Conferences

Devaraj. S, S. Sankaran, Ravi Kumar (2012), Effect of Pressure and Temperature during compaction of Al-4.5 wt.% Cu Alloy Powder through Spark Plasma Sintering. Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties, International Symposium for Research Scholars, IIT Madras, India.

Devaraj. S, S. Sankaran, Ravi Kumar, Spark Plasma Sintering of Ball milled Al-4.5 wt. % Alloy Powder, IIM NMD-ATM, Jamshedpur, India, 2012.

Participated in the International conference on Advanced Thermostructural Materials and Thermal Protection Systems (ADTHERM’20) held during 19 - 21 January 2020 in Trivandrum, India

Participated in NSF PIRE 3rd Annual International (virtual) workshop on “PDCs and Ceramic Composite Materials 2020” organized by Kansas State University, USA from 17 – 20 August 2020.

On 22nd October, 2021, Gokul Nanda gave a virtual presentation at the Materials Science & Technology 21 conference on “Thermomechanical Performance of a Novel Class of Ultra-high Temperature Polymer Derived La Containing Zr-B-C-(O) Ceramics”. In the symposium Preceramic Polymers; Synthesis, Processing, Modeling, and Derived Ceramics.

Joint convenor of “Indo - German workshop on Advanced Materials Challenges for Alternative Energy Solutions (AMAES III)” on the 18th Dec 2015 in New Delhi.

Ravi Kumar is Convenor of “ International workshop on the Stress Assisted Environmental Damage in Structural Materials (EDSA 2015)” held during 27th Feb – 2nd Mar 2015. Focused workshop on stress corrosion cracking in engineering materials- Sponsored by Office of Naval Research-Global (ONRG), USA.

Prof. Ravi Kumar and Prof. K. C. Hari Kumar jointly organized a two-day hands-on tutorial on “Ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method” in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras as a part of the International Bilateral co-operation to implement the Indo-Japanese joint project (DST) with Prof. Ryo Maezono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST).

Prof. Ravi Kumar hosted the "High Performance Ceramics and Composites (V9H1S2)" session under the horizontal "Structural Materials" on 7th October 2020 between 18:00 - 21:00 hrs. We had doyens of ceramics scientists from India and abroad who joined the deliberations. It was great to have Prof. Rishi Raj from University of Colorado, Prof. Raj Bordia from Clemson, Prof. Raj Narain Singh from Oklahoma State University, Prof. Sanjay Mathur from University of Cologne and Prof. Ghatu Subhash from University of Florida on the panel. Great discussions, wonderful suggestions from all the panelists towards identifying topics in ceramics science and engineering towards building a "Self-reliant India". The outcomes of these deliberations were placed in front of the honourable Prime Minister of India.

The Dept of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras and the Ceratattva Innotech Pvt Ltd., are jointly organized a 2-day workshop on "Atomistic Modeling of Earth Abundant Electrocatalysts". Speaker: Dr. Heechae Choi is currently a Group Leader at Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany since September 2018, as he was selected as a laureate of a prestigious grant, MOPGA-GRI by French and German governments. From 2019, Dr. Choi is participating in SPARC project with contributions in atomic-scale modeling and First-principles calculations to study catalytic reaction mechanisms of crystal-amorphous junctioned catalyst materials. He received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University (Korea) in 2012, and he worked in Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) as postdoc from 2012 to 2016. To transfer atomic-scale simulation techniques to industry and experimental researchers, Dr. Choi co-founded Virtual Lab Inc. in 2016. Currently, more than 15,000 researchers in academia and industry are using this web-based simulation software.