Lectures

   MindSpark has always encouraged the evolution and development of new ideas. We realize the strength words possess in idealizing our thoughts and perception. With this belief, MindSpark this year brings you a series of Keynote Lectures. A Lecture Series we hope will change lives - we hope will ‘Empower India’. This series will feature talks by prominent personalities who have gone on to change the world and will bring about a dialogue between the pioneers of today and the creators of tomorrow. It will give you something to think about, something to create, something to broaden, something to take us forward on the path of development. Thus, we invite you to this lecture series, get inspired and work to make “India stand forth … awake, vital, free and independent...”.

Arvind Gupta:

2008 recipient of Indira Gandhi Award for Science Popularization. Awarded the TWAS Regional Prize for Public Understanding and Popularization of Science in 2010. Received recognition from UNESCO, UNICEF, Disney Imagineering and Research, MIT Media Lab.
Also see: Arvind Gupta TED talk.

Date:27th December 2011
Topic: Creative Science Activities
Timing: 18:00 Hrs

Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee (Retd.):

Awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for service in the Army. Consultant to the United Nations of the Conventional Arms Register. Founder, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Date:28th December 2011
Topic: Securing India's Geostrategic Spaces
Timing: 18:00 Hrs

Dr. Govind Swarup:

2007 recipient of the Grote Reber Medal for lifetime, innovative achievement in radio astronomy. 1972 recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Founder of world's largest radio telescope - the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.

Date:29th December 2011
Topic: Relevance of Education in Empowering India
Timing: 13:30 Hrs