VSMumbai

VIGYAN SAMAGAM

Mumbai Event

The Vigyan Samagam, India’s first mega science exhibition kicked off on 7th May, 2019 at the Nehru Science Center, Mumbai. The exhibition was inaugurated by Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat. Member, Niti Aayog. The exhibition was also thrown open to public. On 7th and 8th May, speakers from all of the mega projects gave presentations. From IPR, Dr. Shashank Charurvedi, Director, gave a talk on “India's Plasma Science & Technology Program and Spin-offs”, Dr. Laban Coblentz, Head, Communications, ITER, France, gave a talk on “The ITER Project: “the way” to new energy” and Shri Ujjwal Baruah, Project Director, ITER-India gave a talk on “India’s participation in ITER – Technology challenges and Industry response”. For LIGO India, Prof. S. Mukherjee gave a talk on “LIGO India - opportunities for the industry”.

This was followed by a Panel Discussion on “Leveraging collaboration for Indian science and industry”, which was moderated by Shri Arun Chakraborty of ITER India. The participants of this discussion were Dr. K., Balasubramanian (Director, NFTDC, Hyderabad), Prof. Rajiv Dusane (P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor in Nanotechnology, IIT Bombay), and Mr. Rajkumar Panjwani (President, Cryo Scientific Division, INOX India Pvt. Ltd).

This exhibition will be open to public at Mumbai till 7 July, 2019. IPR / ITER-India week at this exhibition was held from 20-26 May, 2019.

Dr. V. K Saraswat inaugurating the Vigyan Samagam

Releasing the exhibition booklet

ITER stall at the exhibition



L-R) Dr. Shashank Chaturvedi, Shri Ujjwal Baruah and Prof. S Mukherjee delivering their talks


Shri Arun Chakraborty conducting the panel discussion

Images from the ITER Exhibition Stall




Visitors at the ITER Stall


Dr. Shashank Chaturvedi interacting with Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Dr. Laban Coblentz and Shri Vithal Nadkarni	Dr. P A Naik (Ex Director, RRCAT) and Dr. M Krishnamurthy (TIFR, Hyderabad) at the ITER stall