9th AISSQ Conference on  30th Oct – 1st Nov, 2015 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

9th AISSQ Conference on 30th Oct – 1st Nov, 2015 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

The conference was inaugurated by His Excellency Sri K. N. Tripathy, Governor of West Bengal. Among the dignitaries present were Souvik Bhattacharya, Officiating Director, IIT Kharagpur; G. Satheesh Reddy, Advisor to the Defense Ministry; His Holiness Sri Nirmalanandanatha Mahaswamiji from Sri Adichunchunagiri Mahasamsthana Math, Karnataka; Sri B. D. Mundhra, Managing Director, Simplex Infrastructures Limited; and Sri H. P. Kanoria, Chairman, SREI Foundation, Kolkata. The conference featured brilliant and vivacious sessions with lectures delivered by highly-esteemed authorities in the field of science and spirituality interface. Prominent invited speakers were Prof. Christoph Benz Muller (Heisenberg Fellow, Freie University, Berlin, Germany) , Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe (Director, Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, UK), Dr. A. K. Mukhopadhyay (AIIMS, New Delhi), Prof. P. B. Sharma (Vice Chancellor, AMITY University, Gurgaon) and reputed faculty members from various IITs.