Indo-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Principal Investigators:

Sanjay Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,India
Email: smittal@iitk.ac.in

Subra Suresh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,USA
Email: ssuresh@mit.edu

Date & Venue: 2-4 March 2006, Agra, India

The maiden Indo-US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposium, sponsored by the IUSSTF as a flagship program, brought together approximately 60 young and outstanding engineers and technologists from US and Indian universities, industries, and R & D labs for a three-day meeting, where leading edge developments in four preselected engineering fields were discussed. The FOE was co-organised by IIT, Kanpur and the US National Academy of Engineering and was partially supported by the US Office of Naval Research. On 5 March, the FOE participants had an audience with the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in New Delhi. The President interacted with the group, answering questions and discussing topical areas such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and energy.

At the FOE symposium identified speakers presented their talks on contemporary research topics to colleagues outside their field with a view to both conveying and deriving cross-disciplinary information and insights through a format, which allows informed one-to-one discussions amongst the participants. The FOE was aimed to build new ties between future leaders of both nations technical and engineering enterprises. The topics covered were nanotechnology, wireless communication, natural disaster simulation and mitigation, and the interface of engineering with biology and medicine.

IUSSTF announced two awards of US $ 50K each for the best joint proposal emerging from the FOE. Out of the 6 pre-proposals proposals received as an immediate outcome of the FOE, the two selected for award included:

Manufacturing Robust Nanostructures: materials, methods and metrology Christopher Soles, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Ashutosh Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Network Tomography of Intracellular Traffic: A system – level investigation of the transport and sorting of cargo in living cells Muriel Medard, MIT, Cambridge, MA Mukund Thattai, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Indo-U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, March 2006, Agra premieres on Research Channel

Premiere Dates for the Broadcast are as follows:

Session One: Nanotechnology, Part 1
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11474&fID=345
Airdates - Eastern:
May 24 @ 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
May 25 @ 1:30am

Session One: Nanotechnology, Part 2
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11475&fID=345
May 31 @ 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
June 1 @ 1:30am

Session Two: Wireless - Research Opportunities and Challenges, Part 1
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11476&fID=345
Airdates - Eastern:
June 7 @ 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
June 8 @ 1:30am

Session Two: Wireless - Research Opportunities and Challenges, Part 2
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11477&fID=345
Airdates - Eastern:
June 14 @ 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
June 15 @ 1:30am

Session Three: Natural Disaster Simulation and Mitigation, Part 1
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11478&fID=345
Airdates - Eastern:
June 21 @ 7:30am, 1:30pm, 7:30pm
June 22 @ 1:30am

Session Three: Natural Disaster Simulation and Mitigation, Part 2
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11479&fID=2854
Dates to be announced

Session Four: Interface of Engineering with Biology and Medicine, Part 1
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11480&fID=2854
Dates to be announced

Session Four: Interface of Engineering with Biology and Medicine, Part 2
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=11481&fID=2854
Dates to be announced