Vijyoshi (National Science Camp)

Vijyoshi is an annual national science camp in India organised by KVPY in collaboration with INSPIRE programme, IISc Bangalore and IISER-Kolkata (IISER Bhopal in 2018). It is an abbreviation for Vigyan Jyoti Shivir. It started in the year 2009 and is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (India). The aim of Vijyoshi Camp is to provide a forum for interactions between bright young students and leading researchers in various branches of Science and Mathematics.[1]

Vijyoshi National Science Camp
Vigyan Jyoti Shivir
StatusActive
GenreNational Science Camp
FrequencyAnnual
VenueJ N Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, IISER-Kolkata, IISER-Bhopal
Location(s)Bangalore
Kolkata
CountryIndia
Years active2009-present
Inaugurated10 October 2009 (2009-10-10)
FounderC.N.R Rao
Most recent8 December 2019 (2019-12-08)
ParticipantsKVPY Fellows, INSPIRE Fellows, IISER, NISER, IIT
ActivityLectures, Exhibition
Organised byKVPY, INSPIRE, Department of Science and Technology (India)
Websitevijyoshi.iiserkol.ac.in

The programme includes lectures sessions followed by discussion sessions. The speakers at this camp are eminent scientists and mathematicians. Participants of this programme include KVPY fellows, INSPIRE scholars, 1st year science undergraduates studying in IISc, IISER's, IIT's, NISER and other central universities. In 2014 the camp was hosted by two institutions- IISc and IISER- Kolkata. A total of about 1200 students attended the camp in 2014.[2]

Vijyoshi 2014

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Some of the speakers for Vijyoshi 2014 included Physics Nobel Laureate Dr. Georg Bednorz, renowned Structural Chemist Prof. Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju, and the director of the Indian Institute of Science Prof.Anurag Kumar.[3]

Several Under Graduate Students from IISc also demonstrated over 20 experiments to the young students who visited the camp. Some of them were Non-Newtonian fluid, Stirling Engine, Leindenfrost Effect, Gyroscope, Equivalence Principle, Ripple tank and Coupled Torsional Pendulum.[4] There were also cultural programs performed by IISc students.[5]

Details of Previous Camps

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Year Venue(s) Co-ordinator(s) Notable Speakers
2009 Bangalore
New Delhi
Prof. Dipankar Chatterjee
Prof. Rajendra Prasad
Prof.P. Balaram
Prof. Michael L. Klein
Prof. Richard N Zare
Prof. Amotz Zahavi
Prof.C.N.R Rao
Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Prof.Richard Robert Ernst[6]
2010 Bangalore Prof. Dipankar Chatterjee Prof.Madhav Gadgil
Prof. Michael L. Klein
Prof. Stuart S.P. Parkin
Prof. Andrew H Knoll
Prof. Sir Richard Friend[7]
2011 Bangalore Prof. S. Chandrasekaran Prof. Anant Agarwal
Prof. S. Ramanan
Prof. D. D. Sarma
Prof. CNR Rao[8]
2012 Bangalore Prof. S. Chandrasekaran Ramachandran Balasubramanian
Tom Blundell
Sir Richard Friend
Daniel Neumark
E.W. Bert Meijer
Michael R Fellows
M. S. Raghunathan
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath[9]
2013 Bangalore Prof.P.K Das Biman Bagchi
Frank Morgan
Ashoke Sen
Steven C. Zimmerman
Prof. Dieter Söll
N. Balakrishnan[10]
2014 Bangalore
Kolkata
Prof. Kaushal Kumar Verma
Dr. Ananda Dasgupta
Gregery T. Buzzard
Anurag Kumar
Dan Stack
Erik Boettger
M. K Sanyal
Ramakrishna V. Hosur
Rohini Godbole[3]
2015 Bangalore
Kolkata
Prof. G Mugesh
Dr. Pradipta Purkayastha
Dr. Punyasloke Bhadury
Rudi Van Eldik
Laurie J. Butler
Anant K. Menon
Raghu Kalluri
Amitava Raychaudhuri
Jainendra K. Jain
Michelle Y. Simmons
Dipankar Chatterji[11]
2016 Bangalore

Kolkata

Prof. G. Mugesh

Prof. Pradipta Purakayastha

Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Rabindra Nath Mukherjee

Pushpak Bhattacharyya

D.D. Sarma

Asok Kumar Mallik

Sir Michael V. Berry

Manindra Agrawal

Uday Maitra

Suvendra Nath Bhattachryya

2017 Bangalore

Kolkata

Prof. G. Mugesh M. S. Raghunathan

Shubha Tole

Sourav Pal

Anil Kumar

Thanu Padmanabhan

Subir Sachdev

Rajesh Gokhale

S. Umapathy

Mahan Mj

2018 Bangalore

Bhopal

Prof. G. Mugesh
Prof. K.N Balai
Patrick D'Silva
Igor K lednev

Gagandeep Kang

R Balasubramanian

Vasudevan Srinivas

Anil Kumar

Ajay K. Sood

K. VijayRaghavan

Kamanio Chattopadhyay

T. V. Ramakrishnan

David Phillips

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". 2015-02-19. Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  2. ^ "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". 2015-02-28. Archived from the original on February 28, 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  3. ^ a b "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". kvpy.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  4. ^ http://dasninaad.blogspot.in [user-generated source]
  5. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: DSC 0006. YouTube.
  6. ^ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2009". 2009-09-14. Archived from the original on September 14, 2009. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  7. ^ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2010". 2010-12-10. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  8. ^ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2011". 2012-02-12. Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  9. ^ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2012". 2012-12-15. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  10. ^ "VIJYOSHI Camp 2013". kvpy.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  11. ^ "National Science (VIJYOSHI) Camp 2014". kvpy.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2015-12-16.