating, time gating, spatial filtering, polarization gating etc. have been proposed to extract unscattered or weakly scattered photons (that have information of image) from the multiply scattered photons for imaging. One of the techniques developed by us, using polarized fluorescence to extract the subtle information otherwise masked by scattering and absorption, will be discussed. Recent work on the use of polarization gating through Mueller matrix technique used for imaging in tissue slides have shown promising results which may be useful as a quantitative supplement to histopathology and will be presented.
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Chemiresistor Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
Clifford Ho
Sandia Labs, Albuquerque, NM 87111. USA
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This paper summarizes research performed at Sandia National Laboratories to develop microchemical sensors for continuous environmental monitoring of volatile organic compounds. A chemiresistor sensor array was integrated with a unique, waterproof housing that allows the sensors to be operated in a variety of media including air, soil, and water. Numerous tests were performed to evaluate and improve the sensitivity, stability, and discriminatory capabilities of the chemiresistors. Field tests were conducted to further test and develop the sensors in actual environments within integrated monitoring systems. The field tests addressed issues regarding data acquisition, telemetry, power requirements, data processing, and other engineering requirements. Significant advances were made in the areas of polymer optimization, packaging, data analysis, discrimination, design, and information dissemination. However, a major limitation of the chemiresistor sensor is its sensitivity, which has a minimum detection threshold of approximately 0.1% of the analyte’s saturated vapor pressure. Preconcentrators have been developed that can increase the sensitivity by over an order of magnitude, but their reliability and stability require further research. Additional information regarding the chemiresistor research can be found at www.sandia.gov/sensor.
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Technologies with Minimal Environmental Footprint
Vinod Tare
Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208 016
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Conventional wisdom suggests that major environmental problems that have arisen as a result of development can only be tackled through adoption of technologies for pollution control or remediation of contaminated environmental media. However, imposing controls on activities that lead to excessive pollution may often be a better strategy for combating environmental pollution. For example, two major environmental problems of the twentieth century, viz., eutrophication of water bodies and depletion of stratospheric ozone layer, could be tackled through imposition of controls on the causative agents, i.e., phosphate containing detergents and ozone depleting substances (ODS) respectively. Advances in science and technology have played a great role in identifying and analyzing the environmental problems. However, solution to such problems often lies in use of technologies with minimal environmental footprint. The vision of great leaders, philosophers and thinkers is often reflective of such a philosophy. Some of the research work undertaken in environmental engineering laboratory focuses on developing technologies that applies modern science and technology combined with traditional wisdom. Attempts are being made to follow the concept of “closing the nutrient loop” while developing novel systems for sanitation and wastewater treatment. For sanitation, emphasis is on separation of solid and liquid matter at the source and conversion into organic manure and inorganic fertilizer while maintaining the conveniences of the water flush system. Technologies developed based on this are being demonstrated on pilot scale for Indian Railway Passenger coach toilets, community toilets and toilets in house boats. For wastewater treatment in conventional water flush systems employing sewerage network, the focus is on high-growth membrane bioreactors coupled with activated composting cum vermicomposting. The objective of such a treatment is to produce water of recyclable quality and capture much of the nutrients in microbial mass to produce quality organic manure.
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Black Carbon for Green Environment
Nishith Verma [email protected]
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur- 208 016
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In this study, we describe synthesis, characterization and applications of such carbon nano materials as adsorbent, catalyst, and molecular sieves. The model gaseous contaminants studied are SO2, NO, and VOCs, whereas the model water contaminants are F, As and Pb. The synthesis of the similar hierarchal structure of micro-/nano- carbon particles for the separation and recovery of precious pharmaceutical compounds in biofluids is also currently underway in our research group. We prepare the hierarchal web of carbon micro-nano-fibers using the micron-size activated carbon fibers (ACF) as substrate. Carbon nanofibers (CNF) are grown on ACF by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The method briefly comprises of impregnating ACF with a suitable metal catalyst, calcinations, reduction to convert oxides of metals to their metallic state, growing carbon nanofibers by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and subsequently sonication of the prepared web. Most importantly, the hierarchal web thus prepared is re-impregnated with another type of catalyst (different from the parent catalyst used for growing CNF) required for certain end-application. Thus, there are two categories of distinct conditioning in the route to preparing the web of carbon micro-nano fibers for different end-applications. In one category, the metal catalyst, for example Fe, has dual functionalities: (1) for growing the hierarchal structure, and (2) for removing the contaminant solutes such as As in wastewater. In the other category, the parent catalyst, for example Ni, must be removed after growing CNF and the web re-processed by impregnating it with another type of metal such as Al. In the latter (post-synthesis) category, the sequence of steps for the incorporation of metals within the micro-nano pores of carbon webs is qualitatively similar to that for parent catalyst. However, the operating conditions are distinctively different.
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In either of the two categories, the hierarchal web may also be functionalized with surface functional groups for enhancing its adsorptive/catalytic efficiency. For example, basic groups such as hydroxyl or ketone may be incorporated to remove the solutes, which are acidic, or vice-versa. In addition to water remediation applications, we have also shown the Ni-grown hierarchical structure to be highly efficient in reactions involving adsorption-reduction of NO, catalytic oxidation of SO2 and VOCs in the effluent gas. Control of persistent organic pollutants is also shown to be effective by the synthesized hierarchal structure. The synthesis of the styrene precursor based (carbonized) spherical micro/nano particles having hierarchal meso/nano porous structure has recently been undertaken. The surface of the synthesized adsorbents may be functionalized to incorporate suitable functional groups (polar or non-polar, acid or basic, hydrophobic or hydrophilic) for increasing its selectivity towards a variety of pharmaceutical compounds, including erythromycin, acetaminophen, and vitamin B-12. The application of such iron-doped activated micro/nano carbon particles as efficient adsorbents for arsenic removal has also been successfully demonstrated. The latest addition to the study on carbons is the development of carbon molecular sieves (CMS) using ACF as a precursor material. By the post-thermal treatment, meso-pores may be changed into nanopores, ensuing molecular sieving property. This property may be used in the sequestration of CO2 from the flue gas.
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Remediation of Pollution in Natural Systems
Soumyen Guha [email protected]
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-208 016
Abstract
Anthropogenic pollution in the natural systems such as ocean, lakes, rivers, ponds, groundwater and soil pose serious threats to human health. These contaminants can be ingested through water and air. They may also move through the food chain (consumed through food) and thereby, get concentrated (bio concentration). The pollution may be inadvertent such as accidental oil spills; may arise from inappropriate disposal of toxic industrial waste such as burial; may be due to routine anthropogenic activity such as, pesticide application in the agricultural land or may arise from natural sources such as, arsenic pollution in the Ganges delta. Characterization and remediation of these pollutions pose unique challenges that are often interdisciplinary in nature. The presentation will initially attempt to introduce the audience to the nature of these pollutions followed by illustration of some of the challenges posed by these problems. In the later part of the presentation, it will describe in greater detail the aspects that are investigated in our research group. Specifically, these aspects are characterization of natural attenuation of recalcitrant toxic compounds, kinetics of degradation of the single compound and mixture of compounds, pathways of degradation and dependence on redox conditions, establishing redox regions in the natural systems, bioavailability of the compounds with low solubility, and quantification of microbial ecology.
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Drug Discovery: A multidisciplinary science
Vinod Bhakuni
Central Drug Research Institute Lucknow-226 001
Abstract In the past most drugs have been discovered either by identifying the active ingredient from traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery. The idea that effect of drug in human body are mediated by specific interactions of the drug molecule with biological macromolecules, (proteins or nucleic acids in most cases) led scientists to the conclusion that individual chemicals are required for the biological activity of the drug. The new approach to drug discovery has been to understand how disease and infection are controlled at the molecular and physiological level and to target specific entities based on this knowledge. The process of drug discovery involves the identification of a chosen target for a particular disease, a chemical entity (molecule) that can inhibit that enzyme, synthesis of the molecule and its analogs, their characterization, screening, and assays for therapeutic efficacy. Once a compound has shown its value in these tests, it will begin the process of drug development prior to clinical trials.
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Good Design-confluence of art, technology and social science
Satish Gokhale
Design Directions Pvt. Ltd. Pune-411 004
Abstract
The Tata Swach filter addresses the larger issue of making clean and safe drinking water available to all at an extremely attractive price of Rs. 999/-. SWACH is an unique, innovative water purifier, which gives clean and safe drinking water without using electricity or running water - often not available in rural India. The core technology of the product is the filter (Called as Tata Bulb) that has been developed by Tata Research Development and Design Centre and Tata Chemicals Ltd. This efficient filter is made from a rice husk ash – a low cost natural ingredient. The bulb is impregnated with silver nano particles. It has the capability to kill bacteria and disease-causing organisms. The filter can purify up to 3000 litres (@ 6 months for a family of 5 members) of water before changing. Cost to replace the bulb is Rs. 299/- only. We worked closely with our clients in shaping this product. Our indigenous design process of defining and ranking real problems and creating a solution independent design brief coupled with our method of managing the innovative design process, we are able to deliver a product that was distinctive in look, easy to use and intuitive. Our design helped make our client's technology more effective.
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Embodiment of Intelligence in Product Design: Inspirations from Nature
Bishakh Bhattacharya [email protected]
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Design Programme
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-208 016
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Product design is implicitly correlated with Natural Evolution. Analogous to the development of a natural system, product design involves satisfaction of various conflicting objectives in an optimal way within a specified range of spatial and temporal constraints. Moreover, the success of a product could be traced back to the possession of a set of useful traits or DNAs very much like their natural counterparts. Thus, the time demand of developing a new product could be substantially reduced by accessing the strategies adopted by nature. Another complicated issue is to define and develop intelligence in a product. Is it equivalent to coding ‐ soft artificial intelligence or does it need embodiment and network of hardware like sensors and actuators? Once again, we find a large variation of embedding intelligence in nature. There exists an extensive hierarchy of intelligence in nature suitable for a particular environment. We can draw our inspirations from a few case studies in this direction and develop the paradigm of intelligent system design.
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Excitement in Creativity and Invention
Ashok Misra
Intellectual Ventures, Bangalore
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From Design to Design Thinking
Aradhana Goel
Ideo Corporation, Chicago, USA
Abstract
What is design? What is design thinking? And what does design and innovation mean specifically for India? These are some themes that I would like to talk about. Traditionally in India, ‘Design with the big-D’ has been a thing of luxury for the rich and the famous. There has been a very clear distinction between designed or designer products and everything else. We would all agree that a well designed product or service can establish a deep emotional bond with its user. But does a country like India-- extremely resource constraint and highly value conscious-- have the time or the money to patronize it? Well, if design is limited in this way, then we probably don’t. However, design is simply a way of life— A human-centered way of finding solutions to problems. We at IDEO call this Design Thinking. It is ‘design with a small-d’ that can transform organizations, societies and inspire innovation. Our challenges are big—Sanitation of urban slums, scaling education, providing affordable homes etc. and none of these challenges require us to create beautifully designed objects. But they do require us to think creatively and design sustainable & systemic solutions. This talk will showcase a few IDEO projects where the objective is no longer just physical products. The designed outcome is an array of processes, services, interactions, and new ways of communicating and collaborating—exactly the kinds of human-centered activities where design thinking can make a decisive difference.
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Applying Nanotechnology to Coronary artery disease: From Invention to Innovation
S. Sundar Manoharan [email protected]
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208 016
Abstract Currently coronary stents are used in more than 90% of PCI procedures world wide for treatment of Coronary artery disease. The dramatic increase in the use of Bare Metal Stents identified a new problem, restenosis occurring within the stent, In-stent restenosis (ISR). Drug eluting stents (DES) have reduced ISR and target lesion revascularization (TLR) compared to BMS and this caused a revolution in the interventional treatment of symptomatic CAD. However, enthusiasm for this technology has recently been dampened by concerns about late stent thrombosis (LST), incomplete endo-thelialization, coronary artery spasm, and abnormal vasomotor function. Thus, focus has been brought onto the structure and composition of stents and stent coatings with particular interest in how the vessel responds to the foreign device and development of devices with improved biocompatibility and long-term patient outcomes The present invention provides nano-polymer(composite) coating on the stent surface. The polymer composite is chemically inert, thermally stable and can be employed in the treatment of various vascular disorders with proven efficacy and safety in human.
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Innovation in smart card technologies and their applications
Rajat Moona [email protected]
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-208 016
Abstract
Smart cards are the latest solutions in identification technologies with an embedded computing engine to perform cryptographic operations and to ensure proper access control on identification data. The major advantages of these technologies include the security of data, secrecy of cryptographic keys and abstraction of data access control.
Smart cards are finding their applications in identification areas such as driving licenses, national identity cards, electronic passports, new generation credit cards etc. In India smart cards technology has come in the last decade and is now ready for the mass deployment through variety of applications. IIT Kanpur has contributed in a major way by defining an inter-operable standard for the operating system that runs on the embedded processor. This has enabled the use of the technology in driving license, vehicle registration and MNIC cards. The same cards are now in use in various other applications including public distribution system, cards for population below-poverty-line, electronic passport etc.
Some of the innovations also include use of smart cards as ATM cards that can solve the problems of online-connectivity of ATM machines with the bank authentication servers, thereby reducing the cost of the operations. Such an ATM can then even be deployed in rural banking and in areas of low quality connectivity.
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Technology to Product, Lab to Industry: Experiences in Dual Drive High Energy Planetary Mill
Prem Prakash
CENOGEN, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-208 016
Abstract The journey started with an encounter with iron carbide nano powders which were made in our laboratory and were felt to be potential substitute for tungsten carbide nano powders used in cutting tool applications (Sandvik, Kennametals, etc). In past many more invention has been created in IITs. The lack of initiative makes such technologies to stay as theory, with no commercial implementation. In order to let these lab created technologies reach to people, a small step was taken and named it as CENOGEN MATERIALS.
We made a machine named as especially designed horizontal axis dual drive planetary mill. It can perform much faster grinding and communition than any other commercially available planetary mill. Later this machine was felt to be the one of our group’s major invention as a product. Further it produced many other useful and technologically challenged products in ceramics and biomaterials. Some of these derivative products were nanocrystalline titanium carbide powders and nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite powders and were synthesized in lesser time and at reduced cost.
We, at Cenogen Materials are committed to take every opportunity to make our technologies more pronounced and reach wider base as product.
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Innovation in wireless technology for industrial automation
Ashish Agarwal [email protected]
Innovative Embedded Systems Pvt. Ltd, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208 016
Abstract
With the advancement of wireless technologies like GSM, Zigbee, RFID, Bluetooth etc.., there opens enormous scope of industrial automation, which otherwise would not be possible with earlier technologies. This article discusses some of the areas where Innovative Embedded Systems Pvt. Ltd. (IESPL), an incubate company at SIIC, IIT Kanpur, is using these technologies to make the system more efficient, economical and error free.
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IIT Kanpur-Attaining Global Leadership in Research
Jeet S. Bindra
Chevron, USA
Abstract
IIT Kanpur today is recognized as the National Leader in science and technology education. That falls way short of the aspirations of its key stakeholders. The recent efforts to articulate a long-term vision for IIT Kanpur has gained tremendous momentum. The key element of this vision (now known as Vision 2020) is to attain and sustain a position amongst the top 20 global institutions recognized for excellence in science and technology. Recognition at the global level is measured by the products of the institution, i.e. the quality of a) graduating students, b) faculty, c) research output, and d) societal impact. Even though IIT K is well positioned across multiple dimensions, a step change in research effectiveness and output would be required. How can all stakeholders collaborate on this journey to make this vision a reality in the coming decade?
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R&D Planning - A Boeing Perspective
Bala Bharadvaj
Boeing Research & Technology-India RMZ Infinity (Tower D, Unit 501)
No. 3, Old Madras Road Bangalore 560 016
Boeing India, Bangalore
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IITK should be No. 1 in computing again
N. Sathyamurthy [email protected];
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
IITK is known to be the pioneer in computer education in the country. AIR No. 1 always wanted to join B. Tech. (Computer Science) in IIT Kanpur. It was the first academic institution to have the state-of-the-art computing facility in the country. The Institute’s computing power was reflected in the quality publications that came out of its laboratories. To stand tall among Indian Institutions and perhaps in the world, IITK should strive to become No. 1 in computing again. Not just in terms of teraflops and petaflops, but in pursuing problems that are in the forefront of science and engineering. The speaker would like to propose a road map that illustrates the problems in chemistry, biology and other areas.
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Some thoughts on research in IITs - Vision 2020
M. S. Ananth [email protected];[email protected]
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai-600 036
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What Should Be the Research Vision for IIT Kanpur - A Difficult Question with a Simple Answer? or Vice Versa?
A. Ghosh
Bengal Engineering & Science University Shibpur, Howrah- 711 103
and Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur- 208 016
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Prospects for Intelligent Imagination
Anurag Gupta [email protected]
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur- 208016
Abstract
A research university is neither a purely teaching institution nor a dedicated research laboratory. Keeping this in mind, I will begin by highlighting the role of a research university in the context of intelligent assimilation and imagination of knowledge within specific socio-cultural environments. Next, with IIT Kanpur in perspective, I will discuss various expectations and concerns of the young faculty and also identify key players in an emerging research university. I will end my talk with a small case study based on my experiences in the Mechanical Engineering department here at IIT Kanpur.
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Research-driven strategy in higher education
Sanjay. G. Dhande
[email protected]; [email protected]
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-208016
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Poster Presentations
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Poster Presentations October 10, 2010
High Performance Computing: Applications in Science and Engineering
1. P. A. Apte, A. K. Gautam and A. M. Patil Simulations studies of liquid-liquid transition in supercooled silicon 2. V. Sudarkodi, Dhiraj K Mahajan, Prabhat Agnihotri, Suman Guha, Parimal Maity and Sumit Basu Micromechanics of Solids through Atomistic Simulations 3. Abhijit Mondal, Amartya Bose, and D. Goswami Rotating Wave Approximation (RWA) Breakdown in Few Cycle Pulses 4. Abhishek G. Ramgadia and A. K. Saha Large eddy simulation of flow and heat transfer in a ribbed coolant passage with skewed ribs 5. Ashish Agrawal Optimizing General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) Code 6. Bahni Ray, Gautam Biswas and Ashutosh Sharma Multiple Drop Impacts in Liquid 7. D. K. Das, T. Goswami and D. Goswami Towards Using Molecular Ions as Qubits for Scalable Quantum Computation 8. Durgesh Chandel and Jagmohan Meena 2D and 3D Numerical simulations for flow past circular cylinders at Low Reynolds number 9.Indrajit Chakraborty, Gautam Biswas and Partha S. Ghoshdastidar Bubble Formation From Submereged Orifice And Its Instability 10. S. Sarkar, Jasim Sadique Flow Instabilities and Transition in Complex Flows 11. S. Sarkar, J. Sadique and N. Reddy Separation Bubble, its Control and Interactions with Oncoming Wakes 12. Jyoti Roy Chowdhury, Anwesa Karmakar and Amalendu Chandra Hydrogen bonds and vibrational spectroscopy of aqueous systems
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13. M. Pandey and R. G. Pala Stabilization of metastable intermediates in metal oxide nanoparticles and growth to native structure via depolarized surfaces 14. M. K. Rajpoot, Y. Bhumkar, S. Bhaumik, VVSN Vijay, VK Suman and N. Hussain Recent trends in HPC at High performance computing laboratory at Dept. of Aerospace Engineering 15. Mayur Saxena, Sreerup Banerjee, Tanu Rawal, and Anupam Pal Muscle mechanics of gastric emptying from an interdisciplinary approach 16. P. K. Mishra, M. K. Verma, A. K. De, V. Eswaran Dynamics of reorientations and reversals of large scale flow in Rayleigh-Benard convection 17. Pankaj Saha, Gautam Biswas and Subrata Sarkar Turbulent Flow In a Channel With Urbulent Flow In A Channel With Periodically Deployed Longitudinal Vortex Generators 18. Pinku Nath and Madhav Ranganathan Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of Crystal Growth of Silicon Germanium Thin Films 19. Ravi Tripati and Nisanth N. Nair Enzymatic Reactions In Silico: Accessing Reaction Mechanism and Free Energies 20. Sachin Khot, Vishwesh Inamdar, Revati Lenka CodeOptimizer: A Workbench for Code Optimizations 21. Rupesh Tulshyan, Ramnik Arora and Kalyanmoy Deb Parallelizing Genetic Algorithms using GPU based CUDA Platform 22. Sandip Khan and Jayant K Singh Phase transitions of associating molecules near active surfaces 23. Nitin Gorde, Sonali Pitre Multi-criteria Resource Scheduling in Hierarchical Dynamic Grid Scheduler 24. Sudhir K. Singh, Rajat Srivastava and Jayant K. Singh Phase diagram of fluids confined at nanoscale 25. R. Yadav, M. Chandra, M. K. Verma, S. Paul. P. Wahi Dynamo transition under Taylor-Green forcing
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26. Trushar B. Gohil, A. K. Saha and K. Muralidhar The role of coherent structures in the controlling of circular jet 27. Vibha Patel and Sanjeev Aggarwal Compiling Irregular Access for the GPU 28. Vivek Yadav and Amalendu Chandra Dynamics of nonaqueous solutions: An ab initio molecular dynamics study 29. Vivek Modi, Dilraj Lama and Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan Specificity of proteins involved in cell death: Comparative molecular dynamics simulations Mcl-1 and A1 complex structures 30. Ashok Khanna, Yamini Sudha Sistla Solubility Studies of CO2 in Ionic Liquids using COSMO-RS and Molecular Dynamics
Environment, Health and Life
31. Rajesh, Mezgebu Belay, William O Hancock, Jeffrey M Catchmark, Vivek Verma Lithography approaches to study microtubule dynamics (PG students), PSM 32. Puneet Lamba, Satyanarayana Saini, Rishabh Raj, Avnindra Thakur, Jeffrey M Catchmar, Nicole R Brown, Vivek Verma Cellulose based nanocomposites: Effect of surface functionalization on mechanical properties. 33. Shekhar Nath, Subhadip Bhodhak, Rajesh Tripathi and Bikramjit Basu, Sushma Kalmodia Development of Designed Biocomposites for Orthopedic Applications 34. Naresh Saha and Bikramjit Basu, Sushma Kalmodia Physical and Antimicrobial Properties of HAp-ZnO Biocomposites 35. Shekhar Nath, Sushma Kalmodia and Bikramjit Basu Cytotoxity and bone mineralization properties of Novel Calcium Phosphate-mullite composites 36.Shekhar Nath, Bikramjit Basu, Mitra Mohanty and P.V. Mohan, Sushma Kalmodia In vivo response of novel calcium phosphate mullite composites: results up to 12 weeks of implants
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37. Basanta K. Rajbongshi, Pratik Sen, Nisanth N. Nair and Gurunath Ramanathan Molecular Rotor Property of a Model Green Fluorescent Protein Luminophore Analog 38. Bikrmajit Basu Indo-US Biomaterials Center for Health Care 39. Bikrmajit Basu UK-India Education Research Initiative on Glass Ceramics for dental restorative applications 40. Mamta Upadhaya, Sonali Sengupta, Ishima Badhwar, and Subramaniam Ganesh Malin and laforin are essential components of a protein complex that protects cells from the thermal stress 41.Vivek Modi, Dilraj Lama and Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan Specificity of proteins involved in cell death: Comparative molecular dynamics simulations of Mcl-1 and A1 complex structures 42.Pankaj Kumar Singh and Subramaniam Ganesh A phosphatase-ubiquitin ligase complex regulates glucose metabolism 43. Sweta Singh and Subramaniam Ganesh Importance of mRNA dysregulation in neurodegenerative disorders
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Poster Presentations October 11, 2010
Innovation and Design
1. R K Joshi, A R Harish Wideband loop antenna 2. Ashutosh Sharma, Manoj Gonuguntla, Subash A Subramaniam, Rabibrata Mukherjee Micro- and Sub-micro Patterning of Soft Solids and articles Formed thereby 3. Neelam Saurakhiya, Satinder K. Sharma, Ashutosh Sharma Polyaniline 1D Nanostructures film formation by Electrochemical deposition for biomedical applications 4. C Venkatesan Design and development of an autonomous mini helicopter 5. Jamuna R Subramaniam, Himanshu K Mishra Umbilical Cord Derived Pluripotent Cells Express Neurotrophic Factors And Can Be Differentiated Into Neurons By Primary Astrocytes Conditioned Medium 6. Durga Prasad Kethineedi and K S Venkatesh A data compression method adaptable to static video surveillance systems 7. K. Kumar, Prem Prakash, Tapendu Mandal, Kallol Mondal Design and modelling of a STAMPCOAT Mill 8. Kamal K Kar, Sumit Pramanik Development of Hydroxyapatite / Poly (etheretherketone) composite nanoparticles 9. Srivastava A., Kumar A., Bhattacharya A., Malhotra R., N V Reddy Incremental sheet metal forming 10. Rashmi Sanghi, Preeti Verma Fungal bio-synthesis of CdS nanoparticles in continuous column 11. Swarnasri Mandal, Rajeev K. Singh, Deepak Singh, R. Gurunath, Shantanu Bhattacharya Dielectrophoretic separation of nano-particle conjugated bacterial cells within microscale architecture
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12.Anukul Prasad Parhi, Sundar K Iyer Formation of uniaxially oriented crystalline nano-columns in copper phthalocyanine films by annealing in electric field 13. Anirban Bagui, Sundar K Iyer Enhancement of power conversion efficiency of P3HT: PCBM based blend organic solar cell by applying an electric field during solvent annealing 14. Arun Tej Mallajosyula, Sundar K Iyer, B. Mazhari Efficiency Improvement of Polymer Solar Cells with Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes 15. Suman Banerjee, Sundar K Iyer Analysis of Spectral response of organic devices 16. Ashok Kumar, Anuj Tripathi Polymer Matrix scaffold and process for preparation thereof 17. Manas K Ghorai, D P Tiwari Synthesis of Chiral γ – lactams 18. Edward Peter A, Anighmanshu Ghatak Bio-inspired Design of Hierarchically Structured Adhesives 19. Deepak Gupta, K N Narayanan Unni, Girija S Samal Improved efficiency in a fluorescent during organic light emitting diode with a carrier confining structure 20. Suraj M. Patil, Kanmani Subbu, Sathish Sekar, J. Ram Kumar, Dhamodaran Handy Cup 21. J Ram Kumar, V.K. Jain, M Ravi Sankar Universal rotational abrasive flow finishing (UR-AFF) process 22. Sathish Sekhar, J Ram Kumar Transporter 23. Sumer Dirbude, Vinayak Eswaran, Abhijit Kushari An effective Reynolds number based droplet evaporation model 24. Susmita Das, Animangsu Ghatak, Sambasivarao Multi-tip syringe needle inspired by mosquito proboscis
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25. Reshma Maurya, J Ram Kumar, A R Harish, Ashutosh Kumar Novel, self-powered, easy to use blood pressure monitoring device 26. Dhirendra Katti, Anupam Pal, Shaunak G Pandya, Poonam Sharma Novel Matlab based image analysis algorithm for automated structural characterization of nanofibrous scaffolds 27. Ashish Bhateja, Prem Prakash, Ishan Sharma, B.K. Mishra, Jayant K. Singh, Tapendu Mandal, Sandeep Sangal, Ashish Garg Three dimensional numerical modeling of horizontal axis planetary mill with variable transmission ratio