Georgetown-Indian Institute of Science Initiative in Soft Matter Workshop

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A two-day workshop on a diverse range of soft matter subjects was held on 25-26 August 2017 under the sponsorship of Georgetown’s India Initiative and the I(SM)2.  It was attended by six professors from the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, three scientists from NIH and NIST, and ca. 30 professors, postdocs, and graduate students from I(SM)2.  Each of the professors presented aspects of their research and the graduate students and postdocs contributed 12 posters.  The discussions were animated and reflected the interest of all in learning about what the different communities (both scientific and geographic) are doing.  Two guest professors, Paulina Pavez (from Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile) and Edvaldo Sabadini (from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Campinas, Brazil), as well as Dr. Irfan Nooruddin (from GU’s India Initiative) and Dr. Pratik Mathur (from the Embassy of India), also participated during parts of the workshop.  After a lively discussion at the end of the workshop, the participants decided to explore avenues for student interchanges between the two institutions with aspirations for faculty interchanges in the future.  

GU-IISc Workshop Participants

Richard Weiss, Georgetown University
Peter Olmsted, Georgetown University
Emanuela Del Gado, Georgetown University
Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli, Georgetown University
Jong-in Hahm, Georgetown University
Miklos Kertesz, Georgetown University
Steve Metallo, Georgetown University
David Egolf, Georgetown University
Jeff Urbach, Georgetown University
Ed Van Keuren, Georgetown University
Dan Blair, Georgetown University
Xinran Zhang, Georgetown University
Tian Xie, Georgetown University
Teresa Duncan, Georgetown University
Michael Bertocchi, Georgetown University
Louis Poon, Georgetown University
Jenna Sartucci, Georgetown University
Danielle Beaupre, Georgetown University
Girishma Grover, Georgetown University
Shekhar Shinde, Georgetown University
Dorothy Jones, Georgetown University
Kara Googins, Georgetown University




Chen Zhao, Georgetown University
Vikram Rathee, Georgetown University
Minaspi Bantawa, Georgetown University
Abhay Goyal, Georgetown University
Peiran Jin, Georgetown University
Scott Melis, Georgetown University
Ralph Nossal, Georgetown University
Irfan Nooruddin, Georgetown University India Initiative
Pratik Mathur, Indian Embassy
Ajay Sood, Indian Institute of Science
Subramaniam (RK) Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science
Suryaprakash (Sury) Nagarajarao, Indian Institute of Science
Uday Maitra, Indian Institute of Science
Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science
Jaydeep Basu, Indian Institute of Science
Edvaldo Sabadini, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Manazael Jora, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Ronald Jones, nSoft Consortium, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Steven Hudson, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ferenc Horkay, National Institutes of Health
Paulina Pavez Guerrero, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile