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NAAC Self-Study Report, 2016

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Mumbai

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)

School of Mathematics

Astronomy and Astrophysics (DAA)

High Energy Physics (DHEP)

Condensed Matter Physics

& Materials Science (DCMPMS)

Nuclear and Atomic Physics (DNAP)

Theoretical Physics (DTP)

Chemical Sciences (DCS)

Biological Sciences (DBS)

School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS)

Departments, Schools, Research Centres and Campuses

Pune

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA)

Hyderabad

TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS)

Main Campus (Colaba)

Bengaluru

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)

Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM)

School of Natural Sciences

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SECTION B3

Evaluative Report of

Departments

(Research Centres)

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Index

VOLUME 1 A-Executive Summary

B1-Profile of the TIFR Deemed University B1-1

B1-Annexures B1-A-Notification Annex B1-A B1-B-DAE National Centre Annex B1-B B1-C-Gazette 1957 Annex B1-C B1-D-Infrastructure Annex B1-D B1-E-Field Stations Annex B1-E B1-F-UGC Review Annex B1-F B1-G-Compliance Annex B1-G

B2-Criteria-wise inputs

B2-I-Curricular B2-I-1

B2-II-Teaching B2-II-1

B2-III-Research B2-III-1

B2-IV-Infrastructure B2-IV-1

B2-V-Student Support B2-V-1

B2-VI-Governance B2-VI-1

B2-VII-Innovations B2-VII-1

B2-Annexures

B2-A-Patents Annex B2-A

B2-B-Ethics Annex B2-B

B2-C-IPR Annex B2-C

B2-D-MOUs Annex B2-D

B2-E-Council of Management Annex B2-E

B2-F-Academic Council and Subject Boards Annex B2-F

B2-G-Cases Annex B2-G

B2-H-Accounts

Annex B2-H

B4-Declaration by the Head of the Institution

B4-1

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B3-Evaluative Report of Departments (Main Campus)

B3-I-Mathematics B3-I-1

B3-II- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (DAA) B3-II-1

B3-III-Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) B3-III-1

B3-IV-Department of Chemical Sciences (DCS) B3-IV-1

B3-V-Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science (DCMPMS)

B3-V-1

B3-VI-Department of High Energy Physics (DHEP) B3-VI-1 B3-VII-Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics (DNAP) B3-VII-1 B3-VIII-Department of Theoretical Physics (DTP) B3-VIII-1 B3-IX- School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS)

B3-IX-1

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B3-Evaluative Report of Departments (Research Centres)

B3-X-Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) B3-X-1 B3-XI-National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) B3-XI-1 B3-XII-National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) B3-XII-1 B3-XIII-Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM) B3-XIII-1 B3-XIV-International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) B3-XIV-1 B3-XV-TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS) B3-XV-1

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Abbreviations

BF Balloon Facility, TIFR CAM Centre for Applicable Mathematics, TIFR CCCF Computer Centre and Communication Facility, TIFR CRL CSIR

Cosmic Ray Laboratory, TIFR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India

DAA Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR DAE Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India DBS DBT

Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India

DCMPMS Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, TIFR

DCS Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR DHEP Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR DNAP DST

Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics, TIFR Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

DTP Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR GMRT Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, TIFR GRIHA Green Buildings Rating System India HBCSE Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR ICTS International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR I-Ph.D. IQAC

Integrated-M.Sc.-Ph.D programme, TIFR Internal Quality Assurance Cell

NAAC National Assessment and Accreditation Council NCBS National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR NCRA National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR RAC Radio Astronomy Centre, TIFR SIRC Scientific Information Resource Centre, TIFR STCS School of Technology and Computer Science, TIFR TCIS TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences TIFR Tata Institute of Fundamental Research UGC University Grants Commission, Govt. of India

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B3-X Homi Bhabha Centre for

Science Education (HBCSE)

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Evaluative Report of Departments (B3) X-HBCSE-1

TIFR NAAC Self-Study Report 2016

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

1. Name of the Department : Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)

2. Year of establishment : 1974

3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university?

The HBCSE is a part of the Faculty of Science Education.

4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.)

1. Ph.D.

Students may avail of an M.Phil. degree as an early exit option provided they have finished a specified set of requirements. However, there is no separate M.Phil programme.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved

Science education as a domain is highly inter-disciplinary in nature, requiring inputs from not only science and mathematics, but also from varied disciplines such as education, social sciences, cognitive sciences and philosophy of science.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign

institutions, etc.

The Ph.D. students of HBCSE normally do not take courses in other institutions (no such courses taken during 2011 – 2015). However the HBCSE faculty often teach in other institutions. A list of such courses is given below.

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X-HBCSE-2 Evaluative Report of Departments (B3)


Institution Course Name Taught to Faculty member Year

1. UM-DAE CBS Electromagnetism Int Msc 1st

year & 2nd

Year

Anwesh Mazumdar

2013, 2014, 2015

2. UM-DAE CBS Classical Mechanics Int Msc 2nd Year

Anwesh Mazumdar

2013, 2014, 2015

3. UM-DAE CBS History of Science Int MSc G. Nagarjuna

2009-16

4. UM-DAE CBS Science and Ethics Int MSc G. Nagarjuna

with H.C. Pradhan and M.C. Arunan

2012-16

5. UM-DAE CBS Astronomy and Astrophysics

Int MSc Aniket Sule 2011, 2012

6. UM-DAE CBS Classical Mechanics Int MSc Aniket Sule 2012

7. UM-DAE CBS Introductory mathematics

Int MSc Aniket Sule 2014, 2015, 2016

8. Central University of

Jharkhand

Introduction to History and

Philosophy of Science

Int MSc K. Subramaniam 2011

7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons

There are no such programmes.

8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System

Students of HBCSE are offered coursework based on a mixture of Core Courses, choice- based Elective Courses and compulsory Field Project Work on topics of their own choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below.

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Programme

Duration (years) Core

Credits

Elective Credits

Project Credits

Total

Credits Overall Course

work Ph.D. 5 1.5 26 10 4 40

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester (August – November) and the Spring Semester (January – April). In addition, there may be courses run during the Summer break (May – July).

Modular courses are run from time to time, by HBCSE or visiting faculty members. These are aimed at enrichment and/or enhancing research skills and knowledge in specific areas.

For each course, students are evaluated through the duration of the course. Evaluation modes typically have a combination of student work, which consist of assignments, term papers, essays, presentations and discussions, quizzes and examinations.

All students are required to do a minimum of 4 Credits of Field Project work as a part of the Coursework. The field project is mentored and evaluated by a faculty member.

Students are required to complete a take-home comprehensive written exam at the end of the first year covering the content of the first year courses. At the end of their field project, they are required to pass a viva-voce examination based on their field project and relevant coursework.

9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments

HBCSE does not participate in courses given by other TIFR departments.

10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number

1. Professor (H) - 3 2. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Prof. (G) 5 3. Reader (F) - 8 4. Fellow (E) - -

Total 16

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11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance

Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ 1. Jayashree

Ramadas PhD Centre

Director / Professor (H)

Science Education 34 0

2.

K. Subramaniam PhD

Dean, HBCSE Faculty / Professor (H)

Mathematics education 23

6

3.

Sugra I. Chunawala

PhD

Professor (H)

Gender in science and technology, Design and Technology ducation, Attitudinal studies

22

3

4. Savita A. Ladage PhD Assoc. Prof. (G) Chemistry Education Chemistry Olympiads, Chemistry Undergraduate Research Projects

20 1

5.

G. Nagarjuna PhD

Assoc. Prof. (G) Science Education, History and Philosophy of Science, Knowledge networks

19

4

6.

Jyotsna Vijapurkar

PhD

Reader (F)

Science education, Curriculum development, Teacher support

13

1

7.

K. K. Mishra

PhD

Assoc. Prof. (G) Development of educational materials in Hindi, Science dissemination

17

1

8. R. R. Vartak PhD Assoc. Prof. (G) Biology education, Biology Olympiads, Biology Undergraduate Research Projects

15 0

9.

Anwesh Mazumdar

PhD

Assoc. Prof. (G)

Physics and Astronomy education, Asteroseismology, Astronomy and Physics Olympiads, Physics Undergraduate Research Projects

8

0

10 R. B. PhD Reader (F) Physics Education, Physics 13 0

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Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Khaparde Undergraduate Research

Projects 11

.

Aniket P. Sule

PhD

Reader

Astronomy education, History of Astronomy, Astronomy Olympiads, Astronomy Undergraduate Research Projects

9

0

12 P. K. Joshi PhD Reader Junior Science Olympiads 19 0 13

Sanjay Chandrasekharan

PhD

Reader

Cognitive science, Learning sciences and educational technology

4

3

14

Karen Haydock PhD

Reader

Science education, science epistemology, science and society, science and art

4

1

15 Prithwijit De PhD Reader Mathematical Olympiads 6 0 16 Ankush Gupta PhD Reader Chemistry

education, environmental education

1 0

* Highest degree obtained † Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere) ‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined, those graduated and those completing PhD but not on scholarship)

12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors

1. Prof. H. C. Pradhan, Raja Ramanna Fellow 2. Prof. D. P. Roy, INSA Senior Scientist 3. Prof. S. M. Roy, INSA Senior Scientist 4. Prof. M. C. Arunan, Consultant 5. Prof. Swapna Banerjee Guha, ICSSR Senior Fellow 6. Prof. B. J. Venkatachala, Consultant 7. Prof. C. R. Pranesachar, Consultant

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13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information • Ritesh Khunyakari, Visiting Fellow, taught a 4-credit course on “Thinking about

Learning: Concepts, Theories and Paradigms” (2011-12).

• Arvind Jamkhandi, Visiting Fellow, taught a 2-credit elective course on “Philosophy of Technology” (2013-14).

• Gita Chadha, University of Mumbai, External guest faculty, taught a 4-credit elective course on Sociology of Science (2013-14)

• Roli Verma, University of New Mexico, Visiting Faculty at HBCSE, taught a 2- credit elective course on Science, Technology and Society (2013-14).

• Varadarajan Narayanan, Azim Premji University, Visiting faculty at HBCSE, taught a 1-credit elective course on “History of Education” (2015-16).

• Abhijeet Bardapurkar, Azim Premji University, Visiting faculty at HBCSE, partially taught “Philosophy of Education” - 4 credit course, 2016. (Dr. Bardapurkar taught about 30% of the course.)

• Shubhangi Bhide, Visiting Fellow, partially taught a 4-redit course on “Introduction to STME research” (Dr. Bhide taught about 40% of the ourse) (2015-16).

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F

1. Ph.D. 15 16 0.9

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:

Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and Auxiliary Staff

27 27

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

• Science, Technology and Mathematics Education • National Initiative in Under-graduate Science (NIUS)

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17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project title and grants received project-wise.

a) National Agency Project Title Total Grant

(Rs. lakhs) Duration Faculty

1. DST, Cognitive Science Research Initiative

The cognitive mechanisms underlying model-based discovery and learning

40.3 Oct 2013 - - Oct 2016

Sanjay Chandrasek haran

b) International Agency Project

Title Total Grant (Rs. lakhs)

Duration Faculty

1. International Atomic Energy Agency

Nuclear Data Sheets project

Euro 8000 2010- 2016

Paresh Joshi (collaboration with IIT Roorkee)

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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

a) National Collaborating

Institutions Project Title Total Grant

Duration Faculty

1.

CIET, NCERT National Repository for Open Educational Resources

N.A. (under MoU)

2012-17 G. Nagarjuna

2.

TISS

National University Students Skill (NUSSD) Development Project

N.A. (under MoU)

2013-16 G. Nagarjuna

3. TISS

Connected Learning Initiative (CLiX) Project

N.A. (under MoU)

2015- G. Nagarjuna

4.

YCMOU YCMOU Post- Graduation Research Programme

(under MoU)

Ongoin g from several years

Sugra Chunaw ala

19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR,

AICTE, etc.; total grants received.

Agency Project Title Total Grant (Rs. lakhs)

Duration Faculty

1. DAE

Science, Technology and Mathematics Education

437

2012-2017 All HBCSE faculty

2. DAE

National Initiative on Under- graduate Science

516

2012-2017

Several HBCSE faculty

3. BRNS (DAE)

National Science Olympiad 348 2012-2017 Several HBCSE faculty

4. DAE National Science Olympiad (Annual Grant)

170 2015-16 Several HBCSE faculty

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5. DST National Science Olympiad 50 2015-16 Several HBCSE faculty

6. MHRD National Science Olympiad 34 2015-16 Several HBCSE faculty

7. DoS National Science Olympiad 23 2015-16 Several HBCSE faculty

8. NBHM (DAE)

National Mathematical Olympiad

56 2015-16 Prithwijit De

9. DAE XII Plan Project-Science Education

1375 2012-17 All HBCSE faculty

20. Research facility / centre with

• state / national / international recognition: None 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate

bodies

N.A. 22. Publications:

HBCSE

Journal

Publication s

Pedagogi cal

Publicatio ns*

Articles in Proceedin

g s

Technica l Reports

Web Publication

s

Book Chapter

s

Books

Edited

Mono

-graphs

2010-11 17 4 20 6 0 3 8 -

2011-12 14 16 15 6 4 4 7 - 2012-13 28 18 40 12 0 10 13 - 2013-14 21 11 6 8 6 4 1 - 2014-15 14 3 20 2 4 3 8

- Total 94 52 101 34 14 24 37 -

* Pedagogical publications include articles for teachers and students, science popularization articles, expository articles, mathematical problems and solutions, etc. published in both journals and magazines. This category is important for the work done at HBCSE.

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∗ Citation Index – range / average

Total number of citations: 742 (Source: Google Scholar)

Number of citations per faculty: 46 23. Details of patents and income generated

Not Applicable

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated Faculty Member Project Name Company Name Duration Income

1.

K. Subramaniam Review of Maths Chairs Programme, South Africa

Khulisa Management Services, South Africa

July-Dec 2013

Rs 99298

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Num

ber o

f Pub

licat

ions

Year

Publications Book Chapters + BooksEdited + Monographs

Web Publications

Technical Reports

Articles in Proceedings

Pedagogical Publications

Journal Publications

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25 Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institution/industries in India and abroad

(Visits include talks, lectures, presentations at workshops, seminars and conferences, consultative meetings, etc. Relatively unimportant visits have been excluded.)

National

Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY)

1. Savita Ladage Marathawada University Aurangabad 10/2011 National Convention of Chemistry Teachers – 2011, Patna

10/2011

S. P. College, Pune 12/2011

Modern College, Pune 02/2012

Vaze College, Mumbai 09-10-2011, 11/2011

Guwahati University, Guwahati 11/2012 Refresher courses for teachers, Amravati University

12/2012

Rayat Science Conference on Science Education, Satara

01/2013

Inspire Programme, Satara 03/2013

Annamalai University, Chennai 11/2013 Institute of Chemical Techonology, Mumbai

03/2014

IIS University, Jaipur 10/2014 SRM University, Chennai 08/2014

Ruia College, Mumbai 02/2015 2. K. K. Mishra

Teacher Training Program for Chemistry Teachers of Allahabad,Vigyan Parishad Prayag

08/2011

Heavy Water Board, BARC, Mumbai 01/2012 INSPIRE (DST) Program fro Bihar State, Chapra, Bihar

08/2011

Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 11/2011 Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi

03/2012

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International Conference on Role of Communication Media in Creating Scientific Temper, Pusa, New Delhi

05/2012

National Workshop on Science Communication in Hindi through Digital Media, New Delhi

03/2012

Jagdam College (J.P. University), Chapra, Bihar

07/2012

AERB, Mumbai 05/2013 DRDO, New Delhi 12/2013

National Hindi Science Conference, Bhopal 08/2014

Regional Science Centre, Lucknow 03/2015 National Workshop on Development of Educational E-materials in Hindi, Vidyan Parishad Prayag

11/2014

3. G. Nagarjuna National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad

05/2010

International conference on Public Sector Software and FOSS in Education, Kochi

05/2010

National Institute of Technology, Calicut

09/2010

Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Techonology Kodakara, Kerala

10/2010

Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad

04/2010

Mumbai University, Kalina, Mumbai 2010-11 Computer Society of India CSI 2010, Taj Ends, Mumbai

11/2010

Marvell India Technology Day, Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi

12/2010

TISS, Mumbai 04/2011 NISTADS, New Delhi 06/2011 Global Education and Skill Summit, Pragati Maidan

09/2011

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Bardhwan University 12/2011 Dr. B. R. Ambetkar National Institute of Technology, Jallandhar, Punjab

03/2011

Shah and Anchor Kutcchi Engineering College, Chembur, Mumbai

01/2012

K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of Education, Training and Research, Mumbai

03/2012

ISI Kolkata 03/2012 NCERT, Delhi 10/2011 IISER, Mohali 03-04/2012 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai 2012 St. Teresa's Institute of Education, Santa Cruz, Mumbai

07/2012

CHM College 08/2012 Usha Mittal Institute of Technology, SNDT University

10/2012

NCERT, Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli

12/2012

4. K. Subramaniam JNU, New Delhi 12/2010 Zonal Institute of Training of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathana,

09/2010

D. Y. Patil School, Mumbai 11/2010 Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Bhopal 03/2011

IGNOU, New Delhi 12/2011

National Initiative on Mathematics Education: Eastern Regional Conference, Patna Science College

12/2011

TISS, Mumbai 10-11/2011

Central University, Jharkhand 09/2011 Acharya Marathe College, Mumbai 12/2011 National Meet on Year of Mathematics, NCERT, Delhi

12/2012

IISER, Pune 12/2011 Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer 12/2013

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Azim Premji University, Bangalore 05/2014 Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi

07/2014

Regional Institute of Education, Bhopal 12/2014

Government College of Education, Panvel

01/2015

Department of Education, University of Mumbai

03/2015

Azim Premji Foundation, Dehradun 09/2014 PVDT College, Mumbai 02/2015 IIT Bombay, Mumbai 03/2015

5. Jayashree Ramadas Indian Institute of Technology, Indore 08/2012 National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore

09/2012

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore

11/2012

Navi Mumbai Science Foundation, Vashi

02/2013

Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara

03/2013

SCERT, Patna 03/2013 Shree Shivaji Vidnyan Parishad, Amravati

12/2013

Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai

03/2014

TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad

05/2014

BARC, Mumbai 03/2015 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 05/2014

6. Dr. Aniket Sule University of Mumbai, Mumbai 05/2010, 02/2011

Mathematics Workshop for School Teachers, Bombay Association for Science Education (BASE)

07/2010

UM-DAE CBS, Mumbai 03/2011 Careers in Science, Shanmukhananda 06/2010

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Auditorium, Mumbai Making use of General Knowledge, Chetna Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai

07/2010

Magalatai Abhyankar Memorial Lecture, Khagol Mandal, Mumbai

10/2010

Careers in Science (Marathi), CKP Mandal, Mumbai

10/2010

Seminar by Indian Planetary Society, Surat, Gujarat

12/2010

Careers in Astronomy, UGC Seminar, Surat

01/2011

D. G. Ruparel College, Mumbai 02/2011 Certificate Course in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Centre for Extra Mural Studies, University of Mumbai, Mumbai

01/2012

Refresher Course for UG Teachers, Department of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, Mumbai

01/2012

Astronomy Workshop for NCSM Personnel, NCSM Headquarters, Kolkata

09/2011

St. John's School, Goregaon, Mumbai 04/2011 Kelkar College, Mulund, Mumbai 10&12/2011 Open question and answer session with an astronomer, Nyass Trust, Dombivali

01/2012

Carrer Opportunities in Pure Science, Chief Guest's address, Bhayandar, Thane

01/2012

Carrer Opportunities in Pure Science, Chief Guest's address, Podar International School, Aurangabad

02/2012

Carrer Opportunities in Pure Science, Chief Guest's address, Saraswati Vidyamandir, Mahim, Mumbai

02/2012

UM-DAE CBS, Mumbai 01-04/2013, 10/2012

IIT, Mumbai 09/2012

M. P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore

05/2012

SIES College, Mumbai 07/2012

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Marathi Vigyan Parishad, Thane 09/2012 D. Y. Patil International School, Worli 09/2012 Marathi Vigyan Parishad, Mumbai 11/2012 SMG English School, Diva 07/2012 INSPIRE camp, Rajur, Ahmadnagar, Maharashtra

01/2013

Telescopes of the future, Rotary Club, Chembur

01/2013

Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 06/2013 Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai 07/2013 BEST planning Workshop, Tamilnadu & Pudducherry Science Forum, Pudducherry

08/2013

Guwahati Planetarium, Guwahati 08/2013 Khalsa High School, Kolkata 04/2013

Comets (Marathi), Maharashtra Sewa Sangh, Mulund (West)

11/2013

KTHM College, Nashik 03/2013 IIT-Bombay, Astronomy Club 10/2013 UM-DAE CBS 08-11/2014,

01-04/2015 D. G. Ruparel College, Mumbai 09/2014 S.N.D.T. University, Mumbai 03/2015 IISER, Mohali 03/2015 Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 04/2014

Telescopes of the future (Marathi), Aseemit Astro Club, Pune

08/2014

Telescopes of the future (Marathi), Skywatchers Astro Club, Pune

12/2014

John Cannon School, Mumbai 10/2014 Astronomy, astrology and scientific temper, Kaivalya Hospital, Thane

7. Rajesh Khaparde 2nd National Workshop on Preparation of Question Bank, Association of Indian Universities and SGBA University, Amravati

08/2010

St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad 03/2014 Shri Shivaji Science College, Amravati, 06/2014

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Maharashtra Indian Women Scientist's Association, Navi Mumbai

12/2014

8. Sanjay Chandrasekharan

Amrita University, Kollam, Kerala 12/2014 Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

2015

9. Sugra Chunawala Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Chennai

03/2011

University of Mumbai, Mumbai 10/2011

Western Regional Consultation on Women and Science & Technology, Mumbai

12/2011

K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of Education, Mumbai

12/2012, 02/2013

National Meet of Science Communicators in Indian Languages,

12/2012

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan School, Mankhurd

09/2013, 02/2014

K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Engineering, Mumbai

12/2013

Gokhale Education Society’s Shri Bhausaheb Vartak Arts, Commerce and Science College, Mumbai

01/2015

Navi Mumbai Science Foundation (NMSF) 02/2015

K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of Education, Training and Research, Vidyavihar

01/2015

KV-ZIET, Mumbai 03/2015 Annual Peer Learning Meet – 3, Bhopal, Panchmarhi, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh

03/2015

Council for Teacher Education (CTE) Seminar, Bengaluru

06/2014

10. Anwesh Mazumdar G.N. Khalsa College, Mumbai 07/2011

Navy Children's School, Navy Nagar, Mumbai

2012, 2013, 2014

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Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Panvel

02/2013

K. J. Somaiya College, Mumbai 09/2013

Fergusson College, Pune 01/2014

K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, Mumbai

02/2015

IISER, Mohali 03/2014 11. J. Vijapurkar Muktangan Exploratory Science

Centre, Pune 04/2012

12. R. Vartak Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 06/2013

Zonal Institute of Education and Training (ZIET), Mumbai

12/2014

13. P. K. Joshi AEES School, Anushaktinagar 05/2013 Junior Science Olympiad, Satara 10/2014 Junior Science Olympiad, Bhuj 11/2014

14. K. Haydock TISS, Mumbai 11/2012 Science, Ethics and Evolution, Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences

02/2013

Assessment and Teaching Ideas, DIET Nadia

12/2012

Workshop on Small Science, Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir, Mulund

07/2012

Evolution – 2 day workshop on evolution for teachers, Eklavya, Indore

06/2012

IISER, Mohali 2012 IISER, Pune 08/2012

Jhunjuhnwala College, Ghatkopar, Mumbai

09/2012

Chandibai Himathmal Mansukhani College, Kharghar

11/2012

IIT-Bombay, Mumbai 11/2012 University of Mumbai, Mumbai 01-04/2014 ZIET, Powai, Mumbai 07/2014 St. Xavier College, Mumbai 01/2015

15. P. De UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS), Mumbai

08-12/2012

Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 09/2012

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Lecture Course for First Year students, CEBS 10-11/2014

Lecture course for second-year students, CEBS

01-14/2015

Lecture course for third-year students, CEBS

01-14/2015

International

Name of faculty member

Place visited Date (MM/YYYY)

01. Rajesh Khaparde New York University, Abu Dhabi Campus, UAE

10/2010

International Conference on Physics Education, Prague, Czech Republic

08/2013

45th International Physics Olympiad, Astana, Kazakhstan

07/2014

02. Jayashree Ramadas

International Conference on Physics Education, Prague, Czech Republic

08/2013

7th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Volos, Greece

07-08/2013

03. K. Subramaniam University of Goteborg, Sweden 06/2010

International Programme Committee meeting for ICME-12 in South Korea

02/2011

International Congress of Mathematics Education (ICME-12) in South Korea

07/2012

Conference of the International Group on Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME), Turkey and Taiwan

07/2011; 07/2012

Eighth Swedish Mathematics Education Research Seminar; Matematikbiennalen 2012, Umea University, Sweden

01/2012

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Community of Practice Forum, FirstRand Foundation Mathematics Chairs, Johannesburg, South Africa

07/2013

2015 SAARMSTE Doctoral Research School, Johannesburg, South Africa

06/2015

University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

08/2015

04. Aniket Sule Astronomy Olympiad training programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh

04/2010

4th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Beijing, China

09/2010

Network for Youth Excellence (NYEX), Jerusalem, Israel

03/2011

Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM) 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand

07/2011

5th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Krakow and Katowicw, Poland

09/2011

International Astronomy and Astrophysics Workshop, Dhaka,

03/2012

6th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Rio De Janeiro and Vassouras cities, Brazil

08/2012

Cox's Bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh for organisation of 8th Asia-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad

11-12/2012

International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly, Beijing, China

08/2012

7th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Volos, Greece

07-08/2013

05. Savita Lavadge 43rd International Chemistry Olympiad, Ankara, Turkey

07/2011

44th International Chemistry Olympiad, Washington, USA

07/2012

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45th International Chemistry Olympiad, Moscow, Russia

07/2013

8th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Suceava, Romania

08/2014

05. Sugra Chunawala Pamukkale University, Turkey 06/2011

The University of South Africa (UNISA) 10/2011 NARST-2012, Indianapolis, USA 03/2012

Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in connection with Science Education for Diversity project

2012-2013

University of Antwerp, Belgium 2015

7. Jyotsna Vijapurkar The University of South Africa (UNISA) 10/2011

Ministry of Education, Govt. Of Timor- Leste, Dili, Timor-Leste

09-10/2013

8. Anwesh Mazumdar Observatoire de Paris at Meudon, France 05-06/2011 Second CoRoT Symposium, Marseille, France

05/2011

5th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Krakow and Katowicw, Poland

09/2011

HELAS Conference, Obergurgl, Austria 05/2012

University of Cologne, Germany 05-06/2012 Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 05-06/2012

5th Workshop of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium, Balatonalmadi, Hungary

06/2012

IAU General Assembly Special Session 13, Beijing, China

08/2012

Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

05-06/2013

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany

05/2014

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45th International Physics Olympiad, Astana, Kazakhstan

07/2014

9. G. Nagarjuna FOSST@KACST, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 04/2010 CONSEGI 2010, Brasilia, Brazil 08/2010 Mozilla Drumbeat, Barcelona 10/2010

6th Open Knowledge Conference, Berlin, Germany

06-07/2011

University of Cape Town, South Africa 11/2011

10. Paresh K. Joshi International Junior Science Olympiad, Abuja, Nigeria

11/2010

8th International Junior Science Olympiad, Durban, South Africa

12/2011

9th International Junior Science Olympiad, Tehran, Iran

12/2012

11th International Junior Science Olympiad, Mendoza, Argentina

12/2014

11. Rekha Vartak 21st International Biology Olympiad, Changwon, Korea

07/2010

12. Prithwijit De 52nd International Mathematical Olympiad, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

07/2011

55th International Mathematical Olympiad, Cape Town, South Africa

07/2014

26. Faculty serving in

a) National Committees

Name of the

Faculty Member

Name of the Committee

Role in the Committee

Term of Service

1 Prof. Jayashree Ramadas

Project Advisory Committee of the National Council for Science Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science and Technology

Chair 2012-13

Central Advisory Board on Education Member 2012-14

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Name of the Faculty Member



Term of Service

(CABE) Committee for developing a framework and processes of the National Mission on Teachers and Teaching Committee of experts to oversee and mentor programmes of the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), DST

Member 2012-13

Consultation group of the Justice J. S. Verma Commision on Teacher Education appointed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court

Member 2010-13

National Advisory Committee and National Scientific Committee for the Kishor Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), DST

Member 2011-13

Expert Committee for the “Rajat Jayanti Vigyan Sancharak Fellowship” of DST (NCSTC Division)

Member 2011-13

Governing Council of the Atomic Energy Education Society (AEES)

Member 2011-15

Governing Council, Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science and Technology

Member 2013-14

2 Prof. Sugra I. Chunawala

Executive Council, Peoples Council of Education

Member 2012- 2015

Departmental Advisory Board, Department of Gender Studies, NCERT

Member 2014-

Sub Committee constituted to draft regulations and norms and standards for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Teacher Education Programmes, NCTE

Member 2014-15

Board of University Teaching and Research, YCMOU

Member Ongoing from several years

Revision of Syllabus for B.Ed. Course on Gender, School & Society, University of Mumbai

Member 2015

Board of Studies, SNDT University, Mumbai

Member 2013-

Indian Educational Review, NCERT, New Delhi

Reviewer Ongoing

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Term of Service

EpiSTEME-4 Conference Convener 2010-11

K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of Education, Training and Research, Mumbai

LMC, Member 2015-

3 Prof. K. Subramaniam

Curriculum and Syllabus Committee (Class 1 to 8) for Mathematics of the Maharashtra State

Chair 2011- 2012

The National Conference on Mathematics education held at HBCSE under the NIME initiative, January 2012.

Convener 2011- 2012

The Steering Committee for the National Initiative in Mathematics Education (NIME 2011-12)

Member 2011- 2012

National Council for Teacher Education Member 2013-

Textbook Committee for Mathematics Textbook, Balbharti, Maharashtra

Member 2013-14

Executive Committee of National Mission of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)

Member 2013-

Educational Research and Innovations Committee, NCERT

Member 2012-

NCTE sub-committee on developing guidelines for Teacher Eligibility Test

Member 2013-14

NCTE sub-committee on teacher education through ODL mode

Member 2013-14

NCTE sub-committee on developing norms for faculty for B.El.Ed. Programme

Member 2013-14

4 Prof. Savita Ladage

Executive Council of Association of Chemistry Teachers (ACT)

Member 2001-07, 2014-16

West Zone, Association of Chemistry Teachers, ACT

Vice- President

2008-13

International Conference on Education in Chemistry, Jointly organized by HBCSE and Association of Chemistry Teachers

Convener 2010,

2014

National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS)

National Co- ordinator

2012-

Course committee, PG diploma course in Analytical Techniques, Garware Institute of Career Education and Development,

Member 2016-

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Term of Service

University of Mumbai 5 Prof. G.

Nagarjuna Free Software Foundation of India Chairperson 2004- EpiSTEME-5 Conference Convener 2012-13 Technical Committee, LITDC, Bureau of Indian Standards, Delhi

Member 2008-11

Institutional Advisory Board, Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT, New Delhi

Member 2012-

Board of Software Freedom Law Centre of India, New Delhi

Member 2011-

Joint Board of Paper Setters for the Proficiency Test in Science & Mathmatics held by the Central Board of Secondary Education in July 2011.

Member 2011-12

Advisory Board, K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai

Member 2007-15

Web Server Committee, National Board of Higher Mathematics

Member 2012-

Departmental Advisory Board, Department of Computers and Technological Aids, NCERT, New Delhi

Member 2012-

6 Prof. K. K. Mishra

People Council of Education, Allahabad Joint Secretary

2009-12

Vigyan Parishad Prayag, Allahabad Member 2006- Executive Council, Lok Vigyan Parishad, New Delhi

Member 2014-

National Academy of Sciences, India Member 2008- Advisory Committee, Vikramshila Science Academy, Patna

Member

7 Prof. Rekha Vartak

Interview Board of Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana

Member 2014

Executive Committee, Association of Teachers in Biological Sciences (ATBS)

Member 2006-

8 Dr. Anwesh Mazumdar

Joint Board of Paper Setters for the Proficiency Test in Science & Mathmatics held by the Central Board of Secondary Education in July 2011.

Convener 2011-13

Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Paper-setting Committee

Member 2011, 2013, 2014

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Term of Service

The Committee for National Innovation Scholarships under the Office of Adviser to Prime Minister on Public Information, Infrastructure and Innovations

Member 2012-13

Science Olympiad (Biology, Chemistry, Junior Science and Physics)

National Coordinator

From August 2014

9

Dr. R. B. Khaparde

Board of Studies in Physics, University of Mumbai

Member 2010- 2015

Physics advisory group on laboratory programme (M.Sc.) of the Central University of Tamil Nadu

Member 2008- 2011

Advisory Committee for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Science, Mathematics and Environment Exhibition (JNNSMEE), NCERT, New Delhi

Member

2014-

The Academic Advisory Committee for 'The Story of Light' Science Festival, January 14-18, 2015, Goa, India

Member 2014-15

10 Dr. Aniket Sule

Astronomy Sub-Committee of the academic committee for International Earth Science Olympiad 2013 organised by Geological Society of India at Mysore

Chair

2013

Coordination Committee for National Entrance Screening Test (NEST)

Member 2008-

Academic Programme Committee, UM- DAE CBS

Member 2007-11

Academic Review Panel for Science activity kits for Vigyan Prasar

Member 2011

Scientific Organising Committee 2nd Pro- Am meeting in Astronomy, organised by Astronomical Society of India and held at Nehru Planetarium, Delhi

Member

2012

Scientific Organising Committee, Day Time Astronomy: Transit of Venus 2012 Workshop organised by HBCSE and Vigyan Prasar

Member

2012

Project Approval Committee for NCSTC Ramanujam – Chandrasekhar centenary celebrations (DST)

Member

2013

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Term of Service

11 Dr. P. K. Joshi Bombay Assoiciation of Science Education (Since 2008)

Chairman 2008

Indian Physics Association Life Member

2005-

12 Dr. Sanjay Chandrasekhar an

EpiSTEME-6 Conference Co- Convener

2013-15

Conference Programme Committee of Technology for Education (IEEE), 2014, Kollam, India.

Member

2014

13 Dr. Karen Haydock

Course Package for 'Teaching Science: the Upper Primary Years' to develop course materials for teacher education at Azim Premji University.

Independent Reviewer

2013-14

For The Rishi Valley Education Centre, in collaboration with Azim Premji University.

Independent Reviewer

2013- 2015

14 Dr. Jyotsna Vijapurkar

Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation Committee, NCERT

Member 2013

Curriculum Reform Committee, SCERT, Andhra Pradesh

Member Up to 2012

(b) International Committees :

Name of the

Faculty Member Name of the Committee

Role of the Committee

Term of Service

1 Prof. Jayashree Ramadas

The IUPAP International Commission on Physics Education (ICPE)

Member 2011- 2013 and 2014- 2016


International Programme Committee for the International Congress of Mathematics Education – 2012

Member 2009- 2012

India representative to the International Commission for Mathematics Education

Country Representat ive

2013-

3 Prof. Savita Ladage International Steering Committee for International Chemistry Olympiad

Co-opted Member

2012- 2013

4 Prof. G. Nagarjuna International Workshop on Conceptual Structures Learning

Co-Chair 2011

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Term of Service

Teaching and Assessment Derby, 25th July 2011 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures

General Chair

2013

Academic Council, Free Technology Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Member 2008-13

5 Dr. Anwesh Mazumdar

Scientific Organising Committee for Lorentz Centre Workshop on Red Giant Stars, Leiden

Member 2012

The International Astronomical Union Member 2015- International Physics Olympiad 2015 Convener,

Member of Academic Committee, Co- ordinator of Theory Component

2014-15

International Junior Science Olympiad 2013

Member, Academic C itt

2013

6 Dr. Aniket Sule Academic Committee, 8th Asia Pacific Astronomy Olympiad, Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh

Chair 2009

Asia-Pacific, for the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA)

Regional Coordinato r

Jan. 2012 to Dec.

The International Astronomical Union Member 2015- 7 Dr. P. K. Joshi International Junior Science Olympiad

Executive Committee Vice- President

2012-15

International Junior Science Olympiad Executive Committee

President 2015-18

8 Dr. Sanjay Chandrasekharan

Conference Programme Committee of Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015, Pasadena, USA

Member 2015

Conference Programme Committee of Model Based Reasoning Conference, Sestri, Levante, Italy, 2015

Member 2015

Conference Programme Committee of The 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies,

Member 2015

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Term of Service

2015, Hualien, Taiwan Conference Programme Committee of The 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, Hangzhou, China

Member 2015

Conference Programme Committee of Technology for Learning of Thinking Skills, The 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education, 2014, Nara, Japan

Member 2014

9 Rajesh Khaparde International Physics Olympiad 2015 Member of Academic Committee, Co- ordinator of Experiment al Component

2014-15

(c) Editorial Boards :

Name of the

Faculty Member

Name of the Journal Impac t Factor

Term of Service


Advisory Board, International Sourcebooks in mathematics and science education, Information Age Publishing

N.A. 2012-

Journal Editorial Board, Contemporary Education Dialogue as a Member.

- 2010-

Journal Editorial Board, At Right Angles as a Member.

- 2011-

2 Prof. G. Nagarjuna

International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA), an Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association as a Associate Editor.

2013-

3 Prof. K. K. Mishra

Editorial Board, Vidgyan Prakash, a quarterly Hindi Science magazine, World Hindi Foundation, New York, USA as a Member.

2004-

Advisory Board of Vigyan Ganga, a Science journal of BHU, Varanasi as a

2012-

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Member. 4 Dr. R. B.

Khaparde Physics Education, a journal published by University of Pune in association with IAPT as a Associate Editor.

2011-

27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops, training programs and similar programs).

All HBCSE faculty members regularly participate in national and international research- oriented symposia, conferences, workshops and schools. Further, they lead several intervention programmes targetted at students, teachers and teacher educators, w h i c h provides a first hand knowledge of issues in science education. The intervention programme are highly sought after since the Centre’s expertise in science education is widely recognized.

The Centre encourages faculty members to participate in teaching in other institutions. The Centre has signed an MoU with IIT Bombay, by which students of the Interdisciplinary Programme in Education Technology at IIT Bombay take courses at HBCSE, and faculty from HBCSE teach in the programme. Faculty members of the Centre also teach in the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai University and in the M.A. (Education) programme at Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Individual modular courses have also been taught at other universities such as Central University, Jharkhand and IISER, Pune. By participating in teaching in other institutions, the faculty get valuable experience in teaching diverse groups of students and enrich their own teaching skills and perspectives by interacting with the faculty of other institutions closely. Similarly teaching by visiting professors enhances the quality and diversity of course offerings at HBCSE.

28. Student projects

• percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter- departmental projects

ALL (100%) HBCSE students are required to do at least one field work project as part of their coursework.

Under the National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS)

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programme, undergraduate students from various institutions attend training camps at HBCSE and also carry out a research project under guidance from a mentor. About 108 NIUS camps have been held since 2004 and about 170 projects in physics, astronomy, chemistry and biology have been completed.

• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities

/ industry / institute

Some HBCSE faculty members have active collaborations with researchers in India from institutions such as IIT, Mumbai and TISS, Mumbai with researchers in other countries. Students of these faculty members participate in the research collaboration or make extended visits to Centres abroad to strengthen their research skills and expertise. The percentage of students involved in such projects is about 30%.

29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level

• Faculty Members:

a) National Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

2011 S. C. Agarkar Sanjeevray Sarma Award by the Ramanujan Foundation (Andhra Pradesh)

2009- 2010

K. K. Mishra Homi Jehangir Bhabha Award of the 'Maharashtra Rajya Hindi Sahitya Academy'

2012- 2013

K. K. Mishra Shatabdi Samman, Vigyan Parishad, Prayag

2012- 2013

Vijay Singh Navbharat Times UDAAN Award

2014 K. K. Mishra Bharatiya Bhasha Pratishthapan Samman Patra

2006 Savita Ladage Best Chemistry Teacher Award, Chemical Research Society of India

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2015 K. K. Mishra Rajbhasha Gaurav Award, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

International Awards


2011 J. Ramadas The Third World Academy of Sciences Regional Prize

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

2009 V. C. Sonawane Dr. N. R. Tawade Prize for Outstanding Marathi Literature of Govt of Maharashtra

2010-

A. D. Ghaisas Raja Kelkar Award for “Durbini Ani Vedhasala”

2013- 2014

A. Ghaisas Yedunath Thatte Puraskar for Marathi Book “Akash Kase Pahaave”, Government of Maharashtra.

2014 A. Ghaisas Prof. M. V. Chiplonkar Memorial Award, Indian Physics Association, Pune

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.

Year Name Funding Agency Faculty members

2010 Fourth Asian Science Camp, HBCSE DST & DAE H. C. Pradhan

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2011 epiSTEME-4, Fourth international conference to review research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, HBCSE

DAE All faculty members

2011 Second Indo-Swedish Meeting on mathematics education, HBCSE

NBHM K. Subramaniam

2010 First International Conference on Education in Chemistry, HBCSE in collaboration with Association of Chemistry Teachers

DAE, DST & CSIR

Savita Ladage

2011 Second Annual Research Meet, HBCSE HBCSE All Faculty members

2010 Wikipedia Workshop, HBCSE HBCSE G. Nagarjuna 2011 Open Video Conference, HBCSE HBCSE G. Nagarjuna 2010 Development of E-materials in Hindi,

Allahabad HBCSE K. K. Mishra

2011 Science Education and Diversity project, India Meet, HBCSE

Univ of Exeter, From SED

Sugra Chunawala & Chitra Natarajan

2012 National Initiative in Mathematics Education (NIME) National Conference, HBCSE

NBHM K. Subramaniam

2012 Collaborative Approach to Develop Science Teaching Methods Suitable for Addressing Diversity in Classrooms, HBCSE (Two Teacher Workshops)

Australia India Council

Sugra Chunawala & Chitra Natarajan

2011 Towards Science Education for Diversity: A Teacher Researcher Collaborative Workshop, HBCSE

SED Project Funding

Sugra Chunawala

2012 Day Time Astronomy: Transit of Venus 2012 Workshop, HBCSE

Vigyan Prasar

Aniket Sule

2012 Third Annual Research Meet, HBCSE HBCSE All faculty members 2011 Interfacing simple science experiments with

computer using Expeyes/Phoenix system,

HBCSE G. Nagarjuna

2012 Asian Physics Olympiad, New Delhi DAE, DST & NCERT

H. C. Pradhan, Vijay Singh, Rajesh Khaparde, Anwesh Mazumdar

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2013 epiSTEME-5, Fifth international conference to review research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, HBCSE

HBCSE All faculty members

2013 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, HBCSE

BRNS G. Nagarjuna

2012 2-Day Seminar on Responding to Changing Educational Paradigms, HBCSE

HBCSE Jayashree Ramadas & K. Subramaniam

2012 3rd National Workshop on Development of Educational E-Materials in Hindi, HBCSE with Vigyan Parishad Prayag

HBCSE K. K. Mishra

2013 10th International Junior Science Olympiad 2013, Pune

DAE, NCERT

P.K. Joshi, Anwesh Mazumdar, Aniket Sule

2013 Refresher Course on Statistical Mechanics for College Teachers, HBCSE

HBCSE, CBS & TIFR

Praveen Pathak

2013 3rd Pro-Am Meeting in Astronomy, HBCSE (in collaboration with Astronomical Society of India)

Astronomi cal Society of

Aniket Sule

2013 Eyes on Comet ISON National Campaign Brainstroming Workshop, HBCSE (in assoication with All India People's Science Network)

Vigyan Prasar

Aniket Sule

2014 4th National workshop on development of educational e-materials in Hindi , Allahabad

HBCSE K. K. Mishra

2014 2nd International conference on education in chemistry (ICEC-2014), HBCSE (in collaboration with Association of Chemistry Teachers )

DAE, DST, INSA

Savita Ladage

2014 4-day Workshop for science teachers educators of Uttarakhand at HBCSE during February 5-8, 2014

SCERT, Uttarakha nd

K. K. Mishra

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WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS(Only for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15):

2013 2-day workshop on Socio scientific Issues HBCSE Aswathy Raveendran

2013 First NIUS Workshop on Introductory Computational Science (HBCSE)

HBCSE A. Mazumdar

2013 Workshop on Chemical Thermodynamics (HBCSE)

HBCSE Savita Ladage

2013 Seven workshops of YCMOU for Post- graduate students

YCMOU Sugra Chunawala

2013 Consultative meeting for Building Educators for Science Teaching (BEST) project

DST Chitra Natarajan & Narendra Deshmukh

2014 Open-Beginninged Workshop for Grade VIII students, HBCSE

HBCSE Karen Haydock

2014 An experimental workshop with Class VII students from Nutan, HBCSE

HBCSE Several HBCSE members

2014 Nurture Camp for Grade VI and IX students, HBCSE

Mumbai Science Teachers’ Associatio

Narendra Deshmukh

2014 CUBE Summer Workshops for college students (Vivekanand Education Society's College, Chembur; Chandibai Himatlal Manshukhani College, Ulhasnagar; Royal College, Bhayandar; KBP college)

HBCSE and Host colleges

G. Nagarjuna, M.C. Arunan

2014 Three-day Workshop on decimal learning and maths lab (with Eklavya), Hoshangabad

HBCSE K Subramaniam

2014 A workshop- 'Decoding DNA: Model building & Model dissection' for biology undergraduate students, HBCSE

HBCSE Jayashree Ramadas & Anveshna Srivastava

2014 Four-day Workshop for students and teachers on 'Fun with Ratio and Proportion!' and 'Learning to Teach Mathematics', St. Xavier's Institute of Education, Mumbai

HBCSE Shweta Naik

2014 Seven workshops of YCMOU for Post- graduate students


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2015 Phylogenetic Analysis: A One Day Workshop facilitated by Prof. R. Geeta, Department of Botany, University of Delhi) CUBE Lab, HBCSE.

HBCSE G. Nagarjuna, M.C. Arunan

2015 Ten workshops of YCMOU for Post- graduate students


2015 Design and Technology workshop HBCSE Sugra Chunawala

2015 Summer Camp for Grade 3 Students HBCSE Jayashree Ramadas, Sugra Chunawala and SSRD Team

WORKSHOPS FOR AND PRE/ IN-SERVICE TEACHERS (Only for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15):

2013 POGIL workshop for chemistry teachers (HBCSE)

HBCSE Savita Ladage, Kelly Butler

2013 ‘Exposure cum Preparatory Workshop for Teachers’ at undergraduate level

HBCSE Rajesh Khaparde

2013 Three workshops, each of three days’ duration, were organized at HBCSE for secondary science teachers, secondary mathematics teachers and for a group of primary science and maths teachers respectively of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

K Subramaniam

2013 Two workshops (3-day + 4-day ) for science teachers from Pandharpur taluka in collaboration with SVERI Education society

SVERI Education Society

Narendra Deshmukh

2013 2-day workshop for over 43 science teachers from Zilla Parishad schools in Chandrapur

Ambuja Cement Foundatio

Narendra Deshmukh

2013 2-day workshop for science teachers from Nashik organized in collaboration with Nashik Education Society

Nashik Education Society

Narendra Deshmukh

2013 1-day workshop for 90 science teachers from Mahad Taluka in collaboration with People's Education Society

People’s education society

Narendra Deshmukh

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2013 3-day workshop on constructivist teaching approaches, for 45 science teachers in collaboration with Shri Shivaji Science College, Amravati

Shri Shivaji Education Society

Narendra Deshmukh

2014 3-day workshop for 42 science teachers from Goa on activity based learning organized in collaboration with SCERT Goa

SCERT, Goa Narendra Deshmukh

2014 Tata Capital organized science teacher’s workshop at Vikramgad School in July 2014

Tata Capital

Narendra Deshmukh

2014 Activity based workshop was organized for Udayanchal High School (Vikroli)

Udayancha l High School

V. C. Sonawane

2014 NIUS Workshop on Designing Undergraduate Physics Curriculum (with University of Mumbai) HBCSE

HBCSE Rajesh Khaparde

2014 Workshop of Mathematics Problem Solving (HBCSE)

HBCSE Shweta Naik

2014 Workshop with Jidnyasa Trust (Ganit Yatra Programme) on making of mathematics laboratory activities (HBCSE, July 2014; Aurangabad, August 2014; Nashik and Dhule, September 2014);

HBCSE K. Subramaniam, Shweta Naik

2014 One-day Workshop on 'Learning to Demonstrate Mathematics Laboratory' for in-service teachers (HBCSE)

HBCSE Shweta Naik

2014 One-day workshops on 'Learning to Solve Mathematical Problems' for pre-service teachers (St. Xavier's Institute of Education, Mumbai

SXIE Shweta Naik

2014 Workshop for IWSA teachers: 'Becoming a resource person' (HBCSE)

IWSA Shweta Naik

2015 Workshop for teachers on Module Development for KV-ZIET (KV-ZIET, Mumbai)

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

Shikha Takker

2015 Two Workshops for Science Teachers on Implementing Small Science Curriculum (Al Qamar Academy & Vedavalli Vidyalaya, Chennai)

HBCSE & Vedavalli Vidyalya

Jayashree Ramadas

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2010-2015 About 70 Resource Generation Camps in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Junior Science and Astronomy Olympiads, each involving, on average 10 teachers

DAE, DST, DoS

Savita Ladage, Rekha, Vartak, Anwesh Mazumdar, Aniket Sule, Paresh Joshi, Anand Ghaisas

2010-2015 About 20 Exposure Camps in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Junior Science and Astronomy Olympiads, each involving, on average 50 teachers

DAE, DST, DoS

Savita Ladage, Rekha, Vartak, Anwesh Mazumdar, Aniket Sule, Paresh Joshi, Anand Ghaisas

2014 Four Preparatory Resource Generation Camps for IPhO 2015 (about 80 teachers)

DAE, DST, MHRD

Vijay Singh, Anwesh Mazumdar, Rajesh Khaparde

2015 Preparatory Workshop for Experimental component of IPhO 2015 (about 50 teachers)

DAE, DST, MHRD

Anwesh Mazumdar, Rajesh Khaparde

2014-15 Three Preparatory Workshops for Theoretical component of IPhO 2015 (10

DAE, DST, MHRD

Vijay Singh, Anwesh Mazumdar

WORKSHOPS FOR RESOURCE PERSONS/ TRAINERS/ TEACHER TRAINERS (Only for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15):

2013 Workshop on topics of Algebra for field level mathematics subject experts of Azim Premji Foundation (APF)

APF K Subramaniam

2013 Workshop on topics of Functions for field level mathematics subject experts of Azim Premji Foundation

APF K Subramaniam

2013 A workshop for Master Trainers in Chemistry (with Royal Society of Chemistry) (HBCSE)

Royal Society of Chemistry

Savita Ladage

2013 Three workshops for resource persons of “Akhil Bharatiya Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti” from Konkan region, Mumbai and Pune (in collaboration with ABANS)

NCSTC Anand Ghaisas

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2014 3-day workshop for mathematics teacher educators from DIETs in Uttarakhand and Karnataka, faculty from SCERT and resource persons from Azim Premji Foundation

MHRD K Subramaniam

2014 4-day workshop for science teacher educators of Uttarakhand DIETs and SCERT faculty (HBCSE)

MHRD N. D. Deshmukh

2014 Workshop on Chemistry Education Research (HBCSE)

HBCSE Savita Ladage

2014 Workshop for Course Developers NUSSD (HBCSE)

TISS G. Nagarjuna

2014 A one-day workshop on visuospatial reasoning in astronomy education (HBCSE)

HBCSE Jayashree Ramdas

2014 STEAM: Integrated Learning Modules, First meeting and workshop (HBCSE)

HBCSE Chitra Natarajan

2014 Digital Literacy Master Trainer's Workshop (TISS, Mumbai)

TISS G. Nagarjuna

2014 Workshop to Review Course on Science Education (for D.Ed. syllabus, developed by RV Education College, Bangalore, SCERT Karnataka) , HBCSE

RV Education College

Sugra Chunawala

2014 Digital Literacy Trainer's Workshops (Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh, September 27; Narayan Guru College, Chembur, Mumbai, October 11 – October 13; Kejriwal Institute of Management, Ranchi, Jharkhand, November 9 – November 11)

TISS G. Nagarjuna

2014 Two 5-day workshops for teacher developers (with Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC-UK) (Workshop I- September 29-October 3; Workshop II: November 24-28)

Royal Society of Chemistry

Savita Ladage, V. D. Lale

2014 6-day workshop for teacher educators was conducted in collaboration with Azim Premji Foundation, Jaipur, on “Evolution: IV Capacity Enhancement Workshop

APF Karen Haydock

2014 Teacher Training Programme for Mumbai Science Teacher Association (MSTA) teachers at HBCSE.

MSTA P. K. Joshi

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2014 Teacher Training Programme at New Delhi Local organizer s + HBCSE

P. K. Joshi

2014 Teacher Training Programme for Atomic Energy School Teachers at HBCSE

Local organizer s + HBCSE

P. K. Joshi

2015 Special Session on Challenges for Education in Modern India (for 102nd Indian Science Congress) (University of Mumbai)

Indian Science Congres

Aniket Sule

2015 State Level Workshop on Blended Learning & Pathways to Student Success (along with Chembur Comprehensive College of Education, Chembur) (HBCSE)

Chembur Comprehe nsive College of

d i

Narendra Deshmukh

2015 Workshop on Turtle Blocks (facilitated by Walter Bender, MIT Media Lab) (CUBE Lab, HBCSE)

HBCSE G. Nagarjuna

2015 Kendriya Vidyalaya – Inquiry based learning workshop

KV Many faculty members

2015 Kendriya Vidyalaya – ZIET Project Based Learning workshop

KV-ZIET Many faculty

2015 Teacher Training Programmes at Goa, Vapi, Pal (Jalgaon dist.), Majihira (Purulia Dist., West Bengal), HBCSE, Dombivili, Guwahati

Local organizer s + HBCSE

P. K. Joshi

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

HBCSE follows the TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches. Name of the Programmee

(refer to question no. 4)

Application

Selected Joined Pass received Male Female Male Female Male Female

Ph.D. 2887 11 12 8 7 75 100

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33. Diversity of students

a) Geographical

Students

Ph.D.

Integra ted- Ph D

M.Sc.

Total

Male Female Male Female Male Female

From the state where the university is located

4 3 -- -- -- -- 7

From other states of India

4 4 -- -- -- -- 8

NRI students 0 0 -- -- -- -- 0 Foreign students 0 0 -- -- -- -- 0

Total 8 7 -- -- -- -- 15

b) Undergraduate Institute: Ph.D. Integrated

M.Sc.-Ph.D. M.Sc. Total


From Universities 5

5 4 -- -- -- -- 9

From premier science institutions

1 1 -- -- -- -- 2 From premier

2 2 -- -- -- -- 4 From others* 0 0 -- -- -- -- 0 Total 8 7 -- -- -- -- 15

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc. # IITs, NITs, etc.

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services

examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.

Examination No of students who cleared

1. UGC-NET 3 2. CSIR-NET 1

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3. GATE 2 4. ICMR-JRF 1 5. DBT-JRF 1 6. CTET 2

7. Punjab Civil Services 1

35. Student progression

• Ph.D. programme : On completing their coursework, students register towards their PhD dissertation. A few students have left before completing the coursework. Most students, who have registered for PhD have gone on to complete the dissertation. After obtaining the PhD degree, most students have secured post-doctoral or faculty positions at other institutions. Some students have secured teaching or other positions before completing the PhD and have continued to work towards their dissertations externally.

36. Diversity of staff

Faculty Ph.D.s

TIFR

India

Abroad

37. Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the assessment period

The minimum eligibility criteria for selection as a member of the TIFR faculty is a Ph.D. degree. Thus, this number is not relevant.

32% 43%

25%

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s

from TIFR : 5

from other institutions in India : 4

from institutions Abroad: 7

Total No 16

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38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library

The HBCSE library houses over 25000 books, about 2300 bound volumes of journals, 133 print journals and provides access to about 1000 journals online. Details regarding the library are presented in B2, section 4.2.

b) Internet facilities for staff and students

HBCSE has a central computer facility that maintains computers, as well as access to LAN-WAN and the internet. Wireless is enabled across the campus including in the hostels and students can access high-speed internet from anywhere on campus.

c) Total number of class rooms

HBCSE has 3 large gallery style classrooms (60-80 seating) and 4 small classrooms (20-30 seating). It also has an auditorium with a capacity of 180. (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility

All the classrooms listed above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc.

e) Students’ laboratories

• HBCSE has a range of laboratories which are used in its educational programmes to train students and teachers. These include the Olympiad and NIUS laboratories in physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and junior science. The integrated science laboratory, the Design and Technology laboratory and the mathematics laboratory are aimed at school students. The Collaborative Undergraduate Biology Education (CUBE) laboratory is aimed at college as well as school students and teachers.

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• In addition, HBCSE has laboratories focused on research, which are listed in (f) below.

f) Research laboratories

Name of

Laboratory Fac *

PDF† + Scientific

staff

Stu‡ Brief description of research activity

CUBE Lab 1 1 2 Developing models for collaborative research as part of science education

Chemistry Lab (NIUS)

2 2 (visiting students)

Undergraduate research projects

Biology Lab (NIUS)



Physics Lab (NIUS)



Learning sciences lab

1 0 3 Investigates the role of media in learning using distributed cognition perspectives

Gnowledge Lab 1 1 1 Investigates the structure of knowledge as a network

Design and Technology Lab

1 2 3 plus Visiting students

Research and development in “Design and Technology Education”

* no of faculty members using the laboratory † no of postdoctoral fellows and scientific staff using the laboratory ‡ no of graduate students using the laboratory

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows

1. Rafikh Shaikh Dr. Rutwik Thengodkar 2. Prajakt Pande Dr. Shubhangi Bhide 3. Gurinder Singh

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4. Rosemary Varkey 5. Himanshu Srivastava 6. Rossi D’Souza 7. Geetanjali Date 8. Deborah Dutta 9. Kanchan Mishra 10. Shubhayan Kabir 11. Durgaprasad Karnam 12. Sujatha Varadarajan 13. Charudatta Navare 14. Mihika Shah 15. Ratna

40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the university.

ALL the students of HBCSE are in doctoral programmes, and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of

new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

HBCSE instituted a PhD programme in science education in 1974 under affiliation to the University of Poona. This was a new area of research in the country. Although this field is well- established in many other countries, it continues to be an emerging area in the country. The programme has continued under the TIFR deemed university. There is a demand for PhD holders from HBCSE in a variety of innovative educational programmes, as well as the variety of workshops for in-service teachers offered at HBCSE, which indicates the relevance of the programme in addressing the problems confronting science education in India. The experience of HBCSE faculty and scientific staff in leading field-based programmes with teachers and students feeds into the PhD programme giving it an organic connection with the realities in the field. The PhD programme has been reviewed both internally and externally and changes have been made to the structure of the coursework and the

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programme as a whole.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the department utilize the feedback?

The six-member Subject Board of science education continuously reviews the curriculum on the basis of feedback, which is obtained from the students and instructors on the courses. A two member internal committee reviewed the PhD programme in 2013-14, held discussions with all PhD students and provided inputs for restructuring the curriculum, which was then carried out. The subject board introduced new courses (Philosophy of education; Teaching practice and school internship; Education, society and Education policy in India). Groups of faculty members also redesigned the content for individual courses.

b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how

does the department utilize the feedback?

Anonymous feedback on every course is collected from the students in a form specifically designed for this purpose. The feedback is processed by the Convenor, subject board and relevant portions are communicated to the Instructors, for modification and improvement of the courses.

c. alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department utilize the feedback?

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis. 43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. Prof. Arvind Kumar Padma Shri, Raja Ramanna Fellow, INSA

distinguished teacher award 2. Prof. H.C. Pradhan Raja Ramanna Fellow 3. Prof. Vijay Singh Raja Ramanna Fellow

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44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops /

seminar) involving external experts.

As Item No 30 shows, HBCSE regularly holds conferences, seminars, talks and workshops, to which eminent educationists and researchers are regularly invited, which are attended by doctoral students. These expose students to current issues in education as well as on going research that seeks to address these issues in India and elsewhere. HBCSE is identified by the Govt. of India as the nodal centre for the International Olympiads in the subjects of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, mathematics and junior science. Every year HBCSE holds the Indian National Olympiad examination in these subjects and conducts camps for students who pass this examination. These camps train students to participate in the highly challenging and exciting international olympiads and select a team of 4-6 students to represent India. Besides the camp for students, teachers are also invited to exposure camps where they are exposed to the culture of experimental investigation and problem solving. Teachers are also invited to the resource generation camps where they participate in designing problems and experiments. The National Initiative on Under-graduate Science (NIUS) holds camps every year for students with a flair for science. The camps lead to the student taking up a research project of 1-2 years duration. The student is mentored through the research project by a research scientist. Several research projects have led to publications in research journals and conference proceedings. Another major activity is the holding of summer camps in

experimental physics for students in the 2nd year of their Bachelor’s or Integrated Master’s programme in science participate in this camp.

45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.

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participation by students in the form of student reading and presentations, discussions, short field investigations and a variety of written assignments. Assignments include essays and term papers. Assessment take into account students’ participation in the classroom besides assignment, quizzes and examinations. Other innovative assessment modes include contribution to wikipedia and online encyclopedias, teaching school students, field studies, which form a part of some courses. Some courses use platforms such as Moodle and G-studio for managing learning resources and online discussion fora.

46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly

met and learning outcomes are monitored?

The Subject Board in Science education constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.

HBCSE undertakes a range of intervention programmes with students, pre-service and in- service teachers and teacher educators. Students participate in these programmes, often as resource persons. As part of their research, they visit urban and rural schools and interact with students and teachers. The research often involves a component of teaching students or orienting teachers. Schools catering to disadvantaged groups of students are a major group in these interventions. Students also actively participate in science popularization programmes.

As described above, HBCSE conducts camps for students and teachers as part of its Olympiad programmes.

48. Give details of “beyond syllabus scholarly activities” of the department.

Students at HBCSE are encouraged to participate in national and international conferences and seminars. A substantial amount of money is made available to support the students’ participation in at least one major conference outside India, or a visit to an internationally acclaimed research group. Seminars and conferences are regularly held at HBCSE, which students participate in. The

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Annual Research Meet is a research conference organized by students and attended by faculty and other staff members. Students present their research work and obtain feedback from the audience as well as from discussants who have read the paper beforehand.

49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes, give details.

The PhD programme in science education was recognized by UGC at the time of according Deemed University status to TIFR in 2001.

An external review of all aspects of HBCSE was carried out in 2014. The review committee comprised of Prof. N. Sathyamurthi (Director, IISER, Mohali), Chair; Jill Adler (University of Witwatersrand South Africa); Sibel Eruduran (University of Limerick, Ireland); Paula R. L. Heron, (University of Washington, USA), B. Phondke (ex-Director,National Institute of Science Communication) and T. S. Saraswathi (Retd. M. S. University, Baroda). Prior to the external review the HBCSE faculty carried out a detailed internal review, the outcomes of which were made available to the external review committee.

The committee carried out a comprehensive review of the work of HBCSE and submitted its report containing assessments and recommendations in December 2014. In regard to the research in science and mathematics education and the PhD programme specifically, the committee observed that “HBCSE is a unique institution, one of its kind in the country.” In regard to the specific role of HBCSE in the overall education scenario, the committee remarked that “while India has done an excellent job in education by producing Bachelors and Masters in education degree holders (B Ed and M Ed), it has lagged behind in science education. HBCSE can, in principle, fill this gap...”

Commenting on the impact of the research done at HBCSE, the committee observed that “the work done by the centre towards science education and mathematical education has put India on the world map…. Science and mathematics education researchers at HBCSE have contributed to… providing a presence for India in the international community. For example, they have

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published in the International Journal of Science Education, and in Educational Studies in Mathematics and participated in international conferences such as NARST and IGPME annual conferences.”

50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating

new knowledge, basic or applied.

• About 165 journal articles in science, technology and mathematics education re - search and about 85 journal articles in science research have been produced by HBCSE members as part of the NIUS initiative. In addition, a large number of art - icles have been authored in journals and magazines for science dissemination, for teachers and students at the school and college level, and in conference proceed - ings.

• HBCSE has organized about 18 International and 11 National STME research con -

ferences, seminars and workshops. Many smaller workshops and meetings have also been held.

• A total of 10 PhD dissertations have been accepted for the award of the PhD de -

gree of the TIFR deemed university. (Of the 10 HBCSE alumni, 7 hold faculty posi - tions in leading universities and institutes, one holds a post-doc position in the U.S., one is a freelance education consultant and one is a teacher.)

• HBCSE members have authored 50 curricular books (including textbooks and

teacher books), over 100 co-curricular and popular science books, about 50 tech - nical reports, and 13 Conference proceedings and reviews. These books have had a combined sales of about 9.5 Lakh copies.

• HBCSE is the National nodal centre of the Government of India for participation in

the International Olympiads in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Mathem - atics and Junior Science. Over the years, Indian students have secured over 400 medals and about 25 honourable mentions at the International Olympiads. A large number of problems and experiments have been developed at HBCSE for pur - poses of selection and training in the Olympiad programme.

• As part of the NIUS initiative, undergraduate students have completed about 170

proto-research projects mentored by research scientists. Nearly 140 research and

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conference papers have been published. Over a 100 exposure and enrichment camps for students, and several workshops for teachers have been held.

• A large number of workshops for school teachers and teacher educators have been

conducted by HBCSE members. These workshops are focused on inputs that com - bine subject knowledge with pedagogy, which is a type of specialized knowledge that is not typically available to teachers

51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the department.

Strengths

• Since the time of its inception, HBCSE has had a commitment to the improvement of science education for all sections of society and has targeted many of its programmes at disadvantaged students. A majority of its programmes have been with Government schools in urban, rural and tribal areas. Thus, the Centre, enriched by many intensive field contact programmes conducted over the decades, has long-standing experience of the ground-level challenges and possible solutions in delivering science education of a high quality for all students.

• The Centre has sound expertise in the content areas of science and mathematics given its well-qualified and capable faculty and the strength of its parent institution, TIFR. Further, programmes like the science and mathematics olympiads offer an opportunity to continuously strengthen content expertise. Thus, HBCSE is a unique institution in the Indian context, which combines expertise in science and mathematics with expertise and engagement in education.

• HBCSE has been a pioneer in research in the fields of science and mathematics

education since it initiated a research programme several decades ago. It is recognized for its research both in India and internationally. The research in STME carried out at HBCSE is published in leading international peer-reviewed journals and has had a reasonable impact on the field in terms of citations received. Faculty members at HBCSE have links and collaborations with leading researchers across the world. The synergy between research, material development and intervention programmes gives added strength to the institution.

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• The Centre has an excellent infrastructure and ambience, with members free to

pursue their work along several dimensions of science education, unfettered by paucity of resources. Doctoral students are encouraged take up ambitious research projects driven by their interests and passion. The work culture, characterized by sustained effort, co-operation and willingness to take on challenges, permeates all levels of staff at HBCSE.

• The Centre has vast experience and credibility with Government bodies, both for its expertise in and commitment to science education, and for its integrity in deploying public funds effectively. HBCSE members are part of several national and state level committees policy making and regulatory bodies in education.

Weaknesses

• The Centre carries out a large number and variety of programmes for students, teachers and teacher educators. This has the danger of defocusing the efforts and attention of members. The organizational demand of these programmes, especially of the time-bound, multi-stage Olympiad programmes is heavy, reducing the time available for research.

• The groups in the Centre led by faculty members tend to work in relative isolation. Collaboration between faculty members is infrequent. Faculty members who lead the Olympiad and NIUS programmes do not, in many cases, play an active role in the Graduate School. The HBCSE review committee has emphasized the need for increased team work among the faculty.

• The dissertation work towards the PhD extends well beyond the expected time of 5 years in most cases. While the reasons for the extended length are several, there is a need to address this problem.

• In recent years, there has been an attrition of faculty strength due to super- annuation of many of its senior members. It has been difficult to find suitable replacements.

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• The Centre has constraints of space given its small campus. It especially lacks

faculty housing, which is needed to attract capable young faculty members to the Centre located in the city of Mumbai. Opportunities

• There is growing importance given to STEM education at all levels in the country by not only scientists, technologists and industry leaders, but also by political leaders. This is reflected in the interest in science and related subjects among a large section of the student population. This is also reflected in the popularity of science- focused special programmes like the Olympiads, which in turn propagate the excitement and challenge of doing science and mathematics.

• There are several new high-profile institutions including the IISERs, CBS and NISER, charged with the mandate of science education starting from the undergraduate level, that have the resources and capacity to implement innovations in science education. Collaborative links with such institutions hold a great potential for HBCSE.

• There is a strong climate of reform in education and teacher education at the school level, which is reflected in the new curriculum frameworks for school education and teacher education. The NCF 2005 and its aftermath have shown the relevance of the contributions made by HBCSE. HBCSE’s strong capacity in designing assessment tools for science and mathematics education is especially relevant, where reform in assessment is a growing concern.

• There is growing recognition for HBCSE’s work by the international science and mathematics education community, evidenced in the links that faculty members have established. Collaborations

with established international groups are beginning to take shape, and present an opportunity to further integrate the Centre with the international community.

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Challenges

• There are very few peer institutions in the country that have expertise in science and mathematics education. This has several negative consequences for HBCSE: a thin research base in STME and a resulting incomplete understanding of the situation, fewer post-doctoral and faculty positions for PhDs from HBCSE, reduced motivation and peer checks for HBCSE’s work, and reduced overall health of the Centre as well as the field of STME.

• The regulatory norms in teacher education have not recognized the track taken by a majority of HBCSE’s PhD degree holders as eligible for faculty appointments in teacher education institutions. (While the PhD degree in science education is recognized as a relevant qualification beyond an MEd, an MSc followed by a PhD in science education, is not recognized as sufficient qualification.) This has implications for a possible change in the entry qualifications for the PhD programme, or for some restructuring of the programme.

• The PhD in science education degree is currently not well recognized for entry into science teaching and research positions at the college level. Efforts to bring the attention of the scientific community to the importance and relevance of the degree in science education need to be strengthened.

• The curricular and related materials developed by HBCSE are not widely known and used in the country, largely because schools are required to follow textbooks produced by statutory bodies. This can be addressed by focusing efforts on developing support materials and also by strengthening the publicity and reach of materials produced by HBCSE.

• The bulk of the outreach work done by HBCSE is in the area of in-service teacher development. While this is a large and active domain in the country, it is not regulated and remains un-recognized. HBCSE’s efforts should also be directed at developing standards and regulatory mechanisms for such programmes.

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52. Future Plans of the Department • Build greater coherence and synergy between research and the outreach

programmes for students and teachers. Extend research into undergraduate science education.

• Build stronger research teams consisting of faculty, scientific staff, PhD students and post-docs working on sustained long-term research programmes.

• Encourage two-way exchanges and visits of faculty, scientific staff and research scholars between HBCSE and leading STME Centres

• Strengthen HBCSE published resources through review processes. Greater publicity and reach of materials produced at HBCSE.

• Forge better links with mainstream teacher education institutions. Explore possibility of joint offering of M.Ed. in science education

• Develop and disseminate resources developed around the Olympiad programme

• Strengthen teacher development, laboratory development and development of learning materials in undergraduate science education.

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B3-XI

National Centre for

Radio Astrophysics

(NCRA)

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Evaluative Report of Departments (B3) XI-NCRA-1


National Centre for Radio Astrophysics

1. Name of the Department :

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA)

2. Year of establishment :

1994


It is a TIFR Centre and comes under the Physics Subject board.


1. Ph.D.

2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D.

Students may avail of an M.Phil. degree as an early exit option provided they have finished a specified set of requirements. However, there is no separate M.Phil. programme.


NCRA does not have a formal interdisciplinary programme. However, Radio Astronomy is an inherently interdisciplinary programme, involving physics, astronomy, signal processing, instrumentation etc. Several of the Ph.D. research topics are highly interdisciplinary.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.

Graduate school courses are done in collaboration with the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics for the Ph.D. degree. Courses for the Integrated Ph.D. programme are done in collaboration with Pune University, as well as IISER Pune. NCRA faculty also teach courses at Pune University Physics department (as part of the Pune University M.Sc. programme), a well as at IISER

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XI-NCRA-2 Evaluative Report of Departments (B3)


Pune.




Students of the NCRA are offered a programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses and a choice of topics on which they can do project work. During each semester students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process consisting of one or more of Assignments/ Quizzes/ Mid-semester Examination/ End-semester Examination/ Class Presentations/ Term Papers.


NCRA does not currently participate in courses offered by other departments of the TIFR Deemed University.

10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Distinguished Professor

(J) 0

2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 3 3. Professor (H) 2 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 5 5. Reader (F) 7 6. Reader (E) 1 7. Fellow (E) 0

Total 18


Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡

S. K. Ghosh Ph.D Sr. Professor (I) The Interstellar

Medium, Infra-red Astronomy

37 0

Y. Gupta Ph.D. Sr. Professor (I) Pulsars, the interstellar medium and

25.6 2

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Instrumentation

J. N. Chengalur Ph.D Sr. Professor (I) Extragalactic

astronomy, the interstellar medium

19.9 4

D. J. Saikia Ph.D Professor (H) Extragalactic

astronomy, AGN , nearby galaxies

27.4 2

P. K. Manoharan Ph.D Professor (H) Solar activity, the interplanetary medium

21.5 1

N. G. Kantharia

Ph.D. As. Professor (G)

Galactic and extragalactic radio sources, emission models and mechanisms

17.7 0

D. Mitra

Ph.D. As. Professor (G)

Pulsars, pulsar emission mechanisms, the interstellar medium Physics of interdisciplinary nature

12.3 1

Ch. Ishwara-Chandra

Ph.D As. Professor (G)

Radio Galaxies and Quasars

14.0 0

N. Kanekar Ph.D As. Professor

(G) Fundamental constant evolution, the interstellar medium, high redshift galaxies

6.7

1

B. C. Joshi Ph.D As. Professor

(G) Pulars, polarimetry, instrumentation, software

13.4 3

D. Oberoi Ph.D. Reader (F) Solar Physics,

Interplanetary Scintillations, Interferometry

4.3 1

Y. Wadadekar

Ph.D Reader (F) Galaxy formation and evolution, radio properties of AGN, high redshift radio galaxies, machine learning

8.6

0

D. V. Lal Ph.D Reader(F) Extragalactic radio and X-ray astronomy

4.3 0

S. Roy Ph.D Reader (F) The galactic centre, the interstellar medium,

8.2 1

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supernova remnants

P. Chandra Ph.D Reader (F) Supernovae, gamma

ray bursts, massive stars

3.3 0

T. Roy Choudhury Ph.D. Reader (F) Reionization, the

intergalactic medium, dark energy

7.8 3

S. K. Sirothia Ph.D. Reader(F) Extragalactic radio

astronomy, instrumentation

3 0

J. Roy Ph.D. Reader(E) Pulsars, transient radio

sources, instrumentation

2 0

* Highest degree obtained † Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere) ‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)

12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors We have no senior visiting fellows/adjunct faculty/emeritus Professors. However we are hosting Dr. Sushan Konar and Dr. R. Kale who hold the DST WOS fellowship and the DST INSPIRE faculty fellowship respectively.

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information A total of 56 classes were taught as part of the Ph.D. program over the last four years. Of these three were taught by temporary faculty. No classes in other programs were taught by temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio We currently have 20 students in the Ph.D and Integrated Ph.D. programs combined. We have a total of 18 faculty members all of whom are involved in both programs. The student teacher ratio is hence 20:18, i.e. ~ 1.1.

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Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and auxiliary Staff 143 89

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies The focus area at NCRA is radio astronomy. The specialties include: • Solar astronomy • Stars and star forming regions, pulsars, extra-galactic astronomy • Interstellar medium, galaxies, galaxy evolution, • Transients, active galactic nuclei, • Cosmology, theoretical astrophysics • Radio astronomy-related instrumentation


Agency Title Project cost (in Rs. Lakhs)

Duration Faculty

1 DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship

57 5 years Nissim Kanekar

2 DST Neutron Stars Glitch Physics

24 3 years Sushan Konar

3 DST Inspire faculty Award 55 5 years Ruta Kale

4 SERB Pulsar monitoring observations programme

21 3 years B C Joshi

5 DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship 75 5years Poonam Chandra

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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received NCRA is the lead Indian institution for the Square Kilometer Array Mega Project, which is a large international collaboration to build the next generation Radio Telescope. For the ongoing pre-construction phase of the SKA, NCRA is leading a multi-national consortium for the Monitoring and Control (Telescope Manager) work, as well as participating in other packages like signal transport, signal processing etc. The total funding for this project for the next 3 years is about INR 36 crore.

19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, ` AICTE, etc.; total grants received. Agency Title Project cost

(in Rs.Lakhs) Duration Faculty

1 DAE XII Plan Project – Radio Astrophysics at NCRA

10,100 5 years All NCRA faculty

NCRA has two major projects funded by the DAE, these are focused on Capacity building in Radio Astronomy, and Upgrades to the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope. The total funding in the 12th 5-year plan for these two projects is about Rs. 100 crore. The project on capacity building for Radio Astronomy includes components on Upgrades of computational facilities, Upgrades for the Ooty Radio Telescope, Upgrades of SIRC Facilities User Community Development, Enhancement to the TGSS Computational Facility, Radio Astronomy From Space, Upgrade of Civil and Related Infrastructure, The expanded GMRT and the NCRA Technology Park. The upgrade of the GMRT includes components on New Technology Front- End & Signal Transport for GMRT, Upgradation of back-ends for the GMRT, Improvements to GMRT Operations, Upgrades to GMRT data archive, Controlling Radio Frequency Interference at the GMRT, the Next Generation Servo System, Improvements to Mechanical Systems, and Additions & Improvements to Electrical Systems.

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In addition NCRA is the nodal Indian agency for the international Square Kilometer Array project. This is one of the mega projects funded by DAE and DST. The budget for this project is INR 36 crore for 3 years.

20. Research facility / centre with National and International recognition.

NCRA designed, built and operates the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) which is one of the most sensitive radio telescopes in the world. It is located at a site about 80 km north of Pune, and consists of 30 fully steerable gigantic parabolic dishes each of 45m diameter. The array is spread over distances of up to 25 km, with all antennas connected to the central electronics building via optical fibre links. The number and configuration of the dishes was optimized to meet the principal astrophysical objectives which require sensitivity at high angular resolution as well as ability to image radio emission from diffuse extended regions. The multiplication or correlation of radio signals from all the 435 possible pairs of antennas or interferometers enables radio images of celestial objects to be synthesized with a resolution equivalent to that obtainable with a single gigantic dish 25 kilometre in diameter. The array currently operates in 5 frequency bands centered at 153, 233, 325, 610 and 1420 MHz. All these feeds provide dual polarization outputs. In some configurations, dual-frequency observations are also possible.

GMRT is a completely indigenous project and is one of the most challenging experimental programmes in basic sciences undertaken by Indian scientists and engineers. The GMRT was dedicated to the nation in 2001 by Shri Ratan Tata and is operated as a national facility with the allocation of observing time with the GMRT is done by an independent Time Allocation Committee, currently chaired by Prof. K. Subramanian from IUCAA. The Time Allocation Committee receives proposals from astronomers from across the world and allocates time based on international peer review, independent of the home institute of the proposer. At the moment about 50% of the time at the GMRT is allocated to proposals from Indian PIs and the remaining to proposals from foreign PIs. The over subscription rate (i.e. the ratio of total observing time requested to the total time available for allocation) at GMRT is around a factor of 2. The GMRT is one of the few national facilities which attracts a significant number of proposals from the international community. The statistics of time distribution at the GMRT (as a function of the

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country of origin of the PI) is given below.

In addition the NCRA also operates the Ooty Radio Telescope, which remains one of the most sensitive low frequency single dish telescopes in the world.

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21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies

NA

22. Publications: NCRA Journal

Publications


Technical Reports

Web Publication

s

Book Chapters

Books Edited

Mono -

graphs

2010-11 44 08 4 5 1 - -

2011-12 43 18 12 4 1 - -

2012-13 68 20 14 - - - -

2013-14 55 10 18 - 1 - -

2014-15 71 11 22 - - 1 -

Total 281 67 70 9 3 1

∗ Citation Index – range / average

• Total number of citations- 22685 (Source-Astrophysical Data System)

• Number of citations per faculty- 1260

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∗ h-index

• Range- 8-32

23. Details of patents and income generated Patent Name Patent holder Date of filing Current status

Preloaded Parabolic Dish Antenna and the Method of Making it G.Swarup 29-06-07 Granted

Income generated is NIL

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

None

25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions / Industries in India and abroad

All NCRA faculty have made several visits to both national and international institutes, industries etc. A partial list of visits is given below. National Visits:

Name of Faculty Member National Visits Place of visit Year of Visit

1 B C Joshi 1)ASI 28th, Meeting, 2)National Seminar On Aerospace and Related Mechanisms 3)ASI 31st, Meeting, 4)Aditya science meeting 5)ASI 32nd Meeting

1)Raipur 2)Thiruvananthapuram 3)Thiruvananthpuram 4)Bangalore 5)Bangalore

1)2010 2)2010 3)2013 4)2013 5)2014

2 Chengalur, J. N. 1)ARIES, 2)Radio Astronomy, Astronomy Olympiad Camp, HBCSE

1)Nainital 2)Mumbai

1)2012 2)2014

3 Choudhury, Tirthankar Roy 1)HRI 2)Indian Institute of Science

1)Allahabad 2)Bangalore

2012

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Name of Faculty Member National Visits Place of visit Year of Visit 4 Dutta, Prasun 1) Indian Inst.of

Technology 2)IISER

1) Kharagpur 2)Mohali

2011

5 Ghosh S.K 1)S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences 2)ARIES, 3)Astronomical Society of India

1) Kolkatta 2)Nainital 3)Raipur

1)2010 2)2010 3)2011

6 Gupta Yashwant 1)Indian Inst.of Technology 2) ASI,30th Meeting 3)IISER 4)INSPIRE Sc.Camp, NIST 5) IISER 6)2014 IEEE HPC Conference 7)102nd Indian Science Congress meeting. 8)RRI

1)Mumbai 2)Thiruvananthapuram 3) Trivandrum 4)Orissa, 5)Mohali 6)Goa 7)Mumbai 8)Bangalore

1)2010 2)2012 3)2013 4)2014 5)2014 6)2014 7)2015 8)2015

7 Ishwara-Chandra C. H Cotton College State University, Guwahati,

Assam 2015

8 Kanekar Nissim 1)Indian Conference on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, IISER 2)Indian Institute of Sciences 3)RRI 4)IISER 5)IIA 6)RRI

1)Mohali 2)Bangalore 3)Bangalore 4)Mohali 5)Bangalore 6)Bangalore

1)2011 2)2012 3)2013 4)2014 5)2014 6)2014

9 Manoharan, P.K Physical Research Laboratory

1)Ahmedabad 2014

10 Roy, J 1)Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 2)S N Bose National Centre for

Kolkata 2012

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Name of Faculty Member National Visits Place of visit Year of Visit Basic Science

11 Saikia D.J. 1)Raman Research Institute 2) Indian Inst.. of Technology

1)Bangalore 2)Triruvananthapuram

1)2010, 2011 2)2011

International Visits: Name of

Faculty Member

Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit

1 Gopal Krishna 09/05/2011 - 23/05/2011

Collaborative research work in MPIfR, Bonn & IAP, Paris

MPIfR, Bonn

2 D J Saikia 01/05/2011 - 31/07/2011

ELVA, Soccorro, New Mexico, USA

Socorro, New Mexico, US

3 Yogesh Wadakekar

28/06/2011 - 30/06/2011

Representative of M & C Lead Institution

Manchester, UK

4 Nissim Kanekar 27/06/2011 - 30/06/2011

speaker Santiago, Chile

5 N G Kantharia 12/07/2011 - 17/07/2011

Contibuted presentation Boston, USA

6 Nissim Kanekar 03/07/2011 - 08/07/2011

invited speaker Ringberg, Germany

7 Yogesh Wadakekar

04/07/2011 - 08/07/2011

M & C Breakout meeting Banff, Canada

8 Yogesh Wadakekar

26/07/2011 - 29/07/2011

invited speaker in Asia Pacific Regional IAU meeting

Chiang Mai, Thailand

9 Yashwant Gupta

17/07/2011 - 23/07/2011

participating in the review panel meet for MeerKAT

Capetown, South Africa

10 Yashwant Gupta

13/08/2011 - 20/08/2011

invited talk(URSI General Assembly)

Istanbul, Turkey

11 P K Manoharan 28/06/2011 - 07/07/2011

invited talk Melbourne, Australia

12 P K Manoharan 08/08/2011 - 12/08/2011

invited talk Taipei

13 B C Joshi 13/08/2011 - 20/08/2011

paper presentation and participation (URSI General Assembly 2011)

Istanbul, Turkey

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Name of Faculty

Member


14 S K Sirothia 13/08/2011 - 20/08/2011

invited talk (URSI General Assembly, 2011)

Istanbul, Turkey

15 J N Chengalur 05/09/2011 - 14/09/2011

collaboration work at ANU Australia

16 Prof. Yashwant Gupta

17/10/2011 - 21/10/2011

Visit to UK for PrepSKA WP2 meeting at Manchester

UK

17 Janusz Gil 23/10/2011 - 26/10/2011

invited to work in Zielona Gora, Poland

Poland

18 Ishwara Chandra C H

01/11/2011 - 04/12/2011

Collaborative work at Univ. of Birmigham, UK

UK

19 P K Manoharan 21/10/2011 - 28/10/2011

Living with Star (LWS) meeting at NSA-GSFC)

USA

20 Yashwant Gupta

29/01/2012 - 04/02/2012

Visit to UK for PrepSKA WP2 meeting at Manchester

UK

21 Yashwant Gupta

13/02/2012 - 16/02/2012

Concept of Design Review Meeting at Manchester

UK

23 Swarna K Ghosh

17/03/2012 - 22/03/2012

collaborative work at Russia under DST-RFBR programme

Russia

24 Nissim Kanekar 21/02/2012 - 11/04/2012

Observation with Kast Telescope of Lick Observatory, California , Collaboration research with Dr. Jeff Weagg at Santiago, Chile

California, USA & Santiago, Chile

25 P K Manoharan 09/04/2012 - 07/05/2012

collaborative work on Indo-US project on Solar Eruptive Phenomena at NASA, USA

NASA, USA

26 Yashwant Gupta

24/04/2012 - 27/04/2012

invited talk at Univ. of Zielona Gora, Poland

Univ. of Zielona Gora, Poland

27 Gopal Krishna 20/05/2012 - 04/06/2012

Scientific collaboration at IAP, France

IAP, France

28 Gopal Krishna 05/07/2012 - 19/07/2012

collaborative work at Princeton New Jersey, USA

USA

29 P K Manoharan 13/05/2012 - 14/05/2012

AOGS council meeting at Singapore

Singapore

30 B C Joshi 18/06/2012 - 20/06/2012

RISC meeting in Puschino, Moscow

Moscow, Russia

31 Dharam Vir Lal 20/08/2012 - 31/08/2012

Oral presentation in IAU meeting in Beijing, China

Beijing, China

32 Yogesh Wadakekar

04/08/2012 - 14/08/2012

International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics in Rio de Janeriro, Brazil

Brazil

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Name of Faculty

Member


33 Divya Oberoi 13/08/2012 - 17/08/2012

ASIA OCEANIA GEOSCIENCE Society-American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly 2012

Singapore

34 Gopal Krishna 05/08/2012 - 11/08/2012

Indo-South Africa Workshop Capetown, South Africa

35 Sandeep Sirothia

05/08/2012 - 11/08/2012


36 Yashwant Gupta

05/08/2012 - 11/08/2012


37 Yashwant Gupta

12/08/2012 - 18/08/2012

CASPER 2012 Greenbank, USA

38 B C Joshi 19/08/2012 - 29/08/2012

28 General Assembly of IAU & Pulsar Symposium at Beijing

Beijing, China

39 Yashwant Gupta

23/09/2012 - 27/09/2012

RADIO 2012 at Mauritius Mauritius

40 B C Joshi 19/08/2012 - 29/08/2012

28 General Assembly of IAU & Pulsar Symposium at Beijing

Beijing, China

41 Yogesh Wadadekar

22/09/2012 - 20/10/2012

Collaborative visit to SAAO, Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

42 Divya Oberoi 03/10/2012 - 05/10/2012

talk and collaborative work at MIT HAYSTACK Observatory

USA

44 P K Manoharan 21/01/2013 - 26/01/2013

Course teaching lecturer in intl space weather winter school at National Central University, Taiwan

Taiwan

45 Yashwant Gupta

27/01/2013 - 01/02/2013

Participation in SKA Board Meeting in Manchester, UK

UK

46 J N Chengalur 04/02/2013 - 16/02/2013

Collaboration work with Australian National Univ., Australia

Australia

47 Dipanjan Mitra 26/04/2013 - 03/07/2013

Collaborative work in Univ. of Zeilona Gora, Poland

Poland

48 Yashwant Gupta

14/04/2013 - 27/04/2013

SKA related meeting in UK and Modern Radio Universe Conference in Bonn

UK & Germany

49 Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

01/05/2013 - 12/06/2013

Academic collaboration with ICTP, TRIESTE, Italy

Italy

50 Poonam Chandra

14/04/2013 - 18/04/2013

GRB conference in Nashiville USA

51 Ishwara Chandra

01/04/2013 - 28/04/2013

visit to IAS, Paris and MRU2013 Bonn

France & Germany

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Name of Faculty

Member


52 Divya Oberoi 22/06/2013 - 28/06/2013

Meeting of ASIA OCEANIA Geophysical Society

Australia

53 Divya Oberoi 04/05/2013 - 04/06/2013

Visiting MIT-HAYSTACK Observatory

USA

54 Nissim Kanekar 22/04/2013 - 26/04/2013

Meeting on The Modern Radio Universe

Germany

55 P K Manoharan 13/05/2013 - 12/06/2013

Visit to Goddard Space Flight Centrer, NASA,

USA

56 P K Manoharan 24/06/2013 - 29/06/2013

To attend workshop on New Eyes Looking at Solar Activity

Prague, Czech Republic

57 N G Kantharia 03/06/2013 - 08/06/2013

Collaborative work at CFA, Boston

USA

58 B C Joshi 18/06/2013 - 22/06/2013

RADIO ASTRON INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE Meeting

Moscow, Russia

59 Yogesh Wadadekar

18/06/2013 - 22/06/2013

RADIO ASTRON INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE Meeting

Moscow, Russia

60 Yashwant Gupta

24/06/2013 - 28/06/2013

Approval for participation in SKA interfaces workshop meeting in UK

UK

61 Yashwant Gupta

02/07/2013 - 07/07/2013

Participation in MeerKAT review panel meeting in Capetown

South Africa

62 Nissim Kanekar 08/07/2013 - 12/07/2013

Meeting on Varying Fundamental Constants, Italy

Italy

63 Yashwant Gupta

23/07/2013 - 26/07/2013

Particpation in SKA Board Meeting in UK

UK


10/09/2013 - 21/09/2013

To participate in the conference on LYMAN-ALPHA as an Cosmological Tool om Stockholm Univ., Sweden, collaborative work at IOA, Cambridge

Sweden & UK

65 Yashwant Gupta

07/10/2013 - 11/10/2013

SKA Engineering meeting at Manchester, UK

UK

66 Yogesh Wadadekar

07/10/2013 - 11/10/2013

SKA Engineering meeting at Manchester, UK

UK

67 Jayaram N Chengalur

03/11/2013 - 08/11/2013

Conference on The Universe @GER's Wavelength at Groningen. Netherlands

Netherlands

68 Nissim Kanekar 04/11/2013 - 08/11/2013

Conference on The Universe @GER's Wavelength at Groningen. Netherlands

Netherlands

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Name of Faculty

Member


69 Nissim Kanekar 21/11/2013 - 28/11/2013

1 day workshop on ELVA CH3OH data on fundamental constants at Amsterdam and collaborative research at DARK Cosmology Centre, Cophenhagen

The Netherlands & Denmark

70 Yashwant Gupta

10/03/2014 - 13/03/2014

Participation in SKA Board Meeting in Manchester, UK

UK

71 Yashwant Gupta

07/04/2014 - 12/04/2014

Participation in SKA Telescope Manager group meeting at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK

UK

72 Yashwant Gupta

16/06/2014 - 19/06/2014

Participation in SKA SEAC Meetin in UK

UK

73 Nissim Kanekar 15/07/2014 - 10/08/2014

Observation with Australia Telescope Compact Array at Narrabri, Australia and collaborative work with ICRAR, Perth, Australia

Australia

74 B C Joshi 02/08/2014 - 10/08/2014

COSPAR meeting and Radio Astron intl steering committee meeting

Moscow, Russia

76 Dharam Vir Lal 09/07/2014 - 11/07/2014

workship on X-ray view of Galaxy Ecosystems (9-11 July 2014) at Boston, USA

Boston, USA

77 Dharam Vir Lal 21/08/2014 - 22/08/2014

APRIM 2014 (12th Asia - Pacific Regional IAU meeting at Daejeon, Korea

Korea

78 P K Manoharan 28/07/2014 - 01/08/2014

Asia Oceania Feosciences Socieity 11th Annual Meeting (AOGS) Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Japan

79 Poonam Chandra

21/07/2014 - 25/07/2014

BinaMics & MiMes meeting at Paris

France

80 Divya Oberoi 16/08/2014 - 23/08/2014

URSI General Assembly of Scientific Symposium at Beijing

China

81 Ishwara Chandra

03/11/2014 - 29/11/2014

Collaboration work with Argentina Institutute of Radio La-Plata, Argentiana

Argentina

82 Yashwant Gupta

28/09/2014 - 06/10/2014

Participation in SKA Engineering Meeting and Consortia Meeting in Perth

Australia

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Name of Faculty

Member



10/09/2014 - 20/09/2014

Collaborative work at SAO, Russia

Russia

84 Divya Oberoi 15/09/2014 - 17/10/2014

Collaboration work with MIT Haystack Observatory

USA

85 Yashwant Gupta

15/10/2014 - 17/10/2014

SKA Board Meeting in Guiyang, China

China


13/11/2014 - 22/11/2014

Research & Collaboration with Institute of Astronomy, Univ of Cambridge, UK

UK


30/11/2014 - 10/12/2014

Invited speaker on SKA 2014 in South Africa

South Africa


03/11/2014 - 06/11/2014

Invited speaker - conference on Periphery of Disk Galaxies at Sydney

Australia

89 Yashwant Gupta

01/12/2014 - 04/12/2014

SKA Board + SKA Members meeting in Manchester

UK


10/12/2014 - 11/12/2014

To attend the meeting of the SKA Science Review Panel at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK

UK

91 Yogesh Wadadekar

07/01/2015 - 09/01/2015

SKA TM Design Review Meeting in UK

UK

92 Yashwant Gupta

07/01/2015 - 09/01/2015

SKA TM Design Review Meeting in UK

UK

93 Yashwant Gupta

03/03/2015 - 05/032015

SKA Board + SKA Members meeting in Manchester

UK

94 Nissim Kanekar 05/04/2015 - 22/05/2015

To carry out observations with the Arecibo and Greek Bank Telescope and collaboration work with University of California

USA

95 Yashwant Gupta

09/04/2015 - 10/04/2015

SKA Consortium Leads Meet in Jodrell Bank Obervatory, UK

UK


06/05/2015 - 10/06/2015

Advanced workshop of cosmological structures from Reionization to Galaxies at ICTP,Trieste, Italy

Italy

97 Poonam Chandra

31/05/2015 - 05/06/2015

McCray Symposium 2015 at Univ. of Bern, Switzerland

Switzerland

98 P K Manoharan 02/08/2015 - 07/08/2015

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 12th Annual Meeting (AOGS 2015)

Singapore

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Name of Faculty

Member


99 B C Joshi 14/06/2015 - 18/06/2015

Radio ASTRON INTERNATIONAL Steering Committee meeting

Bonn, Germany

100 Yogesh Wadadekar

01/07/2015 - 25/07/2015

Conference on SKA Pathfinders Radio ContinuumSurveys 2015 at South Africa and collaboration work wth SAAO, South Africa

South Africa


25/06/2015 - 01/07/2015

Colloquium speaker and external examiner of Thesis defence at Groningen Univ., The Netherland

The Netherlands

102 Dharam Vir Lal 01/07/2015 - 03/07/2015

invited talk on SPACS 2015 South Africa

103 Yashwant Gupta

14/07/2015 - 15/07/2015

SKA Consortium Leads Meet in Edinburg, UK

UK

104 Yashwant Gupta

22/07/2015 - 23/07/2015

SKA Board Meeting in South Africa

South Africa

105 Nissim Kanekar 06/06/2015 - 19/06/2015

The trip to receive Delta Lectureship award from the National Central University of Taiwan

Taiwan

106 Poonam Chandra

24/08/2015 - 27/08/2015

Indian Scientists in the SKA Key Science Workshop

Sweden

107 Bhal Chandra Joshi

24/08/2015 - 27/08/2015


Sweden

108 Dharam Vir Lal 24/08/2015 - 27/08/2015


Sweden

109 Divya Oberoi 24/08/2015 - 27/08/2015


Sweden


24/08/2015 - 27/08/2015


Sweden

111 Divya Oberoi 17/08/2015 - 21/08/2015

Collaborative work in curtain Univ., Perth, Australia

Australia

112 Ishwara Chandra

19/10/2015 - 31/10/2015

Poster presentation and collaboration work at Bologna, Italy

Italy

113 P K Manoharan 05/10/2015 - 16/10/2015

Coimbra Solar Physics Meeting at Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal

Portugal

114 Yashwant Gupta

14/10/2015 - 16/10/2015

SKA ITO negotiations meet Italy

115 Yashwant Gupta

08/11/2015 - 12/11/2015

SKA Engineering meeting and Consortia meetings in Canada

Canada

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Name of Faculty

Member


116 Yashwant Gupta

19/11/2015 - 20/11/2015

SKA Board Meeting at Manchester, UK

UK


02/11/2015 - 06/11/2015

Conference on SKA in Seoul and collaboration work with Korean Astronomy

S Korea

118 Nissim Kanekar 02/11/2015 - 06/11/2015

Conference on SKA in Seoul and collaboration work with Korean Astronomy

S Korea

119 Yashwant Gupta

02/12/2015 - 08/12/2015

Conference on Science at Low Fequencies II at New Mexico and visit to Univ. of California, Berkeley or interactions with CASPER group

USA


02/12/2015 - 05/12/2015

Conference on Science at Low Fequencies II at New Mexico

USA

26. Faculty serving in (a) National Committees


Name of the Committee Role in the Committee

Term of Service

1 S.K.Ghosh Indian Academy of Science Fellow 2006- Governing Council and Governing Board of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES),

Member

The National Academy of Sciences Fellow 2010- Governing Council of the Western Regional Instrumentation Centre

Member 2009-

Governing Council and Governing Board of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)

Member 2010-

Scientific Management Board of the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) since

Member 2013-

National Committee of International Astronomical Union

Member 2008-2011

2 J. N. Chengalur National Committee of the Indian Astronomical Union (IAU)

Member 2012 -

AIRIES Science Advisory Committee Member 2012-

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Term of Service

Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow National academy of Sciences of India

Fellow

3 Y.Gupta TMT-India Software Work Packages Monitoring Committee

Chair March 2015 -

Physics Sectional Committee of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Member 2014-15

The Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow 2008 National Academy of Sciences of India

Fellow 2007

Scientific Advisory Committee, IUCAA, Pune

Member 2009-2013

4 Choudhury, Roy T Science Working Groups for SKA-India.

Overall coordinator

2014

5 Ishwara Chandra C.H.

1)Executive Council, Astronomical Society of India 2) SOC: Workshop on exploration of Radio Universe, Gorakhpur, Univ 3)SOC:ASI

1)Councilor 2) Member 3)Member

1)2013 – 2016 2) Feb 2010 3)2011

7 D.J.Saikia National Academy of Sciences India Fellow 8 Manoharan PK Scientific Steering Committee,

CAWSES – India, Phase II Programme Member 2014 -

(b) International Committees: Name of the

Faculty Member Name of the Committee Role in the

Committee Term of Service

1 Y Gupta SKA Telescope Manager Consortium

Leader Oct 2013 -

Steering Board of CASPER, University of California, Berkeley

Member 2010-

Review panel of the Mid-Scale Innovations Program (MSIP) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

Member 2014-15

Indian representative on the Board of the international Square Kilometre Array Organisation,

Member 2011-

2 J N Chengalur SKA Science Working Group Member 2011-

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SKA Science Review Panel Member 2014 3 Choudhury,

Roy T International Science Working Group on Cosmology for the SKA

Member 2014-

4 B C Joshi Panel on Education, COSPAR Member 2008- RadioAstron International Science Committee

Member 2011-

5 D.V.Lal Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Continuum-Surveys Science Working Group

Member 2015-

6 Manoharan, P.K.

IAU Division E Commission 49 Interplanetary Plasma & Heliosphere

Vice President 2013-

International Space Weather Initiatives (ISWI) Programme in India.

National Coordinator

2011-

Solar and Terrestrial Sciences Section, Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society

President 2012

7 D. Oberoi International SKA Solar-Heliospheric-Ionospheric Science Working Group

Co-chair 2015-

MWA Solar Heliospheric and Ionospheric Coordination committee

Vice Chair 2014-2015

8. P.Chandra SKA International transient Science Working Group

Member 2015

Scientific Organising Committees of International Meetings

Name of the Faculty

Member

Name of the Committee Role in the Com-

mittee

Term of Service

1 Gupta, Y 1)SOC: Meeting, Tempe2014: Early Science Results from Low-frequency Radio Telescopes 2)SOC:Low Frequency Radio Astronomy" in the XXXth General Assembly of URSI, Istanbul, Turkey

Member 1)December, 8-10 2014 2)August 13-20, 2011

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Name of the Faculty

Member

Name of the Committee Role in the Com-

mittee

Term of Service

2 Kanekar N 1)SOC: The Universe at Ger's (wave)-length, Kapteyn Institut, Groningen, The Netherlands;

Member 1) November 2013

3 Saikia, D.J 1)SOC: 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Heidelberg 2)SOC:An international conference on Diffuse Relativistic Plasma, RRI, Bengaluru 3) SOC: Special Session on `Cosmic Evolution of Groups and Clusters', Beijing General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union

Member 1)December 6-10, 2010 2)March 1-4, 2011 2) 2012

4 P.Chandra 1)SOC: TMT Science Forum, Kyoto, Japan 2) SOC for IAU 296, Supernovae and their environments, Raichak, Kolkata

1) Member 2) Member

1) 24-26 May 2016 2) Jan 2013

(c) Editorial Boards: Name of the

Faculty Member Name of the Journal Impact Factor Term of

Service 1 S. K. Ghosh Journal of Astronomy and

Astrophysics 0.711 2010-

2 D. J. Saikia Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India

0.89 2010-2014

3 P. K. Manoharan Solar and Terrestrial Sciences Section of Geosciences Letters, official journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS).

2.0 2011-

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate.

2.588 2011-

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As all TIFR faculty members regularly participate in national and international research-oriented symposia, conferences, workshops and schools, often as the organizers or principal lecturers, they are always in touch with the state of the art in their areas of expertise. Therefore, no separate recharging/refresher programmes are needed, nor are any conducted. In fact, TIFR faculty are in great demand as lecturers in such programmes in other institutions, both inside and outside India.


• percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-departmental projects

100% of our students do their Ph.D. projects in house or in collaboration with other research institutes.

• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute

Almost all TIFR faculty and laboratories have collaborations with scientists in India and abroad. Students of these faculty members and laboratories participate in these projects. Thus the percentage of students involved in such projects may be 95% or more.


Faculty Members:

(a) National Awards


1 1)2006

2)2010

S K Ghosh 1) Fellow of Indian Academy of Science 2) Fellow of The National Academy of

Sciences

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2 1)2007 2)2007 3)2008

Yashwant Gupta 1) S S Bhatnagar award 2) Fellow of The National Academy of

Sciences 3) Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences

3 2008 Nissim Kanekar Vainu Bappu Gold Medal 4 1)2008

2)2009 3) 2011 4)2009

Jayaram Chengalur 1) DAE-SRC outstanding research investigator award

2) Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai award

3) Fellow of Indian Academy of Science 4) Fellow of The National Academy of

Sciences 5 2012 Jayanta Roy

Bharat Jyoti Award

6 2013 Nissim Kanekar Swarna Jayanti Fellowship 7 2011 D J Saikia Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences 8 1)2006

2)2016 Poonam Chandra 1) INSA Young Scientist Award

2) Swarna Jayanti Fellowship

(b) International Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 2002 D. V. Lal URSI Young Scientist Award 2010 Poonam Chandra IUPAP Young Astrophysicist Award 2014 Nissim Kanekar Delta Lectureship Award, National Central

University of Taiwan

Students, Postdocs

• National Awards


2016 A.J.Nayana Best oral presentation in the NSSS2016, Astronomy and Astrophysics parallel session.

• International Awards


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2011 Vishal Kumar Gajjar URSI Young Scientist Award

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.


1 2015 Astronomical Society of India Meeting

All meetings have been funded via registration fees and out of the NCRA budget.

J N Chengalur & Ishwara Chandra C.H.

2 2015 SKA Face-to-Face All-Hands Meeting of the Telescope Manager Consortium

Y.Gupta

3 2015 SKA India Steering Committee Y.Gupta

4 2015 First meeting of SKA India Consortium (SKAIC) Y.Gupta

5 2014 Workshop on Galaxies and Cosmology

J N Chengalur and Tirthankar R. Choudhury

6 2013 Scientific Discussion on Advanced Solar Physics P K Manoharan

7 2013 SKA Telescope Manager Consortium Meeting Y.Gupta

8 2013 Square Kilometer Array (SKA) meeting Y.Gupta

9 2013 SKA Project Stage 1 – Kick Off meeting of the Telescope Manager Consortium

Y.Gupta

10 2013

The Metrewavelength Sky: Celebrating 50 years of Radio Astronomy at TIFR and 10 years of GMRT

J N Chengalur

11 2011 CASPER Workshop Y.Gupta 12 2011 SOLAR RADIO Workshop P K Manoharan

13 2013 International Space Weater Winter School Taiwan National Univ P K Manoharan


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32. Student profile programme-wise: Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches.

Programme ons received #

Selected Joined Pass

percentage* Male Female Male Female Male Female

Ph.D. 13258 53 17 20 03 65 100

Int.M.Sc.-Ph.D. 25 03 04 0 75 -- Total

a) Diversity of students Geographical

Ph.D. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. M.Sc. Total

Male Female Male Female Male Female From the state where NCRA is located

4 0 0 0 0 0 4

From other states in India 10 3 3 0 0 0 16

NRI students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 14 3 3 0 0 0 20

b) Graduate Institution:

Ph.D. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D.

M.Sc.. Total

Male Female Male Female Male Female From Universities 4 1 3 0 0 0 8 From premier science institutions † 3 0 0 0 0 0 3

From premier professional institutions #

7 2 0 0 0 0 9

From others* 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 14 3 3 0 0 0 20

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc. ,# IITs, NITs, etc.

33. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.

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The break up given below is for the twenty students currently at NCRA.

Examination No of students who cleared 1. NET 10 2. GATE 7


Students joining NCRA for a Ph.D. or Integrated Ph.D. go on to do post-docotoral fellowships at research institutions in India or abroad. So far all students who completed the program have successfully got postdoctoral positions.

35. Diversity of staff Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s

11%

78%

11%

Faculty Ph.D.s

TIFR

India

Abroad

from TIFR :

2



Total No 18




a. Library NCRA Library is user-focused, innovative, and excellently driven. The library is a pioneer in adopting new technology. NCRA Library manages collections both in print and digital formats and ensures access to scholarly resources. The total area of library is approximately 464 Sq metres and available reading area is 139 sq. metres. At a time about 25 users can be seated comfortably in the reading area.

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The Library Working Hours are Monday through Friday 09.30-1800 hrs. On weekends and holidays users can issue the library key from the security for library usage. A drop box has been placed near the entry check point, and library members desiring to issue books can drop the library card in the box. The library is enriched with vast collections of books in various disciplines. Summary of the statistics is given below: Collection Total as on 01/Jan/16

Books, Theses, CDs 10069

Bound Volumes of Journals 5049

Reports, Pamphlets, Standards 520

Journals (Print, Online) Print 30 & 25 Online

Databases IEEE, ScienceDirect, JASTOR

The Library maintains excellent exchange relations with a number of libraries in the vicinity of the campus and city, for its users. The library can also procure soft/hard copies of articles needed by our users from other libraries as well as from international colleagues. The Library offers photocopying service to all its members. The library is a part of the institute-wide network. Library automation has also been carried out to provide efficient services to library users. The Library participates in the consortia with TIFR for accessing APS and IEEE journals. The Library has also carried out the digitization of various old reports, thesis, and manuals to provide direct access to collections.

b. Internet facilities for staff and students

NCRA has multiple internet links to ensure unbroken service at all times. These include direct broad band (32 Mbps) link to the internet, a point to point link to TIFR Mumbai, as well as an NKN link. There is a high speed (10 Gbps back bone) fiber based network that connects all of the buildings of the campus. All students and staff members have individual workstations connected to a high speed 10G backbone LAN. Students can access the LAN not only from their office rooms but also from their hostel rooms.

c. Total number of class rooms and

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d. Class rooms with ICT facility:

NCRA has a fully equipped (audio/visual facilities, wireless internet, video link, air-conditioned) 100-seater auditorium as well as a similarly equipped 50-seatcer lecture hall, and fully equipped rooms for smaller classes.

e. Students’ laboratories

The Radio Physics laboratory (RPL) is a joint initiative of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). RPL provides a platform for training students in radio astronomy as well as carrying out small radio astronomy projects. A set of simple hands on experiments have been designed using RPL facilities.

f. Research laboratories

NCRA operates two major facilities, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) which is operated as a national facility, and attracts users from both the national and international community, and the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) which remains one of the most sensitive single dish radio telescopes in the world. NCRA runs several fully equipped laboratories which do development work in several technologies relevant to radio astronomy and which develop the instrumentation used at the GMRT. These laboratories are funded via plan projects. The laboratories include a feed and front end lab, fibre optic lab, analog lab, telemetry lab and a digital back-end lab, a servo lab as well as fully equipped mechanical workshop. The current major project at the GMRT is a major upgrade of the telescope. This upgrade will increase the instantaneous bandwidth by more than an order of magnitude (from the current 32 MHz to 400 MHz) and to provide close to seamless frequency coverage from about 150 MHz to 1420 MHz. This activity is part of one of the major 12th plan projects at NCRA which is funded at a level of approximately 60 crores.

38. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows

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1. J.N.H.S. Aditya 1. Kanhaiya Lal Pandey 2. Omkar S. Bait 2. Yogesh Maan 3. Avishek K. Basu 3. Narendra Nath Patra 4. Apurba Bera 4. Peter Kamphuis 5. Atrideb Chatterjee 5. 6. Aditya Chowdhury 6. 7. Prakash Gaikwad 7. 8. Raghunath Ghara 8. 9. Sushma Kurapati 10. Souvik Manna JRFs 11. Surajit Mondal 1. Jesu Raja P 12. Preetish K Mishra 2. Joshy T.R. 13. Atul Mohan 14. Arun Kumar Naidu 15. A.J.Nayana 16. Minhajur Rahaman 17. Dinesh Raut 18. Biny Sebastian 19. Rohit Sharma 20. Mayuresh Surnis

39. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the university. All research scholars at NCRA are provided with financial assistance as per the DAE norms. Currently we have 20 students in the Ph.D. and I-Ph.D. programmes combined.

40. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology. The curriculum at NCRA is developed in the following systematic way. A subcommittee of experts draws up the proposed curriculum, generally in consultation with the standing Academic Affairs Committee. This curriculum is then discussed in the entire faculty and modified as needed. The next stage is to submit the proposed curriculum to the Subject Board Physics, which then vets it, suggests modifications which are taken on board before ratification.


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As described for (41) above, curriculum development is done after obtaining feedback from the entire faculty.

b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department utilize the feedback?

Feedback from students is obtained at the end of each semester. All feedback is available to the Centre Director, so that appropriate follow up can be initiated.


Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

42. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10) A number of our students have been awarded very prestigious postdocotroal fellowships and later other awards.

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. A. Begum ASTRON Fellowship 2. N. Roy Jansky and Humboldt Fellowship 3. B. Bhattacharya Marie Curie Fellowship 4. N.Kanekar i. Swarna Jayanti Fellowship

ii. Ramnajuan Fellowship iii. Max Planck Fellowship iv. Jansky Fellowship v. NOVA Fellowship

vi. Bolton Fellowship vii. URSI Young Scientist Award

viii. ASTRON Fellowship

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5. G.Swarup i. Padma Shri ii. S.S. Bhatnagar Award

iii. P.C.Mahalanobis Medal, iv. Tskolovosky Medal of USSR v. Meghnad Saha Medal,

vi. Third World Academy of Sciences Award in Physics,

vii. John Howard Delinger Gold Medal of the International Union of Radio Science,

viii. C.V. Raman Medal, ix. Khwarizmi International Award, Iran, x. Dr B. C. Roy National Award by the Medical

Council of India and xi. William Herschel Medal of the Royal

Astronomical Society in 2005.

43. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) involving external experts.

NCRA generally has a weekly seminar/colloquium given by leading experts from the country or abroad. After the colloquium a special session is held to allow the students to interact informally with the colloquium speaker, in the absence of any NCRA faculty. In addition NCRA regularly organizes larger meetings and workshops (See list provided as part of of 3.30).


Besides class room teaching, students often meet with the faculty members one on one in order to clarify doubts. In some courses, assignments include mini research problems, or dealing with practical issues of radio astronomy using data obtained from one of the NCRA facilities.

45. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and learning outcomes are monitored?

The course work and progress of students who have not yet registered for a Ph.D. are regularly monitored by a standing 3 member committee of faculty members, the Academic Affairs Committee. The progress of each student who has registered for a Ph.D. is also regularly monitored by a special 3 person faculty committee

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which includes the Ph.D. guide. In addition the progress of all of the students is reviewed annually by the NCRA faculty.

46. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities. NCRA organizes "Science Day" at the GMRT. The Science Day celebrations comprise a major component of our outreach programmes. Science Day events are usually spread over two days starting 28th of February, in order to cater to the tremendous response from the general public, especially the students from the schools and colleges in the rural and semi-urban areas and districts in the western Maharashtra, especially those near the GMRT observatory. It is perhaps one of the largest Science Day events in rural India, with about a hundred schools, colleges and institutions participating, and over 25000 people visiting the observatory in 2015 during the two-day event. The programme consists of a grand Science Exhibition, where children from the schools and colleges exhibit their science projects, and prizes are given for the best entries in different age groups. In addition, there are exhibitions illustrating astronomical themes and concepts, exciting results obtained with the GMRT, various subsystems of GMRT and illustrative models. There are also exhibits and live demonstrations from various research institutes and science popularisation groups, as well as teaching institutions such as the University of Pune and various national laboratories. There are also programmes to interact with well-known scientists and engineers and film shows on astronomical topics of current interest. Both students and faculty participate in organizing this program. In addition to the annual science day program, both students and faculty regularly engage in outreach activities via public lectures, star-gazing events, etc. Some faculty members have also participated in the Exciting Science programme for school children (organized by IISER and NCL) as well as the Chai and Why? program (organized by TIFR and Prithvi theatre

47. Give details of “beyond syllabus scholarly activities” of the department. NCRA students and faculty regularly publish the outcome of their research in international peer reviewed journals. Additionally faculty regularly participate in

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national and international conferences, and give colloquia at other institutions (both in India and abroad), to describe the work that they have been doing. Students also generally present their work at 2-3 national conferences and at least 1 international conference during their tenure.


NCRA, as a part of TIFR, was reviewed by a UGC Review Committee in 2012.

49. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic or applied.

NCRA faculty research output is excellent and is documented in the papers published in leading international refereed journals. Faculty members typically publish a total of 40-50 research papers per year. Particularly interesting results are sometimes the subject of press releases issued by NCRA, and generally get wide coverage in the media. Areas in which research at NCRA has made significant impact include studies of Coronal Mass Ejections, weather in the inner heliosphere, discovery of new pulsars, including milli-second pulsars and exotic binary pulsars, discovery of new supernovae remnants, studies of the interstellar medium of our galaxies, dark matter and star formation in nearby dwarf galaxies, Giant Radio Galaxies, physical conditions in the interstellar medium of distant gas rich galaxies, constraints on the variability of fundamental constants, observational constraints on the Epoch of Reionisation, theoretical models of the Epoch of Reionisation. NCRA faculty are also involved in the development of instrumentation, and the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope built and operated by NCRA remains one of the most sensitive telescopes in the world at most of its frequencies of operation.


Strengths a. Excellent, internationally reputed faculty. b. Easy access to world class instrumentation in the form of the GMRT which

is built and operated by NCRA.

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c. High quality student body, thanks to a rigorous selection process. d. High standard of training provided. e. Relatively stable funding.

Weaknesses a. Available hostel space is severely stressed at current levels of student

intake. b. Faculty strength could be increased. c. Low awareness in universities regarding the potential of radio astronomy

as a research field.

Opportunities a. Involvement in cutting edge research with the upgraded GMRT and ORT. b. Involvement with and use of the upcoming Mega projects like the SKA.

Challenges a. Faculty has numerous demands on their time, particularly since NCRA is

responsible for operating the GMRT as a national facility. b. Identifying and attracting students of the highest caliber who are

motivated towards radio astronomy. c. Strengthening the postdoctoral program.

51. Future plans of the department

NCRA is currently in the midst of upgrading the GMRT. The upgrade has two major components, (1) to increase the maximum instantaneous bandwidth from 32 MHz to 400 MHz and (2) to provide near seamless coverage from about 100 MHz to 1420 MHz. This is a major development, which has been spread over two plan periods and which is now nearing completion. The first phase of the upgrade has already been released for use to the national and international community, and the entire upgrade itself is expected to be completed shortly. This is an end to end upgrade of the GMRT, where all of the major sub-systems, from the feed antennas and low noise amplifiers, the antenna servo system, the fibre optic signal transport, the analog and digital signal processing as well as the telescope control and monitor system have been completely revamped. The upgrade ensure that the GMRT keeps a competitive niche globally for the next several years. Several

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research programs tuned around the capacities of the upgraded GMRT are expected to be started over the next year or so.

Similarly the Ooty Radio Telescope is also being upgraded, and the research plans using the upgraded telescope are in an advanced stage of preparation.

NCRA is also participating in the international SKA project. This is a major international project with more than 10 partner countries coming together to build a multi-purpose radio telescope, covering the frequency range from 50 MHz to 20 GHz. It is expected that the SKA will play a major role in answering key questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology. It will be one of a small number of cornerstone observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum that will provide astrophysicists and cosmologists with a transformational view of the Universe.

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B3-XII

National Centre for Biological Sciences

(NCBS)

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Evaluative Report of Departments (B3) XII-NCBS-1


National Centre for Biological Sciences


National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)


1991


NCBS is an autonomous department of TIFR.


PhD, Integrated Masters-PhD, MSc-by-Research in Life Sciences, MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation


Interdisciplinary programmes including courses covering physics and biology are being conducted jointly with TIFR Hyderabad and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) Bangalore.


Courses are conducted in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, the JNCASR, and the Raman Research Institute. In addition, numerous workshops are run each year with industry partners, such as the Bangalore Microscopy Course (www.ncbs.res.in/BangaloreMicroscopyCourse/Home) which has been organized annually since 2009 in collaboration with partners such as Nikon, Zeiss, Leica, and Olympus.

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XII-NCBS-2 Evaluative Report of Departments (B3)


7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons No programme was discontinued.


We have an Academic Calendar with two academic semesters: January – May and August – December. Examinations are conducted at the conclusion of each course and not simultaneously. This is a Choice-Based-Credit-System and students select courses based on listed offerings, each course is worth 2 – 4 credits and the students are assigned a final CGPA.


As mentioned above, we participate in the courses of TIFR-Hyderabad and ICTS-Bangalore, especially on interdisciplinary topics at the interface of physics and biology.

10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Dist. Prof. (J) 1 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Prof. (I) 5 3. Professor (H) Professor (H) 5 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Prof. (G) 6 5. Reader (F) Reader (F) 15 6. Others - 2

Total 34



1. K. VijayRaghavan PhD Dist. Prof. (J)

Development of neural circuits and muscles and the emergence of behavior

27 8

2. Jayant B Udgaonkar PhD Sr. Professor

(I) Proteins folding, unfolding and misfolding 25 5

3. M.K. Mathew PhD Professor (H) Membranes and transporters and salt 24 1

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4. M.M. Panicker PhD Assoc. Prof. (G)

Roles of Serotonin in neural and non-neural systems 23 1

5. Sudhir Krishna PhD Professor (H)

Human cervical cancer pathobiology and developing biology-medicine iinterphase programme

23 1

6. Gaiti Hasan PhD Sr. Prof. (I) Motor circuit development and function 21 4

7. Satyajit Mayor PhD Sr. Prof. (I) Mechanisms of membrane organization and endocytosis 20 3

8. Upinder S. Bhalla PhD Sr. Prof. (I) Sequence learning: From

Molecules to networks 19 7

9. Sumantra Chattarji PhD Professor (H)

The Amygdala and hippocampus in stress disorders: Cells, circuits and memories

18 5 M.Phil 1

10. R. Sowdhamini PhD Professor (H) Computational approaches to protein science 17 9

11. Apurva Sarin PhD Professor (H) Spatial organization and assembly of notch signaling networks

17 2

12. Mukund Thattai PhD Reader (F) The origins of Complex Cells 11 2

13. Uma Ramakrishnan PhD Assoc. Prof.

(G)

Deconstructing Indian Biodiversity: Evolutionary origins and future prospects

10 2

14. Sanjay P Sane PhD Assoc. Prof. (G)

The Physics, Neurobiology and Ecophysiology of insect flight 8 1

15. Mahesh Sankaran PhD Assoc. Prof.

(G) Terrestrial Ecosystems and Community Biology 7 2

16. Shachi Gosavi PhD Reader (F) Computational protein folding and functional dynamics. 6 0

17. Vatsala Thirumalai PhD Reader (F) Development, modulation and

function of motor systems 6 0

18. Sandeep Krishna PhD Assoc. Prof. (G) The Choices of a Cell 6 0

19. Raghu Padinjat PhD Assoc. Prof. (G)

Phosphoinsoitide signalling in cell Biology 6 0

20. Krishnamegh Kunte PhD Reader (F)

Speciation, Adaptation and Morphological Diversification in Tropical Regions

4 0

21. P.V. Shivaprasad PhD Reader (F) Understanding Epigenetics and Small Silencing RNAs 3 0

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22. Ranabir Das PhD Reader (F) Genomics of complex gene expression control in Bacteria 2 0

23. Varadharajan Sundaramurthy PhD Reader (F)

Biology of host-pathogen interactions during intracellular infections

2 0

24. Shannon B Olsson PhD Reader (F)

Naturalist-Inspired Chemical Ecology: Targeting decision making in nature

2 0

25. Arati Ramesh PhD Reader (F) Structural studies of Riboswitches and RNA-Binding proteins in Bacteria

1 0

26. Radhika Venkatesan PhD Reader (F) Chemical Ecology of plant

interactions 1 0

27. Hiyaa Ghosh PhD Reader (F) Cellular mechanisms in the adult brain 1 0

28. Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee PhD Reader (F) Genomics of complex gene

expression control in Bacteria 5 0

29. Madan Rao PhD Sr. Prof. (I) Theoretical approaches in cell biology : physics of active, evolving systems

7 2

30. Shashi Thutupalli PhD Reader (F)

Active Evolvable Matter: linking activity, information flow and populations

6 months 0

31. Dimple Notani PhD Reader (F) Gene Expression and Chromatin Architecture

4 months 0

32. Raj Ladher PhD Reader (F) Development and Morphogenesis of the Inner Ear

2 months 0

33. Axel Brockmann PhD Fellow (E) Honeybees and the mechanism of behavior 4 6

34. Deepa Agashe PhD Fellow (E) Bacterial genome evolution and evolutionary ecology of adaptation

4 7

* Highest degree obtained † Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere) ‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)

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• Christopher Michael Bate (Cambridge)

• Francisco J Barrantes

• James A Spudich (Stanford)

• Mani Ramaswami (Trinity College Dublin)

• Sanjeev Jain (NIMHANS)

• K. Ullas Karanth (Wildlife Conservation Society)

• Vivek Malhotra (CRG Barcelona)

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information

Approximately 10% of classes are taken by temporary faculty. These mainly pertain to interdisciplinary classes in basic mathematics, such as Calculus and Linear Algebra.


Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 37 15 37:15 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 15 11 15:11 3. M.Sc. 9 7 9:7



27 24

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The mandate of NCBS-TIFR is research in all major areas of the modern life sciences, including

• molecular and cell biology, • developmental biology and genetics, • neuroscience and behavior, • ecology and evolution, • theory and modeling of biological systems.


(a) Major national projects (2012-15):

Agency Project Title

Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Faculty

1. CEFIPRA Collective migration in the fly nervous system 18.31 K VijayRaghavan

2. CEFIPRA DNA-encapsulated Quantum Dots for Bio-imaging 21.42 Yamuna Krishnan

3. CEFIPRA Olfactory Modulation of Insect Flight 15.24 Gaiti Hasan

4. CEFIPRA

Genome-scale analysis of differential propensities of different chromosomal domains for horizontal gene insertion in Escherichia coli

22.20 Aswin Seshasayee

5. CSIR

Investigating connectivity in the montace sky island ecosystems in the Western Ghats through genetics of a threatened endemic bird

138.24 Uma Ramakrishnan

6. DAE Biogeography of the Indian subcontinent 19.54 Uma Ramakrishnan

7. DBT Regulation of Drosophila larval growth and TOR signaling a novel phosphoinositide kinase

25.62 Raghu Padinjat

8. DBT Innovative young biotechnologist 50.17 Odity Mukherjee

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Faculty

award -2009 (IYBA)

9. DBT Notch activated signalling cascade & the consequences for T-cell homeostasis

64.54 Apurva Sarin

10. DBT

Genome wide sh RNA screens to analyse cellular mechanisms regulating fundamental process in mammalian cells

213.25 Apurva Sarin

11. DBT Analysis of type II phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase function in Vivo


12. DBT Validation of novel target for HIV-1: Nef-CD80/CD86 for potential therapeutic intervention

99.40 Satyajit Mayor

13. DBT Peptide toxins of therapeutic value from toxoglossan mollusces collected from Indian coasts

60.11 KS Krishnan

14. DBT Deep sequencing of venom duct cDNAs from Indian cone snails 53.81 KS Krishnan

15. DBT

Finding the neural correlates of olfactory guided behaviour in awake, behaving rats in both controlled and natural environments

79.73 Upinder Bhalla

16. DBT Optical probing of memory network connectivity 83.57 Upinder Bhalla

17. DBT

Cross-genome survey of olfactory receptors in five eukaryotic genomes with a special emphasis on receptors of odour response

28.36 R Sowdhamini

18. DBT

In-vitro differentiation of human embroynic stemcell lines to heptocytes & the potential role of serotonin in its expansion and /or differentiation

23.47 Mitradas Panicker

19. DBT Real time In-Vivo micro RNA sensors using nucleicacid mimics 62.51 Yamuna Krishnan

20. DBT Structure and mechanism of FLeQ master regulator of transcription of flagellar and biofilm genes in

53.21 Deepti Jain

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Faculty

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

21. DBT

The role of Inositol 1, 4, 5- Trisphosphate mediated intracellular Ca2+ release in Insulin secretion: Drosophila IP3R Mutants as a Genetic Model for Diabetes

60.03 Gaiti Hasan

22. DBT

Programme support for technological innovations & ecological research for the substainable use of bioresources in the Sikkim Himalaya

310.87 Mahesh Sankaran

23. DBT Centre of excellence on computational & system biology 594.75 R Sowdhamini

24. DBT Ramalingaswamy Fellowship 53.94 Mahesh Sankaran

25. DBT

Notch signalling & human cancer cell molecular mechanisms & development of a translational initiative programs

426.87 Sudhir Krishna

26. DBT Meta-population dynamics of tigers in Malenad-Mysore landscape of Karnataka


27. DBT Lynx in organization and dynamics of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor complexes


28. DBT

Programme Support on targeted generation and interrogating of cellular models and networks in neuro-psychiatric disorders using candidate genes


29. DBT DNA Mismatch Repair in Prokaryotes: Beyond the E.coli Paradigm

22.96 Deepak Nair

30. DBT

A longitudinal study of molecular and cellular changes in intracellular calcium signaling with neurological correlates in an SCA1 cohort in South India

34.68 Gaiti Hasan

31. DBT Characterization and reversal of the 41.25 Sumantra Chattarji

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Faculty

contrasting patterns of stress-induced changes in synaptic connectivity and its molecular mediators in the amygdale, hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex

32. DBT

Investigating the role of gap junctions at an identified glutamatergic synapse in a developing vertebrate

63.86 Vatsala Thirumalai

33. DBT Exploring stationary phase genome dynamics in E. coli using next generation sequencing


34. DBT The role of Phospholipase D in regulating neuronal vesicular transport


35. DBT

Molecular genetics of intracellular calcium signaling in neurons with application to neurodegeneration and lipid metabolism in humans

72.10 Gaiti Hasan

36. DBT Macromolecular Crystallography and Scattering Facility at NCBS-inStem 678.54 Deepak Nair

37. DBT National Mouse Research Resource (NaMoR) 375.00 Sumantra Chattarji

38. DBT IndiaBioscience 86.42 Satyajit Mayor

39. DBT Regulation of Drosophila larval growth and TOR signaling a novel phosphoinositide kinase


40. DST Understanding the structural basis for the specific recognition of DNA by the transcription modulator hest

16.22 Deepak Nair

41. DST The long-term evolutionary causes and consequences of biased codon use in bacteria

35.92 Deepa Agashe

42. DST JC Bose fellowship 82.00 K VijayRaghavan 43. DST JC Bose fellowship 86.60 Jayant Udgaonkar 44. DST JC Bose fellowship 16.00 Satyajit Mayor 45. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 72.20 Shachi Gosavi 46. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 54.10 Aswin Seshasayee

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Faculty

47. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 51.10 Krushnamegh Kunte 48. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 247.32 Uma Ramakrishnan 49. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 71.25 Deepak Nair 50. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 32.40 P Shivaprasad 51. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 73.00 Sanjay Sane 52. DST Year of Science Professorship 19.00 TV Ramakrishnan

53. DST

Linking plant functional traits to ecosystem services across tropical forest communities in the Western Ghats


54. DST

Development of behavioral & cell biological assays for activity guided purification of prospectiva anti cancer & behaviour modulating molecules from wasp venoms

73.88 KS Krishnan

55. DST Regulation of intracellular Calcium in the Drosophila nervous system and it's relevance to neuronal function

43.99 Gaiti Hasan

56. DST

Genetic mating system and its evolutionary consequences in a harem-forming promiscuous bat Cynopterus sphinx


57. DST Cognitive science research initiative (CSI) entitled generativity in cognitiva networks

91.08 Sumantra Chattarji

58. DST-SERB

Investigating the Folding and Domain Swapping Mechanism in Cystatin-Like Folds with Structure-Based Models

19 Nahren Mascarenhas

59. India Alliance System analysis of membranes in development & cell biology 286.13 Dominik Schwudke

60. India Alliance

Programmable DNA Sensors to capture spatial and temporal gradients of second messenger concentrations in living cells

304.51 Yamuna Krishnan

61. India Alliance Control, stability & energy consumption during locomotion on uneven terrain

324.97 Madhusudhan Venkadesan

62. India Alliance Computational cell biology: 179.86 Mukund Thattai

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Faculty

Exploring the organizing principles of transcriptional regulatory networks and intracellular traffic networks

63. India Alliance Using CREB overexpression to track systems consolidation of an allocated memory trace

49.15 Daniel Weatherill

64. India Alliance Role of IP3 receptor mediated neuropeptide release in Drosophila feeding and metabolism

83.80 Megha

65. India Alliance

mGluR-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity: Parallels and Distinctions between the Hippocampus and Amygdala and Implications for Fragile X Syndrome

58.81 Debarati Mukherjee

66. IA

Light Mediated Release of Functional Small Molecules and Macromolecules from Designer DNA Nanocapsules in Living Systems

135.63 Aneesh Veetil

67. India Alliance Mechanisms of synapses maintenance in the nervous system-implications for neurodegeneration

102.14 Albert Chiang

68. India Alliance

Understanding the dynamics of the components of the GEEC endocytic pathway using visualization techniques

128.31 Gayatri Muthukrishnan

69. India Alliance The developing brain & the emergence behaviour a can for neuromodulation

247.32 Vatsala Thirumalai

70. IUSSTF Indo US science & technology forum on Nano biotechnology 198.50 K VijayRaghavan

71. MoES/ ATREE

Hydrologic & carbon services in the western ghats:response of forests and agro ecosystem to extreme rainfall events


72. UGC Carbon flux measurements in island rainforest ecosystems 5.32 Mahesh Sankaran

73. UKIERI Deciphering variable impedance strategies in human locomotion for 11.01 Madhusudhan

Venkadesan

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Faculty

the development of next generation robotic devices

74. Sanofi-Aventis Targeting Head & Neck Cancer Stem Cells 90.00 Satyajit Mayor

75. Tata Trust M.Sc programme in Wildlife Biology and conservation. 160.76 Ajith kumar

76. Wipro Wipro applying thought in schools 55.2 Mahesh Sankaran Total Rs. 7,761.11 lakh

(b) Minor National projects:


Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs) Faculty

1. CSIR

Structure and Biochemistry of prokaryotic Y-family DNA polymerases

8.67 Deepak Nair

2. CSIR

Phylogenetic analysis, computer modelling and biochemical characterisation of proteins in phenylacetic acid hybrid pathway

2.95 R Sowdhamini

3. CSIR

An open source integrated computational resource for the analysis of the structural interactome to predict off site interactions of drug candidates

3.79 R Sowdhamini

4. CSIR Evolutionary consequences of altering tRNA gene copy number 9.52 Deepa Agashe

5. DST JC Bose fellowship 16.00 Satyajit Mayor

6. DST

Research on wildlife biology and conservation by students of Masters course in National Centre for Biological Sciences

37.43 Ajith kumar

7. DST-SERB Behavioural and landscape ecology of snow leopard in the Indian trans-Himalaya


8. DST Synaptic reorganisation of the amygdala-hippocampus circuit 15.00 Sumantra Chattarji

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs) Faculty

during stress

9. DST

Genomic analysis of dosage dependent silencing of horizontally-acquired genes by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS in E. coli


10. DST

Complex combinatorial control of the balance between two bacterial lifestyles: planctonic and biofilm


11. DST Dissecting mechanisms of 5-HT signalling using mouse models depected in central serotonin


12. DST Transciptional control of L-arabinose metabolism in bacillus subtills

14.40 Deepti Jain

13. DST Studying the molecular correlates underlying stress induced behavioral and structural plasticity

4 Rohan Kamat

14. DST Purinergic & serotonergis signalling in neurogenesis 13.75 Mitradas Panicker

15. DST-SERB

Characterization of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) stem cells in terms of novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets

15 Rakesh Khatri

16. DST-SERB

An evolutionary ecological approach to the adaptive basis of immune priming in invertebrates and immunosenescence

12 Imroze Khan

17. DST-SERB Adaptive radiation in Papillio (Menelaldes) swallowtail butterflies of the Indo-Australlian region

4.5 Jahnavi Joshi

18. India Alliance Bodystorm hits Bangalore 10.00 Mukund Thattai

19. National Geographic

Evolution on Indian sky Islands : has paleo-climate caused differential demographic history in a floral and faunal community on the sky-islands of the Western Ghats

10.00 VV Robin

20. NTCA The connectivity between tiger population in central indian 8.39 Uma Ramakrishnan

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Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs) Faculty

landscape

21. UGC Carbon flux measurements in island rainforest ecosystems 5.32 Mahesh Sankaran

22. UKIERI

Deciphering variable impedance strategies in human locomotion for the development of next generation robotic devices

11.01 Madhusudhan Venkadesan

Total 242.08

(c) International projects (2012-15):

Agency Project Title Total

Grant (Rs. lakhs)

Faculty

1. AOARD Sensorimotor integration of antennal positioning behaviour in flying insects

89.40 Sanjay Sane

2. AXA AXA Fellowship 91.99 Marcus Taylor

3. AXA

Deciphering the role of active remodeling of cortical actin on the spatiotemporal organization of cell surface molecules using an in vitro assay

82.37 Darius Koester

4. HFSP From swarm intelligence to living buildings. Novel concepts of managing internal climates

137.34 Sanjay Sane

5. HFSP

Nano-Mechano-Biology: spatiotemporal remodeling of membrane nanoplatforms under mechanical forces


6. HFSP Foot in motion: materials, mechanics and control 72.21 Madhusudhan

Venkadesan

7. HFSP Dissecting the Mechanochemistry of Membrane Invagination using Designer DNA-based Probes

202.50 Yamuna Krishna

8. HFSP

Implication of Tail Structural Features on Molecular Mechanism and Biological Functions of Myosine

504.00 R Sowdhamini

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National

9. ICGEB

Functional characterization of gut microbial communities and their fitness effects during dietary switches in butterflies

10.63 Deepa Agashe

10. NIH System biology centre in New York 80.23 Upinder Bhalla

11. NSF

Evolution, Diversification and Biogeography of Cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) on the Indian Subcontinent

40.19 Krushnamegh Kunte

12. Simons Foundation

Simons Center for the Study of Living Machines 184.37 Mukund Thattai

Total 1,673.32

Collaborating Institutions Project Title

Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Duration Faculty

1. 1.Nagaland Science and Technology Council, Kohima. 2. Kohima Science College, Jotosma, Nagaland. 3. IBSD, Imphal, Manipur. 4. IBSD, Gangtok, Sikkim. 5. Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar. 6. North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. 7. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. 8. IISc., Bangalore

Chemical ecology of the North East Region (NER) of India:A collaborative programme linking NER and Bangalore researchers

589.24

5 years

Dr.Uma Ramakrishnan

2. 1. Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon. 2. All India Institute of Medical

Understanding Disease Biology and Diagnosis of Bacterial Sepsis among Hospitalized Neoantes: A Multi Centre Study

1.38 4 years Dr.Aswin Seshasayee

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Sciences, Delhi 3. 1. National Institute

of Plant Genome Research, Delhi. 2.Delhi University, New Delhi. 3. IISc., Bangalore. 4. Osmania University, Hyderabad. 5. IISER, Trivandrum

Functional Characterization of Genetic and Epigenetic Regulatory Networks Involved in the Reproductive Development in Rice

196.1 5 years Dr.Shiva Prasad P V

4. 1. St.Johns Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore 2. TIFR Centre for Applicable Maths, Bangalore

Notch signalling & human cancer cell molecular mechanisms & development of a translational initiative programs

426.87 5 years Dr.Sudhir Krishna

5. Centre for Wildlife Studies, Karnataka

Meta-population dynamics of tigers in Malenad-Mysore landscape of Karnataka

33.27 5 years Dr.Uma Ramakrishnan

6. National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore

Programme Support on targeted generation and interrogating of cellular models and networks in neuro-psychiatric disorders using candidate genes

75.97 5 years Dr.Mitradas Panicker

7. Christian Medical College Vellore Association, Vellore

A longitudinal study of molecular and cellular changes in intracellular calcium signaling with neurological correlates in an SCA1 cohort in South India

34.68 5 years Prof.Gaiti Hasan

8. 1. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore 2. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL), Pondicherry.

Hydrologic & carbon services in the western ghats:response of forests and agro ecosystem to extreme rainfall events

32.39 4.6 years Dr.Mahesh Sankaran

9. Indian Institute of Centre of excellence on 594.75 7 years R Sowdhamini

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International

Collaborating Institutions Project Title

Total Grant (Rs.

lakhs)

Duration Faculty

1. Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Genome-scale analysis of differential propensities of different chromosomal domains for horizontal gene insertion in Escherichia coli


2. Research Center for Human and Environmental Sciences Shinshu University, Japan

Complex combinatorial control of the balance between two bacterial lifestyles: planctonic and biofilm


3. Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Olfactory Modulation of Insect Flight

43.92 3 years Prof.Gaiti Hasan

4. School of Geography and the Environemnt, University of Oxford, UK

Carbon flux measurements in island rainforest ecosystems

10.64 2 years Dr.Mahesh Sankaran

5. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

A Computational Metric Approach to

194.99 4 years Prof.Upinder S Bhalla

Science (IISc), Bangalore

computational & system biology

10. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Molecular genetics of intracellular calcium signaling in neurons with application to neurodegeneration and lipid metabolism in humans

72.1 5 years Gaiti Hasan

Total 2056.75

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Olfaction: Characterizing Novel Molecules in Olfactory Space and Novel Spaces Made of Odor Molecules

6. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden

Quantitative analysis of the modulation of host trafficking pathways by intracellular mycobacteria

43.37 2 years Dr.Varadharajan Sundaramurthy

7. 1. Medicines for Malaria Venture International Center Cointrin, Switzerland. 2. . Foundation for Neglected Disease Research, Bangalore

Assay development for P. vivax infected hepatocytes in MTCC plates

107.91 1 year Dr.Varadharajan Sundaramurthy

8. 1. Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore 2. Centre for Stem Cell Research, CMC, Vellore 3. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore 4. Centre for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan

Accelarting the application of stem cell technology in human diseases (ASHD)

1496.51 5 years Dr.Raghu Padinjat

9. University of Cambridge, UK

A Joint Centre for Cancer Biology & Therapeutics

829.88 3 years Prof.Satyajit Mayor

10. 1. SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, USA 2. Harvard University 3.

From swarm intelligence to living buildings. Novel concepts of managing internal

137.34 4 years Dr. Sanjay Sane

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Nottingham Trent University 4. National Museum of Namibia

climates

11. Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etudes des Materiaux, Paris, France

DNA-encapsulated Quantum Dots for Bio-imaging

30.67 3.8 years Dr.Praveen Kumar Vemula

Total 2955.9

19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received.

Agency Project Title Total Grant (Rs. lakhs) Duration Faculty

1. DAE Biogeography of the Indian subcontinent

100 5 years

Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan

2. DAE XII Plan Project – NCBS I Basic Biology

Research

12883 5 years All NCBS faculty

3. DAE XII Plan Project – NCBS II Research Facilities

11385 5 years All NCBS faculty

20. Research facility / centre with National recognition:

The following facilities at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), managed by NCBS and other partners, are recognized nationally and are available for use by multiple institutions across India (see http://www.ccamp.res.in/) • Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy facility • Flow Cytometry Facility • Animal Care and Resource Centre • Mouse Genome Engineering Facility • Chemistry Core Facility • Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility • Radioactive Facility

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http://www.ccamp.res.in/



• Computer Clusters • X-Ray Facility • Mechanical Fabrication Facility • Electronics Engineering Facility • Biophysics Core Facility • Filed Stations and Museum • Green House Facility • Microfluidics and Microfacbrication Facility • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy Facility • Optical Spectroscopy Facility • Molecular Characterization and Proteomics Facility • Next Generation Sequencing/Genomics • Protein Technology Core • Glycomics and Glycoproteomics Facility • Lipidomics Facility • Metabolomics Facility • High Throughput Screening and High Content Screening Facility • Fly (Drosophila) Facility • (Nematode) C.elegans Facility • Intellectual Property Management Office and Technology Transfer Office • Innovation Accelerator • Biologics/Biosimilar Characterization Facility

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies

As a part C-CAMP's mandate of promoting entrepreneurship and innovation, C-CAMP has created and fostered an entrepreneur-friendly culture in and around an academic/research environment through its Early Translation Accelerator program, its involvement in seed funding schemes such as Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme from BIRAC, its Entrepreneur Mentorship program and its Bio-incubation facility. C-CAMP has partnered with BIRAC, DBT to help with the Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme grant that funds start-up companies

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and individual scientific entrepreneurs to establish proof-of-concept and transform these innovative ideas into viable competitive products and enterprises. Through the BIG Entrepreneur Mentorship program, C-CAMP not only funds but also nurtures these start-ups with scientific and business mentorship. C-CAMP has further expanded its entrepreneurial activities to providing some of these start-ups access to functional laboratory along with high-end technology platforms, through bio-incubation.

For a biotech start-up, along with seed funding, access to such ready to use scientific infrastructure in a nurturing academic environment gives these young entrepreneurs the kick start they need to propel them towards market and commercialization. Today C-CAMP has funded (via BIRAC) and mentors around 47 life science start-ups/spin-offs, of which 11 are incubating at C-CAMP and leveraging the technology platforms and scientific expertise on campus.

22. Publications:

NCBS Journal Publications


Book Chapters

Books Edited

2010-11 101 2 4 - 2011-12 137 5 5 - 2012-13 131 3 3 1 2013-14 165 - - 1 2014-15 134 4 4 1

Total 668 14 16 3

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50

100

150

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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ions

Year

Publications

Book Chapters +Books Edited

Articles inProceedings

JournalPublications

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∗ Citation Index – range / average –

• Total number of citations (only for publications mentioned above): 5571

• Number of citations per faculty- 199

∗ h-index –

• Range- 0-31 (2011 – 2015)

23. Details of patents and income generated

Patent Holder Patent Name Patent

No/Status

Date of filing

Income

1. Yamuna Krishnan and Satyajit Mayor

Intracellular pH sensor using nucleic acid assemblies

US filed 29-05-09 none

2. Gaiti Hassan and GayatriVenkiteswaran

The use of inositol 1,4,5 triphosphate receptor mutants in Drosophila for screening small molecules

Patent granted US8476006

30-11-09 none

3. Yamuna Krishnan and Saikat Chakraborty

DNA-based molecular switches and uses thereof


10-03-10 none

4. Sudip Mondal and Sandhya P Koushika

A microfluidic device for immobilizing and imaging of developmental processes and growth of transparent/translucent organisms

Filed in India 03-03-11 none

5. Dhirajbhatia and Yamuna Krishnan

A process for delivering encapsulated neutral bioimaging molecules, complex, and process thereof

US and EP filed 28-04-11 none

6. Yamuna Krishnan and Saikat Chakraborty

DNA-based molecular switches and uses thereof


12-08-11 none

7. Yamuna Krishnan and Souvik Modi

An engineered nucleic acid assembly, vector,

complete filed, PCT 20-09-11 none

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cell, methods and kit thereof

filed , US and EP entered

8. Gaiti Hassan and Manivannan Subramanian

Method of determining effect of anti-obesity molecule

provisional and PCT filed, now abandoned

30-05-12 none

9. Panicker, Odity Mukerjee, Thangaselvam

A method to identify and isolate pluripotent stem cells using endogenous blue fluorescence

Provisional and PCT filed, US and EP

12-11-12 none

10. Yamuna krishnan and Souvik Modi + SunainaSurana

Method of multiplexing dna sensors, localizing dna sensor and obtaining fret pair

Provisional and PCT filed

26-02-13 none

11. Yamuna Krishnan and Suruchi Sharma

Nucleotide sequences, nucleic acid sensors and methods thereof

Provisional filed, PCT filed, US filed

04-09-13 none

12. Yamuna Krishnan, Sonali Saha, Ved Prakash

Nucleic acid scaffold based fluorescent ratio-metric sensor for chloride

PCT filed directly 15-04-14 none

13.

Madhusudhan Venkadesan, Mahesh Bandi and Shreyas Mandre

System and method for obtaining three components of force based on photoelasticity

Provisional filed, PCT filed

03-06-14 none

14. Anil Prabhakar and Satyajit Mayor

Wavelength stabilized active mode locked fibre laser

Provisional filed, indian complete and PCT filed

10-06-14 none


We confirm that No consultancy was carried out at NCBS or income generated.

25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions / Industries in India and abroad

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100% of our faculty every year visit laboratories throughout India and abroad for scientific collaborations, joint programmes and workshops, academic conferences, etc.

National Name of Faculty

member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY)

1. Varadharajan. S Mangalore 11/2015 Mangalore 04/2016

2. Sandeep Krishna Delhi 04/2015

International Name of Faculty

member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY)

1. Madan Rao American Physical Society, New York 03/2016 2. Vatsala

Thirumalai Dublin, Ireland 04/2016

3. Sandeep Krishna University Of Tokyo 03/2016 Universirty Of Waterloo, Canada 04/2016 Espci, Paris 05/2016 Embl, Germany 09/2015 University Of Sherbrooke, Canada 08/2015 Yale University, New York 08/2015 Neils Bohr Institute,Denmark 04/2015 Copenhagen, Denmark 07/2014

4. Upinder S. Bhalla

Dublin. Ireland 04/2016

5. Sanjay Sane London 04/2016 Portland, USA 01/2016 Sapporo, Japan 09/2015 Icbac, USA 06/2015 Lund University, Denmark 05/2015

6. Sudhir Krishna University Of Cambridge, London 04/2014 7. Shachi Gosavi Bii, Singapore 06/2014

Weizmann Institute, Israel 06/2014 8. Mukund Thattai Trinity College, Dublin 04/2016

USA 09/2015

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(a) National Committees :


Name of theCommittee Role in the Committee

Term of Service

1 Upinder S. Bhalla

Indian Neuroscience Association Board Member 1999-till date

Scientific Advisory Committee, National Brain Research Centre Member 2012-

till date Neurosciences Task Force, Department of Biotechnology Chair, 2009-

2014

2. Sudhir Krishna

Research Advisory Council, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Member 2014-till

date

Scientific advisory committee, Bose Institute, Kokata Member

2015-till date

3. Madan Rao

Scientic Advisory Committee, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India

Member 2011-2014

4. Sanjay Sane

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Member 1996-till

date

Society of Experimental Biology Member 2005- till date

5. Gaiti Hasan

DBT Task Force on “Genome editing technologies” Member

,July 2014- till date

Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Institute for Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, West Bengal.

Member

March 2013 – to date

Intermediate and Senior Fellowships Committee for the Welcome-DBT India Alliance

Member 2011- till date

CSIR Medical Sciences Grants Committee Member 2009-

2014

6. Yamuna Krishnan

Chemistry Biology Interface, Royal Society of Chemistry Council Member 2014

7. M.K. Mathew

Scientific Advisory Committee, National Institute for Interdisciplinary

Member, 2011-till date

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Science, Thiruvananthapuram Scientific Advisory Committee, CDFD Member 2010-till

date , IISER Thiruvananthapuram Visiting Professor 2014

8. Raghu Padinjat

Genome Engineering Task Force. Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

Member

2014-present

9. Shannon B

Olsson

Coffee Board of India Steering Committee Member 2014-

present IBSD Imphal “Prioritization of Animal Bioresources Res. Areas: Fish and Insect” expert committee

Member 2014-present

Nazareth College Scientific Advisory Board Member 2014-

present Chemical Ecology Masters Program and Schools, NCBS Member 2014-

present

10. Mukund Thattai

Program Committee and Activities, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

Member

2010 –till date

Program Committee, Bangalore International Centre

Member

2015-present

Board of Studies, Srishti College of Art, Design and Technology

Member

2016

Scientific Advisory Committee, ICGEB-CABER

Member

2016

Board representative, Science Gallery Bengaluru

Member

2015-present

International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition, Asia Committee

Member 2010-2011

11. Vatsala Thirumalai

Board of Studies, Faculty of Technology, Anna University, Chennai.

Member 2011-2014

12. Jayant Udgaonkar

Editorial Board of Protein Engineering, Design and Selection

T Member

2013-till date

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13. K. VijayRaghavan

Science Advisory Council of the Cabinet Member 2012-till

date

(b) International Committees: Name of the

Faculty Member Name of the Committee


Term of Service

1 Upinder S. Bhalla

International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility

Indian representative

(2009-till date)

International Society for Systems Biology Board Member

2009 -till date

Society for Neuroscience Member 1991- till date

Erasmus Mundus (EUROSPIN) program in neuroinformatics (involving KTH Sweden, Univ. of Edinburgh, Univ. of Freiburg, NCBS)

Faculty member

2000-till date

2. Satyajit Mayor Asia Pacific Organization of Cell Biology (APOCB)

President 2014-2015

Satyajit Mayor Royal Society of Chemistry Invited Fellow 2014 3. Sanjay Sane International Society of Neuroethology Member 2007-till

date 4. Vatsala

Thirumalai

Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC

Member 2002-till date

(c) Editorial Boards:

Name of the Faculty Member Name of the Journal Impact

Factor Term of Service

1. Upinder S. Bhalla

Journal of Computational Neuroscience,

1.739 2000-till date

Neuroinformatics, 2.825 2010-till date

Frontiers in Neuroscience 3.656 2010-till date

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eNeuro- Board of Reviewing Editors -- 2015-till date

eLife- Board of Reviewing Editors 9.322 2015-till

date

2 Satyajit Mayor

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2.297 2014-till

date

Cell 32.242 2008-till date

Journal of Cell Science 5.4 2011-till date

Integrative Biology 3.756 2010-2014

Traffic 4.35 2005-2014

BiochemicaBiophysicaActa 4.381 2008-till date

The Biochemical Journal 4.396 2011- till date

Molecular Biology of the Cell 4.47 2004-till date

3 Shannon B Olsson

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Review Editor

2014 – till date

Frontiers in Physiology

3.534

2014 – till date

4 Mahesh Sankaran Subject Editor Biotropica 2.084 2014 –

till date

5 MukundThattai

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Experimental Zoology B 2.311 2013 –

till date

Academic Editor, PLoS ONE 3.234 2007 – till date

6. VatsalaThirumalai

Journal of Neurophysiology 2.653 2014- till date

Reviewing Editor, Frontiers in Neural Circuits 3.568 2015-

7. Jayant Udgaonkar Editorial Advisory Board of 3.015 2013- till

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Biochemistry date


Not Applicable


• percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-departmental projects

• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute

NCBS-TIFR is a research mandate institute. 100% of our graduate students, in the M.Sc.-by-Research, Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. and Ph.D. programmes carry out research projects. 100% of our I-Ph.D. and Ph.D. students publish in academic journals as a requirement of the degree.


• Faculty Members:

National Awards Year Name of the

Awardee Name of the Award

1. 2013 Satyajit Mayor Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Mumbai 2. 2012 Infosys Prize for life sciences 3. 2006

2012 JC Bose Fellowship

4. 2003 Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award 5. 2003 Swarnajayanti Fellowship 6. 1999 Wellcome Trust International Senior Research

Fellow 7. 1999 Jayant Udgaonkar Welcome Trust Senior Research Fellow

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8. 1997 Swarnajanti Fellowship 9. 1997 Jayant Udgaonkar Golden Jubilee Biotechnology Fellowship 10. 1996 B.M Birla Award For Biology 11. 2009 R. Sowdhamini Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

12. 2010 Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, Delhi

13. 2011 Bharat Jyoti Award and Glory India Gold Medal 14. 2012 Indira Gandhi Excellence Award 15. 2007 DBT Career Development Award 16. 2006 DBT Women Bio-scientist Award 17. 2000

2005 2006

Welcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Biomedical Sciences

18. 2013 Mahesh Sankaran Kavli Frontier of Science Fellow 19. 2009 Ramalingaswamy Fellowship 20. 2009 Ramanujam Fellowship 21. 2009 Sanjay Sane Ramanujan Fellowship 22. 2006 Gaiti Hasan Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science 23. 2005 Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy 24. 2005 Mukund Thattai Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences 25. 2014 Sumantra Chattarji Fellow, Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore 26. 2009 Upinder S. Bhalla Fellow, Indian National Science Academy 27. 2008 Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences 28. 2007 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 29. 2012 Krushnamegh

Kunte

Ramanujan Fellowship from DST, Government of India

30. 2012 Uma Ramakrishnan Outstanding Scientist Award, Department of Atomic Energy

31. 2013 INK Fellow 32. 2013 DeepaAgashe

INSPIRE Faculty Award, Department of Science and Technology, India

33. 2013 P.V. Shivaprasad Ramanujan Fellowship 34. 2013 Aswin Sai Narain

Seshasayee Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences – recognition to talented scientists below the age of 35

35. 2014 Varadharajan Ramanujan fellowship (declined)

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Sundaramurthy 36. 2015 Varadharajan

Sundaramurthy Ramalingaswamy re-entry fellowship

37. 2015 Ranabir Das DBT-Ramalingaswamy fellowship 38. 2015 Arati Ramesh

Wellcome DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship Ramalingaswami re-entry Fellowship, Dept. of Biotechnology, India (declined)

39. 2015 Raghu Padinjat

Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance, Senior Fellowship for Basic Science

40. 2015 Shannon B Olsson Ramanujan Fellowship 41. 2015 Radhika

Venkateshan Ramanujan Fellowship

42. 2015 Hiyaa Ghosh Ramanujan Fellowship

International Awards Year Name of the


1. 2011 K.UllasKaranth-J.Paul

Getty Award for the year 2010-2011.

2. 2013 Jayant Udgaonkar Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences 3. 1991 Jayant Udgaonkar

Biotechnology Career Fellowship Rockfeller Foundatio

4. 2015 Gaiti Hasan Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences 5. 2012 K. VijayRaghavan Elected Fellow of Royal Society 6. 2013 Satyajit Mayor Elected EMBO Fellow 7. 2014 K. VijayRaghavan Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences 8. 2014 K. VijayRaghavan Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of

Sciences 9. 2014 SumantraChattarji Honorary Professor, School of Clinical Sciences,

University of Edinburgh 10. 2014 Raghu Padinjat Cambridge--Hamied Visiting Lectureship

Cambridge-Hamied Visiting Lectureship 11. 2014

Uma Ramakrishnan

WIRED Innovation Fellow

12. 2015 Uma Ramakrishnan

Bass Fellow, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

13. 2016 Uma Ramakrishnan

Parker Gentry Conservation Award, Fulbright Fellow

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14. 2005 Raghu Padinjat BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship 15. 2008 Varadharajan

Sundaramurthy Pfizer research prize for infection biology

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2011 Amrita Dasgupta

Recipient of international travel awards by the Govt. of India (Department of Science and Technology; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; Centre for International Co-operation in Science) to attend international conferences and present the research (June, 2011)

2. 2011 Sumita Chakraborty Student’s bursary, Biochemical Society (London), Signalling 2011, Biochemical Society focused meeting, Edinburgh, June 2011

3. 2011 Riya Raghupathy

DST travel grant to attend the FASEB Summer Research Conference (July 2011) FASEB travel grant (July 2011)

4. 2011 Sony Malhotra NCBS Best student award (2011) 5. 2012 Seema, S. ISDN2012 Best Poster Award (2012) 6. 2012 Gayathri Ramachandran

Best poster award, Annual Research Talks, NCBS (January 2012)

7. 2012 Suvrajit Saha Best Poster Award, NCBS 20(Annual Talks) (Jan. 2012)

8. 2012 Dhiraj Bhatia

Charpak PhD Fellowship to work at ESPCI, Paris for three months (February 2012) Amulya 2012 award from the Karnataka State Innovation Council (2012)

9. 2012 Sumita Chakraborty CSIR, DBT, DST, CICS Travel fellowship (2012) 10. 2012 Saikat Chakraborty

DST travel grant to travel to USA to attend RNA 2012 conference (2012)

11. 2012 P. Chitra DST/SERB International Travel Support to attend the DNA Tumour Virus Meeting, 2012, Montreal,Canada (July 2012).

12. 2012 Sudeshna Das

CSIR and DST travel grant to attend 'Frontiers of chemical ecology, 2012', course held in Max

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Planck Institute, Germany (2012)

13. 2012 Amrita Dasgupta

CSIR International Travel Grant and International Travel award Fellowship by INSA-CICSto attend the meeting in San Diego, USA (February, 2012)

14. 2012 Aditya Joshi

Conservation Achievement Award from Wildlife Trust of India (2012)

15. 2012 Udippana Kalita

Young Explorers Club Award for her dissertation (2012)

16. 2012 Sonal Kedia Member Society for Neuroscience (2012)

17. 2012 Gayathri Ramachandran

Best poster award, Annual Research Talks 20 (Genes to Olfaction: Sixty years in science) (Janua 2012) Best participant and best poster award at the DST sponsored SERB school in chronobiology 2012, held at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (June – July, 2012)

18. 2012 Suvrajit Saha Best Poster Award, NCBS 20(Annual Talks), Jan 2-4, 2012

19. 2012 Vishnupriya Sankararaman

Student Conference on Conservation Science – Best Poster Presentation Award (2012)

20. 2012 Sonia Sen DBT travel grant to attend Neurofly 2012 conference held at Padua, Italy (September, 2012)

21. 2012 Ashwin Viswanathan

Student Conference on Conservation Science – Best Poster Presentation Award (2012)

22. 2012 Vanjulavalli Shridhar selected for Indian Forest Service (2012) Student Conference on Conservation Science – Best Poster Presentation Award (2012)

23. 2012 Bhanu Prasanna Sridharan

Student Conference for Conservation Science – Best Presentation Award for talk (2012)

24. 2012 Arjun Sudheendra Srivatsa

Student Conference on Conservation Science – Best Poster presentation Award (2012)

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25. 2013 Tanvi Deora

DBT travel award and Charlotte Mangum Student Award from the SICB to attend the SICB 2013 Annual meeting (January 2013)

26. 2013 Mehrab Modi, Sonia Sen, Subhasis Ray, Lakshmi Revathi, P, Kritika M. Garg, Anirban Baral Rajalakshmi, S. and Shilpa Siddappa Yadahalli

Outstanding research and poster award, NCBS Annual talks (January 2013)

27. 2013 Swagatha Ghosh

Best poster Award in Amrita BioAQuest 2013 (August 2013) Best poster award in NCBS Annual talks (January 2014)

28. 2013 Sunaina Surana

Malhotra Weikfield Foundation NanoScience Fellowship Award for the year 2013 in the 6th Bangalore INDIA NANO Awards (December 2013)

29. 2013 Shabana Mehtab Best Poster Award, NCBS Annual talks (January 2014)

30. 2013 Souvik Modi

Obaid Siddique Award for the Best Paper (January 2014)

31. 2014 Riya Raghupathy

Awarded India network foundation travel grant and CICS travel grant for attending Gordon research conference'glycolipid and sphingolipid biology' (January, 2014).

32. 2014 Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman

DBT-CTEP travel award to attend Neuroscience 2014, USA (November, 2014)

33. 2014 Suvrajit Saha

DBT(CTEP) International Travel Support to attend 58th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, USA CSIR Travel Grant to attend 58th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society(Declined)

34. 2014 Madhumala, K.S.

The Biocon India Scholarship, a support provided by a unique partnership between Biocon, Bangalore and Trinity College Dublin for

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award six month visit to Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin. Received best poster award in NCBS annual meeting – ‘Action with in the cells’ held on 15th - 17th Jan 2014.

35. 2014 Sandhya Bhatia

Awarded with book voucher (Crossword) for one of the best three poster presentation at the National workshop on fluorescence and raman techniques (FCS2014) December 2014

36. 2014 Roumita Moulik Travel award from DST to attend the 28th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society, San Diego, USA (July 2014)

37. 2015 Tanay N Bhatt

Best Poster Award at Chromatin Asia-2015 conference, JNCASR, Bangalore (January 2015)

38. 2015 Mahita Jarjapu

Best poster presentation, NCBS Annual talks (January 2015).

39. 2015 Kamalesh Kumari Best poster award, NCBS annual talks (2015) 40. 2015 Laasya Samhita India Alliance travel award to attend FEBS-

EMBO 2014 at France (September 2014) Wellcome- DBT early career fellowship (March 2015)

41. 2015 Asem Surindro Singh

International travel grant provided by Science and Engineering Board, a Statutory body under Department of Science &Technology, Govt. of India, for attending OMICS 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Cell & Gene Therapy, Las Vega, USA (27th - 29th October 2014).

42. 2015 Thangaselvam, M.

Best poster award, Cell Tech India Conference (March, 2015).

Post Doc fellows

43. 2012 Deepti Jain

Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2012) Best Poster Award at the Annual Talks, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore (2012)

44. 2012 Madhumala, K.S. DST travel grant to attend Neurofly 2012

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award conference held at Padua, Italy (September,

2012). 45. 2013 Megha

The Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellowship 2013

46. 2014 Tejas M Gupte

Best poster award in NCBS annual meeting (January, 2014)

47. 2014 Amit Das

DST International Travel Support (ITS) award for attending 'Liquids: 9th Liquid Matter Conference, 2014, University of Lisban, Portugal.

48. 2014 Ishita Sengupta

Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (2014)

49. 2013 Jahnavi Joshi

Start-up research grant for young scientist from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (Sept. 2013) International travel grant from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India to attend the Early Career Biogeography Conference, International Biogeography Society, at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (December, 2013) NCBS Fellow award at the National Centre for Biological Sciences,Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India (December, 2013)

50. 2014 Darius Koster

DST travel grant for participation at the 58th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society

International Awards Year Name of the


1. 2011 P. Chitra

IUBMB Wood Whelan Research Fellowship to visit Prof. Lamoinis Laimins’s laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, to perform collaborative experiments on “The role

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of DNA Methyltransferase1 in regulating the Human Papilloma Virus life cycle in the differentiating epithelium (October, 2011).

2. 2011 Darius Vasco Koester

AXA research fund fellowship for as EMBO young research fellow (2011)

3. 2011 Anirban Baral

Utrecht University short term stay fellowship fo international students (2011)

4. 2011 Shameer Khader

Won first place 2011 Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Award (2011)

5. 2011 Shilpa Ravinder

The IBRO/SfN International Travel Grant for attending the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience at Washington, DC, USA (November 2011).

6. 2011 Dhiraj Devidas Bhatia

International Travel Award from CSIR, DBT and DST, GoI to attend the conference DNA17 in Caltech, Pasadena, USA, September 2011. Partial International Travel Award from DNA17, Caltech, USA, September 2011.

7. 2012 Gayathri Ramachandra

Graduate student travel award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to attend Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego, USA (March, 2012)

8. 2012 Sudip Mondal Travel award from EMBO conferences, 2012 9. 2012 Souvik Modi

EMBO Long term Fellowship support for post-doctoral research at University College, London(2012 -14)


Biophysical Society’s International Student Travel Award to attend 56th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society at San Diego, USA (2012)

11. 2012 Anupama Ambika

Recepient of fellowship sponsored by the Internationl Society of Neurochemistry for attending the conference on Lipid -Protein Interactions at Hyderabad organised by Biophysical society (2012). International travel grant from DST for

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attending FASEB summer research conference on “Phospholipid Metabolism: Disease, Signal Transduction, & Membrane Dynamics" at Vermont, USA (2012)

12. 2012 Dhiraj Bhatia

International Travel Award from CSIR, GoI to attend BIOMOD 2012 (2012) Silver Award, Team Mentor for DNA Maestros, BIOMOD 2012, Wyss Institute, Harvard University. Boston, USA. (2012)

13. 2012 Sumita Chakraborty

European Calcium Society Travel Fellowship (2012) Biochemical Society (London, UK) Travel fellowship (2012)

14. 2012 Bikash Choudhary

Travel award from EMBO conferences and DST, 2012

15. 2012 Kritika M. Garg

ISBE travel fellowship to attend the conference (2012) I

16. 2012 Supriya Ghosh

Nature Publishing Group Travel Grant and DBT travel support for attending the Gordon Research Conference on ‘Neurobiology of Cognition’ held in Italy (July 2012)

17. 2012 Suman Raja Jumani

Society for Conservation Biology - Asia – Best Speed Talk Award (2012)

18. 2012 Meghna Krishnadas

Distinguished University Award for Ph.D in Ohio State University (2012)

19. 2012 Madhumala, K.S.

STIBET scholarship by DAAD to visit Prof. Erich Buchner’s lab at Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg (September 2012).

20. 2012 K. Parthasarathy

Developing Neuroethology Award by the International Society for Neuroethology to attend 10th International Congress of Neuroethology (2012)

21. 2012 Shlesha Rajesh Richhariya

COB, Development travelling fellowship to visit Prof. Michael Rosbash’s lab in Brandeis University (September 2012)

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22. 2012 Gayathri Ramachandra

Graduate student travel award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to attend Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego, USA (April, 2012)

23. 2012 Sabareesan, A.T. Received a travel and conference expenditure fellowship from International neurochemistry association to attend a conference at Hyderabad on Lipid-Protein interaction (2012)

24. 2012 Sonali Saha

Received International Travel Award from CSIR, DBT and DST to attend the conference FNANO in Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, April 2012.


Biophysical Society’s International Student Travel Award to attend 56th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, 2012 at San Diego, USA

26. 2012 Seema, S. ISDN2012 Best Poster Award (2012) 27. 2012 Nandini Velho RBS Earth Heroes Award (October 2012) 28. 2012 Sunaina Surana

Awarded EMBL Corporate Partnership Registration Fee Fellowship for attending the EMBO Conference Series: C. elegans Neurobiology, 2012. Awarded DBT international travel award to attend EMBO Conference Series: C. elegans Neurobiology, held at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany 2012

29. 2012 Shashank J. Dalvi

Carl Zeiss Conservation Award for 2013, for his reporting of massive hunting of Amur falcon in Nagaland in 2012

30. 2013 Sapna Jayaraman

Bursary to travel to and live at Cambridge during SCCS Cambridge 2013 and to attend a short course on “A practical introduction to social survey design for conservation science” (2013)

31. 2013 Anand Krishnan

DST travel award and Charlotte Mangum Student Award from the SICB to attend the SICB 2013 Annual meeting in San Francisco. (January 2013)

32. 2013 Manivannan travel award from Asia-Pacific Developmental

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Biology Network (APDBN), Japan to attend the 2nd Asia-Pacific Drosophila Research Conference (APDRC), held at South Korea and won best poster award. (May 2013)

33. 2013 Sachin Sridhara

Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) for Ph.D. in James Cook University - 2013 Australia Leadership Award (ALA) (2013)

34. 2013 Yadugiri, V.T.

Won second place for the Best Student Presentation at the International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM7) held in New Delhi (January 2013)

35. 2013 Amod Mohan Zambre

K.Ullas Karanth – J.Paul Getty Award (2013) Carl Zeiss Conservation Award for conservation (2012)

36. 2013 Dhiraj Devidas Bhatia

First Prize of 2013 Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Thesis Awards EMBO Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013 Declined FRM Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013 Declined HFSP Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013 Accepted.

37. 2013 Pritha Ghosh DAAD – A New Passage to India fellowship (2013)

38. 2013 Rajalakshmi, S.

DBT-CTEP travel grant to attend a conference on Gene regulation II, in Cambridge (December, 2013)

39. 2013 Chaitra Prabhakar

Awarded William Randolph Hearst Educational Endowment and Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Scholarship to attend the 120th Physiology Summer Course at Marine Biological Laboratory, USA (June 2013)

40. 2013 Sonia Sen

Company of Biologist's Travel Grant to visit Jing Wang's lab in UCSD, SanDiego, USA (June 2013).

41. 2013 Sonali Saha

Best student talk in the 10th Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience, Utah, USA, 2013.

42. 2014 Jahnavi Joshi

2nd Best Presentation award at the Early Career Biogeography Conference,

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International Biogeography Society held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (Jan 2014)

43. 2014 Sudeshna Das

Alexander Von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology (2014)

44. 2014 Aditya Gilra Cosyne-NSF New Attendee Travel Grant, 2014 45. 2014 Mehrab N Modi Cosyne-NSF New Attendee Travel Grant, 2014 46. 2014 Pushkar Paranjpe Bitplane Excellence Awards : Global Image

Analysis Competition (February 2014) Best Live Webinar Presentation - "Automatic leg detection, tracking and quantification" (February 2014)

47. 2014 Syed Durafshan Sakeena

Asia Pacific developmental biology network (APDBN) travel grant for attending a meeting on Behavioral neurogenetics of Drosophila larva held in Japan (March 2014) Sadanandappa MK et. al., (2013) article in Journal of Neuroscience, has received Prof. Obaid Siddiqi best paper of the year 2013 runner-up cash award by NCBS and C-CAMP.

48. 2014 Shilpa Yadahalli Protein Science Young Investigator Travel Grant / Protein Society Finn Wold Travel Award to attend the 27th Annual Symposium of The Protein Society

49. 2014 Anusree, A.S.

International Federation of palynological Societies and Palaeonological Association travel grant to attend European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, Italy (August 2014)

50. 2014 Shobha Anilkumar

Nature Travel Grant awarded by the Nature Publishing Group to attend workshop onMolecular & Cellular Neurobiology, THong Kong University of Science and Technology, China (April, 2014)

51. 2014 Bipan Kumar Deb

European Calcium Society (ECS) Fellowship to attend the 3th International meeting of the European Calcium Society, France

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(September, 2014). 52. 2014 Divya, R.

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant to visit University of Cologne, Germany (August – November 2014).

53. 2014 Umesh Mohan Developing Neuroethology travel Award to attend international Congress of Neuroethology conference, Japan (July-May, 2014)

54. 2015 Tanay N Bhatt

Company of Biologist travel grant to visit University of California at San Diego for collaborative work (March 2015)

55. 2015 Karthikeyan Chandrasegaran

Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship to visit Illinois State University, USA (February 2015).

56. 2015 Avantika Lal Simons Graduate Travel Prize (March 2015) 57. 2015 Asem Surindro Singh

International Society for Neurochemistry CAEN travel award for attending 46th ASN (American Society for Neurochemistry) Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, United States (14th - 18th March 2015) International travel grant provided by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India for attending 46th ASN (American Society for Neurochemistry) Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, United States (14th - 18th March 2015)

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national/ international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.


1. 2013 Annual Talks - Control in Biological Systems NCBS

Dr. Raghu Padinjat, Dr.VatsalaThirumalai, Dr. Sandeep Krishna, Dr. Mahesh Sankaran

2. 2013 ICTS-NCBS-MBI Programme on ICTS, MBI & NCBS Dr. Darius V. Koester,

NCBS Prof. John A.

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Mechanical Manipulations and Responses on the scale of cell and beyond

Mercer, inStem Prof. Madan Rao, RRI Prof. G.V. Shivashankar, National University of Singapore Prof. Satyajit Mayor, NCBS

3. 2013 NCBS-ICTS Monsoon School on the Physics of Life

ICTS

Prof(s). Mukund, Sandeep, Madhu

4. 2013 Science Journalism Workshop NCBS Anil Ananthaswamy

5. 2013 NCBS - Max Plank Lipid Meeting

4641 Directors Budget

Prof. Satyajit Mayor, Prof. Raghu Padinjat

6. 2013 Bangalore Microscopy Course

Corporate Sponsors + Registrations Manoj Mathew

7. 2013 Student Conference in Conservation Science

Corporate Sponsors + Registrations + Wildlife funding agencies

Dr. V.V Robin

8. 2013 International Conference on Bacterial Expressions

COB, Lady Tata Trust, TWAS, DBT, DST, CSIR

Aswin, Sandeep, DeepaAgashe

9. 2013 Evolution Symposium

Grant from European Society for Evolutionary Biology + Registrations

Prof.KrushnameghKunte

10. 2013 Rufford Grantees Meet Rufford Small Grants Foundation, UK

Ajit Kumar

11. 2013 Asian Otter Conservation Workshop

Mohammed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Ajit Kumar

12. 2013 All India Cell Biology Conference

COB+ Corporate Sponsors + Registrations

Jyotsna Dhawan

13. 2014 Indo-US Bioinformatics NSF-USA Prof. Sowdhamini,

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Workshop Dr. PramodWangikar

14. 2014 Action within cells and NCBS Board Meeting NCBS Dr. Jayant Udgaonkar

15. 2014 Genes Circuits and Behavior DBT Prof. Gaiti Hasan,

Prof. Ralph

16. 2014 NCBS Glyco Course NCBS Prof. MukundThattai, AjitVarki

17. 2014 Em. Bioimaging Meeting

CSIR, COB, DBT, INSA,MBI-NUS,DST, Corporate Sponsors + Registrations

Prof. Raghu Padinjat, Prof. Satyajit Mayor

18. 2014

Indo German Workshop on Insect-Plant Interactions - SERB School for Chemical Ecology

DST-SERB, Axel and KS Krishnan’s Grant

Prof. K. S. Krishnan, Axel Brockman

19. 2014 Conference on Concepts and Mechanisms in Plant Development

NCBS Dr. P.V Shivaprasad

20. 2014

Ecosystem Monitoring and Forest Census Research in India – Workshop

NCBS and Oxford, GEM

Prof. Mahesh

21. 2014 International Computational Neuro Course

NCBS Prof. Upinder S Bhalla

22. 2014 NCBS-Simons Monsoon School: Physics of Life Simons Foundation NCBS

23. 2014 Career Day @ NCBS Corporate Sponsors NCBS – DAE Accounts Meeting

24. 2014 Science Journalism Workshop NCBS Anil Ananthaswamy

25. 2014

Workshop on DAE Meeting: Accounting Procedures for Autonomous Institutions – DAE

NCBS – DAE Accounts Meeting

PradipPyne

26. 2014 Development and NCBS Prof. Gaiti Hasan

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Function of the Nervous Systems & Scientific Meeting and Celebration for Mathew, Vijay and Panicker

27. 2014 6th Bangalore Microscopy Course

DBT+DST+Corporate Sponsors + Registrations

Dr. Manoj Mathew

28. 2014 SCCS Conference DBT,DST+ Corporate Sponsors + Registrations

Dr. V.V. Robin

29. 2014 Neuromodulation of Behavior

DST, COB, DBT, CEFIPRA, +Registrations

Prof. Gaiti Hasan

30. 2014 NCI-DBT Provocative Questions Workshop NCI , DBT Prof. S. Ramaswamy

31. 2014 The Second International Symposium on Protein Folding and Dynamics

DBT + DST, Corporate Sponsors, Registrations

Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar

32. 2015

Annual Talks 2015 / 5 year institutional research review & Annual Symposium on 'Biology Across Scales'

NCBS Gaiti Hasan, SumantraChatterji, Sanjay Sane -

33. 2015 7th Bangalore Benny Shilo Course on Developmental Biology

NCBS, CoB, DBT, DST

MukundThattai& Benny Shilo

34. 2015 Fundamentals of Anthropogeny

Visitors Budget - (NCBS)

AjitVarki

35. 2015

Retreat on Mechanobiology of Cells & Tissues: Implications to Signaling & Endocytosis

Simons Foundation Jitu, Madan, Thomas Lecuit

36. 2015 The Annual Meeting - NCBS Max-Planck Lipid Centre

Lipid Centre Raghu Pandinjat

37. 2015 K. S. Krishnan School of Chemical Ecology

NCBS, CoB, Max Planck, French

Shannon B. Olsson, Axel Brockmann

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Embassy

38. 2014

2nd Workshop on Mechanical Manipulations and Responses at the scale of the cell and beyond

ICTS + Registrations Darius Vasco Kaster

39. 2015 Uma Ramakrishnan Meeting Sikkim DBT Grant Uma Ramakrishnan

40. 2015 BBRC Symposium & Editorial Board Meeting BBRC Journal Satyajit Mayor

41. 2015 Science Journalism Course NCBS Anil Ananthaswamy

42. 2015 Physics of Life 2015,3rd NCBS-Simons Monsoon School

Simons Foundation Sandeep Krishna

43. 2015

Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity - CAMP @ Bangalore

Simons Foundation, NCBS

Upinder S Bhalla

44. 2015 Northeast Bangalore Collaboration on Chemical Ecology

DBT Grant Pankaj Gupta

45. 2015 Dialogues in the Clinic Mini-symposium

Visitors Budget - (NCBS)

ArchanaPurushotham

46. 2015 Meeting - Initiative on Sequence Learning and Abstraction

Simons Foundation U S Bhalla

47. 2015

St. Johns Infectious Disease Meeting - Evolving Clinical Science Interface Discussion Meeting

NCBS Sudhir Krishna

48. 2015 SCCS Conference -J N Tata Auditorium, IISc

1. Wildlife Conservation Trust

2. Bombay Natural History Society

3. AMM

Ravi Chellam, Uma Ramakrishnan

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Foundation 4. Foundation for

Ecological Security

5. DuleepMatthai Nature Conservation Trust

6. INLAKS India Foundation

7. Ravi Sankaran Memorial Foundation

8. World Wildlife Fund-India

9. Wildlife Trust of India

Nature Conservation Foundation Corporate Sponsors + Registrations

49. 2015 7th Bangalore Microscopy Course

Corporate Sponsors + Registrations

Satyajit Mayor, Krishnamoorthy, Manoj Mathew

50. 2015 NCBS - Wuerzburg Meeting on Infection Biology

Outreach & Communication Budget - (NCBS)

Varadha, Arati

51. 2015 Post-Doc Symposium Visitors Budget - (NCBS) Dr. Megha

52. 2015 Workshop on Biomolecular Interactions

DBT Grant of Prof. R Sowdhamini

R. Sowdhamini

53. 2015 Bacterial Expression – II Simons Foundation + Registrations

AswinSheshasayee


NCBS-TIFR issues the complete details of the Campus Code of Ethics, Laboratory

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Safety and Laboratory Etiquette each year in the printed student handbook. We follow all statutory guidelines related to Animal Ethics, Human Subject Research Ethics, Biosafety Regulations, etc. We are in full compliance of all Statutory Ethical Guidelines.


Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches.

Name of the P ro g ra m me

Programme

Applications received

Selected Joined Pass percentage%

Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 32480

67 49 64 49 83 86

Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 11966

38 25 24 25 88 100

M.Sc. (Wildlife Biology) 1993 17 13 18 13 94 100

33. Diversity of students a) Geographical:

Students Ph.D. I-Ph.D. M.Sc.

Total Male Female Male Female Male Female

From the state where the university is located 7 3 2 5 1 0 18

From other states of India 47 38 17 31 9 9 151

NRI students 2 0 0 2 0 1 5 Foreign students 0 2 0 0 0 0 2

Total 56 43 19 38 10 10 176

b) Ungraduate Institution: Ph.D. I-Ph.D. M.Sc.

Total Male Female Male Female Male Female From Universities 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 From premier science institutions † 8 5 1 1 0 1 16

From premier professional institutions 15 6 0 0 0 0 21

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# From others* 32 32 18 37 10 9 138 Total 56 43 19 38 10 10 176

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc., # IITs, NITs, etc.

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.

Examination No of students who cleared 1. NET 30 2. GATE 28 3. UGC 13 4. CSIR-JRF 15 5. ICMR 2 6. INSPIRE 2 7. DBT-JRF 8 8. JAM 3 9. JNU Combined Biotech Entrance Exam 2 10. JEST 1 11. CSIR-SPM 3 12. CSIR-LS 4 13. OCES/DGFS 1 14. ASRB-NET 1 15. AIR 1 16. BET 1 17. AIEEE 1


NCBS-TIFR operates only a graduate and post-doctoral stream. We do not re-hire our own graduates as post-doctoral fellows. Students who complete our M.Sc.-by-Research programme typically go on to Ph.D. programmes at other institutions. Those who complete our M.Sc. Wildlife programmes go on to Ph.D. programmes elsewhere, but also into other career streams such as conservation-related organisations, the Forest Service, etc. Students who complete our Ph.D. and Integrated Ph.D. programmes typically go on to do post-doctoral research at other institutions, but many also join industry positions as staff scientists, or enter other careers such as education.

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from TIFR :

1



Total No 34




a. Library

The primary aim of the Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) - library is to develop, organize, preserve and deliver information and scholarly resources for theNCBS community. To these ends, the SIRC explores and implements new technologies to provide effective information services, expand the library’s resource collection, and develop a librarian-user partnership.

The library has extensive print and electronic collections including books, bound journals, and a CD/DVD collection of other educational resources. The SIRC subscribes to print journals and multiple electronic resources, participates in consortiums such as TIFR, DAE and UGC-Infonet for expanded access. The SIRC also subscribes to magazines and newspapers of general interest and offers various services including referencing, scanning, off-campus access, inter-libraryloan and document delivery.

3%

32%

65%

Faculty Ph.D.s

TIFR

India

Abroad

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In January 2013. The SIRC moved into the Southern Laboratories Complex, occupying a centrally located space with wheelchair access ramps and a sizeable reading area spanning two floors. Support facilities include wired and wireless internet, computing and audio-visual facilities, printers, scanners, and an online catalogue. The SIRC is open every day, year round.


The entire NCBS campus is WiFi enabled and has broadband access to data, including subscriptions to online journals via a proxy server. The total bandwidth is approximately 100 Mbps.

c. Total number of class rooms

• Auditoriums:

189 seater, 250 sqm; 101 seater, 130 sqm; 81 seater, 180 sqm; 70 seater, 100 sqm; 60 seater, 200 sqm

• Seminar Halls:

6 seminar halls, capacity 14-16 each.

d. Class rooms with ICT facility

All our classrooms are WiFi and internet enabled, as well has having digital projection systems. The main auditoriums in addition have sound systems, recording systems, and video-conferencing and distance learning capabilities.


Two teaching laboratories which have a flexible layout for hands-on and experimental workshops; 200 sqm and 100 sqm.


Each member of the NCBS faculty maintains a research laboratory with a square footage in excess of 100 sqm each. In addition, our common research facilities as

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described above all have dedicated laboratory space. The total research area is 8739 sqm of faculty research laboratories and shared laboratories plus 1880 sqm of facilities.

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates

Ph.D. Students I-Ph.D. Students

1 Anupama H.L. 1 Urvashi Raheja 2 Anup Ashok Parchure 2 Suvrajit Saha 3 Sucheta Kulkarni 3 Nitesh Saxena 4 Varun Varma 4 Priyanka Gupta 5 Joseph Jose Thottacherry 5 Roumita Moulick 6 Mugdha Sathe 6 Taruni Roy 7 Amritendu Mukhopadhyay 7 Pooja Malhotra 8 Durafshan Sakeena Syed 8 Aswathy A.K. 9 Neha Nandwani 9 Lalitha Krishnan 10 Swagatha Ghosh 10 Amruta Varudkar 11 Thangaselvam .M 11 Shuchita Arun Soman 12 Umesh Mohan 12 Shishu Pal Singh 13 Jesvin Singh Madan 13 Radhika Sudhir Joshi 14 Ramya Purkanti 14 Farhana Yasmin 15 Hemanth Giri Rao Vantharam V 15 Aanchal Jatindrakumar Bhatia 16 Aalap Bhalchandra Mogre 16 Avantika Lal 17 Deepankar Singh 17 Shweta 18 Manhar Singh Rawat 18 Shlesha Rajesh Richhariya 19 Sabareesan A.T 19 Ankita Prakash Chodankar 20 Rama Reddy Goluguri 20 Aliasgar Bohra 21 Mahita Jarjapu 21 Giselle Maria Fernandes 22 Urbashi Basu 22 Parijat Sil 23 Sanjeev Mahadeva Sharma 23 Preethi Ravi 24 Joseph Mathew 24 Prabahan Chakraborty 25 Yadugiri V T 25 Saptarnab Naskar 26 Bipan Kumar Deb 26 Kambadur Gundu Ananthamurthy 27 Farah Haque 27 Avishek Ghosh 28 Ajoy Aloysius 28 Sruthi S Balakrishnan 29 Mohini Sengupta 29 Leanna Rose Joy 30 Somya Mani 30 Aparna Agarwal 31 Nihav Dhawale 31 Vishal Tiwari 32 Shilpi Nagpal 32 Payel Chatterjee 33 Mary K Johnson 33 Sandhya Bhatia 34 Prashant kumar Navalbhai Jethva 34 Priyesh Mohanty

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35 Pritha Ghosh 35 Krithika Badarinath 36 Snehal Dilip Karpe 36 Chandan Kumar Pandey 37 Kabir Bazmi Husain 37 Steffy B Manjila 38 Chaitra P 38 Ashutosh Shukla 39 Calvin Steve Rodrigues 39 Vandana Agarwal 40 Ebi Antony George 40 Sahana Sitaraman 41 Divya R 41 Bishal Basak 42 Mrudula Sunil Sane 42 Aridni Shah 43 Kruttika Anirudha Phalnikar 43 Pavan Kaushik 44 Prachi Srikanth Thatte 44 Rohini Subrahmanyam 45 Jyothi Venugopal Nair 45 Rohit Dey 46 Sunny Kataria 46 Akshit Goyal 47 Tanay NitinKumar Bhatt 47 Suhas Bhate 48 Arunabha Sarkar 48 Deepanjali Dwivedi 49 Sreekrishna Varmaraja PC 49 Pabitra Nandy 50 Sahil Moza 50 Bhavya Dharmaraaj 51 Rohit Chandrakant Suratekar 51 Furquan Khizar 52 Vishaka Datta 52 Chittaspandini Gopal Kulkarni 53 Lena Mareike Josefine Robra 53 Rashmi 54 Amit Kumar Singh 54 Charuhansini Gopal Kulkarni 55 Harish Kumar 55 Sankarshan Talluri 56 Sahil Lall 56 Aalok Varma 57 Iyer Meenakshi Shankar 57 Chandrima Patra 58 Abrar Ahmed Bhat 59 Debakshi Mullick 60 Saurabh Kishor Mahajan 61 Alok Javali 62 Soumya Bhattacharjee 63 Vishram Terse 64 Terence Christie 65 Sreemantee Sen 66 Bhavika Mam 67 Kiran Sankar Chatterjee 68 Neetu 69 Kuldeep 70 Vrinda Ravi Kumar 71 Saurav Baral 72 Riddhi Deshmukh 73 Srishti Batra 74 Anubhab Khan

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75 Abin Ghosh V C 76 Aditya Asopa 77 Dilawar Singh 78 Lakshmi Krupa S. 79 Kumarvardhanam Daga 80 Athulya Girish. K 81 Batul Ismail Habibullah 82 Mohammad 83 Ankita Kapoor 84 Zeenat Rashida 85 Souradeep Sarkar 86 Kanika Gupta 87 Vinay Kumar Dubey 88 Shubham Kesarwani 89 Sachit Daniel 90 Shweta Chakraborty 91 Pratyay Seth 92 Anupam Singh 93 Vasvi Tripathi 94 Kaivalya Sudesh Walavalkar 95 Sriram Narayanan 96 Patil Saurabh Ratiram 97 Teerna Bhattacharyya 98 Anjali Jaiman 99 Kamalesh Kumari

Post Doctoral Fellows Post Doctoral Fellows

1 B. Lakshmi 27 Darius Vasco Koster 2 Divya Rajagopal 28 Robin Vadayail Vijayan 3 Monisha Bhattacharya 29 Marcus Taylor 4 Sanjay Kumar 30 Jahnavi Joshi 5 Melvin Prasad 31 Baskar Bakthavachalu 6 Poulomi Biswas 32 Benjamin J. Wigley 7 Shridhivya A Reddy 33 Venkat Ramaswamy 8 Rittik Deb 34 Vishnu Janardan 9 V.S. Pragadheesh 35 Amit Das 10 Indira Singh 36 Deepika Janakiraman 11 Dhananjay Chaturvedi 37 Megha 12 Dambarudhar S S Hembram 38 Daniel Brian Weatherill

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Post Doctoral Fellows Post Doctoral Fellows 13 S.P. Vijayakumar 39 Laasya Samitha 14 Ishtapran sahoo 40 Anchal Chandra 15 Gnaneshwar V Yadav 41 Kamalakannan Vijayan 16 Ishita Sengupta 42 K. Dhanya 17 Igor Kondrychyn 43 Vivek Ramachandran 18 Bhaktee Dongaonkar 44 Joyshree Chanam 19 Soumita Das 45 Rithvik S. Vinekar 20 Parag Surana 46 Imroze Khan 21 Sagarika Mishra 47 Nahren Manuel Mascarenhas 22 P Chitra 48 Varad B Giri 23 Bini Ramachandran 49 Pradeep Subramani 24 M. Snigdha 50 Savita Chib 25 Renjitha Gopurappilly 51 Ishan Agrawal 26 Pramod Kumar Singh


All the 178 students of NCBS are in either doctoral programmes, or the M.Sc. (Wildlife Biology) programme, and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

New programmes are discussed at three levels: 1. Internally among the NCBS-TIFR faculty. 2. At the level of the Biology Subject Board of TIFR. 3. At the level of the TIFR Academic Council. Changes in curriculum etc. are settled at the faculty level. Changes in credit and thesis requirements as well as exceptional cases, appeals, etc. are decided by the Subject Board. Introduction of new programmes must be decided by the Council.



Faculty feedback on curriculum development is coordinated through a monthly meeting of all NCBS faculty. This is the forum where any changes to the curriculum must be approved

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b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department utilize the feedback?

Individual course instructors may issue anonymous forms for student feedback.


NA

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)

Even though NCBS is a relatively young Centre, we have had great success in training researchers and launching them to independent careers. Several of our alumni who received PhDs from NCBS have gone on to join the faculty at various institutions in India and abroad. For example:

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. Rohit Joshi CDFD HYderabad 2. Rajat Varma US National Institutes of Health 3. Gautam Soni Raman Research Institute 4. Sachin Deshmukh Indian Institute of Science 5. Bidisha Sinha IISER Kolkata 6. Rajan Raghav IISER Pune 7. Deepa Subramanyam NCCS Pune 8. Ajay Mathuru Yale-National University of Singapore 9. Baron Chanda Univ of Wisconsin, USA 10. Adish Dani Washington Univ, USA

44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) involving external experts.

All our workshops are free and open to all the students in our graduate program. All of these workshops involve outside experiments, many of these workshops include hands-on sessions. See Question 30 for a list of workshops conducted in the past 3 years.

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The M.Sc. Program in Wildlife Biology involves 3 components: 1. Classroom-based courses with instructors giving lectures, assigning homework, and testing results based on an in-class exam. 2. Mentorship and guidance on research methodologies, oral presentations, and scientific writing. 3. Fieldwork at station sites maintained by NCBS at various locations in India including the Western Ghats, the Andamans, and Sikkim. The Ph.D., I-Ph.D. and M.Sc.-by-Research programmes are based mainly on classroom courses. Instructors teach based on textbooks as well as scientific literature surveys. Basic courses are typically based on textbooks and culminate in an in-class exam, whereas advanced courses on recent developments are based on literature surveys and culminate in a graded project. Strong emphasis is placed on student participation.

46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and learning outcomes are monitored?

Student learning out comes are monitored at two levels. First, at the level of individual course examinations. Second, at the level of the Qualifying Examination (QE). The QE must be taken after 3 semesters (for Ph.D.) or 4 semesters (for I-PhD) from the date of joining. It is an 8-hour written examination that covers all aspects of the coursework. Students have two attempts to pass this examination. In addition, student research progress is monitored via their Thesis Committee Meetings and Annual Work Seminars.


NCBS Outreach programs are aimed to bring in as many young minds as possible to consider pursuing Science. PIs at NCBS are the driving force of these initiatives. NCBS does get a fair share of interest from other institutes, who do wish to visit us as they consider the institute as the place to be exposed to for the kind of science we pursue.

For example, between 2015-16 the institute hosted 37 visits from University, Institutes (national & international) and Schools. Visits to NCBS include, talks by

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select PIs, Talks by the academic office, facility, lab visits and a campus tour. Some visiting institutes include University of Kashmir, VIT, IIT Chennai, Christian College, Kerela,Devanahalli Government School.

PIs also organize individual outreach programs where they invite schools for specific interactions. E.g. the MOTH DAY@NCBS where Sanjay Sane and Shannon Olsson labs set up lab interactions aimed to raise awareness among primary and secondary school groups in July.

One of the highlights of 2016 - On the occasion of the 25 years celebrations we organized a school outreach program for 3 Kendriya Vidhyalaya schools. The students attended talks and were taken through lab experiences form Drs, Aswin Seshasayee, Sanjay Sane & Axel Brockmann labs. More such programs are planned for future.

Faculty involved in outreach program so far are as follows: Drs. Varadharajan Sundaramurthy, Sudhir Krishna, Aswin Seshasayee, Sandeep Krishna, Krushnamegh Kunte, Mukund Thattai, Sumantra Chaterjee, Arati Ramesh, Satyajit Mayor, Upinder Bhalla, Apurva Sarin, Raghu Padinjat, Sowdhamini, Vatsala Thirumalai, Shannon Olsson, Hiyaa Ghosh, Deepa Agashe, Axel Brockmann

Heads involved in outreach program so far are as follows: Manoj Mathew, H. Krishnamurthy , Ms. Poornima, Ashok Rao, Nandini (IBS), Aparna (Science and Society), Rashi Tiwari (Academic Office)

Students/Post docs involved in outreach program so far are as follows: Savita Chib, Dhananjay , Lakshmi , Sakeena , Baskar , Meghana exhibited.


There are numerous components to beyond-syllabus activities.

1. A student’s primary research on their thesis topic.

2. Student presentations at Annual Work Seminars and in poster presentations during the Institute’s Annual Review Meeting.

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3. Student participation in Journal Clubs to keep abreast of all the recent literature in relevant fields.

4. The annual student-led workshop known as “Sympotein” where students discuss interesting ideas in a forefront research area of life sciences.


The Review Committee constituted by the UGC, which visited TIFR during February 2010, also visited NCBS. In addition, in 2010 the Academic performance of NCBS was also reviewed by a panel of international experts set up by the Governing Council of TIFR.

50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic or applied.

The core contribution of NCBS-TIFR is in the form of peer-reviewed publications in international scholarly journals including the highest category of journals in the life sciences such as Nature, Science and Cell. NCBS faculty and students have so far written over 1100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

NCBS faculty have made fundamental contributions to several areas of biology. To give some examples: The work of Prof. Obaid Siddiqi on the development of the nervous system was extremely influential and acknowledged globally. Prof. Vijay Raghavan’s work has revealed the mechanism of muscle development in animals. Prof. Satyajit Mayor’s research has redefined the way biologists think about the functioning of the cell membrane. Prof. Upinder Bhalla is a world leader in understanding how olfactory stimuli are processed in the mammalian brain. Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar’s experiments have revealed the key to protein folding and aggregation during neuro-degeneration. Prof. Uma Ramakrishnan has made fundamental contributions to understanding the status of endangered animal populations, including tigers, throughout the Indian subcontinent. Prof. Yamuna Krishnan has pioneered the field of DNA nanotechnology, with potential applications across chemistry, biology, and medicine.

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Strengths

Excellent research faculty and staff, research infrastructure, connection to international partner institutions, high visibility among potential students, track record in research and publications.

Weaknesses

Lacunae in certain research areas, low rate of attracting post-doctoral fellows, poor engagement with medical programmes, under-representation of humanities and social sciences in the curriculum, untapped use of distance-learning tools.

Opportunities

New research areas such as experimental biophysics, genome engineering, etc. Collaborations with hospitals and clinicians. New opportunities for public engagement via Science and Society Programme. Leveraging connections with other Institutions in Bangalore for research and teaching collaborations. New opportunities for field biology and conservation via networks of field stations.

Challenges

Sporadic research funding environment. Poorly prepared students in intake stream. Challenges of managing organic campus growth while maintaining excellence of academic program. Poor academic recruitment environment for our graduates. Modernizing the teaching curriculum for rapidly changing areas.

52. Future plans of the department Thrust areas:

• Faculty hiring in new research directions. • Expansion of post-doctoral programme including international recruits. • Development of strong connections with funding bodies to support long-

term research goals. • Emphasis on scientific writing and presentation.

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B3-XIII

Centre for

Applicable Mathematics

(CAM)

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Evaluative Report of Departments (B3) XIII-CAM-1


Centre for Applicable Mathematics


TIFR- Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM)

2. Year of establishment:

1972


Yes, it is a part of School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai.

4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters;

Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.)

1. Ph.D. in Mathematics 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. in Mathematics (I-Ph.D.)

Students who cannot complete their Ph.D. degrees, but have completed some

basic requirements may be awarded M.Phil. degrees. However, no students are

admitted purely for an M.Phil programme.


Not Applicable.


Not Applicable.


Not Applicable.

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Semester


Not Applicable.

10. Number of faculty positions:

Faculty Designation with DAE Grade

Abbreviation (Item 11)

Number

1. Distinguished Professor (J) Ds. Professor (J) 0

2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 2

3. Professor (H) 4

4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 3

5. Reader (F) 5

6. Fellow (E) -

Total 14

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of s pecialization,

experience and research under guidance

Name Deg* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡

1. Prof Adimurthi Ph.D. Senior Professor (I)

Partial Differential Equation Variational Methods

42 1

2. Prof Jospeh KT Ph.D. Senior Professor (I)

Partial differential equations, especially of Hyperbolic and parabolic type Analysis of boundary layers, classical Shock waves and delta waves.

33 2

3. Prof Vasudeva Murthy A S

Ph.D. Professor (H) Numerical Analysis of PDE of Evolutionary type Mathematical modelling of Atmospheric Phenomenon

34 3

4. Prof Veerappa Gowda G D

Ph.D. Professor (H) Partial Differential Equation Numerical Analysis Conservation Laws

34 3

5. Prof Mythily Ramaswamy

Ph.D. Professor (H) Partial Differential Equations Nonlinear Functional Analysis Optimal Control Problems

37 3

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Name Deg* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡

6. Prof Vanninathan M

Ph.D. Professor (H) Partial Differential Equation Numerical Analysis Homogenization Controllability

41

7. Dr Sandeep K Ph.D. Associate Professor (G)

Partial Differential Equation Variational Methods Non-Linear Functional Analysis

11 2

8. Dr Prashanth K Srinivasan

Ph.D. Associate Professor (G)

Variational Methods Partial Differential Equations of Elliptic type

13 2

9. Dr Aravinda Cs Ph.D. Associate Professor (G)

Geometric Analysis Ergodic Theory Topology

8 1

10. Dr Ujjwal Koley Ph.D. Reader Partial Differential Equations Numerical Analysis for Hyperbolic PDEs

1

11. Dr Venkateswaran P Krishnan

Ph.D. Reader Inverse Problems Integral Geometry Image Reconstruction Microlocal Analysis

4

12. Dr Imran H Biswas

Ph.D. Reader Partial Differential Equation Stochastic Analysis

5 1

13. Dr Sreekar Vadlamani

Ph.D. Reader stochastic analysis and random fields 5

14. Dr Praveen C Ph.D. Reader Computational Fluid Dynamics Shape Optimazation for Fluid Flows Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Uncertainty Quantification Parallel Computing

7

* Highest degree obtained

† Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere)

‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and

those graduated)

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Not Applicable



1. Ph.D. 1 14 0.07

2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 17 14 1.21

3. M.Sc. ─ ─ ─



3 12


1. Applications of Nonlinear Functional Analysis in the Study of Differential

Equations.

2. Control Aspects of Partial Differential Equations.

3. Hyperbolic Equations and Conservation Laws.

4. Homogenization and Solid Fluid Interactions.

5. Numerical Analysis of PDE (Special Reference to Atmospheric Dynamics).

6. Microlocal Analysis.

7. Stochastic Analysis and Random fields.

8. Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.

9. Differential Geometry and Dynamics.

Name Period

1. 1. V S Borkar 2011

2. 2. Govind Menon 2011

3. 3. Giavanni P Galdi 2011

4. 4. Siddhartha Mishra 2012-15

5. 5. Sagun Chanillo 2012-15

6. 6. Malabika Pramanik 2014-17

7. 7. Mokshay Madiman 2014-17

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http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/menon/

http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/ProfessionalProfile.aspx?id=2147485474

http://www.math.ethz.ch/people/smishra

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/people/?id=49

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~malabika/

http://www.stat.yale.edu/~mm888/



17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding

agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies,

project title and grants received project-wise.

National

Agency

Project Title

Total Grant (Rs. lakhs)

Duration (years)

Faculty member

1. Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory, Kochi

Bistatic towed Synthetic Aperture Sonar image Formation.

3.3 1.25 Dr. Venkateswaran P Krishnan

2. Indo-French Center for Applied Mathematics

PDE- Control -- -- Prof. Mythily R

3. AIR BUS Mathematics of Complex Systems

100 4 Prof. Mythily R


None.

19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE;

DBT, ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received.-

Agency

Project Title


Duration (years)

Faculty member

1. DAE XII Plan Projects

- CAM 325 5 All CAM faculty


state recognition :

national recognition :

international recognition : None

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21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate

bodies

Not applicable

22. Publications:

CAM Journal

Publications

Articles in

Proceedings

Technical

Reports

Web

Publications

Book

Chapters

Books

Edited

Mono

graphs

2010-11 30 6 - - 3 - -

2011-12 18 6 1 3 2 - -

2012-13 22 5 - 1 2 - -

2013-14 16 3 - 7 1 - -

2014-15 39 5 - 4 1 1 -

Total 125 25 1 15 9 1 -

Citation Index – range / average

• Total number of citations: 3054 (Source: MathScinet)

• Number of citations per faculty: 218

• h-index: Range: 4 - 23

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Notice of Allowance for patent grant from the Chinese Patent Office has been

received for the invention of "Optimal Wing Planforms for Reducing the Induced

or Total Drag of the Wing of an Aircraft Driven by Wing-Mounted Tractor

Propellers/Rotors".

Dr. Praveen Chandrashekarappa is one of the inventors.


Not applicable

25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories /institutions/

industries in India and abroad

International Visits :

Name of Faculty member Institution and Location visited Year

1. Dr Amit Apte North Carolina 2011

Providence USA 2011

Oxford Man Institute and WarwickUniversit

2012

University of Nice Sophia Antopolis, France, and the National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colom,

2013

2. Dr Aravinda Cs

ICTP, Trieste, Italy 2013

To visit Tom Farrell at SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Binghamton

2014

University of Zurich, Zurich 2014

Northwestern University, Evanston 2014

Italy, Italy 2015

3. Dr Debraj Chakrabarti

San Diego,California, USA, USA 2013

University of Western Ontario, Canada, Canada

2013

4. Dr Imran H Biswas

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil 2014

To visit University of Wurzbug, Germany 2015

University of Pau, France 2015

Beijing, China, China 2015

IISER Kolkata, India 2015

5. Dr Prashanth K Srinivasan France, France 2013

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University of New York, New York, USA, USA

2013

Madrid, Spain and CUNY, New York, USA 2014

Department of Mathematics, University of Pau, France from 1 to 14 July 2015 and Department of Mathe, France, New York

2015

6. Dr Praveen C Toulouse 2011

Univ. of Wuerzburg,Germany, Germany 2013

Univ. of Wuerzburg, Germany 2014

Univ. of Paul Sabatier and Univ. of Wurzburg,

2014

Banff, Alberta, Canada 2015

Univ. of Wurzburg, Germany 2015

7. Dr Sandeep K

IMPA Rio-de Janeiro Brazil 2012

Rome, Italy 2013

University of Pau, France, France 2014

University of Basel, Switzerland 2015

University of Rome3, Roma 2015

Politecnico di Torino, Italy 2015

8. Dr Seema Nanda

Arizona, Arizona 2013

Osaka, Japan, Japan 2014

lahore, Pakistan 2014

Arlington, Virginia. , USA, USA 2014

Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, USA 2015

9. Dr Sreekar Vadlamani

University of Rome-2, Italy 2013

to visit the University of Rome at Tor Vergata, and ESSEC-Paris

2014

Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands 2014

Prof. Marie Kratz, France 2015

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US 2015

Technion, Israel, ISRAEL 2015

Technion, Israel 2015

School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

2016

10. Dr Ujjwal Koley Department of mathematics, Würzburg, Germany, Germany

2015

11. Dr Venkateswaran P Krishnan

Mittag-Leffler Institute,Sweden, Sweden 2013

University of Wurzburg,Germany, 2013

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Germany

American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto, California, USA, USA

2013

University of Texas at Arlington, USA 2013

University of Texas, USA 2014

Turkey, Turkey 2014

Madrid, Spain, Spain 2014

University of Stuttgart, Germany, Germany

2014

Finland, Finland 2015

University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA and Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, USA

2015

Beijing, China 2015

12. Prof Adimurthi

University of Paris 6,Paris 2012

University of Uppsala Sweden 2012

Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics, Spain

2013

Laboratoire de Math´ematiques de Besancon, France,

2013

LMAP (UMR 5142), 64013 2013

Uppsala University, Sweden, Sweden 2014

Wuerzburg, Germany 2015

13. Prof Mythily Ramaswamy

University of Toulouse, France, France 2013

University of Bath, United Kingdom 2013

Baltimore, Maryland and Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, USA

2014

CUNY, USA, USA 2014

Lorentz Center, Netherlands 2014

Toulouse University, France 2014

CUNY Graduate Center, US, US 2015

to visit Toulouse University, France 2015

Beijing, China 2015

Edinburgh, UK, UK 2015

14. Prof Srikanth P N Mexico city, North America 2015

15. Prof Vanninathan Kogakuin University Japan 2012

University of Paris 6, France 2013

L'Ecole Polytechnique, France 2013

University of Rennes, France 2013

University of Toulouse, France, France 2013

Ecole Polytechnique,France, France 2014

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University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse,France, France

2014

16. Prof Vasudeva Murthy A S Lorentz Centerc, Holland 2014

Kogakuin University and Waseda University, Japan

2012

17. Prof Veerappa Gowda G D

INRIA, France 2014

University of Pau, France 2015

University of Wuerzburg, Germany 2015

All the faculty are invited to visit other laboratories /institutions in India and abroad


(a) National Committees :


Name of the Committee Role in the Committee Term of Service

1 Prof. Joseph KT Mathematical Sciences To select fellows of INSA and select Young scientist and recommend their names to the Council, INSA.

2015-2017.

2 Prof. Mythily R Science Education Panel in the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. Project Monitoring Committee of SERB for Mathematical Sciences Board of Governers IIT Gandhinagar. Standing Committee on IISER’s

selection of summer research fellowships of the Science Academies Project Monitoring

2006 for 6 years since September 2015. since March, 2016 Since March 2016

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Name of the Faculty

Member Name of the Committee


Term of Service

Prof. Mythily R

Member of the Subcommittee for the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture selection committee at the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Su Buchin Prize

2015

2015

(c) Editorial Boards :


Name of the Journal Impact Factor

Term of Service

1. Prof. Mythily Ramaswamy JI Ramanujam Mathematical Society, Boundary Value Problems Proceedings of Mathematical Sciences

Not assigned 1.014 0.24

Jan 2015 onwards June 2015 onwards November 2014 onwards

2. Prof. Vasudevamurthy A. S. Mathematics Student 0.05 1 year

3. Prof. Aravinda CS Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics in Negative Curvature Part of London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series. Geometry Groups & Dynamics. (1) Hardy Ramanujan Journal, (2) RMS Newsletter, (3) Mathematics Student.

0.05

4 Years 8 Years 1 Year

4. Prof. Veerappa Gowda GD Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

0.224 2014 onwards

5. Prof. Adimurthi Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

0.822

6. Prof. Sandeep K Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

0.224 2016 onwards

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27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher /orientation programs,

workshops, training programs and similar programs).

Not Applicable


percentage of students who have done in-house projects

including inter- departmental projects

60 % - In house projects


National Awards

Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year

1. Prof. K Sandeep B. M. Birla Science prize 2013

2. Dr. Imran H Biswas Young Scientist Award 2013

3. Prof. Adimurthi JC Bose Fellowship 2013

4. Prof. K Sandeep Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award 2015

Recognitions

Recognition Name of Faculty

Fellow, National Academy of Sciences,

Allahabad

Prof. P N Sirkanth

Prof. Adimurthi

Prof.Mythily Ramaswamy

Prof. Veerappa Gowda G D

Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New

Delhi

Prof. Adimurthi

Prof. K. T. Joseph

Prof. Veerappa Gowda GD

Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore Prof. Adimurthi

Prof. Mythily Ramaswamy

Prof. Vanninathan M

Prof. K.T.Joseph

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30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national

/ international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.

On an average the Center conducts Conferences / Workshops / Seminars / Compact

courses once in three months in a year at both national and international level.

Important events are indicated below.

Year Name Funding agency Faculty member

1. 2012 Advances in partial differential equations

TIFR CAM Prof.Verrappa Gowda, Dr. Sandeep K

2. 2013 International Conference on Conservation laws and applications

TIFR CAM Prof. Verrappa Gowda GD, Prof. Adimurthi Prof. Joseph KT Dr. Praveen C

3. 2015 Workshop on Control and Numerics for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

TIFR CAM, AIRBUS, IFCAM

Sreekar Vadlamani, M. Vanninathan, Mythily Ramaswamy, Venky Krishnan, Praveen Chandrashekar

4. 2015 Advanced Summer School on Control and Numerics for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

TIFR CAM IFCAM, AIRBUS

Sreekar Vadlamani, M. Vanninathan, Mythily Ramaswamy, Venky Krishnan, Praveen Chandrashekar

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http://math.tifrbng.res.in/~sreekar/

http://www.math.tifrbng.res.in/people/vanni

http://www.math.tifrbng.res.in/people/mythily

http://math.tifrbng.res.in/~vkrishnan

http://math.tifrbng.res.in/~praveen

http://math.tifrbng.res.in/eads-chair/Programs/fsi2015-school



http://math.tifrbng.res.in/~sreekar/

http://www.math.tifrbng.res.in/people/vanni

http://www.math.tifrbng.res.in/people/mythily

http://math.tifrbng.res.in/~vkrishnan

http://math.tifrbng.res.in/~praveen




CAM follows the TIFR Code of Ethics. (Please refer Annexure B2-B)



Name of the

Programme

Applications received

Selected Joined Pass percentage*


Ph.D. 795 2 - 1 0 100 $

I-Ph.D. 1968 61 10 35 5 77 $

$ No female students in these batches


a) Geographical:

Students CAM

Ph.D. Integrated-

Ph.D. M.Phil.

Total *M *F *M *F *M *F


0 0 1 0 0 0 1

From other states of India 1 0 16 0 0 0 17

NRI students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Foreign students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 1 0 17 0 0 0 18

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b) Undergraduate Institute:

Students from Ph.D. Int.-Ph.D.

Total Male Female Male Female

Indian Universities 0 0 17 0 17

Premier science institutions † 1 0 0 0 1

Premier professional institutions # 0 0 0 0 0

Others* 0 0 0 0 0

Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0

Total 1 0 17 0 18

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc.# IITs, NITs, etc.

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations,

NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise.

We do not have any students who appeared for these exams.


In the past five years 20 students were awarded PhD degree among them,6 are already faculty

members in leading institutions in India like IISER, IIM etc., two of them are inspire faculties at

ISI and IISER and remaining are doing their post-doc in leading institutions in India and in

abroad.



29%

29%

42%

Faculty Ph.D.s

TIFR

India

Abroad

from TIFR :

4



Total No 14

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37. Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the

assessment period

Not Applicable, since all the faculty members are PhDs while joining.


a) Library

CAM has a library spread over 265.72 Sq Meter. It has about 10500

books, 6000 back volumes and 100 theses. It has 8 study tables with

chairs, 6 sofa chairs, and 2 study desks. The library staff works from

9.30am to 6.00pm on working days. The academic community at CAM

has 24/7 access to the library.


CAM has connectivity from Tata Telecommunications and Railtel through NKN.


Three


All Class rooms have ICT facility.


Computer Lab is available for Students. Being a centre for

mathematics, there are no other laboratories.


Not Applicable.

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a) List of Ph.D. Students

1. Deep Ray 2. Indranil Chowdhury 3. Debabrata Karmakar 4. Rohit Kumar Mishra 5. Sombuddha Bhattacharya 6. Madhuresh 7. Manish Kumar Singh 8. Manmohan A 9. Arnab Roy 10. Arka Mallick 11. Neelabja Chatterjee 12. Abhishek Das 13. Neeraj Singh Bhauryal 14. Nilasis Chaudhuri 15. Saibal Khan 16. Saikatul Haque 17. Suman Kumar Sahoo 18. Ganesh Kiran Vaidya

b) Doctoral students from the host institution/university

1. Dr.Kaushik Bal 2. Dr. Shirshendu Chowdhury 3. Dr. Manas Ranjan Sahoo 4. Dr. Rishu Saxena 5. Dr. Binoy Ravindran 6. Dr. Eunkyung Ko 7. Dr. Gyula Csato 8. Dr. Anupam Pal Choudhury 9. Dr. Ananta Kumar Majee 10. Dr. Abhishek Sarkar 11. Dr. Denbanja Mitta 12. Dr. Debayan Maity

c) Doctoral students from other institutions/universities

1. Dr. Satyanarayana Engu (NBHM)

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2. Dr. Ravi Shankar (NBHM) 3. Dr. Rasmita Kar (NBHM) 4. Dr Ravi Prakash (NBHM) 5. Dr. Parantap Shukla – (Funded by his guide in France) 6. Dr. Saumya Bajpai (NBHM) 7. Dr. Prosenjit Roy (NBHM) 8. Dr. Sweta Tiwari (NBHM) 9. Dr. Shirshendu Chowdhury (NBHM) 10. Dr. Surabhi Pandey (NBHM)


ALL the students are in doctoral programmes, and hence they are all given TIFR

fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new

programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

Not Applicable


a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does

the department utilize the feedback?

Faculty discusses during Faculty meeting and evaluate the curriculum and make

appropriate changes depending on research needs.

b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the

department utilize the feedback?

Students are asked to give the feedback in the Feedback form at the end of

each semester. Feedback of students are used for assessing the performance

of teachers and improving the quality of teaching.

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c. alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the


Not Applicable


Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction

Professor Siddarth Mishra

Professor at ETH, Zurich. One of the Leading experts in Hyperbolic Conservation laws



CAM organizes conferences, workshops, compact courses on various topics and

students benefit from these programs.


• Class Room Lectures

• Assignments

• Personal Discussions

46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met

and learning outcomes are monitored?

Faculty meetings are conducted at periodical intervals, during the meeting

program objectives and learning outcomes are monitored.


Mathematics of Planet 2013 was organized by TIFR CAM and ICTS.

Centre is organizing Visiting Students Research Program every year.

Instructional Schools for students and teachers are conducted.

Faculty visit Universities and Institutions to deliver lecture across the country.

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In house symposia, Students seminars, colloquia, Special lectures

from other disciplines

49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/

graded by other agencies? If yes, give details.

The mathematics programme at CAM has been earlier reviewed by the UGC in

2002 and 2010, along with other TIFR Centres.

50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge,

basic or applied.

Many important contributions were made in theory and numerics of partial

differential equations (pde). In the theory of elliptic pde many path breaking

results were obtained, to name a few the discovery of a counter example for a

conjecture of Lin and Ni, discovery of sharp hardy inequalities, symmetry and

bifurcation results and the discovery of hyperbolic symmetry for Hardy-Sobolev-

Mazya equations.

For conservation laws with discontinuous flux a criteria was discovered to check

the finiteness of the total variation of a solution. Complete solutions for exact and

optimal control problems for convex conservation laws were obtained. An explicit

formula for spherically symmetric solutions to the system of multidimensional

zero-pressure gas dynamics was derived. An entropy condition was discovered for

conservation laws with noise term in source and uniqueness result was

established.

Significant controllability results for fluid solid coupling and null controllability

results for compressible Navier-Stokes system were established.

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Entropy stable and kinetic energy preserving finite volume schemes are developed

for compressible Euler equations. An efficient and novel numerical algorithm is

developed for inversion of an integral transform arising in ultrasound imaging.

51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of

the department.

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and

Challenges

CAM has an exclusive

group of mathematicians

in the country, dealing

with analysis,

computation and

applications of partial

differential equations for

more than three decades.

CAM is working in a

campus which is not

sufficient for the group to

carry out its high quality

research.

CAM does not have space

or other infrastructure

facilities to encourage the

students in other

extracurricular activities.

Endeavour to train the

next generation of

teachers for IITs and

IISERs, and research

personnel for Research

laboratories and IT

Companies requiring

Mathematics for S & T.


Apart from continuing research and training in our thrust areas of PDE with

analysis and its numerics and applications, the centre is planning to explore its

applications in emerging areas relevant to the country.

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B3-XIV

International Centre for

Theoretical Sciences

(ICTS)

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Evaluative Report of Departments (B3) XIV-ICTS-1


International Centre for Theoretical Sciences


International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)


2007


It is a TIFR Centre.



1. Ph.D.


Students may avail of an M.Phil. degree as an early exit option provided they have

finished a specified set of requirements. However, there is no separate M.Phil.

programme.


There is a joint programme between ICTS and NCBS which involves active

interaction between faculty members working in the areas of the interface

between Physics and Biology. The programme also involves the participation of

graduate students and postdocs and setting up of an experimental lab at ICTS.

This programme is at an initial stage.


ICTS currently has a small faculty strength (16). In view of this we have an MOU

with IISc Physics department, whereby students of ICTS can take courses offered

at IISc. Faculty members at ICTS also participate in teaching courses at IISc.

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XIV-ICTS-2 Evaluative Report of Departments (B3)





100% Semester system

Students at ICTS are offered a Course work programme based on a mixture of

compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project

Work, on topics of their choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below.

Programme Duration (years) Basic & Core

Credits

Elective

Credits

Project

Credits

Total Credits

Overall Coursework

Ph.D 5 1.5 28 20 12 60

Int. Ph.D 6 2.5 48 20 32 100

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: Autumn Semester (August –

November) and Spring Semester (January - April). In addition students do projects

during the summer break (May – July).

In each semester, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process

consisting of

1. Assignments

2. Mid-semester Examination

3. End-semester Examination

Reading courses can be taken by students with any faculty member at ICTS. It is

required that the course be graded through regular assignments or through two

exams (mid-term and final) or a combination of these. Based on these a final mark

and grade is be given.

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Projects can be done with any faculty member at ICTS. The student is graded based

on

• a project report to be examined by the project guide

• a seminar presentation to be examined by a two member committee.


NA


Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number

1. Professor Emeritus 1


3. Professor (H) 1

4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 1

5. Reader (F) 9

6. Junior Faculty (non tenured position) 2

Total 16

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,



1. Abhishek Dhar Ph.D. Professor H Statistical physics and

condensed matter physics 14 5

2. Amit Apte Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Dynamical Systems and Data

Assimilation 9 1

3. Anupam Kundu Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Statistical physics 1 --

4. Avinash Dhar Ph.D. Senior

Professor I High Energy Physics, String Theory

32 --

5. Loganayagam R Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ String theory, Black hole

physics and Quantum field theory

1 --

6. Pallab Basu Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ String Theory, Statistical

Physics 3 1

7. Parameswaran Ajith

Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Gravitational-wave physics and astrophysics

3 1

8. Rajesh Ph.D. Senior Theoretical Physics with a 14 4

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Gopakumar Professor I & Director

focus on Quantum Field Theory and String Theory

9. Rukmini Dey Ph.D. Associate

Professor ‘G’ Mathematical Physics and Geometry

15 2

10. Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Turbulence, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics

1 --

11. Spenta R. Wadia Ph.D. Emeritus

Professor High Energy Physics, String Theory, Quantum Gravity

30 --

12. Subhro Bhattacharjee

Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Condensed Matter physics: Strongly correlated systems.

1 --

13. Suvrat Raju Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ String Theory and Quantum

Gravity 3 --

14. Vijay Kumar Krishnamurthy

Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Physical biology and soft condensed matter physics

1 --



‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)


List of Associated Faculty Members

1. Swapna Mahapatra, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. 2. Badri Krishnan, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

and Institute for Gravitational Physics of the Leibniz Universität Hannover 3. Shravan Hanasoge, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 4. Mark Hannam, Cardiff University, UK 5. Nivedita Deo, University of Delhi, India 6. Nisheeth Vishnoi, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL 7. Biman Nath, Raman Research Institute 8. Ravi Sheth, International Centre for Theoretical Physics and The University of

Pennsylvania 9. Dileep Jatkar, Harish-Chandra Research Institute 10. Sumathi Rao, Harish-Chandra Research Institute 11. Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 12. Kavita Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research 13. K. G. Arun, Chennai Mathematical Institute 14. Sanjoy Mitter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15. Mythily Ramaswamy, TIFR-CAM & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 16. Mayank Mehta, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA 17. Tarun Souradeep, IUCAA, Pune & Adjunct faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore

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18. Madan Rao, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 19. Shiraz Minwalla, TIFR, Mumbai & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 20. Mukund Thattai, NCBS-TIFR & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 21. Kedar Damle, TIFR, Mumbai & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 22. Sidhartha Goyal, University of Toronto 23. Surjeet Rajendran, University of California, Berkeley, USA 24. Shivani Agarwal, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 25. Aninda Sinha, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 26. Diptiman Sen, Centre for High Energy Physics,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 27. Sandeep Krishna, National Centre for Biological Sciences 28. Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA 29. Zubin Jacob, University of Alberta 30. Manas Kulkarni, The City University of New York, USA 31. Abhijit Gadde, Institute for Advanced Study, USA 32. Subinoy Das, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 33. Sascha Husa, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain 34. Sayantani Bhattacharyya, IIT Kanpur 35. Karthik Gurumoorthy, Amazon Development Centre, Bangalore 36. Sanjib Sabhapandit, Raman Research Institute 37. Sreekar Vadlamani, TIFR-CAM & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 38. Sanjay Jain, Delhi University 39. Sandip Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 40. Shashi Thutupalli, Joint Faculty - NCBS and ICTS 41. Justin David, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visiting Scientist

1. Bala Iyer

Emeritus Professor

1. Spenta R Wadia


NA



1. Ph.D. 10 15 0.67


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Scientific Staff

Technical Staff Administrative Staff Auxiliary Staff

Sanctioned 7 0 2 (on loan) 0

Filled 5 0 2 (on loan) 0


Astrophysical Relativity

Complex Systems (Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Physical Biology, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence, Correlated Quantum Many-Body Physics)

Interdisciplinary Mathematics

String Theory and Quantum Gravity

17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international

funding agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the

funding agencies, project title and grants received project-wise.

National


Duration Faculty

1. Science and Engineering Research Board

Gravitational-wave astronomy using astrophysical black-hole binaries

15 2014-2016

P Ajith


Ramanujan Fellowship 73 2013-2018


Ramanujan Fellowship 73 2010-2015

Suvrat Raju

4. Department of Science

INSPIRE Fellowship 35 2015-2019

Sivaram Ambikasaran

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& Technology


J C Bose Fellowship 68 2011-16 Spenta R Wadia


J C Bose Fellowship 68 2015-2020

Rajesh Gopakumar

International


Duration Faculty

1. Indo-Israel Grant(Israeli Science Foundation- UGC Project)

Heat conduction in extended 1-dim systems (with Yonatan Dubi, Ben Gurion Univ., Israel)

27 2014-2017,

Abhishek Dhar

2. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

~ 45 2015-2018

P Ajith


NA




Duration Faculty

1 DAE XII Plan Project – PTMS – ICTS Programmes

3091 2012-2017

All ICTS faculty

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National recognition: ICTS hosts a LIGO Tier-3 grid computing center. This is used

by the pan-Indian group in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to analyze the data

produced by the LIGO gravitational-wave observatories


bodies

None

22. Publications:

ICTS

Journal Publications

(web of science)


Technical Reports

Web Publications

Book Chapters

Books Edited

Mono graphs

2010-11

44 - - - 1 - -

2011-12

46 - - - - - -

2012-13

41 - - - 1 - -

2013-14

45 - - - - - -

2014-15

34 - 1 - - - -

Total 210 - 1 - 2 - -

0

10

20

30

40

50

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Nu

mb

er o

f P

ub

licat

ion

s

Year

PublicationsBook Chapters +Books Edited +Monographs

Technical Reports

JournalPublications

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Citation Index – range / average

Total number of citations: 15328 (Source: Web of Science)

• Number of citations per faculty: 958

h-index

Range : 2-41


None


None

25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories /

institutions / Industries in India and abroad

National

Name of Faculty

member Place visited

Date (MM/YYYY)

1 Abhishek Dhar Workshop on Statistical Physics of Soft Matter, The Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University

Nov 2015

Statphys VIII,S.N. Bose center, Kolkata Dec 2014

NISER, Bhubaneshwar Sep-Oct

2014

NESP-NLD Symposium, IACS, Kolkata Jan 2014

Calcutta University Dec 2013

S. N. Bose Centre, Kolkata Dec 2013

TIFR, Mumbai Sep 2013

Conference on “Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics” , Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi

Apr 2013

TIFR, Mumbai Mar 2013

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Name of Faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

IIT ,Guwahati Feb 2013

78th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun

Nov 2012

Nehru college, Kanhangad May 2012

TIFR, Mumbai Mar 2012

TIFR-CAM, Bangalore Mar 2012

3rd RRI Statphys School, RRI, Bangalore Mar-Apr

2012

6th International conference on unsolved problems on noise and fluctuations, SINP, Kolkata

Feb-2012

ICTS school on nonequilibrium physics, IISER, Kolkata Jan-2012

DST-SERC school on nonlinear dynamics, IISER, Pune Dec-2011

Concepts and challenges in astronomy and astrophysics, Sundarban Mahavidyalaya, Kakdwip, West-Bengal

Nov-2011

2. Amit Apte IIT BHU, Varanasi, India Apr-2015

Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali

Feb-2015

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway

Dec-2014

Dynamic Days Asia-Pacific, IIT Madras and IMSc, Chennai, India

Jul-2014

Conference on Emerging Trends in Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Feb-2014

TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India

Nov-2013

INCOIS Hyderabad Oct-2013

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Name of Faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Systems, Hyderabad, India

Sep-2013

Intel India academic forum, Goa, India Sep-2013

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India

Mar-2013

Workshop on “Advanced dynamical core modeling for atmospheric and oceanic circulations,” NARL, Gadanki, India

Feb-2013

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai India

Oct-2011

Raman Research Institute, Bangalore India Apr-2011

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore India

Feb-2011

3 P Ajith XXVII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, IIT Guwahati, India

Dec-2015

8th International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, IISER Mohali, India

Dec-2015

Workshop on Statistical Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics, ISI Kolkata

Feb-2015

Astronomical Society of India meeting, Pune, India Feb-2015

Saha Theory Workshop: Cosmology at the Interface, Saha Institute, Kolkata, India

Jan-2015

XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2014, Guwahati, India

Dec-2014

India-China Workshop on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

Dec-2014

Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India Nov-2014

India-UK Frontiers of Science meeting (organized by the Royal Society, UK and the Department of Science and Technology, India), Pune, India

Oct-2014

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Name of Faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

Central University of Hyderabad, India Oct-2014

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India

Feb-2014

Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop 2013, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.

Dec-2013

27th Meeting of the Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), India.

Mar-2013

Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam , India Feb-2013

4. Pallab Basu IACS, Kolkata 2014

IACS, Kolkata -

IIT ,Guwahati -

5. Rajesh Gopakumar

Indian Academy of Sciences Meeting, IISER-Pune Nov-2015

CMS College, Kottayam Oct-2015

TIFR-Mumbai Sep-2015

Chennai Mathematics Institute, Chennai Sep-2015

Discussion Meeting on String Theory, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore

Feb-2015

Indian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, ISM Dhanbad,

Dec-2014

HRI, Allahabad Dec-2014

I. I. T. Kanpur Nov-2014

BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, Oct-2014

Asian Winter School, Puri Jan-2014

National String Meeting, IIT-Kharagpur Dec-2013

IIT-Kanpur Nov-2013

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Name of Faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

International Conference on Teichmller theory and interfaces with ergodic theory and group actions, JNU, New Delhi

Oct-2013

UGC Winter School on High Energy Physics, BHU, Varanasi

Feb-2013

Indian Strings Meeting 2012, Puri Dec-2012

New Trends in Field Theory, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi

Nov-2012

IRCMS meeting, Bose Institute, Kolkata, Nov-2012

Indian String School, Puri Oct-2012

Scattering Amplitudes, Gauge Theories and String theories, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore

Sep-2012

A. K. Raychaudhuri Memorial Lecture, IACS, Kolkata May-2012

National Strings Meeting, Delhi University, New Delhi Dec-2011

SINP, Kolkata Apr-2011

RKM Vivekananda University, Belur Mar-2011

IISER, Pune Feb-2011

BHU, Varanasi Feb-2011

6. Rukmini Dey T.I.F.R., Mumbai Dec-2014

HRI, Allahabad Dec-2014

IISc, Bangalore Jun-2014

RRI, Bangalore May-2014

IISc, Bangalore May-2014

Reva Institute, Bangalore Jun-2013

S.N. Bose Center, Kolkata May-2013

TIFR-CAM, Bangalore, Jun-2012

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Name of Faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

RRI , Bangalore Jun-2012

Lucknow University, Lucknow Feb-2012

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Jan-2012

Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar

Jan-2011

Institute of Mathematics and Applications Jan-2011


JNCASR, Bangalore, India Oct-2015

Interdisciplinary Programme (IDP) in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Aug-2015

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Aug-2015

CompFlu - 2014, JNCASR, Bangalore, India Dec-2014

Soft-matter: Young Investigators Meet, Pondicherry, India

Dec-2014

Dynamic Days Asia Pacific 08, IIT Chennai and IMSc, Chennai, India

Jul-2014

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India

Jul-2014

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Mar-2014

Soft-matter: Young Investigators Meet, Pondicherry, India

Jan-2014

TIFR – Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India

Oct-2013

Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics 2013 (PNLD 2013)

Jul-2013

8. Spenta R Wadia

St Xavier’s College, Mumbai Feb-2015

IIT-Bombay Mar-2014

JNCASR, Bangalore Sep-2012

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Name of Faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

IISER Pune Feb-2011

9 Subhro Bhattacharjee

SERC school on topological condensed matter in SNBCS Kolkata.

Dec-2015

IMSc, Chennai Nov-2015

10. Suvrat Raju TIFR, Mumbai 2014-2015

Conference on quantum information processing and applications, IISc, Bangalore

Feb-2015

National Strings Meeting, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Dec-2013

Quantum Information Processing and Applications, HRI, Allahabad

Dec-2013

Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad Jul-2013

Discussion Meeting on Holography, IISC, Bangalore Jan-2013

Indian Strings Meeting, International Conference, Puri

Dec-2012


Discussion meeting on "New Colloids" , Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

Jul-2015

Mechanical Manipulations and Responses at the Scale of the Cell and Beyond, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

Apr-2015

12. Avinash Dhar "The 8th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology", Puri, India

Jan-2014

"Scientific discovery through intensive data exploration", JNCASR, Bangalore

Feb-2011

13. Sivaram Ambikasaran

IIT Madras Dec-2015

TIFR CAM, Bangalore Dec-2015

IIT Madras Nov-2015

TIFR CAM, Bangalore Sep-15

IISc, Bangalore Sep-15

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International

Name of faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

1. Abhishek Dhar Workshop on “Frontiers in non-equilibrium physics”, YITP, Kyoto

Jul-2015

LPTMS, Orsay Jun-2015

Workshop on “Progress in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics”, Nice

Jun-2015

Rutgers Statistical Mechanics conference, Rutgers University

May-2015

Keio University, Japan Oct-2014

The 6th KIAS Conference on Statistical Physics -”Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Complex Systems”, KIAS Seoul, Korea

Jul-2014

GGI Florence May-June 2014

International Workshop on Weak Chaos and Weak Turbulence, MPIPKS, Dresden

Feb-2014

IAS, Princeton Jan-2014

Rutgers University Jan-2014

First international conference on Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Aug-Sep 2013

Physics Department, Xiamen University, China Aug-2013

University of Leuven, Belgium Jun-2013

Keio University, Japan Jan-2013

Workshop on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Mathematical Understanding and Numerical Simulation, BIRS, Banff, Canada

Nov-2012

ICTP, Trieste Oct-2012

Rutgers University, USA Oct-2011

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Name of faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

Tokyo University, Japan Oct-2011

Workshop on foundations and applications of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, Nordita, Stockholm

Sep-2011

Workshop on Fourier Law, Field's Institute, Toronto, 4-8 April, 2011.

Apr-2011

2.

Amit Apte Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

Jun-Jul 2013

Dynamics Days Europe, University of Exeter, UK Sep-2015

XIV Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena (LAWNP), Cartagena, Colombia

Sep-2015

University of Nice, France Sep-2015

International Conference on “Stochastic Systems and Applications,” Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Sep-2014

University of Nice, Nice, France May-Jun 2013

Oberwolfach meeting “Mathematical and Algorithmic Aspects of Atmosphere-Ocean Data Assimilation,” Oberwolfach, Germany

Dec-2012

Workshop on “Data assimilation: third workshop on numerical methods for solving the filtering problem and high order methods for saving parabolic PDEs,” Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, Oxford, UK

Sep-2012

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, USA Oct-Nov 2011

Workshop on “Generalized Hamiltonian structure of differential equations and dissipative dynamical systems,” University of Kent, UK

Jun-2011

Marquette University, Milwaukee USA May-Jun 2011

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Name of faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto CA, USA Mar-2011

3. P Ajith Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover

Sep-2015

LIGO Scientific Collaboration Meeting, Budapest, Hungary

Aug-Sep 2015

Astro-GR 2015 workshop, ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Aug-2015

24th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School 2013 on Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Jan-2013

4. Pallab Basu Bangkok conference in String Theory 2014...

YITP, Kyoto, Japan -

5. Rajesh Gopakumar

Indo-Israeli String theory Meeting, Goa Dec-2015

IIT Kanpur, Batch Silver Jubilee Dec-2015

NTU, Singapore Nov-2015

ETH-Zurich Nov-2015

KIAS-YITP Workshop on String Theory, Seoul, Korea Sep-2015

National Taiwan University, Taipei. Jul-2015

AndyFest (60th Birthday of Andrew Strominger), Harvard University

Jul-2015

ICTP, Trieste Apr-2015

TWAS Prize Lecture, Muscat, Oman Oct-2014

Ascona, Switzerland Jul-2014

Strings 2014, Princeton Jun-2014

Neve Shalom, Israel May-2014

Fourth Wits Workshop on Gauge Theory, String theory and Integrability, Univ. Of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Sep-2013

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Name of faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Cape Town Sep-2013

Open questions in an Open Universe, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Aug-2013

Seventh Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory, Kolympari, Greece

Jun-2013

Conference on Higher Spin Theories, Galileo Galilei Instt., Florence,

May-2013

Second Solvay Workshop on Higher Spin Theories, Solvay Institutes, Brussels

Feb-2013

Bangkok Workshop on Gauge Theory, String Theory and Gravity, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,

Jan-2013

Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS), Kyoto University Oct-2012

Amsterdam workshop on String Theory, Univ. of Amsterdam

Jul-2012

Workshop on Strings, Branes and M-theory, Newton Instt., Cambridge, UK

May-2012

Newton Instt. Silver Jubilee Lecture, Dept. of Maths. Durham University, UK

May-2012

Workshop on Higher Spin Theory, Schrodinger Institute, Vienna

Apr-2012

Institute of Geometry and its Applications (IGA), University of Adelaide

Mar-2012

Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia Mar-2012

CERN, Geneva Feb-2012

XVII European Workshop on String Theory, Padua, Italy

Sep-2011

KIAS-YITP Workshop on String Theory, Holography and Beyond, Seoul

Sep-2011

Benasque workshop on String Theory, Benasque, Jul-2011

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Name of faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

Spain

Strings 2011, Stockholm, Sweden Jun-2011

Solvay Workshop on Gauge Theories, Strings and Geometry, Brussels

May-2011

Isfahan, Iran May-2011

Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, USA Apr-2011

ICTP Spring School theory on Superstring Theory, ASICTP, Trieste

Mar-2011


European Turbulence Conference 15 (ETC15), Delft, The Netherlands

Aug-2015

University of Rome Tor Vergatta, Rome, France May-2015

Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice, France May-2015

NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden Jun-2014

Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice, France Jun-2014

Dynamics of Particles in Flows, NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden

Jun-2014

STATPHYS 25, International Conference on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Seoul, South Korea

Jul-2013

Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice, France Jun-2013

7. Spenta R Wadia

Institute of Basic Science, Seoul, S. Korea Jan-2014

Great Lakes Meeting, USA May-2013

Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK May-2012

Harvard University May 2013, May 2015 and July 2015

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Name of faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

Princeton University June 2014

Perimeter Institute July 2014

KITP Santa Barbara July 2015

CERN Geneva Oct 2014, Nov 2015

APCTP-S. Korea Oct 2014, Dec 2015

IAS at NTU, Singapore Jan 2016

Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem Feb 2016

8. Subhro Bhattacharjee

MIT, USA Aug-2015

Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting 2015, Cosener’s House in Abingdon (near Oxford, UK)

Jul-2015

9. Suvrat Raju IAS, Princeton 2014-2015

Brown University, Providence 2014-2015

Harvard University, United States 2014-2015

Columbia University, New York 2014-2015

Cornell University, New York 2014-2015

Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada 2014-2015

CERN Winter School Feb-2015

Autumn Symposium in String/ M Theory, Korea Institute of Advanced Study, Seoul

Sep-2014

International conference, the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA

Aug-2013

McGill University, Canada Jul-2013

International Conference, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada

Jul-2013

Seventh Regional Meeting in String Theory, Jun-2013

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Name of faculty


Date (MM/YYYY)

International Conference at Orthodox Academy of Crete, Greece

Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada May-2013

Simons Symposium, International Conference at Virgin Islands

Feb-2013

IAS, Princeton Nov-2012

University of Pennsylvania, United States Nov-2012

Harvard University, United States Oct-2012

Princeton University 2014

Aspen Center for Physics 2014

10 Vijay Kumar Krishnamurthy

BIOTEC, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

May-2015

11.

Sivaram Ambikasaran

IAM Linear Algebra Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Oct-2015


(a) National Committees

Name Name of the conference Role Period of

Service

Abhishek

Dhar

Bangalore School on Statistical

Physics, at the ICTS-TIFR,

Bangalore, India

Co-organiser 2011-2015

Indian Statistical Physics Community

Meeting at the ICTS-TIFR,

Bangalore, India

Co-Organiser 2014 - 2016

Program on Non-equilibrium

statistical physics at the ICTS-TIFR,

Bangalore, India

Co-organiser 2015

Amit Apte Scientific discovery through intensive

data exploration,” Jawaharlal Nehru

Center for Advanced Scientific

Co-convener 02-11 February

2011

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Research, Bangalore, India

“Monsoon school on mathematical

and statistical foundations of data

assimilation” and “International

conference on data assimilation,” TIFR Centre for Applicable

Mathematics and the Indian Institute

of Science, Bangalore, India

Co-organiser 04-23 July 2011

“Mathematical Perspectives on

Clouds, Climate, and Tropical

Meteorology,” Ramanujan lectures by

Andrew Majda and a discussion

meeting at ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore,

India

Co-organiser 21-25

January 2013

“Advanced dynamical core modeling

for

atmospheric and oceanic

circulations,” ICTS programme as

part of MPE-2013 activities, National

Atmospheric Research Laboratory

(NARL), Gadanki, India

Co-organiser 18-23 February

2013

“Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013:

Mathematics for the billion” an

interactive exhibition at the

Visvesvaraya Industrial and

Technological Museum, Bangalore,

India

Co-organiser 22 Nov - 01

Dec 2013

(extended upto

first week of

Jan 2014)

“Nonlinear filtering and data

assimilation,” A discussion meeting

at ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India

Co-organiser 08-11 January

2014

“Geometry of Mechanics and Control

Theory,” A workshop as part of the

National Mathematics Initiative

thematic program “Integrable

systems” at Indian Institute of

Science, Bangalore, India

Part of

organizing

committee

02-10 January

2014

“Dynamic Days Asia-Pacific 08,” A

conference at Indian Institute of

Technology-Madras, Chennai, India

Part of

organizing

committee

21-24 July 2014

“Summer Research Program on

Dynamics of Complex Systems,”

ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India

Co-organizer 23 May - 23

July, 2016

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P. Ajith The Future of Gravitational-Wave

Astronomy, ICTS Bangalore Co-organiser Monday 04

Apr, 2016 -

Friday 08 Apr,

2016,

Rajesh

Gopakumar HRI Workshop on Higher Spin

Theories and Holography, HRI Co-Organiser 2011-11-01

ICTS Meeting on Random Matrix

Theory and its Applications, ICTS,

Bangalore

Co-Organiser Jan 2012

Discussion Meeting on String

Theory, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore

Co-Organiser Jun 2012

Indo-UK Frontiers of Science (Royal

Society, UK- DST, India Co-Chair 2014

Strings 2015, ICTS-TIFR Member, LOC 2015

ICTS Discussion Meeting on New

Questions in QFT from CMT. Co-organiser Dec 2015

Mini-symposium on Gravitational

Waves, Indian Academy of Sciences,

mid-year meeting

Co-organiser Jul 2016

Rukmini Dey Discussion meet on Analysis and

Geometry I, HRI

Co-organiser Jan 20-Feb 1,

2011

Discussion meet on Analysis and

Geometry II, HRI

Co-organiser March 12-16,

2012.

Instructional School for Lecturers on

Topology and Geometry, HRI, Co-organiser Dec 16-28,

2013

Symplectic and Contact Topology,

HRI Co-organiser Dec 1-12th,

2014

Workshop on Geometry and

Topology, HRI Co-organiser 2-7th Nov, 2015

Samriddhi

Sankar Ray Transport of Particles in Turbulent

Flows: Experimental, Computational

and Theoretical Investigations, at the

ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India

Co-Organiser October 2013

Indian Statistical Physics Community

Meeting at the ICTS-TIFR,

Bangalore, India

Co-Organiser 2014-2016

The Nonlinear Physics of Complex

Flows and Amorphous Solids and the

Organiser April 2015

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associated Chandrasekhar Lectures at

the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India

Geodynamo Research (GDR) 2015 at

the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India

Co-organiser June 2015

Soft-matter: Young Investigators

Meet in Pondicherry, India

Co-organiser December 2015

Subhro

Bhattacharjee Discussion Meeting on new questions

in quantum Field Theory from

Condensed Matter Theory, ICTS,

Bangalore

Co-organizer 28/12/2015 -

5/1/2016

Vijay Kumar

Krishnamurthy ICTP-ICTS Winter School on

Quantitative Systems Biology, ICTS

Bangalore

Organiser Dec 2015

Discussion meeting on 'Information

Processing in Biological Systems',

ICTS, Bangalore

Organiser January 2016

ICTS Turing Lectures by Prof

William Bialek, ICTS, Bangalore

Organiser January 2016

Suvrat Raju Chandrasekhar Lectures on Scattering

without Spacetime

Co-organizer Sep 2012

ICTS-TIFR Discussion Meeting on

the Information Paradox,

Entanglement and Black Holes

Co-organizer Sep 2013

8th Asian Winter School on Particles,

Strings and Cosmology, Puri Co-organizer Jan 2014

HRI Workshop on the Black Hole

Information Paradox

Co-organizer Feb 2014

Bangalore Area Discussion Meeting,

ICTS-TIFR Co-organizer Feb 2015

Strings 2015 Local

Organizing

Committee

2015

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(b) International Committees:

Name of the Faculty

Member


Role on the Committee

Term of Service

1 Spenta R Wadia

Annual Strings meetings Member Advisory Committee

2005-

Asian Winter Schools on Strings, Particles and Cosmology

Member Steering Committee

2005-

APCTP, South Korea

Member Science Council

2010-

2 Amit Apte Cogent Mathematics Member 2015-

“Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena,” Cartagena, Colombia

Part of organizing committee

21-25 September 2015

“Climate Variability: from Data and Models to Decisions,” Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Co-organizer 01-05 December 2014

3 Rajesh Gopakumar

Strings 2016 (Tsinghua University, Beijing) - the annual conference in string theory

Member Advisory Committee

2016-

Strings 2016, Beijing Member, Local Advisory Committee

2016

String-Math 2016 (College de France, Paris)

Member Advisory Committee

2016-

ICTP Spring School on String Theory

Co-Director 2014-2016

Scientific Director of ICTP-Trieste Spring School on String theory (2014-16)

Co-organizer 2014-2016

Strings 2014, Princeton Member, International Advisory committee

2014

GR20, Warsaw Session Organiser (String Theory and Branes)

2013

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Name of the Faculty

Member


Role on the Committee

Term of Service

4 Abhishek Dhar

Advanced Workshop on Energy Transport in Low-Dimensional Systems: Achievements and mysteries, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Co-organizer 2012

5. Suvrat Raju Asian Winter School on Strings 2016

Member, Program Committee

2106




Term of Service

1 Abhishek Dhar

Journal of Statistical Physics 1.202 2009-

Pramana 0.649 2011-

2 Spenta R Wadia

Asian Journal of Mathematics 0.362 2015-

European Journal of Physics C 5.084 2012-15

3 Amit Apte Nonlinear processes in geophysics (http://www.nonlinear-processes-in-geophysics.net/editorial_board.html)

0.987 2015-

4 Rajesh Gopakumar

Physical Review Letters (Divisional Associate Editor in charge of formal theory) published by the American Physical Society

7.512 2014-2016

27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs,


ICTS organises many international programmes that are attended by worldwide

experts. Participation in these programmes gives faculty members opportunities

to showcase their research and also interact with experts. In addition, national and

international collaborative research programmes have frequent exchange of visits

of our faculty members and their collaborators. All these activities are catalysts for

continuous recharging of our faculty members.

Some of our senior faculty members are invited as instructors in the faculty

recharge programmes conducted across the country.

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http://www.nonlinear-processes-in-geophysics.net/editorial_board.html




percentage of students who have done in-house projects including

inter-departmental projects

All students do in-house projects as part of their course-work.

percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities


None


Faculty Members:

Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Year/ Duration

1. P. Ajith Head of the Max Planck Partner Group in Astrophysical Relativity and Gravitational- Wave Astronomy at ICTS-TIFR (2015-2018).

2015-2018

Associateship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2014-2017).

2014-2017

Ramanujan Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. Of India (2013-2018).

2013-2018

2. Spenta R Wadia J. C. Bose National Fellow, Dept of Science and Technology, Govt of India 2006-2011; 2011-

2015-2020

AIRBUS Corporate Foundation Teaching and Research Chair: ”Mathematics of Com- plex Systems”, at ICTS-TIFR, 2013-2016

2013- 2016

Raja Ramanna Lecture in Physics, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, 2011

2011

TWAS Physics Prize 2004

ICTP Prize in honor of Steven Weinberg 1995

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Distinguished Alumnus St Xavier's College, Mumbai

2009

Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences 1992

Fellow Indian National Science Academy 1997

Fellow New York Academy of Sciences 1997

Fellow TWAS 2006

Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India

elected 2000

3. Rajesh Gopakumar J. C. Bose Fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2015-2020).

2015-2020

Elected Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Allahabad, Oct. 2014.

2014

G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research, 2013.

2013

TWAS Prize in Physical Sciences, 2013. 2013

S. S. Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences, 2009.

2009

ICTP Prize for 2006 (in honor of G.C. Wick) awarded by Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.

2006

Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2006, of Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

2006

B. M. Birla Science Prize in Physics, 2004. 2004

4. Sivaram Ambikasaran INSPIRE Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

2015-2019

5. Suvrat Raju Ramanujan Fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board

2010-2015

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Cowsik Medal from TIFR Endowment Fund 2015

INSA Young Scientist Medal 2013

NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award

2013

6. Abhishek Dhar Swarnajayanti Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology

2010 -2014

S.S. Bhatnagar prize in Physical Sciences 2009

ICTP Prize 2008

Ramanujan Fellowship 2008

B M Birla science prize award 2004

Fellow of IAS 2005-


DBT Ramalingaswami re-entry fellowship 2015

8. Loganayagam Ramanujan Fellowship from DST

2016-2021

Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

Name of the


Year/ Duration

1. Sajini Anand NBHM Fellowship from the Department of Atomic Energy

May-15

2. Sk. Sarif Hassan NBHM Fellowship from the Department of Atomic Energy

Jul-13



ICTS organizes many long-duration programmes and short-duration discussion

meetings throughout the year that bring together worldwide experts from various

fields who interact and collaborate. With a few exceptions all programmes are

funded by DAE. Details are below:

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Long-duration Programmes:

2015

Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2015

Organizers: Antonio Celani, Sanjay Jain, Sandeep Krishna, Vijaykumar

Krishnamurthy, Pankaj Mehta and Matthew Scott

Algebraic Surfaces and Related Topics

Organizers: Mario Chan, Jinwon Choi, R.V. Gurjar, DongSeon Hwang, JongHae

Keum, Sagar Kolte and Ravi Rao

Non-equilibrium statistical physics

Organizers: Cedric Bernardin, Abhishek Dhar, Joel Lebowitz, Stefano Olla,

Sanjib Sabhapandit, Keiji Saito and Herbert Spohn

Extragalactic Relativistic Jets: Cause and Effect

Organizers: C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, Ajit Kembhavi, Preeti Kharb (Convener),

Dharam Vir Lal, Anthony Readhead and C. S. Stalin

Bangalore school on statistical Physics - VI

Organizers: Abhishek Dhar, Sanjib Sabhapandit

Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

Organizers: Parameswaran Ajith, K. G. Arun and Bala Iyer

Advanced Strings School 2015

Organizers: Justin David, Chethan Krishnan and Gautam Mandal

GdR Dynamo 2015

Organizers: Emmanuel Dormy, Stephan Fauve, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Binod

Sreenivasan and Mahendra Verma

Mechanical manipulations and responses at the scale of the cell and beyond

Organizers: Aurnab Ghose, Darius Koester, Roop Mallik, Satyajit Mayor,

Thomas Pucadyil and Pramod Pullarkat

2014

School & Discussion Meeting on Frontiers in Light-Matter Interactions Organizers: Bhanu Pratap Das, Bimalendu Deb, Subhasish Dutta Gupta, Saikat Ghosh and Deb Shankar Ray

Advances in Mathematical Biology Organizers: Pranay Goel, Sujatha Ramdorai and LS Shashidhara

ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology Organizers: V. Balasubramanian, A. Celani, N. Chandra, S. Jain, M. Marsili, A. Sengupta, M. Thattai, A. Treves and M. Vendruscolo

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Advanced School and Discussion meeting on Symplectic Geometry and Contact Topology

Organizers: Indranil Biswas, Rukmini Dey, Yakov Eliashberg, Rajesh Gopakumar, Mahan Mj and R. Thangadurai (Local)

Masterclass in nanoscale physics and devices Organizers: Mandar Deshmukh, Murali Kota

Advanced Instructional School on Theoretical and Numerical Aspects of Inverse Problems

Organizers: Venkateswaran Krishnan, Rakesh Rakesh and M Vanninathan

p-adic aspects of modular forms Organizers: Raghuram A, Baskar Balasubramanyam, Haruzo Hida and Jacques Tilouine

Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - V Organizers: Abhishek Dhar, Sanjib Sabhapandit

Automorphisms of Affine Varieties Organizers: Rajendra Gurjar, A.J. Parameswaran

School and Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and Evolution Organizers: Deepa Agashe, Kavita Jain

The 8th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology Organizers: Dileep Jatkar, Nakwoo Kim, Swapna Mahapatra, Anshuman Maharana, Subhabrata Majumdar, Jaemo Park, Suvrat Raju and Sandip Trivedi

Strongly correlated systems: From models to materials Organizers: Kedar Damle, Indra Dasgupta, Manish Jain, H R Krishnamurthy, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta and N.S. Vidhyadhiraja

2013

ICTS Winter School on Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics Organizers: Rana Adhikari, Parameswaran Ajith, Bala Iyer, Sendhil Raja S and Tarun Souradeep

Advanced school and Discussion meeting on Knot theory and its applications Organizers: Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, Rama Mishra and Madeti Prabhakar

ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology Organizers: Vijay Balasubramanian, Nagasuma Chandra, Sidhartha Goyal, Sanjay Jain, Matteo Marsili, Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Anirvan Sengupta, Mukund Thattai and Michele Vendruscolo

US-India Advanced Studies Institute on Thermalization: From Glasses to Black Holes

Organizers: Aparna Baskaran, Bulbul Chakraborty, Chandan Dasgupta, Matthew Headrick, Albion Lawrence, Gautam Mandal, Sanjib Sabhapandit and Krishnendu Sengupta

Numerical Relativity

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Organizers: P. Ajith, K. G. Arun, Bala Iyer and Luis Lehner

NCBS-ICTS Monsoon School: Physics of Life Organizers: Sandeep Krishna, Mukund Thattai and Madhusudhan Venkadesan

Mechanical manipulations and responses at the scale of the cell and beyond Organizers: Darius Koester, Satyajit Mayor, John Mercer, Madan Rao and GV Shivashankar

Advanced Dynamical Core Modeling for Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulations Organizers: Amit Apte, A Jayaraman, Hann-Ming Juang, Amit Kesarkar, Ramchandra D Nair, Purnendranath Sen and Mahendra Verma

CP Violation in Elementary Particles and Composite Systems Organizers: B. P. Das, A. Dighe, S. Lamoreaux, N. Mahajan, R. Rangarajan, Bijaya Sahoo, Y. Sakemi, A. I. Sanda and A. D. Singh

Axonal Transport and Neurodgenerative Disorders Organizers: Roop Mallik, Dulal Panda, Krishanu Ray and Subhojit Roy

Mini Winter School on Quantum Information and Computation Organizers: Urbasi Sinha, Aninda Sinha

2012

Recent Trends in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Organizers: Tarun Das, Ravi Rao

Mini Program on Dirac Material and Quantum Computation Organizers: Arindam Ghosh, Krishnendu Sengupta

Astronomical Surveys Organizers: Sudip Bhattacharyya, Subha Majumdar and Bhaswati Mookerjea

Groups, Geometry and Dynamics (GGD) Organizers: Hoshiyar Dhami, Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, Sanjay Pant and Siddhartha Sarkar

Winter School on Stochastic Analysis and Control of Fluid Flow Organizers: Sheetal Dharmatti, Raju K. George, Utpal Manna, A.K. Nandakumaran and M.P. Rajan

Mathematics of the Planet Earth 2013 Organizers: ICTS - TIFR, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics

Pan Asian Number Theory Workshop and Conference Organizers: J. Coates, Soumen Maity , A. Raghuram, Anupam Saikia and R. Sujatha

Individuals and Groups Organizers: Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Lok Man Singh Palni

Evolutionary Origins of Compartmentalized Cells Organizers: Frances Brodsky, Satyajit Mayor and Mukund Thattai

'Unifying Concepts in Materials': JA Krumhansl School & Symposium 2012

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Organizers: Madan Rao, Srikanth Sastry, Surajit Sengupta and Subodh R. Shenoy

Random matrix theory and applications Organizers: Justin David, Abhishek Dhar, Rajesh Gopakumar, H. R. Krishnamurthy, Manjunath Krishnapur, Satya Majumdar, Govind Menon and Sanjib Sabhapandit

School on Mathematical Finance Organizers: Freddy Delbaen, Srikanth K. Iyer, Sandeep Juneja and Ronnie Sircar

School and Workshop on Cocompact Imbeddings, Profile Decompositions, and their Applications to PDE

Organizers: Adimurthi , K. Sandeep, Ian Schindler and Kyril Tintarev

Network Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Organizers: V. Anantharam, Vivek Borkar, Devdatt Dubhashi , Anurag Kumar, Madhav Marathe, G. Rangarajan and Devavrat Shah

Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology XII Organizers: Amol Dighe, Rohini M Godbole and Sreerup Raychaudhuri

2011

International Nonequilibrium Winter School Organizers: Sushanta Dattagupta, Yuval Gefen, Amit Ghosal, Ganpathy Murthy, Sanjay Puri, Sriram Ramaswamy, Krishnendu Sengupta, Nayana Shah and Subhasish Sinha

The ICTS Condensed Matter Programme 2011 Organizers: Ravin Bhatt, Kedar Damle, H.R. Krishnamurthy, Subroto Mukerjee, Mohit Randeria, Vikram Tripathi and N.S. Vidhyadhiraja

Frontiers of Cosmology and Gravitation Organizers: Subhabrata Majumdar, B.S. Sathyaprakash, Tejinder Pal Singh and Tarun Souradeep

Advances in Nuclear Physics (ANUP) Organizers: V. Nanal, R. Palit and R.G. Pillay

Radiative Corrections for the LHC: 2. Radcor 2011 Symposium Organizers: Rahul Basu, D. Indumathi, Prakash Mathews, Andreas Nyffeler and V. Ravindran

Data Assimilation Research Program Organizers: Amit Apte, S. M. Deshpande, Christopher K. R. Jones, A. S. V. Murthy, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, Roddam Narasimha, Mythily Ramaswamy and J. Srinivasan

International School on Topology in Quantum Matter Organizers: J. K. Jain, H. R. Krishnamurthy, R. Shankar and V. Shenoy

Radiative Corrections for the LHC: 1. Advanced School

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Organizers: Rahul Basu, Prakash Mathews, Andreas Nyffeler and V. Ravindran

Asian School on Lattice Field Theory Organizers: Sourendu Gupta, Kazuyuki Kanaya

Scientific discovery through intensive data exploration Organizers: Amit Apte, Vivek Borkar, Vijay Chandru, Ravi Kannan, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, Roddam Narasimha and J. Srinivasan

Discussion Meetings 2015

New questions in quantum field theory from condensed matter theory Organizers: Subhro Bhattacharjee, Rajesh Gopakumar, Subroto Mukerjee and Aninda Sinha

AEI-ICTS joint workshop on gravitational-wave astronomy Organizers: Parameswaran Ajith, Bala Iyer and Bruce Allen

Nonlinear Physics of Disordered Systems: From Amorphous Solids to Complex Flows

Organizers: Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Bangalore Area String Meeting Organizers: Suvrat Raju

Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting 2015 Organizers: Abhishek Dhar, Kavita Jain, Rahul Pandit, Samriddhi Sankar Ray and Sanjib Sabhapandit

Quantum entanglement in macroscopic matter Organizers: Kedar Damle, Subroto Mukerjee

2014

Entanglement from Gravity Organizers: Aninda Sinha

Cosmology Day Organizers: Subhabrata Majumdar, Spenta Wadia

Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting 2014 Organizers: Kavita Jain, Rahul Pandit, Samriddhi Sankar Ray and Sanjib Sabhapandit

Nonlinear filtering and data assimilation Organizers: Amit Apte, Christopher Jones and Sreekar Vadlamani

2013

Transport of Particles in Turbulent Flows: Experimental, Computational and Theoretical Investigations Organizers: Jeremie Bec, Rahul Pandit and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

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The Information Paradox, Entanglement and Black Holes Organizers: Pallab Basu, Suvrat Raju and Spenta Wadia

Challenges in Genomics and Computing: An Inaugural UIUC--Strand--ICTS-TIFR CompGen Discussion Meeting Organizers: Vijay Chandru, Ravi K. Iyer, Gene Robinson, R.K. Shyamasundar and Spenta Wadia

PLANCK DAY Organizers: Parameswaran Ajith, Archisman Ghosh

Mathematical Perspectives on Clouds, Climate, and Tropical Meteorology Organizers: Amit Apte, G. S. Bhat, Andrew Majda, Ravi Nanjundiah, Roddam Narasimha, K. R. Sreenivasan, J. Srinivasan and Jai Sukhatme

Discussion Meeting : String Theory Organizers: Shiraz Minwalla, Sandip Trivedi

2012

Discussion Meeting : Advances in Graphene, Majorana Fermions, Quantum Computation

Organizers: Arindam Ghosh, Krishnendu Sengupta

The Role of Theory in Biology with Prof. Sydney Brenner Organizers: Mukund Thattai, Spenta Wadia

Discussion Meeting: Scattering without Space Time Organizers: Sujay Ashok, Suvrat Raju and Aninda Sinha

Emerging themes in Plasmonics Organizers: G. S. Agarwal, Jyotishman Dasgupta, S. Dutta Gupta, P. Anantha Lakshmi, Sushil Mujumdar, S. S. Prabhu, Suneel Singh and Achanta Venu Gopal

Discussion Meeting on String Theory Organizers: Justin David, Rajesh Gopakumar and Shiraz Minwalla

Meeting on Complex Analytic Geometry Organizers: Indranil Biswas, A.J. Parameswaran

The Phase diagram of QCD (A Satellite Meeting of the ICTS Program WHEPP XII) Organizers: Sourendu Gupta, Bedangadas Mohanti

2011

Defining guidelines for future extreme simulations of three-dimensional fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Organizers: Jaywant H Arakeri, Rahul Pandit

Aspects of Biology Organizers: Spenta R. Wadia

Future of Past Organizers: Mark Kenoyer, Vasant Shinde and Mayank Vahia

Applied String Theory

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Organizers: Gautam Mandal, Shiraz Minwalla and Sandip Trivedi

Impact of Quantum Effects on our Classical World View Organizers: K. Indulekha, E. D. Jemmis and N. V. Unnikrishnan

In addition ICTS has also conducted 47 public lectures.

Seminars and Colloquia -

https://www.icts.res.in/seminar_schedule/1/


ICTS follows the TIFR code of ethics.


Programme Applications

received

Selected Pass percentage

Male Female Male Female

Ph.D. 178 #

10 0 100 --

Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 114 #

6 0 100 --

# The Ph.D. programme started in 2013 and the Integrated M.Sc-Ph.D.

programme started in 2014. Only the top scoring students at the TIFR written test

and JEST are allowed to apply.


Based on geography:

Students Ph.D.

Integrated- Ph.D. Total

Male Female Male Female


0 0 0 0 0

From other states of India 10 0 6 0 16

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NRI students — — — — — Foreign students — — — — — Total 10 0 6 0 16

Based on the undergraduate institutions students come from:

Ph.D.

Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D.


From Universities 3 0 1 0 4

From premier science institutions † 3 0 1 0 4

From premier professional institutions # 4 0 3 0 7

From others* 0 0 1 0 1

Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0

Total 10 0 6 0 16

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc.

# IITs, NITs, etc.




1. UGC NET 9

2. GRE 4

3. GATE 2

4. CAT 1

5. National Defence Academy 1

6. AIEEE 1


All the students joined since the beginning of the academic programme are still

continuing their work towards a Ph.D. degree.

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from TIFR :

4



Total No 16


assessment period

The minimum eligibility criteria for selection as a member of the TIFR faculty is a

Ph.D. degree. Thus, this number is not relevant.


a. Library

The library is still under construction. Right now we have a makeshift library

with a total of 227 books in theoretical sciences.


The ICTS campus is fully wifi enabled. We have access to online journals

through TIFR, Mumbai.

c. Total number of class rooms

We have a 30 seater classroom which has a blackboard and projection

facilities with wifi connection

25%

25%

50%

Faculty Ph.D.s

TIFR

India

Abroad

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d. Class rooms with ICT facility

Audio-visual/video-conferencing equipment are placed in the ICTS's lecture

hall (100 PAX) and seminar hall (50 PAX). These classrooms give the ability to

scientists of other premiere institutes of the country to have interactions /e-

meetings with ICTS faculty and visitors over Video Conferring facility. Students

and scientists from other institutes are able to attend lectures organized as a

part of the Outreach programme (live telecasting).


ICTS has a small lab which houses around 15 Masters level experiments.

There is an on-going effort to design and develop innovative experiments

for graduate students


A lab for doing experiments in fluid dynamics and non-linear dynamics is

under development.


Students (Ph.D) - 16

Abhirup Ghosh (Ph.D)

Kasi Jaswin (Ph.D)

Archak Purkayastha (Ph.D)

Arita Kundu (Ph.D)

Soumyadeep Chaudhuri (Ph.D)

Ajit Kumar Mehta (Ph.D)

Mukesh Singh Raghav (I-Ph.D)

Anugu Sumith Reddy (I-Ph.D)

Chandan Kumar Jana (I-Ph.D)

Rahul Kumar Singh (I-Ph.D)

Rajeev Ranjan (I-Ph.D)

Santhosh Ganapa (I-Ph.D)

Sudip Ghosh

Animesh Nanda (Ph.D)

Avijit Das (Ph.D)

Pushkal Shrivastava (Ph.D)

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Postdoctoral Fellows - 15

Abhiram Soori

Amin Ahmad Nizami

Archisman Ghosh

Arunava Mukherjee

Chandrakant Mishra

Debajit Goswami

Deepak Bhat

Divya V

Nathan Johnson-McDaniel

Prithvi Narayan

Sajini Anand P S

Sambuddha Sanyal

Suman Acharyya

Sumit Kumar

Vijay Prakash S


All our students are either Ph.D or I-Ph.D and are supported by the university.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of

new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

ICTS members were involved, through the respective Subject Boards, in

developing the Ph.D. and Integrated M.Sc-Ph.D. programme in Physics, as well as

the Ph.D. programme in Maths and tuning it to the strengths and needs of ICTS,

with the approval of the Subject Boards.


a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes,

how does the department utilize the feedback?

The curriculum, student progression and evaluation is discussed regularly

by the graduate committee and also in the general faculty meetings. The

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feedback from these discussions are used to implement changes in the

curriculum and students evaluation.

b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how

does the department utilize the feedback?

Presently the coordinator of the student’s affairs committee informally

collects information from students on course work. We plan to start a

formal anonymous feedback process from the next academic year.

c. alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does


Currently no such feedback is collected.


Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction

1. Manjari Bagchi Faculty, IMSc, Chennai

2. Karthik Gurumoorthy Machine Learning Scientist , Amazon Development Centre, Bangalore

3. Sk. Sarif Hassan Faculty, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun

4. Prasant Samantray Faculty, IIT, Indore

5. Tapan Mishra Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati



• ICTS has so far conducted 58 programmes and 28 discussion meetings. These

programmes have brought leading scientists from all over the world leading to

immense opportunities for scientific interaction and collaboration. These

programmes typically a school component where experts give set of pedagogical

lectures in topical areas at the level of MSc and graduate students. All lectures

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delivered during ICTS programmes are also available on its website and on

YouTube. ( See https://www.icts.res.in/seminar_schedule/1/)

• ICTS is the India node for “Mathematics of Planet Earth”, a global initiative for

mathematics programs and outreach. As part of this program, ICTS, in

collaboration with other scientific institutes in Bangalore, organized a hands-on

math exhibition in Bangalore that saw over 32,000 visitors in a span of 10 days,

in Nov-Dec 2013, at the Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum,

Kasturba Road, Bangalore (https://www.icts.res.in/additional_page/614/)

• ICTS organizes talks by scientists in schools and colleges.

• ICTS and Observer Research Foundation organized a conclave on science

education in Bangalore. The objective was to identify some important reforms

that need to be brought in science and engineering education.


Mostly, classes consist of blackboard lectures. Numerical courses use projection

based methods with direct interfacing to computers. There is an effort at

developing innovative experiments in the MSc lab at ICTS.

46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly

met and learning outcomes are monitored?

Courses are evaluated through exams. Students have to pass a comprehensive

exam before registering for Ph.D. In addition, students who have registered for

Ph.D have an annual assessment where their research progress is evaluated.


The faculty at ICTS are involved in the organization of many of the programmes

and public lectures held at ICTS. The details of these activities are provided

under question 30. Students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members regularly

participate in organizing science day activities at ICTS, during which popular

expositions of science are exhibited.


ICTS is a research institution, where syllabus based learning forms only a small

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part of our activity. The faculty, PDFs and Ph.D. students are continuously

engaged in research, and the quality of their work is reflected in the publication

record of the institute. Students, PDF and faculty give lectures frequently in

various national and international fora. There are conferences, schools, and

discussion meetings running at ICTS throughout the year, and many

distinguished scientists from India and abroad participate in these. This allows

the ICTS students to interact with the leading scholars in their discipline.

ICTS also encourages students from other Universities and Institutes to carry

out their MSc project at ICTS. In the last two years, about 10 students from IISc,

BITS, IISERs, HRI, University of Manchester and Intel have completed their M.Sc.

projects at ICTS.

49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other

agencies? If yes, give details.

ICTS is a new institution and its programmes have not been separately

accredited, apart from the various Subject Boards of TIFR.


basic or applied.

Research at ICTS focuses on the areas of astrophysical relativity: complex systems

(including Statistical Physics, Physical Biology, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence, and

Condensed Matter Physics): Interdisciplinary mathematics: String Theory and

Quantum Gravity. Around 30-40 research papers are published each year by

scientists at ICTS in leading journals in these areas. Some significant contributions

in the last few years are:

Astrophysical relativity: The group made direct contributions to contributing to

the recent discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO. In particular, the group

developed and implemented a test of general relativity based on the consistency

of the inspiral, merger and ringdown in an observed binary black-hole

coalescence. This was one of the five tests used to establish the consistency of

the observed signal with a binary black hole merger predicted by general

relativity. Additional direct contributions include the inference of the mass and

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spin of the remnant black hole, and the radiated energy and peak luminosity of

the merger event. The group members' past contributions in the theoretical

source modeling, and in the construction of "template banks" have aided the

discovery.

Complex systems: Large scale simulations with up to a billion particles embedded

in a turbulent fluid were performed towards understanding the process of

droplet formation in clouds. Numerical tests were performed to provide the first

detailed numerical verification of the predictions of a recent theory of thermal

transport in low-dimensional solids. The important issue of how the effect of

interactions in symmetry protected topological phases was investigated to show

how these phases can arise in concrete lattice systems of condensed matter.

Models of biochemical networks and active processes were used to obtain an

understanding of pattern formation (e.g embryonic development) in biological

systems. A statistical physics "random-resetting" model was studied in the

context of developing improved search algorithms.

Interdisciplinary mathematics: Two major results were the concentration of

filtering distribution on the unstable subspace of the dynamical system, and the

consistency of the Bayesian general linear ill-posed inverse problem in infinite

dimensions along with the contraction rates for the posterior distributions. The

Uniform Transform Method was extended to accommodate PDE interface

problems involving fourth order mixed derivatives. Work on algebraic models of

local hypersurfaces and interpolation of curves by constant mean curvature

surfaces was carried out. Significant contributions were made in the

mathematical understanding of water-waves, in particular, through data from

experiments.

The string theory group at ICTS-TIFR works both on pure aspects of quantum

gravity, and applied aspects of string theory. A promising approach to quantum

gravity is to prove the equivalence of a specific model of quantum gravity to an

ordinary quantum field theory, and members of the group have been involved in

formulating new examples of such dualities. They have also used such dualities

to understand new effects in fluid dynamics and thermalization, by using

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techniques from an entirely different area of physics --- gravitation. Other

members of the group have recently developed exact results for quantities, called

scattering amplitudes, in a specific quantum field theory called a Chern-Simons

matter theory. The group at ICTS-TIFR also works on the information paradox,

and its members have been involved in articulating some new resolutions to the

paradox that also shed light on fundamental non-locality in quantum gravity.

51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)

of the department.

Strengths

1. ICTS has been able to attract very good young scientists as its faculty in niche

areas of theoretical sciences. In addition ICTS has a large number of associates

from around the country and abroad who spend some time (from a week to

a month) at ICTS.

2. ICTS has in a very short time emerged as one of the most important centers

in the world for scientific programmes with a core teaching component,

public engagement and outreach, and cross-fertilization of ideas from

different fields.

3. The graduate studies programme and the extensive post-doctoral

programme of the ICTS has attracted excellent young scientists who have

enriched the in-house research programme and in-turn benefitted

enormously from the visitor-driven nature of this Center.

4. The proximity to several research institutes, including RRI, NCBS, JNCASR, and

IISc, has yielded fruitful collaborations, teaching exchanges, and pooling of

expertise.

5. World-class infrastructure, such as housing, office space, and a dedicated and

efficient administrative staff, ensures a vibrant center for research and

collaboration.

Weaknesses

1. The limit on the number of faculty (hence the number of students) and

administrative staff that we can hire limits the scope and breadth of our in-

house teaching and research programme.

2. Space constraints, especially hostel facilities for students and post-doctoral

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fellows.

3. Not enough women students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members.

4. The distance of the campus from the city center poses challenges in terms of

safe, easy and affordable commute from the city.

5. At present, sub-optimal laboratory facilities for graduate studies; hence an

over-reliance on other institutes such as IISc for this purpose. This in turn puts

a small burden on our colleagues in such institutes.

Opportunities

1. The scientific staff, especially the students and post-doctoral fellows, at ICTS

have a tremendous advantage over other institutes, in their exposure to

leading scientists from across the world who come and spend long periods

of time here (as part of our programmes, schools, and discussion meetings).

2. A vibrant local scientific culture with shared, and diverse, resources

between institutes such as IISc, RRI, JNCASR, and NCBS provides a

stimulating environment for collaborations across disciplines.

3. The Junior Faculty Programme (5 year non-tenured positions) is a great

initiative to encourage young and bright scientists to start early on an

independent research career.

4. A strong post-doctoral programme, with attractive packages, attracts

excellent young scientists not only from India but abroad.

5. The outreach programme and public lectures are excellent opportunities for

us at ICTS to interact with very young students from schools and colleges

and inspire the next generation of scientists.

Challenges:

1. To become the premier theoretical science center not only in India but in the

world.

2. To develop a fully functional laboratory to cater to the needs of a full-fledged

graduate studies programme.

3. Expand the computational resources of the Center.

4. To attract and encourage more women to take up research as a career.

5. To increase housing and hostel space.

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1. We are starting (from the coming academic year) the maths program and

increasing the intake of physics students as our faculty grow.

2. In the coming years we plan to diversify the areas of theoretical sciences we

are going to cover so as to include computer science, different areas of

mathematics apart from theoretical physics itself.

3. We plan to establish a final year research program for the best

undergraduate students in the country to work on a research project with

our faculty which will also expose them to advanced graduate courses.

4. We also plan to expand our outreach activities: public lectures by eminent

scientists, providing an archive (youtube channel) of all our talks and

programs, and in the future, programmes on science education for

school/college teachers etc.

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B3-XV

TIFR Centre for

Interdisciplinary Sciences

(TCIS)

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Evaluative Report of Departments (B3) XV-TCIS-1


TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences

1. Name of the Centre :

TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS)


2010

AEC approved for establishment of TIFR-H in July 2010 & TCIS, a part of TIFR-H

started its academic activities from Dec 2011.


TCIS is an off-campus Centre of TIFR.



1. Ph.D.


Students may avail of an M.Phil. Degree as an early exit option provided they have

finished a specified set of requirements. However, there is no separate M.Phil

programme.


Although the students fulfill their course requirements under any one of the

subject boards mentioned below, they can take up any interdisciplinary subject for

their Ph.D. At present, the following subject boards are involved: -

1. Subject Board of Physics

2. Subject Board of Chemistry

3. Subject Board of Biology

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XV-TCIS-2 Evaluative Report of Departments (B3)



A list of such courses in the period 2011 – 2015 follows.

Institution Course Name Faculty member Year

1. University of Hyderabad Statistical Mechanics Surajit Sengupta, K P N Murthy, R Nityananda

2012

2 University of Hyderabad Bridge Mathematics Rama Govindarajan & Saroj Panigrahi

2012

3. University of Hyderabad Dynamical Systems and Chaos

Bindu Bambah, Ram Ramaswamy & Rama Govindarajan

2013

4. University of Hyderabad Advance Dynamics Rama Govindarajan & Surajit Sengupta

2013

5. Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Introduction to the Physical and Chemical Sciences

Surajit Sengupta, Shubha Tewari, M Krishnamurthy

2013



Surajit Sengupta, Shubha Tewari, Subodh R Shenoy

2014



Surajit Sengupta, Shubha Tewari, M Krishnamurthy, Rama Govindarajan

2015




Students of the TCIS are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of

compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project

Work / Experimental course / Lab rotation course. The structure is given in the

table below.

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Subject Board of Physics:

Programme Duration (years) Basic &

Core Credits

Elective Credits

Project Credits

Total Credits Overall Coursework

Ph.D. 5 1.5 28 16 16 60

Ph.D. (for students with 4 years of University Training in other than Physics)

5 2.0 48 16 16 80

I-Ph.D. 6 2.5 52 32 16 100

Subject Board of Chemistry:

Programme

Duration (years) Course Credits

Project Credits


Ph.D. 5 1.5 26 34 60

I-Ph.D. 6 2.0 42 58* 100

* includes 24 credits of M.Sc. Thesis

Subject Board of Biology:

Programme Duration (years) Course

Credits Research Credits


Ph.D. 5 1.5 20 40 60

I-Ph.D. 6 2.5 28 32 60

* includes credits of M.Sc. / Final Thesis

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester

(August – November) and the Spring Semester (February – May). In addition, there

may be courses run during the Winter break (December – January) and Summer

break (May – July). Students are encouraged to participate in conferences /

schools / research projects with faculty members of their choice during the breaks.

In each semester, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process

which are a combination of the following: -

1. Assignments

2. Tests

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3. Mid-semester Examination

4. End-semester Examination

5. Presentations / Term Papers

All students are required to do Departmental Projects & Experimental courses as

required by the respective subject board. The students can take up the course of

their choice in any other subjects in addition.


Since the prime mission of TCIS is research in interdisciplinary sciences, students

are encouraged to take up additional courses in the subject of their choice. The

students can do their departmental projects with more than one faculty member

and from other disciplines.


Faculty Designation with DAE Grade

Abbreviation (Item 11)

Number


2. Professor (I) Professor (H) 5

3. Reader (F) Reader (F) 10

4. Reader (E) Reader (E) 2

5. Fellow (Young Researcher-INSPIRE fellow) Fellow 1

Total 20

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization,


Name Deg*

Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡

1. Sriram Ramaswamy

Ph.D. Centre Director & Sr. Professor (I)

Nonequilibrium, soft-matter and biological physics

29 2

2. Surajit Sengupta

Ph.D. Professor (H) & Dean

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium materials physics

22 7

3. K V R Chary Ph.D. Sr. Professor (I)

Molecular Biophysics, NMR Spectroscopy and Structural Biology

31 2

4. Narayanan Menon

Ph.D. Professor (H) Experimental non-equilibrium and soft-matter

18 2

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Name Deg*


physics

5. Rama Govindarajan

Ph.D. Professor (H) Fluid Mechanics 18 3

6. M Krishnamurthy

Ph.D. Professor (H) Matter at extreme temperature and density using very high-powered ultrashort lasers

18 3

7. P K Madhu Ph.D. Professor (H) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Biophysics

12 2

8. Rajat Varma Ph.D. Reader (F) Immunology, Cell Biology and Optical Microscopy

7 0

9. Shubha Tewari Ph.D. Reader (F) Soft matter Physics, Outreach & Education

16 0

10. Smarajit Karmakar

Ph.D. Reader (F) Glass Transition, Spin Glass, Mechanical Properties of Disordered Solids, Granular Materials

3.3 5

11. Kanchan Garai Ph.D. Reader (F) Regulation of amyloid aggregation in human diseases and bacterial biofilms

3 2

12. T N Narayanan Ph.D. Reader (F) Carbon Nano Materials, Magnetic materials and Electrochemistry

3 2

13. Prasad Perlekar Ph.D. Reader (F) Multiphase flows, Turbulence, Population dynamics, Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

2.5 1

14. Pramodh Vallurupalli

Ph.D. Reader (F) Biophysics 2 1

15. Anukul Jana Ph.D. Reader (F) Low-Valent Low-Coordinate Organometallic Chemistry

2 2

16. Aprotim Mazumder

Ph.D. Reader (F) Cell and Cancer Biology 1 1

17. Vipin Agarwal Ph.D. Reader (F) Development and Application of Solid State NMR Methods for Biomolecules and Materials

0.6 0

18. Karthik V Raman

Ph.D. Reader (E) Experimental condensed matter physics

2 1

19. Jagannath Ph.D. Reader (E) computer simulation and 0.5 0

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Name Deg*


Mondal statistical mechanics in chemical and biochemical topics

20. Kaustubh R Mote

Ph.D. Fellow (INSPIRE)

Solid-State NMR based Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins

1 0



‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those

graduated)


Visiting Faculty :

Prof. Subodh R Shenoy

Prof. N D Hari Dass C

Adjunct Faculty :

Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay

Prof. V Chandrasekhar

Prof. Srikanth Sastry

Prof. J B Joshi

Emeritus Professors :

Prof. Mustansir Barma


Programme Course Semester Faculty Percentage

1. Ph.D. & Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. (Physics)

Quantum Mechanics II

Aug-Nov 2014

Prof. A K Kapoor

100%


Quantum Mechanics II

Jan – Apr 2015

Prof. A K Kapoor

100%


Optics Jan – Apr 2015

Prof. Nirmal Viswanathan

100%

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4. Ph.D. 42 20 2.05



Scientific Staff Technical Staff Administrative Staff Auxiliary Staff

7+2* 2* 5+13* 43*

* As the Centre is very young, many staff members are either temporary or on

contract


Research Thrust Areas Funding Agency

1 Cancer research, Cell Biology DAE

2 Syntheses of compounds involving low-valent low-coordinated main group elements

SERB-DST, AvH Foundation, DAE

3 Theoretical chemistry Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB-DST

4 Biomolecular Solid-state NMR DST and DAE

5 Molecular biophysics, spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic Resonance

DST, CEFIPRA, Royal Society, Indo-Danish Science Agency

6

Molecular Biophysics, Biological Chemistry, Structural Biology, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

DAE, DST, DBT, CSIR, ICMR, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), UNESCO Molecular and Cell Biology Network (UNESCO-MCBN), Welcome Trust, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)i, International Council for Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS)

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17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding

agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies,

project title and grants received project-wise.

National



Duration Faculty

1. Science & Engineering Research Board, DST

2 Dimensional nanosheets based ultra-low density sponges for energy and environment applications

26 3 years starting from 2014-15

T N Naryanan

2. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences

Coupled physical processes in the Bay of Bengal & Monsoon Air-sea Interaction


Rama Govindarajan

3. Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology

Ramanujan Fellowship

87 Total 5 years, started from 2015-16

Kathik V Raman

4. Department of Science & Technology, Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research

Structural and Mechanistic Characterization of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier complex

83 Total 5 years starting from 2015-16

Kaustubh R Mote

5. Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology

Rational Design for the syntheses of multiple bonded compounds involving heavier group 14 elements and their reactivity

26 Total 3 years starting from 2015-16

Anukul Jana

6. Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance

Control of T Cell Biochemistry by MHC

288 Total 5 years starting

Rajat Varma

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Duration Faculty

Alleles from 2015

7. Ministry of Science & Technology Australia - India Strategic Research Fund

Tailoring plant protease inhibitors for control of the crop pest Helicoverpa armigera

27 Total 2 years starting from 2015

K V R Chary

International



Duration Faculty

1. Indo-German Sciences & Technology Centre, Stuttgart, Germany

Tailoring interface spin transport towards molecular spintronics


Karthik V Raman

2. Centre framco - Indien Pourla Promotion de la instabilities

Rotating and curved boundary layer instabilities


Rama Govindarajan


National

Collaborating Institutions

Project Title Total Grant (Rs. lakhs)

Duration Faculty

1. Indian Institute of Science

Coupled physical processes in the Bay of Bengal & Monsoon Air-sea Interaction


Rama Govindarajan

International: None

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Duration Faculty

1. DAE Science Research Council Awards, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)

DAE- Science Research Council Outstanding Investigator award scheme for the year 2014 (DAE-SRC-OI)


M Krishnamurthy


state recognition : NIL

national recognition : NIL

international recognition : NIL


bodies

Nil

22. Publications:

TCIS Journal

Publications Articles in

Proceedings Technical Reports

Web Publications

Book Chapters

Books Edited

Mono graphs

2010-11 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

2011-12 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

2012-13 28 --- --- 2013-14 76 --- 2014-15 49 --- 1

Total 153 --- --- 1 ---- ---- ----

# TCIS started its scientific activities in 2012.

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Books with ISBN with details of publishers

N D Hari Dass: The Principles of Thermodynamics, published by CRC Press Ltd,

ISBN 978-1- 4665-1208-5, 2013.

P K Madhu: Current developments in solid state NMR spectroscopy, Springer

Verlag GmbH, ISBN-13 9783211999394.

Surajit Sengupta: Frontiers in Materials Modelling and Design, Proceedings of the

Conference on Frontiers in Materials Modelling and Design, at Kalpakkam,

India on August 20-23 1996. V. Kumar, Surajit Sengupta and Baldev Raj, Eds.

(Springer, Heidelberg, 1997).

Vipin Agarwal: Development and Application of MAS Solid-State NMR

Methodologies to Biomolecule Number of Pages: 226 pages, Mensch & Buch

(November 2009), ISBN-10: 3866646917, ISBN-13: 978-3866646919

Citation Index – range / average:

Total number of citations: 31740 (Google Scholar)

Number of citations per faculty: 1587

h-index:

Range: 10 - 27

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Nil

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated during 2011-2015

Nil

25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions

/ industries in India and abroad

National

Name of Faculty member


1. Prof. N D Hari Dass Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Apr 2014

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Jan 2015

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Mar 2015

International

Name of Faculty member


1. Prof. Rama Govindarajan

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Nov 2012

2. Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy

Higgs Centre, University of Edinburgh (research collaboration with M E Cates and group)

March 2013

3. Prof. Srikanth Sastry EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Aug 2012

Univ. Paris Sud Orsay 2012

Uni. H. Heine, Dusseldorf, Germany Feb 2013

4. Prof. K V R Chary The Chemistry and Strcutural Biology Division, Institute for Molec- ular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia

Aug 2014

School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Aug 2014

Prof. Martin Greens Laboratory, University of New South Wales

Aug 2014

5. Prof. Surajit Sengupta

University of Dusseldorf (Groups of Profs J. Horbach, H. Lowen and S. Egelhaaf)

Mar-Apr 2014

The Weizmann Institute June 2014

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(a) National Committees:



Term of Service

1 Prof. K V R Chary IUPAB National Committee Member 2012-2016

Asian Biophysics Association Treasurer 2013-present

Steering Committee Member

2011-Present

International Advisory Board, 27th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems

Member 2014-2016

2 Prof.Rama Govindarajan

Indo-European network on Advanced Instability Methods (AIM).

Steering committee member

--

3. Dr. Smarajit Karmakar

International conference in IIT-Guwahati, Conference on Computational Physics – 2015.

Local organizing committee member

--

4. Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy

XXIV international conference on statistical physics of the IUPAP.

Member, Steering Committee

--

5. Dr. T.N.Narayanan

4th International Conference, COCHIN NANO-2016

National Organizing Committee member

--





Term of

Service

Dr. T.N.Narayanan EMN Meeting on Electrocatalysis, Energy Materials Nanotechnology, February 15-19, 2016 Orlando, USA.

International Program Committee Member

--

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Term of Service

Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy

Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 2011-2015

Advances in Physics Since Jun 2007

European Physical Journal Since Dec 2009

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Since Jan 2004

Prof. Rama Govindarajan

Physical Review Fluids Present

Physics of Fluids Till 2015

Pramana --

Sadhana Till 2014

Prof. P K Madhu Journal of Magnetic Resonance --

Journal of Biomolecular NMR --

Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance --

Dr. T N Narayanan American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

--

Carbon-Based Materials – Frontiers in Materials

2015

Prof. Suboddh R Shenoy

Physical Review Letters (Condensed Matter) 2000-2003

Pramana 2007-2013

Philosophical Magazine Since 2011

Prof. N D Hari Dass

Quanta

27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs,


As all TCIS faculty members regularly participate in national and international

research-oriented symposia, conferences, workshops and schools, often as the

organizers or principal lecturers, they are always in touch with the state of the art

in their areas of expertise. Therefore, no separate recharging/refresher

programmes are needed, nor are any conducted. In fact, TIFR faculty are in great

demand as lecturers in such programmes in other institutions, both inside and

outside India.

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percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-

departmental projects

All (100%) TCIS students are required to do Departmental Projects / Laboratory

rotations (see Item 8 above).

percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities


Almost all TCIS faculty and laboratories have collaborations with scientists in India

and abroad. Students of these faculty members and laboratories participate in

these projects.


Faculty Members:

National Awards


1. 2014 Kaustubh R Mote Inspire Faculty Award

2. 2012-2017

Prof. K V R Chary Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (DST)

2010-2011

The "Dharamsi Morarji Chemical Co. Visiting Fellowship in Chemistry" of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai

2009-2010

Professor J.C. Ghosh Memorial Award of the Indian Chemical Society

2006 Professor Rango Krishna Asundi Memorial Lecture Award of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi

1989 Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award, Indian National Science Academy

1986 Young Scientist Medal, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi

1986 Young Scientist Award, BRUKER, 1986.

3. 2012 Dr. Kanchan Garai TIFR Alumni Patent Award in 2012 for innovative scientific research from TIFR leading to the award of a patent.

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4. 2015 Prof. M Krishnamurthy DAE-SRC Outstanding Investigator award

2007 Head of the Max Planck India Partner group, for collaborative research in intense field science with Max Planck Institute for kernphyisk, Heidelberg

2006-2007

Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Physics

2003 B.M. Birla Science prize for physics

2001 INSA Young Scientist Medal for Physics by the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi

2001 S.N. Ghosh Young scientist medal by Indian society for Atomic and Molecular Physics

1999 Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

5. 2013 Dr. Prasad Perlekar NVIDIA Innovation Award

6. 2007 Prof. Rama Govindarajan Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Engineering Sciences)

7. 2010-2012

Dr. Smarajit Karmakar Dean's Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science

2003-2004

Kumari L. A. Meera Memorial Award for the year for being the best Integrated PhD Student in Physical Sciences, IISc, Bangalore, India

8. 2011 Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy Infosys Prize for the Physical Sciences

2007 J C Bose Fellowship

2006 G. D. Birla Prize for Science

2000 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences

2000 NASI Young Scientist Millenium Award

1996 B.M. Birla Memorial Prize for Physics

1988 N.S. Satyamurthy Award

1988-1992

Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences

9. 1994-1999

Prof. Surajit Sengupta Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

10. 1980-1985

Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship

11. 2015-2018

Dr. T N Narayanan ACS membership award

12. 1992 Prof. Subodh R Shenoy Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of CSIR India for Physics

13. 1998 Prof. N D Hari Dass Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad

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2006-2010

DAE Raja Ramanna Professorship



1. 2010 Dr. Anukul Jana Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship for Post Doctorate Research by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

2. 2014 Dr. Aprotim Mazumder The Koch Institute Image Award (2014).

2010 CEHS MIT Pilot project grant award (along with Mark Bathe)

3. 2011 Dr. Kanchan Garai Nomination for Poletsky Award by Dr. Carl Frieden for outstanding contribution in Alzheimer’s disease

4. 1976 Prof. N D Hari Dass (Visiting Faculty)

Gravity Foundation Honorable Mention for the essay A new spin test for the equivalence principle

Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards

Nil


Nil



Seminars are held frequently in TCIS by eminent scientists from India and abroad.

A list of seminars held in TCIS may be accessed through the link

http://www.tifrh.res.in/tcis/event/seminars.html and a few seminars by eminent

scientists are listed below.

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Conferences / Workshops


1. 2016 NMR Meets Biology TCIS, Hyderabad & TIFR, Mumbai (in association with University of Leipzig, Germany, and University of Aarhus, Denmark)

Prof.P K Madhu Dr. Vipin Agarwal

2. 2015 National Poster Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad & Royal Society of Chemistry, London – Deccan Local Section, India

Prof. K V R Chary

3. 2015 Summer Research Symposium

TCIS, Hyderabad & National Academies of Sciences

Dr. Shubha Tewari

4. 2015 TCIS-IITH-IITB meeting on Flow Instability

TCIS, Hyderabad, IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay & IIT- Hyderabad

Prof. Rama Govindarajan

5. 2014 TCIS Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad -- NA --

6. 2014 Summer Research Symposium

TCIS, Hyderabad & National Academies of Sciences

Dr. Shubha Tewari

7. 2014 Program on Active Matter, Cytoskeleton, Cells, Tissues and Flocks

TCIS, Hyderabad & Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Univ of California, Santa Barbara

Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy (jointly with M C Marchetti, Syracuse Univ, C Schmidt, Goettingen and I Couzin, Princeton)

8. 2014 Workshop on Soft Matter Self Assembly and Dynamics

TCIS, Hyderabad & University of Hyderabad

Prof. Narayanan Menon Prof. Srikanth Sastry

9. 2014 Symposium on Fragility TCIS, Hyderabad & JNCASR, Bangalore

Prof. Srikanth Sastry

10. 2014 IUTAM Symposium - 2014

TCIS, Hyderabad & IIT - Hyderabad

Prof. Rama Govindarajan Dr. Prasad Perlekar

11. 2013 Chemistry Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad Prof. V Chandrasekhar

12. 2013 Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics 2013 (PNLD 2013)

TCIS, Hyderabad & University of Hyderabad

Prof. Rama Govindarajan Dr. Prasad Perlekar

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13. 2013 TCIS-IITH-IITB meeting on

Flow Instability

TCIS, Hyderabad, IIT-Madras,

IIT-Bombay & IIT- Hyderabad

Prof. Rama

Govindarajan

14. 2012 Meeting on Soft and

Biological Matter

TCIS, Hyderabad & University of

Hyderabad

-- NA --

15. 2012 TCIS Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad -- NA --


TCIS follows the TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics.



Name of

the

Programme

(refer to question no. 4)

Applications

received

Selected Joined Pass

percentage for

TCIS Male Female Male Female Male Female

Ph.D.

Biology TIFR Mumbai 6 2 2 1 50 100

Chemistry TIFR Mumbai

& TCIS-71

31 10 14 4 93 100

Physics TIFR Mumbai

& TCIS-526 34 5 24 6 83 100

Integrated

M.Sc.-Ph.D.

Biology -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Chemistry TIFR Mumbai 11 7 2 -- 100 --

Physics TIFR Mumbai

& TCIS-306 36 7 11 1 100 100

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33. Diversity of students:

(a) Based on geography:

Students Ph.D.

Integrated- Ph.D.

M.Sc. Total



3 2 -- -- NA NA 5

From other states of India 33 6 13 1 NA

NA 53

NRI students -- -- -- -- NA NA --

Foreign students -- -- -- -- NA NA --

Total 36 8 13 1 -- -- 58

(b) Based on undergraduate institution:

Ph.D.

Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D.


From Universities 20 6 12 1 39

From premier science institutions †

4 0 0 0 4

From premier professional institutions #

12 1 1 0 14

From others* 1 0 0 0 1

Total 37 7 13 1 58

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc.

# IITs, NITs, etc.




1. CSIR – NET 3

2. GATE 20

3. JEST 12

4. OTHERS (TIFR) 23

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Ph.D. / Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D programme : Students admitted to TCIS go on to

complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Rarely a student may opt out of

the programme, for various reasons. After completing their Ph.D., the students

have great potential to pursue postdoctoral research anywhere in the world and

go on to academic / industry careers.



from TIFR :

4



Total No 20


assessment period

The minimum eligibility criteria for selection as a member of the TIFR faculty is a

Ph.D. degree. Thus, this number is not relevant.


a) Library

Floor area- 20.90 Sq metres

Total seating capacity – 10

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Working hours - 24*7

The library has two internet enabled systems (desktop), two dedicated VPN

access for library users will also be procured shortly.

The library has a total of 450 books with an average annual addition of 150

books, e-books 41,020 & e-journals 3,888


Primary internet - 40 Mbps leased line 1:1 with RF connectivity (ISP - Bharti

Airtel)

Secondary internet - 4 Mbps leased line 1:1 with optical connectivity (ISP - BSNL

India)

100 Mbps LAN network

Student hostels are provided with 12 mbps broadband connections with Wi-Fi

connectivity


Two classrooms to seat 20 students each


Two classrooms to seat 20 students each


Two 4 students’ laboratories with a total capacity around 60


Name of Laboratory

Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Brief description of research activity

1 Synthesis Lab 1 2 2 Syntheses and Reactivities of Main-Group Compounds with Low-Valent Low-Coordinate Group 13-15 elements

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Hydrocarbon soluble Silicon enriched molecular cluster Rational design of metal cluster by using different multi-dented ligands Study of different catalytic reactions using Main-Group compounds

2 Biophysics Lab 2 3 3 Single molecule biophysics of protein amyloids Role of indigenous proteins of amyloid aggregation Conformational Dynamics of Biomolecules

3 Biology 2 2 1 Regulatory roles of Genome organization in gene expression and DNA repair Stress-induced mutagenesis as a mechanism for hastening evolution Immunology, Cell Biology and Optical Microscopy

4 Laser Matter Lab 1 1 3 Ion acceleration Neutral-Atom accelerators Bright, Hard X-Ray sources Laser-Plasma dynamics at mesoscopic lenth scales

5 Material Science 1 2 2 Engineering of Nanomaterials Catalysis and Energy Devices

6 NMR 4 5 4 Biomolecular Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Development of new NMR methodologies to understand the structure-function paradigm of biomolecules NMR characterization of the 3D structures of biologically important proteins and studying their dynamics, interaction with other ligands/biomolecules to understand structure-function relationships Development of computer-aided complete-turn-key packages for both NMR assignments and 3D structural analysis. Solid state NMR spectroscopy

7 Spintronics 1 1 1 Interspace spin chemistry and magnetism arising due to the molecule-transition metal-interface interactions

8 Soft Matter 3 2 4 Non-equilibrium soft matter and biological physics

9 Hyper- polarization

1 0 0 Creating hyperpolarization in noble gases by spin exchange optical pumping methods.

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Optical magnetometry

10 Computational Science

5 3 16 Statistical Mechanics of soft matter: Deformation, Elasticity & Plasticity Active Segregation of chromosomes Fluid mechanics, Multiphase flows Statistical physics of Disordered systems: Elusive order in disordered system and the associated correlation length Ideal glassy states in systems with quenched disorder and their connection to spin glass physics Glasses with metallicity Brittleness and Ductility of amorphous solids Amorphization Transition Computer simulation of protein-drug binding Understanding mechanisms of actions antibiotic and antimicrobial peptides Theoretical understanding of role of water and cosolutes on conformation and self –assembly of biomacromolecules Deciphering spatial organization inside bacterial cell

* no of faculty members using the laboratory † no of postdoctoral fellows using the laboratory ‡ no of graduate students using the laboratory


Doctoral students Doctoral students

1 Anshul Deep Singh Parmar 30 Naresh Kumar

2 Vinutha H A 31 Dube Dheeraj Prakashchand

3 Sharath K Jose 32 S. V. Rahul

4 Mamta Raju Jotkar 33 Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi

5 S. Ravi Chandran 34 Navdeep Rana

6 Debabrata Sinha 35 Keerthan Subramanian

7 Habeeba Tamkeen K S 36 Archit Bhardwaj

8 Sumit Kumar Birwa 37 Vikash Pandey

9 S Ganga Prasath 38 Rahul Sharma

10 Rashmi Ramaadugu 39 Debabrata Dhara

11 Shubhadeep Pal 40 Debdeep Mandal

12 Rayan Chatterjee 41 Timir Baran Sil

13 Rahul Kumar Gupta 42 Janeka Gartia

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Doctoral students Doctoral students

14 Rajsekhar Das 43 Kshama Sharma

15 Mrinmoy Mukherjee 44 Saurabh Chaudhary

16 Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik 45 Sudeshna Patra

17 Pappu Acharya 46 Subhrajyoti Dolai

18 Praveen Kumar 47 Mukul G Jain

19 Indrajit Tah 48 Subhendu Pandit

20 Shashank Yadav 49 Khandekar Jishan Bari

21 Jaya Krishna Koneru 50 Subhajit Ghosal

22 Kallol Paul 51 Aslam Uddin

23 Ritabrata Thakur 52 Sumit Bawari

24 Vishnu V Krishnan 53 Avijit Maiti

25 Debankur Das 54 Subhajit De

26 Rahul Chajwa 55 Shamasree Ghosh

27 Dhuppar Shivnarayan Tilkesh 56 Anusha Bargavi Gopalan

28 Pankaj Popli 57 Nikhita Pasnuri

29 Pardeep Kumar 58 P S Kesavan

Post-doctoral fellows

1 G Gopi Krishna

2 Seshagiri Rao R.V.

3 Kiran Kumar Tadi

4 Deepa Jaiswal

5 Sitara Roy

6 Abhijeet A Joshi

7 Deepu P

8 Satya Prakash

9 Balaji Yendeti

10 S. Mathimalar

11 Biswajit Santra

12 M. Anand

13 Khevath Praveen Kumar Naik

14 Sunita Patel

15 Sarada Seetharaman

16 Kartika Padhan

17 Chandrakala Gowda

18 Angana Ray

19 Ravi Kumar Biroju

20 C. Neeraja

21 Swarnali Bandyopadhyay

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JRFs SRFs

1 Sarika Kumari

NIL

2 Akshi Gupta

3 Rakesh Kumar Y

4 Swapneel Amit Pathak

5 Paswa Nath

6 Subrata Kuilya

7 Sambit Mohapatra

8 Sreedevi K N


Most of the students (57 out of 58) of TCIS are in doctoral programmes and hence

they are all given TIFR fellowships. One doctoral student is receiving a scholarship

from CSIR.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new

programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

No.


a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does


Constant effort is made by the Academic Advisory committee (AAC) to ensure the

quality of curricula offered. The syllabus is regularly discussed and revised

depending on interaction with peers and feedback received from faculty.

b. Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the


Student feedback is obtained formally at the end of each course in the form of a

filled course evaluation form (Student Response to Instructions – SRTI). The

ratings are discussed in the AAC and relevant information is passed onto the

teacher.

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c. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the


No feedback is taken by alumni at present.


None



As Item No 30 shows, TCIS regularly conducts seminars, conferences & workshops,

which are attended by all the doctoral students. These provide the required

introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research.


Faculty members are encouraged to design their own teaching methods and

within certain parameters, allowed to choose topics of instructions. They may also

design & float new elective courses. A significant component of take-home

assignments is encouraged. The mode of evaluation is decided by the teacher.

46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met

and learning outcomes are monitored?

Constant effort is made by the Academic Advisory committee (AAC) to ensure the

quality of curricula offered. The syllabus is regularly discussed and revised

depending on interaction with peers and feedback received from faculty and

students.

Student feedback is obtained formally at the end of each course in the form of a

filled course evaluation form (Student Response to Instructions – SRTI). The

ratings are discussed in the AAC and relevant information is passed onto the

teacher.

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Outreach: The institute has initiated three distinct areas of outreach activities with

different audiences in mind. The purpose of the outreach activities is to educate

and inform the public about our research efforts, and to encourage young

students to become scientists and be informed about current efforts in Science.

For the general public: We started a discussion series on Science titled “Sawaal-

Jawaab: Conversations on Science” at a public venue, Lamakaan, in Hyderabad.

We have hosted many eminent researchers who speak about their research and

engage in conversation with the general public. The speaker is typically asked to

prepare half an hour of material, but questions flow freely from the audience and

the typical duration of the entire event is two hours. This is now a recognized

event in Hyderabad with 50 – 60 attendees per session.

For school and college students: The institute has hosted a number of visiting

groups from schools and colleges. In addition to a lab tour, the students engage in

experiments/hand-on activities that demonstrate the playful side of science, but

are designed in part to introduce them to the research areas of our institute. The

activities are led by TCIS students.

For college students: With the help of funding from the National Academies, we

have organized and hosted two annual undergraduate research symposiums in

summer 2014 and 2015 in which students engaged in summer research present

their work to their peers. These symposiums have each featured a plenary talk by

one TCIS and one external faculty member on their research.

Students & faculty members regularly participate by giving talks and presenting

posters at National & International conferences.


TCIS conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis.

Seminars

Colloquium

VSRP Programme

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Sawaal-Jawaab, a series of discussions about current issues in science for general

public

Outreach activities: visits by schools and colleges are organised and simple

experiments are demonstrated to introduce them to scientific research.

49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other

agencies? If yes, give details.

No


basic or applied

Regimes of break-up delineated for a bubble rising through liquid.

Relevance of caustics in droplet aggregation and coalescence demonstrated.

Viscosity stratification can create several new instabilities in shear flow, and is a

singular effect.

Development of transport and hydrodynamics models to study the properties of

hot and dense nucleus / quark gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy ion

collisions.

We have discovered how T4 lysozyme interconverts between two compact

conformations. Contradictory to expectations the activation barrier is just ~6kT.

Prediction of a propagation gap for wavelike excitations in large-scale flocks with

rotational inertia; important consequences for signalling in biological groups

Spontaneous flocking phase transition in a vibrated granular monolayer:

experiment, simulation and predictive theory; discovery and elucidation of a new

type of flocking interaction between self-propelled particles

Theory of the dynamics of the plasma membrane of the living cell, consequences

include the emergence of spontaneous membrane waves, as widely seen in

crawling cells

Theoretical principles for the quantitative design of chemotactic behaviour of

active colloids, dramatic collective behaviour predicted, including precise

analogues to gravitational collapse

Theory of spontaneous synchronization in active matter, with relevance to

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metachronal waves and bacterial swimming

Our work on the effective of self-propelling activity on suspension viscosity

highlighted in Nature (N & V) 525, 37 (2015) in connection with experiments on

bacterial suspensions that bear out our predictions.

We show that high resolution proton-detected NMR spectra can be obtained on

large biomolecules in the solid state at slow-moderate MAS frequencies.

Developed a strategy to combine pulse sequences using multiple receivers and

multiple sequential acquisitions in biomolecular solid state NMR. The time

savings for a single case can be as much as 2-3 weeks

Unification of heteronuclear spin decoupling schemes in solid-state NMR to

improve resolution and sensitivity of NMR spectra.

Identification of unique structural folds in Abeta peptides upon binding to

membranes.

Design of asynchronous schemes that enhance geometry elucidation efficiency in

solid-state NMR.

Generation of hyperpolarised xenon gas with optical pumping, to be used for

imaging.

Using diironnonacarbonyl, [Fe2(CO)9] as a source of Lewis acid fragment, we

have stabilized germanium dichloride, GeCl2. In the solid state, it exhibits a

dimeric structure with a Ge2Fe2-four-membered ring.

Understanding the observed long delays in post-quench equilibration of

athermal martensites, through protein folding concepts such as golf holes and

entropy barriers.

Rapid adaptation of yeast to environmental stress showing signatures of stress-

induced mutagenesis.

Cell-cycle dependent DNA damage responses on a cell-by-cell basis in mammalian

cell populations.

We showed that different ways of calculating static length scale (including our

proposed method) in glass forming liquids are actually same. This will help us

reduce some degree of complexity if there were multiple length scales in the

glass transition problem which is already very complex in nature.

Vanishing of configurational entropy may not imply an ideal glass transition in

randomly pinned liquids.

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Short-time relaxation processes known as β-relaxations in glass-forming liquids

are cooperative in nature and the scale of the cooperative is same as that

observed at long time scale. This will help us understand how ageing and

rejuvenation happen in glassy systems

Patchy colloidal model has many properties similar to that of networked liquids

such as water and silicate glass. The model produces several kinds of stable

crystalline structures at low temperatures. Under certain conditions it remains

glassy. Some of our predictions have been verified experimentally in a complex

nano-particle system consisting of Au/PbS nano “dumbbells”

It is known that gene dense chromosomes appear to be concentrated towards

the centre of the nucleus in a Eukaryotic cell while those with low gene density

segregate to the nuclear surface. No real explanation for this fact was known. We

have now shown using computer simulations and simple physical arguments that

this is a consequence of differential transcriptional activity associated with the

chromosomes.

The existence of “super solids” i.e. solids with crystalline order which flow like a

superfluid, has been debated for many years. There have been many experiments

which provide evidence in one direction or the other. Our work suggested that a

super solid fraction may appear as a long-lived transient which vanishes with

annealing. This may provide a resolution of many perplexing issues concerning a

variety of experiments on bulk solid helium.

The technologically important phenomenon of irreversible plastic deformation of

crystalline and glassy solids is ill understood from a fundamental viewpoint. Non-

affine displacement fluctuations appear to be suggestive of a new direction in

this field. This may have important ramifications for understanding deformations

of solids in a unified setting.

The spreading rate of a shear flow is universal in an intermediate regime which is

also marked by strong correlations.

It is proved that Killing Vectors for the FLRW metric, when suitably scaled by

functions, are non-normalizable zero modes of the scalar Laplacian on these

spaces.

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51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of

the department.

Strengths

Faculty of outstanding quality, selected by a demanding internationally peer-

reviewed screening process. Although most faculty members are less than four

years into their roles, they are already leaders on the global stage in several areas

of research. Successes from work published by TCIS faculty include: new

understanding of length-scales at the glass transition; insights into intrinsically

disordered proteins; new light on protein-aggregation diseases; ultra-

hydrophobic surfaces; non-affinity and the yield and flow of solids; extraordinary

enhancement of laser-driven ion acceleration by bacterial cells

The Interdisciplinary nature of the Centre provides an excellent platform for

larger problems to be attacked from different angles by individuals with

completely different expertise.

Strong and comprehensive teaching programme governed by the exacting

standards of the TIFR University. Students are on an average of very high quality

and very motivated.

Significant seed funding for faculty’s research programmes

Strong outreach activities, already very visible on the Hyderabad education circuit.

Weaknesses

Research funding flow is ad hoc, not predictable, posing problems for a growing

campus.

Slow development of the main campus at Hyderabad, delaying the full growth of

TIFR Hyderabad and the availability of a campus setting for faculty and students.

Faculty members having to spend large amounts of time in Centre-building.

Dependence on local rentals for student accommodation.

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Administrative and purchase procedures complicated and inflexible, posing an

inordinate demand on faculty time and energy, with adverse effect on research

and institution-building.

Opportunities

Tremendous possibilities for cross-disciplinary collaborations within the Centre

between experimenters, theoreticians and simulators, across the chemical,

biological and physical sciences, and engineering, facilitated by the PI-centric

rather than departmental structure.

Exciting opportunities for technological application, as the fundamental research

pursued at the Centre has major translational implications, as can be seen from

material presented under Strengths and Future Plans of the Centre.

Achievements of our faculty globally recognized, as seen in many invited talks at

international conferences and membership of prestigious editorial boards,

resulting in many opportunities for international collaboration.

High-quality research seminars, colloquia and workshops offer our young

investigators and their groups the opportunity to interact with the world leaders in

the field. The Centre maintains a vibrant visitors’ programme, hosting colleagues

from all disciplines from various parts of India and across the world.

Challenges

Delays in infrastructure development.

Insufficient space unless an additional building is made ready.

Subsequent difficulty in recruiting excellent new faculty members.

Inadequate computing and other facilities to provide a level playing field against

international competition.

Complex and opaque rules and procedures.

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The growth of TIFR Hyderabad hereafter must take place in a massively parallel

way in the various proposed disciplines. Five years from now we expect a campus

with about 100 faculty members and 500 to 800 students, postdocs and interns,

and the necessary physical infrastructure in the form of academic buildings,

laboratories and hostels. We anticipate and plan a balanced growth of research

across all the sciences and engineering. The areas explored will in part be natural

outgrowths of those present at the inception of TCIS, but will also emerge from

the evolving priorities of the growth plan of TIFR-H. We expect major

collaborations at the interfaces and overlaps of the life sciences with the chemical

and physical sciences, and with critical applied areas such as materials science and

engineering (both conventional and nanoscale), translational research in drug

design and disease biology, as well as climate science. The research will be

supported by major dedicated facilities for high-performance computation,

magnetic resonance spectroscopy, intense-field laser science, imaging based on

visible light as well as electrons, and nanofabrication.

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