INDO-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF)

• December 11, 2007: 1:00pm - 6:15pm
• Location: 306 Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, UC Berkeley

INDO-US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORUM (IUSSTF)

GOVERNING BODY MEETING

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Soda Hall, UC Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

 

On behalf of the College of Engineering, CITRIS and the Governing Body of the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF), we would like to invite you to the Berkeley campus on Tuesday, December 11, for an afternoon examining the dynamic and expanding relationship between India and the United States in numerous technical topics.

 

The program will begin with a series of presentations from invited speakers on innovative bi-national initiatives on topics ranging from educating engineers, predicting cyclones, treating tuberculosis, and more.

 

After these presentations, Dean Shankar Sastry will moderate a panel discussion among members of the IUSSTF governing body and the audience. Members of the IUSSTF governing body from India include the Secretaries of the Departments of Science and Technology, Biotechnology, and Scientific and Industrial Research.

 

A networking reception will take place immediately following the panel discussion.

 

 

HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall 2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Part 1: Presentations

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Break

5:00 – 6:15 p.m. Part 2: Panel discussion

Wozniak Lounge, 430 Soda Hall 6:15 – 7:15 p.m. Reception

INDO-US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORUM (IUSSTF)

GOVERNING BODY MEETING

BERKELEY, CA

December 11, 2007

Part One: Bilateral Indo-US Science & Technology Opportunities

2:00 – 4:30 A series of invited presentations on innovative bi-national activities, some nurtured by IUSSTF

Venue: HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall

Stanford - India Biodesign Program

The goal of this new fellowship program is to train the next generation of medical technology innovators in India. This highly competitive program is directed to Indian citizens with advanced degrees in engineering, medicine or business (both students and faculty) who have an interest in the invention and early-stage development of new medical technologies.

Paul G. Yock, Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine and Director, Biodesign, Stanford University

 

Instrumented Aircraft-borne Tropical Cyclone Prediction

At present there are perceptible errors in the tropical cyclone track prediction in India. Even though no cyclone goes undetected by the present observing system, there are data gaps which can be only filled by instrumented airborne observations. The accuracy of track and intensity prediction of land falling tropical cyclones can be improved using technologies to improve quality and enhance coverage—spatial and temporal—of observational data: surface and upper air, AWS, mesonet, aircraft, Satellite, DWR and GPS dropwindsonde, etc.

Karyn Sawyer, Deputy Director, Earth Observation Laboratory, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

 

iGEON

The Geosciences Network (GEON) project is a collaboration among a dozen PI institutions and a number of other partner projects, institutions, and agencies to develop cyberinfrastructure in support of an environment for integrative geoscience research. The goals of the “International GEON”, or iGEON, activities of the GEON project are to collaborate with international partners in research and education. Currently, joint activities are underway with Canada, China, Japan, and India.

Chaitan Baru, Division Director, Science R&D, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego

 

Joint Center for Advanced and Futuristic Manufacturing

Five partnering institutions (IIT Kanpur, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IIT Kharagpur, Northwestern Univ., and UC Irvine) bring complimentary strengths in devise development of microsystems technology, micro-fluidics based systems, micro-forming, micro-lithography, micro-actuators and micro-devises of different types.

Marc J. Madou, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine

 

Models for Student-Led Indo-US Collaborations

The Big Ideas @ Berkeley initiative provides funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students who have "big ideas" (art & culture, education / curricular innovation, entrepreneurship, environment & energy, global development, health ,human rights & social justice, it & new media, public policy, science & technology). These student-led initiatives are supported with seed grants, in-kind contributions, connections, advice, assistance in marketing and communications, and university resources (e.g. allocation of teaching resources for new courses). In addition to the Big Ideas initiative, the Blum Center for Developing Economies provides opportunities for Berkeley students to engage in creation of real-world solutions for real change in multiple regions of the world, including India.

Thomas Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley and Student Presenters.

 

Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE)

IUCEE will focus on increasing the number of engineering faculty in the US and in India who collaborate on research and teaching and who will be able to better prepare engineers for the global economy.

Krishna Vedula, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Frank Huband, President, American Society for Engineering Education (ACEE)

 

UC-India Tuberculosis Initiative

Many QB3 faculty members are dedicated to developing therapeutics for neglected diseases like TB, but QB3 lacks the resources and expertise to see these projects all the way through to proof-of-principle in man. To help bridge this ‘valley of death’, QB3 is seeking to develop partnerships in India ­ most promisingly with Ranbaxy.

Doug Crawford, California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), University of California, San Francisco

 

NanoCity: A Berkeley-India Collaboration for the 21st Century

NanoCity is a planned high tech city on an 11,000 acre site 25 miles east of Chandigarh in India. Envisioned by the Indo-American entrepreneur, Sabeer Bhatia, the co-founder of Hotmail, and designed by the Berkeley Group for Architecture and Planning (BgAP), the city is conceived as a new, sustainable community serving and also acting as a major hub of IT and Nano research and development.

Nezar AlSayyad, Professor of Architecture, City Planning, Urban Design, and Urban History & Associate Dean for International Programs, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

 

Part Two: Panel Discussion on Forging Indo-US Partnerships

5:00 – 6:15 pm Shankar S. Sastry, Dean of the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, moderates a question & answer session with a panel of IUSSTF governing body members and an invited audience.

Panelists to include: T. Ramasami, Department of Science & Technology; Norman Neureiter, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Michael Clegg, The National Academies; Roger Glass, Fogarty International Center; Sanjay Dhande, IIT Kanpur; MK Bhan, Department of Biotechnology; Samir Brahmachari, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; Gretchen Kalonji, University of California Office of the President; and Suhas Patil, Digité.

6:15 - 7:15 pm RECEPTION (open to all)

Venue: Wozniak Lounge, 430 Soda Hall

 

 

DECEMBER 12, 2007

9.00 to 3.00 pm: GB Business Meeting

Venue: Wozniak Lounge, 430 Soda Hall

A closed session for GB members and special invitees.