IISER Pune invites you for its

7th FOUNDATION DAY

 

will be the Chief Guest for the function and will deliver the Foundation Day address on:

See Invitation Card for the Ceremony

Date: Monday, April 10, 2017

Time: 11.00 am

Programme:

11.00 am Welcome of Dignitaries
11.05 am Presentation of the Director's Report
11.15 am Introduction of Chief Guest
11.20 am Foundation day Lecture by Chief Guest
12.10 am Release of KALPA 2017 and PAHAL 2017
12.20 am Foundation day awards to students and staff
12.40 am Vote of Thanks by Registrar

 

About the Chief Guest:

Dr. M. N. Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, is well known for his research work in Tropical Meteorology including monsoon variability, seasonal monsoon forecasts, climate  change, cloud-radiation interaction and prediction of convective weather systems. He has more than 30 years of experience both as an operational forecaster and also as an  active researcher. He contributed significantly for developing many application tools and prediction models for societal applications like long-range monsoon prediction models, gridded  climate data sets and many other climate application products for regional climate services. His research contributions include analysis of climate variability and change using observed data, understanding cloud-radiation interaction, Earth's radiative balance, three dimensional structure of tropical clouds and variability and prediction of mesoscale weather systems. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI); a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, Paris; and a High-level Advisor to the Commission of Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization for Global Framework for Climate Services. He was also a member of the WCRP-CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel. Dr. Rajeevan has published more than 100 peer reviewed research papers with an h-index of 28.