Education leads to development: Umesh Patel
| Date :15-Nov-2019 |
Staff Reporter :
Raipur
International Conference on Chemical Sciences begins at PRSU
The three-day International Conference on Chemical Sciences was inaugurated at Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (PRSU) on Thursday. The international conference, jointly organised by School of Studies in Chemistry, PRSU and Government Nagarjuna Science College, was inaugurated at Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Auditorium. Higher Education Minister of Chhattisgarh Umesh Patel was present as the Chief guest at the conference ceremony. University Vice-Chancellor Prof Keshari Lal Verma, President of the Indian Chemical Society Dr D C Mukherjee, Programme Coordinator Prof Kallol K Ghosh, Prof Shams Parvez, Prof Manas Kanti Deb, Registrar Prof Girish Kant Pandey, Dr M L Satnami and other guests inaugurated the international conference by lighting the lamp and singing the Chhattisgarh Rajgeet ‘Arpa Pairry ke Dhar’. The Higher Education Minister appreciated the international conference and said that education leads to the development.
Conferences and seminars are mediums to exchange new ideas, technology and knowledge. Professor Verma welcomed all the teachers, professors and delegates, research scholars from all over the country and abroad and gave information about the scientific and technical programs of the conference. Professor Kallol Ghosh said that about 500 students studying at undergraduate and postgraduate levels are participating from various districts of Chhattisgarh such as Janjgir Champa, Raigarh, Dhamtari, Rajnandgaon, Durg, Bilaspur etc. Conference chair and Head of SoS Chemistsry Prof Shams Parvez briefed about the purpose of this international conference.
He also gave the detailed information regarding the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister’s ambitious project Narva, Garuva, Ghurwa and Bari. Prof Daniel R Thalham of Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida, USA gave the inaugural lecture. Prof Daniel gave detailed information about optoelectronic and magnetism properties of materials. Prof Daniel explained that light-switchable magnetic material will be useful in storing and sharing of information. Through this technique, sensors (light and heat) and energy can be converted into many forms.
Also, with this technique magnetic energy can also be converted using light into different forms of energy. In the conference, Prof Kimitaka Kawamura of Chubu of Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan, lectured on water molecular distribution of water soluble organic acids in aerosols and its implication on climate change and human health. Prof Kawamura discussed about the origin of organic aerosol, which is the environmental pollution and discussed its effect on the climate change and on human health. He has developed a new technique to detect and identify the side effects of organic aerosols in the environment through analytical techniques.
He said that soluble dye carboxylic acid and other components are formed from the particles of biomass burning and forest fire which pollutes the atmosphere. It is gradually acidifying our environment which can lead to horrifying conditions in near future. In the second session of the conference, Prof. Sunder Gopal Ghosh of Department of Chemistry at IIT Madras lectured about various structures and their applications of boron made of metal diborane. Prof Bidendu Mohan Dev was honored with the life time achievement award by the Indian Chemical Society. Prof B M Dev said that it is a matter of pride for the children of India to work in India. In the second session, Prof Ganapati Yadav, Vice-Chancellor of IICT, Mumbai and Swapan Kumar Ghosh, former scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Center also gave invited lecture.