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India, Australia explore nano-science together

NEW DELHI: A three-day symposium that brings together researchers from India and Australia on a common platform to present their novel work and expertise in nano-science opens at the Convention Hall of Delhi University here on Wednesday.

While the ‘Indo-Australia Symposium on Multifunctional Nanomaterials, Nanostructures and Applications’ will be inaugurated by Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, T. Ramasami, Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental will deliver the presidential address.

Being held under the auspices of India-Australia Strategic Research Initiative Programme between the Department of Science and Technology, India, and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Australia, the symposium will unravel several issues concerning nano-science and nanotechnology. It is aimed at identifying the experts working in similar fields in the two countries with complementary expertise for future collaborative joint research.

Two hundred and fifty speakers from various academic and research institutions of India and Australia will take part in the symposium.

Australian High Commissioner to India, John McCarthy, who will be the guest of honour, will also speak at the symposium.

The first day will see Jim Williams from Australian National University speaking on the topic ‘Nanoindentation for Memory Applications’. Ashutosh Sharma from IIT Kanpur will talk about ‘Novel Meso-Fabrication and Functionalities in Soft Materials’.

The second day will see Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Subasis Ghosh speaking on ‘Origin of Stokes Shift in Semiconductor Quantum Dots’. Chennupati Jagadish from Australian National University will speak on the topic ‘Nanowires for Optoelectronic Device Applications’.

The third day will see University of Queensland’s Matt Trau talk on ‘Nano-Medicine: Cancer Diagnostic’. V. Ramgopal Rao from IIT, Bombay, will speak on ‘Micro-fabricated Bio-sensors for Cardiac Diagnostics’.

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