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1 1 st INDIAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT (IICAQM 2016) 15 th to 16 th February 2016 Main Sponsors Co Sponsors PROGRAM IICAQM 2016 Monday, 15 th February 2016 Venue: ICSR Auditorium 09:15-10:15 Inauguration of First Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management (IICAQM 2016) 10:15-10:30 Tea/Coffee Break 10:30-11:15 Invited Talks 10: Options to Control Air pollution in Major Cities with Special Reference to Recent Experience in NCR- Delhi 11:00-11:30 Advances in Modeling Urban Air Pollution 11: Urban Air Pollution Emissions and Health Risk Modelling in Indian Context Dr. B. Sengupta, Former Member Secretary, CPCB, New Delhi Prof. Akula Venkatram, University of California, Riverside, CA Prof. Bhola R. Gurjar, IIT Roorkee 12: Technical Session I: Air Quality Monitoring Chairs: Prof. Verendar Seti, IIT Bombay and Prof. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai

2 Studying Air Quality During Fireworks in a College Campus 12:15-12:30 Field Campaigns to Study the Impact of Local Sources on Ambient Air Quality Impact on Ambient Air Quality in Kerala Due to Emergence of Urban Landscape R.L. Garaga, S.K Sahu, S.K. Ramavathu, K.Jain, A. Sathi, S.H.Kota Sreekanth Bojjagani, Rakesh kumar, Virendra Sethi P. Sindhu, A.Praveen, J. Letha Air Quality Monitoring with Special Reference to Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter in Peenya Industrial area Muttagi.S.G, Bhagawati.P.B 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:30 Invited Talks 14: Health Effects of Air Pollution-Weather Pathogenicity Index 14: Risk Assessment of Airborne Particles Compounds and VOC from Industrial and Urban Areas 15: Structural Genomic Analysis of Interaction Between Airborne and Chemically Modified RNAs Dr. T. Chakrabarti, Former Director, NEERI, Nagpur Mueller, Andrea & Schlink, Uwe, UFZ Dr. Patrizio Arrigo, CNR ISNAC, Genova 15: Indian Urban Air Quality Decision Support System Akshara Kaginalkar, CDAC, Pune 15:45-16:00 Tea/Coffee Break 15:45-17:30 Technical Session II: Air Quality Assessment and Control Chair : Prof. Bhola R. Gurjar, IIT Roorkee and Prof. Ravikrishna, R 16:00-16:15 Effect of Re-entrant Combustion Chamber Design on Emissions of Hydrogen Enriched Diesel Engine U.S.Jyothi, K. Vijaya Kumar Reddy

3 16:15-16:30 Coal Power Stack Emissions and Dispersion Modelling : An Integrated Approach 16:30-16:45 Plasma Based Hybrid Technique for Abatement of Pollutants from Stationary Engine Exhaust - Effect of Loading Condition and Flow rate 16.45:17.00 Characterizing the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Open- Burning of Municipal Solid Waste(MSW) in Indian Cities 17:00-17:15 Effect of Vehicular Emission along the Highway Passing Through an Industrial Area of Mysuru on Vegetation and Soil 17: Characterization of Onboard Emissions from Passenger Cars Under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions 17:15-17:30 Risk Based Optimal Ranking of Air Quality Monitoring Stations for the Identification of Pollution Mitigation measures in an Fuzzy Environment 17:30-17:45 Assessment of Organic Markers in Fine Aerosol of Mumbai City Pralhad P.Walvekar, Bhola R.Gurjar Dr.A.D.Srinivasan, Jagadisha.N, Rajagopala.R, Ajay Singh Nagpure, Anu Ramaswami, Armistead Russell Prakash B.M, Mahadevaswamy. M, Mahesh.S, D.Komala Arun N.H, Srinath Mahesh, Rohit J, Surendra Reddy, Shiva Nagendra.SM, Gitakrishna Ramadurai Jyothi yadav, Ashok deshpande Abba Elizabeth Joseph, Seema Unnikrishnan, Rakesh Kumar, Vivek Balachander S 17:45-18:00 TSI Instrumentation for Air Quality Monitoring TSI Instrumentation, Bangalore 18:00-18:15 Thermo Instrumentation for Air Quality Monitoring Thermo Instrumentation, Mumbai 19:00-21:30 Cultural Programme and Conference Dinner Tuesday, 16th December 2013 Venue: ICSR Auditorium 09:00-10:30 Invited Talks

4 09:00-09:30 Air quality modelling, Monitoring and Management for Sustainable Transportation in Cities 09: Soft Computing in Air Quality Management 10: Forwarding the Framework for Air Quality Assessment Dr. Josias (Joe) Zietsman, Texas A&MTransportation Institute, USA Prof. Ashok Despande, University of Pune (UoP) Prof. Virendara Sethi, IIT Bombay 10:30-10:45 Tea/Coffee Break Technical Session III: Air Quality Modelling Chairs : Prof. Uwe Schlink, UFZ & Prof. S.M. Shiva Nagendra 10:45-11:00 Computational Study of Air Flow through Modified HVAC Ducts in a Multi Utility Vehicle 11:00-11:15 Comparison of Predicted Vehicular Pollution Concentration for Different Time Periods with Air Quality Standards 11:15-11:30 Predicting Particulate Air Pollution Using Line Source Models 11:30-11:45 CO2 Emission Calculation in Road Traffic Ambient Air by Vehicle Pattern Distribution Using Lipschitz Exponent Function Signal Processing Approach 11:45-12:00 Prediction of the Air Pollution by Contribution of Road Traffic Signal Processing and Higher Order Statistics Spectra (HOS) Approach Dr.P.Murugesan, R. Vasantha Kumar, R. Sasidaran Awkash kumar, Rashmi S Patil, Anil Kumar Dikshit Dr.M.Selvakumar, Dr. S. Geetha P.Venkatakrishnan, S.Sangeetha, M.S.Manikandan, R.Senthilkumar, G. Heera P.Venkatakrishnan, S.Sangeetha, B. Anburaj, B.Venkateshwara Balaji, R. Rajagopal

5 12:00-12:15 Quantification and Modelling of On-road CO 2 Emissions and its Impacts on Ambient CO 2 Concentrations in an Indian Coastal City 12:15-12:30 Quantifying the Impact of Intermittent Signal Priority Given to BRT on Ridership and Climate-A Case Study of Ahmadabad 12:30-12:45 Assessment of Biomass Burning Emissions from India - A Comprehensive Study 12:45-13:00 Nanoparticles: Hazard Assessment Based on Physico- Chemical Characterization 13:00-13:15 T-sets Based Solution Technique for Optimization of Multi pollutant Air Quality Management Strategies Under Imprecise Environment 13:15-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:30 Invited talks 14:00-14:30 Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Transient Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosols in Indoor Air 14: Air Quality Management System to Study the Vulnerability and Health Risk 14:50-15:10 Air Pollution and Chronic Diseases in Chennai M. Kishore Kumar, S.M. Shiva Nagendra Smitha Chaudhary N.Manojkumar, B.Srimuruganandam Dr.A.Seenivasan, M.Muthuraj, T.Panda Arindam garai, Palash Mandal, Dr. Tapan Kumar Roy Prof. Uwe Schlink & Carolin Rosch, UFZ Dr. S.M. Shiva Nagendra, IITM Dr. Chitra, A., Madras Medical College, Chennai 15:10-15:30 Health Impacts of Air Quality in Nagpur & Chennai Cities Dr. K. Krishnamurthi, NEERI, Nagpur

6 15:30-15:45 Tea/Coffee Break 15:45-15:45 Technical Session IV: Indoor Air Quality & Health Risk Assessment Chair : Dr. Mueller, Andrea, Dr.Chithra A 15:45-16:00 Health Impacts of Indoor Exposure to Mould Mueller, Andrea, UFZ 16:00-16:15 Air Quality and Personal Exposure Assessment at a Municipal Waste Management Site 16:15-16:30 Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Different Ventilated Micro environment of an Academic nstitution 16:30-16:45 Morphological Analysis of Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM) Emitted From Different Household Fuels 16:45-17:30 Panel Discussion: "Low cost sensors in urban air quality management and exposure analysis" Anju Elizabeth Peter, Jyothi S. Menon, S.M. Shiva Nagendra Neha Agarwal, A.Alekhya, S.M.Shiva Nagendra Shilpa B.S, K.S.Lokesh Panellists: Prof. Uwe Schlink, Prof. Akula Venkatram, Shri. Nandakumar, Prof. Ashok Despande, Dr. Mueller Andrea, Shri Danashekaran, Prof. Sachin S Gunthe, Prof. S.M. Shiva Nagendra, Pavan Reddy, Jyothi S. Menon 17:30-18:00 Valedictory, Prize Distribution and High Tea/Coffee Break

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