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The Council and the Governing Board The Council Ved Prakash, Secretary, and the Governing Board University Grants Commission, New Delhi. S. G. Rajasekaran, The Council The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. President V. S. Ramamurthy, Secretary to the Government of India, A.S. Nigavekar, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. Chairperson, University Grants Commission, New Delhi. C.V. Vishveshwara, Honorary Director, Vice-President Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, The following members have served in the Council for Vice-Chairperson, part of the year University Grants Commission, New Delhi. Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Members Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. N. Mukunda, S. S. Dattagupta, [Chairperson, Governing Board], Director, Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre Centre for Theoretical Studies, for Basic Sciences, Kolkata. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Deepak Dhar, Shishir K. Dube, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. G.K. Mehta, Vice-Chancellor, Ashok Kumar Gupta, University of Allahabad. J.K. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Allahabad. Janak Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Kota Harinarayana, University of Allahabad. Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad. R.R. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, A.K. Kembhavi, Deendayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University. IUCAA, Pune. S. R. Rajaraman, A.S. Kolaskar, School of Physical Sciences, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. University of Pune. Nityananda Saha, R.A. Mashelkar, Vice-Chancellor, Director General, University of Kalyani. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. S.S. Suryawanshi, Vice-Chancellor, G. Madhavan Nair, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada Secretary to the Government of India, University, Nanded. Department of Space, Bangalore. J.A.K. Tareen, Rajaram Nityananda, Vice-Chancellor, Centre Director, University of Kashmir, Srinagar. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. Professor Abdul Wahid 1 Vice-chancellor The Governing Board University of Kashmir, Srinagar. Chairperson The following members have been inducted in the Council during this year N. Mukunda, Bangalore. Mustansir Barma, Members Department of Theoretical Physics, Shishir K. Dube Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Ashok Kumar Gupta Kota Harinarayana A.N. Basu, A.K. Kembhavi Vice-Chancellor, A.S. Kolaskar Jadavpur University, Kolkata Rajaram Nityananda Ved Prakash Vijay Khole, G. Rajasekaran Vice-Chancellor, C.V. Vishveshwara University of Mumbai. The following members have served on the Governing Arvind Kumar, Board for part of the year Centre Director, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai. G.K. Mehta Janak Pandey S. Mukherjee, Department of Physics, The following member has been inducted in the North Bengal University, Darjeeling. Governing Board during the year Deepak Nayyar, H.R. Singh Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi. Member Secretary Amitava Raychaudhuri, N.K. Dadhich Department of Physics, Calcutta University, Kolkata. Honorary Fellows K.L. Sharma, Geoffrey Burbidge, Vice-Chancellor, Centre for Astronomy and Space Sciences, U.S.A. University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. University of California, Professor H.R. Singh, E. Margaret Burbidge, Vice-Chancellor, University of California, University of Allahabad. Centre for Astronomy and Space Sciences, U.S.A. Member Secretary A. Hewish, University of Cambridge, U.K. N.K. Dadhich, Director, IUCAA. Donald Lynden-Bell, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, U.K. Yash Pal, Noida. A.K. Raychaudhuri, Kolkata. Allan Sandage, The Observatories of Carnegie Institute of Washington, U.S.A. 2 P.C. Vaidya, Syed Shahid Mahdi, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Visiting Professor N. Unnikrishnan Nair, Russell Cannon, Vice-Chancellor, Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia. Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi. Statutory Committees T. Padmanabhan, IUCAA, Pune. The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) T.R. Seshadri, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Abhay Ashtekar, University of Delhi. The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. The Academic Programmes Committee Rohini Godbole, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. N.K. Dadhich (Chairperson) John Hearnshaw, T. Padmanabhan (Convener) University of Canterbury, S.V. Dhurandhar Christchurch, New Zealand. Ranjan Gupta A. K. Kembhavi Umesh C. Joshi, Ranjeev Misra (from October 1, 2004) Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. A.N. Ramaprakash Varun Sahni Alain Omont, Tarun Souradeep Institut D’Astrophysique de Paris, France. R. Srianand K. Subramanian S.K. Pandey, S. N. Tandon Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur. The Standing Committee for Administration T.P. Prabhu, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. N.K. Dadhich (Chairperson) A.K. Kembhavi Ashoke Sen, T. Padmanabhan Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. K.C. Nair (Member Secretary) N.K. Dadhich, (Convener) IUCAA, Pune. The Finance Committee N. Mukunda (Chairperson) Users’ Committee P. Agarwal N.K. Dadhich N.K. Dadhich, (Chairperson) R. Nityananda IUCAA, Pune. Ved Prakash A.K. Kembhavi (from 26 .05. 2004) A.K. Kembhavi, (Convener) A. Pimpale (from 19 .08. 2004) IUCAA, Pune. L. Chaturvedi (till 24 .07.2004) T. Padmanabhan (till 25 .05. 2004) Narayan Banerjee, K.C. Nair (Non-Member Secretary) Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata B.P. Chandra, Vice-Chancellor, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur. 3 Members of IUCAA S.N. Khadilkar K.B. Munuswamy Academic S.B. Kuriakose N.S. Magdum M.A. Mahabal N.K. Dadhich (Director) S. G. Mirkute T. Padmanabhan (Dean, Core Academic Programmes) E.M. Modak A.K. Kembhavi (Dean, Visitor Academic Programmes) R.D. Pardeshi J. Bagchi R.V. Parmar S.V. Dhurandhar B.R. Rao R. Gupta M.S. Sahasrabudhe R. Misra V.A. Samak A.N. Ramaprakash S.S. Samuel V. Sahni B.V. Sawant Tarun Souradeep S. Shankar R. Srianand D.R. Shinde K. Subramanian V. R. Surve S. N. Tandon D.M. Susainathan A.A. Syed Emeritus Professor S.R. Tarphe J.V. Narlikar S.K. Waghole K.P. Wavhal Scientific and Technical Post-Doctoral Fellows T.D. Agarkar (till 30.09.2004) N.U. Bawdekar V. K. Agrawal (from 20.07.2004) S.S. Bhujbal P. Chakraborty (till 13.04.2004) M.P. Burse Priya Hasan (from 06.09.2004) S.B. Chavan (from 28.03.2005) H. K. Jassal (till 27.04.2004) V. Chellathurai A. Mahmood (from 01.11.2004) K.S. Chillal (from 26.08.2004) M. Puravankara (from 10.01.05) P.A. Chordia S. Ray H.K. Das E. Rollinde (till 01.02.2005) S. Engineer G. Sarkar (till 12.07.2004) G.B. Gaikwad S. Sen (from 19.11.2004) S.U. Ingale C.S. Stalin (from 08.09.2004) A.A. Kohok P. Subramanian V.B. Mestry R.S. Yadav (till 16.06.2004) A. Paranjpye S. K. Pathak (till on 24.12.2004) Research Scholars S. Ponrathnam A.L. Ahuja V.K. Rai U. Alam H.K. Sahu S. Chakravorty Y. R. Thakare H. Chand A. Deep Administrative and Support Amir Hajian Forushani Josily Cyraic (from 29.12.2004) K. C. Nair (Senior Administrative Officer) G. Mahajan N.V. Abhyankar S. Mitra V.P. Barve H. Mukhopadhyay (from 05.07.2004) S.K. Dalvi T. Naskar S.L. Gaikwad Ali Reza Rafiee (till 11.06.2004) B.R. Gorkha A. Rawat B S. Goswami S. Samui S.B. Gujar S. Sarkar (from 30.07.2004) R.S. Jadhav A. S Sengupta (till 05.02.2005) B.B. Jagade Arman Shafieloo S.M. Jogalekar J.V. Sheth (till 20.09.2004) 4 P. Singh (till 10.06.2004) M.K. Srivastava (from 29.07.2004) S. Sur (from 02.08.2004) Temporary/Project/Contractual Appointments A.P. Chordia (System Engineer) M.B. Ghule (Steno-Typist, CEC Project) J.A. Gupchup (Project Officer, Virtual Observatory) M. S. Kharade (Project Officer , ERNET Project) S.T. Koshti (Project Scientist, DST Project) V. Kulkarni (Scientific/Technical Assistant-I, Public Outreach Programme) P.L. Shekade (System Engineer) N.S.Bhujbal (System Administrative Assistant) (till November 13, 2004) P. Kulkarni (Project Officer, Virtual Observatory) (till APril 8, 2004) V. Raskar (Assistant, Public Outreach Programme) (till July 5, 2004) P. Barathe (from April 1, 2005) A. Bhujbal (from February 22 to March 2, 2005) V. Jagtap (from January 24, 2005) V. Mhaiskar (from August 30, 2004) A. Rupner (from August 30, 2004) S. Sagar (from April 1, 2005) R. Sinha (from August 2, 2004) Part time Consultants S. S. Bodas (Medical Services) Long Term Visitors Gupta Arvind Mohan Vijay (Visiting Scientist on Deputation, from ARIES, Nainital, from 22.03.2005) M. Sami (On leave from Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi) 5 Visiting Members of IUCAA Subenoy Chakraborty, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Visiting Associates Deepak Chandra, Z. Ahsan, Department of Physics,, Department of Mathematics, S.G.T.B. Khalsa College, Delhi. Aligarh Muslim University. Suresh Chandra, G. Ambika, School of Physical Sciences, Department of Physics, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Maharaja’s College, Kochi. Nanded. Badruddin, Tanuka Chatterjee (Kanjilal), Department of Physics, Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University. Shibpur D.B. College, Howrah. Bindu A. Bambah, S. Chaudhuri, School of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Hyderabad Gushkara Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan. A. Banerjee, Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Department of Physics, Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. N. Banerjee, M.K. 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