Team C-MMACS - News and Updates

The greatest strength of C-MMACS is 'Team C-MMACS', the dedicated group that takes C-MMACS foreward. One of the smallest of CSIR laboratories, C-MMACS today is a young and vibrant institution of research, with the average age of its scientists less than 35 years.

Highlights: The year 2004-05 has seen growth of C-MMACS scientific strength through joining of a new member. A number of C- MMACS scientists have also received recognition for their scientific contribution through awards and fellowships of scientific bodies.

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• Scientists • Honorary Emeritus Scientists • Honorary Fellows • Fellows, RA, SRF, JRF • Technical/Administrative Staff • Associates • Project Assistants/Graduate Trainees/Diploma Trainees • Awards/Honours/Recognition • Services on External Committees/Membership of Professional Bodies • Deputation • Consultancy / Honory Post / Others

79 80 Scientist-in-Charge Technical Officers Gangan Prathap Ananda M B Suchanda Ray Honorary Emeritus Scientists Prabhu N Gaur V K Section Officer Honorary Fellows Sailaja Nori Yajnik K S Seshagiri N Technical/Administrative Staff Chandrashekar Bhat Scientists Dileep Kumar P Anand Kumar Seenappa Anil Kumar V Sita S Goswami P Stella Margaret A Himesh S Udaya Kumar M Indira N K Krishna Mohan T R Associates Malay Mukul Mukherjee S (NAL, Bangalore) Mandal A Raja S (NAL, Bangalore) Parvez I A Patra G K Ramamohan T R Project Assistants/Graduate Trainees/ Ramesh K V Diploma Trainees Senthil Kumar V Sharada M K Chitra B Sridevi Jade Geetha M Swathi P S Madhukar K Thangavelu R P Mahesh Kumar Athuluru Muthu Vijayan M Fellows Nanditha S Naresh Kumar Sangeeta K Prashant S Babu Imoni S O Raghavendra Rao H J Raghunath Babu Research Associates Rasmita Mahapatra Jagadheesha D Ronia Andrews Kalyani Devasena C Saigeetha A J Rajeevan P Shridhar M R Sijikumar S Sindhu Lakshmi T Sunil Kumar C M Senior Research Fellow Ujjal Phukan Gouda K C Vasu Babu Udaru Jafarali P Vijayareshmi V

Junior Research Fellow Awards/Honours/Recognition Priya R Pillai Souvik Banerjee Anand Kumar, Visiting Professor, Raman Sunaina A N Research Institute, Bangalore

81 Malay Mukul, K. Naha Award in Structural Geology Member, DOD Steering Committee for National for 2004, Geological Society of India, Bangalore, India. Data Buoy Programme Member-Secretary, Advisory Committee, Sridevi Jade, Awarded Sir C V Raman Young C-MMACS Scientist State Award by the Government of Karnataka Editor, SADHANA - Journal of Engineering for the year 2002. Sciences of Indian Academy of Sciences Member, Editorial Board, Current Science Services on External Committees/ Member, Editorial Board, Int. J Computational Membership of Professional Bodies Engineering Science Member, CSIR Expert Committee for Selection of Anand Kumar SRFs and RAs (Engineering) Member, Society of Rheology Member, Special Task Force for Dev. of Indigenous Finite Element Package, ADA V Anil Kumar Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences Life Member, Computer Society of India Fellow, Indian National Science Academy Life Member, Indian Society for Theoretical and P Goswami Applied Mechanics Life Member, Indian Meteorological Society Member, Current Science Association' Life Member, Indian Complex System Society Life Member, Indian Society for Advancement of Member, Executive Council, Drought Monitoring Materials and Process Engineering Cell Life Member, Indian Society for Mathematical Member, Computer Committee, ISRO Regional Modelling and Computer Simulation Climate Modelling Programme Convener, International Conference on Scale Malay Mukul Interaction and Variability of Monsoon Life Member, Geological Society of India Convener, National Workshop Science and Member, Editorial Committee, EQ News - a Technology for Regional Development - The Case Biannual Newsletter of Updates on Seismological for the North-East India Programmes, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi S Himesh Life Member, Institution of Engineers, India Imtiyaz A Parvez Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education Life Member, Indian Society of Earthquake Life Member, Indian Association for Environmental Technology, Roorkee Management Life Member, Indian Meteorological Society G K Patra Life Member, Computer Society of India N K Indira Life Member, Indian Meteorological Society Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA Life Member, Cryptology Research Society of India Life Member, Orissa Information Technology T R Krishna Mohan Society Life Member, Indian Complex Systems Society N Prabhu Gangan Prathap Member, Computer Society of India Member, Sectional Committee, INSA Member, Research Council, CBRI, Roorkee M K Sharada Member, Research Council, NGRI, Hyderabad Member of the American Geophysical Union Member, Governing Council, INCOIS, Hyderabad Member, Research Council, RRL, Bhopal Sridevi Jade Member, DST Committee on Procurement of GPS Member, DOD Steering Committee for INDOMOD Receivers of National Network and SATCORE, Life Member, International Society of Soil Member, DST Steering Committee on HRD in Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Member, Earth Sciences Indian Geotechnical Society

82 P S Swathi K V Ramesh Member of the American Geophysical Union Attended Indian Ocean Modelling Workshop at International Pacific Research Centre, Hawaii, USA R P Thangavelu during 30 November - 04 December 2004 Life Member, Computer Society of India Life Member, Cryptology Research Society of Sridevi Jade India Deputed for the IAG-IASPEI/IUGG Joint Capacity Building Workshop on Deformation Measurements Deputation and Understanding Natural Hazards in Developing Countries, ICTP, Trieste, Italy from 17 January - 26 N K Indira January 2005. Deputed to participate in the Transcom Tsukuba, AIST Central, Japan,14-18 June 2004 P S Swathi Naresh Kumar Deputed to USA during 16.06.2004 to 12.07.2004 7th Workshop on Three-Dimensional Modelling of (a) to attend the Clivar Workshop on Ocean Seismic Waves Generation, Propagation and their Component of IPCC Models in Princeton during 16- Inversion, Trieste, Italy, 25 October 2004 to 05 18 June and November 2004 (b) to visit Princeton University, New Jersey to work with the Ocean Group and Biospheric Processes Imtiyaz A Parvez Group during 19.06.2004 to 12.07.2004. Deputed to Yerevan, Armenia to attend the 5th Asian Seismological Commission General Consultancy/ Honory Post/ Others Assembly during October 18-21, 2004. T R Krishna Mohan Malay Mukul On sabbatical leave as a Research Scholar at the Industrial Consultancy with Premier Oil (North East State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA India) BV, Digboi (Indian unit of Premier Oil, The from 20.09.2002 to 19.09.2003 and was granted Hague, Netherlands) further extension (EOL) upto 30.06.2004 Advisory Studies for Structural Geology and Neotectonic signatures in the Dihing and Dirak Footwall Lead Areas, Upper Assam