1) JAIDEEP PRABHU

2)

ISHWAR JHA

3)

VENKATESH MAHADEVAN

4)

Ashoke Sen

Topic- String theory and cosmology

Ashoke Sen, FRS (Bengali: ; born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and
distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.[1] He also is the
Morningstar Visiting professor at MIT. His main area of work is String Theory. He was among
the first recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize for opening the path to the realisation
that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory. This prize has been
set up by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner for rewarding scientific breakthroughs

Notable
awards

G.D. Birla Award for Scientific

Research (1996)
Fundamental Physics Prize(2012)
Padma Bhushan (2013)

Dirac Medal (2014)

5) Dr. Amitabha Ghosh

Title- Revisiting newtons laws: Possible modifications and amazing cosmological

consequences.

6)

Eric giller

Topic- Wireless electricity

Mr. Eric R. Giler had been the Chief Executive Officer of WiTricity Corporation since 2008 until
April 2014 and serves as its President. Mr. Giler served as the Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of Groove Mobile Inc. from April 2006 to March 2008. Mr. Giler founded Brooktrout Inc.
and served as its President since 1984 and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Giler served in the area
of technical marketing and sales as a Product Manager of Teradyne, Inc. and as an
Applications Engineering Manager of Intec Corp. Mr. Giler serves as a Member of the Board of
Directors at CommonAngels, Muse Research & Development, Inc. and Commetrex. Mr. Giler has
been Director of WiTricity Corporation since 2008. Mr. Giler has been Director of Netegrity Inc.
since December 1996, Interspeed, Inc. since October 1996 and Onset Technology Inc. He served
as a Director of SoundBite Communications, Inc. since December 2005 and served as its Lead
Director. He served as a Director of Brooktrout Inc. since 1984. He served as a Director of
Massachusetts Network Communications Council, where Mr. Giler served as the Chairman. He
also serves on the National Board of Directors of the American Electronics Association (AeA)
New England Council. Speech Technology magazine readers named Mr. Giler a top ten leader in
speech and he is a frequent speaker at industry events including Voice on the Net (VON),
SpeechTEK and ComNet. Mr. Giler received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a
B.Sc. from Carnegie-Mellon University.

7)

Dr. Mustansir Barma

Topic- Order or Disorder, a lecture explaining the highly mathematical
concept of entropy in laymans terms
Department of Theoretical Physics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Homi Bhabha Road,
Mumbai 400005, India
Tel.: +91-22-2278 2425 (O); +91-22-2202 1154 (R)
Fax : +91-22-2280 4611
Email: director@tifr.res.in