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2011A N N U A L R E P O R TINDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BANGALORE

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1. Introduction 4

2. Council 5

3. Fellowship 5

4. Associates 7

5. Publications 7

6. Repository of Scientific Publicationsof Academy Fellows 13

7. Discussion Meetings 14

8. Mid-Year Meeting – 2010 18

9. Annual Meeting 2010 – Goa 19

10. Raman Professor 22

11. Academy Public Lectures 22

12. Science Education Programmes 25

13. Academy Finances 45

14. Acknowledgements 45

15. Tables 46

16. Annexures 48

17. Statement of Accounts 57con

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1 Introduction

The Academy was founded in 1934 by

Sir C V Raman with the main objective of

promoting the progress and upholding the

cause of science (both pure and applied).

It was registered as a Society under the

Societies Registration Act on 24 April 1934.

The Academy commenced functioning with

65 Fellows and the formal inauguration took

place on 31 July 1934 at the Indian Institute

of Science, Bangalore. On the afternoon of

that day its first general meeting of Fellows

was held during which Sir C V Raman was

elected its President and the draft

constitution of the Academy was approved

and adopted. The first issue of the Academy

Proceedings was published in July 1934.

The present report covering the period from

April 2010 to March 2011 represents the

seventy-seventh year of the Academy.

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14. Kang, Gagandeep

15. Minwalla, Shiraz

16. Raghavan, K N

17. Rajshekhar, Vedantam

18. Ranade, Vivek Vinayak

19. Rao, Madan

20. Roy, Rahul

21. Sengupta, Pulak

22. Shankar, D

23. Shivaji, S

24. Singh, Yogendra

25. Srivastava, Rajesh K

26. Tole, Shubha

27. Verma, Sandeep

Honorary Fellows

1. Friend, Richard H

2. Hartl, Daniel L

3. Marks, Tobin J

3.2 In memoriam

The Academy regrets to place on record thedeath of the following 19 Fellows and 1Honorary Fellow during the period up toMarch 2011. Annexure 2 gives additionalinformation about them.

Fellows

1. Adyalkar, P G

2. Alikunhi, K H

3. Gopala Rao, R V

4. Joshi, A B

5. Kapoor, L D

6. Laddha, G S

2 Council

There were two statutory meetings of theCouncil on 3 July and 10–11 December 2010.

3 Fellowship

3.1 2011 Elections

A total of 545 nominations received forfellowship in different disciplines wereconsidered by the eight Sectional Committeesand subsequently by the Council. Followingpostal balloting, 27 new Fellows wereelected, the fellowship being effective from1 January 2011. A list of their names follows,while Annexure 1 gives their particulars. Alsoelected were three new Honorary Fellows.

Fellows

1. Anand, Anuranjan

2. Arakeri, Jaywant H

3. Barman, S R

4. Bhatnagar, Rakesh

5. Chandrasekhar, S

6. Chattopadhyay, Samit

7. Chengalur, Jayaram Narayanan

8. Das, Amita

9. Gopidas, K R

10. Gopinath, C S

11. Gupta, Sourendu

12. Haritsa, Jayant R

13. Jayaraman, Narayanaswamy

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7. Mehta, M K

8. Nair, Balakrishnan N

9. Radhakrishnan, V

10. Rama Das, V S

11. Ramachandra, K

12. Ramakrishna, B S

13. Rao, D M

14. Rodrigues, Veronica F

15. Sethna, H N

16. Sirsat, S M

17. Surange, K R

18. Venkataraman, Balu

19. Venkataramani, K S

Honorary Fellow

Roy, Rustum

Institution-wise classification of nominations forfellowship under consideration in 2011

A - Universities/CollegesB - Academic Research Institutions (IITs, IISERs, IISc, TIFR, etc.)C - Government Research Institutions (DAE, DBT, DoS, DRDO, etc.)D - CSIR, ICAR, ICMR InstitutionsE - Private InstitutionsF - Fellows residing abroadG - Fellows retired from institutions

3.3 Strength of the Fellowship

Fellows Honorary Fellows

1 April 2010 971 49Elected (Dec. 2010) 27 3Deceased (2010 – 2011) 19 1

1 April 2011 979 51

3.4 Classification of nominations and Fellowship

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4 Associates

Seventy three nominations were received andthe following 17 were selected as Associatesin 2010 (see also Annexure 3).

1. Ansumali, Santosh

2. Bhattacharyya, Suvendra Nath

3. Datta, Ayan

4. Datta, Ranjan

5. Dey, Abhishek

6. Ganapathy, Rajesh

7. Gun, Sanoli

8. Jain, Tanvi

9. Mukerjee, Subroto

10. Nair, Vijayakumar S

11. Nanda, Samik

12. Natarajan, Vijay

13. Patil, Nitin T

14. Ray, Partho Sarothi

15. Shankaranarayanan, S

16. Sripati, Arun P

17. Yadav, Gitanjali

5 Publications

5.1 Report on publications

The 5-year Co-publication Agreement withSpringer for the 10 journals has been in effectduring the year 2010 – 2011. From January2011, a one-year ‘Internal Pre-PressProduction’ Agreement is being implementedby which the typesetting and formatting ofour journals are being done at SPi in Manila.After some initial practical problems, theimplementation of this agreement isprogressing reasonably satisfactorily. Afterreview, its continuation beyond 2011 will bedecided upon.

The numbers of full text downloads from all10 journals on SpringerLink have continuedto increase significantly. The figures for 2010range from 88,222 for Bulletin of MaterialsScience to 54,344 for Journal of ChemicalSciences and 75,613 for Resonance – journalof science education.

As part of the collaboration with Springer,the final pdfs of accepted papers of alljournals will be presented on Springer’s‘Online First’. These pdfs will be identifiedwith a DOI and an e-published date enablingthese accepted papers to become fullycitable even before these are compiled intoa particular issue.

Some journals have also improved theirimpact factors, such as Journal of Biosciences(1.888), Journal of Genetics (1.338), Journalof Chemical Sciences (1.075) and Journal ofEarth System Science (0.941).

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5.2 Journals

The following 11 journals continue to bepublished by the Academy:

1. Bulletin of Materials Science

2. Current Science

3. Journal of Astrophysics andAstronomy

4. Journal of Biosciences

5. Journal of Chemical Sciences (formerlyProceedings Chemical Sciences)

6. Journal of Earth System Science(formerly Proceedings Earth andPlanetary Sciences)

7. Journal of Genetics

8. Pramana – Journal of Physics

9. Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences

10. Resonance – Journal of ScienceEducation

11. Sadhana – Engineering Sciences

Journal-wise information on paperssubmitted for publication, the number ofpages published and circulation figures ofjournals for the calendar year 2010 are givenin Tables 1—3 (see pages 46—47).

5.3 Special issues of journals

Several journals brought out special issuesof topical importance. A description of thesefollows:

Proceedings of the InternationalSymposium on Nuclear Physics — Parts Iand II

Guest Editors:R K Choudhury,A K Mohanty,A Saxena,K Mahata andS Santra

Pramana, Vol. 75,Nos 1/2, July/August 2010,pp. 1—392

This Symposium sponsored by the Board ofResearch in Nuclear Sciences, DAE, was heldat the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,Mumbai in December 2009. The year 2009coincided with the birth centenary of Dr HomiBhabha. Dr Bhabha was the pioneer of thenuclear energy programme in the country,and it was with his initiative that the annualDAE Nuclear Physics Symposium was started.The organizing committee decided to markthis occasion by making this symposiuminternational. The aim of this series ofsymposia was to provide a scientific forumto the nuclear physics community to presenttheir research work and to interact with theresearchers in this area. There was a veryenthusiastic response to the symposium interms of the number of papers and thesessubmitted for presentation. There wereinvited talks by distinguished speakers fromIndia and abroad which covered a wide rangeof topics from low to high energy nuclearphysics, accelerator and detector facilities.This volume contains the papers of the invitedtalks. The proceedings of the symposium

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published in two issues of Pramana contains35 articles on nuclear physics.

Organic and related solids

Guest Editor:S Natarajan

Journal ofChemical Sciences,Vol. 122, No. 5,September, 2010,pp. 661—785

This special issuecomprises thelectures delivered

during the Indo-Russian Workshop on organicand 7 organo-metallic solids at Novosbirsk,Russia in September—October 2009. Theworkshop was supported by the Departmentof Science and Technology and the RussianFoundation for Basic Research (RFBR). Thewide range of topics covered in this issuereflects the current trends in research in thearea of organic and related solids.

How is sex determined in insects?

Guest Editors: JNagaraju andGiuseppe Saccone

Journal ofGenetics, Vol. 89,No. 3, September2010, pp. 269—390

Early observationsthat sex isassociated with

differences in chromosome constitutionheralded the chromosomal theory of heredity.This year marks one hundred years sinceThomas Hunt Morgan discovered a sexchromosome-linked mutation in Drosophilamelanogaster which gave final proof to this

theory. Morgan’s student Calvin Bridgesformulated his classic balance theory of sexdetermination in Drosophila on the basis ofgenotypes with variable X:A ratios, implyinga counting mechanism for X-linked femaledeterminants and autosome-linked maledeterminants. Later it was found that single-gene mutations can affect not only specifictraits but also the entire sexual fate of anindividual. In 1944 another of Morgan’sstudents, Alfred Sturtevant, identified arecessive autosomal mutation in D.melanogaster that caused sex reversal of XXindividuals into sterile males.

This recessive loss-of-function mutation,named transformer (tra), did not have anyeffect in XY males, suggesting that the geneis required only in XX female flies. This wasone of the first pieces of evidence that sexdetermination can be controlled by genes.Sturtevant also had an evolutionaryperspective on the genomic control of sexdetermination. He had the foresight that theintersex mutation, previously described inthe distantly related species D. virilis,corresponds to the D. melanogaster tra gene.Indeed, almost 50 years later a conservedtra orthologue was isolated in D. virilis whichfunctionally corresponds to the previouslydescribed D. virilis intersex mutation. Duringthe 1980s, molecular cloning andcharacterization of this and other Drosophilasex-determining genes revealed that thedecision whether to become male or femaleis conveyed very early in embryonicdevelopment by a primary signal which istransmitted through a cascade of regulatorynetworks which ultimately results in theproduction of two distinct sexes.

Surprisingly, other species, belonging todifferent animal phyla, provide puzzling

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examples of myriad sex-determining primarysignals. The primary signal that provides thecue varies remarkably not only among taxabut also within taxa pointing to rapidevolution of sex-determining mechanisms.The insect order Insecta alone providesexamples of astoundingly complex diversityof sex-determination mechanisms. InDrosophila, X-linked signal elements (XSEs)provide the signal to switch ON the top playerof the sex-determination cascade, Sex-lethal(Sxl). This pathway consists of variousregulatory genes that control not only thesex-determination cascade (Sex-lethal, Sxl;transformer, tra; transformer-2, tra-2), butalso its maintenance (Sxl) as well as sexualdifferentiation (doublesex, dsx; fruitless,fru): XSE > Sxl > tra (+tra- 2) > dsx/fru. Thesegenes produce sex-specific alternativelyspliced mRNAs, and encode splicingregulators (Sxl, tra and tra-2) or transcriptionfactors (dsx, fru).

As homologous molecular players involved inthe cascade were beginning to be uncoveredin other species, it was soon realized thatthe top layer of the pathway is not conservedoutside Drosophila and thus a widerevolutionary perspective on sexdetermination started to emerge. Dipteransexhibit consistent differences in regulationof chromosomal/molecular players involvedin the sex-determination hierarchy asreported for example in the Mediterraneanfruitfly (Ceratitis capitata), housefly (Muscadomestica), humpbacked fly (Megaseliascalaris), sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) andSciara coprofila. For example, XXY individualsare females in D. melanogaster because ofthe presence of two X chromosomes whereasin C. capitata XXY is male because of thepresence of the Y chromosome. In M.

domestica, the primary sex-determining locivary in natural populations, and the presenceof some of these loci convert autosomes tonew sex chromosomes. A bizarre situation isencountered in M. scalaris where a low rateof transposition of male-determining factorfrom chromosome to chromosome creates anew sex chromosome each time it hops.Intriguingly, in S. coprofila elimination of thepaternal derived chromosome occurs in amaternally controlled fashion. In thesilkworm, Bombyx mori, a single Wchromosome ensures female developmenteven in the presence of triploid, tetraploidor hexaploid sets of autosomes and Zchromosomes, suggesting that the Wchromosome harbours feminizing gene(s). Atthe next level of the sex-determinationpathway, the well-studied RS protein-encoding gene transformer (tra) isolated indifferent dipteran species, offers aninteresting example of partial conservationand functional divergence from Drosophila.Ever since the first discovery of itsautoregulation in the Mediteranean fruitflyC. capitata (traep, tra epigenetic), similar traautoregulatory loops have been shown to beoperative in all insects from which functionaltra genes have been characterized.

The rapid divergence of molecular playersat the top of the hierarchy is also evident inhymenopterans. In honeybee Apis mellifera,the allelic status of complementary sexdetermining (CSD) locus, a traep-related gene,provides the initial cue. Bees heterozygousat the csd locus are females, whereashemizygous or homozygous bees are males.The product of the csd gene sets up, duringearly embryogenesis, the initial activation orrepression of feminizer (fem, equivalent oftraep), by controlling alternative splicing of

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latter’s pre-mRNAs. The fem gene is able tomaintain its activated state throughoutdevelopment by an autoregulatory loop. Theparasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis, however,does not have a csd locus. Instead, this insectdepends on a combination of maternal supplyof tra mRNA (another traep-equivalent genethat shows structural, regulatory andfunctional homologies to traep) and a paternalgenome set, to set up zygotic activity of trathrough autoregulation of its own pre-mRNAsplicing. In this species a novel way oftransformer control in insect sexdetermination implies the action of maternalimprinting. In silkworm, attempts to discoverthe top molecular signals have remainedelusive. All lines of evidence point to thepresence of a female-determining gene onthe W chromosome. Initial results suggestthat this region codes for a set of zinc fingerprotein encoding genes but their mechanismof action has remained unclear. Interestingly,a gene encoding P-element somatic inhibitor(PSI) has been discovered recently but it isexpressed in both sexes and abrogation ofits function results in alteration in doublesex(dsx) splicing pattern. Contrary to the topsignals, dsx, which functions at the bottomof the sex-determination cascade, is very wellconserved in almost all the insects examinedto date as also in other taxa as well, where ithas been shown to be essential for maledetermination. Thus, insects provide vividexamples of an astonishing diversity ofprimary signals of sex determination that notonly vary between species but even withinspecies, in contrast to terminal genes whichare conserved across taxa.

This special issue is dedicated to providingan update of the data available from geneticstudies of sex determination and of sexual

differentiation in a wide range of insectspecies.

Proceedings of the IX DAE-BRNS NationalLaser Symposium on Physics &Technology of Lasers, Materials & Opticsand Laser Applications

Guest Editors:L M Gantayet,K Dasgupta, SunitaSingh, B M Suri,D J Biswas, S Sinhaand S Kundu

Pramana, Vol. 75,Nos 5 & 6,November &December 2010,552 pages

These special issues have emerged out ofpapers and invited talks presented at theNational Laser Symposium held at BARC inJanuary, 2010. The year 2010 was the 50thyear of laser, a cause for celebrationsworldwide commemorating the invention oflaser in 1960. It has therefore, been ourspecial endeavour to substantially strengthenthe scientific content of National LaserSymposium encouraging wider internationaland national participation of the scientificfraternity involved in the field of lasers andlaser applications. Besides making thecontents of the symposium available to awider audience, these two special issues arealso intended to serve as a reference forfuture research, which the symposium hopesto have stimulated.

The National Laser Symposium is an annualevent sponsored by the Department of AtomicEnergy, Board of Research in NuclearSciences. The symposium is organized incollaboration with Indian Laser Associationand is held at different locations in India,

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each year. The ninth DAE-BRNS National LaserSymposium was held during January 2010, atBhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. Thesymposium provides a dedicated platform foryoung researchers in laser physics andtechnology to interact with eminent scientistsfrom India and abroad, and to present theirlatest work.

As in previous years, the National LaserSymposium covered frontline research inbasic laser physics as well as significantadvances in development and applications oflaser technology. Srikumar Banerjee,Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission andSecretary, Department of Atomic Energy,Govt. of India, inaugurated the symposium.The keynote address at the symposium wasdelivered by Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir JohnCockroft Chair of Physics, Universities ofLancaster, Liverpool & Manchester, andDirector, The Cockroft Institute, UK. The four-day symposium included 22 invited talks byleading experts and young researchers fromIndia and abroad, 212 contributory paperspresented as posters, and 10 oral thesispresentations. The papers were painstakinglypeer-reviewed by a team of experts.

Proceedings of the National Conferenceon X-Ray Fluorescence

Guest Editors:Manoranjan Sarkarand Subinit Roy

Pramana, Vol. 76,No. 2, February2011, 184 pages

Wilhelm ConradR o e n t g e ndiscovered theexistence of X-rays

in 1895 through the shadow cast by theunknown rays. The seed for the evolution ofX-rays as a technique in the field of appliedscientific research was sown that very day.In the late 1920s, a number of researchworkers, led by von Hevesy, clearlydemonstrated the potential of X-rayspectroscopy for chemical analysis. Sincethen, slowly but steadily, X-ray spectroscopyhas grown into an irreplaceable analyticaltool with applications in diverse fieldsincluding material science, biological andmedical sciences, archaeological, geologicaland environmental sciences.

In recent years, the development of powerfulX-ray sources, advent of new generationdetectors with sophisticated electronics andintroduction of new techniques in X-rayfocusing have ushered in a new era for X-rayfluorescence spectroscopy. It was beyondone’s imagination even a decade ago. Basedon recent advancements, industries are alsocoming up with state-of-the-art XRFinstruments to be utilized in various fields.

The National Conference held at the SahaInstitute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata inJanuary 2010, was organized to present thelatest developments in X-ray fluorescenceand to stimulate fruitful discussions amongstresearchers in our country.

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The structure of the conference was basedon invited talks, posters, short oralpresentations and an interaction session. Withthree of the invited speakers from abroad, apanel was formed to judge the posterspresented and to select four contributionsfor short oral presentations. During theinteraction session, scientists from the Centreof Archaeological Studies and Training,Kolkata and the West Bengal Pollution ControlBoard highlighted the nature of synergy withthe X-ray spectrometrists required to knowwhat is criticial for the problem they areworking on. The proceedings consisted ofthirteen invited talks and four refereedcontributed papers.

The conference was organized by theerstwhile Nuclear and Atomic Physics Divisionof Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkatawith the active collaboration of Centre ofArchaeological Studies and Training, Kolkata,UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research,Kolkata and West Bengal Pollution ControlBoard.

6 Repository ofScientificPublications ofAcademyFellows

For several years the idea of setting up arepository of all scientific publications ofAcademy Fellows (present as well as past)has been under discussion and consideration.The estimated numbers are, approximately,1,580 Fellows (980 present and 600 past) and75,000 publications. Such a repository wouldmake available a valuable resource ofscientific work in the country over the pastcentury.

Phase I of this project was entrusted toMessrs. Informatics (India) Ltd. to be carriedout during the period July 1 to December 31,2010. At its completion the records in theRepository numbered as follows:

Number of papers with only metadatais 30,000 of which the number of paperswith metadata and full text is 8,142.

The total cost of completing Phase Iamounted to Rs. 14.5 lakhs.

Work on Phase II has been underway sinceApril 1, 2011.

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7 DiscussionMeetings

7.1 Microstructural evolution andphase transformation at differentlength scales

Orange County, Coorg21 — 24 February 2010

Convener: K Chattopadhyay (IISc, Bangalore)

This discussion meeting on 'Microstructuralevolution and phase transformation atdifferent length scales' held at OrangeCounty, Coorg was attended by 24participants. The meeting on the 21 Februarybegan with a presentation by D. Banerjee(DRDO) on the importance of microtexturein controlling the microstructure of thetitanium alloys and their subsequentproperties followed by a presentation byVikram Jayaram (IISc, Bangalore) on thenature of ductile glass in ceramic systemsand the issue of co-existence of two glassesof different densities. Dey (BARC, Mumbai)spoke on the variety of metastablemicrostructures that form during themicropyretic synthesis.

On the 22 February, the first talk was by KChattopadhyay (IISc, Bangalore) on issuesrelated to the co-existence andtransformations of multiscale features inmultiphase microstructures. This wasfollowed by a talk by M P Gururajan (IIT,Bombay) on the effects of misorientation andanisotropy on the grain growth in polycrystalline materials. S Lele (BHU, Varanasi)discussed the cluster expansion method (forconfigurational enthalpy of mixing) andcluster variation method (for configurationalentropy of mixing) (CE-CVM) for calculation

of the free energy of a materials system.N Ravishankar (IISc, Bangalore) discussed therole of interfaces in controlling variousproperties in advanced functional materials.Kallol Mondal’s (IIT, Kanpur) talk was on thethermo-dynamic modeling of nucleation ofcrystalline phase in glasses. BhaskarMajumdar (DMRL, Hyderabad) discussed themicrostructures of melt spun and annealedFe-Si-B-Nb-Cu, Fe-Zr-B-Cu and Fe-Co-Zr-B-Cualloys processed under different conditionsand their corresponding soft magneticproperties. D. Prabhu's presentation was onthe effect of Cu clustering in engineering themicrostructure of HITPERM type alloys withemphasis on using advanced technique like3-dimensional atom probe tomography tounderstand the mechanism of crystallizationin these materials. K. Biswas (IIT, Kanpur)spoke on issues related to the sintering ofnanometric size particles followed by G.Phanikumar's (IIT, Madras) talk which involveddiscussion on various issues related to micro-structural evolution during rapid solidificationusing 9 melt spinning, solidification ofundercooled melts using electromagneticlevitation and flux undercooling,solidification of weldments and alloy casting.

On the 23 February, the first talk was by B SMurthy (IIT, Madras) on the various issuesrelated to the microstructural evolution in adriven system followed by the presentationon the evolution and characterization ofstructures of three phases of titanium alloys,namely martensitic, Ti3Al( 2) and B2 phasesby A K Singh (DMRL, Hyderabad). D SantoshHosmani (IIT, Delhi) discussed the issuesrelated to the science of phasetransformations at metal/gas interfacesfollowed by Debalay Chakrabarti (IIT,Kharagpur) spoke on the challenges in the

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development of bimodal grain structures inlow carbon steel. Anirudha Biswas (BARC,Mumbai) spoke on the various aspects of theapplication of atom probe tomographytechnique for characterization of materials.R Balamuralikrishnan (DMRL, Hyderabad)discussed the role of nanoscalecharacterization in identifying and optimizingavenues for microstructure control duringprocessing towards realization of desiredproperties in engineering (an engineered)materials. The meeting concluded with thetalk by Chandan Srivastava (IISc, Bangalore)on the particle size dependentmicrostructural evolution in isolated bi-metallic nanoparticles.

7.2 Molecular Interactions

Orange County, Coorg28 November — 1 December 2010

Convenor: E Arunan (IISc, Bangalore)

The meeting started with a brief introductiongiven by Arunan, convener of the meeting.He pointed out that there have been severalkey advances over the last decade that

challenged the conventional wisdom abouthydrogen bonding. The stunning differencebetween the crystal structure close to thefreezing point at ambient conditions, for ice(H2O) at 0°C and H2S at –60°C has led to thecommon perception of 'hydrogen bonding' and'van der Waals interaction' as twodistinguishable physical forces amongchemists. The advent of molecular beamspectroscopy and scattering studies haveshowed that (H2O)2 and (H2S)2 have similarstructures. Moreover, molecular beamelectric resonance spectroscopy showed thatthe complex formed between HF and ClF hada structure ClF• • •HF, rather than theexpected hydrogen bonded ClF• • •HF.Though it was originally called 'anti-hydrogenbond' now it is well recognized as a halogenbonded complex. IUPAC recognized theimportance of these phenomena and formedtask groups to summarize our understandingof these phenomena and define hydrogenbonding and halogen bonding. Among theparticipants were E. Arunan and J. Sadlej(Chair and core-group member of the taskgroup to define hydrogen bond) and

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Judith Howard from University of Durhamspoke in the second session and comparedneutron and X-ray diffraction techniques toinvestigate molecular interactions. Shepointed out that neutron diffraction is goodfor locating H atoms but X-ray diffraction cangive electron density topology in the crystalwhich is crucial in understanding bonding.C Pulla Rao (IIT, Mumbai) spoke onmanifestations of weak interactions incomplex molecules. He discussed lectin-carbohydrate interaction and also Hg2+• • • πinteraction which results in fluorescenceenhancement in anthracenyl-glyco derivatives.

Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politenico de Milano,spoke about halogen versus hydrogen bondingin crystal engineering. He showed that Br asacceptor could interact with partially positiveCl/Br/I in molecular complexes which arenow described as halogen bonding but not FAfter the talk, Guru Row mentioned that hisgroup has looked at cases where the electroncloud in F could be distorted leading to a'halogen bond' with F as the positive end.G Mugesh (IISc) discussed the role ofintermolecular interactions in the synthesisand recognition of thyroid harmones. Heemphasized the role δ–Se• • •δ+I and δ+Se• • •δ–Ninteractions in these systems and showedtheir importance in the treatment ofhyperthyroidism. Arunan spoke next abouthydrogen, halogen and lithium bonding andpresented microwave spectroscopic resultson unusual complexes formed betweenbenzene and ethylene and also methane andhydrogen sulphide. He also cautioned againstthe blind extension of the hydrogen bonddefinition proposed by the IUPAC task groupchaired by him for defining the halogen bond.He particularly showed that X-F stretchingfrequency in Y• • •X-F halogen bond is not a

P Metrangelo (Chair of the task group todefine halogen bonding). G R Desiraju, whois a member of both these task groups, couldnot attend the meeting due to unforeseencircumstances.

The meeting had sixteen invited lectures withtopics ranging from the interaction betweentwo rare gas atoms such as argon and neonto the interaction between the domains inmulti-domain and multi-functional proteins.The first talk was given by Tapas Chakrabortyfrom the Indian Association for Cultivationof Science. He presented experimentalresults on these diketones in the gas phase,liquid phase and in a rare-gas matrix. Whileketo-enol tautomerism is well known inchemistry, he pointed out thatγ-cyclohexanedione existed only in the ketoform in the matrix and formed dimersexhibiting C-H• • •O hydrogen bonds. AshokaSamuelson (IISc) spoke next about weakinteractions in drug design and asymmetriccatalysis. He presented some experimentalresults which suggested that π• • •πinteractions occurring far away from a chiralcentre could still influence enantio-selectivity. He suspected that suchinteractions having π• • •π distance of even4-5 Å could be influential. This raised somediscussions among participants about whatwould be the maximum distance between twoπ centers up to which they could haveattractive interactions that are stillinfluential. The first session ended with a talkby Ayan Datta (IISER) spoke aboutunderstanding intermolecular interactions incomplex systems through computations.Magnetic interactions through multi-centeredπ-stacked molecules and the interaction ofone water molecule in calixarene (water inthe smallest cup) were addressed in his talk.

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useful criterion for halogen bond as opposedto the H-F stretching frequency in Y• • •H-F.

Mrinalini Puranik (NCBS) spoke aboutaromatic amino acids and substrates asprobes of local environment and dynamics inproteins. She highlighted the importance ofdynamics in addition to the steady statestructures in determining the proteinfunctions and how simulation of Ramanintensities can help in these studies. T N GuruRow (IISc) demystified the 'pharmaceuticalcocrystals' and showed that there is nodifference between cocrystals and salts. Healso presented the crystal structure ofadenine without water, characterized for thefirst time. He also summarized the extensivework his group has carried out on 'halogenbonding'. G Krishnamoorthy (TIFR) talkedabout site-specific dynamics in an RNAthermometer. He showed that a singlemismatch in base pairing can lead tosignificant differences in the fluorescenceanisotropy lifetime.

David Capelletti from Perugia, Italy describedhow one can get intermolecular potentialsfrom crossed beam experiments. Coupledwith state-of-the-art theoretical methods, heshowed that charge transfer plays animportant role in weakly hydrogen-bondedcomplexes formed between rare gas and H2Oand also H2 and H2O. Sanjay Wategaonkar(TIFR) discussed experimental resultsobtained from his molecular beam laboratoryusing spectroscopic techniques. Through acomprehensive study he showed that sulphuratom can be as good an acceptor for hydrogenbonds as are F, O and N. He also showed thatin many of these 'hydrogen bonded systems'dispersion plays a crucial role.

Joanna Sadlej from University of Warsawshowed how vibrational circular dichroism

(VCD) spectroscopy can be useful in probingchirality transfer in molecular interactions.As the VCD intensity depends both on theelectric and magnetic dipoles and particularlythe angle between them, it offers a uniquetool for studying intermolecular interactions.Hanudatta Atreya (IISc) convinced theparticipants about the importance of NMR inelucidating inter-domain interactions inproteins. He presented results from both NMRspectroscopy and molecular dynamicssimulation. V Subramanian (CLRI) made thelast presentation for the meeting. Hediscussed the interaction between peptidesand carbon nanotubes investigated byclassical dynamics simulation. He presentednew results on adamentane-benzeneinteraction.

The last session was dedicated to discussingthe IUPAC provisional recommendation on thedefinition of the hydrogen bond.

7.3 Operator theory andapplications

Orange County, Coorg23 — 26 February 2011

Convener: K B Sinha (JNCASR, Bangalore)

The topics covered in the lectures anddiscussions were: Random Schrödingeroperator, estimates of eigenerators of non-selfadjoint operators, Berg's theorem andfinite-dimensional approximation,holomorphic cocycles on fock space, HilbertC*– modules and disc-algebras.

There were seventeen participants includingone each from UK and Germany and fiveyoung researchers.

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presented many results (including his own)in the present theory that give internalevidence for and point in the direction ofthe proposed new interpretation. In a waythis is a synthesis of Boltzmann’s andEinstein’s fundamental conceptualcontributions. The entire idea found an echoin Rajesh Gopakumar’s presentation on ‘Thejourney from Maxwell to Faraday’ involvingtwo somewhat earlier larger than life figuresin the development of physics.

K N Ganesh’sspecial lectureon ‘Bioinspiredc h e m i s t r y ’h i g h l i g h t e drecent work ingoing from anunderstandingof the basicnucleic acidsDNA and RNA to novel therapeutic agents andassembly of nano materials. This work islinked to Pune as the name PNA – ‘Pune’nucleic acids – implies or encodes, and is atthe frontiers of research.

Shyam Benegal’s Public Lecture was amasterful account by an accomplished filmmaker of the inspirations behind Indiancinema over the decades. Titled‘Communications and culture: Tradition,modernity and postmodernism in Indiancinema’, he described with humouroustouches the standard formulas, stereotypiccharacterizations and the songs and dancesthat practically defined Bollywood films fora long time. As he said, this ‘art form’ hascertainly become very popular in many partsof South Asia, and even beyond. He alsodescribed the Satyajit Ray phenomenon andits tremendous significance for Indian cinema.

8 Twenty-FirstMid-YearMeeting – 2010

In the Platinum Jubilee Year 2009, the Mid-Year Meeting (MYM) was held in Hyderabad.The 21st MYM returned to its familiar venueat the Indian Institute of Science, Bangaloreduring July 2–3, 2010.

On July 1st, the day prior to the meeting, aspecial set of four lectures on selectedthemes in life sciences was arranged byDurgadas Kasbekar for the benefit of teachersattending the MYM. This turned out to be agreat success, being a continuation of apattern from previous years. For 2011 it isplanned to have a similar programme in theearth sciences.

The MYM presented two special lectures byT Padmanabhan and K N Ganesh, a PublicLecture by Shyam Benegal, and 21 lecturesby recently elected Fellows and Associates.

Padmanabhan’sspecial lecture on‘Gravity: A newp e r s p e c t i v e ’presented arecent and rathernovel way ofa p p r o a c h i n gEinstein’s classicalgeneral relativity,viewing it as thethermodynamiclimit of a basicallystatistical theory.

The microscopic constituents in this approachare ‘atoms of spacetime’, and the speaker

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For old-timers itwas comforting tohear the speakerdescribe withappreciation thepoetical content ofthe lyrics set tomusic in the semi-classical style, atleast until sometime ago, in our

films. Cinema, as he pointed out, is recent,only 117 years old, and yet represents anddefines entertainment in unique ways. It both‘reflects as much as it influences society andculture’.

This MYM, the first after the series ofPlatinum Jubilee events of 2009, was as usualwell attended and appreciated for its wideranging scientific content.

9 Seventy-sixthAnnual Meeting– 2010, Goa

The Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting of theAcademy was held during 12–14 November2010, hosted and organized by the NationalInstitute of Oceanography at Dona Paula inGoa. This was a return to this charming citya decade after the meeting in 2000 was heldthere. The attendance was particularly good,with over 250 Fellows and Associates(including spouses), and 28 teacher inviteespresent.

The opening address titled “Nanotubedynamo and graphene” by the President AjayKumar Sood described in a lucid andextremely well-illustrated manner the workin his laboratory on various properties of nanoforms of carbon. This was very timely as the2010 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Geimand Novoselov recognized their ‘groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene’. In this

context it wasmost interesting toremember thatwhile coal,graphite anddiamond havebeen known tomankind formillennia, thenewer forms ofthis amazingchemical element– fullerenes, nanotubes and

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graphene – have been discovered by humansonly over the past few decades. The addressdescribed studies which can lead to a widevariety of possible applications – drugdelivery, liquid flow-induced voltages,vibration sensors, inter-connects, andmaterials combining flexibility with amazingstrength, to name just a few.

The programme included two specialscientific lectures, two public lectures, two

mini symposia and 18 presentations by newlyelected Fellows and Associates. The publiclectures were both of outstanding interestand quality. The first one by C Raja Mohanof The Indian Express, based in Delhi, titled“India and the Indian Ocean: In search of astrategic role” dwelt on the geopoliticalimportance of events in the Indian Ocean forthe country. He pointed out that for manymillennia the people in the subcontinent havealways regarded land routes coming into theregion – from the north west as well as northeast – as the routes by which invaders couldappear and threaten us. The realization thatwe are ‘open to invasion’ from the seas toois much more recent. Added to this is thefact that this ‘our’ ocean is ringed by failedor failing states. All this means that as a

country we need to evolve newer ways ofthinking and strategy to safeguard oursecurity and future.

The second public lecture by Kaushik Basu,Chief Economic Adviser to the Government,was on “The Role of Higher Education inEconomic Development”. This talk too wasmarked by a freshness and candour whichmatched the earlier one. The speakeremphasized the importance of science for theIndian ethos, and stressed that research wasimportant for society going beyond economicvalue. Pure research needs support,applications come later. In the past coupleof decades, since 1994, the Indian growthrate has been on the rise, and sharply so since2005. From a foreign exchange reserve of 5billion dollars in 1991, we are now at 350billion dollars. There had been anoverproduction of engineers since the 1950s,but this turned to an advantage in recenttimes, combined with global opportunitiesand the knowledge of English. However wehave to also realize that our literacy isshockingly low. For growth in economy wemust invest in education, particularly inhigher education; the connection betweenthe two is immense. Basu stressed that highereducation in all fields — sciences, humanities,

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economics — is important for us. Our GrossEnrolment Ratio, now at 12%, must increase;but most of our 460 odd universities are in abad state. We need centres of excellence,the Government should support institutionsin the basic fields, and leave the rest toprivate sources. There is need and space forboth, we must bring the best to academics.

The two mini-symposia were devotedrespectively to “Indian estuaries” and “Stemcells in development and regeneration”. Theformer dwelt essentially on studies andphenomena in and around the west coast andthe waters surrounding Goa, all sevenspeakers being from the host institution. Thelatter introduced the stem cell concept whichis relatively recent, and its role and relevance

in eye problems,brain developmentand psychiatry — anastonishing range!

A K Singhvi’sspecial lecture on“ S y n e r g i s t i cmutualism betweengeology and

physics: The case of luminescence” describedstudies over the past three decades indeveloping and using a new and reliabledating mechanism suitable for going back afew million years. The technique is based onthermal and optical-stimulatedluminescence, and the accuracy is about 3%to 5%. Its uses in geology, human impacts overa million years, intervals betweenearthquakes, river floods and the like weredescribed.

K V S Rao’s special lecture on “The dynamicsof host–pathogen interactions in TB infection”dealt with new ideas and approaches totackle the re-emerging scare and burden of

tuberculosis. That the pathogens have co-evolved with humans and thus successfullysurvive in themleads to thedifficulties oftreatment. Thespeaker dwelt onnew chemo-t h e r a p e u t i cstrategies thatcould disrupt the adaptive mechanisms whichallow the pathogens to ‘live happily’ withinthe host, and in the progress, in experiments.

Among the other presentations, the greatcontrast between K Subramanian’s accountof magnetic fields at the galactic and extragalactic scales and Kalobaran Maiti’sdescription of puzzles in magnetism in‘everyday’ materials was quite striking. NabaMondal’s talk on ‘Neutrinos: A new windowto the Universe’ dealt with ‘the most tinyquantity of reality ever imagined by a humanbeing’, and with the ambitious IndianNeutrino Observatory, and T S S R K Rao’smathematical talk titled ‘An invitation to thegeometry of higher dual spaces’ left onewondering how a significant property couldbe seen up to the sixth duality operation,but not beyond. The meeting as a whole wasvery well organized and coordinated in allrespects, with all events (except the dinneron the boat ride!) taking place on the campusof the host institution.

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10 Raman Professor

Huzihiro Araki, the Academy’s twenty-seventh Raman Professor was in India forabout two weeks in July—September 2010 totake up the Chair. Araki is a Professor ofMathematics at the University of Kyoto,Japan. He was the first president of IAMP anddrew up its statutes.

His outstanding achievements at the interfaceof physics and mathematics are exemplifiedby his work on the structure of the algebraof local observables andits representations,collision theory, thevariational principle instatistical mechanics andthe notion of relativeentropy for infinitequantum systems. He wasawarded the HenriPoincaré Prize 2003 for hislifetime contributions tothe foundations ofquantum field theory, quantum statisticalmechanics and the theory of operatoralgebras.

Araki visited Hyderabad during August 2010and took part in the InternationalMathematics Conference. He delivered anAcademy public lecture on ‘Some contactpoints of mathematics and physics’ on8 September 2010 in Bangalore.

11 Academy Public Lectures

Some Contact Points of Mathematics andPhysics

H Araki (Raman Professor, Indian Academyof Sciences, 2010; Professor ofMathematics, University of Kyoto, Japan)

8 September 2010, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore

Theoretical physics has been a constantsource of motivation for new mathematicalideas and problems, as well as a good testing

ground for mathematicalmethods. In return,mathematics hasprovided theoreticalphysics with convenientand powerful machinery.The theory of operatoralgebras is a newcomer inthis inter-relation. It hadvery little contact withtheoretical physicsalthough its founders

such as von Neumann and Segal had physicalmotivations for their works. The Baton RougeConference in March 1967, turned out to bean occasion for the unveiling of a new era.Powers, who was a physics graduate student,then presented a proof that a certain one-parameter family of von Neumann algebras(technically Type III factors) are mutually non-isomorphic, a startling result compared withthe earlier state, where only three Type IIIfactors were distinguished in 30 years. Inmathematics, examples are usually destined

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to be absorbed in general theory. Two generaltheories which exerted a much greaterinfluence were distributed as preprints at theBaton Rouge Conference. One was the paperby physicists, which proposed the celebratedKMS condition as the characterization ofequilibrium states in quantum statisticalmechanics. The other was a work by a puremathematician. The participants weresurprised to see exactly the same equationsin these two papers, although they werewritten by authors who never knew eachother. The talk explained how this happenedand how this coincidence brought about aspectacular development both inmathematics and physics.

The challenges and opportunities ofnanotechnology in China

Chunli Bai (Honorary Fellow, IndianAcademy of Sciences; Executive Vice-President, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing, China)

25 October 2010, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore

His research areas involve the structure andproperties of polymer catalysts, X-raycrystallography of organic compounds,

m o l e c u l a rmechanics andEXAFS research onelectro-conductingpolymers. Prof. Bai,one of the pioneersin the field ofscanning probemicroscopy andnanotechnology in

China, has been instrumental in furtheringChina’s nanoscience and nanotechnologyresearch both as a scientist and a policy-

maker. As chief scientist of the NationalSteering Committee for Nanoscience andRelated Technology, he initiated andcoordinated a number of national keyprojects about nano S&T. He is the FoundingDirector and Council Chairman of the NationalCentre for Nanoscience and Technology,China.

Dharmanand Kosambi: The life andcontribution of a Buddhist sociopoliticalthinker

Meera Kosambi (Former Professor andDirector, Research Centre for Women’sStudies, S.N.D.T. Women’s University,Mumbai)

18 November 2010, National Institute ofAdvanced Studies, Bangalore

Dharmanand Kosambi (1876–1947) was apioneering Buddhist scholar of Buddhism inIndia, whose questfor spiritual solacethrough Buddha’sdoctrine had ledhim to monkhoodfor some years inSri Lanka andBurma. But themost fascinatingpart of his life washis journey fromthe rural Goa of his birth to HarvardUniversity, USA, as a visiting research scholar.Exposure to socialist ideology in the USA madea deep impact on him because he could relateit to the working of the Buddhist Sangha ormonastic order. Also, his deep faith inBuddhism attracted him to Gandhiji’sfreedom struggle based on truth and non-violence.

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Chandra: Gentleman, scholar andtelescope

Roger Blandford (Kavli Institute forParticle Astrophysics and Cosmology,Stanford, USA)

8 December 2010, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore

Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, or“Chandra” as he was widely known, was asingular scientist and intellectual. Blessedwith formidable mathematical ability andlegendary powers of concentration he was ascientific leader over an unequalled suite

of the mostc h a l l e n g i n ga s t r ophy s i ca ld i s c i p l i n e s .Although he maybe most famousfor his youthfuldiscovery of amass limit forwhite dwarfs and

its famous corollary that black holes mustexist, for which he was awarded the 1983Nobel Prize, his lifetime contributions tomathematical physics, astrophysics and eventhe humanities, are even greater. The rangeand durability of his scholarship wasmemorialised in the naming of the finestimaging X-ray telescope ever launched.Vignettes from his life were interspersed witha description of some ofthe amazing discoveriesmade by Chandra X-rayObservatory.

Never reaching a stable steady state:Highly dynamic patterning mechanismsand their application to chemotaxis

Hans Meinhardt (Max Planck Institute forDevelopmental Biology, Tübingen,Germany)

1 February 2011,Indian Institute ofScience,Bangalore

S p o n t a n e o u spattern formationin biology requiresa local self-enhancing reactionthat is antagonisedby components that act on a longer range.Some patterns, for example pseudopodformation during chemotaxis and the pole-to-pole oscillation of MinD in E. coli, involvehighly dynamic behaviour. They can beexplained by assuming two antagonisticreactions, one with a long range (for spatialpatterning) and one with a short range but along time constant (for quenching localmaxima soon after generation). Such amechanism enables minute externalasymmetries to be detected. Reactions of thistype are also involved in many developmentalprocesses including pigmentation patterns onshells of molluscs, barb formation in avianfeathers and phyllotaxis in plants.

Evolution of physical chemistry

C N R Rao (Jawaharlal NehruCentre for Advanced ScientificResearch, Bangalore)

20 January 2011, Indian Instituteof Science, Bangalore

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awarded in 1995 was 3. In 2010, this numberhas gone up to 1300 of which, the fellowshipsavailed in 2010 was 1008. Table 4 gives thesubjectwise break-up of applicationsreceived, fellowships offered and availed.

12.2 Refresher courses

This is an all-India programme to helpmotivated teachers improve their backgroundknowledge and teaching skills. It is normallyof two-week duration and teachers selectedfrom all over the country undergo a rigorouscourse of lectures, discussions, laboratoryexperiments, and problem-solving sessions.

During the last 12 years 90 courses have beenheld in several parts of the country on avariety of subjects: experimental andtheoretical physics; experimental andtheoretical chemistry; biotechnology;mathematics; atmospheric science; animaland plant tissue culture; experimentalnonlinear dynamics; vistas in zoologicalteaching; marine geology and geophysics;tensors; phylogenetic biology; stochasticprocess etc. During the year 2010—2011, 17Refresher Courses have been held, and a listof these courses with relevant details follows:

A. Refresher Courses in ExperimentalPhysics

In 2010—11, 8 Refresher Courses were onExperimental Physics. These were held underthe direction of R Srinivasan who wasinstrumental in conceiving and designing theexperiments with the assistance of a groupin Goa University. These experiments areuseful for the laboratory programmes at BScand MSc levels and many universities in thecountry have adopted these experiments aspart of their curricula. In order to conductthe Refresher Courses, a user-friendly kit

12 Science Education Programmes

Since 2007, the three national ScienceAcademies of the country have beenconducting in a formal and well-structuredmanner a variety of programmes to improvescience education for the benefit of studentsand teachers all over the country. These areplanned and co-ordinated by a Joint ScienceEducation Panel. The three main programmesof the Panel are: summer fellowships,refresher courses, and lecture workshops.

12.1 Summer fellowships

This is the fifth year of the Summer ResearchFellowship Programme which is jointlyconducted by the three National ScienceAcademies of the country. The summerfellowship programme enables young andmotivated students and teachers to do short-term projects for two months with Fellowsand other scientists of the country. The mainobjective is to expose them to the joy ofdoing science. It was started in 1995 on avery small scale. The number of fellowships

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containing several components has beendeveloped and these are now beingmanufactured under licence by a companyin Bangalore: M/s Ajay Sensors andInstruments.

In 2010, the Academy set up an experimentalphysics laboratory in Bangalore. It will nowbe possible to hold 4 to 6 courses in Bangalorebesides courses that will be held in otherparts of the country.

Some of the experiments that can be donewith the kit are listed below:

1. Calibration of a silicon diode and a Cu-Constantan thermocouple against Pt 100thermometer

2. Temperature coefficient of resistanceof copper

3. Load regulation of the constant currentsource

4. High resistance by leakage

5. Stefan’s constant

6. Thermal and electrical conductivity ofcopper

7. Thermal diffusivity of brass

8. Law of addition of capacities, dielectricconstant of benzene and dipole momentof acetone

9. Measurement of impedance of aninductance and capacitance as afunction of frequency, series andparallel resonant circuits

10. Passive filters – low pass, high pass andband pass

11. AC Bridges (Maxwell’s, DeSauty’s andAnderson’s Bridges

12. Thermal relaxation of a serial light bulb

13. Study of the lock-in amplifier and itscalibration

14. Measurement of mutual inductance witha lock-in-amplifier

15. Measurement of low resistance with alock-in-amplifier

At every course, a series of lectures are heldto help the participants in conducting theexperiments and problem-solving sessions.

The following is a list of Experimental PhysicsRefresher Courses held since April 2010 withR Srinivasan as the Course Director. Theseform Course numbers XX to XXVII in thisseries.

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1. (XX) Manipal Institute of Technology,Manipal

24 May — 9 June 2010

No. of participants: 20

Course Co-ordinator: Sripathi Punchithaya K(Manipal Institute of Technology)

Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore),SM Sadique, KR Priolkar (Goa University, Goa),Efrem D’Sa (Carmel College, Goa) and ManoharNaik (Goa).

Special lectures: Hydrogen: the source of futureenergy (Mangej Singh, University of Rajasthan),Human urine — a possible source of energy(Shrikanth Korkare, Raje Ramrao College, Sangli).

2. (XXI) Tumkur University, Tumkur

28 June — 12 July 2010

No. of participants: 26 from Chennai, Madhugiri,Tiptur, Tumkur, Turuvekere and Udupi.

Course Co-ordinator: R Ananda Kumari, (SreeSiddaganga College for Women, Tumkur)

Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore),R Ananda Kumari, Lakshminarayana and ThomasFrancis (Sree Siddaganga College), SB Syamala(MG College, Thiruvananthapuram).

Special lectures: Smart material and smartmemory alloys (US Mallikarjun), Image processingwith video demonstration (KV Suresh).

3. (XXII) Bangalore University, Bangalore

15 — 31 July 2010

No. of participants: 16 from Chikkaballapur,Chennai and various colleges in Bangalore.

Course Co-ordinator: K Rukmani (BangaloreUniversity)

Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore),K Rukmani, BN Meera, LCS Murthy, SarbariBhattacharya (all of Bangalore University), RajiniAshrita (Osmania University College for Women,Hyderabad).

4. (XXIII) Shivaji University, Kolhapur

5 — 20 October 2010

No. of participants: 25 from Amaravati,Arjunnagar, Aundh, Baramati, Chandgad,Gagdhinglaj, Jabalpur, Karad, Kolhapur, Kurukali,Rayaguda, and Sangli.

Course Co-ordinator: CH Bhosale (ShivajiUniversity)

Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore),JBC Efrem D’Sa (Carmel College for Women,

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Goa), SM Sadiq and Manohar Naik (Goa),KRS Priolkar (Goa University), AK Sharma,CH Bhosale and KY Rajpure (all of ShivajiUniversity).

5. (XXIV) Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU),Kottayam

18 November — 3 December 2010

No. of participants: 38 from Aluva, Chungathura,Ernakulam, Idukki, Kalady, Kolenchery,Kothamangalam, Kottayam, Melukavumattom,Pala, Parumala, Pathanamthitta, Ranny andThiruvananthapuram.

Course Co-ordinator: C Sudarsanakumar (MGU)

Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), RajiniAshrita (Osmania University, Hyderabad), SyamalaThampi (MG College, Thiruvananthapuram) andA Gnanaprakash (University of Mysore).

Special lectures on current research topics byNV Unnikrishnan, C Sudarsanakumar andK Indulekha.

6. (XXV) IASc, Bangalore

15 — 31 December 2010

No. of participants: 25 from Adipur, Alipur,Bangalore, Bilaspur, Chennai, Chitradurga,Coimbatore, Hassan, Jalandhar, Kannur,

Kothamangalam, Kottayam, Mukhed, Mysore,New Bombay, New Delhi, Ranchi, Talcher, Udupi.

Resource Persons: JBC Efrem D’Sa (CarmelCollege of Women, Goa), SM Sadiq and ManoharNaik (Goa), KRS Priolkar (Goa University, Goa),K Rukmani, BN Meera, Sarbari Bhattacharya (allof Bangalore University), SB Gudennavar (ChristUniversity, Bangalore).

Special lectures: Discovery of superconductivityin ternary boro-carbides (R Nagarajan); softcondensed matter covering the behaviour ofliquid crystals, polymers and colloids(VS Raghunathan); (HL Bhat) Development oflasers and their application; (TG Ramesh) Shapememory effect and thermoelectricity.

7. (XXVI) Ramakrishna Mission VivekanandaCollege, Chennai

18 January — 2 February 2011

Course Co-ordinator: E Kannan (RamakrishnaMission Vivekananda College)

8. (XXVII) IASc, Bangalore

22 March — 6 April 2011

No. of participants: 27 from Bangalore,Chitradurga, Coimbatore, Dhenkanal, Guntakal,Guntur, Gurgaon, Hooghly, Kadapa, Ranchi,Talcher, Thalavady, Vadodara, Vidyanagar.

Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), SarbariBhattacharya and K Rukmani (BangaloreUniversity), SG Bubbly and SB Gudennavar (ChristUniversity, Bangalore), Seeta Bharati (Bangalore),TG Ramesh (NAL, Bangalore).

Special lectures: Electron paramagneticresonance (SV Bhat); laser cooling of atoms andliquid crystals (Hema Ramachandran andNV Madhusudana).

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B. Other Refresher Courses:

9. Foundations of physics

Bengal Engineering and Science University(BESU), Shibpur, 17 — 27 May 2010


Course Director: Amitabha Ghosh (BESU)

Course Co-ordinator: BK Guha (BESU)

Resource Persons: HS Mani (Chennai),AK Mazumdar, AK Mallik (SN Bose Centre for BasicSciences, Kolkata), JK Bhattacharjee (IACS,Kolkata), BK Guha, Amitabha Ghosh (BESU).

The basic objective of the programme was tocreate interest in basic sciences in the minds ofsenior school students by bringing a selectedgroup of such students in close contact witheminent academicians of the country. For thepast couple of decades, the finest elements ofthe school students have been going for medical,engineering and administrative professions,neglecting the field of basic sciences. Technologyand engineering have always grown in tandemwith the growth of basic sciences. The edificeof most of the technologies is based on physics,chemistry and mathematics. This programme wasaimed at attracting young minds to basic sciencesand encourage them to take up a career thatwill promote the development of science in ourcountry and thereby enrich the field of sciencethroughout the globe.

The shortcoming of the present day schooleducation system is that the students aresupplied with ready made formulae and asked tosolve problems without understanding how theformulae were developed, the difficulties thebuilders of science faced in developing a theoryand how they could overcome them. Thisprogramme was intended to familiarize studentsto the process of development of physicaltheories and kindle interest in their minds forthe world of physics.

The topics of lectures were designed to introduceconcepts behind fundamental branches of physicsdeveloped through the last 350 years and providea glimpse into the fascinating world of modernphysics. It was felt that laboratorydemonstrations of interesting experiments thatillustrate the fundamental laws of physics wouldbe essential for understanding the concepts.There were 36 lectures covering topics onNewtonian dynamics and gravitation, specialtheory of relativity, thermodynamics andstatistical mechanics, electricity and magnetism,quantum mechanics and nonlinear dynamics.

Demonstrations and experiments included afalling sheet of paper; the role of air resistance,and how a parachute works; the ring magnets inrepulsive mode and the free fall of the system;how a light ring connected with a string thatpasses over a peg drops down. Physics ofrotational motion: role of critical observationand designing of experiment; movement of thefingers supporting a uniform ruler and theidentification of the centre of mass; Archimedesprinciple loss of weight measurements of specificgravity of solids using a uniform beam andapplying the principle of moments; Generationof sound and Doppler effect; Colours of the skyand stop traffic signal and the role played byscattering of light; different ways of breakingthe ruler by bending; role of bending momentand the explanation for beam positions underthe bridge or flyover; the jumping ball; the roleof measuring device; measuring voltages acrosscapacitors with a multimeter and balancing threeknives.

There were special lectures by eminent scientistsand academicians from premier researchinstitutes of the city. Books on fundamentals ofphysics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker,Newtonian mechanics by AP French and 1-2-3infinity by George Gamow were distributed toall the participants.

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10. Motivational bridge course inmathematical methods in physics andlaboratory practices

Dayanand Science College, Latur, 1 — 26 June2010


Course Director: S Ananthakrishnan (Universityof Pune)

Course Co-ordinators: LV Thakare and RH Ladda(Dayanand Science College, Latur)

Resource Persons: S Ananthakrishnan, JoshiPankaj Rajesh, Shekatkar Snehal Madhukar andAnjali Kshirsagar (University of Pune), Atul KMody, Shirish Pathane (Navi Mumbai), S Chandra(Shree Mata Vaishnodevi University, (Jammu &Kashmir), Arvind Kumar, Mahesh Narayan Shettiand SH Patil (Mumbai), DA Desai, Raybagkar(Pune), AL Chaudhari (Aurangabad), JS Dargad,BM Tambalkar, LV Thakre, Ajay Mahajan,NS Pimple, BK Bondage, AD Kalkote, EU Masumdarand MR Patil (Latur).

The thrust of the bridge course was mainly fordeveloping the analytical abilities of studentswhile studying physics. The main theme was tomake the students aware and get them involvedin mathematical methods in physics; also toprovide them laboratory excitement throughsimple open-ended experiments. The structureof this course was developed to bridge the gapbetween mathematical techniques applied tophysics situations and the core physics taught atthe UG level. It was proved that this course willbecome a very good motivation for the studentsto choose physics as the subject for theirpostgraduate course.

11. Frontiers in atmospheric sciences

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM),Pune, 14 — 25 June 2010

No. of participants: 22 from Bangalore, Bhopal,Hyderabad, Jadhavpur, Kurud, Kurukshetra,Mangalore, Pune, Ranchi, Roorkee, Sawyerpuram,Tirunelveli, Varanasi, Vizag.

Course Directors: AK Kamra and BN Goswami(IITM)

Course Co-ordinator: V Gopalakrishnan (IITM)

Resource Persons: S Gadgil (IISc, Bangalore),G Pandithurai, R Krishnan, GB Pant, AK Kamra,BN Goswami, G Beig, JR Kulkarni, K Krishankumarand S Chakraborthy (IITM, Pune).

The course pedagogy included a combination oflectures and laboratory and field visits. Therewere a minimum of three lectures everyday onvarious topics of contemporary interest inatmospheric sciences. Laboratory visits aimed atgiving practical exposure to participants on thelatest techniques adopted in the measurementsof different atmospheric parameters. Theparticipants visited various laboratories of IITMand IMD, Pune and were taught about the workingof various state-of-art equipment, data handlingand analysis.

Field trip to wind power generation near Satarawas arranged. The participants were given a bookon “Atmosphere, weather and climate” by RogerG Berry and Richard J Chorley.

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12. Contemporary non-equilibriumthermodynamics and statistical mechanics

RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, 20 October —2 November 2010

No. of participants: 31 teachers fromChandigarh, Dehradun, Goa, Gondia, Hassan,Karaikal, Kolkata, Mohali, Mouda, Mumbai,Nagpur, New Delhi, Ratnagiri, Vijayawada,Wardha.

Course Director: DS Ray (IACS, Kolkata)

Course Co-ordinators: Anil A Bhalekar andLJ Paliwal (RTM Nagpur University)

Resource Persons: David Jou (AutonomousUniversity of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain), IngoMüller (Technical University, Berlin), RS Johal(IISER, Mohali), BL Tembe (IIT, Mumbai), SunilNath (IIT, Delhi), C Dasgupta (IISc, Bangalore),D Chowdhury (IIT, Kanpur), MV Sangaranarayanan(IIT, Chennai), R Venkatesh (BHU, Varanasi),PM Gade and AA Bhalekar (RTMNU, Nagpur) andSS Dhondge (SKP College, Nagpur).

This course focussed on nonequilibriumthermodynamics and statistical mechanics.Nonequilibrium thermodynamics comprised ofextended irreversible thermodynamics, rationalthermodynamics, classical irreversiblethermodynamics, foundations of nonequilibriumthermodynamics, electrochemical processes,quantum heat engines and finitetimethermodynamics.

The statistical mechanical topic comprised ofBayesian statistical kinetic theory of non-uniformsystems, Chandrasekhar equation in chemicaldynamics, ordered disordered systems,percolation problems of dilute magnetic systems,spin glasses, structural glasses, random fieldsystems, stochastic kinetics and enzymology,stochastic of molecular motors, nonequilibriumstatistical mechanics of liquids and dynamics ofphase transitions in spatially extended systems.

The participants were given books on ‘Elementsof nonequilibrium statistical mechanics’ byBalakrishnan and ‘Statistical mechanics’ byK Huang. The participants were also taken for ahalf day excursion tour to Ramtek.

13. Recent advances in chemical science andits technological applications

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT),Sikkim, 8 — 21 December 2010


Course Director: MK Chaudhuri (TezpurUniversity, Tezpur)

Course Co-ordinator: Amlan Kumar Das (SMIT)

Resource Persons: Ghanashyam Bez, RK Poddar(NEHU, Shillong), BC Ranu, Subrata Ghosh (IACS,Kolkata), Arun Chattopadhyaya (IIT, Guwahati),SC Bhattacharyya, Kaushik Das, Pratik Sen,Chittaranjan Sinha and BC Roy (JadavpurUniversity), A Anil Bhalekar (RTM NagpurUniversity), N Homendra (Manipur University),Sanjib Bagchi (IISER, Kolkata), A Chatterjee(Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, Sikkim), AnirbanMisra (North Bengal University) and Sanjay Dahal(SMIT).

Topics covered: The course covered all importanttopics in chemistry such as thermodynamics,electrochemistry, surface chemistry, Greenchemistry, nanochemistry, photochemistry,spectroscopy, quantum chemistry, chemicalkinetics and catalysis, supramolecular chemistry,bioinorganic chemistry, polymer and colloidchemistry, organic reaction mechanism,symmetry, group theory and applications.

The teacher participants were from Adipur,Bhopal, Chennai, Deoghar, Dhanbad, Gangtok,Hyderabad, Jharkhand, Kolkata, Madurai, NewDelhi, Pudukkottai, Ranchi, Sikkim, Sonitpur,Thalassery, and Thiruvananthapuram.

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14. Foundations of mathematics

Bengal Engineering and Science University(BESU), Shibpur, 27 — 31 December, 2010


Course Director: Amitabha Ghosh (BESU)

Course Co-ordinator: Bichitra Kumar Guha(BESU)

Resource Persons: JK Bhattacharya (SN BoseNational Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata),Ashok Kumar Mallick, BK Guha, BasudebMukhopadhyay, Tapan Kumar Roy and Murari Mitra(BESU).

Mathematics is supposed to be the mother of allsciences. It forms the basic tool and language ofphysical sciences. Unfortunately in the regularschool curriculum students are taught only a setof formulae and are asked to solve problems onthe basis of these formulae. The approachfollowed in the schools does not create interestin the subject. The present course was aimed atcomplementing the school curriculum withhistorical development of mathematical ideasand their practical applications to the world ofmodern physical sciences.

There were twenty-two lectures and threespecial lectures on rough set, fuzzy set and settheory by M Chakrabarty, differential equationsand their applications by J Das and scaling theoryby Amitabha Ghosh.

Topics of lectures: Maxima and minima; Fermat’sprinciple; brachistochrone’s problem; iterationon integers; real numbers; complex numbers andnonlinear dynamics; geometry in the context oftheory of relativity; matrices and theirapplications; theory of numbers and fuzzy set;theory of probability and its applications.

A book on “What is mathematics?” by RichardCourant and Herbert Robbins (Oxford UniversityPress) was presented to all the participants.

15. Modern biotechnological techniques

Manipal University, Manipal, 10 — 22 January2011


Course Director: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore)

Course Co-ordinator: K Satyamoorthy (ManipalUniversity)

Resource Persons: V Nagaraja, KP Gopinathan,Umesh Varshney, K Somasundaram, P Kondiah(IISc, Bangalore), Kemparaj, PM Gopinath, Murali,Padmalatha Rai, Saadi Abdul Vahab (MLSC,Manipal), Shree Dhawale (Purdue University,Indiana), LS Shashidhara (IISER, Pune), GirishKatta (Kasturba Medical College, Manipal).

Topics of lectures: Genomic diversity andevolution; mind, body and soul; protein-DNA andprotein-protein interactions; restrictionendonucleases; topoisomerases; transcriptionactivation and termination; cytogenetics and itsvarious applications in biotechnology; expressionsystems; for recombinant DNA cloning; syntheticlife: diagnosis of bacterial cell cultures; stemcells and cloning; behavioural adaptations andevolution; PCR techniques, applications ofclassical genetics in modern biology; regulatoryRNA; human genetic diseases; cancer diagnostics;DNA sequencing; microarrays and applications:breast and brain cancers.

The teacher participants represented institutionsfrom Aizawl, Bangalore, Burdwan, Coimbatore,Gulbarga, Hyderabad, Indore, Jhunjhunu, Mahe,Malappuram, Mangalagangothri, Manipal,Moodbidri, Narsapur, Pune, Thanjavur.

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16. Condensed matter and statistical physics

St Thomas College, Pala, 28 February — 13March 2011

No. of participants: 27 from Kanyakumari,Karaikal, Kasargod, Kottayam, New Delhi, Pala,Pune, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Wayanad.

Course Directors: Srikanth Sastry (JNCASR,Bangalore), G Baskaran (IMSc, Chennai)

Course Co-ordinator: Ison V Vanchipurackal,(St Thomas College)

Resource Persons: G Baskaran, R Shankar,Gautam Menon (all of IMSc, Chennai), SrikanthSastry (JNCASR, Bangalore), Subodh Shenoy(University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad),V Venkataraman, Vijay Shenoy (IISc, Bangalore).

Topics of lectures: Quantum mechanics;statistical mechanics; phase transitions;biological matter; solid state physics;optoelectronics and device physics;superconductivity.

17. Advances in biotechnology

National Institute for Research in ReproductiveHealth (NIRRH), Mumbai, 1 — 11 March 2011


Course Director: Tarala Nandedkar (NIRRH)

Course Co-ordinator: Srabani Mukherjee (NIRRH)

Resource Persons: Aditi Ambekar, Amare-Kadam(TMH, Mumbai), N Balasinor, Deepak Modi, DeepaBhartiya, K Kadam, T Madan, A Maitra, J Mania,S Mukherjee, G Sachdev, Smita Mahale, SusanThomas (NIRRH), A Bandivdekar, S Bhagat, BhaktiPathak, Rajani A Bhisey, (Mumbai), S D’Sousa,R Dhumal, R Dighe, (IISc, Bangalore), S GadkarSable, S Ganeshan, R Gaonkar, Geeta Vanage,K Ghosh, (NIIH, Mumbai), P Gokhale, G Harsh,S Jacob, S Khavale, S Majumdar (NII, New Delhi),Chitra Mandal (IICB, Kolkata), A Mandar,D Manjramkar, Meena Desai, U Nanda, AA Natu(IISER, Pune), S Nuzhat, Dulal Panda (IIT,Bombay), D Roshan, C Saravanan, G Shinde,S Sonawane, Sumit Bhutada, K Sushma, ShubhaTole (TIFR, Mumbai), S Varsha Vrushali.

Topics of Lectures/demonstrations andexperiments: Secrets of biology as revealedthrough molecular biology; chemistry in healthcare Indian scenario; genomic DNA extractionagarose; animal model to access carcinogenesisof drug; PCR technology; PCR amplification; DNAsequencing; epigenetic; blotting of biomolecules;RNA silencing; RNA extraction real time PCR;ELISA; RNA interference; proteomics; SDS-PAGEand immunohistochemistry; pluripotent stemcell; 2D gel electrophoresis; western blotting;cancer cytogenetic, microtubules cytogeneticsand FISH; electron microscopy; characterizationand purification of recombinant therapeuticproteins; protein purification techniques;chromatography and amino acid analysis facility;applications of flow cytometery; cell cycleanalysis flow cytometery; HLA and diseasesusceptibility; cloning; cell signaling and cancer;how the brain is built; bioinformatics.

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12.3 Lecture Workshops

The Joint Science Academy Panel arrangestwo or three-day lecture workshops oncarefully chosen topics in physics,mathematics, chemistry and life sciences atselected college and university departmentsfor the benefit of local students andteachers. Speakers include Fellows andscientists from nearby institutions. Sinceinception, 206 Workshops have been held.During the year up to 31 March 2011, 47Workshops were held on various topics atdifferent institutions in the country. Thefollowing gives some information on theLecture Workshops held from April 2010 toMarch 2011.

1. Current trends in organic synthesisBangalore University, Bangalore, 9 — 10 April2010Convener: S Chandrasekaran (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinators: VV Suresh Babu (BangaloreUniversity)Speakers: S Chandrasekaran, KR Prasad,N Jayaraman, AG Samuelson (IISc, Bangalore),J Narasimha Moorthy (IIT, Kanpur), HV Thulasiram(NCL, Pune), H Ila (JNCASR, Bangalore),DB Ramachary (University of Hyderabad)Participants: 300 postgraduate students andfaculty from colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Vinylcyclopropane andvinylcyclobutane derivatives; organic oxidationswith IBX and organocatalysis with proline;carbohydrate chemistry; domino reaction inorganic synthesis; total synthesis of natural

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products of therapeutic importance: the Chironapproach; determining reaction mechanisms inorganometallic reactions; exploitation ofnature’s catalysts in organic synthesis; multi-catalysis cascade approach to thepharmaceuticals.

2. Protein: Structure, function and dynamicsMaharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women(MLACW), Bangalore, 9 — 10 April 2010Convener: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: MB Nagaveni (MLACW)Speakers: JB Udgaonkar, MK Mathew (NCBS,Bangalore), Raghavan Varadarajan, Utpal Tatu,MRN Murthy, P Balaram, B Gopal, V Nagaraja, DNRao (IISc, Bangalore)Participants: 250 students and faculty fromvarious colleges of Bangalore UniversityTopics covered: Dynamics of protein folding;protein stability and engineering; the amazingthings that proteins do; proteomics; elucidationof biomolecular structure; G N Ramachandranand the evolution of protein structures;structure-function relationships in proteins;enzymes; enzyme catalysis and kinetics; protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions.

3. Nanosciences and nanotechnologiesDon Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT),Bangalore, 28 — 30 April 2010Convener: Umesh V Waghmare (JNCASR,Bangalore)Co-ordinator: HS Puttanna (DBIT)Speakers: G Sundararajan (ARCI, Hyderabad), BSSathyanarayana (RVCE, Bangalore), T Pradeep(IIT-M Chennai), Sharath Ananthmurthy(Bangalore University), GU Kulkarni, MEswarmoorthy, N Chandrabhas, UV Waghmare(JNCASR, Bangalore), Murali Sastry (TataChemicals, Pune), SB Krupanidhi (IISc,Bangalore), MS Hegde, Harish Barshilia (NAL,Bangalore), Murali Kota (IBM, Bangalore)Participants: 99 from colleges/institutions inBangaloreTopics covered: Introduction to nano;technologies based on nanomaterials; policy andfunding opportunities in nanotechnology; roomtemperature grown nanocarbons using cathodicarc process; why nanomaterials are interesting;light on cells, polymers and bacteria;nanolithography; nano-materials for catalysis andbiological applications; nano-superlattices ofmultifunctional oxides; transition metal nitride-

based nanostructured hard and superhardcoatings; Raman spectroscopy as a nano-bio-technology tool.

4. Genomics and proteomicsSri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam (SPMVV),Tirupati, 17 — 18 August 2010Convener: HS Savithri (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: DM Mamatha (SPMVV)Speakers: HS Savithri, MRN Murthy,PN Rangarajan, Utpal Tatu (IISc, Bangalore),W Rajendra (SV University, Tirupati)Participants: 103 students and faculty fromSV University & SPMVV, TirupatiTopics covered: Genomics; computationalanalysis and structural biology; proteinpurification; gene expression and gene therapy;proteomics.

5. Microbes: Health and DiseaseMount Carmel College (MCC), Bangalore,18 — 19 August 2010Convener: MS Shaila (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: HS Padma and Shubha Prakash(MCC)Speakers: Udaykumar Ranga, Hemalatha Balaram(JNCASR, Bangalore), Sandhya S Visweswariah,Dipshikha Chakravorty, Saumitra Das, MS Shaila(IISc, Bangalore)Participants: 200 students and faculty fromUniversity and colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Bacterial enterotoxins; how domicrobes determine shape?; lessons from thefailure of HIV vaccine clinical trials; novelantiviral strategies against human pathogens;conventional versus reverse vaccinology; uniquefeatures of metabolism in the malarial parasitePlasmodium falciparum.

6. Advances in materials researchPoornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research(PPISR), Bidalur, 25 — 27 August 2010Convener: KJ Rao (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: AB Halgeri (PPISR)Speakers: S Chandrasekaran, S Asokan, KJ Rao,AK Shukla, S Umapathy, S Ramakrishnan,N Suryaprakash, TN Guru Row, SA Shivashankar(IISc, Bangalore), BK Sadashiva (RRI, Bangalore),AB Halgeri, Satyanarayana (PPISR)Participants: 88 faculty from various engineeringcolleges in and around Bangalore, Kuvempu andMangalore Universities.

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Topics covered: Materials and Green chemistry;phase changes in glasses and their applications;current advances in ceramics; molecular shapeand liquid crystallinity; building better batteries;vibrational structural studies of materials tobiology; novel catalytic materials; chiraldiscrimination by NMR spectroscopy;hyperbranched polymers-novel nano dimensionalscaffolds; structure determination of complexinorganic oxides; nanomaterials from metalorganic complexes; biodegradable materials —an overview.

7. Organic chemistry – Explore 2010Christ University, Bangalore, 27 — 28 August 2010Convener: Uday Maitra (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinators: SJ Hepziba, Riya Datta (ChristUniversity)Speakers: Uday Maitra, S Ramakrishnan, SantanuMukherjee, S Chandrasekaran (IISc, Bangalore),S Sankararaman (IIT, Madras)Participants: 140 students and faculty fromChrist University and colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Stereochemistry andconformation; basic principles ofchromatography; amine, enamine, iminium andammonium; hyperbranched polymers; pericyclicreactions; organic photochemistry; greening thechemistry curriculum.

8. Genetic transformation and transgenicplants: Concepts, applications and concernsVIT University (VITU), Vellore, 7 — 9 September2010Convener: Uma Shaanker (GKVK, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: R Siva (VITU)Speakers: K Veluthambi (Madurai KamarajUniversity), M Parani (SRM University, Chennai),I Kategiri (UAS, Dharwad), Nataraj Karaba, RamaNarasimhan, Uma Shaanker (UAS, Bangalore),R Siva (VITU)Participants: 297 students and faculty from VITUand other institutionsTopics covered: Crown gall; plant basedproduction of biopharmaceuticals; geneticmodification; restriction digestion experiments;functional genomics; gene manipulation inplants; concerns about GM crops.

9. Some topics in biophysicsUniversity of Mysore, Mysore, 16 — 17 September2010Convener: R Srinivasan (Mysore)Co-ordinator: L Paramesh (University of Mysore)Speakers: Pramod Pullarkat (RRI, Bangalore),Shachi Gosavi, Sanjay Sane, Satyajit Mayor (NCBS,Bangalore), Gautam Menon (IMSc, Chennai)Participants: 100 students and faculty fromUniversity and colleges in MysoreTopics covered: Protein folding; how insects fly;intracellular communication and transport;mechanical response of cells and their shapeinstabilities; physical methods in biology.

10. Recent molecular biological trends ininfectious diseases and cancerSt. Joseph’s College, Bangalore,24 — 25 September 2010Convener: V Ravi (NIMHANS, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: VJ Jacob Paul and S Rajamani(St. Joseph’s College)Speakers: V Ravi (NIMHANS), Sudhir Krishna(NCBS, Bangalore), Ravi Kumar, Latha Lakshman(Xcyton Diagnostics, Bangalore), AnnapoorniRangarajan, P Ajit Kumar, Paturu Kondiah (IISc,Bangalore), RS Jayashree (Kidwai MemorialInstitute of Oncology, Bangalore)Participants: 220 participants from colleges ofBangalore and VelloreTopics covered: Real time PCR in viral infectiondiagnosis; genomic sequences and cancer stemcells in human leukemias; diagnosis of infectiousdiseases; cancer stem cells; recent trends incancer biomarker discovery; detection ofantibiotic resistance using molecular diagnostictools; principles of genetic engineering and theirapplications; intratumoral immune response incervical cancers.

11. Modern biologyAurora College, Hyderabad, 28 — 29 September2010Convener: Shekhar C Mande (CDFD, Hyderabad)Speakers: Sanjeev Kholsa, MS Reddy (CDFD,Hyderabad), Sharmistha Banerjee (University ofHyderabad), Tapas K Kundu (JNCASR, Bangalore),DP Kasbekar (CCMB, Hyderabad), Sharmila Mande(TCS, Hyderabad), V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore)Participants: 200 students and faculty fromcolleges and universities in Hyderabad.

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Topics covered: Reprogramming of geneticinformation; tuberculosis; genes and cancer; shystudy neurospora; metagenomics.

12. Biodiversity biome – the web of lifeMGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai,6 — 7 October 2010Convener: Tarala Nandedkar (NIRRH, Mumbai)Co-ordinator: DS Joshi (MGM Institute ofResearch)Speakers: RD Lele (Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai);PB Seshagiri (IISc, Bangalore) SK Apte (BARC,Mumbai); SD Kholkute (NIRRH, Mumbai); J Bellare(IIT, Mumbai); Rajani Bhisey (University of Pune)Participants: 350 students and teachersTopics covered: Diversity in human disease/disorder; comparative biology and biodiversityin blastocyst development and implantation inmammals; microbial bioremediation; plantbiodiversity in Western Ghats; macro-micro- andnano-technology; diversity in cancer genetics.

13. Advances in chemistryPSGR Krishnammal College for Women(PSGRKCW), Coimbatore, 7 — 8 October 2010Convener: R Ramaraj (MKU, Madurai)Co-ordinator: A Shamitha Begum (PSGRKCW)Speakers: D Ramaiah (NIIST, Thiruvanantha-puram); G Mugesh, S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore);C Namasivayam (Bharathiar University,Coimbatore); AK Mishra (IIT, Chennai).Participants: 290 students and faculty fromcolleges in CoimbatoreTopics covered: Photodynamic therapy; hemeproteins; bio and medicinal inorganic chemistry;activated carbons from agricultural solid wastesand removal of organics and inorganics fromwater; principles and applications of X-raydiffraction technique; polymorphism in solids andfluorescence.

14. Recent trends in physicsLady Doak College, Madurai, 11 — 13 October2010Convener: M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity, Tiruchirappalli)Co-ordinator: BJM Rajkumar (Lady Doak College)Speakers: M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity), K Iyakutti (MKU), K Jeganathan(Centre for Nano-Science and Nano-Technology,Trichy), Sibasish Ghosh (IMSc, Chennai),

VPN Nampoori (CUSAT, Cochin), K Murali (AnnaUniversity, Chennai), KPN Murthy (University ofHyderabad), CS Sundar (IGCAR, Kalpakkam)Participants: 120 students and faculty fromcolleges in and around MaduraiTopics covered: Basic concepts of nonlineardynamics; properties and applications of carbonnanotubes; semiconductor 1D nanowires and itsapplications; quantum computation and quantumalgorithms; laser and its applications; nonlinearelectronics: applications of chaos; thefundamentals of thermodynamics; three facetsof materials research.

15. Probing electronic states in moleculesand molecular materialsMarathwada University, Aurangabad, 21 — 25October 2010Convener: S Ramasesha (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Ramarao Mane (MarathwadaUniversity)Speakers: S Ramasesha, PK Das, Satish Patil (IISc,Bangalore), KL Narasimhan (TIFR, Mumbai)Participants: 170 students and faculty in collegesand university in MarathwadaTopics covered: Introduction to molecularmaterials; molecular devices; probing electronstates; organic electronics; laser spectroscopy;electron states in molecules; electron states insolids; nonlinear optics; electron states inpolymers.

16. Animal behaviourIISER, Kolkata, 30 — 31 October 2010Convener: R Gadagkar (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Anindita Bhadra (IISER, Kolkata)Speakers: R Gadagkar (IISc, Bangalore), MewaSingh (Mysore University), Annagiri Sumana,Anuradha Bhat, Punyasloke Bhaduri, AninditaBhadra (IISER), VK Sharma (JNCASR, Bangalore),Suhel Quader (NCBS, Bangalore)Participants: 148 students and faculty in IISERand Kolkata collegesTopics covered: Why are humans nice to eachother?; animal behaviour and wildlifemanagement; colony emigration as influencedby key individuals: case study of an Indian ant;variations in behavioural responses toenvironmental manipulation in zebra fishpopulations; nocturnal sex drive in Drosophila;marine phytoplankton diversity – what dofunctional genes tell us?; coevolutionary conflict:

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strategies and counter-strategies of broodparasites and their hosts; a study on urban feraldogs.

17. Vistas of scienceAurora College, Hyderabad, 26 — 27 November2010Convener: S Chaturvedi (University ofHyderabad)Co-ordinator: Savitha Ramesh (Aurora College)Speakers: Rajaram Nityananda (NCRA, Pune),Ghanashyam Krishna, KPN Murthy, V Kannan(University of Hyderabad), ALN Murthy (ISI,Hyderabad), Srinathan Kannan (IIIT, Hyderabad).Participants: 275 students and faculty in Auroraand other colleges in HyderabadTopics covered: Astronomy with radio waves;nanoscience; thermodynamics; fractionaldimensions; statistics and its relevance tosociety; cryptography and network security.

18. SpectroscopyNIT, Tiruchirappalli, 3 — 4 December 2010Convener: S Umapathy (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: R Karvembu (NIT)Speakers: S Umapathy, Uday Maitra, E Arunan,S Ramakrishnan (IISc, Bangalore), R Ramaraj(MKU) and A Sreekanth (NIT, Tiruchirappalli).Participants: 200 students and faculty from NITand other colleges in TiruchirappalliTopics covered: Elecronic absorptionspectroscopy; fluorescence spectroscopy;rotational spectroscopy; basics of nuclearmagnetic resonance spectroscopy and itsapplications; Raman spectroscopy; NMRspectroscopy; spectroelectrochemistry;ESR spectroscopy.

19. Differential equations: Theory, methodsand applicationsPondicherry University, Puducherry,16 — 18 December 2010Convener: KM Tamizhmani (PondicherryUniversity)Co-ordinator: Rajeswari Seshadri (PondicherryUniversity)Speakers: A Chakrabarti (IISc, Bangalore),S Kandaswamy (Bharathiar University,Coimbatore), M Vanninathan (TIFR-CAM,Bangalore), M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity), KM Tamizhmani, Rajeswari Seshadri(Pondicherry University).

Participants: 150 students and faculty fromuniversity and colleges in PondicherryTopics covered: Singular integral equations;perturbation techniques; basics of differentialequations, superposition principle, linear andnonlinear equations, partial differentialequations; basics of PDE and methods of solutionsfor solving PDE, homogenization and practicalapplications in industry.

20. Some topics in functional analysis andseveral complex variablesSt. Josephs College, Irinjalakuda, 4 — 6 January2011Convener: S Thangavelu (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: NR Mangalambal (St. JosephsCollege)Speakers: K Narayanan, S Thangavelu, K Verma,G Bharali (IISc, Bangalore)Participants: 81 students and faculty fromSt. Josephs and other colleges in Karnataka andKeralaTopics covered: Topological vector spaces andtheory of distributions; analyticity,holomorphicity, Cauchy integral formula andrelated properties; Fourier transform theory.

21. Interdisciplinary physics – some basicaspectsRamananda College, Bishnupur, 6 — 7 January2011Conveners: Indrani Bose (Bose Institute, Kolkata)and BK Chakrabarti (SINP, Kolkata)Co-ordinator: Goutam Biswas (RamanandaCollege)Speakers: JK Bhattacharjee (SN Bose Centre,Kolkata), Soumitra Sengupta, DS Ray (IACS,Kolkata), BK Chakrabarti (SINP, Kolkata), IndraniBose (Bose Institute, Kolkata), Arghya Taraphder(IIT, Kharagpur)Participants: 86 students and faculty fromvarious colleges in BankuraTopics covered: Statistical physics; quantumphysics; nonlinear dynamics; econophysics;biological physics; physics of nanomaterials.

22. Cognitive neuroscience andinterdisciplinary approach to understandingbehaviourSophia College, Mumbai, 10 — 11 January 2011Convener: Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (IISc,Bangalore)

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Co-ordinator: Hema Ramachandran (SophiaCollege)Speakers: Aditya Murthy (IISc, Bangalore),Anindya Sinha (NIAS, Bangalore), N Srinivasan,Bhoomika Kar (CBCS, Allahabad), R Manchanda(IIT, Mumbai)Participants: 140 students and teachers fromvarious colleges in MumbaiTopics covered: Cognitive neuroscience ofsensory motor control; an introduction to EEGand ERP; analysis of EEG and design of ERPexperiments; functional MRI; obtainingcomputational insights into neuronal biophysics;social cognition in primates.

23. Protein engineering and its applicationsGitam University, Visakhapatnam, 20 — 21January 2011Convener: Shekhar C Mande (CDFD, Hyderabad)Co-ordinator: M Anitha (Gitam University)Speakers: Shekhar C Mande (CDFD),TM Radhakrishnan (Andhra University,Visakhapatnam), Sharmistha Banerjee (Universityof Hyderabad), R Sankaranarayanan (CCMB,Hyderabad), T Srinivasan, S Talluri (GitamUniversity)Participants: 260 students from various collegesin VisakhapatnamTopics covered: Networks in biology: interfaceof physics and biology; protein (enzyme)engineering; tuberculosis; evolution of virulenceproperties from common folds in pathogenicbacteria; protein engineering in plants; proteinengineering and thermal stability.

24. Advances in biological sciencesPoornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research(PPISR), Bidalur, 20 — 22 January 2011Convener: AJ Rao (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: AB Halgeri (PPISR)Speakers: G Padmanaban, P Kondaiah,MRN Murthy, Utpal Tatu, R Annapoorni, RajanDighe, Dipshika Chakravarthy, AJ Rao (IISc,Bangalore), MRS Rao (JNCASR, Bangalore),NJ Shetty, VVS Suryanarayana (IVRI, Bangalore),KR Sridhar (Mangalore University), Jayarama Bhat(Goa University), NS Raviraja (Stempeutics,Manipal)Participants: 50 students and faculty fromcolleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Recombinant products; newdirection in research in cell biology; biomarkers

for cancer diagnosis; significance of unstructuredproteins in viral survival; conventional approachto proteomics; clonal theory of cancer,recombinant proteins; genetic control ofmosquitoes; problems of developing suitable andideal vaccines; endophytic fungi in various plants;infectious diseases; metabolites fromfilamentous fungi; production of mesenchymalstem cells and their therapeutic application;need for population control.

25. Exploring recent horizons in chemicalsciencesMarathwada University, Osmanabad, 21 — 22January 2011Convener: Anunay Samanta (University ofHyderabad)Co-ordinator: SD Delekar (MarathwadaUniversity, Osmanabad)Speakers: S Vasudevan (IISc, Bangalore), AnunaySamanta, SK Das, TP Radhakrishnan, MJ Swamy(University of Hyderabad), NP Argade, BLV Prasad(NCL, Pune)Participants: 200 students and teachers fromvarious colleges of Marathwada UniversityTopics covered: Intercalation in layered solids;shortlived species; polyoxometallates; sol-to-geltransformation in dispersions of layered solids;co-ordination chemistry of dithiolene and ortho-phenylenediammine ligands; importance ofnanotechnology; polymer thin films with in situgenerated metal nanoparticles; biomembranes;monodispersity, superlattices; nanomachining.

26. Frontiers in physicsDeen Dayal Upadhyaya College (DDUC), NewDelhi, 21 — 23 January 2011Convener: Manoj Saxena (DDUC)Speakers: Ajoy Ghatak, Anurag Sharma (IIT,Delhi), Patrick Das Gupta, Sanjay Jain,D Choudhury, N Panchapakesan (University ofDelhi), R Ramaswamy, Debashis Ghoshal, SanjayPuri (JNU, New Delhi), Sudhendu Rai Chowdhury(IISER, Bhopal), SM Roy (TIFR, Mumbai)Participants: 314 students and faculty fromvarious colleges in DelhiTopics covered: Measurements in quantumtheory: EPR paradox and Bell’s inequality;accelerating universe; repulsive gravity and darkenergy; nonlinear science; instabilities in stringtheory; the origin of life problem: somemathematical insights; fundamental particles andinteractions; large hadron collider; quantum

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paradoxes, causal quantum mechanics andexperimental tests; black holes at the frontiersof physics and astrophysics; fibre optics; patternformation in granular materials.

27. Foundation of analysis in mathematicsIndian Institute of Science Education andResearch, Thiruvananthapuram, 21 — 23 January2011Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM,Bangalore)Co-ordinators: MP Rajan and Utpal Manna (IISER,Thiruvananthapuram)Speakers: EK Narayanan (IISc, Bangalore),MP Rajan, Utpal Manna, R Prakash (IISER,Thiruvananthapuram), KSS Moosath (NIIST,Thiruvananthapuram), Mythily Ramaswamy,K Sandeep (TIFR-CAM)Participants: 39 students from IISER and othercolleges in ThiruvananthapuramTopics covered: Single variable calculus; fourierseries, linear algebra; multivariable calculus;integration in R^n; volume and surface integrals.

28. MathematicsSt. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, 28 — 29 January2011Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM,Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Renee D’Souza (St. Joseph’sCollege)Speakers: Mythily Ramaswamy, K Sandeep (TIFR-CAM), Sujatha Ramdorai (TIFR, Mumbai), AlladiSitaram, Kaushal Verma (IISc, Bangalore)Participants: 70 students and teachers fromvarious colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: An introduction to real analysis;prime numbers; Fourier series; some examplesin multivariate calculus; interplay between linearalgebra and analysis.

29. Genes, genomics and proteomicsSt. Aloysius College, Mangalore, 28 — 29 January2011Convener: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Avila D’Silva (St. Aloysius College)Speakers: Umesh Varshney, Saumitra Das, UshaVijayraghavan, Utpal Tatu, V Nagaraja (IISc)Participants: 250 students and faculty from 11colleges in and around Mangalore

Topics covered: Analysis of gene structure andfunction; biochemistry of protein synthesis in anutshell; miRNA and siRNA; viruses hijack hostbiochemical machinery; RNA splicing; moleculargenetics and genomics of flower development;understanding proteomics and its applications;use of mass spectrometry in biological research;biochemistry of DNA replication; meta-genomics– a fascinating new area of biology.

30. Current trends in novel materialsChrist University, Bangalore, 4 — 5 February 2011Convener: SV Bhat (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: SB Gudennavar (Christ University)Speakers: SV Bhat, Arindam Ghosh,V Venkataraman, TN Guru Row, SA Shivashankar,AK Shukla, PS Anilkumar (IISc, Bangalore)KS Narayan (JNCASR, Bangalore)Participants: 115 students and teachers fromvarious universities/colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Superconductivity andsuperconducting materials; graphene – fromphysics to devices; semiconductorheterostructures; new approaches in structuredetermination of complex inorganic materials;device physics of polymer-based photovoltaics;chemical approaches to nanomaterials withspecific examples; magnetic random accessmemory; building better batteries.

31. BiotechnologySri Kaliswari College, Sivakasi, 4 — 5 February2011Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU)Co-ordinator: S Saravanan (Sri Kaliswari College)Speakers: TJ Pandian (Annamalai University,Chidambaram), Arun Kumar, VS Arun and Shyama,Hussain Munavar, K Veluthambi, S Krishnaswamy,G Marimuthu (MKU), S Sudhagar (ManonmaniumSundaranar University, Tirunelveli) S Kannan(Bharathiar University, Coimbatore)Participants: 166 students and faculty from 17colleges in SivakasiTopics covered: Primordial germ cells andspermatogonial stem cells; the genographic andthe migration of Man-40 and genomictechnologies of genographic-40; aging; biologyand behaviour of bats, cancer proteomics; novelregulatory network controlling transcription inE. coli; selectable marker elimination intransgenic rice, structural biology of porins ofsalmonella.

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32. Modern trends in chemistryLady Doak College, Madurai, 7 — 8 February 2011Convener: M Periasamy (University ofHyderabad)Co-ordinator: S Vasantha (Lady Doak College)Speakers: M Periasamy (University ofHyderabad), KR Prasad, AG Samuelson,S Chandrasekaran, S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore),S Sankararaman (IIT Chennai)Participants: 120 post-graduate students andteachers from various colleges and universitiesin MaduraiTopics covered: Stereochemical concepts inorganic reaction mechanisms and synthesis;recent advances in organic synthesis; reactionmechanisms in organometallic chemistry;organotitanium reagents for use in synthesis ofbioactive and energy harvesting molecules; weakinteractions in inorganic chemistry; clickchemistry and beyond; organic reactions “inwater, on water and in the presence of water”;principles and applications of X-ray diffraction;pericyclic reactions; metal-mediated C-Ccoupling reactions.

33. Current trends in biologyMES College, Bangalore, 9 — 10 February 2011Convener: HA Ranganath (NAAC, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Ravindra Reshme (MES College)Speakers: R Gadagkar, V Nagaraja, UshaVijayraghavan (IISc, Bangalore), KN Ganeshaiah,VS Acharya, Amitabh Joshi (JNCASR, Bangalore),Mewa Singh (University of Mysore), HA Ranganath(NAAC, Bangalore)Participants: 170 students and faculty from MESand other colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Are insects smart?;metagenomics – a fascinating new area in biology;insect plant interactions and evolution ofmutualism; experimental evolution; making offlowering stem; doing science and having fun;epigenetics.

34. Recent developments in physicsGovt. Arts College, Melur, 3 — 4 March 2011Convener: M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity, Tiruchirappalli)Co-ordinator: A John Peter (Govt. Arts College)Speakers: J Sethuraman (Kirupananda VariyarEngineering College, Salem), M Lakshmanan(Bharathidasan University), G Baskaran (IMSc,Chennai), CS Shastry (Amrita University,

Coimbatore), M Mangalraj (Bharathiar University,Coimbatore), V Yegnaraman (CECRI, Karaikudi)Participants: 89 students and faculty fromcolleges in MelurTopics covered: Nonlinear dynamics;superconductivity: lab view software; analyticals-matrix approach to study alpha decay of superheavy elements; development of nanostructuredmaterials; electrochemical sensor,ultramicroelectrodes and microarrays,chemically modified electrodes — polymer-nano-composites as modifiers microfluidics; lab-on-a-chip EC detection of biomolecules.

35. Partial differential equationsIIT, Patna, 3 — 5 March 2011Convener: Phoolan Prasad (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: AK Upadhyay (IIT, Patna)Speakers: D Bahuguna, MK Kadalbajoo,V Raghavendra (IIT, Kanpur), Phoolan Prasad (IISc,Bangalore)Participants: 93 students and faculty fromcolleges and universities in PatnaTopics covered: Classification of second orderPDEs; pure IVP for the wave equation of onedimension; IBVP for wave equation of onedimension; non-homogeneous wave equation;wave equation in a rectangular domain; waveequation in a circular domain; heat equation;Laplace’s equation; first-order linear, quasilinearand nonlinear partial differential equations;theoretical aspects of Laplace, wave and heatequations.

36. Emerging trends in digital image processingGR Damodaran College of Science (GRDCS),Coimbatore, 4 — 5 March 2011Convener: BB Chaudhuri (ISI, Kolkata)Co-ordinator: S Umamaheswari (GRDCS)Speakers: PK Yalvarthy (IISc, Bangalore), PVSSRChandra Mouli (VIT, Vellore), P Nagabhushan(Bangalore Technological Institute),BL Deekshatulu (University of Hyderabad),T Senthilkumar (Amrita School of Engineering,Coimbatore)Participants: 108 students and faculty fromcolleges in CoimbatoreTopics covered: Medical imaging; imagesegmentation and edge detection; futuristicresearch issues in image processing and visioncomputing; content-based image retrieval;application of genetic concepts in matlab for

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image processing; research and modeldevelopment issues in video processing.

37. Advances in molecular spectroscopySNGS College, Pattambi, 4 — 5 March 2011Convener: K George Thomas (IISER,Thiruvananthapuram)Co-ordinator: P Venugopalan (SNGS College,Pattambi)Speakers: KL Sebastian (IISc, Bangalore),RS Swathi, Vinesh Vijayan, KM Sureshan, K GeorgeThomas, Mahesh Hariharan, Reji Varghese (IISER),Suresh Das (NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram)Participants: 253 students and faculty from SNGSand other collegesTopics covered: Quantum mechanics; molecularspectroscopy; nuclear magnetic spectroscopy inbiochemistry; biological applications of solidstate NMR; is the boundary between chemistryand biology disappearing?; stimulii responsivematerials; light-matter interactions in thenanoscale; structure of natural and non-naturalDNA; DNA nanotechnology.

38. Forests as carbon sinksUniversity of Agricultural Sciences (UAS),Bangalore, 9 — 11 March 2011Convener: KN Ganeshaiah (UAS)Co-ordinator: AS Devakumar (UAS)Speakers: NH Ravindranath, R Sukumar andRenee Borges (IISc, Bangalore), James Jacob(Rubber Research Institute of India), MK Yadav(PRL, Ahmedabad), MD Behra (IIT, Kharagpur),KN Ganeshaiah (UAS), KC Jha, BR Ramesh,M Sanjappa (Howrah), GS Pujar, Rajesh Gunaga,BN Satish, YB Srinivasa, ARV Kumar, SridharVijayakrishnan, Padma Venkat (FRLHT), AmitAgarwal (Natural Remedies Ltd), BS Vishwanath(Mysore University), K Santhosh Kumar (RGCB),R Ramesh, Prashant Patil, GM Devgiri (College ofForestry, Ponnampet), DK Ved, R Vasudeva, RaviPrasad Rao, Uma PartapParticipants: 134 students and faculty fromvarious colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Pollination and food security;mapping bio-rich areas of the country; diversityof Indian legumes; forest landscape analysis forbiodiversity conservation; regional scalecontiguity of vegetation; satellite remote sensingbased assessment using IRS P6 data; floristiccomposition and conservation value ofBrahmagiri wildlife sanctuary; tropical dry forests

in ecological services in India; anthropogenicpressures affecting elephant habitat utilizationpatterns and foraging behaviour in Jaccanarireserve forests; ethno-pharmacology andbioprospecting in India; snake venom andcalotropis; peptidal antibiotics from frogs;uncertainties in forest carbon assessment; carbonestimation using field inventory; aerospace dataand geographic information system inYamunanagar district; estimation of AGB andcarbon using remote sensing and geographicinformation system in South Western parts ofKarnataka; species recovery programmes in India;conservation of cycads; pollinators in mountainecosystems.

39. Graduate engineering curriculumdevelopment for biomass related subjectsIISc, Bangalore and Jain University, Bangalore,10 — 11 March 2011Convener: HS Mukunda (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: CS Bhaskar Dixit (Jain University)Speakers: HS Mukunda, S Dasappa, PJ Paul, NKS.Rajan (IISc, Bangalore), Bhaskar Dixit (JainUniversity)Participants: 19 students and faculty fromvarious engineering colleges in BangaloreTopics covered: Introduction to bio-energy;biomass combustion devices; combustion/engineaspects/new research; carbon foot prints: CDM,JU.

40. Approaches to biodiversity conservationand utilization — North-East exampleRegional Centre of Institute of Bioresources andSustainable Development, Gangtok, Sikkim,14 — 15 March 2011Convener: J Nagaraju (CDFD, Hyderabad)Co-ordinator: NC Talukdar (Institute ofBioresources and Sustainable Development,Imphal)Speakers: M Sanjappa (Howrah), BG Unni (NEIST,Jorhat), JP Tamang, NC Talukdar (IBSD, Imphal),Usha Lachungpa (Sikkim), Syamali Chakrabarti(National Research Centre for Orchids, Pakyong).Participants: 118 students and faculty fromSikkim University.Topics covered: Conservation and utilization ofbiodiversity; biodiversity and bioresources ofSikkim Himalayas; molecular diversity of non-mulberry silkworms; diversity of the fermentedfoods and beverages in Sikkim; rich diversity of

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flora, fauna and orchids of Sikkim Himalayas; roleof IBSD in conservation and sustainable use ofrich bioresources in North-East region of India.

41. Contemporary biologyJain University, Bangalore, 15 — 16 March 2011Convener: Sandhya S Visweswariah (IISc,Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Vijayalakshmi Pradeep (JainUniversity)Speakers: Renee Borges, Arun Sripati, DeepakK Saini, Dipshika Chakravorty, Arun Kumar,PB Seshagiri, Nagasuma Chandra (IISc, Bangalore)Participants: 125 students and faculty fromvarious institutions in BangaloreTopics covered: Nothing in biology makes sense;looking into the brain; looking into cells;infection biology; introduction to humanmolecular genetics; recent advances in stemcells; bioinformatics.

42. Advances in chemistryPSN College of Engineering and Technology,Melathediyoor, Tirunelveli, 17 — 18 March 2011Convener: R Ramaraj (Madurai KamarajUniversity)Co-ordinator: S Balakumar (PSN College)Speakers: S Umapathy, E Arunan, S Natarajan(IISc, Bangalore), Anunay Samanta (University ofHyderabad), S Muthusamy (BharathidasanUniversity, Tiruchirappalli)Participants: 229 postgraduate students andfaculty from various colleges in TirunelveliTopics covered: Fluorescence signalling oftransition metal ions; fluorescence probing ofionic liquids; laser spectroscopy and X-raydiffractions; laser spectroscopy; molecular beammicrowave spectroscopy; hydrogen bonding;studies on cyclo additions; synthesis ofmacrocyclic compounds.

43. Brainwave: Inspiring young mindsSGTB Khalsa College, New Delhi, 17 — 18 March2011Convener: J Nagaraju (CDFD, Hyderabad)Co-ordinator: Komal Kamra (SGTB KhalsaCollege)Speakers: Akhilesh Tyagi (NIPGR, New Delhi), AnilAggrawal (Maulana Azad Medical College, NewDelhi), OP Jasuja (Punjabi University, Patiala),Balram Bhargava (AIIMS, New Delhi), S Natesh

(DBT, New Delhi), Ram Ramaswamy (JNU, NewDelhi), KN Ganeshaiah (UAS, Bangalore),J Nagaraju (CDFD), Navin Khanna (ICGEB, NewDelhi), HY Mohan Ram, SD Biju (University ofDelhi)Participants: 700 students and faculty fromvarious colleges in DelhiTopics covered: Plant genomics; currentperspectives in forensic biotechnology;biometrics; health care innovation in India;biotechnology in India; plants in Indian tradition;a few things that physics can learn from biology;mining the past for shaping the future; silk – keyto evolutionary success of silkmoths and spiders;dengue vaccine; life: understanding withuncertain knowledge – halting human-inducedamphibian extinction.

44. Prospects and future challenges in plantbiotechnologyGR Damodaran College of Science (GRDCS),Coimbatore, 18 — 19 March 2011Convener: K Veluthambi (MKU, Madurai)Co-ordinators: A Malarvizhi/K Pavithra(GR Damodaran College)Speakers: K Veluthambi, R Usha, (MKU),M Ramesh (Alagappa University, Karaikudi),R Jayanthi (Sugarcane Breeding Institute,Coimbatore), AS Raghavendra (University ofHyderabad), PR Padma (Avinashilingam Universityfor Women, Coimbatore), N Tuteja (ICGEB, NewDelhi), HS Savithri (IISc, Bangalore), R UmaShaanker (UAS, Bangalore)Participants: 141 students and faculty from GRDCollege and other institutions in CoimbatoreTopics covered: Generation of selectablemarker-free, transgene stacked rice plants withsheath blight resistance; applications of plantvirus research in biotechnology; ex situconservation of bacopa monnieri (L) throughbiotechnological approaches; biotechnologicalapproaches in pest management; C4photosynthesis: recent advances in C3 plants;anticancer drugs in plants; MCM6 single subunitfrom pea functions as DNA helicase and promotessalinity stress tolerance without affecting yield;viruses as nano particles; bioprospecting in theWestern Ghats.

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45. Recent trends in physicsAmrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita ViswaVidyapeetham (AVV), Kollam, 23 — 25 March 2011Convener: M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity, Tiruchirappalli)Co-ordinator: VM Nandakumaran (AVV, Kollam)Speakers: M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity), ES Raja Gopal (IISc, Bangalore),KA Suresh (Centre for Soft Matter Research,Bangalore), VPN Nampoori, MR Anantharaman(CUSAT), Anil Shaji (IISER, Thiruvananthapuram),VM Nandakumaran (AVV, Kollam)Participants: 103 postgraduate students fromAVV and nearby collegesTopics covered: Nonlinear dynamics; liquidcrystals; nonlinear optics; quantum computing;nanoscience and nanotechnology; measurementtechniques; Bose-Einstein condensation ofphotons.

46. Statistical applications in industry,business, agriculture and ecologySt. Thomas College, Pala, 26 — 28 March 2011Convener: AP Gore (Pune)Co-ordinator: KM Kurian (St. Thomas College)Speakers: Vijay Nair (University of Michigan,USA), AP Gore, TV Ramanathan, (Pune), EV Gijo(ISI, Bangalore), KK Jose (St. Thomas College),N Balakrishna (CUSAT, Cochin)Participants: 103 students and faculty fromSt. Thomas College and other institutions inKottayamTopics covered: Statistics in industry; tiger andelephant counting; measurement of biodiversityusing cycle sampling; statistics and information-intensive agriculture; process improvement usingdesign of experiments and Taguchi methods;applications of forecasting in business andindustry; six-sigma implementation in Indianindustry.

47. Recent advances in biologyManipur University, Imphal, 28 — 29 March 2011Convener: K Muniyappa (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinators: Upendra Nongthomba (IISc,Bangalore), DS Ningthoujam (Manipur University)Speakers: K Muniyappa, Upendra Nongthomba,Deepak Saini, Rajan Dighe (IISc, Bangalore), DSNingthoujam (Manipur University), Chitra Mandal(IICB, Kolkata)

Participants: 119 students and faculty fromManipur University and other institutions inImphalTopics covered: Genomics of microbialpathogens and discovery of new antimicrobialagents; role of ubiquitination in muscle diseaseand function; actinomycetes: treasure trove ofbioactive secondary metabolites; exploration ofIndian potential herbal sources for future newdrugs; telomere and telomerase: theirimplications in human health and disease; sugarplays mysterious role in diagnosis and therapy ofleukemia patients; living cells under themicroscope; expression, characterization andpurification of recombinant proteins;actinobacteria; revisiting signalling paradigms inliving cells; glycoprotein hormone-receptorinteractions; model organisms and drug discovery.

12.4 Participation of teachers inAcademy meetings

The Academy maintains a database of brightand motivated teachers around the countrylargely based on recommendations receivedfrom the Fellows of the Academy. This list isconstantly updated and contains names ofteachers mainly from colleges and universitydepartments in different disciplines. A fewof these teachers are invited to the Academymid-year and annual meetings every year togive them an opportunity to attend scientificlectures and to meet and interact withFellows. About 54 teachers attended theAcademy meetings in Bangalore and Goa.Over the past decade, about 950 teachersattended the Academy meetings.

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13 Academy Finances

The accounts for the financial year 2010–11 were audited by a firm of chartered accountants.A summary of the income and expenditure for 2010–2011 is given below:

14 Acknowledgements

The Academy’s publication activities arelargely due to the voluntary and unpaidservices of Editors, Members of EditorialBoards and the large number of reviewerswho examine and comment on manuscriptssent to them for opinion. Several Fellows alsocontributed their services to other Academy

Income Plan/Non PlanRupees

(in lakhs)

Grant – DST 618.00INSA/NASI 183.33

Subscriptions 72.53

Others 94.30

Deficit 0.02

968.18

Expenditure Plan/Non PlanRupees

(in lakhs)

Journal printing(including Current Science) 211.27

Science education programmes 275.00

Construction of additional floor 20.44

Salaries 184.78

Annual/mid-year meetings 49.00

Postage 27.40

Others (maintenance of building,equipment, special publications,

pension fund, modernization, etc.) 165.08

Surplus 35.21

968.18

activities such as organizing annual meetingsand discussion meetings and conductingprogrammes on science education, etc. Thegenerous financial assistance by theDepartment of Science and Technology hasgreatly contributed to the success of theactivities undertaken by the Academy.

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Table 2Information about published papers in journals (January to December 2010)

Vol.no. No. of No. of Total no. of **issues papers pages

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 33 6 112 768 98

2. Current Science 98,99 24 834 3534* 194

3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 31 4 17 224 14

4. Journal of Biosciences 35 4 72 692 335

5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 122 6 96 952 170

6. Journal of Earth System Science 119 6 66 905 153

7. Journal of Genetics 89 4 75 632 86

8. Pramana 74,75 12 219 2374 178

9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 120 5 54 642 56

10. Resonance 15 12 109 1132 54

11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 35 6 52 783 297

Total - - 1706 12638 189

* including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s figures

Table 1Information on papers submitted for publication (January to December 2010)

Accepted Rejected Pending Total **

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 148 459+ 96 703 83

2. Current Science 618 1694 53 2365* 29

3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 8 50 6 64 16

4. Journal of Biosciences 78 464 9 551 75

5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 49 450 36 535 71

6. Journal of Earth System Science 78 171+ 43 292 53

7. Journal of Genetics 91 206 12 309 38

8. Pramana 195 338 18 551 44

9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 41 173 44 258 10

10. Resonance 90 34 16 140 30

11. Sadhana 33 153 62 248 1

Total 1429 4192 395 6016 340

+ withdrawn (BMS: 74; JESS: 15)* including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s figures

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Table 4Details of 2010 Summer Fellowships

Students TeachersSubject Applications Fellowships Fellowships Applications Fellowships Fellowships

received offered availed received offered availed

1. Agricultural Sciences 138 06 05 08 01 01

2. Life Sciences 3902 391 331 245 32 17

3. Chemistry 1558 232 187 126 33 17

4. Physics 1002 139 104 125 55 40

5. Engineering 2880 187 135 102 15 10

6. Earth Sci. 464 115 87 12 05 04

7. Mathematics 413 92 63 44 11 07

Total 10357 1162 912 662 152 96

Table 3Circulation details of journals (January to December 2010)

Subscription Complimentary Fellows & Total **

India Foreign India Foreign Associates

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 2400a 50 77 20 107 2654 204

2. Current Science 5671c 57d 160 56 44 5988 032

3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 1208 150 63 20 66 1507 126

4. Journal of Biosciences 2240 76 68 99 250 2733 161

5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 1930 50 30 62 152 2224 213

6. Journal of Earth System Science 1270 75 36 60 84 1525 131

7. Journal of Genetics 1730 125 60 33 177 2125 294

8. Pramana 2214 75 70 40 153 2552 207

9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 1880 75 70 23 92 2140 173

10. Resonance 6275b 50 190 07 - 6522 658

11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 1692 50 57 34 108 1941 218

a. Includes about 566 MRSI members in India and abroadb. includes about 2487 personal subscribersc. includes about 1563 personal subscribersd. includes about 22 complimentary copies sent to Third World Countries** As compared to last year’s figures

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Anand, Anuranjan

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre forAdvanced Scientific Research,Bangalore

Sp: Human genetics andgenomics; neurogenetics;developmental genetics

Arakeri, Jaywant H

Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore

Sp: Fluid mechanics; heattransfer; turbulence

Barman, S R

UGC-DAE Consortium forScientific Research, Indore

Sp: Electron spectroscopy;surface science; materials studies

Bhatnagar, Rakesh

Jawaharlal Nehru University, NewDelhi

Sp: Vaccine development; geneticengineering; molecular biology

Chandrasekhar, S

Indian Institute of ChemicalTechnology, Hyderabad

Sp: Natural product synthesis;green chemistry andcombinatorial chemistry

Chattopadhyay, Samit

National Centre for Cell Science,Pune

Sp: Gene transcription andepigenetics; cancer biology; HIVand immunobiology

Chengalur, J N

National Centre for RadioAstrophysics, Pune

Sp: Radio-astronomy; galaxyevolution

Das, Amita

Institute for Plasma Research,Gandhinagar

Sp: Plasma physics; turbulence;electron magnetohydrodynamics

Gopidas, K R

National Institute forInterdisciplinary Science andTechnology, Thiruvananthapuram

Sp: Photochemistry; photoinducedelectron transfer; supramolecularchemistry

Gopinath, C S

National Chemical Laboratory,Pune

Sp: Surface science;heterogeneous catalysis;spectroscopy

Gupta, Sourendu

Tata Institute of FundamentalResearch, Mumbai

Sp: Particle physics; lattice fieldtheory

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Haritsa, Jayant R


Sp: Database systems; datamining; real-time systems

Jayaraman, N


Sp: Carbohydrate chemistry;dendrimer chemistry; syntheticorganic chemistry

Kang, Gagandeep

Christian Medical College, Vellore

Sp: Enteric virology; vaccines

Minwalla, Shiraz


Sp: String theory; gravity;quantum field theory

Raghavan, K N

The Institute of MathematicalSciences, Chennai

Sp: Representation theory

Rajshekhar, V

Christian Medical College, Vellore

Sp: Neurosurgery; cysticercosis;cervical spine surgery

Ranade, Vivek Vinayak

National Chemical Laboratory,Pune

Sp: Multiphase flows & reactors;computational flow modelling;process intensification

Rao, Madan

Raman Research Institute,Bangalore

Sp: Non-equilibrium statisticalmechanics; soft condensed matterphysics; biological physics

Roy, Rahul

Indian Statistical Institute, NewDelhi

Sp: Probability; stochasticprocesses

Sengupta, Pulak

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Sp: Metamorphic petrology

Shankar, D

National Institute ofOceanography, Goa

Sp: Tropical ocean dynamics;ocean-atmosphere interaction;monsoons

Shivaji, S

Centre for Cellular & MolecularBiology, Hyderabad

Sp: Reproductive biology;conservation biology; mammaliansperm function

Singh, Yogendra

Institute of Genomics andIntegrative Biology, Delhi

Sp: Bacterial pathogenesis;biochemistry; cell biology

Srivastava, Rajesh K

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Sp: Igneous petrology;geochemistry and precambriangeology

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Tole, Shubha


Sp: Neuroscience; developmentalbiology

Verma, Sandeep

Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur

Sp: Bio-organic chemistry; metalnucleobase interactions; peptide-based soft structures

Honorary Fellows

Friend, Richard H

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Hartl, Daniel L

Harvard University, Massachusetts

Marks, Tobin J

Northwestern University, IL

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Adyalkar, P G

(b. 03.12.1927, d. 13.11.2007)

Elected: 1974

Sp: Geology, hydrogeology,seismology, mining andenvironment

Alikunhi, K H

(b. 27.05.1918, d. 26.09.2010)

Elected: 1969

Sp: Freshwater and brackishwateracquaculture, fish-prawnbreeding, hatchery technology,stomatopod biology

Gopala Rao, R V

(b. 03.12.1927, d. 03.09.2010)

Elected: 1977

Sp: Physics and chemistry ofliquids, solids and molecularacoustics, high temperaturesuperconductivity, amorphoussolids, theoretical physics,fullerenes device-oriented studies,quantum mechanics

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Joshi, A B

(b. 17.11.1916, d. 03.07.2010)

Elected: 1975

Sp: Crop breeding and genetics

Kapoor, L D

(b. 27.09.1916, d. 16.04.2002)

Elected: 1963

Sp: Pharmacognosy, plantanatomy, medicinal and aromaticplants

Laddha, G S

(b. 26.08.1922, d. 30.09.2010)

Elected: 1974

Sp: Chemical engineering,chemical technology

Mehta, M K

(b. 24.07.1927, d. 28.06.2010)

Elected: 1975

Sp: Nuclear and acceleratorphysics, nuclear science:applications, manpowerdevelopment and training

Nair N Balakrishnan

(b. 06.07.1927, d. 21.04.2010)

Elected: 1977

Sp: Aquatic biology and fisheries,ecology

Radhakrishnan, V

(b. 18.05.1929, d. 03.03.2011)

Elected: 1968

Sp: Astronomy, astrophysics,aeronautics

Rama Das, V S

(b. 05.02.1933, d. 09.12.2010)

Elected: 1975

Sp: C4 plants, light regime in C4plants, photosynthesis

Ramachandra, K

(b. 18.08.1933, d. 17.01.2011)

Elected: 1975

Sp: analytic theory of numbers

Ramakrishna, Basava Sri

(b. 17.10.1921, d. 12.02.2011)

Elected: 1975

Sp: Acoustics

Rao, D M

(b. 04.07.1932, d. 29.12.2010)

Elected: 1974

Sp: Aerodynamics and fluidmechanics

Rodrigues, Veronica F

(b. 31.03.1953, d. 10.11.2010)

Elected: 1995

Sp: Neurogenetics, genetics,developmental biology

Sethna, H N

(b. 24.08.1923, d. 06.09.2010)

Elected: 1968

Sp: Nuclear engineering

Sirsat, S M

(b. 07.10.1925, d. 10.07.2010)

Elected: 1975

Sp: Cancer research pathology,wound healing and regeneration,viruses and human cancer

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Surange, K R

(b. 07.02.1920, d. 06.01.2010)

Elected: 1976

Sp: Palaeobotany

Venkataraman, Balu

(b. 17.12.1929, d. 28.10.2010)

Elected: 1975

Sp: Chemical physics

Venkataramani, K S

(b. 17.01.1924, d. 29.12.2010)

Elected: 1968

Sp: Horticulture, botany of teaplant, tea culture

Roy, Rustum

(b. 03.07.1924, d. 26.08.2010)

Elected: 1990

Sp: Glasses and ceramics

Honorary Fellow Deceased

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Ansumali, Santosh


Sp: Kinetic theory, mesoscalemethods for fluids

Bhattacharyya, Suvendra Nath

Indian Institute of ChemicalBiology, Kolkata

Sp: Molecular cell biology, smallregulatory RNA, proteintranslation

Datta, Ayan

Indian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research,Thiruvananthapuram

Sp: Theoretical chemistry,computational material science,structure-property relationships

Datta, Ranjan


Sp: Aberration corrected highresolution transmission electronmicroscopy, semiconductors foropto-electronics and spintronics

Dey, Abhishek

Indian Association for theCultivation of Science. Kolkata

Sp: Inorganic, bioinorganic, Ramanspectroscopy, EPR and X-rayabsorption

Ganapathy, Rajesh


Sp: Soft condensed matter

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Gun, Sanoli

The Institute of MathematicalSciences, Chennai

Sp: Number theory, modularforms, special values of SLS-functions

Jain, Tanvi

University of Delhi, Delhi

Sp: Operator theory andnoncommutative geometry,topology

Mukerjee, Subroto


Sp: Condensed matter theory,many-body theory

Nair, Vijayakumar S

The Abdus Salam InternationalCentre for Theoretical Physics,Trieste, Italy

Sp: Atmospheric aerosols, naturaland anthropogenic radiativeforcings, regional climatemodeling, cryosphere-climateinteractions

Nanda, Samik

Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur

Sp: biocatalysis andbiotransformation, asymmetricsynthesis, organic chemistry

Natarajan, Vijay


Sp: Computational topology;scientific visualization;computational geometry

Patil, Nitin T

Indian Institute of ChemicalTechnology, Hyderabad

Sp: Catalytic carbophilicactivation, enantioselectivemultiple catalysis

Ray, Partho Sarothi

Indian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research, Mohanpur

Sp: Molecular biology, translationregulation, RNA-protein-miRNAinteractions, inflammation andcancer

Shankaranarayanan, S

Indian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research,Thiruvananthapuram

Sp: Black-hole physics; cosmology;Classical and quantum gravity

Sripati, Arun P


Sp: Neuroscience, visualperception, object recognition

Yadav, Gitanjali

National Institute of PlantGenome Research, New Delhi

Sp: Bio-informatics,computational biology, plantstress biology

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A. Special Lectures

1. T Padmanabhan, Inter-University Centre forAstronomy and Astrophysics, PuneGravity: A new perspective

2. K N Ganesh, Indian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research, PuneBioinspired chemistry: From PNA (‘Pune’ NucleicAcids) to DNA nanotechnology

B. Public Lecture

Shyam Benegal, MumbaiCommunications and culture: Tradition,modernity and postmodernism in Indian cinema

C. Lecture presentations byFellows/Associates

1. G Rangarajan, Indian Institute of Science,BangaloreSynchronized extinction of species underexternal forcing

2. A K Kembhavi, Inter-University Centre forAstronomy and Astrophysics, PuneBig data—is the end of observational astronomyin sight?

3. Nitin Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University,KolkataA facile strategy for the detection andestimation of cyanide ion in water

4. T Karthikeyan, Indira Gandhi Centre forAtomic Research, KalpakkamGrain boundary engineering of ferritic steels

5. Amit K Patra, National Atmospheric ResearchLaboratory, ChittoorHigh-power radar probing of ionospheric plasmairregularities

6. Shally Awasthi, C. S. M. Medical University,LucknowSix-monthly vitamin A from 1 to 6 years of age—DEVTA trial: Cluster-randomized trial in onemillion children in north India

7. Pradip K Chakraborti, Institute of MicrobialTechnology, ChandigarhUnderstanding mycobacterial N-terminalmethionine excision pathway

8. S K Khanduja, Panjab University, ChandigarhSome extensions and applications of Eisensteinirreducibility criterion

9. R Gopakumar, Harish Chandra ResearchInstitute, AllahabadThe journey from Maxwell to Faraday

10. B S Murty, Indian Institute of Technology,ChennaiExcitements and challenges in advancedmaterials research by non-equilibrium processing

11. P K Ghosh, Central Salt & Marine ChemicalsResearch Institute, BhavnagarCase studies of recent innovations in the area ofsalt and marine chemicals

12. S R Kotha, Indian Institute of Technology,MumbaiDevelopment of new synthetic methods

13. D Ramaiah, National Institute forInterdisciplinary Science and Technology,ThiruvananthapuramDesign of functional molecules for biologicalapplications

14. Narendra Tuteja, International Centre forGenetic Engineering & Biotechnology, New DelhiA single-subunit MCM6 from pea functions as DNAhelicase

15. K S Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre forAdvanced Scientific Research, BangaloreNoise features in the bacteriorhodopsinphotocycle

16. S Chattopadhyay, National Institute ofTechnology, DurgapurZ-box binding factor in light signal-controlledplant growth and development

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17. Apurva Sarin, National Centre for BiologicalSciences, BangaloreSurviving the crash: Mechanisms regulating cellnumber in the immune (T-cell) repertoire

18. R Madhubala, Jawaharlal Nehru University,New DelhiIdentification of potential biomarkers forantimony susceptibility/resistance in clinicalisolates of L. donovani

A. Presidential Address

A K Sood, Indian Institute of Science, BangaloreNanotube dynamo and graphene

B. (a) Symposium: Indian estuaries

1. M. Dileep Kumar, National Institute ofOceanography, GoaEstuaries - An introduction

2. D Shankar, National Institute ofOceanography, GoaNature of freshwater influx in Indian estuaries

3. S R Shetye, National Institute ofOceanography, GoaMonsoonal estuaries

4. V V S S Sarma, National Institute ofOceanography, GoaBiogeochemistry in estuarine systems

5. A C Anil, National Institute of Oceanography,GoaInfluence of monsoon on estuarine ecosystem

6. V Purnachandra Rao, National Institute ofOceanography, GoaImpact of mining on suspended materials inestuaries

7. M D Zingde, National Institute ofOceanography, GoaStatus of pollution in Indian estuaries

(b) Symposium: Stem cells in development andregeneration: From the bench to bedside andback

1. Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for BiologicalSciences, BangaloreLocal and regulated organization of membranecomponents during stem cell differentiation

2. Geeta K Vemuganti, LV Prasad Eye Institute,HyderabadCell therapy for ocular surface: A successfulmodel of regenerative medicine

3. Shubha Tole, Tata Institute of FundamentalResearch, MumbaiHow stem cells build the brain

4. Vidita A Vaidya, Tata Institute ofFundamental Research, MumbaiAdult neural stem cells: Relevance to thetreatment of psychiatric disorders

5. Shyamala Mani, Indian Institute of Science,BangaloreStem cells and the brain

19. Ashish K Lele, National ChemicalLaboratory, PuneLinking macromolecular dynamics to polymerprocessing: some case studies

20. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S. N. Bose NationalCentre for Basic Sciences, KolkataElectronic structure of complex materials: Fromfirst-principles study to materials modelling

21. Gautam Biswas, Central MechanicalEngineering Research Institute, DurgapurUnderstanding drops

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C. Special Lectures

1. A K Singhvi, Physical Research Laboratory,AhmedabadSynergistic mutualism between geology andphysics: The case of luminescencegeochronometry

2. Kanury V S Rao, International Centre forGenetic Engineering and Biotechnology, NewDelhiThe dynamics of host–pathogen interactions in TBinfection

D. Public Lectures

1. C Raja Mohan, Strategic Affairs Editor, TheIndian Express, New DelhiIndia and the Indian Ocean: In search of astrategic role

2. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser, Govt.of India, New DelhiHigher Education and economic development

E. Lecture presentations byFellows/Associates

1. Bharat B Chattoo, MS University, BarodaEngineering plants for disease resistance:Challenges and opportunities

2. U Ramamurty, Indian Institute of Science,BangaloreStructural materials for the future: The case ofbulk metallic glasses

3. Samar K Das, University of Hyderabad,HyderabadMetal-oxide based inorganic systems towardpractical applications

4. Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute ofScience Education and Research,ChandigarhHow do proteins misfold and aggregate?

5. N K Mondal, Tata Institute of FundamentalResearch, MumbaiNeutrinos: A new window to the Universe

6. Pawan Dewangan, National Institute ofOceanography, GoaMarine gas hydrates - an untapped non-conventional energy resource

7. J. Narasimha Moorthy, Indian Institute ofTechnology, KanpurMolecular design for manipulation of organicmaterial properties

8. R Sankaranarayanan, Centre for Cellular andMolecular Biology, HyderabadProofreading during translation of the genetic code

9. Rama Govindarajan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centrefor Advanced Scientific Research, BangaloreVortices in density gradients: Mergers, split-upsand death

10. R Sowdhamini, National Centre forBiological Sciences, BangaloreDistant relationships amongst protein domains

11. K Subramanian, Inter-University Centre forAstronomy and Astrophysics, PuneMagnetizing the Universe

12. Sudeshna Sinha, Indian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research, ChandigarhLogical stochastic resonance: Exploiting theinterplay between noise and nonlinearity toenhance computations

13. Anurag Kumar, Indian Institute of Science,BangaloreDesign and optimization problems in wirelesssensor networks

14. Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, National Instituteof Immunology, New DelhiHemoglobin endocytosis in ‘Leishmania’: A noveltarget

15. T S S R K Rao Indian Statistical Institute,BangaloreAn invitation to the geometry of higher dual spaces

16. Kalobaran Maiti, Tata Institute ofFundamental Research, MumbaiPuzzles in magnetism

17. Paramjit Khurana, University of Delhi SouthCampus, New DelhiGenes associated with embryogenesis and abioticstress tolerance in wheat

18. Suhrit Ghosh, Indian Association for theCultivation of Science, KolkataTo mix or not to mix? Assembly of donor andacceptor chromophores

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RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2011

(Amount in rupees)RECEIPTS 2010-2011 2009-2010I Opening Balances:

a) Cash in handb) Bank balances

II Grants received:a) From Govt. of Indiab) From other sources

III Income on investmentsa) Earmarked endowment funds

b) Own funds

IV Interest receiveda) On bank depositsb) Loans, advances, etc.

V Other Income

VI Any other receiptsContribution to corpus fund

VII Investments matured

TOTAL

PAYMENTSI Expenses:

a) Establishment expensesb) Administrative expenses

II Investments and deposits madeout of own funds

III Expenditure on:a) Fixed assetsb) Capital work in progressc) Land

IV Refund of surplus money/loans

V Other payments

VI Closing balances:a) Cash in handb) Bank balances

TOTAL

As per our report of even date annexedFor B R V GOUD & CoChartered Accountants

Place: Bangalore Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/-Date: 10.06.2011 (A K Sood) (S Chandrasekaran) (G Chandramohan) (A B Shiva

President Treasurer Executive Subramanyam)Secretary Partner

37,958 45,39415,051,486 2,875,598

89,800,200 90,000,00019,639,809 12,049,965

132,601 3,402,236

1,583,014

1,553,289 393,03355,502 24,000

14,497,903 16,782,457

359,314 110,000

8,500,000 17,600,000

151,211,076 143,282,683

19,225,314 16,911,34571,258,571 61,433,438

12,745,000 26,500,000

3,881,545 2,077,225Nil 11,100,000Nil 3,000,000

28,000,000 Nil

2,596,225 7,171,231

98,323 37,95813,406,098 15,051,486

151,211,076 143,282,683

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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING31 MARCH 2011

(Amount in Rupees)

Particulars 2010-2011 2009-2010A. INCOME Plan Non-Plan Plan Non-PlanGrants/subsidies 76,033,672 4,120,000 89,183,074 4,622,500Fees/subscriptions Nil 7,253,111 Nil 6,238,622Income from royalty, publications etc. Nil 6,400,364 Nil 4,383,747Interest earned Nil 1,883,944 Nil 393,033Other income Nil 1,125,091 Nil 340,104Total (A) 76,033,672 20,782,510 89,183,074 15,978,006B. EXPENDITUREEstablishment expenses 4,568,483 13,909,539 7,289,317 9,623,028Other administrative expenses 67,943,763 6,874,517 74,983,786 6,355,994Total (B) 72,512,246 20,784,056 82,273,103 15,979,022C. Surplus/(Deficit) 3,521,426 (1,546) 6,909,971 (1,016)




BALANCE SHEET AS ON 31 MARCH 2011

(Amount in Rupees)

2010-2011 2009-2010SOURCES OF FUNDSCorpus/capital fund 139388923 116419731Earmarked/endowment funds 11991861 12056660Current liabilities and provisions 7090806 8750938

TOTAL 158471590 137227329

ASSETS/APPLICATION OF FUNDSFixed assets 74617409 56398731Investments: from earmarked/endowment funds 10245000 7700000Investments: others 56030000 54330000Current assets, loans, advances etc. 17579181 18798598TOTAL 158471590 137227329




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