Since an expected room change happened, the session delayed by 15 min. Except for this, the session went well successfully with forty audience.
The keynote speaker Dr. Ryoji Funahashi presented his recent activities on new-type
thermoelectric power generators that would be able to compete costwise with other forms of power generators in future.
The second speaker Dr. Shanchela determined the effective mass of the recently developed transparent conductor BaSnO3 to be 0.4m_0.