 a formal part of the awards function for the Infosys Olympiad awards of 2021, the felicitation of the International Olympiad Medalist of this year in Sciences and Mathematics. So this year, of course, as we know, has been very special. So all the Olympiads are conducted online and we have this award function also online. So we have never done this before online and if there are any errors or if there are any glitches, please excuse us, but we'll try to run a smooth program. Okay, so at the beginning, I would again remind you all to please keep your microphones muted while you are not speaking. And at the beginning, I would invite our center director of the Homi Baba Center for Science Education, Professor Arna Bhattacharya, who is a condensed matter physicist, to welcome the audience. Professor Bhattacharya. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you, Anvesh, for getting this started off. Welcome to part two of today's event, the felicitation of the Olympiad Medalists. And if you've been joining us since this morning, you've heard two fantastic lectures. It was very nice to see the enthusiasm of all the students asking so many questions. I hope you've been inspired listening to both Professor Yamuna Krishnan and Professor Chandrasekhar Khare. They've been fantastic talks. I learned a lot myself listening to them. And now it's time to go ahead with the award ceremony. And I'd first like to welcome our chief guest, Professor Sampath Kumaran, whom I know for many, many years since I joined at TIFR. We happen to be in the same department. And his support for all our activities, whether they were in doing science, science outreach, science education, especially when he was the dean, was really, really enormously helpful in going ahead. And I'm very glad that he has agreed to be here and sort of, though it is online, distribute these awards formally. Naturally, I would like to congratulate all of you who are involved with today's function, especially the Olympiad participants and your mentors and teachers. But of course, we are really happy that this year we are able to do this all bit online. I mean, remember that last year, when most of the Olympiads were canceled, but anyway, even the Infosys Award, this particular ceremony, we could not do it last year at all. So we are happy to be back. And we would love it if it was actually an in-person ceremony. But I think we are still not out of the shadows of COVID as yet. One thing is, earlier Greek letters were limited to people in the sciences and mathematics. Now, I think the whole world is aware of letters from alpha, delta, omicron, whatever. We just hope that next year things are under control. Till then, we must all stay safe, of course. Now, representing India at the international stage is definitely a huge honor which the Olympiad participants are privileged to get. And to get there, of course, there is a lot of work that has to happen in the background. And a lot of work which has to just not just happen, but happen in a precisely choreographed manner at the right time to sink into the Olympiad schedule that happens for every subject at different venues, locations, times, etc. And of course, for this, it's really the efforts of a lot of people. So let me start with the students, all of you, your families who have supported you, your teachers, your mentors who have encouraged you to go ahead and tackle these things which were not compulsory to appear for an Olympiad exam. But we hope that you've not just had the fun of competition, but also had the fun of taking on challenging problems and learning how to solve them. To help us in this, of course, right from where the first level process starts are the teacher associations. And we wouldn't be here without their support, and I'm glad to see some of them also attend this program. So the teacher associations who help conduct the programs, the various teachers across the country and researchers and mentors who take time out to mentor the students in the camps. And of course, HBCSE, I think the Olympiads would not happen without the persistence, the perseverance and efforts put in by all my colleagues at HBCSE, right from the ones who are your faculty and mentors, doing you the staff arranging lab experiments, the scientific staff, the administrative staff, the account staff, everybody. This is a collective effort of the center that we all put together over the years. And today we are really delighted to see all the medalists come together for this felicitation ceremony. This is really good. And again, I would from the bottom of my heart thank the Infosys Foundation for recognizing the importance of the Olympiad program and supporting the finalists there, as well as the TIFR endowment, who also help us put it together. And I'm now going to hand this over. I know you're all waiting eagerly to get your awards. So I'm going to hand this back to Anvesh at this time. And let's go ahead introduce the chief guest and get going. So welcome again. And we hope that we will see you back in HBCSE sometime in person. And we will have not the Olympiads that are beginning, right? We would love to have an interaction with you throughout your career, wherever you are, you will come back and help us in many ways that we can't think of today. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Professor Bhattacharya for your welcome address. We shall now move on to the presentation of the Infosys Award to medalists of international Olympiads in mathematics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and astrophysics, informatics and junior science in the year 2021. And unfortunately, this year India could not participate in the international Olympiads in physics, earth sciences, and astronomy junior for disruption in the national programs and serious concerns, health concerns about COVID-19. But we have the other medalists here with us, and we shall be presenting the awards to them. So before I get into the nitty-gritty of that, let me first again welcome our chief guest for today, Professor E.V. Sampatkumaran. Professor Sampatkumaran is a retired as a distinguished professor from TIFR and is right now the Raja Ramana fellow at the Homie Power Center for Science Education. He's a very well known experimental condensed matter physicist. And he is also an inept fellow of all the three major Indian science academies, namely the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, and the National Academy of Sciences. He's also a member of the World Academy of Sciences. So, and he has received this recognition for his research on thermal and transport behavior of magnetic systems. And Professor Sampatkumaran also received this Sampit Swaroop-Batnagar Award for Science and Technology, one of the most prestigious awards in the country in the year 1999. So we will hear from Professor Sampatkumaran in a little wide after the awards are given away. And so now what we will do is that, as I said, that there are several Olympics and we will go one by one. And we shall display the one slide for each of the awardees and also the certificates that they receive. And we shall go in the order of mathematics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and astrophysics, informatics, and junior science. So I request all the awardees of the respective Olympics to kindly switch on your videos. Please keep your audios unmuted, but please switch on your videos during the time that those awards are given. And we will try to spotlight your video when your name is on the screen. And so you can also wave at the audience. We let's try to get some life into this online mode of doing things. That's what we are trying here. And yeah. So and in this, I will be assisted by my colleague, Professor Pratrujit Bey, who is a national coordinator for Mathematical Olympiad. So I will now stop sharing this slideshow and give me a minute to begin the other slideshow. Just a minute, share my screen. And I will hand it over to Professor Dayanal. Thank you, Anvesh. And good afternoon, everybody. So let's welcome to this award ceremony. So we're going to start with the awards for the 62nd International Mathematical Olympiad 2021, which was held online and hosted by Russia. And it was held between July 14th and July 24th this year. And the Indian team came back with one gold, one silver, and three bronze medals. Yeah. So right now I'm going to read out the names of the medalists. So we'll start with Mr. Pranjal Srivastav, who is in class 11, and from National Public School, Bengaluru Karnataka. Pranjal won a gold medal. And I should say a few more words about Pranjal. And I have the honor and pleasure to let you know that at the age of 14, in his debut year, he became the youngest Indian to win a silver medal in IMO 2018. The very next year, that is, in 2019, he became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at IMO. And in 2021, he became the first Indian to win two gold medals in IMO. And it has to be said that in 2020, India did not participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad. So yeah. Congratulations, Pranjal. You have a very wonderful achievement at this young age. Thank you, sir. Yeah. Sorry. Just one clarification I thought I forgot to give this earlier. So the classes that we mentioned are the classes of the students when they entered the Olympiad competition with the first level exam at the beginning of this year. And now, of course, they have graduated on two higher classes or courses. I forgot to give this clarification earlier. And I again request all the students of the Mathematical Olympiad and the leaders to kindly switch on your cameras so that we can spotlight the video on you when your name is called out. Yeah. Over to you. Yeah. So this is a certificate which is the thing I want. Okay. So the second medalist is Mr. Anish Kulkarni. He won a silver medal in IMO 2021. He is from the late PV Joke Junior College. Congratulations, Anish. Congratulations, Anish. Thank you, sir. For the achievement. Keep it up. Yes, sir. And this is the certificate which is being awarded to Anish Kulkarni. Ms. Ananna Ranate from MTES Pune, Maharashtra won a bronze medal in IMO 2021. And may also add that she also won a silver medal at the 10th European Girls Mathematical Olympiad which was held online in April 2021 and was hosted by Georgia. So it's a great achievement by Ananya. And let me just add that India participates in the European Girls Mathematical Olympiad as a guest nation and has been doing so since 2015. Congratulations, Ananya. Congratulations, Ananya. It's a great achievement. Wish you many more in future. The next awardee is Mr. Rohan Goyal from KR Mangalam World School in Vikaspuri in Delhi. He won a bronze medal in IMO 2021. Congratulations, Rohan. Rohan, congratulations for further successes in the future also. Thank you. And this is the certificate which is being awarded to Rohan. Mr. Sushi Kosta from Delhi Public School, Noida Uttar Pradesh won a bronze medal in IMO 2021. Congratulations, Sushi. Congratulations, Sushi. And this is the certificate which is being awarded to Sushi for his achievement. So it's time now to introduce and award the certificates to delegation members. I'm very pleased to announce the name of the leader, Dr. S. Muralitharan from Mathematical Teachers Association India. He led the Indian team at the IMO 2021. And he's also the chief coordinator of examinations of MTA either as a Mathematical Teachers Association of India. Congratulations. Congratulations, Dr. Muralitharan for our wonderful effort at bearing fruits. And our leader was heavily assisted by Mr. Sahil Maskar who played the role of deputy leader. He's currently pursuing his PhD at Chennai Mathematical Institute. And let me just add that he also represented India in IMO in 2005. Congratulations, Sahil. Congratulations, Sahil. This is the certificate of Sahil Maskar. I'm very pleased to let you know that Professor Issa Krishnan of the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay played the role of a scientific observer to the Indian team. Congratulations, Krishnan for your efforts. And the second scientific observer for the team was Mr. Anant Muthgal who was a student of Chennai Mathematical Institute at the time of the IMO. And let me just add that Anant represented India in IMO in 2015, 16, 17 and 18. And he returned with one honorable mention to bronze medals at once in one day. So congratulations, Anant. This is the certificate for Anant Muthgal. Thank you. Okay. Moving on from mathematics, we now announced the awards for the 53rd International Chemistry Olympiad 2021. This Olympiad was also held online. The host was Japan and this was held between July 25th and all the 2nd this year. And all the four Indian students obtained medals, two of them gold medals and the remaining two silver medals. So the first awardee is Adarsh Reddy Madhu from Class 12, Narayana Junior College, Hajjabad who won a gold medal. Please switch on your videos if you are present so that we can spotlight your video. Congrats, Adarsh. Thank you, sir. The next awardee is Dhananjay Raman, Class 12 Balbhaar Pee Public School Delhi and Dhananjay also a gold medalist. Congratulations, Dhananjay. Give it up. Yeah. Dhananjay was also actually an awardee in previous Olympiad in the Junior Science Olympiad and the Junior Astronomy Olympiad I forgot to mention that so was Adarsh who also won Olympiad. Oh, great. He was also medalist at previous Olympiad. I'm glad to hear that. Congratulations. Give it up. Thanks. Then the next awardee is Mahit Rajesh Gadiwala, Class 11 Scholar English Academy from Surat. He won the silver medal at the ICHO and actually Mahit had also won a gold medal at the Junior Science Olympiad year before this in 2019 when it was held. Congratulations, Mahit. Thank you, sir. Rishit Singla, silver medalist from Class 12, modern Vijayaniketan, Faridabad Haryana. You have to change the slide. Congratulations, Rishit. Yeah. Congratulations, Rishit. Thank you, sir. Okay. Now we move on to the mentors in the ICHO. The head mentor was Professor Ankush Gupta from Homibaba Center, KIFR, our colleague. Congratulations, Ankush. Explore the excellent efforts. Thanks a lot. Thanks, Professor. The other mentor was Professor Nandita Madhavan from IIT Bombay. Nandita, congratulations. Your efforts are bearing floats. And the scientific observer was Dr. Dindal Bhattah from BRC Mumbai. Congrats, Dindal. I'm sure you are very happy. Okay. So that concludes the Chemistry Olympiad. We shall now move on to the 32nd International Biology Olympiad, which was actually renamed as IBO Challenge 2. And I request all the participants of IBO Challenge 2 this year to please switch on your videos so that we can spotlight you. This Olympiad was also held online, the first being Portugal. It was held during July 18 to 23. And all four Indian students got medals. Three of them obtained silver medals and one bronze medal. The first awardee is Anshul Sivach, Class 12 Prakati Public School, Delhi. One is silver medal. Congrats, Anshul. Thank you, sir. The next awardee is Dhiren Bharadwaj, Class 12 Prakati Public School, Delhi. Here, one is silver medal. Thank you, sir. Congrats, Dhiren. Thank you, sir. And Naman Singh, Class 12 Jayashtri Periwal High School, Jaipur. Also one is silver medal. Congrats, Naman. Thank you, sir. Yes, okay. You are there. And Swaraj Nandi, Class 11, Bisha Delphi Public School, Kota, one of my bronze medal. Thank you, sir. You have to change. You have to change. Congrats, Swaraj. Yes. Yeah, there is a delay sometimes. Yeah. Okay. We move on to the mentors. One of the jury members was Professor Madan Mohan Chaturvedi from Delhi University. Professor Chaturvedi has been associated with the Biology Olympiad for a long time. Professor Chaturvedi, if you are here, you may switch on your video. Professor Chaturvedi, you are not here. Another jury member was Professor Rekha Vartak from the Homi Baba Centre. Professor Vartak is, of course, the academic coordinator of the Biology Olympiad Cell and has been with the Biology Olympiad since the beginnings. Congratulations. Thank you. And Professor Ram Kumar Mishra was a jury member from Aizhar Gopal. Professor Mishra, congratulations for your efforts. I'm sure you are very happy to see this result. Dr. Sashi Kumar Menon from the TDM Lab Mumbai. Dr. Menon is also a member of the National Steering Committee. She was a jury member. You see here, Dr. Sashi Kumar. Now, I think he's not here, perhaps. Okay. So that concludes the International Biology Olympiad. We shall move on to the 14th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, held online. The host was Columbia. So we had a great time difference in this Olympiad with the students participating from here online and the organisers were almost at the 12-hour time difference from us. And this was held between 14th to 21st of November. And all five Indian students obtained medals, four of them gold medal and one silver medal. And they were actually, India was placed at the top of the medal tally in the Olympiad. So it's a very proud moment for us. So the first medalist is Chahal Singh, Class 12 Disha Delphi Public School Kota. Please switch on your videos if you are here. Gold medals for Chahal Singh. Chahal is also a medalist in previous Olympiad. Congratulations Chahal. Anilesh Bansal, Class 11 Delhi Public School Faridabad, Gold medal. Congrats Anilesh. Thank you very much sir. Sureen, Class 12 SM Aria Public School, Gold medal. Congrats Sureen. Thank you sir. Arhan Ahmad, Class 12 Krishna Public School Mirat, Gold medal. Congrats Aran. Thank you sir. And Dhruv Alavath, Class 12 Alpha Junior College Mumbai, Silver medal. Dhruv, congratulations. Thank you sir. There were several mentors in the Astronomy and Astrophysics, rather International Olympiad and Astronomy and Astrophysics. The first one was Professor Avinash Deshpande as leader from Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aayu Kapune. Avinash Deshpande has been associated with the Olympiad program for a number of years. Apro Deshpande, it's very immensely pleased to see you that your efforts are leading to so many nice outcomes. Thanks a lot. The other leader was Professor A. N. Ramaprakash from Aayu Kapune. Professor Ramaprakash has also been in the Olympiad program for several years. From Kashi here? No, he's not here. Okay. Now, the two scientific, four scientific observers. Actually the first one, Professor Durgej Tripathi from Aayu Kapune. Durgej? No, okay. Professor Sarita Vig from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. Professor Vig has also been to the Olympiad previously, the Astronomy Olympiad. Yes, no, he's not there. And Dr. Akshat Singal from IIT Bombay as a Scientific Observer. Then Dr. Uttam Bhatt from University of California, Santa Cruz, USA as a Scientific Observer. I must mention that Uttam is a previous Astronomy Olympiad medalist. So, we are very happy to have him back as a resource person. I think Uttam was there in the room earlier. He's not there, no? Too late. Yeah, it's too late. Yeah, I think he attended the talk. Yeah, he's in the US. Okay, that brings us to the end of the awards for the International Olympiad and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Now, it's time for the awards in International Olympiad and Informatics, and I will hand it over again to my colleague, Dr. Pratik Dev. Thank you, Professor Anvesh. So, we'll start with the award ceremony for 32nd International Olympiad in Informatics 2020. The awards are being presented this year because last year there was no Infosys award ceremony since India did not participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad and the International Science Olympiad so into the pandemic. So, this IOI 2020 was held online and was hosted by Singapore. It was held in the month of September between September 13th and 19th, and Indian team won two silver medals and two bronze medals. We are very happy to note the achievement. Congratulations to all those who worked for it. So, the first medalist is Mr. Rajasri Basu, class 12, Bothikariya Senior Secondary School, Kolkata West Bengal. So, Rajasri is here. This is the certificate. Okay. Congratulations Rajasri. She's not there. He's not there. Udith Sanghi of class 11, Bhavan Vidyalaya Panchpula Hariyana won a silver medal in IOI 2020. Congrats, Udith. All the best to you for further success. Shashwat Chandra, class 11, Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, New Delhi won a bronze medal. Shashwat, congratulations. Thank you, sir. Siddharth Sodani, class 8, Delhi Public School, Gurgaon, Hariyana won a bronze medal in the event. Thank you, sir. Congratulations. Sir, actually my camera is not working. Okay. Congratulations and wish you more luck in the future as well. Thank you, sir. The team was led by Professor Madhavan Mukund of Chennai Mathematics Institute. Congratulations. Thank you. Nice to see your efforts are bearing fruits. At Professor K. Narayan Kumar of Chennai Mathematics Institute was the deputy leader for the team. Professor Kumar, congratulations to him as well. He's not here, I think. Now we will announce the awards for the 33rd International Olympic Informatics, which was held online and hosted by Singapore. It was held in the month of June between June 19th and 25th. Indian team won two silver medals and one bronze medal. So, I'm happy to say that Udit Sanghi, who won a medal in 2020, also won a silver medal in 2021. He's from Bhavan Siddharth, Pancipula, Hariyana, class 12 student. Udit, congratulations. Double congratulations. Okay. Glad to see second one, also. Siddharth Siddhani, class 9 Delhi Public School, Guga Hariyana won a silver medal and Udit, he won a bronze medal in IOI 2020. So, this was his second appearance and he won a silver medal. Udit, congratulations. Thank you, sir. It should hardly come as a surprise. Pranjal Srivastava of class 11 National Public School, Bangalore Karnataka won a bronze medal in the International Olympic Informatics 2020. Congratulations, Pranjal. Thank you, sir. The team was led by Professor Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute. Congratulations again, Professor Mukund. Thank you again. Good to see you. And Professor K. Narayan Kumar of Chennai Mathematical Institute was a difficult year. It's not here. Congratulations to you. I think it's not there. Thank you. Thank you, Professor Day. We move on to the last Olympiad of this year, which was just concluded practically a day ago. This was the 18th International Junior Science Olympiad 2021, which was also held online. The host was United Arab Emirates and all six Indian students won gold medals in this Olympiad, propelling India to the top position, shared with the Chinese Saipi and Russia. So it's an extremely excellent performance that all six Indian students won the gold medal. This is the third occasion that it has happened in the IASO. So I think we have all the students here. So we begin with Aditya, class 9, DLDAV Model School, Delhi, gold medal. Aditya, congratulations. Thank you, sir. It's a great achievement. All the six got gold medal. It's really something you had to be proud of. Okay. Animesh Pradhan, class 9, Modern Delhi Public School, Faridabad, gold medal. Animesh, congratulations. Thank you, sir. Okay. Devesh Pankaj Bhaiya, class 8, LH Patil English Medium School, Vavada Deh, Maharashtra, gold medal. Thank you, sir. Congratulations, Devesh. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Harshin Tosina, class 9, Fiji School, Harjabad, gold medal. Harshin, congratulations. Congratulations, Harshin. Rajiv Mishra, class 9, Air Force School, Jamnagar, gold medal. Thank you, sir. We are here. Please sit down on your camera. Rajiv, congratulations. And Vade Lahoti, class 9, Rankers International School Indoor, gold medal. Vade, congratulations. Thank you, sir. Okay. There were three leaders in the IES 2021, Professor Abhiji Chavan, S.P. College Pune, Professor Chavan actually travelled to UAE for the event and just came back yesterday. Okay. You see here, we cannot be here. Okay. My congratulations to him. So, congratulations. Yeah. Anutama Kulkarni from the Hohenbaba Center. Anutama, congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Ms. Sauravi Huli, Jamnabai Nursing International School, Mumbai, the leaders. Sauravi. There were three scientific observers, Dr. Hemant Khannulkar, Friya Konsekaw, Rodriguez College of Engineering, Mumbai. You know, here, Hemant. Ms. Samali Khalatkar, Samishri Mathuradas Mohota College of Science, Maghur, the scientific observer. Samali, congratulations for the role you have played in this. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much, sir. And the last scientific observer was Professor Aniket Suleh from the Hohenbaba Center. Aniket. I think Aniket was here earlier. Okay. So, that brings us to the end of the awards and congratulations to all the students and all the mentors who achieved great success with all these medals. And it's really nice to see them all. Let me now move on to the next part of the program. So, I would now invite our Chief Guest, Professor Evie Sampathkumaran, to say a few words. And perhaps Professor Sampathkumaran would like to share his screen. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'll share. Yeah. Can you see now? Not yet. Perhaps there's a delay. We'll just check. Oh, sorry. One second. Maybe one minute. Here, I look here. Sorry. Share screen. Yeah. While Professor Sampathkumaran is sharing his screen, let me remind all the students at the awardees that you will receive a cash award. So, please send us your bank details because the awards are, of course, cannot be given in this manner. So, they have to be transferred to your bank accounts. We have already sent an email to you. So, please provide those bank details so that the money can be transferred. Yeah. Professor Sampathkumaran. Okay. Dear Professor Abnabadacharya, my long-term colleague in the same department in TI for Colaba, and he's presently the Center Director of Homiboss Science Center, Professor Anvesh Majumdar, whom I know for a very long time. We've lived in the same campus for several, few decades. Other faculty members of the Homiboss Science Center, international women, our winners, teachers and other mentors and friends. Good afternoon to all of you. This is actually a very, very proud moment to all of us. At the outset, I would like to thank Professor Abnabadacharya and also Anvesh Majumdar for inviting me to his ceremony to be the Chief Guest to felicitate the winners of International MBA Arts in various branches of science. It's really great honor to me. I'm really, really feel honored by this gesture. Let me offer my heartiest congratulations to all the winners and my best wishes to all the people who worked for it, and also my best wishes to all the UCPNs for further glory in their life to reach new heights. In particular, of course, teacher association role is very, very important. But since I am from this place at present, I happened to witness the efforts that have gone in over a period of maybe few decades, much more closely during the last 15 years, when I was serving in, not only in my own scientific aspects, also in various administrative capacities, I happened to interact with these anti-directors and other faculty members occasionally and even participated in one of these, this ceremony about eight years ago. And I would say that this is something which is a very remarkable achievement for India as a whole. And this one of the probably the only institute in this country which is doing such a great job projecting the talent of the young Indian students also encouraging them to take up this kind of career in their life. This is something really, very, very remarkable. I was very, you know, the amount of effort that is going on. I am a little bit personally aware, but now I am seeing during the last two years, much more closely, it is just not easy to organize such an event, I mean, such a program, whether it is NIUS, you know, OIY Science Center is doing a lot of other activities like national initiative from regular studies and also this particular program, volunteer program. And if you really actually see very closely, the amount effort and effort you really involve, it is really very, very high. I am seeing during the last two years now, and particularly in the pandemic time, you know, coordinate with various institutions, various international agencies, various mentors in different places, and day and night, you know, particularly now, you cannot worry about when you can organize this kind of interaction or training or mentoring the students, the help of many others. There is a great achievement with something we have to be very, very proud that one is able to achieve so many medals from international well-being. Therefore, I would like to congratulate OIY Science Center for the efforts they have put in all the colleagues from OIY Science Center, really remarkable achievement when you actually when you see closely. Anyway, now that I am given this opportunity, I want to make some remarks. Of course, these remarks or suggestions are not for the senior people, it is for the young students who are really got award and they have a long way to go in their career. Though they may know all these points, let me also, I thought I should make some points a little bit or elaborate some points. In fact, these points are actually based on already the talks given by two eminent speaker today. They are going to outstanding talk about both our outstanding scientists in their respective fields, excellent talk, messages coming out very clearly. This is what I am going to sort of summarize message with or come out out of this of that talk. Today, we have to remember three personalities mainly. Number one, he says Srinivasa Ramanujam because it is birthday on which this award is given and then Homi Baba, who is essentially the founder of Tata Institute of International Research and Automical Engineering program, on whose name this institute is named Pohiyobar Science Center. Third one, the Infosys Award, that is the founder of Infosys organization, that is Narayana Moti. When we look at their life and biography, we learn a lot and particularly for young students should read their biography and I will not take more than five minutes now. I am going to just only highlight some important points. Firstly, in today's talk, it came out very clearly by the first talk by Yamuna. She emphasized the point that one has to be even one successful in life. You have to be in the today's science is actually interdiscipline character. Many of you might have got your award in astronomy, physics, mathematics, computer science, et cetera, et cetera. That is okay at this stage of life when you are in school. However, as you progress, you will realize that all the subjects are become borderless. They are seamless. If you want to excel in one direction, you have to necessarily know a lot in other subjects as well. I mean, I am telling you very unfortunately, I know there are some very bright students whom I aware, they really focus so much on only one subject and eventually they are not able to make a mark because they grew out other subjects. Therefore, if you really want to shine your life later on in your career, you have to necessarily pay attention to all the subjects. Whatever little you know, you learn with some motivation, try to understand in depth and try to see how best you can build on whatever you have learned from different branches, though you must specialize in one direction. This is something which you have to really remember. I mean, today Yamuna question brought her very clearly that you require biology, not as you are doing work in biology. Also, keeping application in mind in medicine and you are taking a skill of physicists and also chemists, you have to very clearly come out of that. But of course, you may start with one subject, finally under recognition, another subject. Look at Ramakrishnan, who got about 2009, Venki Ramakrishnan, 2009 for his work on ribosome, which is the essential biology subject. He got an award in chemistry and using a lot of mathematical and physics skills, he has used excellent technique. So you have to learn a lot of other things. You are quite familiar with various directions in science. It is very, very important. Similarly, look at our Homi Baba, who is our founder. We basically, we basically a mechanical engineer, and he turned out to be a theoretical physicist, some nuclear physicist, he built an atomic program. He is also not only experimentalist, he is also a theoretician, he is also an experimentalist. So today, I happen to see one of the selection committees, one of one of the very famous institutions, we happen to interview candidates, very bright theoretical physicists, and he did not want to interact with experimentalists, he made it very clear. So finally, he was not chosen. So you cannot take that attitude, you have to have flavor of everything and appreciation of everything, try to learn different aspects of science, is very, very important. And one of my own students, I mean, he did PhD in commencement, it's training by physics, he did PhD in commencement in physics and quickly shifted over to biology after finishing a PhD. He was not working in biology, had no idea about biology. But one of the most well-known biologists in the country today, even very well known, he received several honours from India, very, very well respected biologists, he is one of the very, one of the faculty members, one of the most prestigious institutions in the country. So therefore, you could see that all the subjects have become borderless, therefore, please remember this particular aspect. However, I must say at this moment, Ramanism, you know, Ramanism himself, he was so much involved in mathematics those days that he ignored his other subject as a result really failed in matriculation. And if he had tough time, I mean, those days it's fine, he can still continue to work on one subject, he can ignore Ramanism today, it is just not possible. There are tough times to make up his living. He ended up working as a Clarke in a fortress and yet to, he did not know how to carry on with his studies yet, because he was from a very poor family, yet to learn his living. And the fortress manager saw his talent in mathematics, allured him to do mathematics in, in during office hours and he was communicating with people like Hardy those days. And of course, he made up his future later because of the help he got from the other people. So anyway, the point is really important to focus on other other subjects as well. The second point, which also comes out in the talk of Thundershaker, is that you have to be persistent. You know, he mentioned that he has to, he has been thinking about a problem for a period of 10 years, and he also brought out how some of the other mathematicians were constantly thinking about the problem. So the company not only should be competent, it needs to be augmented by dedication, motivation, channelization, perseverance, and things like that. And other things do not compare with others. Somebody is doing better than you. Please do not compare. Then you lose your confidence. So it's very important. These things should keep in mind. The respect of the background, I mean, whether you're from a rich family or poor family, whether you're from a village or the town, it doesn't matter. As long as you are competent, intrinsically, your motivation, dedication, you'll definitely progress. And I just want to show in this case, Srinivas Ramonajam, himself is from a very small town. You know, this small town is called Kumbakonam. This Kumbakonam is about one hour from Trichnopoulay. If any of you, you know, there is a, he has my very poor family, look at the house on the left-hand side. This house is something like four meters by something like 10 meters. And I'm just showing entrance. I don't want to show the full figure because I'm sitting on the other side. I cut it off. This out of, made out of bricks and just mud. These are typical styles those days. It is not a great sophisticated building. And look at the tiles here. I mean, just, you know, anytime it can fall. The Sastra University actually bought this house from somebody and started maintaining it. And if you go inside, I mean, look at a very, very simple living. I mean, you could look at it here. And that is a bedroom here. Sorry, the kitchen. Sorry, I have not shown this here. This is the entrance of his house. And this is the bed which he has used. And you could see the hall. I mean, just some 10 by 4 square meter. He's a very bust-escape. There's a lot of stuff which you could see here. Letters he has written and photographs. And he's a kitchen here where they used to eat. That's all the house. So I request all of you to make an attempt to go to his own town. There is Kumbakonam. There is a museum maintained by Sastra University. You will see the lots of letters written by Ramanijam and also letters which he received back from Hardy and the other people and the people which he has to place in his life to come up to the level where he was. And therefore, I would suggest that please go there and try to read. You really get inspired by reading those letters. I happened to visit that place about 10 years ago when I went for a meeting in Sastra University. Sastra University showed me around there. You know, it's very, very important that this young age and during vacation just go there and see. So, similarly, Vinky Ramakrishnan received an old price. He is from a very small town, Chizambaram. He is also from a very small humble family. And he has a lot of difficulties in his career. Also, from childhood, a lot of difficulties were penniless. And then, during his profession, he got shunted from one place to the other. And however, he perceived his interests without giving up the hope. Similarly, if you look at Ramarajan, I'm sorry, Omibaba, he is now, now I showed you two cases which are from a very humble, simple family. Now, we talk about Omibaba. He's from Mumbai city, from a very wealthy family. He's a great visionary. He was interested in basically mathematical sciences, including theoretical physics. However, his father wanted him to become a mechanical engineer and take over the, take over the industry at Jamshutpur, Tata Steel. However, he had no, no inclination to take up that industry. You know, look at this. He's a very wealthy family. He wanted to become a very continue to be rich, continue to lead the richer organization. But his interest was only in theoretical sciences and related subjects. So, you, therefore, his father told him, look, okay, fine, you go abroad, go to Cambridge, do mechanical engineering. And you should pass that test at least. And let me see what I can do. He passed the test for mechanical engineering and then he was allowed to do whatever he wanted to do in Cambridge. He went to Cambridge and he pursued his mathematical sciences interest and also got interested in political physics, experimental program. He came back to the country. He built, he found the Tata Institute and subsequent, in, by the way, he started the Tata Institute in his own place, in his house, in, in, in Pedder Road, in, in Mumbai. So, he did not start with any big support. Later on, Tata supported him. And then he made TI for, and then, of course, an automatic energy program. Look at the kind of program he has built in the country. So, the great visionary. So, there are some of the examples, whether you have a rich from or family or poor family, whether you're from, from, from a small town, a bit, doesn't matter. You don't have some basic principles in life. If you take the thing very seriously, and you'll be able to succeed in life. In fact, I just conclude my talk by the quoting by Hoi Baba. He said, I cannot increase the contents of life by increasing its duration. I will increase it by increasing its intensity, art, music, poetry, and everything else that I do have this one purpose, increasing intensity of my consciousness of life. In a very profound statement, that's what we did. He wrote a very relative younger age or something like that, close to 58 in an air crash. He achieved so much that we are all enjoying the benefits of that. And by the way, the discovery theory made what is called Baba's Catching Electron, Positron, Annihilation of Processes. And he was actually tipped for a Nobel Prize. If had he been alive, you would have got the Nobel Prize. The BT that we lost him. Now summarizing my point, what do you want to say? You know, if you look at Swami Vyagananda, he made many advices to use. I will let me summarize here whatever I said, whatever the personality which I talked about, the impact, all these qualities. Let me read one by one. He said, number one, take up one idea. In fact, that's what Chandrasekhar mentioned. Take up one idea. Make that one idea of your life. Dream of it. Think of it. Live on that idea. Let the brain, body, muscles, nerves, in every part of your body, be full of that idea. And just leave every other idea alone. These are the way to success. And the examples of Homi Baba, Ramayana Jan, Venkara Ramakrishnan, Yatra, Yatra, I already mentioned. I mean, today you have the two speakers, they follow the same thing. And they are very successful in their career. They are all very prominent people. Second one, in a day, when you don't, by the other important point, we often face failures in life who should not get discouraged. It's very, very important. This statement which he has advised, which he gave to younger people, in a day, when you don't come across any problems, you can't be sure that you're traveling in the wrong. You can be sure that you're traveling in the wrong path. So failure, what he's trying to fail over is CC path for success. This statement reveals that need not to lose heart while doing science and learn from failures. Third one, whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be. If you think yourself strong, strong you will be. See for the highest and aim at the highest and you should reach the highest. His message was very profound, but very powerful and very simple also. Finally, he's also very, very important human quality which he insisted true to yourself. This is very much applicable today's science to be ethical. It's very important when you do science, you have to be very, very ethical, absolutely important and you also emphasize on the fact that let's be human. So they're all very profound statements, is eternally valid and I would suggest that all of you know all these, it is my youngsters know more than us, but I thought that the time to remind, remind or remember all these things and you will find you'll be very, very successful in life. And again, I would like to thank Arnav and Eskalash, everybody else for new opportunity to be present here and I'm very proud of all of you, particularly whom I was a science centre for the great achievement and I wish you all the best in future as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your words Sampath. Very, very apt, very important and I think this is an important message that all the students will be very, I think they should hear what you've said, really important. Okay, back to you Andresh. Yeah. So maybe you can stop sharing screen, Sampath. Oh, okay. I have to stop. I disconnected. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah. So I mean, we are almost at the end of the program. It's my personal duty to propose a vote of thanks, which I will now do. So first of all, let me begin by thanking our chief guest for the day for Sampathumaram for sparing your valuable time and speaking to the students and very valuable words. So thank you very much. Earlier in the day, we had two excellent lectures by Professor Yamuna Krishnan and Professor Chandrasekhar Khare. Both I thought were pitched perfectly for the students at this level. It's not easy to bring home the difficult nuances of science and mathematics, but I think both of them succeeded a great deal in that. And I thank them very much for that. So, and of course, let me again congratulate all the medalists and all the leaders of and the observers, all the mentors of the International Olympiad of 2021 who received awards here today. And I must thank you all for making this a worthwhile effort because you put in your enthusiastic participation, you worked hard and here we are. So that's a very great feeling. In the Science Olympiad, the Homi Baba Center for Science Education is a nodal agency, as you all know. But we are helped in this effort by a great deal by the teacher associations in the country, namely the Indian Association of Physics Teachers, IAPT, the Association of Chemistry Teachers, ACT, the Association for Teachers in Biological Sciences, ATBS, and the Mathematical Teachers Association of India, MTAI. And I thank all these teacher associations for their cooperation, for their great help in conducting the Olympiad, not just this year, but year after year for more than 20 years that we are doing it. And I thank you to all of you. And this has been a very difficult year. So I would like to thank all of you again for the cooperation that you have extended throughout this difficult time. I must thank all the resource persons who have helped train the students and participated in the evaluation process. Many of them are from the Homi Baba Center, but many of them, many of them from outside scientists, researchers, teachers who have been helping us year after year. And this year too, they participated in online mode, they adapted to the new mode, which was not easy. And yet, they did it. So I thank all of them. This year, as Professor Bhartifaria has said before me, was of course difficult time because of the pandemic, as you all know, but also because of the nature of the Olympiad, the connection with international bodies and leasing with them and making sure that the Olympiad can be held both in the national program as well as in the international, maintaining all of the high standards of fairness, transparency, integrity. And it took quite a lot of effort, I must say. And all the academic selves of the Homi Baba Center participated in this. And they all put in a great effort. So I thank all my colleagues at the Homi Baba Center for this. The Office of the National Coordinator, those people also worked behind the scenes all the time. The Office of the Center Director, who played a big role, especially in organizing this program. And all the administrators and the technical and the auxiliary staff of the Homi Baba Center, everybody puts in an effort. That's why it's a great team effort. And we can all arrive at the results that are so cherished to all of us. So especially in this year, where things, as everybody has been working from home with many, many constraints, with health concerns and all. So it has not been easy at all. So I thank from the bottom of my heart all my colleagues. And I also thank the, particularly the professional agency, which helped us conduct the first stage of the Olympia. The Olympia program in India are guided by some steering bodies. And the mathematics is the national board of higher mathematics body under the department of atomic energy. And I thank them for their guidance for the sciences and national steering committee, which comprises of representatives of all the funding agencies, as well as recruited subject experts and the teacher associations. So they have been guiding us, advising us, because we had to modify the process in response to the pandemic throughout the year. And I thank my colleagues on the NSC for that. The Olympia program, of course, is, as you know, is fully funded and recognized by the government of India. And it takes a a great deal of money. And that the government of India has been very generous over the years. The funding is received through various departments and ministries of the government of India. In particular, the department of atomic energy, the board of research and nuclear sciences under the DE, the department of science and technology, the department of space, the Ministry for Education and NCERT under it. All these agencies provide funds for the Olympics of the Science and the Mathematical Olympia. The Informatics Olympia are conducted by the Indian Association for Research in Computer Science. And it is funded by the SASCEN Technologies, TCS-IAM, ODSHF, and the Chennai Mathematical Institute. We thank all of them for their generous support year after year. So to end, I will thank all of you who are present in the program today. Many of you who are there in the talks have left. But I thank all of them for their enthusiastic participation for engaging with the speakers. And all of you who are here at the moment. Thanks a lot to all of you. Organization of this online program, this is the first time, as I said at the beginning, that we are doing it online. This requires a great deal of coordination. And I thank my colleagues, especially in the computer cell, Arshish Anil and my colleagues, Shiddish and Shoknil, who have helped coordinate this. So thank you all. I thank my colleagues, Prasad Pratidhi Bey also for helping me coordinate this. And finally, I end by thanking all the students, the medalists and all the other students in the Olympiad, many of whom we had invited in this program and they're here. I can see them. And I thank all of them for their enthusiastic participation in this great celebration of science. And I think without their enthusiasm, year after year, this program would not have reached the heights that it has reached year after year. So thank you all. And I wish that we can resume the normal way of doing things where there's more human interaction, physical interaction in the next cycle itself. And till then, thank you all and bye-bye. Thanks. Thank you, Anvesh. Okay, I'm just going to add one thing. One person who Anvesh obviously cannot thank is the national coordinator of the Science Olympiads, that's Anvesh himself. Anvesh does a lot of the heavy lifting for a lot of these programs and getting things coordinated and ensuring things happen on time, the way it should happen, etc., making sure the last eyes are dotted and these are crossed and things like that. So we should also, you know, a round of thanks for Anvesh as well as a national coordinator. It's a lot of effort that he puts into this. But as he said, it's fantastic. One thing we have missed is the human interaction. That is one of the big things of the Olympiad. It's the movement. It brings people together. It forms bonds that last way beyond the competition. You meet people from other countries and, you know, the students forms from friends and colleagues and, you know, maybe competitors, but still. And that aspect, we hope we can get back next year once we hopefully go back to an in-person format for everything. So with that, thanks a lot for being with us today and goodbye from my end as well. Thank you. Thank you. We can stop the streaming, perhaps.