Vijyoshi is an annual national science camp in India organised by KVPY in collaboration with INSPIRE programme, IISc Bangalore and IISER-Kolkata (IISER Bhopal in 2018). It is an abbreviation for Vigyan Jyoti Shivir. It started in the year 2009 and is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (India). The aim of Vijyoshi Camp is to provide a forum for interactions between bright young students and leading researchers in various branches of Science and Mathematics.
The programme includes lectures sessions followed by discussion sessions. The speakers at this camp are eminent scientists and mathematicians. Participants of this programme include KVPY fellows, INSPIRE scholars, 1st year science undergraduates studying in IISc, IISER's, IIT's, NISER and other central universities. In 2014 the camp was hosted by two institutions- IISc and IISER- Kolkata. A total of about 1200 students attended the camp in 2014.
Vijyoshi 2014 Some of the speakers for Vijyoshi 2014 included Physics Nobel Laureate Dr. Georg Bednorz, renowned Structural Chemist Prof. Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju, and the director of the Indian Institute of Science Prof.Anurag Kumar.
Several Under Graduate Students from IISc also demonstrated over 20 experiments to the young students who visited the camp. Some of them were Non-Newtonian fluid, Stirling Engine, Leindenfrost Effect, Gyroscope, Equivalence Principle, Ripple tank and Coupled Torsional Pendulum.http://dasninaad.blogspot.in There were also cultural programs performed by IISc students.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:
Details of Previous Camps Year Venue(s) Co-ordinator(s) Notable Speakers 2009 Bangalore New Delhi Prof. Dipankar Chatterjee Prof. Rajendra Prasad Prof.P. BalaramProf. Michael L. KleinProf. Richard N ZareProf. Amotz ZahaviProf.C.N.R RaoProf. Raghavendra GadagkarProf.Richard Robert Ernst 2010 Bangalore Prof. Dipankar Chatterjee Prof.Madhav GadgilProf. Michael L. KleinProf. Stuart S.P. ParkinProf. Andrew H KnollProf. Sir Richard Friend 2011 Bangalore Prof. S. Chandrasekaran Prof. Anant AgarwalProf. S. RamananProf. D. D. SarmaProf. CNR Rao 2012 Bangalore Prof. S. Chandrasekaran Ramachandran BalasubramanianTom BlundellSir Richard FriendDaniel NeumarkE.W. Bert MeijerMichael R FellowsM. S. RaghunathanVijayalakshmi Ravindranath 2013 Bangalore Prof.P.K Das Biman BagchiFrank MorganAshoke SenSteven C. ZimmermanProf. Dieter SöllN. Balakrishnan 2014 BangaloreKolkata Prof. Kaushal Kumar VermaDr. Ananda Dasgupta Gregery T. BuzzardAnurag KumarDan StackErik BoettgerM. K SanyalRamakrishna V. HosurRohini Godbole2015BangaloreKolkataProf. G MugeshDr. Pradipta PurkayasthaDr. Punyasloke BhaduryRudi Van EldikLaurie J. ButlerAnant K. MenonRaghu KalluriAmitava RaychaudhuriJainendra K. JainMichelle Y. SimmonsDipankar Chatterji2016Bangalore KolkataProf. G. Mugesh Prof. Pradipta PurakayasthaPartha Pratim Chakrabarti Rabindra Nath Mukherjee
Pushpak Bhattacharyya
D.D. Sarma
Asok Kumar Mallik
Sir Michael V. Berry
Manindra Agrawal
Uday Maitra
Suvendra Nath Bhattachryya2017Bangalore KolkataProf. G. MugeshM. S. Raghunathan Shubha Tole
Sourav Pal
Anil Kumar
Thanu Padmanabhan
Subir Sachdev
Rajesh Gokhale
S. Umapathy
Mahan Mj2018Bangalore BhopalProf. G. Mugesh Prof. K.N Balai Patrick D'SilvaIgor K lednev Gagandeep Kang
R Balasubramanian
Vasudevan Srinivas
Anil Kumar
Ajay K. Sood
K. VijayRaghavan
Kamanio Chattopadhyay
T. V. Ramakrishnan
David Phillips
See also London International Youth Science Forum (U.K.) National Youth Science Forum (Australia)
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