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Mangaluru, Mar 17: Professor Prakash P Karat Endowment Lecture - 2021 will be held on Saturday March 20 at 2.30 pm at Fr Robert Sequeira Hall, LCRI Block, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), here.

Dr T N Narayanan, associate professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Hyderabad, will deliver the lecture on the topic 'Role of New Materials in Energy Crisis: Present and Future'.

Professor S M Dharmaprakash, professor of the department of Physics at Mangalore University, will preside over the function. Fr Praveen Martis SJ, principal of St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru and Professor Prakash P Karat, Professor of the department of Postgraduate Studies in Physics of St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru will be the guests of honour.

Professor Prakash P Karat started his career as a lecturer in Physics at St Philomena College, Puttur and served the college from July 1967 to October 1982. Meanwhile, he pursued his research at Raman Research Institute Bengaluru under the scholarly and erudite guidance of Professor S Chandrasekhar F R S. Professor Karat joined Mangalore University in 1982 and served as a professor of Physics and later, as the registrar (Evaluation) for a year. He has successfully guided four PhD and six MPhil students. He retired from service in 2004. Presently, he serves the Postgraduate Department of Physics at St Aloysius College (Autonomous) as a visiting professor.

The endowment lecture is organised by his students and admirers in association with the department of Physics, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru.