National Level Interdisciplinary Conference on Physics…..at St Aloysius College
National Level Interdisciplinary Conference on Physics of Living Matter and Medical Equipment at St Aloysius college Mangalore
Mangaluru: The physics department of St Aloysius College (Autonomous) is organising a unique National Level Interdisciplinary Conference on the “Physics of Living Matter and Medical Equipment” during 18 and 19 December 2018. The conference will be inaugurated on 18th December 2018 at 9 am by Prof Sunil Kumar, Director, IIT Palakkad. Rev Fr Dionysius Vaz, SJ, Rector, St Aloysius Institutions will preside over the function. There will be lectures by Prof Madan Rao of National Institute for Biological Studies(NCBS), Bangalore, Prof Gautham Menon from the Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, Prof MRN Mutty from Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore and Dr Ramgopal from Poorna Prajna Research Institute Bangalore. They will deliver talks on the theoretical aspects of physics of living matter.
There will be talks on the physics of medical equipment on the second day. This will include a talk on the topic “Physics in Cardilogy” by Dr Manish Rai, “Radio Physics in Imaging” by Dr Ashwini Kumar, “Physics behind the Medical Equipments used by an Ophthalmologist” by Dr M.S. Ravi, “Physics of ENT Care” by Dr Gautham Kulamarva, “Physics of Interventional Radiology” by Dr Keertiraj, “Functional Concepts of Dental Equipments” by Dr M.S Ravi and Dr Jayatheertha will deliver a talk on “Energy Sources in Surgery”. There will be a display of the medical equipments on both the days.
The valedictory will be held on 19th December 2018 at 4 pm, Dr Sadashiva Rao, Pediatric Surgeon will be the chief guest and Rev Fr Leo D Souza, Director of Applied Biology will preside over the function.