Vijyoshi (National Science Camp)

Vijyoshi National Science Camp
Lecture by Dr. Georg Bednorz, 2014
Vigyan Jyoti Shivir
Status Active
Genre National Science Camp
Frequency Annual
Venue J N Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, IISER-Kolkata
Country India
Years active 2009-present
Inaugurated 10 October 2009 (2009-10-10)
Founder C.N.R Rao
Most recent 18 December 2015 (2015-12-18)
Participants KVPY Fellows, INSPIRE Fellows, IISER, IIT
Activity Lectures, Exhibition
Organised by KVPY, INSPIRE, Department of Science and Technology (India)
Website
kvpy.iisc.ernet.in/vijyoshi/

Vijyoshi is an annual national science camp organised by KVPY in coolaboration with INSPIRE programme and IISER-Kolkata. It is an abbreviation for Vigyan Jyoti Shivir. It started in the year 2009 and is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (India). The aim of Vijyoshi Camp is to provide a forum for interactions between bright young students and leading researchers in various branches of Science and Mathematics.[1]

The programme includes lectures sessions followed by discussion sessions. The speakers at this camp are eminent scientists and mathematicians. Participants of this programme include KVPY fellows, INSPIRE scholars, 1st year science undergraduates studying in IISc, IISER's, IIT's, NISER and other central universities. In 2014 the camp was hosted by two institutions- IISc and IISER- Kolkata. A total of about 1200 students attended the camp in 2014.[2]

Vijyoshi 2014

Some of the speakers for Vijyoshi 2014 included Physics Nobel Laureate Dr.Georg Bednorz, renowned Structural Chemist Prof.Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju, and the director of the Indian Institute of Science Prof.Anurag Kumar.[3]

Several Under Graduate Students from IISc also demonstrated over 20 experiments to the young students who visited the camp. Some of them were Non-Newtonian fluid, Stirling Engine, Leindenfrost Effect, Gyroscope, Equivalence Principle, Ripple tank and Coupled Torsional Pendulum.[4] There were also cultural programs performed by IISc students.[5]

Details of Previous Camps

Year Venue(s) Co-ordinator(s) Notable Speakers
2009 Bangalore
New Delhi 		Prof. Dipankar Chatterjee
Prof. Rajendra Prasad 		Prof.P. Balaram
Prof. Michael L. Klein
Prof. Richard N Zare
Prof. Amotz Zahavi
Prof.C.N.R Rao
Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Prof.Richard Robert Ernst[6]
2010 Bangalore Prof. Dipankar Chatterjee Prof.Madhav Gadgil
Prof. Michael L. Klein
Prof. Stuart S.P. Parkin
Prof. Andrew H Knoll
Prof. Sir Richard Friend[7]
2011 Bangalore Prof. S. Chandrasekaran Prof. Anant Agarwal
Prof. S. Ramanan
Prof. D. D. Sarma
Prof. CNR Rao[8]
2012 Bangalore Prof. S. Chandrasekaran Prof. Ramachandran Balasubramanian
Prof. Tom Blundell
Prof. Sir Richard Friend
Prof. Daniel Neumark
Prof. E.W. Bert Meijer
Prof. Michael R Fellows
Prof. M. S. Raghunathan
Prof. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath[9]
2013 Bangalore Prof.P.K Das Prof. Biman Bagchi
Prof. Frank Morgan
Prof. Ashoke Sen
Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman
Prof. Dieter Söll
Prof. N. Balakrishnan[10]
2014 Bangalore
Kolkata 		Prof. Kaushal Kumar Verma
Dr. Ananda Dasgupta 		Prof. Gregery T. Buzzard
Prof. Prof. Anurag Kumar
Prof. Dan Stack
Prof. Erik Boettger
Prof.M. K Sanyal
Prof.Ramakrishna V. Hosur
Prof.Rohini Godbole[3]
2015Bangalore
Kolkata		Prof. G Mugesh
Dr. Pradipta Purkayastha
Dr. Punyasloke Bhadury		Prof. Rudi Van Eldik
Prof. Laurie J. Butler
Prof. Anant K. Menon
Prof. Raghu Kalluri
Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri
Prof. Jainendra K. Jain
Prof. Michelle Y. Simmons
Prof. Dipankar Chatterji[11]

References

  1. ↑ "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". 2015-02-19. Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  2. ↑ "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". 2015-02-28. Archived from the original on February 28, 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  3. 1 2 "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". kvpy.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  4. ↑ http://dasninaad.blogspot.in
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nmsPLUopo
  6. ↑ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2009". 2009-09-14. Archived from the original on September 14, 2009. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  7. ↑ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2010". 2010-12-10. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  8. ↑ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2011". 2012-02-12. Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  9. ↑ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2012". 2012-12-15. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  10. ↑ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2013". kvpy.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  11. ↑ "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". kvpy.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
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