Time | Name | Talk title/area |
FRI, JULY 15 |
09:30 | Organisers | Introductory remarks |
09:45 | T A Abinandanan | Scientific Misconduct in India: An Analysis of Retracted Papers in PubMed |
10:15 | Rohini Muthuswami | Plagiarism amongst students: Causes and possible remedies |
10:45 | Rahul Siddharthan | Plagiarism and the commons |
11:15 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
11:30 | N Raghuram | Ethics in science, technology, regulation and governance in the knowledge economy |
12:00 | S R Hashim | Role of Educational Policies and Social Goals in Promoting Academic Ethics |
12:30 | Anuradha Lohia | Academic Ethics & The India Alliance - A Funding Agency’s Perspective |
13:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
14:00 | P Balaram | Scientific Misconduct: Experiences
as an Editor and Administrator |
14:30 | K Narayanan | Ethics in thesis and assignment writings |
15:00 | Neelima Gupte | Is ethical behaviour encouraged? Principles and practice |
15:30 | Gautam I. Menon | TBA |
16:00 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
16:20 | Panel discussion: T A Abinandanan, T V Jayan, S Mukhi (chair), B L Pandit, N Raghuram | Dealing with misconduct |
SAT, JULY 16 |
09:30 | D K Srivastava | Academic Ethics and Economics |
10:00 | Gautam R. Desiraju | Academic ethics in India. Some current concerns |
10:30 | LS Shashidhara | Inappropriate authorship /ethics of mentorship |
11:00 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
11:20 | N. S. Siddharthan | Academic Ethics - Some issues and policy options |
11:50 | Sunil Mukhi | Some prescriptions for creating an ethically strong academic environment |
12:20 | K VijayRaghavan | Entropy: Acknowledging and battling it. |
12:50 | LUNCH BREAK | |
14:00 | Amar Jesani | Ethics in and of biomedical and public health experiments on humans |
14:30 | Chiranjib Sen | Ethical issues in the competition of academic ideas - the case of economic paradigms |
15:00 | Aparna Basu | Need to define ethical behaviour in a 'collective' scientific context |
15:30 | Satyajit Rath | The roots of dodgy ethics in science: Profit, prestige, and community value systems |
16:00 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
16:20 | Journalist perspective: R Ramachandran, T V Jayan | Blind watchdogs |
16:35 | Summary and open discussion | |