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ISSN.0973-9319 ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (A Deemed to be University) Jakkur, Bangalore – 560 064 Website: http://www.jncasr.ac.in CONTENTS Page No. The Centre Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Objectives ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Progress .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Highlights of research and other activities ...................................................................................................... 6 Activities Chart ............................................................................................................................................................ 12 Organisation Chart ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 The Organisation Council of Management ........................................................................................................................................... 14 Finance Committee .................................................................................................................................................... 15 Academic Advisory Committee ............................................................................................................................. 16 Faculties .......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Administration ............................................................................................................................................................. 17 Units, Centres, Computer Laboratory, Library and Endowed Research Professors .................................................................................................................................. 19 Academic Programmes Academic Activities .................................................................................................................................................... 52 Discussion Meetings .................................................................................................................................................. 54 Endowment Lectures ................................................................................................................................................ 54 General Lectures ......................................................................................................................................................... 55 Lectures delivered at the Annual Faculty Meeting ....................................................................................... 55 Conferences/Workshops/Symposia .................................................................................................................. 55 Seminars / Colloquia ................................................................................................................................................ 56 Fellowships and Extension Activities Summer Research Fellowship Programme ..................................................................................................... 62 Project Oriented Chemical Education Programme ...................................................................................... 62 Project Oriented Biological Education Programme ..................................................................................... 63 Visiting Fellowships ................................................................................................................................................... 63 JNCASR-CICS Fellowships ....................................................................................................................................... 63 National Science Day ................................................................................................................................................. 63 Intellectual Property ...................................................................................................................................................... 64 Research Programmes Research Areas ............................................................................................................................................................ 66 Research Facilities ...................................................................................................................................................... 68 Sponsored/Ongoing Research Projects ............................................................................................................ 70 Publications Research Publications of Units ............................................................................................................................. 81 Research Publications of Honorary Faculty/ Endowed Professors ............................................................................................................................... 102 Awards / Distinctions .................................................................................................................................................... 105 Financial Statements ...................................................................................................................................................... 109 THE CENTRE Foreword I have great pleasure in presenting the Twenty Fourth Annual Report for the year 2012-13. The Centre has been emerging as one of the leading institutions in the country for higher learning and research in frontier areas of science and engineering. The Centre has also been recognized as a Deemed to be University. There is a steady increase in the number of research students in the Centre pursuing various academic programmes. The present student strength is 273. Forty two students joined the Centre during August 2012 admissions including seven students who joined during mid-year admission in January 2013. Sixteen students were awarded Ph D degrees, four with M S (Materials Science), seven with M S (Eng.), three with M S in Biological Sciences and one student was awarded M S in Chemical Sciences. In order to provide opportunities to teachers and others to obtain training and for carrying out science education projects, this Centre is offering a postgraduate diploma programme in science education. The academic, research, fellowship and extension programmes have been progressing as envisaged. The publication record is growing steadily. The faculty members have made signiicant scientiic contributions. Prof. CNR Rao received the prestigious 2012 Award for International Cooperation by The Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is also a matter of great honour that Prof. Roddam Narasimha has been awarded the Padma Vibhusan, one of the most prestigious civilian awards of the country. Awards like India Innovation Award from Merck Millipore company to Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu and his research team, India Citation Award 2012 from Thomson Reuters to Prof. Umesh Waghmare, CRSI Bronze Medal to Dr. Tapas Maji are the recognition earned by our faculty recently for their outstanding work in their respective ields. Adding a new dimension, the Federation of Indian Publishers have been given the Awards for Excellence in Publishing to the Kannada Book 'Nanoprapancha' authored by Prof. C.N.R. Rao and translated by Mrs. Indumati Rao. The continuous recognition of our faculty members with several honours has relected our standing within academic peers. This year signiicant progress has been made in all spheres of academic activities at the Centre. A series of programmes were organized by Education Technology Unit (ETU) and Hall of Science toward the promotion of science education. The C.N.R. Rao Hall of Science and Education Technology Unit has continued conducting the highly popular Teachers/students programs/workshops for students and teachers. In the POCE program for the year 2012, multimedia CD-ROM `NANOWORLD' was presented and a quiz was conducted from the CD-ROM `Understanding Chemistry' for the students followed by a visit to the `Chemistry of Materials Exposition' and Prof. C.N.R. Rao Archives. The book titled “Challenges and Opportunities in Science and Technology (Approach to an Action Plan)” was made ready by ETU for the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. Outstanding Science Teacher Prize function and Lecture Program was organized to recognize outstanding science teachers in the country. Three-day Special Teacher Training Lecture Program was organised in Physics, Chemistry and Biology for PU teachers for which teachers from various Pre-University Colleges were deputed by The P.U. Board, Govt. of Karnataka. During the inancial year, 21 patent applications (Indian Provisional Application: 7, Indian Complete Application: 1, International Patent Application under PCT: 6, USA: 5, Europe: 1,
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