Vijyoshi is an annual national science camp in India organised by

KVPY Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (English: ''Young Scientist Incentive Plan'') (KVPY) used to be a scholarship programme funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, aimed at encouraging students to take up ...

in collaboration with INSPIRE programme,

IISc The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The institute was established in 1909 wi ...

Bangalore and IISER-Kolkata (IISER Bhopal in 2018). It is an abbreviation for Vigyan Jyoti Shivir. It started in the year 2009 and is funded by the

Department of Science and Technology (India) The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology (India), Ministry of Science and Technology in India. It was established in May 1971 to promote new areas of science and technology an ...

. The aim of Vijyoshi Camp is to provide a forum for interactions between bright young students and leading researchers in various branches of

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

and

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

. The programme includes lectures sessions followed by discussion sessions. The speakers at this camp are eminent

scientist A scientist is a person who Scientific method, researches to advance knowledge in an Branches of science, area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engag ...

s and

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

s. Participants of this programme include KVPY fellows, INSPIRE scholars, 1st year science undergraduates studying in

IISER Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) are a group of autonomous institutions established by the Government of India through the Ministry of Education for teaching and research in natural science and to provide collegia ...

's, IIT's,

NISER The National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) is an List of autonomous higher education institutes in India, autonomous research institute in Jatani, Odisha, India, aided by Department of Atomic Energy. The institute is ...

and other central universities. In 2014 the camp was hosted by two institutions-

and IISER- Kolkata. A total of about 1200 students attended the camp in 2014.

Vijyoshi 2014

Some of the speakers for Vijyoshi 2014 included Physics Nobel Laureate Dr.

Georg Bednorz Johannes Georg Bednorz (; born 16 May 1950) is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Life and work Bednorz was bor ...

, renowned Structural

Chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...

Prof. Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju, and the director of the Indian Institute of Science Prof.

Anurag Kumar Anurag Kumar was the Director of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India from 2014–2020. He is a professor at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, and has served as the Chairperson of the Electrical Sciences Divi ...

. Several Under Graduate Students from IISc also demonstrated over 20 experiments to the young students who visited the camp. Some of them were Non-Newtonian fluid,

Stirling Engine A Stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by the cyclic expansion and contraction of air or other gas (the ''working fluid'') by exposing it to different temperatures, resulting in a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical Work (ph ...

, Leindenfrost Effect,

Gyroscope A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος ''gŷros'', "round" and σκοπέω ''skopéō'', "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining Orientation (geometry), orientation and angular velocity. It is a spinning wheel or disc in ...

Equivalence Principle The equivalence principle is the hypothesis that the observed equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass is a consequence of nature. The weak form, known for centuries, relates to masses of any composition in free fall taking the same t ...

Ripple tank In physics, a ripple tank is a shallow glass tank of water used to demonstrate the basic properties of waves. It is a specialized form of a wave tank. The ripple tank is usually illuminated from above, so that the light shines through the water ...

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