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SN Bose Annual Report 18 Annual Report 2018 - 2019 CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES 1986 TIONAL 1894-1974 S. N. BOSE NA SATYENDRA NATH BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES Annual Report 2018 - 2019 Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences Publisher Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences Design & Print SKG Media 3rd Floor, 24B Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata - 700 017 Phone : 033 4063 3318 E-mail : [email protected] Academic Highlights No. of Publications in refereed journal 169 No. of PhD Degree awarded 23 No. of PhD theses submitted 21 No. Ongoing Project 31 No. of Patent Applied/ Granted 5 + 2 No. of Awards/Recognitions (Student) 11 No. of Awards/Recognitions (Faculty/Scientist) 7 No. of Technology transfer 1 Source: web of science (On 1st April, 2019) Acknowledgement Annual Report of the ‘Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences’ is a brief representation of its activities of a financial year. The report reflects research activities, administrative activities, academic progress and achievement of young research scholars, development of infrastructure and facilities, and establishment of network with advanced research groups around the world. It’s 9th time I have been assigned the job of compilation of Annual Report of the Centre. To prepare the Annual Report, all the faculty members and sections of the Centre spent their valuable time to provide respective data. It is a time bound work to be completed within a short span of time. This is the 3rd time the Annual Report is translated and typed in Hindi within the Centre. The Hindi Officer, Sadhana Tiwari has given sincere fatigueless effort to translate the Annual Report in Hindi and library staff - Gurudas Ghosh and Ananya Sarkar typed the Annual Report in Hindi within a very limited time period. Words won’t be suffice to describe the painstaking labour of Hindi translation team. I would like to acknowledge the sincere efforts and labour of my Library staff - Gurudas Ghosh, Ananya Sarkar and Amit Roy without whom the work could not be completed within the stipulated time. Finally, I would like to thank all the members of the Centre for their cooperation in preparation of the Annual Report of the Centre. Saumen Adhikari Librarian – cum – Information Officer CONTENTS Message from the Director 7 Dean, Faculty 8 Dean, Academic Programme 9 Celebration of 125th Birth Anniversary of Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose 21 Extended Visitors & Linkage Programme 25 Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit 38 Registrar 39 Hindi (Rajbhasha) Implementation in the Centre 42 Committees 43 Academic Members 46 Administrative and Technical Staff Members 48 Department of Astrophysics & Cosmology HOD Report 54 Archan Subhra Majumdar 57 Manik Banik 61 Ramkrishna Das 63 Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti 66 Soumen Mondal 68 Department of Chemical Biological & Macro-Molecular Sciences HOD Report 74 Debashis Mukherjee 76 Gautam Gangopadhyay 78 Jaydeb Chakrabarti 80 Manik Pradhan 82 Rajib Kumar Mitra 86 Ranjit Biswas 89 Samir Kumar Pal 91 Subhra Jana 95 Suman Chakrabarty 98 Tatini Rakshit 101 Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences HOD Report 104 Anjan Barman 106 Anup Ghosh 111 Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri 113 Atindra Nath Pal 117 Barnali Ghosh (Saha) 120 Dipanwita Majumdar 124 CONTENTS Kalyan Mandal 125 Madhuri Mandal (Goswami) 128 Manoranjan Kumar 130 Milan Kumar Sanyal 133 Pratip Kumar Mukhopadhyay 135 Priya Mahadevan 138 Prosenjit Singha Deo 140 Ranjan Chaudhury 141 Samit Kumar Ray 144 Thirupathaiah Setti 147 Department of Theoretical Sciences HOD Report 152 Amitabha Lahiri 154 Biswajit Chakraborty 156 Makhtedar Sanjay Kumar 158 Manu Mathur 159 Partha Guha 160 Punyabrata Pradhan 163 Rabin Banerjee 165 Sakuntala Chatterjee 167 Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna 169 Sunandan Gangopadhyay 170 Facilities Library 174 Engineering Section 176 Computer Services Cell 180 Project and Patent Cell 185 Technical Research Centre 192 Technical Cell 195 Mechanical Workshop and Glass Blowing Unit 197 Guest House 198 Recreational and Cultural Programmes 199 Publications List of Publications 2018-19 202 Impact Factor for Publications 212 Accounts Accounts Budget Summary 20187-2019 218 Independent Auditors' Report 219 Financial Statements 220 S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences productive faculty strength of 32 during 2018-19. I feel proud MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR to announce that several faculty members had received National / International laurels such as the Fellowship of the World Academy of Sciences, Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation fellowship, Top cited author award of Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) etc. The students were equally competitive to bag several best paper awards in International & National conferences. The TRC project supported by DST has reached a new milestone this year with the first Technology transfer in the annals of the Centre through NRDC for “Non-invasive quantitative estimation of Haemoglobin in blood”. The prototype developed by the faculty member has also been selected for large scale clinical trial under National Anemia Mission for possible introduction in National Health Mission. It is laudable to note that the TRC could also earn contract research project & from private agencies (International &National) for the first time. In addition to prestigious TRC project, the Centre has 31 ongoing/new projects amounting an extramural annual funding of Rs. 4.63 crores, 7 no of patents have been granted and filed this year by the faculty of the Centre. The Centre has been immensely vibrant in science networking and outreach activities in 2018-19 for mentoring junior researchers through Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit (TPSC) and Extended Visitors & Linkage Program (EVLP) for making the BOSE-125 celebration a memorable Annual report is a mirror of an institute to reflect it’s one. It was our pleasant pledge to stud the 125th birth progress and achievements over the last one year and I feel anniversary of legendary Scientist with distinguished privileged to present the same. Keeping it’s mandate in mind programmes like organizing Public & Distinguished lectures, for undertaking cutting edge basic research, manpower Conferences, Workshops and residential summer & winter training in advanced areas of research and networking schools. It is noteworthy to mention that the Centre organized globally to expand R&D base-human capacity, the Centre more than 125 Science outreach programmes in 2018-19 today stands as an institution with a balance of theory, across the nation to inspire the young generation in Science & computational physics and modern experimentation. The Technology. It is worthwhile to note that a series of five institute continued it’s commendable efforts to take lectures on History of Science by eminent scientists was challenges in the niche areas of Quantum Science & organized on 1st January 2019 to celebrate the 126th birth Technology, emerging areas of Theoretical and Astro- annivedrsary of Bose. physics, Computational Materials, Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Advanced Materials including soft and biomaterials. In Our sincere gratitude to the members of the statutory line with the legacy of celebrating Bose’s 125th birth and advisory and internal administrative committees of the anniversary starting from 1st January 2018, the Centre Centre for their cooperation and support. Sincere thanks to all continued a plethora of pursuits in the year 2018-19 to mark faculty members including Emeritus/ Visiting faculties, staff the event as a memorable one. The Hon’ble Prime Minister members, administration and support services and students of had set the tune through an embracive inaugural address on the Centre for their sincere involvement towards profound Bose’s birthday, 1st January 2018. In that spirit, the Centre set growth of the Centre in the last year. Let me also thank the off the series of celebratory events, which achieved the peak Annual Report Committee for compiling the report in time. during the period April - December 2018. I wish more productive years ahead and hope our The year 2018-19 will be remembered for the endeavour to mandated tasks will benefit the society to a significant progress and new feats the centre has achieved. greater extent. In the last one year there have been 169 publications in referred journals and 17 other types of publications, 23 students were awarded PhD Degree and 21 others submitted their PhD theses. There are 165 PhD students and 29 post- Samit Kumar Ray doctoral research students associated with active and Director S. N. Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences 07 Annual Report 2018-19 the Centre. Four of our faculty members were promoted to Senior DEAN, FACULTY Professor, one was promoted to Professor, and one was promoted to Scientist ‘F’. Prof. Pratip Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Prof. Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti and Prof. Ranjan Chaudhury superannuated during this year. The following faculty members received awards/recognitions: Prof. Anjan Barman Program Committee Member of ICMFS-2018 Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, July 22-27, 2018. Prof. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri SERB Distinguished Fellowship Prof. Kalyan Mandal “Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship” (September-October 2018) Cover Feature: Investigating the Role of Oxygen Vacancies a n d L a t t i c e S t r a i n D e f e c t s o n t h e E n h a n c e d Photoelectrochemical Property of Alkali Metal (Li, Na, and K) Doped ZnO Nanorod Photoanodes (ChemElectroChem 8/2018) K Karmakar, A Sarkar, K Mandal, GG Khan - ChemElectroChem, 2018 Dr. Manik Pradhan Guest of Honour Felicitation by Department of Physics, IITRAM, Ahmedabad on 6th October, 2018 for delivering In the year 2018-19, celebrations on account of the invited lecture and chairing the session at the conference. 125th birth anniversary of Prof. S. N. Bose were Prof. Partha Guha concluded. The Centre was involved in several TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research academic activities related to scientific collaborations, Council of Turkey) 2221 Fellowship.13. hosting national and international conferences, workshops, schools, and organizing outreach Prof. Samir Kumar Pal programmes, refurbishing of the Bose Archives, etc.
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