SINP Annual Report
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(L to R) Dr. Milan Sanyal, Director, SINP, Shri M K Narayanan, Hon'ble Governor of West Bengal, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee,the then Hon'ble Union Finance Minister of India, Smt. Mamata Banerjee, Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal and Dr. Srikumar Banerjee, the then Chairman, AEC & Governing Council of SINP in the Closing Ceremony of Diamond Jubilee Celebration of SINP on 21th August, 2011 (L to R) Prof. Milan Sanyal, Director, SINP, Dr. Amit Mitra, Hon'ble Finance Minister of West Bengal & Shri Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, Hon'ble Minister Science and Technology and Bio-Technology in the Inaugural function of West Bengal Science Congress 2012 on 1st March, 2012 Francesco Sette, Director, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility(ESRF) & Prof. Milan Sanyal, Director, SINP signing the Collaboration agreement Delegates of the School on Storage Ring Design during 16-20 January, 2012 (L to R), Prof. Heino Nitsche, Ms. Krishna Basu, Prof. Pierre Joliot and Prof. Milan K. Sanyal after garlanding the bust of Professor Meghnad Saha on the occasion of Celebration of International Year of Chemistry at SINP on November 15, 2011 Prof Pierre Joliot with the participants of Celebration of International Year of Chemistry at SINP A Public Lecture delivered by Prof. Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN at SINP on 26.11.2011 Institute Colloquium Lecture delivered by Anthoney K. Cheetham on 13th December,2011 Prof. Michael Sheetz, Director, Mechanobiology Institute of National University of Singapore speaking in the meeting in the Int. Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical & Physical Biology held in SINP on 5th March, 2012. On 62nd Foundation Day, 11th January, 2012 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Annual Report 2011–2012 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Tel: (33) 2337–5345–49 (5 lines) 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064 Fax: (33)-2337–4637 India http://www.saha.ac.in Editorial Team Prof Milan Kumar Sanyal Prof Palash Baran Pal Prof R Ranganathan Prof Alokmay Datta Prof Nitai P Bhattacharyya Prof Abhijit Chakrabarti Prof Satyajit Saha Prof ANS Iyengar Shri Swapan Kumar Banerjee Smt Seema Bhattacharya Shri Amalesh Chandra Saha Creation Prof Abhijit Chakrabarti Shri Amit Kumar Saha Photographs Shri Pradip Das Cover Design & Printed at Sailee Press Pvt Ltd Published by Shri VV Mallikarjuna Rao, Registrar, SINP on behalf of Centre for Advanced Research & Education Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics January 11, 2013 Contents Foreword 7 1 Biophysical Sciences including Chemistry 9 1.1 Summary of Research Activities of Divisions . 9 1.1.1 Biophysics . 9 1.1.2 C&MB . 9 1.1.3 Chemical Sciences . 10 1.1.4 Structral Genomics . 10 1.2 Research Activities . 11 1.2.1 Biophysics . 11 1.2.2 C&MB . 14 1.2.3 Chemical Sciences . 19 1.2.4 Structral Genomics . 29 1.3 Developmental Work . 31 1.4 Publications . 32 1.4.1 Publications in Books/Monographs & Volumes Edited . 32 1.4.2 Journal Publication . 32 1.5 Ph D Awarded . 37 1.6 Seminars/Lectures given in Conference/Symposium/Schools . 37 1.7 Teaching elsewhere . 40 1.8 Miscellany . 41 2 Condensed Matter Physics including Surface Physics and NanoScience 43 2.1 Summary of Research Activities of Divisions . 43 2.1.1 Applied Material Science . 43 2.1.2 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics . 44 2.1.3 Surface Physics . 46 2.1.4 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics . 47 2.2 Research Activities . 49 2.2.1 Applied Material Science . 49 2.2.2 Experimental Condensed Matter Physics . 52 2.2.3 Surface Physics . 58 2.2.4 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics . 69 2.3 Developmental Work . 76 2.4 Publications . 76 2.4.1 Publications in Books/Monographs & Volumes Edited . 76 2.4.2 Papers in Journals . 76 3 2.5 Ph D Awarded . 83 2.6 Seminars/Lectures given in Conference/Symposium/Schools . 83 2.7 Miscellany . 86 3 Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics 87 3.1 Summary of Research Activities of Divisions . 87 3.1.1 Applied Nuclear Physics . 87 3.1.2 High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics . 88 3.1.3 Nuclear Physics . 89 3.2 Research Activities . 89 3.2.1 Applied Nuclear Physics . 89 3.2.2 High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics . 93 3.2.3 Nuclear Physics . 100 3.3 Developmental Work . 104 3.4 Publications . 105 3.4.1 Papers in Journals . 105 3.5 Seminars/Lectures given in Conference/Symposium/Schools . 111 3.6 Teaching elsewhere . 113 3.7 Miscellany . 113 4 Plasma Physics & Computational Science 115 4.1 Summary of Research Activities of Divisions . 115 4.1.1 Plasma Physics . 115 4.2 Research Activities . 116 4.3 Developmental Work . 120 4.3.1 Plasma Physics . 120 4.3.2 Computational Science . 122 4.4 Publications . 122 4.4.1 Papers in Journals . 122 4.5 Seminars/Lectures given in Conference/Symposium/Schools . 124 4.6 Teaching elsewhere . 124 4.7 Miscellany . 124 5 Theoretical Physics 125 5.1 Summary of Research Activities of Divisions . 125 5.1.1 Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology . 125 5.1.2 Theory . 126 5.2 Research Activities . 129 5.2.1 Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology . 129 5.2.2 Theory . 132 5.3 Developmental Work . 145 5.3.1 Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology . 145 5.4 Publications . 145 5.4.1 Publications in Books/Monographs & Volumes Edited . 145 5.4.2 Papers in Journals . 145 5.5 Seminars/Lectures given in Conference/Symposium/Schools . 149 5.6 Honours and Distinctions . 152 5.7 Teaching elsewhere . 152 5.8 Miscellany . 152 6 Teaching 155 6.1 The Post-M Sc Associateship Course . 155 6.1.1 Physics . 155 6.1.2 Biophysical Sciences . 157 6.2 Undergraduate Associateship Course . 159 6.3 Summer Students’ Programme . 159 7 Research Fellows/Visiting Fellows/Research Associates 161 7.1 Research Fellows [as on March 31, 2012] . 161 7.2 CSIR/UGC/DST/DBT/CAMCS Fellows, etc . 162 7.3 Research Associate & Post Doctoral Fellow . 163 8 Facilities 165 8.1 Centre for Advanced Research & Education . 165 8.2 Electron Micorscope Facility . 166 8.3 Library . 166 8.4 Radiological Safety . 168 8.5 Central Workshop . ..