Day 1: Monday, 13th November, STATS 2006, Tata Auditorium
STATS 2006 will begin at 9:00 hours at the Tata Auditorium (see point 1 in the Jamshedpur map) and will end at 18.00 hours. The fully airconditioned Tata Auditorium has a seating capacity of about 1200. All the facilities required for hosting an international conference such as LCD projector for Power Point presentations, Laptop/Desktop, Laser pointer, etc., will be available. The author presenting the paper must bring the soft copy of the material to be presented in a CD/memory stick in MS Power Point format and ensure that the same is loaded on the computer before the session begins. The operating system shall be MS Windows XP.

Twelve invited talks (each lasting 20 min., followed by 5 min. of Q&A) will be delivered by eminent speakers from China, Europe, India and Japan, representing both the automobile and the steel industry. STATS 2006 will be a truly memorable event that you can not afford to miss.

Detailed Programme: STATS 2006 will be conducted in a totally business-like manner. After a brief welcome by the IIM President, the invited talks will begin. Mr. Ravi Kant, MD, Tata Motors (representing automakers) will chair the forenoon session and Dr S K Bhattacharya, Ex-MD, DSP and past President, IIM (representing steelmakers), will chair the afternoon session.

The technical programme will be immediately followed by a Laser Show at the Jubilee Park (see point 2 in map), which will chronicle the saga of Jamshedpur and Tata Steel in a unique environment. Dinner will follow at the Jubilee Park Picnic Area (within walking distance).

The delegates will NOT have an opportunity to return to their hotels / places of residence once the afternoon session is over. Therefore, they should come prepared right from the morning to be in the open in the Jubilee Park in the evening.

It should also be noted that there will be no separate break(s) for tea/coffee during any of the sessions in STATS 2006. Delegates can go for tea/coffee in the foyer of the Tata Auditorium any time, while the session is in progress.

The detailed programme for Day 1 is given below.

Time	Event
8:00 - 9:00 hours	Registration in front of Tata Auditorium
9:00 hours (Tata Auditorium)	STATS 2006 begins with welcome by President, IIM
Pre-lunch Session (9:15 - 13:00 hours)	Paper presentation by Research Institutes and Automobile Makers (6 papers) Chairperson - Mr Ravi Kant, MD, Tata Motors
13:00 - 14:00 hours	Lunch break (Lunch in Food Court opposite Tata Auditorium)
Post-lunch Session (14:15 - 18:00 hours)	Paper presentation by Steel Plants making Auto-grade materials (6 papers) Chairperson - Dr S K Bhattacharya, Ex MD , DSP and Past President, IIM
18:00 hours	Proceed directly to Jubilee Park
18:45 - 19:30 hours	Laser Show at Jubilee Park
19:30 - 19:45 hours	Walk to the Picnic Area at Jubilee Park
20:00 hours	Dinner / Cocktails in Picnic Area
22:30 hours	End of Day One

Invited talks in STATS 2006

Serial No.	Name of Speaker	Affiliation	Paper Title
1	Dr Hiroshi Takechi	Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan	Advanced high strength steel sheets for automotive application
2	Dr Jean-Claude Herman	CRM, Belgium	Surface quality and other quality features of zinccoated strips used in automobiles
3	Mr Dieter Rosenthal, Mr Stephan Kramer & Mr Wolfgang Hennig.	SMS Demag, Germany	Innovative CSP technology for automotive sheets
4	Mr Manabu Fujine & Mr Hiroshi Kawaguchi	Toyota Motor Corp., Japan	The use of high quality steel sheets for producing Toyota vehicles
5	Mr Shinichi Takeuchi	Maruti Udyog, India	Maruti's experience with automotive grade material procured from India / overseas in making Maruti Suzuki cars
6	Mr Luca Cirilli, Mr Alessio Secci & Dr Agresti Simone	Pirelli Tyre, Italy	Fatigue considerations for steel cord utilisation in the carcass of TBRtyres
7	Mr Frederic Brun	Arcelor, France	High strength steel sheets and tailorwelded blanks for automotive applications
8	Mr Yuuji Sueki	Nippon Steel Corp., Japan	Current flat products for automotive usage in Japan
9	Mr Avtar Singh, Dr T Venugopalan, Mr Anand Sen & Mr HM Nerurkar	Tata Steel, India	Production of skin panels and other panels and other Indian automotive industry - Tata Steel's experience
10	Mr B.K.Jha, Ms Anjana Deva, Mr B.Sarkar & Dr SK Chaudhuri	SAIL, India	Development of special quality steels at SAIL for automotive industry
11	Mr Li Jun	Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., PR China	Manufacturing and application of Baosteel's high strength steel sheets for automobiles
12	Dr Takuya Kouchi	Kobe Steel, Japan	High carbon steel wires for automobiles

The abstracts of most of these papers have already been received; the remaining authors have been requested to send their abstracts latest by 1st September. All the abstracts will be featured in the Fourth Circular. Detailed guidelines for preparing the full papers, the last date for which is 15^th September, have been sent to the authors. All the twelve papers will form a part of the Proceedings of STATS 2006, which will be distributed to all the delegates prior to the commencement of the Symposium.