Golden Jubilee Lecture Series at IIT Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur is celebrating its Golden Jubilee (50 Years) from August 2001--Aug 2002. You can find information about special events at http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in/gj/ .

IIT Foundation is pleased to announce the "Golden Jubilee lecture series" at IIT Kharagpur. This program is financially supported by IIT Foundation.

Starting on January 2, 2002, ten internationally renowned experts (including some Nobel Laureates) are scheduled to deliver lectures at IIT Kharagpur over a period of four months.

All of the lectures will be held in the Netaji Auditorium at IIT.

Schedule of lectures
Lecturer	Topic	Time and Date
Prof. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty Distinguished University Professor Microbiology & Immunology University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, USA	A Personal Perspective on Biotechnology: Past, Present and the Future.	4:30pm 2nd January, 2002 (Wednesday)
Prof. Walter Kohn Department of Physics University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA	Science at the Turn of the Century: Electronic Structure of Matter Wave Functions and Density Functionals	4:30pm 4th January, 2002 (Friday)
Prof. E. C. George Sudarshan Department of Physics University of Texas Austin, Texas, USA	The Making of a Scientist	4:30pm 9th January, 2002 (Wednesday)
Prof. Merton C. Flemings Faculty Director, Lemelson-MIT Program Toyota Professor Emeritus of Materials Processing Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Developments in Materials Science Education and Research	4:30pm 31st January, 2002 (Thursday)
Prof. J. George Bednorz IBM Research Laboratory Zurich, Switzerland	Perovskites: The Revival of a Scientific Goldmine	4:30pm 13th February, 2002 (Wednesday)
Prof. Tony Leggett Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Illinois, USA	Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics?	4:30pm 18th February, 2002 (Monday)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manabu Kiuchi Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University Tokyo, Japan	To be announced	4:30pm 20th February, 2002 (Wednesday)
Prof. Paolo Dario[English Translation of page by Google] Professor of Biomedical Engineering, President-Elect IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Scuola Superiore Sant' Annai, Pisa, Italy	To be announced	4:30pm 7th March, 2002 (Thursday)
Prof. C. N. R. Rao FRS, Linus Pauling Research Professor & Honorary President Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore, India	Science and Technology of Nanomaterials	4:30pm 15th April, 2002 (Monday)
Prof. Masao Ito Director, Brain Science Institute Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan	What can we expect for Sciences of the Brain?	4:30pm 3rd April, 2002 (Wednesday)

Updated 2nd Jan, 2002