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ANNUAL REPORTANNUAL REPORT

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AddressIndian Academy of SciencesC.V. Raman AvenuePost Box No. 8005Sadashivanagar P.O.Bangalore 560 080

Telephone 91-80-2266-1200(EPABX)

Fax 91-80-2361-6094

Email [email protected]

Website www.ias.ac.in

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ContentsIntroduction 4

Council 5

Fellowship 5

Associates 8

Publications 8

Repository of Scientific Publications 15of Academy Fellows

Discussion Meetings 15

Mid-Year Meeting 2013 17

Annual Meeting 2013 20

Raman Professor 24

Academy Public Lectures 25

Science Education Programmes 27

‘Women in Science’ 45Panel Programmes

Hindi Workshops 46

National Science Day 47

Additional Hostel Facility at Jalahalli 48

Dainik Bhaskar National Education 48Leadership Award 2013

Academy Finances 49

Acknowledgements 49

Tables 50

Annexures 52

Statement of Accounts 61

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1 In

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The Academy was founded in 1934

by Sir C V Raman with the

main objective of promoting the

progress and upholding the cause

of science (both pure and applied).

It was registered as a Society under the

Societies Registration Act on

24 April 1934. The Academy commenced

functioning with 65 Fellows and the formal

inauguration took place on 31 July 1934 at the

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. On the

afternoon of that day, its first general meeting of

Fellows was held, during which Sir C V Raman

was elected its President and the draft constitution

of the Academy was approved and adopted. The

first issue of the Academy Proceedings was

published in July 1934.

The present report covering the period from

April 2013 to March 2014 represents the eightieth

year of the Academy.

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2 CouncilThere were two statutory meetings of the Council on 6 July 2013 and 7–8 December 2013.

3 Fellowship22. Subramaniam, Annapurni23. Subramanian, V24. Tandon, Nikhil

Honorary Fellows

1. Paulraj, Arogyaswami J2. Ramanathan, Veerabhadran3. Schmidt, Brian P

3.2 In MemoriamThe Academy regrets to place on record thedeath of the following 11 Fellows and1 Honorary Fellow during the period up toMarch 2014. Annexure 2 gives additionalinformation about them.

Fellows Deceased

1. Agarwal, Shyam Swarup2. Bhattacharyya, Sasanka Chandra3. Bhattacherjee, Satyendra Kumar4. Narasimhan, Palliakaranai Thirumalai5. Narendran, Thekke Curuppathe6. Rao, Vallurupalli Sita Raghavendra7. Reddy, Chintala Raja Ram Mohan8. Roy, Supriya9. Sarabhai, Anand

10. Seshagiri, Narasimhiah11. Siddiqi, Obaid

Honorary Fellow Deceased

1. Dodson, George Guy

3.1 2014 ElectionsA total of 465 nominations for fellowship indifferent disciplines were considered by theeight Sectional Committees. Following postalballoting, 24 new Fellows were elected, thefellowship being effective from 1 January2014. A list of their names follows, whileAnnexure 1 gives their particulars. Alsoelected were three new Honorary Fellows.

Fellows

1. Bera, Jitendra K2. Chakraborti, Asit K3. Chattarji, Sumantra4. Garg, Naveen5. Ghate, Eknath6. Jayananda, M7. Krishnamurthy, M8. Kulkarni, Giridhar U9. Kundu, Manikuntala

10. Madras, Giridhar11. Mahadevan, Priya12. Majumdar, Subeer S13. Mandal, Gautam14. Mujumdar, Pradeep15. Mukerji, Mitali16. Nayak, Shailesh17. Raghavarao, K S M S18. Ramana, C V19. Rao, Ravi A20. Roy, Syamal21. Roychoudhury, Susanta

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Fellows Honorary Fellows

1 April 2013 1010 52Elected (Dec. 2013) 24 3Deceased (2013–2014) 11 1

31 March 2014 1023 54

3.3 Strength of the Fellowship

3.4 Fellowship AnalysisThe age-wise distribution of the IASc Fellowship is as shown in the following chart.

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The numbers in red indicate thenumber of Fellows exclusive toeach Academy. The number in boldindicates the number of Fellowscommon to all three Academies.We also see that the total numberof Fellows in each Academy is 1023in the Indian Academy of Sciences,1516 in The National Academy ofSciences and 861 in the IndianNational Science Academy. Thetotal number of individual Fellowsin all three Academies is 2090.

The distribution of Fellows among the three Academies is shown in the following diagram.

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Agra 1

Ahmedabad 21

Aligarh 2

Allahabad 4

Amritsar 1

Bangalore 230

Baroda 1

Bhavnagar 2

Bhopal 3

Bhubaneswar 10

Chandigarh 10

Chennai 51

Chittoor 1

Coimbatore 3

Cuttack 1

Dehra Dun 4

Delhi 125

Delhi – NCR 14

Dharwad 1

Goa 6

Durgapur 1

Ernakulam 1

Gandhinagar 3

Guntur 1

Guwahati 1

Howrah 4

Hyderabad 73

Indore 7

Jaipur 3

Jalandhar 1

Jamshedpur 1

Jorhat 1

Kalpakkam 1

Kalyani 1

Kanpur 14

Karaikudi 1

Karnal 1

Karwar 1

Kharagpur 5

Kolhapur 1

Kolkata 71

Kottayam 1

Lucknow 18

Madurai 8

Manipal 1

Meerut 1

Mohali 2

Mohanpur 2

Mumbai 111

Mysore 7

Nagpur 1

Panchkula 1

Pondicherry 1

Prasanti 1

Pune 76

Ranchi 1

Roorkee 1

Santiniketan 2

SAS Nagar 7

Secunderabad 4

Shillong 1

Silchar 1

Sindhudurg 1

Srinagar 1

Sultanpur 1

Tezpur 1

Thane 1

Thiruvananthapuram 15

Thiruvarur 1

Tiruchirapalli 1

Tirupati 1

Tumkur 1

VV Nagar 1

Varanasi 14

Vellore 6

The city-wise distribution of IASc Fellows is given in the following table.

Total in India 979

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4 AssociatesSixty-four nominations were received and the following 11 were selected as Associates in 2013,the associateship being effective from 1 July 2013 (see also Annexure 3).

7. Maiti, Debabrata8. Misra, Abha9. Rajaraman, Gopalan

10. Sheshasayee, Aswin Narayan11. Viswanatha, Ranjani

1. Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar2. Bera, Melinda Kumar3. Gupta, Neena4. Guttal, Vishwesha5. Jha, Rajan6. Mabalirajan, Ulaganathan

5 Publications

5.1 JournalsThe following journals continue to bepublished by the Academy:

1. Bulletin of Materials Science2. Current Science (in association with

Current Science Association)3. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy4. Journal of Biosciences5. Journal of Chemical Sciences6. Journal of Earth System Science7. Journal of Genetics8. Pramana – Journal of Physics9. Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences

10. Resonance – Journal of ScienceEducation

11. Sadhana – Academy Proceedings ofEngineering Sciences

Journal-wise information on papers submittedfor publication, the number of pagespublished and circulation figures of journalsfor the calendar year 2013 are given in Tables1–3 (see pages 50–51).

5.2 Special Issues of JournalsSeveral journals brought out special issues oftopical importance. A description of thesefollows:

The Thirty Meter Telescope –Observatory GenNext

Editor: Ram Sagar

Journal ofAstrophysics andAstronomy,Vol. 34, No. 2,June 2013,pp. 75–192

The imperative needand relevance of

building large optical telescopes wasexpressed by early astronomers. Today,technological developments in bothelectronics and computers have made themanufacturing of extremely large-sizedoptical telescopes economical and feasible.Understandably, such projects are beyond

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the capabilities of any one nation. The ThirtyMeter Telescope (TMT) Project is led by agroup of US institutions, namely, CaliforniaInstitute of Technology (CalTech),University of California, and Yale University. Other participating nations in the TMTProject are Canada, China, Japan and India.The TMT is a global effort in which allpartners contribute to the design,construction, technology development, andscientific use of the Observatory. The TMT,like all telescopes with more than 1 m aperturesize, is basically a reflecting telescope. It willcomprise 492 hexagonal mirror segments,each 1.44 m in size, and is planned forinstallation on the summit of Mauna Kealocated in the island of Hawaii in the UnitedStates. With TMT, it will be possible tostudy the Universe as never before and findanswers to many of the grand challenges ofScience.

This special issue of the Journal ofAstrophysics and Astronomy (Vol. 34, No. 2,June 2013) informed the reader about India’sparticipation in this multinational megaproject and highlighted its important technicalaspects. The article by Gary H. Sanders,Project Manager of TMT, elaborated on theissues concerning participation of institutionsand countries, the technological challengespresent in the project, the key scienceprogrammes which TMT will enable, as wellas the unprecedented gains in both lightgathering power and angular resolutionimaging capabilities of the TMT.

B. Eswar Reddy, Director of the India TMTCoordination Centre, in his article, sharedsalient details of the scientific justification andstatus of the technical participation of Indianastronomers as well as of Indian companies.

TMT will be equipped with a suite of first-generation instruments. These details founddescription in the article by Luc Simard, whoheads the TMT instrumentation group. Thisarticle described the capabilities and technicaldetails of the first light science instruments. Italso informed the reader about a diverse setof new instruments, now under study, thatwill bring additional workhorse capabilities toserve the scientific interests of a wider userbase and also offer a wide range ofopportunities to all TMT partners. Despiteits extremely large size, the TMT will be aground-based telescope. As a consequence,images of celestial objects formed by theTMT will be blurred by turbulences presentin the Earth’s atmosphere. These distortionscan now be countered using a technique calledadaptive optics (AO). The article by BrentLee Ellerbroek, an expert in the field,provided the status of the TMT adaptiveoptics programme. Progress in AOcomponents prototyping, control algorithmdevelopment and system performanceanalyses were also presented in the article.

C. H. Ishwara-Chandra articulated the valueof such multi-wavelength observations in hisarticle. Radio sources located beyond redshift of 5 require deep optical and near-IRobservations with the capabilities of TMT.

Sujan Sengupta delineated the importance ofpolarimetric observations taken with TMT inthe case of exo-planetary systems discoveredrecently. The article suggested that even alow-spectral-resolution spectro-polarimeterwith capability to detect linear polarizationof 0.5–1% at the TMT would immensely helpin understanding the atmosphere, especiallythe cloud chemistry of self-luminous andresolved exo-planets.

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The contribution of TMT, equipped withmodern first-generation back-endinstruments, towards the understanding offront-line research problems in the area of theevolution of massive stars and high-red shiftUniverse using core collapse supernovae andgamma-ray bursts have been effectivelysummarized by S. B. Pandey.

The TMT Infra-Red Guide Star Catalog(TMT-IRGSC) consists of stars as faint asJ ~22 mag, covering the entire TMTobservable sky from +90 to –45 degrees indeclination, and is required for efficientplanning and observing for this project. Thisimportant work is being carried out under theleadership of Indian astronomers. Themethodology and technique used ingenerating this valuable catalogue weredetailed in the article by Smitha Subramanianet al., which provided the status of this work.

Nuclear Power Programme in India– Past, Present and Future

Editors: AK Nayakand BK Dutta

Sâdhanâ, Vol. 38,No. 5, October 2013,pp. 773–1064

India has beenamong thefrontrunners to havean elaborate nuclear

programme since immediately afterindependence. At present, India is among thefew countries recognised to have mastered allaspects of the nuclear fuel cycle and is aleader in heavy water reactor technology.India is poised for multifold growth in nuclear

power generation to match the needs ofsustained economic growth and improving thestandard of living for the masses. Nuclearpower is currently the fourth largest sourceof electricity in India after thermal,hydroelectric and renewable sources ofelectricity. Thorium utilization for large-scalepower production and associated technologydevelopment are important aspects of theIndian nuclear power programme. This isimportant because of the security of fuelreserves, since India has one of the largestreserves of thorium. Operation in closednuclear fuel cycles, which involvesreprocessing and recycling of fissile materials,is thus inevitable for India. A three-stagenuclear energy programme based on theclosed cycle is the flagship of the Indianatomic programme. Stage one aims atdeveloping natural-uranium-fuelledpressurised heavy water reactors; the secondstage aims at utilising plutonium-based fuelsin fast breeder reactors. The third stagefocuses on the development of advancednuclear power systems for utilisation ofthorium. Currently, India has 20 nuclearreactors in operation, generatingapproximately 4,780 MWe and 7 otherreactors are under construction, which areexpected to generate an additional 5,300MWe. Apart from the currently operatingwater-cooled reactors, the country plans tobuild innovative nuclear reactors such as theAdvanced Heavy Water Reactor, PrototypeFast Breeder Reactor, High TemperatureReactor and Molten Salt Breeder Reactor.The country has set up R&D programmestowards development of accelerator-drivensystem (ADS) and fusion reactor concepts.Important objectives of future designs wouldbe not only burning of thorium but also

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minimising the need for the exclusion zone sothat new reactors can be located in closeproximity to large populations. In view ofthis, the new designs would be practically safeand would satisfy the design requirements for“no impact in public domain”. While Indiawas smoothly proceeding on the plannedthree-stage programme, the Fukushimaaccident has been a temporary setback to thenuclear industry because of publicapprehension on the safety of nuclearreactors.

In this special issue, emphasis has been laid tobring out the design and safety aspects of theIndian operating reactors as well as futureones. The special issue also discussed howextreme events are prevented in the design orare mitigated in Indian nuclear power plants,which require development of appropriatematerials, control and instrumentationsystems, and technologies. Apart from safety,this special issue discussed the management ofradioactive waste and preparedness in theIndian fusion reactor programme. Since Indiahas an elaborate nuclear power programmebased on the closed fuel cycle, developmentof skilled nuclear scientists and engineers,who can take responsibility as well as dreamof a better tomorrow, are very important.This special issue brought out this aspect ofdevelopment of human resources for thenuclear power programme. The articles inthis issue were primarily review articles andtargeted at public education.

Frankineae and Actinorhizal plants

Editor: Arvind KMisra

Journal of Biosciences,Vol. 38, No. 4,November 2013, pp.675–824

Nitrogen is anintegral part of

nucleic acids and proteins, the key bio-molecules orchestrating the informationstorage, retrieval and use for metabolicprocesses. However, nitrogen, even though itis abundant in the atmosphere, does notreadily combine with other elements. Highenergy input is required for formation ofammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.Therefore, it is not easy for living organismsto convert readily available atmosphericdinitrogen to usable form. In fact only a fewprokaryotes seem to have developedexpertise in ‘fixing’ atmospheric dinitrogen.The rest of the living world relies on nitrogenthus fixed in the soil and in the oceans. Whilehigher life forms acquired the ability to fixcarbon by ‘adopting’ a prokaryotic system inan obligate manner in the form ofchloroplasts, no such system seems to havedeveloped for fixing nitrogen. So far we donot know of any obligately symbiotic cellularendobiont capable of fixing atmosphericdinitrogen. This makes us wonder why naturedid not let eukaryotic cells ‘adopt’ anotherprokaryote in an obligate manner to ensure asteady supply of fixed nitrogen.

In nature we have some free living bacteriafixing atmospheric dinitrogen in the soil, or afew others that can form symbiotic

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associations with some plants. Thesesymbiotic associations ensure a steady supplyof fixed carbon and other nutrients for themicro-symbiont and, in return, a steadysupply of fixed nitrogen for the host. Thebest known associations of this type involvelegumes as hosts and Rhizobium or relatedbacteria as micro-symbionts. This associationhas been extensively studied primarilybecause of the agricultural importance oflegume crops. However, there is anothersimilar, but much less celebrated, associationbetween Frankia and some plants calledactinorhizal plants. Frankia belongs to thefamily Frankiaceae of Frankineae, a group ofActinobacteria.

Unlike Rhizobium, which has specialised informing symbiotic nitrogen fixing root/shoot nodules with members of a selectfamily of angiosperms, Frankia is moreversatile. It has been found to form symbioticnodules with about 23 genera belonging to 8different angiosperm families. Most of theseare woody forest trees and shrubs. Anothersurprising feature of this association is thatnot all members of a given plant family canharbour Frankia. For example, in the familyBetulaceae, Betula does not enter intosymbiotic association, while Alnus forms rootnodules with Frankia. This observation hasbeen investigated by many scientists and mostsupport the possibility of multiphyleticorigin of actinorhizal symbiosis with an initialpredisposition to root symbioses in the Rosidclade.

Man gives more importance to activities thatgive visible returns in the near term. It istherefore not surprising that substantial fundsare made available for research in anythingeven remotely connected to agriculture. But

we miss a significant point. It is imperative tohave a sound, vibrant and stable forest coverto support sustainable agriculture.Actinorhizal symbiosis is important from thepoint of view of providing such forestsupport for our agriculture in the long term.

Realising the importance of actinorhizalassociations, closely knit groups of workershave been conducting research into variousaspects of this symbiotic association. Since1978, when the first gathering of scientistsshared their experiences with actinorhizalsymbiosis at Harvard Forest, USA, seventeensuch gatherings have taken place so far. Thehistorical developments in this field have beennicely summed up by Normand in this specialissue.

North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong,India, was the proud host of the seventeenthsuch gathering in the form of a Conferenceon Frankineae and Actinorhizal Plants. Thisissue of Journal of Biosciences is a collection ofresearch papers and review articles arising outof three days of deliberations at Shillong.

A wide range of topics from fieldapplications of actinorhizal associations togenetic transformation studies were discussed.Zhong et al. have made a case for Casuarinaglauca as a model host for the study ofmolecular mechanisms driving actinorhizalassociations. Ganguli and Kennedy fromAustralia and Karthikeyan et al. from Indiaalso highlighted the significance of Casuarina.On the other hand, Tobita and co-workersfrom Japan have reported their findings ongrowth and nitrogen fixation in anotherimportant actinorhizal genus, Alnus. Oshoneand co-workers reported the effect of saltstress on physiology of Frankia. Richau andco-workers reviewed the hydrogenase uptake

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system in Frankia and report their ownfindings. Carro et al. described elaborateexperiments to demonstrate the generalisedpresence of another actinobacterium,Micromonospora, as a frequent co-inhabitant inactinorhizal nodules. Nouioui and co-workersreported the presence of cluster 2 Frankiastrains in Tunisian soils, where compatiblehost plants are not normally found.

In addition to these basic studies, Tisa and co-workers discussed the results of analysingFrankia genomes. Bioinformatics tools havebeen used by Sur et al. in characterisingpseudogenes, Bhattacharya and co-workers incharacterising haemoglobin of actinorhizalplants, and Thakur et al. for studyingevolution of novel protein function in NifH/BchL protein family. Kucho et al. havereported the use of codon optimisedantibiotic resistance gene as an aid in studiesaimed at transformation of Frankia. Yanthanand Misra report association betweenAmplicon Restriction Patterns and level ofnitrogenase activity in root nodules ofMyrica.

The high point of the Shillong deliberationswas the increasing realisation of the medicinalimportance of some actinorhizal genera. Twosuch notable genera are Myrica andHippophae. While Goyal et al. have reportedphytochemical analyses of some actinorhizalplants, Middha and co-workers have reportedmolecular docking studies of GSK-3β and GKinhibitors of Hippophae. The finding of anti-diabetic compounds in Hippophae by Middhaet al. augurs well for the future of research onactinorhizal symbiosis.

Proceedings of the DAE–BRNSNational Laser Symposium(NLS-21) – Parts I and II

Editors:LM Gantayet,K Dasgupta,DJ Biswas, AK Ray,JP Nilaya andAK Pulhani

Pramana – Journal ofPhysics,Vol. 82, Nos. 1–2,January–February2014, pp. 1–462

The DAE–BRNS National LaserSymposium, held under the auspices of theBoard of Research in Nuclear Sciences,Department of Atomic Energy, is an annualevent that brings together eminent scientistsand engineers from India and abroad forintense discussions on science and technologyrelated to lasers. The 21st edition of NationalLaser Symposium (NLS-21) was organised bythe Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, and washeld in Mumbai during February 6 to 9, 2013.

Ever since the NLS was held for the first timeat IIT–Madras in 1992, it has been growingboth in size and stature. As a matter of fact, arecord number of manuscripts weresubmitted this year for consideration forpresentation in NLS-21. The symposium thisyear had 10 regular scientific sessionscomprising 7 plenary and 17 invited talks byboth senior and young researchers, 3 postersessions consisting of a total of 277contributory papers selected through arigorous process of reviewing from thesubmitted 348 papers, 2 PhD thesis sessionswith a total of 11 oral presentations of recentPhD theses on related topics, and an industrial

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session with 6 presentations made byindustrial participants dealing with lasers andrelated products.

This special issue of Pramana – Journal ofPhysics has stemmed from the summary ofplenary and invited talks and 48 contributedpapers selected from those presented asposters during the symposium. TheSymposium Organizing Committee, in itsfirst meeting itself, recommended publicationof the symposium proceedings as it was feltthat this would stimulate improvement in thescientific and the technical content of thecontributions. The authors and theirinstitutions also stand to benefit from a widerexposure of their work to both national andinternational communities. Needless to say,this special issue of Pramana would also serveas a reference for future research that has itsgenesis in this symposium.

The selection of the contributory papers forthe proceedings was carried out in two steps.Papers were first shortlisted by the scientificcommittee, which were then criticallyreviewed by a panel of experts constituted inconsultation with Dr. SM Sharma, editorialboard member of Pramana. The reviewerpanel comprised Prof. AK Nath (IITKharagpur), Prof. G Ravindra Kumar (TIFR)and Prof. DN Rao (University ofHyderabad), who selected these 48contributory papers for publication.

5.3 Report on PublicationsThe 5-year Co-publication Agreement withSpringer for all journals has been in effectduring 2013–2014. The number of full-textdownloads for all ten journals onSpringerLink continued their upward trend.The download figures for 2012 and 2013 aregiven in the following table:

Journal Downloads* Downloads*2012 2013

Bulletin of Materials Science 112,911 103,095

Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 8,254 10,996

Journal of Biosciences 70,579 68,438

Journal of Chemical Sciences 47,543 62,953

Journal of Earth System Science 24,512 45,164

Journal of Genetics 23,287 35,758

Pramana – Journal of Physics 52,128 76,556

Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences 33,117 51,836

Resonance – Journal of Science Education 35,535 48,396

Sadhana – Engineering Sciences 32,395 44,067

*As provided by Springer.

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6 Repository of Scientific Publications ofAcademy Fellows

The number of records (publications) listedin the Repository has crossed 92,116, and full-text files are available for over 20,744 ofthem. The work of updating the Repositoryhappens continuously, and records are addedwhen found or sent to the Academy office byFellows.

The Repository is at http://repository.ias.ac.in. Repository content canbe viewed by year, by subject (sectionalcommittee name), and by Fellow name (namesas in Academy Year Book).

7 Discussion Meetings

7.1 Numerical Many BodyMethods in Quantum Chemistryand PhysicsOrange County, Coorg2–7 December 2013Convener: S. Ramasesha (IISc, Bangalore)

The meeting was attended by 20 participants,including 4 students, and 16 participants madeoral presentations. There were 4 participantswith affiliations outside India, comprising oneItalian, one Japanese, one British and oneAmerican. Five women scientists attended themeeting. The very productive oralpresentations were for 1 hour and 15 minuteseach, and were interspersed with livelydiscussions. Approximately half the speakerswere theoretical chemists and the remaining,condensed matter theorists. The topics

covered involved developments in techniquesand interesting applications of the numericalmany body methods. The spectrum ofmethods ranged from exact diagonalisationmethods, density matrix renormalisationgroup methods, quantum Monte Carlomethods, beyond the density functionalmethods such as the GW method and someconventional quantum chemical methods. Theapplications discussed were quantum phasetransitions in spin, Fermionic and Bosoniclattices, neutral-ionic transitions in one-dimensional systems with strong correlationsand electron–phonon interactions,development of new methods, etc.

The Orange County also arranged culturalprogrammes in the evenings, as well as birdwatching, village and plantation tours.

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7.2 Probability, FunctionalAnalysis and Related TopicsOrange County, Coorg26 February–1 March, 2014Convener: Kalyan B. Sinha (JNCASR,Bangalore)

Probability and functional analysis areintimately connected areas of mathematics.Traditional probabilists are often wary offunctional analysis; however, more recentlythere has been considerable cross-fertilisationbetween these two areas of mathematics.Thus, this workshop was very topical. It wasorganised by members of the faculty ofJawaharlal Nehru Centre for AdvancedScientific Research, the Department ofMathematics of the Indian Institute of Scienceand Stat-Math Unit of Indian StatisticalInstitute, Bangalore. In the salubriousatmosphere of Orange County, there wereeight talks of an hour each. Some of the talksby young students and post-doctoral fellowsincluded: Kartick Adhikari and Tulsi RamReddy, who spoke on determinantal pointprocesses and discussed about the spectrum.Jaydeb Sarkar and Bata Krishna Das, whodiscussed the Hardy space on the polydisc

and the multiplicationoperators on them.This is a rich area infunctional analysis, andprobabilists have beenvery interested in thisfor decision theoryproblems. ArupChattopadhyay spokeon majorisation and itsrelation to eigen-valueinequalities formatrices. Haripada Sau

spoke on the symmetrised bidisc. These talkson different aspects of probability andfunctional analysis generated a synergy whichshould be sustained.

7.3 Foundations of EvolutionaryTheory: The Ongoing SynthesisOrange County, Coorg23–26 February 2014Conveners: L.S. Shashidhara (IISER, Pune),Sutirth Dey (IISER, Pune) and Amitabh Joshi(JNCASR, Bangalore)

This discussion meeting was organised tobring together a group of people interested inevolutionary biology, representing thediversity of evolutionists (and some fromother fields) in India, in order to haveextensive and somewhat free-wheelingdiscussions on some aspects of how recentwork on the concepts of fitness, concepts ofspecies and phylogenetic trees, epigeneticinheritance, cultural inheritance, phenotypicplasticity and evo-devo may or may notnecessitate major changes to the foundationaltheories of evolution, collectively oftenreferred to as the Modern Synthesis. Themeeting consisted of five sessions devoted to

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one theme each: (i)foundational concepts inevolution: species,descent with modificationand fitness, (ii) culturalinheritance and culturalevolution, (iii)evolutionarydevelopmental biology,(iv) epigenetic inheritanceand neo-Lamarckism, and(v) phenotypic plasticity.Each session had two 30-minute seed talks, followed by at least 2–3hours of free-format discussion about theimplications of recent findings in each fieldfor the foundations of evolutionary theory.The discussions were extremely vigorous and

extensive, and the participants thoroughlyenjoyed the meeting. A few papers based onthe discussions at this meeting may beconsidered for a Special Section in the Journalof Genetics.

8 Mid-Year Meeting 2013The 24th Mid-year Meeting of the IndianAcademy of Sciences, Bangalore, was held on5th and 6th July 2013 at the Indian Institute ofScience. This was preceded by an interactivesession for teachers of undergraduate coursesfrom institutions acrossthe country. The aim ofthis session was tofacilitate discussions onhow science educationin the country can befurther improved,including the manydifferent teachingmethods adopted byteachers.

The talks during the

meeting covered varied topics from publichealth to solar cells and astrophysics towireless communications and were deliveredby the newly elected Associates and Fellowsof the Academy. Special lectures by S.

Sivaram and Deepak Pental and apublic lecture by Jacob John werealso organised as a part of thismeeting. A list of all the talks isprovided in Annexure 4.

The role of plastics in degradationof the environment is well known,and researchers worldwide aretrying to find eco-friendly solutionsto this problem. The meetingopened with a special lecture byS. SivaramS. SivaramS. SivaramS. SivaramS. Sivaram (NCL, Pune), whose

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talk focussed on the challenges encounteredin developing a biodegradable form of plasticusing aliphatic polymers.

The second special lecture, by DeepakDeepakDeepakDeepakDeepakPental Pental Pental Pental Pental (University of Delhi South Campus,New Delhi), was on the use of transgeniccrops which have drawn criticism andcontroversies globally. Pental’s talk focussedon the advantages of using transgenic hybridsto improve crop yield and combat diseaseoutbreaks. The speaker cited the example ofmustard (Brassica juncea), which is grown on6-7 million hectares of land in India and is

often affected bydiseases like stemrot, white rustand alternariablight, for whichno treatment hasbeen found asyet, leading toloss of yield.According toPental, switchingto transgenicplant varietiesdeveloped, using

new biological tools and markers, is a safeway to tackle this problem. Pental alsomentioned the need to set up multiple plantbreeding centres to help address problemssuch as the role of various genes and linkagedrag that plant breeders face.

Application of the latest scientific researchfindings to the field of public health is notonly important but a necessity. T. JacobT. JacobT. JacobT. JacobT. JacobJohn John John John John (Vellore), in his public lecture, spokeon India’s long battle in fighting polio and thesubsequent success. However, there have beena few reported cases of polio outbreaksrecently, which are caused by vaccine-derived

polio virus.Studiesconductedboth by Johnand othershave stronglysuggestedseveraladvantages inusing IPV over OPV. He stressed on howvaccine-associated paralytic polio isassociated with using OPV. Several countriesin Europe and also the US have benefittedfrom switching over to IPV, and hehighlighted the need for India to do the same.

With the current global energy crisis,research on solar cells has gained interestworldwide. Numerous scientific groups havebeen looking at making low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells by harnessing solarenergy. H. N. Ghosh H. N. Ghosh H. N. Ghosh H. N. Ghosh H. N. Ghosh (BARC, Mumbai) inhis talk highlighted the recent researchadvances in the making of dye-sensitised andquantum dot solar cells, and discussed thechallenges in designing an energy-efficientcell.

S. Baskaran S. Baskaran S. Baskaran S. Baskaran S. Baskaran (IIT, Chennai) spoke of theadvantages of domino reactions especially inthe environment and gave us an insight intohis research on domino-based strategiestowards the stereo-selective synthesis ofbiologically active molecules.

S. Shankaranarayanan S. Shankaranarayanan S. Shankaranarayanan S. Shankaranarayanan S. Shankaranarayanan (IISER,Thiruvananthapuram) spoke on higherderivative theories and quantum phasetransitions and its implications on condensedmatter systems and black-hole entropy.....

Prahladh Harsha Prahladh Harsha Prahladh Harsha Prahladh Harsha Prahladh Harsha (TIFR, Mumbai) spokeon communication complexity and its recentsuccesses.

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Amiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar Pani’s (IIT, Mumbai) talklooked at the ways in which traditionalmathematics differed from the newframework followed today, its objectives andthe need to have a relook at mathematicalresearch as it is done today.

The field of wireless communication has seenrapid growth during the past decade. Most ofthe devices for wireless communication,including mobile phones, at present, use oneantenna to transmit and another to receivesignals. Speaking on his area of research,B. Sundar Rajan B. Sundar Rajan B. Sundar Rajan B. Sundar Rajan B. Sundar Rajan (IISc, Bangalore) said thatusing multiple antennas will enormously helpincrease both data rate and reliability.

Amol Dighe Amol Dighe Amol Dighe Amol Dighe Amol Dighe (TIFR, Mumbai) spoke onparticle astrophysics of neutrinos and howobserving the nature of the neutrinos can helpin studies related to supernova astrophysics.

T. K. Nayak T. K. Nayak T. K. Nayak T. K. Nayak T. K. Nayak (VECC, Kolkata), in his talkon the Large Hadron Collider, discussed thediscovery of quantum chromodynamics andthe present understanding of its phasediagram based on data acquired from STARand ALICE experiments.

M. Durga Prasad M. Durga Prasad M. Durga Prasad M. Durga Prasad M. Durga Prasad (University ofHyderabad, Hyderabad) discussed, in his talkon the electronic structure perspective of thepromoter modes in proton transfer reactions,the implications of electron donation intosigma orbitals on the other vibrationaldegrees of freedom.

K. N. Raghavan K. N. Raghavan K. N. Raghavan K. N. Raghavan K. N. Raghavan (IMSc, Chennai) deliveredan interactive talk on invariant theory andstandard monomial theory and explained thestudy of invariant functions and how it leadsto the standard monomial theory withexamples.

Debasis ChattopadhyayDebasis ChattopadhyayDebasis ChattopadhyayDebasis ChattopadhyayDebasis Chattopadhyay’s (NIPGR, NewDelhi) talk on protein kinases in plantsdiscussed his research on CIPKs identifiedfrom the plant Arabidopis and theirinvolvement in plant development and stresssignalling, highlighting their role intransporting the plant hormone auxin.

V. K. Sharma V. K. Sharma V. K. Sharma V. K. Sharma V. K. Sharma (JNCASR, Bangalore) spokeon the entrainment of fruit fly Drosophilamelanogaster circadian clocks under naturalconditions and focussed on his experimentalresearch to study the behavioural responsesof the wild-type strains of fruit fly to changesin natural light conditions.

Uday Bandyopadhyay Uday Bandyopadhyay Uday Bandyopadhyay Uday Bandyopadhyay Uday Bandyopadhyay (IICB, Kolkata)spoke about a newly designed gastro-protective molecule SEGA which hastherapeutic potential against gastric ulcerscaused by consumption of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or pain killers.

Public health is a matter of great concern withthe rapid global spread of epidemics and viraloutbreaks. The rapid spread of the H1N1virus, which caused worldwide panic,questioned India’s capability to cope withepidemics. A. C. Mishra A. C. Mishra A. C. Mishra A. C. Mishra A. C. Mishra (NIV, Pune) in hislecture spoke on how the lessons learnt in theprevious years and also new research on theinfluenza viruses have helped India to bebetter prepared to tackle and treat avianinfluenza and other such viral epidemics.Another matter of grave concern is the steeprise in the number of TB cases in India. Withover 2.2 million cases of TB, the WorldHealth Organization has placed India in the“high TB burden” category. SoumyaSoumyaSoumyaSoumyaSoumyaSwaminathan Swaminathan Swaminathan Swaminathan Swaminathan (NIRT, Chennai) raised herconcern about the non-availability of

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biomarkers for tuberculosis that makesfollow-up of recurrence or relapse casesdifficult. She mentioned how failing to testfor tuberculosis using the DNA PCR methodhad caused delays in diagnosis and treatmentin children and also that around 5% of thetuberculosis patients in south India were alsoinfected with HIV.

S. K. PatiS. K. PatiS. K. PatiS. K. PatiS. K. Pati’s (JNCASR, Bangalore) lecturefocussed on the transport in the DNA systemand the magnetic interactions within amodified helix of the DNA with magnetic

ions such as Cu2+, Mn2+, Ni2+, Co3+ and Fe3+.B. J. Rao B. J. Rao B. J. Rao B. J. Rao B. J. Rao (TIFR, Mumbai), in his talk on thespatial movements of chromosomes thatfacilitate their repairs, spoke on the non-random organisation of chromosometerritories in mammalian interphase nuclei.N. V. Chalapathi Rao N. V. Chalapathi Rao N. V. Chalapathi Rao N. V. Chalapathi Rao N. V. Chalapathi Rao (BHU, Varanasi)spoke on his research on kimberlites from theIndian cratons relating to the spatial extent ofPurana sedimentary basins and the origin ofthe Deccan flood basalts.

9 Annual Meeting 2013

The 79th Annual Meeting of the Academywas held at Chandigarh from 8 to 10November 2013. This was the third time, after1979 and 2002, that Chandigarh was the venue

again. This yearcoincided withthe 125th birthanniversary ofthe Academy’sfounder, NobelLaureate SirC. V. Raman,and the 150thBirthAnniversary ofRuchi RamSahni. TocommemorateRuchi Ram

Sahni’s 150th Birth Anniversary, a postalstamp was released on 24 October 2013 at thePanjab University by the Government ofIndia.

The meeting began with DipankarDipankarDipankarDipankarDipankarChatterjiChatterjiChatterjiChatterjiChatterji’s Presidential address. In his talk,he explained how bacteria respond to stress,adapt to changes that occur in geneexpression and their various survivalpathways.

In a special lecture, Girish Sahni Girish Sahni Girish Sahni Girish Sahni Girish Sahni (CSIR –Institute of Microbial Technology,Chandigarh) spoke about the success story ofdeveloping India’s first biotherapeuticmolecule, aprotein-basedclot buster. Hesaid India lacksaffordable clotbusters,especially inrural areas.Sahni said thatif proteinchemists andR&D align withpharmaceutical

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companies, a global impact could be made bymanufacturing affordable drugs or molecules.

India unveiled the National Cyber SecurityPolicy 2013 on 2 July 2013 to build a secureand resilient cyberspace for citizens, businessand government. In a symposium on ‘CyberSecurity and Privacy’, the challenges faced byIndia were discussed. Supplemented withsuccinct examples, N. BalakrishnanN. BalakrishnanN. BalakrishnanN. BalakrishnanN. Balakrishnan’s (IISc,Bangalore) talk highlighted the importance ofcyber security and its impact on the securityof a nation. He further discussed thetechniques for monitoring social media andtrends in the use of analytics software to aidnational security. Gulshan Rai Gulshan Rai Gulshan Rai Gulshan Rai Gulshan Rai (IndianComputer Emergency Response Team, NewDelhi) emphasised the need to promote R&Don cyber security to secure e-governanceservices. He said that although thegovernment is self-sufficient to handlesecurity issues, public–private partnership isthe way forward to tackle cyber security. Totackle the challenge, R. K. ShyamasundarR. K. ShyamasundarR. K. ShyamasundarR. K. ShyamasundarR. K. Shyamasundar(TIFR, Mumbai) said cryptography is one ofthe building blocks of cyber security, andthat there is a need to develop a scientificroadmap. P. K. Agarwal P. K. Agarwal P. K. Agarwal P. K. Agarwal P. K. Agarwal (Power SystemOperation Corporation Ltd., New Delhi)emphasised the need to deal with cybersecurity issues emerging due to expansion ofpower systems.

In a symposium on ‘Food and NutritionalSecurity’, B. S. Dhillon B. S. Dhillon B. S. Dhillon B. S. Dhillon B. S. Dhillon (PunjabAgricultural University, Ludhiana) focussedhis talk on innovations for adding value toagriculture with special reference to north-western India. He said that innovation inagriculture was the key to ensure foodsecurity, livelihood and a driver for growth,which could be done by improving the cropsusing technology. V. Prakash V. Prakash V. Prakash V. Prakash V. Prakash (JSS Group

of Technical Institutions, Mysore) focussedhis talk on malnutrition, a grave problem inIndia. To address this problem, a nutritionalintervention is required, he said.T. R. Sharma T. R. Sharma T. R. Sharma T. R. Sharma T. R. Sharma (Indian Agricultural ResearchInstitute, New Delhi) discussed how NextGeneration Sequencing (NGS) technologieshave enabled rapid identification of genes.Rakesh Tuli Rakesh Tuli Rakesh Tuli Rakesh Tuli Rakesh Tuli (National Agri-FoodBiotechnology Institute, Mohali) spoke abouthow new technologies can be used for betteryield and crop improvement. To increaseproductivity and bring commercial success,there is need to create awareness to overcomethe fear associated with GM crops.

The lectures by Fellows and Associatesranged from climate change, quantumcomputation, functional materials andtherapeutics to importance of proteinchemistry. Some of the talks are mentionedbelow. Madan Rao Madan Rao Madan Rao Madan Rao Madan Rao (RRI and NCBS,Bangalore) spoke on how molecules on thecell surface are organised because of strongcoupling with cortical matter, as there existsinterplay between the cell membrane and thecortex. Sujith K. Ghosh Sujith K. Ghosh Sujith K. Ghosh Sujith K. Ghosh Sujith K. Ghosh (IISER, Pune)spoke about the functional properties ofporous co-ordination polymers (PCPs) thathave been found to have a wide range ofapplications in gas storage, chemicalseparation, drug delivery, catalysis, chemo-sensing, etc. Arun K. Pati Arun K. Pati Arun K. Pati Arun K. Pati Arun K. Pati (HRI, Allahabad)presented his work on weak measurement andquantum correlation. Kirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra Sahu(IIT, Hyderabad) spoke about instability dueto double diffusivity in stratified viscousflows and discussed the results from linearstability analyses and direct numericalsimulations. Krishnendu Sengupta Krishnendu Sengupta Krishnendu Sengupta Krishnendu Sengupta Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS,Kolkata) spoke on the surface quasi particlesof topological insulators which obey a Dirac-

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like equation. Sharad S.Sharad S.Sharad S.Sharad S.Sharad S.Sane Sane Sane Sane Sane (IIT, Mumbai)delivered a talk oncombinatorics of blockdesigns and finitegeometries. Block designsare configurations useful inmathematical branches likecoding theory and finitegroup theory. BhimBhimBhimBhimBhimSinghSinghSinghSinghSingh (IIT, New Delhi)spoke on the major causesof power quality problemssuch as reactive power burden, unbalancedloading, etc., and finding solutions to these byusing custom power devices, power filters andimproved power quality ac–dc converters.Vijayakumar S. NairVijayakumar S. NairVijayakumar S. NairVijayakumar S. NairVijayakumar S. Nair’s (Vikram SarabhaiSpace Centre, Thiruvananthapuram) talkexamined the effect of black carbon (BC) onsnow in the Himalayan region. He showedhow snow darkening caused due to depositionof soot and dust on snow cover reduces thereflecting power of snow, acceleratingseasonal snow melting, thus leading to floodsin the foothills and the plains. S. A. HaiderS. A. HaiderS. A. HaiderS. A. HaiderS. A. Haider(PRL, Ahmedabad) discussed the similaritiesof the ionosphere of Earth and Mars. Hementioned future missions to Mars; India’sfirst Mangalayan was launched on 5November 2013, which is expected to reachthe Martian atmosphere in September 2014.S. Gopalakrishnan S. Gopalakrishnan S. Gopalakrishnan S. Gopalakrishnan S. Gopalakrishnan (IISc, Bangalore) delvedinto the history of nanostructure modellingand wave propagation. He said thatunderstanding wave propagation in thesestructures is necessary to design next-generation nano devices such as Nano ElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS), Nano OptoMechanical Systems (NOMS), nanoresonators and others.

In a special lecture, AnilAnilAnilAnilAnilKumar Kumar Kumar Kumar Kumar (IISc, Bangalore)spoke on the theoreticalaspects of quantumcomputation and quantuminformation processing andthe challenges faced in itsexperimental aspects. Hespoke in detail of the recentdevelopments in the fieldincluding the experimentalproof of the Quantum No-Hiding theorem, using

Nearest Neighbour Heisenberg XYinteraction to entangle a linear chain of 3-qubits, to study the frustration dynamics in aquatumising spin system in a triangularconfiguration, and the use of geneticalgorithm in NMR QC.

G. Narahari Sastry G. Narahari Sastry G. Narahari Sastry G. Narahari Sastry G. Narahari Sastry (IICT, Hyderabad)spoke on how a pair of non-covalentinteractions mutually influence each other’sstrength, through computational andstructural analyses. Avesh K. TyagiAvesh K. TyagiAvesh K. TyagiAvesh K. TyagiAvesh K. Tyagi(BARC, Mumbai) spoke about functionalmaterials, a new class of materials that arebeing developed and have wide applications.Hormones play an important role in theregulation of reproduction and overallphysiology. They are of interest to proteinchemists, said Rajan Dighe Rajan Dighe Rajan Dighe Rajan Dighe Rajan Dighe (IISc,Bangalore). The antibodies against hormonesand their receptors are pivotal to probe themechanism of hormone action at both thephysiological and molecular levels. SouvikSouvikSouvikSouvikSouvikMaity Maity Maity Maity Maity (IGIB, Delhi) explained the in vitroscreening method using a DNA-basedmolecular beacon to identify inhibitors ofmiR27 from a library of 14 aminoglycosides.Further, screening of the library revealed thatstreptomycin had the inhibitory capacity to

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silence miR-21 oncomirby structuralperturbation of thedicing process, makingit a potential anti-canceragent. Debashis MitraDebashis MitraDebashis MitraDebashis MitraDebashis Mitra(NCCS, Pune) said that30 years after thediscovery of HIV, avaccine is yet to bedeveloped. His grouphas been able to identify and characterise afew novel HIV-1 inhibitors that mayfunctionally block the proteins inside the cellthat enhance virus replication. SourenduSourenduSourenduSourenduSourenduGupta Gupta Gupta Gupta Gupta (TIFR, Mumbai) discussed howrelativistic heavy ion collisions explore thephase space diagram of the standard model ofparticle physics and, in particular, how it isconstrained by theory, and where theory andexperiment can be compared. Jaya N. IyerJaya N. IyerJaya N. IyerJaya N. IyerJaya N. Iyer(IMSc, Chennai) spoke on teritiary classes inthe Chern-Simons theory. SangitaSangitaSangitaSangitaSangitaMukhopadhyay Mukhopadhyay Mukhopadhyay Mukhopadhyay Mukhopadhyay (CDFD, Hyderabad)spoke on how PPE18 protein functions as avirulence factor during Mycobacteriumtuberculosis infection. Studies on PPE18 haverevealed that it plays crucial roles in thesurvival and multiplication of Mtbbacilli during infection. G. MugeshG. MugeshG. MugeshG. MugeshG. Mugesh(IISc, Bangalore) spoke ondeiodination of thyroid hormones. Hediscussed various bioinorganic,bioorganic and medicinal chemistryaspects of thyroid hormones. Subi J.Subi J.Subi J.Subi J.Subi J.George George George George George (JNCASR, Bangalore), in histalk on supermolecular synthesis offunctional materials, presented detailsof the designs of functional materialsusing electronic and opticalfunctionalities of p-conjugated organicsystems.

In the first public lecture,Jayati Ghosh Jayati Ghosh Jayati Ghosh Jayati Ghosh Jayati Ghosh (JNU, Delhi)raised some important issueson whether India is preparedto (i) productively employthe growing number ofyouth; (ii) provide skills;(iii) bridge the gender gap;(iv) increase womenworkforce participation; and(v) take care of its elderly.

Figures suggest that by 2020 an averageIndian will be only 29 years of age comparedto 37 in China and the US, 45 in WesternEurope and 48 in Japan. She said there hasbeen a significant rise in higher education,although the figures are not great. She said itis important to have a regulatory frameworkto monitor incentivised education. Sheconcluded by saying that India, like Thailand,should learn from its rural health systemwhere rural doctors are paid higher wagesthan urban doctors. The second publiclecture was given by Shivshankar MenonShivshankar MenonShivshankar MenonShivshankar MenonShivshankar Menon(National Security Advisor, PMO, NewDelhi). He stressed the need to safeguardtechnologies to achieve a better securitysystem for the country. He also spoke about

cyber security asbeing a part ofnational securityand added thatIndia wasfortunate to havethe support ofworld classscientists. A list ofall the talks isprovided inAnnexure 5.

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Michael L. KleinMichael L. KleinMichael L. KleinMichael L. KleinMichael L. Klein, FRS, currently occupiesthe Raman Chair of the Academy. Klein is theLaura H. Carnell Professor of Science andthe Director of the Institute forComputational Molecular Science. He is alsothe Dean of the College ofScience & Technology atTemple University,Philadelphia. His researchinterests involve probingthe structure and dynamicsof macromolecularsystems using computersimulation techniques, inareas spanning soft matterto biophysics to chemicalbiology, with specialemphasis on understandingNature’s designs of ionchannels. Klein is a Fellowof several academicsocieties, including theRoyal Society of London,the Royal Society of Canada, the NationalAcademy of Sciences, USA, and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.

As part of his tenure as Raman Professor ofthe Academy, Klein visited IIT–Delhi on10 February 2014, IIT–Kanpur on 13–15February 2014, and the Indian Academy ofSciences, Bangalore, on 28 February 2014.

On 10 February 2014, at IIT–Delhi, theFebruary month Institute Lecture wasdelivered by Prof. Michael L. Klein on ‘Sparkof Life: Understanding Nature’s VoltageGated Ion Channels Using Computation’. In

his talk, Prof. Kleinaddressed the role ofvoltage-gated ion channelsin the propagation of actionpotentials in excitable cells.He also emphasised theunique ability of computersimulations to exploit theatomic details of ionchannels in hydratedmembrane environments. AtIIT–Delhi, Prof. Kleininteracted with severalfaculty members as well asundergraduate and graduatestudents. He discussed howcomputer simulations couldbe used as an integration

tool to address various intercellular andintracellular processes in biological systems.

He also delivered a Public Lecture on theoccasion of National Science Day on 28thFebruary 2014 at IISc, Bangalore.

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Type Ia supernovae and theaccelerating universeBrian P. SchmidtBrian P. SchmidtBrian P. SchmidtBrian P. SchmidtBrian P. Schmidt, Nobel Laureate,Australian National University, Australia

20 August 2013Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Type Ia supernovae remain one ofastronomy’s most precise tools for measuringdistances in the Universe. Prof. Schmidtdescribed the cosmological application ofthese stellar explosions, and chronicled howthey were used to discover the acceleratingUniverse in 1998 – an observation that is mostsimply explained if more than 70 per cent ofthe Universe is made up of some previouslyundetected form of ‘Dark Energy’. In theintervening 13 years, a variety of experimentshave been completed, and even moreproposed, to better constrain the source ofthe acceleration. This lecture reviewed therange of experiments, described the current

state of ourunderstandingof theobservedaccelerationand speculatedthe progressin ourunderstandingof DarkEnergy.

The story of the discovery ofquasarsRon EkersRon EkersRon EkersRon EkersRon Ekers, Federation Fellow, CSIRO,Australia Telescope National Facility,Australia

3 January 2014Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Fifty years ago,on 16 March 1963,the discovery ofthe first quasar,3C273, waspublished inNature. Thediscovery wasbased on thelunar occultationobserved with theParkes radiotelescope inAustralia and ared-shiftmeasurement ofthe identified star obtained at the Mt Palomaroptical observatory in California.

The unexpected discovery of quasars resultedin a paradigm shift in astronomy as it wasrealised that the violent explosions in thenuclei of galaxies could be seen to the edge ofthe universe and that it would take a blackhole to provide such energy. The role of thenuclei of galaxies had been ignored until thistime, and black holes were considered anexercise in abstraction. Prof. Ekers discussedwhy these unexpected discoveries weremissed by some of the top astronomers at

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that time, and provided an interesting glimpseinto scientific sociology and the nature ofscientific progress.

Drainage and dewetting of the tearfilmGerald G. FullerGerald G. FullerGerald G. FullerGerald G. FullerGerald G. Fuller, Chemical Engineering,Stanford University, Stanford, USA

21 January 2014Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

The tear film that protects the ocular surfaceis a complex thin film comprising a collectionof proteins and lipids that come together toprovide a number of important functions. Ofparticular interest in this presentation is themeibum, an insoluble layer that is spread

from theglands liningour eyelids.Past workhas focussedon the role ofthis layer inreducingevaporation,althoughconflictingevidence onits ability toreduceevaporative

loss has been published. Prof. Fullerdiscussed the beneficial effects that arederived through the interfacial viscoelasticityof the meibomian lipid film, which is a duplexfilm comprising a complex mixture ofphospholipids, long-chain fatty esters andcholesterol. Using grazing-incidence x-raydiffraction, it has been found that thismixture self-assembles into a highly

structured layer with strong, interfacialviscoelasticity. By measuring the drainage anddewetting dynamics of thin aqueous filmsfrom hemispherical surfaces, where thosefilms are laden with insoluble layers of lipidsat controlled surface pressure, it is evidentthat these layers strongly stabilise the filmsby their ability to support surface shearingstresses. This alternative view of the role ofthe meibum can help explain the origin ofmeibomian gland dysfunction, or dry eyedisease, where improper compositions of thislipid mixture do not offer the propermechanical resistance to breakage anddewetting of the tear film.

Spark of life: Understandingnature’s gated ion channels usingcomputationMichael L. KleinMichael L. KleinMichael L. KleinMichael L. KleinMichael L. Klein, Temple University, USA

28 February 2014Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Professor Michael L. Klein, RamanProfessor, Indian Academy of Sciences, andLaura Carnell Professor of Science, TempleUniversity, delivered a public lecture on theoccasion of National Science Day on 28thFebruary 2014, organised by the IndianAcademy of Sciences, at Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore.

Crystal structures of bacterial analogues ofvoltage-gated Na+ and K+ channels haveenabled computer simulations to provideinsights into the workings of these nano-machines. Now we can even rationalise howmutations in channel voltage-sensor-domainsgive rise to diseases. However, much researchis still needed to understand eukaryotic ionchannels.

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Prof. Klein said that sincethe release of the firstcrystal structure of amammalian voltage-gatedK+ channel, Kv1.2, in 2005,theoretical andcomputational methodshave been used to gaininsights into themolecular-level functionof these ubiquitousproteins. Starting fromthe open/activated statecrystal structure, he andhis team have presenteddifferent protocols that have been devised touncover the resting/closed state structure and,in some occurrences, the conformation ofkinetic intermediate states. They have alsoshown how these models may be tested andvalidated against experimental data such as thegating charge value, molecular contacts, etc.,and how such molecular-level insights mayhelp reconcile diverging views derived fromdifferent sets of experimental data. Also, he

discussed how theavailability of thesecomputational-basedmodels has enabled one totackle questions with directbiological orpharmacologicalimplications, i.e. to lookinto the molecular details ofthe appearance of leakcurrents, which follow fromgenetic mutations involvedin inherited diseases.

He concluded his lecturewith the following words: ‘As a crystalstructure of the first bacterial voltage-gatedNa+ channel was released in the year 2013,modellers have already started to take aserious interest in unraveling the structure/function behaviour of Na+-selective channels.Such an achievement opens up a whole newworld that should enable, together with theresults on voltage-gated K+ channels, toexplain the basis of cellular excitability at amolecular level.’

12 Science Education Programmes

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

12.1 Summer FellowshipsThis is the eighth year of the SummerResearch Fellowships Programme, which isjointly conducted by the three NationalScience Academies of the country. Thesummer fellowship programme enablesyoung and motivated students and teachers todo short-term projects for two months withFellows and other scientists of the country.

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The main objective is to expose them to thejoy of doing science. It was started in 1995 ona very small scale. The number of fellowshipsawarded in 1995 was 3. In 2013, this number hasgone up to 2156, of which the fellowshipsavailed in 2013 was 1673. Table 4 gives thesubject-wise break-up of applicationsreceived, fellowships offered and availed.

12.2 Refresher CoursesThis is an all-India programme to helpmotivated teachers improve their backgroundknowledge and teaching skills. It is normallyof two-week duration, and teachers selectedfrom all over the country undergo a rigorous

course of lectures, discussions, laboratoryexperiments, and problem-solving sessions.

During the last 15 years, 151 courses have beenheld in several parts of the country on avariety of subjects: experimental andtheoretical physics, experimental andtheoretical chemistry, biotechnology,mathematics, atmospheric science, animal andplant tissue culture, experimental nonlineardynamics, vistas in zoological teaching,marine geology and geophysics, tensors,phylogenetic biology, stochastic process, etc.During the year 2013–2014, 21 refreshercourses have been held, and a list of thesecourses with relevant details is provided in thefollowing pages.

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A. Refresher Courses inExperimental PhysicsIn 2013-2014, 10 Refresher Courses were heldon Experimental Physics. These were heldunder the direction of R. Srinivasan, who wasinstrumental in the conceptualisation anddesigning of the experiments. Theseexperiments are useful for laboratoryprogrammes at BSc and MSc levels, and manyuniversities in the country have adopted theseexperiments as part of their curricula. Inorder to conduct the Refresher Courses, auser-friendly kit containing severalcomponents has been developed andmanufactured under licence by a company inBangalore: M/s Ajay Sensors andInstruments.

The following is a list of ExperimentalPhysics Refresher Courses held since April2013 with R. Srinivasan as the CourseDirector. These form course numbers 47 to56 in this series.

1. (XLVII) 1. (XLVII) 1. (XLVII) 1. (XLVII) 1. (XLVII) Sri Satya Sai Institute of HigherLearning, Anantapur (SSSIHL)2–18 April 2013Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Deepa Seetharaman (SSSIHL)No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 16 participants fromAnantapur, Bangalore, Chennai, Mysore,Vijayawada.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh,C Prathibha, Deepa Seetharaman, T Pramila,GVK Gayatri.Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Fundamental constants inphysics (Dwaraka Rani Rao); Climate change andits impact on public health and agriculture (R RamaKrishna Reddy); Lasers and their applications(S Siva Sanakra Sai); Nano medicine (V SivaSubramaniyan).

2. (XLVIII)2. (XLVIII)2. (XLVIII)2. (XLVIII)2. (XLVIII) Vidya Pratishthan’s Arts, Science &Commerce College, Baramati (VPASCC)14–29 May 2013Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Mahesh Vedpathak (VPASCC)

No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 30 participants fromAhmadpur, Akola, Dapoli, Daund, Indapur,Mumbai, Pune, Unnao.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh,JBC Efrem Desa, RT Sapkal, Manohar Nyayate,Sadique, Manohar Naik, Neeta Srivastava,Mahesh Vedpathak, KR Priolkar.Special LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial Lectures: Nanomaterials and theirapplications (Suresh Gosavi); composites of metaloxide nanoparticles in glasses and the application ofthe same in practice (Bharat Kale);superconducting ferrites and other materials(R Nagarajan).

3. (XLIX) 3. (XLIX) 3. (XLIX) 3. (XLIX) 3. (XLIX) Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore6–21 June 2013No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 22 participants fromAhmedabad, Ahmednagar, Aizawl, Bangalore,Calicut, Chandigarh, Faridabad, Guntur, Indore,Kachchh, Katra, Khammam, Muzaffarnagar,Mysore, Sawangi, Tirunelveli.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, AV Alex,TG Ramesh, Seeta Bharati, Ranjani Ashrita,G Vinitha, Sarmishta Sahu.Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Arindam Ghosh (IISc,Bangalore) and KS Narayan (JNCASR, Bangalore).

4. (L) 4. (L) 4. (L) 4. (L) 4. (L) Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore6–22 August 2013No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 21 participants from 24-Parganas, Anantapur, Bangalore, Coimbatore,Dharbanga, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kota,Kurukshetra, Malappuram, Mysore, Palpara,Tirupur, Tiruvannamalai, Thrissur, Vizhinagaram.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, Seeta Bharati,Elankumaran Kannan, AV Alex, SarbariBhattacharya, TG Ramesh, Sarmishta Sahu.Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: PS Anil Kumar and KJ Rao(both from IISc, Bangalore).

5. (5. (5. (5. (5. (LILILILILI))))) Barkatullah University, Bhopal (BU)16–30 September 2013Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Vikas Shelke (BU)No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants: 34Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh,RK Dwivedi, SP Singh, M Kapoor, Preeti Bhobe.Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures: Vilas Shelke, DS Rana,V Ganesan.

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6. (LII) 6. (LII) 6. (LII) 6. (LII) 6. (LII) Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University,Katra, J&K (SMVDU)8–24 October 2013Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Sunil K Wanchoo (SMVDU)No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 23 participants fromBijnor, Jaipur, Jammu, Katra, Mumbai, Nagpur,Talcher.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh,Sunil K Wanchoo, KK Bamezai, Rajini Ashrita,Yugal Khajuria.

7. (LIII) 7. (LIII) 7. (LIII) 7. (LIII) 7. (LIII) Indian Academy of Sciences Annexe,Jalahalli, Bangalore7–23 November 2013No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 19 participants fromAhmednagar, Alappuzha, Bhopal, Delhi, Itarsi,Jaipur, Karunagappaly, Kollam, Kozhikode,Mysore, Patna, Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Satara,Thiruvarur.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh,Seeta Bharati, Ramachandra Sapkal, MaheshVedpathak, Anil Pugalia.Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: KBR Varma and Arun MUmarji.

8. (LIV) 8. (LIV) 8. (LIV) 8. (LIV) 8. (LIV) Indian Institute of Science Education andResearch, Pune (IISER)9–24 December 2013Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Ashna Bajpai (IISER)Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, Elankumaran Kannan,Efrem D’Sa, Sadique,KRS Priolkar, Manohar Naik, Manohar Nyayte.Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:SB Ogale, Arvind Gupta, CV Dharmadhikari.

9. (LV) 9. (LV) 9. (LV) 9. (LV) 9. (LV) University of Kota, Kota9–25 January 2014Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: NKJaiman/Saurabh Dalela(UV)No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants: 29Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons: RSrinivasan, RK Dwivedi,Sh. BL Suthar, NamrataSengar, Sadique.Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures: NLHeda, SK Jain.

10. (10. (10. (10. (10. (LVILVILVILVILVI))))) Panjab University, Chandigarh (PU)11–26 February 2014Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Devinder Mehta (PU)No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants: 21Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh,S Shahi, Suman Mahendia, Neeru Choudhary,Manish Dev Sharma.Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures:Special Lectures: TG Ramesh, SandeepSahijpal, ML Garg, Manjit Kaur, AK Jain.

B. FelicitationsRefresher Courses in Experimental Physics isone of the success stories of our scienceeducation programmes, and R. Srinivasan hasbeen the prime architect of this entireprogramme. Started in 2001, so far 56 courseshave been held across the country. Nearly1250 persons, mostly teachers, have so farbeen trained to do about 40 experiments inmechanics, heat, electricity, magnetism,relaxation, lock-in amplifiers, phasetransitions, nonlinear dynamics and optics.

On the occasion of the Fiftieth GoldenJubilee of these Refresher Courses held inBangalore in August 2013, a special functionwas organised at the Academy office inBangalore on 16 August to express gratitudeto R. Srinivasan, the faculty in Goa whoassisted him in this effort right from thebeginning, and a number of resource personswho helped run these courses.

The President of theAcademy (DipankarChatterji), theChairman of theJoint Science Panel(N. Mukunda),office bearers of theAcademy and staffattended this happyevent.

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C. Other Refresher Courses11. Traditional and Modern Approaches in11. Traditional and Modern Approaches in11. Traditional and Modern Approaches in11. Traditional and Modern Approaches in11. Traditional and Modern Approaches inAnimal TaxonomyAnimal TaxonomyAnimal TaxonomyAnimal TaxonomyAnimal TaxonomyUniversity of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore(UAS)15–29 April 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: M Sanjappa (UAS)Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Ramakrishna andMD Rajanna (UAS)No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 22 participants fromAhmedabad, Andaman, Bagalkot, Baripada, Bhuj,Delhi, Dehradun, Dharwad, Indore, Kalyani,Kasargod, Kolkata, Padanakkad, Palyamkottai,Porto Novo, Ranchi, Sagar, Solapur, Shillong,Wayanad.Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons: K Muralidhar, MAShankar, K Narayana Gowda, S Ramani,Seenappa, Ramakrishna, M Sanjappa, G Venu,Praveen Karanth, KP Dinesh, S Bhupathy, VVBelavadi, VA Viraktamat, RR Rao, Subramanyam,Sushil Datta, K Gururaj, K Rema Devi, RamanjuniGowda, Vijayakumar, NG Ravichandran, KNGaneshaiah, MD Rajanna.Topics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Species and species concept;taxonomy and importance of Arachnids in theanimal kingdom; biogeography of the world vis-a-vis India; faunistic diversity of India – an overviewof invertebrates; fish diversity in India; taxonomyand taxonomic impediments; life and works ofLinnaeus, the father of taxonomy and tercentenarycelebrations; chromosomes as a taxonomic tool;role of molecular taxonomy as an aid to traditionaltaxonomy; Indian amphibians; reptiles, taxonomyand ecology; role of bioinformatics in taxonomy;introduction to entomology; external and internalmorphology and development; use of identificationkeys and classification of insects; keying insects toorder; introduction to ticks and mites; animalnomenclature; role of taxonomy inbiotechnological research; role of nematodes;global conventions on biodiversity; birds and theirrole in the ecosystem; past, present and future ofIndian taxonomy; role of behavioural science as atool to taxonomy; faunal peculiarities in theWestern ghats.

12. Quantum Mechanics12. Quantum Mechanics12. Quantum Mechanics12. Quantum Mechanics12. Quantum MechanicsSt Berchman’s College, Changanacherry (SBC)1–14 May 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: HS Mani (CMI, Chennai)

Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Jacob Mathew (SBC)No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 32 participants fromAlappuzha, Angul, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar,Changanacherry, Coimbatore, Dindigul,Hyderabad, Pathanamthitta, Puthanampatti,Rajahmundry, Salem, Sindhudurg, Sivakasi,Talcher, Tiruchirapalli, Thrissur, Tumkur,Udumalpet.Resource PersonsResource PersonsResource PersonsResource PersonsResource Persons: G Rajasekaran, HS Mani,KS Mallesh and Govind Krishnaswami.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Principles of quantummechanics and its applications to atoms; quantumtheory of radiation; relativistic quantum mechanics.Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Neutrinos and the India-basedNeutrino Observatory; Standard Model, HiggsBoson and what next? (G Rajasekaran).

13. Statistical Physics13. Statistical Physics13. Statistical Physics13. Statistical Physics13. Statistical PhysicsNehru Arts and Science College (NASC),Kanhangad8–21 May 2013Course Directors: Course Directors: Course Directors: Course Directors: Course Directors: Deepak Dhar (TIFR)/Chandan Dasgupta (IISc)Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: R Rajesh (IMSc)/KM Udayanandan (NASC)No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: 44 participants fromAlathur, Anantapur, Calicut, Coimbatore,Kanhangad, Kannur, Karaikal, Kottayam,Kozhikode, Mattannur, Madurai, Palakkad,Payyannur, Periya, Rajapuram, Ratnagiri,Roorkee, Shimoga, Taliparamba, Thalassery,Thrissur, Tiruchirapalli, Tirupathi, Ujire.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: KPN Murthy, DeepakDhar, Rajesh Ravindran, Chandan Dasgupta,Subodh Shenoy, PK Mohanty, Vishnu MayyaBannur, Sumedha, Anuradha Banerjee.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Basic concepts of statisticalphysics; elements of probability theory andstatistics; thermodynamics; quantum statisticalmechanics; interacting systems and phasetransitions; stochastic processes.

14. Modern Biotechnology: Concepts and14. Modern Biotechnology: Concepts and14. Modern Biotechnology: Concepts and14. Modern Biotechnology: Concepts and14. Modern Biotechnology: Concepts andPracticePracticePracticePracticePracticeMadurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (MKU)15–29 May 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: G Marimuthu (MKU)Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: Course Coordinators: B Ashokkumar,P Varalakshmi and N. Sivakumar (MKU)No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: 22 participants fromBikaner, Chennai, Coimbatore, Courtallam,

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Dindigul, Erode, Krishnan Koil, Madurai,Mangalore, Mayiladuthurai, Pilayarpuram, Surat,Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Warangal.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: M Krishnan, K Thangaraj,S Mohanraj, C Adithan, GR Jayandharan,N Thajuddin, P Sundaresan, M Sundararaman,R Rengasamy, C Sankaranarayanan, P Malliga,K Veluthambi, A Palavesam, G Kumaresan,R Paramasivan, G Marimuthu, S Sudhakar,K Sundar, M Muniraj, SR Senthilkumar,K Chandra Raj, K Balamurugan, P Palanivelu,Saravanan Matheshwaran.Topics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Characterization of lipophorinin lepidopteran insect silkworm and its role in lipidtransport to developing oocytes; recombinantstrains and metabolic engineering for production of3- hydroxypropionic acid; population stratification;pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine;AAV–mediated gene therapy; microalgae:biodiversity to biotechnology; molecular geneticsof inherited eye diseases and gene therapy; potenttoxins of marine cyanobacteria and itspharmaceutical potentials; biofuel production frommicroalgae; biotechnological applications ofcyanobacteria; cyanobacterial defacement; genesilencing from transgenic plant with inverted T-DNA repeats; probiotics and prebiotics; genomicsfor diagnostics and targeted therapeutics;molecular diagnosis of vector borne diseases:special emphasis on dengue; clock genepolymorphisms; autofluorescence of stem cell andfunction of Riboflavin in regeneration; helminthinfection modulates autoimmunity in mice;microbial association with insects; production ofrecombinant proteins in high density cultures;Caenorhabdities elegans as a model to studymolecular changes during host-pathogeninteractions; cloning, characterization andoverexpression of a thermophilic fungal chitinasein S. cerevisiae; engineering sequence specificity ofnucleases.

15. Foundation of Physics15. Foundation of Physics15. Foundation of Physics15. Foundation of Physics15. Foundation of PhysicsBengal Engineering Science University, Shibpur(BESU)22–31 May 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: AK Mallik (BESU)Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: BK Guha (BESU)No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: 95 school students from 24Paraganas (North and South), Durgapur,

Hooghly, Howrah, Kolkata, Midnapore.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: AK Mallik, BK Guha,HC Verma, SS Sarkar, Joydeep Mitra, ParthaGhosh, Hiranmoy Saha, Bhupathi Chakrabarti,Birendrananth Das, Swapan Datta, SurajitChakraborty.Topics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Newtonian mechanics andnonlinear dynamics; optics; quantum theory;electricity, magnetism and special theory ofrelativity; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.Special LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial Lectures: Solar photovoltaic cells(Hiranmoy Saha); fundamental particles (ParthaGhosh); importance of the works of Bohr andMosley (Bhupati Chakrabarti).

16. Updates on Biology of Infectious16. Updates on Biology of Infectious16. Updates on Biology of Infectious16. Updates on Biology of Infectious16. Updates on Biology of InfectiousDiseasesDiseasesDiseasesDiseasesDiseasesHaffkine Institute for Training, Research &Testing, Mumbai (HI)22 September–5 October 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Tarala D. Nandedkar(NIRRH, Mumbai)Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Course Coordinator: Nishigandha Naik (HI)ParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipants: 17 participantsTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Trends in vaccinology; HIV;HIV-immunology and vaccines; H1NI; HIV Cellculture and ELISA; diagnostic virology; influenza– diagnostics and molecular epidemology; biosafetyand accreditation of laboratory; hepatitis; dengue;protein chemistry; DNA sequencing; microarray;transgenics; fungal infections; animal house facility;animal handling and inoculation; immuno-fluorescence assays for rabies; heat shock proteinsas drug targets against malaria; diagnostic andtreatment of neglected diseases; tuberculosis;noscomial infections; introduction to cognitivesciences, drosophila, zebra fish; reproductive tractinfections; diagnosis of Chlamydia; proteinchemistry; bioinformatics; nanomedicine.

17. Statistical Mechanics17. Statistical Mechanics17. Statistical Mechanics17. Statistical Mechanics17. Statistical MechanicsHomi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,TIFR, Mumbai6–19 November 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Deepak Dhar (TIFR)Course Co-ordinator: Anuradha Misra (UM)No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants:No. of Participants: 37 participants fromAhmednagar, Dindigul, Gurgaon, Jamshedpur,Kilakarai, Kurukshetra, Mangalore, Mumbai,Ranchi, Tiruchirapalli, Vidyavihar.

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Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons: Deepak Dhar, SH Patil,Sourendu Gupta, Anuradha Misra, RadhaSrinivasan, M Barma, Dibyendu Das, PraveenPathak, Kedar Damle, Vijay Singh, SahanaMurthy.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Basic concepts of statisticalphysics; probability theory; dimensional analysis;quantum statistics; theory of stochastic processes;phase transitions and critical phenomena.Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: Special Lectures: M Barma (Away from theaverage: fluctuations big and small); SahanaMurthy (Teaching methods); Deepak Dhar(A simple model of proportionate growth).

18. Evolutionary Ecology of Plants and18. Evolutionary Ecology of Plants and18. Evolutionary Ecology of Plants and18. Evolutionary Ecology of Plants and18. Evolutionary Ecology of Plants andAnimalsAnimalsAnimalsAnimalsAnimalsPSGR Krishnammal College for Women,Coimbatore (PSGRKCW)11–26 November 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: KN Ganeshaiah (UAS,Bangalore)Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: W Suganya(PSGRKCW)No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: No. of participants: 19 participants fromBelgaum, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun,Kamuthi, Mumbai, Sivakasi, Vaniyambadi.Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons:Resource Persons: KN Ganeshaiah,P Balasubramanian, R Uma Shaanker,MNV Prasad, K Padmakumar, M Sanjappa,S Paulsamy, D Narasimhan, VS Ramachandran,Ramakrishnan, N Thajuddin, C Kunhikannan,Vijay Kumar Sharma, S Murugesan, TJ Pandian,P Pramod.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Linnaeus and Darwin;Evolution of insect plant interactions; do plantsbehave like animals; self-organisation in plantgrowth and animal behaviour; bird–plantinteraction; sexual selection in plants; data mining,genetics and plant breeding; cosmic evolution oflife; molecular evolution and protobiology;seaweed chemical defenses; cues from marinechemical ecology for discovering drugs andpharmaceuticals; plant–plant interactions; plant–insect interactions; floristic diversity in India; KasPlateau – a botanical paradise; biodiversity; biologyof carnivorous plants; Galapagos Islands; cladistics;plants and pollinators; role of elephants and itsconservation problems; morphological, biochemicaland molecular phylogeny of cyanobacteria;rhythms of fruit flies in nature; entrainment of fruit

flies; studies of wiring diagrams in the fruit flybrain; bio-prospecting of natural products assources of pest management agents; plant–animalinteraction; biodiversity in India in evolutionary andconservation perspective.

19. Quantum Mechanics19. Quantum Mechanics19. Quantum Mechanics19. Quantum Mechanics19. Quantum MechanicsIndian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT)28 November–12 December 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Deepak Kumar (JNU)Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Ishwar Singh Tyagi (IIT)No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 48 participants fromAdipur, Awantipora, Bhubaneswar, Gorakhpur,Hamirpur, Haridwar, Hisar, New Delhi, Jatni,Kangra, Kurukshetra, New Delhi, Patiala, Pauri,Roorkee, Saharanpur, Srinagar, Tehri, Uttarkashi,Varanasi.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Saiket K Ghosh, Arvind,DG Kanhere, Debajyoti Chaudhury, IS Tyagi,Deepak Kumar, S Auluch.

20. Quantum Mechanics20. Quantum Mechanics20. Quantum Mechanics20. Quantum Mechanics20. Quantum MechanicsJSS Educational Institutions, Suttur, MysoreDistrict (JSS)2–14 December 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: G Rajasekaran (IMSc,Chennai)Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Vijaya ManjuanthaGuru (JSS)No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 23 participants fromChamarajanagar, Chennai, Chintamani,Chitradurga, Coimbatore, Hassan, Jabalpur,Jaipur, Karaikal, Kollam, Mandya, Mysore,Mumbai, Sulthan Bathery, Thiruvananthapuram,Tiruchirapalli, Ujire.Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: HS Mani, GovindKrishnaswami, KS Mallesh, G Rajasekaran.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Module 1: Physical basis ofquantum mechanics, Schrödinger equation,hydrogen atom; Module 2: Basic postulates, linearvector space, angular momentum, atoms andmolecules; Module 3: Perturbation theory,scattering theory; Module 4: Quantum theory ofradiation, relativistic quantum mechanics.Special LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial LecturesSpecial Lectures: Life and Work of Paul Dirac;Pancharatnam, Bargmann and Berry Phases: Aretrospective (N Mukunda).

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21. Theoretical Physics21. Theoretical Physics21. Theoretical Physics21. Theoretical Physics21. Theoretical PhysicsAssam University, Silchar (AU)2–15 December 2013Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Course Director: Sudhakar Panda (HRI,Allahabad)Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Course Co-ordinator: Atri Deshamukhya (AU)No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: No. of Participants: 37 participants fromAlgapur, Chumukedima, Dharmanagar, Haflong,Joysagar, Kailashahar, Silchar, Ujjain.

Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Resource Persons: Indrani Bose, SomendraMohan Bhattacharjee, Sudhakar Panda, AnirbanBasu.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Statistical mechanics;thermodynamics; critical phenomena; phasetransitions and Ising model; Fermi and Bosesystems; Bose- Einstein condensation; quantum fieldtheory; tensor algebra; Dirac and electromagneticfield quantisation; symmetry breaking and Higgsmechanism; classical mechanics.

12.3 Lecture WorkshopsThe Joint Science Academy Panel arranges two- or three-day lecture workshops on carefullychosen topics in physics, mathematics, chemistry and life sciences at selected college anduniversity departments for the benefit of local students and teachers. Speakers include Fellowsand scientists from nearby institutions. Since inception, 372 Workshops have been held. Duringthis financial year up to 31 March 2014, 61 Workshops were held on various topics at differentinstitutions in the country. The following pages give some information on the LectureWorkshops held from April 2013 to March 2014.

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1. Practice and Research in Disaster1. Practice and Research in Disaster1. Practice and Research in Disaster1. Practice and Research in Disaster1. Practice and Research in DisasterManagement – Towards BetterManagement – Towards BetterManagement – Towards BetterManagement – Towards BetterManagement – Towards BetterWorldlinessWorldlinessWorldlinessWorldlinessWorldlinessDayalbagh Education Institute, Agra (DEI)2–4 April 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Anand Mohan (DEI)Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Sanjeev Swami/Sanjay Bhushan(DEI)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 150 participants (119 students and 31teachers) from various colleges and institutions inand around Agra.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Natural disasters andsustainable development; man-made disaster andbetter worldliness; disaster managementtechnology and application.

2. Neuro Psychiatry Diseases2. Neuro Psychiatry Diseases2. Neuro Psychiatry Diseases2. Neuro Psychiatry Diseases2. Neuro Psychiatry DiseasesChennai Medical College and Research Centre,Irungalur (CMCRC)4–5 April 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Usha Kant Misra (Sanjay GandhiPostgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,Lucknow)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: N Prabhu (CMCRC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 208 participants (33 teachers and 175students/research scholars) from in and aroundIrungalur.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Parkinson’s diseases; nutritionand neurology; Alzheimer’s and its management;dementia; molecular basis of memory and memoryloss; delirium; neuropsychiatric aspects oftraumatic brain injury. Panel discussions entitled“Issues and challenges of Parkinson’s disease” and“Strengthening of learning and memory” werealso held.

3. Modern Trends in Chemistry3. Modern Trends in Chemistry3. Modern Trends in Chemistry3. Modern Trends in Chemistry3. Modern Trends in ChemistrySikkim Government College, Gangtok12–13 April 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Uday Maitra (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Bhaskar Chakraborty (SikkimGovernment College)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 146 participants from Gangtok,Rangpo, Siliguri.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Selected reagents fortransformation addressing selectivity in organicsynthesis; introduction to biophysical chemistry;drug design by enzyme inhibition; weakhydrophobic interaction and its strong outcome;introduction to computational chemistry;carbohydrates; molecules which ‘break’ rules.

4. Skill Development & Career4. Skill Development & Career4. Skill Development & Career4. Skill Development & Career4. Skill Development & CareerOrientation: Biotech, Pharma, Medicine,Orientation: Biotech, Pharma, Medicine,Orientation: Biotech, Pharma, Medicine,Orientation: Biotech, Pharma, Medicine,Orientation: Biotech, Pharma, Medicine,InformaticsInformaticsInformaticsInformaticsInformaticsGovernment Degree College, Kullua. 9–11 May 2013b. 11–13 May 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Asha Chandola Saklani (ApeejaySatya University, Gurgaon)Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Co-ordinators: Dhaneshwari Sharma/AtulKathaitr (Government Degree College), KulluParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipants: 100 students and teachers.Topics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Molecular diagnostics;immunodiagnostics; herbal chemistry; microbiology;food and safety; GMOs; bioinformatics, drugdesigning.

5. Frontiers in Life Science5. Frontiers in Life Science5. Frontiers in Life Science5. Frontiers in Life Science5. Frontiers in Life ScienceNorth-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong21–24 May 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: SK Saidapur (Dharwad)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: BBP Gupta (NEHU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 80 participants from variousinstitutions in and around Shillong.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Biology: the past, present andfuture prospects; epigenetics; concept of naturalselection; genetics and genomics of speciation;Darwinian medicine; evolution of reproductivestrategies; Interventions for healthy aging;pollination biology; biodiversity crisis; carnivorousplants; biomonitoring through biodiversity indices.A panel discussion on ‘Science Education &Research’ was also held.

6. Biology 21st Century6. Biology 21st Century6. Biology 21st Century6. Biology 21st Century6. Biology 21st CenturySRN Adarsh College, Bangalore24–25 May 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Vijaya B (SRN Adarsh College)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 167 participants from institutions inand around Bangalore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Metagenomics: a revolutionin biology; multiple growth polarity during leafgrowth and its control by a microRNA;epigenetics and cancer: role of microRNAs andDNA methylation in brain tumour development;bacterial pathogenesis – how can a pathogenestablish itself in a host; small RNA for allseasons; visible and invisible messages: how doplants communicate with animals; advances inhuman genetics; two burning problems of the

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HIV-AIDS research today; traditional, modernand futuristic vaccines.

7. Recent Advances in Materials Science7. Recent Advances in Materials Science7. Recent Advances in Materials Science7. Recent Advances in Materials Science7. Recent Advances in Materials SciencePayyanur College, Payyanur24–25 June 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: TP Radhakrishnan (University ofHyderabad)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: KV Sujith (Payyanur College)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 180 participants from about 12colleges, universities and institutes in Kerala.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Polymers; atoms, natural orman-made; nanites; folding and aggregationprofiles of α β2,3 hybrid peptides; electons,photons, phonons: SASER and phoniton; sizematters: materials at the nanoscale; interfering withinterference for nanoscale patterning – thechallenges and the journey through Maser toSpaser; diverse reactivity of anthracene-methanamines and sulfides with electron deficientacetylenes; electrical energy storage: materialschallenges and prospects; topochemical reactions.

8. Galois Theory, Finite fields &8. Galois Theory, Finite fields &8. Galois Theory, Finite fields &8. Galois Theory, Finite fields &8. Galois Theory, Finite fields &CryptographyCryptographyCryptographyCryptographyCryptographyNASI & IIIT, Allahabad24–26 June 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Satya Deo (HRI, Allahabad)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Niraj Kumar (NASI, Allahabad)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 200 participants from variouscolleges and institutions in Allahabad, Mathura,New Delhi, Roorkee.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Introduction to finite fields;Galois Theory: geometric constructions;cryptography; solvability by radicals; geometricconstructions; mathematics.

9. Mathematics: Aspects, Prospects and a9. Mathematics: Aspects, Prospects and a9. Mathematics: Aspects, Prospects and a9. Mathematics: Aspects, Prospects and a9. Mathematics: Aspects, Prospects and abit of Historybit of Historybit of Historybit of Historybit of HistoryThe Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc),Chennai1–2 July 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: KN Raghavan (IMSc, Chennai)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: S Vishnu Prasad (IMSc, Chennai)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 80 participants from variouscolleges and institutions in Chennai.Topics of lectures: Topics of lectures: Topics of lectures: Topics of lectures: Topics of lectures: Nuclear safety and themathematical quantification of risk on the spectrumof the Laplacian; from linear algebra to roboticarm design via Groebner bases; shapes andgeometry of surfaces; determinant and permanent;

analysis, transcendence and arithmetic; using onlineresources to learn mathematics; history ofmathematics in India. A panel discussion on‘Prospects of careers involving mathematics’ wasalso held.

10. Quantum Mechanics and Statistical10. Quantum Mechanics and Statistical10. Quantum Mechanics and Statistical10. Quantum Mechanics and Statistical10. Quantum Mechanics and StatisticalMechanicsMechanicsMechanicsMechanicsMechanicsMaharani Lakshmi Ammani College for Women,Bangalore (MLACW)11–13 July 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: G Srinivasan (Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Sarmistha Sahu (MLACW)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 145 participants from variouscolleges and institutions in Bangalore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Crisis in classical physics;Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; waves ofparticles; applications of Maxwell-Boltzmannstatistics to the thermal energy of the sun; Fermi-Dirac statistics; waves and interference; probabilitywaves; quantum stars; statistical physics. Severaldemonstrations were also held by the ResourcePersons as part of the Workshop.

11. Frontier Areas in Physics11. Frontier Areas in Physics11. Frontier Areas in Physics11. Frontier Areas in Physics11. Frontier Areas in PhysicsSt Xavier’s College, Kolkata19–20 July 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: DN Bose (St. Xavier’s College,Kolkata)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Subhankar Ghosh (St. Xavier’sCollege, Kolkata)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 60 participants from differentcolleges in West Bengal.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Standard model and beyond;symmetry and its application to physics; growth andcharacterization of low dimensional structures;selected topics in statistical physics; nanoelectronics.

12. Advances in Chemistry12. Advances in Chemistry12. Advances in Chemistry12. Advances in Chemistry12. Advances in ChemistryMadurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (MKU)26–27 July 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: R Ramaraj (MKU)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: S Sivakumar (MKU)ParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipants: 155 students and teachers.

13. Advances in Chemistry13. Advances in Chemistry13. Advances in Chemistry13. Advances in Chemistry13. Advances in ChemistryGandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram (GRI)6–7 September 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: R Ramaraj (MKU)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Abraham John (GRI)ParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipants: 190 students and teachers.

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Topics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Organic Synthesis: QuoVadis?, grapheme quantum dots; acids bases andsalts; chemistry and the world of intelligentmaterials; drug discovery: a chemist's perspective;photoelectrochemistry and solar energy conversion;principles and applications of molecular modeling andsimulation; golden opportunities with homogeneousgold catalysis; exploring the changes in the structureof a a-Helical peptides absorbed on to carbonnanomaterials using molecular dynamics simulation.

14. Microbial Genomics14. Microbial Genomics14. Microbial Genomics14. Microbial Genomics14. Microbial GenomicsMaharani’s Science College for Women,Bangalore (MSCW)19–20 September 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: DJ Bagyaraj (Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Kavitha B (MSCW)Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Evolution in the microbialworld; restriction-modification systems in H.pylori;metagenomics – a revolution in microbiology;chromosome organization in Saccharomycescerevisiae; transcriptional control in E. coli: howmuch RNA polymerase; mechanism of proteinsynthesis; bacterial genome evolution; translationalcontrol of cellular genes by internal initiation.

15. Life Sciences15. Life Sciences15. Life Sciences15. Life Sciences15. Life SciencesS.B. Arts and K.C.P. Science College, Bijapur(SBAKCPSC)19–21 September 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: SK Saidapur (Dharwad)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: MS Mulimani (SBAKCPSC)Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Seeds: the biological enigma;genetics today; floristic diversity in India:inventorization, conservation and bio-prospection-priority agenda for 21st century; glycolysis: itsimportance and ramifications; globalization ofplants; current problems in taxonomic teaching andresearch in India; genetically modified crops;introduction to epigentics; evolution and humanhealth; different types of jaundice and theirmanagement; biofuel technology.

16. Advances in Chemistry16. Advances in Chemistry16. Advances in Chemistry16. Advances in Chemistry16. Advances in ChemistryAlagappa University, Karaikudi (AU)20–21 September 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore)Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: P Manishankar (AU)No. of ParticipantsNo. of ParticipantsNo. of ParticipantsNo. of ParticipantsNo. of Participants: 235

Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Host-guest chemistry ininorganic solids; rationalising the formation ofsalts; stone-walls defects in carbon–basednanomaterials; electrochemical biosensors; colourand chemistry; self-assembly and nanostructuredmaterials; photoelectrochemistry and solar energyconversion; design and development of newmaterials for efficient hydrogen storage;spectroelectrochemistry (in-situ measurementtechniques) ; graphene quantum dots.

17. Frontiers in Biology17. Frontiers in Biology17. Frontiers in Biology17. Frontiers in Biology17. Frontiers in BiologyKristu Jayanti College, Bangalore (KJC)23–24 September 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: K Somasundaram (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: AL Calistus Jude (KJC)Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Microbiology and cellbiology; biochemistry; molecular reproduction,development and genetics.

18. Recent Advancements in Animal18. Recent Advancements in Animal18. Recent Advancements in Animal18. Recent Advancements in Animal18. Recent Advancements in AnimalResearchResearchResearchResearchResearchBethune College, Kolkata27–28 September 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Aparna Dutta-Gupta (UOH)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Rahul Kumar Datta (BehtuneCollege, Kolkata)ParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipants: 150 students and teachers.Topics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Charm of new discoveries inscience, and why we fail to achieve that; the threebillion: a decade later; theoretical model in ecologyand integrated ecosystem theories; evaluation ofcellular and biochemical response of earthwormexposed to organophosphorus-based pesticide;statistical optimization of the sugar production byendoglucanase from Rhizopus oryzae PR7 MTCC9642; biodiversity of insects at forest of KazirangaNational Park, Assam; isolation and identification ofMycobacterium bovis from slaughtered cattlecollected from abattoirs in Kolkata; effectivechromium reduction by Trichoderma pesudokonghand effects of natural sources on its reductionpotential. Saccharification of AGRO wastes;optimization of production parameters;environmental characterization and DNAfingerprinting of a protozoan ectoparasite; a pilotstudy of prevalence of Methicillin resistant; a surveyof faunal diversity with special reference to birds;cytogenetic and molecular profiling of LATA fish(Channa punctatus) from 3 different districts.

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19. Current Trends and Directions in19. Current Trends and Directions in19. Current Trends and Directions in19. Current Trends and Directions in19. Current Trends and Directions inComputer Science ResearchComputer Science ResearchComputer Science ResearchComputer Science ResearchComputer Science ResearchDr NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore(NGPASC)3–5 October 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: R Krishnan (Amrita University,Coimbatore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: N Ananthi (NGPASC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 168 participants from variouscolleges, universities and institutions in Coimbatore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Research issues in high-resolution image processing and image analysis andcomputer vision; current trends in advancedcomputing and recent trends in high-performancecomputing; research issues in informationretrieval; mathematical foundation for computerscience research (linear algebra) and researchissues in optimisation techniques; classificationusing genetic programming and POS tagging usingsequence labelling and SVM tool; research issuesin cloud computing.

20. Cell Differentiation in the context of20. Cell Differentiation in the context of20. Cell Differentiation in the context of20. Cell Differentiation in the context of20. Cell Differentiation in the context ofCancer & Stem Cell BiologyCancer & Stem Cell BiologyCancer & Stem Cell BiologyCancer & Stem Cell BiologyCancer & Stem Cell BiologyChinmaya Arts and Science College for Women,Kannur (CASCW)8–9 October 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: T Subramoniam (NIOT, Chennai)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: PA Valsalakumari (CASCW)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 172 participants from neighbouringcolleges and university departments in Kannur.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: An introduction to stem cellbiology; aberrant signaling pathways in cancer;creating functional blood vessels from adult stemcells; acute lymphoblastic leukemia andhaematopoietic stem cell transplantation; mechanismsand control of vitellogenesis in crustacean;understanding cancer and its management; gametecell differentiation in crustacea: spermatogenesis;steroid receptors and cancer.

21. Mathematical Methods for Science21. Mathematical Methods for Science21. Mathematical Methods for Science21. Mathematical Methods for Science21. Mathematical Methods for ScienceAES National Degree College, Gauribidanur (AES)11–12 October 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Gadadhar Misra (IISc)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: KS Gayathri (AES)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 170 participants from variouscolleges in Gauribidanur, Kolar.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Game theory; counting andtiling; power of matrix; role of linear algebra in

Google search; searching and sorting millionneedles in zillion haystacks; binary ternary.

22. Bioprospecting and Bioresources: From22. Bioprospecting and Bioresources: From22. Bioprospecting and Bioresources: From22. Bioprospecting and Bioresources: From22. Bioprospecting and Bioresources: FromMolecules to ProductsMolecules to ProductsMolecules to ProductsMolecules to ProductsMolecules to ProductsVIT University, Vellore21–23 October 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: R Uma Shaanker (UAS, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Siva Ramamoorthy (VIT)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 145 participants from colleges inChennai, Chidambaram, Erode, Kanchipuram,Thiruvannamalai, Tirupathi, Vellore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Documenting, mapping,digitising bioresource; prospecting drugs frombugs - potential antibiotics for human health andagriculture; bioprospecting: use of niche modellingtools; using fungal endophytes; random to non-random approaches; ecological niche modellingtools; dyes from plants.

23. Psycho-disorders & Role of23. Psycho-disorders & Role of23. Psycho-disorders & Role of23. Psycho-disorders & Role of23. Psycho-disorders & Role ofNeuroprotective Nutrition in DecisionNeuroprotective Nutrition in DecisionNeuroprotective Nutrition in DecisionNeuroprotective Nutrition in DecisionNeuroprotective Nutrition in DecisionMakingMakingMakingMakingMakingUniversity of Allahabad, Allahabad (UA)24–26 October 2013ConvenerConvenerConvenerConvenerConvener: UC Srivastava (UA)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Niraj Kumar (NASI)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 200 participants from variouscolleges, institutions in and around Allahabad.

24. Selected Topics in Astrophysics24. Selected Topics in Astrophysics24. Selected Topics in Astrophysics24. Selected Topics in Astrophysics24. Selected Topics in AstrophysicsSt. Joseph’s College, Bangalore (SJC)25–30 October 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: G Srinivasan (Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Rabbi Akkiba Angiras (SJC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 64 participants from variouscolleges in Bangalore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Stars; radiative processes; x-ray astronomy; galaxies; between the stars; whitedwarfs; ultraviolet astronomy; pulsars.

25. New Vistas in Topology and Analysis25. New Vistas in Topology and Analysis25. New Vistas in Topology and Analysis25. New Vistas in Topology and Analysis25. New Vistas in Topology and AnalysisSt Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda (SJC)6–8 November 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: T Thrivikraman (CUSAT, Kochi)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Sr Christry (SJC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 131 participants from variouscolleges in and around Irinjalakuda in Kerala.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Basic Topology; algebraictopology; analysis.

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26. Modern Trends in the Development26. Modern Trends in the Development26. Modern Trends in the Development26. Modern Trends in the Development26. Modern Trends in the Developmentand Characterization of Materialsand Characterization of Materialsand Characterization of Materialsand Characterization of Materialsand Characterization of MaterialsMaharani’s Science College for Women,Bangalore (MSCW)12–13 November 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: TN Guru Row (IISc)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: G Ramagopal (MSCW)

27. Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy27. Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy27. Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy27. Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy27. Advances in Molecular SpectroscopyUniversity of Calicut, Calicut (UC)20–21 November 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: E Arunan (IISc)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: P Raveendran (UC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 170 participants from variousinstitutions in and around Calicut.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Advances in magneticresonance spectroscopy; why molecules absorb/emit radiation; infrared spectroscopy for the studyof molecular conformations and weakintermolecular interactions; laser spectroscopy;molecular beam microwave spectroscopy.

28. Modern Trends in Chemistry28. Modern Trends in Chemistry28. Modern Trends in Chemistry28. Modern Trends in Chemistry28. Modern Trends in ChemistryTezpur University, Tezpur (TU)20–22 November 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: PK Das (IISc)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: RC Deka (TU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 166 participants from Rajiv GandhiUniversity, Arunachal Pradesh and TezpurUniversity.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Green chemistry; physicalchemistry; organometallic chemistry; chemicaleducation and organic chemistry; bioinorganicchemistry; biochemistry; material science;theoretical chemistry; inorganic chemistry.

29. Biowaves: The Pulse of Biology29. Biowaves: The Pulse of Biology29. Biowaves: The Pulse of Biology29. Biowaves: The Pulse of Biology29. Biowaves: The Pulse of BiologySt. Xavier’s College, Mumbai29–30 November 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Tarala D Nandedkar (NIRRH,Mumbai)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Nandita Mangalore (St. Xavier’sCollege)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 235 participants from colleges,institutions in and around Mumbai.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Amazing nanotechnology andits applications in health care; impairment of celldivision and growth of malaria parasites;reciprocity as a regulatory principle of biologicalprocess; the immune system: past, present andfuture; G-protein coupled receptors: structure–

function relationship of gonadotropin receptors; invivo imaging techniques.

30. Trees of Life30. Trees of Life30. Trees of Life30. Trees of Life30. Trees of LifeJai Hind College, Mumbai (JHC)11–12 December 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: LS Shashidhara (IISER, Pune)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Yasmina Dordi Avari (JHC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 150 participants from colleges,institutions in and around Mumbai.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Evolutionary-developmentalbiology; human evolution, health and disease;experimental evolution in the laboratory; evolution,trees of life and species in inquiry-oriented biologyeducation; extended evolutionary synthesis;evolution, behavior and complex disorders.

31. Sense and Sensibility31. Sense and Sensibility31. Sense and Sensibility31. Sense and Sensibility31. Sense and SensibilitySophia College, Mumbai (SC)20–21 December 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Tarala D Nandedkar (NIRRH,Mumbai)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Hema Subramaniam (SC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 156 participants from differentcolleges and institutions in Mumbai.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: The role of environmentalsounds on the development of auditory system;connecting the retina to the brain; how those notlike us perceive the world; visible and invisiblemessages: how plants communicate with eachother and with insects; non-neuronal perception ofthe environment; neuroscience.

32. Advanced Topics in Mathematics32. Advanced Topics in Mathematics32. Advanced Topics in Mathematics32. Advanced Topics in Mathematics32. Advanced Topics in MathematicsBengal Engineering and Science University,Shibpur (BESU)22–24 December 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Asok Kumar Mallik (BESU)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Murari Mitra (BESU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 66 participants from variouscolleges and universities.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Prime numbers – theorems,conjectures and applications; geometric methodsfor first and second order ordinary differentialequations; density functional theory; continuedfractions: from non-random to random; thecompleteness axiom in real analysis; variationalmethods and its applications; random walks andMarkov chains; convergence concepts inprobability theory.

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33. Dynamical Systems33. Dynamical Systems33. Dynamical Systems33. Dynamical Systems33. Dynamical SystemsPSGR Krishnammal College for Women,Coimbatore (PSGRKCW)26–28 December 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity, Tiruchirapalli)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: P Meena (PSGRKCW)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 152 participants from colleges anduniversities in Coimbatore, Gobichettipalayam,Pollachi, Udumalpet, Tiruppur.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Dynamics and Lagrangianformulation; small oscillations and normal co-ordinate analysis; free and forced oscillationsincluding continuous systems; Hamiltonian dynamics;central force motion; problem solving in dynamics.

34. Recent Progress in Chemistry34. Recent Progress in Chemistry34. Recent Progress in Chemistry34. Recent Progress in Chemistry34. Recent Progress in ChemistryBengal Engineering and Science University,Shibpur (BESU)26–28 December 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Sabyasachi Sarkar (BESU)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay(BESU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 110 participants from variouscolleges and institutions in Howrah, Kolkata,Narendrapur.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Inorganic chemistry in biology:metalloenzymes of life; bio-inspired electrodes;infrared and Raman spectroscopy; time-resolvedand sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy;applications of scanning probe microscopy inchemistry, biology and materials; systematicdevelopment of organic reactions dealing with theC—C bond and C—X bond formations in acyclic,carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems; designingorganic molecules for a useful purpose; nonlinearoptics; thermodynamics; nucleic acids and theirstructure, function and applications in research.

35. Excursions in Mathematics35. Excursions in Mathematics35. Excursions in Mathematics35. Excursions in Mathematics35. Excursions in MathematicsJain University, Bangalore (JU)27–28 December 2013Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: BV Rajarama Bhat (ISI, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: JV Ramana Raju (JU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 128 participants from differentcolleges in Bangalore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Algebra, analysis, statistics,number theory and geometry; colouring of mapsand polyhedra; power of matrix; an inquisitive lookat tilings, art and optimality; the world of

Diophantine equations; probability and sampling;function algebras; notions of curvature.

36. Recent Trends in Functional Analysis36. Recent Trends in Functional Analysis36. Recent Trends in Functional Analysis36. Recent Trends in Functional Analysis36. Recent Trends in Functional AnalysisPSGR Krishnammal College, Coimbatore(PSGRKCW)2–4 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Geetha Srinivasa Rao (University ofMadras)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: K Sumathi (PSGRKCW)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 217 participants from variouscolleges in Coimbatore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Geometric properties ofBanach spaces; Hilbert spaces of holomorphicfunctions; visual cryptography; fixed points ofgeneralised weakly contractive maps in orbitallycomplete metric spaces; compatible and weaklycompatible mappings with fixed points; lengthinequalities for vectors in normed linear spaces;tools and techniques in approximation theory.

37. Cryptology37. Cryptology37. Cryptology37. Cryptology37. CryptologyAurora’s Degree & PG College, Hyderabad3–4 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: S Chaturvedi (UOH, Hyderabad)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Satyanarayana Kota (Aurora’sCollege)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 183 participants from graduate andpostgraduate colleges in Secunderabad andHyderabad.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Elliptic cryptography and itsapplications; nano materials; coding theory; journeyof cryptography; applications and advancements incryptography.

38. Recent Advances in Corrosion38. Recent Advances in Corrosion38. Recent Advances in Corrosion38. Recent Advances in Corrosion38. Recent Advances in CorrosionEngineeringEngineeringEngineeringEngineeringEngineeringCollege of Engineering, Pune (CEP)6–8 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: KA Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: ST Vagge (CEP)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Faculty, research scholars, PG andUG students from colleges/institutions in andaround Pune.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Corrosion engineering;materials selection for corrosion prevention;corrosion of stainless steels; microbial corrosion;corrosion failure analytics; coating for corrosionprotection; pipeline corrosion and its prevention;corrosion testing, monitoring and standards; high

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39. Fluid Dynamics39. Fluid Dynamics39. Fluid Dynamics39. Fluid Dynamics39. Fluid DynamicsPSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (PSGCT)7–9 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: P Kandaswamy (BharathiarUniversity, Coimbatore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Sai Sundara Krishnan (PSGCT)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 115 participants from variouscolleges in Coimbatore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Energy conversion withsupercritical CO2; Lattice-Boltzman method;scaling in fluid dynamics; stokes flow; doublediffusive convection; stability of fluid flows.

40. Fascinating Chemistry40. Fascinating Chemistry40. Fascinating Chemistry40. Fascinating Chemistry40. Fascinating ChemistryMalda College, Malda20–21 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Uday Maitra (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Abul Hassan (Malda College)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 200 participants from variouscolleges in Malda, North Dinajpur.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Chemical kinetics and reactionrate theories; coordination chemistry of thetransition metal ions; neighbouring groupparticipation; learning chemistry in computer age;domain of colloid and interface science with specialreference to nanostructured systems;organometallic complexes of the platinum metals:synthesis, structure and catalytic application; adifferent way to look at thermodynamics;molecules defy rules.

41. Physics 201441. Physics 201441. Physics 201441. Physics 201441. Physics 2014S.B. Arts and K.C.P. Science College, Bijapur(SBAKCPSC)20–22 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: KA Suresh (CSMR, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Suresh C Pattar (SBAKCPSC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 185 participants from variouscolleges in Bijapur.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Recent milestones in physics;from physics to biology and medicine: the story ofevolution of NMR; semiconductor prisms: anintroduction to heterostructures; soft matter: liquidcrystals, membranes, gels and thin films; Cohen-Tannoudji or Anatole Abragam: understandingquantum mechanics and spin physics; multi-functionality of GaN nanostructures; glimpses into

the ‘coloured’ secrets of nature: the spectroscopicperspectives; nanoscience: a fleeting look;understanding molecular vibrations to grapheme toart; applications of nanomaterials; structure andassembly of sesbania mosaic virus; crystallographyin the 21st century.

42. Contemporary Issues in Biology42. Contemporary Issues in Biology42. Contemporary Issues in Biology42. Contemporary Issues in Biology42. Contemporary Issues in BiologyParvatibai Chowgule College, Margao, Goa (PCC)20–22 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: HA Ranganath (Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Dileep K Tikare (PCC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 140 participants from variouscolleges in Goa.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Biological science: its past,present, future; evolutionary biology; evolutionand human health; ethnobotany; bioprospection:floristic diversity in India with particular referenceto medicinal and aromatic plants; genetics andmolecular biology; RNA no longer a poor cousinof DNA; biology of telomeres.

43. Life Sciences: Enkindle Intelligentsia43. Life Sciences: Enkindle Intelligentsia43. Life Sciences: Enkindle Intelligentsia43. Life Sciences: Enkindle Intelligentsia43. Life Sciences: Enkindle IntelligentsiaCMR Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore(CMRIMS)22–23 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Dipshika Chakravortty (IISc,Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: DB Beena (CMRIMS)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 100 participants from colleges inBangalore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Bacterial pathogenesis; geneticengineering; innate and adaptive immunity.

44. Nonlinear Physics44. Nonlinear Physics44. Nonlinear Physics44. Nonlinear Physics44. Nonlinear PhysicsBishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli (BHC)23–25 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: M Lakshmanan (BharathidasanUniversity, Tiruchirapalli)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: T Kanna (BHC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 166 participants from institutions inand around Tiruchirapalli.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Nonlinear dynamics;application of nonlinear physics in spin systems;application of nonlinear physics: Bose–Einsteincondensates, biological systems; nonlinearelectronics; supersymmetry in quantum mechanics;nonlinear optics; optical solitons, rogue waves,similaritons and their applications.

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45. Techno Materia 2014: A Chemical and45. Techno Materia 2014: A Chemical and45. Techno Materia 2014: A Chemical and45. Techno Materia 2014: A Chemical and45. Techno Materia 2014: A Chemical andPhysical Perspective of Trend-SettingPhysical Perspective of Trend-SettingPhysical Perspective of Trend-SettingPhysical Perspective of Trend-SettingPhysical Perspective of Trend-SettingEngineering MaterialsEngineering MaterialsEngineering MaterialsEngineering MaterialsEngineering MaterialsNSS College of Engineering, Palakkad (NSSCE)24–25 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: KR Gopidas (NIIST,Thiruvananthapuram)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: S Mayadevi (NSSCE)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 151 participants from variouscolleges in and around Palakkad.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: The strange and beautifulworld of quantum mechanics; magneto dielectricproperties of some double perovskites; organicphotovoltaics; use of Raman Spectroscopy fromMOFs to proteins; spintronics; material scienceunder extreme pressures; fundamentals of nano-fabrication; photoresponsive materials.

46. Recent Advances in High Energy46. Recent Advances in High Energy46. Recent Advances in High Energy46. Recent Advances in High Energy46. Recent Advances in High EnergyPhysicsPhysicsPhysicsPhysicsPhysicsSt. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda (SJCI)28–29 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: MVN Murthy (IMSc, Chennai)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Mary Gisby Poulose (SJCI)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 180 participants including PGstudents, research scholars and faculty fromvarious colleges in Irinjalakuda.Topics covered: Topics covered: Topics covered: Topics covered: Topics covered: Standard model, Higgs Boson;physics of strong interaction; Higgs discovery atLHC; neutrinos; neutrino oscillations; mysteriousdark matter.

47. Recent Trends in Biology and47. Recent Trends in Biology and47. Recent Trends in Biology and47. Recent Trends in Biology and47. Recent Trends in Biology andBiotechnologyBiotechnologyBiotechnologyBiotechnologyBiotechnologyJamal Mohammed College, Tiruchirapalli (JMC)29–31 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU, Madurai)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: T Nargis Begum (JMC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 252 participants from variousuniversities and colleges in Tiruchirapalli.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Power of evolution; powerof bacterial genetics; connecting genes tobehaviour of circadian clocks; biology andbehaviour of bats; adaptive significance of circadianrhythms; biology: some insights; molecularmechanism of olfactory learning and memory;asexual reproduction, coeloms, and embryonicstem cells; primordial germ cells and sexuality;microalgae from biodiversity to biotechnology;Lipophorin: a targeted protein for drug designs.

48. Ordinary Differential Equations: An48. Ordinary Differential Equations: An48. Ordinary Differential Equations: An48. Ordinary Differential Equations: An48. Ordinary Differential Equations: AnOverview of its Applications and VariousOverview of its Applications and VariousOverview of its Applications and VariousOverview of its Applications and VariousOverview of its Applications and VariousMethods of SolutionsMethods of SolutionsMethods of SolutionsMethods of SolutionsMethods of SolutionsChrist University, Bangalore (CU)30–31 January 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM,Bangalore)/AK Nandakumaran (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Mayamma Joseph (CU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 100 participants from variouscolleges in Bangalore.Topics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics CoveredTopics Covered: Ordinary differentialequations: introduction, examples and models;linear first and second order equations; generaltheory, examples and importance of theoreticalstudy of existence, uniqueness; numerics – itsimportance and modern perspective.

49. Recent Advances in Biology49. Recent Advances in Biology49. Recent Advances in Biology49. Recent Advances in Biology49. Recent Advances in BiologyChrist University, Bangalore (CU)31 January–1 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Umesh Varshney (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: VL Vasantha (CU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 145 participants from 13 colleges inBangalore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: What can we learn frominsect societies; synthetic DNA devices in livingsystems; genomics of restriction modificationsystem; the role of DNA polymerases inreplication and evolution; two big problems ofHIV research today; the importance of microRNAs in disease and development; populationdynamics.

50. Recent Developments in Physical50. Recent Developments in Physical50. Recent Developments in Physical50. Recent Developments in Physical50. Recent Developments in PhysicalChemistryChemistryChemistryChemistryChemistrySt. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda (SJCI)31 January–1 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: ED Jemmis (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Rosabella K Puthur (SJCI)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 143 participants from colleges inIrinjalakuda.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Nobel laureates in chemistry2013; insights into some exactly solvable problemsin quantum mechanics; semi-empirical and ab initio;chemistry with computers; density functionaltheory; how to think of problems in chemistry;molecular mechanics and force fields.

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51. Contemporary Research Issues in Life51. Contemporary Research Issues in Life51. Contemporary Research Issues in Life51. Contemporary Research Issues in Life51. Contemporary Research Issues in LifeSciencesSciencesSciencesSciencesSciencesSDM College, Ujire (SDMC)3–4 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: RR Rao (UAS, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Keshava Hegde Korse (SDMC)ParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipantsParticipants: 205 participants from differentcolleges in Bantwaal, Karkala, Moodbidre, Puttur,Udupi and Ujire.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Power of evolution; evolutionand human health; biology of telomeres; RNA isno longer a poor cousin of DNA; pollinationbiology; importance of low-tech research foreffective management and conservation of ourbiodiversity; role of ethno-botany in search ofnewer and effective drug plants; current problemsin taxonomic teaching and research in India.

52. Interdisciplinary Sciences and Modern52. Interdisciplinary Sciences and Modern52. Interdisciplinary Sciences and Modern52. Interdisciplinary Sciences and Modern52. Interdisciplinary Sciences and ModernBiologyBiologyBiologyBiologyBiologyM.K. Ponda College of Business & Management,Bhopal (MKPCBM)14–15 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Shekhar Mande (NCCS, Pune)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Manju Tembhre (MKPCBM)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 125 participants from differenteducational institutions and research organisationsof Bhopal.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Interdisciplinary sciences andmodern biology; genome to epigenome; networksin biology; optical traps in biology and theirapplications; microbiome and metagenomics; gutmicrobiome.

53. Insights in Evolutionary Biology53. Insights in Evolutionary Biology53. Insights in Evolutionary Biology53. Insights in Evolutionary Biology53. Insights in Evolutionary BiologyM.E.S. Degree College of Arts, Commerce &Science, Bangalore (MES)14–15 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: SK Saidapur (Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Sheela Menon (MES)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 100 participants from variouscolleges in Bangalore.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Power of evolution;pollination, fertilization and dispersal of diasporasin flowering plants; sexual selection; adaptiveradiations in angiosperm pollination biology;insectivorous plants; co-evolutionary arm racebetween bacteria and viruses; evolutionary drifts inprotein domain superfamilies.

54. Plant Taxonomy54. Plant Taxonomy54. Plant Taxonomy54. Plant Taxonomy54. Plant TaxonomyPSGR Krishnammal College for Women,Coimbatore (PSGRKCW)17–18 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: M Sanjappa (UAS, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: W Suganya (PSGRKCW)Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Biodiversity of WesternGhats; orchid biology; the art and science ofbotanical illustrations and biology of carnivorousplants; medicinal plants of India: diversity,conservation and bioprospection; adaptive radiationin angiosperms: pollination biology; biodiversity ofTamil Nadu; taxonomy in conservation.

55. Current Trends in Chemistry55. Current Trends in Chemistry55. Current Trends in Chemistry55. Current Trends in Chemistry55. Current Trends in ChemistryVivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan (VM)17–18 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Anunay Samanta (UOH, Hyderabad)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Basudeb Haldar (VM)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 113 participants from twentydifferent colleges and institutions in Bhirbhum,Burdwan, Hooghly, Sonepat.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Inorganic supramolecularchemistry: a copper mono-nuclear coordinationcomplex to trinuclear iron carboxlates throughmultinuclear polyoxometalates; carbohydrates;understanding the ionic liquids using fluorescencespectroscopy; chemistry of metal dithiolatocoordination complexes; diversity orientedasymmetric synthesis of bio-active natural products;coordination chemistry; synthesis and characterizationof metal naonoparticles incorporated films by the sol-gel process; olefin metathesis mediated synthesis ofα-amino acids and α,β-diamino acids; design offunctional nanomaterials and coatings.

56. Recent Trends in Materials Science and56. Recent Trends in Materials Science and56. Recent Trends in Materials Science and56. Recent Trends in Materials Science and56. Recent Trends in Materials Science andMaterials ResearchMaterials ResearchMaterials ResearchMaterials ResearchMaterials ResearchSree Siddaganga College of Arts, Science &Commerce, Tumkur (SSCASC)21–22 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: KJ Rao (IISc, Bangalore).Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: C Narayanareddy (SSCASC)Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Modern applications ofmagnetic materials; composite materials – the coreof material applications; the expanding world ofsmart materials; a shy group of materials namelyglasses; the challenge of energy storage: batteries;sensor materials; nature of the chemical bond:perspective from electron density analysis; smallcan be both beautiful and exciting.

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57. Differential Equations and its57. Differential Equations and its57. Differential Equations and its57. Differential Equations and its57. Differential Equations and itsApplicationsApplicationsApplicationsApplicationsApplicationsIndian Academy Degree College, Bangalore21–22 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM,Bangalore)Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: PK Lakshmikanthamma (IADC)Topics coveredTopics coveredTopics coveredTopics coveredTopics covered: Ordinary differential equationsand its applications; string equation; heat equation.

58. New Challenges in Plant Taxonomy58. New Challenges in Plant Taxonomy58. New Challenges in Plant Taxonomy58. New Challenges in Plant Taxonomy58. New Challenges in Plant TaxonomyJiwaji University, Gwalior (JU)21–22 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: RR Rao (UAS, Bangalore)Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: Coordinator: AK Jain (JU)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 110 students and teachers.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Current problems of planttaxonomy in India and how to resurrect thesubject; plant nomenclature; taxonomy of IndianLichens; bioprospecting of lichens; forestfragmentation and its implication for biodiversityconservation; ecosystem services; conservation ofbiodiversity through tribal wisdom; flowerevolution.

59. Recent Research in Biological Sciences59. Recent Research in Biological Sciences59. Recent Research in Biological Sciences59. Recent Research in Biological Sciences59. Recent Research in Biological SciencesMadurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (MKU)27–28 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU)

60. Modern Trends in Chemistry and its60. Modern Trends in Chemistry and its60. Modern Trends in Chemistry and its60. Modern Trends in Chemistry and its60. Modern Trends in Chemistry and itsBiological ApplicationsBiological ApplicationsBiological ApplicationsBiological ApplicationsBiological ApplicationsSikkim Government College, Gangtok (SKC)27–28 February 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Anunay Samanta (UOH)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Bhaskar Chakraborty (SKC)Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: Participants: 143 participants from SikkimUniversity, Sikkim Government College,Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, Siliguri College,University of North Bengal.Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: How protein molecule moveslike a snake for respiration in our cell; recentadvances in femto second and single moleculespectroscopy; design of sensitizers forphotodynamic therapy; biomembranes; design ofcyclophanes as molecular probes; fluorescencesignaling of guests and complex environments;history and chemistry of a blockbuster drug;physics and chemistry of the interfaces with specialreference to the synthesis and characterisation of

nanoparticles; catalyst and catalysis; organisationand dynamics of biomembranes from slow solventrelaxation.

61. Spectroscopy61. Spectroscopy61. Spectroscopy61. Spectroscopy61. SpectroscopyChrist University, Bangalore (CU)28 February–1 March 2014Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: Convener: E Arunan (IISc, Bangalore)Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Co-ordinator: Sunaja Devi KR (CU)Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Why molecules absorb/emitradiation; time and space resolved Ramanspectroscopy; solid state spectroscopy;multiphoton spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy;brilouin scattering; light–matter interactions.

12.4 Participation of Teachers inAcademy MeetingsThe Academy maintains a database of brightand motivated teachers around the country,largely based on recommendations receivedfrom the Fellows of the Academy. This list isconstantly updated and contains names ofteachers mainly from colleges and universitydepartments in different disciplines. A few ofthese teachers are invited to the Academymid-year and annual meetings every year togive them an opportunity to attend scientificlectures and to meet and interact with Fellows.About 42 teachers attended the Academymeetings in Bangalore and Chandigarh. Overthe past decade, about 1118 teachers haveattended the Academy meetings.

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13 ‘Women in Science’ Panel Programmes

b. Seminar on ‘Women inScience: Career in Science’SRN Adarsh College, Bangalore11 March 2014

A lecture workshop was held at SRN AdarshCollege, Bangalore, on InternationalWomen’s Day. The workshop was organisedin collaboration with the Women in SciencePanel, Indian Academy of Sciences,Bangalore. The programme was inauguratedby Hon. President Shri V. Premraj Jain; Hon.Secretary Shri Jetendra Mardia; Principal Dr.Bharatish Rao; Programme Convener Prof.Rohini M. Godbole and Programme Co-ordinator Dr. Vijaya B.

In the preliminary address by the workshopconvener, Prof. Godbole, Centre for HighEnergy Physics, IISc, Bangalore, emphasisedthat participation of women students inschool and colleges was high and that theirlevel of achievement was also high. She alsodeliberated on the book Leelavathi’sDaughters, which is a source of inspiration toall women. She said that introducing womeninto science was necessary to bring in morediversity, which always improved the qualityof science and technology.

The technical session began with a talk byDr. Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, from RamanResearch Institute, Bangalore, who spoke on‘The Curious Case of Soft material’. Shespoke about soft plastics, and providedinsight into how these soft materials had theirapplication in drug delivery also.

a. Panel Discussion with JocelynBell BurnellIISc, Bangalore11 January 2014

The Women in Science (WiS) Panel of theIndian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) andStudents’ Council, IISc (Bangalore), on 11January 2014, organised an InteractiveDiscussion Session with Prof. Dame JocelynBell Burnell, visiting Professor at theUniversity of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow ofMansfield College. Prof. Bell discoveredpulsars, pulsating radio stars, in 1968. She hasreceived several honours: she was elected

Fellow of theRoyal Societyand wasappointedDameCommander ofthe Order ofthe BritishEmpire. Shehas served asthe Presidentof the RoyalAstronomicalSociety and theInstitute ofPhysics.Throughout

her career she has consistently encouragedwomen to pursue science and is passionateabout the cause. During the interactivesession, issues such as stereotype biases,gender discrimination and its covert methodswere discussed.

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The following session was by Dr. GurpreetKaur, scientist at Novozymes South Asia Pvt.Ltd. Her lecture was on ‘Biotechnology inApplied research’. She explained thechallenges of the biotechnology in appliedresearch, on how to make a right enzyme andits delivery in commercial application.

The third speaker for the day was Dr. UrbasiSinha, from Raman Research Institute, whospoke on quantum mechanics and quantumcomputers.

The fourth speaker was Dr. Prajval Shastri,from Indian Institute of Astrophysics,Bangalore, who spoke on ‘HarnessingGravity to Glow and Grow: Galaxies andTheir Blackholes’.

The post-lunch session was a PanelDiscussion on ‘Women in Science’ byeminent speakers, including Dr. VidyanandNanjundiah from Indian Institute of Science,Dr. Mukund Thatti from National Centre forBiological sciences, Dr. Sheela K. Ramaseshafrom Indian Institute of Science, Dr. PrajvalShastri from Indian Institute of Astrophysicsand Dr. Mahua Ghosh from the PhysicsDepartment of Mount Carmel College. In thisinteractive session, many girl students spokeabout gender-bias problems. The panellistsshared their experiences and motivated thestudents.

Over 90 students and many teachers from 12colleges participated in the workshop.

14 Hindi WorkshopsThe following workshops were jointlyorganized by the Indian Academy of Sciencesand the Raman Research Institute.

Hindi Week celebrations were held during10–13 September 2013. Various competitionsin areas such as essay writing, singing anddictation writing, etc., were organized. On theconcluding day, in a special lecture, Prof.Mallikarjun B, Director, Central Universityof Karnataka, Gulbarga, spoke on 'LinguisticLandscape of India'. Prizes were distributed

to the winners of the various competitionsheld during the event.

On 28 June 2013, Dr. V. Thilagam, HindiOfficer, IISc, Bangalore, conducted aworkshop on ‘Official Notings and FilingSystems’.

Two Hindi workshops, on 17 December 2013and 7 March 2014, entitled ‘Two Words’,were conducted by Sri Mahadev G Savdatti,Assistant Director (Retd.), Department ofOfficial Language, Bangalore.

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premises of theAcademy, began withthe inaugural ceremonypresided by thePresident of theAcademy, DipankarChatterji, who in hisinaugural addressintroduced C.V. Ramanand his research to thestudents gathered. RamjiRaghavan, Founder andChairman of AIF, sharedhis views on the joys oflearning and discovery.The students of

Poornapragna High School and GovernmentHigh School, IISc, demonstrated theirscientific models in an interesting way. Afterthis, the students were escorted to the RamanMuseum at Raman Research Institute. Later inthe evening a Public Lecture was organisedby IASc at the Faculty Hall, IISc. The PublicLecture was delivered by Professor MichaelL. Klein, a well-known scientist from TempleUniversity, USA, and Raman Professor,IASc.

15 National Science Day

Every year, on 28th February, NationalScience Day is celebrated in India to mark thediscovery of the Raman Effect in 1928 by SirC.V. Raman. The Government of Indiainitiated this programme with the followingobjectives: to widely spread the significanceof scientific applications in daily life; toshowcase all activities, efforts andachievements in the field of science for humanwelfare; to discuss all issues and implementnew technologies for the development ofscience; to provide opportunity toscientific minded citizens in the countryand to popularise science and technology.The theme for the year 2014 was ‘FosteringScientific Temper’.

On this occasion, the Indian Academy ofSciences (IASc) in association with AgastyaInternational Foundation (AIF) organised ademonstration of scientific models/projects for students from various schoolsin Bangalore. The event, held in the

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The Academy has begun constructionof a new hostel block in its FellowsResidency at Jalahalli. The new hostelblock will be a three-storey building oftotal area 1228 sq. ft. with 24 rooms.The entire civil work is expected to becompleted early next year.

16 Additional Hostel Facility at Jalahalli

17 Dainik Bhaskar National EducationLeadership Award 2013

The Dainik Bhaskar National EducationLeadership Award recognises institutions thatare innovative, modern and industry-related intheir curriculum marketing, advertising,marketing communications, engineering andtechnology.

The Indian Academy of Sciences washonoured with the Dainik Bhaskar NationalEducation Leadership Award 2013 inrecognition of leadership in education. Theaward was presented on 23 October 2013 atMumbai.

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18 Academy Finances

The accounts for the financial year 2013–14 were audited by a firm of Chartered Accountants.A summary of the income and expenditure is given below:

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

the Academy such as organising annualmeetings and discussion meetings andconducting programmes on science education,etc. The grant-in-aid support by theDepartment of Science and Technology hasgreatly contributed to the success of theactivities undertaken by the Academy.

Plan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanIncomeIncomeIncomeIncomeIncome RupeesRupeesRupeesRupeesRupees

(in lakhs)

Grant – DST 1477.69

Subscriptions 77.22

Interest earned 38.09on Plan grant

Others 7.02

Deficit underNon-Plan 0.02

1600.04

Plan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanPlan/Non-PlanExpenditureExpenditureExpenditureExpenditureExpenditure RupeesRupeesRupeesRupeesRupees

(in lakhs)

Journal printing 161.54

Science education programmes 490.32

Salaries 246.06

Medical expenses 14.44

Fellows’ repository 0.02

Annual/mid-year meetings 60.24

Postage 39.23

Others (expenses on retirement benefits,bonus, maintenance of building,

equipment, stationery, packing, pensionfund, furniture and equipment, library

books, discussion meeting, etc.) 262.76

Surplus 325.43

1600.04

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Table 1

Information about published papers in journals (January to December 2013)

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

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 36 7 190 1382 ( 142)

2. Current Science 104,105 24 775 3524* ( 292)

3. J. Astrophys. Astr. 34 4 28 440 ( 18)

4. Journal of Biosciences 38 5 101 1013 ( 108)

5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 125 6 179 1690 ( 240)

6. Journal of Earth System Science 122 6 121 1638 ( 66)

7. Journal of Genetics 92 3 105 853 ( 312)

8. Pramana 80,81 12 172 2166 ( 362)

9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 123 4 48 598 ( 86)

10. Resonance 18 12 100 1155 ( 59)

11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 38 6 77 1505 ( 729)

Total - - 1896 15964 ( 1184)

* Including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s total no. of pages

Table 2

Information on papers submitted for publication (January to December 2013)

Accepted Rejected Pending Total (**)

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 186 649+ 29 876 ( 16)

2. Current Science 509 2413 348 3270* ( 1095)

3. J. Astrophys. Astr. 36 (94++) 97 2 135 (94++) ( 37)

4. Journal of Biosciences 94 955 8 1057 ( 142)

5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 165 840 22 1027 ( 181)

6. Journal of Earth System Science 86 274 51 411 ( 13)

7. Journal of Genetics 146 463+ 11 641 ( 123)

8. Pramana 138 406 74 618 ( 78)

9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 55 360 48 463 ( 97)

10. Resonance 82 42 9 133 ( 80)

11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 53 476 112 641 ( 227)

Total 1550 6975 714 9272 ( 1741)

+ Withdrawn (BMS: 12, JG: 21)* Including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s figures++ Indicates articles accepted for a conference proceedings

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Table 4

Details of 2013 Summer Fellowships

STUDENTS TEACHERS

Subjects Applications Offered Availed Applications Offered Availedreceived received

1. Life Sciences 4872 610 530 287 38 21(incl. Agric. Sciences)

2. Chemistry 2314 331 262 165 62 45

3. Physics 2269 313 242 132 38 22

4. Engineering 11053 396 274 223 40 24

5. Earth Sciences 916 179 144 25 11 7

6. Mathematics 865 125 96 52 13 6

Total 22289 1954 1548 884 202 125

Table 3

Circulation details of journals (2013)

Subscription Complimentary Fellows & TotalIndia Foreign India Foreign

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 2470a - 87 16 33 2606

2. Current Science 4965b 53d 150 40 41 5249

3. J. Astrophys. Astr. 1238 - 84 5 16 1343

4. Journal of Biosciences 2010 - 98 36 96 2240

5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 1915 - 89 18 62 2084

6. Journal of Earth System Science 1300 - 82 26 40 1448

7. Journal of Genetics 1650 - 96 24 51 1821

8. Pramana 2178 - 106 8 57 2349

9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 1832 - 91 22 25 1970

10. Resonance 6207c - 191 7 - 6405

11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 1670 - 120 14 33 1837

Total 27435 53 1194 216 454 29352

a. Includes about 615 615 615 615 615 MRSI members in India and abroadb. Includes about 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 personal subscribersc. Includes about 2640 2640 2640 2640 2640 personal subscribersd. Includes about 22 22 22 22 22 complimentary copies sent to Third World Countries

Associates

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Bera, Jitendra KBera, Jitendra KBera, Jitendra KBera, Jitendra KBera, Jitendra KIndian Institute of Technology,KanpurSp: Organometallic Chemistry;Small Molecule Activation;Catalysis

Chakraborti,Chakraborti,Chakraborti,Chakraborti,Chakraborti, Asit KAsit KAsit KAsit KAsit KNational Institute ofPharmaceutical Education &Research, SAS NagarSp: Synthetic OrganicChemistry; Green Chemistry;Medicinal Chemistry

Chattarji, SumantraChattarji, SumantraChattarji, SumantraChattarji, SumantraChattarji, SumantraNational Centre for BiologicalSciences, BangaloreSp: Neurobiology; Biophysics;Physiology

Garg, NaveenGarg, NaveenGarg, NaveenGarg, NaveenGarg, NaveenIndian Institute of Technology,New DelhiSp: ApproximationAlgorithms; CombinatorialOptimisation; Graph Theoryand Algorithms

Ghate, EknathGhate, EknathGhate, EknathGhate, EknathGhate, EknathTata Institute of FundamentalResearch, MumbaiSp: Automorphic Forms;Number Theory; GaloisRepresentations; ArithmeticGeometry

Jayananda, MJayananda, MJayananda, MJayananda, MJayananda, MUniversity of Delhi, DelhiSp: Solid Earth Geochemistry;Archean Magmatism;Continental Growth; Tectonics

Krishnamurthy, MKrishnamurthy, MKrishnamurthy, MKrishnamurthy, MKrishnamurthy, MTata Institute of FundamentalResearch, MumbaiSp: Atomic and MolecularPhysics; Intense Laser PlasmaPhysics; Optical Sciences

Kulkarni, Giridhar UKulkarni, Giridhar UKulkarni, Giridhar UKulkarni, Giridhar UKulkarni, Giridhar UJN Centre for AdvancedScientific Research, BangaloreSp: Nanomaterials;Nanolithography andFabrications; MolecularCrystals and Properties

Kundu, ManikuntalaKundu, ManikuntalaKundu, ManikuntalaKundu, ManikuntalaKundu, ManikuntalaBose Institute, KolkataSp: Stress Response inMycobacterium tuberculosis;Immunology of Host CellResponse to Helicobacter pylori

Madras, GiridharMadras, GiridharMadras, GiridharMadras, GiridharMadras, GiridharIndian Institute of Science,BangaloreSp: Polymers; SupercriticalFluids; Catalysis

Annexure 1 New Fellows(effective 1 January 2014)

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Mahadevan, PriyaMahadevan, PriyaMahadevan, PriyaMahadevan, PriyaMahadevan, PriyaSN Bose National Centre forBasic Sciences, KolkataSp: Electronic Structure ofMaterials; Magnetism;Nanostructure Materials

Majumdar, Subeer SMajumdar, Subeer SMajumdar, Subeer SMajumdar, Subeer SMajumdar, Subeer SNational Institute ofImmunology, New DelhiSp: Animal Biotechnology;Transgenic Animals;Endocrinology

Mandal, GautamMandal, GautamMandal, GautamMandal, GautamMandal, GautamTata Institute of FundamentalResearch, MumbaiSp: Quantum Field Theory;Gravity; String Theory

Mujumdar, PradeepMujumdar, PradeepMujumdar, PradeepMujumdar, PradeepMujumdar, PradeepIndian Institute of Science,BangaloreSp: Hydrology; Climate ChangeImpacts; UncertaintyQuantification

Mukerji, MitaliMukerji, MitaliMukerji, MitaliMukerji, MitaliMukerji, MitaliCSIR – Institute of Genomics &Integrative Biology, New DelhiSp: Functional Genomics;Population Genomics;Ayurgenomics

Nayak, ShaileshNayak, ShaileshNayak, ShaileshNayak, ShaileshNayak, ShaileshMinistry of Earth Sciences, NewDelhiSp: Coastal and OceanProcesses; Oceanography

Raghavarao, K S M SRaghavarao, K S M SRaghavarao, K S M SRaghavarao, K S M SRaghavarao, K S M SCSIR – Central FoodTechnological ResearchInstitute, MysoreSp: Food Engineering,Biotechnology; ChemicalEngineering

Ramana, C VRamana, C VRamana, C VRamana, C VRamana, C VCSIR – National ChemicalLaboratory, PuneSp: Total Synthesis;Carbohydrate Chemistry;Transition Metal Catalysis

Rao, Ravi ARao, Ravi ARao, Ravi ARao, Ravi ARao, Ravi ATata Institute of FundamentalResearch, MumbaiSp: Classical Algebraic K-Theory, Commutative Algebra,Linear Algebra

Roy, SyamalRoy, SyamalRoy, SyamalRoy, SyamalRoy, SyamalCSIR - Indian Institute ofChemical Biology, KolkataSp: Immunology; Parasitology;Vaccine Research

Roychoudhury, SusantaRoychoudhury, SusantaRoychoudhury, SusantaRoychoudhury, SusantaRoychoudhury, SusantaCSIR – Indian Institute ofChemical Biology, KolkataSp: Cancer Biology; HumanGenetics; Genomics

Subramaniam, AnnapurniSubramaniam, AnnapurniSubramaniam, AnnapurniSubramaniam, AnnapurniSubramaniam, AnnapurniIndian Institute of Astrophysics,BangaloreSp: Stellar Population; NearbyGalaxies; Star Clusters; StellarEvolution; Galactic Dynamics

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Annexure 2 Fellows Deceased

Agarwal, Shyam SwarupAgarwal, Shyam SwarupAgarwal, Shyam SwarupAgarwal, Shyam SwarupAgarwal, Shyam Swarup(b. 05-07-1941, d. 02-12-2013)Elected: 1985Sp: Internal Medicine, Geneticsand Immunology

Bhattacharyya, SasankaBhattacharyya, SasankaBhattacharyya, SasankaBhattacharyya, SasankaBhattacharyya, SasankaChandraChandraChandraChandraChandra(b. 31-08-1918, d. 19-05-2013)Elected: 1975Sp: Organic Chemistry

Subramanian, VSubramanian, VSubramanian, VSubramanian, VSubramanian, VCSIR – Central LeatherResearch Institute, ChennaiSp: Computational Chemistry;Non-Covalent Interactions;Biomolecular Simulations

Tandon, NikhilTandon, NikhilTandon, NikhilTandon, NikhilTandon, NikhilAll India Institute of MedicalSciences, New DelhiSp: Endocrinology; ChronicDisease Epidemiology

Bhattacherjee, SatyendraBhattacherjee, SatyendraBhattacherjee, SatyendraBhattacherjee, SatyendraBhattacherjee, SatyendraKumarKumarKumarKumarKumar(b. 02-10-1926, d. 28-04-2013)Elected: 1973Sp: Experimental NuclearPhysics

Narasimhan, PalliakaranaiNarasimhan, PalliakaranaiNarasimhan, PalliakaranaiNarasimhan, PalliakaranaiNarasimhan, PalliakaranaiThirumalaiThirumalaiThirumalaiThirumalaiThirumalai(b. 28-07-1928, d. 03-05-2013)Elected: 1971Sp: Theoretical Chemistry andMagnetic Resonance

Paulraj, Arogyaswami JPaulraj, Arogyaswami JPaulraj, Arogyaswami JPaulraj, Arogyaswami JPaulraj, Arogyaswami JElectrical EngineeringDepartment,Stanford University,Stanford, USA

Ramanathan, VeerabhadranRamanathan, VeerabhadranRamanathan, VeerabhadranRamanathan, VeerabhadranRamanathan, VeerabhadranCenter for Clouds, Chemistryand Climate, Scripps Institutionof Oceanography, University ofCalifornia, San Diego, USA

Schmidt, Brian PSchmidt, Brian PSchmidt, Brian PSchmidt, Brian PSchmidt, Brian PThe Research School ofAstronomy and Astrophysics,Mount Stromlo Observatory,The Australian NationalUniversity, Australia

Honorary Fellows

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Sarabhai, AnandSarabhai, AnandSarabhai, AnandSarabhai, AnandSarabhai, Anand(b. 03-04-1938, d. 02-02-2013)Elected: 1981Sp: Molecular Biology,Biotechnology, Nutrition andEcological Strategies

Seshagiri, NarasimhiahSeshagiri, NarasimhiahSeshagiri, NarasimhiahSeshagiri, NarasimhiahSeshagiri, Narasimhiah(b. 10-05-1940, d. 26-05-2013)Elected: 1974Sp: Electronics, DataCommunication, TheoreticalPhysics and TheoreticalMolecular Biology

Siddiqi, ObaidSiddiqi, ObaidSiddiqi, ObaidSiddiqi, ObaidSiddiqi, Obaid(b. 07-01-1932, d. 26-07-2013)Elected: 1968Sp: Molecular and BehaviouralGenetics

Narendran,ThekkeNarendran,ThekkeNarendran,ThekkeNarendran,ThekkeNarendran,ThekkeCuruppatheCuruppatheCuruppatheCuruppatheCuruppathe(b. 24-02-1944, d. 31-12-2013)Elected: 2000Sp: Systematic Entomology

Rao, Vallurupalli SitaRao, Vallurupalli SitaRao, Vallurupalli SitaRao, Vallurupalli SitaRao, Vallurupalli SitaRaghavendraRaghavendraRaghavendraRaghavendraRaghavendra(b. 01-02-1931, d. 26-09-2013)Elected: 1974Sp: Conformation ofBiopolymers

Reddy, Chintala Raja RamReddy, Chintala Raja RamReddy, Chintala Raja RamReddy, Chintala Raja RamReddy, Chintala Raja RamMohanMohanMohanMohanMohan(b. 16-01-1929, d. 12-12-2012)Elected: 1980Sp: Pathology, Parasitologyand Cancer Epidemiology

Roy, SupriyaRoy, SupriyaRoy, SupriyaRoy, SupriyaRoy, Supriya(b. 01-06-1931, d. 22-08-2013)Elected: 1986Sp: Metallogeny, Ore-Genesisand Ore Mineralogy

Honorary Fellow Deceased

Dodson, George GuyDodson, George GuyDodson, George GuyDodson, George GuyDodson, George Guy(b. 13-01-1937, d. 24-12-2012)Elected: 2003Sp:Structural Biology andMacromolecularCrystallography

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Agarwalla, Sanjib KumarAgarwalla, Sanjib KumarAgarwalla, Sanjib KumarAgarwalla, Sanjib KumarAgarwalla, Sanjib KumarInstitute of Physics,BhubaneswarSp: Particle Physics, DarkMatter

Bera, Melinda KumarBera, Melinda KumarBera, Melinda KumarBera, Melinda KumarBera, Melinda KumarIndian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research, NadiaSp: Sedimentology, SequenceStratigraphy, Stable IsotopeGeochemistry, Evolution ofHimalayan Foreland, IndianMonsoon

Gupta, NeenaGupta, NeenaGupta, NeenaGupta, NeenaGupta, NeenaIndian Statistical Institute,KolkataSp: Commutative Algebra,Affine Fibrations, Affine Spaces

Guttal, VishweshaGuttal, VishweshaGuttal, VishweshaGuttal, VishweshaGuttal, VishweshaIndian Institute of Science,BangaloreSp: Theoretical Ecology &Evolution, EcosystemDynamics, Collective AnimalBehaviour

Jha, RajanJha, RajanJha, RajanJha, RajanJha, RajanIndian Institute of Technology,BhubaneswarSp: Optical Sensors, OpticalFibre-based Devices, Plasmonics

Annexure 3 New Associates(effective 1 July 2013)

Mabalirajan, UlaganathanMabalirajan, UlaganathanMabalirajan, UlaganathanMabalirajan, UlaganathanMabalirajan, UlaganathanInstitute of Genomics &Integrative Biology, DelhiSp: Allergy & Asthama,Mitochondrial Biology, DrugDiscovery

Maiti, DebabrataMaiti, DebabrataMaiti, DebabrataMaiti, DebabrataMaiti, Debabrata Indian Institute of Technology,MumbaiSp: Organometallic Chemistry,Bioinorganic Chemistry,Synthetic Catalysis

Misra, AbhaMisra, AbhaMisra, AbhaMisra, AbhaMisra, AbhaIndian Institute of Science,BangaloreSp: Graphene-based NEMS/MEMS Devices, Fuel Cells,Sensors & Actuators

Rajaraman, GopalanRajaraman, GopalanRajaraman, GopalanRajaraman, GopalanRajaraman, GopalanIndian Institute of Technology,MumbaiSp: Applied ComputationalChemistry, MolecularMagnetism, Catalysis

Sheshasayee, AswinSheshasayee, AswinSheshasayee, AswinSheshasayee, AswinSheshasayee, AswinNarayanNarayanNarayanNarayanNarayanNational Centre for BiologicalSciences, BangaloreSp: Evolution of Genomics,Gene Regulation, Microbiology

Viswanatha, RanjaniViswanatha, RanjaniViswanatha, RanjaniViswanatha, RanjaniViswanatha, RanjaniJawaharlal Nehru Centre forAdvanced Scientific Research,BangaloreSp: Nanomaterials,Spectroscopy & ElectronicStructure, Magnetism

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A. Special Lectures1. S SivaramS SivaramS SivaramS SivaramS Sivaram, NCL, Pune

Sustainable materials based on aliphaticpolyesters: Teaching old chemistry somenew tricks

2. Deepak PentalDeepak PentalDeepak PentalDeepak PentalDeepak Pental, University of Delhi SouthCampus, New Delhi

Breeding of oilseed mustard: Tales fromsome marathon runners

B. Public Lecture1. T Jacob JohnT Jacob JohnT Jacob JohnT Jacob JohnT Jacob John, Vellore

India’s success story: Polio eradication

C. Lecture presentations byFellows/Associates

1. H N GhoshH N GhoshH N GhoshH N GhoshH N Ghosh, BARC, Mumbai

Harvesting solar energy through dye-sensitized and quantum dot solar cell

2. Amol DigheAmol DigheAmol DigheAmol DigheAmol Dighe, TIFR, Mumbai

Particle astrophysics of neutrinos

3. A C MishraA C MishraA C MishraA C MishraA C Mishra, NIV, Pune

Influenza viruses and public health in thefirst decade of twenty-first century

4. Debasis ChattopadhyayDebasis ChattopadhyayDebasis ChattopadhyayDebasis ChattopadhyayDebasis Chattopadhyay, NIPGR, NewDelhi

Diverse role of calcineurin B-like-interacting protein kinases in plants

5. B Sundar RajanB Sundar RajanB Sundar RajanB Sundar RajanB Sundar Rajan, IISc, Bangalore

Wireless communication with multipleantennas

6. V K SharmaV K SharmaV K SharmaV K SharmaV K Sharma, JNCASR, Bangalore

Understanding entrainment of fruit flyDrosophila melanogaster circadian clocksunder natural conditions

7. Uday BandyopadhyayUday BandyopadhyayUday BandyopadhyayUday BandyopadhyayUday Bandyopadhyay, IICB, Kolkata

Designing of a novel tryptamine-gallicacid hybrid to prevent nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced gastric ulcer/gastropathy

8. S BaskaranS BaskaranS BaskaranS BaskaranS Baskaran, IIT, Chennai

Domino reaction-based approach for thesynthesis of novel molecules

9. T K NayakT K NayakT K NayakT K NayakT K Nayak, VECC, Kolkata

Exploring quantum chromodynamicsphase transitions at the relativistic heavyion collider and the large hadron collider

10. Soumya SwaminathanSoumya SwaminathanSoumya SwaminathanSoumya SwaminathanSoumya Swaminathan, NIRT, Chennai

Tuberculosis and HIV: A decade ofresearch

11. Amiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar PaniAmiya Kumar Pani, IIT, Mumbai

Scientific computing: A new way oflooking at mathematics

12. S K PatiS K PatiS K PatiS K PatiS K Pati, JNCASR, Bangalore

Structure and electronic properties ofDNA and modified-DNA systems

13. S ShankaranarayananS ShankaranarayananS ShankaranarayananS ShankaranarayananS Shankaranarayanan, IISER,Thiruvananthapuram

Higher derivative theories and quantumphase transition

14. K N RaghavanK N RaghavanK N RaghavanK N RaghavanK N Raghavan, IMSc, Chennai

Invariant theory and standard monomialtheory

Annexure 4 24th Mid-Year Meeting5–6 July 2013, Bangalore

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A. Presidential AddressDipankar ChatterjiDipankar ChatterjiDipankar ChatterjiDipankar ChatterjiDipankar Chatterji, IISc, Bangalore

Stress management, the bacterial ways

B. (a) Symposium on: Cyber securityand privacy

1. N BalakrishnanN BalakrishnanN BalakrishnanN BalakrishnanN Balakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore

Social media, analytics and nationalsecurity

2. P K AgarwalP K AgarwalP K AgarwalP K AgarwalP K Agarwal, Power System OperationCorporation Ltd, New Delhi

Security challenges for the power grid/smart grid infrastructure

3. Gulshan RaiGulshan RaiGulshan RaiGulshan RaiGulshan Rai, ICERT, New Delhi

Cyberspace and threats

4. R K ShyamasundarR K ShyamasundarR K ShyamasundarR K ShyamasundarR K Shyamasundar, TIFR, Mumbai

Towards a science of cybersecurity

(b) Symposium on: Food andnutritional security

1. B S DhillonB S DhillonB S DhillonB S DhillonB S Dhillon, Punjab AgriculturalUniversity, Ludhiana

Innovations for adding value to agriculture

2. V PrakashV PrakashV PrakashV PrakashV Prakash, JSS Group of TechnicalInstitutions, Mysore

Food and nutrition security from farm tofolk

3. T R SharmaT R SharmaT R SharmaT R SharmaT R Sharma, IARI, New Delhi

Plant genome analysis for acceleratedgene discovery

4. Rakesh TuliRakesh TuliRakesh TuliRakesh TuliRakesh Tuli, National Agri-FoodBiotechnology Institute, Mohali

Safer GM crops: Opportunities forinnovations

C. Special Lectures1. Girish SahniGirish SahniGirish SahniGirish SahniGirish Sahni, CSIR-IMTECH,

Chandigarh

Exploiting enzyme mechanistic insightsfor the design of improved clot buster(thrombolytic) therapy

2. Anil KumarAnil KumarAnil KumarAnil KumarAnil Kumar, IISc, Bangalore

Quantum computation and quantuminformation processing by NMR:Introduction and recent developments

Annexure 5 79th Annual Meeting8–10 November 2013, Chandigarh

15. B J RaoB J RaoB J RaoB J RaoB J Rao, TIFR, Mumbai

Spatial movements of chromosomes thatfacilitate their repairs

16. Prahladh HarshaPrahladh HarshaPrahladh HarshaPrahladh HarshaPrahladh Harsha, TIFR, Mumbai

Communication complexity: A treasurehouse of lower bounds

17. N V Chalapathi RaoN V Chalapathi RaoN V Chalapathi RaoN V Chalapathi RaoN V Chalapathi Rao, BHU, Varanasi

Kimberlites: Keys for understanding thegeodynamic evolution of ancient cratons

18. M Durga PrasadM Durga PrasadM Durga PrasadM Durga PrasadM Durga Prasad, University ofHyderabad, Hyderabad

An electronic structure perspective of thepromoter modes in proton transferreactions

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D. Public Lectures1. Jayati GhoshJayati GhoshJayati GhoshJayati GhoshJayati Ghosh, JNU, New Delhi

Demographic dividend or ticking timebomb?

2. Shivashankar MenonShivashankar MenonShivashankar MenonShivashankar MenonShivashankar Menon, National SecurityAdvisor, PMO, New Delhi

Science and security

E. Lectures by Fellows/Associates1. Avesh K TyagiAvesh K TyagiAvesh K TyagiAvesh K TyagiAvesh K Tyagi, BARC, Mumbai

Rational design of new functionalmaterials

2. Sourendu GuptaSourendu GuptaSourendu GuptaSourendu GuptaSourendu Gupta, TIFR, Mumbai

Little bangs

3. Rajan DigheRajan DigheRajan DigheRajan DigheRajan Dighe, IISc, Bangalore

Hormones, receptors and antibodies

4. S A HaiderS A HaiderS A HaiderS A HaiderS A Haider, PRL, Ahmedabad

Meteoroid ablation in the Martianatmosphere: Observation and modelling

5. S GopalakrishnanS GopalakrishnanS GopalakrishnanS GopalakrishnanS Gopalakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore

Wave propagation in nanostructures

6. Jaya N IyerJaya N IyerJaya N IyerJaya N IyerJaya N Iyer, IMSc, Chennai

Tertiary classes–After Chern-Simonstheory

7. G Narahari SastryG Narahari SastryG Narahari SastryG Narahari SastryG Narahari Sastry, IICT, Hyderabad

Cooperativity of non-covalentinteractions

8. Madan RaoMadan RaoMadan RaoMadan RaoMadan Rao, RRI & NCBS, Bangalore

Mechanics of information processing andcomputation in cells

9. Souvik MaitiSouvik MaitiSouvik MaitiSouvik MaitiSouvik Maiti, IGIB, Delhi

Interfering with interference: Targetingthe RNAi pathway using small molecules

10. Sangita MukhopadhyaySangita MukhopadhyaySangita MukhopadhyaySangita MukhopadhyaySangita Mukhopadhyay, CDFD,Hyderabad

PPE18 protein functions as a virulencefactor during Mycobacterium tuberculosisinfection

11. Bhim SinghBhim SinghBhim SinghBhim SinghBhim Singh, IIT, New Delhi

Power quality problems and theirmitigation

12. G MugeshG MugeshG MugeshG MugeshG Mugesh, IISc, Bangalore

Deiodination of thyroid hormones

13. Krishnendu SenguptaKrishnendu SenguptaKrishnendu SenguptaKrishnendu SenguptaKrishnendu Sengupta, IACS, Kolkata

Junctions of topological insulators

14. Subi J GeorgeSubi J GeorgeSubi J GeorgeSubi J GeorgeSubi J George, JNCASR, Bangalore

Supramolecular synthesis of functionalmaterials

15. Sharad S SaneSharad S SaneSharad S SaneSharad S SaneSharad S Sane, IIT, Mumbai

Combinatorics of block designs and finitegeometries

16. Arun K PatiArun K PatiArun K PatiArun K PatiArun K Pati, HRI, Allahabad

Weak measurement and quantumcorrelation

17. Vijayakumar S NairVijayakumar S NairVijayakumar S NairVijayakumar S NairVijayakumar S Nair, VSSC,Thiruvananthapuram

Climate implications of soot on snow

18. Debashis MitraDebashis MitraDebashis MitraDebashis MitraDebashis Mitra, NCCS, Pune

Host factors in HIV-1 pathogenesis andnovel strategies targeting the virus

19. Kirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra SahuKirti Chandra Sahu, IIT, Hyderabad

Double-diffusive instability in viscosity-stratified flows

20. Sujit K GhoshSujit K GhoshSujit K GhoshSujit K GhoshSujit K Ghosh, IISER, Pune

Structural dynamism and functionalstudies of porous coordination polymers

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2013-2014

STATEMENTOF ACCOUNTS

STATEMENTOF ACCOUNTS

INDIAN ACADEMYOF SCIENCES

BANGALORE

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Receipts and Payments for the year ending 31 March 2014(Amount in rupees)

RECEIPTS 2013-2014 2012-2013

I Opening balances:a) Cash in hand 55,392 16,275b) Bank balances 3,41,34,619 2,44,64,103

II Grants received:a) From Govt of India 12,54,30,000 6,91,30,000b) From other sources 2,63,20,729

III Income on investments:a) Earmarked endowment funds 19,41,164 10,25,120b) Own funds

IV Interest receiveda) On bank deposits 40,12,526 27,77,888b) Loans & advances, etc. 8,526 62,230

V Other income 2,71,96,556 2,57,16,848VI Any other receipts

a) Contribution to Corpus fundb) Contribution to scientific research 30,000 55,000c) Fellowship fees 16,100 17,500d) DST meetings/Inspire 14,12,478 17,09,354

VII Investments matured 2,27,68,695 3,09,00,000TOTAL 21,70,06,056 18,21,95,047

PAYMENTSI Expenses

a) Establishment expenses 2,67,18,547 2,07,61,004b) Administrative expenses 9,41,71,218 8,88,38,032

II Investments and deposits made 4,56,82,271 3,45,32,217III Expenditure on

a) Fixed assets 32,18,546 30,46,232b) Capital work in progress 61,98,194 -c) Land 74,271

IV Refund of surplus money/loansV Other payments 11,73,835 7,53,280

Closing balances:a) Cash in hand 58,529 55,392b) Bank balances 3,97,84,916 3,41,34,619TOTAL 21,70,06,056 18,21,95,047

Place: Bangalore As per our report of even dateDate: 16.05.2014 For G R Venkatanarayana

Chartered Accountants

Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/-(D Chatterji) (J Srinivasan) (G Chandramohan) (G R Venkatanarayana)

President Treasurer Executive Secretary Partner

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Balance Sheet as on 31 March 2014

(Amount in Rupees)2013-2014 2012-2013

SOURCES OF FUNDSCorpus/Capital fund 14,72,99,170 14,65,64,104Earmarked/endowment funds 5,71,33,489 3,81,25,943Current liabilities and provisions 4,18,27,976 3,07,34,862TOTAL 24,62,60,635 21,54,24,909ASSETS/APPLICATION OF FUNDSFixed assets 7,24,54,366 7,31,19,688Investments: from earmarked/endowment funds 5,65,63,212 3,81,25,941Investments: others 6,86,88,303 6,42,11,998Current assets, loans, advances, etc. 4,85,54,754 3,99,67,282TOTAL 24,62,60,635 21,54,24,909

Place: Bangalore As per our report of even dateDate: 16.05.2014 For G R Venkatanarayana

Chartered Accountants

Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/-(D Chatterji) (J Srinivasan) (G Chandramohan) (G R Venkatanarayana)

President Treasurer Executive Secretary Partner

Income and Expenditure for the year ending 31 March 2014

(Amount in Rupees)

Particulars 2013-2014 2012-2013A. INCOME Plan Non-Plan Plan Non-PlanGrants/subsidies 14,58,18,906 19,50,000 11,25,26,180 24,30,000Fees/subscriptions 77,22,172 78,13,888Income from royalty, publications, etc. 1,80,77,634 1,21,41,712Interest earned 38,09,391 2,11,661 25,83,343 6,75,078Other income 2,19,807 6,72,886TOTAL (A) 14,96,28,297 2,81,81,274 11,51,09,523 2,37,33,564B. EXPENDITUREEstablishment expenses 2,00,73,851 69,17,807 1,65,08,900 42,68,690Other administrative expenses, etc. 9,70,10,972 34,58,102 7,62,60,468 82,08,328TOTAL (B) 11,70,84,823 1,03,75,909 9,27,69,368 1,24,77,018C. Springer royalty transferred to JASP Fund 1,78,07,365 1,12,57,796D. Surplus/(Deficit) 3,25,43,474 (2,000) 2,23,40,155 (1,250)

Place: Bangalore As per our report of even dateDate: 16.05.2014 For G R Venkatanarayana

Chartered Accountants

Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/-(D Chatterji) (J Srinivasan) (G Chandramohan) (G R Venkatanarayana)

President Treasurer Executive Secretary Partner

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