List of INVITED TALKS Delivered

1. Jothiprakash. V. "Ground Water Potential, and Estimation of Basin wise Availability of Ground Water", Training Program for Junior Level Officers, Irrigation Management Training Institute, Tiruchy, 9^th Feb. 2000.

2. Jothiprakash. V. "Modeling Water Resources System", Training Program for Junior Level Officers, Irrigation Management Training Institute, Tiruchy, 10^th Feb. 2000.

3. Jothiprakash. V. "Water Management Models", Training Program for Junior Level and Middle Level Officers, Irrigation Management Training Institute, Tiruchy, 29^th Feb. 2000.

4. Jothiprakash. V. "Systems Approach in Water Resources Management", Training Program for Junior Level and Middle Level Officers, Irrigation Management Training Institute, Tiruchy, 23^rd May. 2000.

5. Jothiprakash. V. “Conjunctive use of Surface and Ground Water for Irrigation”, Institution of Engineers (India) Tiruchirappalli Chapter, 5^th Dec. 2000.

6. Jothiprakash. V. “Planning and Designing of rain water harvesting structures”, Institution of Engineers (India) Tiruchirappalli Chapter, 15^th May. 2001.

7. Jothiprakash. V. “Systems approach for conjunctive use of surface and ground water”, College of Agricultural Engineering, Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Raichur, Karnataka, 29^th and 30^th, Oct. 2001.

8. Jothiprakash. V. “Planning and Design of an Integrated rain water harvesting system”, Jayaram College of Engineering, Pagalavadi, Tiruchirappalli, , 22^nd Jul. 2002.

9. Jothiprakash. V. “Planning and Designing of rain water harvesting structures in Built-up areas”, Periyar Maniyammai Girls Polytechnics, Vallam, 19^th Nov. 2002.

10. Jothiprakash. V. “Planning and Designing of rain water harvesting structures in Plains areas”, Periyar Maniyammai Girls Polytechnics, Vallam, 27^th Nov. 2002.

11. Jothiprakash, V. “Need of rainwater harvesting in different topography” Inaugural address at the Civil Engineering Association, Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering, Vadamavandal, Near Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, 26^th Jul. 2003.

12. Jothiprakash. V. “Planning and Designing of rain water harvesting structures in Built-up areas”, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, 8^th Dec. 2003.

13. Jothiprakash. V. “Planning and Designing of rain water harvesting structures in Plains areas”, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, 8^th Dec. 2003.

14. Jothiprakash. V. “Designing of Percolation Ponds using a software PRIMER”, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 27^th Dec. 2003.

15. Jothiprakash. V. “Conjunctive use models in Water resources Engineering”, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 24^th Jan. 2004.

16. Jothiprakash, V. “Rainwater harvesting need of the hour” Science Colloquium, J.J. College of Engineering, Tiruchirappalli 12^th Feb. 2004.

17. Jothiprakash, V. “Rainwater Harvesting” Irrigation Management Training Institute, Tiruchy, 19^th Feb. 2004.

18. Jothiprakash, V. "Groundwater quantity estimation and GIS for groundwater exploration and management" TWAD Board, Sub-Training Centre, Tiruchy, 9.11. 2004.

19. Jothiprakash, V. "GIS for ground water exploration and management Groundwater quantity estimation" TWAD Board, Sub-Training Centre, Tiruchy, 17^th Nov. 2004.

20. Jothiprakash, V. "GIS and its application in water resources engineering" Periyar Maniyammai Girls Polytechnic, Vallam, 23^rd Dec. 2004

21. Jothiprakash, V. “Genetic algorithms as a water resources modeling technique” STTP on Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai 400 076, 3^rd Jan. 2005.

1. Jothiprakash, V. "Application of Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering”, D.Y. Patel College of Engg, Pune, 27.2.2006

2. Jothiprakash, V. "Application of Genetic Algorithms in Civil Engineering”, SRES College of Engineering, Kopergoan, Maharastra, 25.8.2006

3. Jothiprakash, V. "Experience in Urban Storm Water design”, Workshop on Disaster Mitigation Strategies for River Flood-A case study, SVNIT Surat, 28-29^th Dec. 2006.

4. Jothiprakash, V. “Modeling Concept for ground Water Resource Assessment (Indian Scenario)” Workshop on Eco-environmental impact on water resources potential towards re-linking and integrating its hydrological cycle, Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai 3-5 Jan 2007.

5. Jothiprakash, V. “Dreams and reality of Nanotechnology and its Application in Water Resources”, National Conference on Nanotechnology and its Application in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, SRM Deemed University, 29^th Sep 2007.

6. Jothiprakash, V. “Rainfall –Runoff Modeling Techniques” Key note in National Conference Spatial Modelling and Soft Computing in Water Resources Management SSWRM-2008, 14^th -15^th, March 2008, Annamalai University, Chidambaram (near Chennai), Tamil Nadu

7. Jothiprakash, V. “Conventional optimization technique for a large scale irrigation system” Pravara Rural College of Engineering, Loni Maharashtra, 26^th Sep 2008.

8. Jothiprakash, V, “Sub-surface drainage design in urban roads” International Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies For Developing Countries TPMDC 2008, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, December 3-6, 2008, at IIT Bombay, INDIA.

9. Jothiprakash, V, “Soft computing techniques to establish rainfall-runoff relationship and reservoir inflow prediction” AICTE-Workshop on Water Resources Systems Engineering, SVNIT Surat, 26^th Dec. 2008.

10. Jothiprakash, V, “Rainwater Harvesting” Indira Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology for Women, Athur, Chengalpat, Tamil Nadu 11^th Mar. 2009.

11. Jothipraksh, V, “Soft Computing Techniques in Water Resources Engineering”, National Conference on Civil Engineering for Infrastructural Developments (CID-2010), D.Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, 30 – 31 Aug 2010.

12. Jothiprakash, V, “Reasons of flooding in an highly populated urban area”, Short Term Course on “Basics of Flood Modeling”, NITTR, Chennai, on 2^nd October 2010.

13. Jothiprakash, V, “Design of storm water drainage network in an urban area”, Short Term Course on “Basics of Flood Modeling”, NITTR, Chennai, on 2^nd October 2010.

14. Jothiprakash, V, “Conceptual design of airport drainage network”, Short Term Course on “Basics of Flood Modeling”, NITTR, Chennai, on 3^rd October 2010.

15. Jothiprakash, V, “Modelling river flow using HEC-RAS in an Urban area”, Short Term Course on “Basics of Flood Modeling”, NITTR, Chennai, on 3^rd October 2010.

16. Jothiprakash, V, “Reservoir Inflow Prediction Using Time-Delay Recurrent Neural Network with Spatially Distributed Rainfall Data” National Workshop on Geo-Statistics and Soft Computing Techniques for Spatial Data Management, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, 23^rd Nov. 2010.

17. Jothiprakash, V, “Design of storm water drainage network in low lying areas”, Short Term Course on “Urban Storm Drain Designing and Modeling”, SVNIT, Surat, on 10^th Jan. 2011.

18. Jothiprakash, V, “Design of Airport drainage networks”, Short Term Course on “Urban Storm Drain Designing and Modeling”, SVNIT, Surat, on 10^th Jan. 2011.

19. Jothiprakash, V, “Introduction to Water Resources Systems Modelling Techniques”, Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai, on 20^th Sep. 2011.

20. Jothiprakash, V, “Advanced Water Resources Systems Techniques”, Centre for Water Resources, SVNIT, Surat, on 20^th Nov. 2011.

21. Jothiprakash, V, “Introduction to Basic Knowledge of Hydrology- needed for Rainwater Harvesting”, CEP Course on Rainwater Harvesting and Sustainable Water management, IIT Bombay, on 24^th Nov. 2011.

22. Jothiprakash, V, “Road Drainage – Techniques of surface and sub-surface drainage”, Refresher cum orientation course on Road Works for BMC Engineers, IIT Bombay, on 24^th Nov. 2011.

23. Jothiprakash, V, “Basic Knowledge of Hydrology needed for Rainwater Harvesting”, CEP Course on Rainwater Harvesting and Sustainable Water management, IIT Bombay, on 30^th Mar. 2012.