SEDS India National Conference 2009 - Talks

It has been slightly delayed posting for an event that took place way back in the beginning of February, but some things did come up and prevented us from posting an update earlier. Here are the winners of the various competitions held under the SEDS India National Conference 2009 and summary of the various talks held on those two eventful days. We have already posted about some good press coverage that we got for our event and our project.

Talks - 

1. Dr. T. G. K. Murthy, Programme Director, ISRO on "Remote Sensing Satellites": The talk was attended by more than 400 participants after which Dr. Murthy also interacted with university students and some school children.
2. Dr. K. N. Shankara, Director, ISRO Satellite Centre on "Future Possibilities in Space Technology Applications". 
3. Dr. Raghav Murthy, Director, Small Satellite Systems on "Small Satellites and its Future Prospects". There were approximately 150 participants including various people who had started small satellite projects across the country.
4. Shri. S. Ramakrishnan, Director (Projects), Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre gave a talk on "Chandrayaan 1". He showed us a video of the Moon's surface which was taken by the camera on board the space craft. We were not allowed to obtain a copy of the video because of restrictions placed on him.
5. Mr. Pallava Bagla, Scientific Editor, NDTV, gave a talk "Chandrayaan 1 to the People of India" where he covered his experiences of covering Chandrayaan 1 launch for NDTV.

We are happy to have had such a galaxy of speakers who shared several experiences with us. We are hopeful that we can bring more individuals working in various fields of space science and exploration together for the exchange of knowledge, encouragement to take up space science and work towards building India's space capabilities.