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VOLUME 2 1 Departments, Schools, Research Centres and Campuses

School of Technology and School of Mathematics Computer Science (STCS) School of Natural Sciences Chemical Sciences Astronomy and (DCS) Main Campus Astrophysics (DAA) Biological (Colaba) High Energy Physics Sciences (DBS) (DHEP) Nuclear and Atomic Condensed Matter Physics (DNAP) Physics & Materials Theoretical Physics (DTP) Science (DCMPMS)

Mumbai

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)

Pune

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA)

Bengaluru

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)

Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM)

Hyderabad

TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS)

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SECTION B3 Evaluative Report of Departments (Main Campus)

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A-Executive Summary

B1-Profile of the TIFR Deemed University B1-1

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

B2-Criteria-wise inputs B2-I-Curricular B2-I-1 B2-II-Teaching B2-II-1 B2-III-Research B2-III-1 B2-IV-Infrastructure B2-IV-1 B2-V-Student Support B2-V-1 B2-VI-Governance B2-VI-1 B2-VII-Innovations B2-VII-1

B2-Annexures B2-A-Patents Annex B2-A B2-B-Ethics Annex B2-B B2-C-IPR Annex B2-C B2-D-MOUs Annex B2-D B2-E-Council of Management Annex B2-E B2-F-Academic Council and Subject Boards Annex B2-F B2-G-Cases Annex B2-G B2-H-Accounts Annex B2-H

B4-Declaration by the Head of the Institution B4-1

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B3-Evaluative Report of Departments (Main Campus) B3-I-Mathematics B3-I-1 B3-II- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (DAA) B3-II-1 B3-III-Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) B3-III-1 B3-IV-Department of Chemical Sciences (DCS) B3-IV-1 B3-V-Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials B3-V-1 Science (DCMPMS) B3-VI-Department of High Energy Physics (DHEP) B3-VI-1 B3-VII-Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics (DNAP) B3-VII-1 B3-VIII-Department of Theoretical Physics (DTP) B3-VIII-1 B3-IX- School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS) B3-IX-1

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

VOLUME 2 5 Abbreviations

BF Balloon Facility, TIFR CAM Centre for Applicable Mathematics, TIFR CCCF Computer Centre and Communication Facility, TIFR CRL Cosmic Ray Laboratory, TIFR CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India DAA Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, TIFR DAE Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India DBS Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR DBT Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India DCMPMS Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, TIFR DCS Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR DHEP Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR DNAP Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics, TIFR DST Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India DTP Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR GMRT Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, TIFR GRIHA Green Buildings Rating System India HBCSE Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR ICTS International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR I-Ph.D. Integrated-M.Sc.-Ph.D programme, TIFR IQAC Internal Quality Assurance Cell NAAC National Assessment and Accreditation Council NCBS National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR NCRA National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR RAC Radio Astronomy Centre, TIFR SIRC Scientific Information Resource Centre, TIFR STCS School of Technology and Computer Science, TIFR TCIS TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences TIFR Tata Institute of Fundamental Research UGC University Grants Commission, Govt. of India

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B3-I School of Mathematics (Math)

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School of Mathematics

1. Name of the Department :

School of Mathematics (Math)

2. Year of establishment :

1945

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

It is an entire School.

4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D. Sc, D. Litt, etc.) 1. Ph.D. 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D.

The minimum eligibility criterion for admission to the Ph.D. programme is a Master's degree in any of Mathematics/Statistics/Science/Technology (M.A. / M.Sc. / M. Math / M. Stat / M.E. / M. Tech.). The minimum eligibility criterion for admission to the Integrated Ph.D. programme is a Bachelor's degree in any of Mathematics/Statistics/Science/Technology (B.A. / B.Sc. / B. Math. / B. Stat. / B.E. / B. Tech.). Students without a Master's degree will generally be admitted to the Integrated Ph.D. program and will obtain an M.Sc. degree along the way subject to the completion of all requirements. Students with a four-year Bachelor's degree may be considered for admission to the Ph.D. Programme.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved

None

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

None

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

There are no such programmes.

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

There is an evaluation at the end of each semester course, based on assignments and written examinations, and an annual evaluation of courses based on an interview.

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

10. Number of faculty positions:

Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Distinguished Professor Dist. Prof -- 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 4 3. Professor (H) -- 11 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 9 5. Reader (F) -- 3 6. Others -- 2 Total 29

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

Name Deg* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡ A. J. Parameswaran Ph. D. Singular theory, Topology 25 - 1. Professor (H) of open surfaces A. Ph. D. 26 1 2. Professor (H) Number theory Sankaranarayanan Amalendu Krishna Ph. D. Associate Algebraic cycles and K- 15 2 3. Professor (G) theory Amitava Ph. D. 16 2 4. Reader (F) Combinatorics Bhattacharya

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Name Deg* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡ Anish Ghosh Ph. D. Associate Ergodic Theory and 10 2 5. Professor (G) Number Theory Arvind N. Nair Ph. D. Associate Lie groups and 19 1 6. Professor (G) representation theory 7. C.S. Rajan Ph. D. Professor (H) Number theory 23 1 Dipendra Prasad Ph. D. Senior 27 2 8. Number theory Professor (I) Eknath Ghate Ph. D. Number theory, 19 2 9. Professor (H) automorphic forms and L- functions Indranil Biswas Ph. D. Senior 23 2 10. Vector Bundles Professor (I) J. Sengupta Ph. D. Modular forms, harmonic 30 - 11. Professor (H) analysis on symmetric spaces 12. Mahan MJ Ph. D. Professor (H) Topology/Geometry 19 3 N. Fakhruddin Ph. D. Associate 21 - 13. Algebraic Geometry Professor (G) N. Saradha Ph. D. Number theory, 32 1 14. Professor (H) exponential Diophantine equations Nitin Nitsure Ph. D. Algebraic Geometry, 29 1 15. Professor (H) Vector bundles, D-modules Radhika Ganapathy Ph. D. 4 - 16. Reader (E) Representation Theory

Raja Sridharan Ph. D. Associate Projective modules and 21 - 17. Professor (G) complete intersections 18. Ravi. A. Rao Ph. D. Professor (H) Classical algebraic K-theory 32 1 Ritabrata Munshi Ph. D. Associate 10 - 19. Number Theory Professor (G) S. E. Rao Ph. D. Representation of toroidal 28 - 20. Professor (H) Lie algebras S. K. Roushon Ph. D. Associate 19 - 21. Topology Professor (G) 22. S. Subramanian Ph. D. Professor (H) Algebraic Geometry 27 - 23. Sandeep Varma Ph. D. Reader (F) Representation Theory 7 - Siddharth Ph. D. 16 - 24. Reader (F) Ergodic theory Bhattacharya T. N. Ph. D. Senior Liegroups and arithmetics 26 2 25. Venkataramana Professor (I) groups 26. Tanmay Deshpande Ph. D. Reader (E) Representation Theory 5 - 27. V. Srinivas Ph. D. Senior Algebraic cycles and K- 33 4

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Name Deg* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡ Professor (I) theory V. Trivedi Ph. D. Hilbert-Samuel functions, 20 1 Associate Frobenius splitting, Hilbert- 28. Professor (G) Kunz function and multiplicity Yogish Holla Ph. D. Associate 14 1 29. Vector bundles Professor (G)

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

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

(a) List of Visiting Fellows

1. Ambily A A 2. Chetan Balwe 3. Romie Banerjee 4. Saurav Bhaumik 5. Saikat Chatterjee 6. Seshadri Chintapalli 7. Anisha Chorwadwala 8. Emre Coskun 9. Soumya Das 10. Umesh Dubey 11. Shane D'Mello 12. Abhik Ganguli 13. Thomas G. Gotsbacher 14. Neena Gupta

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15. Sagar Kolte 16. Mousumi Mandal 17. Ritwik Mukherjee 18. Amrita Muralidharan 19. Supriya Pisolkar 20. Vijay Ravikumar 21. Sarang S. Sane 22. Chaitanya Senapathi 23. Sachin Sharma 24. Jyoti Singh 25. S.T. Spallone 26. Ajay Thakur 27. Viji Z. Thomas 28. Girja S. Tripathi 29. R. Venkatesh 30. Sushmita Venugopalan 31. Michael Lennox Wang

(b) List of Adjunct Faculty

1. Aravind Asok, University of Southern California 2. Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University, USA 3. L. Clozel, Universite de Paris-Sud, France 4. Tomas Gomez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 5. Chandrashekhar B. Khare, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA 6. Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 7. V.K. Murty, University of Toronto, Canada

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8. M. Ram Murty, Queen’s University, Canada 9. M.V. Nori, University of Chicago, USA 10. T.R. Ramadas, ICTP, Trieste, Italy 11. Abishek Saha, University of Bristol, UK 12. S.R.S. Vardhan, New York University, USA 13. Angelo Vistoli, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

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

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 30 30 1:1

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific Staff Administrative and Auxiliary Staff Positions 2 7

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

• Algebra • Algebraic Geometry • Number Theory • Lie Groups and Representation Theory • Ergodic Theory

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• Topology • Algebraic cycles and K-theory • Lie groups and arithmetics groups • Vector bundles

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

(a) National Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 1. DST JC Bose Fellowship 50 2010-2015 Dipendra Prasad 2. DST JC Bose Fellowship 25.5 2008-2013 V. Srinivas and 2013- 2018 3. DST JC Bose Fellowship 124.8 2008-2013 T. N. and 2013- Venkaratamana 2018 4. DST JC Bose Fellowship 62.20 2013-2018 Navin M. Singhi 5. DST Swarna Jayanti Fellowship 34.75 2011-2016 Ritabrata Munshi 6. DST Swarna Jayanti Fellowship 30 2012-2017 Amalendu Krishna 7. DST JC Bose Fellowship 50 2013-2018 Indranil Biswas 8. Israel ISF-UGC grant 110 2014-2017 Anish Ghosh Science Foundation and the University Grants Commission 9. DST JC Bose Fellowship 68 2016-2021 Mahan Mj

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(b) International Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) Isaac Newton Institute Newton Institute 1. and Clay Mathematics 50 2014-2015 Anish Ghosh Programme Institute European Commission 2. IRSES-MODULI 724,500 Euros 2014-2017 V. Srinivas – Marie Curie Actions IFCPAR-CEFIPRA Eknath Ghate 3. University of Paris 30 2007-2010 Grant J. Sengupta, Indo-French project Analytic aspects of No grant D. Prasad, C. 4. 2012-2015 no: 4610-2 modular forms received S. Rajan, R.Munshi Department of DST-RFBR P-138 5. Sciences and 5.44 2012-2015 Ravi A. Rao project Technology

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

(a) National Collaboration

The National Center for Mathematics (NCM)} is an inter-institutional collaborative project with the Department of Mathematics, IIT-Bombay.

There is a shortage of Ph.D. level courses in advanced mathematics in the country, as most Universities lack the required Faculty and numbers. The NCM has been running such courses every year, with student participation from all over the country. Besides these courses, the NCM conducts training programmes for teachers, and research workshops for the different research specialties in Mathematics in the Country.

These training programmes and workshops are held at venues all over the country. So far nearly 200 such programmes have been held (more precisely, the number is 197 programmes till December 2015).

The programmes are classified into the following categories.

(a) AFS: Annual Foundation Schools: These give first year Ph.D. courses in 3 one

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month instalments, meant for Ph.D. students from all Indian universities where such courses are not given.

(b) AIS: Advanced Instructional Schools: These focus on advanced specialized areas of modern mathematics, meant for Ph.D. students who have the corresponding specialization for the research.

(c) ISL: Instructional Schools for Lecturers: These are meant for college and university teachers, and treat material from the B.Sc. or M.Sc. syllabus, but with greater depth.

(d) Workshops: These focus on research topics, and are attended by Faculty Members as well as advanced PhD students.

(e) TEW: Teacher's enrichment workshops: These are short programmes for undergraduate teachers, focusing on a particular subject in the undergraduate syllabus.

(f) Panorama series: This is a series by a top expert giving a high-level view of the subject.

(g) DM: Discussion Meeting: These are advanced workshops at international level, attended by active research mathematicians and Ph.D. students.

Achievements during 2010-2015:

The following number of programmes were successfully conducted in each category in the period 1 Jan 2010 to 31 Dec 2015 (see webpage www.ncmath.org for full details).

Total Year Number of Schools Schools AFS AIS ISL Workshops MPL TEW DM 2015 6 5 7 7 - 1 - 26 2014 6 8 6 11 1 3 1 36 2013 3 7 6 12 - 3 - 31

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2012 3 7 5 7 7 1 - 30 2011 2 5 4 5 - - - 16 2010 2 6 3 4 - - - 15

Grants received from TIFR: Rs. 404 lakhs in last 5 years

(b) International Collaboration : None

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

Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 1 DAE XII Plan Project – Maths 390 2012- All math and computer science 2017 faculty

20. Research facility / centre with

National recognition: NA

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

None

22. Publications:

Journal Conference Technical Web Book Books Mono SCMA Publications Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited graphs 2010-11 61 6 - 1 3 - - 2011-12 57 2 - 3 - - - 2012-13 58 - - 2 3 - - 2013-14 94 6 - 3 2 - - 2014-15 52 3 - 1 1 - - Total 322 17 - 10 9 - -

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Citation Index – range / average:

• Total number of citations- 5644 (Source- MathSciNet – AMS)

• Number of citations per faculty- 195

23. Details of patents and income generated

None

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

None

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

(a) National

Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member 1 S.M. Bhatwadekar Indian Institute of Science Education and Sep - Nov 2010

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Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member Research, Pune Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode Mar 2014 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Jan 2012

2 Usha N. Bhosle North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India Jul 2011 Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode Jan 2011

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Dec 2010

3 Indranil Biswas Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Feb 2015 4 S.G. Dani Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Dec 2011 Dec 2014 and Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Mar 2015

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Nov – Dec 2013

Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Sep 2013

TIFR-Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Jul - Aug 2013 Bangalore

5 Ritabrata Munshi May 2013 Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Jan - Feb 2013

TIFR-Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Nov - Dec 2012 Bangalore

Apr - May Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2012

TIFR-Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Mar – Apr 2011 Bangalore 6 Arvind Nair Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Feb 2015 7 Nitin Nitsure Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Aug 2014 8 Dipendra Prasad Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Sep 2010 Harish Chandra 9 S. E. Rao May – Jun 2013 Research Institute, Allahabad 10 S. K. Roushon North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong Jun 2013 11 A. National Institute of Science Education and Jan 2015

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Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member Sankaranarayanan Research, Bhubaneswar Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Dec 2011 Allahabad

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Oct 2011 Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu

NIIT University (NU), Neemrana, Rajasthan Dec 2010

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Aug – Sep 2010 Sastra University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu Dec 2013 N. Saradha 12 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Aug 2011

Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad Dec 2010 CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, 13 Navin M. Singhi Apr 2010 Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad 14 J. Sengupta Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Feb 2014 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 15 Raja Sridharan Center of Policy Studies, Chennai Dec 2010 - Jan Kerala School of Mathematics, Kerala 2011 Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai Mar 2011 16 R Sujatha TIFR-Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Jan - Feb 2011 Bangalore TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Dec 2013 - Mar T. N. Bangalore 2014 17 Venkaratamana TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Feb 2011 Bangalore National Center for Advanced Research in Discrete Mathematics, Kalasalingam University, Aug – Sep 2011 Tamil Nadu 18 G. R. Vijayakumar National Center for Advanced Research in Discrete Mathematics, Kalasalingam University, Sep – Dec 2010 Tamil Nadu

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(b) International

Name of faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical 1 Usha N. Bhosle May - Jul 2011 Sciences, Cambridge, U.K ICMAT, Madrid, Spain Oct - Nov 2014 National University of Singapore, Singapore Aug 2014 2 Indranil Biswas Marburg University, Germany

Aarhus University, Denmark Jun - Jul 2014 University of Lille, France University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sep 2011 USA Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Sep 2011 S.G. Dani 3 Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, Marseille Sep – Nov 2010

Institut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes, Apr 2010 University of Rennes-1, France Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Oct 2014 Berkeley, USA Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 2014

UCLA, USA Jun 2012

Eknath Ghate University of Paris, Jussieu, France Apr 2012 4

McGill University, Canada Oct 2011

University of Montpellier, France Apr - Jun 2011

Université de Bordeaux I Oct - Nov 2010

Université de Paris 7 Apr 2010 Mathematische Forschungs Institut Aug 2014 Oberwolfach, Germany Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Sep 2014 Montreal, Canada R.V. Gurjar 5 University of Kansas, USA May - Jun 2014

Jilin University, China Aug 2014 Kansas University May 2014 Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia Apr 2014 McGill University, Montreal, Canada Aug 2011

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Name of faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Mar 2011 Korea Institute for Advanced studies, Seoul Mar 2011 National Singapore University, Singapore Jan 2011

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Jul – Sep 2014 6 Amalendu Krishna Daejeon, Korea

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Apr - May 2014 Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Aug – Sep 2011 Ritabrata Munshi Oberwolfach, Germany 7 Mathematical Sciences Research Institute May 2011 (MSRI), Berkeley, USA

8 Arvind Nair National University of Singapore, Singapore Jan 2015 University of Aarhus, Denmark Jan 2014 Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Jan - Feb 2011 9 Nitin Nitsure Sciences, Cambridge, U.K Mathematical Sciences Research Institute,

Berkeley CRM, Montreal Mar 2015 MSRI Aug – Dec 2014

Jussieu, Paris Jun 2014

Banff, Canada Jun 2014

1Tsinghua University, Beijing Jun 2013

Dipendra Prasad Marseille, France Jun 2013 10

ICTP, Trieste, Italy Jun 2013

Oct 2011 and National University of Singapore, Singapore Mar 2012

Morning Side Center, Beijing May - Jun 2011

RIMS, Kyoto Sep 2010

Harvard University Jun 2010 11 C.S. Rajan Universite de Paris Nord Jun 2013

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Name of faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik at Bonn, May 2013 Germany

International Centre for Theoretical Physics Oct 2011 (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

International Centre for Theoretical Physics Dec 2012 (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

12 Ravi Rao St. Petersburg University, Russia Sep 2012 Jilin University, China Aug 2012

Pennsylvania State University Sep – Nov 2010 Shanghai Jiatong University, Shanghai Jun 2014 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China May 2014 Aarhus University Mar 2013 S. E. Rao 13 University of Uppsala, Sweden Sep 2012

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Aug 2012 Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, May 2011 Iran Kunming University of Science and Technology, Jul 2012 Kunming, China 14 S. K. Roushon University of Aegean in Karlovassi, Samos, Jun 2012 Greece Shandong University, Shandong Sep 2014 Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica Aug 2014 (Chinese Academy), Beijing

Peoples Republic of China Sep 2013

National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Aug 2013 A. Daejeon, Republic of Korea 15 Sankaranarayanan Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Mar 2013 Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

National Institute for Mathematical Sciences Apr 2012 – Mar (NIMS), Republic of Korea 2013

Yonsei University Jan 2013

Pohang Mathematical Institute (PMI), POSTECH, Dec 2012

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Name of faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member Pohang, Republic of Korea

Institute of Mathematics, Hong Kong University, Jun 2012 Hong Kong

Keio University, Japan May 2012 Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris Sep 2014 CIRM, Luminy Sep 2014 University of Debrecen, Hungary Sep 2014 University of Zagreb, Croatia Sep 2014 N. Saradha University of Leiden, Netherlands Dec 2010 16 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Sep – Nov 2010 Germany Institute for Mathematical Research (FIM) ETH, May – Jun 2010 Zurich Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris Sep 2014 Department of Mathematics and Center for cryptology and Information Security, Florida Mar – Aug 2011 17 Navin M. Singhi Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA Pennsylvania State University Sep - Nov 2010 Universite Paris 13 May – Jun 2014 IAS Princeton May – Jun 2013 18 J. Sengupta ICERM in Brown University May 2013 University de Nancy, Institut Eli Cartan Nov 2012 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Jan – Apr 2015 International Congress of Mathematicians, 2014: Aug 2014 Gyeongju and Seoul, Korea 19 V. Srinivas Freie Universitat, Berlin Mar – Aug 2014 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Apr – Jun 2013 USA University of British Columbia Sep – Dec 2010 20 R Sujatha Postech University, Korea Mar – Apr 2010 Department of Math., Jussieu, Paris May 2014 T.N. 21 Marburg University, Germany Jun - July 2014 Venkataramana Erwin Schrodinger Institute Oct – Dec 2010

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26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees

Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Servic e 1 S. M. Inter-Academy Member 2010- Bhatwadekar Exchange 2011 Programme of Indian National Science Academy. 2 Usha N. Bhosle Sectional Member 2012- Committee for 2013 Mathematical Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences 3 S. G. Dani National Board for Chair 2010- Higher man 2011 Mathematics Executive Vice Chairman Dec Organizing 2010 Committee for organization of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2010, Hyderabad Indian Society for President 2010- History of 2011 Mathematics Governing Council, Member 2010- Institute of 2011 Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar Academic Advisory Member 2010- Committee, 2011 Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Pune

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Servic e Academic Council, Member 2010- Chennai 2011 Mathematical Institute, Chennai Governing Council, Member 2010- C.R. Rao Advanced 2011 Institute for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad Programme Member 2010- Advisory 2011 Committee, Department of Science and Technology Board of Member 2010- Governors, Indian 2011 Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapura m Academic Council, Member 2010- University of 2011 Hyderabad 4 Eknath Ghate Mathematical Member 2015- Sciences Research 2018 Committee, CSIR Project Advisory Member 2015- Committee, SERB 2018 5 R. V. Gurjar Bhaskaracharya Trustee 2010- Pratishthana, Pune 2014 6 Mahan Mj National Board of Member 2015- Higher 2019 Mathematics AFS Syllabus Member 2016 Committee SERB PAC Member 2015-

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Servic e Committee in 2018 Mathematical Sciences IMU National Member 2016- Committee, INSA 2019 Governing Council, Member 2016- Indian Association 2019 for Cultivation of Sciences 7 Arvind Nair Apex Committee, Member 2014- National Centre for 2015 Mathematics 8 Nitin Nitsure National Board for Member Till Higher 2015 Mathematics Research Projects Convenor Till Committee, 2015 National Board for Higher Mathematics Governing Board, Member Till Bhaskaracharya 2015 Pratishthana, Pune Apex Committee, Member 2012- TIFR-IIT, National 2015 Centre for Mathematics Governing Council, Member 2012- Chennai 2014 Mathematical Institute 9 Dipendra Prasad Governing Board, Member 2010- IISER, Pune 2015 Academic Selection Member 2008- Committee, Central 2011 University of Bihar Apex Committee, Member 2010- National Center of 2014 Mathematics Jawaharlal Nehru Visitor 2012-

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Servic e University, New Nominee Till Delhi date Centre for UGC Nominee 2010- Advanced Study, 2015 Panjab University INSA Sectional Member 2011- Committee 2014 Inspire Program, Member 2012- Department of Till Science and date Technology, New Delhi 10 C. S. Rajan Curriculum Member 2010- Development 2011 Committee for Mathematics for Central University of Orissa, Koraput 11 Ravi A. Rao Bhaskaracharya Adjunct Professor 2010- Pratishthana, Pune 2015 12 A. Hardy-Ramanujan Sankaranarayan Society, Bangalore Life-Member an Ramanujan Mathematical Life-Member Society. Chennai Indian Life-Member Mathematical Society, Delhi 13 N. Saradha Indian Member 2010- Mathematical 2015 Society Ramanujan Member 2010- Mathematical 2015 Society 14 Navin M. Singhi All India Council for Member 2011- Technical 2012 Education 15 R. Sujatha Scientific Advisory Member 2010- Council to Prime 2011 Minister of India

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Servic e National Member 2010- Innovation Council, 2011 Govt. of India Science and Member 2010- Engineering 2011 Research Board, India 1 V. Srinivas INSA-ICSU National Ex-officio Member 2013- 6 Committee for 2015 IMU; National Board for Member and Chairman 2015 Higher Mathematics DST FIST Member 2013- Committee for 2014 Math. Sci DAE Specialist Member 2013- Group (SG) for 2014 Math. Sci Academic Council Member 2013 Member, NISER 17 T. N. Indian National Member 2011- Venkataramana Science Academy, 2012 New Delhi Selection Member 2010- Committee for 2012 mathematical sciences at the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore Ramanujan Member 2010- Mathematical 2011 Society Lie Theory Organizer 2010- Sectional Meeting, 2011 RMS

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(b) International Committees:

Name of the Name of the Role of the Term of Faculty Committee Committee Service Member 1 Usha N. Bhosle Vector Bundles on Algebraic Curves Member 2010-2014 (VBAC) 2 S. G. Dani Commission for Development and President Dec 2010 Exchange, of the International Mathematical Union Developing Countries Strategy Group, Member Dec 2010 of the International Mathematical Union 3 Eknath Ghate Western India Secondary Schools of Chair 2010-2012 Committee, University of Pennsylvania. 4 Anish Ghosh Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Member 2014-2015 UK University of Bristol, UK Member 2014-2015 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Member 2014-2015 Aix-Marseilles University Member 2014-2015 Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy Member 2014-2015 Technion, Haifa Visiting 2014-2015 Professor Mathematical Sciences Research Member 2014-2015 Institute, Berkeley, USA 5 Navin M. Center for Cryptology and Member 2010-2012 Singhi Information Security, Boca Raton, Florida, USA 6 R. Sujatha Scientific Committee : Member 2010-2011 Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA) Scientific Committee: Member 2010-2011 Centre International Mathématiques Pures et Appliqués (CIMPA) 7 V. Srinivas Executive Committee of the Member 2011-14 and International Mathematical Union 2015-18 Inaugural Class of Fellows of American Member 2015 Mathematical Society

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Name of the Impact Term of Name of the Journal Faculty Member Factor Service Amitava Ramanujan Mathematical Society - 1 2013-2014 Bhattacharya Mathematics Newsletter. Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques 2012-2013 2 Indranil Biswas ISRN Geometry. 2012-2013 Journal of Theoretical Probability 2010-2011 Monatshefte für Mathematik 2010-2011 Proceedings of the Indian Academy of 2010-2011 Sciences (Math. Sci.) S. G. Dani Ramanujan Mathematical Society Lecture 3 2010-2011 Notes Series Sankhya, Indian Journal of Statistics, Ser.A. 2010-2011 (Co-editor) Ganita Bharati, Bulletin of the Indian 2010-2011 Society for History of Mathematics Proceedings of the IAS, Mathematical 2015-2018 Sciences 4 Mahan Mj Ramanujan Mathematical Society – 2015-2018 Lecture Note Series Indian Journal of Pure and Applied 2012-2014 Mathematics 5 Nitin Nitsure Proceedings of the Indian Academy of 2015 Sciences (Math. Sci.) Journal of Ramanujan Mathematical 1996-Till date Society Journal of Number Theory 2008-Till date Proceedings of Indian Academy of 6 Dipendra Prasad 2000-2015 Sciences, Bangalore Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2008-2013 New Delhi Mathematische Zeitschrift 2011-2012 A sequel to the volume Connected at Infinity, presenting work of Indian 2011-2012 7 C. S. Rajan mathematicians (Co-editor) Proceedings of the Indian Academy of 2014-2015 Sciences (Mathematics) 8 Navin M. Singhi European Journal of Combinatorics 2010-2011

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Journal Of Combinatorics, 2010-2011 Information and System Sciences Mathematische Annalen 2013-2014 Algebra and Number Theory 2013-2014 Asian Journal of Mathematics 2013-2014 Journal of Algebra 2013-2014 9 V. Srinivas Journal of the Indian Mathematical 2013-2014 Society Texts and Reading in Mathematics Series 2014-2015 (TRIM) International Journal of Number Theory 2010-2011 Journal of Ramanujan Mathematical 2010-2011 Society 10 R. Sujatha Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter 2010-2011 Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, New 2010-2011 Delhi Indian Journal of Pure and Applied T. N. 11 Mathematics, INSA, New Delhi (Chief 2011-2015 Venkataramana Editor)

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

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

28. Student projects

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

All 2nd year students in School of Mathematics undergo three courses of their choice, which are often conducted as reading and problem solving

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

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

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

• Faculty Members: (at national level)

Name of the Name of the Award Year/ Duration Awardee 1. Usha N. Bhosle Stree Shakti Science Samman 2012 Award Fellow of the Indian National 2010 Science Academy (INSA) 2 Indranil Biswas Fellow of the Indian National 2013 Science Academy (INSA) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2006 B. M. Birla Science Prize in 1999 Mathematics 3 S. G. Dani Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal of the Indian National Science 2010 Academy Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 1990 4 Eknath Ghate Fellow of Indian Academy of 2014 Sciences Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2013 5 Yogish Holla B. M. Birla Science Prize in 2006 Mathematics INSA Young Scientist Medal 2003 6 Amalendu Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014 Krishna Swarna Jayanti Fellowship, DST 2010

B. M. Birla Science Prize in 2009

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Name of the Name of the Award Year/ Duration Awardee Mathematics 7 Mahan Mj Infosys Award for Mathematical 2015 Sciences 8 Ritabrata B. M. Birla Science Prize in 2013 Munshi Mathematics Swarna Jayanti Fellowship, DST 2012 9 Nitin Nitsure Fellow of Indian Academy of 2000 Sciences INSA Young Scientist Medal 1989 10 Dipendra J. C. Bose Fellowship, DST 2010 Prasad Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2002 B. M. Birla Science Prize in 1994 Mathematics 11 C. S. Rajan Fellow of Indian Academy of 2014 Sciences Ramanujan Prize, University of 2010 Madras B.M. Science Prize in 2000 Mathematics 12 Ravi Rao Fellow of the Indian Academy of 2014 Science 13 Navin M. Singhi J. C. Bose Fellowship, DST 2010 14 T. N. JC Bose Fellowship 2008-18 Venkataramana Member of American 2012 Mathematical Society Fellow of Indian National 2003 Science Academy Fellow of the Indian Academy of 2001 Sciences Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2001 ICTP Prize 2000 Birla Award for Mathematics 1997 Young Scientist Award 1990

• Faculty Members: (at international level):

Name of the Year/ . Name of the Award Awardee Duration

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1. Amalendu Krishna Ramanujan Prize 2015 2. Nitin Nitsure ICTP Mathematics Prize 1997 3 V. Srinivas Humboldt Research Award 2013 4 T. N. Venkataramana Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences 2014 ICTP Mathematics Prize 1998

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

Name of the Year/ Name of the Award Awardee Duration 1. Prashant Arote National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Ph.D 2015 Fellowship Award 2. Omprokash Das INSPIRE Faculty Award, Session II, DST, Government of 2015 India 3. Shreyasi Datta National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Ph.D 2015 Fellowship Award Inspire Scholarship 2010- 2015 4. Anupam Mondal UGC Fellowship 2012 5. Mandira Mondal National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Ph.D 2011 Fellowship Award 6. Anuradha Nebhani Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation Scholarship 2003 Young Science Fellowship, IISc 2003 7. Rakesh Pawar Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship Award, CSIR 2011

8. Vivek Rai NBHM Undergraduate Scholarship 2008 KVPY Scholarship 2009 NBHM M. Sc Scholarship 2012 9. B. Ravinder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship Award, CSIR 2009 National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Ph.D 2009 Fellowship Award Gold Medal in M.Sc, University of Hyderabad 2009 10. Husney Parvez IMS scholarship for topped in MSC. IIT Guwahati 2009 Sarwar Silver Medal (Dept. of Math., IIT Guwahati 2010 11. K. V. Shuddhodan Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship Award, CSIR 2011

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

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Funding Year Name of the event Faculty Members Agency 1 2016 Groups, Orbits and Diophantine Approximation ISF-UGC Anish Ghosh International Colloquium on K-theory DAE Ravi Rao, V. Srinivas, Amalendu Krishna, S.K. Roushon, and A. J. Parameswaran 2 2015 40 years of the Eta Invariant DAE Ravi Rao Discussion Meeting on Geometric and Ergodic DAE Siddhartha Aspects of Group Actions Bhattacharya and Anish Ghosh Discussion Meeting on Algebraic and Analytic DAE Indranil Biswas and Geometry related to Bundles A.J. Parameswaran Discussion Meeting on Analytic Number Theory DAE R. Munshi and A. 2015 Sankaranarayanan 3 2014 Conference on Algebraic Cycles and Related DAE Amalendu Krishna Topics ICTS Advanced School and Discussion Meeting on DAE Indranil Biswas and Symplectic Geometry and Contact Topology Mahan Mj ICTS Srinivasa Ramanujan Lecture Series on DAE Chandrasekhar Khare Automorphic forms and Galois representations Discussion Meeting on Analytic and Algebraic DAE Indranil Biswas and Geometry A.J. Parameswaran Workshop and Conference on Local Langlands DAE Eknath Ghate, Conjecture and Galois Representations Chandrashekhar Khare, Dipendra Prasad, CS Rajan 4 2013 ATM Workshop on Classical and Non-stable DAE C. S. Rajan, Ravi A. Algebraic K-theory Rao International Conference on Analytic and DAE Indranil Biswas and Algebraic Geometry related to Bundles A.J. Parameswaran Workshop on Representation Theory of Real Lie DAE T. N. Venkataramana Groups 5 2012 International Conference on Recent Trends in DAE Amitava Discrete Mathematics Bhattacharya, Indranil Biswas, Najmuddin Fakhruddin,

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Funding Year Name of the event Faculty Members Agency Dipendra Prasad International Conference on Complex Analytic DAE Indranil Biswas and Geometry A.J. Parameswaran International Colloquium on Automorophic DAE Dipendra Prasad, J. Representations and L-functions Sengupta, C. S. Rajan and A. Sankaranarayanan 6 2011 International Conference on Cohomology of DAE S.G. Dani, D. Prasad, Arithmetic Groups C.S. Rajan, T.N. Venkataramana 7 2010 Analytic Question in Arithmetic DAE J. Sengupta

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

The School of Mathematics follows the TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics (See Annexure B2-B).

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Selected Joined Pass % Applications Program received Male Female Male Female Male Female

85 80 Ph.D. 13277 38 9 27 5

33. Diversity of students

a) Geographical:

Integrated- Ph.D. Students Ph.D. Total Male Female Male Female

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From the state where the 1 0 0 0 1 university is located 17 4 6 0 27 From other states of India NRI Students 0 0 0 0 0

TOTAL 18 4 6 0 28

b) Undergraduate Institution :

Integrated Ph.D. M.Sc.-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Total From Universities 5 1 2 0 8 From premier science institutions † 7 1 3 0 11 From premier professional institutions # 6 2 1 0 9 From others* 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0 Total 18 4 6 0 28

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc.

# IITs, NITs, etc.

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise. Examination No of students who cleared 1. Civil Services and Defense Services 0 2. CSIR-NET 19 3. SET 1 4. GATE 11 5. IIT-JAM 2 6. IIT-JEST 1 7. NBHM 4

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35. Student progression

• Ph.D. programme: Most of the students admitted to the School of Mathematics go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D’s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (less than 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry.

• Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme: Most of the students admitted to the School of Mathematics go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc.’s and Ph.D.’s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry

36. Diversity of staff

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s

from TIFR : 2

from other institutions in India : 14

from institutions Abroad: 13

Total No 29

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

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

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a. Library

School of Maths, like other departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC).

b. Internet facilities for staff and students

School of Maths, like other departments of TIFR, uses the Computer Centre and Communication Facility (CCCF).

c. Total number of class rooms

School of Maths, like other departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR.

d. Class rooms with ICT facility

All the classrooms have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video conferencing is also conducted in most of the lecture rooms.

e. Students’ laboratories : None

f. Research laboratories : None

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

Post-Doctoral Fellows Research Scholars 1. Ananyo Dan 1. Kuntal Chakraborty 15. Rakesh Pawar 2. Omprokash Das 2. Sujoy Chakraborty 16. Ankit Rai 3. Souvik Goswami 3. Shreyasi Datta 17. Vivek Kumar Rai 4. Ritwik Mukherjee 4. Arijit Ganguly 18. Charanya Ravi 5. Santosh Nadimpalli 5. C. Gangopadhyay 19. Arideep Saha

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6. Anuradha Nebhani 6. Mainak Ghosh 20. Rijul Saini 7. Tali Pinsky 7. Abhishek Gupta 21. Gobinda Sau 8. B. Ravinder 8. Rahul Gupta 22. Divyum Sharma 9. Vivek Sadhu 9. Pritam Majumder 23. Sampat K. Sharma 10. Husney P. Sarwar 10. Amiya Mondal 24. Amit Shastri 11. R. Sivaguru 11. Anupam Mondal 25. K. V. Shuddhodan 12. Rohith Varma 12. Mandira Mondal 26. Lovy Singhal - 13. Pratyush Nath 27. Bhamidi S. Sreedhar - 14. Arjun Paul 28. Ravitheja Vangala

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

Since all the students of School of Maths are enrolled in doctoral programmes, they are provided with TIFR fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

School of Maths and TIFR as a whole, has been training students for Ph.D. since its inception in 1945. Right from the beginning, the School of Mathematics has admitted exceptionally well prepared students who only have B. Sc for their Ph. D program along with M. Sc students. The Integrated Ph. D program was formalized only by recently in the year 2012.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

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

The Subject Board of Mathematics is constantly in touch with the Instructors of different courses, and collects their feedback at regular intervals. This is used to (a) advise the Instructors, (b) update the Syllabus, and (c) fine-tune the curriculum.

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

The Subject Board of Mathematics needs individual graduate students to get their feedback on courses and research projects. The relevant points in this are communicated to the Instructors and research supervisors for necessary modification and rectification in their pedagogic styles. These feedback forms also form an important input in selecting a faculty for the Excellence in Teaching Award of the TIFR Alumni Association.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. K. Chandrasekharan Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich, and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, TIFR 2. K. G. Ramanathan Known for his work in number theory. His contributions are also towards the general development of mathematical research and teaching in India 3. M. S. Narasimhan Well known along with C S Seshadri for their proof of the Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem. Fellow of the Royal Society and Honorary Fellow of TIFR 4. C. S. Seshadri Founder-Director of the Chennai Mathematical Institute. Fellow of the Royal Society and Honorary Fellow of TIFR 5. M. S. Raghunathan Head of the National Centre for Mathematics, Indian Indtitute of Technology, Mumbai. Fellow of the Royal Society and Honorary Fellow of TIFR 6. V. K. Patodi Famous for applying the heat equation methods to the proof of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for elliptic operators 7. S. G. Dani Professor of mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Important contributions to the area of ergodic theory

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8. R. Parthasarathy Important contributions to Representation Theory of real Lie groups 9. M. V. Nori Important contributions to algebraic geometry. Currently a professor at the University of Chicago 10. Chandrasekhar Khare Important contributions to Number Theory. Currently a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Fellow of the Royal Society

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

As Item No 30 shows, the School of Maths regularly conducts conferences etc. which are attended by all the doctoral students, and these provide the required introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research. In addition, TIFR has a vibrant programme of seminars, colloquia and public lectures which the students are encouraged to attend and absorb as much information as they can.

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

The School of Mathematics generally adopts the conventional blackboard teaching methods. Reading courses are also nominally given which included the student reporting on what he/she has learnt.

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

The Subject board for Mathematics constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

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

The School of Mathematics faculty, postdocs and students regularly participate in the Outreach Activities of TIFR.

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

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The School of Mathematics conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis. • Maths Colloquium • VSRP Programme

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

The doctoral programmes in the School of Maths are conducted under the TIFR University, which was recognized as a Deemed University by UGC in 2002.

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

Ever since its inception, the School of Mathematics at TIFR has been holding a prominent place in global mathematics. Over the past several decades the mathematicians at TIFR have contributed to the development of many important ideas, topics and fundamental theorems in mathematics. We list below some of the significant contributions to mathematics done by the members of the school during the past few years.

The study of distribution of prime numbers occupies a central place in number theory. A fundamental insight of Riemann and Dirichlet is that the study of the primes is dual to analytic properties of Riemann zeta functions and its generalizations, especially the zeros of such functions. The Riemann hypothesis is possibly the most important conjecture to be proved in mathematics today. Weaker conjectures called as sub convexity estimates for the behavior of the L- functions have been made, but which still have interesting arithmetic consequences. So far the sub convexity estimates have been known up to degree 2 automorphic L-functions thanks to the work of many eminent mathematicians done over the last 50 years.

One of the important breakthroughs that has come from the Tata Institute in recent years, has been to establish various aspects of the sub convexity estimates for degree 3 automorphic L-functions.

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The Langlands program presents a vast generalization of the classical quadratic reciprocity law of Euler, Legendre and Gauss. This has been a cornerstone of number theory for the past 400 years. An important recent development is the confirmation the local Langlands conjectures for classical groups over local fields of positive characteristic.

An exciting development during the past couple of decades has been the emergence of the p-adic Langlands program, motivated in part by the fundamental results of Wiles towards proving Fermat's conjecture. Various aspects of this theory were studied and interesting results were obtained to the question of characterizing CM forms by properties of the Galois representations associated to it.

A question that had its origins in physics is to know the extent to which the spectrum (of Laplace type operators) determines the geometry of spaces. In the context of Riemannian locally symmetric spaces, assuming strong conjectures (Schanuel's conjecture) in transcendental number theory, various commensurability results were established for isospectral spaces by Gopal Prasad and Rapinchuk. Under stronger but natural hypothesis on the equivalence of the spectrum, these results were established without invoking Schanuel's conjecture.

A new way of looking at Diophantine approximations on homogeneous varieties by connecting it with spectral properties of automorphic representations was developed.

In various questions arising in physics, geometry and arithmetic, the study of the actions of the fundamental group (monodromy) has been of fundamental importance. In natural contexts such as the action of braid groups on certain cohomology groups, or arising from the monodromy of hypergeometric differential equations, new and significant results have been obtained towards basic questions such as whether the image of the monodromy is a lattice, and if so, whether it is arithmetic, etc.

The mathematical study of symmetry is the subject of representation theory in mathematics. One of the most natural problems regarding representations, present from the early days of representation theory, concern with restriction problems in representation theory, also known as branching laws. The

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connection of these branching laws in various arithmetical contexts, that of reductive groups over local fields were extensively studied, a general conjectural framework was established and significant progress towards settling these conjectures have been carried out during the past several years. A new cohomology theory for varieties defined over either the complex numbers or finite fields was developed having a number of interesting properties.

The theory of vector bundles on curves was developed by mathematicians at the Tata Institute from the early 60's. This tradition has been strengthened and various aspects of the moduli of vector bundles on varieties has been intensely studied at the Tata Institute for the past 50 years.

The idea of uniting all the known physical forces, especially gravity and electromagnetism is a long cherished dream of Einstein. String theory is a modern approach to this topic of grand unification. The moduli theory of curves and that of vector bundles over curves, is fundamental to the development of string theory. The computation of the Chern classes of conformal blocks on the moduli spaces of rational curves with n-punctures, was carried out. These conformal blocks appear naturally in the study of these moduli spaces.

One of the central areas in algebraic and arithmetic geometry is the study of algebraic cycles. The Hodge conjecture and the Standard conjectures of Grothendieck are the basic open problems in this subject. The study of these topics require a mastery of large tracts of modern mathematics, its concepts and techniques. Many basic questions remain unanswered. A basic question is Bloch's conjecture concerning the non-triviality of the group of 0-cycles on smooth, projective surfaces. In an important development, the Chow groups of 0-cycles on normal varieties were related to the Albanese groups of these varieties, and various vanishing theorems and also non-triviality theorems for these groups were established.

A well-known popular theorem in mathematics is the `Hairy Ball theorem' asserting that the hair cannot be combed flat on any head. The context of this theorem has been vastly generalized. The question of triviality of vector bundles or projective modules based on the geometry of these spaces is of fundamental interest in algebra and geometry. One of the finest results that came in the last few years resolves a long standing conjecture of over 40 years. It was shown that

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stably free modules of rank d-1 on a d-dimensional normal affine algebra over an algebraically closed field of sufficiently large characteristic is free.

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

Strengths

• Research:

The School of Mathematics is recognized in the world as one of the leading centers of mathematical research. Very important new mathematical developments have emerged from here.

• Graduate Program:

The graduate school of the School of Mathematics is one of the strongest Ph.D. programmes in India. This was formally established in 1951, It has produced a very large number of distinguished mathematicians of high international repute. The Ph.D’s of TIFR have gone on to lead all the major mathematics departments in the country. The graduate students of TIFR are recognized for their depth and breadth of mathematical scholarship, and their knowledge of the latest developments combined with a high level of creativity.

Weaknesses

• The various research areas within mathematics that are currently represented in the School of Mathematics, TIFR, are a small fraction of the total spectrum of mathematics. We need to cultivate new areas in addition to areas of our traditional strength.

• Despite having the strongest pure mathematics department in the country, our presence in the national university system and in various decision making bodies, etc. is rather limited. We need to get more involved, and provide academic leadership to the Indian mathematical community.

Opportunities

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• The rise of internet has provided us with the opportunity to make more web- based programmes including videos of lectures, so as to reach out to mathematics students in the Country on a large scale.

• As the society becomes more knowledge based, and as high technology becomes more and more important, there is an opportunity to make significant use of modern mathematics in emerging new areas of applications, which may be entirely unexpected so far.

Challenges

• The brain drain of top students to the West means that we lose many potential good students and faculty members. This is a huge challenge.

• Even though our budget requirements are small, given the abstract nature of our subject it is not very easy to convince all policymakers that it is worthwhile to support higher mathematics.

52. Future plans of the department

• To recruit the best possible people at all levels – Faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students – irrespective of the area, and provide the best possible working atmosphere for them.

• To run the best mathematics graduate school in the country and turn out high quality Ph. Ds.

• We will ensure that the best possible mathematicians from across the world visit us and our people get opportunities to interact with the best people in the world.

• To continue with our work of nurturing Students and young Faculty in the country by training activities and collaborations (including those via the National Board for Higher Mathematics, National Center for Mathematics etc.).

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• To have a vigorous programmes of lectures, seminars, conferences and colloquia which will keep us abreast with the latest important research developments in world mathematics, and allow us to contribute to the progress.

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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Name of the Department : Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (DAA)

2. Year of establishment : 1945 TIFR was divided into Research Groups in the period 1945 – 1997. The present Departments were formed on December 12, 1997.

3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? The DAA is a part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved The DAA does not offer interdisciplinary programmes. However, there is a lot of research collaboration among the Departments, and the graduate school has Instructors drawn from all five physics departments in Colaba.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. A list of courses taught by DAA faculty members outside TIFR in the period 2011 – 2015 follows.

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Institution Course Name Faculty member 1. CBS, Mumbai Numerical methods H.M.Antia 2. CBS, Mumbai General Relativity and Cosmology D. Narasimha

7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons No programmes have been discontinued since the inception of the TIFR University.

8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System Students of the DAA are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project Work, on topics of their own choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below.

Duration (years) Basic & Overall Coursework Core Elective Project Total Programme Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 28 16 16 60 Int. M.Sc.-Ph.D. (J) 6 2.5 56 28 16 100

N.B. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. students who join after 4 years B.Sc. or equivalent are required to do only 36 Core Credits, i.e. 80 Credits in total.

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2. Quizzes 3. Mid-semester Examination 4. End-semester Examination 5. Term paper (optional) All students are required to do 16 Credits of Project work in their allotted Departments as a part of the Coursework. In Departmental Project I (8 Credits), they are required to study a topic of current interest outside of the textbooks and write a report on the state of art in that subject. In Departmental Project II (8 Credits), they are required to do a small original work, preferably (but not compulsorily) in the same area, or review some highly technical work which is known to be very difficult. Both these Projects are evaluated by a Committee of Faculty Members drawn from the different Departments.

Thus, DAA faculty are involved in teaching the Level I and II courses in sharing with faculty from other Physics departments, and exclusively involved in teaching all Level III and IV courses in Astronomy and Astrophysics, as well as General Relativity and Cosmology and Fluid Dynamics. DAA students are free to choose Electives in other Departments, even outside Physics, in consultation with the Subject Board of Physics.

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10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation Number (in Item 11) 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Dist. Prof. (J) — 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Prof. (I) 5 3. Professor (H)  6 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Prof. (G) 3 5. Reader (F)  2 6. Fellow (E)  — Total 16

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

Name Designation Deg* Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ 1. K. P. Singh Sr. Prof. (I) Ph.D X-ray and Optical 40 1 Astronomy, X-ray Instrumentation 2. H. M. Antia Sr. Prof. (I) Ph.D. Helio- and astro- 37 1 seismology 3. Swarna K. Ghosh Sr. Prof. (I) Ph.D Interstellar Medium and 37 – Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation Development 4. Alak K. Ray Sr. Prof. (I) Ph.D Supernovae, Nuclear 34 – Astrophysics and Pulsars 5. Pankaj S. Joshi Sr. Prof. (I) Ph.D Gravitation & Cosmology 32 1 6. D. Narasimha Professor (H) Ph.D Gravitational Lensing 38 – 7. A. R. Rao Professor (H) Ph.D Exptl. High Energy 36 3 Astrophysics 8. Mayank N. Vahia Professor (H) Ph.D Archaeoastronomy 36 –

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9. J. S. Yadav Professor (H) Ph.D X-ray and Gamma ray 34 – Astronomy, Cosmic rays 10 T. P. Singh Professor (H) Ph.D Gravitation & Cosmology 26 3 11 Devendra K. Ojha Professor (H) Ph.D. Interstellar Medium and 19 2 Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation Development 12 Bhaswati Assoc. Prof. Ph.D Infrared and Sub- 8 – Mookerjea (G) Millimeter astronomy, Astro-chemistry 13 Sudip Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. High Energy Astrophysics 8 2 Bhattacharyya (G) 14 A. Gopakumar Assoc. Prof. Ph.D Gravitational waves 6 1 (G) 15 Manoj Puravankara Reader Ph.D Infrared and Sub- 2 – millimeter Astronomy 16 Shravan M. Reader Ph.D. Helioseismology 2 3 Hanasoge * Highest degree obtained † Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere) ‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)

12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors There were none appointed during the period 2011 – 2015.

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information DAA does not employ temporary faculty.

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14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 10 16 0.62 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 11 16 0.69 3. M.Sc. ─ ─ ─ Total 21 16 1.31

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific & Administrative & Total

Technical Staff Auxiliary Staff DAA 36 2 38 PBL 29 19 48 Total 65 21 86

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

• X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy • Infrared and Optical Astronomy • Theoretical Astrophysics • Classical and Quantum Gravity

(a) National

Total Grant Duration (Rs. Department Agency Project Title (years) lakhs) Member 1. ARIES, DST TIFR-ARIES Near Infrared 5 1000.00 D.K. Ojha Spectrometer

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Total Grant Duration (Rs. Department Agency Project Title (years) lakhs) Member 2. ISRO For The Development And 12 205.62 J.S.Yadav Satellite Realisation Of Three X-Ray Centre Astronomy payloads 3. ISRO BAFA Phase II 5 100.00 D.K. Ojha 4. FICCI Raman Fellowship Astrosat Program 2 52.76 K.P. Singh 5. ISRO, DOS Infra-Red Spectroscopic Imaging 5 29.18 S.K.Ghosh Survey (IRSIS) 6. Jamsetji Study Of The Prehistoric Past Of 6 26.00 M.N.Vahia Tata Trust India Using Modern Technologies , Drawing Particularly From Fields of Astronomy 7. ISRO For The Development And 10 24.96 K.P. Singh Satellite Realisation Of Three X-Ray Centre Astronomy payloads 8. SERB Ramanujan Fellowship 5 14.10 S.M. Hanasoge 9. Shell India Real-Space Renormalisation In 1 9.00 S.M.Hanasoge Markets Porous Media Pvt. Ltd. 10. ISRO , DOS RT-2 experiment On-Board The 9 5.83 A.R.Rao Coronas-Photon Satellite 11. DST Multi-Wavelength Studies Of 3 5.47 K.P. Singh Accretion Phenomena With ASTROSAT And SALT 12. DST Study Of Neutral And Iodized Gas In 2 5.41 D.K. Ojha Star Forming Regions 13. DST Investigation Of The Distribution Of 2 4.51 D.K. Ojha Various Gas Components In Star Forming Complexes 14. DST Interaction Of Ionized. Atomic & 3 4.40 D.K. Ojha

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Total Grant Duration (Rs. Department Agency Project Title (years) lakhs) Member Molecular Gas In Star Forming Regions

(b) International Total Grant Duration (Rs. Agency Project Title (years) lakhs) Faculty 1. U. o f High Energy Astrophysics With 8 27.41 K.P. Singh Leicester, ASTROSAT: Understanding The Variable UK X-Ray Universe. 2. John The Need To Reformulate Quantum 3 19.43 T.P.Singh Templeton Mechanics Without Classical Spacetime : Foundation The Consequent Nonlinearity & Its Potential to solve the measurement problem 3. Max Planck Max Planck Partner Group With The 1 13.88 S.M.Hanasoge Gesellschaft Max Planck Institute For Solar Systems Research 4. British Astrophysics With ASTROSAT 4 8.71 K.P. Singh Council Programme Division (UKIERI) 5. FQXI The quantum measurement problem 4 3.41 T.P.Singh 6. IFCPAR Probing Dense Matter And Strong 4 1.26 S. Gravity Bhattacharyya

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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

(a) National Total Grant

Collaborating (Rs. Institutions Project Title Duration lakhs) Faculty 1. ISRO Satellite ASTROSAT Development Of 10 24.96 K.P. Singh Centre Satellite Payloads 2. ISRO , DOS RT-2 experiment On-Board The 9 5.83 A.R.Rao Coronas-Photon Satellite

(b) International Total Grant Collaborating (Rs. Institutions Project Title Duration lakhs) Faculty 1. U. o f Leicester, High Energy Astrophysics With 8 27.41 K.P. Singh UK ASTROSAT: Understanding The Variable X-Ray Universe. 2. Max Planck Max Planck Partner Group With 1 13.88 S. Hanasoge Gesellschaft The Max Planck Institute For Solar Systems Research

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

Total Grant (Rs. Agency Project Title Duration lakhs) Faculty 1. DAE XII Plan Project -- DAA 5 years 2424 All DAA faculty

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20. Research facility / centre with • state recognition : • national recognition : • international recognition :

At present, there are none such in the DAA.

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies At present, there are none such in the DAA.

22. Publications:

Articles in Mono Journal Technical Web Book Books DAA Proceedin - Publications Reports Publications Chapters Edited gs graphs 2010-11 64 27 6 2 3 1  2011-12 40 10 7 4 2 1  2012-13 46 17 3 6   1 2013-14 41 15 5 4 1  2 2014-15 48 15 2 1 6 1  Total 239 84 23 17 12 3 3

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Publications Web Publications

100 Book Chapters + 80 Books Edited + 60 Monographs Technical Reports 40

20 Articles in

Number of Publications Proceedings 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Journal Publications Year

∗ Books with ISBN with details of publishers (i) The Story of Collapsing Stars by Pankaj S. Joshi, Oxford University Press (2015) ISBN-13: 978-0-19-151026-7, ISBN: 0-19-151026-2

(ii) Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (3/E) by H. M. Antia, Hindustan Book Agency (2012) ISBN 978-3764367152

(iii) Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities by Pankaj S. Joshi, Cambridge University Press (2008) ISBN-13: 978-1-107-40536-3, ISBN: 1-107-40536-X

(iv) Global Aspects in Gravitation and Cosmology by Pankaj S. Joshi, Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1993), ISBN-13: 978-0-19-850079-7, ISBN: 0-19-850079-3

∗ Citation Index : Total number of citations: 23184 (Source: Astrophysica Data System -- ADS) Citation per faculty: 1449

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∗ h-index : Range: 11 - 36

23. Details of patents and income generated :

At present, there are none in the DAA.

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

DAA has none in the period 2011-15.

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

National Visits :

Faculty Member Institution visited Date 1. T. P. Singh ICGC2015, IISER Mohali 12/2015 2. Alak K. Ray Current Issues in Cosmology, Astrophysics & High Energy 11/2015 Physics, Dibrugarh University, Assam 3. K.P. Singh ISAC, Bengaluru: for integration and testing of Astrosat- 03/2015 SXT payload 4. K.P. Singh National Symposium on Particles, Detectors and 03/2015 Instrumentation, Madurai 5. D. K. Ojha 32nd Astronomical Society of India meeting, IISER 03/2015 Mohali 6. J. S. Yadav Physics department, IIT Kanpur 03/2015 7. K.P. Singh Annual Meeting of the ASI, NCRA, Pune 02/2015 rd 8. S. Bhattacharyya Workshop on "Transients", 33 ASI Meeting, NCRA, 02/2015 Pune 9. D. K. Ojha 33rd Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, 02/2015 NCRATIFR, Pune 10. D. K. Ojha Workshop on Star and Planet Formation, IUCAA, Pune 02/2015 11. B. Mookerjea Workshop on Star & Planet formation, Annual Meeting 02/2015 of the Astronomical Society of India, Pune, 16 February

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Faculty Member Institution visited Date 2015 12. D. Narasimha Workshop on Transients, 02/2015 NCRA-TIFR, Pune 13. J. S. Yadav ASI Meeting, NCRA, Pune, 02/2015 14. Alak K. Ray Physics Colloquium, Presidency University, Calcutta 02/2015 15. K.P. Singh RoboPol and Polarimetry in Astronomy, IUCAA, Pune 01/2015 16. K.P. Singh Workshop on Science with LAXPC/ASTROSAT, TIFR 12/2014 National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad 17. S. Bhattacharyya Workshop on Science with LAXPC/ASTROSAT, 12/2014 Hyderabad 18. J. S. Yadav Workshop on Science with LAXPC/ASTROSAT 12/2014 19. A. Gopakumar Neutron Stars: A brainstorming Workshop, NCRA-TIFR 11/2014 20. H.M. Antia DWIH Indo-German Winter School on 11/2014 Astrophysics, TIFR, Mumbai 21. S. Bhattacharyya Neutron Star Workshop, NCRA, Pune 11/2014 22. D. K. Ojha Workshop on Current trends in Near Infrared Astronomy 11/2014 in India, TIFR Balloon Facility, Hyderabad 23. B. Mookerjea Workshop on Current trends in Near Infrared Astronomy 11/2014 in India, Hyderabad 24. S. Hanasoge Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere, IUCAA, Pune, 11/2014 25. M. Puravankara Workshop on Current trends in Near 11/2014 Infrared Astronomy in India, TIFR Balloon facility, Hyderabad 26. J. S. Yadav ISAC, Bengaluru 10/2014 27. K.P. Singh Hard X-ray Astronomy: Astrosat and Beyond, 09/2014 International Centre, Goa 28. D. Narasimha Hard X-ray Astronomy: 09/2014 ASTROSAT and beyond, Goa. 29. J. S. Yadav ISAC, Bengaluru 08/2014 30. D. K. Ojha Workshop on Galaxies and Cosmology, NCRA-TIFR, Pune 07/2014 31. A. Gopakumar Cotton College State University, Guwahati, India 06/2014. 32. J. S. Yadav ISAC, Bengaluru 06/2014 33. J. S. Yadav ISAC, Bengaluru 05/2014

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Faculty Member Institution visited Date 34. S. Hanasoge IISER Kolkota 05/2014 35. J. S. Yadav ASTROSAT Baseline Science Meeting 05/2014 36. J. S. Yadav ISAC, Bengaluru 04/2014 37. H.M. Antia Plasma Processes in the Solar and Space Plasma at 03/2014 Diverse Spatio-Temporal Scales: Upcoming Challenges in the Science and Instrumentation, ARIES, Nainital 38. K . P. Singh ASTROFEST, Cotton College, Guwahati 03/2014 39. K . P. Singh IISER, Mohali, Meeting of the Astronomical Society of 03/2014 India 40. K . P. Singh Punjabi University, Patiala, Physics Department 03/2014 41. K . P. Singh Thapar University, Patiala 03/2014 42. K.P. Singh IIA, Bengaluru: Astrosat Calibration group and Science 02/2014 Working Group meetings 43. S. Bhattacharyya Transients with Astrosat, IUCAA, Pune 01/2014 44. D. K. Ojha The India- TMT science and instrumentation meeting, 01/2014 Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru 45. J. S. Yadav Black hole transients with LAXPC/ASTROSAT, IUCAA 01/2014 46. A.R. Rao Symposium on ``Transients with Astrosat’’, IUCAA 01/2014 47. S. Bhattacharyya Relativistic spectral emission lines from X-ray binaries; 11/2013 National Symposium on VHE Gamma Ray Astronomy 2013, BARC, Mumbai 48. A.R. Rao National Symposium on VHE Gamma Ray Astronomy, 11/2013 BARC 49. K.P. Singh Conference on High Energy Emission from AGN, 10/2013 University of Kashmir 50. K . P. Singh University of Kashmir, Srinagar 10/2013 51. K . P. Singh ISAC, Bengaluru 10/2013 52. A.R. Rao Black holes, jets and outflows, Kathmandu, Nepal, 10/2013 53. S. Bhattacharyya Accretion on to Black Holes, International Center, Goa, 09/2013 India 54. K . P. Singh ISAC, Bengaluru 09/2013 55. D. Narasimha Meeting on Accretion in Black Holes, Goa, 09/2013 56. A.R. Rao “Unsolved” observational problems in Accretion onto 09/2013

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Faculty Member Institution visited Date Black Holes; Accretion onto Black Holes, Goa 57. K . P. Singh ISAC, Bengaluru 08/2013 58. J. S. Yadav ISAC, Mysuru 07/2013 59. D. Narasimha JVN75, IUCAA, Pune 07/2013 60. S. Bhattacharyya Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology 06/2013 (AAPCOS-2013), Shimla, India 61. K . P. Singh ISAC, Bengaluru 05/2013 62. K.P. Singh IIT Guwahati and Cotton College State University, 03/2013 Guwahati 63. S. Bhattacharyya ASTROFEST 2013 conference, Cotton College State 03/2013 University, Guwahati 64. S. Bhattacharyya Recent trends in the study of compact objects: Theory 03/2013 and Observation conference, IIT Guwahati 65. S. Bhattacharyya Transients and Timing: A Multiwavelength Approach 03/2013 conference, IUCAA, Pune 66. K . P. Singh IUCAA, Pune 03/2013 67. K . P. Singh IIT Guwahati and Cotton College State University, 03/2013 Guwahati 68. K . P. Singh National meeting on Recent trends in the study of 03/2013 compact objects: Theory and Observation, IIT/Guwahati 69. K . P. Singh Transients and Timing Meeting, IUCAA, Pune 03/2013 70. J. S. Yadav IUCAA, Pune 03/2013 71. M. N. Vahia Workshop on Analytical Strategies in Archaeology, 03/2013 Department of Ancient History, University of Allahabad 72. A.R. Rao Astrofest, Cotton College, Guwahati, 03/2013 73. A.R. Rao RETCOS Conference, IIT, Guwahati, 03/2013 74. A.R. Rao Transient and Timing Meeting, IUCAA, Pune, 03/2013 75. K.P. Singh IUCAA, Pune 02/2013 76. K . P. Singh IUCAA, Pune 02/2013 77. B. Mookerjea Meeting of the Astronomical 02/2013 Society of India, Thiruvananthapuram 78. J. S. Yadav ISAC, Bengaluru 01/2013

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Faculty Member Institution visited Date 79. Alak K. Ray IAU Symposium 296 “Supernova Environmental 01/2013 Impacts”, Raichak, West Bengal 80. K.P. Singh HRI, Allahabad 12/2012 81. D. Narasimha INSPIRE Internship meeting, Kannur 12/2012 82. H.M. Antia International Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 11/2012 IISER Pune 83. H.M. Antia International Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 11/2012 IISER Pune 84. T. P. Singh IIT Kanpur 11/2012 85. S. Bhattacharyya Neutron Stars: Inside and Outside conference, SINP, 10/2012 Kolkata 86. D. K. Ojha Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences 09/2012 (ARIES), Nainital 87. T. P. Singh IIT Kanpur 08/2012 th 88. S. Bhattacharyya 39 COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Bengaluru. 07/2012 th 89. K . P. Singh 39 COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysuru 07/2012 90. D. K. Ojha International Workshop on Chemical Evolution 07/2012 of Star Forming Region and Origin of Life, SNBNCBS, Kolkata, 91. J. S. Yadav 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysuru 07/2012 92. D. Narasimha “Successful Indo-French Projects”, 25 years of Indo- 06/2012 French Centre for the promotion of advanced research, Chennai 93. S. Bhattacharyya X-ray View of Cosmos conference, PRL, Ahmedabad 04/2012 94. K . P. Singh Conference on X-ray View of Cosmos, PRL, Ahmedabad 04/2012 95. K . P. Singh Conference on X-ray View of Cosmos, PRL, Ahmedabad 04/2012 96. A.R. Rao Symposium on X-ray Universe, Place/Date: PRL, 04/2012 Ahmedabad 97. S. Bhattacharyya Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology 2012, 03/2012 Darjeeling 98. K . P. Singh HRI, Allahabad 03/2012 99. K . P. Singh National Symposium on Particles, Detectors and 03/2012 Instrumentation (NSPDI), TIFR, Mumbai

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Faculty Member Institution visited Date 100. S. Bhattacharya Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology 2012, 03/2012 Darjeeling, India 101. K . P. Singh Winter School on High Energy Astrophysics: Accretion 02/2012 onto Compact Objects, (HEAP12), HRI, Allahabad 102. H.M. Antia Interdisciplinary workshop on High Performance 01/2012 Computing, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 103. K . P. Singh International Workshop on Stellar Spectral Libraries, 12/2011 Delhi University, Delhi 104. D. K. Ojha International Workshop on Stellar Spectral Libraries 12/2011 (IWSSL 2011), University of Delhi, New Delhi 105. D. K. Ojha National Workshop on Role of Small Telescopes in 11/2011 Modern Astronomy Research, held at SNBNCBS, Kolkata 106. D. K. Ojha International conference on Interstellar Dust, Molecules 11/2011 and Chemistry (IDMC-2011), IUCAA, Pune 107. K . P. Singh Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru 08/2011 108. K . P. Singh Anniversary of the VBT, IIA, Bengaluru 08/2011 109. D. K. Ojha International workshop on Recent Advances in Star 06/2011 Formation, IIA, Bengaluru 110. H.M. Antia Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru 03/2011 111. H.M. Antia M. S. University, Vadodara 02/2011 112. S. Bhattacharyya Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, Raipur 02/2011 113. K.P. Singh Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, 01/2011 Thiruvananthapuram 114. S. Bhattacharyya IAGRG Meeting, HRI, Allahabad, 01/2011 115. S. Bhattacharyya Conference on Wideband X-ray Astronomy: Frontiers in 01/2011 Timing and Spectroscopy, IUCAA, Pune 116. K . P. Singh XXXV Optical Society of India Symposium and 01/2011 International Conference on Contemporary Trends in Optics and Opto-electronics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvanantapuram 117. K . P. Singh International Conference on Wide-band X-ray 01/2011 Astronomy: Frontiers, IUCAA, Pune

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International Visits :

Faculty Member Institution visited Date 1. A. Ray New York University at Abu Dhabi, UAE 11/2015 2. A. Ray Thirty Meter Telescope Science Forum Meeting, 06/2015 Washington, DC, USA 3. A. Ray Dick McCray Symposium, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland 06/2015 4. S. Hanasoge New York University at Abu Dhabi, UAE 04/2015 5. D. K. Ojha Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 03/2015 Nizhny Novgorod ,Russia 6. A. Ray Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia Univ., New York, USA 03/2015 7. A. Ray American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA 03/2015 8. A. Ray Harvard University, Institute of Theory & Computation, 02/2015 Cambridge, MA, USA 9. A. Ray Center for Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics, Ohio State 02/2015 University, Columbus, OH, USA 10. S. Hanasoge New York University, USA 12/2014 11. S. Hanasoge American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA, 12/2014 12. D. K. Ojha Niels Bohr International Academy, Copenhagan, Denmark 11/2014 13. D. K. Ojha Workshop on Early Life of Stellar Clusters: Formation and 11/2014 Dynamics, Niels Bohr International Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark 14. M.N. Vahia National Astronomical Observatory, Japan, 11/2014 15. M.N. Vahia International Astronomy Olympiad in Kyrgyzstan 10/2014 16. T.P. Singh University of Southampton, UK 09/2014 17. T.P. Singh University College, London, UK 09/2014 18. T.P. Singh Spacetime, matter, quantum mechanics, Castiglioncello, 09/2014 Italy 19. S. Hanasoge Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany 09/2014 20. S. Hanasoge Cambridge University, UK 09/2014 21. S. Hanasoge HELAS conference, Goettingen, Germany. 09/2014 22. M. Puravankara HELAS VI/SOHO meeting on Helioseismology & 09/2014 Applications, Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung, Gottingen, Germany 23. D. K. Ojha National Astronomical of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan 06/2014 24. K. P.Singh Conference on Space Telescopes and Instrumentation: UV 06/2014

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to Gamma-Ray, Montreal, Canada 25. M.N. Vahia Study of archaeological sites in Pingguo County, Quangxi 06/2014 Prov., P. R. China 26. M.N. Vahia Eclipse records in ancient India, Special Discussion 06/2014 Meeting, Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 27. S. Hanasoge University of Heidelberg and Max-Planck Institute for Solar 06/2014 System Research, Germany 28. B. Mookerjea Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, Germany 05/2014 29. P. S. Joshi New Perspectives in Black Hole Physics (colloquium), 05/2014 Physics Department, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan 30. A.R. Rao 9th IACHEC Meeting, Airlie Center (Warrenton, VI), USA 05/2014 31. M. Puravankara European Space Astronomy Center, European Space 04/2014 Agency, Madrid, Spain 32. T.P. Singh Conference on Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics; 03/2014 Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 33. B. Mookerjea Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, 03/2014 Munich 34. S. Bhattacharya RIKEN, Japan 12/2013 35. S. Bhattacharya ISAS, Japan 12/2013 36. K. P.Singh First COSPAR Symposium on Future of Space Astronomy, 11/2013 Bangkok, Thailand 37. A.R. Rao The 1st COSPAR Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand 11/2013 38. A. Ray First COSPAR Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand 11/2013 39. A. Gopakumar University of Zurich, Switzerland 10/2013 40. A. Ray IAU Symposium No. 303: “The Galactic Center”, Santa Fe, 10/2013 New Mexico, USA 41. A. Ray Harvard University, Institute for Theory and Computation, 10/2013 Cambridge, MA, USA 42. J. S. Yadav “ Black holes, jets and outflows “, Kathmandu, Nepal 10/2013 43. A. Gopakumar Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller- 09/2013 University Jena, Germany 44. A. Gopakumar 6th Numerical Relativity - Data Analysis meeting, Spain, 09/2013 Mallorca, Spain. 45. M.N. Vahia International Astronomical Olympiad at Vilnius, Lithuania 09/2013

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46. T.P. Singh the University of Trieste, Italy 05/2013 47. B. Mookerjea Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne 05/2013 48. D. K. Ojha Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 11/2012 Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), 49. M.N. Vahia International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11/2012 held in Brazil 50. P. S. Joshi Collapsing Objects, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 10/2012 51. A. Gopakumar Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, 09/2012 Germany 52. T.P. Singh University of Southampton, UK 09/2012 53. S. Bhattacharyya Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology, 09/2012 Toulouse, France 54. S. Bhattacharya Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology, 09/2012 Toulouse, France 55. D. K. Ojha South Africa - India joint Ground-based Astronomy 08/2012 Workshop, CapeTown, South Africa 56. B. Mookerjea I. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne. Germany 06/2012 57. A. Gopakumar Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, 05/2012 Germany 58. A. Gopakumar Institut Astrophysique de Paris, France 05/2012 59. A. Gopakumar The 9th LISA Symposium, , Paris, France 05/2012 60. A. Gopakumar Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller- 04/2012 University, Jena, Germany 61. T.P. Singh Quantum Malta 2012: Fundamental Problems in Quantum 04/2012 Physics, Malta 62. P. S. Joshi Conference on ‘Black Holes: From Quantum To Gravity’ 04/2012 Malta 63. D. K. Ojha Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 03/2012 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 64. K. P.Singh University of Leicester, UK 12/2011 65. D. K. Ojha Besancon Observatory, France 10/2011 66. T.P. Singh University of Turku, Finland, 08/2011 67. T.P. Singh Workshop on Inhomogeneous Cosmologies, University of 08/2011 Jyvaskyla, Finland 68. S. Bhattacharyya Harvard University, MIT and University of Maryland, USA 08/2011

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69. T.P. Singh University of Vienna, Austria 07/2011 70. T.P. Singh Meeting on Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, 07/2011 Traunkirchen, Austria 71. B. Mookerjea Asian-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting, Chiang-Mai, Thailand 07/2011 72. A. Gopakumar Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller- 06/2011 University Jena, Germany 73. A. Gopakumar Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’, University of 06/2011 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 74. T.P. Singh University of Trieste, Italy 06/2011 75. B. Mookerjea Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, Germany 06/2011 76. B. Mookerjea Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris 05/2011 77. A. Ray NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA 05/2011 78. A. Ray Astronomy Dept., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA 05/2011 79. A. Ray Institute for Gravitation & Cosmos, Pennsylvania State 03/2011 Univ., PA, USA 80. A. Ray Physics Dept., Washington State University at St. Louis, 02/2011 Missouri, USA 81. A. Ray West Virginia University, Physics Dept., Morgantown, WV, 01/2011 USA 82. A. Ray Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kyoto Univ., Japan 11/2011 (Long term Workshop on Supernovae & GRBs)

26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees : Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 1. D.K. Ojha International Astronomical Union Member Oct 2015 — National Committee (INSA-ICSU)

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2. D.K. Ojha IIA Time Allocation Committee (IIA-TAC) Chairperson Jan 2016 — 3. D.K. Ojha Astronomical Society of India Councillor 2010 – 2012 4. D.K. Ojha TIFR Balloon Facility Management Member 2011 — Board 5. D.K. Ojha ARIES Science Advisory Committee Member 2011 — (ARIES-SAC) 6. D.K. Ojha ARIES External Screening Committee Member 2014 — (ARIES-ESC) 7. D.K. Ojha Scientific Organizing Committee of the Chairperson Nov 2014 workshop on “Current trends in Near Infrared Astronomy in India” 8. S. Bhattacharyya ASTROSAT Science Working Group Member 2011 — 9. S. Bhattacharyya SKA India Consortium Member 2015 — 10. S. Bhattacharyya Indian team for ISRO-CNSA cooperation Member 2015 — 11. S. Bhattacharyya Science Working Group of Astronomical Member 2011 – Society of India 2013 12. S. K. Ghosh ARIES Governing Council Member 2011 — 13. T. P. Singh 7th International Conf. on gravitation Chair, LOC Dec 2011 and cosmology, Goa

14. T. P. Singh 8th International Conf. on gravitation Member, Dec 2015 and cosmology, IISER Mohali ScOC 15. M. N. Vahia Indian National Astronomy Olympiad National 2012 – 13 Programme Coordinator 16. K. P. Singh NCRA Management Board, Pune Member 2012 – 15 17. K. P. Singh TIFR Balloon Facility Management Member 2012 – 15 Board 18. K. P. Singh JNU-IUCAA Academic Committee (JIAC), Member 2012 – 13 Pune 19. M. N. Vahia Indian Junior Science Olympiad National 2011 Programme Coordinator 20. M. N. Vahia NCSM, Executive Committee Member 2012 – 13 for Western Region 21. M. N. Vahia Planning & programme Committee of Chairman 2012 – 13 Nehru Science Centre

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22. P. S. Joshi Indian Association of General Relativity President 2010 – 12 and Gravitation 23. P. S. Joshi Scientific Organizing committee, ICGC, Member 2011 Goa 24. B. Mookerjea Scientific Organizing Committee of Member 2013 – 16 Astronomical Society of India 25. B. Mookerjea GMRT Time Allocation Committee Member 2012 – 15 26. H. M. Antia NCRA Management Board, Pune Member 2013 — 27. A. Ray SKA India Science Working Group on Member 2014- Transients 28. A. Ray SKA India Science Working Group on Member 2014- Pulsars

(b) International Committees : Name of the Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Faculty Member Committee Service 1. D.K. Ojha TMT International Science Development Member 2014 — B. Mookerjea Team (ISDT) M. Puravankara S. Bhattacharyya D. Narasimha A. Gopakumar 2. S. Bhattacharyya Science Working Group of the future Member 2015 — European X-ray space mission Athena 3. H. M. Antia National Committee of International Chair 2012 – Astronomical Union 2015 4. M. N. Vahia Coordination Committee, International Member Sep 2013 Earth Science Olympiad, Mangalore 5. K. P. Singh Organising Committee of Division D, Member 2012 – 13 Commission 44 (Space and High Energy Astrophysics) of IAU 6. M. N. Vahia Executive Committee of the Member 2012 – 13 International Conference on Oriental Astronomy 7. M. N. Vahia International Astronomy Olympiad Observer 2014 – 15 Kyrgyzstan

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8. M. N. Vahia Scientific Organising Committee of the Member Aug 2014 Asian Records of Eclipses in Asia, Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 9. S. Hanasoge Max Planck Partner Group Head Group Head 2015 — 10. S. Hanasoge Centre for Space Sciences, New York Co-PI 2015 — University at Abu Dhabi 11. T. P. Singh Silver Jubilee 7th International Chair, LOC Dec 2011 Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Goa 12. T. P. Singh Management Committee of the Member 2011 European COST Action on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 13. A. Ray IAU Symposium No. 296: “Supernova Chair SOC 2013 Environmental Impacts”, Raichak, W.B. India 14. A. Ray IAU Symposium No. 331: “SN 1987A, 30 Co-Chair 2015-2017 years later”, La Reunion Island, France, SOC Feb 2017

Name of the Name of the Journal Impact Term of Faculty Member Factor Service 1. S. Bhattacharyya Journal ISRN Astronomy & 4.47 2012 — Astrophysics 2. K. P. Singh Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics 4.47 2012 — 3. S. K. Ghosh Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics 4.47 2012 —

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

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28. Student projects

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

ALL (100%) TIFR students are required to do two Departmental Projects, viz. Departmental Project I and Departmental Project II (see Item 8 above).

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

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

(a) National Awards

Awardee Details of the Award/Honour Year 1. Devendra K. Ojha Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru 2015 2. Devendra K. Ojha Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad 2015 3. Pankaj S.Joshi Sandipani Gaurav Award, 2013 Sandipani Sanskruti Pratishthan, Porbandar 4. Shravan M. Hanasoge Ramanujan Fellowship, 2013 DST 5. Pankaj S.Joshi Prof A.C. Banerjee Memorial Award, 2013 National Academy of Sciences, India

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Awardee Details of the Award/Honour Year 6. Pankaj S.Joshi Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2012 7. Pankaj S.Joshi The Vaidya-Raychaudhuri Endowment Award, 2012 Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation 8. A.R. Rao Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences 2011 9. Pankaj S.Joshi Umang Foundation Award, 2011 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai 10. Swarna K. Ghosh Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2010 11. Pankaj S.Joshi President, 2010 Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation 12. H. M. Antia Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2008 13. K. P. Singh Fellow, National Academy of Science, Allahabad 2006 14. Swarna K. Ghosh Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru 2006 15. K. P. Singh Award for Space Sciences & Applications 2004 Astronautical Society of India 16. K. P. Singh Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru 2000 17. H. M. Antia Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru 1999 18. H. M. Antia Hari Om Ashram prerit 1999 Vikram Sarabhai award in Space Sciences 19. A. R. Rao Hari Om Ashram prerit 1997 Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for Space Sciences 20. D. Narasimha BOYSCAST Fellow, DST 1989

(b) International Awards

Awardee Details of the Award/Honour Year 1. Alak K. Ray Fulbright-Nehru Academic Professional Excellence 2015 Fellowship, Indo-US 2. T.P.Singh FQXi Essay Contest Fourth prize 2011 3. T.P.Singh FQXi Essay Contest Fourth prize 2012 4. T.P.Singh FQXi Essay Contest Second prize 2013

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

(a) National Awards

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Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Poonam Chandra Swarna Jayanti Fellowship of the Dept. of Science & 2014 Technology 2. Sayan Chakraborti Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Medal 2014 3. Naveen Yadav Shyama Prosad Mukherjee Fellowship of CSIR (PreDoctoral) 2013

(b) International Awards

Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Sayan Chakraborti Dr. Pliny A. & Margaret H. Price Prize in Cosmology & 2011 AstroParticle Physics, CCAPP, Ohio State Univ., USA 2. Sayan Chakraborti Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows and ITC 2012- Fellow, Harvard University, USA 2016 3. Poonam Chandra Young Scientists Prize of the International Union of Pure & 2010 Applied Physics (IUPAP Commission on Astronomy)

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

Dates Name Funding Faculty organisers 1. Dec 14 - 19, 7th International Conference on TIFR T. P. Singh 2011 Gravitation and Cosmology 2. Dec 10 - 17, Winter School on Astronomical and TIFR B. Mookerjea 2012 Cosmological Surveys S.Bhattacharyya 3. Jan 07 - 11, 2013 IAUS 296: Supernova environmental IAU, INSA, A. K. Ray impacts TIFR, IIA (Co-Chair, SOC) 4. Sep 05 - 07, Accretion onto Black Holes TIFR A. R. Rao 2013 5. Sep 24 - 26, Conference on Hard X-ray Astronomy: TIFR A. R. Rao 2014 Astrosat and Beyond

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Dates Name Funding Faculty organisers 6. Nov 3 - 7, 2014 Winter School on Solar and Stellar TIFR S. Hanasoge Astrophysics 7. Nov 25 - 27, Workshop on "Current trends in Near TIFR D. K. Ojha 2014 Infrared Astronomy in India" 8. Dec 15 - 17, Science with LAXPC/ASTROSAT TIFR J. S. Yadav 2014 9. Mar 28, 2015 Second Mumbai Area Physics Meet TIFR D. Narasimha 10. Dec 7 - 11, 2015 Advances In Seismology: A Dialogue TIFR S. Hanasoge/ H. Across Disciplines M. Antia

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

DAA follows the TIFR code of ethics (see annexure B2-B)

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches.

Pass Programme Applications Selected Joined Percentage* received # Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 25 4 8 3 100 100 Int.M.Sc.- 21,370 18 3 14 0 100 - Ph.D. Total 43 7 22 3 # Applications include numbers for of all 5 Physics departments, viz. DAA, DCMP&MS, DHEP, DNAP and DTP. 33. Diversity of students

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(a) geographical Ph.D. Int.-Ph.D. M.Sc. Students Male Female Male Female Male Female Total From the state where the 2 — — — — — 2 From other states of India 6 2 7 2 — — 17 NRI students — — — — — — — Foreign students — — — — — — — Total 8 2 7 2 — — 19 (b) undergraduate institution

Students from Ph.D. Int.-Ph.D. M.Sc. Male Female Male Female Male Female Total Indian Universities 2 1 6 2 — — 11 Premier science institutions † 1 — — — — — 1 Premier professional institutions # 5 1 — — — — 6 Others* — — 1 — — — 1 Foreign Universities — — — — — — 0 Total 8 2 7 2 — — 19 † Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc. # IITs, NITs, etc. 34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise. Examination No of students 1. NET 9 2. GATE 8 3. JEST 5 4. Others 6

35. Student progression

• Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DAA go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other

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employment, such as teaching positions or industry.

• Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DAA go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc.’s and Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry 36. Diversity of staff

Faculty Ph.D.s

19% TIFR Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s

from TIFR : 9 India 56% from other institutions in India : 4 25% from institutions Abroad: 3 Abroad Total : 16

37. Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the assessment period The minimum eligibility criterion for selection as a member of the TIFR faculty is a Ph.D. degree. Thus, this question is not relevant.

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library DAA, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (see Section B2, Item no 4.2)

b) Internet facilities for staff and students DAA, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the

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TIFR Computer Centre and Communication Facility (see Section B2, Item no 4.3)

c) Total number of class rooms DAA, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility

All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video-conferencing possibilities are also available in most of the lecture rooms.

e) Students’ laboratories

• For the compulsory Experimental Physics courses and for all the Projects, students have access to the well-equipped laboratories of DAA (see Item f) below)

• In addition students of both Ph.D. and Integrated-Ph.D. have one Teaching Laboratory which has specific experimental setups which are used during the coursework period.

f) Research laboratories Name of Laboratory Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Brief description of research activity 1. Infrared Astronomy 2 1 1 Development of ground- and space-based infrared instrumentation. 2. X-ray LAXPC 2 1 - Development of space-based X-ray instrumentation. 3. X-ray CZT 1 1 2 Development of space-based X-ray instrumentation. 4. X-ray SXT 1 1 - Development of space-based X-ray instrumentation.

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5. TIFR National 0 0 0 TIFR National Balloon Facility in Hyderabad Balloon Facility, is one of the major balloon facilities in the Hyderabad world which provides a complete solution in scientific ballooning. It is also one of its kind in the world since it combines both, in-house balloon production and complete flight support for scientific ballooning. The facility has been used by National and International groups for conducting balloon flights in the area of Astronomy, Astrobiology and Atmospheric sciences. * no of faculty members using the laboratory † no of postdoctoral fellows using the laboratory ‡ no of graduate students using the laboratory

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

Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows 1. Joe P. Ninan 1. Maria Haney 2. Kuldeep Verma 2. Tapas Baug 3. Vikas Chand 3. Jun-Qi Guo 4. Dattaraj Bhalchandra Dhuri 4. Sunil Chandra 5. Prashant Kocherlakota 5. Suman Ghosh 6. Santanu Dey 6. Chandrachur Chakraborty 7. Sayan Mandal 7. Shabnam I. Syamsunder 8. Jishnu Bhattacharya 8. Blesson Mathew 9. Sayantani Bera 10. Shreya Banerjee JRFs 11. Debdutta Paul 1. Jai V. Chauhan 12. Krishnendu Mandal 2. Yash D. Bhargava 13. Siddhesh Chandrakant Ambhire 14. Srimanta Banerjee SRFs 15. Sudip Chakraborty 1. Vinita Navalkar 16. Lankeswar Dey

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17. Mayank Narang 18. Abhimanyu S 19. Srishti Tiwari

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

ALL the students of DAA (13) are in doctoral programmes, and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology. DAA, and TIFR as a whole, has been training students for Ph.D. since its inception in 1945. During the 1990’s, a need was felt for a special programme to allow exceptionally bright students an early entry into research, i.e. directly after their B.Sc.’s. This was felt on the basis of the Institute’s well-established VSRP programme (see Item 48 below), where it was seen that many of the best students were already prepared for graduate school, even though they were only half-way through their M.Sc. programmes. It was therefore, decided to admit some exceptionally bright B.Sc. students directly to the Ph.D. programme, teach them the basic M.Sc. courses in a period of one year, and then permit them to do advanced electives and project work similar to M.Sc.’s. Based on the success of this move, the Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme, was formally started in 2012.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the department utilize the feedback? The Subject Board of Physics includes a Course Coordinator, who is constantly in touch with the Instructors of different courses, and collects their feedback at regular intervals. This is used to (a) advise the Instructors, (b) update the Syllabus, and (c) fine-tune the curriculum.

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In 2012, an exercise was carried out, in which feedback was requested from all the Instructors of the previous 5 years. Based on their suggestions, the course curriculum was thoroughly revised and rejuvenated.

b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department utilize the feedback? The Course Coodinator (see above) also collects anonymous feedback on every course from the students in a form specifically designed for this purpose. The relevant portions in this are communicated to the Instructors, for modification and rectification in their pedagogic styles. These feedback forms also form an important input in selecting a faculty for the Excellence in Teaching Award of the TIFR Alumni Association.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department

Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. J. V. Narlikar Padma Vibhushan, Founder Director of IUCAA 2. S. M. Chitre Padma Bhushan, Professor Emeritus at CBS 3. T. Padmanabhan Padma Shri, Distinguished Professor at IUCAA 4. P. C. Agrawal Distinguished Guest Faculty at CBS; Principal Investigator of ASTROSAT 5. A. K. Kembhavi Former Director, IUCAA; Vice-President, Executive Committee of IAU Member, Space Commission

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

As Item No 30 shows, the DAA regularly conducts conferences etc. which are attended by all the doctoral students, and these provide the required

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introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research. In addition, TIFR has a vibrant programme of seminars, colloquiua and public lectures which the students are encouraged to attend and absorb as much information as they can.

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

The DAA generally adopts the conventional blackboard teaching methods. Often slides are shown to illustrate experimental or numerical facts. For project work, students are required to work hands-on in a laboratory.

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

The DAA Chairperson and another member of the DAA faculty are members of the Subject Board of Physics, which constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

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

DAA faculty, postdocs and students regularly participate in the Outreach Activities of TIFR. 48. Give details of “beyond syllabus scholarly activities” of the department. The DAA conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis. • DAA Seminar • NSF Colloquium • VSRP Programme

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

The Academic performance of DAA was reviewed by a panel of international experts in 2009, set up by the Governing Council of TIFR. In addition, a Review Committee constituted by the UGC, visited TIFR during February 2010, and commented that the deemed to be university status of TIFR offers a unique

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multidisciplinary environment for carrying out research. The present composition of the faculty members and research facilities at DCS are equally well placed to meet the above description.

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

• AstroSat, India’s first dedicated astronomy satellite, was launched on 2015 September 28. It was the 30th successful launch of India’s work-horse rocket, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The satellite was precisely placed at the desired near Earth orbit of 650 km, thus saving the onboard fuel meant for orbit correction to any future eventualities and ensuring a very long orbital life for the satellite. AstroSat, weighing 1550 kg, carried a suite of scientific instruments for multi-wavelength astronomical observations. Within six months of operation, the Performance Verification phase has been completed and a very complex satellite like AstroSat is working flawlessly and as planned. Three of the five major payloads of AstroSat, viz., Large area X-ray Proportional Counter, Soft X-ray Telescope, and Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager, were built by the dedicated leadership of TIFR scientists.

• State-of-the-art instrumentation for use with the Indian telescopes to study the formation of stars in our Galaxy as well as in other galaxies. Role of grains, outflows and accretion in understanding the mechanisms by which planetary systems form around young stars.

• Helio- and asteroseismology : Stellar seismology is a science that studies the internal structure of pulsating stars by interpreting the oscillation frequencies observed on their surface. TIFR Group is pioneer in the study of pulsation of the Sun and stars with more than 4 decades of experience. The group at TIFR, tries to understand the properties of solar and stellar interior using the observations made by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Kepler spacecraft. Well established theory is used and computational techniques developed to reliably interpret the high quality measurements from the space missions. The Sun –

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being the closest star – serves as a perfect laboratory to test our understanding of the stellar physics. The group has been working on the 3-dimensional imaging of the Sun through the observations of the seismic waves on its surface; particularly, they are developing a self-consistent physical understanding of complex and transient features such as flows, magnetic fields, and their interaction with waves. Recent results from the group have cast doubts on conventional methods of imaging the flows in the Sun, and they are exploring more reliable analysis techniques. Along a slightly different line, the group tries to understand the bigger picture of stellar evolution by studying the fundamental properties of ensemble of stars. They have recently demonstrated that the Helium abundance in the envelope of sun-like stars can be estimated using the observed low-degree oscillation frequencies, which cannot be determined using spectroscopic techniques. Such measurements of envelope Helium abundance can potentially constrain the models of atomic diffusion and galactic chemical evolution.

• An experiment was proposed for detecting the anomalous Brownian motion predicted by those stochastic modifications of the Schrodinger equation which solve the quantum measurement problem. An influential review was published in Reviews of Modern Physics on `Models of wave-function collapse, underlying theories, and their experimental tests'.

• Gravitational lensing is the bending and distortion of a beam of photons from a distance source by the gravitational pul of an intervening mass. This is a famous prediction of General Relativity. Multiple images of identical intrinsic properties, independent of wavelength and time delay in observation of intrinsic variability in the source are the main signatures of lensing, which make it a powerful observational technique. All matter, luminous and dark, are effective in lensing. Hence, in the Universe where less than five percent of matter is of known nature, lensing becomes a reliable probe of the structures and large scale geometry of Universe. TIFR are pioneers in Computational modeling of multiply imaged lens systems. One of the earliest lens code was developed from scratch, which had fair success is predicting unseen lenses as well as phenomena like Einstein Ring. Right now two basic questions being addressed are (1) Important theoretical concepts in General Relativity like Cosmic Censorship are being tested through Relativistic

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lensing. (2) technique is being developed to study microlensing due to binary black holes, which is not exhibited by usual binary star lensing.

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

• In the DAA the observational and theoretical astronomy is doing well in comparison with other astronomical institutes within India (most of which are dedicated astronomical institutes).

• Many members of DAA are recognized to be the experts in their respective fields.

• The experimental and instrumentation areas have done extremely well as is proved by the major instruments onboard ASTROSAT as well as the ground- based infrared instruments in use in various Indian observatories.

• Research on wide areas of astronomy such as solar & stellar seismology, interstellar medium & star formation, astrochemistry, compact binaries & gravitational waves, stellar coronae & cataclysmic variables, supernovae and pulsars, active galactic nuclei & clusters of galaxies, general relativity & quantum gravity and black holes & neutron stars has resulted in competitive science and many publications in refereed journals.

Weaknesses

• The vibrant atmosphere of a department is often created by a healthy number of students and DAA is currently suffering badly on this count. Lack of students in the different experimental and observational projects has proven to be a major problem.

• Students joining DAA through the TIFR graduate admission exams are often found to not be interested in even receiving any information on the experimental/observational activities. Opportunities

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• Participation in the science and instrumentation efforts of upcoming large international projects like Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and hopefully Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO-India) are some of the programs in which the department is strongly investing its resources to strengthen the core science areas for the same.

• DAA needs to have access to guaranteed observation time in international optical/near-infrared facilities with capabilities suited to match the preparatory needs for the above mentioned large projects.

• With ISRO providing many opportunities for small and large astronomical payloads to be launched over the next few years, the department may take a leading role in planning and executing of competitive proposals for new space missions. Challenges

• Due to the limited campus accommodation, DAA is not able to attract good postdoc applicants which is an issue that affects the entire institute. The institute should work towards resolving this problem which comes in the way attracting bright postdoc candidates.

• After the launch of ASTROSAT there is a danger of experimental and instrumentation expertise being lost due to lack of young academics who can carry forward these programs to the next level. This will require inductions of few academics in the field of astronomical instrumentation.

• DAA's training and research facilities and capabilities should be made more attractive to students and postdocs, if necessary through special positions recruited through our international collaborations and multinational agreements. There should be more mobility of students and postdocs between apex institutions of astrophysics elsewhere in the world through formal agreements and appropriate funding.

52. Future plans of the department

The research programs in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics (DAA)

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address formation, physics and evolution of a vast range of astronomical objects starting from the Sun, the stars, compact objects (black holes & neutron stars), the matter between the stars, the galaxies, to the distant galaxy clusters. The DAA also carries out research in general relativity, cosmology and quantum gravity. In future the DAA will consolidate the existing fields and expand into new areas of astrophysics.

The DAA also emphasizes on the building of astronomy instruments, performing observations and formulation of theoretical and computational models to explain the outcome of observations of astronomical objects. The DAA has built instruments onboard the first Indian multi-wavelength astronomy satellite ASTROSAT and are leading multiple scientific projects with the ASTROSAT.

The DAA also has vibrant science and instrumentation collaborations on the upcoming projects on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the 3.6-meter Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). In future the DAA will consolidate and expand TIFR’s niche in Instrumentation for Astronomy (X-ray and Infrared) and will also participate in national and international large projects (e.g. SKA, LIGO, TMT, DOT).

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Department of Biological Sciences

1. Name of the Department:

Department of Biological Sciences (DBS)

2. Year of establishment :

1960. TIFR was divided into Research Groups in the period 1945 – 1997. The present Departments were formed on December 12, 1997.

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

The DBS is a part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

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

1. Ph.D.

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

3. M.Sc.

There is no direct recruitment into an M. Phil Programme. In unusual circumstances as specified by the subject board, a candidate may be allowed to submit a Thesis for evaluation for award of an M. Phil degree. It is not an exit “option” but permitted at the discretion of the subject board.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved

DBS members themselves perform interdisciplinary research and also collaborate with members of DCS, DNAP, NCBS, and other researchers outside the TIFR system.

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

No courses are offered in collaboration with other universities etc.

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

There are no such programmes.

8. ExaminationSystem:Annual/Semester/Trimester/ChoiceBasedCreditSystem

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

Duration (years) Basic & Overall Coursework Core Advanced Research Total Programme Credits Credits Credits Credits Completed during the first 2 Ph.D. 5 12 8 40 60 years (together with research) Completed during the first 2 I-Ph.D. 6 12 16 32 60 years (together with research) Completed during the first 2 M.Sc. 3 12 0 24 36 years (together with research)

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester (August – December) and the Spring Semester (February – June).

In each one-semester semester, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process consisting of 1. Assignments 2. Quizzes

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3. Mid-semester Examination (for some advanced courses) 4. End-semester Examination 5. Paper presentation (for some courses)

All students are required to complete 12 Credits of basic course work. M.Sc. students are assigned labs as soon as they join, and begin their research project work immediately in parallel with the coursework. Ph.D. and I-PhD students undertake lab rotations in parallel with the basic coursework. Then, they are assigned to labs based on their lab rotation evaluations and their fit with the respective labs. They then undertake preparations towards their Comprehensive Exam. This consists of a Project Area Review (Project I) and a Project Proposal Defense (Project II) which is followed by an oral comprehensive exam. Both these are evaluated by a Committee of Faculty Members that includes their Thesis Committee and additional members from the department. A student is deemed to have met the requirements for registration if they perform satisfactorily on their Project I, Project II, Oral comprehensive exam, and lab work during the period after being assigned their lab.

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

A few of our faculty teach some lectures in other departments of TIFR (such as DCS). Some faculty also teach at CBS and IISER-Pune.

DBS students are free to choose advanced courses offered in other Departments, as long as their advisor agrees it is useful for their training.

10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 2 2. Professor (H)  4 3. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 4 4. Reader (F)  4 5. Fellow (E)   6. Total 14

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11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research underguidance Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Molecular 1. B.J. Rao Ph.D. Sr. Professor (I) Biology, 25 7 Biochemistry 2. G.K.Jarori Ph.D. Professsor (H) Biochemistry 28 3 3. H. Sinha Ph.D. Reader (F) Genetics 5 3 Cell Biology, 4. K. Ray Ph.D. Professor (H) 18 8 Biochemistry Cell Biology, 5. M. Mishra Ph.D. Reader (F) 2 3 Genetics M. Cell Biology, 6. Ph.D. As. Professor (G) 20 6 Narasimha Genetics Cell Biology, 7. M. Sonawane Ph.D. Reader (F) 8 12 Genetics Biophysics, 8. R. Mallik Ph.D. As. Professor (G) 10 7 Biochemistry Cell Biology, 9. S. Nair Ph.D. Reader (F) Genetics, 3 2 Development Cell Biology, 10. S. P. Koushika Ph.D. As. Professor (G) 10 7 Genetics Immunology, 11. S. Sharma Ph.D. Sr. Professor (I) 29 5 Biochemistry Neuroscience, 12. S. Tole Ph.D. Professor (H) Developmental 17 4 Biology Molecular 13. U. Kolthur Ph.D. As. Professor (G) Biology, 8 12 Biochemistry 14. V. Vaidya Ph.D. Professor (H) Neuroscience 16 6

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

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

Senior Visitors :

 Dr. Abhay Dandekar

 Prof. Gyan Bhanot

 Prof. Sylvian Pied

Adjunct Faculty :

 Prof. Sudipto Maiti

 Dr. Jyotishman Dasgupta

 Prof. Sampathkumaran

 Prof. Sriram

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

DBS does not employ temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 31 14 2.2 2. I.-Ph.D. 11 14 0.79 3. M.Sc. 15 14 1.07

15. Number of academic support staff(technical)and administrative staff: Scientific and technical Staff Administrative and auxiliary Staff 10 6

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16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

 Neuroscience  Biochemisty  Parasitolgy  Biophysics  Cell Biology  Developmental Biology  Neural and Developmental Biology  Parasite Biology  Motor Biology

National Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) Investigating the role of mammalian sirt4 in the Swarnajayanti regulation of Ullas 1. 205 2013-2018 Fellowship(DST) mitochondrial Kolthur function and retrograde signaling to the nucleus. Role of metabolic input endocrine signals and genetic factors in regulating Ullas Hindustan Lever physiological Kolthur 2. 90 2013-2016 Ltd. homeostasis with and Vidita implication in Vaidya. diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Investigating the Sandhya 3. DBT role of axonal 53 2012-2015 Koushika transport in sensory

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Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) neuron regeneration. Understanding role of synapses in the regulation of pre- Sandhya 4. CSIR 22 2010-2013 synaptic vesicle Koushika transport in C. elegans. Mechanisms regulating the Shubha 5. DBT neuron-glia cell fate 90 2014-2019 Tole switch in the neocortex Effect of Plasmodial Lady Tata infection on Shobhon Memorial neurogenesis and September Sharma 6. 20 Institutional cognitive behavior in 2009-2013 and Vidita Research Funds murine malaria Vaidya model”. Effect of mild malaria on neural cells in a Shobhon rodent model. Sharma 7. ICMR 200 2013-2016 Correlation with and Vidita specific immune Vaidya responses Cell migration in the developing Olfactory Shubha 8. DBT 280 2011-2014 Bulb: an evolutionary Tole study To identify molecular mechanisms underlying the Krishanu 9. DBT somatic regulation of 47 2012-2015 Ray germline stem cell divisions in Drosophila testis

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International Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) Identification of a regulatory gene Wellcome network essential Trust-DBT for the Mahendra 1. 350 2011-2017 India maintenance of Sonawane alliance epidermal architecture and integrity HHMI International HHMI Early Career Sandhya 2. (Howard Scientist Grant - 486 2012-2017 Koushika Hughes) Investigating axonal transport Quantitative Wellcome investigation of Trust-DBT motor protein 2013-2018 Roop 3. 328 India function in lipid Mallik alliance droplet fusion and fission Wellcome Relevance of State Trust-DBT of Ploidy on Sreelaja 4. 320 2014-2019 India Vertebrate Nair alliance Embryogenesis Molecular Wellcome understanding of the Trust-DBT Mithilesh 5. process of 320 2015-2020 India Mishra cytokinesis alliance

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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

National

Collaborating Total Grant Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions (Rs. lakhs) Mechanisms of 1. IMSC, Chennai active intracellular 305 2012-2017 Sandhya transport: Koushika connecting theory and experiment

International Collaborating Total Grant Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions (Rs. lakhs) 1. IPBS (CNRS) Studying the 29 2012-2015 Ullas France, via interactome and (+ Eur and 2015- Kolthur CEFIPRA NAD- dependant 74000 for 2016 (TIFR), Anne deacetylase sirt1 the French Gonzalez- in the testis. group) de- peredo(IPBS) 2. INSERM, Serotonergic 100 2014-2017 Vidita France regulation of Vaidya and mood related Patricia behavior Gaspar 3. Unive Indo-Queensland 2011-2014 Vidita rsity of Collaboration 99 Vaidya Queensland grant, Stimulation of adult neural stem cells by norepinephrine: A promising target for the treatment of depression

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

Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) XII Plan Project – All DBS 1. DAE 4703 2012-2017 DBS (18 projects) faculty

20. Research facility/centre with  State recognition : None  National recognition : None  International recognition: None

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

No special research laboratories sponsored/created

22. Publications: Mono Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books DBS - Publications Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited graphs 2010-11 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 2011-12 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 2012-13 43 1 0 1 0 0 0 2013-14 46 1 0 1 0 0 0 2014-15 25 1 0 2 1 0 0 Total 174 3 0 4 1 0 0

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 Citation Index–range /average :

 Total number of citations: 12530 (Source- Scopus and Google Scholar)

 Number of citations per faculty: 895

 h-index

 Range: 5 – 22

23. Details of patents and income generated

None

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated Faculty Company Project Name Duration Income Member Name Role of metabolic inputs, Endocrine signal and genetics Factors in regulating 3.5 Ullas Hindustan 2013- 1. physiological homeostasis with Lakhs Kolthur lever ltd. 2016 implications in diseases such as /year diabetes and obesity

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

National Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) 1. Shobhona Sharma Institute of Science, Mumbai 08/2013 2. Shobhona Sharma KBP College, Navi Mumbai 09/2013 3. Shobhona Sharma LSS-BARC, Mumbai 11/2013 4. Roop Mallik NCL, Pune 07/2015 5. Roop Mallik BARC, Mumbai 12/2014 6. Mithilesh Mishra Jadavpur University, Kolkata 12/2015 7. Mahendra Sonawane NCBS, Bangalore 01/2012 8. Mahendra Sonawane University of Pune 02/2012 9. Shubha Tole IISER-Pune Science Club 03/2015

10. Shubha Tole Ramaglinaswamy Fellows’ Conclave 01/2013

11. Shubha Tole Swati Maiti memorial Oration IISC 01/2013

12. Shubha Tole ACTREC, Navi Mumbai 12/2012

13. Shubha Tole Miranda house, New Delhi 07/2012

14. Sandhya Koushika NCCS, Pune 01/2013 15. Ullas Kolthur NIMHANS, Bangalore 11/2013 16. Ullas Kolthur IISER-Pune 2014 17. Ullas Kolthur IIT-Kanpur 2013 18. Ullas Kolthur NCBS, Bangalore 2015 19. Ullas Kolthur ACTREC, Navi Mumbai 2014 20. Gotam Jarori Annual Meeting of Society of 2010-2011 Biological Chemists (India), Bangalore 21. Shobhona Sharma Guha Research Centre 2010-2011 22. Shobhona Sharma Molecular Immunology Forum, Delhi 2010- 2011 23. Shubha Tole FAONS meeting, Lucknow Nov25- 30,2011 24. Vidita Vaidya Annual Neuroscience Meeting 2011 25. Ullas kolthur Annual Meeting of Society of Dec-2010 Biological Chemists (India), Bangalore

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26. Ullas Kolthur Transcription meeting, Bangalore Jan 2011 27. Krishanu Ray M2T2 Meeting, Ooty Jan 2011 28. B.J.Rao GRC Sept 2010 29. B.J.Rao Annual Meeting of Society of Dec 2010 Biological Chemists (India), Bangalore 30. B.J.Rao Transcription meeting, Bangalore Jan 2011 31. Maithreyi Narasimha Nucleation, Aggregation and Growth July 2010 Bangalore. 32. Maithreyi Narasimha Advanced school on Living Mechanics Nov. 2010 ,Bangalore 33. Roop Mallik Molecular motors Tracks and Feb 2011 Transport, Pachgani , 34. Himanshu Sinha Yeast Meeting, IIT Mumbai Dec. 2011 35. Ullas Kolthur Chromatin Meeting 2012 36. Ullas Kolthur Transcription Meeting 2012 37. Ullas Kolthur SBC 2012 38. Gotam Jarori SBC 2012 39. Shubha Tole Neuroscience Meeting 2012 40. Krishanu Ray Motor Protein Meeting, Bhopal 2012 41. Krishanu Ray Indian Drosophila Meeting 2012 42. Shobhona Sharma Immunology forum 2012 43. Shobhona Sharma Biophysical Society 2012 44. Shobhona Sharma GRC, Bangalore 2012 45. Vidita Vaidya IAN Meeting, TIFR, Mumbai 2012 46. B J Rao Indian society of cell biology, 2013 Bangalore 47. B.J.Rao Transcription meeting 2013 48. B.J.Rao Chromatin Meeting, Bangalore 2013 49. B.J.Rao GRC, Bangalore 2013 50. Gk Jarori Annual meeting of the Biology, 12/2013 Hyderabad 51. GK Jarori Indian Biophysical Society Meeting 1/2014 52. H Sinha International Yeast Conference, 11/2014

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IMTECH, Chandigarh

53. K.Ray EMSI Annual Meeting 7/2013 54. M.Narasimha Mechanical Manipulations at the scale 4/2013 of the cell and beyond, Bangalore 55. M.Narasimha Indian society for cell biology, 12/2013 Bangalore 56. M.Narasimha Microscopy courses, Bangalore 9/2013 57. Mahendra Sonawane Indian society of cell biology, 12/2013 Bangalore 58. Roop Mallik Frontiers in modern biology meeting, 6/2013 IISc Bangalore 59. Shobhona Sharma YIM, GRC, Annual Meeting of Society 12/2013 of Biological Chemists, Hyderabad 60. Shubha Tole XXXI Annual meeting of Indian 10/2013 Academy of Neurosciences, Allahabad 61. Ullas Kolthur Annual Meeting of society of 12/2013 Biological Chemist, Hyderabad 62. Ullas Kolthur EMBO – India Bangalore 11/2013 63. Ullas Kolthur Annual Meeting of Society for 11/2013 Mitochondrial Research and medicine, Nimhans Bangalore 64. Ullas Kolthur Mahabaleshwar Seminar, 01/2014 Mahabaleshwar 65. Ullas Kolthur Inter organelle communication, 03/2014 Bangalore 66. Sandhya P.Koushika Molecular Motors,transport and 01/2013 trackers, Mahabaleshwar 67. Sandhya P.Koushika Transport and neurodegenerative 01/2013 disease school, IIT B school 68. Sandhya P.Koushika Indian society for developmental 12/2012 biology meeting, TIFR Mumbai 69. Roop Mallik All India Cell Biology conference, IISc 3/2014 Bangalore 70. Roop Mallik Physics biology meeting, Bangalore 08/2013 71. Roop Mallik Soft matter meeting, IISER, Pune 10/2013 72. Roop Mallik Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy 11/2013 workshop, IISc, Bangalore

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73. Roop Mallik Meeting of the society of the 11/2013 biological chemist ACTREC, Mumbai 74. Roop Mallik Frontiers of Modern Biology meeting, 6/2013 IISc Bangalore 75. Roop Mallik Wellcome- DBT Alliance Annual 10/2013 fellows meeting, Hyderabad 76. Sreelaja Nair Frontier of Modern Biology meeting, 07/2013 Bangalore University. 77. Maithreyi Narasimha Indian Society of Drosophila meeting 12/2013 78. Krishanu Ray Annual meeting of the electron 07/2013 Microscopy, SINP, Kolkotta 79. Krishanu Ray Indian Society for Developmental 12/2013 Biology, Annual meeting, TIFR, Mumbai 80. Shobhona Sharma Indraprastha International 10/2013 conference on biotechnology ,New Delhi 81. Shobhona Sharma IX DAE – BERNS life sciences 11/2013 Symposium, BARC, Mumbai 82. Shobhona Sharma ICGEB, New Delhi 12/2013 83. Mahendra Sonawane Indian Society for Developmental 12/2013 Biology, Annual meeting, TIFR, Mumbai 84. Mahendra Sonawane Indo- German meeting, IISER, Mohali 10/2013 85. Vidita Vaidya Adult Neurogenesis, Mumbai 9/2014 86. Roop Mallik CHASCON Meeting, Punjab University 2/2015 87. Roop Mallik National symposium on Frontiers of 01/2015 Biology, Kolkata 88. B.J.Rao International conference on 12/2014 chromosome stability, Bangalore 89. B.J.Rao International Conference on Genome 12/2014 Architecture and cell fate regulation, Hyderabad 90. B.J.Rao Recent Trends in Biomedical and 12/2014 Translational Research -2014, IIT Roorkie 91. B.J.Rao 5th Asian chromatic Conference, 01/2015 Bangalore

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92. B.J.Rao 18th Transcription Assembly 04/2015 meeting,IISER, Pune 93. B.J.Rao National seminar on Recent trends in 04/2015 Biology Pune University 94. Shobhona Sharma LAS teachers training session, St. 01/2015 Xaviers college, Mumbai 95. Shobhona Sharma 25th National congress of Parasitology, 10/2015 Lucknow 96. Krishanu Ray Axonal transport of soluble and 1/2015 membrane associated protiens, Health science innovation, Taj hotel, Mumbai 97. Himanshu Sinha Symposium on Sanger’s to next 2015 sequencing – The Genomics Era, 2nd SN Genetics Convention, Chennai, India 98. Mahendra Sonawane International conference on genome 12/2014 Architecture and cell fate Regulation, Hyderabad 99. Mahendra Sonawane 39th Mahabaleshwar seminar on the 3/2015 recent trends in zebrafish genetics and development, Alibaug 100. Sreelaja Nair International conference on genome 12/2014 Architecture and cell fate Regulation, Hyderabad 101. Sreelaja Nair 39th Mahabaleshwar seminar on the 3/2015 recent trends in zebrafish genetics and development, Alibaug 102. Sandhya Koushika NCCS, Pune 01/2013 103. Sandhya Koushika IISER-Mohali 10/2012 104. Sandhya Koushika I-AIM, Bangalore 9/2012 105. Sandhya Koushika MS University, Baroda 12/2013 106. Sandhya Koushika NBRC, Gurgaon 02/2015 107. Sandhya Koushika India C. elegans meeting 01/2016 108. Sandhya Koushika OSU healthsciences meeting, Mumbai 01/2015 109. Sandhya Koushika Symposium Presidency University, 01/2015 Kolkata 110. Sandhya Koushika IBRO-APRC symposium, Mumbai 02/2015

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111. Sandhya Koushika Indian Society of Developmental 07/2015 Biology meeting, CCMB, Hyderabad 112. Sandhya Koushika Indo-French meeting Frontiers in 10/2015 Cytoskeleton Research: Coordination, adaptation, fine-tuning, IISER-Pune 113. Sandhya Koushika Society of Mitochondria research & 11/2015 medicine meeting, Madurai 114. Sandhya Koushika Indo-UK Frontiers of Science meeting, 10/2014 Khandala 115. Sandhya Koushika CPCSEA meeting, New Delhi 11/2014 116. Sandhya Koushika Guha Research Conference, Khajuraho 12/2014 117. Sandhya Koushika INNNI meeting, Chennai 11/2012 118. Sandhya Koushika BioWorld 2012 meeting, IIT-Delhi 12/2012

International Name of Faculty Place visited Date

member (MM/YYYY) Mithilesh Mishra University of Tokyo, Japan 06/2015 1. Gakushuine University, Japan 2. Mahendra Sonawane Medical College of Wisconsin, USA 01/2013 Mahendra Sonawane Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell 05/2014 3. Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany 4. Mahendra Sonawane University of Cologne, Germany 05/2014 Mahendra Sonawane Max-Planck Institute for Heart and Lung 05/2014 5. research, Bad-Nauheim, Germany Mahendra Sonawane Max-Planck Institute for Developmental 05/2014 6. Biology, Tubingen, Germany Shubha Tole Tohoku Forum for Creativity Tohuku 08/2015 7. University, Sendai Japan Shubha Tole AMeeGuS , Instituto Gulbenkian de 05/2015 8. Ciência, Portugal 9. Shubha Tole University of Geneva, Switzerland 09/2014 Shubha Tole Institute of Science and Technology, 09/2014 10. Austria 10/2014 11. Shubha Tole University of Lausanne, Switzerland

12. Shubha Tole Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 10/2014

13. Shubha Tole Institute Jaques Monod, Paris, France 10/2014

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Shubha Tole Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10/2014 14. Germany Shubha Tole Max-Planck-Institute for 11/2014 15. Biophysical ChemistryGoettingen, Germany Shubha Tole Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 12/2014 16. Shubha Tole New York University –Abu Dhabi 02/2014 17.

Shubha Tole Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 08/2013 18.

Shubha Tole Seattle Childrens’ Hospital, Seattle, USA 07/2013 19.

Shubha Tole Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA 07/2013 20.

Shubha Tole Oxford University 11/2011 21.

Shubha Tole King’s College London 11/2011 22.

23. Sreelaja Nair Wellcome -Trust Sanger Institute UK 04/2013 24. Vidita Vaidya Copenhagen University, Denmark 05/2013 25. Vidita Vaidya INSERM, Paris, France 01/2014 26. Roop Mallik Institut Curie, Cedex, France 06/2014 27. Roop Mallik London Research Institute, UK 03/2014 Gotam Jarori Department of medicinal chemistry and 11/2015 28. molecular pharmacology, School of pharmacy, Purdue University, USA 29. Gotam Jarori Gordan Research Conference June- July 2011 30. Vidita Vaidya CINP Meeting, Hong Kong June -2010 Vidita Vaidya Society For Neuroscience Meeting, San Nov. 2010 31. Diego Shubha Tole International Society of Developmental June 2-15, 2010 32. Neuroscience, Portugal 33. Shubha Tole Invited Seminar Alicante, Spain 2010 34. Shubha Tole Gordon Research Conference 2010 35. Shubha Tole Invited seminar Stanford, USA 2010 36. Maithreyi Narasimha UK, Switzerland 2010 37. Shobhona Sharma Pasteur Institute, France 2010 38. Krishanu Ray 50th Annual Meeting of the America 2010

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39. BJ Rao Gordon Research Conference 2011 Shobhona Sharma Epidemiology Conference, Washington DC, 2011 40. USA 41. Maithreyi Narasimha Gordon Conf, USA 2011 42. Vidita Vaidya Society of Neuroscience, USA 2011 43. G.K.Jarori Parasitology Conference, Seattle, USA 2011 Himanshu Sinha 9th International Meeting on Yeast 9/2012 44. Apoptosis, Rome, Italy Himanshu Sinha Experimental Approaches to Evolution and 10/2012 45. Ecology using Yeast, EMBL, Germany Shubha Tole Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 10/2012 46. USA 47. Shobhona Sharma Mol.parasitol, Meeting, Woods Hole, USA 9/2012 Maithreyi Narasimha 21st Anniversary Symposium of the Gurdon 6/2012 48. Institute, Cambridge, UK Maithreyi Narasimha The molecular and Developmental Biology 7/2012 49. of Drosophila, Greece 50. Maithreyi Narasimha Gurdon Institute Cambridge 7/2012 51. Gotam Jarori Gordon Research Institute 7/2012 Ullas Kolthur Gordon Research Conference on 01/2013 52. metabolism and Aging 53. Vidita Vaidya FAONS Meeting,Melbourne 2/2013 54. Vidita Vaidya HFSP Review meeting Strasbourg, France 1/2013 55. Vidita Vaidya CINP Meeting. Stockholm 1/2012 Roop Mallik Collaborative visit to Uni. Of 7/2012 56. Pennnsylvania. Maithreyi Narasimha Cell press conference on Forces in Biology, 10/2012 57. Dulbin, Ireland 58. B J Rao GRC on plant signaling systems 7/2012 59. B. J. Rao GRC on Mutagenesis 8/2012 60. Sreelaja Nair GRC Developmental Biology, Italy 2013 B. J.Rao 19th International chromosomes 9/2013 61. conference, USA or ASCB meeting Himanshu Sinha Frontiers in Bioinformatics and 9/2013 62. computational Biology, China S.Sharma ASTMH Meeting, Washington, USA 11/2013 63.

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Maithreyi Narasimha International congress of Developmental 7/2013 64. Biology, Mexico, UK, USA Roop Mallik Gordon Research conference, New 8/2013 65. England Maithreyi Narasimha Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa 8/2013 66. Barbara, USA Mahendra Sonawane 6th Asia Oceania Zebra fish meeting, 01/2014 67. Hong kong University of science and technology Shubha Tole Streams from the back of the brain, 07/2013 68. Gordon Conference, Shubha Tole Towards a blue print for building the 2/2014 69. brain, New York University, Abu Dhabi 70. Roop Mallik Gordon Research Conference, USA 8/2014 Roop Mallik FASEB meeting on Lipid Droplets and 7/2014 71. Metabolic consequences of Neutral lipid storage Roop Mallik 72. EMBO conference series, Germany 05/2014 Maithreyi Narasimha Symposium on shaping cells and organism 9/201 4 73. , Germany 74. Maithreyi Narasimha Mechanobiology meeting, Singapore 12/2014 75. Maithreyi Narasimha Biochemical Society, UK 9/2014 Maithreyi Narasimha EMBL Conference of Epithelia, Building 8/2014 76. Blocks of Multicellularity, Germany 77. Krishanu Ray TWIM 2014, Weizmann Institute, Israel 06/2014 Himanshu Sinha From Models to Disease, La Maison du 2014 78. Seminaire, France Shubha Tole A tale of two streams, ISDN- 2014, 07/2014 79. Montreal Vidita Vaidya HDAC4 Neuroepigentics Satellite Meeting, 11/2014 80. Washington Sandhya Koushika Keynote talk, C. elegans Development, cell 7/2014 81. biology and Gene expression meeting, Nara, Japan Sandhya Koushika New horizons in C. elegans biology 7/2014 82. symposium, Mishima, Japan Sandhya Koushika 83. Young Investigator meeting, Boston, USA 10/2014

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Sandhya Koushika 84. Brandeis University, Waltham, USA 6/2012 Sandhya Koushika 85. American Society of Cell Biology, USA 12/2012

26. Faculty serving in

a) National Committees : Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 1. Ullas Kolthur DBT task force on cancer biology member 2014

2. Shubha Tole Council, National Academy of Science, Council 2013- India member 2015

3. Krishanu Ray Indian Society of Developmental Biologists Life member 2014 - and 2015 President 4. Scientific Advisory Committee and 2014- Research Area Panel (SAC-RAP) of the Krishanu Ray Member Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad 5. Vidita Vaidya Management Board, National Centre for Member 2014 - Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

6. Vidita Vaidya Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for Member 2013- “DBT-IISc Partnership Programme for Advanced Research in Biological Sciences & Bioengineering” at Division of Biological Sciences (DBS), IISc., Bengaluru 7. Vidita Vaidya Dept of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, Member 2012- Neuroscience Task Force 8. Vidita Vaidya Program Advisory Committee, Dept of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Member 2012-15 Animal Sciences 9. B.J.Rao RAP-SAC Member of National Institute of member 2014 immunology

10. B.J.Rao Research Advisory Committee member Member 2012 (Hinduja Medical Research & Hospital, Mumbai).

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Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 11. B.J.Rao DBT-Taskforce on Research Resources, Member 2012- Service Facilities and Platforms. present

12. B.J.Rao Expert group Member (IRTG-Germany- Member 2013 India collaborative programmes (DBT)

13. B.J.Rao Board of studies for Life Sciences, Homi Member 2012 Bhabha National Institute (Deemed University initiative for Department of atomic Energy), Mumbai.

14. B.J.Rao Member Specialist Group for Biology Member 11th and programmes in Department of atomic 12th plan Energy period

15. B.J.Rao DST (Ramanujam Fellows) mentoring Member 2012- committee. present

16. Gotam Jarori Member of Board of Studies, Department Member 2013- of Biochemistry, M.S. University of present Baroda, Vadodara 17. Gotam Jarori Member of Research Advisory Council, M. Member 2013- & N. Virani College, Rajkot present

18. Ullas kolthur Member of the Indian medical council Member 2012- Research(ICMR)Task force on cancer present

19. Ullas Kolthur Indian Medical Council Research (ICMR) Member 2013- Task Force on Research in Aging and Age- present related diseases (Gerontology.)

20. Ullas Kolthur Member of Department of Bio technology member 2013- present 21. Shobhona 2012- Indian Institute of Sciences , Bangalore Fellow Sharma present 22. Shobhona Indian National Science Academi, New 2013- Fellow Sharma Delhi present

23. Shobhona Advisory member of Lady Tata trust, 2011- Member Sharma Bombay house, Mumbai present

24. Shobhona Scientific Advisory committee of National 2011- Member Sharma Institute of Malaria Research present

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Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 25. Shobhona Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of 2011- Member Sharma Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneshwar present

26. Shobhona Member Review Committee Wellcome 2011- Member Sharma Trust- DBT India Alliance fellowships. present 27. Shobhona Member of Indian Council for Medical Sharma Research Member

28. Shobhona Member of Institute of Life sciences Sharma Bhuvaneshwar Member

29. Himanshu Sinha Research recognition council for 2012- Member Biotechnology, UDCT present

30. Himanshu Sinha Institute Committee for stem cell 2012 Member Research and Therapy, IIT Bombay,

31. Himanshu Sinha J.N.Tata endowment for the Higher 2012 Member education of Indian interview committee

b) International Committees : Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 1. Vidita Vaidya Human Frontiers of Science Programme, Member, 2011 Fellowshp Advisory Committee represents Vice-Chair (2012, 2013), Chair (2015) India 2. Vidita Vaidya CINP- International Scientific Advisory Member 2010- Committee 2012 3. Shubha Tole Member, Ethics Committee of the Member 2014- Society for Neuroscience present 4. Shubha Tole Member, Scientific Publications CommitteeMember 2012- of the Society for Neuroscience 2015 5. Shubha Tole IBRO-Asia Pacific Research Committee Member 2012- present 6. B. J. Rao Expert review member DFG-DBT, Member 2014 Berlin 7. Shobhona Advisory Member, Malaria Foundation, Member 2015 Sharma New York, USA.

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(c) Editorial Boards: Name of the Impact Term of Name of the Journal Faculty Member Factor Service 2014- 1. Roop Mallik Nature Scientific report 5.578 present 2. 2014- Vidita Vaidya Nature Scientific Reports 5.578 present 3. Journal of Neurochemistry, Handling 2013- Vidita Vaidya 4.281 editor present 4. 2012- Vidita Vaidya Journal of Molecular Psychiatry present 5. Progress in Neuro- 2012- Vidita Vaidya 3.689 Psychopharmacology & Biological present 6. Psychiatry/ Vidita Vaidya European Journal of Pharmacology 2.532 2008-2011

7. 2007- Vidita Vaidya Journal of Biosciences 2.064 present 8. 2014- Sandhya Koushika Nature Scientific Reports 5.578 present 9. 2015- Sandhya Koushika Invertebrate Neuroscience 0.9 present 10. B. J. Rao Journal of Biosciences 2.064 2014

11. 2014- Shubha Tole Science, Board of Reviewing Editors 33.6 ongoing 12. 2011- Shubha Tole Developmental Neuroscience 2.025 ongoing 13. Member, F1000 Research Editorial Not 2012- Shubha Tole Board applicable ongoing 14. 2012- Shobhona Sharma Journal of Vector Bourne diseases 0.81 present

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

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demand as lecturers in such programmes in other institutions, both inside and outside India.

28. Student projects

 Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter- departmental projects

ALL (100%) TIFR students are required to do two Departmental Projects, viz. Departmental Project I and Departmental Project II .

 Percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities

/industry/institute

Many TIFR faculty and laboratories have collaborations with scientists in India and abroad. Students of these faculty members and laboratories participate in these projects. Thus the percentage of students involved in such projects is approximately 50%.

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

 Awards/Recognitions: Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2012- Ullas Kolthur Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award. DST. 2013 2. 2014 Roop Mallik The S. S. Bhatnagar Award in Biological Sciences 3. 2014 Roop Mallik Elected member of the Guha Research Society 4. 2015 Shubha Tole Lakshmipat Singhania-IIM Lucknow National Leadership award in Science and Technology 5. 2014 Shubha Tole The Infosys Prize in Life Sciences 6. 2010 Shubha Tole The S. S. Bhatnagar Award in Biological Sciences 7. 2008 Shubha Tole National Woman Bioscientist award Dept. Biotechnology, Govt. of India 8. 2005- Shubha Tole Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award. DST. 2010 9. 2015 Vidita Vaidya The S. S. Bhatnagar Award in Medical Sciences 10. 2012 Vidita Vaidya National Bioscientist Award 11. 2012 Vidita Vaidya Elected member of the Guha Research Society 12. 2008 Shubha Tole Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience (RAIN

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award) Society for Neuroscience, USA 13. 2008- Shubha Tole Wellcome Trust Flexible Travel Award 2008-2009 2009 for a Sabbatical year at Stanford University, USA 14. 2010 Shubha Tole Elected member of the Indian National Science Academy 15. 2010- B. J. Rao J. C. Bose Fellowship 16. 2002 B. J. Rao Elected Fellow of National Academy of Sciences 17. 2006 B. J. Rao Elected Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences 18. 2013 B. J. Rao Elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 19. 2000 B. J. Rao Elected member of the Guha Research Society 20. 2010 B. J. Rao Elected member of the Indian National Science Academy 21. 1997 Shobhona Sharma Elected member of the Guha Research Society 22. 2003 Shobhona Sharma Elected member of the Indian National Science Academy 23. 2003 Shobhona Sharma Member of Institute of Life sciences Bhuvaneshwar

30. Seminars/Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any. (2011-2015) Funding Year Name Faculty members Agency Roop Mallik, Krishanu 2011 Ray, Sandhya Koushika, 1. till Mahabaleshwar Seminar series TIFR-DAE Mahendra Sonawane, date Sreelaja Nair, Ullas Kolthur, 2. ISDN, Mumbai(Internal Society for Shubha Tole, Prof. Vidita 2012 Elsevier ltd Developmental Neuroscience) Vaidya 3. Genes, Circuits and the Development DBT 2013 Maithreyi Narasimha of Behaviour 4. Shobhona Sharma, 2015 Infection & Molecular epidemiology Gotam K Jarori 5. 2013 DBS Annual Talks-2013 TIFR-DAE DBS faculty Shubha Tole, Pradip Indian Society for Developmental Sinha (IIT-Kanpur), 6. 2013 TIFR-DAE Biologists Annual meeting Mahendra Sonawane, Sreelaja Nair 7. Adult Neurogenesis: From stem cells to 2014 TIFR-DAE V Vaidya therapies

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Saturday special interest subgroup session on 'Axonal transport: Mechanisms of regulating cargo 8. 2012 -- Sandhya Koushika transport in neuronal development, maintenance and disease' at the ASCB 2012 meeting, USA IBRO-APRC global advocacy meeting in Shubha Tole, Sandhya 9. 2014 IBRO Neuroscience,TIFR-India Koushika

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments.

The DBS follows these guidelines:  TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics  Institutional Animal Ethics Committee guidelines  Institutional Biosafety committee guidelines

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches. Programme Applications Pass (refer to question no. Selected Joined received Percentage %* 4) M F M F M F Ph.D. 35 26 14 19 64 78 Integrated M.Sc.- 51847* 7 10 5 5 60 100 Ph.D. M.Sc. 25 45 21 37 57 86

33. Diversity of students

a) Geographical Integrated- Ph.D. M.Sc. Students Ph.D. Total Male Female Male Female Male Female From the state where the 1 4 ------3 5 13 University is located From other states of India 9 9 2 6 13 22 61 NRI students ------Foreign students ------Total 10 13 2 6 18 27 74

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b) Undergraduate Institution Students from Ph.D. Int.-Ph.D. M.Sc. Male Female Male Female Male Female Total Indian Universities 5 13 4 9 10 13 54 Premier science institutions † 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 Premier professional institutions # 3 4 0 0 0 0 7 Others* 2 0 1 0 2 4 9 Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 10 18 5 9 12 17 71

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc.

# IITs, NITs, etc.

35. Student progression

 Ph.D. programme and I-Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DBS go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Once in a while, a student may leave the programme, for various reasons (less than 10%). After completing their Ph.D., students leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. The rest opt for other employment, such as teaching positions or the industry.

 M.Sc. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DBS go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc. degree. Once in a while, a student may leave the programme, for various reasons (less than 10%). After completing their M.Sc., students leave TIFR. Approximately 70% go to other Institutions in India or abroad

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as Ph.D. students. The rest opt for other employment, such as teaching positions or the industry.

36 Diversity of staff:

Faculty Ph.D.s Number of faculty who are Ph.D.s

TIFR 29% 42 % from TIFR : 4 India

Abroad from other institutions in India : 4 29%

from institutions Abroad: 6

Total No 14

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

The minimum eligibility criteria for selection as a member of the TIFR faculty is a Ph.D. degree.

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a. Library

DBS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (see Section B2, Item no 4.2)

b. Internet facilities for staff and students

DBS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Computer Centre and Communication Facility

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c. Total number of classrooms

DBS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR

d. Classrooms with ICT facility

All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video-conferencing possibilities are also available in most of the lecture rooms.

e. Research laboratories Name of Brief description of research Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Laboratory activity Malaria A single episode of mild malaria in an 1 epidemiology and 1 0 3 adult mouse cause specific behavioural parasite biology changes. Vertebrate Early vertebrate development using 2 1 1 2 Embryogenesis zebrafish as a model Inter-organ communication between Molecular 3 1 2 5 central metabolic tissues and peripheral Physiology organs in homeostasis Intracellular Mechanistic understanding of lipid and 4 Biophysics of motor 1 1 2 motor protein interactions proteins Developmental Mechanisms of cell fate and axon 5 1 3 4 Neurobiology pathfinding in the developing brain 6 Malaria Lab 1 2 3 Development of malaria vaccine Motor protein Neuronal transport and cell biology of 7 1 1 6 Biology Lab signaling in development Epithelial dynamics during drosophila 8 Cellular Mechanics 1 - 5 development 9 Epidermal Biology 1 1 4 Epidermal development in zebrafish Quantitative Traits 10 1 1 2 Mapping quantitative traits in yeast Lab Molecular and cellular basis of Genome 11 Genome Biology 1 2 7 and cellular dynamics mechanisms of long distance axonal Cellular 12 1 1 4 transport in vivo and its contribution to Neurobiology development/behaviour. 13. Cytokinesis 1 - 3 Cell division in yeast 14 Behavioural 1 3 4 Mammalian behavior studies

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Neurobiology

* no of faculty members using the laboratory, † no of postdoctoral fellows using the laboratory, ‡ no of graduate students using the laboratory

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows 1. Mandar Phatak Paulomi Sanghavi 2. Clyde Pinto Antara Ghosh 3. Prateek Arora Atanu Gorai 4. Kirti Gupta Tandrika Chattopahyay 5. Jagjeet Singh Neena Ratnakaran 6. Komal Raina Chetanchandra Joshi 7. Namrata Shukla Rahul Chaudhari 8. Priya Dutta Sneha Shah 9. Amruta Vasudevan Sarosh Fatakia 10. Avanish Kumar Srivastava Megha Maheshwari 11. Babukrishna Maniyadath Shashaina Fanibunda 12. Shivani Ashwin Upadhyaya Mallika Chatterjee 13. Purna Sham Gadre Geeta Godbole 14. Vivek Singh Priyanka Rai 15. Kirti Gupta Bhavana Murlidharan. 16. Mukesh Kumar 17. Pavithra Kumar 18. Sudeepa Nandi 19. Zoheb Ahmed 20. Minal Bharat Jaggar 21. Chatali Khan 22. Samir Gupta 23. Sthitapranjya Pati 24. Mugdha Kulashreshth 25. Kritika sadh 26. Vishal singh Chaudhari 27. Kamlesh Kumari

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

All the students of DBS are in the Ph.D., I-Ph.D. or M.Sc. programmes and are all given TIFR fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)?If so, high light the methodology.

No new programmes were undertaken

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

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

DBS faculty routinely evaluate the curriculum and teaching methodologies to incorporate suggestions arising from internal discussions on teaching methods for course work. Alterations, if required, are made keeping in mind that the mode of teaching in a graduate programme is not text book based lecturing. The focus rather is on discussions and group learning both in class and in take home assignments.

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

At the end of each academic session course instructors obtain feedback from students regarding the content of the course, the mode of teaching and the mode of evaluations. This information is used by the instructor to modify course structure to perhaps incorporate more recently published literature or by having students give short paper presentations instead of an exam at the end of the course.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

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43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum10)

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction

Among the first graduates of Molecular Biology Unit (MBU) now known as Department of Biological 1. Veronica Rodrigues Sciences and eminent Developmental and Behavioural Neurobiologist

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

Our Department holds a weekly seminar on Mondays. These talks are attended by departmental members. In addition, seminars on other days are given by national and international visitors. Our students are thus exposed to various aspects of modern scientific research through these talks and interaction with the speakers. Our students regularly participate in national conferences and workshops, and occasionally in international conferences, by giving talks and presenting posters. They thereby get ample opportunities to extend their knowledge. In addition, our students also give at least one departmental seminar a year and speak about their research. This way they are trained to present their work, and face positive and negative criticism from the community. Besides, our students are also privileged that they get to hear many internationally and nationally recognized scientists via the institute level Public Lectures and Colloquia. Saturday journal club- students and postdocs present papers to each other. Friday Causerie- students present ongoing data to the department.

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

Teaching methodology involves literature surveys, paper presentations and conventional classroom teaching.

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46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and learning out comes are monitored?

The Subject Board guide lines ensure that the students complete the requirements satisfactorily. Unsuccessful students are given limited number of opportunities to fulfill the requirements; else they are asked to leave the programme.

47. High light the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.

Several faculty members and students participate in ‘out‐reach programmes’, by giving scientific talks to the public at large (in colleges, rural schools and various other venues); they participate international and international conferences by presenting their research work; give seminars international and international institutions. They also participate in TIFR Science Day programme, where various laboratories are opened to school children.

DBS also organizes Open day for the candidates who come for the PhD, Int. PhD and MSc. Interviews every year.

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

The DBS conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis.  DBS Seminar  NSF Colloquium  VSRP Programme  Mahabeleshwar Seminar Since 1975, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai has sponsored a series of annual seminars on selected topics in the frontier areas of modern biology.

These seminars are designed as theme based meetings and advanced courses sometimes with an associated experimental workshop. The participants are mostly selected from working scientists and research scholars in India and abroad. Usually the faculty consists of nearly ten teachers who are selected from most well known researchers in the field who provide informal lectures on the topics of their research with extensive background. The schedules are organised with emphasis on discussions with an aim to stimulate active research interest on the topic

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amongst the participants. Student-faculty interactions and discussions are encouraged. There have been 40 seminar series hosted under the aegis of 'Mahabaleshwar seminar series'.

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

In 1997 the Porter Commission and in 2005 an External Review Committee headed by Prof. James Spudich (Stanford University, USA) reviewed the Department of Biological Sciences and lauded the research accomplishments of the department and strongly advocated further strengthening of the programmes at TIFR, Mumbai campus. The committee pointed out the need for further diversification and a multidisciplinary approach especially in the context of current explosive growth of knowledge seen in Basic Biology world-wide. The department took note of this and enriched its research by inducting newer programmes. Now the departmental research output and individual accomplishments testify the fruition of such a vision where the department, though relatively small in size, has a cohesive style of functioning through a philosophical approach that emphasizes collaborative and collective success. The measure of the high success of the research output of the Department is apparent in the publications accrued and the awards/fellowships in recognition of their contribution in the recent past.

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

Research in our department continues to reveal fundamental aspects of biological systems. We have added to the basic understanding of how cells repair DNA damage, on developing proteins as targets for malaria vaccine and on understanding how the malaria parasite executes its pathogenicity in the host system. We have additionally contributed to understanding how the nervous system develops in mammals, how transport occurs within neurons and how the brain functions to generate behavioural outputs. Our work on additional vertebrate model systems reveal the fundamental program an embryo executes to develop into an adult and also enhances our understanding of how cells communicate with each other to achieve a cellular pattern that is dynamic in space and time. Research in our department also furthers our knowledge in how

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cells organize and transport proteins and other cargo, including harmful pathogens such as Leishmania and Mycobacterium, to their intracellular destinations. All of the information obtained from our fundamental research is translatable to applied biological research aimed at alleviating the impact of diseases to humans.

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

Strengths  Collaborative approach to research and teaching.  Open to critical input on research programmes in the form of Annual talks, which are attended by invited experts.  Common philosophy to aim for collective success rather than individual achievements.

Weaknesses

 Lack of resources like space, manpower in terms of students and post docs.

Opportunities

 Due to diverse research interests within the department, there is a huge opportunity for cross breeding ideas and exploring new possibilities.

Challenges  Raising resources like space, students (man-power) and funding.  Recruiting new faculty members to strengthen the ongoing activities as well as explore new areas of research.  Modest infrastructure strongly limits broadening of the research activity whilst the research groups have to compete at the international level.  Popularizing these research fields at the undergraduate level and making the younger generation attracted to these fields within India.  Interference in day to day administration by the extended bureaucracy, too many rules and not much freedom in execution.

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52. Future plans of the department

This is the century of biology and we believe it would be advantageous to add some key areas and augment aspects of some existing areas to better capitalize on our strengths. In the future we would view an increase in our faculty size at the rate of 1-2 new hires per year for the next 10 to 15 years, aiming at a total department steady-state of around 25 faculty. These would include hiring in areas such as Bioinformatics, Metabolomics and Molecular Genome Architecture to list a few fields. These areas would strengthen existing research in the department by allowing diversification of research interests and simultaneously bring to TIFR- Mumbai additional key research fields in Biology.

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Department of Chemical Sciences

1. Name of the Department :

Department of Chemical Sciences

2. Year of establishment :

The Department started in 1953 as a research group on Nuclear Electron Magnetism. The group was later divided into the Chemical Physics Group and Solid State Physics Group in 1967. The Chemical Physics Group then changed its name to the present Department of Chemical Sciences in the year 1997.

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

It is a part of Faculty of Natural Sciences.

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

• Ph.D.

• Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved

None

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

None

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

We have not discontinued any program, per se. However, we have stopped admitting any B.Sc. students in the Ph.D. program from August 2015. Earlier, students with a B. Sc. degree, joining the Ph. D. programme, used to take extra courses and write a thesis on a small project in order to get an M.Sc. degree en route to a Ph.D. From 2015 onwards they are enrolled in the Integrated M.Sc.-

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Ph.D. program in conformation with the UGC guidelines.

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

Students of the DCS are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and two compulsory Project Work on topics of their own choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below. Duration (years) Course Project Short Total Programme Overall Coursework Credits Credits thesis Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 26 34 − 60 Integrated M.Sc.- 6 2.5 42 34 24 100 Ph.D.

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester (August – November) and the Spring Semester (February – May). In addition, a short course is offered in July.

In each one-semester course, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process consisting of 1. Assignments 2. Quizzes 3. Mid-semester Examination 4. End-semester Examination 5. Term paper (optional)

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

For fulfilling the course requirements of the Integrated M.Sc.- Ph.D. programme, some chemistry students take courses offered by other departments and vice- versa.

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10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 4 2. Professor (H)  2 3. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 4 4. Reader (F)  4 5. Fellow (E)   Total 14

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Deg.* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡ Molecular Biophysics, Structural 1 R. V. Hosur Ph. D. Sr. Professor (I) Biology, Biomolecular NMR, 38 4 Biophysical Chemistry Molecular Biophysics, Structural 2 K.V.R. Chary†† Ph. D. Sr. Professor (I) Biology and Biological Chemistry 33 6 and NMR Physical Chemistry, Laser Sanjay Spectroscopy, Supersonic Jet 3 Ph.D. Sr. Professor (I) 31 4 Wategaonkar Spectroscopy, Hydrogen bonding, Quantum Chemical Computation BioInorganic Chemistry, Shyamalava 4 Ph. D. Sr. Professor (I) Biophysics, Spectroscopy, Enzyme 25 5 Mazumdar kinetics 5 Sudipta Maiti Ph. D. Professor (H) Biophysics and spectroscopy 21 6 6 P. K. Madhu†† Ph. D. Professor (H) NMR spectroscopy and biophysics 18 5 Assoc. Professor 7 H.M. Sonawat Ph. D. Biochemistry & Metabolomics 33 2 (G) EPR spectroscopy, spin dynamics, Assoc. Professor 8 Ranjan Das Ph. D. Physical Chemistry, Chemical 27 2 (G) Physics Deepa Assoc. Professor 9 Ph.D. Materials Chemistry 14 3 Khushalani (G) Mechanochemistry, Engineering novel proteins with diverse mechanical functions, Assoc. Professor 10 A. S. R. Koti Ph. D. Development of novel single- 7 3 (G) molecule assays for protein- protein, protein-DNA, and protein- RNA interactions 11 Vivek Ph. D. Reader Nanocatalysis 6 4

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Polshettiwar 5 12 Ankona Datta Ph. D. Reader Chemical Biology 5

13 J. Dasgupta Ph. D. Reader Physical Chemistry 5 5 Ravindra 14 Ph. D. Reader Computational Chemistry 3 2 Venkaramani

*Highest degree obtained

† Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere)

‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)

†† Also associated with TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS), Hyderabad.

12. List of senior visiting fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors

Adjunct Faculty :

1. Prof. Amnon Horovitz (Duration: 2015-18), Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professorial Chair in Biochemistry, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

2. Prof. Daniel Huster (Duration: 2015-18), Professor of Medical Biophysics, Universität Leipzig, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik, Härtelstraße 16 – 18, 04107 Leipzig

3. Prof. Vinod Subramaniyan (Duration: 2009-12) University of Twente, The Netherlands

4. Prof. S. Ramakrishnan (Duration : 2004-07) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

5. Prof. Malcolm H. Levitt, (Duration 2005-11) University of Southampton, UK

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

Nil. As per our standards and policy all courses are taught by regular faculty members. However, distinguished visiting scientists spending an extended period in the Department have occasionally offered graduate courses for the students.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio: Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 32 14 2.3 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 2 14 0.7

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific and Administrative and auxiliary Staff Technical Staff 14 2

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

Major funding is from the Department of Atomic energy, Govt. of India, for carrying out research in the modern areas of chemistry. Emphasis is on biophysics and structural biology, biochemistry-biology interface, chemistry of materials, and spectroscopy and dynamics of fundamental photophysical and photochemical interactions. Funding is also received periodically from DST and DBT.

National Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 1. DST - Tailoring plant protease DIISRTE 2014- inhibitors for control of the 56.104 K.V.R. Chary (India- 2016 crop pest helicoverpa armigera Australia) 2. Indo - Solid-state NMR methods and 2015- P.K. Madhu

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Danish applications 2017 3. DST - P.K. Madhu, CEFIPRA Novel nanocatalysts synthesis 120 Vivek (India- guided by DNP NMR Polshettiwar France) 4. Conjugation of engineered cytochrome P450 enzyme onto functionalized carbon DBT nanotubes for 38 S.Mazumdar bioelectrochemical degradation of pesticides and other pollutants 5. Molecular recognition DBT between alkane hydroxylase S. (India- 50 and rubredoxin in alkane Mazumdar Australia) degrading bacteria

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received a) National collaboration :

• Ankona Datta and Dr. Ravi Manjithaya (JNCASR, Bangalore); Development of sensors for detecting autophagy;

• Deepa Khushalani: S Haram, University of Pune “Development of novel anodes for supercapicator applications”

• P.K.Madhu: N. D. Kurur, IIT Delhi

• S. Mazumdar: DBT - Conjugation of engineered cytochrome P450 enzyme onto functionalized carbon nanotubes for bioelectrochemical degradation of pesticides and other pollutants’ – Rs. 38 Lakhs (in collaboration with Prof S. K Haram, Univ. of Pune);

• Vivek Polshettiwar : Dr. C. Gopinath, NCL, Pune; Prof. Bhanage, ICT, Mumbai; Prof. D. Maity, IIT, Bombay, Mumbai.

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b) International collaboration :

• Dr. Ankona Datta and Dr. Michal Neeman (Weizmann Institute of Science) Development of 19F-MRI probes for detecting Manganese

•Deepa Khushalani: Dr. Ivana Evans: Durham University, UK. “In-Situ XRD studies of metal complexes”

•Vivek Polshettiwar: Prof. Olivier Lafon, Lille University, France, "DNP enhanced NMR of Nanocatalysts"

19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received. Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) XII Plan Project – 1. DAE 4094 2012-17 All DCS faculty DCS (14 projects)

20. Research facility / centre with

• state recognition: --

• national recognition : National Facility for High-Field NMR

• international recognition: --

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

Prof. Sudipta Maiti: Microscopy Research Facility partially sponsored by M/S Zeiss Inc., Germany.

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22. Publications: Mono Journal Technica Articles in Web Book Books - DCS Publicati l Proceedings Publications Chapters Edited graph ons Reports s 2010-11 39 3 0 0 0 0 0 2011-12 43 0 0 0 1 0 0 2012-13 39 3 0 0 3 1 0 2013-14 35 5 0 0 3 0 0 2014-15 37 3 0 0 0 0 0 Total 193 14 0 0 7 1

• Books with ISBN with details of publishers: Vivek Polshettiwar - “Nanocatalysis: Synthesis and Applications”, Eds Vivek Polshettiwar and Teddy Asefa; 2013, ISBN: 978-1-1181-4886-0, by WILEY.http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111814886X.html

• Citation Index – range / average :

• Total number of citations-24569 (for 13 members)

• Number of citations per faculty-1890

• h-index:

• Range- 6-39

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23. Details of patents and income generated N/A

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: NIL

25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions

/ industries in India and abroad:

National Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member BHU, Varanasi March 2011 1. K.V.R. Chary BHU, Varanasi January 2013 Saurashtra University, Rajkot February 2013 Shyamalava 2. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Sept 26 & 27, 2014 Mazumdar

International Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member 1. R. V. Hosur Stanford University, University of California at 2010 Berkeley, Michigan University, USA National University of Singapore Stanford University, USA March 2014 March 2014 2. K.V.R. Chary CERM, Florence, Italy July 2010 ETH, Zurich, Switzerland July 2010 CERM, Florence, Italy May 2011 Goethe University, Germany August 2011 Shanghai Inst. of Organic Chemistry, China October 2011 University of Queensland, Australia October 2013 University of Melbourne, Australia October 2013 Monash University, Australia October 2013 University of Queensland, Australia August 2014 University of New South Wales, Australia August 2014 3. Sanjay University of Basque Country, Spain July 2014 Wategaonkar 4. P. K. Madhu University of Halle and University May 2010 of Leipzig, Germany, University of Lille, Lille, France, June 2010 University of Province, France June-August 2011 University of York, UK August 2011 Max Planck Inst, Goettingen, Germany May-June 2013

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Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member Max Planck Inst, Goettingen, Germany September 2013 University of Leipzig, Germany, May 2013 ETH Zurich, Switzerland July 2013 Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Oct. 2013 Tel Aviv University, Israel Oct. 2013 ETH Zurich, Switzerland June 2014 5. Ranjan Das Graz University of Technology, Austria April 2013

6. A. S. R. Koti Western University and Columbia University, March 2011 USA University of Cambridge, UK November 2011

7. J. Dasgupta Free University of Berlin, Germany July 2011 University of California, Berkeley, USA September 2011 Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel June 2014

26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees : Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 1 Prof. R.V. Hosur Centre for Biomedical Magnetic Council 2006- Resonance, Lucknow Member Research Council of IICB, Kolkata Member 2007-11 Governing Council, UM-DSE CBS Member 2009- Indian National Science Academy Member 2008-10 National Academy of Sciences, India Member 2009- 11,13 Fellowship Committee of NASI Member 2009- Expert Panel of Bose Institute, Kolkata Member National Magnetic President 2009-12 Resonance Society, India Narottam Sekhsaria Foundation; Expert 2008-10 NASI Platinum Member 2009- Jubilee Young Scientist Award selection committee INSPIRE Faculty Selection Committee Chairperson 2014 Summer Research Fellowship Committee, Member 2014 Indian Academy of Sciences DBT-IISc Review Committee Member 2014 DST-SRC Young Scientist Award Member 2014

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Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service Committee DBT Task Force on Modern Biology Member 2014 2 Prof. K.V.R. Chary Indian Biophysical Society President 2011-13 Project Management Committee of the Member 2010 600 MHz NMR Facility, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata Royal Society of Chemistry, West India Executive 2010 Section Council Member, Elected Hon. Chairman Indian Science Congress Association, Convener 2010 Mumbai Chapter Tata Endowment Selection Committee, Member 2010 Mumbai National Magnetic Resonance Society Member Expert Committee for Review for the Member 2014 Dept. of Biotechnology, IIT Roorkee 3 Prof. Sudipta Working Group on Photonics, Dept. of Member 2011 Maiti Information Technology, Govt. of India Executive 2012 Indian Biophysical Society Body Member

Scientific Advisory Committee, National Member 2014 Brain Research Centre 4 Prof. S. Programme Advisory Committee, Member 2011 Mazumdar Department of Science and Technology, India Syllabus Committee, University of Member 2011 Mumbai National Organizing Committee, Modern Member 2014 Trends in Inorganic Chemistry DBT Task Force on Nanobiotechnology Member 2014- 5 Prof. S.J. Executive Council, Indian Society for Member 2010 Wategaonkar Radiation and Photochemical Sciences Executive Council, Indian Society for Secretary and 2014 Radiation and Photochemical Sciences Executive Council Member Executive Council, Indian Society for Vice President 2015 Radiation and Photochemical Sciences

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(b) International Committees: Term Name of the Name of the Role of the of Faculty Member Committee Committee Service 1 Prof. R.V. Hosur International Conferences on Magnetic Council 2004- Resonance in Biological Systems Member 14 ISMAR Council 2013- member ISMAR scientific advisory committee Member 2013- 15 2 Prof. K.V.R. Chary International Conferences on Magnetic Council 2005- Resonance in Biological Systems Member 14 International Union for Pure and Applied Secretary 2010 Biophysics (IUPAB), “Task Force on NMR of Biological Systems International Council on Magnetic Chairperson 2012- Resonance in Biological Systems 14 3 Prof. P.K. Madhu European School on Solid-State NMR Advisor 2003- Board of Trustees of EUROMAR, Member 2009- European Magnetic Resonance Meeting 15 4 Prof. S. Mazumdar Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Steering 2003- Committee Member 5 Dr. Vivek Global Young Academy Member 2014 Polshettiwar 6 Prof. S.J. International Steering Committee, Asian Member 2012 Wategaonkar Spectroscopy Conference

(c) Editorial Boards : Name of the Impact Term of Name of the Journal Faculty Member Factor Service 1 Prof. R.V. Hosur Indian Journal of Biochemistry and 0.871 2004- Biophysics Scientific World Journal - 2014- 2 Prof. K.V.R. Journal Current Bioinformatics 0.921 2005- Chary The Open Applied Informatics Journal - 2008- The Open Magnetic Resonance Journal - 2007- 3 Prof. P.K. Madhu Journal of spectroscopy and dynamics - 2010-13 Journal of Magnetic Resonance 2.510 2015- Journal of Biomolecular NMR 3.141 2015- Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 2.266 2015- 4 Prof. S.J. Journal of Chemical Science, Bangalore 1.191 2015- Wategaonkar Physics Teacher - 2011-

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5. Prof. Sudipta Journal of Optics 2.059 2014- Maiti 3.534 2014- Frontiers in Physiology and Biophysics 6. Dr. Vivek Scientific Reports 5.578 2014- Polshettiwar 7. Dr. J. Dasgupta Scientific Reports 5.578 2014 8. Prof. Deepa Scientific Reports 5.578 2014 Khushalani 9. Dr. Ravindra Scientific Reports 5.578 2014 Venkatramani

d) any other (please specify) Most faculty members frequently work as referees in many national and international journals, such as Journal Physical Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Pramana - J. Physics, Journal of Chemical Science, etc.

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

Young faculty members are entitled to get study-leave for spending extended periods in international laboratories and train themselves in the latest research areas. All faculty members are also entitled to go on sabbatical leave for working in international laboratories for 6 months to one year.

Members of the Department organise national and international meetings, workshops and seminars. These give them opportunities to showcase their research and also interact with experts.

In addition, national and international collaborative research programmes have frequent exchange of visits of our faculty members and their collaborators.

All these activities are catalysts for continuous recharging of our faculties.

In addition, DCS faculty members are in great demand as teachers in other institutions, both within India and abroad.

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28. Student projects

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

100% (All students do in-house 3 research projects as part of the curriculum.)

• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities

/ industry / institute

Approximately 75% of the Ph.D. students enrolled in TIFR are working on research projects that have a collaborative portion.

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

• Faculty Members:

National Awards Name of the Name of the Award Year Awardee 1 Prof. R. V. Hosur Padma Shri 2014 JC Bose National Fellowship 2007 IIT-Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award 2015 BRUKER Young Scientist award 1983 Fellow, Indian Academy of Science 1994 Fellow, Indian National Science Academy 1995 Fellow, National Academy of Sciences India 1997 INSA Young Scientist Medal 1984 CSIR Professor G N Ramachandran Gold Medal 2009 B. M. Birla award 1992 Yeddanapalli Memorial lecture award 2009 R K Asundi Memorial Lecture Award, INSA 1998 Jagdish Shankar memorial Lecture Award, INSA 2003 B D Tilak Lecture award, Mumbai University 1989 3rd annual award, Society for cancer research 1998 IICB-Kolkata Foundation Day Lecture award 2004 RRL-Trivandrum Foundation Day Lecture 2006 Award

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Name of the Name of the Award Year Awardee PC Ray Memorial Lecture award 2011 Young Associate, Indian Academy of Science 1985 3 Prof. K.V.R. Chary JC Bose National Fellowship 2014 Fellow of Indian National Science Academy 2012 Fellow of the Andhra Pradesh Academy of 2011 Sciences Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences 2000 J.C. Ghosh Memorial Award of the Indian 2009-10 Chemical Society Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award, INSA 1989 Young Scientist Award, BRUKER 1986 Young Scientist Medal, INSA 1986 Professor Rango Krishna Asundi Memorial 2006 Lecture Award of Indian National Science Academy Dharamsi Morarji Chemical Co. Visiting 2010-11 Fellowship in Chemistry" of the Institute of Chemical Technology 3 Prof. P. K. Madhu Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences 2010 4 Prof. S. Mazumdar Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 INSA Young Scientist Medal 1991 Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award, INSA 1996 5 Prof. Sudipta Maiti SICO National Instrumentation Award from 2001 NASI

International Awards Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Year 1. Prof. K.V.R. Chary Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences 2014 2. Prof. R. V. Hosur Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences 2008

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards Name of the Name of the Award Year Awardee 1. Mr. Venus Singh Best poster award in NMRS Meeting 2011 Mithu 2. Ms. Subha Best poster award in New Directions in 2012

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Bakthavatsalam Chemical Sciences 3. Mr. Vinayak Rane Best poster award at TSRP Symposium 2012 4. Mr. Biswajit Mishra Best poster award at IUMRS-ICA 2013 2013 (International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference in Asia) 5. Ms. Shama Parween Best poster award at IUMRS-ICA 2013 2013 (International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference in Asia) 6. Ms. Subha Best poster award in 13th Eurasia Conference 2014 Bakthavatsalam on Chemical Sciences 7. Mr. Bappaditya Best poster award in NMRS Meeting 2014 Chandra 8. Best poster award at the TSRP Symposium 2014 9. Ms. Kshama Sharma Best poster award in NMRS Meeting 2015 10. Mr. Rustam Singh Best poster award in 4th International 2015 Conference on Advanced Nanomaterial and Nanotechnology

International Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Best poster award at the Hydrogen Bond meeting 1. 2013 Ms. Aditi Bhattacherjee at Antwerp, Belgium Biophysical Society Student Research Mr. Hema Chandra 2. 2014 Achievement Award (SRAA) at San Francisco, Kotamarthi USA. Best poster award at the Hydrogen bond meeting 3. 2015 Mr. Sanat Ghosh 2015 at Wroclaw, Poland

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any. Year Name Funding Agency Faculty members 1. 2011 International work-shop on TIFR Prof. K.V.R. Chary “Recent Advances in High Resolution NMR spectroscopy”, Hyderabad 2. 2014 NMR meets Biology, Goa TIFR Prof. P. K. Madhu 3. 2016 NMR meets Biology, Kerala TIFR Prof. P. K. Madhu 4. 2013 National Magnetic TIFR Prof. P. K. Madhu Resonance Symposium, Mumbai 5. 2013 Discussion Meetings on TIFR Prof. S. J. Wategaonkar Spectroscopy and

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Dynamics of Molecules and Clusters, Udaipur 6. 2014 Sustainable Energy: Crisis Royal Society of Prof. Deepa Khushalani and Management, Latest Chemistry Trends in Fundamental Research, Mumabi 7. 2013 National Symposium On Royal Society of Prof. Deepa Khushalani New Vistas In Chemistry, Chemistry Mumbai

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

Students must refrain from any kind of academic misconduct. The following are some examples of academic misconduct: copying of answer sheets either in the examination or home-work assignments, absenteeism from classes, fabrication or falsification of data/results, and indulgence in plagiarism. The acts listed above and any act that is not listed here and is perceived as an academic misconduct by the CSB will invite disciplinary action, which may be expulsion of the students engaged in such acts. These guidelines are published on the Departmental website (www.tifr.res.in/~dcs). In addition, the Institute has an overall Academic Ethics Policy which can be found at http://www.tifr.res.in/index.php/intranet/guidelines- for-academic-ethics.html

32. Student profile programme-wise: Name of the Applications Pass Selected Joined Programme Recd percentage* Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 13636 # 65 37 20 16 85 81 # 2014 and 2015 numbers include applications recd for TCIS, Hyd also

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33. Diversity of students

a) Geographical

Ph.D. I-Ph.D. Students Total Male Female Male Female From the state where the 0 1 0 0 1 university is located From other states of India 15 8 4 6 33 NRI students 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign students 0 0 0 0 0 Total 15 9 4 6 34

b) Undergraduate Insitution Ph.D. I-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Total From Universities 10 7 4 6 27 From premier science 0 0 0 0 0 institutions † From premier professional 5 2 0 0 7 institutions # From others* 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0 Total 15 9 4 6 34

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

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise. Examination No of students who cleared 1. NET More than 95% of the present students 2. GATE More than 95% of the present students

N. B. The students who did not have the NET/GATE certification were B.Sc. students.

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35. Student progression

Our students after obtaining a Ph.D. or Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. degree usually pursue post-doctoral research work in eminent universities or institutions.

36. Diversity of staff (All faculty members are required to have a Ph.D. degree. They are recruited through a rigorous selection process according to their area of specialization, without any distinction made on their domicile status. In the following table, the faculty members are grouped according to their place of the institution that awarded them their Ph. D. degree.)

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s

from TIFR : 4*

from other institutions in India : 4

from institutions Abroad: 6

Total No 14

* These four members obtained their Ph.D. from Mumbai University; However, they did their Ph.D. research work in this Institution itself.

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

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

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library

There is a common facility called Scientific Information Resource Centre that holds

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the central library and provides modern IT based information from a wide variety of sources. It has a rich collection of books and monographs on several fields pertinent to our research work. It also has a wide collection of journals and periodicals, both in printed and electronic forms, accessible from all personal computers.

b) Internet facilities for staff and students

A campus-wide high-speed LAN offers internet access to all the staff and students, both in their offices and labs, and in large parts of the residential areas.

c) Total number of class rooms

DCS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility

All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video-conferencing facilities are also available in most lecture rooms.

e) Students’ laboratories

There are no special laboratories marked for students. All the research laboratories (see item ‘f’ below) are accessible to all students whenever their work requires them to use the facilities in these labs.

f) Research laboratories Name of Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Major equipments/ Brief description of Laboratory instruments research activity Molecular 500, 700 and 800 MHz Biophysics, Structural NMR & NMR spectrometers Biology, 1 Structural 2 0 3 from Brüker; 600 NMR Biomolecular NMR, Biology spectrometer from Biophysical Agilent Chemistry Supersonic jet Physical Chemistry, Supersonic Jet 2 1 0 3 spectrometer, Time-of- Laser Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy flight mass Supersonic Jet

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Name of Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Major equipments/ Brief description of Laboratory instruments research activity spectrometer Spectroscopy, Hydrogen bonding, Quantum Chemical Computation ESI-MS spectrometers, Bioinorganic Inorganic and Bio- 3 1 1 1 Potentialstat and Chemistry chemistry galvanostat Multi-photo microscope, Biophysics and 4 Biophotonics 1 1 3 fluorescence spectroscopy correlation spectrometer NMR spectrometers mentioned above, Solid State NMR spectroscopy 5 1 0 1 coupled with special NMR and biophysics probes for solid-state studies Cellular NMR spectrometers In-vivo NMR and 6 1 0 0 Biochemistry mentioned above metabolonomics Steady-state X-band EPR spectromter from Brüker , Time-resolved EPR spectroscopy X-band EPR EPR and spin dynamics of 7 1 0 0 spectrometer Spectroscopy transient organic free (laboratory build). radicals Nano-second laser flash-photolysis setup (laboratory build). Surface area analyzers and thermal analyzers, Materials Potentiostat for Functional inorganic 8 1 1 2 Chemistry electrochemical materials measurement and solar simulator Mechanochemistry, Atomic Force Engineering novel Microscope coupled to proteins with diverse Single Molecule an optical microscope mechanical 9 Protein 1 1 2 (commercial) and functions, Mechanics Laboratory built atomic Development of force microscope novel single- molecule assays for

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Name of Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Major equipments/ Brief description of Laboratory instruments research activity protein-protein, protein-DNA, and protein-RNA interactions Microwave reactor, gas Nanomaterials for 10 Nanocatalysis 1 1 4 sorption analyzer, GC- energy and MS environment Chemical Development of Liquid Chromatography Biology & novel molecular 11 1 0 5 – mass spectrometry Molecular probes for in vivo and relaxometer Imaging imaging Ultrafast Femto-second transient Reaction dynamics of 12 Biophysics & 1 1 3 absorption polyatomic systems Photomaterials spectrometer Theory and Computational Cluster computing 13 1 0 2 computations of Chemistry facility molecular processes * No. of faculty members using the laboratory † No. of postdoctoral fellows using the laboratory ‡ No. of graduate students using the laboratory In addition, there are pico-second time-resolved fluorescence spectrometers and a MALD-TOF mass spectrometer, which are used by several members.

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates a) from the host institution/university :

Doctoral – 33, Post-doctoral – 5, JRF - 4 Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows 1. Mr. Dwaipayan Dattagupta Dr. Nisha Bayal 2. Ms. Anindita Sarkar Dr. Priyanka Shinde 3. Ms. K. Vijaya Lakshmi Dr. Anoop Rawat 4. Mr. Bappaditya Chandra Dr. Nikhil Sangith 5. Ms. Deepshikha Dr. Manish Shandilya 6. Mr. Sanat Ghosh Dr. Shreetama Karmakar 7. Mr. Samsuzzoha Mondal 8. Mr. Palas Roy 9. Ms. Ankita Das 10. Ms. Ananya Rakshit 11. Mr. Baljeet Singh

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12. Mr. Rustam Singh 13. Ms. Anju Yadav 14. Ms. Shrabasti Bhattacharya 15. Ms. Sayani Das 16. Mr. Mahek Dhiman 17. Ms. Viola D’Mello 18. Mr. Barun K. Maity 19. Ms. Imon Mondal 20. Ms. Charu Seth 21. Ms. Yukti Arora 22. Mr. Mandar Bopardikar 23. Ms. Simli Dey 24. Ms. Mona Gupta 25. Mr. Ayan Maity 26. Mr. Abhijit Mondal 27. Mr. Sanjoy Paul 28. Mr. Anustup Chakraborty 29. Mr. Amitava Chandra 30. Mr. Anirban Das 31. Ms. Nita Ghosh 32. Mr. Soumyajit Mitra 33. Mr. Bijon Sarkar

JRFs SRFs 1. Mr. Ramiz Sheikh - 2. Mr. Joel Cornelio - 3. Mr. Mayank Boob - 4. Ms. Manisha Yadav -

b) From other institutions/universities :

None

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

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

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

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

Initiation of any new academic programme is first mooted in the Department, and then a detailed format is presented to the Academic Council for their approval. All the existing programmes in our Department went through this procedure.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

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

The Chemistry Subject Board and the Department periodically discuss the need for new courses and replacement or modification of existing courses. Additionally, the recommendations of the Chemistry Subject Board on the academic requirements of the degrees are ratified by the whole Department and subsequently implemented in the course of studies. b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department utilize the feedback?

The Department takes feedback from all students who have taken the classroom courses taught by the faculties in a semester. This feedback is shared anonymously with the instructors with the hope for the betterment of the teaching-learning process.

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

No such direct feedback is taken.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)

The following table gives the names of some distinguished scientists who have either spent their research career in our department as faculty members or who received their Ph. D. degrees working in our Department, before TIFR became a degree-granting Deemed University.

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Name of the Alumnus Reason for distinction 1. Prof. B. Venkatraman Eminent scientist, educationist and science communicator 2. Prof. G. Govil Bhatnagar Awardee, Fellow of INSA and IASc. 3. Prof. S. Mitra Bhatnagar Awardee, Fellow of INSA, IASc. and NASc 4. Prof. K.S.V. Santhanam Eminent scientist and well-known electrochemist 5. Dr. R. R. Navalgund Vikram Sarabhai Distinguished Professor at ISRO, Bangalore and former Director, Space Applications Centre (ISRO) 6. Dr. Prabuddha Ganguly Authority on intellectual property rights and a writer 7. Prof. N. Periasamy Eminent scientist, Fellow of INSA, IASc. and NASc 8. Prof. Chanchal Mitra Eminent scientist at University of Hyderabad 9. Prof. G. Krishnamoorthy Eminent scientist, Fellow of INSA 10. Prof. R. Ramaswamy Eminent Scientist, Fellow of INSA, IASc and TWAS

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

Our Department has an age-old tradition of holding weekly seminar on Mondays. These talks are given by national and international visitors and departmental members. In addition, seminars on other days are also held for visiting experts. Our students are thus exposed to various aspects of modern scientific research through these talks and interaction with the speakers.

Our students regularly participate in national conferences and workshops, and occasionally in international conferences, by giving talks and presenting posters. They thereby get ample opportunities to extend their knowledge.

In addition, our students also give at least one departmental seminar a year and speak about their research. This way they are trained to present their work, and face positive and negative criticism from the community. Besides, our students are also privileged that they get to hear many internationally and nationally recognized scientists via the Institute level Public Lectures and colloquia.

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

All classroom teaching courses are one-semester long. Typically, teaching for the Autumn semester starts from the first week of August and ends in the third week of December. Similarly, for the Spring semester, teaching starts from the third

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week of January and ends in the last week of May. In addition, a short course is given during July. The teaching style involves writing on the board, and the use of Powerpoint presentations. The evaluation of all courses is based on several assignments and two written examinations. In addition, some instructors ask the students to make short presentation on an assigned topic.

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

The Subject Board guidelines ensure that students complete the requirements satisfactorily. Unsuccessful students are given limited number of opportunities to fulfil the requirements; else they are removed from the Institute.

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

Several faculty members and students participate in ‘out-reach programmes’, by giving scientific talks to the public at large (in colleges, rural schools and various other venues); they participate in national and international conferences by presenting their research work; give seminars in national and international institutions. They also participate in TIFR Science Day programme, where various laboratories are made open to school children.

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

DCS conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis. • DCS Seminar • NSF Colloquium • VSRP Programme

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

The Academic performance of DCS was reviewed by a panel of international experts in February 2007, set up by the Governing Council of TIFR. This committee made the following observations about the Department of Chemical Sciences:

The Department has done a superb job in building world class instrumentation,

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especially in the areas of NMR and various optical spectroscopic techniques. The oral presentations gave testimony to the faculty’s authority in using these methods and in appropriately analyzing the data. As a result of the methods developed up to now, the DCS faculty have been highly productive in terms of papers published in recent years, especially given the very small size of almost all the groups. Training the next generation of scientists in these advanced methods is an important contribution of TIFR, as well as having played a leadership role in the development of NMR in India.

In addition, a Review Committee constituted by the UGC, visited TIFR during February 2010, and commented that the deemed to be university status of TIFR offers a unique multidisciplinary environment for carrying out research. The present composition of the faculty members and research facilities at DCS are equally well placed to meet the above description.

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

• In order to improve the sensitivity and resolution of solid state NMR spectroscopy, several methods have been developed, which are based on homonuclear dipolar decoupling with magic angle spinning frequencies spanning from low to high, unification of heteronuclear spin decoupling schemes, and design of asynchronous schemes. Determination of inter-proton distances in small molecules, identification of unique structural folds in Aβ peptides upon binding to membranes, elucidating the folding pathway of P2 protein of Plasmodium falciparum and generation of hyperpolarised xenon gas with optical pumping, which could be used for NMR imaging purpose, are some of the important scientific findings.

• How stable are proteins towards external mechanical forces? To gain insight into that, novel polyproteins have been synthesized using genetic fusion and protein engineering, and unfolding pathways of proteins, their ligand-dependent stability and structure– topology–mechanical stability relationship have been established. In addition, a computational framework for studying the effects of electric fields on proteins has been established. The effect of temporally varying electric field on

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amyloid beta structure and dynamics has been reported.

• Computational descriptions of protein flexibility and stability, electronic charge flow across organic molecules within biological and synthetic settings, new algorithms to extract collective functional motions through comparative analysis of protein structures, and a theoretical framework to describe the relationship between the molecular conductance and charge transfer rates across organic molecules have been developed. Computational measures to determine quality of reported protein structures, and new charge transfer transitions in optical absorption spectra of proteins have been identified.

• In order to visualize locations of biologically essential metal ions and lipids in cells several sensors have been developed. These sensors, which are based on their fluorescence properties, will find applications in imaging. A zebrafish larval model for manganese induced Parkinsonism has been developed.

• A novel combination of spectroscopies was used in the study of amyloid-beta peptide oligomers to throw light on the origin of Alzheimer’s disease.

• A new facility for carrying out time-resolved absorption spectroscopy and Raman Spectroscopy with 50 femtosecond time resolution has been established. A new paradigm for organic photochemistry in molecular nanocages has been demonstrated. Reaction dynamics of triplet sensitized photoisomerisation of tetra-cis-lycopene and proton-coupled electron transfer reaction have been elucidated.

• 3D structure and dynamics of an unusual Ca2+-binding protein from E. histolytica and the effect of Y81F mutation have been studied by NMR spectroscopy, and the liaison between myristoylation and cryptic EF-Hand motif that confers Ca2+ sensitivity to neuronal calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1) has been demonstrated. Ribosome binding of the RNA thermometer has been shown to critically regulate the temperature sensing “switches” in MiniROSE RNA functions. The structure of a putative UV inducible protein from C. reinhardtii that exhibits RNA and DNA endonuclease activity has been established. Using NMR spectroscopy and replica

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exchange molecular dynamics, conformational propensities and dynamics of an intrinsically unstructured βγ-crystallin from Hahella chejuensis have been characterized.

• A pulse sequence (Ile, Thr and Val specific (3, 2)D-CB(CACO)NNH), which accelerates resonance assignment process in proteins significantly, has been

proposed. To rapidly collect NMR data and assign the PCSs of CH3 groups of Ala, Ile, Leu, Met, Thr and Val residues in proteins, a methodology based on (3, 2)D CT- HCCH-COSY experiment has been proposed. The flagella of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a unicellular green alga, were shown for the first time to weakly align molecules in an external magnetic field, thereby enabling the measurement of various residual dipolar couplings in solution NMR spectroscopy.

• Size and fibre density controlled syntheses of fibrous nanosilica spheres (KCC-1)

have been achieved and their applications in CO2 capture and as supporting materials for metal catalyzed challenging reactions have been demonstrated. Using atomic layer deposition, the high surface area of KCC-1 was coated with

TiO2, which showed extraordinary photo-catalytic activity. Insights into their catalytic mechanism was gained from 15N and 29Si NMR enhanced by dynamic nuclear polarisation. A new mechanism for the formation of cobalt oxide nano- flowers, wherein sheets slowly evolved with temperature to give rise to the flowers, has been proposed.

• Quenching studies of excited molecules by a stable free radical, when diffusive motion is severely restricted, have shown the detailed dynamics involving photophysical pathways, electron spin-selective magnetic interactions and generation of electron spin polarisation. That such interactions can produce splittings in time-resolved EPR spectra, without any concomitant splittings of their energy levels, has been demonstrated. Novel mechanisms of electron spin- lattice relaxation of organic free radicals with high symmetry, such as anion

radicals of C6H6, its derivatives and C60 in liquid solutions have been identified. Detailed electron spin-lattice relaxation processes in TEMPO and TEMPOL free radicals in ionic liquids and conventional organic liquids have shown the dynamics to be very similar in these two classes of solvents.

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

Strength: Though ours is a department with a small number of faculty members, the strength lies in their front-line, high-quality research work in excellent laboratories, comparable to the best in the world. The strong points are:

• Excellent faculties trained in world-wide labs. As such the teaching quality is excellent

• Excellent research facilities

• Selection of research scholars is highly competitive

• Students are trained in various compulsory courses and given access to multidisciplinary research

• Excellent infrastructure support in terms of internet access, library, journals and funding

Weakness: Since our department consists of a small number of faculty members, not all conventional areas of chemistry are adequately covered. Moreover we are limited to not being able to accept/admit a large number of students and as such the breadth of courses are not as broad as should be ideal. Limited availability of laboratory space severely restricts the progress of several research programs.

Opportunities:

• Opportunities to participate in international conferences, to interact with scientists at the international levels as often as necessary to gain visibility.

• Because of the close-knit structure of TIFR, several opportunities to do interdisciplinary research.

• Opportunities to expand the knowledge base of students – it is very convenient to attend lectures in disciplines other than chemistry on a regular basis by renowned researchers/teachers.

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Challenges:

• Raising resources like space, students (man-power) and funding.

• Recruiting new faculty members to strengthen the ongoing activities as well as explore new areas of research.

• Modest infrastructure strongly limits broadening of the research activity whereas the research groups have to compete at the international level.

• Popularizing these research fields at the undergraduate level and make the younger generation attracted to these fields within India.

• Interference in day to day administration by the extended bureaucracy, too many rules and not much freedom in execution.

52. Future plans of the department.

The department at TIFR is continuously evolving and hiring new faculty with impressive research credentials who work in areas not considered to be “common or routine”. The future plans of the department are to continue this trend so as to increase the teaching/research skill set of the faculty. We would also like to determine new routes to increase the intake of our Ph.D. students. Currently we are limited by accommodation issues, however efforts are underway to overcome such limitations. In addition, the department is constantly increasing its coursework and efforts are ongoing to develop new, exciting courses that can invigorate the M.Sc./Ph.D. programmes at TIFR.

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Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science

1. Name of the Department : Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science (DCMPMS)

2. Year of establishment : 1945 TIFR was divided into Research Groups in the period 1945 – 1997. The present Departments were formed on December 12, 1997.

3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? The DCMPMS is a part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved The DCMPMS does not offer interdisciplinary programmes. However, there is a lot of research collaboration among the Departments, and the graduate school has Instructors drawn from all the five physics Departments in Colaba.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. A list of (full one-semester) courses taught by DCMPMS faculty members outside TIFR in the period 2011 – 2015 follows.

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Institution Course Name Faculty member Year 1. CBS Short course on Optical Spectroscopy S. Ghosh 2014 2. CBS Solid State Physics 2 A. Bhattacharya 2012 P. Raychaudhuri 3. CBS Physics Lab A. Bhattacharya 2011 4. CBS Basic Solid State Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2011 5. CBS Basic Solid State Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2012 6. CBS Basic Solid State Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2013 7. CBS Basic Solid State Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2014 8. CBS Condensed Matter Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2011 9. CBS Condensed Matter Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2012 10. CBS Condensed Matter Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2013 11. CBS Condensed Matter Physics P. Raychaudhuri 2014 12. CBS Advanced Solid State Physics A. Venugopal 2015 13. CBS Nanophotonics A. Venugopal 2014 14. CBS Photonics: Basic Concepts, Design, A. Venugopal 2013 Fabrication and Applications

7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons No programmes have been discontinued since the inception of the TIFR University.

8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System Students of the DCMPMS are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project Work, on topics of their own choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below.

Duration (years) Basic & Core Elective Project Total Programme Overall Coursework Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 28 16 16 60 Int. M.Sc.-Ph.D. (J) 6 2.5 56 28 16 100 N.B. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. students who join after 4 years B.Sc. or equivalent are required to do only 36 Core Credits, i.e. 80 Credits in total.

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester (August – November) and the Spring Semester (February – May). In addition, there may be

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courses run during the Winter break (December – January) and Summer break (May – July). Students who are not doing courses during the breaks are encouraged to participate in research projects with faculty members of their choice. In each one-semester semester, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process consisting of 1. Assignments 2. Quizzes 3. Mid-semester Examination 4. End-semester Examination 5. Term paper (optional) All students are required to do 16 Credits of Project work in their allotted Departments as a part of the Coursework. In Departmental Project I (8 Credits), they are required to study a topic of current interest outside of the textbooks and write a report on the state of art in that subject. In Departmental Project II (8 Credits), they are required to do a small original work, preferably (but not compulsorily) in the same area, or review some highly technical work which is known to be very difficult. Both these Projects are evaluated by a Committee of Faculty Members drawn from the different Departments.

9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments TIFR Physics Courses are divided into four levels, as per the table below.

Level Course Content Participation I Basic Subjects All 5 Physics Departments jointly II Core Subjects All 5 Physics Departments jointly III Review Courses (Basic Elective) Relevant Department IV Topical Courses (Advanced Elective) Relevant Department

Thus, DCMPMS faculty are involved in teaching the Level I and II courses in sharing with faculty from other Physics departments, and exclusively involved in teaching all Level III and IV courses in Condensed Matter Physics, as well as Superconductivity, Crystal Growth and Material Science. DCMPMS students are free to choose Electives in other Departments, even outside Physics, in consultation with the Subject Board of Physics.

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10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation Number (Item 11) 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Dist. Professor (J) 2 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 3 3. Professor (H)  4 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 7 5. Reader (F)  1 6. Fellow (E)  — Total 17

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

Name Designation Deg* Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ 1. Sabyasachi Dist. Professor Ph.D. Soft Condensed Matter 33 3* Bhattacharya (J) 2. E.V. Dist. Professor Ph.D. Magnetism, 40 1 Sampathkumaran (J) Superconductivity, Intermetallics, Oxides 3. Pushan Ayyub Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. Nanomaterials Physics 28 3 and Applications 4. S. K. Dhar Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. Magnetism and 37 1 Superconductivity in Rare Earth Intermetallics 5. S. Ramakrishnan Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. Superconductivity, 30 3 Magnetism, Vortices, Charge Density Waves and Heavy Fermions 6. Kalobaran Maiti Professor (H) Ph.D. Magnetism and 15 3 Superconductivity, Properties at the Surfaces and Interfaces 7. Arun K. Nigam Professor (H) Ph.D. Magnetic and Electrical 31 0 transport properties of Metallic and Oxide

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Name Designation Deg* Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ systems at Low Temperatures and High Magnetic Fields 8. P. L. Paulose Professor (H) Ph.D. Magnetism and 27 0 Superconductivity in Intermetallics 9. Pratap Professor (H) Ph.D. Point Contact and 13 8 Raychaudhuri Tunneling Spectroscopy, Thin films, Colossal Magnetoresistance 10. Arnab Assoc. Professor Ph.D. MOVPE Growth of 15 4 Bhattacharya (G) Quantum Structures 11. Mandar Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Nanoelectronic Devices 10 7 Deshmukh (G) 12. Sandip Ghosh Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Optical Spectroscopy of 13 3 (G) Semiconductors 13. Shankar Ghosh Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Soft Condensed Matter 10 3 (G) 14. S.S. Prabhu Assoc. Professor Ph.D. TeraHertz Spectroscopy 17 1 (G) 15. A. Thamizhavel Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Single Crystal Growth, 10 1 (G) Superconductivity and Magnetism 16. A. Venugopal Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Metal-dielectric 11 3 (G) nanostructured materials for Photonic and Plasmonic studies 17. R. Vijayaraghavan Reader (F) Ph.D. Superconducting 3 3 Quantum Electronics, Quantum Computing and Quantum Simulation * Highest degree obtained † Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere) ‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)

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12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors There were none appointed during the period 2011 – 2015.

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information DCMPMS does not employ temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 15 17 0.88 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 10 17 0.59 3. M.Sc. ─ ─ ─ Total 25 17 1.47

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific & Technical Staff Administrative & Auxiliary Staff Total DCMPMS 31 1 32 LTP 1 0 1

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies  Superconductivity  Nanostructures  Properties of materials  Device fabrication

(a) National

Duration Total Grant Agency Project Title (years) (Rs. Lakhs) Faculty member 1. DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship 5 141.41 M. Deshmukh

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2. DST Fabrication Of Spin-Resolved 6 135.83 K. Maiti Photoemission Spectrometer 3. DAE Micro Nano Technology And 10 77.21 A. Bhattacharya Related Areas - Phase - I 4. DST J.C.Bose Fellowship 10 75.30 E.V.Sampathkumar n 5. DST Real Space Imaging Of The 3 36.00 P. Raychaudhuri Mixed State In Unconventional And Disordered Superconductors Using Low Temperature 6. National Study Of Quantum 8 47.00 A. Venugopal Institute Of Information Communication Communicatio n Technology 7. SERB Ramanujan Fellowship To Dr. 5 33.00 R. Vijayaraghavan Rajamani Vijayaraghavan 8. DST J.C. Bose Fellowship 5 13.60 K. Maiti 9. DST Gallium Nitride Based 4 13.28 A. Bhattacharya Nanostructures For Enhanced Light Emission 10. DST Plasmonic Nanostructures 3 7.97 A. Venugopal With Magnetic & Semiconductor Constituents For Nanophotonics 11. DST Quantum Logic Using 4 6.00 A. Venu Gopal Semiconductor Quantum Dots 12. DST Plasmonic Heterostructures 4 5.98 A. Venugopal With Novel Optical Phenomena 13. IBM India Travel & Conference 3 4.80 M. Deshmukh Expenses 14. DDO, DST Tuning Electron Correlations 2 3.00 A. Thamizhavel In Heavy Fermion Compounds By Pressure To Possible Quantum Criticality 15. DST Electronic Structure Of 2 2.35 K. Maiti Correlated Electron Systems

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16. DST Structure-Property 3 2.32 P. Ayyub Relationship In 2d, 1d & O-D Nanomaterials 17. DST Size Effects In Nanostructured 4 1.55 P. Ayyub Thin Films And Multilayers

(b) International

Duration Total Grant Agency Project Title (years) (Rs. Lakhs) Faculty member 1. Asian Office Lateral Superlattice Using 2D 1 17.13 M. Deshmukh Of Aerospace Materials To Realize Tunable R&D Optical And Electronic Response 2. Asian Office Thermal Transport In 1-D And 6 13.35 M. Deshmukh Of Aerospace 2-D Nanostructures R&D 3. Indo -French Spin Transport In Single 3 12.00 M. Deshmukh Centre For Molecular Transistors The Promotion Of Advanced Research 4. IBM IBM Faculty Award - 2012 4 8.13 M. Deshmukh 5. IBM IBM Support For Research On 4 5.00 M. Deshmukh Nanowire Transistors 6. Royal Society RSC Chemistry Outreach 2 1.80 A. Bhattacharya of Chemistry, UK 7. Rigetti Broadband parametric 1 6.70 R. Vijayaraghavan Quantum amplifiers for multi-qubit Computing measurements 8. Swedish Photonic Crystals: Physics, 4 35.00 A. Venugopal Research Technology & Applications Council 9. Asian Office Thermal Transport & 4 32.57 M. Deshmukh Of Aerospace Measurement Of Specific Heat

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Duration Total Grant Agency Project Title (years) (Rs. Lakhs) Faculty member R&D In Artificially Sculpted Nanostructures 10. UKIERI Quantum logic with 30 A.Venugopal semiconductor nanodots

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received (a) National

Collaborating Duration Total Grant Faculty Institutions Project Title (years) (Rs. lakhs) member 1. Kanya Maha Optical and nonlinear optical 3 58.0 A. Venugopal Vidyalaya properties of nanopattrened novel glasses 2. Mangalore Design, Fabrication and 3 49.0 A. Venugopal Inst of Characterization Technology & of Whispering Gallery Mode Engineering (WGM) in a Planar Waveguide for Detection of Bio-Molecules Using Terahertz Radiation 3. Department of Study of Magneto-elastic 3 21.12 A. K. Nigam Physics, Goa coupling in Antiperovskite University, Materials Goa

(b) International Collaborating Duration Total Grant Faculty

Institutions Project Title (years) (Rs. lakhs) member 1. Vienna Topology and Quantum 3 47.00 A. Thamizhavel University of Criticality in Kondo Technology Insulators 2. University of Photoemmission 2 19.70 K. Maiti Goettingen spectroscopy in Heavy

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Fermion Intermetallics 3. Niigata Tuning electron 2 10.00 A. Thamizhavel University Japan correlations in heavy fermion compounds by pressure to possible quantum criticality; high pressure resistivity and dHvA studies 4. University of Electronic structure of 2 2.35 K. Maiti Goettingen correlated electron systems

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

Funding Duration Total Grant Agency Project Title (years) (Rs. lakhs) Faculty member 1. DAE XII Plan Project – DCMPMS 5 5711 All DCMPMS faculty (16 projects)

20. Research facility / centre with  state recognition :  national recognition :  international recognition : At present, there are none such in the DCMPMS.

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies At present, there are none such in the DCMPMS.

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22. Publications:

Mono DCMP Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books - MS Publications Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited graphs 2010-11 87 11  1 1   2011-12 77 23   1   2012-13 49 24  1    2013-14 72 14      2014-15 88 13   1   Total 373 85  2 3  

 Books with ISBN with details of publishers: None  Citation Index: Total number of citations: 42636 Number of citations per faculty: 2508

 h-index : Range: 11 - 40

23. Details of patents and income generated

Patent Holder Patent Name Patent No Date Income 1. S. Datta An apparatus for carrying out 204169 2000 

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Patent Holder Patent Name Patent No Date Income Sandip Ghosh nondestructive India B. M. Arora measurement of Electroreflectance and Surface Photovoltage spectroscopies on a semiconductor sample in soft contact mode 2. Sandip Ghosh Polarization-sensitive photo- DE10228311B4 2002  H.T. Grahn detector device and method Germany for detecting the polarization 3. A. K. Sood, Carbon Nanotube Flow 466/MAS/2001, 2001  Shankar Ghosh Sensor and Energy US Patent No:6,718,834 Conversion Device 4. A. K. Sood, Gas Flow Sensor and Electric Flow86/MAS/2003, 2003  Shankar Ghosh Energy Generation From Gas PCT/ IN03/00281 India 5. A. Bhattacharya A liquid phase epitaxy 195956 2002  (held by DAE) process for manufacturing India separately confined heterostructure devices 6. A. Bhattacharya Group III semiconducting PCT Application 2013  (held by DAE) material and method of WO/2013/157014/A1 manufacturing the same

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

Faculty Member Project Name Company Name Duration Income A. III-V semiconductor growth Applied Materials 2010- USD 1. Bhattacharya on novel substrates Inc. 2015 27,000/- A. III-N epitaxial growth DeCore 2010 INR 2. Bhattacharya Nanosemi- 6,00,000/- conductors Ltd.

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

National Faculty member Place visited Date 1. R. Vijayaraghavan Quantum Information Processing and Applications, 12/2015 HRI. 2. A. Bhattacharya 3rd International Symposium on Semiconductor 02/2015 Materials and Devices, ISSMD-3, Chennai, India. 3. K. Maiti CTCMP – 2015, A cluster of topical meetings on 02/2015 current trends in Condensed Matter Physics, NISER Bhubaneswar. 4. M. Deshmukh Nanodays, S.N. Bose Center, Kolkata. 02/2015 5. P. Ayyub International Conference on Nanoscience and 02/2015 Nanotechnology (ICONN 2015), SRM University, Chennai. 6. P. Ayyub NANODAYS 2015, S N Bose National Centre for Basic 02/2015 Science, Kolkata. 7. A. Bhattacharya National Conference on Advanced Research Trends in 01/2015 Sciences (NCARTS-2015), G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, India . 8. P. Ayyub India-Japan Workshop on Magnetism at the 01/2015 Nanoscale, NISER, Bhubaneswar. 9. P. Ayyub Nano India 2013, SASTRA University Thanjavur . 01/2015 10. A. Bhattacharya 2nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging 12/2014 Electronics, ICEE 2014, Bengaluru, India. 11. M. Deshmukh Indo-US meeting, MRC IISc Bengaluru. 12/2014 12. M. Deshmukh ICMEMSS, IIT Madras. 12/2014 13. S. S. Prabhu Photonics 2014, IIT-Kharagpur. 12/2014 14. Shankar Ghosh STATPHYSKOLKATAVIII, S N Bose Kolkata. 12/2014 15. A. Venugopal QANSAS2014, Agra . 11/2014

16. K. Maiti DPS Day, IISER-Kolkata. 11/2014 17. M. Deshmukh Indo- Japan meeting, JNCASR Bengaluru. 11/2014 18. R. Vijayaraghavan ANURAG-DRDO, Hyderabad. 11/2014 19. R. Vijayaraghavan Seminar on “Bringing the Nanoworld Together”; 11/2014 Oxford Instruments, Delhi. 20. S. Bhattacharya International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, New 11/2014 Delhi. 21. P. Ayyub Tenth Conference on Chemistry of Materials, JNCASR. 10/2014

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Faculty member Place visited Date 22. R. Vijayaraghavan Discussion Meeting on Quantum Measurement, IISc, 10/2014 Bengaluru. 23. S. S. Prabhu UFS2014, Manipal, Mangalore. 10/2014 24. A. Bhattacharya X’Radiate 2014: Workshop on X-ray diffraction 09/2014 techniques, Saurashtra University, Rajkot, India. 25. E. V. International conference on magnetic materials and 09/2014 Sampathkumaran applications – 2014; Pondicherry University. 26. S. S. Prabhu ICOPVS2014, Trivandrum. 07/2014 27. A. Venugopal RAOS Conference, Hyderabad, India. 04/2014

28. M. Deshmukh CEFIPRA Indo-French meeting, IISc Bengaluru 03/2014 29. P. Ayyub 6th International Conference on Nano Science and 03/2014 Technology (ICONSAT 2014), Chandigarh . 30. P. Ayyub Size Effects in Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Systems; 03/2014 DRDO- IITM Symposium on Advances in Ferro & piezoelectrics (SAFE- 2014)” IIT Madras. 31. S. S. Prabhu National Symposium on Applied Spectroscopyin 03/2014 Science and Technology (NSASST), SRTM University, Nanded. 32. A K. Grover PCMCE 14, SN Bose, Kolkata . 02/2014 33. A. Venugopal National Laser Symposium (NLS), Manipal. 01/2014

34. A. Venugopal Regional Conference on Radio Science (RCRS2013) 01/2014 Pune. 35. A.K. Grover Workshop on Soft Matter: Self Assembly and 01/2014 Dynamics, University of Hyderabad. 36. K. Maiti International Conference on Recent Advance in Physics 01/2014 for Interdisciplinary Developments (RAPID 2014), Satyabhama University ,Chennai. 37. M. Deshmukh GATI – Indo-UK seminar, Kolkata, 01/2014 38. P. Ayyub Asia Sweden meeting on understanding functional 01/2014 materials from lattice dynamics (ASMFLD) 2014, IIT Guwahati. 39. A. Bhattacharya National Workshop on III-Nitride Materials and 12/2013 Devices, SSPL Delhi, India. 40. A. Venugopal International Union of Materials Research Society 12/2013 (IUMRS), Bengaluru. 41. A. Venugopal International Conference on Microwave and Photonics 12/2013 (ICMAP2013), Dhanbad. 42. M. Deshmukh IUMRS conference, Bengaluru. 12/2013

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Faculty member Place visited Date 43. P. Ayyub Asia- Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) 12/2013 Conference on Novel Oxide Materials and Low Dimensional Systems, IISc Bengaluru. 44. P. Ayyub 58thDAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2013, Panjab 12/2013 University, Patiala. 45. P. Raychaudhuri International Union of Materials Research Society - ICA 12/2013 2013, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. 46. P. Ayyub Nanoscale Excitation in Emergent Materials (NEEM 11/2013 2013), Ahmedabad. 47. A. Bhattacharya International Conference on Thin Films and 09/2013 Applications, ICTFA-2013, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India. 48. A.K. Nigam Annual Conference on Frontiers in Physics, University 09/2013 of Hyderabad. 49. A. Bhattacharya Workshop on X-ray diffraction techniques, Crystal 08/2013 Growth Centre, Anna University, Chennai, India . 50. A. Venugopal Metamaterials and Photonic Nanostructures, IIT, 08/2013 Kanpur. 51. K. Maiti Interaction meeting on Photoelectron Spectroscopy, CAT 08/2013 Indore 52. P. Ayyub Nanotechnology and Advanced Functional Materials 07/2013 (NTAFM-2013), NCL Pune. 53. A. Bhattacharya National Workshop on N itride Semiconductors, I IT- 04/2013 Delhi, Delhi, India. 54. R. Vijayaraghavan National Seminar on Frontiers of Condensed 04/2013 Matter Physics, Delhi University. 55. P. Ayyub International Symposium on the 03/2013 Science of Clusters, Nanoparticles and Nanoscale- Materials, Central University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 56. A. Venugopal 1st National Seminar on Standardization for 02/2013 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, CSIR-NPL, New Delhi. 57. A.K. Nigam Indo-Singapore Symposium on Physics of Advanced 02/2013 Materials, IIT, Kharagpur. 58. M. Deshmukh 1st National Seminar on standardization for 02/2013 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi . 59. P. Ayyub Nano India 2013, NIIST Thiruvananthapuram 02/2013 60. P. Ayyub 6th India-Singapore Joint Physics Symposium (ISJPS - 02/2013 2013) IIT Kharagpur.

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Faculty member Place visited Date 61. S. Ramakrishnan Condensed Matter Workshop, IISER, Pune. 02/2013

62. A. Venugopal 37th Optical Symposium of India, Pondicherry 01/2013 University, Pondicherry. 63. A. Venugopal One Day workshop on Nano-Photonics and Meta- 01/2013 Materials, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. 64. K. Maiti National Workshop on electron Dynamics 01/2013 in Magnetic Materials (EDMM-2013), DRDO complex, Chandipur, Odisha. 65. K. Maiti Electronic structure approaches to Atoms, 01/2013 Molecules, Clusters and Solid, ACRHEM, Central University, Hyderabad. 66. P. Ayyub Workshop on Nanomaterials and their Applications, 01/2013 G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. 67. S. S. Prabhu 37th Optical Symposium of India, Pondicherry 01/2013 University, Pondicherry. nd 68. Sandip Ghosh 2 Internat. Symp. on Semiconductors Materials and 01/2013 Devices (ISSMD-2), University of Jammu, Jammu. 69. A. Venugopal QANSAS 2011, Agra, India. 12/2012

70. E. V. Recent Trends in Materials Research, NIT, Trichy. 12/2012 Sampathkumaran 71. M. Deshmukh (Chandrasekhar Lecture 2012); Discussion Meeting 12/2012 (organized by IISc and ICTS). 72. M. Deshmukh 57th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, IIT Bombay. 12/2012 73. S. K. Dhar Convergence-2012, Recent trends in Materials 12/2012 esearch, NIIT, Tiruchirappali, Tamil Nadu. 74. Sandip Ghosh Internat. Conf. on Computers and Devices for 12/2012 communication (CODEC 2012). 75. M. Deshmukh Indo-Taiwan Workshop on Nano-devices, JNCASR, 11/2012 Bengaluru. 76. E. V. 4th International Conference on Advanced 10/2012 Sampathkumaran Nanomaterials, IIT Chennai. 77. E. V. Indo-Japan Conference on New Functionalities in 10/2012 Sampathkumaran electronic and magnetic materials, IISc., Bengaluru. 78. K. Maiti Indo-Japan Conference on New functionalities in 10/2012 electronic and magnetic materials, Indian Institute of Science. 79. P. Ayyub National Conference on Sustainable development 09/2012 through Innovative Research, Jadavpur University 80. S. Bhattacharya Milestone Plaque Event honoring the first millimeter 09/2012 wave propagation experiment, Presidency University,

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Faculty member Place visited Date Kolkata. 81. S. Ramakrishnan International Conference on Special Topics of 09/2012 Condensed Matter, University of Goettingen, Germany. 82. S. Ramakrishnan Special symposium on strongly correlated systems, 09/2012 University of Bayreuth, Germany. 83. S. Ramakrishnan University of Goettingen, Germany, 08/2012 (Alexander von Humboldt Award). 84. P. Ayyub National Symposium for Materials Research Scholars 05/2012 (MR-12), IIT Bombay. 85. K. Maiti Athena 2012, S.N. Bose Center for Basic Sciences, 04/2012 Kolkata. 86. A. Venugopal Indo-French Workshop on Modern Organic Nonlinear 03/2012 Optics: A multidisciplinary approach from fundamentals to applications, IISc, Bengaluru. 87. A.K. Nigam National Symposium for Materials Research 03/2012 Scholars, IIT Bombay. 88. S. Ramakrishnan International DAE-BRNS-Theme Meeting on Neutron 03/2012 Scattering Science and Applications, BARC, India. 89. P. Ayyub National Symposium on Advances in Materials Science 02/2012 and Technology (AMST-2012), Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. 90. S. Bhattacharya J.A. Krumhansl Symposium 2012, NCBS, Bengaluru. 02/2012 91. E. V. Contemporary Issues in Condensed Matter Science, 01/2012 Sampathkumaran IISc, Bengaluru. 92. P. Ayyub International Conference on Nanoscience and 01/2012 Technology (ICONSAT 2012), Hyderabad. 93. A. Bhattacharya International Union of Materials Research Society, 12/2011 International Conference in Asia - 2013 (IUMRS-ICA 2013), Bengaluru, India. 94. A. Venugopal DAE Solid State Physics symposium, SRM University, 12/2011 Kattankulathur, India. 95. E. V. International conference on Magnetism: Practice and 12/2011 Sampathkumaran theory, Coorg. 96. K. Maiti ICTS condensed matter physics conference, IISc, 12/2011 Bengaluru. 97. S. Ramakrishnan ICTS International workshop on strongly correlated 12/2011 systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bangaluru. 98. S. Ramakrishnan Annual DAE Solid State Physics Conference, SRM 12/2011 University, Chennai. 99. K. Maiti 3rd IACSAPCTP Conference on Physics of Novel and 11/2011

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Faculty member Place visited Date Emerging Materials, IACS Kolkata. 100. P. Ayyub International Conference on Nanoscience 11/2011 Engineering & Technology (ICONSET -2011), Sathyabhama University, Chennai 101. K. Maiti 5th Indo-Israeli meeting on Condensed Matter, 10/2011 Kochin. 102. A. Venugopal National Conference, Terna Engineering College, 09/2011 Nerul. 103. A. Bhattacharya UGC National Seminar on Recent Advances in 08/2011 Applications of Spectroscopy, Department of Chemistry, Fatima College, Madurai. 104. A. Venugopal HCU-TIFR Discussion Meeting on Modern Optics, 08/2011 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. 105. A. Venugopal Brain Storming Session on Plasmonics and 07/2011 Applications, NPL, Delhi. 106. P. Ayyub India-DESY Collaboration Meeting, JNCASR Bengaluru. 07/2011 107. A. Venugopal International Conference on Functional Materials, HRI, 04/2011 Allahabad. 108. A. Venugopal School on Functional Materials, HRI, 04/2011 Allahabad. 109. K. Maiti National Workshop in Advanced Material and 04/2011 Technology, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Sikhsha O Onusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. 110. A. Bhattacharya 6th International Conference on NanoScience and 03/2011 Technology, ICONSAT 2014, Chandigarh, India. 111. K. Maiti National Seminar on Recent trends in Condensed 03/2011 Matter Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Banaras. 112. A.K. Grover ICACNM-2011, Panjab University, Chandigarh. 02/2011 113. M. Deshmukh Raman Memorial Conference, University of Pune. 02/2011 114. P. Ayyub India-Australia (IISc-DBT-UNSW-UQ) Research 02/2011 Workshop, IISc Bengaluru. 115. P. Ayyub Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference, IIT 02/2011 Delhi. 116. Sandip Ghosh Winter School on Semiconductor Fabrication and 02/2011 Characterization, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. 117. A. Bhattacharya Intl. Symposium on Semiconductor Materials and 01/2011 Devices, ISSMD-2011, , Baroda, India. 118. A. Bhattacharya Intl. Workshop on Wide Bandgap Semiconductor 01/2011 Nanostructures, Chennai, India. 119. M. Deshmukh IISMD (International Symposium on Semiconductor 01/2011

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Faculty member Place visited Date Materials and Devices), Vadodara. 120. P. Ayyub 5th DST Advanced School on Nanoscience & 01/2011 Nanotechnology, IISc Bengaluru. 121. Sandip Ghosh International Symposium on Semiconductor Materials 01/2011 and Devices ISSMD-2011, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda., Vadodara.

International Faculty member Place visited Date 1. S. S Prabhu CiDi, Dong-Eui University, Busan, South Korea. 02/2015 2. M. Deshmukh 6th Indo-Israeli meeting, Jerusalem, Israel. 12/2014 3. R. Vijayaraghavan Indo-Israel Condensed Matter Meeting. 12/2014 4. R. Vijayaraghavan Hebrew University of Jerusalem Quantum Optics Discussion 12/2014 Meeting. 5. M. Deshmukh TWAS Annual meeting, Oman. 10/2014 6. M. Deshmukh Recent Progress in Graphene Research, Taipei. 09/2014 7. A. Venugopal PIERS 2014, Guangzhou, China. 08/2014 8. M. Deshmukh Gordon Research Conference, Nanostructure 07/2014 Fabrication, Biddeford, Maine USA. 9. P. Ayyub TIFR-Weizmann Interaction Meeting, Weizmann Institute 06/2014 of Science, Israel. 10. A. Venugopal Russian Quantum Center, Moscow . 05/2014 11. K. Maiti CNR, Trieste, Italy. 05/2014 12. K. Maiti University of Goettingen, Germany. 04/2014 13. K. Maiti University of Clausthal, Germany. 04/2014 14. A. Bhattacharya IEEE Annual Mini-symposium on Electron Devices and 03/2014 Photonics, Notre Dame University. 15. M. Deshmukh Indo- Japan Meeting, Tokyo. 03/2014 16. P. Raychaudhuri International Workshop on Strongly Disordered 02/2014 Superconductors and Superconductor- Insulator Transition, 2014, French Alps. 17. S. K. Dhar 7th India-Singapore Symposium on Experimental 02/2014 Condensed Matter Physics,IIT Bombay. 18. S. K. Dhar 7th India-Singapore Symposium on Experimental 02/2014 Condensed Matter Physics, IIT Bombay. 19. A. Venugopal University of Padova, Padova, Italy. 09/2013

20. A. Venugopal Italian National Agency for New Technologies (ENEA), 09/2013 Frascati, Italy.

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Faculty member Place visited Date 21. P. L. Paulose International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron 08/2013 Systems (SCES 2013), Tokyo, Japan. 22. A. Venugopal visited SCNU, China and Nanjing University, China . 11/2012 23. P. Raychaudhuri MTI Nonconventional Insulators Workshop, 2012, 11/2012 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne USA.

24. A. Venugopal Eleventh International Conference on Nanostructured 08/2012 Materials (NANO-2012) Rhodes Island, Greece. 25. P. Raychaudhuri Phase Separation and Superstripes in High Temperature 07/2012 Superconductors and Related Materials, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy. 26. K. Maiti University of Goettingen, Goettingen Germany. 06/2012 27. S. Bhattacharya University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania and 01/2012 New York University. 28. A. Venugopal CUNY, UNT and NEU in US. 10/2011 29. M. Deshmukh Indo-Brazil meeting, Iguassu Falls, Brazil. 08/2011 30. S. Bhattacharya Inaugural Abdus Salam-Homi Bhabha Lecture, University 05/2011 of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory 31. M. Deshmukh APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX, USA. 03/2011 32. S. Bhattacharya Quantum and nanoscale matter: A Symposium in honor of 03/2011 John Ketterson, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 33. E.V. Indo-Japan Meeting on Electronic structure of novel 02/2011 Sampathkumaran magnetic and superconducting materials, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 34. K. Maiti The 4th Indo-Japan Seminar on Electronic Structure of 02/2011 Novel Magnetic and Superconducting Materials, University of Tokyo, Japan. 35. M. Deshmukh EPQHS4, Beijing. 01/2011 36. K. Maiti University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 03/2003, 11/2005 37. K. Maiti University of Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA. 03/2011

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26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees :

Term Role in the of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 1. S. Ramakrishnan Scientific Advisory Board, IUC Indore Member 2015 - A. Bhattacharya Program Committee: International Member 2014- 2. Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor 16 Devices P. Ayyub Council of the Natl. Mission on NanoSc. & Member 2014 - 3. Tech. E.V. Sectional Committee for Physics, IAS Convener 2013- 4. Sampathkumaran 15 S. Bhattacharya Governing Council, Presidency Univ., Member 2013- 5. Kolkata 14 6. A. Bhattacharya Board of Studies, IISST-Trivandrum Member 2013 - 7. S. Bhattacharya Governing Council, IIEST, Shibpur, Bengal Member 2013 - S. Bhattacharya Governing Council, IIT-Bombay Member 2012- 8. 15 E.V. Sectional Committee for Physics, INSA Member 2012- 9. Sampathkumaran 14 E.V. Management Board, TCIS, Hyderabad Member 2012 - 10. Sampathkumaran E.V. Governing Council, NPL, Delhi Member 2012 11. Sampathkumaran Board of Studies, Mumbai University Member 2011- 12. A. Bhattacharya 16

A. Bhattacharya Planning and Programming Committee , Member 2011 - 13. Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai E.V. Council, CAT Indore Member 2010- 14. Sampathkumaran 13 E.V. Governing Council of IACS, Kolkata Member 2010- 15. Sampathkumaran 11 16. S. Ramakrishnan Academic Council of HBNI, DAE Member 2010 -

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Term Role in the of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service S. Bhattacharya IIT-Council, MHRD Member 2009- 17. 12 P. Ayyub Nanoscience Advisory Group, DST Member 2007- 18. 14 A.K. Nigam Program Advisory Committee, Condensed Member 2008- 19. matter and materials science, DST 15

(b) International Committees :

Role in the Term of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 1. A. Venugopal Organizing Committee of International Member 2015 Conference on Microwave & Photonics Confluence (Equinox) 2. A. Venugopal Technical Organizing Committee of Member 2014 International Conference on Engineering 3. S. Ramakrishnan IUPAP Commission on Low Temperature Member 2012-15 Physics (C5) 4. S. Ramakrishnan IUPAP Commission on Low Temperature Vice-Chair 2015-- Physics (C5) 5. S. Ramakrishnan International conferences on Low Member 2014,17 Temperature physics, LT27 (2014), LT28 (2017) 6. S. Ramakrishnan International Organizing Committee, SCES- Member 2014,16 2014, SCES-2016 7. S. Ramakrishnan High Magnetic fields Member 2015 8. P. Ayyub Advisory Committee of the International Member 2012, Conference on Nano Science & Technology 2014, (ICONSAT) 2016 9. E.V. International Organizing Committee, Member 2011 Sampathkumaran SCES2011 10. A. Bhattacharya 1. Program Committee: International Conf. Member 2010-- on Metalorganic Vapour Phase Epitaxy 2. Academic Committee of International Member 2015 Physics Olympiad

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Role in the Term of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 11. S. Bhattacharya Technology Advisory Council, BP (British Member 2008-15 Petroleum)

Impact Term of Faculty Member Name of the Journal Factor Service 1. Sabyasachi Reports on Progress in Physics (IOPP, 17.06 2010- Bhattacharya UK) 2. E.V. Sampathkumaran Solid State Communications 1.897 2005-- Scientific Reports (Nature Group) 5.58 2015-- J. Magn. Magn. Mater 1.970 2015-- 3. Sudesh K. Dhar J. Physics: Condensed Matter (IOPP) 2.346 2011-- 4. Mandar Deshmukh Scientific Reports (Nature Group) 5.58 2014-- 5. Achanta Venugopal 1. Scientific Reports (Nature Group) 5.58 2014-- 2. Frontiers in Optics and Photonics 2014-- 6. Arnab Bhattacharya Journal of Crystal Growth 1.70 2010-- 7. A.K. Nigam Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic 1.97 2010-12 Materials

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

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28. Student projects

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

ALL (100%) TIFR students are required to do two Departmental Projects, viz. Departmental Project I and Departmental Project II (see Item 8 above).

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

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

Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. K. Maiti Fellow, Indian National Science Academy 2016 2. K. Maiti J.C. Bose Fellowship 2015 3. P. Ayyub Fellow, Indian National Science Academy 2015 4. P. Raychaudhuri Fellow, Indian Academy of Science 2015 5. M. Deshmukh Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2015 6. S. Bhattacharya Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, University of North 2015 Bengal 7. K. Maiti DAE Outstanding Investigator award 2014 8. P. Raychaudhuri Bhatnagar Prize 2014 9. R. Vijayaraghavan Ramanujan Fellowship 2014 10. K. Maiti Fellow, National Academy of Science 2013 11. M. Deshmukh Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2013 12. M. Deshmukh B.M. Birla Science Prize 2012 13. M. Deshmukh IBM Faculty Award 2012 14. K. Maiti Fellow of the National Science Academy of India 2012 15. K. Maiti Bhatnagar Prize 2011 16. K. Maiti Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences 2010 17. A. Bhattacharya Homi Bhabha Award in Science Education 2010

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18. P. Ayyub National Research Award in Nanoscience and Technology 2010 19. A. Bhattacharya Technoshield Award 2009 20. P. Raychaudhuri NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award 2009 21. K. Maiti Rajib Goyal Prize for Young Scientist in Physics 2006 22. K. Maiti B.M. Birla Science Prize in Physics 2006 23. K. Maiti Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2006 24. P. Raychaudhuri INSA Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Medal 2006 25. Shankar Ghosh INSA Medal for Young Scientists 2006 26. K. Maiti Young Achiever’s Award, Department of Atomic Energy 2005 27. P. Ayyub Materials Research Society of India Medal 2004 28. P. Raychaudhuri INSA Medal for Young Scientists 2003 29. K. Maiti Young Physicist Award (First prize), Indian Physical Society 2002 30. K. Maiti Pratyasa Kumar Basu Memorial Award 2002 31. S. Ramakrishnan Fellow of the Indian academy of Sciences 2002 32. S. Ramakrishnan International Bessel award given by Humboldt Foundation 2002 33. S. Bhattacharya Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India 2002 34. Sandip Ghosh INSA Young Scientist Medal 1999 35. K. Maiti Honorary DAAD Advisor for outstanding commitment and 2006-09 leadership in promoting Indo-German relations 36. Shankar Ghosh Associate Member of Indian Academy of Sciences 2005-10 37. P. Ayyub N. S. Satya Murthy Memorial Award 1991 38. S. Ramakrishnan N.S. Satyamurthy award 1990 39. S. Ramakrishnan Alexander Humboldt fellowship award 1987

International Awards/Recognition

Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. S. Ramakrishnan Vice president, IUPAP C5 2014 2. E.V. TWAS Fellow 2013 Sampathkumaran 3. Arnab Bhattacharya Chevening Rolls-Royce Fellowship for Science and 2012 Innovation Leadership 4. S. Ramakrishnan Humboldt foundation follow up Bessel Award 2012 5. S. Ramakrishnan Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award 2010 6. S. Bhattacharya Inaugural Abdus Salam-Homi Bhabha Lectureship, 2008 University of Cambridge, U.K. 7. S. Bhattacharya Homi Bhabha Lectureship Award, Institute of Physics 2008

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(U.K.) and Indian Physics Association 8. S. Bhattacharya Elected International Councilor, Governing Council, 2007 American Physical Society 9. S. Bhattacharya Elected Fellow, American Physical Society 1989

 Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others: National Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. P. V. Shivaprasad Ramanujan Fellowship 2013 International Awards : None in the period 2011- 2015

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any. Funding Faculty Dates Name Agency members 1. Apr 25-26, 2013 DCMPMS Annual Meeting 2013 TIFR All 2. Apr 19-20, 2012 DCMPMS Annual Meeting 2012 TIFR All 3. Apr 13-15, 2011 DCMPMS Annual Meeting 2011 TIFR All 4. Jun 24 - Jul 3, School on Plasmonics and ICTS Discussion ICTS-TIFR A.Venugopal 2012 Meeting on Emerging Themes in and S. S. Plasmonics TCIS, Hyderabad Prabhu 5. Apr 13, 2011 Superconductivity @100: Current TIFR All Research Issues TIFR 6. Oct 8-10, 2014 Forum on Nanoelectronic Manufacturing: IBM, Tokyo Mandar From Materials to Systems TIFR Electron, Deshmukh Applied Materials 7. Feb 3-4, 2013 Indian Laser Association (ILA) course on Indian Laser A.Venugopal Photonics TIFR, Mumbai Association 8. Jan 7-9, 2016 International Workshop on Emergent Office of Mandar Phenomena in Quantum Hall Systems, Naval Deshmukh TIFR Research Global , Penn State University, and TIFR

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31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments See Annexure B2-B for a detailed document which is applicable across TIFR Departments and Centres.

32. Student profile programme-wise: Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches. Pass Programme Applications Selected Joined percentage* (c.f. q. no. 4) received # Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 36 4 12 3 92 66 21,370 Int.M.Sc.-Ph.D. 14 2 11 1 82 0 Total 50 6 23 4 100 100 # Applications include numbers for of all 5 Physics departments, viz. DAA, DCMPMS, DHEP, DNAP and DTP. (a) Diversity of students by geography Integrated- Ph.D. Ph.D. M.Sc. Students Male Female Male Female Male Female Total From the state where the 0 0 0 0 — — 0 university is located From other states of India 12 2 11 1 — — 26 NRI students — — — — — — 0 Foreign Students — — — — — — 0 Total 12 2 11 1 0 0 26 (b) by undergraduate institution Integrated Ph.D. M.Sc.-Ph.D. M.Sc. Students Male Female Male Female Male Female Total From Universities 2 1 9 1 — — 13 From premier science institutions — — — — — — — † From premier professional 10 1 1 — — — 12 institutions # From others* 0 0 1 — — — 1 Total 12 2 11 1 — — 26

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

33. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise. Examination No of students 1. NET 12 2. GATE 11 3. JEST 10 4. Other 2

34. Student progression  Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DCMPMS go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry.

 Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DCMPMS go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc.’s and Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry.

35. Diversity of staff

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s from TIFR : 9 from other institutions in India : 4 from institutions Abroad: 4 Total : 17

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36. Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the assessment period The minimum eligibility criteria for selection as a member of the TIFR faculty is a Ph.D. degree. Thus, this question is not relevant.

37. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library DCMPMS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (see Section B2, Item no 4.2)

b) Internet facilities for staff and students DCMPMS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Computer Centre and Communication Facility (see Section B2, Item no 4.3)

c) Total number of class rooms

DCMPMS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video-conferencing possibilities are also available in most of the lecture rooms.

e) Students’ laboratories

 For the compulsory Experimental Physics courses and for all the Projects, students have access to the well-equipped laboratories of DCMPMS (see Item f) below)

 In addition students of both Ph.D. and Integrated-Ph.D. have one Teaching

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Laboratory which has specific experimental setups which are used during the coursework period.

f) Research laboratories Name of Laboratory Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Brief description of research activity 1. X -Ray Diffraction 12 10 18 Structural characterization of solids using single crystal & powder diffractometer 2. Electron Microscopy 10 08 15 Microstructural & elemental characterization of solids using scanning & transmission electron microscopes 3. Magnetization 09 08 16 Study of magnetic properties of solids using measurement SQUID & vibrating sample magnetometers 4. Electron 03 02 03 Study of electronic structure as a function Spectroscopy of energy, momentum, spin & symmetry 5. Superconductivity 03 03 04 Magnetic, transport & low temperature scanning tunneling microscope to study interaction & disorder effects 6. Semiconductor 03 02 04 Growth & optical spectroscopy of semi- optoelectronics conductor quantum structures (quantum wells, wires and and dots) 7. Quantum Measure- 01 02 03 Superconducting Quantum circuits, ment & Control Quantum Computing & measurement 8. Crystal Growth 06 03 06 Growth of single crystals by: Czochralski, Bridgman, vapour transport, solution growth 9. Micro / Nano 06 04 07 Available instrumentation: optical & Fabrication electron beam lithography, atomic layer deposition, thermal & electron beamdeposition, plasma etching, etc. 10. Ultra -low 01 01 03 Study of matter at micro-Kelvin temperature temperatures * no of faculty members using the laboratory † no of postdoctoral fellows using the laboratory ‡ no of graduate students using the laboratory

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38. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows 1. Nihit Saigal 1. Tanmoy Chakrabarty 2. Arvind Maurya 2. Chi Nageswara Rao 3. Om Prakash 3. Madhavi Chand 4. Subhrangsu Sarkar 4. Pramita Mishra 5. Khadiza Ali 5. Somnath Karmakar 6. Somesh Chandra Ganguli 6. Dilip Misra 7. Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada 7. Harkirat Singh 8. John Philip Mathew 8. Sanjay Kumar Upadhyay 9. Carina B. Maliakkal 9. Megha Vagadia 10. Sameer Grover 10. Arvind Yogi 11. Ajith Padyana Ravishankar 11. Md. Matin 12. Tanay Roy 12. Nikhil Kumar 13. Rini Ganguly 13. Rajib Nath 14. Suman Kundu 14. Chandni U 15. Emroj Hussain 16. Biswajit Datta JRFs 17. Sumeru Hazra 1. A P Merin 18. Banoj Kumar Nayak 2. Tanusree Saha 19. Indranil Roy Pandeya 3. Aman R. Agrawal 20. Ram Prakash 4. Apoorv Jindal 21. Supriya Mandal 22. Vishwas Jindal 23. Harsh Jain 24. Arindam Pramanik 25. Soumen Das

39. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the university. ALL the students of DCMP&MS (13) are in doctoral programmes, and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships.

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40. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology. DCMPMS, and TIFR as a whole, has been training students for Ph.D. since its inception in 1945. During the 1990’s, a need was felt for a special programme to allow exceptionally bright students an early entry into research, i.e. directly after their B.Sc.’s. This was felt on the basis of the Institute’s well-established VSRP programme (see Item 48 below), where it was seen that many of the best students were already prepared for graduate school, even though they were only half-way through their M.Sc. programmes. It was therefore, decided to admit some exceptionally bright B.Sc. students directly to the Ph.D. programme, teach them the basic M.Sc. courses in a period of one year, and then permit them to do advanced electives and project work similar to M.Sc.’s. Based on the success of this move, the Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme, was formally started in 2012.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

42. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10) Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. Subhendu Guha Chairman, United Solar Ovonic, Bright Light Award from U.S. DOE 2. Arun K. Grover Currently Vice Chancellor of Punjab University 3. Sabyasachi Director TIFR (2002-07), J C Bose Distinguished University Bhattacharya Professorship, Presidency University, Kolkata 2014; Inaugural Abdus Salam-Homi Bhabha Lecturer, University of Cambridge,2011; Homi Bhabha Lectureship, Institute of Physics, UK, 2011 4. Ramanuja Distinguished Professor and Dean (Physics Faculty, TIFR). Vijayaraghavan Pioneered research in areas of metal physics, and magnetic resonance in biophysical systems. Winner of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (1976), UGC Raman Award in Physical Sciences (1983). Fellow of several science academies. Twice elected as a member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics commission on magnetism. 5. S.S. Dharmatti After having worked with Prof. Felix Bloch (who had discovered NMR) at Stanford, he joined TIFR in 1953 and pioneered research on several areas of solid state NMR 6. B.V. Thosar Pioneering work on positron annihilation spectroscopy and Mossbauer spectroscopy

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

As Item No 30 shows, the DCMPMS regularly conducts conferences etc. which are attended by all the doctoral students, and these provide the required introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research. In addition, TIFR has a vibrant programme of seminars, colloquiua and public lectures which the students are encouraged to attend and absorb as much information as they can.

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

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The DCMPMS generally adopts the conventional blackboard teaching methods. Often slides are shown to illustrate experimental or numerical facts. For project work, students are required to work hands-on in a laboratory.

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

The DCMPMS Chairperson and another member of the DCMPMS faculty are members of the Subject Board of Physics, which constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

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

DCMPMS faculty, postdocs and students regularly participate in the Outreach Activities of TIFR (see Appendix ?)

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

The DCMPMS conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis.

 DCMPMS Seminar  NSF Colloquium  VSRP Programme

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

The doctoral programmes in the DCMPMS are conducted under the TIFR University, which was recognized as a Deemed University by UGC in 2002.

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

This department has made fundamental contributions in several important aspects of condensed matter physics, certain specific and significant instances are provided below.

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 In the early 1950s, Prof. S.S. Dharmatti first introduced the concept of “chemical shift” in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This pioneering work opened up the field of NMR in organic chemistry.

 In the area of magnetism, a variety of exotic magnetic phenomena have been observed in rare earth-based intermetallic solids, involving Kondo insulators, charge density waves, heavy fermions, mixed valence and giant magnetoresistance.

 Superconductivity was discovered (in the mid-90s) by our researchers in a new family of intermetallic alloys known as Borocarbides, leading to a spurt of research in this field. More recently, studies of the effect of grain size and disorder on superconductivity have led to a clearer understanding of the underlying mechanism.

 Research on nanostructured materials was initiated here as early as 1980 and led to important observations regarding size-structure-property correlations.

 Work on organic semiconductors has resulted in electroluminescent light emitting devices. Strained quantum well diode lasers have been fabricated to operate at 0.98mm and 1.55mm wavelengths.

 Recently initiated activities in exciting new areas such as Nano- electromechanical systems, Nanophotonic materials and soft matter have already produced several novel results published in high impact journals.

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

 A very wide area of experimental condensed matter physics is covered  Members have been able to continually enter frontier areas of research, building on the available expertise and infrastructure  Availability of state of the art instruments and infrastructure  Frequent intra-department as well as inter-department collaboration between researchers, leading to higher quality of research output  A healthy age profile due to a steady level of high quality inductions over

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the past 15 years, more than 50% of current members having joined during this period

Weaknesses

 Acute shortage of manpower at the Ph.D. student and Post doctoral Fellow levels

 General academic level of the Post doctoral Fellow needs to improve  Shortage of both laboratory and office space at the TIFR Colaba Campus  Urgent need to augment both student and PDF/visitor housing on and off campus

 Need to augment the theoretical condensed matter activity within TIFR Opportunities

 We should engage more with industry (both within and outside India) and encourage sponsored research programs of mutual interest. Challenges

 Need to attract at least five young researchers with expertise in emerging areas of solid state science during the next five years

 Develop a more vibrant visitors’ program at both the pre- and post-doc levels

51. Future plans of the department

We envisage building up our strengths in some recently developed areas and open up new directions of research in the near future. Our current research involves studying complex phenomena in a range of systems − colloidal systems, porous media and surfactant systems – using experimental probes like micro-rheology and several optical techniques such as optical tweezers, advanced video-microscopy, and dynamic light scattering. This area is witnessing rapid growth by bringing traditional disciplines such as chemical or mechanical engineering and chemistry into its fold. We would like to explore fields such as nature inspired locomotion, microfluidics, smart materials etc. with the aim to uncover basic physics related to

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hydrodynamics, both linear and nonlinear, and statistical mechanics, in situations - that are far removed from equilibrium.

Our studies on quantum condensed matter encompasses a wide variety of phenomena starting from superconductivity and magnetism to more esoteric areas such as heavy fermions, quantum phase transitions and topological phases. Our department has a rich history in the physics of correlated electron systems and we expect that this will remain our strong focus of research. We look to strengthen this area by recruiting outstanding candidates with newer expertise, such as in local measurements of electronic states to visualize novel quantum states of matter using optical probes, scanning probe microscopy etc. We also anticipate enhancing our work in the quantum information processing and devices area by looking at complementary approaches such as engineered defects in diamond (NV centers), combining quantum optics with magnetic resonance, allowing high- fidelity quantum sensing and metrology. Our capabilities for nanofabrication should allow us to attract researchers working on designer materials such hyperbolic metamaterials that allow unprecedented manipulation of the near-field of a light emitter, the study of surface plasmon polaritons and other nanoscale light-matter interactions.

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Department of High Energy Physics

1. Name of the Department : Department of High Energy Physics (DHEP)

2. Year of establishment : 1945 TIFR was divided into Research Groups in the period 1945 – 1997. The present Departments were formed on December 12, 1997.

3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? The DHEP is a part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

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

1. Ph.D. 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 3. M. Phil No students are admitted purely for an M.Phil programme. However, sometimes students in the Ph.D. and Integrated Ph.D. programmes are permitted to leave with an M.Phil. degree provided they have successfully completed the Course Work and an M.Phil. dissertation.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved The DHEP does not offer interdisciplinary programmes. However, there is a lot of research collaboration among the Departments, and the graduate school has Instructors drawn from all the five departments in Colaba.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. DHEP has not participated in full courses outside TIFR. However, DHEP members have disseminated information through seminars, colloquiua and discussion meeting held all over the country during the period 2011-15 (see Item 25).

7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons No programmes have been discontinued since the inception of the TIFR University.

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8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System Students of the DHEP are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project Work, on topics of their own choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below.

Duration (years) Basic & Overall Coursework Core Elective Project Total Programme Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 28 16 16 60 Int. M.Sc.-Ph.D. 6 2.5 56 28 16 100 (J) N.B. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. students who join after 4 years B.Sc. or equivalent are required to do only 36 Core Credits, i.e. 80 Credits in total.

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester (August – November) and the Spring Semester (February – May). In addition, there may be courses run during the Winter break (December – January) and Summer break (May – July). Students who are not doing courses during the breaks are encouraged to participate in research projects with faculty members of their choice. In each one-semester semester, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process consisting of 1. Assignments 2. Quizzes 3. Mid-semester Examination 4. End-semester Examination 5. Term paper (optional) All students are required to do 16 Credits of Project work in their allotted Departments as a part of the Coursework. In Departmental Project I (8 Credits), they are required to study a topic of current interest outside of the textbooks and write a report on the state of art in that subject. In Departmental Project II (8 Credits), they are required to do a small original work, preferably (but not compulsorily) in the same area, or review some highly technical work which is known to be very difficult. Both these Projects are evaluated by a Committee of Faculty Members drawn from the different Departments.

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Thus, DHEP faculty are involved in teaching the Level I and II courses in sharing with faculty from other Physics departments, and exclusively involved in teaching all Level III and IV courses in Particle Physics, as well as Experimental Techniques in High Energy Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics and Data Analysis for High Energy Experiments. DHEP students are free to choose Electives in other Departments, even outside Physics, in consultation with the Subject Board of Physics.

10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Dist. Professor (J)  2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 3 3. Professor (H)  6 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 2 5. Reader (F)  2 6. Fellow (E)   7. Fellow (D)  1 Total 14

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

Name Designation Deg* Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ 1. Naba K. Mondal Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. Indian Neutrino 37 2 Observatory 2. Tariq Aziz Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. Collider Physics, B-factory 27 2 3. Sunil K. Gupta Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. ray Astronomy 27 1 4. B.S. Acharya Professor (H) Ph.D. and X-ray Astronomy 29 0 5. C.S. Unnikrishnan Professor(H) Ph.D. Gravitation 22 6 6. Sudeshna Professor (H) Ph.D. Collider Physics, INO 22 1

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Banerjee 7. Kajari Mazumdar Professor (H) Ph.D. Collider Physics 23 3 8. Shashi R. Dugad Professor (H) Ph.D. Collider physics 22 1 Astro. 9. Gobinda Professor (H) Ph.D. Collider Physics, INO 15 3 Majumder 10. Monoranjan Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Collider Physics 11 6 Guchait (G) 11. Gagan B. Mohanty Assoc. Professor Ph.D. Collider Physics, B- 7 7 (G) factories 12. N. Krishnan Reader (F) Ph.D. Gravitation 25 0 13. Varsha R. Chitnis Reader (F) Ph.D. and X-ray Astronomy 5 1 14. Prabhata K. Fellow (D) Ph.D. ray Astronomy 1 0 Mohanty * Highest degree obtained † Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere) ‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)

12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors There were none appointed during the period 2011 – 2015. 13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information DHEP does not employ temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 10 14 0.71 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 10 14 0.71 3. M.Sc. ─ ─ ─ Total 20 14 1.42

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific & Administrative & Total Technical Staff Auxiliary Staff DHEP 45 4 49 PCM 2 8 10 CRL 19 4 23 Total 66 16 82

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16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

 Accelerator Physics, including L3, D0, CMS and Belle Collaborations  Non-accelerator Physics, including INO, GRAPES, HEGRO and LIGO Collaborations

National Funding Duration Tot. Grant Agency Project Title (years) (Rs. lakhs) Faculty member 1. DST WLCG Grid DST Component 5 1465.50 Kajari Mazumdar 2. DST J. C. Bose Fellowship 6 38.60 N.K.Mondal 3. DST Indo-Belgian DST Project 3 8.02 Kajari Mazumdar International : none

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

None

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

Funding Duration Tot.Grant Project Title Faculty Agency (years) (Rs. lakhs) 1. DAE Enhancement Of Regional 7 3679.96 Kajari Mazumdar WLCG Grid 2. DAE Development Of Site 5 3274.00 N.K.Mondal Infrastructure And Prototype For India Based Neutrino Observatory (INO) 3. DAE Study Of New Particles 3 87.97 S. Banerjee With The CMS Detector At The Large Hadron Collider

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4. DAE XII Plan Project – DHEP (3 5 1295 All DHEP members projects) 5. DAE CMS M&O contribution 5 988 All India CMS members 6. DAE SiPM Readout 5 48 S. Dugad 7. DAE CMS-2 5 491 All CMS members from TIFR 8. DAE Fermilab D0 5 11 S. Banerjee 9. DAE SiPM Development 5 97 S. Dugad 10. DAE Study of rare decays and CP 5 217 G. Mohanty violation at the KEK B factory in Japan

20. Research facility / centre with  state recognition :  national recognition :  international recognition : At present, there are none such in the DHEP.

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies At present, there are none such in the DHEP.

22. Publications:

Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books Mono DHEP Publication Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited -graphs s 2010-11 64 27 6 2 3 1  2011-12 40 10 7 4 2 1  2012-13 46 17 3 6   1 2013-14 41 15 5 4 1  2 2014-15 48 15 2 1 1 1  Total 239 84 23 17 2 3 3

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 Books with ISBN with details of publishers : None  Citation Index – Total number of citations: 5,29,350 Number of citations per faculty: 37,811

 h-index : Range 2 – 129

23. Details of patents and income generated

DHEP has none in the period 2011-15.

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

DHEP has none in the period 2011-15.

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

National Visits : Faculty member Place visited Date

1. C.S. Unnikrishnan Discussion Meeting on Quantum Measurements, IISc. 10/2015 Bengaluru.

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2. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Conference on Matters of Gravity and 10/2015 the Universe, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. 3. C.S. Unnikrishnan Current Trends in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 03/2015 University of Delhi. 4. C.S. Unnikrishnan 25th Meeting of the Indian Association for General 03/2015 Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG), Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru. 5. G. Majumder National Symposium on Particles, Detectors and 03/2015 Instrumentation, IICHEP, Madurai. 6. K. Mazumdar Two days workshop on Accelerating International 03/2015 Collaboration in Science Through Connective Computation, University of Chicago Centre, Delhi. 7. V.R. Chitnis National Symposium on Particles, Detectors and 03/2015 Instrumentation, IICHEP Transit Campus, Madurai. 8. G. Majumder Simulation and Computational Techniques, LNMIIT, 01/2015 Jaipur. 9. C.S. Unnikrishnan XIX Congress of the CPFS, New Delhi. 12/2014

10. K. Mazumdar DAE-BRNS symposium on High Energy Physics; IIT 12/2014 Guwahati. 11. M. Guchait DAE-BRNS symposium on High Energy Physics, IIT 12/2014 Guwahati. 12. S. Banerjee XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, 12/2014 Guwahati. 13. B.S. Acharya National Students’ Space Challenge (NSSC-2014), IIT 11/2014 Kharagpur. 14. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Workshop on Futuristic Navigational 06/2014 Sensors & Systems, Research Centre Imarat, DRDO, Hyderabad. 15. B.S. Acharya Workshop on Contemporary Trends in High Energy 03/2014 Physics and Experimentation (WCTHEPE-2014), Panjab University, Chandigarh. 16. S.R. Dugad Workshop on Contemporary Trends in High 03/2014 Energy Physics and Experimentation, Panjab University. 17. V.R. Chitnis 32nd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, 03/2014 IISER, Mohali. 18. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Program on Quantum Information, 02/2014 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. 19. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Program on Quantum Information, Institute 02/2014 of Physics, Bhubaneswar.

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20. C.S. Unnikrishnan 9th Nalanda Dialogue, Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, 01/2014 Nalanda. 21. B.S. Acharya 8th Winter Workshop on Astroparticle Physics (WAPP), 12/2013 Bose Institute, Darjeeling. 22. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Meet on Quantum Correlations and Logic, 12/2013 Language and Set Theory, IIT, Jodhpur. 23. V.R. Chitnis 8th Winter Workshop on Astroparticle Physics (WAPP), 12/2013 Bose Institute, Darjeeling 24. B.S. Acharya National Symposium on VHE Gamma Ray Astronomy, 11/2013 BARC. 25. V.R. Chitnis National Symposium on VHE Gamma Ray Astronomy, 11/2013 BARC. 26. G.B. Mohanty Workshop on Status of Supersymmetry and Dark 10/2013 Matter (SUSY- DM), CHEP, Bengaluru. 27. C.S. Unnikrishnan 9th Field Theoretic Aspects of Gravity (FTAG), IIT 09/2013 Gandhinagar. 28. C.S. Unnikrishnan 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Session 07/2013 Cold Atom Clocks in Space. 29. M. Guchait AD65, IISER, Kolkata. 03/2013 30. G.B. Mohanty Conference on CP Violation in Elementary Particles and 02/2013 Composite Systems (PCPV 2013), Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra. 31. B.S. Acharya DAE-BRNS Workshop on Very High Energy Gamma-ray 01/2013 Astronomy, GOALS(BARC), Mt. Abu. 32. C.S. Unnikrishnan 8th Dialog, Nalanda Dialog Forum, Nalanda Mahavihara. 01/2013 33. G. Majumder XX DAE Symposium, Viswbharati, VisvaBharati, 01/2013 Santiniketan. 34. S. Banerjee XX DAE-BRNS Smposium, Shantiniketan. 01/2013 35. K. Mazumdar Golden Jubilee celebration of Institute of Mathematical 12/2012 Sciences, Chennai. 36. M. Guchait From Strings to LHC III Meeting, Puri. 12/2012 37. T. Aziz Hess Symposium, Kolkata. 09/2012 38. B.S. Acharya Centenary Seminar 2012: Discovery of Cosmic Rays; Dept 08/2012 of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati. 39. G. Majumder Higgs and New Physics at the Energy Frontier, Saha 08/2012 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. 40. G. Majumder Top-Higgs Meeting, Center for High Energy Physics HEP, 08/2012 IISc, Bengaluru. 41. G. Majumder National Meet, INSA, Delhi. 08/2012 42. G.B. Mohanty Top-Higgs Meeting, CHEP, IISc, Bengaluru. 08/2012

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43. K. Mazumdar Symposium on “God Particle Demystified”, B.P. Baria 08/2012 Science Institute, Navsari, Gujarat. 44. K. Mazumdar One-day National Meet on “India at the LHC”, INSA, Delhi. 08/2012

45. M. Guchait Top-Higgs Meeting, Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc, 08/2012 Bengaluru. 46. C.S. Unnikrishnan ASTROD-5 Symposium, Raman Research Institute, 07/2012 Bengaluru. 47. G.B. Mohanty International Workshop on Grid and Cloud Computing 04/2012 (InGrid 2012), IIT Bombay. 48. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Conference on Nature of Physical Reality: 03/2012 The Perennial Debate, IIAS, Shimla. 49. C.S. Unnikrishnan Indo-UK Seminar on Ultra-cold atoms and applications, 03/2012 NISER, Bhubaneswar. 50. G.B. Mohanty National conference on understanding the fundamental 03/2012 interactions, Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. 51. N. K. Mondal Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology 2012, 03/2012 Darjeeling, West Bengal. 52. T. Aziz Workshop on the Frontiers of Nuclear and Particle 03/2012 Physics, AMU, Aligarh, UP. 53. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Workshop on Quantum Information, HRI 02/2012 Allahabad. 54. G.B. Mohanty Asian Forum for Accelerators and Detectors Workshop 02/2012 (AFAD-2012), VECC, Kolkata. 55. N. K. Mondal Seminar on History of Physics, Arambagh College, West 01/2012 Bengal, India. 56. B.S. Acharya Conference on Astro-particle physics and Astrophyics - 12/2011 “Exploring the Cosmos: 100 years of Cosmic ray Phyics”, University of North Bengal, Siliguri. 57. B.S. Acharya 6th Workshop on Astro-Particle Physics (WAPP) 12/2011 Darjeeling. 58. N. K. Mondal Symposium on Amazing particles and Light: IISc, 12/2011 Bengaluru. 59. C.S. Unnikrishnan EGO-IndIGO Indo- Italian meeting on Gravitational 11/2011 Waves, IUCAA. 60. K. Mazumdar Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing 09/2011 Technologies, Dr. Paul's Engineering College, Veluchery, TamilNadu. 61. N. K. Mondal Mini-workshop on theoretical aspects of Neutrino 09/2011 Physics, PRL, Ahmedabad. 62. B.S. Acharya Theme meeting on VHE Gamma Ray Astronomy, GOALS 03/2011

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(BARC), Mt Abu.

63. C.S. Unnikrishnan National workshop on recent trends in theoretical 03/2011 physics, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi 64. G. Majumder Discussion meeting on Physics at early run of the LHC, 03/2011 Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. 65. N. K. Mondal National Conference on Particle Physics & Cosmology, 03/2011 University of Bardhaman, Bardhaman. 66. C.S. Unnikrishnan International conference on Quantum Information 02/2011 Processing and Applications, Allahabad. 67. C.S. Unnikrishnan National conference on ancient and modern astronomy 02/2011 and cosmology, University of Madras, Chennai 68. C.S. Unnikrishnan Workshop on Individuation and dentity, Nava Nalanda 02/2011 Mahavihara, Nalanda. 69. C.S. Unnikrishnan UGC National seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology, 02/2011 North Bengal University, Siliguri. 70. C.S. Unnikrishnan International Conference on 75 Years of Quantum 01/2011 Entanglement, Kolkata. 71. G. Majumder LHC discussion meeting, Viswa-Bharati, Santiniketan. 01/2011 72. G. Majumder Exploring the cosmos: A National Conference on 01/2011 Relativistic Astrophysics and Astroparticle physics, North Bengal University, Siliguri.

International Visits :

Faculty member Place visited Date th 1. B.S. Acharya 13 Annual NNN International workshop on “Next 10/2012 Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN2012), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), USA. 2. B.S. Acharya Workshop on Detection of EAS at High altitudes, APC, 05/2014 France. 3. B.S. Acharya LUTH Observatory de Paris, Meudon, France. 06/2014 4. B.S. Acharya Fermilab, USA. 08/2014 5. B.S. Acharya Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Centre (WIPAC) at 02/2015 the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. 6. T. Aziz KEK , Japan 11/2011 7. S. Banerjee XXIst International Europhysics Conference on High 07/2011

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Energy Physics, Grenoble, France. 8. S. Banerjee 13th Annual NNN International Workshop on “Next 10/2012 Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN2012), FNAL, USA. 9. S. Banerjee European Physics Society Conference on High Energy 07/2013 Physics, Stockholm. 10. S. Banerjee 1st Bangladesh-CERN School on Particle Physics at the 12/2014 High Energy Frontier, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 11. M. Guchait ICTP, Trieste, Italy. 09/2011 12. M. Guchait 20th International Conference on S upersymmetry and 08/2012 Fundamental interactions(SUSY12), Peking University Beijing, China. 13. M. Guchait 21st International conference on Supersymmetry and 08/2013 Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2013), International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 14. G. Majumder EU-IndiaGrid2 meeting, Brussels, Belgium. 02/2012 15. G. Majumder XVI International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, 03/2015 Venice, Italy. 16. K. Mazumdar International Conference on High Energy Physics 07/2012 (ICHEP12), Melbourne, Australia, (on behalf of CMS collaboration). 17. K. Mazumdar Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (HCP), Kyoto, Japan 11/2012 (On behalf of CMS and ATLAS collaborations). 18. K. Mazumdar 37th international Conference on High Energy Physics 06/2014 (ICHEP), Valencia 19. G. B. Mohanty KEK , Tsukuba, Japan 04/2012 20. G. B. Mohanty Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2011), Maale 05/2011 Hachamisha, Israel. 21. G. B. Mohanty 6 Belle Physics Advisory Committee Review Meeting, KEK, 02/2012 Japan. 22. G. B. Mohanty 47th Rencontres de Moriond Electroweak, La Thuile, Italy. 03/2012 23. G. B. Mohanty Flavor Factory Workshop (KEK-FF2013), KEK, Japan, March 03/2013 2013. 24. G. B. Mohanty 61th Belle General Meeting, KEK, Japan. 03/2013

25. G. B. Mohanty Belle Analysis Meeting, KEK, Japan. 01/2013 26. G. B. Mohanty 62nd Belle General Meeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 07/2013 Virginia, USA. th 27. G. B. Mohanty 15 Open Meeting of the Belle II Collaboration, Virginia 07/2013 Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. th 28. G. B. Mohanty 6 International Workshop on Charm 08/2013 Physics(CHARM2013), Manchester, UK,

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29. G. B. Mohanty 8th International Workshop on the Unitarity Triangle 09/2014 (CKM2014), Vienna, Austria. 30. G. B. Mohanty 20th Particles and Nuclei International Conference 08/2014 (PANIC 2014), Hamburg, Germany. 31. G. B. Mohanty 5th Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and 05/2014 Experiments in Flavor Physics (Capri 2014), Capri Island, Italy. 32. V.R. Chitnis CTA Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 05/2012 33. N. K. Mondal ASPERA 2011, Paris. 11/2011 34. C. S. Unnikrishnan The Indian Roadmap for Gravitational-Wave 02/2011 Astronomy: IndIGO - ACIGA meeting on LIGO-Australia. 35. C. S. Unnikrishnan Caltech, Pasadena, USA and LIGO Laboratory, Livingston, 09/2012 USA. 36. C. S. Unnikrishnan University of Glasgow and University of Birmingham, UK. 02/2013 37. C. S. International workshop on anti-mater and gravity 11/2013 Unnikrishnan (WAG2013), Bern, Switzerland. 38. C. S. Indo-UK Seminar on Astronomy with GlobalGravitational 02/2013 Unnikrishnan wave networks, Cardiff University, UK. 39. C. S. Unnikrishnan Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers (LPL) at the University 06/2013 of Paris 13. 40. C. S. Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), Leibniz University of 09/2013 Unnikrishnan Hannover. 41. C. S. GEO600 gravitational wave detector, Hannover, Germany. 09/2013 Unnikrishnan 42. C. S. Microscope Colloquium III, Palaiseau, Paris, France. 11/2015 Unnikrishnan 43. C. S. Unnikrishnan 50th Rencontres de Moriond (Gravitation, 100 years 03/2015 after GR), La Thuile, Italy.

26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees :

Faculty Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Member Committee Service 1. T. Aziz DAE-DST Task Force Member 2007 – 2. S. Banerjee National Symposium on Particle, Detector Co- 2012 and Instrumentation, IICHEP, Madurai, convenor March 2012 3. S. Banerjee XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Member 2014

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Symposium, IIT, Guwahati, Dec 2014 4. S. Banerjee National Symposium on Particle, Detector Co- 2015 and Instrumentation, IICHEP, Madurai, convenor March 2015 5. M. Guchait NOC, “From Strings to LHC III, Dec 8- Member 2012 14,2012 6. M. Guchait NOC, DAE HEP symposium, 2013 Member 2013 7. M. Guchait Workshop in HEP, Dec 12-21,2013 Convener 2013 8. M. Guchait Workshop in HEP, Dec 4-14,2015 Co- 2015 convener 9. G. Majumder Workshop on High Energy Physics Member 1 year Phenomenology, Mahabaleswar, Jan 2012 10. G. Majumder IndGrid 2012 Workshop, IIT, Mumbai, Member 1 year April 2012 11. G. Majumder Higgs and new physics at the energy Member 4 frontier, SINP, Kolkata, Aug 2012 months 12. G. Majumder The second Asia-Europe-Pacific School of Member 1 year High-Energy Physics, Puri, India, Nov 2014 13. G. Majumder XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Member 1 year Symposium, IIT, Guwahati, Dec 2014 14. G. Majumder National Symposium on Particle, Detector Scientific 1 year and Instrumentation, IICHEP, Madurai, Member March 2015 15. G. Majumder SERC School on experimental High Energy Member 5 years Physics, DST (2014-2019) 16. K. Mazumdar Specialist Group-9 for Budget proposals Member 2011 of DAE onwards 17. K. Mazumdar DST-Programme Advisory Committee Member 3 years 2012-15 18. K. Mazumdar International Workshop on Grid and Member 1 year Cloud Computing at IIT, BOMBAY, 2012 19. K. Mazumdar India-CMS collaboration Coordinator 2 + 2 years 20. G.B. Mohanty National advisory committee for the SERC Member 2011- school on experimental high energy 2013 physics 21. N.K. Mondal INO Project Management Board Convenor ongoing 22. N.K. Mondal INO Project Management Board Convenor ongoing

(b) International Committees :

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Impact Term of Faculty Member Name of the Journal Factor Service 1. C.S. Unnikrishnan Frontiers 1.2 Invited

28. Student projects  percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter- departmental projects

ALL (100%) TIFR students are required to do two Departmental Projects, viz. Departmental Project I and Departmental Project II (see Item 8 above).  percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute

29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level National Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Tariq Aziz Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2015 2. G. Majumder Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 2014 3. Naba K. Mondal "Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa)”, University of Burdwan 2013 4. Naba K. Mondal J.C. Bose Fellowship, DST 2010

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5. Naba K. Mondal Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 2010 6. Naba K. Mondal TWAS Fellowship 2010 7. Naba K. Mondal Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2008 8. Naba K. Mondal Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad 2000

International Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. S. K. Gupta Vice-Chairman, Astroparticle Physics Commission (C4) 2013 2. Naba K. Mondal Member, Astroparticle Physics International Forum (APIF) 2011 3. Naba K. Mondal TWAS Fellow 2010 4. S. K. Gupta Associate Member, Cosmic Ray Commission (C4) 2010 5. Naba K. Mondal Member, International design study for neutrino factory 2007 6. Naba K. Mondal Esther Hoffman Beller Lecturership, APS 2001

 Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others: National Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Kolahal Bhattacharya Prize for contributed paper, Colloquium for Young 2015 Physicists, IPS, Kolkata 2. B. Satyanarayana Senior Member of the IEEE and Executive Committee 2014 Member and Chair, Technical & Professional Activities of the IEEE Bombay Section 3. B. Satyanarayana Fellow, Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata 2009 4. B. Satyanarayana Fellow, Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication 2009 Engineers, New Delhi International Awards : none

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

Faculty Year Name Funding members 1. Jan 10 – 12, 2011 Workshop on Synergy between High TIFR T. Aziz, Energy and High Luminosity Frontiers M. Guchait, TIFR, Mumbai. G. Mohanty 2. Oct 20 – 25, 2010 12th International Workshop on TIFR B.S. Acharya,

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Faculty Year Name Funding members Neutrino factories, Super beams and S. Banerjee, Beta beams (NuFact10) TIFR, Mumbai. G. Majumder N.K. Mondal 3. Aug 22 – 27, 2011 XXV International Symposium on Lepton DAE, TIFR, BS Acharya, Photon Interactions at High Energies IMSc, SINP, S. Banerjee, (Lepton Photon 2011), TIFR, Mumbai. HRI, IUPAP, M. Guchait, DESY N.K. Mondal, G. Majumder, K. Mazumdar 4. Mar 21 – 24, 2012 National Symposium on Particles, TIFR BS Acharya, Detectors and Instrumentation (NSPDI), S. Banerjee, TIFR, Mumbai. G. Majumder, N.K. Mondal 5. Jan 21 – 31, 2013 Belle Analysis Workshop (BAW-2013), TIFR T. Aziz, TIFR, Mumbai. G. Mohanty 6. Nov 25-27, 2013 National Symposium on VHE Gamma BARC, IIA, B.S. Acharya, Ray Astronomy (NSGRA-2013) BARC SINP, TIFR V. R. Chitnis Training School 7. Jan 6 – 8, 2014 International Conference on What Next TIFR S. Banerjee, at LHC (WNL2014), TIFR, Mumbai. & others 8. Nov 4 – 17, 2014 The second Asia-Europe-Pacific School CERN, KEK, G. Majumder on High Energy Physics, Puri. Bose Inst., TIFR 9. Mar 27 – 31, National Symposium on Particles, B.S. Acharya, 2015 Detectors, and Instrumentation – II Inter S. Banerjee, Institutional Centre for High Energy G. Majumder, Physics, Madurai N.K. Mondal

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments See Annexure B2-B for a detailed document which is applicable across TIFR Departments and Centres.

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33. Diversity of students (a) geographical Ph.D. Int.-Ph.D. Students Male Female Male Female Total From the state where the 2 0 0 0 2 Fromuniversity other is states located of India 6 2 7 2 17 NRI students — — — — — Foreign students — — — — — Total 8 2 7 2 19

(b) Undgraduate Institute Students from Ph.D. Int.-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Total Indian Universities 2 1 6 2 11 Premier science institutions † 1 0 0 0 1 Premier professional institutions # 5 1 0 0 6 Others* 0 0 1 0 1 Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0 Total 8 2 7 2 19

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35. Student progression

 Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DHEP go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry.

 Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DHEP go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc.’s and Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry

36. Diversity of staff

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s from TIFR : 11 from other institutions in India : 2 from institutions Abroad: 1 Total : 14

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37. Number of faculty who were awarded M.Phil., Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the assessment period The minimum eligibility criteria for selection as a member of the TIFR faculty is a Ph.D. degree. Thus, this question is not relevant.

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library DHEP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (see Section B2, Item no 4.2)

b) Internet facilities for staff and students DHEP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Computer Centre and Communication Facility (see Section B2, Item no 4.3)

c) Total number of class rooms

DHEP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video-conferencing possibilities are also available in most of the lecture rooms. e) Students’ laboratories

 For the compulsory Experimental Physics courses and for all the Projects, students have access to the well-equipped laboratories of DHEP (see Item f) below)  In addition students of both Ph.D. and Integrated-Ph.D. have one Teaching Laboratory which has specific experimental setups which are used during the coursework period.

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f) Research laboratories Brief description of research Name of Laboratory Fac* PDF† Stu‡ activity 1. High Altitude Gamma-ray 2 2 2 Ground-based very high energy Observatory at Hanle gamma (Ladakh) ray astronomy 2. Silicon Detector Laboratory 1 2 7 a) In-house detector R&D involving single-& double-sided silicon microstrip sensors, b) Participation in the design, proto- typing and construction of Belle-II silicon vertex detector and phase-II CMS tracker 3. Fundamental Interactions 1 1 3 Experiments to study and test and Gravitation fundamental aspects of gravity, deviations from standard theories and applications in high precision Metro-logy. Study of gravitational waves and study of light-matter interactions. 4. INO R & D Facility (Madurai) 5 1 10 To design and develop RPC detectors and associated electronics for the INO facility. 5. Cosmic Ray Laboratory (Ooty) 1 1 1 Study of cosmic rays 6. Gauribidanur laboratory 1 0 0 Test of the equivalence principle 7. Cosmic Ray Lab 3 1 20 Cosmic Ray Muon detection setup. Regularly used for TIFR graduate course 8. Grid Computing lab 2 Serves international CMS collaboration including about 100 Indians for Grid Computing in CMS experiment at LHC. * no of faculty members using the laboratory † no of postdoctoral fellows using the laboratory ‡ no of graduate students using the laboratory

DHEP members are also involved in the setting up and running of the following major international facilities: Name of Laboratory Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Brief description of research activity 1. Fermilab (USA) 2 0 0 Search for elementary particles 2. CERN (Switze rland) 7 1 10 Search for elementary particles 3. KEK (Japan) 2 0 2 Study of bottom quark properties

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

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows 1. Gauranga Kole 1. Arun K Baby 2. Rajdeep Mohan Chatterjee 2. Susnata Seth 3. Ram Krishna Deewanjee 3. Deepanwita Dutta 4. Atreyee Sinha 4. Vipin Gaur 5. Nairit Sur 5. Sandhya Jain 6. Soureek Mitra 7. Bibhuprasad Mahakud JRFs 8. Jacky Kumar 1. Akshay Manjare 9. Varghese Babu 2. B.S. Mallikarjuna 10. Bajrang Janu Sutar 3. Akhil M. Kurup 11. Ninad Jetty 4. Sarrah Shabbir Lokanwala 12. V. Jhansi Bhavani 5. J. Serin Varghese 13. Meenakshi Gaira 6. Anuj Chandra 14. Aravind H. Vijay 15. Pallabi Das 16. Arkadipta Sarkar 17. Soham Bhattacharya 18. Suman Chatterjee 19. Uttiya Sarkar 20. Rajat Kumar Mandal

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

ALL the students of DHEP (13) are in doctoral programmes, and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

DHEP, and TIFR as a whole, has been training students for Ph.D. since its inception in 1945. During the 1990’s, a need was felt for a special programme to allow exceptionally bright students an early entry into research, i.e. directly

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after their B.Sc.’s. This was felt on the basis of the Institute’s well-established VSRP programme (see Item 48 below), where it was seen that many of the best students were already prepared for graduate school, even though they were only half-way through their M.Sc. programmes. It was therefore, decided to admit some exceptionally bright B.Sc. students directly to the Ph.D. programme, teach them the basic M.Sc. courses in a period of one year, and then permit them to do advanced electives and project work similar to M.Sc.’s. Based on the success of this move, the Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme, was formally started in 2012.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

c. alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department utilize the feedback? Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

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43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)

Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. M.G.K. Menon Padma Vibhushan, FRS, Ex-Director, TIFR, Ex-Director, TIFR, Ex-Chairman, ISRO, Scientific Advisor to PM, Ex-Union Minister of Science & Technology, Founder member, TWAS, Ex-President of all 3 Academies of Science 2. B.V. Sreekantan Padma Bhushan, Ex-Director of TIFR, C.V. Raman award, INSA Srinivasa Ramanujan chair, Fellow of all 3 Academies of Science 3. Yash Pal Padma Vibhushan, Marconi Award, Lal Bahadur Shastri Award, Ex- Director, SAC, Ex-Chairman, UGC, Ex-Secretary, DST 4. Devendra Lal Padma Shri, FRS, Bhatnagar Award, Krishnan Medal, Goldschmidt Medal, Ex-Director, PRL 5. P.V. Ramanamurthy Pioneer of Cosmic Ray experiments in India, Founder, Cosmic ray laboratory at Udhagamandalam, Co-discoverer of atmospheric neutrinos 6. Prince K. Malhotra Pioneered study of elementary particles at accelerator based experiments at TIFR in the ’70. Discovery of Malhotra-Wrobleski regularity, Member of IUPAP, ICFA, INSA Fellow. 7. V.S. Narasimham Pioneer, KGF neutrino experiments (discovery: atmospheric neutrinos). Led TIFR group in the D0 experiment (discovery of top quark). 8. S. Tonwar Pioneer, GRAPES-II facility at Udhagamandalam. Chair, International Cosmic Ray Commission (2008-2011). 9. Atul Gurtu Spokesperson, India-CMS collaboration till 2011, INSA Fellow. Distinguished Professor at the King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. 10. Sunanda Banerjee INSA Fellow. One of the main architects for the offline software for the L3 and CMS experiments.

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

As Item No 30 shows, the DHEP regularly conducts conferences etc. which are attended by all the doctoral students, and these provide the required introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research. In addition, TIFR has a vibrant programme of seminars, colloquiua and public lectures which the students are encouraged to attend and absorb as much information as they can.

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

The DHEP generally adopts the conventional blackboard teaching methods. Often slides are shown to illustrate experimental or numerical facts. For project work, students are required to work hands-on in a laboratory.

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

The DHEP Chairperson and another member of the DHEP faculty are members of the Subject Board of Physics, which constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

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

DHEP faculty, postdocs and students regularly participate in the Outreach Activities of TIFR (see Appendix ?)

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

The DHEP conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis.  DHEP Seminar  NSF Colloquium  VSRP Programme

49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes, give details. The Academic performance of DHEP was reviewed by a panel of international experts in 2008, set up by the Governing Council of TIFR. In addition, a Review Committee constituted by the UGC, visited TIFR during February 2010, and commented that the deemed to be university status of TIFR offers a unique multidisciplinary environment for carrying out research. The present composition of the faculty members and research facilities at DCS are equally well placed to meet the above description.

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

1. Discovery of the atmospheric neutrinos, Top Quark and the Higgs boson are the major achievements in the field of particle physics in which members of the department have participated.

2. Several new bound states of the bottom quark have been found in searches conducted by the members of the department.

3. For the first time in India members of the department created Bose-Einstein condensates by cooling Rubidium atoms to a temperature close to that of absolute zero.

4. Several detectors, e.g. the Proportional Wire Chambers made by members of the department for the KGF experiments are still working and are being used by the GRAPES experiment at Udhagamanalam.

5. Several electronic modules, TDCs, CAMAC controllers, NIM to ECL convertors, programmable discriminators, delay generators have been made by members of the department and some of this knowhow has been transferred to the industry.

6. Resistive Plate Chambers were manufactured in-house in the department and then the knowledge was transferred to industry for mass production.

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

Strengths

 Participation in cutting edge research with large collaborative efforts.  Opportunity to develop electronics, detector hardware of various types in house. This experience can be used in other areas of science including medical science.  Interaction with the industry while building the hardware and valuable knowledge transfer.  Due to several foreign collaborations, knowledge about software and

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hardware is exchanged worldwide by the members of the department.  Opportunity to train human personnel in India as well as in several laboratories abroad (Fermilab, KEK, CERN).

Weaknesses

 Not enough human resource available

 Since members of the department are part of big collaborations, there are ample opportunity to take responsibilities for building parts of the detectors for these experiments and also the related electronics. But all these jobs need adequate support in terms of skilled scientific and technical officers as well as engineers.

 It is extremely difficult to employ new people with such skills in the current system. We can hire new people only if somebody retires. We can employ people on project posts but they are temporary and it is hard to find good people for them.

 Not enough students available to work on experimental topics. With the TIFR system of inducting new students we get very few who want to join the experimental streams. Same is true for postdoctoral fellows.

 Due to the foreign collaborations it is sometimes necessary to visit the laboratories abroad for a few months in a year. It is difficult to manage these foreign visits for faculty members.

 Special parts are often needed while building equipment (detector elements as well as electronics). Several companies have embargo on electronic items as well as some material. This makes the task of hardware building very difficult. Indian industry often does not produce the right kind of items with enough precision which can replace the imported parts.

Opportunities

 For training human resource

 Opportunity to develop electronics, detector hardware of various types in

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house.

 Opportunity to learn to deal with large volumes of data and the related software.

 Interaction with the industry while building the hardware and training opportunities.

 Opportunity to train human personnel in India as well as in several laboratories abroad (Fermilab, KEK, CERN).

 Opportunity to work with large number of people in big collaborations.

Challenges

 Deal with large number of collaborators.  Keep international deadlines.  Organize the administrative side of the collaborations.  Keep track of the purchase orders, deliveries, quality control of items bought and manufactured.  Damage control in case of hardware or software failure in any system.

52. Future plans of the department Continue participation in cutting edge research, in accelerator based programmes at LHC in CERN, and at Belle in KEK. Searches for new particles and phenomena at the energy and intensity frontiers as well as exploring matter-antimatter asymmetry and new physics phenomena at the luminosity frontier. The field of accelerator based high energy physics is poised for an interesting phase with the recent discovery of Higgs boson in 2012 during the Run I of LHC and the prospect of discovery of new physics at Run II of LHC in near future and also during later operations of LHC with much higher luminosity. After the discovery of the elusive Higgs, the natural course will be to study its properties with precision. Since the most successful theory to solve the anomalies associated with standard model is the theory of supersymmetry, a search for the supersymmetric Higgs will be an important goal for the future LHC programmes. Further, the vindication of electroweak symmetry breaking with Higgs boson at the heart of it can only be done by studying longitudinal vector boson scattering at high luminosity. This

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requires significant upgrade of the LHC experiments. A comprehensive design of CMS upgrade has been approved and TIFR members are engaged in R&D efforts. The pace of such activities will intensify in next few years leading to building prototype detectors, study at the test-beams followed by production of subsystems including electronics. CMS members in DHEP are planning various activities that will be pursued in the future, e.g., Fabrication of electronics for Phase I upgrade of the hadron calorimeter.

Department Intends to do the following immediately : R&D for phase II upgrade of hadron calorimeter, tracker, trigger subsystem. Participation in phase II detector construction in specific subsystems. Collision data collection, monitoring the detector, analyses including detector calibration during the next 2 decades of LHC operation. Physics performance studies of the upgraded detector in the high- luminosity LHC era. Various managerial responsibilities in the CMS collaboration.

Get into emerging areas of research like Gravity wave detection with the LIGO- India project : One direction is innovative contributions to gravitational wave astronomy involving low frequency detectors and cold atom interferometers. This will also lead to navigational quality devices sensitive to gravity and inertial fields. Another direction, which is already progressing, with results of verifiable empirical strength is the tests of gravitational effects of cosmic matter in classical and quantum dynamics. Both are well planned programs that will be continuing and develop to completion over the next 8 years or so. This time scale matches well with the LIGO-India project commissioning as well. The developments in gravitational wave research have a long term scope of around 20 years and could be followed up by others later, here or elsewhere.

Build and operate India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) for the study of properties of neutrinos, the elusive particles which are also the building blocks of matter. RPCs are fast, planar, rugged and low-cost gas detectors which are being, and will be, used extensively in a number of high energy and astro-particle physics experiments. The INO group members at TIFR have developed enough expertise in the construction of single gap glass RPCs. These chambers are performing excellently thus proving themselves to be a perfect choice as active detector elements for the ICAL experiment. They also find applications for charged particle detection, time of flight, tracking and digital calorimetry due to their large signal

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amplitudes as well as excellent position and time resolutions.

Time resolution of large area single gap RPC in the existing experiments is about 1.5 to 3ns. Resolutions of the order of 50ps were obtained with multi-gap RPCs, but based on cost considerations they may not be suitable for deployment in large scale experiments. The INO group has obtained sub-ns time resolution in single- gap RPCs and are in the process of improving further, which can then be used for future cosmic ray experiments to improve the directionality of the initial cosmic ray particles as well as neutrinos like in the case of INO-ICAL.

Other areas of detector R&D which will be of significant importance in the current Indian context are noble liquid (especially liquid Argon and Xenon) detecting medium based calorimeter/time projection chambers. Highly interesting work which involves reading out these chambers using modern thin gas gap detectors will also be pursued. These configurations lead to unprecedented position and time resolutions, making them highly suitable for future experiments that can be setup in the INO underground laboratory like Dark matter Search experiment, Proton decay, atmospheric electron neutrino experiment etc. They will also have application in the area of medical imaging.

Another area of our expertise, which will be beneficial to develop, is concerning front-end electronics and high resolution timing measurement, which are inevitably crucial components for future detector readout needs including the above mentioned detectors. Besides, high contrast digital radiography and imaging also needs advances in readout electronics, particularly in the front-end. By coupling and integrating the front-end electronics with detectors, one can improve the signal-to-noise enormously. With the experience that has already been gained over many decades on electronics and readout systems, members propose a dedicated research programme to develop high gain, low noise front-end ASICs as well as FPGA/ASIC based high resolution Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) chips.

Observe the Universe in the gamma ray window using the MACE telescope at Hanle in Ladakh. Furute of the field of ground based gamma ray astronomy lies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This is the next generation experiment with an order of magnitude improvement in various parameters including sensitivity, angular and energy resolution as compared to the present generation big telescopes. For CTA, two arrays of telescopes of assorted sizes are envisaged,

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one in the Northern and one in the Southern hemisphere. This will give complete sky coverage over a wide band of energy from few 10's of GeV to beyond 100 TeV. This is going to be an enormous effort and at present CTA has participation from more than 1200 scientists/engineers from 31 countries. Presently our group is participating in the R&D effort towards two work-packages of the CTA: developing a calibration device for the prototype LST (Large Size Telescope) in collaboration with SINP and development of software for Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACTL work-package). Members of DHEP have joined the collaboration along with BARC, SINP and IIA with no commitment of funds during design stage of the project. Now the project has moved from R&D stage to fabrication of prototype. We would like to be associated with the CTA project during the construction of the observatory with financial commitments. This is the direction in which we aim to proceed in future. Study of quantum mechanics and quantum optics of degenerate bosons and fermions using laser cooled ultra-cold atoms. GRAPES-III experiment will continue the study of cosmic rays with an upgraded detector with an increased muon coverage by 20%. Strengthen the detector R & D activities of the department by engaging in collaborative efforts with advanced laboratories like Fermilab, CERN, ANL, KEK for state of the art detectors and readout systems. Continue the Electronics R & D efforts for detector instrumentation. Collaborate with national and international groups involved with similar research.

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Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics

1. Name of the Department : Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics (DNAP)

2. Year of establishment : 1945 TIFR was divided into Research Groups in the period 1945 – 1997. The present Departments were formed on December 12, 1997.

3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? The DNAP is a part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

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

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved The DNAP does not offer interdisciplinary programmes. However, there is a lot of research collaboration among the Departments, and the graduate school has Instructors drawn from all the five physics Departments in Colaba.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. A list of courses taught by DNAP faculty members outside TIFR in the period 2011 – 2015 follows.

Institution Course Name Faculty member Year 1. CBS Advanced Atomic Physics (PE1012) L.C. Tribedi 2011 2. CBS Atomic Physics (PE 1003) L.C. Tribedi 2012 3. CBS Lasers and Quantum Optics (PE 1003) G. Ravindrakumar 2011 4. CBS Lasers and Quantum Optics (PE 1003) G. Ravindrakumar 2012

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Institution Course Name Faculty member Year 5. CBS Ultrashort Lasers & Modern Optics (PE 1009) G. Ravindrakumar 2014 6. CBS Ultrashort Lasers & Modern Optics (PE 1009) G. Ravindrakumar 2015 7. CBS Techniques of Modern Physics V. Nanal 2011 8. CBS Advanced Atomic Physics (PE1012) L.C. Tribedi 2015 9. CBS Atomic Physics L.C. Tribedi 2013 10. CBS Atomic Physics (PE 1003) L.C. Tribedi 2012 11. CBS Modern Techniques L.C. Tribedi 2011

7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons No programmes have been discontinued since the inception of the TIFR University.

8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System Students of the DNAP are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project Work, on topics of their own choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below.

Duration (years) Basic & Overall Coursework Core Elective Project Total Programme Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 28 16 16 60 Int. M.Sc.-Ph.D. (J) 6 2.5 56 28 16 100 N.B. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. students who join after 4 years B.Sc. or equivalent are required to do only 36 Core Credits, i.e. 80 Credits in total.

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5. Term paper (optional) All students are required to do 16 Credits of Project work in their allotted Departments as a part of the Coursework. In Departmental Project I (8 Credits), they are required to study a topic of current interest outside of the textbooks and write a report on the state of art in that subject. In Departmental Project II (8 Credits), they are required to do a small original work, preferably (but not compulsorily) in the same area, or review some highly technical work which is known to be very difficult. Both these Projects are evaluated by a Committee of Faculty Members drawn from the different Departments.

Thus, DNAP faculty are involved in teaching the Level I and II courses in sharing with faculty from other Physics departments, and exclusively involved in teaching all Level III and IV courses in Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, as well as Laser Optics. DNAP students are free to choose Electives in other Departments, even outside Physics, in consultation with the Subject Board of Physics.

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

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

Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Deppak Dist. Professor Atomic, Molecular & Optical 1. Ph.D 35 2 Mathur (J) Physics Nuclear and Accelerator Sr. Professor physics 2. R.G. Pillay Ph.D. 41 2 (I) Condensed Matter Physics Neutrino Physics E. Sr. Professor Atomic, Molecular & Optical 3. Ph.D 25 5 Krishnakumar (I) Physics G. Sr. Professor Atomic, Molecular & Optical 4. Ph.D 25 6 Ravindrakumar (I) Physics Nuclear Condensed Matter 5. S.N. Mishra Ph.D Professor (H) 30 1 Physics Atomic, Molecular & Optical 6. S.V.K. Kumar Ph.D. Professor (H) 22  Physics Lokesh C. Atomic and Molecular 7. Ph.D. Professor (H) 22 7 Tribedi Collision Physics Vandana Nuclear, Neutrino & 8. Ph.D Professor (H) 18 5 Nanal Accelerator Physics M. Atomic, Molecular & Optical 9. Ph.D Professor (H) 16 4 Krishnamurthy Physics Indranil 10. Ph.D Professor (H) Nuclear Physics 15 1 Mazumdar Assoc. 11. Subrata Pal Ph.D. Theoretical Nuclear Physics 15 2 Professor (G) Assoc. 12. Rudrajyoti Palit Ph.D Nuclear Physics 12 5 Professor (G) Sushil Assoc. 13. Ph.D Optics 9 4 Mujumdar Professor (G) Deepankar Atomic and Molecular 14. Ph.D Reader (F) 5 1 Misra Collisions Atomic, Molecular & Optical 15. V. Prabhudesai Ph.D Reader (F) 5 1 Physics * Highest degree obtained

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

12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors There were none appointed during the period 2011 – 2015.

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information DNAP does not employ temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 13 15 0.9 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 11 15 0.7 3. M.Sc. ─ ─ ─

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and Auxiliary Staff Total 22 1 23

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

 Nuclear Physics and allied interdisciplinary sciences  Atomic and molecular physics, electron-induced Chemistry  Accelerator-based atomic collision physics  Laser –Matter Interactions, Photonics and Nano-optics

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National Tot. Grant (Rs. Duration Agency Project Title lakhs) (years) Faculty member 1. PSA -GOI Fabrication & submicron tailoring of 3,63.85 5 D. Mathur materials for photonics applications with ultrafast lasers 2. DST Giant dipole resonance decay from 1,37.00 7 I. Mazumdar hot rotating nuclei 3. DST Interaction of size limited matter in 1,12.25 7 M. Krishnamurthy intense laser fields 4. DAE Set-up a scanning near-field optical 1,09.57 6 S. A. Mujumdar microscope 5. DST Swarnajayanti fellowship 103.00 5 L.C. Tribedi 6. UGC Triggering and guiding of lighting by 89.70 3 G. Ravindrakumar plasma filaments induced by high power femtosecond laser 7. DST Swarnajayanti fellowship 72.85 5 S. A. Mujumdar 8. SERB J. C. Bose fellowship 65.50 10 D. Mathur 9. SERB Studies of exotic nuclei under 63.99 11 R. Palit extreme conditions using a 10. DST J. C. Bose fellowship 60.80 6 G. Ravindrakumar 11. DST Ramanujan fellowship 28.20 6 S. A. Mujumdar 12. DST Femtosecond laser micromachining 17.72 4 D. Mathur transparent solids. 13. DAE Preoperative programme for Indian 16.97 6 R. Palit participation in the FAI project at GSI, Germany - acc & detector related R&D 14. DST Resonators in nearly-periodic 2.18 2 S. A. Mujumdar nanostructured semiconductors 15. DST Application of fast electrons 1.01 4 G. Ravindrakumar produced in ultrahigh intensity laser-matter interactions

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International Tot. Grant Agency Project Title (Rs. lakhs) Duration Faculty 1. Max -Plank- Partner group for laser 7.53 5 M. Krishnamurthy Gesellschaft science 2. Observatorie Support at the virtual atomic 31.33 4 E. Krishnakumar de Paris, & molecular data centre France

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received (a) National Collaborating Total Grant Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions (Rs. lakhs) 1. Manipal Raman Tweezers 69.00 (DBT) 3 years D. Mathur University 2. BARC Improvements to the 1500 2012-17 Common Pelletron Linac Facility facility (DAE funded) 3. BARC, IIT Prototype 550 2012-17 Vandana Ropar, Univ. of development of Nanal, R. Lucknow, cryogenic bolometer G. Pillay VECC for Neutrinoless Double beta decay (DAE funded) (b) International Collaborating Total Grant Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions (Rs. lakhs) 1. Imperial Optical science and 11.00 2 years D. Mathur College technology (Erasmus- London Mundus, European Union) 2. BARC, VECC, Experimental at 400 2012-17 Vandana Univ. of Delhi International RIB Nanal, R. FAIR (GSI, Facilities(EXRIB) Palit, R. G. Germany) and DAE – DST funded Pillay SPIRAL2 (GANIL, France) and others 3. Hebrew Lightening control 190 2014 – 2018 G. University, using lasers Ravindra

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Jerusalem, Kumar Israel

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

Total Agency Project Title Grant (Rs. Duration Faculty lakhs) 1. DAE XII Plan Project – 876 2012 – All Nuclear Nuclear Physics (2 2017 physics faculty projects) 2. DAE XII Plan Project – 2385 2012 – All atomic Nuclear Physics (6 2017 physics faculty projects)

20. Research facility / centre with

 state recognition :  national recognition : Pelletron-LINAC Facility  international recognition :

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies At present, there are none such in the DNAP.

22. Publications:

Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books Mono DNAP Publication Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited -graphs s 2010-11 51 49      2011-12 45 47   1   2012-13 42 67   1   2013-14 62 77    1  2014-15 54 54    1  Total 254 294   2 2 

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 Books with ISBN with details of publishers : None  Citation Index : Total number of citations: 25035 Number of citations per faculty: 1669

 h-index Range: 11 – 36

23. Details of patents and income generated

Patent Holder Patent Name Patent No Date Income M. Krishnamurthy Laser Plasma from PCT/IN2009 2011  1. G. Ravindra Kumar Biological Targets as X-ray /000632 K. Ray (DBS) Point Source

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

DNAP has none in the period 2011-15.

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

National Visits : Faculty Member Institution visited Location Year 1. R. Palit Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. Bhubaneswar 2015 2. R. Palit VECC Kolkata Kolkata 2015 3. E. Krishnakumar University of Delhi New Delhi 2015 4. S. Mujumdar Benaras Hindu University Varanasi 2015 5. S. Mujumdar IISc Bengaluru 2014 6. R. Palit Panjab University, Chandigarh. Chandigarh 2014 7. V. Nanal IIT –Guwahati. Guwahati 2014 8. S. Mujumdar University of Hyderabad 2014 Hyderabad 9. R. Palit VECC, Kolkata. Kolkata 2014 10. R. Palit VECC, Kolkata Kolkata 2014 11. L.C. Tribedi VECC Kolkata. Kolkata 2014 12. I. Mazumdar IUAC, New Delhi. New Delhi 2014 13. S. Mujumdar SSIHL, Puttaparthi. Puttaparthi 2014 14. I. Mazumdar IIST, Trivandrum Trivandrum 2014 15. I. Mazumdar IIST, Trivandrum. Trivandrum 2014 16. M. Krishnamurthy Panjab University Chandigarh 2013 17. L.C. Tribedi Karnataka University Dharwad 2013 18. E. Krishnakumar IPR Gandhinagar Gandhinagar 2013 19. L.C. Tribedi IPR, Gandhinagar. Gandhinagar 2013 20. M. Krishnamurthy LPAW, Goa. Goa 2013 21. S. Mujumdar RRCAT Indore 2013 22. L.C. Tribedi IACS, Jadavpur. Jadavpur 2013 23. R.G. Pillay IGCAR Kalpakkam 2013 24. V. Nanal VECC, Kolkata. Kolkata 2013 25. L.C. Tribedi RKM College, Narendrapur Kolkata 2013 26. I. Mazumdar VECC, Kolkata. Kolkata 2013 27. V. Nanal Kamraj University Madurai 2013 28. I. Mazumdar IUAC, New Delhi. New Delhi 2013 29. R. Palit Sambalpur University Sambalpur 2013 30. E. Krishnakumar Sardar Patel University,. Vallabh Vidya 2013 Nagar 31. L.C. Tribedi Sardar Patel University Vallabh 2013 Vidyanagar 32. G.Ravindra Kumar PRL, Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad 2012 33. G.Ravindra Kumar IISc, Bengaluru. Bengaluru 2012

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34. S. Mujumdar IISc Bengaluru 2012 35. S. Mujumdar DAE-BRNS National Laser Chennai 2012 Symposium-20, Anna University 36. M. Krishnamurthy IIT Madras Chennai 2012 37. R. Pali Chitkara University Himachal Pradesh 2012 38. E. Krishnakumar University of Hyderabad Hyderabad 2012 39. M. Krishnamurthy University of Hyderabad Hyderabad 2012 40. E. Krishnakumar RRCAT Indore Indore 2012 41. E. Krishnakumar IISER Kolkata. Kolkata 2012 42. R. Palit VECC, Kolkata. Kolkata 2012 43. L.C. Tribedi IISER-Kolkata. Kolkata 2012 44. L.C. Tribedi VECC Kolkatta, Kolkata 2012 45. S. Mujumdar Central Glass and Ceramic Research Kolkata 2012 Inst. 46. S. Pal SINP Kolkata Kolkata 2012 47. R. Palit IUAC, New Delhi. New Delhi 2012 48. L.C. Tribedi IUAC Delhi. New Delhi 2012 49. L.C. Tribedi IIT, Roorkee. Roorkee 2012 50. G.Ravindra Kumar JNCASR, Bengaluru. Bengaluru 2011 51. V. Nanal NUINT, Dehradun . Dehradun 2011 52. S. Mujumdar IIT Delhi. Delhi 2011 53. E. Krishnakumar Karnataka University Dharwad 2011 54. S. Mujumdar Hyderabad Central University. Hyderabad 2011 55. G.Ravindra Kumar IISER Kolkata. Kolkata 2011 56. L.C. Tribedi SINP, Kolkata. Kolkata 2011 57. L.C. Tribedi IACS, Jadavpur, Kolkata. Kolkata 2011 58. V. Nanal Kamraj University Madurai 2011 59. R.G. Pillay IUAC, New Delhi New Delhi 2011 60. L.C. Tribedi Delhi University New Delhi 2011 61. S. Mujumdar IIT Delhi. New Delhi 2011 62. M. Krishnamurthy PLASMA-2011 Patna 2011 63. G.Ravindra Kumar RRCAT, Indore. Indore 2010 64. S. Mujumdar RRCAT, Indore. Indore 2010 65. R.G. Pillay IIT Kharagpur. Kharagpur 2010 66. L.C. Tribedi VECC, Kolkata. Kolkata 2010 67. L.C. Tribedi SINP Kolkata. Kolkata 2010 68. L.C. Tribedi IUCAA, Pune March 22nd 2010 2010 69. V. Nanal BITS, Pilani. Pilani 2010 70. R. Palit BITS Pillani Pillani 2010

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International Visits : Faculty Member Institution visited Country Year 1. L.C. Tribedi U. of Toulouse France 2015 2. L.C. Tribedi CIRIL Lab., GANIL Accelerator, Caen France 2015 3. L.C. Tribedi CSIC, Insti. de Fisica Fundamental, Spain 2015 Madrid 4. L.C. Tribedi U. of Toulouse France 2014 5. S. Pal Insti. de Physique Theorique (IPhT), France 2014 Saclay 6. S. Pal Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies Germany 2014 (FIAS) 7. S.V.K. Kumar University of Potsdam Germany 2014 8. E. Krishnakumar Open University, Milton Keynes UK 2014 9. S. Mujumdar Thales Research and Technology, France 2013 Palaiseau 10. S.V.K. Kumar CiMAP, GANIL, Caen France 2013 11. E. Krishnakumar MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany 2013 Gottingen 12. R. Palit University of Wurzburg Germany 2013 13. R. Palit Physikzentrum Bad Honnef Germany 2013 14. S. Mujumdar Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef Germany 2013 15. S. Mujumdar University of Würzburg Germany 2013 16. E. Krishnakumar ICTP Trieste Italy 2013 17. S. Mujumdar AS-ICTP, Trieste Italy 2013 18. E. Krishnakumar Open University, Milton Keynes UK 2013 19. E. Krishnakumar University of Durham UK 2013 20. I. Mazumdar Notre Dame University USA 2013 21. L.C. Tribedi Aarhus University Denmark 2012 22. S. Pal Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies Germany 2012 (FIAS) 23. E. Krishnakumar Iceland University, Iceland Iceland 2012 24. E. Krishnakumar Open University, Milton Keynes UK 2012 25. S.V.K. Kumar Open University, Milton Keynes UK 2012 26. I. Mazumdar Ohio University USA 2012 27. I. Mazumdar Jefferson Lab USA 2012 28. R. Palit Notre Dame University USA 2012 29. I. Mazumdar IPNO, Orsay, Paris France 2011 30. S. Mujumdar Max Planck Institute for Science of Light Germany 2011 31. S. Pal Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies Germany 2011 (FIAS) 32. S.V.K. Kumar Max Plank Institut für Kern Physik Germany 2011 33. S.V.K. Kumar GSI, Darmstadt Germany 2011

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34. E. Krishnakumar Maynooth University, Dublin Ireland 2011 35. I. Mazumdar RIKEN Japan 2011 36. R. Palit RIKEN Japan 2011 37. I. Mazumdar KVI, Groningen Netherlands 2011 38. S.V.K. Kumar KVI,Groningen Netherlands 2011 39. I. Mazumdar Bogoliubov Inst.of Theoretical Physics, Russia 2011 JINR 40. E. Krishnakumar Open University, Milton Keynes UK 2011

26. Faculty serving in (a) National Committees : Term Name of the Role in the Name of the Committee of Faculty Member Committee Service 1. E. Krishnakumar Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore Fellow 2008 – Executive Committee of Indian Society of Member 2014- Atomic and Molecular Physics 16 Council of Management of DAE-UGC Member 2012 – Consortium for Scientific Research Council of Management of Homi Bhabha Member 2012 – Centre for Science Education DST Programme advisory committee on Member 2012- Lasers, Optics, and Atomic and Molecular 15 Physics 2. D. Mathur INSA Council Member 3 yrs SAC-Cabinet Invited 1 yr Member National IUPAP Committee Chair 4 yrs INSPIRE Faculty Awards Committee Chair 4 yrs Academic Committee,10th International Chair 1 yrs Junior Science Olympiad International Review Committee for DRDO Chair 1 yr Advanced Centre for High Energy Materials, Hyderabad Review Committee for the DRDO Centre at Chair 1 yr IIT-M Research Council, DRDO’s LASTEC, New Chair 3 yrs Delhi 3. I. Mazumdar Organizing committee DAE-BRNS Annual Member 2011- Nuclear Physics Symposium 4. V. S.Nanal DST WOS-A committee Member 3 yrs

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Term Name of the Role in the Name of the Committee of Faculty Member Committee Service DST-SERB PAC (Physical sciences) Member 3 yrs 5. R. Palit Organizing Committee of Nuclear Physics Member 2012- Symposium 2015 Organizing Committee of Frontiers in Member 2015 Gamma ray Spectroscopy, VECC, Kolkata Organizing committee of the workshop on Member 2016 “Recent trends in nuclear structure and its implication in astrophysics” 6. R. G. Pillay DAE-DST mega science co-ordination Member 3 yrs committee DAE-SG group (accelerator & laser science) Member 4 yrs DAE-SG group (DAE projects) Member 4 yrs VECC Council Member 4 yrs Faculty Selection Committee IIT Ropar Member 2009- Faculty Selection Committee SINP Member 2011- School of Physics Board, University of Member 3 yrs Hyderabad 7. V.S. Prabhudesai Executive Committee of Indian Society for Treasurer 2012 - Atomic and Molecular Physics 2016 8. G.Ravindrakumar Chancellor’s nominee for selection and Member 2014 – promotion of faculty at Jadavpur University Chancellor’s nominee for selection and Member 2014 – promotion of faculty at Kolkata University Chancellor’s nominee for selection and Member 2014 – promotion of faculty at Kalyani University Faculty Selection Committee, IISER Pune Member 2012- Faculty Selection Committee, IISER Bhopal Member 2014- 9. L. C. Tribedi Organizing committee member of National Co- 2014 Conference of Atomic and Molecular convener Physics (NCAMP), at IIST, Trivandrum Convener SPARC (Stored particle atomic Convener 2014 reaction collaboration) India Workshop Convener, workshop on highly charged ions Convener 2012 (WHCI), TIFR Course DST-SERC School at TIFR 2013 director Co- Atomic Processes in Plasmas 2013 convener Executive committee of Ion-Beam Society of Members 2012 – India, IUAC, Delhi Executive Committee of Indian Society of Vice- 2012-

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Term Name of the Role in the Name of the Committee of Faculty Member Committee Service Atomic and Molecular Physics ISAMP president 2014 Executive Committee of Indian Society of President 2014 – Atomic and Molecular Physics ISAMP

(b) International Committees :

Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Service 1. E. Krishnakumar International Advisory Committee, Member 2006 – Asian International Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics European Programme on Electron Member 2010- Controlled Chemical Lithography 12 International Advisory Committee for Member 2011- Electron-Molecule Symposium 13 Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Board 2013 – Centre (VAMDC) member International Advisory Committee for Chair 2013- Electron-Molecule Symposium 15 2. D. Mathur IUPAP Commission, C-15 Vice-Chair 3 years Asian Intense Laser Network Co-Chair 12 years International Committee, Asian Laser Member 5 years Centre, Gwangju, Korea 10th International Symposium on Co-Chair 1 year Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, Eisenach 12th International Symposium on Chair 1 year Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, Salamanca 13th International Symposium on Chair 1 year Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, Jodhpur 3. I. Mazumdar Management Board, International Member 2014 – PARIS collaboration International Advisory Committee, Member 2015

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Service 21st International conference on Few -Body Physics, Chicago 4. S. N. Mishra International Advisory committee for Member 1 yr Hyperfine Interactions 5. V. S. Nanal PARIS Collaboration Steering Co-chair 2 yrs committee PARIS Collaboration Steering Chair 2 yrs committee 6. R. Palit DEGAS Collaboration for Project 2012- HISPEC/DESPEC experiments at FAIR Leader International Advisory Committee on Member 2016 Nuclear Structure 2016, Oak Ridge National Lab, Tennesse, USA International Advisory Committee on Member 2012 Nuclear Structure 2012, Arognne National Lab, Chicago, USA Joint International Advisory and Member 2016 Programme committee of 2nd International Conference on Dosimetry and its Applications (ICDA2)’, 3 - 8 July 2016, University of Surrey, UK 7. R. G. Pillay Indo-France LIA Scientific 4 yrs coordinator 8. G. Ravindrakumar International Committee on Ultra high Member 2007 – intensity lasers Board for conferences on inertial Member 2007 – fusion science and application International Conference on Ultrahigh Co-Chair 2014 Intensity Lasers 2014 Programme committee, Series of Member International conferences High Energy Density Science, Yokohama, Japan Programme Committee, Series of Member CHILI international conferences, Tel Aviv 9. L. C. Tribedi General Committee of International Member 2011-

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Service Conference on the Physics of 15 Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) - Lanzhou, China 2013 & Toledo-Spain 2015 International advisory body, MPS Represents 2014 conference India International committee of SHIMEC. Member 2014 “Swift Heavy ions in Materials Engineering and Characterization", IUAC, Delhi International governing body of the Member 2007 - SPARC collaboration, GSI International advisory committee for Member 2005 – the ISIAC (International Symposium on Ion-atom Collisions) International advisory board, Member 2010 – International conference on highly charged ions(HCI)

(c) Editorial Boards : Name of the Name of the Journal Impact Term of Faculty Member Factor Service 1 D. Mathur Journal of Physics B 1.98 3 yrs EPL (Europhysics Letters) 2.27 5 yrs Rapid Communications in Mass 2.25 15 yrs Spectrometry 2 E. Krishnakumar International Advisory Board, 1.98 2016 –2019 Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 3 I. Mazumdar National Science Journal PRAMANA 0.65 2014 – 4 G.Ravindrakumar National Science Journal PRAMANA 0.65 2008 –2012

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28. Student projects  percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter- departmental projects

ALL (100%) TIFR students are required to do two Departmental Projects, viz. Departmental Project I and Departmental Project II (see Item 8 above).

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

29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level National Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. S. Mujumdar Scopus Young Scientist Award (Physics) of the NASI 2014 2. S. Mujumdar Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the DST 2013 3. S. Mujumdar Ramanujam Fellowship of the DST 2010 4. G. Ravindrakumar Infosys Prize 2015 5. G. Ravindrakumar J.C. Bose Fellowship of the DST 2011 6. G. Ravindrakumar S.S. Bhatnagar Award of the CSIR 2003 7. G. Ravindrakumar B.M. Birla Prize 2000 8. M. Krishnamurthy Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the DST 2008 9. M. Krishnamurthy B. M. Birla Prize 2003 10. V. Prabhudesai INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2008

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11. I. Mazumdar Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the DST 2007 12. D. Misra INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2011 13. D. Mathur Bhatnagar Prize, CSIR 1991 14. D. Mathur N S Sathyamurthy Prize, Indian Physics Association 1986 15. D. Mathur Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences 1992 16. D. Mathur Eminent Mass Spectrometrist Prize, ISMAS 1996 17. D. Mathur Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy 1999 18. D. Mathur C V Raman Lectureship, DAE 2003 19. L.C. Tribedi Swarnajayanti Fellowship, DST 2003 20. L.C. Tribedi Goyal Young Scientist Prize 2005 21. L.C. Tribedi INSA Young Scientist Award 1994 International Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. D. Mathur TWAS Fellow 2013 2. D. Mathur European Union’s Erasmus-Mundus Scholar in 2008- Optical Science and Technology 2010

 Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others: National Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Amit D. Lad "Pervez Guzdar Young Scientist Award 2014" for his 2014 outstanding research contributions in the field of Intense Laser Matter Interactions, by the Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) International Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. K. Dota (Ms.) "3rd International Symposium on Ultra-fast Intense 2012 Laser Science Award" for Young Researchers by the University of Tokyo, Japan 2. Prashant K. Singh Best poster award entitled "Observation of 2012 Oscillations in the Plasma Critical Surface" at the ICTP-IAEA College on Plasma Physics, Trieste, Italy 3. Anjani K. Tiwari OSA (Optical Society of America) Best Student Paper 2013 Prize" at the "Photonics 2012 - International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics", IIT, Chennai 4. Amitava Adak Best Poster in Inertial Fusion Sciences and 2013

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Applications, Seattle, USA

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

Year Name Funding Faculty members 1. 2015 Indo-french Collaboration TIFR Vandana Nanal meeting 2. 2014 DST-SERC School on Nuclear DST Indranil Mazumdar, R. structure at High Angular Palit Momentum and Isospin 3. 2014 International Conference on Registration G Ravindra Kumar, M. Ultra-Intense Lasers (ICUIL) Krishnamurthy 4. 2014 Conference of Asian Core JSPS G Ravindra Kumar, M. Program for High Energy Density Krishnamurthy Science Using Strong Laser Photons (ASHULA) 5. 2014 SPARC-India Workshop TIFR Lokesh Tribedi, Vaibhav Prabhudesai, Deepankar Misra 6. 2013 1st VAMDC India meeting EU E Krishnakumar, Vaibhav Prabhudesai 7. 2013 PARIS India Collaboration TIFR Vandana Nanal, R Palit, R meeting G Pillay 8. 2013 DST-SERC School on Physics of DST Lokesh Tribedi, Vaibhav Highly Charged Ions Prabhudesai, Deepankar Misra 9. 2012 Workshop on Highly Charged TIFR Lokesh Tribedi, Vaibhav Ions and Atomic Collisions Prabhudesai, Deepankar Misra 10. 2011 India-NUSTAR Meeting TIFR R. G. Pillay, Vandana Nanal, R. Palit 11. 2011 Advances in Nuclear Physics ICTS Vandana Nanal (ANUP11) 12. 2010 Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction ICTS Indranil Mazumdar Workshop

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31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments See Annexure B2-B for a detailed document which is applicable across TIFR Departments and Centres. 32. Student profile programme-wise: Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches.

Name of the Applications Pass Programme Selected Joined Recd percentage*

Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 21370 31 5 17 3 76 100 Integrated M.Sc.- 14 1 6 - Ph.D. 83 - 33. Diversity of students (a) Geographic Integrated- Ph.D. Ph.D. M.Sc. Students Male Female Male Female Male Female Total From the state where the 2 0 0 0   2 university is located From other states of India 9 2 10 2   23 NRI students        Total 12 1 10 2   25

(b) Graduate Institution Integrated Ph.D. M.Sc. M.Sc.-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Male Female Total From Universities 2 1 10 2 0 0 15 From premier science 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 institutions † From premier 9 1 0 0 0 0 10 professional institutions # From others* 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 11 2 10 2 0 0 25

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

35. Student progression

 Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DNAP go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry.

 Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DNAP go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc.’s and Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry

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36. Diversity of staff

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s from TIFR : 8 from other institutions in India : 6 from institutions Abroad: 1 Total : 15

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library DNAP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (see Section B2, Item no 4.2)

b) Internet facilities for staff and students DNAP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Computer Centre and Communication Facility (see Section B2, Item no 4.3)

c) Total number of class rooms

DNAP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi,

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etc. Video-conferencing possibilities are also available in most of the lecture rooms.

e) Students’ laboratories

 For the compulsory Experimental Physics courses and for all the Projects, students have access to the well-equipped laboratories of DNAP (see Item f) below)  In addition students of both Ph.D. and Integrated-Ph.D. have one Teaching Laboratory which has specific experimental setups which are used during the coursework period.

f) Research laboratories Name of Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Brief description of research activity Laboratory 1. Molecular 2 0 3 Study of low energy molecule dynamics and interactions and study of coherent control Laboratory control of molecules using shaped ultrashort laser pulses 2. High energy 1 2 1 Study of structure and reaction of hot gamma ray lab. and rotating nuclei. 3. Hyperfine 4 2 1 Investigation of solid state phenomena Interaction at short length and time scales using Laboratory hyperfine interaction as a probe 4. Accelerator Based 2 1 6 Bent crystal based high resolution x-ray Atomic Physics. spectrometer, continuum electron spectrometer and ToF setups are used to study the collective excitation in large molecules, clusters, ionization of biomolecules, PAH molecules and Young type interference effect 5. ECR Ion 2 1 6 ECR-based Ion accelerator lab with 4 Accelerator beam lines; electron spectrometer based setups Time-of-Flight recoil ion spectrometers for dealing with fundamental problems on atomic and molecular collision physics 6. Fast electron 2 1 6 Young type electron interference in collision laboratory molecular double slit using O2 and N2 Ionization and fragmentation of

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biomolecules 7. Nano-optics and 1 2 2 We study exotic phenomena in Mesoscopic condensed matter studied using optical Optics Laboratory means. One of the subfields involves the study of amplifying random media, called ‘random lasers’. Further, we carry out experimental investigation of Anderson Localization in one- dimensional and two-dimensional systems. These experiments are complemented with near-field microscopic studies of disordered systems. 8. NDBD lab 2 1 3 R&D on superconducting Tin bolometer to search for NDBD in 124Sn 9. Study of GDR in 2 1 1 Study of nuclear shapes at high T and J, hot nuclei study of collective excitations using radioactive ion beam 10 PLF accelerator 2 1 0 A joint TIFR-BARC facility , operated facility round the clock For about 100 users. Research output of facility is around ~25 Ph.D and more than 100 publications in last 5 years 11 Discrete Gamma 1 2 3 We investigate the low energy Spectroscopy response of atomic nuclei to rotational stress using a powerful “femtoscope‘’ consisting of segmented high purity Germanium detectors. The nuclei are prepared in excited states (with 1021 rotations per second) using energetic beams from the heavy ion accelerators. The fast rotating nucleus decays to its ground state, through the intermediate excited states, emitting copious gamma rays that are measured by the femtoscope. By casting the nuclei to various shapes and studying their decays, the emergent properties of complex nuclear many-body system are

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elucidated. 12 Ultrashort pulse 2 2 6 Studying matter in extreme states high intensity laser using high power laser pulses lab * no of faculty members using the laboratory † no of postdoctoral fellows using the laboratory ‡ no of graduate students using the laboratory

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

Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows 1. Amitava Adak 1. K. S. Alee 2. Arnab Khan 2. Indranuj Dey 3. Angana Mondal 3. Ketan Rathod 4. Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay 4. Susanta K Mohanta 5. Chandan D. Bagdia 5. Santosh Roy 6. Chandan Ghosh 6. Sudipta Saha 7. Deep Sarkar 7. Sreemoyee Sarkar 8. Farhan S. Babra 8. Neha Dokania 9. Krishnendu Gope 9. Arpit Ashok Rawankar 10. Kamalesh Jana 10. Purnima Singh 11. Malay Dalui 11. Arpita Nath 12. Moniruzzaman Shaikh 12. A. K. Rhine Kumar 13. Vishvesh Ashok Tadsare 13. A. K. Gourishetty 14. Anjani Kumar Tiwari 15. Ravitej Uppu 16. Randhir Kumar

JRFs SRFs 1. Juliah J. Chelliah Kritika Dotta 2. Madhusree Roy Chowdhury 3. Thupten Tsering 4. Ghnashyam R. Gupta 5. Sayan Basu

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

ALL the students of DNAP (13) are in doctoral programmes, and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships.

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41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

DNAP, and TIFR as a whole, has been training students for Ph.D. since its inception in 1945. During the 1990’s, a need was felt for a special programme to allow exceptionally bright students an early entry into research, i.e. directly after their B.Sc.’s. This was felt on the basis of the Institute’s well-established VSRP programme (see Item 48 below), where it was seen that many of the best students were already prepared for graduate school, even though they were only half-way through their M.Sc. programmes. It was therefore, decided to admit some exceptionally bright B.Sc. students directly to the Ph.D. programme, teach them the basic M.Sc. courses in a period of one year, and then permit them to do advanced electives and project work similar to M.Sc.’s. Based on the success of this move, the Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme, was formally started in 2012.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

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

The Subject Board of Physics includes a Course Coordinator, who is constantly in touch with the Instructors of different courses, and collects their feedback at regular intervals. This is used to (a) advise the Instructors, (b) update the Syllabus, and (c) fine-tune the curriculum.

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

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Instructors, for modification and rectification in their pedagogic styles. These feedback forms also form an important input in selecting a faculty for the Excellence in Teaching Award of the TIFR Alumni Association.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction Raja Ramanna Padma Vibhushan, Ex-Chairman, AEC, Ex-Union Minister of 1. State for Defence, Founder Director ,NIAS, Bhatnagar Award 2. P.K. Iyengar Padma Bushan, Ex-Chairman, AEC, Bhatnagar Award Vijay R. Pandhari Pande Eminent Theoretical Nuclear Physicist, APS T.W.Bonner 3. prizewinner R. Raghavan Ex-Director, Institute for Particle, Nuclear and Astronomical 4. Sciences, Virginia Tech, USA, Founder, Borexino experiment, Gran Sasso, Italy 5. C.V.K. Baba Eminent Nuclear Physicist 6. H.G. Devare Former Editor, Hyperfine interactions 7. Amit Roy Former Director, IUAC, New Delhi, RRF (present) Mahananda Dasgupta Faculty at ANU Canberra, Member IUPAP Commission, Nuclear 8. Physics 9. Sadiq Rangwala Bhatnagar Award (2015)

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

As Item No 30 shows, the DNAP regularly conducts conferences etc. which are attended by all the doctoral students, and these provide the required introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research. In addition, TIFR has a vibrant programme of seminars, colloquiua and public lectures which the students are encouraged to attend and absorb as much information as they can.

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

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The DNAP generally adopts the conventional blackboard teaching methods. Often slides are shown to illustrate experimental or numerical facts. For project work, students are required to work hands-on in a laboratory.

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

The DNAP Chairperson and another member of the DNAP faculty are members of the Subject Board of Physics, which constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

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

DNAP faculty, postdocs and students regularly participate in the Outreach Activities of TIFR .

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

The DNAP conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis.  DNAP Seminar  NSF Colloquium  VSRP Programme

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

The doctoral programmes in the DNAP are conducted under the TIFR University, which was recognized as a Deemed University by UGC in 2002.

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

The scientific activities of the department have been mainly in the experimental aspects of Nuclear Physics as well as in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. There is one research group that works on the condensed matter physics using nuclear techniques. Nuclear techniques applied to study solid state phenomenon at short length and time scales allowed the observation of

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unusually high 4d magnetic moment on isolated Rh and Mo atoms, commonly absent in bulk solid forms. Local susceptibility studied through hyperfine interaction methods have illustrated finite size effects on moment formation and Kondo interactions for single magnetic impurities embedded in nano-scale solids. These observations provide insight into quantum effects on electron correlation. In the field of nuclear physics, the Indian National Gamma detector Array (INGA) coupled to a digital data acquisition system is set-up at TIFR as a part of a national collaboration for the study of nuclear structure and dynamics from 2010. Around 30 PhD students from different Universities and Institutes from India and abroad have performed experiments in this set-up. Some of the salient scientific achievements of INGA campaigns include lifetime measurements in sub picosecond range in magnetic and antimagnetic rotation, degenerate dipole bands in A=110 and 130 regions in search for chiral rotation, polarization measurements of gamma rays to establish transverse and longitudinal wobbling mode at low spin High spin states in closed shell nuclei for testing shell model predictions and shape evolution. Indigenous development of beam diagnostic devices, vacuum components for accelerators, electronic devices were also carried out in this period. Moreover, a 4-pi sum-spin spectrometer was built at TIFR for measurement of angular momentum gated high energy gamma-rays from excited nuclei. This facility in conjunction with a gas-filled magnetic spectrometer in IUAC-Delhi is routinely used by graduate students of experimental nuclear physics from different Indian universities and researchers from India and abroad for cutting edge research in heavy-ion induced nuclear reaction dynamics and structure at high excitation energy. Major predictions about dynamics of two-neutron halo nuclei were also carried out from pure three-body model calculations. Experimentation validations of two such predictions regarding quantum states in the 14Be and 20C halo nuclei. There is one group in the department that worked on the development of transport and hydrodynamics models to study the properties of hot and dense nucleus / quark gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions. In the atomic and molecular collisions activities the ionization and fragmentation studies of RNA base molecule like Uracil were carried out where the large forward backward asymmetry was observed in the differential cross section. The absolute total ionization cross section measurements for Uracil and

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water molecules were carried out on a wide energy range (keV-MeV). The

collective plasmon excitation in electron emission spectrum from C60 fullerene and Coronene (which is a PAH molecule) in fast ion collisions was observed. The study of Young type electron interference in fast ion and electron collisions with

H2, N2 and O2 was also carried out. In the study of doubly excited states of Si, S, Cl through high resolution X-ray spectroscopy the 2p3d – 1s3d line was observed. The ECRIS machine on the high voltage deck was actively used to provide low energy ion-beams to users from different institutes in country. Study of few body quantum dynamics was carried out with the help of momentum resolved measurements of fragmentation of transient molecular ions which are formed in collisions with either highly charged ions or electron. Towards this one group developed a 3D focusing Recoil ion momentum spectrometer. They used it to study the two body breakup dynamics of diatomic molecules as well as the two- and three-body decay dynamics of triatomic molecular system. In one such study they proposed a scheme to correctly identify the central and terminal N atoms in the fragmentation of multiply

charged N2O molecular ions. Apart from this they extensively studied the

velocity and charge state dependence of the fragmentation of N2 in collisions with highly charged ions. Taking a step further they also performed some

measurement on the three-body decay of a tetra-atomic molecule, H2O2, in collisions with highly charged ions where they, for the first time observed a

sequential decay mechanism in the three-body dissociation of H2O2 decaying + + + into H + H + O2 . Some measurements were also performed on the breakup of

H2O, where a bond rearrangement reaction was observed in the breakup of + H2O ions. Another group working in the low energy electron molecule collisions developed a new experimental technique for measuring the absolute cross sections for dissociative ionization and dissociative attachment processes in electron- molecule collisions. They used this to obtain absolute cross sections for ionization of several molecules under electron impact. They also carried out the first ever absolute cross section measurement for dissociative electron attachment from electronically excited molecules. Apart from that they discovered the functional group dependence in dissociative electron attachment and a new method of controlling chemical reactions using electrons. They

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developed a new 4π solid angle ion momentum imaging technique for studying structure of molecular negative ions and their decay dynamics. Using this technique they carried out first ever studies of negative ion momentum imaging of dissociative electron attachment in molecules. They developed a new technique to measure the absolute partial and total ionization cross sections for molecules that exist as solids at room temperature and its use for DNA and RNA bases and various other organic molecules. They also carried out the first ever experimental verification of the role of free electron as a catalyst. Another group discovered several new results in extreme states particle acceleration and laboratory astrophysics. They invented the first ever MeV ‘neutral’ atom accelerator. They showed that biological (bacterial) plasmas as the brightest hard x-ray emitters under intense, femtosecond irradiation. Many firsts in giant magnetic field measurements, enhanced laser absorption and relativistic electron transport physics in intense laser-solid interactions were achieved by this group. They have also obtained a global recognition for establishing analogues of astrophysical phenomena in high intensity laser – matter experiments in the laboratory. On the optics front one group had been responsible for several first-time measurements in the areas of disordered materials with gain. As example, the statistical intensity fluctuations were first identified quantitatively by the group, which provided evidence to the Gaussian-Levy-Gaussian transitions in the system. The quantitative technique provided for the analysis was based on an econophysical algorithm using Levy-stable laws, which was introduced into the field by this group. Subsequently, the group proposed and implemented a novel model for random lasers, called the Exponentially-tempered Levy sums, which is the first model that explains the statistical transitions in the system. This model has now enabled to identify the physical manifestation of extreme events in random lasers, namely, the coherent modes. This group has also demonstrated an aerosol-based random laser, which consists of microdroplets of a liquid dye. This system qualifies as a periodic-on-average random system (PARS) with gain when the microdroplets are all monodisperse. This is the first PARS system demonstrated in the field that can allow configurational-averaging. This system has realized several experimental measurements in weakly periodic systems that hitherto only remained in the theoretical domain.

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Besides their regular activities in the light mater interaction field on group carried out the research that had output of societal relevance such as development of an optical technique for early-stage detection of malaria that relies on measurements of the birefringence of infected red blood cells, development of an optical-trap based method of probing differentiation of cancer cells.

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

 The research activities of the department cover a very contemporary and active experimental research fields like nano and mesoscopic-optics, biological physics, ultra-intense light matter interaction, charged particle atomic and molecular collision, nuclear structure and nuclear spectroscopy using steady and radioactive ion beams and accelerator based condensed matter physics along with theoretical activity in relativistic heavy ion collision.

 Exceptionally good expertise in instrumentation in experimental nuclear physics, accelerator development including ECR based accelerator for highly charged ions, atomic collision physics, light matter interaction related areas and optics. Instruments developed to address contemporary nuclear physics problems are used by national and international groups.

 World leadership in selected area of work.  Close interactions among different groups with diverse expertise within the department benefit the research programmes.

 Strong presence of the department in the graduate school teaching.

Weaknesses

 Lack of resources like space, manpower in terms of students and post docs

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 Disinclination to advertise the achievements and lack of exposure to these areas of science at the university level in the country affects the overall interest shown by the young students in these areas of research

 Non-traditional field of research for some groups implies low influx of research students to the laboratories

 Limited presence of some of these areas at the national level makes it very difficult to get good number of skilled postdoctoral researchers essential for accelerated growth of the research activity

 Lack of theoretical support for many of the experimental activities of the department at the institutional as well as at the national level. Opportunities

 World –wide recognition in recent achievements brings new opportunities for international collaboration.

 New areas of research are emerging like Non-linear optics of disordered systems with Anderson localization, catalytic electron reactions, laboratory astrophysics with ultra-intense light sources, biological physics with applications to radiation chemistry, neutrino-less double beta decay, nuclear structure with radioactive ion beam etc.

 The young investigators in the groups get the opportunities to interact with the world leaders in the field through world-wide collaborations and global interactions via conferences, schools and seminars .

 The recent path breaking successes with new instrumentation provide exciting opportunities for obtaining new physical insights into the problem of contemporary interests like electron molecule collisions, nano and mesoscopic optics, neutral and charged particle acceleration in intense light-matter interaction, novel excitation modes of nuclei etc.

 Due to diverse research interests within the department, there is a huge opportunity for cross breeding the ideas and exploring new possibilities. Challenges

 Raising resources like space, students (man-power) and funding.  Recruiting new faculty members to strengthen the ongoing activities as

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well as explore new areas of research.

 Modest infrastructure strongly limits broadening of the research activity whereas the research groups have to compete at the international level.

 Popularizing these research fields at the undergraduate level and make the younger generation attracted to these fields within India.

 Interference in day to day administration by the extended bureaucracy, too many rules and not much freedom in execution.

52. Future plans of the department The DNAP intends to grow its current research activities in diversified areas. There will be a study of the properties of hot and dense nucleus within transport and hydrodynamical model in relativistic heavy ion collisions. In nuclear physics, a high quality experimental facility to carry out advanced research in the field of nuclear astrophysics is going to be developed. Investigation of fundamental nucleon-nucleon interactions using low-energy light ion polarized beam and target is also envisaged. The nuclear structure research group plans to study the novel excitation modes of nuclei due to different symmetries, test of large scale shell model predictions for nuclei near closed shell and exotic nuclear isomers. In nuclear condensed matter physics programme using hyperfine interaction tool, in depth investigations on finite size effects on electronic and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline solids will be carried out. In accelerator-based condensed matter physics the quantum size effect on electron co-relation and magnetism will be explored. In nano and mesosopic optics, future studies involving ultrafast time resolution at a ultrahigh spatial resolution will be implemented, which are expected to yield unprecedented information on the quality factors of random resonators, simultaneously with the location of highest intensity spots in the resonator. Chemical control using electrons in gas phase and condensed phase molecules will be explored with emphasis on understanding the low energy electron- molecule interaction in all its details. Studies of electron collision on radicals and excited state molecules towards chemical control and applications will also be carried out. High energy density science is poised for a big leap with petawatt laser facilities to be set up in the next few years as well as active

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participation in international collaborations in Europe and Japan will be taken up. Department intends to carry out more cutting edge research and generate human resource in high knowledge areas for India. It also intends to get involved with the graduate school teaching in the institute to engage the young minds joining the institute and get them interested in the research fields pursued in the department. Department will also put concrete efforts to expose the achievements and excitements of the field of research to the vast science community in the country particularly at the university level to attract the potential young researchers to pursue the research career in these areas.

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Department of Theoretical Physics

1. Name of the Department : Department of Theoretical Physics (DTP)

2. Year of establishment : 1945 TIFR was divided into Research Groups in the period 1945 – 1997. The present Departments were formed on December 12, 1997.

3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? The DTP is a part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.) 1. Ph.D. 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 3. M. Phil No students are admitted purely for an M.Phil programme. However, sometimes students in the Ph.D. and Integrated Ph.D. programmes are permitted to leave with an M.Phil. degree provided they have successfully completed the Course Work and an M.Phil. dissertation. 5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved The DTP does not offer interdisciplinary programmes. However, there is a lot of research collaboration among Departments and the graduate school has Instructors drawn from all the five Physics Departments in Colaba.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. A list of courses taught by DTP faculty outside TIFR in the period 2011 – 2015 follows. Institution Course Name Faculty member Year 1. CBS, Mumbai Quantum Field Theory S. Raychaudhuri 2015 2. CBS, Mumbai Quantum Field Theory S. Raychaudhuri 2014 3. CBS, Mumbai Advanced Condensed Matter Physics R. Sensarma 2013 4. CBS, Mumbai Introductory Particle Physics S. Raychaudhuri 2013 5. U. of Mumbai Quantum Field Theory K. Sridhar 2012 6. CBS, Mumbai Advanced Quantum Mechanics S. Raychaudhuri 2012 7. IIT Mumbai Statistical Physics K. Damle 2011

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8. CBS, Mumbai Quantum Mechanics II S. Raychaudhuri 2011

7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons No programmes have been discontinued since the inception of the TIFR University.

8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System Students of the DTP are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project Work, on topics of their own choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below.

Duration (years) Basic & Core Elective Project Total Programme Overall Coursework Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 28 16 16 60 Int. M.Sc.-Ph.D. 6 2.5 56 28 16 100 N.B. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. students who join after 4 years B.Sc. or equivalent are required to do only 36 Core Credits, i.e. 80 Credits in total.

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known to be very difficult. Both these Projects are evaluated by a Committee of Faculty Members drawn from the different Departments.

9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments TIFR Physics Courses are divided into four levels, as per the table below. Level Course Content Participation I Basic Subjects All 5 Physics Departments jointly II Core Subjects All 5 Physics Departments jointly III Review Courses (Basic Elective) Relevant Department IV Topical Courses (Advanced Elective) Relevant Department Thus, DTP faculty are extensively involved in teaching the Level I and II courses in sharing with faculty from other Physics departments, and exclusively involved in teaching all Level III and IV courses in Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity and Cosmology, String Theory, Particle Physics, Advanced Condensed Matter Theory, Advanced Statistical Mechanics, and Many- Body Theory. DTP students are free to choose Electives in other Departments, even outside Physics, in consultation with the Subject Board of Physics.

10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Dist. Professor (J) 1 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 4 3. Professor (H)  6 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 3 5. Reader (F)  6 6. Fellow (E)   Total 20

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

Name of Faculty Designation Deg* Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ 1. Deepak Dhar Dist. Professor (J) Ph.D. Condensed Matter 36 3 Physics 2. Rajiv V. Gavai Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 30 2 3. Gupta, Sourendu Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 23 1 4. Sandip P.Trivedi Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. String Theory, 17 5

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Name of Faculty Designation Deg* Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Director, TIFR Cosmology 5. Gautam Mandal Sr. Professor (I) Ph.D. String Theory 27 3 6. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Professor (H) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 31 0 7. Shiraz Minwalla Professor (H) Ph.D. String Theory 14 5 8. K. Sridhar Professor (H) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 21 0 9. Amol Dighe Professor (H) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 13 3 10. Kedar Damle Professor (H) Ph.D. Condensed Matter 14 3 Physics 11. Sreerup Raychaudhuri Professor (H) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 17 3 12. Vikram Tripathi Assoc. Professor (G) Ph.D. Condensed Matter 10 4 Physics 13. Saumen Datta Assoc. Professor (G) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 10 0 14. Nilmani Mathur Assoc. Professor (G) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 9 1 15. Subhabrata Reader (F) Ph.D. Cosmology 9 2 Majumdar 16. Rajdeep Sensarma Reader (F) Ph.D. Condensed Matter 4 2 Physics 17. Rishi Sharma Reader (F) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 3 0 18. Tuhin S. Roy Reader (F) Ph.D. High Energy Physics 2 0 19. Basudeb Dasgupta Reader (F) Ph.D. Astroparticle Physics 2 1 20. Rishi Khatri Reader (F) Ph.D. Cosmology 1 0 * Highest degree obtained † Years of Experience as a regular Faculty Member (TIFR and elsewhere) ‡ Ph.D. students guided within the last 4 years (including those joined and those graduated)

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

Adjunct Faculty Home Institution Country Tenure Specialisation 1. Ribhu Kaul U. of Kentucky USA 2012-15 Cond. Matter Physics 2. Frederic Denef Leuven U. Belgium 2013-16 String Theory 3. Jean-Yves Ollitrault CNRS France 2014-17 High Energy Physics 4. Alexander Refregier ETH, Zurich Switzerland 2015-17 Cosmology 5. Gautam SINP, Kolkata India 2015-17 High Energy Physics Bhattacharyya 6. Gunnar Bali U. of Regensburg Germany 2015-18 High Energy Physics 7. Satya N. Majumdar CNRS, U.of Paris France 2015-17 Cond. Matter Physics 8. Sumit R. Das U. of Kentucky USA 2015-17 String Theory

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13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information DTP does not employ temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 21 20 1.03 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 15 20 0.75 3. M.Sc. ─ ─ ─

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific & Technical Staff Administrative & Auxiliary Staff Total DTP 3 3 6

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies • String Theory and Mathematical Physics • High Energy Physics, including Lattice Gauge Theory • Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics • Statistical and Condensed Matter Physics

National Agency Project Title Total Grant Duration Faculty member (Rs. lakhs) (years) 1. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 28.10 6 Saumen Datta 2. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 26.10 7 Kedar Damle 3. DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship. 20.30 8 Shiraz Minwalla 4. UGC Field Theories with High-Spin 15.49 3 Shiraz Minwalla Symmetries and High-Spin Gravities 5. DST Holography and Its Applications 15.31 3 Sandip P. Trivedi 6. DST Spin Dependent Phenomena In 4.16 3 Vikram Tripathi Quasi Two Dimensional Structures & Films with Magnetic Impurities

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7. DST Using Conformal Field Theory 2.48 3 Gautam Mandal Description Of Hawking Radiation 8. DST MONAMI : Modeling of Nano- 1.52 8 Vikram Tripathi Scaled Advanced Materials Intelligently 9. DST Effect of Disorder and Inclusions on 2.66 5 Vikram Tripathi Transport and Magnetic Properties of Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors 10. DST Statistical Mechanics Of Polymers & 1.62 5 Deepak Dhar Systems Far From Equilibrium 11. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 7.60 5 Basudeb Dasgupta 12. DST J. C. Bose Fellowship 48.10 6 Rajiv V. Gavai 13. DST J.C.Bose Fellowship 18.60 10 Deepak Dhar 14. DST Ramanujam Fellowship 35.83 8 Nilmani Mathur 15. DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship 25.00 6 Amol Dighe 16. DST J.C. Bose Fellowship 34.20 5 Sourendu Gupta 17. DST J.C. Bose Fellowship 23.60 5 Sandip P. Trivedi 18. DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship 50.00 5 Vikram Tripathi

International Agency Project Title Total Grant Duration Faculty member (Rs. lakhs) (years) 1. IFCPAR Computational Studies Of 2.61 4 K.S. Damle Frustrated Quantum Magnets 2. IFCPAR Extreme QCD In The LHC Era 1.88 4 R.S.Bhalerao 3. ICTP Siemen Fellowship 9.00 5 Subhabrata Majumder

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

(a) National Collaborating Total Grant Duration Project Title Faculty member Institutions (Rs. lakhs) (years) 1. TIFR Glimpsing New Physics 15.00 3 Sreerup U. of Calcutta through the LHC Raychaudhuri (BRNS)

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(b) International Collaborating Total Grant Duration Project Title Faculty member Institutions (Rs. lakhs) (years) 2. TIFR, CERN CERN School (DST) 33.60 5 Rajiv V. Gavai

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

Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 1. DAE XII Plan Project -- 448 5 years All DTP DTP faculty 2. DAE XII Plan Project – 5326 5 years Lattice Indian Lattice Gauge gauge Theory Initiative theory group

20. Research facility / centre with • state recognition : • national recognition : • international recognition :

At present, there are none such in the DTP. 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies At present, there are none such in the DTP.

22. Publications: Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books Mono DTP Publications Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited -graphs 2010-11 64 27 6 2 3 1  2011-12 40 10 7 4 2 1  2012-13 46 17 3 6   1 2013-14 41 15 5 4 1  2 2014-15 48 15 2 1 1 1  Total 239 84 23 17 7 3 3

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Publications Web Publications

100 Book Chapters + Books 80 Edited + Monographs 60 Technical Reports 40

20 Articles in Proceedings Number of Publications of Number 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Journal Publications Year

∗ Books with ISBN with details of publishers 1. Particle Physics of Brane Worlds and Extra Dimensions S. Raychaudhuri and K. Sridhar, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University Press (2016), ISBN: 9780521768566. ∗ Citation Index : Total number of citations : 53800 Number of citations per faculty: 2690 ∗ h-index : 9 – 46

23. Details of patents and income generated

DTP has none in the period 2011-15.

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

DTP has none in the period 2011-15.

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

National Visits : Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date 1. Deepak Dhar Workshop on Soft, driven and biological matter, 03/2015 Department of Physics, Univ. of Pune. 2. Basudeb Dasgupta LHC-DM workshop, Indian Association for Cultivation of 02/2015 Science, Kolkata. 3. Deepak Dhar Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting, ICTS, 02/2015 Bengaluru. 4. Deepak Dhar Golden Jubilee lecture; Chennai Mathematical Institute 02/2015 Chennai. 5. K. Sridhar IIT, Guwahati 02/2015 6. K. Sridhar Workshop on LHC and Dark Matter; Indian Association 02/2015 for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. 7. Kedar Damle ICTP-JNU Workshop on Frustrated Magnetism, New 02/2015 Delhi. 8. Rajeev S. Bhalerao International Conference on Physics & Astrophysics of 02/2015 Quark-Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP), Kolkata 9. Rishi Sharma Workshop on QCD at high density, TIFR. 02/2015 10. Sourendu Gupta Conference on Perspectives and Challenges in Lattice 02/2015 Gauge Theory, TIFR. 11. Sreerup Workshop on LHC and Dark Matter, Indian Association 02/2015 Raychaudhuri for the Cultivation of Sciences. 12. Subhabrata StatCosmo2015, ISI, Kolkata, 02/2015 Majumdar 13. Subhabrata ISI, Kolkata. 02/2015 Majumdar 14. Tuhin S. Roy Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata 02/2015 from February. 15. Tuhin S. Roy LHCDM-2015 Workshop, Indian Association for the 02/2015 Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. 16. Rajdeep Sensarma IISER Kolkata 01/2015 17. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Workshop on QCD at High Density, TIFR, Mumbai. 01/2015 18. Amol Dighe XXI DAEBRNS HEP Symposium. 12/2014 19. Shiraz Minwalla 21st BNRS DAE symposium on High Energy Physics, IIT 12/2014 Guwahati, India 20. Amol Dighe Symposium on Neutrinos and INO, Indian Academy of 11/2014 Sciences Annual meeting.

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Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date 21. K. Sridhar CHEP, IISc, Bengaluru 11/2014 22. Deepak Dhar 3rd S. Datta Majumdar Memorial Lecture; IIT, 10/2014 Kharagpur. 23. Rajiv V. Gavai Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. 10/2014 24. Rajdeep Sensarma SN Bose National Center for Baisc Sciences . 09/2014 25. Amol Dighe Vision meeting in nuclear, particle and high energy 08/2014 physics; HBCSE, Mumbai. 26. Deepak Dhar Dynamic Days Asia-Pacific 08; IMSc Chennai. 07/2014

27. Sreerup SERC-THEP Preparatory School, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad 07/2014 Raychaudhuri Campus. 28. Amol Dighe Physics Symposium (SYMPHY 2014), IIT Bombay. 04/2014 29. Subhabrata Aspects of Cosmology Conference IIA, Bengaluru. 04/2014 Majumdar 30. Subhabrata ICTS Cosmology Day. 04/2014 Majumdar 31. Rishi Sharma International Seminar on Current Trends in Quantum 03/2014 Gases, BEC and Solitons, Punjab University, Chandigarh. 32. Deepak Dhar National Seminar on Nonequilibrium Complex Systems, 02/2014 Hindique Girls’ College, Guwahati. 33. Deepak Dhar National Seminar on Non-equilibrium Complex Systems, 02/2014 Hindique Girls’ College, Guwahati. 34. Gautam Mandal HRI, Allahabad. 02/2014 35. Gautam Mandal IACS, Kolkata. 02/2014 36. Rajdeep Sensarma Workshop on Cold Atoms, HRI Allahabad. 02/2014 37. Rajdeep Sensarma HRI Allahabad. 02/2014 38. Rajeev S. Bhalerao 6th Asian Nuclear Physics Association Symposium 02/2014 (ANPhAS-2014), VECC, Kolkata,. 39. Nilmani Mathur International Conference on Matter at Extreme 01/2014 Conditions : Then & Now, Bose Institute, Kolkata. 40. Rajdeep Sensarma INDIA UK GATI Conference, Kolkata, 01/2014 41. Sourendu Gupta Matter in Extreme Conditions: Then and Now, Bose 01/2014 Institute, Kolkata. 42. Sourendu Gupta STAR Regional Meeting, IOP, Bhubaneshwar. 01/2014 43. Subhabrata Symposium on Astroparticle & Nuclear Physics, Jamia 01/2014 Majumdar Milia Islamia. 44. Deepak Dhar NISER Foundation day Lecture; N.I.S.E.R., 12/2013 Bhubaneshwar. 45. Deepak Dhar Conference on Non-linear Systems and Dynamics 2013, 12/2013

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Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. 46. Kedar Damle International Conference on Computational Physics 12/2013 sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences, Coorg. 47. Rishi Sharma WHEPP 2013, Puri. 12/2013 48. Amol Dighe INO-LBNE Meeting, TIFR Mumbai. 11/2013 49. Deepak Dhar NIUS seminar, HBCSE. 11/2013 50. Sourendu Gupta 79th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 11/2013 Chandigarh. 51. Sreerup SINP, Kolkata 11/2013 Raychaudhuri 52. Rajiv V. Gavai Physics Department, IISER, Bhopal. 10/2013 53. Gautam Mandal String theory Workshop, ICTS, 09/2013 54. Gautam Mandal ICTS TIFR, Bengaluru. 09/2013 55. Rajiv V. Gavai School of Physical Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneshwar. 09/2013 56. Sourendu Gupta International conference on Triggering Discoveries; 1) 09/2013 Univ of Jammu, Jammu. 57. Sourendu Gupta Indo- Belgian Meeting on Double Parton Scattering, 09/2013 Panjab University, Chandigarh. 58. Subhabrata Field Theoretic Aspects of Gravity, IIT-Gandhinagar, 09/2013 Majumdar Ahmedabad. 59. Subhabrata India-UChicago @ TIFR Bilateral Meeting, TIFR, Mumbai. 09/2013 Majumdar 60. Rajdeep Sensarma IISER Pune . 08/2013 61. Amol Dighe Mid-year Meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences, IISc 07/2013 Bengaluru. 62. Rajeev S. Bhalerao STAR Regional Meeting and Discussion on Phases of 07/2013 QCD, NISER/IoP, Bhubaneshwar. 63. Sourendu Gupta STAR Regional Meeting, IOP, Bhubaneshwar. 07/2013 64. Rajeev S. Bhalerao National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS) 06/2013 Camp, HBCSE, Mumbai. 65. Subhabrata Advances in Astro-particle Physics & Cosmology, IAS, 06/2013 Majumdar Shimla. 66. Deepak Dhar Workshop onApplications of Game Theory, TIFR. 05/2013 67. Amol Dighe National meeting on Heavy Flavour (HFmeet 2013), IIT 04/2013 Bombay. 68. Rajdeep Sensarma IISER Bhopal. 04/2013 69. Sourendu Gupta Heavy Flavour QCD Meeting, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. 04/2013 70. Subhabrata Indo-USA Frontiers of Science, Agra. 04/2013 Majumdar

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Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date 71. Subhabrata ICTS Planck Day, ICTS, Bengaluru. 04/2013 Majumdar 72. Subhabrata ICTS, Bengaluru. 04/2013 Majumdar 73. Gautam Mandal 27th IAGRG meeting, Srinagar, UP. 03/2013 74. Amol Dighe NC-HEPC 2013 (National Conference on High Energy 02/2013 Physics and Cosmology), Guwahati University. 75. Nilmani Mathur 6th Asian Nuclear Physics Association Symposium, VECC, 02/2013 Kolkata. 76. Rajeev S. Bhalerao National Conference on Theoretical Physics, Tezpur 02/2013 University. 77. Deepak Dhar Conference on Condensed Matter and Biology, Banaras 01/2013 Hindu University, Varanasi. 78. Deepak Dhar Diversity and Complexity: Realm of Today’s Statistical 01/2013 Physics, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. 79. Rajdeep Sensarma Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 01/2013 Kolkata. 80. Saumen Datta Workshop on Nonperturbative gauge theories, 01/2013 holography and all that, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. 81. Sourendu Gupta Non-perturbative gauge theories, holography and all 01/2013 that, Bengaluru. 82. Sreerup Raychaudhuri XX DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, Visva- 01/2013 Bharati, Santiniketan 83. Sreerup Raychaudhuri CMS Data Analysis School 01/2013 84. Subhabrata Jamia Milia Islamia 01/2013 Majumdar 85. Rajdeep Sensarma Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru. 12/2012 86. Rajdeep Sensarma Discussion Meeting, Indian Institute 12/2012 of Science, Bengaluru. 87. Rajeev S. Bhalerao DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics -- orientation 12/2012 program, Delhi University. 88. Sandip P.Trivedi Indian Strings Meeting, Puri. 12/2012 89. Shiraz Minwalla Indian String Meeting 2012, Puri. 12/2012 90. Subhabrata Majumdar Astronomical Surveys Symposium, TIFR, Mumbai. 12/2012 91. Deepak Dhar Anuual meeting of Computer Society of 11/2012 India, ISI, Kolkata. 92. Saumen Datta India Institute of Science, Bengaluru. 11/2012 93. Sreerup Raychaudhuri Workshop on Frontiers in Physics, University of Hyderaba 11/2012 94. Subhabrata Majumdar Dark Energy Workshop, HRI, Allahabad. 11/2012

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Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date 95. Gautam Mandal ICTS Discussion meeting on Spacetime without Scattering 09/2012 ICTS, Bengaluru. 96. Saumen Datta Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. 09/2012 97. Sourendu Gupta 20th CBM Collaboration Meeting, Kolkata. 09/2012 98. K. Sridhar Top-Higgs Meeting, Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc, 08/2012 Bengaluru 99. Sreerup Raychaudhuri Top-Higgs Meeting, Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc, 08/2012 Bengaluru . 100. Sreerup Raychaudhuri Workshop on Higgs and New Physics at the Energy Frontie08/2012 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. 101. Rajeev S. Bhalerao 5th Workshop on Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions – 07/2012 QGP Meet 2012, VECC, Kolkata. 102. Rajiv V. Gavai QGP Meet 2012, VECC, Kolkata. 07/2012 103. Gautam Mandal IACS (Kolkata) 06/2012 104. Gautam Mandal ICTS Discussion meeting in String theory, ICTS, Bengaluru. 06/2012 105. Amol Dighe Conference on B Physics at the LHC, Kolkata. 03/2012 106. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Workshop on the Frontiers of Nuclear and Particle 03/2012 Physics, AMU, Aligarh. 107. Sreerup Workshop on Recent Developments in Particle Physics 03/2012 Raychaudhuri Phenomenology, University of Calcutta,. 108. Deepak Dhar Current trends in Condensed Matter Physics, Indian Inst. 02/2012 Science, Bengaluru. 109. Nilmani Mathur B Physics at the LHC, Kolkata. 02/2012 110. Sreerup University of Calcutta 02/2012 Raychaudhuri 111. Vikram Tripathi International Conference on Physics and Chemistry of 02/2012 Spintronics Material, Coorg. 112. Deepak Dhar Young Investigators Meeting, Lonavala, 01/2012. 113. Deepak Dhar International Nonequilibrium Winter School, IISER, 01/2012 Kolkata. 114. Deepak Dhar Network Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer 01/2012 Science, Indian Inst. Science, Bengaluru. 115. Gautam Mandal ICTS Program on Random matrix theory and 01/2012 applications, IISc, Bengaluru 116. Kedar Damle ICTS Random Matrix Theory workshop, Bengaluru. 01/2012 117. Rajiv V. Gavai Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology XII, 01/2012 Mahabaleswar. 118. Sourendu Gupta VECC, Kolkata. 01/2012 119. Gautam Mandal CTS Discussion Meeting on String Theory and 12/2011 applications Strongly Correlated Systems and AdS/CFT,

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Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date International workshop, IISc, Bengaluru. 120. Gautam Mandal International Conference on Theoretical & Applied 12/2011 Physics, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur 121. Sandip P.Trivedi National String Meeting, Delhi. 12/2011 122. Shiraz Minwalla National Strings Meeting, New Delhi. 12/2011 123. Sourendu Gupta IIT Kharagpur. 12/2011 124. Sourendu Gupta International Conference on Theoretical and Applied 12/2011 Physics, IIT Kharagpur. 125. Subhabrata COSGRAV 12, ISI Kolkata. 12/2011 Majumdar 126. Vikram Tripathi ICTS Condensed Matter Programme 2011, Bengaluru. 12/2011 127. Kedar Damle Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored Indo-Swedish 11/2011 meeting on Magnetism, Coorg. 128. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Indo-French Theme Meeting on Physics with Radioactive 11/2011 Ion Beam, BARC, Mumbai. 129. Sourendu Gupta IISc Bengaluru. 11/2011 130. Subhabrata IISER, Mohali. 11/2011 Majumdar 131. Subhabrata Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi. 11/2011 Majumdar 132. Deepak Dhar Econophysics of systemic risk and network analysis, 10/2011 Saha Inst. Nucl. Phys., Kolkata. 133. Kedar Damle HRI Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics, Allahabad. 10/2011 134. Kedar Damle Fifth Indo-Israeli Condensed Matter Physics Meeting, 10/2011 Kochi. 135. Shiraz Minwalla Workshop on Higher Spin Theories, HRI, Allahabad. 10/2011 136. Vikram Tripathi Indo-Israeli Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics, 10/2011 Ramada Inn, Kochi 137. K. Sridhar 10th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections 09/2011 – RADCOR 2011, Mahabalipuram 138. Amol Dighe Lepton-Photon 2011 Symposium, TIFR, Mumbai. 08/2011 139. Nilmani Mathur Quarks, Hadrons and LHC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. 08/2011 140. Shiraz Minwalla Lepton Photon 2011, TIFR, Mumbai. 08/2011 141. Sourendu Gupta NISER, Bhubaneshwar. 08/2011 142. Sourendu Gupta A Scale for the phase diagram of QCD, XXV 08/2011 International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies, TIFR, Mumbai. 143. Sreerup Workshop on Confronting Particle-Cosmology with Data 08/2011 Raychaudhuri from Planck and the LHC, IUCAA, Pune.

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Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date 144. Subhabrata Indo-UK Scientific Seminar, IUCAA. 08/2011 Majumdar 145. Subhabrata IUCAA, Pune. 08/2011 Majumdar 146. Subhabrata Indian Conference on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, 08/2011 Majumdar IISER-Mohali. 147. Gautam Mandal TIFR-ICTS Summer Workshop, ICTS, Bengaluru 06/2011 148. Sourendu Gupta IoP, Bhubaneshwar. 06/2011 149. Rajeev S. Bhalerao CBM + STAR collaboration meeting, VECC, Kolkata. 04/2011 150. Vikram Tripathi International Conference on Functional Materials, 04/2011 Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, 151. Amol Dighe International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus 03/2011 Interactions (NuInt11), Dehradun. 152. Deepak Dhar SPS @ 25’, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, New Delhi. 03/2011. 153. Gautam Mandal ICTS Discussion Meeting on String Theory and 03/ 2011 applications to Condensed Matter Physics and QCD, TIFR. 154. Gautam Mandal ICTS Discussion Meeting on String Theory and 03/ 2011 applications to Condensed Matter Physics and QCD, TIFR. 155. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Recent Trends in Nuclear and Particle Physics, under the 03/2011 UGC Networking Programme, BHU, Varanasi. 156. Sourendu Gupta ICTS Discussion Meeting on Applied String Theory, TIFR, 03/2011 Mumbai, 157. Sreerup Workshop on New Trends in Nuclear and Particle 03/2011 Raychaudhuri Physics, BHU Varanasi 158. Sreerup National Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, 03/2011 Raychaudhuri Burdwan University 159. Subhabrata National Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, 03/2011. Majumdar University of Burdwan 160. Subhabrata Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, 03/2011 Majumdar Darjeeling 161. Gautam Mandal QFT 2011, IISER, Pune 02/2011 162. Sreerup High Energy Physics Conference in memory of Prof. S.D. 02/2011 Raychaudhuri Joglekar, IIT Kanpur 163. Subhabrata 29th Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, 02/2011 Majumdar Raipur 164. Subhabrata Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. 02/2011 Majumdar 165. Amol Dighe Project-X meeting, TIFR Mumbai 01/2011

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Faculty member Place Visited and Occasion Date 166. Gautam Mandal Indian Strings Meeting 2011, Puri 01/2011. 167. Shiraz Minwalla Indian Strings Meeting 2011, Puri 01/2011 168. Sreerup International Workshop on Dark Matter in the LHC Era: 01/2011 Raychaudhuri Direct and Indirect Searches, SINP Kolkata. 169. Sreerup Workshop on Synergy between High Energy and High 01/2011 Raychaudhuri Luminosity Frontiers, TIFR Mumbai 170. Subhabrata Centre for Astro Particle Physics, Saha Institute of 01/2011 Majumdar Nuclear Physics. Kolkata 171. Subhabrata Dark Matter in the LHC Era: Direct and Indirect 01/2011 Majumdar Searches, SINP, Kolkata 172. Gautam Mandal Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, in 12/2010 173. Sandip P.Trivedi Chandrasekhar Discussion meeting, Bengaluru. 12/2010 174. Sandip P.Trivedi DAE Symposium, String Theory and Phenomenology. 12/2010 175. Sandip P.Trivedi Conference on Primordial Features and Non- 12/2010 Gaussianity, HRI, Allahabad. 176. Vikram Tripathi Indian Insitute of Science, Bengaluru 12/2010 177. Gautam Mandal Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 05/2010

International Visits : Faculty member Place visited and Occasion Date 1. Shiraz Minwalla Eurostrings 2015, Cambridge, UK. 03/2015 2. Shiraz Minwalla Holography, Strings and Higher Spins, Swansea, UK. 03/2015 3. Basudeb Dasgupta DARK-MALT Workshop, Munich Institute for Astro- 02/2015 Particle Physics, Munich. 4. Rajdeep Sensarma University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. 02/2015 5. Shiraz Minwalla 2nd Workshop on Developments in M Theory, 01/2015 Gangwon-do, Korea. 6. Vikram Tripathi Sabbatical visit to Argoone National Laboratory and 01/2015 University of Chicago. 7. Deepak Dhar 6th Indo- Israeli meeting on Frontiers of Condensed 12/ 2014 Matter Physics, Jerusalem. 8. Shiraz Minwalla Jo’burg workshop on Matrices, Holography and QCD, 12/2014 Johannesburg, South Africa. 9. Vikram Tripathi IACS-APCTP Conference on Novel Oxide Materials and 12/2014 Low-Dimensional Systems, Seoul National Univeristy, Seoul, Korea. 10. Gupta, Sourendu 2014 CPOD Meeting, University of Bielefeld, Germany 11/2014 11. Nilmani Mathur CERN, Switzerland. 11/2014

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Faculty member Place visited and Occasion Date 12. Nilmani Mathur University of Regensburg, Germany. 11/2014 13. Nilmani Mathur Quarkonium 2014, CERN, Switzerland. 11/2014 14. Rajiv V. Gavai University of Regensburg, Germany 11/2014 15. Shiraz Minwalla 2014 CPOD Meeting, University of Bielefeld, Germany. 11/2014 16. Shiraz Minwalla Seventh Taiwan String Workshop, Taipei. 11/2014 17. Nilmani Mathur University of St. Petersburg, Russia. 09/2014 18. Nilmani Mathur Confinement XI, St. Petersburg, Russia. 09/2014 19. Rajiv V. Gavai Institute of Theoretical Physics, Peking University, 09/2014 China. 20. Rajiv V. Gavai Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China 09/2014 21. Subhabrata Saclay, Paris . 09/2014 Majumdar 22. Subhabrata Dark Matter@ETH Workshop. 09/2014 Majumdar 23. Gupta, Sourendu 5th Asian Triangle Meeting on Heavy Ion Collisions, 08/2014 Univ of Osaka, Japan. 24. Nilmani Mathur Mainz, Germany and Bern Switzerland. 08/2014 25. Shiraz Minwalla 5th Asian Triangle Meeting on Heavy Ion Collisions, 08/2014 Univ of Osaka, Japan. 26. Subhabrata MIAPP Munich. 08/2014 Majumdar 27. Subhabrata MIAPP Workshop, Cosmology after Planck, Munich. 08/2014 Majumdar 28. Subhabrata ETH, Zurich. 07/2014 Majumdar 29. Vikram Tripathi Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism, 07/2014 Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. 30. Deepak Dhar Non-equilibrium problems in Physics and Mathematics, 06/2014 Ascona, Switzerland. 31. Kedar Damle Nordita Workshop on Frustrated Magnetism; Stockholm. 06/2014 32. Nilmani Mathur TRIUMF, University of British Columbia, Canada. 06/2014 33. Rajeev S. Bhalerao SPhT, Saclay, France. 06/2014 34. Rajiv V. Gavai University of Bielefeld, Germany. 06/2014 35. Rajiv V. Gavai Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA . 06/2014 36. Shiraz Minwalla Sabbatical visit to the Institute of advanced Study 06/2014 Princeton. 37. Shiraz Minwalla Exotic Structures of Spacetime, Kyoto. 03/2014 38. Shiraz Minwalla Sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study. 03/2014 39. Kedar Damle LPT IRSAMC (Univ. Paul Sabatier Toulouse). 02/2014

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Faculty member Place visited and Occasion Date 40. Subhabrata CITA, Toronto and Argonne National Laboratory, 12/2013 Majumdar Chicago. 41. Subhabrata Texas Conference on elativistic Dark Matter, Dallas, 12/2013 Majumdar USA. 42. Rajdeep Sensarma University of Maryland, College Park 11/2013 43. Rajdeep Sensarma Ohio State University USA. 11/2013 44. K. Sridhar Small Systems far from Equilibrium Workshop, Max 10/2013 Planck Inst. for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden. 45. Rajiv V. Gavai Institut de Physique Theorique Saclay, France. 09/2013 46. Gupta, Sourendu Extreme QCD meeting, Bern, Switzerland. 08/2013 47. Rajiv V. Gavai University of Mainz, Germany . 08/2013 48. Rajiv V. Gavai University of Bern, Switzerland . 08/2013 49. Rajiv V. Gavai Brookhaven National Laboratory USA. 07/2013 50. Shiraz Minwalla String Theory, Black Holes and Holography, Kyoto. 07/2013 51. Gautam Mandal Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, 06/2013 52. Gautam Mandal 7th Crete Regional Meeting in String 06/2013 Theory, Crete. 53. Rajeev S. Bhalerao SPhT, Saclay, France. 06/2013 54. Shiraz Minwalla Strings 2013, Seoul, Korea. 06/2013 55. Shiraz Minwalla Utrecht FOM String Meeting. 06/2013 56. Amol Dighe Exploring the universe with neutrinos; Lepton- Photon 05/2013 Symposium (LP13), San Francisco, USA. 57. Subhabrata ICTP Trieste. 05/2013 Majumdar 58. Gupta, Sourendu Conference on Critical Point and the Onset of 03/2013 Deconfinement, Napa, USA, 59. Rajdeep Sensarma University of Maryland, College Park, USA and 03/2013 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA and Baltimore, USA. 60. Shiraz Minwalla Solvay Meeting on higher spins, Brussels. 02/2013 61. Subhabrata ASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan. 02/2013 Majumdar 62. Shiraz Minwalla Joint London Triangle Seminar, ty College London, 01/2013 UK. 63. Amol Dighe KIAS Phenomenology Workshop, Seoul, South Korea. 11/2012 64. Kedar Damle KITP Santa Barbara 10/2012 65. Kedar Damle SCGO, FRAGNETS12, KITP Santa Barbara. 10/2012 66. Rajeev S. Bhalerao The First Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy 10/2012 Physics, Fukuoka, Japan.

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Faculty member Place visited and Occasion Date 67. Rajiv V. Gavai National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 10/2012 68. Rajiv V. Gavai QCD Structure I Workshop, Central China Normal 10/2012 University, Wuhan, China,. 69. Gupta, Sourendu Workshop on New Frontiers in Lattice Gauge Theory, 09/2012 Galileo Galieli Institute, Florence, Italy, 70. Kedar Damle Conference on Innovations in Strongly correlated 08/2012 electronic systems, ICTP Trieste. 71. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. 08/2012 72. Rajiv V. Gavai Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy. 08/2012 73. Rajiv V. Gavai Workshop 08/2012 on New Frontiers in Lattice Gauge Theory, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy, 74. Subhabrata Chinese Astronomical Society, Beijing, China. 08/2012 Majumdar 75. Subhabrata University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 08/2012 Majumdar 76. Subhabrata IAU 26th General Assembly, Beijing. 08/2012 Majumdar 77. Vikram Tripathi Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism 08/2012 (MISM-2011), Moscow State University. 78. Vikram Tripathi LT26 conference on low temperature physics, Beijing. 08/2012 79. Amol Dighe NuFact12 (International Workshop On Neutrino 07/2012 Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams), USA, (Given remotely via video-link) 80. Gupta, Sourendu International Conference on Heavy-ion collisions in the 07/2012 LHC era, in Qui Nhon, Vietnam. 81. Gupta, Sourendu Workshop on Strong and Electro-Weak Matter, 07/2012 University of Swansea, Swansea, UK,. 82. K. Sridhar DAMTP, Cambridge, U.K. 07/2012 83. Rajeev S. Bhalerao International Conference on Heavy-Ion Collisions in 07/2012 the LHC Era, Quy Nhon, Vietnam. 84. Subhabrata Majumdar ETH, Zurich and ICTP, Trieste. 07/2012 85. Subhabrata Workshop on LSS, ICTP-Trieste. 07/2012 Majumdar 86. Amol Dighe Invisibles conference, Florence, Italy. 06/2012 87. K. Sridhar String Phenomenology Meeting, Cambridge, UK. 06/2012 88. Vikram Tripathi P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow Russia . 06/2012 89. Rajeev S. Bhalerao SPhT, Saclay, France . 05/2012 90. Rajiv V. Gavai Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. 05/2012 91. Rajiv V. Gavai Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 05/2012

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Faculty member Place visited and Occasion Date 92. Shiraz Minwalla Bits Branes and Black Holes, KITP Santa Barbara. 05/2012 93. Gautam Mandal University of Kentucky, Lexington. 04/2012 94. Gupta, Sourendu Institute of Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA during 03/2012 95. Vikram Tripathi Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. 03/2012 96. Gupta, Sourendu Workshop on Critical Point and the Onset of 11/2011 Deconfinement, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China,. 97. Gupta, Sourendu Quarks and Hadrons under Extreme Conditions, Keio 11/2011 University in Tokyo, Japan. 98. Gupta, Sourendu Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan 11/2011 99. Gupta, Sourendu Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 11/2011 100. Gupta, Sourendu Riken-BNL Workshop on Fluctuations, Correlations and 10/2011 the RHIC Beam Energy Scan; Brookhaven National Lab, USA. 101. Gupta, Sourendu Central China Normal University, Wuhan, India 10/2011 102. Gupta, Sourendu Brookhaven National Lab, Long Island, USA, 10/2011 103. Nilmani Mathur STRONGnet 2011 Workshop on Computational 10/2011 Hadron Physics, ECT in Trento, Italy. 104. Subhabrata First eROSITA International Conference, Garmisch- 10/2011 Majumdar Partenkirchen. 105. Subhabrata MPA, Munich. 10/2011 Majumdar 106. Gupta, Sourendu XLI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, 09/2011 Miyajima Island, Hiroshima, Japan. 107. Rajiv V. Gavai University of Bielefeld, Germany, (Alexander von 09/2011 Humboldt Re- invitation). 108. Rajiv V. Gavai International Conference on Strangeness in 09/2011 Quark Matter 2011, Cracow, Poland. 109. Rajiv V. Gavai ExtreMe Matter Institute Workshop on Quarkonia in 09/2011 Deconfined Matter, Acitrezza, Italy. 110. Shiraz Minwalla KIAS String Workshop, Sept 2011, Seoul, Korea. 09/2011 111. Kedar Damle ICTP workshop on Synergies between Field Theory and 07/2011 Exact Computational Methods, Trieste, Italy. 112. Kedar Damle Toulouse Workshop of Quantum Magnetism and 07/2011 Strongly Correlated Systems, Toulouse, France. 113. Subhabrata A New Generation of Galaxy Cluster Surveys, Sesto. 07/2011 Majumdar 114. Subhabrata IFCA, Santander and ICTP, Trieste 07/2011 Majumdar 115. Gautam Mandal 6th Regional Meeting in String Theory, Milos, Greece. 06/2011

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Faculty member Place visited and Occasion Date 116. Gupta, Sourendu CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France, 06/2011 117. Kedar Damle University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, as Visiting Faculty. 06/2011 118. Nilmani Mathur Jefferson Lab and University of Kentucky. 06/2011 119. Rajiv V. Gavai Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory. 06/2011 120. Shiraz Minwalla Strings 2011, Upsalla 06/2011 121. Subhabrata Majumdar A New Era for SZ Science, Santander, 06/2011 122. Amol Dighe HAmburg Neutrinos from Supernova Explosions 05/2011 (HANSE 2011) Workshop DESY, Hamburg, Germany. 123. Rajeev S. Bhalerao SPhT, Saclay, France . 05/2011 124. Sandip P.Trivedi SITP Seminar, Stanford University. 05/2011 125. Shiraz Minwalla Solvay Meeting, Brussels. 05/2011 126. Shiraz Minwalla KITP Santa Barbara. 05/2011 127. Kedar Damle Indo-US Forum organized symposium Frontiers of 04/2011 Science 2011, Irvine, USA. 128. Sandip P.Trivedi ASICTP, Workshop on Applied AdS/CFT. 04/2011 129. Shiraz Minwalla Great Lakes String Meeting, Chicago. 04/2011 130. Shiraz Minwalla Royal Society Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics and 04/2011 String theory, Chicheley Hall, UK. 131. Rajeev S. Bhalerao SPhT, Saclay, France. 01/2011

26. Faculty serving in (a) National Committees : Role on the Term of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 1. Amol Dighe Physical Sciences Research Committee, Member 2015 -- CSIR 2. Amol Dighe Faculty Selection Committee, IIT Member 2015 Bombay 3. Amol Dighe National Organising Committee, NSPDI Member 2015 2015 (National Symposium on Particles, Detectors and Instrumentation), Madurai 4. Amol Dighe National Organising Committee, Member 2015 Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP 2016), IIT Kanpur 5. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Advisory Committee, 60th DAE-BRNS Member 2015 Symposium on Nuclear Physics

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Role on the Term of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 6. Gupta, Sourendu INSA Sectional Committee Member 2014- 7. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Advisory Committee, DAE Symposium Member 2014 on Nuclear Physics, BHU, Varanasi 8. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Advisory Committee, Training Workshop Member 2014 on Detector and Physics Simulations for PANDA@Fair, Sardar Patel University 9. Subhabrata Faculty Selection Committee, NISER, Member 2014 Majumdar Bhubhaneswar 10. Deepak Dhar Governing Council, IACS Member 2013-16 11. Amol Dighe Scientific Management Board, India- Member 2013 - based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Secretary 12. Gupta, Sourendu First court of Central University of Member 2013- Gujarat 13. Amol Dighe Organising Committee, Program on CP Member 2013 Violation in elementary particles and composite systems, Mahabaleshwar 14. Amol Dighe Academic Core Committee, Member 2013 International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO 2013), Pune 15. Basudeb Dasgupta Scientific Advisory Committee, ICTS Member 2013 Workshop on Interface of Numerical Relativity with Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, Neutrino Physics and High- Energy Astrophysics 16. Nilmani Mathur National organizing committee, DAE Member 2013 Symposium on High Energy Physics 17. Rajeev S. Bhalerao National Advisory Committee National Member 2013 Conference on Nuclear Physics (NCNP- 2013), Sambalpur University 18. Rajiv V. Gavai National Organizing Committee, 13th Co-convener 2013 Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology, Puri 19. Subhabrata Faculty Selection Committee, ICTS-TIFR, Member 2012,13 Majumdar Bengaluru 20. Rajiv V. Gavai PAC, International Cooperation, DST Member 2012- 21. Amol Dighe Organising Committee, National Member 2012 Symposium on Particles, Detectors and Instrumentation (NSPDI), TIFR Mumbai 22. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Advisory Committee, DAE Symposium Member 2012 on Nuclear Physics, Delhi University

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Role on the Term of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 23. Amol Dighe National Organising Committee, Co-convener 2012 Workshop in High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-XII), Mahabaleshwar 24. Amol Dighe National Organising Committee, Member 2011 ``Workshop on Synergy between High Energy and High Luminosity Frontiers'', TIFR Mumbai 25. Amol Dighe National Organising Committee, Lepton- Member 2011 Photon 2011, TIFR Mumbai, Aug 2011 26. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Organizing Committee, DAE Symposium Member 2011 on Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam 27. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Advisory Committee, 5th DAE-BRNS Member 2011 Workshop on Hadron Physics, BARC, Mumbai 28. Rajeev S. Bhalerao Organizing Committee, International Member 2011 Workshop - Quarks, Hadrons, and LHC, IITB, Mumbai; Satellite workshop of XXV International Symposium on Lepton- Photon Interactions at High Energies (Lepton-Photon 11), TIFR, Mumbai 2011 29. Subhabrata LOC, 7th Internal Conference on Member 2011 Majumdar Gravitation and Cosmology 30. Subhabrata ICTS Public lecture committee for Member 2011 Majumdar 'Universe Unravelled' 31. Amol Dighe Local Organising Committee, ``12th Member 2010 International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and beta beams'' (NuFact10), TIFR Mumbai 32. Amol Dighe National Organising Committee, Member 2010 ``XIX DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium'', LNMIIT Jaipur 33. Rajiv V. Gavai DAE-DST Task Force for CMS and ALICE Member 2008-

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(b) International Committees : Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 1. Gupta, Sourendu International Advisory Committee for Member 2017 Quark Matter 2017 2. Amol Dighe International Advisory Committee, Member 2016 International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016), Chicago 3. Gupta, Sourendu International Advisory Committee for Member 2016 ATHIC 2016 4. Amol Dighe International Advisory Committee, Lepton Member 2015 Photon 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia 5. Gupta, Sourendu International Advisory Commitee for Member 2015 Lattice 2015 6. Gupta, Sourendu International Advisory Committee for Member 2014 Lattice 2014 7. Gupta, Sourendu International Advisory Committee for Member 2014 ATHIC 2014 8. Gupta, Sourendu International Advisory Committee for Member 2014 NDQCD 2014 9. Rajiv V. Gavai International Advisory Committee, XXIV Member 2014 International Conference on Ultra- relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Germany 10. Subhabrata SOC, Cosmology Day Workshop, ICTS Member 2014 Majumdar 11. Amol Dighe International Advisory Committee, Topics Member 2013 in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2013), Asilomar, USA 12. Rajeev S. Bhalerao International Advisory Committee, Member 2013 International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Mumbai 13. Basudeb Dasgupta ICTP Workshop on Future of Dark Matter Scientific 2012 and Astroparticle Physics Secretary 14. Gupta, Sourendu International Advisory Commmittee for Member 2012 ATHIC 2012 15. Subhabrata SOC & LOC, Astronomical Surveys, ICTS Member 2012 Majumdar 16. Subhabrata SOC, 7th Internal Conference on Member 2011 Majumdar Gravitation and Cosmology 17. Nilmani Mathur International Advisory Committee, Member 2012- International Symposium on Lattice Field 2014 Theory

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Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Member Name of the Committee Committee Service 18. Amol Dighe C11 Commission (Particles and Fields) of Member 2015 -- IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics)

(c) Editorial Boards : Faculty Member Name of the Journal Impact Factor Term of Service 1. Gautam Mandal European Journal of Physics C 5.084 Indefinite 2. Rajiv V. Gavai Nuclear Physics A 2.202 2010- 3. Deepak Dhar Physical Review E 1.779 2012-2015 4. Deepak Dhar J. Phys. A: Math. Gen 1.583 2015- 5. Gautam Mandal Modern Physics Letters A 1.338 Indefinite 6. Deepak Dhar J. Statistical Physics 1.202 2012- 7. Deepak Dhar Pramana 0.649 2012-2015 8. Rajiv V. Gavai Pramana 0.649 2007-14 9. Gupta, Sourendu Pramana 0.649 Indefinite

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

ALL (100%) TIFR students are required to do two Departmental Projects, viz. Departmental Project I and Departmental Project II (see Item 8 above).

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

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29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level National Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Kedar Damle Fellow, IASc 2016 2. Basudeb Dasgupta Ramanujan Fellow 2015 3. Shiraz Minwalla Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Kanpur 2015 4. Shiraz Minwalla IIM Lucknow Young Leader Award 2014 5. Gautam Mandal Fellow, IASc 2014 6. Vikram Tripathi Swarnajayanti Fellow 2013 7. Shiraz Minwalla Infosys Prize 2013 8. Amol Dighe Fellow, INSA 2013 9. Amol Dighe Bhatnagar Prize 2013 10. Sandip P.Trivedi J.C.Bose Fellow 2012 11. Sandip P.Trivedi Fellow, INSA 2011 12. Sourendu Gupta Fellow, INSA 2011 13. Shiraz Minwalla Fellow, IASc 2011 14. Sourendu Gupta Fellow, IASc 2011 15. Shiraz Minwalla Bhatnagar Prize 2011 16. Rajiv V. Gavai J.C.Bose Fellow 2010 17. Sourendu Gupta J.C.Bose Fellow 2010 18. Sandip P.Trivedi Infosys Prize 2010 19. Sandip Trivedi Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Kanpur 2010 20. Amol Dighe Swarnajayanti Fellow 2009 21. Kedar Damle Birla Prize 2009 22. Shiraz Minwalla Swarnajayanti Fellow 2007 23. Kedar Damle Ramanujan Fellow 2007 24. Nilmani Mathur Ramanujan Fellow 2007 25. Saumen Datta Ramanujan Fellow 2007 26. Vikram Tripathi Ramanujan Fellow 2007 27. Deepak Dhar J.C.Bose Fellow 2007 28. Rajiv V. Gavai Fellow, INSA 2006 29. Sandip Trivedi Bhatnagar Prize 2005 30. Rajeev Bhalerao Fellow, Maharashtra Academy of Sciences 2005

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Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 31. Rajiv Gavai Fellow, IASc 2003 32. Sandip Trivedi Swarnajayanti Fellow 2002 33. Deepak Dhar Fellow, NASc 1999 34. Deepak Dhar Fellow, INSA 1995 35. Deepak Dhar Bhatnagar Prize 1991 36. Deepak Dhar Fellow, IASc 1990 International Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Sandip P.Trivedi TWAS Prize in Physics 2016 2. Subhabrata Majumdar Simon Fellow, ICTP 2015 3. Basudeb Dasgupta Kavli Fellow, US National Academy of Sciences 2015 4. Shiraz Minwalla Nishina Asia Award 2013 5. Shiraz Minwalla New Horizons Physics Prize (Milner) 2013 6. Subhabrata Majumdar Kavli Fellow, US National Academy of Sciences 2013 7. Shiraz Minwalla ICTP Prize 2010 8. Deepak Dhar Fellow, TWAS 2006 9. Deepak Dhar TWAS Prize 2002 10. Deepak Dhar J.R. Schrieffer Prize, ICTP 1993

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others: National Awards (in the period 2011- 15)

Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Basudeb Dasgupta INSA Young Scientist Medal 2011 2. Diptimoy Ghosh Rahul Basu Memorial award for best thesis, HEP 2012 3. Nikhil Karthik Rahul Basu Memorial award for best thesis, HEP 2014

International Awards : None in the period 2011- 15

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

Main Dates Name Funding Faculty member(s) 1. February 16-20, Perspectives and Challenges in TIFR Rajiv V. Gavai 2015 Lattice Gauge Theory, TIFR Sourendu Gupta Nilmani Mathur 2. January 27-30, Workshop on QCD at High TIFR Soumen Datta 2015 Density, TIFR Sourendu Gupta Rishi Sharma 3. November 6 – 17, 2nd Asia-Europe Pacific School in CERN, KEK, Sreerup 2014 High Energy Physics, Puri DAE Raychaudhuri 4. January 9-18, 2014 8th Asian Winter School on TIFR, HRI, Sandip P. Trivedi Strings, Particles and Cosmology IMSc Gautam Mandal Puri. Shiraz Minwalla 5. December 12-21, Workshop on High Energy Physics BRNS Rajiv V. Gavai 2013 and Phenomenology (WHEPP13), Sreerup Puri. Raychaudhuri 6. September 21, Cosmology & Astrophysics (part TIFR, Subhabrata 2013 of the India-UChicago@TIFR U.Chicago Majumdar Meeting), TIFR 7. December 8-14, From Strings to LHC III, Puri TIFR, HRI, K. Sridhar 2012. Registration Sreerup Raychaudhuri 8. January 10-11, ICTS Discussion Meeting on the ICTS/TIFR Rajiv V. Gavai 2012 Phase Diagram of QCD Sourendu Gupta Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, Kolkata. 9. February 8-9, 2011 Cray-TIFR Workshop on High TIFR Rajiv V. Gavai Performance Computing in Sourendu Gupta Physics, TIFR. 10. January 4-10, 2011 Indian Strings Meeting (2011), TIFR, HRI, Sandip P. Trivedi Puri. IMSc Gautam Mandal Shiraz Minwalla 11. December 10-21, Astronomical Surveys (an ICTS ICTS/TIFR Subhabrata 2011 TIFR Program) , TIFR. Majumdar

12. December 9-22, ICTS Condensed Matter ICTS/TIFR Kedar Damle 2011 Programme 2011, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. 13. December 1-23, Frontiers of Cosmology and ICTS/TIFR Sandip P. Trivedi 2011 Gravitation (an ICTS TIFR Subhabrata

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Main Dates Name Funding Faculty member(s) Program) Goa and IUCAA, Pune. Majumdar

14. March 14-25, 2011 Asian Lattice School on Lattice ICTS/TIFR Rajiv V. Gavai Field Theory (ICTS programme), Sourendu Gupta TIFR. Nilmani Mathur Soumen Datta

Name of the Applications Pass Programme Received Selected Joined percentage* Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 47 2 20 2 90 100 21370# Int.- M.Sc.-Ph.D. 15 3 11 1 100 100 Total 65 5 31 3 # Applications include numbers for of All 5 departments 33. Diversity of students

a) Geographical: Integrated Ph.D. M.Sc.-Ph.D. Students Male Female Male Female Total From the state where the university is located — — 2 — 2 From other states of India 11 2 18 1 32 Total 11 2 20 1 34

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b) Ungraduate Institution : Integrated Ph.D. M.Sc.-Ph.D. Total Students Male Female Male Female From Universities 3 1 12 1 17 From premier science institutions † 1 — 2 — 3 From premier professional institutions # 7 1 6 — 14 From others* — — — — — Foreign Universities — — — — — Total 11 2 20 1 34 † Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc. # IITs, NITs, etc.

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defense Services examinations, NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise. Examination Students cleared 1. NET 10 2. GATE 8 3. JEST 12 4. Others 9

35. Student progression

• Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DTP go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry.

• Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the DTP go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc.’s and Ph.D.s. Once in a while (less than one per year), a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number (< 10%) go for other employment, such as teaching positions or industry

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36. Diversity of staff

Faculty Ph.D.s

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s [VALU TIFR from TIFR : 5 E]% from other institutions in India : 4 [VALU India E]% [VALU from institutions Abroad: 11 E]% Abroad Total : 20

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a. Library DTP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (see Section B2, Item no 4.2)

b. Internet facilities for staff and students DTP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Computer Centre and Communication Facility (see Section B2, Item no 4.3)

c. Total number of class rooms

DTP, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d. Class rooms with ICT facility All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video-conferencing possibilities are also available in most of the lecture rooms.

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e. Students’ laboratories

• For the compulsory Experimental Physics courses and for all the Projects, students have access to the well-equipped laboratories of DTP (see Item f) below) • In addition students of both Ph.D. and Integrated-Ph.D. have one Teaching Laboratory which has specific experimental setups which are used during the coursework period.

f. Research laboratories Name of Laboratory Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Brief description of research activity 1. ILGTI Blue Gene 4 2 0 Lattice gauge theory 2. ILGTI Hyderabad Facility 4 2 0 Lattice QCD

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

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral students 1. Acharya, Sandeep Kumar 19. Kundu, Sarbajaya 2. Bala, Dibyendu 20. Vishal, M.V. 3. Bardhan, Debjyoti 21. Mandlik, Mangesh M. 4. Bhatia, Disha 22. Mazumdar, Subhajit 5. Bhattacharyya, Soumya 23. Nayak, Pranjal 6. Biswas, Sounak 24. Pal, Mainak 7. Chakraborty, Ahana 25. Sabir Ali, Mahammad 8. Dandekar, Yogesh B 26. Samanta, Abhisek 9. Das, Anirban 27. Samanta, Rickmoy 10. Gaikwad, Adwait J 28. Samui ,Tousik 11. Rakala, Geet Ghanshyam 29. Sankar, Sarath 12. Ghosh, Subhajit 30. Sen, Manibrata 13. Gorantla, Pranay 31. Shukla, Ashish 14. Guria, Abhijit 32. Sinha, Ritam 15. Halder, Indranil 33. Soni , Ronak M 16. Janagal, Lavneet 34. Sorokhaibam, Nilakash 17. Jani, Bhawik 35. Tiwari, Anurag 18. Kini , Amith Thukaram

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Post-doctoral fellows 1. Chakraborty, Amit 7. Maitra, Ushoshi 2. Chakraborty, Sabyasachi 8. Mondal, Sourav 3. Choudhury, Sayantan 9. Poojary, Rohan Raghava 4. Inbasekar, Karthik 10. Saha, Arunabha 5. Iyer, Abhishek M. 11. Thakur, Soumyadip 6. Lahiri, Anirban

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

ALL the students of DTP (13) are in doctoral programmes, and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships.

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

DTP, and TIFR as a whole, has been training students for Ph.D. since its inception in 1945. During the 1990’s, a need was felt for a special programme to allow exceptionally bright students an early entry into research, i.e. directly after their B.Sc.’s. This was felt on the basis of the Institute’s well-established VSRP programme (see Item 48 below), where it was seen that many of the best students were already prepared for graduate school, even though they were only half-way through their M.Sc. programmes. It was therefore, decided to admit some exceptionally bright B.Sc. students directly to the Ph.D. programme, teach them the basic M.Sc. courses in a period of one year, and then permit them to do advanced electives and project work similar to M.Sc.’s. Based on the success of this move, the Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme, was formally started in 2012.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

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

The Subject Board of Physics includes a Course Coordinator, who is constantly in touch with the Instructors of different courses, and collects

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their feedback at regular intervals. This is used to (a) advise the Instructors, (b) update the Syllabus, and (c) fine-tune the curriculum.

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

The Course Coodinator (see above) also collects anonymous feedback on every course from the students in a form specifically designed for this purpose. The relevant portions in this are communicated to the Instructors, for modification and rectification in their pedagogic styles. These feedback forms also form an important input in selecting a faculty for the Excellence in Teaching Award of the TIFR Alumni Association.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. Udgaonkar, B. M. Padma Bhushan(1985), Founder Reactor Division of BARC 2. Majumdar, C. K. Bhatnagar Award (1976), Founding Director, SNBNCBS 3. Sudarshan, E.C.G. Padma Vibhushan (2007), ICTP Dirac Prize (2010), Ex-Director, IMSc 4. Mukunda, N. Bhatnagar Award (1980), Ex-President, IASc 5. Rajasekharan, G. Ex-Director, IMSc 6. Singh, Virendra Bhatnagar Award (1973), Ex-Director, TIFR 7. Jha, Sudhansu S. Bhatnagar Award (1979), Ex-Director, TIFR 8. Roy, Sashanka M. Bhatnagar Award (1981) 9. Roy, Probir Bhatnagar Award (1987) 10. Shastry, B. Sriram TWAS Prize (1998), Onsager prize (2009), Distinguished Professor, UCSC 11. Barma, Mustansir Padma Shri (2013), Bhatnagar Award (1995), Ex-Director, TIFR

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Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 12. Wadia, Spenta R. ICT P Weinberg Prize (1995), Founding Centre-Director, ICTS/TIFR, TWAS Fellow (2006) 13. Raychaudhuri, Bhatnagar Award (1997), Ex-Director, HRI Amitava 14. Godbole, Rohini M. TWAS Fellow (2009), Ex-Member SAC-PM, D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), SNDT Women’s University 15. Sen, Ashoke Padma Bhushan (2013), Bhatnagar Award (1994) , ICTP Dirac Prize (1989), Infosys Award (2009), FFP Prize (Milner, 2012) , FRS (1998) 16. Das, Sumit R. Bhatnagar Award (1998) 17. Mukhi, Sunil Bhatnagar Award (1999) 18. Randeria, Mohit Bhatnagar Award (2002) 19. Dabholkar, Atish Bhatnagar Award (2006) 20. Majumdar, Satya N. Langevin Medal (2005), Director of Research at Lab. For Stat. Phys, Univ. of Paris 21. Dhar, Abhishek Bhatnagar Award (2009) 22. R. Ramachandran Editor, Frontline magazine

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

As Item No 30 shows, the DTP regularly conducts conferences etc. which are attended by all the doctoral students, and these provide the required introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research. In addition, TIFR has a vibrant programme of seminars, colloquia and public lectures which the students are encouraged to attend and absorb as much information as they can.

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

The DTP generally adopts the conventional blackboard teaching methods. Often slides are shown to illustrate experimental or numerical facts. For project work, students are required to work hands-on in a laboratory.

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met and learning outcomes are monitored?

The DTP Chairperson and another member of the DTP faculty are members of the Subject Board of Physics, which constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

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

DTP faculty, postdocs and students regularly participate in the Outreach Activities of TIFR (see Sec. 3.6 in B2).

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

The DTP conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis. • DTP Seminar • NSF Colloquium • VSRP Programme

In addition, the Department members are involved in teaching at many summer schools and winter schools for Ph.D. students, in India and abroad. These short but intense courses benefit not only the students of TIFR, but help teaching the next generation of physicists in the country. Faculty Member Course Name, Programme and Place Lectures Date 1. R.S. Bhalerao Quark-Gluon Plasma, 9 11/2015 in XXX SERC-THEP Main School at BITS, Pilani 2. R.S. Bhalerao Relativistic Theory of Reactions, 8 09/2013 in Modern Theories of Nuclear Reactions, at IIT Roorkee 3. S. Datta Lattice Gauge Theory, 9 09/2012 in XXVII SERC-THEP Main School at SINP, Kolkata 4. S. Datta Large N gauge theory from lattice and finite 3 03/2011 temperature correlation functions in Asian school on Lattice Field Theory at TIFR, Mumbai 5. D. Dhar Directed percolation and sandpile models, 4 07/2015 in 6th Bangalore School on Statistical Physics at RRI,

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Bengaluru 6. D. Dhar Self-organized criticality, 5 02/2014 DST-SERC School on Non-linear dynamics, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 7. D. Dhar Phase transitions and critical phenomena, 5 11/2013 Science Academies’ Refresher Course for Coll. Teachers at HBCSE, Mumbai 8. D. Dhar Non-linear partial differential equations in Physics 4 09/2013 in Advanced level training program in non-linear differential equations: Dynamics of complex systems at U. of Kolkata, Applied Mathematics Department 9. D. Dhar Foundations of Stat. Physics, and numerical 5 04/2012 techniques in Science Academies’ Refresher Course in Stat. Physics at Kanhangad 10. A. Dighe Flavor physics 9 12/2014 in XXX SERC-THEP Main School at BITS, Pilani 11. R.V. Gavai Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics 7 01/2013 In SERC School on Nucl. Matter under Extreme Conditions at VECC, Kolkata 12. S. Gupta Wilsonian Renormalization and Effective Field 9 12/2014 Theory, in XXX SERC-THEP Main School at BITS, Pilani 13. S. Gupta Introduction to Lattice Field Theory 3 01/2014 in School on FAIR Physics, Bose Institute at Darjeeling, India 14. S. Gupta Back of the Envelope Calculations 6 11/2013 in Refresher Course in Statistical Mechanics at HBCSE, Mumbai 15. S. Majumdar Cosmology Overview 3 06/2011 in NIUS camp at HBCSE, Mumbai 16. G. Mandal Hawking Radiation and the Information Puzzle 3 11/2014 in 8th Asian Wint. School on Strings, Particles, Cosmology at Puri 17. G. Mandal Large N Field theories 9 12/2012 in XXVII SERC-THEP Main School at SINP, Kolkata 18. G. Mandal Emergent spacetime & Wilsonian Renormalization 3 05/2012 Group

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at University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA 19. S. Minwalla Fundamental CS matter theories and their bulk 4 03/2013 duals in ICTP Spring School at AS-ICTP, Trieste 20. S. Minwalla Hydrodynamics and Gravity 4 06/2012 in Cargese Summer School on String theory & field theory Cargese, Corsica, France 21. S. Minwalla Hydrodynamics and Gravity 4 04/2012 in Condensed Matter, Black Holes and Holography at Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK 22. S. Minwalla Fluid Dynamics from Gravity 4 05/2011 in IPM String School at Isfahan, Iran 23. S. Raychaudhuri Introduction to Particle Physics 7 02/2013 in ICTS Programme on CP-Violation at Mahabaleshwar 24. S. Raychaudhuri Weak Interaction Physics 16 01/2012 at Department of Physics, University of Mumbai 25. S. Raychaudhuri Collider Physics and the LHC 8 02/2011 in XXVI SERC-THEP Main School at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi 26. R. Sensarma Theory of Ultracold Fermions in Continuum 4 02/2014 in HRI School on Cold Atoms at HRI, Allahabad 27. V. Tripathi The physics of Kondo systems 6 12/2011 in ICTS Condensed Matter Programme at Bengaluru

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

The doctoral programmes in the DTP are conducted under the TIFR University, which was recognized as a Deemed University by UGC in 2002.

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

In the areas of Condensed Matter theory and Statistical Physics, the broad focus areas have been (a) frustrated magnets and quantum criticality (b) development of new Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms (c) disordered and dissipative systems, (d) statistical physics problems like sandpile models, proportionate growth, etc. Some highlights from last 2-3 years are Interactions between vacancy-induced fractional spin textures in the fustrated magnet SCGO; Resonating valence-bond wavefunctions on the honeycomb lattice; Ashkin-Teller criticality of the hard- square lattice gas; Random Coulomb antiferromagnets: from diluted spin liquids to Euclidean random matrices; Proportionate growth in sandpile and rotor-router models; Strategy switches and co-action equilibria in a minority game; Fragmentation of a sheet by propagation of cracks; The nematic-disordered phase transition in systems of long rigid rods on two dimensional lattices; A class of exactly solved assisted hopping models of active-absorbing state transitions on a line; Vacancy disorder in graphene and SU(2) Majorana spin-liquid; Finite- temperature phase transitions of spin S=1 easy axis antiferromagnets on the triangular lattice; Algorithm for frustrated transverse field Ising antiferromagnets; Singular susceptibility of power-law ordered transverse field triangular lattice Ising antiferromagnets; Sign-free Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of frustrated quantum magnets admitting a cluster decomposition; Classical spin-liquid on the maximally frustrated honeycomb lattice; Magnetic impurity induced topological phase transition in the honeycomb Kitaev model; Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) studies of the Mott transition in multilayer Hubbard systems; PT-symmetry breaking mechanism of the dynamic Mott transition in dissipative systems; Incommensurate Spin-Density Wave States in Biased Bilayer Honeycomb Lattice; Realization of multicritical melting in frustrated triangular lattice Ising antiferromagnets; Melting of three-sublattice order in artificial kagome ice with tunable couplings; Phase transitions of resonating valence-bond wavefunctions in three-dimensions; Effect of Disorder on Superconductivity with strong Mott correlations.

The High Energy Physics (HEP) subgroup studied a wide variety of phenomena. Some of the interesting results obtained in the area of strong interaction and electroweak physics are Estimate of QCD critical point and phase diagram; Nonperturbative estimate of heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient in plasma; Computation of lattice quark number susceptibilities; Predictions for

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shapes of event distributions along the freezeout curve in heavy-ion collisions; Strange Freezeout; Lattice calculation of the quark and glue momenta and angular momenta in the proton; Spectroscopy of hadrons with heavy quarks; Understanding anisotropy generated by fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions; New flow observables in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions; Complete relativistic second-order dissipative hydrodynamics from the entropy principle; Particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions: A consistent hydrodynamic approach; Thermalization of quarkonia at the LHC; Optimization of a low energy neutrino factory; Reach of INO for measuring atmospheric neutrino mixing parameters; Conditions for the seeding of neutrino oscillation instabilities inside a supernova; Neutrino-pair bremsstrahlung from nucleon-alpha versus nucleon- nucleon scattering; Study of large mass splittings for fourth generation fermions allowed by LHC; Explaining anomalous data observed in Bs meson decays; Correlated study of low-energy processes and LHC signals in a supersymmetric model without R-parity; Kaluza-Klein gluon production in association with a tt(bar) pair at the LHC; Higgs signal in chargino-neutralino production at the LHC; Magic messengers in gauge mediation and signal for 125 GeV boosted Higgs boson; Branching ratio of ; Non-universality of indirect CP asymmetries in , decays; Kaon𝑠𝑠 mixing beyond the Standard Model; Viability of the mu- tau symmetry after 𝐵𝐵results→ 𝜏𝜏𝜏𝜏 on non- zero reactor mixing angle; Analysis of the experimental𝐷𝐷 → 𝜋𝜋𝜋𝜋 𝐾𝐾𝐾𝐾 status of the constrained MSSM; Boosted jets as a probe of light Higgs bosons at the LHC; Compressed spectrum of minimal UED models in vacuum-stable scenarios; Invisible decays of low mass Higgs bosons in supersymmetric models; Generalized Supersoft Supersymmetry; Looking for LFV decays in Supersymmetry at the LHC; Distinguishing signatures of top-and bottom- type heavy vector like quarks at the LHC; Bulk RS models, Electroweak Precision Tests and 125 GeV Higgs; Radion Candidate for the LHC Diphoton Resonance ; Gravitational Rescue of Minimal Gauge Mediation; Statistical Aspects of Qjets; New Supersoft Supersymmetry Breaking Operators and a Solution to the - Problem; Status of MSSM Higgs sector using global analysis and direct search bounds, and future prospects at the HL-LHC; Probing ( 2) at the LHC in the𝜇𝜇 paradigm of R-parity violating MSSM; Diphoton resonance at 750 GeV in the 𝑔𝑔 − 𝜇𝜇 broken MRSSM; Kaluza-Klein gluon + jet associated production at the Large Hadron Collider; A Critical Appraisal of Flavour-changing Decays of Top Quarks as a Probe of New Physics; Constraints on dark matter annihilation to fermions and a photon.

Research in the area of String Theory and Mathematical Physics (STMP) has

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covered a wide canvas of key areas. These include black hole entropy, gauge- gravity duality, the symmetries and dynamics of gauge theories, the relationship between fluid dynamics and gravity, membrane field theories in M-theory, the nature of cosmological singularities, low-dimensional string models, and areas of mathematical physics. The highlights are Chern Simons Bosonization along RG Flows; Unitarity, crossing symmetry and duality in the scattering of Chern-Simons theories; A membrane paradigm at large D; Poles in the S-Matrix of Relativistic Chern-Simons Matter theories from Quantum Mechanics; ABJ Triality: from Higher Spin Fields to Strings; Constraints on Fluid Dynamics from Equilibrium Partition Functions; Hairy black holes and solitons in global AdS5; Chern-Simons Theory with Vector Matter; Dissipative Superfluid dynamics from gravity; Supersymmetric Chern-Simons Theories with Vector Matter; Aspects of Entanglement Entropy for Gauge Theories; Ward Identities for Scale and Special Conformal Transformations in Inflation ; The Shear Viscosity in Anisotropic Phases ; Constraints from Conformal Symmetry on the Three Point and four-point Scalar Correlator in Inflation ; AdS plane waves and entanglement entropy ; CMB from CFT ; Entangled Dilaton Dyons ; Bianchi Attractors: A Classification of Extremal Black Brane Geometries ; Holographic Fermi and Non-Fermi Liquids with Transitions in Dilaton Gravity ; Thermalization in 2D critical quench and UV/IR mixing ; Thermalization with chemical potentials, and higher spin black holes ; The inside outs of AdS3/CFT2: exact AdS wormholes with entangled CFT duals ; Dynamical entanglement entropy with angular momentum and U(1) charge; Double Trace Flows and Holographic RG in dS/CFT correspondence ; Quantum quench in matrix models ; Holographic Wilsonian flows and emergent fermions in extremal charged black holes ; Gregory-Laflamme as the confinement/ deconfinement transition in holographic QCD ; Phases of a two dimensional large N gauge theory on a torus.

The broad focus of the Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CAP) has been in cluster cosmology, especially related to probing dark energy, dark matter and inflation and the synergy between cluster physics and cosmology, as well as constraining dark energy properties from various observations, and neutrino astroparticle physics. The main highlights are Developing optimal strategy in combining wide and deep surveys for cluster probes of dark energy. This idea is now routinely used by all cluster surveys (like ACT/SPT etc); A novel method to use an ensemble of clusters as rulers in sky; Building fast and accurate phenomenological model of cluster ICM which can be used to construct scaling relations; The most comprehensive analysis of Fisher matrix versus Markov chains for cluster cosmology; A novel method of using intra cluster medium (ICM)

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entropy to study ICM energetics has been developed.; The first estimate ever of feedback energy profile, from deep within cluster cores to outskirts, was obtained; The most direct connection between AGN heating and entropy excess in cluster cores was made; preheating ruled out; Use of supernovae data along with cluster data to constrain the cosmological distance-duality relation; The most comprehensive dark energy constraints using the latest Planck data; Probing the cosmological missing baryons in the circum-galactic medium; Probing the clumping structure of Giant Molecular Clouds through the spectrum, polarisation and morphology of X-ray Reflection Nebulae with future X-ray observatories; Role of time-dependent noise in supernovae and its impact on flavor conversions; Impact of hidden interactions of sterile neutrinos on structure formation.

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

• Top level expertise at international level in major areas of Theoretical Physics

• High quality research environment with world class facilities, leading to consistently strong publication record.

• National and International recognition in form of roles in committees for conferences/workshops, selection boards etc., enabling the upholding of high standards for our inductions of new faculty.

• Vigorously active weekly seminar series in 4 different major areas.

• Strong contribution in teaching in National programs as well as TIFR Graduate schools.

Weaknesses

• Inadequate space for growing or starting new and upcoming areas.

• Inability to host strong long-term visitor programs due to infrastructural issues.

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• Current level of interactions with experimentalists,

Opportunities

• Presence of academically strong institutions such as IIT, IISER etc in the nearby region can lead to strong networking-or virtual extension of all of them

• Upcoming new campus in Hyderabad can provide infrastructure to grow in new areas such as nano-science or interface with biology.

• Presence of DTP alumni in almost all major academic institutions in India, with whom networking, collaboration and a string visitor programme is possible.

Challenges

• Passing on the benefits of DTP expertise to a larger section of students and post-docs due to space constraints.

• Level of interaction with Indian universities.

• Participation in national programs for assisting university teachers in updating their knowledge base.

52. Future plans of the department The DTP intends to remain in the forefront of all major areas of theoretical physics by high quality inductions of faculty in the both new as well as existing subareas. National and international collaborations have become essential in theoretical physics. DTP already has made a proposal to follow suit, and will actively look for other opportunities. High performance computers are now essential in some branches of theoretical physics. Interaction with computer industry to develop trained manpower as well as special purpose software will be attempted. More specific goals are stated below.

In the years to come, the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics group expects to continue its multi-pronged research efforts, striking a balance between work aimed at clarifying the theoreticial interpretation of specific experimental results

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obtained both at TIFR and elsewhere, and work that uses the tractability of simpler model Hamiltonians to clarify conceptually interesting questions that have their origins in experimental systems, but are impossible to address satisfactorily while keeping track of the full complexity of the original system.

Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CAP) is the youngest and smallest subgroup in DTP, formed in 2010. Members of CAP are interested and work on a diverse set of problems in Physical Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. The group has core strengths in theory and data-analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large scale structure (LSS), dark matter physics, and neutrino astroparticle physics, with healthy overlap between the interests of the different members. It is hoped that DTP and TIFR will consolidate its initiative to explore this area by providing suitable resources to the CAP subgroup. The CAP group has taken some initiatives in this regard – in collaboration with our colleagues in DAA and NCRA, we plan to apply for institutional membership of DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) collaboration in the upcoming 5 year plan period. The main goal of DESI is to make precise measurements of the expansion history of the Universe and use the growth of cosmological structure to study the properties of gravity, neutrinos, and the inflationary epoch in the early Universe.

The High Energy Physics (HEP) group has been strong in the areas of collider and flavour physics, neutrinos, lattice gauge theory, and the quark gluon plasma. This reach has been extended recently by hiring people who work in model building and effective field theories. The HEP group feels that it is performing very well in these areas and has made significant contributions in these fields. Given the long time-line of the LHC experiments, and the large number of new facilities being planned (FAIR and NICA for heavy-ion physics, EIC for understanding the partonic structure of matter, the ILC, various dark matter searches, neutrino detectors etc), the group feels that it needs to keep up its strength in this field. In particular, the HEP group feels a lack of coverage in certain crucial areas. These are, in order of the group’s common agreed importance: (1) soft and collinear effective theories with an emphasis on jet structure or initial state of heavy ions, (2) lepto- and baryo-genesis and flavour physics (3) numerical hydrodynamics and kinetic theory in the context of heavy-ion physics.

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Over the next 10 years we envisage that the String Theory group will continue to explore and understand the framework of string theory, with the aim of better understanding the structures and phenomena of theoretical physics and their interrelations. A central long term goal of this investigation is the discovery of the basic laws of nature that govern the quantum fluctuations of gravity in our Universe.

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School of Technology and Computer Science

1. Name of the Department:

School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS)

2. Year of establishment:

1998

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

The department is itself the School of Technology and Computer Sciences.

4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.) 1. Ph.D. 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. (I-Ph.D.)

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

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved

STCS does not offer interdisciplinary programmes.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. Institution Course Name Faculty member Year IISER Pune Algorithms Jaikumar Radhakrishnan 2013 CBS Mumbai Financial Mathematics Sandeep Juneja 2015 IMSc Chennai Communication Complexity Prahladh Harsha 2011 IMSc Chennai Limits of approximation Prahladh Harsha 2010 IIT Bombay Advanced Information Theory Vinod Prabhakaran 2014 IIT Bombay Advanced Information Theory Vinod Prabhakaran 2015 IIT Bombay Network Information Theory Vinod Prabhakaran 2015

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

No programmes have been discontinued since the inception of the TIFR University.

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

Students of the STCS are offered a course work programme based on a mixture of compulsory core courses, choice-based elective courses and compulsory project work, on topics of their choice. The detailed structure is given in the table below. Duration (years) Basic & Programme Overall Coursework Core Elective Project Total Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 24 16 20 60 I-Ph.D. 6 2.0 32 16 32 80

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester (August – November) and the Spring Semester (January – May).

In each semester, students are evaluated by a continuous evaluation process which includes assignments, quizzes, mid- and end-semester examinations and research paper presentations.

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

STCS has an intensive doctoral level course work for students to prepare them for doctoral work. In addition, STCS students are free to choose electives in other Departments, in consultation with the Subject Board of STCS. Faculty members occasionally teach courses floated in other departments (or jointly with other departments) on topics of mutual interest.

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10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate Professors/Asst. Professors/others) Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number Distinguished Professor (J) Ds. Professor (J) 0 Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 0 Professor (H) - 3 Associate Professor (G) As. Professor (G) 4 Reader (F) - 7 Fellow (E) - 0 Total 14

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ 1. P.K. Pandya Ph.D. Professor Formal Methods, Logic, 27 1 Realtime and Embedded Systems 2 J. Radhakrishnan Ph.D. Professor Algorithms, Combinatorics, 24 4 Complexity, Randomness 3 S.K. Juneja Ph.D. Professor Applied Probability, Monte 19 4 Carlo Methods, Financial Mathematics 4 T. Kavitha Ph.D. Assoc. Graph Algorithms, 11 1 Professor Computational Complexity 5 P.G.D. Sen Ph.D. Assoc. Quantum Computation 9 2 Professor 6 N. Sharma Ph.D. Assoc. Communications and 9 Professor Quantum Information Theory 7 P. Harsha Ph.D. Assoc. Computational Complexity, 6 3 Professor Coding Theory, Algorithms 8 U. Bhaskar Ph.D. Reader Algorithmic Game Theory, 1 1 Online and Approximation Algorithms 9 A. Chattopadhyay Ph.D. Reader Computational Complexity, 3 3 Algorithms and Discrete Maths, Algebraic Automata Theory 10. M. Ph.D. Reader Self-assembly, Systems Biology 7 1 Gopalakrishnan 11 A. Gupta Ph.D. Reader Formal Verification, Modelling, 1 1 Constraint solving 12 V. M. Ph.D. Reader Information Theory, 4 2 Prabhakaran Communication, Signal

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Processing, Cryptography 13 N. Raja Ph.D. Reader Models of Concurrent 17 1 Interaction 14 R. Vaze Ph.D. Reader Information Theory, Multi- 6 1 Antenna Communication, Stochastic Geometry, Statistical Learning

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

12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors i. Professor V Anantharam, University of California, Berkeley, USA ii. Professor D Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA iii. Professor V S Borkar, IIT Bombay

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

STCS does not employ temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. PH.D. 12 14 0.86 2. INTEGRATED M.SC.-PH.D. 6 14 0.43 3. M.SC. ─ ─ ─

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned, filled and actual Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and Auxilliary Staff 6 2

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies  Computer Science  Systems Science  Communication and Information Theory  Applied Probability

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National Total Agency Project Title Grant (Rs. Duration Faculty lakhs) 1. DRDO Design and 45 16/1/2015 - P. K. Pandya (PI), implementation of - 16/3/2016 R.K.Shyamasundar DIFC security architecture for securing linux like operating systems.

International

Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs)

1. DST and 47 Nov 2010 T. Kavitha Indo-Max Planck Centre Max -Nov 2015 for Computer Science Planck (IMPECS) Society 2. India -Israel Two Player Games: 55 October Prahladh UGC-ISF Hardness of 2015 - Harsha Approximation and October Communication 2018 Complexity.

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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

a) National collaboration

National Total Collaborating Project Title Grant (Rs. Duration Faculty Institutions lakhs) 1. DIT Speech-based 6 July 2014- K.Samudravijaya Access for July 2016 and N. Bondale Agricultural Commodity Prices and Weather Information in 12 Indian Languages 2. DIT Development of 38 Completed N. Bondale Pronunciation in Sep Lexicon Based on 2015 Experimental Study of Phonetics and Phonemics of Indian Languages (Marathi Vertical)

3. Information Uncoordinated, 182 Jan 2014 – V.Prabhakaran & Technology Secure and Energy Dec. 2016 R. Vaze Research Aware Access in Academy Distributed (ITRA) Wireless Networks TIFR, IIT Bombay, NIT Surathkal, NIT Dugrapur 4. IIT Bombay, Center for 310 April 2011 – R.K.Shyamasund TIFR, BARC Formal Design April 2017 ar, P.K. Pandya, and Verification N. Raja of Software (CFDVS

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19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received. Total Agency Project Title Grant (Rs. Duration Faculty lakhs) 1. DAE XII Plan Project – Maths 390 2012- All STCS and Computer Science 2017 faculty

20. Research facility / centre with  state recognition None  national recognition None  international recognition None

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

None

22. Publications: Articles Journal Web in Technical Book Books Mono Publi- Publi- Books Procee- Reports Chapters Edited -graphs cations cations dings 2010-11 22 32 - - 7 2 - 1 2011-12 26 32 - 1 2 1 - 2012-13 14 29 - - 5 1 - 2013-14 19 36 8 - 2 1 - 2014-15 22 33 - - 1 1 - 1 Total 103 162 8 1 17 6 - 2

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 Books with ISBN with details of publishers

1. R. K Shyamsunar and M. A. Pai (Editor), “Homi Bhabha and the Computer Revolution”, Oxford University Press, Februrary 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0-19- 807246-1, ISBN-10: 0-19-807246-5.

2. R. Vaze, “Random Wireless Networks”, Cambridge University Press, March 2015. ISBN: 9781107102323.

 Citations -

 Total number of citations: 22387 (Source: Google scholar)

 Number of citations per faculty: 1599

 h-index :

 Range 11—24

23. Details of patents and income generated:

None

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24. Areas of consultancy and income generated Faculty Project Name Company Name Duration Income Member S Juneja Designing Portfolio Risk Capital Metrics 1 year Rs. 10 1. Measurement Tool and Risk (2012-13) lakhs Solutions

25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions

/ industries in India and abroad

National Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member 1. S.K. Ghosh Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Nov.5-Dec.4 2012 Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Oct. 21-Dec. 02, 2013 Oct. 13-Nov. 12, 2014 Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2. M. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Jan. 02-08, 2011 Gopalkrishnan Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur June 28, 2012 Indian Institute of Technology, New June 29, 2012 Delhi Feb. 06, 2013 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, June 10-21, 2013 Chennai NCBS, Bangalore 3. S.K. Juneja Indian Institute of Technology, New Nov. 25-26, 2012 Delhi March 24-27, 2014 Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati 4. V.Prabhakaran Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Oct. 21-30, 2012 5. N. Raja Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Dec.27-Jan. 04, 2013 6. P.G.D. Sen Infosys Mysore Park, Mysore Aug. 14-19, 2013 Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Sept. 02, 2013 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Jan. 29-31, 2014 Chennai 7. N. Sharma Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Mar. 29-31, 2012 8. R. Vaze Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore July 16-23, 2012 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Jan. 26-31, 2013

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International Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member 1. A.Chattopadhyay State University of New Jersey, 1 week in Oct. 2012 Rutgers, USA University of Edinburgh, United Feb-Mar 2014 Kingdom Aug 17-23, 2014 University of Toronto, Canada Sept 01-06, 2014 Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 2. S.K. Ghosh Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Dec. 16-Jan. 04, 2011 Israel June 01-30, 2012 Institute fur Informatik, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Sept. 01-30, 2013 Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 3. M. University of Southern California, USA Sept. 15-30, 2011 Gopalkrishnan Massachusetts Institute of Oct. 02-04, 2011 Technology, USA Oct. 5-14, 2011 Duke University, USA Aug. 07-17, 2012 University of Southern California and California Institute of Technology, USA Nov. 19-Dec. 01, 2012 Imperial College, London, United Mar.25-29, 2013 Kingdom American Institute of Mathematics, Apr. 01-02, 2013 Palo Alto, USA June 23-25, 2014 IBM Yorktown Heights, USA June 26-July 05, 2014 University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom Imperial College, London, United Kingdom 4. P. Harsha IBM Research, Watson, USA May 18-19, 2011 University of Toronto, Canada June 03-04, 2011 Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel June 15-July 20, 2011 Institute for Advanced Studies, Dec. 3-16, 2011 Princeton, USA Simons Institute for the Theory of Aug. – Dec. 2013 Computing, USA Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA Nov. 94-08, 2013 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, March 21-28, 2013 Sweden Nov. 06-Dec.06, 2014 Center for Quantum Technologies, Singapore Jan.25-Feb.08, 2015

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Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Mar. 24-Apr. 24, 2015 Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, USA 5. S.K. Juneja Heriot Watt University, United May 2011 Kingdom Nov. 2011 University of Amsterdam, The Oct. 28-Dec.01, 2012 Netherlands Nov. 25-26, 2012 Brown University, USA Oct. 09-11, 2013 Princeton University, USA Nov. 10-16, 2013 University of Southern California, USA Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, May 12-16, 2014 France June 23-27, 2014 KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Sept. 25-26, 2014 CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nov. 09-15, 2014 Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Stanford University, USA 6. T. Kavitha Max-Planck Institute, Germany May 01-28, 2011 University of Sydney, Australia Aug. 21-Sept. 4, 2011 ICTP, Trieste, Italy Feb. 22-Mar 08, 2012 University of Lugano, Switzerland May 01-31, 2012 Max-Planck Institute, Germany Jun 01-July 05, 2012 Max-Planck Institute, Germany May 15-June 11, 2013 Max-Planck Institute, Germany July 01-25, 2014 7. V.Prabhakaran University of California, Los Angeles, Feb. 11-18, 2011 USA Feb. 17-23, 2013 University of California, Los Angeles, Sept.27-Oct. 12, 2013 USA University of Illinois at Urbana- Feb. 15-17, 2014 Champaign, USA University of California, Los Angeles, USA 8. N. Raja Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Nov. 2011 Netherlands Feb. 2012 Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques, Marseille, France Apr.30-June 01, 2012 Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Aug. 17-Sept.04, 2013 Technische Universitat Dresden, Nov. 24-Dec. 01, 2013 Germany Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, June 01-30, 2014 Oberwolfach, Germany November 2014 Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, France Lorentz Center, Leiden, The

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Netherlands 9. P.G.D. Sen McGill University, Canada Sept. 2011-Mar. 2012 10. N. Sharma University of Waterloo, Canada Dec. 04-10, 2011 Isaac Newton Institute for Nov. 01-Dec. 20, 2013 Mathematical Sciences, United Kingdom 11. R.K. National University of Singapore, Aug.-Sept. 2013 Shyamasundar Singapore 12. R. Vaze Bell Labs, USA May 02-10, 2011 National Institute of Informatics, May 14-16, 2012 Tokyo, Japan University of Cambridge, United Jan. 27-12, 2013 Kingdom

26. Faculty serving in a) National committees b) International committees c) Editorial Boards d) any other (please specify)

(a) National Committees: Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 1. P. Harsha 2nd Annual Mysore Park Workshop in Organizer May Theoretical Computer Science: 2011 Algorithms and Complexity Aug. 3rd Annual Mysore Park Workshop in 2012 Theoretical Computer Science: Aug. Algorithms and Complexity 2013 4th Annual Mysore Park Workshop in Theoretical Computer Science: Algorithms and Complexity 2. V. Prabhakaran National Communications Conference Member 2014 National Communications Conference Member 2015 National Communications Conference Member 2016 3. J.Radhakrishnan Indian Academy of Science Fellow Indian National Science Academy Fellow 4. R. Vaze IEEE NCC 2011 Member 2011 IEEE NCC 2012 Member 2012 IEEE SPCOM 2012 Member 2012 IEEE NCC 2013 Member 2013 IEEE SPCOM 2014 Member 2014

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(b) International Committees: Name of the Role in the Term of Name of the Committee Faculty Member Committee Service 1. P. Harsha RANDOM 2009 Member 2009 APPROX 2011 Member 2011 FSTTCS 2011 Member 2011 RANDOM 2013 Member 2013 FSTTCS 2013 Member 2013 CALDAM 2015 Member 2015 FSTTCS 2015 Chair 2015 CCC 2016 Member 2016 FOCS 2016 Member 2016 2. S.K. Juneja Performance Member 2015 INFORMS Applied Probability Member 2015 Conference 2015 3. T. Kavitha FSTTCS 2010 Member 2010 COCOON 2011 Member 2011 SWAT 2012 Member 2012 COCOON 2012 Member 2012 FSTTCS 2012 Chair 2012 SODA 2013 Member 2013 ALENEX 2013 Member 2013 ESA 2013 Member 2013 WAOA 2013 Member 2013 APPROX 2014 Member 2014 FSTTCS 2014 Member 2014 4. P.K. Pandya POPL 2015 OC Chair 2015 ICLA 2015, SETTA 2015, Member TASE 2015, RP 2014, SETTA 2014, TASE 2014, ICTAC 2014, ICTAC 2013, ICDCN 2013,

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5. V.Prabhakaran International Conference on Signal Member 2012 Processing and Communications International Conference on Member 2013 Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) Member 2013 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Member 2014 Computing (Mobihoc) International Conference on Signal Member 2014 Processing and Communications IEEE International Conference on Member 2014 Computer Communications 2015 (INFOCOM) Member 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications Member and Network Security (CNS) 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Member Information Theory (ISIT) IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications 6. J.Radhakrishnan STOC 2010 Member 2010 FSTTCS 2012 Chair 2012 Nevanlinna Prize Committee Member 2014 7. R. Vaze IEEE International Conference on 2011 Communications 2011 IEEE VTC 2011 2011 IEEE VTC 2012 2012 IEEE International Conference on 2012 Communications 2012 2012 IEEE Globecom 2012 TPC Member 2013 IEEE Globecom 2013 2013 IEEE VTC 2013 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications 2013 2013 WiOpt 2013 2014 WiOpt 2014 2014 IEEE Globecom 2014

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Name of the Name of the Journal Impact Term of Faculty Member Factor Service 1. S.K. Juneja Mathematics of Operations Research 0.924 2008-present ACM TOMACS 1.090 2009-2011 Annals of Operations Research 1.217 2011 2. P.K. Pandya Formal Aspects of Computing Journal, 0.806 1996-2011 Springer 3. V.Prabhakaran Sadhana (Indian Academy of Sciences) 0476 2013-present 4. J.Radhakrishnan SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 0.668 2009-2011 Discrete Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science 0.465 2008-2011

5. R. Vaze IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of 3.453 2015-present Communications

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

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

28. Student projects

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

All (100%) students are required to do projects as a part of their Ph.D..

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

None

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29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by  Faculty  Doctoral / post doctoral fellows  Students

National Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2007 J. Radhakrishnan Indian Academy of Science Fellowship 2. 2008 T. Kavitha INAE Young Engineers Award 3. 2008 T. Kavitha INSA Young Scientist Medal 4. 2008 J. Radhakrishnan S.S. Bhatnagar Award 5. 2010 M. Gopalkrishnan Ramanujan Fellowship NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for 6. 2011 P. Harsha Mathematics 7. 2011 P. Harsha Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences 8. 2011 V. Prabhakaran Ramanujan Fellowship 9. 2013 A.Chattopadhyay Ramanujan Fellowship Indian National Science Academy's Young 10. 2013 R. Vaze Scientist Award Indian National Academy of Engineering's Young 11. 2013 R. Vaze Engineer Award 12. 2014 J. Radhakrishnan Indian National Science Academy Fellowship Best paper award, Networks track, National 13. 2014 R. Vaze Conference on Communications at IIT-Kanpur Ramanath Cowsik Medal from TIFR for best 14. 2014 R. Vaze paper in last 5 years for people under the age of 35 from TIFR 15. 2015 U. Bhaskar Ramanujan Fellowship National Academy of Science India’s Young 16. 2015 R. Vaze Scientist Award

International Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2009 S.K. Juneja Best paper award at the ICST Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation 2. 2010 R. Vaze Eurasip Best Paper Award for the best journal paper published in Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking 3. 2012 S.K. Juneja Best paper award at the ICST Sixth International Conference on Performance Evaluation

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4. 2015 A.Gupta Best paper award at the 18th European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software

 Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2012 Ankush Agrawal TCS Research Fellowship 2. 2012 Girish Varma Google Fellowship 3. 2013 Gugan Thoppe IBM Fellowship 4. 2013 Karthyek A Murthy IBM Fellowship 5. 2014 Sagnik Mukhopadhyay TCS Research Fellowship 6. 2014 Deepesh Data Microsoft Research Fellowship

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any. Funding Year Name Faculty members Agency 1. 2011 Workshop on Recent Trends in Social TIFR S.K. Juneja Networks: Algorithms, Models and Learning 2. 2011 Workshop on Computing for Science - R.K. Shyamasundar Discovery and Innovations: A Roadmap 3. 2011 STCS Annual Symposium TIFR 4. 2012 Workshop on Mathematical Finance ICTS (??) S.K. Juneja 5. 2012 Introduction to Graph and Geometric NBHM S.K. Ghosh Algorithms 6. 2013 Introduction to Graph and Geometric NBHM S.K. Ghosh Algorithms 7. 2013 International Conference on Distributed R.K. Shyamasundar Computing and Networking 8. 2013 Pre-Workshop School of WALCOM 2013 on NBHM S.K. Ghosh Graph and Geometric Algorithms 9. 2013 STCS Annual Symposium TIFR 10. 2013 Introduction to Graph and Geometric NBHM S.K. Ghosh Algorithms 11. 2013 Workshop on Applications of Game Theory TIFR S.K. Juneja

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Funding Year Name Faculty members Agency 12. 2013 Introduction to Computational Geometry, NBHM S.K. Ghosh Research Promotion Workshop on Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms 13. 2014 Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Wireless TIFR R. Vaze Networks 14. 2014 Recent Progress in Arithmetic Complexity TIFR A.Chattopadhyay, P. Harsha and J. 15. 2014 Introduction to Approximation Algorithms, NBHM RadhakrishnanS.K. Ghosh Research Promotion Workshop on Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms 16. 2014 STCS Annual Symposium TIFR R. Vaze and P. Harsha 17. 2014 Research Promotion Workshop on NBHM S.K. Ghsh Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms 18. 2015 Principles of Programming Languages (POPL P.K. Pandya 2015) 19. 2015 Research Promotion Workshop on NBHM S.K. Ghosh Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms 20. 2015 Tutorial and Workshop on Learning and TIFR S.K. Juneja and R. Vaze Related Probabilistic Applications 21. 2016 Workshop on Bombay Information Theory V.M. Prabhakaran, P. Seminar (BITS 2016) Harsha and J. Radhakrishnan

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

STCS follows the TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics

32. Student profile programme-wise: Name of Applications the Selected% Joined Pass percentage* received% Programme Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 16 - 69 - Integrated M.Sc.- 8110 29 1 05 - 100 - Ph.D.

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33. Diversity of students

According to geographical location: Integrated- Ph.D. Ph.D. M.Phil. Students *M *F *M *F *M *F Total From the state where the 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 university is located From other states of India 8 0 9 0 0 0 17 NRI students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 8 0 10 0 0 0 18

According to the undergraduate institutions students come from:

† Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc.# IITs, NITs, etc. Ph.D. I-Ph.D. Students from Male Female Male Female Total Indian Universities 3 0 4 0 7 Premier science institutions † 3 0 0 0 3 Premier professional institutions # 5 0 2 0 7 Others* 0 0 1 0 1 Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0 Total 11 0 07 0 18

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35. Student progression

Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the STCS go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Occasionally, a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number go for other employment, such as teaching positions or the industry.

Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. programme : Most of the students admitted to the STCS go on to complete the course work and get their M.Sc.’s and Ph.D.s. Occasionally, a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. Normally, after completing their Ph.D., students have to leave TIFR. The vast majority go elsewhere for postdoctoral research. A small number go for other employment, such as teaching positions or the industry.

36. Diversity of staff

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s

from TIFR : 3

from other institutions in India : 0

from institutions Abroad: 11

Total No 14

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

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

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38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library

STCS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Library and Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) (see Section B2, Item no 4.2)

b) Internet facilities for staff and students

STCS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the TIFR Computer Centre and Communication Facility (see Section B2, Item no 4.3)

c) Total number of class rooms

STCS, like other Departments of TIFR in the Colaba campus, makes use of the common class rooms and lecture theatres of TIFR (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility

All the classrooms above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc. Video-conferencing possibilities are also available in most lecture rooms.

e) Students’ laboratories: I. STCS has a common laboratory with 25 workstations and 8 servers.

ii. Each student has individual desktop computer with internet connection.

f) Research laboratories  Laboratory for Embedded Systems and Formal Methods equipped with 2 Servers, 6 workstations, Software for embedded system programming and analysis, and 6 Firebird Robots.  Laboratory for financial mathematics.  Laboratory for speech analysis and synthesis.

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

a. from the host institution/university Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows 1. Mohit Garg Sameer Kamal 2. Sagnik Mukhopadhyay N. V. Narendra Kumar 3. Sarat B. Moka Bodhayan Roy 4. Deepesh Kumar Datta 5. Suneel Saraswat 6. Kshitij Gajjar 7. Abhishek Kumar Singh 8. Gowtham Raghunath Kurri 9. Aditya Nema 10. Suhail Sherif 11. Nikhil S. Mande 12. Phani Raj Lolakapuri 13. Tulasi Mohan Molli 14. Anamay Gununath Tengse 15. Anand Avinash Deo 16. Gunjan Kumar 17. Rahul Jain 18. Varun Narayanan

b. from other institutions/universities 1. Smarajit Das, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Visiting Fellow from 2009- 2012).

2. Ratnik Gandhi, Dirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (Visiting Fellow from 2010-2012).

3. Ashish Tendulkar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Visiting Fellow from 2011-2012).

4. A.V. Sreejith, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (Visiting Fellow from 2013-

5. Mukul Agarwal, University of Waterloo (Visiting Fellow from 2014-15). 6. M. Sharayu, University of Texas at Austin, USA (Visiting Fellow from 2014-15).

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

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

41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology.

The institute had undertaken a comprehensive review of all its activities in 1995- 96. Based on the recommendations of the committee, it was decided to establish the School of Technology and Computer Science in the institute to further nurture and focus attention on these important areas. The graduate programme under the Computer and Systems Science subject board grew out of these efforts.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from

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

The Subject Board convener stays in touch with the Instructors and collects their feedback at regular intervals. This is used to (a) advise the Instructors, (b) update the Syllabus, and (c) fine-tune the curriculum.

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

From time to time anonymous feedback is obtained from the students. The relevant portions in this are communicated to the Instructors.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected on a formal basis.

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43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10) Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. Prof. V. S. Borkar Distinguished Professor, IIT Bombay Prof. R. K. Distinguished Professor, IIT Bombay 2. Shyamasundar 3. Prof. Mathai Joseph Executive Director, TRDDC, Pune 4. Dr. S. Ramani IIIT, Bangalore, Internet Hall of Fame Dr. N. Karmarkar Tata Consultancy Services, Fulkerson Prize, Paris 5. Kenallakis Award Prof. S.P. Mudur Computer Science Department Head, 6. Concordia University, Canada, Director, CDAC Prof. Rahul Jain National University of Singapore, Leading expert in the 7. area of quantum communication and computation 8. Prof. P.V.S. Rao Padma Shree (retired) 9. Prof. M.V. Pitke Director (CDOT), Director (CDAC)

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

As Item No 30 shows, STCS regularly conducts conferences etc. which are attended by all the doctoral students, and these provide the required introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research. Students are encouraged to attend schools and workshops conducted by external experts organized at other academic institutions in the country. In addition, TIFR has a vibrant programme of seminars, colloquia and public lectures which the students are encouraged to attend.

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

STCS generally adopts conventional blackboard teaching methods. Research presentations are typically made using an overhead projector facility.

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

The STCS subject board constantly monitors the progress of the students and obtains feedback from faculty and students alike.

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

STCS faculty, postdocs and students regularly participate in the Outreach Activities of TIFR. The institute hosts the Indian Association for Research in Computing Sciences, the leading body that supports students and faculty members country wide by conducting teacher training courses and providing travel and other support. It also organizes the training for the Indian Informatics Olympiad efforts and organizes the country’s leading Computer Science Conference, namely, Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS)

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

The school has regular seminars by faculty members and visitors, covering a variety of subjects, from individual research to recent breakthroughs in the field. In addition, faculty members take on undergraduate and graduate interns, providing them first-hand research experience on advanced topics.

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

STCS, as a part of TIFR, was reviewed by a UGC Review Committee in 2010.

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

TIFR pioneered research in computing in India. Thus, India's first digital computer, TIFRAC, was designed and constructed at TIFR in 1961. First digital computer networking experiments were also carried out by Dr. S. Ramani at TIFR and these eventually led to the university network ERNET. Researchers at TIFR designed computing and digital communication systems for Indian Defense through nationally funded projects such as ADGES and AREN. National Center for Software Technology and Computing Science (NCSDCT) was established at TIFR in 1974.

Currently, the department has active research in foundational areas such as algorithms and complexity theory, formal methods and program analysis, wireless communication and sensor networks, classical and quantum information theory,

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applied probability, computational finance and mathematical modeling of risk. Several significant research results have been obtained in these areas.

Department members have published over 1100 papers. Members regularly publish in top international journals and conferences. Moreover, members have served on programme committees of leading international conferences. Also, TIFR has hosted several international conferences including POPL 2015, ICDCN 2013 and ICLP.

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

Strengths

1. Strong theoretical and conceptual focus in contemporary areas of Computer and Information Sciences. Given our diverse faculty interests, the school is well placed to exploit the emerging convergence world wide in the quantitative sciences.

2. Strong recent faculty hires with Ph.D.s and postdoctoral experience from top universities world wide. Most of the recent hires have Ramanujan Fellowships.

3. High quality graduate programme with intense doctoral level coursework that equips our Ph.D.s with diverse modern tools and techniques.

4. Strong Industrial Research Lab scholarship support for our graduate programme.

5. Overlap of interests with TIFR's other theoretical groups in the areas of Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Theoretical Biology.

Weakness

1. The relatively small size of the school limits our abilities for bold initiatives in new areas.

2. Limited number of international and visiting faculty.

3. The undergraduate curriculum/training in Indian universities does not provide sufficient analytical background to entering graduate students.

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4. Difficult to compete with industrial research labs in hiring faculty given their much higher salary scales.

5. Many bright B. Tech. students are hesitant to commit to a Ph.D. which could require over five years to complete, and would prefer an option to complete a masters and then decide whether to continue for a Ph.D. We currently do not explicitly provide this option.

Opportunities

1. Substantial number of talented Indian students do their Ph.D.s at internationally top research universities in areas of our interest. Increasing proportion of them are choosing to return to academic jobs in India. This is an opportunity to further strengthen our faculty.

2. As computer science and related areas become pervasive in real life, the theoretical expertise developed in the school has the opportunity to make impactful contributions in the Indian context.

3. The growing strength and confidence in the Indian theoretical computer science research community offers an opportunity for us to evolve as world leaders in research in niche theoretical areas.

4. Increasing interest among the international universities for collaborative presence in India; this can be leveraged to strengthen our research.

5. Many international industrial research labs are locating to India; the school has the opportunity to develop relationships that enhance our resources and provide useful inputs to our research.

Challenges

1. Our focus areas have substantial overlap with the industry, forcing us to compete with them for best talent.

2. Increased competition for high quality students with international top universities as well as with the industry.

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3. Although the quality of faculty applicants returning to India in areas related to computer and informational sciences has increased, increasingly many research institutions in India provide a nurturing research environment comparable to TIFR, adding to the competition for recruiting the best talent.

4. Making our programme more visible to the undergraduate population across India to attract students from a much bigger pool.

5. Minimizing interference in day to day administration by extended bureaucracy so that our focus remains on effective research and providing effective training to student researchers.

52. Future plans of the department.

Algorithms, Complexity, Formal Verification Methods have been our traditional areas of focus. Our future plans are to continue to gain strength in these. Over the last few years, we have gained faculty strength in areas including Information Theory, Quantum Information Processing, Applied Probability, Machine Learning, Financial Mathematics and Sensor Networks. Our aim is to further expand in these directions as well. All of the above areas are highly quantitative, and there are substantial synergies in quantitative tools and techniques used in these as well as in other important areas including Big Data, Control Theory, Information Theoretic Privacy, where we also hope to recruit in future.

To enhance the quality of incoming students and to increase our impact, we are considering modifying are current programme into an integrated Masters and Ph.D. programme that focuses on common quantitative tools used in varied emerging applications in computers and information sciences as well as physical and social sciences and engineering. This would be a unique programme in the country. An important flexibility of this programme would be to allow an explicit option to students to leave after a Master’s degree; thus encouraging talented students to join without making an initial long term commitment.

To prepare students for high quality research our school conducts intense doctoral level courses. Through videos etc. we plan to generate knowledge resources and make them accessible to the general public.

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Our plan is to further develop synergistic relationships with top international research universities as well as with top industrial research labs that have recently come up in the country, to add to our student programmes through scholarships and exchange programmes as well as to further strengthen our research.

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