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There will be 32 scientific presentations in this workshop, in which 17 lectures will be by European scientists, and the remaining 15 will be by Indian speakers. Also, there will be a panel discussion on international collaboration, and talks by industrialists and the Director of the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC). There is a dedicated poster section where IIT Madras research scholars will present their research activities as posters, providing a good opportunity for international collaboration. This IGW-CCS-2022 is an international event, and well-recognized scientists from Germany, Iceland, and the Czech Republic will be attending this international conference. In addition to that, well-established Indian scientists such as Padma Shri, Prof. Dr. Vinod K. Singh (IIT Kanpur), Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar (DST secretary), Prof. Dr. Sandeep Verma (Secretary, SERB), and Dr. R. Madhan (Director, IGSTC) will be attending this conference as special invitees whose presence/interaction/guidance will help young Indian faculty to motivate and strengthen their research and personal networking.

IIT Madras

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. IIT Madras is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has been consistently rated as one of India's most prestigious universities. Founded in 1959 with technical and financial assistance from the former government of West Germany, it was the third IIT established by the Government of India. IIT Madras has been ranked the top engineering institute in India by the Ministry of Education's National Institutional Ranking Framework since its inception in 2016. It is the top-ranked educational institution for the year 2021 by NIRF ranking.

IIT Madras is a residential institute that occupies a 645 acres (0.97 sq mi) campus. The institute has 17 departments, more than 600 faculty, 10,000 students, and 1,250 administrative and supporting staff. Growing ever since it obtained its charter from the Indian Parliament in 1961, much of the campus is a protected forest, carved out of the Guindy National Park, home to large numbers of spotted deer, black buck, bonnet macaque, and other rare wildlife.

Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras

This department has 35 faculty members, 30 staff members, and around 400 M. Sc. students and Ph. D students. The department is among the best in the country in teaching and research and is well recognized worldwide. Department stands tall in terms of quality research on national and in international platforms. The department successfully attracts some of the brightest young minds as faculty members. The areas of research include atmospheric chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, Boron chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, clean energy, colloidal and interfacial chemistry, coordination chemistry, electrochemistry, fuel cells, green chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, ionic liquids and phase equilibria, main group chemistry and inorganic polymers, materials chemistry, molecular spectroscopy, nano-porous materials, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, photochemistry, polymer chemistry, quantum chemistry, solid state chemistry and inorganic materials, statistical mechanics, supramolecular chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, total synthesis of natural products and medicinal chemistry. Faculty members of the department have excelled and are instrumental in the setting up of three different research centers, namely, the Thematic Unit of Excellence (TUE) for nanoscience, the National Centre for Catalysis Research (NCCR), and the Centre for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (MRI). They are dynamic and attract excellent funding from both Government and Industry. The department has two academic programs, a Master of Science in Chemistry and a Ph. D.