Mr. Sumanta Maji is a doctoral student in the department of materials science and engineering, at the Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur.  Prior to joining the institute, he completed his B Tech from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur. He will be delivering his talk entitled "Study of slag formation and foaming in early stages of direct reduced iron (DRI)-hot metal (HM) based electric arc furnace (EAF) operation".