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Weekly Seminar
Centre for the Environment organizes weekly seminar 'Green talk' on current Environmental issues. This comprises the topics related to environmental problems and the technology can be used to protect it. Green talk usually held on every Wednesday. It welcomes all the faculties and students from the Centre and Institute to participate and exhcange their views on various scientific and management issues.
Invited Lectures
1. Topic: "Challenges and Solutions to Problems of Clean and Safe Water in the Developing Countries"
Speaker: Dr Arvind Phukan, Charter Member.
Institute/Organization: Anchorage Midtown Rotary Club, Anchorage, Rotary foundation.
Date: September 8, 2008.
2. Topic: "Eyewitness Reports Based Numerical Tsunami Simulations - Case Study of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Khao Lak, Thailand"
Speaker: Johanna Maard Karlsson, Research Scholar.
Institute/Organization: Stockholm University, UK.
Date: January 27, 2009.
3. Topic: "Regional Voices project"
Speaker: Mr. Amit Pandya, Director.
Institute/Organization: The Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges Project, The Stimson Centre, Washington DC, USA.
Date: March 9, 2009.
4. Topic:
""Creating
Innovation and Business Clusters - Exploring Assam's potential"
Speaker: Mr. Kallol
Borah, CEO of Aumega Networks
Date: May 5, 2009.
5.
A
presentation on Indo-Italian R&D collaboration opportunities and
potential for joint project under EU initiatives.
Speaker:
Prof. (Dr) Lidia Szpyrkowicz
Profile: Scientific Counselor of Embassy of Italy in New Delhi,
Date: 10.05.2010
6. Topic: "Advancing our understanding of climate change in the Arctic"
Speaker: Mr.
Santanu Goswami,
Institute/Organization:
University of
Texas, El Paso, USA
Date:
23.08.2010
7. Topic:
"Participatory
Approach to Ecosystem Management for Resolution of Conflict around
Natural Resources"
Speaker: Mr.
K J Joy, Founder Director.
Institute/Organization:
Society for promotion of participatory Ecosystem Management, Pune.
Date:
26.08.2010
8. Topic:
"Seeking
Solutions to Some Urban Water Degradation Issues and Problem of
Drinking Water in Assam"
Speaker: Mr.
Daniel Monello
Institute/Organization:
Paris School of Engineering, France
Date:
28.09.2010
9. Topic:
"Trans-boundary
water management in the Brahmaputra-Ganga-Meghna System"
Speaker:
Prof. Kelley Alley
Institute/Organization:
Auburn University, USA
Date:
07.10.2010
Speaker:
Dr.B.C.Raymahashay
10. Topic:
"Climate
Change: How real is the threat?"
Speaker:
Prof V. Subramanian,Professor
Emeritus and former Dean of School of Environmental Sciences
Institute/Organization:
JNU
Date:
25.11.2010
11. Topic:
"Risk,
Society and Environmental Discourse"
Speaker:
Dr. Pernille Gooch, senior
lecturer and researcher in Human Ecology
Institute/Organization:
Lund University,
Sweden
Date:
17.03.2011
12. 1st
Lecture under
IITG-DBT
Biotech Hub Invited Lecture Series
Speaker:
Dr Sudip Mitra
Institute/Organization:
JNU
Date:
17.03.2011
13. 2nd
Lecture under
IITG-DBT
Biotech Hub Invited Lecture Series
Speaker:
Dr. Utpal Das, Research Scientist
Institute/Organization:
Department of
Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego
Date:
31.03.201114. Topic: "Geochemical Techniques for Evaluation of Groundwater Quality"
Institute/Organization:
IIT Kanpur (Former professor)
Date:
21.04.2011
Centre also invites people from various Organization/Insitute to share their views on various emerging environmental issues. It also invites all the interested faculties/students of Institute for their active participation in these interactive sessions -
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