Professor Y.V.G.S. Murti, IIT Madras, India Y.V.G.S. Murti joined the premier institution of IIT Madras, where his teaching and research activities spanned over a few decades. Professor Murti's Condensed Matter research included experimental and theoretical investigations addressing problems on lattice defects and related transport and optical phenomena. Establishing a school of research on Photonics, he led work on experiments on Nonlinear Wave Mixing as well as on theoretical evaluation of Optical Nonlinearities of color centers. Professor C. Vijayan, IIT Madras, India C. Vijayan achieved his M.Sc. and PhD in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai. His early work includes Solid State Transport Phenomena, and Photonic Memories. Over the last two decades, he has been actively pursuing research on nonlinear optical properties of Novel Materials. A professor of physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, he heads the Photonics laboratory directing work on Quantum Confined Materials and Nanophotonic Materials.