CUJ holds International Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences

Jammu, Nov 10: Two-day International Conference on ‘Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences (RACS- 2022)’ is being organized by the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Sciences, Central University of Jammu during 10-11th November, 2022.
Dr. V. Sridharan was the Convenor of the conference and Dr. Tapta Kanchan Roy, Dr. Princy Gupta and Dr. Sujata Kundan acted as Organizing Secretaries of the conference. Other organizing members comprised of Dr. Mousami Pal, Dr. Shilpi Balgotra, Dr. M. Karuppasamy, Dr. Anand Sachar, Dr. Rajneesh Paul Sharma and Dr. Faizan Danish.
The conference has a special emphasis on the state-of- the art research in the emerging area of chemistry like catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, organic synthesis, green chemistry, organometallics, materials science and computational chemistry.
The event was inaugurated by Prof. Sourav Pal, IISER Kolkata, Prof. H. Ila, JNCASR, Bangalore, Prof. Devanand, Dean of School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Central University of Jammu and Dr. V. Sridharan, Head, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Sciences, Central University of Jammu. More than 200 participants across the country will interact and share their research on different areas of chemistry.
The inaugural function was started with a welcome address followed by lightening of auspicious lamp by the Hon’ble guests along with Saraswati Vandana by Sumita. Prof. Sourav Pal emphasized the need of high-quality research in his inauguration speech.

He highlighted that this event will enable young minds to have interactions and inspiration from eminent scientists. On wishing the success of the conference, Prof. H. Ila talked about the importance of chemistry in day-to-day life and emphasized the need of lifting the boundaries in different fields of science.
While extending best wishes to the Department of Chemistry and the conference, she urged to the students to be passionate of the research rather than merely publishing the research articles. Prof. Devanand said that such conference is aimed to motivate quality research in the emerging areas of chemistry. Dr. V Sridharan extended his gratitude to the distinguished scientists and participants who travelled from various parts of the country to attend this event. The inaugural function was ended with the formal vote of thanks by Dr. Tapta Kanchan Roy.