Chandigarh March 14, 2019
As part of the Chandigarh Science Congress
(CHASCON-2019), Section events were carried out at various Science Departments,
here today
Section-Life Sciences
Zoology, Anthropology,
Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology
The event which
was held in the Department of Zoology, PU started with the quiz competition and
the best team was sent for the central participation. 15 oral and 55 poster
presentations were made by the participants from various institutions all over
the tricity.
The invited talk “Building
resilience in young adults” was delivered by Professor Prabhjot Malhi,
Professor in child psychology at Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
She discussed cases of attention deficient hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and
emphasized on overindulgence and tiger parenting on part of parents were
harmful in child development but at the same time parent interaction and
involvement with the child were very important. She described many cases of
young children suffering from the mental health issues due addiction to
pornography. According to her view, vulgar and women objectified music, early
exposure to sexual content are mainly responsible for such addiction in young
children.
For building resilience young adult
she emphasized encouraging them to adopt hobbies take up physical exercise, do
community work and have patience to achieve goals. She also highlighted
teaching them importance of failure, building relationships, friendships and
respecting others needs. She conclude her session with the message “All young
people need role models, not critics”. Her talk was highly applauded by all
present.
Section: The Earth and Environmental Science
Department of Geography, Dean International Students
and the Department of Geology
Lecture by Dr. Asher Minns,
Executive Director, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK on “Science of
Climate Change Communication and Climate Change Trends” organized by Department
of Geography, Dean International Students and the Department of Geology. The
sectional presentations included presentations from various branches such as
Palaeontology, Environment Science and Structural and Engineering Geology and
Hydrology.
A quiz was held in the afternoon
that was attended by all the participating students and the Research Scholars
of the three departments. Four teams participated in the competition. This was followed by a Poster Session where
several students and Research Scholars presented their latest research
work. These oral presentations were
judged by highly qualified faculty from Geography and Environment Science
Departments.
Section: Engineering
and Management Sciences
The event at University
Institute of Engineering & Technology(UIET), witnessed wide participation
in which researchers from all over India participated. Some of the reputed
institutes that participated are DIHAR-DRDO, Anna University, CSIO-CSIR, CCET,
GGDSD College as well as Panjab University.
A total of 57 research
papers on engineering, management, fashion technology, biotechnology were
selected for oral and poster presentation after a rigorous review process.
The plenary lecture was
given by Prof Sunil K. Singh from CCET on the topic “Computing Reality”. The
other judges were Prof. Rama Krishna Challa, NITTTR, Prof. Seema Kapoor, Dr.
SSBUICET, Dr. Monika Aggarwal, UIAMS and Dr. Ajay Mittal, UIET.
The event was conducted
under the leadership of Prof. Savita Gupta, Section President and Director,
UIET.
Section: Mathematical
Sciences
Department of Mathematics
The session
started with the expert talk by Dr. Subash Chandra Martha, Associate Professor,
Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar. The title of his talk was “Modelling on Wave
Structure Interaction and Application”. He discussed about the mathematical model of
the interaction of
surface waves with a fixed obstacle which has wide applications in the fields
of engineering. .
The
delegates presented their research work through oral and poster presentations.
There were total 68 registered delegates from Mathematics, Statistics and
Computer science from various parts of the region who participated in
CHASCON-2019 under Mathematical sciences section on 14th March 2019.
There were 22 oral presentations and 03 poster presentations.
Among
oral presentations, three best oral presentations were selected from respective
departments and one best poster was selected among all posters.
This
program was coordinated by Prof. R. K. Singla, Dean Research and Section
president.
Section: Pharmaceutical
Sciences
University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The
Department witnessed highest number of participation. The sectional President
Prof. Maninder Karan and sectional secretary Dr. Jai Malik briefed, that there
were more than 200 registered participants from several states including
Himachal Pradesh (25), Punjab (20), Haryana (10), Uttar Pradesh (5), Uttrakhand
(10) and Chandigarh.
Apart
from 90 poster and 12 oral presentations, sectional quiz was also organized by
Dr. Vandita Kakkar, Dr. Amita and Dr. Ashok Yadav. Out of 16 participating
teams 2 top team comprising of Yashita
and Udaibir as 1st and Dhruvi
and Jitender as 2nd were also felicitated by Prof. Kanwaljit Chopra,
Chairperson, UIPS.
The
program also included poster session conducted by Dr. Anurag Kuhad and Dr.
Ashwani Kumar. There were 90 posters presented by research scholars,
post-graduates and under-graduate students highlighting their research.
Similarly technical and
oral sessions conducted by Dr. Neelima and Dr. Sangeeta, consisted of 2 invited
talks and 12 oral presentations. Prof.
Parikshit Bansal , Ex-Head IPR Cell , NIPER, Mohali who is also an inventor,
thought leader and IP educator delivered talk on “New career Opportunities for
students in Pharmaceutical Sciences in area of patents”. Dr. Neeraj Mehta, a
UIPS alumnus from Wiley Sciences apprised the delegates and students about new
emerging career opportunities in Pharma profession.
