Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor , PU inaugurated
a two day national workshop
National tele24 News
Chandigarh
Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice
Chancellor , Panjab University inaugurated a two day national workshop on
Single Crystal Structure Determination of Small Molecules at the
Department of SAIF/CIL today. In the inaugural address, Prof. Kumar
mentioned the importance of learning the X- ray diffraction technique and
its importance in research as well as teaching. He added that such
workshops should be made open to general public and especially to school
children to build a scientific temper in the young minds. He
congratulated SAIF/CIL for putting extraordinary efforts to maintain
the sophisticated instrumentation facility.For the benefit of its
users (specially the students) the working hours of SAIF/CIL have been
increased to 15 hours a day (8.00am till 11.00pm). He has plans to extend
this infrastructure and add more sophisticated instrumentation by
replicating a new state-of-the-art facility. Prof. S.K.Mehta, Director
SAIF/CIL showcased the facility to the participants and elaborated on the
various events recently conducted at SAIF. Dr. Akihito Yamano from Rigaku,
Japan and Dr. Subash Sahoo (Convener), PU Chandigarh elaborated the
schedule of the two day workshop. Over 70 participants from various
institutes such as PU, GNDU, KU, AMU, INST, IISER Mohali, IIT Mandi, IIT
Jammu, CU Bhatinda registered for this workshop. The participants will be
given hands-on- training on the state of the art X-ray instrumentation
facility. Dr. Akihito Yamano, Senior Scientific Officer and General
Manager Application Laboratory, Rigaku Corporation, Prof. Geeta Hundal,
Head of the Chemistry Department, GNDU, Prof. P. Venugopalan, Department
of Chemistry, Prof. Sanjay Mandal, IISER Mohali, Dr. A. R. Choudhury,
IISER Mohali, Prof. A. Ramanan, IIT Delhi and Dr.SubashSahoo, Department
of Chemistry are the resource persons of this workshop.
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