Greetings from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) & IICAQM 2022!
We are glad to bring to your kind attention that IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kharagpur, Australian National University (Australia), University of Bath (UK), Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), Mahidol University (Thailand) and University of California, Riverside(USA) are jointly organizing the ‘7th Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management (IICAQM 2022): Measurement, Modelling, Health Risk and Public Policy’ during 29th November – 1st December 2022 at IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
As part of IICAQM 2022, IITM in association with the Clean Environment and Planetary Health in Asia (CEPHA) Network are organising online competitions for school and college students. The competitions are divided into three categories:
Category I : Creative Drawing (Upto 14 years)
Topic: Air pollution & impact on the environment
Total number of participants: 381
First position: Vishwika Khandelwal, Class IX, SBOA – JC, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Second position: Divyadharshini, Class IV, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Tamil Nadu
Third position: K Kavyashree, Class IX, SBOA – JC, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Category II : 1-min Video (15 – 18 years)
Topic: Air pollution prevention & role of the community
Total number of participants: 37
First position: S Shiren, Class XI, SBOA – JC, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Second position: Akshitha Chelladurai, Class IX, Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Tamil Nadu
Third position: Nandu N, Class XI, EVHSS Elamanoor, Kerala
Category III : Technical Posters (19 years & above)
Topic: Indoor & outdoor air quality management
Total number of participants: 15
First position: Rahul M M C, Dr. R. Saraswathi, Malavan K, Manikandan S, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu
Second position: Muhammed Sabir, TKM CE, Kollam, Kerala
Third position: Ms. Chaitali Thali, Dr. Priti Vishnu Kubal and Mr. Nandhakumar S.K., IIT Madras
Kindly refer to the attached poster and guidelines for further details.
Note: The students will not be charged any fees to attend this event, however, they will get an E-certificate for participation.
Guidelines:
IICAQM 2022 – competitions poster & guidelines
Winners:
Technical Session 1: Air Quality Measurement & Monitoring
First position: Abhishek Penchala, IIT Kharagpur
Title: Measurement of particulate matter levels in and around the mining area using low-cost sensors
Second position: Kanagaraj Rajagopal, Delhi Technological University
Title: Measurements of size resolved nano particle concentration and its distribution in polluted urban environment during induced fire work event
Technical Session 2: Source Apportionment and Emission Inventory
First position: Manuj Sharma, IIT Tirupati
Title: Chemical characteristics, source apportionment and health risk analysis of atmospheric particulates at the urban-traffic site in Vijayawada city, Andhra Pradesh India
Second position: Savitha Ulavi, SJCE Mysore
Title: Assessment of factors influencing visibility for south Indian heritage city
Technical Session 3: Applications of Modelling tools in Air Quality Management
First position: Udita Gupta, Gautham Buddha Univeristy, Uttar Pradesh
Title: Analysis of PM10 and PM2.5 concentration under transport policies and statistical modelling
Second position: Naina Gupta, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi
Title: Modeling the effects of vehicular traffic on PM2.5 using artificial neural networks
Technical Session 4: Policy and Environment
First position: Dr. Amit Passi, IIT Madras
Title: Investigation of occupational thermal comfort in urban subway stations
Second position: Sarup Das, IIT Madras
Title: Long-term health effects of PM2.5 due to agricultural biomass burning in Mandya district, Karnataka
Technical Session 5: Indoor Air Quality-Measurement, Modelling, and Control
First position: Gopika Chandran, CET Trivandrum
Title: Assessment of airborne bacteria near sewage treatment plant
Second position: Samridhi Dwivedi, Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow
Title: Exposure vulnerability assessment towards indoor air pollutants: A case study
Technical Poster Presentation
First position: Supriya Dey, Sayantan Sarkar, IIT Mandi
Title: 3D fluorescence-PARAFAC fingerprinting of aqueous brown carbon in the eastern Indo-Gangetic plain
Second position: Alok Kumar Thakur, Marina E. Vance, Sameer Patel, IIT Gandhinagar
Title: Performance assessment of low-cost particle sensor by evaluating the size-resolved scattering intensity