Introduction

National Symposium on Innovative Material and Devises (NSIMS-2019)

In all 155 delegates, research scholars and P.G. students were registered and participated for the symposium.
The inaugural function of this two days symposium was held on 24th June, 2019, 11 am at the AV theatre of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University Amravati. Symposium was inaugurated at the hands of renowned scientist, Hon’ble Dr. Shekhar Mande, Secretary, DSIR & Director General CSIR, New Delhi. Dr. Muralidhar Chandekar, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor of SGBAU, Amravati presides over the Inaugural function. Prof. Dr. S.V. Moharil, EX-Head PGTD, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, Dr. KVR Murthy President of Luminescence Society of India were the guest of honor for the inaugural function. Dr. V.G. Thakare, Principal, Shri Shivaji Science College, Amravati, Dr. T.R. Deshmukh, Registrar, S.G.B.A.U. Amravati and Dr. S.K. Omanwar, Professor and Head, Department of Physics, S.G.B.A.U. Amravati, were present on the dais on this occasion. The souvenir of symposium was released by the honorable dignitaries on the dais. The inaugural session was followed by the key note address of Dr. Shekhar Mande on ‘Technological developments in India’ and Dr. S.V. Moharil on ‘Advance Materials for the application’.

Session was chaired by Dr. V.B. Sapre, Ex-Head Department of Physics, RTM University, Nagpur Then there were two slots of parallel sessions after lunch. In which ten invited talks were delivered by renowned researchers from all over India. One industrial talk was delivered by the representative of Lab India Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai. Invited talks were followed by parallel poster presentation session where around 100 papers were presented.
Second day of the symposium was held at Shri Shivaji Science College, Amravati. The day was begun with an invited talk by Dr. Bhushan Dhabekar, BARC, Mumbai followed by the paper reading session in which ten papers were presented in various disciplines of material science and devices.
The next session was special session, named Dr. K.G. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture, delivered by Dr. S.H. Pawar, senior scientist and Ex-VC of D.Y. Patil University, Pune. The symposium was concluded with the valedictory function at 5.00 pm on 25th June, 2019, chaired by Principal, Dr. V.G. Thakare, Dr. Rajesh Jaipurkar, Pro-VC, S.G.B.A.U. Amravati was the chief guest. Dr. G.V. Patil, Dr. M.K. Khedkar, Ex-CVs, S.G.B.A.U. Amravati and Dr. F.C. Raghuwanshi, Dean, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, S.G.B.A.U. Amravati were the guests of honor.