Seminars

Department Seminar 2023

Seminars/Invited Talks/Conferences/Exhibitions Conducted in the Department:

Conferences:

1.  Conference Title: 15th National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry
     Convener: Jointly organized by ISRAPS & Prof. Mainak Banerjee, BITS Goa Chemistry Department
    Area: Radiation and Photochemistry
    Date:  05-01-2023 to 07-01-2023

Seminars:

1. Seminar Title: Using Spectroelectrochemistry to Elucidate Metalloenzyme Reaction Mechanisms
     Area:   Spectro-electrochemistry
    Speaker: Dr. Kushal Sengupta, Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy,MPI-CEC, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany
    Date:  01-05-2023

2. One-Day Seminar Title: Recent Advances in Bio-inorganic Chemsitry
     Convener: Dr. Sudipta Chatterjee, BITS Goa Chemistry Department
    Area: Bio-inorganic Chemistry
    Date: 29-12-2023

Exhibitions:
1.  MIX IT UP : A CHEMISTRY FAIR
Department Seminar 2022

Seminars/Invited Talks/Conferences/Exhibitions Conducted in the Department:

Conferences:

1.  Conference Title: International Conference on Aggregation-Induced Emission from Fundamental to Applications IC-AIE-FA 2022
    Convener: Prof. Amrita Chatterjee, Prof. Mainak Banerjee, Prof. Inamur Rahaman Laskar and Prof. Manab Chakravarty
    Area: AIE
    Date:  16-12-2022 to 18-12-2022

Seminars:

1.  Seminar Title: Future Perspective on the Chemical Elements and Electrochemistry
   Speaker: Prof. Christopher Brett, University of Coimbra, Portugal
    Area: Electrochemistry
   Date:  15-12-2022

2. Seminar Title: Enzymes from extremophiles: Expanding the limits of biocatalysis and a link between earth and astrobiology
   Speaker: Dr. Ram Karan, Senior research scientist, KAUST, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
   Area: Biocatalysis
   Date:  16-11-2022

3. Seminar Title: Importance of metal-speciation study in marine systems
   Speaker: Prof. Parthasarathi Chakraborty, IIT Kgp
   Area: Environmental Geochemistry
   Date:  04-03-2022
Department Seminar 2021

Seminars/Invited Talks/Conferences/Exhibitions Conducted in the Department:

1.  Seminar Title: Crystal engineering of adaptive smart materials: from mechanical bending to self-healing
   Speaker: Prof. Chilla Malla Reddy, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
    Area: Crystal engineering
    Date:  25-09-2021

2. Seminar Title: Ionic Liquids as Environmentally Benign Solvents for Enhancing the Sorption and Extraction Processes
   Speaker: Prof. Ramesh L. Gardas, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras
    Area: Ionic Liquids
    Date:  04-09-2021

3.  Seminar Title: Amyloid as Functional Bio-materials
    Speaker: Prof. Samir K Maji, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay
    Area: Bio-materials
    Date:  28-08-2021

4. Seminar Title: Applications of C-X (X = Br/O/H) Bond Activation Strategies in Drug Discovery
    Speaker: Prof. Asit K. Chakraborti, Department of Chemistry, IIT Ropar
    Area: Drug Discovery
    Date:  03-04-2021

5.  Seminar Title: Self-Assembled Molecular Vessels
    Speaker: Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, IPC, IISC
    Area: Metallacages
    Date:  21-03-2021

6.  Seminar Title: Catchment Detachment: Our Global Water Quality Challenges
    Speaker: Prof. Sarah Cook, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK
    Area: Aquatic science
    Date:  27-02-2021

7.  Seminar Title: A Wanderer’s Voyage in Molecular Science: View at Small Length and Time Scales
    Speaker: Prof. Biman Bagchi, National Science Chair (DST-SERB) & Honorary Professor, SSCU, IISC
    Area: Physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry
    Date:  06-02-2021
Department Seminar 2020

Seminars/Invited Talks/Conferences/Exhibitions Conducted in the Department:
Conferences:
1.  Conference Title: School and International Conference on photo irradiation and Adsorption based Novel Innovations for Water Treatment (PANI WATER) under the framework of PANI Water Indo-EU,EU- DST sponsored project
    Convener: Prof. Halan Prakash
    Area: Water and Environment
    Date:  03-03-2020 to 06-03-2020

Seminars/Invited Talks:

1.  Seminar Title: Peptide Designs for Bioelectronics
    Speaker: Prof. Nurit Ashkenasy, Department of Materials Engineering and the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    Area: Bioelectronics
    Date: 27-01-2020

2.  Seminar Title: The Systems Chemistry of Peptide Networks
    Speaker: Prof. Gonen Ashkenasy, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
    Area: Systems Chemistry
    Date: 27-01-2020

3.  Seminar Title: Thermometric and Micro Biosensors
    Speaker: Prof. Bin Xie, Pure and Applied Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry Lund University Sweden
    Area: Biosensors
    Date: 30-01-2020

4.  Seminar Title: Elucidation of excited state dynamics in complex systems
    Speaker: Prof. Anindya Datta, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    Area: Excited state dynamics
    Date: 25-02-2020

5. Seminar Title: Normal Polarity Enantioselective Catalysis Using N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
    Speaker: Prof. David William Lupton, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
    Area: NHC's Catalysis
    Date: 06-03-2020

6. Seminar Title: Porous Framework Materials: What are they good for
    Speaker: Prof. Rahul Banerjee, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
    Area: Materials Chemistry
    Date: 19-09-2020

7. Seminar Title: Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters: Spectroscopic Signatures and Applications
    Speaker: Prof. Saptarshi Mukherjee, Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal
    Area: Spectroscopy
    Date: 26-09-2020

8. Seminar Title: Generating Hydrogen Sulfide from Organic Compounds
    Speaker: Prof. Harinath Chakrapani, Department of Chemistry, IISER Pune
    Area: Environmental Chemistry
    Date: 31-10-2020

9. Seminar Title: Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in Molecular Functionalization
    Speaker: Prof. Gautam Kumar Lahiri, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Bombay
    Area: Metal Complexes
    Date: 07-11-2020

10. Seminar Title: Organocatalysis Using N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs)
    Speaker: Prof. Akkattu T. Biju, Department of Organic Chemistry, IISC
    Area: Organocatalysis
    Date: 28-11-2020
Department Seminar 2019

Conferences, seminars & workshops conducted:

Prof. Narendra Nath Ghosh acted as Chairman in the 3rd National Conference on New Frontiers in Chemistry From Fundamental to Applications (NFCFA 2019) held at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus during 20-22 December, 2019.

Invited talks arranged in the department:

Speaker: Dr. Rode C. V. Chemical Engineering and Process Development Division, CSIR-NCL, Pune.
Title of the talk: MULTIFUNCTIONAL CATALYSIS FOR SUSTAINABLE PROCESSES
Date: 24-09-2019, Tuesday,
Time: 4.00 PM onwards
Venue: L-202
Department Seminar 2018

Conferences, seminars & workshops conducted:

8th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Emerging Trends in Separation Science and Technology” (SESTEC-2018) 23rd May

Recent Trends in Chemistry: Students' Meet-2018, 25th Feb 2018

School on Advanced Oxidation Processes, S-AOP-2018, 16th November

Invited talks arranged in the department:

Dr. Silas Cook, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, USA
Title of the talk: Changing Perceptions: Advancing Cross Coupling through Radical Organometallics
Date: 17-12-2018

Prof. Swadhin K. Mandal, Associate Professor, IISER, Kolkata
Title of the talk: The First Isolated Abnormal NHC
Date: 19-02-2018.

Dr. Prakash P Wadgaonkar, Chief Scientist, Polymers Science and Engineering Division, NCL PuneTitle of the talk: From Agricultural Waste Products to Value Added Monomers: Exploitation of Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL) and Lignin-Derived Aromatic Chemicals, 09-03-2018.
Department Seminar 2017

Conferences, seminars & Workshops conducted in the department (2017-18)

New Frontiers in Chemistry From Fundamental to Applications-II (NFCFA 2017), BITS-Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus during January 28-29, 2017.

Recent Trends in Chemistry: Students’ Meet-2017 on 26th February, 2017

One-day event (Oral and poster competitions) of M.Sc. Chemistry students participating from the Universities & Colleges of Goa

Invited talks arranged in the department:

“Thermodynamics in understanding protein folding and rational drug design” by Prof. Nand Kishore (on 24th JULY,2017), DEPT. OF CHEMISTRY, IIT- BOMBAY.

“Solvent, Time, Step and Cost Economy for Chemical Reactions - An Emerging Concept ” by Prof. Brindaban Chandra Ranu, IACS Kolkata Date : 22nd February.

“On potentials and reaction dynamics” by Prof. Antonio J.C. Varandas Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal on 9th February.

“Chemical Micro and Nanomachines”, by Prof. David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, 16th Jan.

“Neutron Activation Analysis: A potential nuclear analytical technique for trace element determination and speciation studies in environmental and food samples” , Dr. Raghunath Acharya, Associate Professor in Chemistry, HBNI, Head, NAAC Section, Radiochemistry Division, BARC, Mumbai, 14th October 2017.
Department Seminar 2016

Conferences, seminars & Workshops conducted in the department

2nd Indo- UK International Workshop on Advanced Materials and their Applications in Nanotechnology (AMAN 2016) in collaboration with Univ of Leeds, UK at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa campus January 11- 12, 2016.

Symposium on Recent Advancements in Chemical Sciences and RSC Research Scholar Meet-2016 (13th November 2016 at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus).

BRNS-AEACI Twelfth School on Analytical-Chemistry (SAC-12), organized by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) and Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry of India (AEACI) in collaboration with Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus during Nov., 15-22.

The 4th International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP-2016) was held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, from 17-20 December 2016. AOP-2016 conference was organized by BITS Goa campus in association with the Society of Environmental Chemistry and Allied Sciences (SECAS)

Invited talks arranged in the department:

Guest Lecture by Prof. Horst Koppel, University of Heidelberg, Germany (December 12, 2016).
Topic: Conical intersections of potential energy surfaces: a paradigm for nonadiabatic excited - state dynamics\

Lecture by Dr. Sandeep Chaudhary, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (March 21, 2016)
Topic: Recent Advances in Antimalarial Peroxide - based natural product, Artemisinin: A Nobel Medicine for Malaria

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