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NAAC Self-Study Report, 2016

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VOLUME 3 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 (Research Centres)

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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 3 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-X Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)

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Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

1. Name of the Department : Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)

2. Year of establishment : 1974

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

The HBCSE is a part of the Faculty of Science Education.

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

1. 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

Science education as a domain is highly inter-disciplinary in nature, requiring inputs from not only science and mathematics, but also from varied disciplines such as education, social sciences, cognitive sciences and philosophy of science.

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

The Ph.D. students of HBCSE normally do not take courses in other institutions (no such courses taken during 2011 – 2015). However the HBCSE faculty often teach in other institutions. A list of such courses is given below.

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Institution Course Name Taught to Faculty member Year st 1. UM-DAE CBS Electromagnetism Int Msc 1 Anwesh 2013, year & 2nd Mazumdar 2014, Year 2015 2. UM-DAE CBS Classical Mechanics Int Msc Anwesh 2013, nd Mazumdar 2014, 2 Year 2015 UM-DAE CBS 3. History of Science Int MSc G. Nagarjuna 2009-16 UM-DAE CBS 4. Science and Ethics Int MSc G. Nagarjuna 2012-16 with H.C. Pradhan and M.C. Arunan UM-DAE CBS 5. Astronomy and Int MSc Aniket Sule 2011, Astrophysics 2012 UM-DAE CBS 6. Classical Mechanics Int MSc Aniket Sule 2012

UM-DAE CBS 7. Introductory Int MSc Aniket Sule 2014, mathematics 2015, 2016 8. Central Introduction to Int MSc K. Subramaniam 2011 University of History and Jharkhand Philosophy of Science

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

There are no such programmes.

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

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

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Duration (years) Overall Course Core Elective Project Total Programme work Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 26 10 4 40

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: the Autumn Semester (August – November) and the Spring Semester (January – April). In addition, there may be courses run during the Summer break (May – July). Modular courses are run from time to time, by HBCSE or visiting faculty members. These are aimed at enrichment and/or enhancing research skills and knowledge in specific areas. For each course, students are evaluated through the duration of the course. Evaluation modes typically have a combination of student work, which consist of assignments, term papers, essays, presentations and discussions, quizzes and examinations. All students are required to do a minimum of 4 Credits of Field Project work as a part of the Coursework. The field project is mentored and evaluated by a faculty member. Students are required to complete a take-home comprehensive written exam at the end of the first year covering the content of the first year courses. At the end of their field project, they are required to pass a viva-voce examination based on their field project and relevant coursework.

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

HBCSE does not participate in courses given by other TIFR departments.

10. Number of faculty positions:

Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number

1. Professor (H) - 3 2. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Prof. (G) 5 3. Reader (F) - 8 4. Fellow (E) - - Total 16

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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‡ 1. Jayashree PhD Centre Science Education 34 0 Ramadas Director / Professor (H) K. Subramaniam Dean, Mathematics education 2. PhD HBCSE 23 6 Faculty / Professor (H) Gender in science and Sugra I. Professor (H) technology, Design and 22 3 3. Chunawala PhD Technology ducation, Attitudinal studies 4. Savita A. Ladage PhD Assoc. Prof. (G) Chemistry Education 20 1 Chemistry Olympiads, Chemistry Undergraduate Research Projects G. Nagarjuna Assoc. Prof. (G) Science Education, History 5. PhD and Philosophy of Science, 19 4 Knowledge networks Jyotsna Science education, 6. Vijapurkar PhD Reader (F) Curriculum 13 1 development, Teacher support Assoc. Prof. (G) Development of 7. K. K. Mishra PhD educational materials in 17 1 Hindi, Science dissemination 8. R. R. Vartak PhD Assoc. Prof. (G) Biology education, 15 0 Biology Olympiads, Biology Undergraduate Research Projects Physics and Astronomy Anwesh Assoc. Prof. (G) education, 9. Mazumdar PhD Asteroseismology, 8 0 Astronomy and Physics Olympiads, Physics Undergraduate Research Projects 10 R. B. PhD Reader (F) Physics Education, Physics 13 0

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Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Khaparde Undergraduate Research Projects Astronomy education, 11 Aniket P. Sule PhD Reader History of Astronomy, 9 0 . Astronomy Olympiads, Astronomy Undergraduate Research Projects 12 P. K. Joshi PhD Reader Junior Science Olympiads 19 0 Sanjay Cognitive science, 13 Chandrasekharan PhD Reader Learning sciences and 4 3 educational technology Karen Haydock Science education, 14 PhD Reader science epistemology, 4 1 science and society, science and art 15 Prithwijit De PhD Reader Mathematical Olympiads 6 0 16 Ankush Gupta PhD Reader Chemistry 1 0 education, environmental education * 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, those graduated and those completing PhD but not on scholarship)

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

1. Prof. H. C. Pradhan, Raja Ramanna Fellow 2. Prof. D. P. Roy, INSA Senior Scientist 3. Prof. S. M. Roy, INSA Senior Scientist 4. Prof. M. C. Arunan, Consultant 5. Prof. Swapna Banerjee Guha, ICSSR Senior Fellow 6. Prof. B. J. Venkatachala, Consultant 7. Prof. C. R. Pranesachar, Consultant

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

• Ritesh Khunyakari, Visiting Fellow, taught a 4-credit course on “Thinking about Learning: Concepts, Theories and Paradigms” (2011-12). • Arvind Jamkhandi, Visiting Fellow, taught a 2-credit elective course on “Philosophy of Technology” (2013-14). • Gita Chadha, University of Mumbai, External guest faculty, taught a 4-credit elective course on Sociology of Science (2013-14) • Roli Verma, University of New Mexico, Visiting Faculty at HBCSE, taught a 2- credit elective course on Science, Technology and Society (2013-14). • Varadarajan Narayanan, Azim Premji University, Visiting faculty at HBCSE, taught a 1-credit elective course on “History of Education” (2015-16). • Abhijeet Bardapurkar, Azim Premji University, Visiting faculty at HBCSE, partially taught “Philosophy of Education” - 4 credit course, 2016. (Dr. Bardapurkar taught about 30% of the course.) • Shubhangi Bhide, Visiting Fellow, partially taught a 4-redit course on “Introduction to STME research” (Dr. Bhide taught about 40% of the ourse) (2015-16).

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F

1. Ph.D. 15 16 0.9

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:

Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and Auxiliary Staff

27 27

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

• Science, Technology and Mathematics Education • National Initiative in Under-graduate Science (NIUS)

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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

Agency Project Title Total Grant Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs)

1. DST, The cognitive 40.3 Oct 2013 - Sanjay Cognitive mechanisms - Oct 2016 Chandrasek Science underlying model- haran Research based discovery and Initiative learning

b) International Agency Project Total Grant Duration Faculty Title (Rs. lakhs) 1. International Nuclear Paresh Joshi Atomic Energy Data 2010- (collaboration Euro 8000 Agency Sheets 2016 with IIT project Roorkee)

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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

a) National

Collaborating Total Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions Grant 1. N.A. National Repository for (under G. CIET, NCERT 2012-17 Open Educational Resources MoU) Nagarjuna

2. National University Students N.A. G. Skill (NUSSD) Development (under 2013-16 TISS Nagarjuna Project MoU) N.A. 3. Connected Learning G. TISS (under 2015- Initiative (CLiX) Project Nagarjuna MoU) 4. Ongoin YCMOU Post- Sugra (under g from YCMOU Graduation Research Chunaw MoU) several Programme ala years

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. Science, Technology and 2012-2017 All HBCSE DAE Mathematics Education 437 faculty 2. DAE National Initiative on 516 2012-2017 Several HBCSE Under- faculty graduate Science 3. BRNS National Science Olympiad 348 2012-2017 Several HBCSE (DAE) faculty 4. DAE National Science Olympiad 170 2015-16 Several HBCSE (Annual Grant) faculty

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5. DST National Science Olympiad 50 2015-16 Several HBCSE faculty 6. MHRD National Science Olympiad 34 2015-16 Several HBCSE faculty 7. DoS National Science Olympiad 23 2015-16 Several HBCSE faculty 8. NBHM National Mathematical 56 2015-16 Prithwijit De (DAE) Olympiad 9. DAE XII Plan Project-Science 1375 2012-17 All HBCSE faculty Education

20. Research facility / centre with

• state / national / international recognition: None

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

N.A.

22. Publications:

Pedagogi Books Web Book Mono Journal cal Articles in Technica Publication Chapter HBCSE Publicatio Publicatio Proceedin Edited l Reports s s -graphs n s ns* g s

2010-11 17 4 20 6 0 3 8 - 2011-12 14 16 15 6 4 4 7 - 2012-13 28 18 40 12 0 10 13 - 2013-14 21 11 6 8 6 4 1 - 2014-15 14 3 20 2 4 3 8 - Total 94 52 101 34 14 24 37 -

* Pedagogical publications include articles for teachers and students, science popularization articles, expository articles, mathematical problems and solutions, etc. published in both journals and magazines. This category is important for the work done at HBCSE.

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Publications Book Chapters + Books Edited + Monographs

120 Web Publications

100

80 Technical Reports

60 Articles in Proceedings 40

Number of Publications 20 Pedagogical Publications 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Journal Publications Year

∗ Citation Index – range / average

Total number of citations: 742 (Source: Google Scholar)

Number of citations per faculty: 46

23. Details of patents and income generated

Not Applicable

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

Faculty Member Project Name Company Name Duration Income

K. Subramaniam Review of Maths Khulisa July- Rs 99298 Chairs Management Dec 1. Programme, Services, 2013 South Africa South Africa

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

(Visits include talks, lectures, presentations at workshops, seminars and conferences, consultative meetings, etc. Relatively unimportant visits have been excluded.)

National

Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) 1. Savita Ladage Marathawada University Aurangabad 10/2011 National Convention of Chemistry 10/2011 Teachers – 2011, Patna S. P. College, Pune 12/2011 Modern College, Pune 02/2012 09-10-2011, Vaze College, Mumbai 11/2011 Guwahati University, Guwahati 11/2012 Refresher courses for teachers, 12/2012 Amravati University Rayat Science Conference on Science 01/2013 Education, Satara Inspire Programme, Satara 03/2013 Annamalai University, Chennai 11/2013 Institute of Chemical Techonology, 03/2014 Mumbai IIS University, Jaipur 10/2014 SRM University, Chennai 08/2014 Ruia College, Mumbai 02/2015 2. K. K. Mishra Teacher Training Program for Chemistry Teachers of Allahabad,Vigyan Parishad 08/2011 Prayag Heavy Water Board, BARC, Mumbai 01/2012 INSPIRE (DST) Program fro Bihar 08/2011 State, Chapra, Bihar Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 11/2011 Indira Gandhi National Open 03/2012 University, New Delhi

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) International Conference on Role of Communication Media in Creating 05/2012 Scientific Temper, Pusa, New Delhi National Workshop on Science Communication in Hindi through 03/2012 Digital Media, New Delhi Jagdam College (J.P. University), 07/2012 Chapra, Bihar AERB, Mumbai 05/2013 DRDO, New Delhi 12/2013 National Hindi Science Conference, 08/2014 Bhopal Regional Science Centre, Lucknow 03/2015 National Workshop on Development of Educational E-materials in Hindi, Vidyan 11/2014 Parishad Prayag 3. National Institute of Rural G. Nagarjuna 05/2010 Development, Hyderabad International conference on Public Sector Software and FOSS in 05/2010 Education, Kochi National Institute of Technology, 09/2010 Calicut Sahrdaya College of Engineering and 10/2010 Techonology Kodakara, Kerala Sreenidhi Institute of Science and 04/2010 Technology, Hyderabad Mumbai University, Kalina, Mumbai 2010-11 Computer Society of India CSI 2010, Taj 11/2010 Ends, Mumbai Marvell India Technology Day, Taj 12/2010 Mahal Hotel, New Delhi TISS, Mumbai 04/2011 NISTADS, New Delhi 06/2011 Global Education and Skill Summit, 09/2011 Pragati Maidan

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) Bardhwan University 12/2011 Dr. B. R. Ambetkar National Institute 03/2011 of Technology, Jallandhar, Punjab Shah and Anchor Kutcchi Engineering 01/2012 College, Chembur, Mumbai K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College 03/2012 of Education, Training and Research, Mumbai ISI Kolkata 03/2012 NCERT, Delhi 10/2011 IISER, Mohali 03-04/2012 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai 2012 St. Teresa's Institute of Education, 07/2012 Santa Cruz, Mumbai CHM College 08/2012 Usha Mittal Institute of Technology, 10/2012 SNDT University NCERT, Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar 12/2012 Haveli 4. K. Subramaniam JNU, New Delhi 12/2010 Zonal Institute of Training of the 09/2010 Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathana, D. Y. Patil School, Mumbai 11/2010 Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Bhopal 03/2011 IGNOU, New Delhi 12/2011 National Initiative on Mathematics 12/2011 Education: Eastern Regional Conference, Patna Science College TISS, Mumbai 10-11/2011 Central University, Jharkhand 09/2011 Acharya Marathe College, Mumbai 12/2011 National Meet on Year of 12/2012 Mathematics, NCERT, Delhi IISER, Pune 12/2011 Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer 12/2013

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) Azim Premji University, Bangalore 05/2014 Central Institute of Education, 07/2014 University of Delhi

Regional Institute of Education, Bhopal 12/2014

Government College of Education, 01/2015 Panvel Department of Education, University 03/2015 of Mumbai Azim Premji Foundation, Dehradun 09/2014 PVDT College, Mumbai 02/2015 IIT Bombay, Mumbai 03/2015 5. Jayashree Ramadas Indian Institute of Technology, Indore 08/2012 National Institute of Advanced Study, 09/2012 Bangalore Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced 11/2012 Scientific Research, Bangalore Navi Mumbai Science Foundation, 02/2013 Vashi Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of 03/2013 Science, Satara SCERT, Patna 03/2013 Shree Shivaji Vidnyan Parishad, 12/2013 Amravati Centre for Excellence in Basic 03/2014 Sciences, University of Mumbai TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary 05/2014 Sciences, Hyderabad BARC, Mumbai 03/2015 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 05/2014 6. Dr. Aniket Sule University of Mumbai, Mumbai 05/2010, 02/2011 Mathematics Workshop for School 07/2010 Teachers, Bombay Association for Science Education (BASE) UM-DAE CBS, Mumbai 03/2011 Careers in Science, Shanmukhananda 06/2010

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) Auditorium, Mumbai Making use of General Knowledge, 07/2010 Chetna Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai Magalatai Abhyankar Memorial 10/2010 Lecture, Khagol Mandal, Mumbai Careers in Science (Marathi), CKP 10/2010 Mandal, Mumbai Seminar by Indian Planetary Society, 12/2010 Surat, Gujarat Careers in Astronomy, UGC Seminar, 01/2011 Surat D. G. Ruparel College, Mumbai 02/2011 Certificate Course in Astronomy and 01/2012 Astrophysics, Centre for Extra Mural Studies, University of Mumbai, Mumbai Refresher Course for UG Teachers, 01/2012 Department of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, Mumbai Astronomy Workshop for NCSM 09/2011 Personnel, NCSM Headquarters, Kolkata St. John's School, Goregaon, Mumbai 04/2011 Kelkar College, Mulund, Mumbai 10&12/2011 Open question and answer session with 01/2012 an astronomer, Nyass Trust, Dombivali Carrer Opportunities in Pure Science, 01/2012 Chief Guest's address, Bhayandar, Thane Carrer Opportunities in Pure Science, 02/2012 Chief Guest's address, Podar International School, Aurangabad Carrer Opportunities in Pure Science, 02/2012 Chief Guest's address, Saraswati Vidyamandir, Mahim, Mumbai UM-DAE CBS, Mumbai 01-04/2013, 10/2012 IIT, Mumbai 09/2012 M. P. Birla Institute of Fundamental 05/2012 Research, Bangalore SIES College, Mumbai 07/2012

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) Marathi Vigyan Parishad, Thane 09/2012 D. Y. Patil International School, Worli 09/2012 Marathi Vigyan Parishad, Mumbai 11/2012 SMG English School, Diva 07/2012 INSPIRE camp, Rajur, Ahmadnagar, 01/2013 Maharashtra Telescopes of the future, Rotary Club, 01/2013 Chembur Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 06/2013 Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai 07/2013 BEST planning Workshop, Tamilnadu 08/2013 & Pudducherry Science Forum, Pudducherry Guwahati Planetarium, Guwahati 08/2013 Khalsa High School, Kolkata 04/2013 Comets (Marathi), Maharashtra Sewa 11/2013 Sangh, Mulund (West) KTHM College, Nashik 03/2013 IIT-Bombay, Astronomy Club 10/2013 UM-DAE CBS 08-11/2014, 01-04/2015 D. G. Ruparel College, Mumbai 09/2014 S.N.D.T. University, Mumbai 03/2015 IISER, Mohali 03/2015 Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 04/2014 Telescopes of the future (Marathi), 08/2014 Aseemit Astro Club, Pune Telescopes of the future (Marathi), 12/2014 Skywatchers Astro Club, Pune John Cannon School, Mumbai 10/2014 Astronomy, astrology and scientific temper, Kaivalya Hospital, Thane 7. Rajesh Khaparde 2nd National Workshop on Preparation of 08/2010 Question Bank, Association of Indian Universities and SGBA University, Amravati St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad 03/2014 Shri Shivaji Science College, Amravati, 06/2014

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) Maharashtra Indian Women Scientist's Association, 12/2014 Navi Mumbai 8. Sanjay Amrita University, Kollam, Kerala 12/2014 Chandrasekharan Indian Institute of Management, 2015 Kozhikode 9. Sugra Chunawala Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth 03/2011 Development, Sriperumbudur, Chennai University of Mumbai, Mumbai 10/2011 Western Regional Consultation on 12/2011 Women and Science & Technology, Mumbai K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of 12/2012, Education, Mumbai 02/2013 National Meet of Science 12/2012 Communicators in Indian Languages, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan School, 09/2013, Mankhurd 02/2014 K. J. Somaiya College of Science and 12/2013 Engineering, Mumbai Gokhale Education Society’s Shri 01/2015 Bhausaheb Vartak Arts, Commerce and Science College, Mumbai Navi Mumbai Science Foundation (NMSF) 02/2015

K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of 01/2015 Education, Training and Research, Vidyavihar KV-ZIET, Mumbai 03/2015 Annual Peer Learning Meet – 3, 03/2015 Bhopal, Panchmarhi, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh Council for Teacher Education (CTE) 06/2014 Seminar, Bengaluru 10. Anwesh Mazumdar G.N. Khalsa College, Mumbai 07/2011 Navy Children's School, Navy Nagar, 2012, 2013, Mumbai 2014

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, 02/2013 Panvel K. J. Somaiya College, Mumbai 09/2013

Fergusson College, Pune 01/2014 K. J. Somaiya College of Science and 02/2015 Commerce, Mumbai IISER, Mohali 03/2014 11. J. Vijapurkar Muktangan Exploratory Science 04/2012 Centre, Pune 12. R. Vartak Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 06/2013 Zonal Institute of Education and 12/2014 Training (ZIET), Mumbai 13. P. K. Joshi AEES School, Anushaktinagar 05/2013 Junior Science Olympiad, Satara 10/2014 Junior Science Olympiad, Bhuj 11/2014 14. K. Haydock TISS, Mumbai 11/2012 Science, Ethics and Evolution, Centre for 02/2013 Excellence in Basic Sciences Assessment and Teaching Ideas, DIET 12/2012 Nadia Workshop on Small Science, Sri Sri 07/2012 Ravishankar Vidya Mandir, Mulund Evolution – 2 day workshop on evolution 06/2012 for teachers, Eklavya, Indore IISER, Mohali 2012 IISER, Pune 08/2012 Jhunjuhnwala College, Ghatkopar, 09/2012 Mumbai Chandibai Himathmal Mansukhani 11/2012 College, Kharghar IIT-Bombay, Mumbai 11/2012 University of Mumbai, Mumbai 01-04/2014 ZIET, Powai, Mumbai 07/2014 St. Xavier College, Mumbai 01/2015 15. P. De UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic 08-12/2012 Sciences (CEBS), Mumbai Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai 09/2012

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Name of Faculty member Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) Lecture Course for First Year students, CEBS 10-11/2014

Lecture course for second-year students, 01-14/2015 CEBS Lecture course for third-year students, 01-14/2015 CEBS

International

Name of faculty Place visited Date member (MM/YYYY)

01. Rajesh Khaparde New York University, Abu Dhabi 10/2010 Campus, UAE International Conference on Physics 08/2013 Education, Prague, Czech Republic 45th International Physics Olympiad, 07/2014 Astana, Kazakhstan 02. Jayashree International Conference on Physics 08/2013 Ramadas Education, Prague, Czech Republic 7th International Astronomy and 07-08/2013 Astrophysics Olympiad, Volos, Greece 03. K. Subramaniam University of Goteborg, Sweden 06/2010 International Programme 02/2011 Committee meeting for ICME-12 in South Korea International Congress of Mathematics 07/2012 Education (ICME-12) in South Korea Conference of the International Group on 07/2011; Psychology of Mathematics Education 07/2012 (PME), Turkey and Taiwan Eighth Swedish Mathematics Education 01/2012 Research Seminar; Matematikbiennalen 2012, Umea University, Sweden

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Name of faculty Place visited Date member (MM/YYYY)

Community of Practice Forum, FirstRand 07/2013 Foundation Mathematics Chairs, Johannesburg, South Africa 2015 SAARMSTE Doctoral Research School, 06/2015 Johannesburg, South Africa University of Witwatersrand, 08/2015 Johannesburg, South Africa 04. Aniket Sule Astronomy Olympiad training 04/2010 programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh 4th International Astronomy and 09/2010 Astrophysics Olympiad, Beijing, China Network for Youth Excellence 03/2011 (NYEX), Jerusalem, Israel Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 07/2011 (APRIM) 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand 5th International Astronomy and 09/2011 Astrophysics Olympiad, Krakow and Katowicw, Poland International Astronomy and 03/2012 Astrophysics Workshop, Dhaka, 6th International Astronomy and 08/2012 Astrophysics Olympiad, Rio De Janeiro and Vassouras cities, Brazil Cox's Bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh for 11-12/2012 organisation of 8th Asia-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad International Astronomical Union (IAU) 08/2012 General Assembly, Beijing, China 7th International Astronomy and 07-08/2013 Astrophysics Olympiad, Volos, Greece 05. Savita Lavadge 43rd International Chemistry Olympiad, 07/2011 Ankara, Turkey 44th International Chemistry Olympiad, 07/2012 Washington, USA

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Name of faculty Place visited Date member (MM/YYYY)

45th International Chemistry Olympiad, 07/2013 Moscow, Russia 8th International Astronomy and 08/2014 Astrophysics Olympiad, Suceava, Romania 05. Sugra Chunawala Pamukkale University, Turkey 06/2011 The University of South Africa (UNISA) 10/2011 NARST-2012, Indianapolis, USA 03/2012

Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2012-2013 in connection with Science Education for Diversity project University of Antwerp, Belgium 2015

7. Jyotsna Vijapurkar The University of South Africa (UNISA) 10/2011 Ministry of Education, Govt. Of 09-10/2013 Timor- Leste, Dili, Timor-Leste 8. Anwesh Mazumdar Observatoire de Paris at Meudon, France 05-06/2011 Second CoRoT Symposium, Marseille, 05/2011 France 5th International Astronomy and 09/2011 Astrophysics Olympiad, Krakow and Katowicw, Poland HELAS Conference, Obergurgl, Austria 05/2012 University of Cologne, Germany 05-06/2012 Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 05-06/2012 5th Workshop of the Kepler 06/2012 Asteroseismic Science Consortium, Balatonalmadi, Hungary IAU General Assembly Special Session 13, 08/2012 Beijing, China Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, 05-06/2013 University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Max Planck Institute for Solar 05/2014 System Research in Gottingen, Germany

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45th International Physics Olympiad, 07/2014 Astana, Kazakhstan 9. G. Nagarjuna FOSST@KACST, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 04/2010 CONSEGI 2010, Brasilia, Brazil 08/2010 Mozilla Drumbeat, Barcelona 10/2010 6th Open Knowledge Conference, 06-07/2011 Berlin, Germany University of Cape Town, South Africa 11/2011 10. Paresh K. Joshi International Junior Science Olympiad, 11/2010 Abuja, Nigeria 8th International Junior Science 12/2011 Olympiad, Durban, South Africa 9th International Junior Science 12/2012 Olympiad, Tehran, Iran 11th International Junior Science 12/2014 Olympiad, Mendoza, Argentina 11. Rekha Vartak 21st International Biology Olympiad, 07/2010 Changwon, Korea 12. Prithwijit De 52nd International Mathematical 07/2011 Olympiad, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 55th International Mathematical 07/2014 Olympiad, Cape Town, South Africa

26. Faculty serving in

a) National Committees

Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Name of the Committee Committee Service Member 1 Prof. Project Advisory Committee of the National Chair 2012-13 Jayashree Council for Science Technology Ramadas Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science and Technology Central Advisory Board on Education Member 2012-14

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Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Name of the Committee Committee Service Member (CABE) Committee for developing a framework and processes of the National Mission on Teachers and Teaching Committee of experts to oversee and Member 2012-13 mentor programmes of the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), DST Consultation group of the Justice J. S. Member 2010-13 Verma Commision on Teacher Education appointed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court National Advisory Committee and Member 2011-13 National Scientific Committee for the Kishor Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), DST Expert Committee for the “Rajat Jayanti Member 2011-13 Vigyan Sancharak Fellowship” of DST (NCSTC Division) Governing Council of the Atomic Energy Member 2011-15 Education Society (AEES) Governing Council, Vigyan Prasar, Member 2013-14 Department of Science and Technology 2 Prof. Sugra I. Executive Council, Peoples Council of Member 2012- 2015 Chunawala Education Departmental Advisory Board, Member 2014- Department of Gender Studies, NCERT Sub Committee constituted to draft Member 2014-15 regulations and norms and standards for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Teacher Education Programmes, NCTE Board of University Teaching and Member Ongoing Research, YCMOU from several years Revision of Syllabus for B.Ed. Course on Member Gender, School & Society, University of 2015 Mumbai Board of Studies, SNDT University, Member 2013- Mumbai Indian Educational Review, NCERT, New Reviewer Ongoing Delhi

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Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Name of the Committee Committee Service Member EpiSTEME-4 Conference Convener 2010-11 K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of LMC, Education, Training and Research, Mumbai Member 2015- 3 Prof. K. Curriculum and Syllabus Committee 2011- Chair Subramaniam (Class 1 to 8) for Mathematics of the 2012 Maharashtra State The National Conference on Mathematics 2011- education held at HBCSE under the Convener 2012 NIME initiative, January 2012.

The Steering Committee for the National Initiative in Mathematics Education Member 2011- (NIME 2011-12) 2012

National Council for Teacher Education Member 2013- Textbook Committee for Mathematics Member 2013-14 Textbook, Balbharti, Maharashtra Executive Committee of National Mission of Member 2013- Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Educational Research and Innovations Member 2012- Committee, NCERT NCTE sub-committee on developing Member 2013-14 guidelines for Teacher Eligibility Test NCTE sub-committee on teacher Member 2013-14 education through ODL mode NCTE sub-committee on developing norms Member 2013-14 for faculty for B.El.Ed. Programme 4 Prof. Savita Executive Council of Association of 2001-07, Member Ladage Chemistry Teachers (ACT) 2014-16 West Zone, Association of Chemistry Vice- 2008-13 Teachers, ACT President International Conference on Education in 2010, Chemistry, Jointly organized by HBCSE Convener and Association of Chemistry Teachers 2014 National Initiative on Undergraduate National Co- 2012- Science (NIUS) ordinator Course committee, PG diploma course in Member 2016- Analytical Techniques, Garware Institute of Career Education and Development,

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Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Name of the Committee Committee Service Member University of Mumbai 5 Prof. G. Free Software Foundation of India Chairperson 2004- Nagarjuna EpiSTEME-5 Conference Convener 2012-13 Technical Committee, LITDC, Bureau of Member 2008-11 Indian Standards, Delhi Institutional Advisory Board, Central Member 2012- Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT, New Delhi Board of Software Freedom Law Centre of Member 2011- India, New Delhi Joint Board of Paper Setters for the Member 2011-12 Proficiency Test in Science & Mathmatics held by the Central Board of Secondary Education in July 2011. Advisory Board, K. J. Somaiya College of Member 2007-15 Engineering, Mumbai Web Server Committee, National Board of Member 2012- Higher Mathematics Departmental Advisory Board, Department Member 2012- of Computers and Technological Aids, NCERT, New Delhi 6 Prof. K. K. People Council of Education, Allahabad Joint 2009-12 Mishra Secretary Vigyan Parishad Prayag, Allahabad Member 2006- Executive Council, Lok Vigyan Parishad, Member 2014- New Delhi National Academy of Sciences, India Member 2008- Advisory Committee, Vikramshila Science Member Academy, Patna 7 Prof. Rekha Interview Board of Kishore Vaigyanik Member 2014 Vartak Protsahan Yojana Executive Committee, Association of Member 2006- Teachers in Biological Sciences (ATBS) 8 Dr. Anwesh Joint Board of Paper Setters for the Convener 2011-13 Mazumdar Proficiency Test in Science & Mathmatics held by the Central Board of Secondary Education in July 2011. Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Member 2011, Paper-setting Committee 2013, 2014

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Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Name of the Committee Committee Service Member The Committee for National Innovation Member 2012-13 Scholarships under the Office of Adviser to Prime Minister on Public Information, Infrastructure and Innovations Science Olympiad (Biology, Chemistry, National From Junior Science and Physics) Coordinator August 2014 9 Dr. R. B. Board of Studies in Physics, University of Member 2010- Khaparde Mumbai 2015 Physics advisory group on laboratory Member 2008- 2011 programme (M.Sc.) of the Central University of Tamil Nadu Advisory Committee for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Science, Mathematics and Member 2014- Environment Exhibition (JNNSMEE), NCERT, New Delhi The Academic Advisory Committee for Member 'The Story of Light' Science Festival, 2014-15 January 14-18, 2015, Goa, India 10 Dr. Aniket Astronomy Sub-Committee of the Sule academic committee for International Chair Earth Science Olympiad 2013 organised by 2013 Geological Society of India at Mysore Coordination Committee for National Member 2008- Entrance Screening Test (NEST) Academic Programme Committee, UM- Member 2007-11 DAE CBS Academic Review Panel for Science Member 2011 activity kits for Vigyan Prasar Scientific Organising Committee 2nd Pro- Am meeting in Astronomy, organised by Member 2012 Astronomical Society of India and held at Nehru Planetarium, Delhi Scientific Organising Committee, Day Time Astronomy: Transit of Venus 2012 Member 2012 Workshop organised by HBCSE and Vigyan Prasar Project Approval Committee for NCSTC Ramanujam – Chandrasekhar centenary Member 2013 celebrations (DST)

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Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Name of the Committee Committee Service Member 11 Dr. P. K. Joshi Bombay Assoiciation of Science Chairman 2008 Education (Since 2008) Indian Physics Association Life 2005- Member 12 Dr. Sanjay EpiSTEME-6 Conference Co- 2013-15 Chandrasekhar Convener an Conference Programme Committee of Technology for Education (IEEE), 2014, Member 2014 Kollam, India. 13 Dr. Karen Course Package for 'Teaching Science: the Independent 2013-14 Haydock Upper Primary Years' to develop course Reviewer materials for teacher education at Azim Premji University. For The Rishi Valley Education Centre, in Independent 2013- collaboration with Azim Premji University. Reviewer 2015 14 Continuous and Comprehensive Member 2013 Dr. Jyotsna Evaluation Committee, NCERT Vijapurkar Curriculum Reform Committee, SCERT, Member Up to Andhra Pradesh 2012

(b) International Committees :

Name of the Name of the Role of the Term of Faculty Member Committee Committee Service 1 Prof. Jayashree The IUPAP International Commission Member 2011- Ramadas on Physics Education (ICPE) 2013 and 2014- 2016 2 Prof. K. International Programme Committee Member 2009- 2012 Subramaniam for the International Congress of Mathematics Education – 2012 India representative to the Country 2013- International Commission for Representat Mathematics Education ive 3 Prof. Savita Ladage International Steering Committee Co-opted 2012- for International Chemistry Member 2013 Olympiad 4 Prof. G. Nagarjuna International Workshop on Co-Chair 2011 Conceptual Structures Learning

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term of Faculty Member Committee Committee Service Teaching and Assessment Derby, 25th July 2011 20th International Conference on General 2013 Conceptual Structures Chair Academic Council, Free Technology Member 2008-13 Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands 5 Dr. Anwesh Scientific Organising Committee for Member 2012 Mazumdar Lorentz Centre Workshop on Red Giant Stars, Leiden The International Astronomical Union Member 2015- International Physics Olympiad 2015 Convener, 2014-15 Member of Academic Committee, Co- ordinator of Theory Component International Junior Science Olympiad Member, 2013 2013 Academic 6 Dr. Aniket Sule Academic Committee, 8th Asia Pacific ChairC itt 2009 Astronomy Olympiad, Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh Asia-Pacific, for the International Regional Jan. Olympiad in Astronomy and Coordinato r 2012 to Astrophysics (IOAA) Dec. The International Astronomical Union Member 2015 - 7 Dr. P. K. Joshi International Junior Science Olympiad Vice- 2012-15 Executive Committee President International Junior Science Olympiad President 2015-18 Executive Committee 8 Dr. Sanjay Conference Programme Committee of Member 2015 Chandrasekharan Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015, Pasadena, USA Conference Programme Committee Member 2015 of Model Based Reasoning Conference, Sestri, Levante, Italy, 2015 Conference Programme Committee of Member 2015 The 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies,

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Name of the Name of the Role of the Term of Faculty Member Committee Committee Service 2015, Hualien, Taiwan Conference Programme Committee Member 2015 of The 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, Hangzhou, China Conference Programme Committee of Member 2014 Technology for Learning of Thinking Skills, The 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education, 2014, Nara, Japan 9 Rajesh Khaparde International Physics Olympiad 2015 Member of 2014-15 Academic Committee, Co- ordinator of Experiment al Component

Name of the Name of the Journal Impac t Term of Faculty Factor Service Member 1 Prof. K. Advisory Board, International Sourcebooks N.A. 2012- Subramaniam in mathematics and science education, Information Age Publishing Journal Editorial Board, Contemporary - 2010- Education Dialogue as a Member. Journal Editorial Board, At Right Angles as a - 2011- Member. 2 Prof. G. International Journal of Conceptual 2013- Nagarjuna Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA), an Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association as a Associate Editor. 3 Prof. K. K. Editorial Board, Vidgyan Prakash, a quarterly 2004- Mishra Hindi Science magazine, World Hindi Foundation, New York, USA as a Member. Advisory Board of Vigyan Ganga, a 2012- Science journal of BHU, Varanasi as a

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Member. 4 Dr. R. B. Physics Education, a journal published by 2011- Khaparde University of Pune in association with IAPT as a Associate Editor.

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

All HBCSE faculty members regularly participate in national and international research- oriented symposia, conferences, workshops and schools. Further, they lead several intervention programmes targetted at students, teachers and teacher educators, which provides a first hand knowledge of issues in science education. The intervention programme are highly sought after since the Centre’s expertise in science education is widely recognized. The Centre encourages faculty members to participate in teaching in other institutions. The Centre has signed an MoU with IIT Bombay, by which students of the Interdisciplinary Programme in Education Technology at IIT Bombay take courses at HBCSE, and faculty from HBCSE teach in the programme. Faculty members of the Centre also teach in the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai University and in the M.A. (Education) programme at Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Individual modular courses have also been taught at other universities such as Central University, Jharkhand and IISER, Pune. By participating in teaching in other institutions, the faculty get valuable experience in teaching diverse groups of students and enrich their own teaching skills and perspectives by interacting with the faculty of other institutions closely. Similarly teaching by visiting professors enhances the quality and diversity of course offerings at HBCSE.

28. Student projects

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

ALL (100%) HBCSE students are required to do at least one field work project as part of their coursework.

Under the National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS)

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programme, undergraduate students from various institutions attend training camps at HBCSE and also carry out a research project under guidance from a mentor. About 108 NIUS camps have been held since 2004 and about 170 projects in physics, astronomy, chemistry and biology have been completed.

• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities

/ industry / institute

Some HBCSE faculty members have active collaborations with researchers in India from institutions such as IIT, Mumbai and TISS, Mumbai with researchers in other countries. Students of these faculty members participate in the research collaboration or make extended visits to Centres abroad to strengthen their research skills and expertise. The percentage of students involved in such projects is about 30%.

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

• Faculty Members:

a) National Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

2011 S. C. Agarkar Sanjeevray Sarma Award by the Ramanujan Foundation (Andhra Pradesh) 2009- K. K. Mishra Homi Jehangir Bhabha Award of the 'Maharashtra 2010 Rajya Hindi Sahitya Academy' 2012- K. K. Mishra Shatabdi Samman, Vigyan Parishad, Prayag 2013 2012- Vijay Singh Navbharat Times UDAAN Award 2013 2014 K. K. Mishra Bharatiya Bhasha Pratishthapan Samman Patra 2006 Savita Ladage Best Chemistry Teacher Award, Chemical Research Society of India

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2015 K. K. Mishra Rajbhasha Gaurav Award, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

International Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

2011 J. Ramadas The Third World Academy of Sciences Regional Prize

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

2009 V. C. Sonawane Dr. N. R. Tawade Prize for Outstanding Marathi Literature of Govt of Maharashtra 2010- A. D. Ghaisas Raja Kelkar Award for “Durbini Ani Vedhasala” 2013- A. Ghaisas Yedunath Thatte Puraskar for Marathi Book 2014 “Akash Kase Pahaave”, Government of Maharashtra. 2014 A. Ghaisas Prof. M. V. Chiplonkar Memorial Award, Indian Physics Association, Pune

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 2010 Fourth Asian Science Camp, HBCSE DST & DAE H. C. Pradhan

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Funding Year Name Faculty members Agency 2011 epiSTEME-4, Fourth international DAE All faculty members conference to review research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, HBCSE 2011 Second Indo-Swedish Meeting on NBHM K. Subramaniam mathematics education, HBCSE 2010 First International Conference on Education DAE, DST Savita Ladage in Chemistry, HBCSE in collaboration with & CSIR Association of Chemistry Teachers 2011 Second Annual Research Meet, HBCSE HBCSE All Faculty members 2010 Wikipedia Workshop, HBCSE HBCSE G. Nagarjuna 2011 Open Video Conference, HBCSE HBCSE G. Nagarjuna 2010 Development of E-materials in Hindi, HBCSE K. K. Mishra Allahabad 2011 Science Education and Diversity project, Univ of Sugra Chunawala & India Meet, HBCSE Exeter, Chitra Natarajan From SED 2012 National Initiative in Mathematics Education NBHM K. Subramaniam (NIME) National Conference, HBCSE

2012 Collaborative Approach to Develop Science Australia Sugra Chunawala & Teaching Methods Suitable for Addressing India Chitra Natarajan Diversity in Classrooms, HBCSE (Two Teacher Council Workshops) 2011 Towards Science Education for Diversity: A SED Sugra Chunawala Teacher Researcher Collaborative Workshop, Project HBCSE Funding 2012 Day Time Astronomy: Transit of Venus 2012 Vigyan Aniket Sule Workshop, HBCSE Prasar 2012 Third Annual Research Meet, HBCSE HBCSE All faculty members 2011 Interfacing simple science experiments with HBCSE G. Nagarjuna computer using Expeyes/Phoenix system, 2012 Asian Physics Olympiad, New Delhi DAE, DST H. C. Pradhan, Vijay & NCERT Singh, Rajesh Khaparde, Anwesh Mazumdar

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Funding Year Name Faculty members Agency 2013 epiSTEME-5, Fifth international conference to HBCSE All faculty members review research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, HBCSE 2013 20th International Conference on Conceptual BRNS G. Nagarjuna Structures, HBCSE 2012 2-Day Seminar on Responding to Changing HBCSE Jayashree Ramadas Educational Paradigms, HBCSE & K. Subramaniam 2012 3rd National Workshop on Development of HBCSE K. K. Mishra Educational E-Materials in Hindi, HBCSE with Vigyan Parishad Prayag 2013 10th International Junior Science Olympiad DAE, P.K. Joshi, Anwesh 2013, Pune NCERT Mazumdar, Aniket Sule 2013 Refresher Course on Statistical Mechanics for HBCSE, Praveen Pathak College Teachers, HBCSE CBS & TIFR

2013 3rd Pro-Am Meeting in Astronomy, HBCSE (in Astronomi Aniket Sule collaboration with Astronomical Society of cal India) Society of 2013 Eyes on Comet ISON National Campaign Vigyan Aniket Sule Brainstroming Workshop, HBCSE (in Prasar assoication with All India People's Science Network) 2014 4th National workshop on development of HBCSE K. K. Mishra educational e-materials in Hindi , Allahabad 2014 2nd International conference on education in DAE, DST, Savita Ladage chemistry (ICEC-2014), HBCSE (in INSA collaboration with Association of Chemistry Teachers ) 2014 4-day Workshop for science teachers SCERT, K. K. Mishra educators of Uttarakhand at HBCSE during Uttarakha February 5-8, 2014 nd

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WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS(Only for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15):

2013 2-day workshop on Socio scientific Issues HBCSE Aswathy Raveendran 2013 First NIUS Workshop on Introductory HBCSE A. Mazumdar Computational Science (HBCSE) 2013 Workshop on Chemical Thermodynamics HBCSE Savita Ladage (HBCSE)

2013 Seven workshops of YCMOU for Post- YCMOU Sugra Chunawala graduate students 2013 Consultative meeting for Building DST Chitra Natarajan Educators for Science Teaching (BEST) & Narendra project Deshmukh 2014 Open-Beginninged Workshop for Grade VIII HBCSE Karen Haydock students, HBCSE 2014 An experimental workshop with Class VII HBCSE Several HBCSE students from Nutan, HBCSE members 2014 Nurture Camp for Grade VI and IX students, Mumbai Narendra HBCSE Science Deshmukh Teachers’ Associatio 2014 CUBE Summer Workshops for college HBCSE and G. Nagarjuna, M.C. students (Vivekanand Education Society's Host Arunan College, Chembur; Chandibai Himatlal colleges Manshukhani College, Ulhasnagar; Royal College, Bhayandar; KBP college) 2014 Three-day Workshop on decimal learning HBCSE K Subramaniam and maths lab (with Eklavya), Hoshangabad

2014 A workshop- 'Decoding DNA: Model HBCSE Jayashree Ramadas building & Model dissection' for biology & undergraduate students, HBCSE Anveshna Srivastava 2014 Four-day Workshop for students and HBCSE Shweta Naik teachers on 'Fun with Ratio and Proportion!' and 'Learning to Teach Mathematics', St. Xavier's Institute of Education, Mumbai 2014 Seven workshops of YCMOU for Post- YCMOU Sugra Chunawala graduate students

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2015 Phylogenetic Analysis: A One Day Workshop HBCSE G. Nagarjuna, M.C. facilitated by Prof. R. Geeta, Department Arunan of Botany, University of Delhi) CUBE Lab, HBCSE. 2015 Ten workshops of YCMOU for Post- YCMOU Sugra Chunawala graduate students 2015 Design and Technology workshop HBCSE Sugra Chunawala

2015 Summer Camp for Grade 3 Students HBCSE Jayashree Ramadas, Sugra Chunawala and SSRD Team

WORKSHOPS FOR AND PRE/ IN-SERVICE TEACHERS (Only for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15):

2013 POGIL workshop for chemistry teachers HBCSE Savita Ladage, Kelly (HBCSE) Butler 2013 ‘Exposure cum Preparatory Workshop for HBCSE Rajesh Khaparde Teachers’ at undergraduate level 2013 Three workshops, each of three days’ Kendriya K Subramaniam duration, Vidyalaya were organized at HBCSE for secondary Sangathan science teachers, secondary mathematics teachers and for a group of primary science and maths teachers respectively of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan 2013 Two workshops (3-day + 4-day ) for science SVERI Narendra teachers from Pandharpur taluka in Education Deshmukh collaboration with SVERI Education society Society

2013 2-day workshop for over 43 science Ambuja Narendra teachers from Cement Deshmukh Zilla Parishad schools in Chandrapur Foundatio 2013 2-day workshop for science teachers from Nashik Narendra Nashik organized in collaboration with Education Deshmukh Nashik Education Society Society 2013 1-day workshop for 90 science teachers People’s Narendra from Mahad Taluka in collaboration with education Deshmukh People's Education Society society

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2013 3-day workshop on constructivist teaching Shri Shivaji Narendra approaches, for 45 science teachers in Education Deshmukh collaboration with Shri Shivaji Science Society College, Amravati 2014 3-day workshop for 42 science teachers SCERT, Goa Narendra from Goa Deshmukh on activity based learning organized in collaboration with SCERT Goa 2014 Tata Capital organized science teacher’s Tata Narendra workshop Capital Deshmukh at Vikramgad School in July 2014 2014 Activity based workshop was organized for Udayancha V. C. Sonawane Udayanchal High School (Vikroli) l High School 2014 NIUS Workshop on Designing HBCSE Rajesh Khaparde Undergraduate Physics Curriculum (with University of Mumbai) HBCSE 2014 Workshop of Mathematics Problem Solving HBCSE Shweta Naik (HBCSE) 2014 Workshop with Jidnyasa Trust (Ganit Yatra HBCSE K. Subramaniam, Programme) on making of mathematics Shweta Naik laboratory activities (HBCSE, July 2014; Aurangabad, August 2014; Nashik and Dhule, September 2014); 2014 One-day Workshop on 'Learning to HBCSE Shweta Naik Demonstrate Mathematics Laboratory' for in-service teachers (HBCSE) 2014 One-day workshops on 'Learning to Solve SXIE Shweta Naik Mathematical Problems' for pre-service teachers (St. Xavier's Institute of Education, Mumbai 2014 Workshop for IWSA teachers: 'Becoming a IWSA Shweta Naik resource person' (HBCSE) 2015 Workshop for teachers on Module Kendriya Shikha Takker Development Vidyalaya for KV-ZIET (KV-ZIET, Mumbai) Sangathan 2015 Two Workshops for Science Teachers on HBCSE & Jayashree Ramadas Implementing Small Science Curriculum (Al Vedavalli Qamar Academy & Vedavalli Vidyalaya, Vidyalya Chennai)

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2010-2015 About 70 Resource Generation Camps in DAE, DST, Savita Ladage, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Junior Science DoS Rekha, Vartak, and Astronomy Olympiads, each involving, Anwesh on average 10 teachers Mazumdar, Aniket Sule, Paresh Joshi, Anand Ghaisas 2010-2015 About 20 Exposure Camps in Physics, DAE, DST, Savita Ladage, Chemistry, Biology, Junior Science and DoS Rekha, Vartak, Astronomy Olympiads, each involving, on Anwesh average 50 teachers Mazumdar, Aniket Sule, Paresh Joshi, Anand Ghaisas 2014 Four Preparatory Resource Generation DAE, Vijay Singh, Camps for IPhO 2015 (about 80 teachers) DST, Anwesh MHRD Mazumdar, Rajesh Khaparde 2015 Preparatory Workshop for Experimental DAE, Anwesh component of IPhO 2015 (about 50 DST, Mazumdar, teachers) MHRD Rajesh Khaparde 2014-15 Three Preparatory Workshops for DAE, DST, Vijay Singh, Anwesh Theoretical component of IPhO 2015 (10 MHRD Mazumdar

WORKSHOPS FOR RESOURCE PERSONS/ TRAINERS/ TEACHER TRAINERS (Only for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15):

2013 Workshop on topics of Algebra for field level APF K Subramaniam mathematics subject experts of Azim Premji Foundation (APF) 2013 Workshop on topics of Functions for field APF K Subramaniam level mathematics subject experts of Azim Premji Foundation 2013 A workshop for Master Trainers in Chemistry Royal Savita Ladage (with Royal Society of Chemistry) (HBCSE) Society of Chemistry

2013 Three workshops for resource persons of NCSTC Anand Ghaisas “Akhil Bharatiya Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti” from Konkan region, Mumbai and Pune (in collaboration with ABANS)

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2014 3-day workshop for mathematics teacher MHRD K Subramaniam educators from DIETs in Uttarakhand and Karnataka, faculty from SCERT and resource persons from Azim Premji Foundation 2014 4-day workshop for science teacher MHRD N. D. Deshmukh educators of Uttarakhand DIETs and SCERT faculty (HBCSE) 2014 Workshop on Chemistry Education Research HBCSE Savita Ladage (HBCSE) 2014 Workshop for Course Developers NUSSD TISS G. Nagarjuna (HBCSE) 2014 A one-day workshop on visuospatial HBCSE Jayashree Ramdas reasoning in astronomy education (HBCSE) 2014 STEAM: Integrated Learning Modules, First HBCSE Chitra Natarajan meeting and workshop (HBCSE) 2014 Digital Literacy Master Trainer's Workshop TISS G. Nagarjuna (TISS, Mumbai) 2014 Workshop to Review Course on Science RV Sugra Chunawala Education (for D.Ed. syllabus, developed by Education RV Education College, Bangalore, SCERT College Karnataka) , HBCSE 2014 Digital Literacy Trainer's Workshops (Bhilai TISS G. Nagarjuna Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh, September 27; Narayan Guru College, Chembur, Mumbai, October 11 – October 13; Kejriwal Institute of Management, Ranchi, Jharkhand, November 9 – November 11) 2014 Two 5-day workshops for teacher developers Royal Savita Ladage, V. D. (with Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC-UK) Society Lale (Workshop I- September 29-October 3; of Workshop II: November 24-28) Chemistr y 2014 6-day workshop for teacher educators was APF Karen Haydock conducted in collaboration with Azim Premji Foundation, Jaipur, on “Evolution: IV Capacity Enhancement Workshop 2014 Teacher Training Programme for Mumbai MSTA P. K. Joshi Science Teacher Association (MSTA) teachers at HBCSE.

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2014 Teacher Training Programme at New Delhi Local P. K. Joshi organizer s + HBCSE 2014 Teacher Training Programme for Atomic Local P. K. Joshi Energy School Teachers at HBCSE organizer s + HBCSE 2015 Special Session on Challenges for Education Indian Aniket Sule in Modern India (for 102nd Indian Science Science Congress) (University of Mumbai) Congres 2015 State Level Workshop on Blended Learning Chembur Narendra & Pathways to Student Success (along with Compreh Deshmukh Chembur Comprehensive College of e nsive Education, Chembur) (HBCSE) College of 2015 Workshop on Turtle Blocks (facilitated by HBCSEdi G. Nagarjuna Walter Bender, MIT Media Lab) (CUBE Lab, HBCSE) 2015 Kendriya Vidyalaya – Inquiry based KV Many learning workshop faculty members 2015 Kendriya Vidyalaya – ZIET Project Based KV-ZIET Many Learning workshop faculty 2015 Teacher Training Programmes at Goa, Vapi, Local P. K. Joshi Pal (Jalgaon dist.), Majihira (Purulia Dist., organizer West Bengal), HBCSE, Dombivili, Guwahati s + HBCSE

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

HBCSE follows the TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches. Name of the Application Selected Joined Pass Programmee received Male Female Male Female Male Female (refer to question no. 4)

Ph.D. 2887 11 12 8 7 75 100

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33. Diversity of students

a) Geographical Integra ted- Ph.D. Ph D M.Sc. Male Female Male Female Male Female Students Total From the state where 4 3 ------7 the university is located From other states of 4 4 ------8 India NRI students 0 0 ------0 Foreign students 0 0 ------0 Total 8 7 ------15

b) Undergraduate Institute: Integrated Total Ph.D. M.Sc. M.Sc.-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Male Female

From Universities 5 4 ------9 From premier science institutions 5 1 1 ------2 From premier 2 2 ------4 From others* 0 0 ------0 Total 8 7 ------15 † 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. UGC-NET 3 2. CSIR-NET 1

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3. GATE 2 4. ICMR-JRF 1 5. DBT-JRF 1 6. CTET 2 7. Punjab Civil Services 1

35. Student progression

• Ph.D. programme : On completing their coursework, students register towards their PhD dissertation. A few students have left before completing the coursework. Most students, who have registered for PhD have gone on to complete the dissertation. After obtaining the PhD degree, most students have secured post-doctoral or faculty positions at other institutions. Some students have secured teaching or other positions before completing the PhD and have continued to work towards their dissertations externally.

36. Diversity of staff

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

from TIFR : 5 TIFR from other institutions in India : 4 32% 43% India from institutions Abroad: 7 25% Abroad Total No 16

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

The HBCSE library houses over 25000 books, about 2300 bound volumes of journals, 133 print journals and provides access to about 1000 journals online. Details regarding the library are presented in B2, section 4.2.

b) Internet facilities for staff and students

HBCSE has a central computer facility that maintains computers, as well as access to LAN-WAN and the internet. Wireless is enabled across the campus including in the hostels and students can access high-speed internet from anywhere on campus.

c) Total number of class rooms

HBCSE has 3 large gallery style classrooms (60-80 seating) and 4 small classrooms (20-30 seating). It also has an auditorium with a capacity of 180. (see Section B1, Item no 12)

d) Class rooms with ICT facility

All the classrooms listed above have ICT facilities like overhead projectors, Wi-Fi, etc.

e) Students’ laboratories

• HBCSE has a range of laboratories which are used in its educational programmes to train students and teachers. These include the Olympiad and NIUS laboratories in physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and junior science. The integrated science laboratory, the Design and Technology laboratory and the mathematics laboratory are aimed at school students. The Collaborative Undergraduate Biology Education (CUBE) laboratory is aimed at college as well as school students and teachers.

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• In addition, HBCSE has laboratories focused on research, which are listed in (f) below.

f) Research laboratories

Name of Fac PDF† + Stu‡ Brief description of research activity Laboratory * Scientific staff

CUBE Lab 1 1 2 Developing models for collaborative research as part of science education Chemistry Lab 2 2 (visiting Undergraduate research projects (NIUS) students) Biology Lab 1 2 (visiting Undergraduate research projects (NIUS) students) Physics Lab 2 2 (visiting Undergraduate research projects (NIUS) students) Learning 1 0 3 Investigates the role of media in sciences lab learning using distributed cognition perspectives Gnowledge Lab 1 1 1 Investigates the structure of knowledge as a network Design and 1 2 3 plus Research and development in Technology Lab Visiting “Design and Technology Education” students * no of faculty members using the laboratory † no of postdoctoral fellows and scientific staff 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. Rafikh Shaikh Dr. Rutwik Thengodkar 2. Prajakt Pande Dr. Shubhangi Bhide 3. Gurinder Singh

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4. Rosemary Varkey 5. Himanshu Srivastava 6. Rossi D’Souza 7. Geetanjali Date 8. Deborah Dutta 9. Kanchan Mishra 10. Shubhayan Kabir 11. Durgaprasad Karnam 12. Sujatha Varadarajan 13. Charudatta Navare 14. Mihika Shah 15. Ratna

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

ALL the students of HBCSE 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.

HBCSE instituted a PhD programme in science education in 1974 under affiliation to the University of Poona. This was a new area of research in the country. Although this field is well- established in many other countries, it continues to be an emerging area in the country. The programme has continued under the TIFR deemed university. There is a demand for PhD holders from HBCSE in a variety of innovative educational programmes, as well as the variety of workshops for in-service teachers offered at HBCSE, which indicates the relevance of the programme in addressing the problems confronting science education in India. The experience of HBCSE faculty and scientific staff in leading field-based programmes with teachers and students feeds into the PhD programme giving it an organic connection with the realities in the field. The PhD programme has been reviewed both internally and externally and changes have been made to the structure of the coursework and the

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programme as a whole.

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 six-member Subject Board of science education continuously reviews the curriculum on the basis of feedback, which is obtained from the students and instructors on the courses. A two member internal committee reviewed the PhD programme in 2013-14, held discussions with all PhD students and provided inputs for restructuring the curriculum, which was then carried out. The subject board introduced new courses (Philosophy of education; Teaching practice and school internship; Education, society and Education policy in India). Groups of faculty members also redesigned the content for individual courses.

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

Anonymous feedback on every course is collected from the students in a form specifically designed for this purpose. The feedback is processed by the Convenor, subject board and relevant portions are communicated to the Instructors, for modification and improvement of the courses.

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. Prof. Arvind Kumar Padma Shri, Raja Ramanna Fellow, INSA distinguished teacher award 2. Prof. H.C. Pradhan Raja Ramanna Fellow 3. Prof. Vijay Singh Raja Ramanna Fellow

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

As Item No 30 shows, HBCSE regularly holds conferences, seminars, talks and workshops, to which eminent educationists and researchers are regularly invited, which are attended by doctoral students. These expose students to current issues in education as well as on going research that seeks to address these issues in India and elsewhere.

HBCSE is identified by the Govt. of India as the nodal centre for the International Olympiads in the subjects of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, mathematics and junior science. Every year HBCSE holds the Indian National Olympiad examination in these subjects and conducts camps for students who pass this examination. These camps train students to participate in the highly challenging and exciting international olympiads and select a team of 4-6 students to represent India. Besides the camp for students, teachers are also invited to exposure camps where they are exposed to the culture of experimental investigation and problem solving. Teachers are also invited to the resource generation camps where they participate in designing problems and experiments.

The National Initiative on Under-graduate Science (NIUS) holds camps every year for students with a flair for science. The camps lead to the student taking up a research project of 1-2 years duration. The student is mentored through the research project by a research scientist. Several research projects have led to publications in research journals and conference proceedings. Another major activity is the holding of summer camps in experimental physics for students in the 2nd year of their Bachelor’s or Integrated Master’s programme in science participate in this camp.

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

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participation by students in the form of student reading and presentations, discussions, short field investigations and a variety of written assignments. Assignments include essays and term papers. Assessment take into account students’ participation in the classroom besides assignment, quizzes and examinations. Other innovative assessment modes include contribution to wikipedia and online encyclopedias, teaching school students, field studies, which form a part of some courses. Some courses use platforms such as Moodle and G-studio for managing learning resources and online discussion fora.

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

The Subject Board in Science education 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.

HBCSE undertakes a range of intervention programmes with students, pre- service and in- service teachers and teacher educators. Students participate in these programmes, often as resource persons. As part of their research, they visit urban and rural schools and interact with students and teachers. The research often involves a component of teaching students or orienting teachers. Schools catering to disadvantaged groups of students are a major group in these interventions. Students also actively participate in science popularization programmes.

As described above, HBCSE conducts camps for students and teachers as part of its Olympiad programmes.

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

Students at HBCSE are encouraged to participate in national and international conferences and seminars. A substantial amount of money is made available to support the students’ participation in at least one major conference outside India, or a visit to an internationally acclaimed research group. Seminars and conferences are regularly held at HBCSE, which students participate in. The

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Annual Research Meet is a research conference organized by students and attended by faculty and other staff members. Students present their research work and obtain feedback from the audience as well as from discussants who have read the paper beforehand.

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

The PhD programme in science education was recognized by UGC at the time of according Deemed University status to TIFR in 2001.

An external review of all aspects of HBCSE was carried out in 2014. The review committee comprised of Prof. N. Sathyamurthi (Director, IISER, Mohali), Chair; Jill Adler (University of Witwatersrand South Africa); Sibel Eruduran (University of Limerick, Ireland); Paula R. L. Heron, (University of Washington, USA), B. Phondke (ex-Director,National Institute of Science Communication) and T. S. Saraswathi (Retd. M. S. University, Baroda). Prior to the external review the HBCSE faculty carried out a detailed internal review, the outcomes of which were made available to the external review committee.

The committee carried out a comprehensive review of the work of HBCSE and submitted its report containing assessments and recommendations in December 2014. In regard to the research in science and mathematics education and the PhD programme specifically, the committee observed that “HBCSE is a unique institution, one of its kind in the country.” In regard to the specific role of HBCSE in the overall education scenario, the committee remarked that “while India has done an excellent job in education by producing Bachelors and Masters in education degree holders (B Ed and M Ed), it has lagged behind in science education. HBCSE can, in principle, fill this gap...”

Commenting on the impact of the research done at HBCSE, the committee observed that “the work done by the centre towards science education and mathematical education has put India on the world map…. Science and mathematics education researchers at HBCSE have contributed to… providing a presence for India in the international community. For example, they have

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published in the International Journal of Science Education, and in Educational Studies in Mathematics and participated in international conferences such as NARST and IGPME annual conferences.”

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

• About 165 journal articles in science, technology and mathematics education re - search and about 85 journal articles in science research have been produced by HBCSE members as part of the NIUS initiative. In addition, a large number of art - icles have been authored in journals and magazines for science dissemination, for teachers and students at the school and college level, and in conference proceed - ings.

• HBCSE has organized about 18 International and 11 National STME research con - ferences, seminars and workshops. Many smaller workshops and meetings have also been held.

• A total of 10 PhD dissertations have been accepted for the award of the PhD de - gree of the TIFR deemed university. (Of the 10 HBCSE alumni, 7 hold faculty posi - tions in leading universities and institutes, one holds a post-doc position in the U.S., one is a freelance education consultant and one is a teacher.)

• HBCSE members have authored 50 curricular books (including textbooks and teacher books), over 100 co-curricular and popular science books, about 50 tech - nical reports, and 13 Conference proceedings and reviews. These books have had a combined sales of about 9.5 Lakh copies.

• HBCSE is the National nodal centre of the Government of India for participation in the International Olympiads in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Mathem - atics and Junior Science. Over the years, Indian students have secured over 400 medals and about 25 honourable mentions at the International Olympiads. A large number of problems and experiments have been developed at HBCSE for pur - poses of selection and training in the Olympiad programme.

• As part of the NIUS initiative, undergraduate students have completed about 170 proto-research projects mentored by research scientists. Nearly 140 research and

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conference papers have been published. Over a 100 exposure and enrichment camps for students, and several workshops for teachers have been held.

• A large number of workshops for school teachers and teacher educators have been conducted by HBCSE members. These workshops are focused on inputs that com - bine subject knowledge with pedagogy, which is a type of specialized knowledge that is not typically available to teachers

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

Strengths

• Since the time of its inception, HBCSE has had a commitment to the improvement of science education for all sections of society and has targeted many of its programmes at disadvantaged students. A majority of its programmes have been with Government schools in urban, rural and tribal areas. Thus, the Centre, enriched by many intensive field contact programmes conducted over the decades, has long-standing experience of the ground-level challenges and possible solutions in delivering science education of a high quality for all students.

• The Centre has sound expertise in the content areas of science and mathematics given its well-qualified and capable faculty and the strength of its parent institution, TIFR. Further, programmes like the science and mathematics olympiads offer an opportunity to continuously strengthen content expertise. Thus, HBCSE is a unique institution in the Indian context, which combines expertise in science and mathematics with expertise and engagement in education.

• HBCSE has been a pioneer in research in the fields of science and mathematics education since it initiated a research programme several decades ago. It is recognized for its research both in India and internationally. The research in STME carried out at HBCSE is published in leading international peer-reviewed journals and has had a reasonable impact on the field in terms of citations received. Faculty members at HBCSE have links and collaborations with leading researchers across the world. The synergy between research, material development and intervention programmes gives added strength to the institution.

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• The Centre has an excellent infrastructure and ambience, with members free to pursue their work along several dimensions of science education, unfettered by paucity of resources. Doctoral students are encouraged take up ambitious research projects driven by their interests and passion. The work culture, characterized by sustained effort, co-operation and willingness to take on challenges, permeates all levels of staff at HBCSE.

• The Centre has vast experience and credibility with Government bodies, both for its expertise in and commitment to science education, and for its integrity in deploying public funds effectively. HBCSE members are part of several national and state level committees policy making and regulatory bodies in education.

Weaknesses

• The Centre carries out a large number and variety of programmes for students, teachers and teacher educators. This has the danger of defocusing the efforts and attention of members. The organizational demand of these programmes, especially of the time-bound, multi-stage Olympiad programmes is heavy, reducing the time available for research.

• The groups in the Centre led by faculty members tend to work in relative isolation. Collaboration between faculty members is infrequent. Faculty members who lead the Olympiad and NIUS programmes do not, in many cases, play an active role in the Graduate School. The HBCSE review committee has emphasized the need for increased team work among the faculty.

• The dissertation work towards the PhD extends well beyond the expected time of 5 years in most cases. While the reasons for the extended length are several, there is a need to address this problem.

• In recent years, there has been an attrition of faculty strength due to super- annuation of many of its senior members. It has been difficult to find suitable replacements.

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• The Centre has constraints of space given its small campus. It especially lacks faculty housing, which is needed to attract capable young faculty members to the Centre located in the city of Mumbai.

Opportunities

• There is growing importance given to STEM education at all levels in the country by not only scientists, technologists and industry leaders, but also by political leaders. This is reflected in the interest in science and related subjects among a large section of the student population. This is also reflected in the popularity of science- focused special programmes like the Olympiads, which in turn propagate the excitement and challenge of doing science and mathematics.

• There are several new high-profile institutions including the IISERs, CBS and NISER, charged with the mandate of science education starting from the undergraduate level, that have the resources and capacity to implement innovations in science education. Collaborative links with such institutions hold a great potential for HBCSE.

• There is a strong climate of reform in education and teacher education at the school level, which is reflected in the new curriculum frameworks for school education and teacher education. The NCF 2005 and its aftermath have shown the relevance of the contributions made by HBCSE. HBCSE’s strong capacity in designing assessment tools for science and mathematics education is especially relevant, where reform in assessment is a growing concern.

• There is growing recognition for HBCSE’s work by the international science and mathematics education community, evidenced in the links that faculty members have established. Collaborations with established international groups are beginning to take shape, and present an opportunity to further integrate the Centre with the international community.

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Challenges

• There are very few peer institutions in the country that have expertise in science and mathematics education. This has several negative consequences for HBCSE: a thin research base in STME and a resulting incomplete understanding of the situation, fewer post-doctoral and faculty positions for PhDs from HBCSE, reduced motivation and peer checks for HBCSE’s work, and reduced overall health of the Centre as well as the field of STME.

• The regulatory norms in teacher education have not recognized the track taken by a majority of HBCSE’s PhD degree holders as eligible for faculty appointments in teacher education institutions. (While the PhD degree in science education is recognized as a relevant qualification beyond an MEd, an MSc followed by a PhD in science education, is not recognized as sufficient qualification.) This has implications for a possible change in the entry qualifications for the PhD programme, or for some restructuring of the programme.

• The PhD in science education degree is currently not well recognized for entry into science teaching and research positions at the college level. Efforts to bring the attention of the scientific community to the importance and relevance of the degree in science education need to be strengthened.

• The curricular and related materials developed by HBCSE are not widely known and used in the country, largely because schools are required to follow textbooks produced by statutory bodies. This can be addressed by focusing efforts on developing support materials and also by strengthening the publicity and reach of materials produced by HBCSE.

• The bulk of the outreach work done by HBCSE is in the area of in-service teacher development. While this is a large and active domain in the country, it is not regulated and remains un-recognized. HBCSE’s efforts should also be directed at developing standards and regulatory mechanisms for such programmes.

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52. Future Plans of the Department

• Build greater coherence and synergy between research and the outreach programmes for students and teachers. Extend research into undergraduate science education.

• Build stronger research teams consisting of faculty, scientific staff, PhD students and post-docs working on sustained long-term research programmes.

• Encourage two-way exchanges and visits of faculty, scientific staff and research scholars between HBCSE and leading STME Centres

• Strengthen HBCSE published resources through review processes. Greater publicity and reach of materials produced at HBCSE.

• Forge better links with mainstream teacher education institutions. Explore possibility of joint offering of M.Ed. in science education

• Develop and disseminate resources developed around the Olympiad programme

• Strengthen teacher development, laboratory development and development of learning materials in undergraduate science education.

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National Centre for Radio Astrophysics

1. Name of the Department :

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA)

2. Year of establishment :

1994

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

It is a TIFR Centre and comes under the Physics Subject board.

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.

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 NCRA does not have a formal interdisciplinary programme. However, Radio Astronomy is an inherently interdisciplinary programme, involving physics, astronomy, signal processing, instrumentation etc. Several of the Ph.D. research topics are highly interdisciplinary.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. Graduate school courses are done in collaboration with the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics for the Ph.D. degree. Courses for the Integrated Ph.D. programme are done in collaboration with Pune University, as well as IISER Pune. NCRA faculty also teach courses at Pune University Physics department (as part of the Pune University M.Sc. programme), a well as at IISER

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Pune.

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

There are no such programmes.

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

Students of the NCRA are offered a programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses and a choice of topics on which they can do project work. During each semester students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process consisting of one or more of Assignments/ Quizzes/ Mid-semester Examination/ End-semester Examination/ Class Presentations/ Term Papers.

9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments NCRA does not currently participate in courses offered by other departments of the TIFR Deemed University.

10. Number of faculty positions: Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Distinguished Professor 0 (J) 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 3 3. Professor (H)  2 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 5 5. Reader (F)  7 6. Reader (E) 1 7. Fellow (E) 0 Total 18

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Ph.D Sr. Professor (I) The Interstellar 37 0 S. K. Ghosh Medium, Infra-red Astronomy Y. Gupta Ph.D. Sr. Professor (I) Pulsars, the interstellar 25.6 2 medium and

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Instrumentation Ph.D Sr. Professor (I) Extragalactic 19.9 4 J. N. Chengalur astronomy, the interstellar medium Ph.D Professor (H) Extragalactic 27.4 2 D. J. Saikia astronomy, AGN , nearby galaxies P. K. Manoharan Ph.D Professor (H) Solar activity, the 21.5 1 interplanetary medium Ph.D. As. Professor Galactic and 17.7 0 extragalactic radio N. G. Kantharia (G) sources, emission models and mechanisms Ph.D. As. Professor Pulsars, pulsar 12.3 1 (G) emission mechanisms, D. Mitra the interstellar medium Physics of interdisciplinary nature Ch. Ishwara- Ph.D As. Professor Radio Galaxies and 14.0 0 Chandra (G) Quasars

Ph.D As. Professor Fundamental constant 6.7 1 N. Kanekar (G) evolution, the interstellar medium, high redshift galaxies Ph.D As. Professor Pulars, polarimetry, 13.4 3 B. C. Joshi (G) instrumentation, software Ph.D. Reader (F) Solar Physics, 4.3 1 D. Oberoi Interplanetary Scintillations, Interferometry Ph.D Reader (F) Galaxy formation and 8.6 0 evolution, radio Y. Wadadekar properties of AGN, high redshift radio galaxies, machine learning D. V. Lal Ph.D Reader(F) Extragalactic radio and 4.3 0 X-ray astronomy S. Roy Ph.D Reader (F) The galactic centre, the 8.2 1 interstellar medium,

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supernova remnants

Ph.D Reader (F) Supernovae, gamma 3.3 0 P. Chandra ray bursts, massive stars Ph.D. Reader (F) Reionization, the 7.8 3 T. Roy Choudhury intergalactic medium, dark energy Ph.D. Reader(F) Extragalactic radio 3 0 S. K. Sirothia astronomy, instrumentation Ph.D. Reader(E) Pulsars, transient radio 2 0 J. Roy sources, instrumentation * 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

We have no senior visiting fellows/adjunct faculty/emeritus Professors. However we are hosting Dr. Sushan Konar and Dr. R. Kale who hold the DST WOS fellowship and the DST INSPIRE faculty fellowship respectively.

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

A total of 56 classes were taught as part of the Ph.D. program over the last four years. Of these three were taught by temporary faculty. No classes in other programs were taught by temporary faculty.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

We currently have 20 students in the Ph.D and Integrated Ph.D. programs combined. We have a total of 18 faculty members all of whom are involved in both programs. The student teacher ratio is hence 20:18, i.e. ~ 1.1.

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15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:

Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and auxiliary Staff 143 89

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

The focus area at NCRA is radio astronomy. The specialties include: • Solar astronomy • Stars and star forming regions, pulsars, extra-galactic astronomy • Interstellar medium, galaxies, galaxy evolution, • Transients, active galactic nuclei, • Cosmology, theoretical astrophysics • Radio astronomy-related instrumentation

Agency Title Project cost Duration Faculty (in Rs. Lakhs) 1 DST Swarnajayanti 57 5 years Nissim Kanekar Fellowship 2 DST Neutron Stars Glitch 24 3 years Sushan Konar Physics 3 DST Inspire faculty Award 55 5 years Ruta Kale

4 SERB Pulsar monitoring 21 3 years B C Joshi observations programme Swarnajayanti 5 DST Fellowship 75 5years Poonam Chandra

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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

NCRA is the lead Indian institution for the Square Kilometer Array Mega Project, which is a large international collaboration to build the next generation Radio Telescope. For the ongoing pre-construction phase of the SKA, NCRA is leading a multi-national consortium for the Monitoring and Control (Telescope Manager) work, as well as participating in other packages like signal transport, signal processing etc. The total funding for this project for the next 3 years is about INR 36 crore.

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

Agency Title Project cost Duration Faculty (in Rs.Lakhs)

1 DAE XII Plan Project – Radio 10,100 5 years All NCRA faculty Astrophysics at NCRA

NCRA has two major projects funded by the DAE, these are focused on Capacity building in Radio Astronomy, and Upgrades to the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope. The total funding in the 12th 5-year plan for these two projects is about Rs. 100 crore.

The project on capacity building for Radio Astronomy includes components on Upgrades of computational facilities, Upgrades for the Ooty Radio Telescope, Upgrades of SIRC Facilities User Community Development, Enhancement to the TGSS Computational Facility, Radio Astronomy From Space, Upgrade of Civil and Related Infrastructure, The expanded GMRT and the NCRA Technology Park.

The upgrade of the GMRT includes components on New Technology Front- End & Signal Transport for GMRT, Upgradation of back-ends for the GMRT, Improvements to GMRT Operations, Upgrades to GMRT data archive, Controlling Radio Frequency Interference at the GMRT, the Next Generation Servo System, Improvements to Mechanical Systems, and Additions & Improvements to Electrical Systems.

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In addition NCRA is the nodal Indian agency for the international Square Kilometer Array project. This is one of the mega projects funded by DAE and DST. The budget for this project is INR 36 crore for 3 years.

20. Research facility / centre with National and International recognition. NCRA designed, built and operates the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) which is one of the most sensitive radio telescopes in the world. It is located at a site about 80 km north of Pune, and consists of 30 fully steerable gigantic parabolic dishes each of 45m diameter. The array is spread over distances of up to 25 km, with all antennas connected to the central electronics building via optical fibre links. The number and configuration of the dishes was optimized to meet the principal astrophysical objectives which require sensitivity at high angular resolution as well as ability to image radio emission from diffuse extended regions. The multiplication or correlation of radio signals from all the 435 possible pairs of antennas or interferometers enables radio images of celestial objects to be synthesized with a resolution equivalent to that obtainable with a single gigantic dish 25 kilometre in diameter. The array currently operates in 5 frequency bands centered at 153, 233, 325, 610 and 1420 MHz. All these feeds provide dual polarization outputs. In some configurations, dual-frequency observations are also possible.

GMRT is a completely indigenous project and is one of the most challenging experimental programmes in basic sciences undertaken by Indian scientists and engineers. The GMRT was dedicated to the nation in 2001 by Shri Ratan Tata and is operated as a national facility with the allocation of observing time with the GMRT is done by an independent Time Allocation Committee, currently chaired by Prof. K. Subramanian from IUCAA. The Time Allocation Committee receives proposals from astronomers from across the world and allocates time based on international peer review, independent of the home institute of the proposer. At the moment about 50% of the time at the GMRT is allocated to proposals from Indian PIs and the remaining to proposals from foreign PIs. The over subscription rate (i.e. the ratio of total observing time requested to the total time available for allocation) at GMRT is around a factor of 2. The GMRT is one of the few national facilities which attracts a significant number of proposals from the international community. The statistics of time distribution at the GMRT (as a function of the

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country of origin of the PI) is given below.

In addition the NCRA also operates the Ooty Radio Telescope, which remains one of the most sensitive low frequency single dish telescopes in the world.

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

22. Publications: NCRA Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books Mono Publicati Proceedings Reports Publication Chapters Edited - ons s graph s 2010-11 44 08 4 5 1 - - 2011-12 43 18 12 4 1 - - 2012-13 68 20 14 - - - - 2013-14 55 10 18 - 1 - - 2014-15 71 11 22 - - 1 - Total 281 67 70 9 3 1

∗ Citation Index – range / average • Total number of citations- 22685 (Source-Astrophysical Data System) • Number of citations per faculty- 1260

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∗ h-index

• Range- 8-32

23. Details of patents and income generated Patent Name Patent holder Date of filing Current status Preloaded Parabolic Dish Antenna and the Method of Making it G.Swarup 29-06-07 Granted

Income generated is NIL

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

None

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

All NCRA faculty have made several visits to both national and international institutes, industries etc. A partial list of visits is given below.

National Visits:

Name of Faculty Member National Visits Place of visit Year of Visit 1 B C Joshi 1)ASI 28th, Meeting, 1)Raipur 1)2010 2)National Seminar 2)Thiruvananthapuram 2)2010 On Aerospace and Related Mechanisms 3)ASI 31st, Meeting, 3)Thiruvananthpuram 3)2013 4)Aditya science 4)Bangalore 4)2013 meeting 5)ASI 32nd Meeting 5)Bangalore 5)2014 2 Chengalur, J. N. 1)ARIES, 1)Nainital 1)2012 2)Radio Astronomy, 2)Mumbai 2)2014 Astronomy Olympiad Camp, HBCSE 3 Choudhury, Tirthankar Roy 1)HRI 1)Allahabad 2012 2)Indian Institute of 2)Bangalore Science

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Name of Faculty Member National Visits Place of visit Year of Visit 4 Dutta, Prasun 1) Indian Inst.of 1) Kharagpur 2011 Technology 2)IISER 2)Mohali 5 Ghosh S.K 1)S N Bose National 1) Kolkatta 1)2010 Centre for Basic Sciences 2)ARIES, 2)Nainital 2)2010 3)Astronomical 3)Raipur 3)2011 Society of India

6 Gupta Yashwant 1)Indian Inst.of 1)Mumbai 1)2010 Technology 2) ASI,30th Meeting 2)Thiruvananthapuram 2)2012 3)IISER 3) Trivandrum 3)2013 4)INSPIRE Sc.Camp, 4)Orissa, 4)2014 NIST 5) IISER 5)Mohali 5)2014 6)2014 IEEE HPC 6)Goa 6)2014 Conference 7)102nd Indian 7)Mumbai 7)2015 Science Congress meeting. 8)RRI 8)Bangalore 8)2015 7 Ishwara-Chandra C. H Cotton College State Assam 2015 University, Guwahati, 8 Kanekar Nissim 1)Indian Conference 1)Mohali 1)2011 on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, IISER 2)Indian Institute of 2)Bangalore 2)2012 Sciences 3)RRI 3)Bangalore 3)2013 4)IISER 4)Mohali 4)2014 5)IIA 5)Bangalore 5)2014 6)RRI 6)Bangalore 6)2014 9 Manoharan, P.K Physical Research 1)Ahmedabad 2014 Laboratory 10 Roy, J 1)Saha Institute of Kolkata 2012 Nuclear Physics 2)S N Bose National Centre for

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Name of Faculty Member National Visits Place of visit Year of Visit Basic Science

11 Saikia D.J. 1)Raman Research 1)Bangalore 1)2010, Institute 2011 2) Indian Inst.. of 2)Triruvananthapuram 2)2011 Technology

International Visits:

Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 1 Gopal Krishna 09/05/2011 - Collaborative research work in MPIfR, Bonn 23/05/2011 MPIfR, Bonn & IAP, Paris 2 D J Saikia 01/05/2011 - ELVA, Soccorro, New Mexico, Socorro, New 31/07/2011 USA Mexico, US 3 Yogesh 28/06/2011 - Representative of M & C Lead Manchester, UK Wadakekar 30/06/2011 Institution 4 Nissim Kanekar 27/06/2011 - speaker Santiago, Chile 30/06/2011 5 N G Kantharia 12/07/2011 - Contibuted presentation Boston, USA 17/07/2011 6 Nissim Kanekar 03/07/2011 - invited speaker Ringberg, 08/07/2011 Germany 7 Yogesh 04/07/2011 - M & C Breakout meeting Banff, Canada Wadakekar 08/07/2011 8 Yogesh 26/07/2011 - invited speaker in Asia Pacific Chiang Mai, Wadakekar 29/07/2011 Regional IAU meeting Thailand 9 Yashwant 17/07/2011 - participating in the review panel Capetown, South Gupta 23/07/2011 meet for MeerKAT Africa 10 Yashwant 13/08/2011 - invited talk(URSI General Istanbul, Turkey Gupta 20/08/2011 Assembly) 11 P K Manoharan 28/06/2011 - invited talk Melbourne, 07/07/2011 Australia 12 P K Manoharan 08/08/2011 - invited talk Taipei 12/08/2011 13 B C Joshi 13/08/2011 - paper presentation and Istanbul, Turkey 20/08/2011 participation (URSI General Assembly 2011)

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Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 14 S K Sirothia 13/08/2011 - invited talk (URSI General Istanbul, Turkey 20/08/2011 Assembly, 2011) 15 J N Chengalur 05/09/2011 - collaboration work at ANU Australia 14/09/2011 16 Prof. Yashwant 17/10/2011 - Visit to UK for PrepSKA WP2 UK Gupta 21/10/2011 meeting at Manchester 17 Janusz Gil 23/10/2011 - invited to work in Zielona Gora, Poland 26/10/2011 Poland 18 Ishwara 01/11/2011 - Collaborative work at Univ. of UK Chandra C H 04/12/2011 Birmigham, UK 19 P K Manoharan 21/10/2011 - Living with Star (LWS) meeting at USA 28/10/2011 NSA-GSFC) 20 Yashwant 29/01/2012 - Visit to UK for PrepSKA WP2 UK Gupta 04/02/2012 meeting at Manchester 21 Yashwant 13/02/2012 - Concept of Design Review UK Gupta 16/02/2012 Meeting at Manchester 23 Swarna K 17/03/2012 - collaborative work at Russia Russia Ghosh 22/03/2012 under DST-RFBR programme 24 Nissim Kanekar 21/02/2012 - Observation with Kast Telescope California, USA & 11/04/2012 of Lick Observatory, California , Santiago, Chile Collaboration research with Dr. Jeff Weagg at Santiago, Chile 25 P K Manoharan 09/04/2012 - collaborative work on Indo-US NASA, USA 07/05/2012 project on Solar Eruptive Phenomena at NASA, USA 26 Yashwant 24/04/2012 - invited talk at Univ. of Zielona Univ. of Zielona Gupta 27/04/2012 Gora, Poland Gora, Poland 27 Gopal Krishna 20/05/2012 - Scientific collaboration at IAP, IAP, France 04/06/2012 France 28 Gopal Krishna 05/07/2012 - collaborative work at Princeton USA 19/07/2012 New Jersey, USA 29 P K Manoharan 13/05/2012 - AOGS council meeting at Singapore 14/05/2012 Singapore 30 B C Joshi 18/06/2012 - RISC meeting in Puschino, Moscow, Russia 20/06/2012 Moscow 31 Dharam Vir Lal 20/08/2012 - Oral presentation in IAU meeting Beijing, China 31/08/2012 in Beijing, China 32 Yogesh 04/08/2012 - International Olympiad in Brazil Wadakekar 14/08/2012 Astronomy and Astrophysics in Rio de Janeriro, Brazil

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Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 33 Divya Oberoi 13/08/2012 - ASIA OCEANIA GEOSCIENCE Singapore 17/08/2012 Society-American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly 2012 34 Gopal Krishna 05/08/2012 - Indo-South Africa Workshop Capetown, South 11/08/2012 Africa 35 Sandeep 05/08/2012 - Indo-South Africa Workshop Capetown, South Sirothia 11/08/2012 Africa 36 Yashwant 05/08/2012 - Indo-South Africa Workshop Capetown, South Gupta 11/08/2012 Africa 37 Yashwant 12/08/2012 - CASPER 2012 Greenbank, USA Gupta 18/08/2012 38 B C Joshi 19/08/2012 - 28 General Assembly of IAU & Beijing, China 29/08/2012 Pulsar Symposium at Beijing 39 Yashwant 23/09/2012 - RADIO 2012 at Mauritius Mauritius Gupta 27/09/2012 40 B C Joshi 19/08/2012 - 28 General Assembly of IAU & Beijing, China 29/08/2012 Pulsar Symposium at Beijing 41 Yogesh 22/09/2012 - Collaborative visit to SAAO, Cape Cape Town, South Wadadekar 20/10/2012 Town Africa 42 Divya Oberoi 03/10/2012 - talk and collaborative work at USA 05/10/2012 MIT HAYSTACK Observatory 44 P K Manoharan 21/01/2013 - Course teaching lecturer in intl Taiwan 26/01/2013 space weather winter school at National Central University, Taiwan 45 Yashwant 27/01/2013 - Participation in SKA Board UK Gupta 01/02/2013 Meeting in Manchester, UK 46 J N Chengalur 04/02/2013 - Collaboration work with Australia 16/02/2013 Australian National Univ., Australia 47 Dipanjan Mitra 26/04/2013 - Collaborative work in Univ. of Poland 03/07/2013 Zeilona Gora, Poland 48 Yashwant 14/04/2013 - SKA related meeting in UK and UK & Germany Gupta 27/04/2013 Modern Radio Universe Conference in Bonn 49 Tirthankar Roy 01/05/2013 - Academic collaboration with Italy Choudhury 12/06/2013 ICTP, TRIESTE, Italy 50 Poonam 14/04/2013 - GRB conference in Nashiville USA Chandra 18/04/2013 51 Ishwara 01/04/2013 - visit to IAS, Paris and MRU2013 France & Chandra 28/04/2013 Bonn Germany

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Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 52 Divya Oberoi 22/06/2013 - Meeting of ASIA OCEANIA Australia 28/06/2013 Geophysical Society 53 Divya Oberoi 04/05/2013 - Visiting MIT-HAYSTACK USA 04/06/2013 Observatory 54 Nissim Kanekar 22/04/2013 - Meeting on The Modern Radio Germany 26/04/2013 Universe 55 P K Manoharan 13/05/2013 - Visit to Goddard Space Flight USA 12/06/2013 Centrer, NASA, 56 P K Manoharan 24/06/2013 - To attend workshop on New Eyes Prague, Czech 29/06/2013 Looking at Solar Activity Republic 57 N G Kantharia 03/06/2013 - Collaborative work at CFA, USA 08/06/2013 Boston 58 B C Joshi 18/06/2013 - RADIO ASTRON INTERNATIONAL Moscow, Russia 22/06/2013 SCIENCE Meeting 59 Yogesh 18/06/2013 - RADIO ASTRON INTERNATIONAL Moscow, Russia Wadadekar 22/06/2013 SCIENCE Meeting 60 Yashwant 24/06/2013 - Approval for participation in SKA UK Gupta 28/06/2013 interfaces workshop meeting in UK 61 Yashwant 02/07/2013 - Participation in MeerKAT review South Africa Gupta 07/07/2013 panel meeting in Capetown 62 Nissim Kanekar 08/07/2013 - Meeting on Varying Fundamental Italy 12/07/2013 Constants, Italy 63 Yashwant 23/07/2013 - Particpation in SKA Board UK Gupta 26/07/2013 Meeting in UK 64 Tirthankar Roy 10/09/2013 - To participate in the conference Sweden & UK Choudhury 21/09/2013 on LYMAN-ALPHA as an Cosmological Tool om Stockholm Univ., Sweden, collaborative work at IOA, Cambridge 65 Yashwant 07/10/2013 - SKA Engineering meeting at UK Gupta 11/10/2013 Manchester, UK 66 Yogesh 07/10/2013 - SKA Engineering meeting at UK Wadadekar 11/10/2013 Manchester, UK 67 Jayaram N 03/11/2013 - Conference on The Universe Netherlands Chengalur 08/11/2013 @GER's Wavelength at Groningen. Netherlands 68 Nissim Kanekar 04/11/2013 - Conference on The Universe Netherlands 08/11/2013 @GER's Wavelength at Groningen. Netherlands

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Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 69 Nissim Kanekar 21/11/2013 - 1 day workshop on ELVA CH3OH The Netherlands 28/11/2013 data on fundamental constants & Denmark at Amsterdam and collaborative research at DARK Cosmology Centre, Cophenhagen 70 Yashwant 10/03/2014 - Participation in SKA Board UK Gupta 13/03/2014 Meeting in Manchester, UK 71 Yashwant 07/04/2014 - Participation in SKA Telescope UK Gupta 12/04/2014 Manager group meeting at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK 72 Yashwant 16/06/2014 - Participation in SKA SEAC Meetin UK Gupta 19/06/2014 in UK 73 Nissim Kanekar 15/07/2014 - Observation with Australia Australia 10/08/2014 Telescope Compact Array at Narrabri, Australia and collaborative work with ICRAR, Perth, Australia 74 B C Joshi 02/08/2014 - COSPAR meeting and Radio Moscow, Russia 10/08/2014 Astron intl steering committee meeting 76 Dharam Vir Lal 09/07/2014 - workship on Boston, USA 11/07/2014 X-ray view of Galaxy Ecosystems (9-11 July 2014) at Boston, USA 77 Dharam Vir Lal 21/08/2014 - APRIM 2014 (12th Asia - Pacific Korea 22/08/2014 Regional IAU meeting at Daejeon, Korea 78 P K Manoharan 28/07/2014 - Asia Oceania Feosciences Japan 01/08/2014 Socieity 11th Annual Meeting (AOGS) Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

79 Poonam 21/07/2014 - BinaMics & MiMes meeting at France Chandra 25/07/2014 Paris 80 Divya Oberoi 16/08/2014 - URSI General Assembly of China 23/08/2014 Scientific Symposium at Beijing 81 Ishwara 03/11/2014 - Collaboration work with Argentina Chandra 29/11/2014 Argentina Institutute of Radio La- Plata, Argentiana 82 Yashwant 28/09/2014 - Participation in SKA Engineering Australia Gupta 06/10/2014 Meeting and Consortia Meeting in Perth

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Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 83 Jayaram N 10/09/2014 - Collaborative work at SAO, Russia Chengalur 20/09/2014 Russia 84 Divya Oberoi 15/09/2014 - Collaboration work with MIT USA 17/10/2014 Haystack Observatory 85 Yashwant 15/10/2014 - SKA Board Meeting in Guiyang, China Gupta 17/10/2014 China 86 Tirthankar Roy 13/11/2014 - Research & Collaboration with UK Choudhury 22/11/2014 Institute of Astronomy, Univ of Cambridge, UK 87 Tirthankar Roy 30/11/2014 - Invited speaker on SKA 2014 in South Africa Choudhury 10/12/2014 South Africa 88 Jayaram N 03/11/2014 - Invited speaker - conference on Australia Chengalur 06/11/2014 Periphery of Disk Galaxies at Sydney 89 Yashwant 01/12/2014 - SKA Board + SKA Members UK Gupta 04/12/2014 meeting in Manchester 90 Jayaram N 10/12/2014 - To attend the meeting of the UK Chengalur 11/12/2014 SKA Science Review Panel at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK 91 Yogesh 07/01/2015 - SKA TM Design Review Meeting UK Wadadekar 09/01/2015 in UK 92 Yashwant 07/01/2015 - SKA TM Design Review Meeting UK Gupta 09/01/2015 in UK 93 Yashwant 03/03/2015 - SKA Board + SKA Members UK Gupta 05/032015 meeting in Manchester 94 Nissim Kanekar 05/04/2015 - To carry out observations with USA 22/05/2015 the Arecibo and Greek Bank Telescope and collaboration work with University of California 95 Yashwant 09/04/2015 - SKA Consortium Leads Meet in UK Gupta 10/04/2015 Jodrell Bank Obervatory, UK 96 Tirthankar Roy 06/05/2015 - Advanced workshop of Italy Choudhury 10/06/2015 cosmological structures from Reionization to Galaxies at ICTP,Trieste, Italy 97 Poonam 31/05/2015 - McCray Symposium 2015 at Univ. Switzerland Chandra 05/06/2015 of Bern, Switzerland 98 P K Manoharan 02/08/2015 - Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Singapore 07/08/2015 12th Annual Meeting (AOGS 2015)

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Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 99 B C Joshi 14/06/2015 - Radio ASTRON INTERNATIONAL Bonn, Germany 18/06/2015 Steering Committee meeting

100 Yogesh 01/07/2015 - Conference on SKA Pathfinders South Africa Wadadekar 25/07/2015 Radio ContinuumSurveys 2015 at South Africa and collaboration work wth SAAO, South Africa 101 Jayaram N 25/06/2015 - Colloquium speaker and external The Netherlands Chengalur 01/07/2015 examiner of Thesis defence at Groningen Univ., The Netherland 102 Dharam Vir Lal 01/07/2015 - invited talk on SPACS 2015 South Africa 03/07/2015 103 Yashwant 14/07/2015 - SKA Consortium Leads Meet in UK Gupta 15/07/2015 Edinburg, UK 104 Yashwant 22/07/2015 - SKA Board Meeting in South South Africa Gupta 23/07/2015 Africa 105 Nissim Kanekar 06/06/2015 - The trip to receive Delta Taiwan 19/06/2015 Lectureship award from the National Central University of Taiwan 106 Poonam 24/08/2015 - Indian Scientists in the SKA Key Sweden Chandra 27/08/2015 Science Workshop 107 Bhal Chandra 24/08/2015 - Indian Scientists in the SKA Key Sweden Joshi 27/08/2015 Science Workshop 108 Dharam Vir Lal 24/08/2015 - Indian Scientists in the SKA Key Sweden 27/08/2015 Science Workshop 109 Divya Oberoi 24/08/2015 - Indian Scientists in the SKA Key Sweden 27/08/2015 Science Workshop 110 Tirthankar Roy 24/08/2015 - Indian Scientists in the SKA Key Sweden Choudhury 27/08/2015 Science Workshop 111 Divya Oberoi 17/08/2015 - Collaborative work in curtain Australia 21/08/2015 Univ., Perth, Australia 112 Ishwara 19/10/2015 - Poster presentation and Italy Chandra 31/10/2015 collaboration work at Bologna, Italy 113 P K Manoharan 05/10/2015 - Coimbra Solar Physics Meeting at Portugal 16/10/2015 Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal 114 Yashwant 14/10/2015 - SKA ITO negotiations meet Italy Gupta 16/10/2015 115 Yashwant 08/11/2015 - SKA Engineering meeting and Canada Gupta 12/11/2015 Consortia meetings in Canada

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Name of Date of visit Details of meetings/Conferences Place of visit Faculty Member 116 Yashwant 19/11/2015 - SKA Board Meeting at UK Gupta 20/11/2015 Manchester, UK 117 Jayaram N 02/11/2015 - Conference on SKA in Seoul and S Korea Chengalur 06/11/2015 collaboration work with Korean Astronomy 118 Nissim Kanekar 02/11/2015 - Conference on SKA in Seoul and S Korea 06/11/2015 collaboration work with Korean Astronomy 119 Yashwant 02/12/2015 - Conference on Science at Low USA Gupta 08/12/2015 Fequencies II at New Mexico and visit to Univ. of California, Berkeley or interactions with CASPER group 120 Jayaram N 02/12/2015 - Conference on Science at Low USA Chengalur 05/12/2015 Fequencies II at New Mexico

26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees Name of the Faculty Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Member Committee Service 1 S.K.Ghosh Indian Academy of Science Fellow 2006- Governing Council and Governing Member Board of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), The National Academy of Sciences Fellow 2010- Governing Council of the Western Member 2009- Regional Instrumentation Centre Governing Council and Governing Member 2010- Board of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Scientific Management Board of the Member 2013- India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) since National Committee of International Member 2008- Astronomical Union 2011 2 J. N. Chengalur National Committee of the Indian Member 2012 - Astronomical Union (IAU) AIRIES Science Advisory Committee Member 2012-

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Name of the Faculty Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Member Committee Service

Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow National academy of Sciences of Fellow India 3 Y.Gupta TMT-India Software Work Packages Chair March Monitoring Committee 2015 - Physics Sectional Committee of the Member 2014-15 Indian Academy of Sciences The Indian Academy of Sciences Fellow 2008 National Academy of Sciences of Fellow 2007 India Scientific Advisory Committee, Member 2009- IUCAA, Pune 2013 4 Choudhury, Roy T Science Working Groups for SKA- Overall 2014 India. coordinator 5 Ishwara Chandra C.H. 1)Executive Council, Astronomical 1)Councilor 1)2013 – Society of India 2) Member 2016 2) SOC: Workshop on exploration of 3)Member 2) Feb Radio Universe, Gorakhpur, Univ 2010 3)SOC:ASI 3)2011 7 D.J.Saikia National Academy of Sciences India Fellow 8 Manoharan PK Scientific Steering Committee, Member 2014 - CAWSES – India, Phase II Programme

(b) International Committees: Name of the Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Faculty Member Committee Service 1 Y Gupta SKA Telescope Manager Leader Oct 2013 - Consortium Steering Board of CASPER, Member 2010- University of California, Berkeley Review panel of the Mid-Scale Member 2014-15 Innovations Program (MSIP) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA Indian representative on the Member 2011- Board of the international Square Kilometre Array Organisation, 2 J N Chengalur SKA Science Working Group Member 2011-

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SKA Science Review Panel Member 2014 3 Choudhury, International Science Working Member 2014- Roy T Group on Cosmology for the SKA 4 B C Joshi Panel on Education, COSPAR Member 2008- RadioAstron International Member 2011- Science Committee 5 D.V.Lal Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Member 2015- Continuum-Surveys Science Working Group 6 Manoharan, P.K. IAU Division E Commission 49 Vice President 2013- Interplanetary Plasma & Heliosphere International Space Weather National 2011- Initiatives (ISWI) Programme in Coordinator India. Solar and Terrestrial Sciences President 2012 Section, Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society 7 D. Oberoi International SKA Solar- Co-chair 2015- Heliospheric-Ionospheric Science Working Group MWA Solar Heliospheric and Vice Chair 2014-2015 Ionospheric Coordination committee 8. P.Chandra SKA International transient Member 2015 Science Working Group

Scientific Organising Committees of International Meetings Name of the Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Service Faculty Com- Member mittee

1 Gupta, Y 1)SOC: Meeting, Member 1)December, 8-10 2014 Tempe2014: Early Science 2)August 13-20, 2011 Results from Low-frequency Radio Telescopes 2)SOC:Low Frequency Radio Astronomy" in the XXXth General Assembly of URSI, Istanbul, Turkey

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Name of the Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Service Faculty Com- Member mittee

2 Kanekar N 1)SOC: The Universe at Ger's Member 1) November 2013 (wave)-length, Kapteyn Institut, Groningen, The Netherlands; 3 Saikia, D.J 1)SOC: 25th Texas Symposium Member 1)December 6-10, 2010 on Relativistic Astrophysics, 2)March 1-4, 2011 Heidelberg 2) 2012 2)SOC:An international conference on Diffuse Relativistic Plasma, RRI, Bengaluru 3) SOC: Special Session on `Cosmic Evolution of Groups and Clusters', Beijing General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union 4 P.Chandra 1)SOC: TMT Science Forum, 1) Member 1) 24-26 May 2016 Kyoto, Japan 2) Member 2) Jan 2013 2) SOC for IAU 296, Supernovae and their environments, Raichak, Kolkata

Name of the Name of the Journal Impact Factor Term of Faculty Member Service 1 S. K. Ghosh Journal of Astronomy and 0.711 2010- Astrophysics 2 D. J. Saikia Bulletin of the Astronomical Society 0.89 2010-2014 of India 3 P. K. Manoharan Solar and Terrestrial Sciences 2.0 2011- Section of Geosciences Letters, official journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). Journal of Space Weather and 2.588 2011- Space Climate.

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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

100% of our students do their Ph.D. projects in house or in collaboration with other research institutes. • 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: (a) National Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

1 1)2006 S K Ghosh 1) Fellow of Indian Academy of Science 2) Fellow of The National Academy of 2)2010 Sciences

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2 1)2007 Yashwant Gupta 1) S S Bhatnagar award 2)2007 2) Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences 3)2008 3) Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences

3 2008 Nissim Kanekar Vainu Bappu Gold Medal 4 1)2008 Jayaram Chengalur 1) DAE-SRC outstanding research investigator award 2)2009 2) Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai award 3) 2011 3) Fellow of Indian Academy of Science 4)2009 4) Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences 5 2012 Jayanta Roy Bharat Jyoti Award

6 2013 Nissim Kanekar Swarna Jayanti Fellowship 7 2011 D J Saikia Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences 8 1)2006 Poonam Chandra 1) INSA Young Scientist Award 2)2016 2) Swarna Jayanti Fellowship (b) International Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 2002 D. V. Lal URSI Young Scientist Award 2010 Poonam Chandra IUPAP Young Astrophysicist Award 2014 Nissim Kanekar Delta Lectureship Award, National Central University of Taiwan Students, Postdocs • National Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

2016 A.J.Nayana Best oral presentation in the NSSS2016, Astronomy and Astrophysics parallel session.

• International Awards

Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

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2011 Vishal Kumar Gajjar URSI Young Scientist Award

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 J N Chengalur & Astronomical Society of India 1 2015 Ishwara Chandra Meeting C.H. SKA Face-to-Face All-Hands 2 2015 Meeting of the Telescope Y.Gupta Manager Consortium SKA India Steering 3 2015 Y.Gupta Committee First meeting of SKA India 4 2015 Y.Gupta Consortium (SKAIC) J N Chengalur and Workshop on Galaxies and 5 2014 Tirthankar R. Cosmology All meetings have Choudhury been funded via Scientific Discussion on 6 2013 registration fees and P K Manoharan Advanced Solar Physics out of the NCRA SKA Telescope Manager 7 2013 budget. Y.Gupta Consortium Meeting Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 8 2013 Y.Gupta meeting SKA Project Stage 1 – Kick Off 9 2013 meeting of the Telescope Y.Gupta Manager Consortium The Metrewavelength Sky: Celebrating 50 years of Radio 10 2013 J N Chengalur Astronomy at TIFR and 10 years of GMRT 11 2011 CASPER Workshop Y.Gupta 12 2011 SOLAR RADIO Workshop P K Manoharan International Space Weater 13 2013 Taiwan National Univ P K Manoharan Winter School

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

NCRA follows the TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics (see Annexure B2-B).

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32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches.

Pass Programme Selected Joined percentage* ons received # Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 53 17 20 03 65 100 13258 Int.M.Sc.-Ph.D. 25 03 04 0 75 -- Total

a) Diversity of students Geographical Integrated M.Sc.- Ph.D. M.Sc. Total Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Male Female From the state where NCRA is 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 located From other states in 10 3 3 0 0 0 16 India NRI students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 14 3 3 0 0 0 20

b) Graduate Institution: Ph.D. Integrated M.Sc.- M.Sc.. Total Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Male Female From Universities 4 1 3 0 0 0 8 From premier science 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 institutions † From premier professional 7 2 0 0 0 0 9 institutions # From others* 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 14 3 3 0 0 0 20 † 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.

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The break up given below is for the twenty students currently at NCRA.

Examination No of students who cleared 1. NET 10 2. GATE 7

34. Student progression

Students joining NCRA for a Ph.D. or Integrated Ph.D. go on to do post-docotoral fellowships at research institutions in India or abroad. So far all students who completed the program have successfully got postdoctoral positions.

35. Diversity of staff

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

from TIFR : 2 11% 11% TIFR from other institutions in India : 14 India from institutions Abroad: 2 Abroad 78% Total No 18

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 number is not relevant.

37. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a. Library NCRA Library is user-focused, innovative, and excellently driven. The library is a pioneer in adopting new technology. NCRA Library manages collections both in print and digital formats and ensures access to scholarly resources. The total area of library is approximately 464 Sq metres and available reading area is 139 sq. metres. At a time about 25 users can be seated comfortably in the reading area.

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The Library Working Hours are Monday through Friday 09.30-1800 hrs. On weekends and holidays users can issue the library key from the security for library usage. A drop box has been placed near the entry check point, and library members desiring to issue books can drop the library card in the box. The library is enriched with vast collections of books in various disciplines. Summary of the statistics is given below:

Collection Total as on 01/Jan/16 Books, Theses, CDs 10069 Bound Volumes of Journals 5049 Reports, Pamphlets, Standards 520 Journals (Print, Online) Print 30 & 25 Online Databases IEEE, ScienceDirect, JASTOR

The Library maintains excellent exchange relations with a number of libraries in the vicinity of the campus and city, for its users. The library can also procure soft/hard copies of articles needed by our users from other libraries as well as from international colleagues. The Library offers photocopying service to all its members. The library is a part of the institute-wide network. Library automation has also been carried out to provide efficient services to library users. The Library participates in the consortia with TIFR for accessing APS and IEEE journals. The Library has also carried out the digitization of various old reports, thesis, and manuals to provide direct access to collections.

b. Internet facilities for staff and students NCRA has multiple internet links to ensure unbroken service at all times. These include direct broad band (32 Mbps) link to the internet, a point to point link to TIFR Mumbai, as well as an NKN link. There is a high speed (10 Gbps back bone) fiber based network that connects all of the buildings of the campus. All students and staff members have individual workstations connected to a high speed 10G backbone LAN. Students can access the LAN not only from their office rooms but also from their hostel rooms.

c. Total number of class rooms and

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d. Class rooms with ICT facility:

NCRA has a fully equipped (audio/visual facilities, wireless internet, video link, air- conditioned) 100-seater auditorium as well as a similarly equipped 50-seatcer lecture hall, and fully equipped rooms for smaller classes.

e. Students’ laboratories

The Radio Physics laboratory (RPL) is a joint initiative of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). RPL provides a platform for training students in radio astronomy as well as carrying out small radio astronomy projects. A set of simple hands on experiments have been designed using RPL facilities.

f. Research laboratories

NCRA operates two major facilities, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) which is operated as a national facility, and attracts users from both the national and international community, and the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) which remains one of the most sensitive single dish radio telescopes in the world. NCRA runs several fully equipped laboratories which do development work in several technologies relevant to radio astronomy and which develop the instrumentation used at the GMRT. These laboratories are funded via plan projects. The laboratories include a feed and front end lab, fibre optic lab, analog lab, telemetry lab and a digital back-end lab, a servo lab as well as fully equipped mechanical workshop. The current major project at the GMRT is a major upgrade of the telescope. This upgrade will increase the instantaneous bandwidth by more than an order of magnitude (from the current 32 MHz to 400 MHz) and to provide close to seamless frequency coverage from about 150 MHz to 1420 MHz. This activity is part of one of the major 12th plan projects at NCRA which is funded at a level of approximately 60 crores.

38. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral students Post-doctoral fellows

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1. J.N.H.S. Aditya 1. Kanhaiya Lal Pandey 2. Omkar S. Bait 2. Yogesh Maan 3. Avishek K. Basu 3. Narendra Nath Patra 4. Apurba Bera 4. Peter Kamphuis 5. Atrideb Chatterjee 5. 6. Aditya Chowdhury 6. 7. Prakash Gaikwad 7. 8. Raghunath Ghara 8. 9. Sushma Kurapati 10. Souvik Manna JRFs 11. Surajit Mondal 1. Jesu Raja P 12. Preetish K Mishra 2. Joshy T.R. 13. Atul Mohan 14. Arun Kumar Naidu 15. A.J.Nayana 16. Minhajur Rahaman 17. Dinesh Raut 18. Biny Sebastian 19. Rohit Sharma 20. Mayuresh Surnis

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

All research scholars at NCRA are provided with financial assistance as per the DAE norms. Currently we have 20 students in the Ph.D. and I-Ph.D. programmes combined.

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

The curriculum at NCRA is developed in the following systematic way. A subcommittee of experts draws up the proposed curriculum, generally in consultation with the standing Academic Affairs Committee. This curriculum is then discussed in the entire faculty and modified as needed. The next stage is to submit the proposed curriculum to the Subject Board Physics, which then vets it, suggests modifications which are taken on board before ratification.

41. Does the department obtain feedback from

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a. faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the department utilize the feedback? As described for (41) above, curriculum development is done after obtaining feedback from the entire faculty.

b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department utilize the feedback? Feedback from students is obtained at the end of each semester. All feedback is available to the Centre Director, so that appropriate follow up can be initiated.

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)

A number of our students have been awarded very prestigious postdocotroal fellowships and later other awards.

Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. A. Begum ASTRON Fellowship 2. N. Roy Jansky and Humboldt Fellowship 3. B. Bhattacharya Marie Curie Fellowship 4. N.Kanekar i. Swarna Jayanti Fellowship ii. Ramnajuan Fellowship iii. Max Planck Fellowship iv. Jansky Fellowship v. NOVA Fellowship vi. Bolton Fellowship vii. URSI Young Scientist Award viii. ASTRON Fellowship

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5. G.Swarup i. Padma Shri ii. S.S. Bhatnagar Award iii. P.C.Mahalanobis Medal, iv. Tskolovosky Medal of USSR v. Meghnad Saha Medal, vi. Third World Academy of Sciences Award in Physics, vii. John Howard Delinger Gold Medal of the International Union of Radio Science, viii. C.V. Raman Medal, ix. Khwarizmi International Award, Iran, x. Dr B. C. Roy National Award by the Medical Council of India and xi. William Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2005.

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

NCRA generally has a weekly seminar/colloquium given by leading experts from the country or abroad. After the colloquium a special session is held to allow the students to interact informally with the colloquium speaker, in the absence of any NCRA faculty. In addition NCRA regularly organizes larger meetings and workshops (See list provided as part of of 3.30).

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

Besides class room teaching, students often meet with the faculty members one on one in order to clarify doubts. In some courses, assignments include mini research problems, or dealing with practical issues of radio astronomy using data obtained from one of the NCRA facilities.

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

The course work and progress of students who have not yet registered for a Ph.D. are regularly monitored by a standing 3 member committee of faculty members, the Academic Affairs Committee. The progress of each student who has registered for a Ph.D. is also regularly monitored by a special 3 person faculty committee

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which includes the Ph.D. guide. In addition the progress of all of the students is reviewed annually by the NCRA faculty.

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

NCRA organizes "Science Day" at the GMRT. The Science Day celebrations comprise a major component of our outreach programmes. Science Day events are usually spread over two days starting 28th of February, in order to cater to the tremendous response from the general public, especially the students from the schools and colleges in the rural and semi-urban areas and districts in the western Maharashtra, especially those near the GMRT observatory. It is perhaps one of the largest Science Day events in rural India, with about a hundred schools, colleges and institutions participating, and over 25000 people visiting the observatory in 2015 during the two-day event.

The programme consists of a grand Science Exhibition, where children from the schools and colleges exhibit their science projects, and prizes are given for the best entries in different age groups. In addition, there are exhibitions illustrating astronomical themes and concepts, exciting results obtained with the GMRT, various subsystems of GMRT and illustrative models. There are also exhibits and live demonstrations from various research institutes and science popularisation groups, as well as teaching institutions such as the University of Pune and various national laboratories. There are also programmes to interact with well-known scientists and engineers and film shows on astronomical topics of current interest. Both students and faculty participate in organizing this program.

In addition to the annual science day program, both students and faculty regularly engage in outreach activities via public lectures, star-gazing events, etc. Some faculty members have also participated in the Exciting Science programme for school children (organized by IISER and NCL) as well as the Chai and Why? program (organized by TIFR and Prithvi theatre

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

NCRA students and faculty regularly publish the outcome of their research in international peer reviewed journals. Additionally faculty regularly participate in

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national and international conferences, and give colloquia at other institutions (both in India and abroad), to describe the work that they have been doing. Students also generally present their work at 2-3 national conferences and at least 1 international conference during their tenure.

48. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes, give details. NCRA, as a part of TIFR, was reviewed by a UGC Review Committee in 2012.

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

NCRA faculty research output is excellent and is documented in the papers published in leading international refereed journals. Faculty members typically publish a total of 40-50 research papers per year. Particularly interesting results are sometimes the subject of press releases issued by NCRA, and generally get wide coverage in the media. Areas in which research at NCRA has made significant impact include studies of Coronal Mass Ejections, weather in the inner heliosphere, discovery of new pulsars, including milli-second pulsars and exotic binary pulsars, discovery of new supernovae remnants, studies of the interstellar medium of our galaxies, dark matter and star formation in nearby dwarf galaxies, Giant Radio Galaxies, physical conditions in the interstellar medium of distant gas rich galaxies, constraints on the variability of fundamental constants, observational constraints on the Epoch of Reionisation, theoretical models of the Epoch of Reionisation. NCRA faculty are also involved in the development of instrumentation, and the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope built and operated by NCRA remains one of the most sensitive telescopes in the world at most of its frequencies of operation.

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

Strengths a. Excellent, internationally reputed faculty. b. Easy access to world class instrumentation in the form of the GMRT which is built and operated by NCRA.

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c. High quality student body, thanks to a rigorous selection process. d. High standard of training provided. e. Relatively stable funding.

Weaknesses a. Available hostel space is severely stressed at current levels of student intake. b. Faculty strength could be increased. c. Low awareness in universities regarding the potential of radio astronomy as a research field.

Opportunities a. Involvement in cutting edge research with the upgraded GMRT and ORT. b. Involvement with and use of the upcoming Mega projects like the SKA.

Challenges a. Faculty has numerous demands on their time, particularly since NCRA is responsible for operating the GMRT as a national facility. b. Identifying and attracting students of the highest caliber who are motivated towards radio astronomy. c. Strengthening the postdoctoral program.

51. Future plans of the department

NCRA is currently in the midst of upgrading the GMRT. The upgrade has two major components, (1) to increase the maximum instantaneous bandwidth from 32 MHz to 400 MHz and (2) to provide near seamless coverage from about 100 MHz to 1420 MHz. This is a major development, which has been spread over two plan periods and which is now nearing completion. The first phase of the upgrade has already been released for use to the national and international community, and the entire upgrade itself is expected to be completed shortly. This is an end to end upgrade of the GMRT, where all of the major sub-systems, from the feed antennas and low noise amplifiers, the antenna servo system, the fibre optic signal transport, the analog and digital signal processing as well as the telescope control and monitor system have been completely revamped. The upgrade ensure that the GMRT keeps a competitive niche globally for the next several years. Several

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research programs tuned around the capacities of the upgraded GMRT are expected to be started over the next year or so. Similarly the Ooty Radio Telescope is also being upgraded, and the research plans using the upgraded telescope are in an advanced stage of preparation. NCRA is also participating in the international SKA project. This is a major international project with more than 10 partner countries coming together to build a multi-purpose radio telescope, covering the frequency range from 50 MHz to 20 GHz. It is expected that the SKA will play a major role in answering key questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology. It will be one of a small number of cornerstone observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum that will provide astrophysicists and cosmologists with a transformational view of the Universe.

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National Centre for Biological Sciences

1. Name of the Department :

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)

2. Year of establishment :

1991

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

NCBS is an autonomous department of TIFR.

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

PhD, Integrated Masters-PhD, MSc-by-Research in Life Sciences, MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved

Interdisciplinary programmes including courses covering physics and biology are being conducted jointly with TIFR Hyderabad and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) Bangalore.

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

Courses are conducted in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, the JNCASR, and the Raman Research Institute. In addition, numerous workshops are run each year with industry partners, such as the Bangalore Microscopy Course (www.ncbs.res.in/BangaloreMicroscopyCourse/Home) which has been organized annually since 2009 in collaboration with partners such as Nikon, Zeiss, Leica, and Olympus.

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7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons No programme was discontinued.

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

We have an Academic Calendar with two academic semesters: January – May and August – December. Examinations are conducted at the conclusion of each course and not simultaneously. This is a Choice-Based-Credit-System and students select courses based on listed offerings, each course is worth 2 – 4 credits and the students are assigned a final CGPA.

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

As mentioned above, we participate in the courses of TIFR-Hyderabad and ICTS- Bangalore, especially on interdisciplinary topics at the interface of physics and biology.

10. Number of faculty positions:

Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Abbreviation (Item 11) Number 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Dist. Prof. (J) 1 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Prof. (I) 5 3. Professor (H) Professor (H) 5 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Prof. (G) 6 5. Reader (F) Reader (F) 15 6. Others - 2 Total 34

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Development of neural circuits K. 1. PhD Dist. Prof. (J) and muscles and the 27 8 VijayRaghavan emergence of behavior Jayant B Sr. Professor Proteins folding, unfolding and 2. PhD 25 5 Udgaonkar (I) misfolding Membranes and transporters 3. M.K. Mathew PhD Professor (H) 24 1 and salt

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Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Assoc. Prof. Roles of Serotonin in neural 4. M.M. Panicker PhD 23 1 (G) and non-neural systems Human cervical cancer pathobiology and developing 5. Sudhir Krishna PhD Professor (H) 23 1 biology-medicine iinterphase programme Motor circuit development 6. Gaiti Hasan PhD Sr. Prof. (I) 21 4 and function Mechanisms of membrane 7. Satyajit Mayor PhD Sr. Prof. (I) 20 3 organization and endocytosis Upinder S. Sequence learning: From 8. PhD Sr. Prof. (I) 19 7 Bhalla Molecules to networks The Amygdala and 5 Sumantra hippocampus in stress 9. PhD Professor (H) 18 M.Phil Chattarji disorders: Cells, circuits and 1 memories Computational approaches to 10. R. Sowdhamini PhD Professor (H) 17 9 protein science Spatial organization and 11. Apurva Sarin PhD Professor (H) assembly of notch signaling 17 2 networks 12. Mukund Thattai PhD Reader (F) The origins of Complex Cells 11 2 Deconstructing Indian Uma Assoc. Prof. 13. PhD Biodiversity: Evolutionary 10 2 Ramakrishnan (G) origins and future prospects Assoc. Prof. The Physics, Neurobiology and 14. Sanjay P Sane PhD 8 1 (G) Ecophysiology of insect flight Mahesh Assoc. Prof. Terrestrial Ecosystems and 15. PhD 7 2 Sankaran (G) Community Biology Computational protein folding 16. Shachi Gosavi PhD Reader (F) 6 0 and functional dynamics. Vatsala Development, modulation and 17. PhD Reader (F) 6 0 Thirumalai function of motor systems Assoc. Prof. 18. Sandeep Krishna PhD The Choices of a Cell 6 0 (G) Assoc. Prof. Phosphoinsoitide signalling in 19. Raghu Padinjat PhD 6 0 (G) cell Biology Speciation, Adaptation and Krishnamegh 20. PhD Reader (F) Morphological Diversification 4 0 Kunte in Tropical Regions Understanding Epigenetics 21. P.V. Shivaprasad PhD Reader (F) 3 0 and Small Silencing RNAs

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Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Genomics of complex gene 22. Ranabir Das PhD Reader (F) 2 0 expression control in Bacteria Biology of host-pathogen Varadharajan 23. PhD Reader (F) interactions during 2 0 Sundaramurthy intracellular infections Naturalist-Inspired Chemical Shannon B 24. PhD Reader (F) Ecology: Targeting decision 2 0 Olsson making in nature Structural studies of 25. Arati Ramesh PhD Reader (F) Riboswitches and RNA-Binding 1 0 proteins in Bacteria Radhika Chemical Ecology of plant 26. PhD Reader (F) 1 0 Venkatesan interactions Cellular mechanisms in the 27. Hiyaa Ghosh PhD Reader (F) 1 0 adult brain Aswin Sai Narain Genomics of complex gene 28. PhD Reader (F) 5 0 Seshasayee expression control in Bacteria Theoretical approaches in cell 29. Madan Rao PhD Sr. Prof. (I) biology : physics of active, 7 2 evolving systems Active Evolvable Matter: Shashi 6 30. PhD Reader (F) linking activity, information 0 Thutupalli months flow and populations Gene Expression and 4 31. Dimple Notani PhD Reader (F) 0 Chromatin Architecture months Development and 2 32. Raj Ladher PhD Reader (F) Morphogenesis of the Inner 0 months Ear Honeybees and the 33. Axel Brockmann PhD Fellow (E) 4 6 mechanism of behavior Bacterial genome evolution 34. Deepa Agashe PhD Fellow (E) and evolutionary ecology of 4 7 adaptation * 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

• Christopher Michael Bate (Cambridge)

• Francisco J Barrantes

• James A Spudich (Stanford)

• Mani Ramaswami (Trinity College Dublin)

• Sanjeev Jain (NIMHANS)

• K. Ullas Karanth (Wildlife Conservation Society)

• Vivek Malhotra (CRG Barcelona)

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

Approximately 10% of classes are taken by temporary faculty. These mainly pertain to interdisciplinary classes in basic mathematics, such as Calculus and Linear Algebra.

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio

Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 37 15 37:15 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 15 11 15:11 3. M.Sc. 9 7 9:7

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff:

Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and Auxiliary Staff 27 24

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16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

The mandate of NCBS-TIFR is research in all major areas of the modern life sciences, including • molecular and cell biology, • developmental biology and genetics, • neuroscience and behavior, • ecology and evolution, • theory and modeling of biological systems.

(a) Major national projects (2012-15): Total Grant Agency Project Title Faculty (Rs. lakhs) Collective migration in the fly 1. CEFIPRA 18.31 K VijayRaghavan nervous system DNA-encapsulated Quantum Dots 2. CEFIPRA 21.42 Yamuna Krishnan for Bio-imaging 3. CEFIPRA Olfactory Modulation of Insect Flight 15.24 Gaiti Hasan Genome-scale analysis of differential propensities of different 4. CEFIPRA 22.20 Aswin Seshasayee chromosomal domains for horizontal gene insertion in Escherichia coli Investigating connectivity in the montace sky island ecosystems in 5. CSIR 138.24 Uma Ramakrishnan the Western Ghats through genetics of a threatened endemic bird Biogeography of the Indian 6. DAE 19.54 Uma Ramakrishnan subcontinent

Regulation of Drosophila larval

7. DBT growth and TOR signaling a novel Raghu Padinjat 25.62 phosphoinositide kinase

8. DBT Innovative young biotechnologist 50.17 Odity Mukherjee

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Total Grant Agency Project Title Faculty (Rs. lakhs) award -2009 (IYBA) Notch activated signalling cascade & 9. DBT the consequences for T-cell 64.54 Apurva Sarin homeostasis Genome wide sh RNA screens to analyse cellular mechanisms 10. DBT 213.25 Apurva Sarin regulating fundamental process in mammalian cells Analysis of type II 11. DBT phosphatidylinositol phosphate 60.04 Raghu Padinjat kinase function in Vivo Validation of novel target for HIV-1: 12. DBT Nef-CD80/CD86 for potential 99.40 Satyajit Mayor therapeutic intervention Peptide toxins of therapeutic value 13. DBT from toxoglossan mollusces 60.11 KS Krishnan collected from Indian coasts Deep sequencing of venom duct 14. DBT 53.81 KS Krishnan cDNAs from Indian cone snails Finding the neural correlates of olfactory guided behaviour in awake, 15. DBT 79.73 Upinder Bhalla behaving rats in both controlled and natural environments Optical probing of memory network 16. DBT 83.57 Upinder Bhalla connectivity Cross-genome survey of olfactory receptors in five eukaryotic genomes 17. DBT 28.36 R Sowdhamini with a special emphasis on receptors of odour response In-vitro differentiation of human embroynic stemcell lines to 18. DBT heptocytes & the potential role of 23.47 Mitradas Panicker serotonin in its expansion and /or differentiation Real time In-Vivo micro RNA sensors 19. DBT 62.51 Yamuna Krishnan using nucleicacid mimics Structure and mechanism of FLeQ 20. DBT master regulator of transcription of 53.21 Deepti Jain flagellar and biofilm genes in

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Total Grant Agency Project Title Faculty (Rs. lakhs) Pseudomonas aeruginosa The role of Inositol 1, 4, 5- Trisphosphate mediated intracellular Ca2+ 21. DBT 60.03 Gaiti Hasan release in Insulin secretion: Drosophila IP3R Mutants as a Genetic Model for Diabetes Programme support for technological innovations & 22. DBT ecological research for the 310.87 Mahesh Sankaran substainable use of bioresources in the Sikkim Himalaya Centre of excellence on 23. DBT 594.75 R Sowdhamini computational & system biology 24. DBT Ramalingaswamy Fellowship 53.94 Mahesh Sankaran Notch signalling & human cancer cell molecular mechanisms & 25. DBT 426.87 Sudhir Krishna development of a translational initiative programs Meta-population dynamics of tigers 26. DBT in Malenad-Mysore landscape of 33.27 Uma Ramakrishnan Karnataka Lynx in organization and dynamics of 27. DBT nicotinic 49.55 Satyajit Mayor acetylcholine receptor complexes Programme Support on targeted generation and interrogating of 28. DBT cellular models and networks in 75.97 Mitradas Panicker neuro-psychiatric disorders using candidate genes DNA Mismatch Repair in 29. DBT Prokaryotes: Beyond the E.coli 22.96 Deepak Nair Paradigm A longitudinal study of molecular and cellular changes in intracellular 30. DBT calcium signaling with neurological 34.68 Gaiti Hasan correlates in an SCA1 cohort in South India 31. DBT Characterization and reversal of the 41.25 Sumantra Chattarji

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Total Grant Agency Project Title Faculty (Rs. lakhs) contrasting patterns of stress- induced changes in synaptic connectivity and its molecular mediators in the amygdale, hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex Investigating the role of gap junctions at an identified 32. DBT 63.86 Vatsala Thirumalai glutamatergic synapse in a developing vertebrate Exploring stationary phase genome 33. DBT dynamics in E. coli using next 59.52 Aswin Seshasayee generation sequencing The role of Phospholipase D in 34. DBT regulating neuronal vesicular 37.04 Raghu Padinjat transport Molecular genetics of intracellular calcium signaling in neurons with 35. DBT 72.10 Gaiti Hasan application to neurodegeneration and lipid metabolism in humans Macromolecular Crystallography and 36. DBT 678.54 Deepak Nair Scattering Facility at NCBS-inStem National Mouse Research 37. DBT 375.00 Sumantra Chattarji Resource (NaMoR) 38. DBT IndiaBioscience 86.42 Satyajit Mayor Regulation of Drosophila larval 39. DBT growth and TOR signaling a novel 25.62 Raghu Padinjat phosphoinositide kinase Understanding the structural basis 40. DST for the specific recognition of DNA 16.22 Deepak Nair by the transcription modulator hest The long-term evolutionary causes 41. DST and consequences of biased codon 35.92 Deepa Agashe use in bacteria 42. DST JC Bose fellowship 82.00 K VijayRaghavan 43. DST JC Bose fellowship 86.60 Jayant Udgaonkar 44. DST JC Bose fellowship 16.00 Satyajit Mayor 45. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 72.20 Shachi Gosavi 46. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 54.10 Aswin Seshasayee

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Total Grant Agency Project Title Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 47. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 51.10 Krushnamegh Kunte 48. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 247.32 Uma Ramakrishnan 49. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 71.25 Deepak Nair 50. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 32.40 P Shivaprasad 51. DST Ramanujan Fellowship 73.00 Sanjay Sane 52. DST Year of Science Professorship 19.00 TV Ramakrishnan Linking plant functional traits to ecosystem services across tropical 53. DST 16.31 Mahesh Sankaran forest communities in the Western Ghats Development of behavioral & cell biological assays for activity guided 54. DST purification of prospectiva anti 73.88 KS Krishnan cancer & behaviour modulating molecules from wasp venoms Regulation of intracellular Calcium in 55. DST the Drosophila nervous system and 43.99 Gaiti Hasan it's relevance to neuronal function Genetic mating system and its evolutionary consequences in a 56. DST 43.93 Uma Ramakrishnan harem-forming promiscuous bat Cynopterus sphinx Cognitive science research initiative 57. DST (CSI) entitled generativity in 91.08 Sumantra Chattarji cognitiva networks Investigating the Folding and Domain Swapping Mechanism in Nahren 58. DST-SERB 19 Cystatin-Like Folds with Structure- Mascarenhas Based Models System analysis of membranes in 59. India Alliance 286.13 Dominik Schwudke development & cell biology Programmable DNA Sensors to capture spatial and temporal 60. India Alliance 304.51 Yamuna Krishnan gradients of second messenger concentrations in living cells Control, stability & energy Madhusudhan 61. India Alliance consumption during locomotion on 324.97 Venkadesan uneven terrain 62. India Alliance Computational cell biology: 179.86 Mukund Thattai

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Total Grant Agency Project Title Faculty (Rs. lakhs) Exploring the organizing principles of transcriptional regulatory networks and intracellular traffic networks Using CREB overexpression to track 63. India Alliance systems consolidation of an 49.15 Daniel Weatherill allocated memory trace Role of IP3 receptor mediated 64. India Alliance neuropeptide release in Drosophila 83.80 Megha feeding and metabolism mGluR-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity: Parallels and Distinctions 65. India Alliance between the Hippocampus and 58.81 Debarati Mukherjee Amygdala and Implications for Fragile X Syndrome Light Mediated Release of Functional Small Molecules and 66. IA 135.63 Aneesh Veetil Macromolecules from Designer DNA Nanocapsules in Living Systems Mechanisms of synapses 67. India Alliance maintenance in the nervous system- 102.14 Albert Chiang implications for neurodegeneration Understanding the dynamics of the components of the GEEC endocytic Gayatri 68. India Alliance 128.31 pathway using visualization Muthukrishnan techniques The developing brain & the 69. India Alliance emergence behaviour a can for 247.32 Vatsala Thirumalai neuromodulation Indo US science & technology forum 70. IUSSTF 198.50 K VijayRaghavan on Nano biotechnology Hydrologic & carbon services in the western ghats:response of forests 71. MoES/ ATREE 32.39 Mahesh Sankaran and agro ecosystem to extreme rainfall events Carbon flux measurements in island 72. UGC 5.32 Mahesh Sankaran rainforest ecosystems Deciphering variable impedance Madhusudhan 73. UKIERI 11.01 strategies in human locomotion for Venkadesan

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Total Grant Agency Project Title Faculty (Rs. lakhs) the development of next generation robotic devices Targeting Head & Neck Cancer Stem 74. Sanofi-Aventis 90.00 Satyajit Mayor Cells M.Sc programme in Wildlife Biology 75. Tata Trust 160.76 Ajith kumar and conservation. 76. Wipro Wipro applying thought in schools 55.2 Mahesh Sankaran Total Rs. 7,761.11 lakh

(b) Minor National projects: Total Agency Project Title Grant (Rs. Faculty

lakhs) Structure and Biochemistry of 1. prokaryotic Y-family DNA 8.67 Deepak Nair CSIR polymerases Phylogenetic analysis, computer modelling and biochemical 2. CSIR 2.95 R Sowdhamini characterisation of proteins in phenylacetic acid hybrid pathway An open source integrated computational resource for the 3. CSIR analysis of the structural 3.79 R Sowdhamini interactome to predict off site interactions of drug candidates Evolutionary consequences of 4. CSIR 9.52 Deepa Agashe altering tRNA gene copy number 5. DST JC Bose fellowship 16.00 Satyajit Mayor Research on wildlife biology and conservation by students of Masters 6. DST 37.43 Ajith kumar course in National Centre for Biological Sciences Behavioural and landscape ecology 7. DST-SERB of snow leopard in the Indian trans- 21.55 Uma Ramakrishnan Himalaya Synaptic reorganisation of the 8. DST 15.00 Sumantra Chattarji amygdala-hippocampus circuit

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Total Agency Project Title Grant (Rs. Faculty

lakhs) during stress Genomic analysis of dosage dependent silencing of horizontally- 9. DST 14.50 Aswin Seshasayee acquired genes by the nucleoid- associated protein H-NS in E. coli

Complex combinatorial control of the 10. DST Aswin Seshasayee balance between two bacterial 1.60 lifestyles: planctonic and biofilm

Dissecting mechanisms of 5-HT 11. DST signalling using mouse models 2.70 Mitradas Panicker depected in central serotonin Transciptional control of L- 12. DST arabinose metabolism in bacillus 14.40 Deepti Jain subtills Studying the molecular correlates 13. DST underlying stress induced 4 Rohan Kamat behavioral and structural plasticity Purinergic & serotonergis signalling 14. DST 13.75 Mitradas Panicker in neurogenesis Characterization of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) stem cells in terms 15. DST-SERB 15 Rakesh Khatri of novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets An evolutionary ecological approach to the adaptive basis of immune 16. DST-SERB 12 Imroze Khan priming in invertebrates and immunosenescence Adaptive radiation in Papillio 17. DST-SERB (Menelaldes) swallowtail butterflies 4.5 Jahnavi Joshi of the Indo-Australlian region 18. India Alliance Bodystorm hits Bangalore 10.00 Mukund Thattai Evolution on Indian sky Islands : has paleo-climate caused differential National 19. demographic history in a floral and 10.00 VV Robin Geographic faunal community on the sky- islands of the Western Ghats The connectivity between tiger 20. NTCA 8.39 Uma Ramakrishnan population in central indian

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lakhs) landscape Carbon flux measurements in island 21. UGC 5.32 Mahesh Sankaran rainforest ecosystems Deciphering variable impedance strategies in human locomotion for Madhusudhan 22. UKIERI 11.01 the development of next generation Venkadesan robotic devices Total 242.08

Total Agency Project Title Grant (Rs. Faculty lakhs) Sensorimotor integration of 1. AOARD antennal positioning behaviour in 89.40 Sanjay Sane flying insects 2. AXA AXA Fellowship 91.99 Marcus Taylor Deciphering the role of active remodeling of cortical actin on the 3. AXA spatiotemporal organization of cell 82.37 Darius Koester surface molecules using an in vitro assay From swarm intelligence to living 4. HFSP buildings. Novel concepts of 137.34 Sanjay Sane managing internal climates Nano-Mechano-Biology: spatiotemporal remodeling of 5. HFSP membrane 178.09 Satyajit Mayor nanoplatforms under mechanical forces Foot in motion: materials, Madhusudhan 6. HFSP 72.21 mechanics and control Venkadesan Dissecting the Mechanochemistry 7. HFSP of Membrane Invagination using 202.50 Yamuna Krishna Designer DNA-based Probes Implication of Tail Structural Features on Molecular Mechanism 8. HFSP 504.00 R Sowdhamini and Biological Functions of Myosine

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Functional characterization of gut microbial communities and their 9. ICGEB 10.63 Deepa Agashe fitness effects during dietary switches in butterflies 10. NIH System biology centre in New York 80.23 Upinder Bhalla Evolution, Diversification and Biogeography of Cicadas (Insecta: Krushnamegh 11. NSF 40.19 Hemiptera: Cicadidae) on the Kunte Indian Subcontinent Simons Simons Center for the Study of 12. 184.37 Mukund Thattai Foundation Living Machines Total 1,673.32

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

National

Total Collaborating Grant Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions (Rs. lakhs) 1. 1.Nagaland Science Chemical ecology of the 589.24 5 years Dr.Uma and Technology North East Region (NER) Ramakrishnan Council, Kohima. 2. of India:A collaborative Kohima Science programme linking NER College, Jotosma, and Bangalore Nagaland. 3. IBSD, researchers Imphal, Manipur. 4. IBSD, Gangtok, Sikkim. 5. Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar. 6. North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. 7. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. 8. IISc., Bangalore 2. 1. Translational Understanding Disease 1.38 4 years Dr.Aswin Health Science and Biology and Diagnosis of Seshasayee Technology Institute, Bacterial Sepsis among Gurgaon. 2. All India Hospitalized Neoantes: A Institute of Medical Multi Centre Study

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Sciences, Delhi 3. 1. National Institute Functional 196.1 5 years Dr.Shiva of Plant Genome Characterization of Prasad P V Research, Delhi. Genetic and Epigenetic 2.Delhi University, Regulatory Networks New Delhi. 3. IISc., Involved in the Bangalore. 4. Reproductive Osmania University, Development in Rice Hyderabad. 5. IISER, Trivandrum 4. 1. St.Johns Medical Notch signalling & 426.87 5 years Dr.Sudhir College and Hospital, human cancer cell Krishna Bangalore 2. TIFR molecular mechanisms Centre for Applicable & development of a Maths, Bangalore translational initiative programs 5. Centre for Wildlife Meta-population 33.27 5 years Dr.Uma Studies, Karnataka dynamics of tigers in Ramakrishnan Malenad-Mysore landscape of Karnataka 6. National Institute of Programme Support on 75.97 5 years Dr.Mitradas Mental Health and targeted generation and Panicker Neuro Sciences interrogating of cellular (NIMHANS), models and networks in Bangalore neuro-psychiatric disorders using candidate genes 7. Christian Medical A longitudinal study of 34.68 5 years Prof.Gaiti College Vellore molecular and cellular Hasan Association, Vellore changes in intracellular calcium signaling with neurological correlates in an SCA1 cohort in South India 8. 1. Ashoka Trust for Hydrologic & carbon 32.39 4.6 years Dr.Mahesh Research in Ecology services in the western Sankaran and the Environment ghats:response of (ATREE), Bangalore 2. forests and agro Foundation for ecosystem to extreme Ecological Research, rainfall events Advocacy and Learning (FERAL), Pondicherry. 9. Indian Institute of Centre of excellence on 594.75 7 years R Sowdhamini

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Science (IISc), computational & system Bangalore biology 10. Indian Institute of Molecular genetics of 72.1 5 years Gaiti Hasan Science (IISc), intracellular calcium Bangalore signaling in neurons with application to neurodegeneration and lipid metabolism in humans Total 2056.75

International Total Collaborating Grant Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions (Rs. lakhs) 1. Universite Pierre et Genome-scale 57.04 3 years Dr.Aswin Marie Curie, Paris analysis of Seshasayee differential propensities of different chromosomal domains for horizontal gene insertion in Escherichia coli 2. Research Center for Complex 3.63 2 years Dr.Aswin Human and combinatorial Seshasayee Environmental control of the Sciences Shinshu balance between University, Japan two bacterial lifestyles: planctonic and biofilm

3. Universite de Olfactory 43.92 3 years Prof.Gaiti Hasan Bourgogne, Dijon, Modulation of Insect France Flight 4. School of Geography Carbon flux 10.64 2 years Dr.Mahesh and the Environemnt, measurements in Sankaran University of Oxford, island rainforest UK ecosystems 5. Weizmann Institute A Computational 194.99 4 years Prof.Upinder S of Science, Israel Metric Approach to Bhalla

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Olfaction: Characterizing Novel Molecules in Olfactory Space and Novel Spaces Made of Odor Molecules 6. Max Planck Institute Quantitative 43.37 2 years Dr.Varadharajan of Molecular Cell analysis of the Sundaramurthy Biology and Genetics modulation of host (MPI-CBG), Dresden trafficking pathways by intracellular mycobacteria 7. 1. Medicines for Assay development 107.91 1 year Dr.Varadharajan Malaria Venture for P. vivax infected Sundaramurthy International Center hepatocytes in Cointrin, MTCC plates Switzerland. 2. . Foundation for Neglected Disease Research, Bangalore 8. 1. Institute for Stem Accelarting the 1496.51 5 years Dr.Raghu Cell Science and application of stem Padinjat Regenerative cell technology in Medicine, Bangalore human diseases 2. Centre for Stem (ASHD) Cell Research, CMC, Vellore 3. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore 4. Centre for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan 9. University of A Joint Centre for 829.88 3 years Prof.Satyajit Cambridge, UK Cancer Biology & Mayor Therapeutics 10. 1. SUNY College of From swarm 137.34 4 years Dr. Sanjay Sane Environmental intelligence to living Science & Forestry, buildings. Novel USA 2. Harvard concepts of University 3. managing internal

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Nottingham Trent climates University 4. National Museum of Namibia 11. Laboratoire de DNA-encapsulated 30.67 3.8 years Dr.Praveen Physique et d’Etudes Quantum Dots for Kumar Vemula des Materiaux, Paris, Bio-imaging France Total 2955.9

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 Biogeography of the 100 5 years Dr. Uma Indian subcontinent Ramakrishnan 2. DAE XII Plan Project – NCBS 12883 5 years All NCBS faculty I Basic Biology Research 3. DAE XII Plan Project – NCBS 11385 5 years All NCBS faculty II Research Facilities

20. Research facility / centre with National recognition:

The following facilities at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C- CAMP), managed by NCBS and other partners, are recognized nationally and are available for use by multiple institutions across India (see http://www.ccamp.res.in/) • Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy facility • Flow Cytometry Facility • Animal Care and Resource Centre • Mouse Genome Engineering Facility • Chemistry Core Facility • Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility • Radioactive Facility

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• Computer Clusters • X-Ray Facility • Mechanical Fabrication Facility • Electronics Engineering Facility • Biophysics Core Facility • Filed Stations and Museum • Green House Facility • Microfluidics and Microfacbrication Facility • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy Facility • Optical Spectroscopy Facility • Molecular Characterization and Proteomics Facility • Next Generation Sequencing/Genomics • Protein Technology Core • Glycomics and Glycoproteomics Facility • Lipidomics Facility • Metabolomics Facility • High Throughput Screening and High Content Screening Facility • Fly (Drosophila) Facility • (Nematode) C.elegans Facility • Intellectual Property Management Office and Technology Transfer Office • Innovation Accelerator • Biologics/Biosimilar Characterization Facility

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

As a part C-CAMP's mandate of promoting entrepreneurship and innovation, C- CAMP has created and fostered an entrepreneur-friendly culture in and around an academic/research environment through its Early Translation Accelerator program, its involvement in seed funding schemes such as Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme from BIRAC, its Entrepreneur Mentorship program and its Bio- incubation facility. C-CAMP has partnered with BIRAC, DBT to help with the Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme grant that funds start-up companies

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and individual scientific entrepreneurs to establish proof-of-concept and transform these innovative ideas into viable competitive products and enterprises. Through the BIG Entrepreneur Mentorship program, C-CAMP not only funds but also nurtures these start-ups with scientific and business mentorship. C-CAMP has further expanded its entrepreneurial activities to providing some of these start- ups access to functional laboratory along with high-end technology platforms, through bio-incubation.

For a biotech start-up, along with seed funding, access to such ready to use scientific infrastructure in a nurturing academic environment gives these young entrepreneurs the kick start they need to propel them towards market and commercialization. Today C-CAMP has funded (via BIRAC) and mentors around 47 life science start-ups/spin-offs, of which 11 are incubating at C-CAMP and leveraging the technology platforms and scientific expertise on campus.

22. Publications: Journal Articles in Book Books NCBS Publications Proceedings Chapters Edited 2010-11 101 2 4 - 2011-12 137 5 5 - 2012-13 131 3 3 1 2013-14 165 - - 1 2014-15 134 4 4 1 Total 668 14 16 3

Publications

150 Book Chapters + Books Edited

100 Articles in Proceedings 50 Journal Publications Number of Publications 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Year

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∗ Citation Index – range / average – • Total number of citations (only for publications mentioned above): 5571 • Number of citations per faculty- 199

∗ h-index – • Range- 0-31 (2011 – 2015)

23. Details of patents and income generated Patent Date of Inco Patent Holder Patent Name No/Statu filing me s Intracellular pH sensor Yamuna Krishnan and 1. using nucleic acid US filed 29-05-09 none Satyajit Mayor assemblies The use of inositol 1,4,5 Patent triphosphate receptor Gaiti Hassan and granted 2. mutants in Drosophila for 30-11-09 none GayatriVenkiteswaran US84760 screening small 06 molecules Patent DNA-based molecular Yamuna Krishnan and granted 3. switches and uses 10-03-10 none Saikat Chakraborty US81534 thereof 37 A microfluidic device for immobilizing and imaging Sudip Mondal and of developmental Filed in 4. 03-03-11 none Sandhya P Koushika processes and growth of India transparent/translucent organisms A process for delivering encapsulated neutral Dhirajbhatia and Yamuna US and 5. bioimaging molecules, 28-04-11 none Krishnan EP filed complex, and process thereof Patent DNA-based molecular Yamuna Krishnan and granted 6. switches and uses 12-08-11 none Saikat Chakraborty US82168 thereof 50 Yamuna Krishnan and An engineered nucleic complete 7. 20-09-11 none Souvik Modi acid assembly, vector, filed, PCT

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cell, methods and kit filed , US thereof and EP entered provision al and Gaiti Hassan and Method of determining PCT filed, 8. Manivannan effect of anti-obesity 30-05-12 none now Subramanian molecule abandon ed Provision A method to identify and al and Panicker, Odity Mukerjee, isolate pluripotent stem 9. PCT filed, 12-11-12 none Thangaselvam cells using endogenous US and blue fluorescence EP Method of multiplexing Yamuna krishnan and Provision dna sensors, localizing 10. Souvik Modi + al and 26-02-13 none dna sensor and obtaining SunainaSurana PCT filed fret pair Provision Nucleotide sequences, Yamuna Krishnan and al filed, 11. nucleic acid sensors and 04-09-13 none Suruchi Sharma PCT filed, methods thereof US filed Nucleic acid scaffold Yamuna Krishnan, Sonali PCT filed 12. based fluorescent ratio- 15-04-14 none Saha, Ved Prakash directly metric sensor for chloride Madhusudhan System and method for Provision Venkadesan, Mahesh obtaining three 13. al filed, 03-06-14 none Bandi and Shreyas components of force PCT filed Mandre based on photoelasticity Provision al filed, Wavelength stabilized Anil Prabhakar and indian 14. active mode locked fibre 10-06-14 none Satyajit Mayor complete laser and PCT filed

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

We confirm that No consultancy was carried out at NCBS or income generated.

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

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100% of our faculty every year visit laboratories throughout India and abroad for scientific collaborations, joint programmes and workshops, academic conferences, etc.

National Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member 1. Mangalore 11/2015 Varadharajan. S Mangalore 04/2016 2. Sandeep Krishna Delhi 04/2015

International Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member 1. Madan Rao American Physical Society, New York 03/2016 2. Vatsala Dublin, Ireland 04/2016 Thirumalai 3. Sandeep Krishna University Of Tokyo 03/2016 Universirty Of Waterloo, Canada 04/2016 Espci, Paris 05/2016 Embl, Germany 09/2015 University Of Sherbrooke, Canada 08/2015 Yale University, New York 08/2015 Neils Bohr Institute,Denmark 04/2015 Copenhagen, Denmark 07/2014 4. Upinder S. Dublin. Ireland 04/2016 Bhalla 5. Sanjay Sane London 04/2016 Portland, USA 01/2016 Sapporo, Japan 09/2015 Icbac, USA 06/2015 Lund University, Denmark 05/2015 6. Sudhir Krishna University Of Cambridge, London 04/2014 7. Shachi Gosavi Bii, Singapore 06/2014 Weizmann Institute, Israel 06/2014 8. Mukund Thattai Trinity College, Dublin 04/2016 USA 09/2015

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26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees : Name of the Role in the Term of Faculty Name of theCommittee Committee Service Member 1999-till Indian Neuroscience Association Board Member date Upinder S. Scientific Advisory Committee, 2012- 1 Bhalla Member National Brain Research Centre till date

Neurosciences Task Force, 2009- Chair, Department of Biotechnology 2014 Research Advisory Council, All India 2014-till Member Institute of Medical Sciences date Sudhir Krishna 2. 2015-till Scientific advisory committee, Bose Member date Institute, Kokata

Scientic Advisory Committee, Madan Rao 2011- 3. National Centre for Cell Science, Member 2014 Pune, India Society of Integrative and 1996-till Member Sanjay Sane Comparative Biology date 4. 2005- Society of Experimental Biology Member till date ,July DBT Task Force on “Genome editing 2014- Member technologies” till date

Scientific Advisory Committee for March the National Institute for 2013 – Gaiti Hasan Member 5. Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, to date

West Bengal. Intermediate and Senior 2011- Fellowships Committee for the Member till date Welcome-DBT India Alliance CSIR Medical Sciences Grants 2009- Member Committee 2014 Yamuna Chemistry Biology Interface, Royal 6. Krishnan Council Member 2014 Society of Chemistry

Scientific Advisory Committee, 2011-till M.K. Mathew 7. National Institute for Member, date

Interdisciplinary

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Science, Thiruvananthapuram Scientific Advisory Committee, 2010-till Member CDFD date , IISER Thiruvananthapuram Visiting Professor 2014 Raghu Genome Engineering Task Force. 2014- 8. Padinjat Department of Biotechnology, Member present Government of India. Coffee Board of India Steering 2014- Member Committee present IBSD Imphal “Prioritization of Animal Bioresources Res. Areas: 2014- Shannon B Member Fish and Insect” expert committee present 9. Olsson

Nazareth College Scientific Advisory 2014- Member Board present Chemical Ecology Masters Program 2014- Member and Schools, NCBS present Program Committee and Activities, Member 2010 – International Centre for Theoretical till date Sciences

Program Committee, Bangalore Member 2015- International Centre present

Board of Studies, Srishti College of Member 2016 Art, Design and Technology Mukund 10. Thattai Scientific Advisory Committee, Member 2016 ICGEB-CABER

Member 2015- Board representative, Science present Gallery Bengaluru

International Genetically 2010- Engineered Machines Competition, Member 2011 Asia Committee Vatsala Board of Studies, Faculty of 2011- 11. Thirumalai Technology, Anna University, Member 2014 Chennai. Jayant Editorial Board of Protein T 2013-till 12. Udgaonkar Engineering, Design and Selection Member date

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K. Science Advisory Council of the 2012-till 13. VijayRaghavan Member Cabinet date

(b) International Committees: Name of the Name of the Role of the Term of Faculty Member Committee Committee Service 1 Upinder S. Bhalla International Neuroinformatics Indian (2009- Coordination Facility representative till date)

International Society for Systems Biology Board 2009 - Member till date Society for Neuroscience Member 1991- till date Erasmus Mundus (EUROSPIN) program in Faculty 2000-till neuroinformatics (involving KTH Sweden, member date Univ. of Edinburgh, Univ. of Freiburg, NCBS)

2. Satyajit Mayor Asia Pacific Organization of Cell Biology President 2014- (APOCB) 2015 Satyajit Mayor Royal Society of Chemistry Invited Fellow 2014 3. Sanjay Sane International Society of Neuroethology Member 2007-till date 4. Vatsala Society for Neuroscience, Washington Member 2002-till Thirumalai DC date

(c) Editorial Boards: Name of the Impact Term of Name of the Journal Faculty Member Factor Service Journal of Computational 2000-till Neuroscience, 1.739 date

Upinder S. Bhalla 1. 2010-till Neuroinformatics, 2.825 date 2010-till Frontiers in Neuroscience 3.656 date

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2015-till eNeuro- Board of Reviewing Editors -- date eLife- Board of Reviewing Editors 2015-till 9.322 date Biochemical and Biophysical Research 2014-till 2.297 Communications date 2008-till Cell 32.242 date 2011-till Journal of Cell Science 5.4 date 2010- Integrative Biology 3.756 2014 Satyajit Mayor 2 2005- Traffic 4.35 2014 2008-till BiochemicaBiophysicaActa 4.381 date 2011- The Biochemical Journal 4.396 till date

2004-till Molecular Biology of the Cell 4.47 date Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience Review 2014 – Editor till date

Shannon B Olsson 3

3.534 2014 – Frontiers in Physiology till date

Mahesh Sankaran 2014 – 4 Subject Editor Biotropica 2.084 till date Editorial Board Member, Journal of 2013 – 2.311 MukundThattai Experimental Zoology B till date 5 2007 – Academic Editor, PLoS ONE 3.234 till date 2014- till Journal of Neurophysiology 2.653 date VatsalaThirumalai 6.

Reviewing Editor, Frontiers in Neural 3.568 2015- Circuits 7. Jayant Udgaonkar Editorial Advisory Board of 3.015 2013- till

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Biochemistry date

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

Not Applicable

28. Student projects

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

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

NCBS-TIFR is a research mandate institute. 100% of our graduate students, in the M.Sc.-by-Research, Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. and Ph.D. programmes carry out research projects. 100% of our I-Ph.D. and Ph.D. students publish in academic journals as a requirement of the degree.

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

• Faculty Members:

National Awards Year Name of the Name of the Award Awardee 1. 2013 Satyajit Mayor Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Mumbai 2. 2012 Infosys Prize for life sciences 3. 2006 JC Bose Fellowship 2012 4. 2003 Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award 5. 2003 Swarnajayanti Fellowship 6. 1999 Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow 7. 1999 Jayant Udgaonkar Welcome Trust Senior Research Fellow

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8. 1997 Swarnajanti Fellowship 9. 1997 Jayant Udgaonkar Golden Jubilee Biotechnology Fellowship 10. 1996 B.M Birla Award For Biology 11. 2009 R. Sowdhamini Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

12. 2010 Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, Delhi

13. 2011 Bharat Jyoti Award and Glory India Gold Medal 14. 2012 Indira Gandhi Excellence Award 15. 2007 DBT Career Development Award 16. 2006 DBT Women Bio-scientist Award 17. 2000 Welcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Biomedical 2005 Sciences 2006 18. 2013 Mahesh Sankaran Kavli Frontier of Science Fellow 19. 2009 Ramalingaswamy Fellowship 20. 2009 Ramanujam Fellowship 21. 2009 Sanjay Sane Ramanujan Fellowship 22. 2006 Gaiti Hasan Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science 23. 2005 Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy 24. 2005 Mukund Thattai Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences 25. 2014 Sumantra Chattarji Fellow, Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore 26. 2009 Upinder S. Bhalla Fellow, Indian National Science Academy 27. 2008 Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences 28. 2007 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 29. 2012 Krushnamegh Ramanujan Fellowship from DST, Government of Kunte India

30. 2012 Uma Ramakrishnan Outstanding Scientist Award, Department of Atomic Energy 31. 2013 INK Fellow 32. 2013 DeepaAgashe INSPIRE Faculty Award, Department of Science and Technology, India 33. 2013 P.V. Shivaprasad Ramanujan Fellowship 34. 2013 Aswin Sai Narain Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences – Seshasayee recognition to talented scientists below the age of 35 35. 2014 Varadharajan Ramanujan fellowship (declined)

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Sundaramurthy 36. 2015 Varadharajan Ramalingaswamy re-entry fellowship Sundaramurthy 37. 2015 Ranabir Das DBT-Ramalingaswamy fellowship 38. 2015 Arati Ramesh Wellcome DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship Ramalingaswami re-entry Fellowship, Dept. of Biotechnology, India (declined) 39. 2015 Raghu Padinjat Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance, Senior Fellowship for Basic Science 40. 2015 Shannon B Olsson Ramanujan Fellowship 41. 2015 Radhika Ramanujan Fellowship Venkateshan 42. 2015 Hiyaa Ghosh Ramanujan Fellowship

International Awards Year Name of the Name of the Award Awardee 1. K.UllasKaranth- Getty Award for the year 2010-2011. 2011 J.Paul 2. 2013 Jayant Udgaonkar Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences 3. 1991 Jayant Udgaonkar Biotechnology Career Fellowship Rockfeller Foundatio

4. 2015 Gaiti Hasan Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences 5. 2012 K. VijayRaghavan Elected Fellow of Royal Society 6. 2013 Satyajit Mayor Elected EMBO Fellow 7. 2014 K. VijayRaghavan Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences 8. Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of 2014 K. VijayRaghavan Sciences 9. Honorary Professor, School of Clinical Sciences, 2014 SumantraChattarji University of Edinburgh 10. Cambridge-‐Hamied Visiting Lectureship 2014 Raghu Padinjat Cambridge-Hamied Visiting Lectureship 11. Uma WIRED Innovation Fellow 2014 Ramakrishnan 12. Uma Bass Fellow, Field Museum of Natural History, 2015 Ramakrishnan Chicago 13. Uma Parker Gentry Conservation Award, Fulbright 2016 Ramakrishnan Fellow

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14. 2005 Raghu Padinjat BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship 15. 2008 Varadharajan Pfizer research prize for infection biology Sundaramurthy

• Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2011 Amrita Dasgupta Recipient of international travel awards by the Govt. of India (Department of Science and Technology; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; Centre for International Co-operation in Science) to attend international conferences and present the research (June, 2011) 2. 2011 Sumita Chakraborty Student’s bursary, Biochemical Society (London), Signalling 2011, Biochemical Society focused meeting, Edinburgh, June 2011 3. 2011 Riya Raghupathy DST travel grant to attend the FASEB Summer Research Conference (July 2011) FASEB travel grant (July 2011) 4. 2011 Sony Malhotra NCBS Best student award (2011) 5. 2012 Seema, S. ISDN2012 Best Poster Award (2012) 6. 2012 Gayathri Ramachandran Best poster award, Annual Research Talks, NCBS (January 2012) 7. 2012 Suvrajit Saha Best Poster Award, NCBS 20(Annual Talks) (Jan. 2012) 8. 2012 Dhiraj Bhatia Charpak PhD Fellowship to work at ESPCI, Paris for three months (February 2012) Amulya 2012 award from the Karnataka State Innovation Council (2012) 9. 2012 Sumita Chakraborty CSIR, DBT, DST, CICS Travel fellowship (2012) 10. 2012 Saikat Chakraborty DST travel grant to travel to USA to attend RNA 2012 conference (2012) 11. 2012 P. Chitra DST/SERB International Travel Support to attend the DNA Tumour Virus Meeting, 2012, Montreal,Canada (July 2012). 12. 2012 Sudeshna Das CSIR and DST travel grant to attend 'Frontiers of chemical ecology, 2012', course held in Max

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Planck Institute, Germany (2012) 13. 2012 Amrita Dasgupta CSIR International Travel Grant and International Travel award Fellowship by INSA- CICSto attend the meeting in San Diego, USA (February, 2012) 14. 2012 Aditya Joshi Conservation Achievement Award from Wildlife Trust of India (2012)

15. 2012 Udippana Kalita Young Explorers Club Award for her dissertation (2012)

16. 2012 Sonal Kedia Member Society for Neuroscience (2012)

17. 2012 Gayathri Ramachandran Best poster award, Annual Research Talks 20 (Genes to Olfaction: Sixty years in science) (Janua 2012) Best participant and best poster award at the DST sponsored SERB school in chronobiology 2012, held at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (June – July, 2012)

18. 2012 Suvrajit Saha Best Poster Award, NCBS 20(Annual Talks), Jan 2-4, 2012 19. 2012 Vishnupriya Student Conference on Conservation Science – Sankararaman Best Poster Presentation Award (2012)

20. 2012 Sonia Sen DBT travel grant to attend Neurofly 2012 conference held at Padua, Italy (September, 2012) 21. 2012 Ashwin Viswanathan Student Conference on Conservation Science – Best Poster Presentation Award (2012) 22. 2012 Vanjulavalli Shridhar selected for Indian Forest Service (2012) Student Conference on Conservation Science – Best Poster Presentation Award (2012) 23. 2012 Bhanu Prasanna Student Conference for Conservation Science – Sridharan Best Presentation Award for talk (2012)

24. 2012 Arjun Sudheendra Student Conference on Conservation Science – Srivatsa Best Poster presentation Award (2012)

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award

25. 2013 Tanvi Deora DBT travel award and Charlotte Mangum Student Award from the SICB to attend the SICB 2013 Annual meeting (January 2013)

26. 2013 Mehrab Modi, Sonia Sen, Outstanding research and poster award, NCBS Subhasis Ray, Lakshmi Annual talks (January 2013) Revathi, P, Kritika M. Garg, Anirban Baral Rajalakshmi, S. and Shilpa Siddappa Yadahalli 27. 2013 Swagatha Ghosh Best poster Award in Amrita BioAQuest 2013 (August 2013) Best poster award in NCBS Annual talks (January 2014) 28. 2013 Sunaina Surana Malhotra Weikfield Foundation NanoScience Fellowship Award for the year 2013 in the 6th Bangalore INDIA NANO Awards (December 2013) 29. 2013 Shabana Mehtab Best Poster Award, NCBS Annual talks (January 2014) 30. 2013 Souvik Modi Obaid Siddique Award for the Best Paper (January 2014) 31. 2014 Riya Raghupathy Awarded India network foundation travel grant and CICS travel grant for attending Gordon research conference'glycolipid and sphingolipid biology' (January, 2014). 32. 2014 Mohammed Mostafizur DBT-CTEP travel award to attend Neuroscience Rahman 2014, USA (November, 2014)

33. 2014 Suvrajit Saha DBT(CTEP) International Travel Support to attend 58th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, USA CSIR Travel Grant to attend 58th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society(Declined)

34. 2014 Madhumala, K.S. The Biocon India Scholarship, a support provided by a unique partnership between Biocon, Bangalore and Trinity College Dublin for

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award six month visit to Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin. Received best poster award in NCBS annual meeting – ‘Action with in the cells’ held on 15th - 17th Jan 2014. 35. 2014 Sandhya Bhatia Awarded with book voucher (Crossword) for one of the best three poster presentation at the National workshop on fluorescence and raman techniques (FCS2014) December 2014 36. 2014 Roumita Moulik Travel award from DST to attend the 28th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society, San Diego, USA (July 2014) 37. 2015 Tanay N Bhatt Best Poster Award at Chromatin Asia-2015 conference, JNCASR, Bangalore (January 2015) 38. 2015 Mahita Jarjapu Best poster presentation, NCBS Annual talks (January 2015). 39. 2015 Kamalesh Kumari Best poster award, NCBS annual talks (2015) 40. 2015 Laasya Samhita India Alliance travel award to attend FEBS- EMBO 2014 at France (September 2014) Wellcome- DBT early career fellowship (March 2015) 41. 2015 Asem Surindro Singh International travel grant provided by Science and Engineering Board, a Statutory body under Department of Science &Technology, Govt. of India, for attending OMICS 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Cell & Gene Therapy, Las Vega, USA (27th - 29th October 2014).

42. 2015 Thangaselvam, M. Best poster award, Cell Tech India Conference (March, 2015).

Post Doc fellows 43. 2012 Deepti Jain Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2012) Best Poster Award at the Annual Talks, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore (2012) 44. 2012 Madhumala, K.S. DST travel grant to attend Neurofly 2012

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award conference held at Padua, Italy (September, 2012). 45. 2013 Megha The Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellowship 2013 46. 2014 Tejas M Gupte Best poster award in NCBS annual meeting (January, 2014)

47. 2014 Amit Das DST International Travel Support (ITS) award for attending 'Liquids: 9th Liquid Matter Conference, 2014, University of Lisban, Portugal. 48. 2014 Ishita Sengupta Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (2014)

49. 2013 Jahnavi Joshi Start-up research grant for young scientist from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (Sept. 2013)

International travel grant from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India to attend the Early Career Biogeography Conference, International Biogeography Society, at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (December, 2013)

NCBS Fellow award at the National Centre for Biological Sciences,Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India (December, 2013)

50. 2014 Darius Koster DST travel grant for participation at the 58th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society

International Awards Name of the Year Name of the Award Awardee 1. 2011 P. Chitra IUBMB Wood Whelan Research Fellowship to visit Prof. Lamoinis Laimins’s laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, to perform collaborative experiments on “The role

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Name of the Year Name of the Award Awardee of DNA Methyltransferase1 in regulating the Human Papilloma Virus life cycle in the differentiating epithelium (October, 2011). 2. 2011 Darius Vasco AXA research fund fellowship for as EMBO Koester young research fellow (2011)

3. 2011 Anirban Baral Utrecht University short term stay fellowship fo international students (2011) 4. 2011 Shameer Khader Won first place 2011 Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Award (2011) 5. 2011 Shilpa Ravinder The IBRO/SfN International Travel Grant for attending the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience at Washington, DC, USA (November 2011). 6. 2011 Dhiraj Devidas Bhatia International Travel Award from CSIR, DBT and DST, GoI to attend the conference DNA17 in Caltech, Pasadena, USA, September 2011. Partial International Travel Award from DNA17, Caltech, USA, September 2011. 7. 2012 Gayathri RamachandraGraduate student travel award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to attend Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego, USA (March, 2012) 8. 2012 Sudip Mondal Travel award from EMBO conferences, 2012 9. 2012 Souvik Modi EMBO Long term Fellowship support for post- doctoral research at University College, London(2012 -14) 10. 2012 Suvrajit Saha Biophysical Society’s International Student Travel Award to attend 56th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society at San Diego, USA (2012) 11. 2012 Anupama Ambika Recepient of fellowship sponsored by the Internationl Society of Neurochemistry for attending the conference on Lipid -Protein Interactions at Hyderabad organised by Biophysical society (2012). International travel grant from DST for

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Name of the Year Name of the Award Awardee attending FASEB summer research conference on “Phospholipid Metabolism: Disease, Signal Transduction, & Membrane Dynamics" at Vermont, USA (2012) 12. 2012 Dhiraj Bhatia International Travel Award from CSIR, GoI to attend BIOMOD 2012 (2012) Silver Award, Team Mentor for DNA Maestros, BIOMOD 2012, Wyss Institute, Harvard University. Boston, USA. (2012) 13. 2012 Sumita Chakraborty European Calcium Society Travel Fellowship (2012) Biochemical Society (London, UK) Travel fellowship (2012) 14. 2012 Bikash Choudhary Travel award from EMBO conferences and DST, 2012 15. 2012 Kritika M. Garg ISBE travel fellowship to attend the conference (2012) I

16. 2012 Supriya Ghosh Nature Publishing Group Travel Grant and DBT travel support for attending the Gordon Research Conference on ‘Neurobiology of Cognition’ held in Italy (July 2012) 17. 2012 Suman Raja Jumani Society for Conservation Biology - Asia – Best Speed Talk Award (2012) 18. 2012 Meghna Krishnadas Distinguished University Award for Ph.D in Ohio State University (2012) 19. 2012 STIBET scholarship by DAAD to visit Prof. Erich Madhumala, K.S. Buchner’s lab at Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg (September 2012). 20. 2012 K. Parthasarathy Developing Neuroethology Award by the International Society for Neuroethology to attend 10th International Congress of Neuroethology (2012) 21. 2012 Shlesha Rajesh COB, Development travelling fellowship to Richhariya visit Prof. Michael Rosbash’s lab in Brandeis University (September 2012)

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Name of the Year Name of the Award Awardee 22. 2012 Gayathri RamachandraGraduate student travel award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to attend Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego, USA (April, 2012) 23. 2012 Sabareesan, A.T. Received a travel and conference expenditure fellowship from International neurochemistry association to attend a conference at Hyderabad on Lipid-Protein interaction (2012) 24. 2012 Sonali Saha Received International Travel Award from CSIR, DBT and DST to attend the conference FNANO in Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, April 2012. 25. 2012 Suvrajit Saha Biophysical Society’s International Student Travel Award to attend 56th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, 2012 at San Diego, USA 26. 2012 Seema, S. ISDN2012 Best Poster Award (2012) 27. 2012 Nandini Velho RBS Earth Heroes Award (October 2012) 28. 2012 Sunaina Surana Awarded EMBL Corporate Partnership Registration Fee Fellowship for attending the EMBO Conference Series: C. elegans Neurobiology, 2012. Awarded DBT international travel award to attend EMBO Conference Series: C. elegans Neurobiology, held at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany 2012 29. 2012 Shashank J. Dalvi Carl Zeiss Conservation Award for 2013, for his reporting of massive hunting of Amur falcon in Nagaland in 2012 30. 2013 Sapna Jayaraman Bursary to travel to and live at Cambridge during SCCS Cambridge 2013 and to attend a short course on “A practical introduction to social survey design for conservation science” (2013) 31. 2013 Anand Krishnan DST travel award and Charlotte Mangum Student Award from the SICB to attend the SICB 2013 Annual meeting in San Francisco. (January 2013) 32. 2013 Manivannan travel award from Asia-Pacific Developmental

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Name of the Year Name of the Award Awardee Biology Network (APDBN), Japan to attend the 2nd Asia-Pacific Drosophila Research Conference (APDRC), held at South Korea and won best poster award. (May 2013)

33. 2013 Sachin Sridhara Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) for Ph.D. in James Cook University - 2013 Australia Leadership Award (ALA) (2013) 34. 2013 Yadugiri, V.T. Won second place for the Best Student Presentation at the International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM7) held in New Delhi (January 2013) 35. 2013 Amod Mohan K.Ullas Karanth – J.Paul Getty Award (2013) Zambre Carl Zeiss Conservation Award for conservation (2012) 36. 2013 Dhiraj Devidas First Prize of 2013 Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Bhatia Thesis Awards EMBO Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013 Declined FRM Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013 Declined HFSP Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013 Accepted. 37. 2013 Pritha Ghosh DAAD – A New Passage to India fellowship (2013) 38. 2013 Rajalakshmi, S. DBT-CTEP travel grant to attend a conference on Gene regulation II, in Cambridge (December, 2013) 39. 2013 Chaitra Prabhakar Awarded William Randolph Hearst Educational Endowment and Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Scholarship to attend the 120th Physiology Summer Course at Marine Biological Laboratory, USA (June 2013) 40. 2013 Sonia Sen Company of Biologist's Travel Grant to visit Jing Wang's lab in UCSD, SanDiego, USA (June 2013). 41. 2013 Sonali Saha Best student talk in the 10th Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience, Utah, USA, 2013. 42. 2014 Jahnavi Joshi 2nd Best Presentation award at the Early Career Biogeography Conference,

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Name of the Year Name of the Award Awardee International Biogeography Society held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (Jan 2014) 43. 2014 Sudeshna Das Alexander Von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology (2014) 44. 2014 Aditya Gilra Cosyne-NSF New Attendee Travel Grant, 2014 45. 2014 Mehrab N Modi Cosyne-NSF New Attendee Travel Grant, 2014 46. 2014 Pushkar Paranjpe Bitplane Excellence Awards : Global Image Analysis Competition (February 2014) Best Live Webinar Presentation - "Automatic leg detection, tracking and quantification" (February 2014) 47. 2014 Syed Durafshan Asia Pacific developmental biology network Sakeena (APDBN) travel grant for attending a meeting on Behavioral neurogenetics of Drosophila larva held in Japan (March 2014) Sadanandappa MK et. al., (2013) article in Journal of Neuroscience, has received Prof. Obaid Siddiqi best paper of the year 2013 runner-up cash award by NCBS and C-CAM P. 48. 2014 Shilpa Yadahalli Protein Science Young Investigator Travel Grant / Protein Society Finn Wold Travel Award to attend the 27th Annual Symposium of The Protein Society 49. 2014 International Federation of palynological Anusree, A.S. Societies and Palaeonological Association travel grant to attend European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, Italy (August 2014) 50. 2014 Shobha Anilkumar Nature Travel Grant awarded by the Nature Publishing Group to attend workshop onMolecular & Cellular Neurobiology, THong Kong University of Science and Technology, China (April, 2014) 51. 2014 Bipan Kumar Deb European Calcium Society (ECS) Fellowship to attend the 3th International meeting of the European Calcium Society, France

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Name of the Year Name of the Award Awardee (September, 2014). 52. 2014 Divya, R. Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant to visit University of Cologne, Germany (August – November 2014). 53. 2014 Umesh Mohan Developing Neuroethology travel Award to attend international Congress of Neuroethology conference, Japan (July-May, 2014)

54. 2015 Tanay N Bhatt Company of Biologist travel grant to visit University of California at San Diego for collaborative work (March 2015) 55. 2015 Karthikeyan Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship Chandrasegaran to visit Illinois State University, USA (February 2015). 56. 2015 Avantika Lal Simons Graduate Travel Prize (March 2015) 57. 2015 Asem Surindro Singh International Society for Neurochemistry CAEN travel award for attending 46th ASN (American Society for Neurochemistry) Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, United States (14th - 18th March 2015) International travel grant provided by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India for attending 46th ASN (American Society for Neurochemistry) Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, United States (14th - 18th March 2015)

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

Dr. Raghu Padinjat, Annual Talks - Control in Dr.VatsalaThirumalai, Dr. 1. 2013 NCBS Biological Systems Sandeep Krishna, Dr. Mahesh Sankaran ICTS-NCBS-MBI Dr. Darius V. Koester, 2. 2013 ICTS, MBI & NCBS Programme on NCBS Prof. John A.

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Year Name Funding Agency Faculty members

Mechanical Mercer, inStem Prof. Manipulations and Madan Rao, RRI Prof. Responses on the scale of G.V. Shivashankar, cell and beyond National University of Singapore Prof. Satyajit Mayor, NCBS NCBS-ICTS Monsoon Prof(s). Mukund, 3. 2013 School on the Physics of ICTS Sandeep, Madhu Life Science Journalism 4. 2013 NCBS Anil Ananthaswamy Workshop NCBS - Max Plank Lipid 4641 Directors Prof. Satyajit Mayor, 5. 2013 Meeting Budget Prof. Raghu Padinjat Bangalore Microscopy Corporate Sponsors 6. 2013 Manoj Mathew Course + Registrations Corporate Sponsors Student Conference in + Registrations + 7. 2013 Dr. V.V Robin Conservation Science Wildlife funding agencies COB, Lady Tata International Conference Aswin, Sandeep, 8. 2013 Trust, TWAS, DBT, on Bacterial Expressions DeepaAgashe DST, CSIR Grant from European Society 9. 2013 Evolution Symposium for Evolutionary Prof.KrushnameghKunte Biology + Registrations Rufford Small 10. 2013 Rufford Grantees Meet Grants Foundation, Ajit Kumar UK Mohammed Bin Asian Otter Conservation Zayed Species 11. 2013 Ajit Kumar Workshop Conservation Fund

COB+ Corporate All India Cell Biology 12. 2013 Sponsors + Jyotsna Dhawan Conference Registrations 13. 2014 Indo-US Bioinformatics NSF-USA Prof. Sowdhamini,

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Workshop Dr. PramodWangikar Action within cells and 14. 2014 NCBS Dr. Jayant Udgaonkar NCBS Board Meeting Genes Circuits and Prof. Gaiti Hasan, 15. 2014 DBT Behavior Prof. Ralph Prof. MukundThattai, 16. 2014 NCBS Glyco Course NCBS AjitVarki CSIR, COB, DBT, INSA,MBI-NUS,DST, Prof. Raghu Padinjat, 17. 2014 Em. Bioimaging Meeting Corporate Sponsors Prof. Satyajit Mayor + Registrations Indo German Workshop on Insect-Plant DST-SERB, Axel and Prof. K. S. Krishnan, 18. 2014 Interactions - SERB KS Krishnan’s Grant Axel Brockman School for Chemical Ecology Conference on Concepts 19. 2014 and Mechanisms in Plant NCBS Dr. P.V Shivaprasad Development Ecosystem Monitoring and Forest Census NCBS and Oxford, Prof. Mahesh 20. 2014 Research in India – GEM Workshop International 21. 2014 Computational Neuro NCBS Prof. Upinder S Bhalla Course NCBS-Simons Monsoon 22. 2014 Simons Foundation NCBS School: Physics of Life NCBS – DAE Accounts 23. 2014 Career Day @ NCBS Corporate Sponsors Meeting Science Journalism 24. 2014 NCBS Anil Ananthaswamy Workshop Workshop on DAE Meeting: Accounting NCBS – DAE PradipPyne 25. 2014 Procedures for Accounts Meeting Autonomous Institutions – DAE 26. 2014 Development and NCBS Prof. Gaiti Hasan

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Year Name Funding Agency Faculty members

Function of the Nervous Systems & Scientific Meeting and Celebration for Mathew, Vijay and Panicker DBT+DST+Corporate 6th Bangalore Microscopy 27. 2014 Sponsors + Dr. Manoj Mathew Course Registrations DBT,DST+ Corporate 28. 2014 SCCS Conference Sponsors + Dr. V.V. Robin Registrations DST, COB, DBT, Neuromodulation of Prof. Gaiti Hasan 29. 2014 CEFIPRA, Behavior +Registrations NCI-DBT Provocative 30. 2014 NCI , DBT Prof. S. Ramaswamy Questions Workshop The Second International DBT + DST, 31. 2014 Symposium on Protein Corporate Sponsors, Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar Folding and Dynamics Registrations Annual Talks 2015 / 5 year institutional Gaiti Hasan, 32. 2015 research review & Annual NCBS SumantraChatterji, Symposium on 'Biology Sanjay Sane - Across Scales' 7th Bangalore Benny NCBS, CoB, DBT, MukundThattai& Benny 33. 2015 Shilo Course on DST Shilo Developmental Biology Fundamentals of Visitors Budget - AjitVarki 34. 2015 Anthropogeny (NCBS) Retreat on Mechanobiology of Cells Jitu, Madan, Thomas 35. 2015 Simons Foundation & Tissues: Implications to Lecuit Signaling & Endocytosis The Annual Meeting - Raghu Pandinjat 36. 2015 NCBS Max-Planck Lipid Lipid Centre

Centre K. S. Krishnan School of NCBS, CoB, Max Shannon B. Olsson, 37. 2015 Chemical Ecology Planck, French Axel Brockmann

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Embassy 2nd Workshop on Mechanical Darius Vasco Kaster 38. 2014 Manipulations and ICTS + Registrations

Responses at the scale of the cell and beyond Uma Ramakrishnan Uma Ramakrishnan 39. 2015 Sikkim DBT Grant Meeting BBRC Symposium & Satyajit Mayor 40. 2015 BBRC Journal Editorial Board Meeting Science Journalism Anil Ananthaswamy 41. 2015 NCBS Course Physics of Life 2015,3rd Sandeep Krishna 42. 2015 NCBS-Simons Monsoon Simons Foundation

School Computational Approaches to Memory Simons Foundation, Upinder S Bhalla 43. 2015 and Plasticity - CAMP @ NCBS Bangalore Northeast Bangalore Pankaj Gupta 44. 2015 Collaboration on DBT Grant

Chemical Ecology Dialogues in the Clinic Visitors Budget - ArchanaPurushotham 45. 2015 Mini-symposium (NCBS) Meeting - Initiative on U S Bhalla 46. 2015 Sequence Learning and Simons Foundation

Abstraction St. Johns Infectious Disease Meeting - Sudhir Krishna 47. 2015 Evolving Clinical Science NCBS

Interface Discussion Meeting 1. Wildlife Conservation Ravi Chellam, Uma SCCS Conference -J N Trust 48. 2015 Ramakrishnan Tata Auditorium, IISc 2. Bombay Natural

History Society 3. AMM

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Year Name Funding Agency Faculty members

Foundation 4. Foundation for Ecological Security 5. DuleepMatthai Nature Conservation Trust 6. INLAKS India Foundation 7. Ravi Sankaran Memorial Foundation 8. World Wildlife Fund-India 9. Wildlife Trust of India Nature Conservation Foundation Corporate Sponsors + Registrations Satyajit Mayor, 7th Bangalore Corporate Sponsors 49. 2015 Krishnamoorthy, Microscopy Course + Registrations Manoj Mathew NCBS - Wuerzburg Outreach & Varadha, Arati 50. 2015 Meeting on Infection Communication

Biology Budget - (NCBS) Visitors Budget - 51. 2015 Post-Doc Symposium Dr. Megha (NCBS) Workshop on DBT Grant of Prof. R R. Sowdhamini 52. 2015 Biomolecular Interactions Sowdhamini Simons Foundation AswinSheshasayee 53. 2015 Bacterial Expression – II + Registrations

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

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Safety and Laboratory Etiquette each year in the printed student handbook. We follow all statutory guidelines related to Animal Ethics, Human Subject Research Ethics, Biosafety Regulations, etc. We are in full compliance of all Statutory Ethical Guidelines.

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches.

Name of the Joined Pass Applications Selected Programme percentage% received Programme Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 32480 67 49 64 49 83 86

Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 11966 38 25 24 25 88 100

M.Sc. (Wildlife Biology) 1993 17 13 18 13 94 100

33. Diversity of students a) Geographical: Ph.D. I-Ph.D. M.Sc. Students Total Male Female Male Female Male Female From the state where the university is located 7 3 2 5 1 0 18 From other states of India 47 38 17 31 9 9 151 NRI students 2 0 0 2 0 1 5 Foreign students 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 Total 56 43 19 38 10 10 176

b) Ungraduate Institution: Ph.D. I-Ph.D. M.Sc. Male Female Male Female Male Female Total From Universities 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 From premier science 8 5 1 1 0 1 16 institutions † From premier 15 6 0 0 0 0 21 professional institutions

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# From others* 32 32 18 37 10 9 138 Total 56 43 19 38 10 10 176

† 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 30 2. GATE 28 3. UGC 13 4. CSIR-JRF 15 5. ICMR 2 6. INSPIRE 2 7. DBT-JRF 8 8. JAM 3 9. JNU Combined Biotech Entrance Exam 2 10. JEST 1 11. CSIR-SPM 3 12. CSIR-LS 4 13. OCES/DGFS 1 14. ASRB-NET 1 15. AIR 1 16. BET 1 17. AIEEE 1

35. Student progression

NCBS-TIFR operates only a graduate and post-doctoral stream. We do not re-hire our own graduates as post-doctoral fellows. Students who complete our M.Sc.-by- Research programme typically go on to Ph.D. programmes at other institutions. Those who complete our M.Sc. Wildlife programmes go on to Ph.D. programmes elsewhere, but also into other career streams such as conservation-related organisations, the Forest Service, etc. Students who complete our Ph.D. and Integrated Ph.D. programmes typically go on to do post-doctoral research at other institutions, but many also join industry positions as staff scientists, or enter other careers such as education.

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36. Diversity of staff

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

3% TIFR from TIFR : 1 32% India from other institutions in India : 11 65% Abroad from institutions Abroad: 22

Total No 34

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

The primary aim of the Scientific Information Resource Centre (SIRC) - library is to develop, organize, preserve and deliver information and scholarly resources for theNCBS community. To these ends, the SIRC explores and implements new technologies to provide effective information services, expand the library’s resource collection, and develop a librarian-user partnership.

The library has extensive print and electronic collections including books, bound journals, and a CD/DVD collection of other educational resources. The SIRC subscribes to print journals and multiple electronic resources, participates in consortiums such as TIFR, DAE and UGC-Infonet for expanded access. The SIRC also subscribes to magazines and newspapers of general interest and offers various services including referencing, scanning, off-campus access, inter- libraryloan and document delivery.

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In January 2013. The SIRC moved into the Southern Laboratories Complex, occupying a centrally located space with wheelchair access ramps and a sizeable reading area spanning two floors. Support facilities include wired and wireless internet, computing and audio-visual facilities, printers, scanners, and an online catalogue. The SIRC is open every day, year round.

b. Internet facilities for staff and students

The entire NCBS campus is WiFi enabled and has broadband access to data, including subscriptions to online journals via a proxy server. The total bandwidth is approximately 100 Mbps.

c. Total number of class rooms

• Auditoriums:

189 seater, 250 sqm; 101 seater, 130 sqm; 81 seater, 180 sqm; 70 seater, 100 sqm; 60 seater, 200 sqm

• Seminar Halls:

6 seminar halls, capacity 14-16 each.

d. Class rooms with ICT facility

All our classrooms are WiFi and internet enabled, as well has having digital projection systems. The main auditoriums in addition have sound systems, recording systems, and video-conferencing and distance learning capabilities.

e. Students’ laboratories

Two teaching laboratories which have a flexible layout for hands-on and experimental workshops; 200 sqm and 100 sqm.

f. Research laboratories

Each member of the NCBS faculty maintains a research laboratory with a square footage in excess of 100 sqm each. In addition, our common research facilities as

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described above all have dedicated laboratory space. The total research area is 8739 sqm of faculty research laboratories and shared laboratories plus 1880 sqm of facilities.

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

Ph.D. Students I-Ph.D. Students

1 Anupama H.L. 1 Urvashi Raheja 2 Anup Ashok Parchure 2 Suvrajit Saha 3 Sucheta Kulkarni 3 Nitesh Saxena 4 Varun Varma 4 Priyanka Gupta 5 Joseph Jose Thottacherry 5 Roumita Moulick 6 Mugdha Sathe 6 Taruni Roy 7 Amritendu Mukhopadhyay 7 Pooja Malhotra 8 Durafshan Sakeena Syed 8 Aswathy A.K. 9 Neha Nandwani 9 Lalitha Krishnan 10 Swagatha Ghosh 10 Amruta Varudkar 11 Thangaselvam .M 11 Shuchita Arun Soman 12 Umesh Mohan 12 Shishu Pal Singh 13 Jesvin Singh Madan 13 Radhika Sudhir Joshi 14 Ramya Purkanti 14 Farhana Yasmin 15 Hemanth Giri Rao Vantharam V 15 Aanchal Jatindrakumar Bhatia 16 Aalap Bhalchandra Mogre 16 Avantika Lal 17 Deepankar Singh 17 Shweta 18 Manhar Singh Rawat 18 Shlesha Rajesh Richhariya 19 Sabareesan A.T 19 Ankita Prakash Chodankar 20 Rama Reddy Goluguri 20 Aliasgar Bohra 21 Mahita Jarjapu 21 Giselle Maria Fernandes 22 Urbashi Basu 22 Parijat Sil 23 Sanjeev Mahadeva Sharma 23 Preethi Ravi 24 Joseph Mathew 24 Prabahan Chakraborty 25 Yadugiri V T 25 Saptarnab Naskar 26 Bipan Kumar Deb 26 Kambadur Gundu Ananthamurthy 27 Farah Haque 27 Avishek Ghosh 28 Ajoy Aloysius 28 Sruthi S Balakrishnan 29 Mohini Sengupta 29 Leanna Rose Joy 30 Somya Mani 30 Aparna Agarwal 31 Nihav Dhawale 31 Vishal Tiwari 32 Shilpi Nagpal 32 Payel Chatterjee 33 Mary K Johnson 33 Sandhya Bhatia 34 Prashant kumar Navalbhai Jethva 34 Priyesh Mohanty

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Ph.D. Students I-Ph.D. Students

35 Pritha Ghosh 35 Krithika Badarinath 36 Snehal Dilip Karpe 36 Chandan Kumar Pandey 37 Kabir Bazmi Husain 37 Steffy B Manjila 38 Chaitra P 38 Ashutosh Shukla 39 Calvin Steve Rodrigues 39 Vandana Agarwal 40 Ebi Antony George 40 Sahana Sitaraman 41 Divya R 41 Bishal Basak 42 Mrudula Sunil Sane 42 Aridni Shah 43 Kruttika Anirudha Phalnikar 43 Pavan Kaushik 44 Prachi Srikanth Thatte 44 Rohini Subrahmanyam 45 Jyothi Venugopal Nair 45 Rohit Dey 46 Sunny Kataria 46 Akshit Goyal 47 Tanay NitinKumar Bhatt 47 Suhas Bhate 48 Arunabha Sarkar 48 Deepanjali Dwivedi 49 Sreekrishna Varmaraja PC 49 Pabitra Nandy 50 Sahil Moza 50 Bhavya Dharmaraaj 51 Rohit Chandrakant Suratekar 51 Furquan Khizar 52 Vishaka Datta 52 Chittaspandini Gopal Kulkarni 53 Lena Mareike Josefine Robra 53 Rashmi 54 Amit Kumar Singh 54 Charuhansini Gopal Kulkarni 55 Harish Kumar 55 Sankarshan Talluri 56 Sahil Lall 56 Aalok Varma 57 Iyer Meenakshi Shankar 57 Chandrima Patra 58 Abrar Ahmed Bhat 59 Debakshi Mullick 60 Saurabh Kishor Mahajan 61 Alok Javali 62 Soumya Bhattacharjee 63 Vishram Terse 64 Terence Christie 65 Sreemantee Sen 66 Bhavika Mam 67 Kiran Sankar Chatterjee 68 Neetu 69 Kuldeep 70 Vrinda Ravi Kumar 71 Saurav Baral 72 Riddhi Deshmukh 73 Srishti Batra 74 Anubhab Khan

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Ph.D. Students I-Ph.D. Students

75 Abin Ghosh V C 76 Aditya Asopa 77 Dilawar Singh 78 Lakshmi Krupa S. 79 Kumarvardhanam Daga 80 Athulya Girish. K 81 Batul Ismail Habibullah 82 Mohammad 83 Ankita Kapoor 84 Zeenat Rashida 85 Souradeep Sarkar 86 Kanika Gupta 87 Vinay Kumar Dubey 88 Shubham Kesarwani 89 Sachit Daniel 90 Shweta Chakraborty 91 Pratyay Seth 92 Anupam Singh 93 Vasvi Tripathi 94 Kaivalya Sudesh Walavalkar 95 Sriram Narayanan 96 Patil Saurabh Ratiram 97 Teerna Bhattacharyya 98 Anjali Jaiman 99 Kamalesh Kumari

Post Doctoral Fellows Post Doctoral Fellows 1 B. Lakshmi 27 Darius Vasco Koster 2 Divya Rajagopal 28 Robin Vadayail Vijayan 3 Monisha Bhattacharya 29 Marcus Taylor 4 Sanjay Kumar 30 Jahnavi Joshi 5 Melvin Prasad 31 Baskar Bakthavachalu 6 Poulomi Biswas 32 Benjamin J. Wigley 7 Shridhivya A Reddy 33 Venkat Ramaswamy 8 Rittik Deb 34 Vishnu Janardan 9 V.S. Pragadheesh 35 Amit Das 10 Indira Singh 36 Deepika Janakiraman 11 Dhananjay Chaturvedi 37 Megha 12 Dambarudhar S S Hembram 38 Daniel Brian Weatherill

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Post Doctoral Fellows Post Doctoral Fellows 13 S.P. Vijayakumar 39 Laasya Samitha 14 Ishtapran sahoo 40 Anchal Chandra 15 Gnaneshwar V Yadav 41 Kamalakannan Vijayan 16 Ishita Sengupta 42 K. Dhanya 17 Igor Kondrychyn 43 Vivek Ramachandran 18 Bhaktee Dongaonkar 44 Joyshree Chanam 19 Soumita Das 45 Rithvik S. Vinekar 20 Parag Surana 46 Imroze Khan 21 Sagarika Mishra 47 Nahren Manuel Mascarenhas 22 P Chitra 48 Varad B Giri 23 Bini Ramachandran 49 Pradeep Subramani 24 M. Snigdha 50 Savita Chib 25 Renjitha Gopurappilly 51 Ishan Agrawal 26 Pramod Kumar Singh

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

All the 178 students of NCBS are in either doctoral programmes, or the M.Sc. (Wildlife Biology) programme, 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.

New programmes are discussed at three levels: 1. Internally among the NCBS-TIFR faculty. 2. At the level of the Biology Subject Board of TIFR. 3. At the level of the TIFR Academic Council. Changes in curriculum etc. are settled at the faculty level. Changes in credit and thesis requirements as well as exceptional cases, appeals, etc. are decided by the Subject Board. Introduction of new programmes must be decided by the Council.

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?

Faculty feedback on curriculum development is coordinated through a monthly meeting of all NCBS faculty. This is the forum where any changes to the curriculum must be approved

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

Individual course instructors may issue anonymous forms for student feedback.

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

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

Even though NCBS is a relatively young Centre, we have had great success in training researchers and launching them to independent careers. Several of our alumni who received PhDs from NCBS have gone on to join the faculty at various institutions in India and abroad. For example: Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. Rohit Joshi CDFD HYderabad 2. Rajat Varma US National Institutes of Health 3. Gautam Soni Raman Research Institute 4. Sachin Deshmukh Indian Institute of Science 5. Bidisha Sinha IISER Kolkata 6. Rajan Raghav IISER Pune 7. Deepa Subramanyam NCCS Pune 8. Ajay Mathuru Yale-National University of Singapore 9. Baron Chanda Univ of Wisconsin, USA 10. Adish Dani Washington Univ, USA

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

All our workshops are free and open to all the students in our graduate program. All of these workshops involve outside experiments, many of these workshops include hands-on sessions. See Question 30 for a list of workshops conducted in the past 3 years.

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

The M.Sc. Program in Wildlife Biology involves 3 components: 1. Classroom-based courses with instructors giving lectures, assigning homework, and testing results based on an in-class exam. 2. Mentorship and guidance on research methodologies, oral presentations, and scientific writing. 3. Fieldwork at station sites maintained by NCBS at various locations in India including the Western Ghats, the Andamans, and Sikkim. The Ph.D., I-Ph.D. and M.Sc.-by-Research programmes are based mainly on classroom courses. Instructors teach based on textbooks as well as scientific literature surveys. Basic courses are typically based on textbooks and culminate in an in-class exam, whereas advanced courses on recent developments are based on literature surveys and culminate in a graded project. Strong emphasis is placed on student participation.

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

Student learning out comes are monitored at two levels. First, at the level of individual course examinations. Second, at the level of the Qualifying Examination (QE). The QE must be taken after 3 semesters (for Ph.D.) or 4 semesters (for I-PhD) from the date of joining. It is an 8-hour written examination that covers all aspects of the coursework. Students have two attempts to pass this examination. In addition, student research progress is monitored via their Thesis Committee Meetings and Annual Work Seminars.

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

NCBS Outreach programs are aimed to bring in as many young minds as possible to consider pursuing Science. PIs at NCBS are the driving force of these initiatives. NCBS does get a fair share of interest from other institutes, who do wish to visit us as they consider the institute as the place to be exposed to for the kind of science we pursue.

For example, between 2015-16 the institute hosted 37 visits from University, Institutes (national & international) and Schools. Visits to NCBS include, talks by

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select PIs, Talks by the academic office, facility, lab visits and a campus tour. Some visiting institutes include University of Kashmir, VIT, IIT Chennai, Christian College, Kerela,Devanahalli Government School.

PIs also organize individual outreach programs where they invite schools for specific interactions. E.g. the MOTH DAY@NCBS where Sanjay Sane and Shannon Olsson labs set up lab interactions aimed to raise awareness among primary and secondary school groups in July.

One of the highlights of 2016 - On the occasion of the 25 years celebrations we organized a school outreach program for 3 Kendriya Vidhyalaya schools. The students attended talks and were taken through lab experiences form Drs, Aswin Seshasayee, Sanjay Sane & Axel Brockmann labs. More such programs are planned for future.

Faculty involved in outreach program so far are as follows: Drs. Varadharajan Sundaramurthy, Sudhir Krishna, Aswin Seshasayee, Sandeep Krishna, Krushnamegh Kunte, Mukund Thattai, Sumantra Chaterjee, Arati Ramesh, Satyajit Mayor, Upinder Bhalla, Apurva Sarin, Raghu Padinjat, Sowdhamini, Vatsala Thirumalai, Shannon Olsson, Hiyaa Ghosh, Deepa Agashe, Axel Brockmann

Heads involved in outreach program so far are as follows: Manoj Mathew, H. Krishnamurthy , Ms. Poornima, Ashok Rao, Nandini (IBS), Aparna (Science and Society), Rashi Tiwari (Academic Office)

Students/Post docs involved in outreach program so far are as follows: Savita Chib, Dhananjay , Lakshmi , Sakeena , Baskar , Meghana exhibited.

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

There are numerous components to beyond-syllabus activities.

1. A student’s primary research on their thesis topic.

2. Student presentations at Annual Work Seminars and in poster presentations during the Institute’s Annual Review Meeting.

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3. Student participation in Journal Clubs to keep abreast of all the recent literature in relevant fields.

4. The annual student-led workshop known as “Sympotein” where students discuss interesting ideas in a forefront research area of life sciences.

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

The Review Committee constituted by the UGC, which visited TIFR during February 2010, also visited NCBS. In addition, in 2010 the Academic performance of NCBS was also reviewed by a panel of international experts set up by the Governing Council of TIFR.

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

The core contribution of NCBS-TIFR is in the form of peer-reviewed publications in international scholarly journals including the highest category of journals in the life sciences such as Nature, Science and Cell. NCBS faculty and students have so far written over 1100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

NCBS faculty have made fundamental contributions to several areas of biology. To give some examples: The work of Prof. Obaid Siddiqi on the development of the nervous system was extremely influential and acknowledged globally. Prof. Vijay Raghavan’s work has revealed the mechanism of muscle development in animals. Prof. Satyajit Mayor’s research has redefined the way biologists think about the functioning of the cell membrane. Prof. Upinder Bhalla is a world leader in understanding how olfactory stimuli are processed in the mammalian brain. Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar’s experiments have revealed the key to protein folding and aggregation during neuro-degeneration. Prof. Uma Ramakrishnan has made fundamental contributions to understanding the status of endangered animal populations, including tigers, throughout the Indian subcontinent. Prof. Yamuna Krishnan has pioneered the field of DNA nanotechnology, with potential applications across chemistry, biology, and medicine.

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

Strengths

Excellent research faculty and staff, research infrastructure, connection to international partner institutions, high visibility among potential students, track record in research and publications.

Weaknesses

Lacunae in certain research areas, low rate of attracting post-doctoral fellows, poor engagement with medical programmes, under-representation of humanities and social sciences in the curriculum, untapped use of distance-learning tools.

Opportunities

New research areas such as experimental biophysics, genome engineering, etc. Collaborations with hospitals and clinicians. New opportunities for public engagement via Science and Society Programme. Leveraging connections with other Institutions in Bangalore for research and teaching collaborations. New opportunities for field biology and conservation via networks of field stations.

Challenges

Sporadic research funding environment. Poorly prepared students in intake stream. Challenges of managing organic campus growth while maintaining excellence of academic program. Poor academic recruitment environment for our graduates. Modernizing the teaching curriculum for rapidly changing areas.

52. Future plans of the department Thrust areas: • Faculty hiring in new research directions. • Expansion of post-doctoral programme including international recruits. • Development of strong connections with funding bodies to support long- term research goals. • Emphasis on scientific writing and presentation.

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Centre for Applicable Mathematics

1. Name of the Department :

TIFR- Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM)

2. Year of establishment:

1972

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

Yes, it is a part of School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai.

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

Students who cannot complete their Ph.D. degrees, but have completed some basic requirements may be awarded M.Phil. degrees. However, no students are admitted purely for an M.Phil programme.

5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved

Not Applicable.

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

Not Applicable.

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

Not Applicable.

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

Semester

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

Not Applicable.

10. Number of faculty positions: Abbreviation Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Number (Item 11) 1. Distinguished Professor (J) Ds. Professor (J) 0 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 2 3. Professor (H)  4 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 3 5. Reader (F)  5 6. Fellow (E)  - Total 14

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

Name Deg* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡ 1. Prof Adimurthi Ph.D. Senior Partial Differential Equation 42 1 Professor (I) Variational Methods 2. Prof Jospeh KT Ph.D. Senior Partial differential equations, 33 2 Professor (I) especially of Hyperbolic and parabolic type Analysis of boundary layers, classical Shock waves and delta waves. 3. Prof Vasudeva Ph.D. Professor (H) Numerical Analysis of PDE of 34 3 Murthy A S Evolutionary type Mathematical modelling of Atmospheric Phenomenon 4. Prof Veerappa Ph.D. Professor (H) Partial Differential Equation 34 3 Gowda G D Numerical Analysis Conservation Laws 5. Prof Mythily Ph.D. Professor (H) Partial Differential Equations 37 3 Ramaswamy Nonlinear Functional Analysis Optimal Control Problems

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Name Deg* Designation Specialization Exp† Stu‡

6. Prof Ph.D. Professor (H) Partial Differential Equation 41 Vanninathan M Numerical Analysis Homogenization Controllability 7. Dr Sandeep K Ph.D. Associate Partial Differential Equation 11 2 Professor (G) Variational Methods Non-Linear Functional Analysis 8. Dr Prashanth K Ph.D. Associate Variational Methods 13 2 Srinivasan Professor (G) Partial Differential Equations of Elliptic type 9. Dr Aravinda Cs Ph.D. Associate Geometric Analysis 8 1 Professor (G) Ergodic Theory Topology 10. Dr Ujjwal Koley Ph.D. Reader Partial Differential Equations 1 Numerical Analysis for Hyperbolic PDEs 11. Dr Ph.D. Reader Inverse Problems 4 Venkateswaran Integral Geometry P Krishnan Image Reconstruction Microlocal Analysis 12. Dr Imran H Ph.D. Reader Partial Differential Equation 5 1 Biswas Stochastic Analysis 13. Dr Sreekar Ph.D. Reader stochastic analysis and random fields 5 Vadlamani 14. Dr Praveen C Ph.D. Reader Computational Fluid Dynamics 7 Shape Optimazation for Fluid Flows Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Uncertainty Quantification Parallel Computing

* 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 Name Period 1. 1. V S Borkar 2011 2. 2. Govind Menon 2011 3. 3. Giavanni P Galdi 2011 4. 4. Siddhartha Mishra 2012-15 5. 5. Sagun Chanillo 2012-15 6. 6. Malabika Pramanik 2014-17 7. 7. Mokshay Madiman 2014-17

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

Not Applicable

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio Progr amme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 1. Ph.D. 1 14 0.07 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 17 14 1.21 3. M.Sc. ─ ─ ─

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific and Technical Staff Administrative and Auxiliary Staff 3 12

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies 1. Applications of Nonlinear Functional Analysis in the Study of Differential Equations. 2. Control Aspects of Partial Differential Equations. 3. Hyperbolic Equations and Conservation Laws. 4. Homogenization and Solid Fluid Interactions. 5. Numerical Analysis of PDE (Special Reference to Atmospheric Dynamics). 6. Microlocal Analysis. 7. Stochastic Analysis and Random fields. 8. Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. 9. Differential Geometry and Dynamics.

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National

Total Grant Duration Agency Project Title (Rs. lakhs) (years) Faculty member

1. Naval Physical & Bistatic towed 3.3 1.25 Dr. Oceanographic Synthetic Venkateswaran P Laboratory, Kochi Aperture Sonar Krishnan image 2. Indo-French Center for PDEFormation.- Control -- -- Prof. Mythily R Applied Mathematics

3. AIR BUS Mathematics of 100 4 Prof. Mythily R Complex Systems

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.- Total Grant Duration Agency Project Title (Rs. lakhs) (years) Faculty member

XII Plan Projects 1. DAE 325 5 All CAM faculty - CAM

20. Research facility / centre with  state recognition :  national recognition :  international recognition : None

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

Not applicable

22. Publications: Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books Mono CAM Publications Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited graphs 2010-11 30 6 - - 3 - - 2011-12 18 6 1 3 2 - - 2012-13 22 5 - 1 2 - - 2013-14 16 3 - 7 1 - - 2014-15 39 5 - 4 1 1 - Total 125 25 1 15 9 1 -

 Citation Index – range / average • Total number of citations: 3054 (Source: MathScinet) • Number of citations per faculty: 218 • h-index: Range: 4 - 23

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23. Details of patents and income generated

Notice of Allowance for patent grant from the Chinese Patent Office has been received for the invention of "Optimal Wing Planforms for Reducing the Induced or Total Drag of the Wing of an Aircraft Driven by Wing-Mounted Tractor Propellers/Rotors".

Dr. Praveen Chandrashekarappa is one of the inventors.

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated

Not applicable

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

International Visits : Name of Faculty member Institution and Location visited Year 1. Dr Amit Apte North Carolina 2011 Providence USA 2011 Oxford Man Institute and 2012 WarwickUniversit University of Nice Sophia Antopolis, 2013 France, and the National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colom, 2. Dr Aravinda Cs ICTP, Trieste, Italy 2013 To visit Tom Farrell at SUNY 2014 Binghamton, SUNY Binghamton University of Zurich, Zurich 2014 Northwestern University, Evanston 2014 Italy, Italy 2015 3. Dr Debraj Chakrabarti San Diego,California, USA, USA 2013 University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2013 Canada 4. Dr Imran H Biswas Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil 2014 To visit University of Wurzbug, Germany 2015 University of Pau, France 2015 Beijing, China, China 2015 IISER Kolkata, India 2015 5. Dr Prashanth K Srinivasan France, France 2013

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Name of Faculty member Institution and Location visited Year University of New York, New York, USA, 2013 USA Madrid, Spain and CUNY, New York, USA 2014 Department of Mathematics, University 2015 of Pau, France from 1 to 14 July 2015 and Department of Mathe, France, New York 6. Dr Praveen C Toulouse 2011 Univ. of Wuerzburg,Germany, Germany 2013 Univ. of Wuerzburg, Germany 2014 Univ. of Paul Sabatier and Univ. of 2014 Wurzburg, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2015 Univ. of Wurzburg, Germany 2015 7. Dr Sandeep K IMPA Rio-de Janeiro Brazil 2012 Rome, Italy 2013 University of Pau, France, France 2014 University of Basel, Switzerland 2015 University of Rome3, Roma 2015 Politecnico di Torino, Italy 2015 8. Dr Seema Nanda Arizona, Arizona 2013 Osaka, Japan, Japan 2014 lahore, Pakistan 2014 Arlington, Virginia. , USA, USA 2014 Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, USA 2015 9. Dr Sreekar Vadlamani University of Rome-2, Italy 2013 to visit the University of Rome at Tor 2014 Vergata, and ESSEC-Paris Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands 2014 Prof. Marie Kratz, France 2015 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US 2015 Technion, Israel, ISRAEL 2015 Technion, Israel 2015 School of Mathematical Sciences, 2016 Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 10. Dr Ujjwal Koley Department of mathematics, Würzburg, 2015 Germany, Germany 11. Dr Venkateswaran P Mittag-Leffler Institute,Sweden, Sweden 2013 Krishnan University of Wurzburg,Germany, 2013

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Name of Faculty member Institution and Location visited Year Germany American Institute of Mathematics in 2013 Palo Alto, California, USA, USA University of Texas at Arlington, USA 2013 University of Texas, USA 2014 Turkey, Turkey 2014 Madrid, Spain, Spain 2014 University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2014 Germany Finland, Finland 2015 University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, 2015 USA and Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, USA Beijing, China 2015 12. Prof Adimurthi University of Paris 6,Paris 2012 University of Uppsala Sweden 2012 Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics, 2013 Spain Laboratoire de Math´ematiques de 2013 Besancon, France, LMAP (UMR 5142), 64013 2013 Uppsala University, Sweden, Sweden 2014 Wuerzburg, Germany 2015 13. Prof Mythily Ramaswamy University of Toulouse, France, France 2013 University of Bath, United Kingdom 2013 Baltimore, Maryland and Virginia Tech, 2014 Blacksburg, USA, USA CUNY, USA, USA 2014 Lorentz Center, Netherlands 2014 Toulouse University, France 2014 CUNY Graduate Center, US, US 2015 to visit Toulouse University, France 2015 Beijing, China 2015 Edinburgh, UK, UK 2015 14. Prof Srikanth P N Mexico city, North America 2015 15. Prof Vanninathan Kogakuin University Japan 2012 University of Paris 6, France 2013 L'Ecole Polytechnique, France 2013 University of Rennes, France 2013 University of Toulouse, France, France 2013 Ecole Polytechnique,France, France 2014

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Name of Faculty member Institution and Location visited Year University Paul Sabatier, 2014 Toulouse,France, France 16. Prof Vasudeva Murthy A S Lorentz Centerc, Holland 2014 Kogakuin University and Waseda 2012 University, Japan 17. Prof Veerappa Gowda G D INRIA, France 2014 University of Pau, France 2015 University of Wuerzburg, Germany 2015

All the faculty are invited to visit other laboratories /institutions in India and abroad

26. Faculty serving in (a) National Committees :

Name of the Name of the Committee Role in the Committee Term of Faculty Service Member 1 Prof. Joseph KT Mathematical Sciences To select fellows of INSA and 2015-2017. select Young scientist and recommend their names to the Council, INSA. 2 Prof. Mythily R Science Education Panel in selection of summer 2006 for 6 the Indian Academy of research fellowships of the years Sciences, Bangalore. Science Academies

Project Monitoring Project Monitoring since Committee of SERB for September Mathematical Sciences 2015.

Board of Governers IIT since March, Gandhinagar. 2016

Standing Committee on Since March IISER’s 2016

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(b) International Committees : Name of the Role of the Term of Faculty Name of the Committee Committee Service Member 2015 Member of the Subcommittee for the International

Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Su Buchin Prof. Mythily R Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture selection committee at Prize 2015 the International Council for Industrial and Applied

Mathematics

(c) Editorial Boards : Name of the Faculty Name of the Journal Impact Term of Member Factor Service 1. Prof. Mythily Ramaswamy JI Ramanujam Mathematical Not Jan 2015 Society, assigned onwards June 2015 Boundary Value Problems 1.014 onwards November Proceedings of Mathematical 0.24 2014 onwards Sciences 2. Prof. Vasudevamurthy A. S. Mathematics Student 0.05 1 year

3. Prof. Aravinda CS Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics in Negative Curvature Part of London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series. 4 Years 0.05 Geometry Groups & Dynamics. 8 Years (1) Hardy Ramanujan Journal, 1 Year (2) RMS Newsletter, (3) Mathematics Student. 4. Prof. Veerappa Gowda GD Indian Journal of Pure and 0.224 2014 onwards Applied Mathematics 5. Prof. Adimurthi Differential Equations and 0.822 Dynamical Systems 6. Prof. Sandeep K Indian Journal of Pure and 0.224 2016 onwards Applied Mathematics

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

Not Applicable

28. Student projects

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

60 % - In house projects

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

National Awards Awardee Name of the Award/Honour Year 1. Prof. K Sandeep B. M. Birla Science prize 2013 2. Dr. Imran H Biswas Young Scientist Award 2013 3. Prof. Adimurthi JC Bose Fellowship 2013 4. Prof. K Sandeep Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award 2015

Recognitions Recognition Name of Faculty Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Prof. P N Sirkanth Allahabad Prof. Adimurthi Prof.Mythily Ramaswamy Prof. Veerappa Gowda G D Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Prof. Adimurthi Delhi Prof. K. T. Joseph Prof. Veerappa Gowda GD Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore Prof. Adimurthi Prof. Mythily Ramaswamy Prof. Vanninathan M Prof. K.T.Joseph

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

On an average the Center conducts Conferences / Workshops / Seminars / Compact courses once in three months in a year at both national and international level. Important events are indicated below. Year Name Funding agency Faculty member 1. 2012 Advances in partial differential TIFR CAM Prof.Verrappa Gowda, Dr. equations Sandeep K 2. 2013 International Conference on TIFR CAM Prof. Verrappa Gowda GD, Conservation laws and Prof. Adimurthi applications Prof. Joseph KT Dr. Praveen C 3. 2015 Workshop on Control and TIFR CAM, Sreekar Vadlamani, Numerics for Fluid-Structure AIRBUS, IFCAM M. Vanninathan, Interaction Problems Mythily Ramaswamy, Venky Krishnan, Praveen Chandrashekar 4. 2015 Advanced Summer School on TIFR CAM Sreekar Vadlamani, Control and Numerics for Fluid- IFCAM, AIRBUS M. Vanninathan, Structure Interaction Problems Mythily Ramaswamy, Venky Krishnan, Praveen Chandrashekar

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31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

CAM follows the TIFR Code of Ethics. (Please refer Annexure B2-B)

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches. Name of Applications the Selected Joined Pass percentage* received Programme Male Female Male Female Male Female Ph.D. 795 2 - 1 0 100 $ I-Ph.D. 1968 61 10 35 5 77 $

$ No female students in these batches

33. Diversity of students

a) Geographical: Integrated- Ph.D. Ph.D. M.Phil. Students CAM *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 1 0 16 0 0 0 17 NRI students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign students 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 1 0 17 0 0 0 18

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b) Undergraduate Institute: Students from Ph.D. Int.-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Total Indian Universities 0 0 17 0 17 Premier science institutions † 1 0 0 0 1 Premier professional institutions # 0 0 0 0 0 Others* 0 0 0 0 0 Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0 Total 1 0 17 0 18

† 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. We do not have any students who appeared for these exams.

35. Student progression

In the past five years 20 students were awarded PhD degree among them,6 are already faculty members in leading institutions in India like IISER, IIM etc., two of them are inspire faculties at ISI and IISER and remaining are doing their post-doc in leading institutions in India and in abroad.

36. Diversity of staff

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

from TIFR : 4 29% TIFR from other institutions in India : 4 42% India from institutions Abroad: 6 Abroad 29% Total No 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

Not Applicable, since all the faculty members are PhDs while joining.

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to

a) Library

CAM has a library spread over 265.72 Sq Meter. It has about 10500 books, 6000 back volumes and 100 theses. It has 8 study tables with chairs, 6 sofa chairs, and 2 study desks. The library staff works from 9.30am to 6.00pm on working days. The academic community at CAM has 24/7 access to the library.

b) Internet facilities for staff and students

CAM has connectivity from Tata Telecommunications and Railtel through NKN.

c) Total number of class rooms

Three

d) Class rooms with ICT facility

All Class rooms have ICT facility.

e) Students’ laboratories

Computer Lab is available for Students. Being a centre for mathematics, there are no other laboratories.

f) Research laboratories

Not Applicable.

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

a) List of Ph.D. Students 1. Deep Ray 2. Indranil Chowdhury 3. Debabrata Karmakar 4. Rohit Kumar Mishra 5. Sombuddha Bhattacharya 6. Madhuresh 7. Manish Kumar Singh 8. Manmohan A 9. Arnab Roy 10. Arka Mallick 11. Neelabja Chatterjee 12. Abhishek Das 13. Neeraj Singh Bhauryal 14. Nilasis Chaudhuri 15. Saibal Khan 16. Saikatul Haque 17. Suman Kumar Sahoo 18. Ganesh Kiran Vaidya

b) Doctoral students from the host institution/university 1. Dr.Kaushik Bal 2. Dr. Shirshendu Chowdhury 3. Dr. Manas Ranjan Sahoo 4. Dr. Rishu Saxena 5. Dr. Binoy Ravindran 6. Dr. Eunkyung Ko 7. Dr. Gyula Csato 8. Dr. Anupam Pal Choudhury 9. Dr. Ananta Kumar Majee 10. Dr. Abhishek Sarkar 11. Dr. Denbanja Mitta 12. Dr. Debayan Maity

c) Doctoral students from other institutions/universities 1. Dr. Satyanarayana Engu (NBHM)

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2. Dr. Ravi Shankar (NBHM) 3. Dr. Rasmita Kar (NBHM) 4. Dr Ravi Prakash (NBHM) 5. Dr. Parantap Shukla – (Funded by his guide in France) 6. Dr. Saumya Bajpai (NBHM) 7. Dr. Prosenjit Roy (NBHM) 8. Dr. Sweta Tiwari (NBHM) 9. Dr. Shirshendu Chowdhury (NBHM) 10. Dr. Surabhi Pandey (NBHM)

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

ALL the students 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.

Not Applicable

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?

Faculty discusses during Faculty meeting and evaluate the curriculum and make appropriate changes depending on research needs. b. students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department utilize the feedback?

Students are asked to give the feedback in the Feedback form at the end of each semester. Feedback of students are used for assessing the performance of teachers and improving the quality of teaching.

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

Not Applicable

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10) Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction Professor Siddarth Professor at ETH, Zurich. One of the Leading experts in Mishra Hyperbolic Conservation laws

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

CAM organizes conferences, workshops, compact courses on various topics and students benefit from these programs.

45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes. • Class Room Lectures • Assignments • Personal Discussions

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

Faculty meetings are conducted at periodical intervals, during the meeting program objectives and learning outcomes are monitored.

47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities. Mathematics of Planet 2013 was organized by TIFR CAM and ICTS. Centre is organizing Visiting Students Research Program every year. Instructional Schools for students and teachers are conducted. Faculty visit Universities and Institutions to deliver lecture across the country.

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

In house symposia, Students seminars, colloquia, Special lectures from other disciplines

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

The mathematics programme at CAM has been earlier reviewed by the UGC in 2002 and 2010, along with other TIFR Centres.

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

Many important contributions were made in theory and numerics of partial differential equations (pde). In the theory of elliptic pde many path breaking results were obtained, to name a few the discovery of a counter example for a conjecture of Lin and Ni, discovery of sharp hardy inequalities, symmetry and bifurcation results and the discovery of hyperbolic symmetry for Hardy-Sobolev- Mazya equations.

For conservation laws with discontinuous flux a criteria was discovered to check the finiteness of the total variation of a solution. Complete solutions for exact and optimal control problems for convex conservation laws were obtained. An explicit formula for spherically symmetric solutions to the system of multidimensional zero-pressure gas dynamics was derived. An entropy condition was discovered for conservation laws with noise term in source and uniqueness result was established.

Significant controllability results for fluid solid coupling and null controllability results for compressible Navier-Stokes system were established.

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Entropy stable and kinetic energy preserving finite volume schemes are developed for compressible Euler equations. An efficient and novel numerical algorithm is developed for inversion of an integral transform arising in ultrasound imaging.

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

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Challenges

CAM has an exclusive CAM is working in a Endeavour to train the group of mathematicians campus which is not next generation of in the country, dealing sufficient for the group to teachers for IITs and with analysis, carry out its high quality IISERs, and research computation and research. personnel for Research applications of partial laboratories and IT differential equations for CAM does not have space Companies requiring more than three decades. or other infrastructure Mathematics for S & T. facilities to encourage the students in other extracurricular activities.

52. Future plans of the department

Apart from continuing research and training in our thrust areas of PDE with analysis and its numerics and applications, the centre is planning to explore its applications in emerging areas relevant to the country.

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International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

1. Name of the Department :

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)

2. Year of establishment :

2007

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

It is a TIFR Centre.

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.

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

There is a joint programme between ICTS and NCBS which involves active interaction between faculty members working in the areas of the interface between Physics and Biology. The programme also involves the participation of graduate students and postdocs and setting up of an experimental lab at ICTS. This programme is at an initial stage.

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

ICTS currently has a small faculty strength (16). In view of this we have an MOU with IISc Physics department, whereby students of ICTS can take courses offered at IISc. Faculty members at ICTS also participate in teaching courses at IISc.

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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

100% Semester system

Students at ICTS 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.

Programme Duration (years) Basic & Elective Project Total Core Credits Credits Credits Overall Coursework Credits

Ph.D 5 1.5 28 20 12 60

Int. Ph.D 6 2.5 48 20 32 100

The Academic Session is divided into two semesters: Autumn Semester (August – November) and Spring Semester (January - April). In addition students do projects during the summer break (May – July).

In each semester, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process consisting of

1. Assignments 2. Mid-semester Examination 3. End-semester Examination

Reading courses can be taken by students with any faculty member at ICTS. It is required that the course be graded through regular assignments or through two exams (mid-term and final) or a combination of these. Based on these a final mark and grade is be given.

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Projects can be done with any faculty member at ICTS. The student is graded based on

• a project report to be examined by the project guide • a seminar presentation to be examined by a two member committee.

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. Professor Emeritus 1 2. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 2 3. Professor (H)  1 4. Associate Professor (G) Assoc. Professor (G) 1 5. Reader (F)  9 6. Junior Faculty (non tenured position)  2 Total 16

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Deg* Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ Abhishek Dhar Ph.D. Professor H Statistical physics and 14 5 1. condensed matter physics Amit Apte Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Dynamical Systems and Data 9 1 2. Assimilation 3. Anupam Kundu Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Statistical physics 1 -- Avinash Dhar Ph.D. Senior High Energy Physics, String 32 -- 4. Professor I Theory Loganayagam R Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ String theory, Black hole 1 -- 5. physics and Quantum field theory Pallab Basu Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ String Theory, Statistical 3 1 6. Physics Parameswaran Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Gravitational-wave physics 3 1 7. Ajith and astrophysics 8. Rajesh Ph.D. Senior Theoretical Physics with a 14 4

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Gopakumar Professor I & focus on Quantum Field Director Theory and String Theory Rukmini Dey Ph.D. Associate Mathematical Physics and 15 2 9. Professor ‘G’ Geometry Samriddhi Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Turbulence, Non-equilibrium 1 -- 10. Sankar Ray Statistical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics Spenta R. Wadia Ph.D. Emeritus High Energy Physics, String 30 -- 11. Professor Theory, Quantum Gravity Subhro Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Condensed Matter physics: 1 -- 12. Bhattacharjee Strongly correlated systems. Suvrat Raju Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ String Theory and Quantum 3 -- 13. Gravity Vijay Kumar Ph.D. Reader ‘F’ Physical biology and soft 1 -- 14. Krishnamurthy condensed matter physics * 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

List of Associated Faculty Members 1. Swapna Mahapatra, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. 2. Badri Krishnan, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and Institute for Gravitational Physics of the Leibniz Universität Hannover 3. Shravan Hanasoge, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 4. Mark Hannam, Cardiff University, UK 5. Nivedita Deo, University of Delhi, India 6. Nisheeth Vishnoi, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL 7. Biman Nath, Raman Research Institute 8. Ravi Sheth, International Centre for Theoretical Physics and The University of Pennsylvania 9. Dileep Jatkar, Harish-Chandra Research Institute 10. Sumathi Rao, Harish-Chandra Research Institute 11. Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 12. Kavita Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research 13. K. G. Arun, Chennai Mathematical Institute 14. Sanjoy Mitter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15. Mythily Ramaswamy, TIFR-CAM & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 16. Mayank Mehta, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA 17. Tarun Souradeep, IUCAA, Pune & Adjunct faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore

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18. Madan Rao, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 19. Shiraz Minwalla, TIFR, Mumbai & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 20. Mukund Thattai, NCBS-TIFR & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 21. Kedar Damle, TIFR, Mumbai & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 22. Sidhartha Goyal, University of Toronto 23. Surjeet Rajendran, University of California, Berkeley, USA 24. Shivani Agarwal, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 25. Aninda Sinha, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 26. Diptiman Sen, Centre for High Energy Physics,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 27. Sandeep Krishna, National Centre for Biological Sciences 28. Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA 29. Zubin Jacob, University of Alberta 30. Manas Kulkarni, The City University of New York, USA 31. Abhijit Gadde, Institute for Advanced Study, USA 32. Subinoy Das, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 33. Sascha Husa, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain 34. Sayantani Bhattacharyya, IIT Kanpur 35. Karthik Gurumoorthy, Amazon Development Centre, Bangalore 36. Sanjib Sabhapandit, Raman Research Institute 37. Sreekar Vadlamani, TIFR-CAM & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 38. Sanjay Jain, Delhi University 39. Sandip Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai & Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 40. Shashi Thutupalli, Joint Faculty - NCBS and ICTS 41. Justin David, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visiting Scientist 1. Bala Iyer

Emeritus Professor 1. Spenta R Wadia

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. 10 15 0.67 2. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 6 15 0.4

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15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific Auxiliary Staff Technical Staff Administrative Staff Staff Sanctioned 7 0 2 (on loan) 0 Filled 5 0 2 (on loan) 0

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies

 Astrophysical Relativity  Complex Systems (Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Physical Biology, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence, Correlated Quantum Many-Body Physics)  Interdisciplinary Mathematics  String Theory and Quantum Gravity

National Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 1. Science and Gravitational-wave 15 2014- P Ajith Engineering astronomy using 2016 Research astrophysical black-hole Board binaries 2. Science and Ramanujan Fellowship 73 2013- Engineering 2018 Research Board 3. Science and Ramanujan Fellowship 73 2010- Suvrat Raju Engineering 2015 Research Board 4. Department INSPIRE Fellowship 35 2015- Sivaram of Science 2019 Ambikasaran

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& Technology 5. Science and J C Bose Fellowship 68 2011-16 Spenta R Engineering Wadia Research Board 6. Science and J C Bose Fellowship 68 2015- Rajesh Engineering 2020 Gopakumar Research Board

International Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 1. Indo-Israel Heat conduction in 27 2014- Abhishek Grant(Israeli extended 1-dim systems 2017, Dhar Science (with Yonatan Dubi, Ben Foundation- Gurion Univ., Israel) UGC Project) 2. Max- Max Planck Institute for ~ 45 2015- P Ajith Planck- Gravitational Physics 2018 Gesellschaft

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

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 – PTMS 3091 2012- All ICTS – ICTS Programmes 2017 faculty

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20. Research facility / centre with

National recognition: ICTS hosts a LIGO Tier-3 grid computing center. This is used by the pan-Indian group in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to analyze the data produced by the LIGO gravitational-wave observatories

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies None

22. Publications: Journal Publications Articles in Technical Web Book Books Mono ICTS (web of Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited graphs science) 2010- 44 - - - 1 - - 11 2011- 46 ------12 2012- 41 - - - 1 - - 13 2013- 45 ------14 2014- 34 - 1 - - - - 15 Total 210 - 1 - 2 - -

Publications 50 Book Chapters + Books Edited + 40 Monographs

30 Technical Reports

20 Journal 10

Number of Publications of Number Publications

0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Year

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Citation Index – range / average

 Total number of citations: 15328 (Source: Web of Science) • Number of citations per faculty: 958 h-index

 Range : 2-41

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

National Name of Date Faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member 1 Abhishek Dhar Workshop on Statistical Physics of Soft Matter, The Nov 2015 Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University Statphys VIII,S.N. Bose center, Kolkata Dec 2014

Sep-Oct NISER, Bhubaneshwar 2014

NESP-NLD Symposium, IACS, Kolkata Jan 2014

Calcutta University Dec 2013

S. N. Bose Centre, Kolkata Dec 2013

TIFR, Mumbai Sep 2013

Conference on “Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics” , Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Apr 2013 University of Delhi

TIFR, Mumbai Mar 2013

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Name of Date Faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member IIT ,Guwahati Feb 2013

78th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Nov 2012 Dehradun

Nehru college, Kanhangad May 2012

TIFR, Mumbai Mar 2012

TIFR-CAM, Bangalore Mar 2012

Mar-Apr 3rd RRI Statphys School, RRI, Bangalore 2012

6th International conference on unsolved problems Feb-2012 on noise and fluctuations, SINP, Kolkata

ICTS school on nonequilibrium physics, IISER, Kolkata Jan-2012

DST-SERC school on nonlinear dynamics, IISER, Pune Dec-2011

Concepts and challenges in astronomy and astrophysics, Sundarban Mahavidyalaya, Kakdwip, Nov-2011 West-Bengal 2. Amit Apte IIT BHU, Varanasi, India Apr-2015 Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Feb-2015 (IISER), Mohali

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Dec-2014 Bergen, Norway

Dynamic Days Asia-Pacific, IIT Madras and IMSc, Jul-2014 Chennai, India

Conference on Emerging Trends in Applied Feb-2014 Mathematics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, Nov-2013 India

INCOIS Hyderabad Oct-2013

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Name of Date Faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Sep-2013 Systems, Hyderabad, India

Intel India academic forum, Goa, India Sep-2013

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mar-2013 Mohali, India

Workshop on “Advanced dynamical core modeling for atmospheric and oceanic circulations,” NARL, Feb-2013 Gadanki, India

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai Oct-2011 India

Raman Research Institute, Bangalore India Apr-2011

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C- Feb-2011 DAC), Bangalore India 3 P Ajith XXVII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, Dec-2015 IIT Guwahati, India 8th International Conference on Gravitation and Dec-2015 Cosmology, IISER Mohali, India

Workshop on Statistical Applications to Cosmology Feb-2015 and Astrophysics, ISI Kolkata

Astronomical Society of India meeting, Pune, India Feb-2015

Saha Theory Workshop: Cosmology at the Interface, Jan-2015 Saha Institute, Kolkata, India

XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2014, Dec-2014 Guwahati, India

India-China Workshop on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Dec-2014 Bangalore

Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India Nov-2014

India-UK Frontiers of Science meeting (organized by the Royal Society, UK and the Department of Science Oct-2014 and Technology, India), Pune, India

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Name of Date Faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member Central University of Hyderabad, India Oct-2014

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute Feb-2014 of Fundamental Research, Pune, India

Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop 2013, Inter University Centre for Dec-2013 Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.

27th Meeting of the Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation, Hemwati Nandan Mar-2013 Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), India.

Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam , India Feb-2013 4. Pallab Basu IACS, Kolkata 2014 IACS, Kolkata -

IIT ,Guwahati - 5. Rajesh Indian Academy of Sciences Meeting, IISER-Pune Nov-2015 Gopakumar CMS College, Kottayam Oct-2015

TIFR-Mumbai Sep-2015

Chennai Mathematics Institute, Chennai Sep-2015

Discussion Meeting on String Theory, ICTS-TIFR, Feb-2015 Bangalore

Indian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, ISM Dec-2014 Dhanbad,

HRI, Allahabad Dec-2014

I. I. T. Kanpur Nov-2014

BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, Oct-2014

Asian Winter School, Puri Jan-2014

National String Meeting, IIT-Kharagpur Dec-2013

IIT-Kanpur Nov-2013

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Name of Date Faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member International Conference on Teichmller theory and interfaces with ergodic theory and group actions, Oct-2013 JNU, New Delhi

UGC Winter School on High Energy Physics, BHU, Feb-2013 Varanasi

Indian Strings Meeting 2012, Puri Dec-2012

New Trends in Field Theory, Benares Hindu Nov-2012 University, Varanasi

IRCMS meeting, Bose Institute, Kolkata, Nov-2012

Indian String School, Puri Oct-2012

Scattering Amplitudes, Gauge Theories and String Sep-2012 theories, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore

A. K. Raychaudhuri Memorial Lecture, IACS, Kolkata May-2012

National Strings Meeting, Delhi University, New Delhi Dec-2011

SINP, Kolkata Apr-2011

RKM Vivekananda University, Belur Mar-2011

IISER, Pune Feb-2011

BHU, Varanasi Feb-2011 6. Rukmini Dey T.I.F.R., Mumbai Dec-2014 HRI, Allahabad Dec-2014

IISc, Bangalore Jun-2014

RRI, Bangalore May-2014

IISc, Bangalore May-2014

Reva Institute, Bangalore Jun-2013

S.N. Bose Center, Kolkata May-2013

TIFR-CAM, Bangalore, Jun-2012

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Name of Date Faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member RRI , Bangalore Jun-2012

Lucknow University, Lucknow Feb-2012

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Jan-2012

Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Jan-2011 Bhubaneswar

Institute of Mathematics and Applications Jan-2011 7. Samriddhi JNCASR, Bangalore, India Oct-2015 Sankar Ray Interdisciplinary Programme (IDP) in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Aug-2015 India

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Aug-2015 Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

CompFlu - 2014, JNCASR, Bangalore, India Dec-2014

Soft-matter: Young Investigators Meet, Pondicherry, Dec-2014 India

Dynamic Days Asia Pacific 08, IIT Chennai and IMSc, Jul-2014 Chennai, India

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Jul-2014 Research, Bangalore, India

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Mar-2014

Soft-matter: Young Investigators Meet, Pondicherry, Jan-2014 India

TIFR – Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, Oct-2013 India

Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics 2013 (PNLD Jul-2013 2013) 8. Spenta R St Xavier’s College, Mumbai Feb-2015 Wadia IIT-Bombay Mar-2014

JNCASR, Bangalore Sep-2012

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Name of Date Faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member IISER Pune Feb-2011 9 Subhro SERC school on topological condensed matter in Dec-2015 Bhattacharjee SNBCS Kolkata. IMSc, Chennai Nov-2015 10. Suvrat Raju TIFR, Mumbai 2014-2015 Conference on quantum information processing and Feb-2015 applications, IISc, Bangalore

National Strings Meeting, Indian Institute of Dec-2013 Technology, Kharagpur

Quantum Information Processing and Applications, Dec-2013 HRI, Allahabad

Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad Jul-2013

Discussion Meeting on Holography, IISC, Bangalore Jan-2013

Indian Strings Meeting, International Conference, Dec-2012 Puri 11. Vijay Kumar Discussion meeting on "New Colloids" , Raman Jul-2015 Krishnamurthy Research Institute, Bangalore Mechanical Manipulations and Responses at the Scale of the Cell and Beyond, Raman Research Apr-2015 Institute, Bangalore 12. Avinash Dhar "The 8th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles Jan-2014 and Cosmology", Puri, India "Scientific discovery through intensive data Feb-2011 exploration", JNCASR, Bangalore 13. Sivaram IIT Madras Dec-2015 Ambikasaran TIFR CAM, Bangalore Dec-2015

IIT Madras Nov-2015

TIFR CAM, Bangalore Sep-15

IISc, Bangalore Sep-15

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International Name of Date faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member 1. Abhishek Dhar Workshop on “Frontiers in non-equilibrium physics”, Jul-2015 YITP, Kyoto LPTMS, Orsay Jun-2015

Workshop on “Progress in Nonequilibrium Statistical Jun-2015 Mechanics”, Nice

Rutgers Statistical Mechanics conference, Rutgers May-2015 University

Keio University, Japan Oct-2014

The 6th KIAS Conference on Statistical Physics - ”Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Complex Jul-2014 Systems”, KIAS Seoul, Korea

May-June GGI Florence 2014

International Workshop on Weak Chaos and Weak Feb-2014 Turbulence, MPIPKS, Dresden

IAS, Princeton Jan-2014

Rutgers University Jan-2014

First international conference on Phononics and Aug-Sep Thermal Energy Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, 2013 China

Physics Department, Xiamen University, China Aug-2013

University of Leuven, Belgium Jun-2013

Keio University, Japan Jan-2013

Workshop on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Mathematical Understanding and Numerical Nov-2012 Simulation, BIRS, Banff, Canada

ICTP, Trieste Oct-2012

Rutgers University, USA Oct-2011

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Name of Date faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member Tokyo University, Japan Oct-2011

Workshop on foundations and applications of non- Sep-2011 equilibrium statistical mechanics, Nordita, Stockholm

Workshop on Fourier Law, Field's Institute, Toronto, 4- Apr-2011 8 April, 2011. 2. Amit Apte Jun-Jul Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia 2013 Dynamics Days Europe, University of Exeter, UK Sep-2015

XIV Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Sep-2015 Phenomena (LAWNP), Cartagena, Colombia

University of Nice, France Sep-2015

International Conference on “Stochastic Systems and Applications,” Indian Institute of Sep-2014 Science, Bangalore, India

May-Jun University of Nice, Nice, France 2013

Oberwolfach meeting “Mathematical and Algorithmic Aspects of Atmosphere-Ocean Data Dec-2012 Assimilation,” Oberwolfach, Germany

Workshop on “Data assimilation: third workshop on numerical methods for solving the filtering problem and high order methods for saving parabolic PDEs,” Sep-2012 Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, Oxford, UK

Oct-Nov University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, USA 2011

Workshop on “Generalized Hamiltonian structure of differential equations and dissipative dynamical Jun-2011 systems,” University of Kent, UK

May-Jun Marquette University, Milwaukee USA 2011

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Name of Date faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto CA, USA Mar-2011 3. P Ajith Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Sep-2015 Hannover LIGO Scientific Collaboration Meeting, Budapest, Aug-Sep Hungary 2015

Astro-GR 2015 workshop, ICTP South American Aug-2015 Institute for Fundamental Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil

24th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School 2013 on Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Jan-2013 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 4. Pallab Basu Bangkok conference in String Theory 2014... YITP, Kyoto, Japan - 5. Rajesh Indo-Israeli String theory Meeting, Goa Dec-2015 Gopakumar IIT Kanpur, Batch Silver Jubilee Dec-2015

NTU, Singapore Nov-2015

ETH-Zurich Nov-2015

KIAS-YITP Workshop on String Theory, Seoul, Korea Sep-2015

National Taiwan University, Taipei. Jul-2015

AndyFest (60th Birthday of Andrew Strominger), Jul-2015 Harvard University

ICTP, Trieste Apr-2015

TWAS Prize Lecture, Muscat, Oman Oct-2014

Ascona, Switzerland Jul-2014

Strings 2014, Princeton Jun-2014

Neve Shalom, Israel May-2014

Fourth Wits Workshop on Gauge Theory, String theory and Integrability, Univ. Of Witwatersrand, Sep-2013 Johannesburg

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Name of Date faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Cape Town Sep-2013

Open questions in an Open Universe, Bogazici Aug-2013 University, Istanbul

Seventh Crete Regional Meeting on String Theory, Jun-2013 Kolympari, Greece

Conference on Higher Spin Theories, Galileo Galilei May-2013 Instt., Florence,

Second Solvay Workshop on Higher Spin Theories, Feb-2013 Solvay Institutes, Brussels

Bangkok Workshop on Gauge Theory, String Theory Jan-2013 and Gravity, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,

Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS), Kyoto University Oct-2012

Amsterdam workshop on String Theory, Univ. of Jul-2012 Amsterdam

Workshop on Strings, Branes and M-theory, Newton May-2012 Instt., Cambridge, UK

Newton Instt. Silver Jubilee Lecture, Dept. of Maths. May-2012 Durham University, UK

Workshop on Higher Spin Theory, Schrodinger Apr-2012 Institute, Vienna

Institute of Geometry and its Applications (IGA), Mar-2012 University of Adelaide

Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia Mar-2012

CERN, Geneva Feb-2012

XVII European Workshop on String Theory, Padua, Sep-2011 Italy

KIAS-YITP Workshop on String Theory, Holography Sep-2011 and Beyond, Seoul

Benasque workshop on String Theory, Benasque, Jul-2011

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Name of Date faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member Spain

Strings 2011, Stockholm, Sweden Jun-2011

Solvay Workshop on Gauge Theories, Strings and May-2011 Geometry, Brussels

Isfahan, Iran May-2011

Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, USA Apr-2011

ICTP Spring School theory on Superstring Theory, Mar-2011 ASICTP, Trieste 6. Samriddhi European Turbulence Conference 15 (ETC15), Delft, Aug-2015 Sankar Ray The Netherlands University of Rome Tor Vergatta, Rome, France May-2015

Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice, France May-2015

NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden Jun-2014

Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice, France Jun-2014

Dynamics of Particles in Flows, NORDITA, Stockholm, Jun-2014 Sweden

STATPHYS 25, International Conference on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Jul-2013 Applied Physics (IUPAP), Seoul, South Korea

Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Nice, France Jun-2013 7. Spenta R Institute of Basic Science, Seoul, S. Korea Jan-2014 Wadia Great Lakes Meeting, USA May-2013

Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK May-2012

Harvard University May 2013, May 2015 and July 2015

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Name of Date faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member Princeton University June 2014

Perimeter Institute July 2014

KITP Santa Barbara July 2015

CERN Geneva Oct 2014, Nov 2015

APCTP-S. Korea Oct 2014, Dec 2015

IAS at NTU, Singapore Jan 2016

Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem Feb 2016 8. Subhro MIT, USA Aug-2015 Bhattacharjee Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting Jul-2015 2015, Cosener’s House in Abingdon (near Oxford, UK) 9. Suvrat Raju IAS, Princeton 2014-2015 Brown University, Providence 2014-2015

Harvard University, United States 2014-2015

Columbia University, New York 2014-2015

Cornell University, New York 2014-2015

Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada 2014-2015

CERN Winter School Feb-2015

Autumn Symposium in String/ M Theory, Korea Sep-2014 Institute of Advanced Study, Seoul

International conference, the Kavli Institute of Aug-2013 Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA

McGill University, Canada Jul-2013

International Conference, Perimeter Institute, Jul-2013 Waterloo, Canada

Seventh Regional Meeting in String Theory, Jun-2013

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Name of Date faculty Place visited (MM/YYYY) member International Conference at Orthodox Academy of Crete, Greece

Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada May-2013

Simons Symposium, International Conference at Feb-2013 Virgin Islands

IAS, Princeton Nov-2012

University of Pennsylvania, United States Nov-2012

Harvard University, United States Oct-2012

Princeton University 2014

Aspen Center for Physics 2014 10 Vijay Kumar BIOTEC, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, May-2015 Krishnamurthy Germany Sivaram IAM Linear Algebra Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Oct-2015 11. Ambikasaran

26. Faculty serving in (a) National Committees Name Name of the conference Role Period of Service Abhishek Bangalore School on Statistical Co-organiser 2011-2015 Dhar Physics, at the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India Indian Statistical Physics Community Co-Organiser 2014 - 2016 Meeting at the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India Program on Non-equilibrium Co-organiser 2015 statistical physics at the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India Amit Apte Scientific discovery through intensive Co-convener 02-11 February data exploration,” Jawaharlal Nehru 2011 Center for Advanced Scientific

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Research, Bangalore, India “Monsoon school on mathematical Co-organiser 04-23 July 2011 and statistical foundations of data assimilation” and “International conference on data assimilation,” TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India “Mathematical Perspectives on Co-organiser 21-25 Clouds, Climate, and Tropical January 2013 Meteorology,” Ramanujan lectures by Andrew Majda and a discussion meeting at ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India “Advanced dynamical core modeling Co-organiser 18-23 February for 2013 atmospheric and oceanic circulations,” ICTS programme as part of MPE-2013 activities, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Gadanki, India “Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013: Co-organiser 22 Nov - 01 Mathematics for the billion” an Dec 2013 interactive exhibition at the (extended upto Visvesvaraya Industrial and first week of Technological Museum, Bangalore, Jan 2014) India “Nonlinear filtering and data Co-organiser 08-11 January assimilation,” A discussion meeting 2014 at ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India “Geometry of Mechanics and Control Part of 02-10 January Theory,” A workshop as part of the organizing 2014 National Mathematics Initiative committee thematic program “Integrable systems” at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India “Dynamic Days Asia-Pacific 08,” A Part of 21-24 July 2014 conference at Indian Institute of organizing Technology-Madras, Chennai, India committee “Summer Research Program on Co-organizer 23 May - 23 Dynamics of Complex Systems,” July, 2016 ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India

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P. Ajith The Future of Gravitational-Wave Co-organiser Monday 04 Astronomy, ICTS Bangalore Apr, 2016 - Friday 08 Apr, 2016, Rajesh HRI Workshop on Higher Spin Co-Organiser 2011-11-01 Gopakumar Theories and Holography, HRI ICTS Meeting on Random Matrix Co-Organiser Jan 2012 Theory and its Applications, ICTS, Bangalore Discussion Meeting on String Co-Organiser Jun 2012 Theory, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore Indo-UK Frontiers of Science (Royal Co-Chair 2014 Society, UK- DST, India Strings 2015, ICTS-TIFR Member, LOC 2015 ICTS Discussion Meeting on New Co-organiser Dec 2015 Questions in QFT from CMT. Mini-symposium on Gravitational Co-organiser Jul 2016 Waves, Indian Academy of Sciences, mid-year meeting Rukmini Dey Discussion meet on Analysis and Co-organiser Jan 20-Feb 1, Geometry I, 2011 HRI Discussion meet on Analysis and Co-organiser March 12-16, Geometry II, 2012. HRI Instructional School for Lecturers on Co-organiser Dec 16-28, Topology and Geometry, HRI, 2013 Symplectic and Contact Topology, Co-organiser Dec 1-12th, HRI 2014 Workshop on Geometry and Co-organiser 2-7th Nov, 2015 Topology, HRI Samriddhi Transport of Particles in Turbulent Co-Organiser October 2013 Sankar Ray Flows: Experimental, Computational and Theoretical Investigations, at the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India Indian Statistical Physics Community Co-Organiser 2014-2016 Meeting at the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India The Nonlinear Physics of Complex Organiser April 2015 Flows and Amorphous Solids and the

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associated Chandrasekhar Lectures at the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India Geodynamo Research (GDR) 2015 at Co-organiser June 2015 the ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India Soft-matter: Young Investigators Co-organiser December 2015 Meet in Pondicherry, India Subhro Discussion Meeting on new questions Co-organizer 28/12/2015 - Bhattacharjee in quantum Field Theory from 5/1/2016 Condensed Matter Theory, ICTS, Bangalore Vijay Kumar ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Organiser Dec 2015 Krishnamurthy Quantitative Systems Biology, ICTS Bangalore Discussion meeting on 'Information Organiser January 2016 Processing in Biological Systems', ICTS, Bangalore ICTS Turing Lectures by Prof Organiser January 2016 William Bialek, ICTS, Bangalore Suvrat Raju Chandrasekhar Lectures on Scattering Co-organizer Sep 2012 without Spacetime ICTS-TIFR Discussion Meeting on Co-organizer Sep 2013 the Information Paradox, Entanglement and Black Holes 8th Asian Winter School on Particles, Co-organizer Jan 2014 Strings and Cosmology, Puri HRI Workshop on the Black Hole Co-organizer Feb 2014 Information Paradox

Bangalore Area Discussion Meeting, Co-organizer Feb 2015 ICTS-TIFR Strings 2015 Local 2015 Organizing Committee

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(b) International Committees: Name of the Name of the Role on the Term of Faculty Committee Committee Service Member 1 Spenta R Annual Strings meetings Member 2005- Wadia Advisory Committee Asian Winter Schools on Strings, Member 2005- Particles and Cosmology Steering Committee APCTP, South Korea Member 2010- Science Council 2 Amit Apte Cogent Mathematics Member 2015- “Latin American Workshop on Part of 21-25 Nonlinear Phenomena,” Cartagena, organizing September Colombia committee 2015 “Climate Variability: from Data and Co-organizer 01-05 Models to Decisions,” Lorentz December Center, Leiden, Netherlands 2014 3 Rajesh Strings 2016 (Tsinghua Member 2016- Gopakumar University, Beijing) - the annual Advisory conference in string theory Committee

Strings 2016, Beijing Member, Local 2016 Advisory Committee String-Math 2016 (College de Member 2016- France, Paris) Advisory Committee ICTP Spring School on String Co-Director 2014- Theory 2016 Scientific Director of ICTP-Trieste Co-organizer 2014- Spring School on String theory 2016 (2014-16) Strings 2014, Princeton Member, 2014 International Advisory committee GR20, Warsaw Session 2013 Organiser (String Theory and Branes)

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Name of the Name of the Role on the Term of Faculty Committee Committee Service Member 4 Abhishek Advanced Workshop on Energy Co-organizer 2012 Dhar Transport in Low-Dimensional Systems: Achievements and mysteries, ICTP, Trieste, Italy 5. Suvrat Raju Asian Winter School on Strings Member, 2106 2016 Program Committee

(c) Editorial Boards: Name of the Name of the Journal Impact Term of Faculty Factor Service Member 1 Abhishek Journal of Statistical Physics 1.202 2009- Dhar Pramana 0.649 2011- 2 Spenta R Asian Journal of Mathematics 0.362 2015- Wadia European Journal of Physics C 5.084 2012-15 3 Amit Apte Nonlinear processes in geophysics 0.987 2015- (http://www.nonlinear-processes-in- geophysics.net/editorial_board.html) 4 Rajesh Physical Review Letters (Divisional 7.512 2014- Gopakumar Associate Editor in charge of formal 2016 theory) published by the American Physical Society

27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops, training programs and similar programs). ICTS organises many international programmes that are attended by worldwide experts. Participation in these programmes gives faculty members 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 faculty members. Some of our senior faculty members are invited as instructors in the faculty recharge programmes conducted across the country.

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28. Student projects

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

All students do in-house projects as part of their course-work.

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

None

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

 Faculty Members: Year/ Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Duration 1. P. Ajith Head of the Max Planck Partner Group in 2015- Astrophysical Relativity and Gravitational- 2018 Wave Astronomy at ICTS-TIFR (2015-2018). Associateship of the Indian Academy of 2014- Sciences (2014-2017). 2017

Ramanujan Fellowship from the 2013- Department of Science and Technology, 2018 Govt. Of India (2013-2018). 2. Spenta R Wadia J. C. Bose National Fellow, Dept of Science 2015- and Technology, Govt of India 2006-2011; 2020 2011- AIRBUS Corporate Foundation Teaching 2013- and Research Chair: ”Mathematics of Com- 2016 plex Systems”, at ICTS-TIFR, 2013-2016

Raja Ramanna Lecture in Physics, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced 2011 Scientific Research, Bangalore, 2011

TWAS Physics Prize 2004

ICTP Prize in honor of Steven Weinberg 1995

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Year/ Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Duration Distinguished Alumnus St Xavier's College, 2009 Mumbai

Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences 1992

Fellow Indian National Science Academy 1997

Fellow New York Academy of Sciences 1997

Fellow TWAS 2006

Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, elected Allahabad, India 2000 3. Rajesh Gopakumar J. C. Bose Fellowship of Department of 2015- Science and Technology, Govt. of India 2020 (2015-2020). Elected Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Allahabad, Oct. 2014 2014.

G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research, 2013 2013.

TWAS Prize in Physical Sciences, 2013. 2013

S. S. Bhatnagar Award in Physical Sciences, 2009 2009.

ICTP Prize for 2006 (in honor of G.C. Wick) awarded by Abdus Salam International 2006 Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.

Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2006, of Dept. of 2006 Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

B. M. Birla Science Prize in Physics, 2004. 2004 4. Sivaram Ambikasaran INSPIRE Fellowship by the Department of 2015- Science and Technology, Government of 2019 India. 5. Suvrat Raju Ramanujan Fellowship from Science and 2010- Engineering Research Board 2015

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Year/ Name of the Awardee Name of the Award Duration Cowsik Medal from TIFR Endowment Fund 2015

INSA Young Scientist Medal 2013

NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee 2013 Award

6. Abhishek Dhar Swarnajayanti Fellowship from 2010 - Department of Science & Technology 2014 S.S. Bhatnagar prize in Physical Sciences 2009 ICTP Prize 2008 Ramanujan Fellowship 2008 B M Birla science prize award 2004 Fellow of IAS 2005- 7. Vijay Kumar DBT Ramalingaswami re-entry fellowship 2015 Krishnamurthy 8. Loganayagam 2016- Ramanujan Fellowship from DST 2021

 Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others: Name of the Year/ Name of the Award Awardee Duration 1. Sajini Anand NBHM Fellowship from the Department of May-15 Atomic Energy 2. Sk. Sarif Hassan NBHM Fellowship from the Department of Jul-13 Atomic Energy

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national

/ international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.

ICTS organizes many long-duration programmes and short-duration discussion meetings throughout the year that bring together worldwide experts from various fields who interact and collaborate. With a few exceptions all programmes are funded by DAE. Details are below:

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Long-duration Programmes:

2015  Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2015 Organizers: Antonio Celani, Sanjay Jain, Sandeep Krishna, Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy, Pankaj Mehta and Matthew Scott  Algebraic Surfaces and Related Topics Organizers: Mario Chan, Jinwon Choi, R.V. Gurjar, DongSeon Hwang, JongHae Keum, Sagar Kolte and Ravi Rao  Non-equilibrium statistical physics Organizers: Cedric Bernardin, Abhishek Dhar, Joel Lebowitz, Stefano Olla, Sanjib Sabhapandit, Keiji Saito and Herbert Spohn  Extragalactic Relativistic Jets: Cause and Effect Organizers: C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, Ajit Kembhavi, Preeti Kharb (Convener), Dharam Vir Lal, Anthony Readhead and C. S. Stalin  Bangalore school on statistical Physics - VI Organizers: Abhishek Dhar, Sanjib Sabhapandit  Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Organizers: Parameswaran Ajith, K. G. Arun and Bala Iyer  Advanced Strings School 2015 Organizers: Justin David, Chethan Krishnan and Gautam Mandal  GdR Dynamo 2015 Organizers: Emmanuel Dormy, Stephan Fauve, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Binod Sreenivasan and Mahendra Verma  Mechanical manipulations and responses at the scale of the cell and beyond Organizers: Aurnab Ghose, Darius Koester, Roop Mallik, Satyajit Mayor, Thomas Pucadyil and Pramod Pullarkat

2014  School & Discussion Meeting on Frontiers in Light-Matter Interactions Organizers: Bhanu Pratap Das, Bimalendu Deb, Subhasish Dutta Gupta, Saikat Ghosh and Deb Shankar Ray  Advances in Mathematical Biology Organizers: Pranay Goel, Sujatha Ramdorai and LS Shashidhara  ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology Organizers: V. Balasubramanian, A. Celani, N. Chandra, S. Jain, M. Marsili, A. Sengupta, M. Thattai, A. Treves and M. Vendruscolo

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 Advanced School and Discussion meeting on Symplectic Geometry and Contact Topology Organizers: Indranil Biswas, Rukmini Dey, Yakov Eliashberg, Rajesh Gopakumar, Mahan Mj and R. Thangadurai (Local)  Masterclass in nanoscale physics and devices Organizers: Mandar Deshmukh, Murali Kota  Advanced Instructional School on Theoretical and Numerical Aspects of Inverse Problems Organizers: Venkateswaran Krishnan, Rakesh Rakesh and M Vanninathan  p-adic aspects of modular forms Organizers: Raghuram A, Baskar Balasubramanyam, Haruzo Hida and Jacques Tilouine  Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - V Organizers: Abhishek Dhar, Sanjib Sabhapandit  Automorphisms of Affine Varieties Organizers: Rajendra Gurjar, A.J. Parameswaran  School and Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and Evolution Organizers: Deepa Agashe, Kavita Jain  The 8th Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology Organizers: Dileep Jatkar, Nakwoo Kim, Swapna Mahapatra, Anshuman Maharana, Subhabrata Majumdar, Jaemo Park, Suvrat Raju and Sandip Trivedi  Strongly correlated systems: From models to materials Organizers: Kedar Damle, Indra Dasgupta, Manish Jain, H R Krishnamurthy, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta and N.S. Vidhyadhiraja

2013  ICTS Winter School on Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics Organizers: Rana Adhikari, Parameswaran Ajith, Bala Iyer, Sendhil Raja S and Tarun Souradeep  Advanced school and Discussion meeting on Knot theory and its applications Organizers: Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, Rama Mishra and Madeti Prabhakar  ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology Organizers: Vijay Balasubramanian, Nagasuma Chandra, Sidhartha Goyal, Sanjay Jain, Matteo Marsili, Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Anirvan Sengupta, Mukund Thattai and Michele Vendruscolo  US-India Advanced Studies Institute on Thermalization: From Glasses to Black Holes Organizers: Aparna Baskaran, Bulbul Chakraborty, Chandan Dasgupta, Matthew Headrick, Albion Lawrence, Gautam Mandal, Sanjib Sabhapandit and Krishnendu Sengupta  Numerical Relativity

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Organizers: P. Ajith, K. G. Arun, Bala Iyer and Luis Lehner  NCBS-ICTS Monsoon School: Physics of Life Organizers: Sandeep Krishna, Mukund Thattai and Madhusudhan Venkadesan  Mechanical manipulations and responses at the scale of the cell and beyond Organizers: Darius Koester, Satyajit Mayor, John Mercer, Madan Rao and GV Shivashankar  Advanced Dynamical Core Modeling for Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulations Organizers: Amit Apte, A Jayaraman, Hann-Ming Juang, Amit Kesarkar, Ramchandra D Nair, Purnendranath Sen and Mahendra Verma  CP Violation in Elementary Particles and Composite Systems Organizers: B. P. Das, A. Dighe, S. Lamoreaux, N. Mahajan, R. Rangarajan, Bijaya Sahoo, Y. Sakemi, A. I. Sanda and A. D. Singh  Axonal Transport and Neurodgenerative Disorders Organizers: Roop Mallik, Dulal Panda, Krishanu Ray and Subhojit Roy  Mini Winter School on Quantum Information and Computation Organizers: Urbasi Sinha, Aninda Sinha

2012  Recent Trends in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Organizers: Tarun Das, Ravi Rao  Mini Program on Dirac Material and Quantum Computation Organizers: Arindam Ghosh, Krishnendu Sengupta  Astronomical Surveys Organizers: Sudip Bhattacharyya, Subha Majumdar and Bhaswati Mookerjea  Groups, Geometry and Dynamics (GGD) Organizers: Hoshiyar Dhami, Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, Sanjay Pant and Siddhartha Sarkar  Winter School on Stochastic Analysis and Control of Fluid Flow Organizers: Sheetal Dharmatti, Raju K. George, Utpal Manna, A.K. Nandakumaran and M.P. Rajan  Mathematics of the Planet Earth 2013 Organizers: ICTS - TIFR, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics  Pan Asian Number Theory Workshop and Conference Organizers: J. Coates, Soumen Maity , A. Raghuram, Anupam Saikia and R. Sujatha  Individuals and Groups Organizers: Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Lok Man Singh Palni  Evolutionary Origins of Compartmentalized Cells Organizers: Frances Brodsky, Satyajit Mayor and Mukund Thattai  'Unifying Concepts in Materials': JA Krumhansl School & Symposium 2012

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Organizers: Madan Rao, Srikanth Sastry, Surajit Sengupta and Subodh R. Shenoy  Random matrix theory and applications Organizers: Justin David, Abhishek Dhar, Rajesh Gopakumar, H. R. Krishnamurthy, Manjunath Krishnapur, Satya Majumdar, Govind Menon and Sanjib Sabhapandit  School on Mathematical Finance Organizers: Freddy Delbaen, Srikanth K. Iyer, Sandeep Juneja and Ronnie Sircar  School and Workshop on Cocompact Imbeddings, Profile Decompositions, and their Applications to PDE Organizers: Adimurthi , K. Sandeep, Ian Schindler and Kyril Tintarev  Network Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Organizers: V. Anantharam, Vivek Borkar, Devdatt Dubhashi , Anurag Kumar, Madhav Marathe, G. Rangarajan and Devavrat Shah  Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology XII Organizers: Amol Dighe, Rohini M Godbole and Sreerup Raychaudhuri

2011  International Nonequilibrium Winter School Organizers: Sushanta Dattagupta, Yuval Gefen, Amit Ghosal, Ganpathy Murthy, Sanjay Puri, Sriram Ramaswamy, Krishnendu Sengupta, Nayana Shah and Subhasish Sinha  The ICTS Condensed Matter Programme 2011 Organizers: Ravin Bhatt, Kedar Damle, H.R. Krishnamurthy, Subroto Mukerjee, Mohit Randeria, Vikram Tripathi and N.S. Vidhyadhiraja  Frontiers of Cosmology and Gravitation Organizers: Subhabrata Majumdar, B.S. Sathyaprakash, Tejinder Pal Singh and Tarun Souradeep  Advances in Nuclear Physics (ANUP) Organizers: V. Nanal, R. Palit and R.G. Pillay  Radiative Corrections for the LHC: 2. Radcor 2011 Symposium Organizers: Rahul Basu, D. Indumathi, Prakash Mathews, Andreas Nyffeler and V. Ravindran  Data Assimilation Research Program Organizers: Amit Apte, S. M. Deshpande, Christopher K. R. Jones, A. S. V. Murthy, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, Roddam Narasimha, Mythily Ramaswamy and J. Srinivasan  International School on Topology in Quantum Matter Organizers: J. K. Jain, H. R. Krishnamurthy, R. Shankar and V. Shenoy  Radiative Corrections for the LHC: 1. Advanced School

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Organizers: Rahul Basu, Prakash Mathews, Andreas Nyffeler and V. Ravindran  Asian School on Lattice Field Theory Organizers: Sourendu Gupta, Kazuyuki Kanaya  Scientific discovery through intensive data exploration Organizers: Amit Apte, Vivek Borkar, Vijay Chandru, Ravi Kannan, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, Roddam Narasimha and J. Srinivasan

Discussion Meetings

2015  New questions in quantum field theory from condensed matter theory Organizers: Subhro Bhattacharjee, Rajesh Gopakumar, Subroto Mukerjee and Aninda Sinha  AEI-ICTS joint workshop on gravitational-wave astronomy Organizers: Parameswaran Ajith, Bala Iyer and Bruce Allen  Nonlinear Physics of Disordered Systems: From Amorphous Solids to Complex Flows Organizers: Samriddhi Sankar Ray  Bangalore Area String Meeting Organizers: Suvrat Raju  Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting 2015 Organizers: Abhishek Dhar, Kavita Jain, Rahul Pandit, Samriddhi Sankar Ray and Sanjib Sabhapandit  Quantum entanglement in macroscopic matter Organizers: Kedar Damle, Subroto Mukerjee

2014  Entanglement from Gravity Organizers: Aninda Sinha  Cosmology Day Organizers: Subhabrata Majumdar, Spenta Wadia  Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting 2014 Organizers: Kavita Jain, Rahul Pandit, Samriddhi Sankar Ray and Sanjib Sabhapandit  Nonlinear filtering and data assimilation Organizers: Amit Apte, Christopher Jones and Sreekar Vadlamani

2013  Transport of Particles in Turbulent Flows: Experimental, Computational and Theoretical Investigations Organizers: Jeremie Bec, Rahul Pandit and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

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 The Information Paradox, Entanglement and Black Holes Organizers: Pallab Basu, Suvrat Raju and Spenta Wadia  Challenges in Genomics and Computing: An Inaugural UIUC--Strand--ICTS-TIFR CompGen Discussion Meeting Organizers: Vijay Chandru, Ravi K. Iyer, Gene Robinson, R.K. Shyamasundar and Spenta Wadia  PLANCK DAY Organizers: Parameswaran Ajith, Archisman Ghosh  Mathematical Perspectives on Clouds, Climate, and Tropical Meteorology Organizers: Amit Apte, G. S. Bhat, Andrew Majda, Ravi Nanjundiah, Roddam Narasimha, K. R. Sreenivasan, J. Srinivasan and Jai Sukhatme  Discussion Meeting : String Theory Organizers: Shiraz Minwalla, Sandip Trivedi

2012  Discussion Meeting : Advances in Graphene, Majorana Fermions, Quantum Computation Organizers: Arindam Ghosh, Krishnendu Sengupta  The Role of Theory in Biology with Prof. Sydney Brenner Organizers: Mukund Thattai, Spenta Wadia  Discussion Meeting: Scattering without Space Time Organizers: Sujay Ashok, Suvrat Raju and Aninda Sinha  Emerging themes in Plasmonics Organizers: G. S. Agarwal, Jyotishman Dasgupta, S. Dutta Gupta, P. Anantha Lakshmi, Sushil Mujumdar, S. S. Prabhu, Suneel Singh and Achanta Venu Gopal  Discussion Meeting on String Theory Organizers: Justin David, Rajesh Gopakumar and Shiraz Minwalla  Meeting on Complex Analytic Geometry Organizers: Indranil Biswas, A.J. Parameswaran  The Phase diagram of QCD (A Satellite Meeting of the ICTS Program WHEPP XII) Organizers: Sourendu Gupta, Bedangadas Mohanti

2011  Defining guidelines for future extreme simulations of three-dimensional fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Organizers: Jaywant H Arakeri, Rahul Pandit  Aspects of Biology Organizers: Spenta R. Wadia  Future of Past Organizers: Mark Kenoyer, Vasant Shinde and Mayank Vahia  Applied String Theory

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Organizers: Gautam Mandal, Shiraz Minwalla and Sandip Trivedi  Impact of Quantum Effects on our Classical World View Organizers: K. Indulekha, E. D. Jemmis and N. V. Unnikrishnan

In addition ICTS has also conducted 47 public lectures.

Seminars and Colloquia - https://www.icts.res.in/seminar_schedule/1/

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

ICTS follows the TIFR code of ethics.

32. Student profile programme-wise: Selected Pass percentage Applications Programme received Male Female Male Female

Ph.D. 178 # 10 0 100 --

Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 114 # 6 0 100 --

# The Ph.D. programme started in 2013 and the Integrated M.Sc-Ph.D. programme started in 2014. Only the top scoring students at the TIFR written test and JEST are allowed to apply.

33. Diversity of students

Based on geography: Integrated- Ph.D. Students Ph.D. Total Male Female Male Female From the state where the 0 0 0 0 0 university is located From other states of India 10 0 6 0 16

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NRI students — — — — — Foreign students — — — — — Total 10 0 6 0 16

Based on the undergraduate institutions students come from: Integrated Ph.D. M.Sc.-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Total From Universities 3 0 1 0 4 From premier science institutions † 3 0 1 0 4 From premier professional institutions # 4 0 3 0 7 From others* 0 0 1 0 1 Foreign Universities 0 0 0 0 0 Total 10 0 6 0 16

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

# IITs, NITs, etc.

35. Student progression

All the students joined since the beginning of the academic programme are still continuing their work towards a Ph.D. degree.

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36. Diversity of staff

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

from TIFR : 4 25% TIFR

from other institutions in India : 4 50% India

from institutions Abroad: 8 25% Abroad

Total No 16

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

The library is still under construction. Right now we have a makeshift library with a total of 227 books in theoretical sciences.

b. Internet facilities for staff and students

The ICTS campus is fully wifi enabled. We have access to online journals through TIFR, Mumbai.

c. Total number of class rooms

We have a 30 seater classroom which has a blackboard and projection facilities with wifi connection

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d. Class rooms with ICT facility

Audio-visual/video-conferencing equipment are placed in the ICTS's lecture hall (100 PAX) and seminar hall (50 PAX). These classrooms give the ability to scientists of other premiere institutes of the country to have interactions /e- meetings with ICTS faculty and visitors over Video Conferring facility. Students and scientists from other institutes are able to attend lectures organized as a part of the Outreach programme (live telecasting).

e. Students’ laboratories

ICTS has a small lab which houses around 15 Masters level experiments. There is an on-going effort to design and develop innovative experiments for graduate students

f. Research laboratories

A lab for doing experiments in fluid dynamics and non-linear dynamics is under development.

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

Students (Ph.D) - 16  Abhirup Ghosh (Ph.D)  Kasi Jaswin (Ph.D)  Archak Purkayastha (Ph.D)  Arita Kundu (Ph.D)  Soumyadeep Chaudhuri (Ph.D)  Ajit Kumar Mehta (Ph.D)  Mukesh Singh Raghav (I-Ph.D)  Anugu Sumith Reddy (I-Ph.D)  Chandan Kumar Jana (I-Ph.D)  Rahul Kumar Singh (I-Ph.D)  Rajeev Ranjan (I-Ph.D)  Santhosh Ganapa (I-Ph.D)  Sudip Ghosh  Animesh Nanda (Ph.D)  Avijit Das (Ph.D)  Pushkal Shrivastava (Ph.D)

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Postdoctoral Fellows - 15  Abhiram Soori  Amin Ahmad Nizami  Archisman Ghosh  Arunava Mukherjee  Chandrakant Mishra  Debajit Goswami  Deepak Bhat  Divya V  Nathan Johnson-McDaniel  Prithvi Narayan  Sajini Anand P S  Sambuddha Sanyal  Suman Acharyya  Sumit Kumar  Vijay Prakash S

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

All our students are either Ph.D or I-Ph.D and are supported by the university.

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

ICTS members were involved, through the respective Subject Boards, in developing the Ph.D. and Integrated M.Sc-Ph.D. programme in Physics, as well as the Ph.D. programme in Maths and tuning it to the strengths and needs of ICTS, with the approval of the Subject Boards.

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 curriculum, student progression and evaluation is discussed regularly by the graduate committee and also in the general faculty meetings. The

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feedback from these discussions are used to implement changes in the curriculum and students evaluation.

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

Presently the coordinator of the student’s affairs committee informally collects information from students on course work. We plan to start a formal anonymous feedback process from the next academic year.

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

Currently no such feedback is collected.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10) Name of the Alumnus Reason for Distinction 1. Manjari Bagchi Faculty, IMSc, Chennai Machine Learning Scientist , Amazon Development 2. Karthik Gurumoorthy Centre, Bangalore Faculty, University of Petroleum and Energy 3. Sk. Sarif Hassan Studies, Dehradun Faculty, IIT, Indore 4. Prasant Samantray

5. Tapan Mishra Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

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

• ICTS has so far conducted 58 programmes and 28 discussion meetings. These programmes have brought leading scientists from all over the world leading to immense opportunities for scientific interaction and collaboration. These programmes typically a school component where experts give set of pedagogical lectures in topical areas at the level of MSc and graduate students. All lectures

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delivered during ICTS programmes are also available on its website and on YouTube. ( See https://www.icts.res.in/seminar_schedule/1/) • ICTS is the India node for “Mathematics of Planet Earth”, a global initiative for mathematics programs and outreach. As part of this program, ICTS, in collaboration with other scientific institutes in Bangalore, organized a hands-on math exhibition in Bangalore that saw over 32,000 visitors in a span of 10 days, in Nov-Dec 2013, at the Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, Kasturba Road, Bangalore (https://www.icts.res.in/additional_page/614/) • ICTS organizes talks by scientists in schools and colleges. • ICTS and Observer Research Foundation organized a conclave on science education in Bangalore. The objective was to identify some important reforms that need to be brought in science and engineering education.

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

Mostly, classes consist of blackboard lectures. Numerical courses use projection based methods with direct interfacing to computers. There is an effort at developing innovative experiments in the MSc lab at ICTS.

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

Courses are evaluated through exams. Students have to pass a comprehensive exam before registering for Ph.D. In addition, students who have registered for Ph.D have an annual assessment where their research progress is evaluated.

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

The faculty at ICTS are involved in the organization of many of the programmes and public lectures held at ICTS. The details of these activities are provided under question 30. Students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members regularly participate in organizing science day activities at ICTS, during which popular expositions of science are exhibited.

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

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part of our activity. The faculty, PDFs and Ph.D. students are continuously engaged in research, and the quality of their work is reflected in the publication record of the institute. Students, PDF and faculty give lectures frequently in various national and international fora. There are conferences, schools, and discussion meetings running at ICTS throughout the year, and many distinguished scientists from India and abroad participate in these. This allows the ICTS students to interact with the leading scholars in their discipline.

ICTS also encourages students from other Universities and Institutes to carry out their MSc project at ICTS. In the last two years, about 10 students from IISc, BITS, IISERs, HRI, University of Manchester and Intel have completed their M.Sc. projects at ICTS.

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

ICTS is a new institution and its programmes have not been separately accredited, apart from the various Subject Boards of TIFR.

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

 Research at ICTS focuses on the areas of astrophysical relativity: complex systems (including Statistical Physics, Physical Biology, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence, and Condensed Matter Physics): Interdisciplinary mathematics: String Theory and Quantum Gravity. Around 30-40 research papers are published each year by scientists at ICTS in leading journals in these areas. Some significant contributions in the last few years are:

 Astrophysical relativity: The group made direct contributions to contributing to the recent discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO. In particular, the group developed and implemented a test of general relativity based on the consistency of the inspiral, merger and ringdown in an observed binary black-hole coalescence. This was one of the five tests used to establish the consistency of the observed signal with a binary black hole merger predicted by general relativity. Additional direct contributions include the inference of the mass and

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spin of the remnant black hole, and the radiated energy and peak luminosity of the merger event. The group members' past contributions in the theoretical source modeling, and in the construction of "template banks" have aided the discovery.

 Complex systems: Large scale simulations with up to a billion particles embedded in a turbulent fluid were performed towards understanding the process of droplet formation in clouds. Numerical tests were performed to provide the first detailed numerical verification of the predictions of a recent theory of thermal transport in low-dimensional solids. The important issue of how the effect of interactions in symmetry protected topological phases was investigated to show how these phases can arise in concrete lattice systems of condensed matter. Models of biochemical networks and active processes were used to obtain an understanding of pattern formation (e.g embryonic development) in biological systems. A statistical physics "random-resetting" model was studied in the context of developing improved search algorithms.

 Interdisciplinary mathematics: Two major results were the concentration of filtering distribution on the unstable subspace of the dynamical system, and the consistency of the Bayesian general linear ill-posed inverse problem in infinite dimensions along with the contraction rates for the posterior distributions. The Uniform Transform Method was extended to accommodate PDE interface problems involving fourth order mixed derivatives. Work on algebraic models of local hypersurfaces and interpolation of curves by constant mean curvature surfaces was carried out. Significant contributions were made in the mathematical understanding of water-waves, in particular, through data from experiments.

 The string theory group at ICTS-TIFR works both on pure aspects of quantum gravity, and applied aspects of string theory. A promising approach to quantum gravity is to prove the equivalence of a specific model of quantum gravity to an ordinary quantum field theory, and members of the group have been involved in formulating new examples of such dualities. They have also used such dualities to understand new effects in fluid dynamics and thermalization, by using

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techniques from an entirely different area of physics --- gravitation. Other members of the group have recently developed exact results for quantities, called scattering amplitudes, in a specific quantum field theory called a Chern-Simons matter theory. The group at ICTS-TIFR also works on the information paradox, and its members have been involved in articulating some new resolutions to the paradox that also shed light on fundamental non-locality in quantum gravity.

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

Strengths

1. ICTS has been able to attract very good young scientists as its faculty in niche areas of theoretical sciences. In addition ICTS has a large number of associates from around the country and abroad who spend some time (from a week to a month) at ICTS. 2. ICTS has in a very short time emerged as one of the most important centers in the world for scientific programmes with a core teaching component, public engagement and outreach, and cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields. 3. The graduate studies programme and the extensive post-doctoral programme of the ICTS has attracted excellent young scientists who have enriched the in-house research programme and in-turn benefitted enormously from the visitor-driven nature of this Center. 4. The proximity to several research institutes, including RRI, NCBS, JNCASR, and IISc, has yielded fruitful collaborations, teaching exchanges, and pooling of expertise. 5. World-class infrastructure, such as housing, office space, and a dedicated and efficient administrative staff, ensures a vibrant center for research and collaboration.

Weaknesses 1. The limit on the number of faculty (hence the number of students) and administrative staff that we can hire limits the scope and breadth of our in- house teaching and research programme. 2. Space constraints, especially hostel facilities for students and post-doctoral

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fellows. 3. Not enough women students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members. 4. The distance of the campus from the city center poses challenges in terms of safe, easy and affordable commute from the city. 5. At present, sub-optimal laboratory facilities for graduate studies; hence an over-reliance on other institutes such as IISc for this purpose. This in turn puts a small burden on our colleagues in such institutes.

Opportunities

1. The scientific staff, especially the students and post-doctoral fellows, at ICTS have a tremendous advantage over other institutes, in their exposure to leading scientists from across the world who come and spend long periods of time here (as part of our programmes, schools, and discussion meetings). 2. A vibrant local scientific culture with shared, and diverse, resources between institutes such as IISc, RRI, JNCASR, and NCBS provides a stimulating environment for collaborations across disciplines. 3. The Junior Faculty Programme (5 year non-tenured positions) is a great initiative to encourage young and bright scientists to start early on an independent research career. 4. A strong post-doctoral programme, with attractive packages, attracts excellent young scientists not only from India but abroad. 5. The outreach programme and public lectures are excellent opportunities for us at ICTS to interact with very young students from schools and colleges and inspire the next generation of scientists.

Challenges: 1. To become the premier theoretical science center not only in India but in the world. 2. To develop a fully functional laboratory to cater to the needs of a full-fledged graduate studies programme. 3. Expand the computational resources of the Center. 4. To attract and encourage more women to take up research as a career. 5. To increase housing and hostel space.

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52. Future plans of the department

1. We are starting (from the coming academic year) the maths program and increasing the intake of physics students as our faculty grow. 2. In the coming years we plan to diversify the areas of theoretical sciences we are going to cover so as to include computer science, different areas of mathematics apart from theoretical physics itself. 3. We plan to establish a final year research program for the best undergraduate students in the country to work on a research project with our faculty which will also expose them to advanced graduate courses. 4. We also plan to expand our outreach activities: public lectures by eminent scientists, providing an archive (youtube channel) of all our talks and programs, and in the future, programmes on science education for school/college teachers etc.

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TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences

1. Name of the Centre :

TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS)

2. Year of establishment :

2010

AEC approved for establishment of TIFR-H in July 2010 & TCIS, a part of TIFR-H started its academic activities from Dec 2011.

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

TCIS is an off-campus Centre of TIFR.

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.

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

Although the students fulfill their course requirements under any one of the subject boards mentioned below, they can take up any interdisciplinary subject for their Ph.D. At present, the following subject boards are involved: -

1. Subject Board of Physics 2. Subject Board of Chemistry 3. Subject Board of Biology

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

A list of such courses in the period 2011 – 2015 follows. Institution Course Name Faculty member Year 1. University of Hyderabad Statistical Mechanics Surajit Sengupta, K P N 2012 Murthy, R Nityananda 2 University of Hyderabad Bridge Mathematics Rama Govindarajan & 2012 Saroj Panigrahi 3. University of Hyderabad Dynamical Systems Bindu Bambah, Ram 2013 and Chaos Ramaswamy & Rama Govindarajan 4. University of Hyderabad Advance Dynamics Rama Govindarajan & 2013 Surajit Sengupta 5. Tata Institute of Social Introduction to the Surajit Sengupta, 2013 Sciences Physical and Shubha Tewari, M Chemical Sciences Krishnamurthy 6. Tata Institute of Social Introduction to the Surajit Sengupta, 2014 Sciences Physical and Shubha Tewari, Subodh Chemical Sciences R Shenoy 7. Tata Institute of Social Introduction to the Surajit Sengupta, 2015 Sciences Physical and Shubha Tewari, M Chemical Sciences Krishnamurthy, Rama Govindarajan

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

There are no such programmes.

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

Students of the TCIS are offered a Course Work programme based on a mixture of compulsory Core Courses, choice-based Elective Courses and compulsory Project Work / Experimental course / Lab rotation course. The structure is given in the table below.

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Subject Board of Physics: Duration (years) Basic & Elective Project Total Programme Core Overall Coursework Credits Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 28 16 16 60 Ph.D. (for students with 4 years of University Training 5 2.0 48 16 16 80 in other than Physics) I-Ph.D. 6 2.5 52 32 16 100

Subject Board of Chemistry: Duration (years) Course Project Total Programme Overall Coursework Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 26 34 60 I-Ph.D. 6 2.0 42 58* 100

* includes 24 credits of M.Sc. Thesis

Subject Board of Biology: Duration (years) Course Research Total Programme Overall Coursework Credits Credits Credits Ph.D. 5 1.5 20 40 60 I-Ph.D. 6 2.5 28 32 60

* includes credits of M.Sc. / Final Thesis

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 are encouraged to participate in conferences / schools / research projects with faculty members of their choice during the breaks.

In each semester, students are evaluated by a Continuous Evaluation process which are a combination of the following: - 1. Assignments 2. Tests

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3. Mid-semester Examination 4. End-semester Examination 5. Presentations / Term Papers

All students are required to do Departmental Projects & Experimental courses as required by the respective subject board. The students can take up the course of their choice in any other subjects in addition.

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

Since the prime mission of TCIS is research in interdisciplinary sciences, students are encouraged to take up additional courses in the subject of their choice. The students can do their departmental projects with more than one faculty member and from other disciplines.

10. Number of faculty positions: Abbreviation (Item Faculty Designation with DAE Grade Number 11) 1. Senior Professor (I) Sr. Professor (I) 2 2. Professor (I) Professor (H) 5 3. Reader (F) Reader (F) 10 4. Reader (E) Reader (E) 2 5. Fellow (Young Researcher-INSPIRE fellow) Fellow 1 Total 20

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Deg Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ * 1. Sriram Ph.D. Centre Nonequilibrium, soft-matter 29 2 Ramaswamy Director & Sr. and biological physics Professor (I) 2. Surajit Ph.D. Professor (H) Equilibrium and non- 22 7 Sengupta & Dean equilibrium materials physics 3. K V R Chary Ph.D. Sr. Professor Molecular Biophysics, NMR 31 2 (I) Spectroscopy and Structural Biology 4. Narayanan Ph.D. Professor (H) Experimental non- 18 2 Menon equilibrium and soft-matter

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Name Deg Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ * physics 5. Rama Ph.D. Professor (H) Fluid Mechanics 18 3 Govindarajan 6. M Ph.D. Professor (H) Matter at extreme 18 3 Krishnamurthy temperature and density using very high-powered ultrashort lasers 7. P K Madhu Ph.D. Professor (H) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 12 2 and Biophysics 8. Rajat Varma Ph.D. Reader (F) Immunology, Cell Biology 7 0 and Optical Microscopy 9. Shubha Tewari Ph.D. Reader (F) Soft matter Physics, 16 0 Outreach & Education 10. Sma rajit Ph.D. Reader (F) Glass Transition, Spin Glass, 3.3 5 Karmakar Mechanical Properties of Disordered Solids, Granular Materials 11. Kanchan Garai Ph.D. Reader (F) Regulation of amyloid 3 2 aggregation in human diseases and bacterial biofilms 12. T N Narayanan Ph.D. Reader (F) Carbon Nano Materials, 3 2 Magnetic materials and Electrochemistry 13. Prasad Perlekar Ph.D. Reader (F) Multiphase flows, 2.5 1 Turbulence, Population dynamics, Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 14. Pramodh Ph.D. Reader (F) Biophysics 2 1 Vallurupalli 15. Anukul Jana Ph.D. Reader (F) Low-Valent Low-Coordinate 2 2 Organometallic Chemistry 16. Aprotim Ph.D. Reader (F) Cell and Cancer Biology 1 1 Mazumder 17. Vipin Agarwal Ph.D. Reader (F) Development and 0.6 0 Application of Solid State NMR Methods for Biomolecules and Materials 18. Karthik V Ph.D. Reader (E) Experimental condensed 2 1 Raman matter physics 19. Jagannath Ph.D. Reader (E) computer simulation and 0.5 0

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Name Deg Designation Specialisation Exp† Stu‡ * Mondal statistical mechanics in chemical and biochemical topics 20. Kaustubh R Ph.D. Fellow Solid-State NMR based 1 0 Mote (INSPIRE) Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins

* 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 Visiting Faculty :  Prof. Subodh R Shenoy  Prof. N D Hari Dass C

Adjunct Faculty :  Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay  Prof. V Chandrasekhar  Prof. Srikanth Sastry  Prof. J B Joshi  Emeritus Professors :  Prof. Mustansir Barma

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information Programme Course Semester Faculty Percentage Ph.D. & Integrated Quantum Aug-Nov Prof. A K 1. 100% M.Sc.-Ph.D. (Physics) Mechanics II 2014 Kapoor Ph.D. & Integrated Quantum Jan – Apr Prof. A K 2. 100% M.Sc.-Ph.D. (Physics) Mechanics II 2015 Kapoor Ph.D. & Integrated Jan – Apr Prof. Nirmal 3. Optics 100% M.Sc.-Ph.D. (Physics) 2015 Viswanathan

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14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio Programme Students (S) Faculty (F) Ratio S/F 4. Ph.D. 42 20 2.05 5. Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. 16 20 0.8

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: Scientific Staff Technical Staff Administrative Staff Auxiliary Staff 7+2* 2* 5+13* 43*

* As the Centre is very young, many staff members are either temporary or on contract

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies Research Thrust Areas Funding Agency 1 Cancer research, Cell Biology DAE 2 Syntheses of compounds involving SERB-DST, AvH Foundation, DAE low-valent low-coordinated main group elements 3 Theoretical chemistry Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB-DST 4 Biomolecular Solid-state NMR DST and DAE 5 Molecular biophysics, spectroscopy, DST, CEFIPRA, Royal nuclear magnetic Society, Indo-Danish Science Agency Resonance Molecular Biophysics, Biological DAE, DST, DBT, CSIR, ICMR, Japan Society for 6 Chemistry, Structural Biology, Promotion of Science (JSPS), UNESCO Molecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Cell Biology Network (UNESCO-MCBN), Welcome Trust, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)i, International Council for Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS)

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National Total Grant (Rs. Agency Project Title Duration Faculty lakhs) 1. Science & 2 Dimensional 26 3 years T N Naryanan Engineering nanosheets based starting Research Board, ultra-low density from DST sponges for energy 2014-15 and environment applications 2. Indian Institute of Coupled physical 44 3 years Rama Tropical processes in the starting Govindarajan Meteorology, Bay of Bengal & from Ministry of Earth Monsoon Air-sea 2015-16 Sciences Interaction 3. Science & Ramanujan 87 Total 5 Kathik V Raman Engineering Fellowship years, Research Board started (SERB), from Department of 2015-16 Science & Technology 4. Department of Structural and 83 Total 5 Kaustubh R Science & Mechanistic years Mote Technology, Characterization of starting Innovation in the mitochondrial from Science Pursuit for pyruvate carrier 2015-16 Inspired Research complex 5. Science & Rational Design for 26 Total 3 Anukul Jana Engineering the syntheses of years Research Board multiple bonded starting (SERB), compounds from Department of involving 2015-16 Science & heavier group 14 Technology elements and their reactivity 6. Wellcome Control of T Cell 288 Total 5 Rajat Varma Trust/DBT India Biochemistry by years Alliance MHC starting

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Total Grant (Rs. Agency Project Title Duration Faculty lakhs) Alleles from 2015 7. Ministry of Tailoring plant 27 Total 2 K V R Chary Science & protease inhibitors years Technology for control of the starting Australia - India crop pest from Strategic Helicoverpa 2015 Research Fund armigera

International Total Grant Agency Project Title Duration Faculty (Rs. lakhs) 1. Indo -German Tailoring interface 3 Total 4 Karthik V Sciences & spin transport years Raman Technology towards starting Centre, molecular from 2015 Stuttgart, spintronics Germany 2. Centre Rotating and curved 17 Total 3 Rama framco - boundary layer years Govindarajan Indien Pourla instabilities starting Promotion de from la 2013 instabilities

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received

National Collaborating Total Grant Project Title Duration Faculty Institutions (Rs. lakhs) 1. Indian Institute Coupled physical 44 3 years Rama of Science processes in the Bay starting Govindarajan of Bengal & from 2015- Monsoon Air-sea 16 Interaction

International: None

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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) 1. DAE Science DAE- Science 115 Total 5 M Research Research Council years Krishnamurthy Council Outstanding starting Awards, Investigator award from Department of scheme for the 2015 Atomic Energy year (DAE) 2014 (DAE-SRC- OI)

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

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

Nil

22. Publications: Journal Articles in Technical Web Book Books Mono TCIS Publications Proceedings Reports Publications Chapters Edited graphs 2010-11 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 2011-12 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 2012-13 28 ---   ---   2013-14 76 ---      2014-15 49 ---  1    Total 153 ------1 ------

# TCIS started its scientific activities in 2012.

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 Books with ISBN with details of publishers

. N D Hari Dass: The Principles of Thermodynamics, published by CRC Press Ltd, ISBN 978-1- 4665-1208-5, 2013. . P K Madhu: Current developments in solid state NMR spectroscopy, Springer Verlag GmbH, ISBN-13 9783211999394. . Surajit Sengupta: Frontiers in Materials Modelling and Design, Proceedings of the Conference on Frontiers in Materials Modelling and Design, at Kalpakkam, India on August 20-23 1996. V. Kumar, Surajit Sengupta and Baldev Raj, Eds. (Springer, Heidelberg, 1997). . Vipin Agarwal: Development and Application of MAS Solid-State NMR Methodologies to Biomolecule Number of Pages: 226 pages, Mensch & Buch (November 2009), ISBN-10: 3866646917, ISBN-13: 978-3866646919

 Citation Index – range / average:

Total number of citations: 31740 (Google Scholar)

Number of citations per faculty: 1587

 h-index:

Range: 10 - 27

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23. Details of patents and income generated

Nil

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated during 2011-2015

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 1. Prof. N D Hari Dass Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Apr 2014 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Jan 2015 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Mar 2015

International Name of Faculty Place visited Date (MM/YYYY) member 1. Prof. Rama Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Nov 2012 Govindarajan 2. Prof. Sriram Higgs Centre, University of Edinburgh March 2013 Ramaswamy (research collaboration with M E Cates and group) 3. Prof. Srikanth Sastry EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Aug 2012 Univ. Paris Sud Orsay 2012 Uni. H. Heine, Dusseldorf, Germany Feb 2013 4. Prof. K V R Chary The Chemistry and Strcutural Biology Division, Aug 2014 Institute for Molec- ular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia School of Chemistry, University of New South Aug 2014 Wales, Sydney Prof. Martin Greens Laboratory, University of Aug 2014 New South Wales 5. Prof. Surajit University of Dusseldorf (Groups of Profs J. Mar-Apr 2014 Sengupta Horbach, H. Lowen and S. Egelhaaf) The Weizmann Institute June 2014

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26. Faculty serving in

(a) National Committees: Name of the Name of the Committee Role in the Term of Faculty Member Committee Service 1 Prof. K V R Chary IUPAB National Committee Member 2012- 2016 Asian Biophysics Association Treasurer 2013- present Steering 2011- Committee Present Member International Advisory Board, 27th Member 2014- International Conference on Magnetic 2016 Resonance in Biological Systems 2 Indo-European network on Advanced Steering -- Prof.Rama Instability Methods (AIM). committee Govindarajan member

3. Dr. Smarajit International conference in IIT- Local -- Karmakar Guwahati, Conference on organizing Computational Physics – 2015. committee member 4. Prof. Sriram XXIV international conference on Member, -- Ramaswamy statistical physics of the IUPAP. Steering Committee 5. Dr. T.N.Narayanan 4th International Conference, COCHIN National -- NANO-2016 Organizing Committee member

(b) International Committees : Name of the Name of the Role of the Term Faculty Member Committee Committee of Service Dr. T.N.Narayanan EMN Meeting on Electrocatalysis, Energy International -- Materials Nanotechnology, February 15- Program 19, 2016 Orlando, USA. Committee Member

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(c) Editorial Boards: Name of the Name of the Journal Impact Term of Faculty Member Factor Service Prof. Sriram Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 2011-2015 Ramaswamy Advances in Physics Since Jun 2007 European Physical Journal Since Dec 2009 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Since Jan 2004 Experiment Prof. Rama Physical Review Fluids Present Govindarajan Physics of Fluids Till 2015 Pramana -- Sadhana Till 2014 Prof. P K Madhu Journal of Magnetic Resonance -- Journal of Biomolecular NMR -- Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance -- Dr. T N Narayanan American Journal of Engineering and Applied -- Sciences Carbon-Based Materials – Frontiers in 2015 Materials Prof. Suboddh R Physical Review Letters (Condensed Matter) 2000-2003 Shenoy Pramana 2007-2013 Philosophical Magazine Since 2011 Prof. N D Hari Quanta Dass

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

As all TCIS 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%) TCIS students are required to do Departmental Projects / Laboratory rotations (see Item 8 above).

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

Almost all TCIS faculty and laboratories have collaborations with scientists in India and abroad. Students of these faculty members and laboratories participate in these projects.

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

 Faculty Members:

National Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2014 Kaustubh R Mote Inspire Faculty Award 2. 2012- Prof. K V R Chary Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (DST) 2017 2010- The "Dharamsi Morarji Chemical Co. Visiting 2011 Fellowship in Chemistry" of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai 2009- Professor J.C. Ghosh Memorial Award of the 2010 Indian Chemical Society 2006 Professor Rango Krishna Asundi Memorial Lecture Award of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 1989 Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award, Indian National Science Academy 1986 Young Scientist Medal, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 1986 Young Scientist Award, BRUKER, 1986. 3. 2012 Dr. Kanchan Garai TIFR Alumni Patent Award in 2012 for innovative scientific research from TIFR leading to the award of a patent.

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 4. 2015 Prof. M Krishnamurthy DAE-SRC Outstanding Investigator award 2007 Head of the Max Planck India Partner group, for collaborative research in intense field science with Max Planck Institute for kernphyisk, Heidelberg 2006- Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Physics 2007 2003 B.M. Birla Science prize for physics 2001 INSA Young Scientist Medal for Physics by the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi 2001 S.N. Ghosh Young scientist medal by Indian society for Atomic and Molecular Physics 1999 Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 5. 2013 Dr. Prasad Perlekar NVIDIA Innovation Award 6. 2007 Prof. Rama Govindarajan Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Engineering Sciences) 7. 2010- Dr. Smarajit Karmakar Dean's Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science 2012 2003- Kumari L. A. Meera Memorial Award for the year 2004 for being the best Integrated PhD Student in Physical Sciences, IISc, Bangalore, India 8. 2011 Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy Infosys Prize for the Physical Sciences 2007 J C Bose Fellowship 2006 G. D. Birla Prize for Science 2000 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences 2000 NASI Young Scientist Millenium Award 1996 B.M. Birla Memorial Prize for Physics 1988 N.S. Satyamurthy Award 1988- Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences 1992 9. 1994- Prof. Surajit Sengupta Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1999 Bangalore 10. 1980- Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search 1985 Scholarship 11. 2015- Dr. T N Narayanan ACS membership award 2018 12. 1992 Prof. Subodh R Shenoy Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of CSIR India for Physics 13. 1998 Prof. N D Hari Dass Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad

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Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 2006- DAE Raja Ramanna Professorship 2010

International Awards Year Name of the Awardee Name of the Award 1. 2010 Dr. Anukul Jana Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship for Post Doctorate Research by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany. 2. 2014 Dr. Aprotim Mazumder The Koch Institute Image Award (2014). 2010 CEHS MIT Pilot project grant award (along with Mark Bathe) 3. 2011 Dr. Kanchan Garai Nomination for Poletsky Award by Dr. Carl Frieden for outstanding contribution in Alzheimer’s disease 4. 1976 Prof. N D Hari Dass (Visiting Gravity Foundation Honorable Mention for Faculty) the essay A new spin test for the equivalence principle

 Students, Postdocs, Scientific Staff and Others:

National Awards

Nil

International Awards

Nil

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

Seminars are held frequently in TCIS by eminent scientists from India and abroad. A list of seminars held in TCIS may be accessed through the link http://www.tifrh.res.in/tcis/event/seminars.html and a few seminars by eminent scientists are listed below.

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Conferences / Workshops Year Name Funding Agency Faculty members 1. 2016 NMR Meets Biology TCIS, Hyderabad & TIFR, Prof.P K Madhu Mumbai (in association with Dr. Vipin Agarwal University of Leipzig, Germany, and University of Aarhus, Denmark) 2. 2015 National Poster Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad & Royal Prof. K V R Chary Society of Chemistry, London – Deccan Local Section, India 3. 2015 Summer Research TCIS, Hyderabad & National Dr. Shubha Symposium Academies of Sciences Tewari 4. 2015 TCIS-IITH-IITB meeting on TCIS, Hyderabad, IIT-Madras, Prof. Rama Flow Instability IIT-Bombay & IIT- Hyderabad Govindarajan 5. 2014 TCIS Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad -- NA -- 6. 2014 Summer Research TCIS, Hyderabad & National Dr. Shubha Symposium Academies of Sciences Tewari 7. 2014 Program on Active Matter, TCIS, Hyderabad & Kavli Prof. Sriram Cytoskeleton, Cells, Tissues Institute for Theoretical Ramaswamy and Flocks Physics, Univ of California, (jointly with M C Santa Barbara Marchetti, Syracuse Univ, C Schmidt, Goettingen and I Couzin, Princeton) 8. 2014 Workshop on Soft Matter TCIS, Hyderabad & University of Prof. Narayanan Self Assembly and Dynamics Hyderabad Menon Prof. Srikanth Sastry 9. 2014 Symposium on Fragility TCIS, Hyderabad & Prof. Srikanth JNCASR, Bangalore Sastry 10. 2014 IUTAM Symposium - 2014 TCIS, Hyderabad & IIT - Prof. Rama Hyderabad Govindarajan Dr. Prasad Perlekar 11. 2013 Chemistry Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad Prof. V Chandrasekhar 12. 2013 Perspectives in Nonlinear TCIS, Hyderabad & University of Prof. Rama Dynamics 2013 (PNLD 2013) Hyderabad Govindarajan Dr. Prasad Perlekar

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13. 2013 TCIS-IITH-IITB meeting on TCIS, Hyderabad, IIT-Madras, Prof. Rama Flow Instability IIT-Bombay & IIT- Hyderabad Govindarajan 14. 2012 Meeting on Soft and TCIS, Hyderabad & University of -- NA -- Biological Matter Hyderabad 15. 2012 TCIS Symposium TCIS, Hyderabad -- NA --

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments

TCIS follows the TIFR Guidelines on Academic Ethics.

32. Student profile programme-wise:

Numbers are summed over 2011 – 2015 batches. Name of Applications Selected Joined Pass the received percentage for Programme TCIS Male Female Male Female Male Female (refer to question no. 4) Biology TIFR Mumbai 6 2 2 1 50 100 TIFR Mumbai Ph.D. Chemistry 31 10 14 4 93 100 & TCIS-71 TIFR Mumbai Physics 34 5 24 6 83 100 & TCIS-526 Biology ------Integrated Chemistry TIFR Mumbai 11 7 2 -- 100 -- M.Sc.-Ph.D. TIFR Mumbai Physics 36 7 11 1 100 100 & TCIS-306

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33. Diversity of students:

(a) Based on geography: Integrated- Ph.D. M.Sc. Students Ph.D. Total Male Female Male Female Male Female From the state where the 3 2 -- -- NA NA 5 university is located From other states of India 33 6 13 1 NA NA 53

NRI students ------NA NA -- Foreign students ------NA NA -- Total 36 8 13 1 -- -- 58

(b) Based on undergraduate institution: Integrated Ph.D. M.Sc.-Ph.D. Male Female Male Female Total From Universities 20 6 12 1 39 From premier science 4 0 0 0 4 institutions † From premier professional 12 1 1 0 14 institutions # From others* 1 0 0 0 1 Total 37 7 13 1 58 † Science institutions, e.g. CBS, NISER, etc. # IITs, NITs, etc.

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35. Student progression

 Ph.D. / Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D programme : Students admitted to TCIS go on to complete the course work and get their Ph.D.s. Rarely a student may opt out of the programme, for various reasons. After completing their Ph.D., the students have great potential to pursue postdoctoral research anywhere in the world and go on to academic / industry careers.

36. Diversity of staff

Number of faculty who are Ph.D.’s

from TIFR : 4

from other institutions in India : 7

from institutions Abroad: 9

Total No 20

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

 Floor area- 20.90 Sq metres

 Total seating capacity – 10

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 Working hours - 24*7

 The library has two internet enabled systems (desktop), two dedicated VPN access for library users will also be procured shortly.

 The library has a total of 450 books with an average annual addition of 150 books, e-books 41,020 & e-journals 3,888

b) Internet facilities for staff and students

 Primary internet - 40 Mbps leased line 1:1 with RF connectivity (ISP - Bharti Airtel)

 Secondary internet - 4 Mbps leased line 1:1 with optical connectivity (ISP - BSNL India)

 100 Mbps LAN network

 Student hostels are provided with 12 mbps broadband connections with Wi-Fi connectivity

c) Total number of class rooms

 Two classrooms to seat 20 students each

d) Class rooms with ICT facility

 Two classrooms to seat 20 students each

e) Students’ laboratories

 Two 4 students’ laboratories with a total capacity around 60

f) Research laboratories Name of Fac* PDF† Stu‡ Brief description of research activity Laboratory 1 Synthesis Lab 1 2 2 Syntheses and Reactivities of Main-Group Compounds with Low-Valent Low-Coordinate Group 13-15 elements

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Hydrocarbon soluble Silicon enriched molecular cluster Rational design of metal cluster by using different multi-dented ligands Study of different catalytic reactions using Main-Group compounds 2 Biophysics Lab 2 3 3 Single molecule biophysics of protein amyloids Role of indigenous proteins of amyloid aggregation Conformational Dynamics of Biomolecules 3 Biology 2 2 1 Regulatory roles of Genome organization in gene expression and DNA repair Stress-induced mutagenesis as a mechanism for hastening evolution Immunology, Cell Biology and Optical Microscopy 4 Laser Matter Lab 1 1 3 Ion acceleration Neutral-Atom accelerators Bright, Hard X-Ray sources Laser-Plasma dynamics at mesoscopic lenth scales 5 Material Science 1 2 2 Engineering of Nanomaterials Catalysis and Energy Devices 6 NMR 4 5 4 Biomolecular Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Development of new NMR methodologies to understand the structure-function paradigm of biomolecules NMR characterization of the 3D structures of biologically important proteins and studying their dynamics, interaction with other ligands/biomolecules to understand structure- function relationships Development of computer-aided complete- turn-key packages for both NMR assignments and 3D structural analysis. Solid state NMR spectroscopy 7 Spintronics 1 1 1 Interspace spin chemistry and magnetism arising due to the molecule-transition metal- interface interactions 8 Soft Matter 3 2 4 Non-equilibrium soft matter and biological physics 9 Hyper- 1 0 0 Creating hyperpolarization in noble gases by polarization spin exchange optical pumping methods.

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Optical magnetometry 10 Computational 5 3 16 Statistical Mechanics of soft matter: Science Deformation, Elasticity & Plasticity Active Segregation of chromosomes Fluid mechanics, Multiphase flows Statistical physics of Disordered systems: Elusive order in disordered system and the associated correlation length Ideal glassy states in systems with quenched disorder and their connection to spin glass physics Glasses with metallicity Brittleness and Ductility of amorphous solids Amorphization Transition Computer simulation of protein-drug binding Understanding mechanisms of actions antibiotic and antimicrobial peptides Theoretical understanding of role of water and cosolutes on conformation and self –assembly of biomacromolecules Deciphering spatial organization inside bacterial cell

* 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 Doctoral students 1 Anshul Deep Singh Parmar 30 Naresh Kumar 2 Vinutha H A 31 Dube Dheeraj Prakashchand 3 Sharath K Jose 32 S. V. Rahul 4 Mamta Raju Jotkar 33 Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi 5 S. Ravi Chandran 34 Navdeep Rana 6 Debabrata Sinha 35 Keerthan Subramanian 7 Habeeba Tamkeen K S 36 Archit Bhardwaj 8 Sumit Kumar Birwa 37 Vikash Pandey 9 S Ganga Prasath 38 Rahul Sharma 10 Rashmi Ramaadugu 39 Debabrata Dhara 11 Shubhadeep Pal 40 Debdeep Mandal 12 Rayan Chatterjee 41 Timir Baran Sil 13 Rahul Kumar Gupta 42 Janeka Gartia

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Doctoral students Doctoral students 14 Rajsekhar Das 43 Kshama Sharma 15 Mrinmoy Mukherjee 44 Saurabh Chaudhary 16 Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik 45 Sudeshna Patra 17 Pappu Acharya 46 Subhrajyoti Dolai 18 Praveen Kumar 47 Mukul G Jain 19 Indrajit Tah 48 Subhendu Pandit 20 Shashank Yadav 49 Khandekar Jishan Bari 21 Jaya Krishna Koneru 50 Subhajit Ghosal 22 Kallol Paul 51 Aslam Uddin 23 Ritabrata Thakur 52 Sumit Bawari 24 Vishnu V Krishnan 53 Avijit Maiti 25 Debankur Das 54 Subhajit De 26 Rahul Chajwa 55 Shamasree Ghosh 27 Dhuppar Shivnarayan Tilkesh 56 Anusha Bargavi Gopalan 28 Pankaj Popli 57 Nikhita Pasnuri 29 Pardeep Kumar 58 P S Kesavan

Post-doctoral fellows 1 G Gopi Krishna 2 Seshagiri Rao R.V. 3 Kiran Kumar Tadi 4 Deepa Jaiswal 5 Sitara Roy 6 Abhijeet A Joshi 7 Deepu P 8 Satya Prakash 9 Balaji Yendeti 10 S. Mathimalar 11 Biswajit Santra 12 M. Anand 13 Khevath Praveen Kumar Naik 14 Sunita Patel 15 Sarada Seetharaman 16 Kartika Padhan 17 Chandrakala Gowda 18 Angana Ray 19 Ravi Kumar Biroju 20 C. Neeraja 21 Swarnali Bandyopadhyay

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JRFs SRFs 1 Sarika Kumari 2 Akshi Gupta 3 Rakesh Kumar Y 4 Swapneel Amit Pathak NIL 5 Paswa Nath 6 Subrata Kuilya 7 Sambit Mohapatra 8 Sreedevi K N

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

Most of the students (57 out of 58) of TCIS are in doctoral programmes and hence they are all given TIFR fellowships. One doctoral student is receiving a scholarship from CSIR.

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

No.

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?

Constant effort is made by the Academic Advisory committee (AAC) to ensure the quality of curricula offered. The syllabus is regularly discussed and revised depending on interaction with peers and feedback received from faculty. b. Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department utilize the feedback?

Student feedback is obtained formally at the end of each course in the form of a filled course evaluation form (Student Response to Instructions – SRTI). The ratings are discussed in the AAC and relevant information is passed onto the teacher.

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

No feedback is taken by alumni at present.

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

None

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

As Item No 30 shows, TCIS regularly conducts seminars, conferences & workshops, which are attended by all the doctoral students. These provide the required introduction to the state of the art in the subjects of their research.

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

Faculty members are encouraged to design their own teaching methods and within certain parameters, allowed to choose topics of instructions. They may also design & float new elective courses. A significant component of take-home assignments is encouraged. The mode of evaluation is decided by the teacher.

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

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

Outreach: The institute has initiated three distinct areas of outreach activities with different audiences in mind. The purpose of the outreach activities is to educate and inform the public about our research efforts, and to encourage young students to become scientists and be informed about current efforts in Science.

For the general public: We started a discussion series on Science titled “Sawaal- Jawaab: Conversations on Science” at a public venue, Lamakaan, in Hyderabad. We have hosted many eminent researchers who speak about their research and engage in conversation with the general public. The speaker is typically asked to prepare half an hour of material, but questions flow freely from the audience and the typical duration of the entire event is two hours. This is now a recognized event in Hyderabad with 50 – 60 attendees per session.

For school and college students: The institute has hosted a number of visiting groups from schools and colleges. In addition to a lab tour, the students engage in experiments/hand-on activities that demonstrate the playful side of science, but are designed in part to introduce them to the research areas of our institute. The activities are led by TCIS students.

For college students: With the help of funding from the National Academies, we have organized and hosted two annual undergraduate research symposiums in summer 2014 and 2015 in which students engaged in summer research present their work to their peers. These symposiums have each featured a plenary talk by one TCIS and one external faculty member on their research.

Students & faculty members regularly participate by giving talks and presenting posters at National & International conferences.

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

TCIS conducts and participates in the following activities on a regular basis.  Seminars  Colloquium  VSRP Programme

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 Sawaal-Jawaab, a series of discussions about current issues in science for general public  Outreach activities: visits by schools and colleges are organised and simple experiments are demonstrated to introduce them to scientific research.

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

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

 Regimes of break-up delineated for a bubble rising through liquid.  Relevance of caustics in droplet aggregation and coalescence demonstrated.  Viscosity stratification can create several new instabilities in shear flow, and is a singular effect.  Development of transport and hydrodynamics models to study the properties of hot and dense nucleus / quark gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions.  We have discovered how T4 lysozyme interconverts between two compact conformations. Contradictory to expectations the activation barrier is just ~6kT.  Prediction of a propagation gap for wavelike excitations in large-scale flocks with rotational inertia; important consequences for signalling in biological groups  Spontaneous flocking phase transition in a vibrated granular monolayer: experiment, simulation and predictive theory; discovery and elucidation of a new type of flocking interaction between self-propelled particles  Theory of the dynamics of the plasma membrane of the living cell, consequences include the emergence of spontaneous membrane waves, as widely seen in crawling cells  Theoretical principles for the quantitative design of chemotactic behaviour of active colloids, dramatic collective behaviour predicted, including precise analogues to gravitational collapse  Theory of spontaneous synchronization in active matter, with relevance to

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metachronal waves and bacterial swimming  Our work on the effective of self-propelling activity on suspension viscosity highlighted in Nature (N & V) 525, 37 (2015) in connection with experiments on bacterial suspensions that bear out our predictions.  We show that high resolution proton-detected NMR spectra can be obtained on large biomolecules in the solid state at slow-moderate MAS frequencies.  Developed a strategy to combine pulse sequences using multiple receivers and multiple sequential acquisitions in biomolecular solid state NMR. The time savings for a single case can be as much as 2-3 weeks  Unification of heteronuclear spin decoupling schemes in solid-state NMR to improve resolution and sensitivity of NMR spectra.  Identification of unique structural folds in Abeta peptides upon binding to membranes.  Design of asynchronous schemes that enhance geometry elucidation efficiency in solid-state NMR.  Generation of hyperpolarised xenon gas with optical pumping, to be used for imaging.  Using diironnonacarbonyl, [Fe2(CO)9] as a source of Lewis acid fragment, we have stabilized germanium dichloride, GeCl2. In the solid state, it exhibits a dimeric structure with a Ge2Fe2-four-membered ring.  Understanding the observed long delays in post-quench equilibration of athermal martensites, through protein folding concepts such as golf holes and entropy barriers.  Rapid adaptation of yeast to environmental stress showing signatures of stress- induced mutagenesis.  Cell-cycle dependent DNA damage responses on a cell-by-cell basis in mammalian cell populations.  We showed that different ways of calculating static length scale (including our proposed method) in glass forming liquids are actually same. This will help us reduce some degree of complexity if there were multiple length scales in the glass transition problem which is already very complex in nature.  Vanishing of configurational entropy may not imply an ideal glass transition in randomly pinned liquids.

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 Short-time relaxation processes known as β-relaxations in glass-forming liquids are cooperative in nature and the scale of the cooperative is same as that observed at long time scale. This will help us understand how ageing and rejuvenation happen in glassy systems  Patchy colloidal model has many properties similar to that of networked liquids such as water and silicate glass. The model produces several kinds of stable crystalline structures at low temperatures. Under certain conditions it remains glassy. Some of our predictions have been verified experimentally in a complex nano-particle system consisting of Au/PbS nano “dumbbells”  It is known that gene dense chromosomes appear to be concentrated towards the centre of the nucleus in a Eukaryotic cell while those with low gene density segregate to the nuclear surface. No real explanation for this fact was known. We have now shown using computer simulations and simple physical arguments that this is a consequence of differential transcriptional activity associated with the chromosomes.  The existence of “super solids” i.e. solids with crystalline order which flow like a superfluid, has been debated for many years. There have been many experiments which provide evidence in one direction or the other. Our work suggested that a super solid fraction may appear as a long-lived transient which vanishes with annealing. This may provide a resolution of many perplexing issues concerning a variety of experiments on bulk solid helium.  The technologically important phenomenon of irreversible plastic deformation of crystalline and glassy solids is ill understood from a fundamental viewpoint. Non- affine displacement fluctuations appear to be suggestive of a new direction in this field. This may have important ramifications for understanding deformations of solids in a unified setting.  The spreading rate of a shear flow is universal in an intermediate regime which is also marked by strong correlations.  It is proved that Killing Vectors for the FLRW metric, when suitably scaled by functions, are non-normalizable zero modes of the scalar Laplacian on these spaces.

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

Strengths

 Faculty of outstanding quality, selected by a demanding internationally peer- reviewed screening process. Although most faculty members are less than four years into their roles, they are already leaders on the global stage in several areas of research. Successes from work published by TCIS faculty include: new understanding of length-scales at the glass transition; insights into intrinsically disordered proteins; new light on protein-aggregation diseases; ultra- hydrophobic surfaces; non-affinity and the yield and flow of solids; extraordinary enhancement of laser-driven ion acceleration by bacterial cells

 The Interdisciplinary nature of the Centre provides an excellent platform for larger problems to be attacked from different angles by individuals with completely different expertise.

 Strong and comprehensive teaching programme governed by the exacting standards of the TIFR University. Students are on an average of very high quality and very motivated.

 Significant seed funding for faculty’s research programmes

 Strong outreach activities, already very visible on the Hyderabad education circuit.

Weaknesses

 Research funding flow is ad hoc, not predictable, posing problems for a growing campus.

 Slow development of the main campus at Hyderabad, delaying the full growth of TIFR Hyderabad and the availability of a campus setting for faculty and students.

 Faculty members having to spend large amounts of time in Centre-building.

 Dependence on local rentals for student accommodation.

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 Administrative and purchase procedures complicated and inflexible, posing an inordinate demand on faculty time and energy, with adverse effect on research and institution-building.

Opportunities

 Tremendous possibilities for cross-disciplinary collaborations within the Centre between experimenters, theoreticians and simulators, across the chemical, biological and physical sciences, and engineering, facilitated by the PI-centric rather than departmental structure.

 Exciting opportunities for technological application, as the fundamental research pursued at the Centre has major translational implications, as can be seen from material presented under Strengths and Future Plans of the Centre.

 Achievements of our faculty globally recognized, as seen in many invited talks at international conferences and membership of prestigious editorial boards, resulting in many opportunities for international collaboration.

 High-quality research seminars, colloquia and workshops offer our young investigators and their groups the opportunity to interact with the world leaders in the field. The Centre maintains a vibrant visitors’ programme, hosting colleagues from all disciplines from various parts of India and across the world.

Challenges

 Delays in infrastructure development.

 Insufficient space unless an additional building is made ready.

 Subsequent difficulty in recruiting excellent new faculty members.

 Inadequate computing and other facilities to provide a level playing field against international competition.

 Complex and opaque rules and procedures.

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52. Future plans of the department

The growth of TIFR Hyderabad hereafter must take place in a massively parallel way in the various proposed disciplines. Five years from now we expect a campus with about 100 faculty members and 500 to 800 students, postdocs and interns, and the necessary physical infrastructure in the form of academic buildings, laboratories and hostels. We anticipate and plan a balanced growth of research across all the sciences and engineering. The areas explored will in part be natural outgrowths of those present at the inception of TCIS, but will also emerge from the evolving priorities of the growth plan of TIFR-H. We expect major collaborations at the interfaces and overlaps of the life sciences with the chemical and physical sciences, and with critical applied areas such as materials science and engineering (both conventional and nanoscale), translational research in drug design and disease biology, as well as climate science. The research will be supported by major dedicated facilities for high-performance computation, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, intense-field laser science, imaging based on visible light as well as electrons, and nanofabrication.

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