2010 INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BANGALORE ANNUAL REPORT 2011 ess

Indian Academy of Sciences C.V. Raman Avenue, Post Box No. 8005 Sadashivanagar P.O., Bangalore 560 080 Telephone 080-2266 1200, (EPABX) 080-2266 1203 Fax 91-80-2361 6094 Email [email protected] Website www.ias.ac.in addr 1. Introduction 4

2. Council 5

3. Fellowship 5

4. Associates 7

5. Publications 7

6. Repository of Scientific Publications of Academy Fellows 13

7. Discussion Meetings 14

8. Mid-Year Meeting – 2010 18

9. Annual Meeting 2010 – Goa 19

10. Raman Professor 22

11. Academy Public Lectures 22

12. Science Education Programmes 25

13. Academy Finances 45

tents 14. Acknowledgements 45

15. Tables 46

16. Annexures 48

17. Statement of Accounts 57 con 1 Introduction

The Academy was founded in 1934 by Sir C V Raman with the main objective of promoting the progress and upholding the cause of science (both pure and applied). It was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act on 24 April 1934.

The Academy commenced functioning with 65 Fellows and the formal inauguration took place on 31 July 1934 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. On the afternoon of that day its first general meeting of Fellows was held during which Sir C V Raman was elected its President and the draft constitution of the Academy was approved and adopted. The first issue of the Academy Proceedings was published in July 1934.

The present report covering the period from April 2010 to March 2011 represents the seventy-seventh year of the Academy.

4 2 Council

There were two statutory meetings of the 14. Kang, Gagandeep Council on 3 July and 10–11 December 2010. 15. Minwalla, Shiraz 16. Raghavan, K N 17. Rajshekhar, Vedantam 18. Ranade, Vivek Vinayak Fellowship 19. Rao, Madan 3 20. Roy, Rahul 21. Sengupta, Pulak

3.1 2011 Elections 22. Shankar, D 23. Shivaji, S A total of 545 nominations received for 24. Singh, Yogendra fellowship in different disciplines were considered by the eight Sectional Committees 25. Srivastava, Rajesh K and subsequently by the Council. Following 26. Tole, Shubha postal balloting, 27 new Fellows were 27. Verma, Sandeep elected, the fellowship being effective from 1 January 2011. A list of their names follows, Honorary Fellows while Annexure 1 gives their particulars. Also 1. Friend, Richard H elected were three new Honorary Fellows. 2. Hartl, Daniel L 3. Marks, Tobin J Fellows 1. Anand, Anuranjan 3.2 In memoriam 2. Arakeri, Jaywant H The Academy regrets to place on record the 3. Barman, S R death of the following 19 Fellows and 1 4. Bhatnagar, Rakesh Honorary Fellow during the period up to 5. Chandrasekhar, S March 2011. Annexure 2 gives additional 6. Chattopadhyay, Samit information about them.

7. Chengalur, Jayaram Narayanan Fellows 8. Das, Amita 1. Adyalkar, P G 9. Gopidas, K R 2. Alikunhi, K H 10. Gopinath, C S 3. Gopala Rao, R V 11. Gupta, Sourendu 4. Joshi, A B 12. Haritsa, Jayant R 5. Kapoor, L D 13. Jayaraman, Narayanaswamy 6. Laddha, G S

5 7. Mehta, M K 15. Sethna, H N 8. Nair, Balakrishnan N 16. Sirsat, S M 9. Radhakrishnan, V 17. Surange, K R 10. Rama Das, V S 18. Venkataraman, Balu 11. Ramachandra, K 19. Venkataramani, K S 12. Ramakrishna, B S Honorary Fellow 13. Rao, D M Roy, Rustum 14. Rodrigues, Veronica F

3.3 Strength of the Fellowship

Fellows Honorary Fellows 1 April 2010 971 49 Elected (Dec. 2010) 27 3 Deceased (2010 – 2011) 19 1 1 April 2011 979 51

3.4 Classification of nominations and Fellowship

Institution-wise classification of nominations for Institution-wise classification of the fellowship under consideration in 2011 Academy Fellows

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215 149 181 162 105

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A - Universities/Colleges B - Academic Research Institutions (IITs, IISERs, IISc, TIFR, etc.) C - Government Research Institutions (DAE, DBT, DoS, DRDO, etc.) D - CSIR, ICAR, ICMR Institutions E - Private Institutions F - Fellows residing abroad G - Fellows retired from institutions

6 4 Associates 5 Publications Seventy three nominations were received and 5.1 Report on publications the following 17 were selected as Associates The 5-year Co-publication Agreement with in 2010 (see also Annexure 3). Springer for the 10 journals has been in effect 1. Ansumali, Santosh during the year 2010 – 2011. From January 2. Bhattacharyya, Suvendra Nath 2011, a one-year ‘Internal Pre-Press 3. Datta, Ayan Production’ Agreement is being implemented 4. Datta, Ranjan by which the typesetting and formatting of 5. Dey, Abhishek our journals are being done at SPi in Manila. After some initial practical problems, the 6. Ganapathy, Rajesh implementation of this agreement is 7. Gun, Sanoli progressing reasonably satisfactorily. After 8. Jain, Tanvi review, its continuation beyond 2011 will be 9. Mukerjee, Subroto decided upon. 10. Nair, Vijayakumar S The numbers of full text downloads from all 11. Nanda, Samik 10 journals on SpringerLink have continued 12. Natarajan, Vijay to increase significantly. The figures for 2010 13. Patil, Nitin T range from 88,222 for Bulletin of Materials 14. Ray, Partho Sarothi Science to 54,344 for Journal of Chemical 15. Shankaranarayanan, S Sciences and 75,613 for Resonance – journal 16. Sripati, Arun P of science education. 17. Yadav, Gitanjali As part of the collaboration with Springer, the final pdfs of accepted papers of all journals will be presented on Springer’s ‘Online First’. These pdfs will be identified with a DOI and an e-published date enabling these accepted papers to become fully citable even before these are compiled into a particular issue. Some journals have also improved their impact factors, such as Journal of Biosciences (1.888), Journal of Genetics (1.338), Journal of Chemical Sciences (1.075) and Journal of Earth System Science (0.941).

7 5.2 Journals 5.3 Special issues of journals The following 11 journals continue to be Several journals brought out special issues published by the Academy: of topical importance. A description of these 1. Bulletin of Materials Science follows: 2. Current Science Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nuclear Physics — Parts I 3. Journal of Astrophysics and and II Astronomy Guest Editors: 4. Journal of Biosciences R K Choudhury, 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences (formerly A K Mohanty, Proceedings Chemical Sciences) A Saxena, 6. Journal of Earth System Science K Mahata and (formerly Proceedings Earth and S Santra Planetary Sciences) Pramana, Vol. 75, 7. Journal of Genetics Nos 1/2, July/ August 2010, 8. Pramana – Journal of Physics pp. 1—392 9. Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences 10. Resonance – Journal of Science This Symposium sponsored by the Board of Education Research in Nuclear Sciences, DAE, was held at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 11. Sadhana – Engineering Sciences Mumbai in December 2009. The year 2009 Journal-wise information on papers coincided with the birth centenary of Dr Homi submitted for publication, the number of Bhabha. Dr Bhabha was the pioneer of the pages published and circulation figures of nuclear energy programme in the country, journals for the calendar year 2010 are given and it was with his initiative that the annual in Tables 1—3 (see pages 46—47). DAE Nuclear Physics Symposium was started. The organizing committee decided to mark this occasion by making this symposium international. The aim of this series of symposia was to provide a scientific forum to the nuclear physics community to present their research work and to interact with the researchers in this area. There was a very enthusiastic response to the symposium in terms of the number of papers and theses submitted for presentation. There were invited talks by distinguished speakers from India and abroad which covered a wide range of topics from low to high energy nuclear physics, accelerator and detector facilities. This volume contains the papers of the invited talks. The proceedings of the symposium

8 published in two issues of Pramana contains theory. Morgan’s student Calvin Bridges 35 articles on nuclear physics. formulated his classic balance theory of sex determination in Drosophila on the basis of genotypes with variable X:A ratios, implying Organic and related solids a counting mechanism for X-linked female Guest Editor: determinants and autosome-linked male S Natarajan determinants. Later it was found that single- Journal of Chemical Sciences, gene mutations can affect not only specific Vol. 122, No. 5, traits but also the entire sexual fate of an September, 2010, individual. In 1944 another of Morgan’s pp. 661—785 students, Alfred Sturtevant, identified a This special issue recessive autosomal mutation in D. comprises the melanogaster that caused sex reversal of XX lectures delivered individuals into sterile males. during the Indo-Russian Workshop on organic This recessive loss-of-function mutation, and 7 organo-metallic solids at Novosbirsk, named transformer (tra), did not have any Russia in September—October 2009. The effect in XY males, suggesting that the gene workshop was supported by the Department is required only in XX female flies. This was of Science and Technology and the Russian one of the first pieces of evidence that sex Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). The determination can be controlled by genes. wide range of topics covered in this issue Sturtevant also had an evolutionary reflects the current trends in research in the perspective on the genomic control of sex area of organic and related solids. determination. He had the foresight that the intersex mutation, previously described in How is sex determined in insects? the distantly related species D. virilis, corresponds to the D. melanogaster tra gene. Guest Editors: J Nagaraju and Indeed, almost 50 years later a conserved Giuseppe Saccone tra orthologue was isolated in D. virilis which Journal of functionally corresponds to the previously Genetics, Vol. 89, described D. virilis intersex mutation. During No. 3, September the 1980s, molecular cloning and 2010, pp. 269—390 characterization of this and other Drosophila Early observations sex-determining genes revealed that the that sex is decision whether to become male or female associated with is conveyed very early in embryonic differences in chromosome constitution development by a primary signal which is heralded the chromosomal theory of heredity. transmitted through a cascade of regulatory This year marks one hundred years since networks which ultimately results in the Thomas Hunt Morgan discovered a sex production of two distinct sexes. chromosome-linked mutation in Drosophila Surprisingly, other species, belonging to melanogaster which gave final proof to this different animal phyla, provide puzzling

9 examples of myriad sex-determining primary domestica, the primary sex-determining loci signals. The primary signal that provides the vary in natural populations, and the presence cue varies remarkably not only among taxa of some of these loci convert autosomes to but also within taxa pointing to rapid new sex chromosomes. A bizarre situation is evolution of sex-determining mechanisms. encountered in M. scalaris where a low rate The insect order Insecta alone provides of transposition of male-determining factor examples of astoundingly complex diversity from chromosome to chromosome creates a of sex-determination mechanisms. In new sex chromosome each time it hops. Drosophila, X-linked signal elements (XSEs) Intriguingly, in S. coprofila elimination of the provide the signal to switch ON the top player paternal derived chromosome occurs in a of the sex-determination cascade, Sex-lethal maternally controlled fashion. In the (Sxl). This pathway consists of various silkworm, Bombyx mori, a single W regulatory genes that control not only the chromosome ensures female development sex-determination cascade (Sex-lethal, Sxl; even in the presence of triploid, tetraploid transformer, tra; transformer-2, tra-2), but or hexaploid sets of autosomes and Z also its maintenance (Sxl) as well as sexual chromosomes, suggesting that the W differentiation (doublesex, dsx; fruitless, chromosome harbours feminizing gene(s). At fru): XSE > Sxl > tra (+tra- 2) > dsx/fru. These the next level of the sex-determination genes produce sex-specific alternatively pathway, the well-studied RS protein- spliced mRNAs, and encode splicing encoding gene transformer (tra) isolated in regulators (Sxl, tra and tra-2) or transcription different dipteran species, offers an factors (dsx, fru). interesting example of partial conservation As homologous molecular players involved in and functional divergence from Drosophila. the cascade were beginning to be uncovered Ever since the first discovery of its in other species, it was soon realized that autoregulation in the Mediteranean fruitfly ep the top layer of the pathway is not conserved C. capitata (tra , tra epigenetic), similar tra outside Drosophila and thus a wider autoregulatory loops have been shown to be evolutionary perspective on sex operative in all insects from which functional determination started to emerge. Dipterans tra genes have been characterized. exhibit consistent differences in regulation The rapid divergence of molecular players of chromosomal/molecular players involved at the top of the hierarchy is also evident in in the sex-determination hierarchy as hymenopterans. In honeybee Apis mellifera, reported for example in the Mediterranean the allelic status of complementary sex fruitfly (Ceratitis capitata), housefly (Musca determining (CSD) locus, a traep-related gene, domestica), humpbacked fly (Megaselia provides the initial cue. Bees heterozygous scalaris), sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) and at the csd locus are females, whereas Sciara coprofila. For example, XXY individuals hemizygous or homozygous bees are males. are females in D. melanogaster because of The product of the csd gene sets up, during the presence of two X chromosomes whereas early embryogenesis, the initial activation or in C. capitata XXY is male because of the repression of feminizer (fem, equivalent of presence of the Y chromosome. In M. traep), by controlling alternative splicing of

10 latter’s pre-mRNAs. The fem gene is able to differentiation in a wide range of insect maintain its activated state throughout species. development by an autoregulatory loop. The parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis, however, Proceedings of the IX DAE-BRNS National does not have a csd locus. Instead, this insect Laser Symposium on Physics & depends on a combination of maternal supply Technology of Lasers, Materials & Optics of tra mRNA (another traep-equivalent gene and Laser Applications that shows structural, regulatory and Guest Editors: functional homologies to traep) and a paternal L M Gantayet, K Dasgupta, Sunita genome set, to set up zygotic activity of tra Singh, B M Suri, through autoregulation of its own pre-mRNA D J Biswas, S Sinha splicing. In this species a novel way of and S Kundu transformer control in insect sex Pramana, Vol. 75, determination implies the action of maternal Nos 5 & 6, imprinting. In silkworm, attempts to discover November & the top molecular signals have remained December 2010, 552 pages elusive. All lines of evidence point to the presence of a female-determining gene on These special issues have emerged out of the W chromosome. Initial results suggest papers and invited talks presented at the that this region codes for a set of zinc finger National Laser Symposium held at BARC in protein encoding genes but their mechanism January, 2010. The year 2010 was the 50th of action has remained unclear. Interestingly, year of laser, a cause for celebrations a gene encoding P-element somatic inhibitor worldwide commemorating the invention of (PSI) has been discovered recently but it is laser in 1960. It has therefore, been our expressed in both sexes and abrogation of special endeavour to substantially strengthen its function results in alteration in doublesex the scientific content of National Laser (dsx) splicing pattern. Contrary to the top Symposium encouraging wider international signals, dsx, which functions at the bottom and national participation of the scientific of the sex-determination cascade, is very well fraternity involved in the field of lasers and conserved in almost all the insects examined laser applications. Besides making the to date as also in other taxa as well, where it contents of the symposium available to a has been shown to be essential for male wider audience, these two special issues are determination. Thus, insects provide vivid also intended to serve as a reference for examples of an astonishing diversity of future research, which the symposium hopes primary signals of sex determination that not to have stimulated. only vary between species but even within The National Laser Symposium is an annual species, in contrast to terminal genes which event sponsored by the Department of Atomic are conserved across taxa. Energy, Board of Research in Nuclear This special issue is dedicated to providing Sciences. The symposium is organized in an update of the data available from genetic collaboration with Indian Laser Association studies of sex determination and of sexual and is held at different locations in India,

11 each year. The ninth DAE-BRNS National Laser Proceedings of the National Conference Symposium was held during January 2010, at on X-Ray Fluorescence Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. The Guest Editors: Manoranjan Sarkar symposium provides a dedicated platform for and Subinit Roy young researchers in laser physics and Pramana, Vol. 76, technology to interact with eminent scientists No. 2, February from India and abroad, and to present their 2011, 184 pages latest work. Wilhelm Conrad As in previous years, the National Laser Roentgen Symposium covered frontline research in discovered the basic laser physics as well as significant existence of X-rays advances in development and applications of in 1895 through the shadow cast by the laser technology. Srikumar Banerjee, unknown rays. The seed for the evolution of Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and X-rays as a technique in the field of applied Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, scientific research was sown that very day. Govt. of India, inaugurated the symposium. In the late 1920s, a number of research The keynote address at the symposium was workers, led by von Hevesy, clearly delivered by Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John demonstrated the potential of X-ray Cockroft Chair of Physics, Universities of spectroscopy for chemical analysis. Since Lancaster, Liverpool & Manchester, and then, slowly but steadily, X-ray spectroscopy Director, The Cockroft Institute, UK. The four- has grown into an irreplaceable analytical day symposium included 22 invited talks by tool with applications in diverse fields leading experts and young researchers from including material science, biological and India and abroad, 212 contributory papers medical sciences, archaeological, geological presented as posters, and 10 oral thesis and environmental sciences. presentations. The papers were painstakingly In recent years, the development of powerful peer-reviewed by a team of experts. X-ray sources, advent of new generation detectors with sophisticated electronics and introduction of new techniques in X-ray focusing have ushered in a new era for X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. It was beyond one’s imagination even a decade ago. Based on recent advancements, industries are also coming up with state-of-the-art XRF instruments to be utilized in various fields. The National Conference held at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata in January 2010, was organized to present the latest developments in X-ray fluorescence and to stimulate fruitful discussions amongst researchers in our country.

12 The structure of the conference was based Repository of on invited talks, posters, short oral 6 presentations and an interaction session. With Scientific three of the invited speakers from abroad, a panel was formed to judge the posters Publications of presented and to select four contributions for short oral presentations. During the Academy interaction session, scientists from the Centre of Archaeological Studies and Training, Fellows Kolkata and the West Bengal Pollution Control Board highlighted the nature of synergy with For several years the idea of setting up a the X-ray spectrometrists required to know repository of all scientific publications of what is criticial for the problem they are Academy Fellows (present as well as past) working on. The proceedings consisted of has been under discussion and consideration. thirteen invited talks and four refereed The estimated numbers are, approximately, contributed papers. 1,580 Fellows (980 present and 600 past) and The conference was organized by the 75,000 publications. Such a repository would erstwhile Nuclear and Atomic Physics Division make available a valuable resource of of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata scientific work in the country over the past with the active collaboration of Centre of century. Archaeological Studies and Training, Kolkata, Phase I of this project was entrusted to UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Messrs. Informatics (India) Ltd. to be carried Kolkata and West Bengal Pollution Control out during the period July 1 to December 31, Board. 2010. At its completion the records in the Repository numbered as follows: Number of papers with only metadata is 30,000 of which the number of papers with metadata and full text is 8,142. The total cost of completing Phase I amounted to Rs. 14.5 lakhs. Work on Phase II has been underway since April 1, 2011.

13 Discussion of the free energy of a materials system. 7 N Ravishankar (IISc, Bangalore) discussed the Meetings role of interfaces in controlling various properties in advanced functional materials. Kallol Mondal’s (IIT, Kanpur) talk was on the 7.1 Microstructural evolution and thermo-dynamic modeling of nucleation of phase transformation at different crystalline phase in glasses. Bhaskar length scales Majumdar (DMRL, Hyderabad) discussed the Orange County, Coorg microstructures of melt spun and annealed 21 — 24 February 2010 Fe-Si-B-Nb-Cu, Fe-Zr-B-Cu and Fe-Co-Zr-B-Cu Convener: K Chattopadhyay (IISc, Bangalore) alloys processed under different conditions and their corresponding soft magnetic This discussion meeting on 'Microstructural properties. D. Prabhu's presentation was on evolution and phase transformation at the effect of Cu clustering in engineering the different length scales' held at Orange microstructure of HITPERM type alloys with County, Coorg was attended by 24 emphasis on using advanced technique like participants. The meeting on the 21 February 3-dimensional atom probe tomography to began with a presentation by D. Banerjee understand the mechanism of crystallization (DRDO) on the importance of microtexture in these materials. K. Biswas (IIT, Kanpur) in controlling the microstructure of the spoke on issues related to the sintering of titanium alloys and their subsequent nanometric size particles followed by G. properties followed by a presentation by Phanikumar's (IIT, Madras) talk which involved Vikram Jayaram (IISc, Bangalore) on the discussion on various issues related to micro- nature of ductile glass in ceramic systems structural evolution during rapid solidification and the issue of co-existence of two glasses using 9 melt spinning, solidification of of different densities. Dey (BARC, Mumbai) undercooled melts using electromagnetic spoke on the variety of metastable levitation and flux undercooling, microstructures that form during the solidification of weldments and alloy casting. micropyretic synthesis. On the 23 February, the first talk was by B S On the 22 February, the first talk was by K Murthy (IIT, Madras) on the various issues Chattopadhyay (IISc, Bangalore) on issues related to the microstructural evolution in a related to the co-existence and driven system followed by the presentation transformations of multiscale features in on the evolution and characterization of multiphase microstructures. This was structures of three phases of titanium alloys, followed by a talk by M P Gururajan (IIT, namely martensitic, Ti3Al( 2) and B2 phases Bombay) on the effects of misorientation and by A K Singh (DMRL, Hyderabad). D Santosh anisotropy on the grain growth in poly Hosmani (IIT, Delhi) discussed the issues crystalline materials. S Lele (BHU, Varanasi) related to the science of phase discussed the cluster expansion method (for transformations at metal/gas interfaces configurational enthalpy of mixing) and followed by Debalay Chakrabarti (IIT, cluster variation method (for configurational Kharagpur) spoke on the challenges in the entropy of mixing) (CE-CVM) for calculation

14 development of bimodal grain structures in challenged the conventional wisdom about low carbon steel. Anirudha Biswas (BARC, hydrogen bonding. The stunning difference Mumbai) spoke on the various aspects of the between the crystal structure close to the application of atom probe tomography freezing point at ambient conditions, for ice technique for characterization of materials. (H2O) at 0°C and H2S at –60°C has led to the R Balamuralikrishnan (DMRL, Hyderabad) common perception of 'hydrogen bonding' and discussed the role of nanoscale 'van der Waals interaction' as two characterization in identifying and optimizing distinguishable physical forces among avenues for microstructure control during chemists. The advent of molecular beam processing towards realization of desired spectroscopy and scattering studies have properties in engineering (an engineered) showed that (H2O)2 and (H2S)2 have similar materials. The meeting concluded with the structures. Moreover, molecular beam talk by Chandan Srivastava (IISc, Bangalore) electric resonance spectroscopy showed that on the particle size dependent the complex formed between HF and ClF had microstructural evolution in isolated bi- a structure ClF• • •HF, rather than the metallic nanoparticles. expected hydrogen bonded ClF• • •HF. Though it was originally called 'anti-hydrogen bond' now it is well recognized as a halogen 7.2 Molecular Interactions bonded complex. IUPAC recognized the Orange County, Coorg importance of these phenomena and formed 28 November — 1 December 2010 task groups to summarize our understanding Convenor: E Arunan (IISc, Bangalore) of these phenomena and define hydrogen bonding and halogen bonding. Among the The meeting started with a brief introduction participants were E. Arunan and J. Sadlej given by Arunan, convener of the meeting. (Chair and core-group member of the task He pointed out that there have been several group to define hydrogen bond) and key advances over the last decade that

15 P Metrangelo (Chair of the task group to Judith Howard from University of Durham define halogen bonding). G R Desiraju, who spoke in the second session and compared is a member of both these task groups, could neutron and X-ray diffraction techniques to not attend the meeting due to unforeseen investigate molecular interactions. She circumstances. pointed out that neutron diffraction is good The meeting had sixteen invited lectures with for locating H atoms but X-ray diffraction can topics ranging from the interaction between give electron density topology in the crystal two rare gas atoms such as argon and neon which is crucial in understanding bonding. to the interaction between the domains in C Pulla Rao (IIT, Mumbai) spoke on multi-domain and multi-functional proteins. manifestations of weak interactions in The first talk was given by Tapas Chakraborty complex molecules. He discussed lectin- 2+ π from the Indian Association for Cultivation carbohydrate interaction and also Hg • • • of Science. He presented experimental interaction which results in fluorescence results on these diketones in the gas phase, enhancement in anthracenyl-glyco derivatives. liquid phase and in a rare-gas matrix. While Pierangelo Metrangolo, Politenico de Milano, keto-enol tautomerism is well known in spoke about halogen versus hydrogen bonding chemistry, he pointed out that in crystal engineering. He showed that Br as γ-cyclohexanedione existed only in the keto acceptor could interact with partially positive form in the matrix and formed dimers Cl/Br/I in molecular complexes which are exhibiting C-H• • •O hydrogen bonds. Ashoka now described as halogen bonding but not F Samuelson (IISc) spoke next about weak After the talk, Guru Row mentioned that his interactions in drug design and asymmetric group has looked at cases where the electron catalysis. He presented some experimental cloud in F could be distorted leading to a results which suggested that π• • •π 'halogen bond' with F as the positive end. interactions occurring far away from a chiral G Mugesh (IISc) discussed the role of centre could still influence enantio- intermolecular interactions in the synthesis selectivity. He suspected that such and recognition of thyroid harmones. He interactions having π• • •π distance of even emphasized the role δ–Se• • •δ+I and δ+Se• • •δ–N 4-5 Å could be influential. This raised some interactions in these systems and showed discussions among participants about what their importance in the treatment of would be the maximum distance between two hyperthyroidism. Arunan spoke next about π centers up to which they could have hydrogen, halogen and lithium bonding and attractive interactions that are still presented microwave spectroscopic results influential. The first session ended with a talk on unusual complexes formed between by Ayan Datta (IISER) spoke about benzene and ethylene and also methane and understanding intermolecular interactions in hydrogen sulphide. He also cautioned against complex systems through computations. the blind extension of the hydrogen bond Magnetic interactions through multi-centered definition proposed by the IUPAC task group π-stacked molecules and the interaction of chaired by him for defining the halogen bond. one water molecule in calixarene (water in He particularly showed that X-F stretching the smallest cup) were addressed in his talk. frequency in Y• • •X-F halogen bond is not a

16 useful criterion for halogen bond as opposed (VCD) spectroscopy can be useful in probing to the H-F stretching frequency in Y• • •H-F. chirality transfer in molecular interactions. Mrinalini Puranik (NCBS) spoke about As the VCD intensity depends both on the aromatic amino acids and substrates as electric and magnetic dipoles and particularly probes of local environment and dynamics in the angle between them, it offers a unique proteins. She highlighted the importance of tool for studying intermolecular interactions. dynamics in addition to the steady state Hanudatta Atreya (IISc) convinced the structures in determining the protein participants about the importance of NMR in functions and how simulation of Raman elucidating inter-domain interactions in intensities can help in these studies. T N Guru proteins. He presented results from both NMR Row (IISc) demystified the 'pharmaceutical spectroscopy and molecular dynamics cocrystals' and showed that there is no simulation. V Subramanian (CLRI) made the difference between cocrystals and salts. He last presentation for the meeting. He also presented the crystal structure of discussed the interaction between peptides adenine without water, characterized for the and carbon nanotubes investigated by first time. He also summarized the extensive classical dynamics simulation. He presented work his group has carried out on 'halogen new results on adamentane-benzene bonding'. G Krishnamoorthy (TIFR) talked interaction. about site-specific dynamics in an RNA The last session was dedicated to discussing thermometer. He showed that a single the IUPAC provisional recommendation on the mismatch in base pairing can lead to definition of the hydrogen bond. significant differences in the fluorescence anisotropy lifetime. 7.3 Operator theory and David Capelletti from Perugia, Italy described applications how one can get intermolecular potentials Orange County, Coorg from crossed beam experiments. Coupled 23 — 26 February 2011 with state-of-the-art theoretical methods, he showed that charge transfer plays an Convener: K B Sinha (JNCASR, Bangalore) important role in weakly hydrogen-bonded The topics covered in the lectures and complexes formed between rare gas and H2O discussions were: Random Schrödinger and also H2 and H2O. Sanjay Wategaonkar operator, estimates of eigenerators of non- (TIFR) discussed experimental results selfadjoint operators, Berg's theorem and obtained from his molecular beam laboratory finite-dimensional approximation, using spectroscopic techniques. Through a holomorphic cocycles on fock space, Hilbert comprehensive study he showed that sulphur C*– modules and disc-algebras. atom can be as good an acceptor for hydrogen There were seventeen participants including bonds as are F, O and N. He also showed that one each from UK and Germany and five in many of these 'hydrogen bonded systems' young researchers. dispersion plays a crucial role. Joanna Sadlej from University of Warsaw showed how vibrational circular dichroism

17 Twenty-First presented many results (including his own) 8 in the present theory that give internal Mid-Year evidence for and point in the direction of the proposed new interpretation. In a way Meeting – 2010 this is a synthesis of Boltzmann’s and Einstein’s fundamental conceptual contributions. The entire idea found an echo In the Platinum Jubilee Year 2009, the Mid- in Rajesh Gopakumar’s presentation on ‘The Year Meeting (MYM) was held in Hyderabad. journey from Maxwell to Faraday’ involving The 21st MYM returned to its familiar venue two somewhat earlier larger than life figures at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the development of physics. during July 2–3, 2010. K N Ganesh’s On July 1st, the day prior to the meeting, a special lecture special set of four lectures on selected on ‘Bioinspired themes in life sciences was arranged by chemistry’ Durgadas Kasbekar for the benefit of teachers highlighted attending the MYM. This turned out to be a recent work in great success, being a continuation of a going from an pattern from previous years. For 2011 it is understanding planned to have a similar programme in the of the basic earth sciences. nucleic acids K N Ganesh The MYM presented two special lectures by DNA and RNA to novel therapeutic agents and T Padmanabhan and K N Ganesh, a Public assembly of nano materials. This work is Lecture by Shyam Benegal, and 21 lectures linked to Pune as the name PNA – ‘Pune’ by recently elected Fellows and Associates. nucleic acids – implies or encodes, and is at Padmanabhan’s the frontiers of research. special lecture on Shyam Benegal’s Public Lecture was a ‘Gravity: A new masterful account by an accomplished film perspective’ maker of the inspirations behind Indian presented a cinema over the decades. Titled recent and rather ‘Communications and culture: Tradition, novel way of modernity and postmodernism in Indian approaching cinema’, he described with humourous Einstein’s classical touches the standard formulas, stereotypic general relativity, characterizations and the songs and dances viewing it as the that practically defined Bollywood films for thermodynamic a long time. As he said, this ‘art form’ has limit of a basically certainly become very popular in many parts statistical theory. T Padmanabhan of South Asia, and even beyond. He also The microscopic constituents in this approach described the Satyajit Ray phenomenon and are ‘atoms of spacetime’, and the speaker its tremendous significance for Indian cinema.

18 For old-timers it Seventy-sixth was comforting to 9 hear the speaker Annual Meeting describe with appreciation the – 2010, Goa poetical content of the lyrics set to The Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting of the music in the semi- Academy was held during 12–14 November classical style, at 2010, hosted and organized by the National least until some Institute of Oceanography at Dona Paula in Shyam Benegal time ago, in our Goa. This was a return to this charming city films. Cinema, as he pointed out, is recent, a decade after the meeting in 2000 was held only 117 years old, and yet represents and there. The attendance was particularly good, defines entertainment in unique ways. It both with over 250 Fellows and Associates ‘reflects as much as it influences society and (including spouses), and 28 teacher invitees culture’. present. This MYM, the first after the series of The opening address titled “Nanotube Platinum Jubilee events of 2009, was as usual dynamo and graphene” by the President Ajay well attended and appreciated for its wide Kumar Sood described in a lucid and ranging scientific content. extremely well-illustrated manner the work in his laboratory on various properties of nano forms of carbon. This was very timely as the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Geim and Novoselov recognized their ‘ground breaking experiments regarding the two- dimensional material graphene’. In this context it was most interesting to remember that while coal, graphite and diamond have been known to mankind for millennia, the newer forms of this amazing chemical element – fullerenes, nano tubes and

19 graphene – have been discovered by humans country we need to evolve newer ways of only over the past few decades. The address thinking and strategy to safeguard our described studies which can lead to a wide security and future. variety of possible applications – drug The second public lecture by Kaushik Basu, delivery, liquid flow-induced voltages, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government, vibration sensors, inter-connects, and was on “The Role of Higher Education in materials combining flexibility with amazing Economic Development”. This talk too was strength, to name just a few. marked by a freshness and candour which The programme included two special matched the earlier one. The speaker scientific lectures, two public lectures, two emphasized the importance of science for the Indian ethos, and stressed that research was important for society going beyond economic value. Pure research needs support, applications come later. In the past couple of decades, since 1994, the Indian growth rate has been on the rise, and sharply so since 2005. From a foreign exchange reserve of 5 billion dollars in 1991, we are now at 350 billion dollars. There had been an overproduction of engineers since the 1950s, but this turned to an advantage in recent times, combined with global opportunities and the knowledge of English. However we mini symposia and 18 presentations by newly have to also realize that our literacy is elected Fellows and Associates. The public shockingly low. For growth in economy we lectures were both of outstanding interest must invest in education, particularly in and quality. The first one by C Raja Mohan higher education; the connection between of The Indian Express, based in Delhi, titled the two is immense. Basu stressed that higher “India and the Indian Ocean: In search of a education in all fields — sciences, humanities, strategic role” dwelt on the geopolitical importance of events in the Indian Ocean for the country. He pointed out that for many millennia the people in the subcontinent have always regarded land routes coming into the region – from the north west as well as north east – as the routes by which invaders could appear and threaten us. The realization that we are ‘open to invasion’ from the seas too is much more recent. Added to this is the fact that this ‘our’ ocean is ringed by failed or failing states. All this means that as a

20 economics — is important for us. Our Gross tuberculosis. That the pathogens have co- Enrolment Ratio, now at 12%, must increase; evolved with humans and thus successfully but most of our 460 odd universities are in a survive in them bad state. We need centres of excellence, leads to the the Government should support institutions difficulties of in the basic fields, and leave the rest to treatment. The private sources. There is need and space for speaker dwelt on both, we must bring the best to academics. new chemo- The two mini-symposia were devoted therapeutic respectively to “Indian estuaries” and “Stem strategies that cells in development and regeneration”. The could disrupt the adaptive mechanisms which former dwelt essentially on studies and allow the pathogens to ‘live happily’ within phenomena in and around the west coast and the host, and in the progress, in experiments. the waters surrounding Goa, all seven Among the other presentations, the great speakers being from the host institution. The contrast between K Subramanian’s account latter introduced the stem cell concept which of magnetic fields at the galactic and extra is relatively recent, and its role and relevance galactic scales and Kalobaran Maiti’s in eye problems, description of puzzles in magnetism in brain development ‘everyday’ materials was quite striking. Naba and psychiatry — an Mondal’s talk on ‘Neutrinos: A new window astonishing range! to the Universe’ dealt with ‘the most tiny A K Singhvi’s quantity of reality ever imagined by a human special lecture on being’, and with the ambitious Indian “Synergistic Neutrino Observatory, and T S S R K Rao’s mutualism between mathematical talk titled ‘An invitation to the geology and geometry of higher dual spaces’ left one physics: The case of luminescence” described wondering how a significant property could studies over the past three decades in be seen up to the sixth duality operation, developing and using a new and reliable but not beyond. The meeting as a whole was dating mechanism suitable for going back a very well organized and coordinated in all few million years. The technique is based on respects, with all events (except the dinner thermal and optical-stimulated on the boat ride!) taking place on the campus luminescence, and the accuracy is about 3% of the host institution. to 5%. Its uses in geology, human impacts over a million years, intervals between earthquakes, river floods and the like were described. K V S Rao’s special lecture on “The dynamics of host–pathogen interactions in TB infection” dealt with new ideas and approaches to tackle the re-emerging scare and burden of

21 10 Raman 11 Academy Professor Public Lectures

Huzihiro Araki, the Academy’s twenty- Some Contact Points of Mathematics and seventh Raman Professor was in India for Physics about two weeks in July—September 2010 to take up the Chair. Araki is a Professor of H Araki (Raman Professor, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2010; Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kyoto, Mathematics, University of Kyoto, Japan) Japan. He was the first president of IAMP and 8 September 2010, Indian Institute of drew up its statutes. Science, Bangalore His outstanding achievements at the interface Theoretical physics has been a constant of physics and mathematics are exemplified source of motivation for new mathematical by his work on the structure of the algebra ideas and problems, as well as a good testing of local observables and ground for mathematical its representations, methods. In return, collision theory, the mathematics has variational principle in provided theoretical statistical mechanics and physics with convenient the notion of relative and powerful machinery. entropy for infinite The theory of operator quantum systems. He was algebras is a newcomer in awarded the Henri this inter-relation. It had Poincaré Prize 2003 for his very little contact with lifetime contributions to theoretical physics the foundations of Huzihiro Araki although its founders quantum field theory, quantum statistical such as von Neumann and Segal had physical mechanics and the theory of operator motivations for their works. The Baton Rouge algebras. Conference in March 1967, turned out to be Araki visited Hyderabad during August 2010 an occasion for the unveiling of a new era. and took part in the International Powers, who was a physics graduate student, Mathematics Conference. He delivered an then presented a proof that a certain one- Academy public lecture on ‘Some contact parameter family of von Neumann algebras points of mathematics and physics’ on (technically Type III factors) are mutually non- 8 September 2010 in Bangalore. isomorphic, a startling result compared with the earlier state, where only three Type III factors were distinguished in 30 years. In mathematics, examples are usually destined

22 to be absorbed in general theory. Two general maker. As chief scientist of the National theories which exerted a much greater Steering Committee for Nanoscience and influence were distributed as preprints at the Related Technology, he initiated and Baton Rouge Conference. One was the paper coordinated a number of national key by physicists, which proposed the celebrated projects about nano S&T. He is the Founding KMS condition as the characterization of Director and Council Chairman of the National equilibrium states in quantum statistical Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, mechanics. The other was a work by a pure China. mathematician. The participants were surprised to see exactly the same equations Dharmanand Kosambi: The life and in these two papers, although they were contribution of a Buddhist sociopolitical written by authors who never knew each thinker other. The talk explained how this happened and how this coincidence brought about a Meera Kosambi (Former Professor and Director, Research Centre for Women’s spectacular development both in Studies, S.N.D.T. Women’s University, mathematics and physics. Mumbai) 18 November 2010, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore The challenges and opportunities of nanotechnology in China Dharmanand Kosambi (1876–1947) was a pioneering Buddhist scholar of Buddhism in Chunli Bai (Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences; Executive Vice- India, whose quest President, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for spiritual solace Beijing, China) through Buddha’s 25 October 2010, Indian Institute of doctrine had led Science, Bangalore him to monkhood His research areas involve the structure and for some years in properties of polymer catalysts, X-ray Sri Lanka and crystallography of organic compounds, Burma. But the molecular most fascinating mechanics and part of his life was EXAFS research on his journey from electro-conducting the rural Goa of his birth to Harvard polymers. Prof. Bai, University, USA, as a visiting research scholar. one of the pioneers Exposure to socialist ideology in the USA made in the field of a deep impact on him because he could relate scanning probe it to the working of the Buddhist Sangha or microscopy and monastic order. Also, his deep faith in nanotechnology in Buddhism attracted him to Gandhiji’s China, has been instrumental in furthering freedom struggle based on truth and non- China’s nanoscience and nanotechnology violence. research both as a scientist and a policy-

23 Chandra: Gentleman, scholar and Never reaching a stable steady state: telescope Highly dynamic patterning mechanisms Roger Blandford (Kavli Institute for and their application to chemotaxis Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Hans Meinhardt (Max Planck Institute for Stanford, USA) Developmental Biology, Tübingen, 8 December 2010, Indian Institute of Germany) Science, Bangalore 1 February 2011, Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, or Indian Institute of Science, “Chandra” as he was widely known, was a Bangalore singular scientist and intellectual. Blessed Spontaneous with formidable mathematical ability and pattern formation legendary powers of concentration he was a in biology requires scientific leader over an unequalled suite a local self- of the most enhancing reaction challenging that is antagonised astrophysical by components that act on a longer range. disciplines. Some patterns, for example pseudopod Although he may formation during chemotaxis and the pole- be most famous to-pole oscillation of MinD in E. coli, involve for his youthful highly dynamic behaviour. They can be discovery of a explained by assuming two antagonistic mass limit for reactions, one with a long range (for spatial white dwarfs and patterning) and one with a short range but a its famous corollary that black holes must long time constant (for quenching local exist, for which he was awarded the 1983 maxima soon after generation). Such a Nobel Prize, his lifetime contributions to mechanism enables minute external mathematical physics, astrophysics and even asymmetries to be detected. Reactions of this the humanities, are even greater. The range type are also involved in many developmental and durability of his scholarship was processes including pigmentation patterns on memorialised in the naming of the finest shells of molluscs, barb formation in avian imaging X-ray telescope ever launched. feathers and phyllotaxis in plants. Vignettes from his life were interspersed with a description of some of the amazing discoveries Evolution of physical chemistry made by Chandra X-ray C N R Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru Observatory. Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore) 20 January 2011, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

24 Science awarded in 1995 was 3. In 2010, this number 12 has gone up to 1300 of which, the fellowships Education availed in 2010 was 1008. Table 4 gives the subjectwise break-up of applications Programmes received, fellowships offered and availed.

Since 2007, the three national Science 12.2 Refresher courses Academies of the country have been This is an all-India programme to help conducting in a formal and well-structured motivated teachers improve their background manner a variety of programmes to improve knowledge and teaching skills. It is normally science education for the benefit of students of two-week duration and teachers selected and teachers all over the country. These are from all over the country undergo a rigorous planned and co-ordinated by a Joint Science course of lectures, discussions, laboratory Education Panel. The three main programmes experiments, and problem-solving sessions. of the Panel are: summer fellowships, During the last 12 years 90 courses have been refresher courses, and lecture workshops. held in several parts of the country on a variety of subjects: experimental and 12.1 Summer fellowships theoretical physics; experimental and This is the fifth year of the Summer Research theoretical chemistry; biotechnology; Fellowship Programme which is jointly mathematics; atmospheric science; animal conducted by the three National Science and plant tissue culture; experimental Academies of the country. The summer nonlinear dynamics; vistas in zoological fellowship programme enables young and teaching; marine geology and geophysics; motivated students and teachers to do short- tensors; phylogenetic biology; stochastic term projects for two months with Fellows process etc. During the year 2010—2011, 17 and other scientists of the country. The main Refresher Courses have been held, and a list objective is to expose them to the joy of of these courses with relevant details follows: doing science. It was started in 1995 on a A. Refresher Courses in Experimental very small scale. The number of fellowships Physics In 2010—11, 8 Refresher Courses were on Experimental Physics. These were held under the direction of R Srinivasan who was instrumental in conceiving and designing the experiments with the assistance of a group in Goa University. These experiments are useful for the laboratory programmes at BSc and MSc levels and many universities in the country have adopted these experiments as part of their curricula. In order to conduct the Refresher Courses, a user-friendly kit

25 containing several components has been 8. Law of addition of capacities, dielectric developed and these are now being constant of benzene and dipole moment manufactured under licence by a company of acetone in Bangalore: M/s Ajay Sensors and 9. Measurement of impedance of an Instruments. inductance and capacitance as a In 2010, the Academy set up an experimental function of frequency, series and physics laboratory in Bangalore. It will now parallel resonant circuits be possible to hold 4 to 6 courses in Bangalore 10. Passive filters – low pass, high pass and besides courses that will be held in other band pass parts of the country. 11. AC Bridges (Maxwell’s, DeSauty’s and Some of the experiments that can be done Anderson’s Bridges with the kit are listed below: 12. Thermal relaxation of a serial light bulb 1. Calibration of a silicon diode and a Cu- 13. Study of the lock-in amplifier and its Constantan thermocouple against Pt 100 calibration thermometer 14. Measurement of mutual inductance with 2. Temperature coefficient of resistance a lock-in-amplifier of copper 15. Measurement of low resistance with a 3. Load regulation of the constant current lock-in-amplifier source At every course, a series of lectures are held 4. High resistance by leakage to help the participants in conducting the 5. Stefan’s constant experiments and problem-solving sessions. 6. Thermal and electrical conductivity of The following is a list of Experimental Physics copper Refresher Courses held since April 2010 with 7. Thermal diffusivity of brass R Srinivasan as the Course Director. These form Course numbers XX to XXVII in this series.

26 1. (XX) Manipal Institute of Technology, Special lectures: Smart material and smart Manipal memory alloys (US Mallikarjun), Image processing 24 May — 9 June 2010 with video demonstration (KV Suresh).

3. (XXII) Bangalore University, Bangalore 15 — 31 July 2010

No. of participants: 20

Course Co-ordinator: Sripathi Punchithaya K No. of participants: 16 from Chikkaballapur, (Manipal Institute of Technology) Chennai and various colleges in Bangalore. Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), Course Co-ordinator: K Rukmani (Bangalore SM Sadique, KR Priolkar (Goa University, Goa), University) Efrem D’Sa (Carmel College, Goa) and Manohar Naik (Goa). Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), K Rukmani, BN Meera, LCS Murthy, Sarbari Special lectures: Hydrogen: the source of future Bhattacharya (all of Bangalore University), Rajini energy (Mangej Singh, University of Rajasthan), Ashrita (Osmania University College for Women, Human urine — a possible source of energy Hyderabad). (Shrikanth Korkare, Raje Ramrao College, Sangli).

4. (XXIII) Shivaji University, Kolhapur 2. (XXI) Tumkur University, Tumkur 5 — 20 October 2010 28 June — 12 July 2010

No. of participants: 26 from Chennai, Madhugiri, No. of participants: 25 from Amaravati, Tiptur, Tumkur, Turuvekere and Udupi. Arjunnagar, Aundh, Baramati, Chandgad, Course Co-ordinator: R Ananda Kumari, (Sree Gagdhinglaj, Jabalpur, Karad, Kolhapur, Kurukali, Siddaganga College for Women, Tumkur) Rayaguda, and Sangli. Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), Course Co-ordinator: CH Bhosale (Shivaji R Ananda Kumari, Lakshminarayana and Thomas University) Francis (Sree Siddaganga College), SB Syamala Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), (MG College, Thiruvananthapuram). JBC Efrem D’Sa (Carmel College for Women,

27 Goa), SM Sadiq and Manohar Naik (Goa), Kothamangalam, Kottayam, Mukhed, Mysore, KRS Priolkar (Goa University), AK Sharma, New Bombay, New Delhi, Ranchi, Talcher, Udupi. CH Bhosale and KY Rajpure (all of Shivaji Resource Persons: JBC Efrem D’Sa (Carmel University). College of Women, Goa), SM Sadiq and Manohar Naik (Goa), KRS Priolkar (Goa University, Goa), 5. (XXIV) Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), K Rukmani, BN Meera, Sarbari Bhattacharya (all Kottayam of Bangalore University), SB Gudennavar (Christ University, Bangalore). 18 November — 3 December 2010 Special lectures: Discovery of superconductivity in ternary boro-carbides (R Nagarajan); soft condensed matter covering the behaviour of liquid crystals, polymers and colloids (VS Raghunathan); (HL Bhat) Development of lasers and their application; (TG Ramesh) Shape memory effect and thermoelectricity.

7. (XXVI) Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai No. of participants: 38 from Aluva, Chungathura, 18 January — 2 February 2011 Ernakulam, Idukki, Kalady, Kolenchery, Kothamangalam, Kottayam, Melukavumattom, Course Co-ordinator: E Kannan (Ramakrishna Pala, Parumala, Pathanamthitta, Ranny and Mission Vivekananda College) Thiruvananthapuram. Course Co-ordinator: C Sudarsanakumar (MGU) 8. (XXVII) IASc, Bangalore Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), Rajini 22 March — 6 April 2011 Ashrita (Osmania University, Hyderabad), Syamala No. of participants: 27 from Bangalore, Thampi (MG College, Thiruvananthapuram) and Chitradurga, Coimbatore, Dhenkanal, Guntakal, A Gnanaprakash (University of Mysore). Guntur, Gurgaon, Hooghly, Kadapa, Ranchi, Special lectures on current research topics by Talcher, Thalavady, Vadodara, Vidyanagar. NV Unnikrishnan, C Sudarsanakumar and Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), Sarbari K Indulekha. Bhattacharya and K Rukmani (Bangalore University), SG Bubbly and SB Gudennavar (Christ 6. (XXV) IASc, Bangalore University, Bangalore), Seeta Bharati (Bangalore), TG Ramesh (NAL, Bangalore). 15 — 31 December 2010 Special lectures: Electron paramagnetic resonance (SV Bhat); laser cooling of atoms and liquid crystals (Hema Ramachandran and NV Madhusudana).

No. of participants: 25 from Adipur, Alipur, Bangalore, Bilaspur, Chennai, Chitradurga, Coimbatore, Hassan, Jalandhar, Kannur,

28 B. Other Refresher Courses: The topics of lectures were designed to introduce concepts behind fundamental branches of physics developed through the last 350 years and provide 9. Foundations of physics a glimpse into the fascinating world of modern Bengal Engineering and Science University physics. It was felt that laboratory (BESU), Shibpur, 17 — 27 May 2010 demonstrations of interesting experiments that illustrate the fundamental laws of physics would be essential for understanding the concepts. There were 36 lectures covering topics on Newtonian dynamics and gravitation, special theory of relativity, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. Demonstrations and experiments included a falling sheet of paper; the role of air resistance, and how a parachute works; the ring magnets in repulsive mode and the free fall of the system; No. of participants: 46 how a light ring connected with a string that passes over a peg drops down. Physics of Course Director: Amitabha Ghosh (BESU) rotational motion: role of critical observation Course Co-ordinator: BK Guha (BESU) and designing of experiment; movement of the Resource Persons: HS Mani (Chennai), fingers supporting a uniform ruler and the AK Mazumdar, AK Mallik (SN Bose Centre for Basic identification of the centre of mass; Archimedes Sciences, Kolkata), JK Bhattacharjee (IACS, principle loss of weight measurements of specific Kolkata), BK Guha, Amitabha Ghosh (BESU). gravity of solids using a uniform beam and applying the principle of moments; Generation The basic objective of the programme was to of sound and Doppler effect; Colours of the sky create interest in basic sciences in the minds of and stop traffic signal and the role played by senior school students by bringing a selected scattering of light; different ways of breaking group of such students in close contact with the ruler by bending; role of bending moment eminent academicians of the country. For the and the explanation for beam positions under past couple of decades, the finest elements of the bridge or flyover; the jumping ball; the role the school students have been going for medical, of measuring device; measuring voltages across engineering and administrative professions, capacitors with a multimeter and balancing three neglecting the field of basic sciences. Technology knives. and engineering have always grown in tandem with the growth of basic sciences. The edifice There were special lectures by eminent scientists of most of the technologies is based on physics, and academicians from premier research chemistry and mathematics. This programme was institutes of the city. Books on fundamentals of aimed at attracting young minds to basic sciences physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker, and encourage them to take up a career that Newtonian mechanics by AP French and 1-2-3 will promote the development of science in our infinity by George Gamow were distributed to country and thereby enrich the field of science all the participants. throughout the globe. The shortcoming of the present day school education system is that the students are supplied with ready made formulae and asked to solve problems without understanding how the formulae were developed, the difficulties the builders of science faced in developing a theory and how they could overcome them. This programme was intended to familiarize students to the process of development of physical theories and kindle interest in their minds for the world of physics.

29 10. Motivational bridge course in 11. Frontiers in atmospheric sciences mathematical methods in physics and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), laboratory practices Pune, 14 — 25 June 2010 Dayanand Science College, Latur, 1 — 26 June 2010

No. of participants: 22 from Bangalore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Jadhavpur, Kurud, Kurukshetra, Mangalore, Pune, Ranchi, Roorkee, Sawyerpuram, No. of participants: 44 Tirunelveli, Varanasi, Vizag. Course Director: S Ananthakrishnan (University Course Directors: AK Kamra and BN Goswami of Pune) (IITM) Course Co-ordinators: LV Thakare and RH Ladda Course Co-ordinator: V Gopalakrishnan (IITM) (Dayanand Science College, Latur) Resource Persons: S Gadgil (IISc, Bangalore), Resource Persons: S Ananthakrishnan, Joshi G Pandithurai, R Krishnan, GB Pant, AK Kamra, Pankaj Rajesh, Shekatkar Snehal Madhukar and BN Goswami, G Beig, JR Kulkarni, K Krishankumar Anjali Kshirsagar (University of Pune), Atul K and S Chakraborthy (IITM, Pune). Mody, Shirish Pathane (Navi Mumbai), S Chandra The course pedagogy included a combination of (Shree Mata Vaishnodevi University, (Jammu & lectures and laboratory and field visits. There Kashmir), Arvind Kumar, Mahesh Narayan Shetti were a minimum of three lectures everyday on and SH Patil (Mumbai), DA Desai, Raybagkar various topics of contemporary interest in (Pune), AL Chaudhari (Aurangabad), JS Dargad, atmospheric sciences. Laboratory visits aimed at BM Tambalkar, LV Thakre, Ajay Mahajan, giving practical exposure to participants on the NS Pimple, BK Bondage, AD Kalkote, EU Masumdar latest techniques adopted in the measurements and MR Patil (Latur). of different atmospheric parameters. The The thrust of the bridge course was mainly for participants visited various laboratories of IITM developing the analytical abilities of students and IMD, Pune and were taught about the working while studying physics. The main theme was to of various state-of-art equipment, data handling make the students aware and get them involved and analysis. in mathematical methods in physics; also to Field trip to wind power generation near Satara provide them laboratory excitement through was arranged. The participants were given a book simple open-ended experiments. The structure on “Atmosphere, weather and climate” by Roger of this course was developed to bridge the gap G Berry and Richard J Chorley. between mathematical techniques applied to physics situations and the core physics taught at the UG level. It was proved that this course will become a very good motivation for the students to choose physics as the subject for their postgraduate course.

30 12. Contemporary non-equilibrium 13. Recent advances in chemical science and thermodynamics and statistical mechanics its technological applications RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, 20 October — Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), 2 November 2010 Sikkim, 8 — 21 December 2010

No. of participants: 31 teachers from Chandigarh, Dehradun, Goa, Gondia, Hassan, Karaikal, Kolkata, Mohali, Mouda, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Ratnagiri, Vijayawada, Wardha. No. of participants: 27 Course Director: DS Ray (IACS, Kolkata) Course Director: MK Chaudhuri (Tezpur Course Co-ordinators: Anil A Bhalekar and University, Tezpur) LJ Paliwal (RTM Nagpur University) Course Co-ordinator: Amlan Kumar Das (SMIT) Resource Persons: David Jou (Autonomous Resource Persons: Ghanashyam Bez, RK Poddar University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain), Ingo (NEHU, Shillong), BC Ranu, Subrata Ghosh (IACS, Müller (Technical University, Berlin), RS Johal Kolkata), Arun Chattopadhyaya (IIT, Guwahati), (IISER, Mohali), BL Tembe (IIT, Mumbai), Sunil SC Bhattacharyya, Kaushik Das, Pratik Sen, Nath (IIT, Delhi), C Dasgupta (IISc, Bangalore), Chittaranjan Sinha and BC Roy (Jadavpur D Chowdhury (IIT, Kanpur), MV Sangaranarayanan University), A Anil Bhalekar (RTM Nagpur (IIT, Chennai), R Venkatesh (BHU, Varanasi), University), N Homendra (Manipur University), PM Gade and AA Bhalekar (RTMNU, Nagpur) and Sanjib Bagchi (IISER, Kolkata), A Chatterjee SS Dhondge (SKP College, Nagpur). (Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, Sikkim), Anirban This course focussed on nonequilibrium Misra (North Bengal University) and Sanjay Dahal thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. (SMIT). Nonequilibrium thermodynamics comprised of Topics covered: The course covered all important extended irreversible thermodynamics, rational topics in chemistry such as thermodynamics, thermodynamics, classical irreversible electrochemistry, surface chemistry, Green thermodynamics, foundations of nonequilibrium chemistry, nanochemistry, photochemistry, thermodynamics, electrochemical processes, spectroscopy, quantum chemistry, chemical quantum heat engines and finitetime kinetics and catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, thermodynamics. bioinorganic chemistry, polymer and colloid The statistical mechanical topic comprised of chemistry, organic reaction mechanism, Bayesian statistical kinetic theory of non-uniform symmetry, group theory and applications. systems, Chandrasekhar equation in chemical The teacher participants were from Adipur, dynamics, ordered disordered systems, Bhopal, Chennai, Deoghar, Dhanbad, Gangtok, percolation problems of dilute magnetic systems, Hyderabad, Jharkhand, Kolkata, Madurai, New spin glasses, structural glasses, random field Delhi, Pudukkottai, Ranchi, Sikkim, Sonitpur, systems, stochastic kinetics and enzymology, Thalassery, and Thiruvananthapuram. stochastic of molecular motors, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of liquids and dynamics of phase transitions in spatially extended systems. The participants were given books on ‘Elements of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics’ by Balakrishnan and ‘Statistical mechanics’ by K Huang. The participants were also taken for a half day excursion tour to Ramtek.

31 14. Foundations of mathematics 15. Modern biotechnological techniques Bengal Engineering and Science University Manipal University, Manipal, 10 — 22 January (BESU), Shibpur, 27 — 31 December, 2010 2011

No. of participants: 38 No. of participants: 19 Course Director: Amitabha Ghosh (BESU) Course Director: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore) Course Co-ordinator: Bichitra Kumar Guha Course Co-ordinator: K Satyamoorthy (Manipal (BESU) University) Resource Persons: JK Bhattacharya (SN Bose Resource Persons: V Nagaraja, KP Gopinathan, National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata), Umesh Varshney, K Somasundaram, P Kondiah Ashok Kumar Mallick, BK Guha, Basudeb (IISc, Bangalore), Kemparaj, PM Gopinath, Murali, Mukhopadhyay, Tapan Kumar Roy and Murari Mitra Padmalatha Rai, Saadi Abdul Vahab (MLSC, (BESU). Manipal), Shree Dhawale (Purdue University, Mathematics is supposed to be the mother of all Indiana), LS Shashidhara (IISER, Pune), Girish sciences. It forms the basic tool and language of Katta (Kasturba Medical College, Manipal). physical sciences. Unfortunately in the regular Topics of lectures: Genomic diversity and school curriculum students are taught only a set evolution; mind, body and soul; protein-DNA and of formulae and are asked to solve problems on protein-protein interactions; restriction the basis of these formulae. The approach endonucleases; topoisomerases; transcription followed in the schools does not create interest activation and termination; cytogenetics and its in the subject. The present course was aimed at various applications in biotechnology; expression complementing the school curriculum with systems; for recombinant DNA cloning; synthetic historical development of mathematical ideas life: diagnosis of bacterial cell cultures; stem and their practical applications to the world of cells and cloning; behavioural adaptations and modern physical sciences. evolution; PCR techniques, applications of There were twenty-two lectures and three classical genetics in modern biology; regulatory special lectures on rough set, fuzzy set and set RNA; human genetic diseases; cancer diagnostics; theory by M Chakrabarty, differential equations DNA sequencing; microarrays and applications: and their applications by J Das and scaling theory breast and brain cancers. by Amitabha Ghosh. The teacher participants represented institutions Topics of lectures: Maxima and minima; Fermat’s from Aizawl, Bangalore, Burdwan, Coimbatore, principle; brachistochrone’s problem; iteration Gulbarga, Hyderabad, Indore, Jhunjhunu, Mahe, on integers; real numbers; complex numbers and Malappuram, Mangalagangothri, Manipal, nonlinear dynamics; geometry in the context of Moodbidri, Narsapur, Pune, Thanjavur. theory of relativity; matrices and their applications; theory of numbers and fuzzy set; theory of probability and its applications. A book on “What is mathematics?” by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins (Oxford University Press) was presented to all the participants.

32 16. Condensed matter and statistical physics 17. Advances in biotechnology St Thomas College, Pala, 28 February — 13 National Institute for Research in Reproductive March 2011 Health (NIRRH), Mumbai, 1 — 11 March 2011 No. of participants: 19 Course Director: Tarala Nandedkar (NIRRH) Course Co-ordinator: Srabani Mukherjee (NIRRH) Resource Persons: Aditi Ambekar, Amare-Kadam (TMH, Mumbai), N Balasinor, Deepak Modi, Deepa Bhartiya, K Kadam, T Madan, A Maitra, J Mania, S Mukherjee, G Sachdev, Smita Mahale, Susan Thomas (NIRRH), A Bandivdekar, S Bhagat, Bhakti Pathak, Rajani A Bhisey, (Mumbai), S D’Sousa, R Dhumal, R Dighe, (IISc, Bangalore), S Gadkar Sable, S Ganeshan, R Gaonkar, Geeta Vanage, No. of participants: 27 from Kanyakumari, K Ghosh, (NIIH, Mumbai), P Gokhale, G Harsh, Karaikal, Kasargod, Kottayam, New Delhi, Pala, S Jacob, S Khavale, S Majumdar (NII, New Delhi), Pune, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Wayanad. Chitra Mandal (IICB, Kolkata), A Mandar, Course Directors: Srikanth Sastry (JNCASR, D Manjramkar, Meena Desai, U Nanda, AA Natu Bangalore), G Baskaran (IMSc, Chennai) (IISER, Pune), S Nuzhat, Dulal Panda (IIT, Bombay), D Roshan, C Saravanan, G Shinde, Course Co-ordinator: Ison V Vanchipurackal, S Sonawane, Sumit Bhutada, K Sushma, Shubha (St Thomas College) Tole (TIFR, Mumbai), S Varsha Vrushali. Resource Persons: G Baskaran, R Shankar, Topics of Lectures/demonstrations and Gautam Menon (all of IMSc, Chennai), Srikanth experiments: Secrets of biology as revealed Sastry (JNCASR, Bangalore), Subodh Shenoy through molecular biology; chemistry in health (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad), care Indian scenario; genomic DNA extraction V Venkataraman, Vijay Shenoy (IISc, Bangalore). agarose; animal model to access carcinogenesis Topics of lectures: Quantum mechanics; of drug; PCR technology; PCR amplification; DNA statistical mechanics; phase transitions; sequencing; epigenetic; blotting of biomolecules; biological matter; solid state physics; RNA silencing; RNA extraction real time PCR; optoelectronics and device physics; ELISA; RNA interference; proteomics; SDS-PAGE superconductivity. and immunohistochemistry; pluripotent stem cell; 2D gel electrophoresis; western blotting; cancer cytogenetic, microtubules cytogenetics and FISH; electron microscopy; characterization and purification of recombinant therapeutic proteins; protein purification techniques; chromatography and amino acid analysis facility; applications of flow cytometery; cell cycle analysis flow cytometery; HLA and disease susceptibility; cloning; cell signaling and cancer; how the brain is built; bioinformatics.

33 12.3 Lecture Workshops The Joint Science Academy Panel arranges 1. Current trends in organic synthesis two or three-day lecture workshops on Bangalore University, Bangalore, 9 — 10 April carefully chosen topics in physics, 2010 Convener: S Chandrasekaran (IISc, Bangalore) mathematics, chemistry and life sciences at Co-ordinators: VV Suresh Babu (Bangalore selected college and university departments University) for the benefit of local students and Speakers: S Chandrasekaran, KR Prasad, teachers. Speakers include Fellows and N Jayaraman, AG Samuelson (IISc, Bangalore), J Narasimha Moorthy (IIT, Kanpur), HV Thulasiram scientists from nearby institutions. Since (NCL, Pune), H Ila (JNCASR, Bangalore), inception, 206 Workshops have been held. DB Ramachary (University of Hyderabad) During the year up to 31 March 2011, 47 Participants: 300 postgraduate students and Workshops were held on various topics at faculty from colleges in Bangalore Topics covered: Vinylcyclopropane and different institutions in the country. The vinylcyclobutane derivatives; organic oxidations following gives some information on the with IBX and organocatalysis with proline; Lecture Workshops held from April 2010 to carbohydrate chemistry; domino reaction in organic synthesis; total synthesis of natural March 2011.

34 products of therapeutic importance: the Chiron based nanostructured hard and superhard approach; determining reaction mechanisms in coatings; Raman spectroscopy as a nano-bio- organometallic reactions; exploitation of technology tool. nature’s catalysts in organic synthesis; multi- catalysis cascade approach to the 4. Genomics and proteomics pharmaceuticals. Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam (SPMVV), Tirupati, 17 — 18 August 2010 2. Protein: Structure, function and dynamics Convener: HS Savithri (IISc, Bangalore) Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women Co-ordinator: DM Mamatha (SPMVV) (MLACW), Bangalore, 9 — 10 April 2010 Speakers: HS Savithri, MRN Murthy, Convener: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore) PN Rangarajan, Utpal Tatu (IISc, Bangalore), Co-ordinator: MB Nagaveni (MLACW) W Rajendra (SV University, Tirupati) Speakers: JB Udgaonkar, MK Mathew (NCBS, Participants: 103 students and faculty from Bangalore), Raghavan Varadarajan, Utpal Tatu, SV University & SPMVV, Tirupati MRN Murthy, P Balaram, B Gopal, V Nagaraja, DN Topics covered: Genomics; computational Rao (IISc, Bangalore) analysis and structural biology; protein Participants: 250 students and faculty from purification; gene expression and gene therapy; various colleges of Bangalore University proteomics. Topics covered: Dynamics of protein folding; protein stability and engineering; the amazing 5. Microbes: Health and Disease things that proteins do; proteomics; elucidation Mount Carmel College (MCC), Bangalore, of biomolecular structure; G N Ramachandran 18 — 19 August 2010 and the evolution of protein structures; structure-function relationships in proteins; Convener: MS Shaila (IISc, Bangalore) enzymes; enzyme catalysis and kinetics; protein- Co-ordinator: HS Padma and Shubha Prakash protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions. (MCC) Speakers: Udaykumar Ranga, Hemalatha Balaram 3. Nanosciences and nanotechnologies (JNCASR, Bangalore), Sandhya S Visweswariah, Dipshikha Chakravorty, Saumitra Das, MS Shaila Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT), (IISc, Bangalore) Bangalore, 28 — 30 April 2010 Participants: 200 students and faculty from Convener: Umesh V Waghmare (JNCASR, University and colleges in Bangalore Bangalore) Topics covered: Bacterial enterotoxins; how do Co-ordinator: HS Puttanna (DBIT) microbes determine shape?; lessons from the Speakers: G Sundararajan (ARCI, Hyderabad), BS failure of HIV vaccine clinical trials; novel Sathyanarayana (RVCE, Bangalore), T Pradeep antiviral strategies against human pathogens; (IIT-M Chennai), Sharath Ananthmurthy conventional versus reverse vaccinology; unique (Bangalore University), GU Kulkarni, M features of metabolism in the malarial parasite Eswarmoorthy, N Chandrabhas, UV Waghmare Plasmodium falciparum. (JNCASR, Bangalore), Murali Sastry (Tata Chemicals, Pune), SB Krupanidhi (IISc, Bangalore), MS Hegde, Harish Barshilia (NAL, 6. Advances in materials research Bangalore), Murali Kota (IBM, Bangalore) Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research Participants: 99 from colleges/institutions in (PPISR), Bidalur, 25 — 27 August 2010 Bangalore Convener: KJ Rao (IISc, Bangalore) Topics covered: Introduction to nano; Co-ordinator: AB Halgeri (PPISR) technologies based on nanomaterials; policy and Speakers: S Chandrasekaran, S Asokan, KJ Rao, funding opportunities in nanotechnology; room AK Shukla, S Umapathy, S Ramakrishnan, temperature grown nanocarbons using cathodic N Suryaprakash, TN Guru Row, SA Shivashankar arc process; why nanomaterials are interesting; (IISc, Bangalore), BK Sadashiva (RRI, Bangalore), light on cells, polymers and bacteria; AB Halgeri, Satyanarayana (PPISR) nanolithography; nano-materials for catalysis and Participants: 88 faculty from various engineering biological applications; nano-superlattices of colleges in and around Bangalore, Kuvempu and multifunctional oxides; transition metal nitride- Mangalore Universities.

35 Topics covered: Materials and Green chemistry; 9. Some topics in biophysics phase changes in glasses and their applications; University of Mysore, Mysore, 16 — 17 September current advances in ceramics; molecular shape 2010 and liquid crystallinity; building better batteries; Convener: R Srinivasan (Mysore) vibrational structural studies of materials to Co-ordinator: L Paramesh (University of Mysore) biology; novel catalytic materials; chiral discrimination by NMR spectroscopy; Speakers: Pramod Pullarkat (RRI, Bangalore), hyperbranched polymers-novel nano dimensional Shachi Gosavi, Sanjay Sane, Satyajit Mayor (NCBS, scaffolds; structure determination of complex Bangalore), Gautam Menon (IMSc, Chennai) inorganic oxides; nanomaterials from metal Participants: 100 students and faculty from organic complexes; biodegradable materials — University and colleges in Mysore an overview. Topics covered: Protein folding; how insects fly; intracellular communication and transport; 7. Organic chemistry – Explore 2010 mechanical response of cells and their shape instabilities; physical methods in biology. Christ University, Bangalore, 27 — 28 August 2010 Convener: Uday Maitra (IISc, Bangalore) 10. Recent molecular biological trends in Co-ordinators: SJ Hepziba, Riya Datta (Christ infectious diseases and cancer University) St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, Speakers: Uday Maitra, S Ramakrishnan, Santanu 24 — 25 September 2010 Mukherjee, S Chandrasekaran (IISc, Bangalore), S Sankararaman (IIT, Madras) Convener: V Ravi (NIMHANS, Bangalore) Participants: 140 students and faculty from Co-ordinator: VJ Jacob Paul and S Rajamani Christ University and colleges in Bangalore (St. Joseph’s College) Topics covered: Stereochemistry and Speakers: V Ravi (NIMHANS), Sudhir Krishna conformation; basic principles of (NCBS, Bangalore), Ravi Kumar, Latha Lakshman chromatography; amine, enamine, iminium and (Xcyton Diagnostics, Bangalore), Annapoorni ammonium; hyperbranched polymers; pericyclic Rangarajan, P Ajit Kumar, Paturu Kondiah (IISc, reactions; organic photochemistry; greening the Bangalore), RS Jayashree (Kidwai Memorial chemistry curriculum. Institute of Oncology, Bangalore) Participants: 220 participants from colleges of Bangalore and Vellore 8. Genetic transformation and transgenic plants: Concepts, applications and concerns Topics covered: Real time PCR in viral infection diagnosis; genomic sequences and cancer stem VIT University (VITU), Vellore, 7 — 9 September cells in human leukemias; diagnosis of infectious 2010 diseases; cancer stem cells; recent trends in Convener: Uma Shaanker (GKVK, Bangalore) cancer biomarker discovery; detection of Co-ordinator: R Siva (VITU) antibiotic resistance using molecular diagnostic Speakers: K Veluthambi (Madurai Kamaraj tools; principles of genetic engineering and their University), M Parani (SRM University, Chennai), applications; intratumoral immune response in I Kategiri (UAS, Dharwad), Nataraj Karaba, Rama cervical cancers. Narasimhan, Uma Shaanker (UAS, Bangalore), R Siva (VITU) 11. Modern biology Participants: 297 students and faculty from VITU Aurora College, Hyderabad, 28 — 29 September and other institutions 2010 Topics covered: Crown gall; plant based Convener: Shekhar C Mande (CDFD, Hyderabad) production of biopharmaceuticals; genetic Speakers: Sanjeev Kholsa, MS Reddy (CDFD, modification; restriction digestion experiments; Hyderabad), Sharmistha Banerjee (University of functional genomics; gene manipulation in Hyderabad), Tapas K Kundu (JNCASR, Bangalore), plants; concerns about GM crops. DP Kasbekar (CCMB, Hyderabad), Sharmila Mande (TCS, Hyderabad), V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore) Participants: 200 students and faculty from colleges and universities in Hyderabad.

36 Topics covered: Reprogramming of genetic VPN Nampoori (CUSAT, Cochin), K Murali (Anna information; tuberculosis; genes and cancer; shy University, Chennai), KPN Murthy (University of study neurospora; metagenomics. Hyderabad), CS Sundar (IGCAR, Kalpakkam) Participants: 120 students and faculty from 12. Biodiversity biome – the web of life colleges in and around Madurai MGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai, Topics covered: Basic concepts of nonlinear 6 — 7 October 2010 dynamics; properties and applications of carbon Convener: Tarala Nandedkar (NIRRH, Mumbai) nanotubes; semiconductor 1D nanowires and its applications; quantum computation and quantum Co-ordinator: DS Joshi (MGM Institute of algorithms; laser and its applications; nonlinear Research) electronics: applications of chaos; the Speakers: RD Lele (Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai); fundamentals of thermodynamics; three facets PB Seshagiri (IISc, Bangalore) SK Apte (BARC, of materials research. Mumbai); SD Kholkute (NIRRH, Mumbai); J Bellare (IIT, Mumbai); Rajani Bhisey (University of Pune) 15. Probing electronic states in molecules Participants: 350 students and teachers and molecular materials Topics covered: Diversity in human disease/ Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 21 — 25 disorder; comparative biology and biodiversity October 2010 in blastocyst development and implantation in mammals; microbial bioremediation; plant Convener: S Ramasesha (IISc, Bangalore) biodiversity in Western Ghats; macro-micro- and Co-ordinator: Ramarao Mane (Marathwada nano-technology; diversity in cancer genetics. University) Speakers: S Ramasesha, PK Das, Satish Patil (IISc, 13. Advances in chemistry Bangalore), KL Narasimhan (TIFR, Mumbai) PSGR Krishnammal College for Women Participants: 170 students and faculty in colleges (PSGRKCW), Coimbatore, 7 — 8 October 2010 and university in Marathwada Convener: R Ramaraj (MKU, Madurai) Topics covered: Introduction to molecular materials; molecular devices; probing electron Co-ordinator: A Shamitha Begum (PSGRKCW) states; organic electronics; laser spectroscopy; Speakers: D Ramaiah (NIIST, Thiruvanantha- electron states in molecules; electron states in puram); G Mugesh, S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore); solids; nonlinear optics; electron states in C Namasivayam (Bharathiar University, polymers. Coimbatore); AK Mishra (IIT, Chennai). Participants: 290 students and faculty from 16. Animal behaviour colleges in Coimbatore IISER, Kolkata, 30 — 31 October 2010 Topics covered: Photodynamic therapy; heme proteins; bio and medicinal inorganic chemistry; Convener: R Gadagkar (IISc, Bangalore) activated carbons from agricultural solid wastes Co-ordinator: Anindita Bhadra (IISER, Kolkata) and removal of organics and inorganics from Speakers: R Gadagkar (IISc, Bangalore), Mewa water; principles and applications of X-ray Singh (Mysore University), Annagiri Sumana, diffraction technique; polymorphism in solids and Anuradha Bhat, Punyasloke Bhaduri, Anindita fluorescence. Bhadra (IISER), VK Sharma (JNCASR, Bangalore), Suhel Quader (NCBS, Bangalore) 14. Recent trends in physics Participants: 148 students and faculty in IISER Lady Doak College, Madurai, 11 — 13 October and Kolkata colleges 2010 Topics covered: Why are humans nice to each Convener: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan other?; animal behaviour and wildlife University, Tiruchirappalli) management; colony emigration as influenced by key individuals: case study of an Indian ant; Co-ordinator: BJM Rajkumar (Lady Doak College) variations in behavioural responses to Speakers: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan environmental manipulation in zebra fish University), K Iyakutti (MKU), K Jeganathan populations; nocturnal sex drive in Drosophila; (Centre for Nano-Science and Nano-Technology, marine phytoplankton diversity – what do Trichy), Sibasish Ghosh (IMSc, Chennai), functional genes tell us?; coevolutionary conflict:

37 strategies and counter-strategies of brood Participants: 150 students and faculty from parasites and their hosts; a study on urban feral university and colleges in Pondicherry dogs. Topics covered: Singular integral equations; perturbation techniques; basics of differential 17. Vistas of science equations, superposition principle, linear and Aurora College, Hyderabad, 26 — 27 November nonlinear equations, partial differential 2010 equations; basics of PDE and methods of solutions for solving PDE, homogenization and practical Convener: S Chaturvedi (University of applications in industry. Hyderabad) Co-ordinator: Savitha Ramesh (Aurora College) 20. Some topics in functional analysis and Speakers: Rajaram Nityananda (NCRA, Pune), several complex variables Ghanashyam Krishna, KPN Murthy, V Kannan (University of Hyderabad), ALN Murthy (ISI, St. Josephs College, Irinjalakuda, 4 — 6 January Hyderabad), Srinathan Kannan (IIIT, Hyderabad). 2011 Participants: 275 students and faculty in Aurora Convener: S Thangavelu (IISc, Bangalore) and other colleges in Hyderabad Co-ordinator: NR Mangalambal (St. Josephs Topics covered: Astronomy with radio waves; College) nanoscience; thermodynamics; fractional Speakers: K Narayanan, S Thangavelu, K Verma, dimensions; statistics and its relevance to G Bharali (IISc, Bangalore) society; cryptography and network security. Participants: 81 students and faculty from St. Josephs and other colleges in Karnataka and 18. Spectroscopy Kerala NIT, Tiruchirappalli, 3 — 4 December 2010 Topics covered: Topological vector spaces and theory of distributions; analyticity, Convener: S Umapathy (IISc, Bangalore) holomorphicity, Cauchy integral formula and Co-ordinator: R Karvembu (NIT) related properties; Fourier transform theory. Speakers: S Umapathy, Uday Maitra, E Arunan, S Ramakrishnan (IISc, Bangalore), R Ramaraj 21. Interdisciplinary physics – some basic (MKU) and A Sreekanth (NIT, Tiruchirappalli). aspects Participants: 200 students and faculty from NIT Ramananda College, Bishnupur, 6 — 7 January and other colleges in Tiruchirappalli 2011 Topics covered: Elecronic absorption Conveners: Indrani Bose (Bose Institute, Kolkata) spectroscopy; fluorescence spectroscopy; and BK Chakrabarti (SINP, Kolkata) rotational spectroscopy; basics of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its Co-ordinator: Goutam Biswas (Ramananda applications; Raman spectroscopy; NMR College) spectroscopy; spectroelectrochemistry; Speakers: JK Bhattacharjee (SN Bose Centre, ESR spectroscopy. Kolkata), Soumitra Sengupta, DS Ray (IACS, Kolkata), BK Chakrabarti (SINP, Kolkata), Indrani Bose (Bose Institute, Kolkata), Arghya Taraphder 19. Differential equations: Theory, methods (IIT, Kharagpur) and applications Participants: 86 students and faculty from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, various colleges in Bankura 16 — 18 December 2010 Topics covered: Statistical physics; quantum Convener: KM Tamizhmani (Pondicherry physics; nonlinear dynamics; econophysics; University) biological physics; physics of nanomaterials. Co-ordinator: Rajeswari Seshadri (Pondicherry University) 22. Cognitive neuroscience and Speakers: A Chakrabarti (IISc, Bangalore), interdisciplinary approach to understanding S Kandaswamy (Bharathiar University, behaviour Coimbatore), M Vanninathan (TIFR-CAM, Bangalore), M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan Sophia College, Mumbai, 10 — 11 January 2011 University), KM Tamizhmani, Rajeswari Seshadri Convener: Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (IISc, (Pondicherry University). Bangalore)

38 Co-ordinator: Hema Ramachandran (Sophia for cancer diagnosis; significance of unstructured College) proteins in viral survival; conventional approach Speakers: Aditya Murthy (IISc, Bangalore), to proteomics; clonal theory of cancer, Anindya Sinha (NIAS, Bangalore), N Srinivasan, recombinant proteins; genetic control of Bhoomika Kar (CBCS, Allahabad), R Manchanda mosquitoes; problems of developing suitable and (IIT, Mumbai) ideal vaccines; endophytic fungi in various plants; Participants: 140 students and teachers from infectious diseases; metabolites from various colleges in Mumbai filamentous fungi; production of mesenchymal stem cells and their therapeutic application; Topics covered: Cognitive neuroscience of need for population control. sensory motor control; an introduction to EEG and ERP; analysis of EEG and design of ERP experiments; functional MRI; obtaining 25. Exploring recent horizons in chemical computational insights into neuronal biophysics; sciences social cognition in primates. Marathwada University, Osmanabad, 21 — 22 January 2011 23. Protein engineering and its applications Convener: Anunay Samanta (University of Gitam University, Visakhapatnam, 20 — 21 Hyderabad) January 2011 Co-ordinator: SD Delekar (Marathwada Convener: Shekhar C Mande (CDFD, Hyderabad) University, Osmanabad) Co-ordinator: M Anitha (Gitam University) Speakers: S Vasudevan (IISc, Bangalore), Anunay Samanta, SK Das, TP Radhakrishnan, MJ Swamy Speakers: Shekhar C Mande (CDFD), (University of Hyderabad), NP Argade, BLV Prasad TM Radhakrishnan (Andhra University, (NCL, Pune) Visakhapatnam), Sharmistha Banerjee (University of Hyderabad), R Sankaranarayanan (CCMB, Participants: 200 students and teachers from Hyderabad), T Srinivasan, S Talluri (Gitam various colleges of Marathwada University University) Topics covered: Intercalation in layered solids; Participants: 260 students from various colleges shortlived species; polyoxometallates; sol-to-gel in Visakhapatnam transformation in dispersions of layered solids; co-ordination chemistry of dithiolene and ortho- Topics covered: Networks in biology: interface phenylenediammine ligands; importance of of physics and biology; protein (enzyme) nanotechnology; polymer thin films with in situ engineering; tuberculosis; evolution of virulence generated metal nanoparticles; biomembranes; properties from common folds in pathogenic monodispersity, superlattices; nanomachining. bacteria; protein engineering in plants; protein engineering and thermal stability. 26. Frontiers in physics 24. Advances in biological sciences Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (DDUC), New Delhi, 21 — 23 January 2011 Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research (PPISR), Bidalur, 20 — 22 January 2011 Convener: Manoj Saxena (DDUC) Convener: AJ Rao (IISc, Bangalore) Speakers: Ajoy Ghatak, Anurag Sharma (IIT, Delhi), Patrick Das Gupta, Sanjay Jain, Co-ordinator: AB Halgeri (PPISR) D Choudhury, N Panchapakesan (University of Speakers: G Padmanaban, P Kondaiah, Delhi), R Ramaswamy, Debashis Ghoshal, Sanjay MRN Murthy, Utpal Tatu, R Annapoorni, Rajan Puri (JNU, New Delhi), Sudhendu Rai Chowdhury Dighe, Dipshika Chakravarthy, AJ Rao (IISc, (IISER, Bhopal), SM Roy (TIFR, Mumbai) Bangalore), MRS Rao (JNCASR, Bangalore), Participants: 314 students and faculty from NJ Shetty, VVS Suryanarayana (IVRI, Bangalore), various colleges in Delhi KR Sridhar (Mangalore University), Jayarama Bhat (Goa University), NS Raviraja (Stempeutics, Topics covered: Measurements in quantum Manipal) theory: EPR paradox and Bell’s inequality; accelerating universe; repulsive gravity and dark Participants: 50 students and faculty from energy; nonlinear science; instabilities in string colleges in Bangalore theory; the origin of life problem: some Topics covered: Recombinant products; new mathematical insights; fundamental particles and direction in research in cell biology; biomarkers interactions; large hadron collider; quantum

39 paradoxes, causal quantum mechanics and Topics covered: Analysis of gene structure and experimental tests; black holes at the frontiers function; biochemistry of protein synthesis in a of physics and astrophysics; fibre optics; pattern nutshell; miRNA and siRNA; viruses hijack host formation in granular materials. biochemical machinery; RNA splicing; molecular genetics and genomics of flower development; 27. Foundation of analysis in mathematics understanding proteomics and its applications; use of mass spectrometry in biological research; Indian Institute of Science Education and biochemistry of DNA replication; meta-genomics Research, Thiruvananthapuram, 21 — 23 January – a fascinating new area of biology. 2011 Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM, Bangalore) 30. Current trends in novel materials Co-ordinators: MP Rajan and Utpal Manna (IISER, Christ University, Bangalore, 4 — 5 February 2011 Thiruvananthapuram) Convener: SV Bhat (IISc, Bangalore) Speakers: EK Narayanan (IISc, Bangalore), Co-ordinator: SB Gudennavar (Christ University) MP Rajan, Utpal Manna, R Prakash (IISER, Speakers: SV Bhat, Arindam Ghosh, Thiruvananthapuram), KSS Moosath (NIIST, V Venkataraman, TN Guru Row, SA Shivashankar, Thiruvananthapuram), Mythily Ramaswamy, AK Shukla, PS Anilkumar (IISc, Bangalore) K Sandeep (TIFR-CAM) KS Narayan (JNCASR, Bangalore) Participants: 39 students from IISER and other Participants: 115 students and teachers from colleges in Thiruvananthapuram various universities/colleges in Bangalore Topics covered: Single variable calculus; fourier Topics covered: Superconductivity and series, linear algebra; multivariable calculus; superconducting materials; graphene – from integration in R^n; volume and surface integrals. physics to devices; semiconductor heterostructures; new approaches in structure 28. Mathematics determination of complex inorganic materials; device physics of polymer-based photovoltaics; St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, 28 — 29 January chemical approaches to nanomaterials with 2011 specific examples; magnetic random access Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM, memory; building better batteries. Bangalore) Co-ordinator: Renee D’Souza (St. Joseph’s 31. Biotechnology College) Sri Kaliswari College, Sivakasi, 4 — 5 February Speakers: Mythily Ramaswamy, K Sandeep (TIFR- 2011 CAM), Sujatha Ramdorai (TIFR, Mumbai), Alladi Sitaram, Kaushal Verma (IISc, Bangalore) Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU) Participants: 70 students and teachers from Co-ordinator: S Saravanan (Sri Kaliswari College) various colleges in Bangalore Speakers: TJ Pandian (Annamalai University, Topics covered: An introduction to real analysis; Chidambaram), Arun Kumar, VS Arun and Shyama, prime numbers; Fourier series; some examples Hussain Munavar, K Veluthambi, S Krishnaswamy, in multivariate calculus; interplay between linear G Marimuthu (MKU), S Sudhagar (Manonmanium algebra and analysis. Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli) S Kannan (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore) Participants: 166 students and faculty from 17 29. Genes, genomics and proteomics colleges in Sivakasi St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, 28 — 29 January Topics covered: Primordial germ cells and 2011 spermatogonial stem cells; the genographic and Convener: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore) the migration of Man-40 and genomic Co-ordinator: Avila D’Silva (St. Aloysius College) technologies of genographic-40; aging; biology Speakers: Umesh Varshney, Saumitra Das, Usha and behaviour of bats, cancer proteomics; novel Vijayraghavan, Utpal Tatu, V Nagaraja (IISc) regulatory network controlling transcription in Participants: 250 students and faculty from 11 E. coli; selectable marker elimination in colleges in and around Mangalore transgenic rice, structural biology of porins of salmonella.

40 32. Modern trends in chemistry Coimbatore), M Mangalraj (Bharathiar University, Lady Doak College, Madurai, 7 — 8 February 2011 Coimbatore), V Yegnaraman (CECRI, Karaikudi) Convener: M Periasamy (University of Participants: 89 students and faculty from Hyderabad) colleges in Melur Co-ordinator: S Vasantha (Lady Doak College) Topics covered: Nonlinear dynamics; Speakers: M Periasamy (University of superconductivity: lab view software; analytical Hyderabad), KR Prasad, AG Samuelson, s-matrix approach to study alpha decay of super S Chandrasekaran, S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore), heavy elements; development of nanostructured S Sankararaman (IIT Chennai) materials; electrochemical sensor, ultramicroelectrodes and microarrays, Participants: 120 post-graduate students and chemically modified electrodes — polymer-nano- teachers from various colleges and universities composites as modifiers microfluidics; lab-on-a- in Madurai chip EC detection of biomolecules. Topics covered: Stereochemical concepts in organic reaction mechanisms and synthesis; recent advances in organic synthesis; reaction 35. Partial differential equations mechanisms in organometallic chemistry; IIT, Patna, 3 — 5 March 2011 organotitanium reagents for use in synthesis of Convener: Phoolan Prasad (IISc, Bangalore) bioactive and energy harvesting molecules; weak Co-ordinator: AK Upadhyay (IIT, Patna) interactions in inorganic chemistry; click Speakers: D Bahuguna, MK Kadalbajoo, chemistry and beyond; organic reactions “in V Raghavendra (IIT, Kanpur), Phoolan Prasad (IISc, water, on water and in the presence of water”; Bangalore) principles and applications of X-ray diffraction; Participants: 93 students and faculty from pericyclic reactions; metal-mediated C-C colleges and universities in Patna coupling reactions. Topics covered: Classification of second order PDEs; pure IVP for the wave equation of one 33. Current trends in biology dimension; IBVP for wave equation of one MES College, Bangalore, 9 — 10 February 2011 dimension; non-homogeneous wave equation; Convener: HA Ranganath (NAAC, Bangalore) wave equation in a rectangular domain; wave Co-ordinator: Ravindra Reshme (MES College) equation in a circular domain; heat equation; Speakers: R Gadagkar, V Nagaraja, Usha Laplace’s equation; first-order linear, quasilinear Vijayraghavan (IISc, Bangalore), KN Ganeshaiah, and nonlinear partial differential equations; VS Acharya, Amitabh Joshi (JNCASR, Bangalore), theoretical aspects of Laplace, wave and heat Mewa Singh (University of Mysore), HA Ranganath equations. (NAAC, Bangalore) Participants: 170 students and faculty from MES 36. Emerging trends in digital image processing and other colleges in Bangalore GR Damodaran College of Science (GRDCS), Topics covered: Are insects smart?; Coimbatore, 4 — 5 March 2011 metagenomics – a fascinating new area in biology; Convener: BB Chaudhuri (ISI, Kolkata) insect plant interactions and evolution of Co-ordinator: S Umamaheswari (GRDCS) mutualism; experimental evolution; making of Speakers: PK Yalvarthy (IISc, Bangalore), PVSSR flowering stem; doing science and having fun; Chandra Mouli (VIT, Vellore), P Nagabhushan epigenetics. (Bangalore Technological Institute), BL Deekshatulu (University of Hyderabad), 34. Recent developments in physics T Senthilkumar (Amrita School of Engineering, Govt. Arts College, Melur, 3 — 4 March 2011 Coimbatore) Convener: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan Participants: 108 students and faculty from University, Tiruchirappalli) colleges in Coimbatore Co-ordinator: A John Peter (Govt. Arts College) Topics covered: Medical imaging; image Speakers: J Sethuraman (Kirupananda Variyar segmentation and edge detection; futuristic Engineering College, Salem), M Lakshmanan research issues in image processing and vision (Bharathidasan University), G Baskaran (IMSc, computing; content-based image retrieval; Chennai), CS Shastry (Amrita University, application of genetic concepts in matlab for

41 image processing; research and model in ecological services in India; anthropogenic development issues in video processing. pressures affecting elephant habitat utilization patterns and foraging behaviour in Jaccanari 37. Advances in molecular spectroscopy reserve forests; ethno-pharmacology and bioprospecting in India; snake venom and SNGS College, Pattambi, 4 — 5 March 2011 calotropis; peptidal antibiotics from frogs; Convener: K George Thomas (IISER, uncertainties in forest carbon assessment; carbon Thiruvananthapuram) estimation using field inventory; aerospace data Co-ordinator: P Venugopalan (SNGS College, and geographic information system in Pattambi) Yamunanagar district; estimation of AGB and Speakers: KL Sebastian (IISc, Bangalore), carbon using remote sensing and geographic RS Swathi, Vinesh Vijayan, KM Sureshan, K George information system in South Western parts of Thomas, Mahesh Hariharan, Reji Varghese (IISER), Karnataka; species recovery programmes in India; Suresh Das (NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram) conservation of cycads; pollinators in mountain Participants: 253 students and faculty from SNGS ecosystems. and other colleges Topics covered: Quantum mechanics; molecular 39. Graduate engineering curriculum spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic spectroscopy in development for biomass related subjects biochemistry; biological applications of solid IISc, Bangalore and Jain University, Bangalore, state NMR; is the boundary between chemistry 10 — 11 March 2011 and biology disappearing?; stimulii responsive Convener: HS Mukunda (IISc, Bangalore) materials; light-matter interactions in the Co-ordinator: CS Bhaskar Dixit (Jain University) nanoscale; structure of natural and non-natural DNA; DNA nanotechnology. Speakers: HS Mukunda, S Dasappa, PJ Paul, NKS. Rajan (IISc, Bangalore), Bhaskar Dixit (Jain University) 38. Forests as carbon sinks Participants: 19 students and faculty from University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), various engineering colleges in Bangalore Bangalore, 9 — 11 March 2011 Topics covered: Introduction to bio-energy; Convener: KN Ganeshaiah (UAS) biomass combustion devices; combustion/engine Co-ordinator: AS Devakumar (UAS) aspects/new research; carbon foot prints: CDM, Speakers: NH Ravindranath, R Sukumar and JU. Renee Borges (IISc, Bangalore), James Jacob (Rubber Research Institute of India), MK Yadav 40. Approaches to biodiversity conservation (PRL, Ahmedabad), MD Behra (IIT, Kharagpur), and utilization — North-East example KN Ganeshaiah (UAS), KC Jha, BR Ramesh, Regional Centre of Institute of Bioresources and M Sanjappa (Howrah), GS Pujar, Rajesh Gunaga, Sustainable Development, Gangtok, Sikkim, BN Satish, YB Srinivasa, ARV Kumar, Sridhar 14 — 15 March 2011 Vijayakrishnan, Padma Venkat (FRLHT), Amit Agarwal (Natural Remedies Ltd), BS Vishwanath Convener: J Nagaraju (CDFD, Hyderabad) (Mysore University), K Santhosh Kumar (RGCB), Co-ordinator: NC Talukdar (Institute of R Ramesh, Prashant Patil, GM Devgiri (College of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Forestry, Ponnampet), DK Ved, R Vasudeva, Ravi Imphal) Prasad Rao, Uma Partap Speakers: M Sanjappa (Howrah), BG Unni (NEIST, Participants: 134 students and faculty from Jorhat), JP Tamang, NC Talukdar (IBSD, Imphal), various colleges in Bangalore Usha Lachungpa (Sikkim), Syamali Chakrabarti Topics covered: Pollination and food security; (National Research Centre for Orchids, Pakyong). mapping bio-rich areas of the country; diversity Participants: 118 students and faculty from of Indian legumes; forest landscape analysis for Sikkim University. biodiversity conservation; regional scale Topics covered: Conservation and utilization of contiguity of vegetation; satellite remote sensing biodiversity; biodiversity and bioresources of based assessment using IRS P6 data; floristic Sikkim Himalayas; molecular diversity of non- composition and conservation value of mulberry silkworms; diversity of the fermented Brahmagiri wildlife sanctuary; tropical dry forests foods and beverages in Sikkim; rich diversity of

42 flora, fauna and orchids of Sikkim Himalayas; role (DBT, New Delhi), Ram Ramaswamy (JNU, New of IBSD in conservation and sustainable use of Delhi), KN Ganeshaiah (UAS, Bangalore), rich bioresources in North-East region of India. J Nagaraju (CDFD), Navin Khanna (ICGEB, New Delhi), HY Mohan Ram, SD Biju (University of 41. Contemporary biology Delhi) Jain University, Bangalore, 15 — 16 March 2011 Participants: 700 students and faculty from various colleges in Delhi Convener: Sandhya S Visweswariah (IISc, Bangalore) Topics covered: Plant genomics; current perspectives in forensic biotechnology; Co-ordinator: Vijayalakshmi Pradeep (Jain biometrics; health care innovation in India; University) biotechnology in India; plants in Indian tradition; Speakers: Renee Borges, Arun Sripati, Deepak a few things that physics can learn from biology; K Saini, Dipshika Chakravorty, Arun Kumar, mining the past for shaping the future; silk – key PB Seshagiri, Nagasuma Chandra (IISc, Bangalore) to evolutionary success of silkmoths and spiders; Participants: 125 students and faculty from dengue vaccine; life: understanding with various institutions in Bangalore uncertain knowledge – halting human-induced Topics covered: Nothing in biology makes sense; amphibian extinction. looking into the brain; looking into cells; infection biology; introduction to human 44. Prospects and future challenges in plant molecular genetics; recent advances in stem biotechnology cells; bioinformatics. GR Damodaran College of Science (GRDCS), Coimbatore, 18 — 19 March 2011 42. Advances in chemistry Convener: K Veluthambi (MKU, Madurai) PSN College of Engineering and Technology, Co-ordinators: A Malarvizhi/K Pavithra Melathediyoor, Tirunelveli, 17 — 18 March 2011 (GR Damodaran College) Convener: R Ramaraj (Madurai Kamaraj Speakers: K Veluthambi, R Usha, (MKU), University) M Ramesh (Alagappa University, Karaikudi), Co-ordinator: S Balakumar (PSN College) R Jayanthi (Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Speakers: S Umapathy, E Arunan, S Natarajan Coimbatore), AS Raghavendra (University of (IISc, Bangalore), Anunay Samanta (University of Hyderabad), PR Padma (Avinashilingam University Hyderabad), S Muthusamy (Bharathidasan for Women, Coimbatore), N Tuteja (ICGEB, New University, Tiruchirappalli) Delhi), HS Savithri (IISc, Bangalore), R Uma Participants: 229 postgraduate students and Shaanker (UAS, Bangalore) faculty from various colleges in Tirunelveli Participants: 141 students and faculty from GRD Topics covered: Fluorescence signalling of College and other institutions in Coimbatore transition metal ions; fluorescence probing of Topics covered: Generation of selectable ionic liquids; laser spectroscopy and X-ray marker-free, transgene stacked rice plants with diffractions; laser spectroscopy; molecular beam sheath blight resistance; applications of plant microwave spectroscopy; hydrogen bonding; virus research in biotechnology; ex situ studies on cyclo additions; synthesis of conservation of bacopa monnieri (L) through macrocyclic compounds. biotechnological approaches; biotechnological approaches in pest management; C4 photosynthesis: recent advances in C3 plants; 43. Brainwave: Inspiring young minds anticancer drugs in plants; MCM6 single subunit SGTB Khalsa College, New Delhi, 17 — 18 March from pea functions as DNA helicase and promotes 2011 salinity stress tolerance without affecting yield; Convener: J Nagaraju (CDFD, Hyderabad) viruses as nano particles; bioprospecting in the Co-ordinator: Komal Kamra (SGTB Khalsa Western Ghats. College) Speakers: Akhilesh Tyagi (NIPGR, New Delhi), Anil Aggrawal (Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi), OP Jasuja (Punjabi University, Patiala), Balram Bhargava (AIIMS, New Delhi), S Natesh

43 45. Recent trends in physics Participants: 119 students and faculty from Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Viswa Manipur University and other institutions in Vidyapeetham (AVV), Kollam, 23 — 25 March 2011 Imphal Convener: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan Topics covered: Genomics of microbial University, Tiruchirappalli) pathogens and discovery of new antimicrobial Co-ordinator: VM Nandakumaran (AVV, Kollam) agents; role of ubiquitination in muscle disease and function; actinomycetes: treasure trove of Speakers: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan bioactive secondary metabolites; exploration of University), ES Raja Gopal (IISc, Bangalore), Indian potential herbal sources for future new KA Suresh (Centre for Soft Matter Research, drugs; telomere and telomerase: their Bangalore), VPN Nampoori, MR Anantharaman implications in human health and disease; sugar (CUSAT), Anil Shaji (IISER, Thiruvananthapuram), plays mysterious role in diagnosis and therapy of VM Nandakumaran (AVV, Kollam) leukemia patients; living cells under the Participants: 103 postgraduate students from microscope; expression, characterization and AVV and nearby colleges purification of recombinant proteins; Topics covered: Nonlinear dynamics; liquid actinobacteria; revisiting signalling paradigms in crystals; nonlinear optics; quantum computing; living cells; glycoprotein hormone-receptor nanoscience and nanotechnology; measurement interactions; model organisms and drug discovery. techniques; Bose-Einstein condensation of photons. 12.4 Participation of teachers in 46. Statistical applications in industry, Academy meetings business, agriculture and ecology The Academy maintains a database of bright St. Thomas College, Pala, 26 — 28 March 2011 Convener: AP Gore (Pune) and motivated teachers around the country Co-ordinator: KM Kurian (St. Thomas College) largely based on recommendations received Speakers: Vijay Nair (University of Michigan, from the Fellows of the Academy. This list is USA), AP Gore, TV Ramanathan, (Pune), EV Gijo constantly updated and contains names of (ISI, Bangalore), KK Jose (St. Thomas College), N Balakrishna (CUSAT, Cochin) teachers mainly from colleges and university Participants: 103 students and faculty from departments in different disciplines. A few St. Thomas College and other institutions in of these teachers are invited to the Academy Kottayam mid-year and annual meetings every year to Topics covered: Statistics in industry; tiger and elephant counting; measurement of biodiversity give them an opportunity to attend scientific using cycle sampling; statistics and information- lectures and to meet and interact with intensive agriculture; process improvement using Fellows. About 54 teachers attended the design of experiments and Taguchi methods; applications of forecasting in business and Academy meetings in Bangalore and Goa. industry; six-sigma implementation in Indian Over the past decade, about 950 teachers industry. attended the Academy meetings.

47. Recent advances in biology Manipur University, Imphal, 28 — 29 March 2011 Convener: K Muniyappa (IISc, Bangalore) Co-ordinators: Upendra Nongthomba (IISc, Bangalore), DS Ningthoujam (Manipur University) Speakers: K Muniyappa, Upendra Nongthomba, Deepak Saini, Rajan Dighe (IISc, Bangalore), DS Ningthoujam (Manipur University), Chitra Mandal (IICB, Kolkata)

44 13 Academy Finances The accounts for the financial year 2010–11 were audited by a firm of chartered accountants. A summary of the income and expenditure for 2010–2011 is given below:

Income Plan/Non Plan Expenditure Plan/Non Plan Rupees Rupees (in lakhs) (in lakhs)

Grant – DST 618.00 Journal printing INSA/NASI 183.33 (including Current Science) 211.27 Subscriptions 72.53 Science education programmes 275.00 Others 94.30 Construction of additional floor 20.44 Deficit 0.02 Salaries 184.78 Annual/mid-year meetings 49.00 Postage 27.40 Others (maintenance of building, equipment, special publications, pension fund, modernization, etc.) 165.08 Surplus 35.21 968.18 968.18

14 Acknowledgements

The Academy’s publication activities are activities such as organizing annual meetings largely due to the voluntary and unpaid and discussion meetings and conducting services of Editors, Members of Editorial programmes on science education, etc. The Boards and the large number of reviewers generous financial assistance by the who examine and comment on manuscripts Department of Science and Technology has sent to them for opinion. Several Fellows also greatly contributed to the success of the contributed their services to other Academy activities undertaken by the Academy.

45 Table 1 Information on papers submitted for publication (January to December 2010)

Accepted Rejected Pending Total ** 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 148 459+ 96 703 K83 2. Current Science 618 1694 53 2365* K29 3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 8 50 6 64 K16 4. Journal of Biosciences 78 464 9 551 K75 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 49 450 36 535 K71 6. Journal of Earth System Science 78 171+ 43 292 K53 7. Journal of Genetics 91 206 12 309 K38 8. Pramana 195 338 18 551 L44 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 41 173 44 258 L10 10. Resonance 90 34 16 140 K30 11. Sadhana 33 153 62 248 L1 Total 1429 4192 395 6016 K340

+ withdrawn (BMS: 74; JESS: 15) * including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s figures

Table 2 Information about published papers in journals (January to December 2010) Vol.no. No. of No. of Total no. of ** issues papers pages 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 33 6 112 768 K98 2. Current Science 98,99 24 834 3534* K194 3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 31 4 17 224 K14 4. Journal of Biosciences 35 4 72 692 L335 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 122 6 96 952 L170 6. Journal of Earth System Science 119 6 66 905 K153 7. Journal of Genetics 89 4 75 632 K86 8. Pramana 74,75 12 219 2374 K178 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 120 5 54 642 L56 10. Resonance 15 12 109 1132 L54 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 35 6 52 783 L297 Total - - 1706 12638 L189

* including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s figures

46 Table 3 Circulation details of journals (January to December 2010) Subscription Complimentary Fellows & Total ** India Foreign India Foreign Associates

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 2400a 50 77 20 107 2654 K204 2. Current Science 5671c 57d 160 56 44 5988 K032 3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 1208 150 63 20 66 1507 K126 4. Journal of Biosciences 2240 76 68 99 250 2733 K161 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 1930 50 30 62 152 2224 K213 6. Journal of Earth System Science 1270 75 36 60 84 1525 K131 7. Journal of Genetics 1730 125 60 33 177 2125 K294 8. Pramana 2214 75 70 40 153 2552 K207 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 1880 75 70 23 92 2140 K173 10. Resonance 6275b 50 190 07 - 6522 K658 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 1692 50 57 34 108 1941 K218

a. Includes about 566 MRSI members in India and abroad b. includes about 2487 personal subscribers c. includes about 1563 personal subscribers d. includes about 22 complimentary copies sent to Third World Countries ** As compared to last year’s figures

Table 4 Details of 2010 Summer Fellowships Students Teachers Subject Applications Fellowships Fellowships Applications Fellowships Fellowships received offered availed received offered availed

1. Agricultural Sciences 138 06 05 08 01 01

2. Life Sciences 3902 391 331 245 32 17

3. Chemistry 1558 232 187 126 33 17

4. Physics 1002 139 104 125 55 40

5. Engineering 2880 187 135 102 15 10

6. Earth Sci. 464 115 87 12 05 04

7. Mathematics 413 92 63 44 11 07

Total 10357 1162 912 662 152 96

47 1 New Fellows (effective 1 January 2011)

Chattopadhyay, Samit National Centre for Cell Science, Pune Sp: Gene transcription and epigenetics; cancer biology; HIV Anand, Anuranjan and immunobiology Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Chengalur, J N Bangalore National Centre for Radio Sp: Human genetics and Astrophysics, Pune genomics; neurogenetics; developmental genetics Sp: Radio-astronomy; galaxy evolution annexure annexure Arakeri, Jaywant H Das, Amita Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar Sp: Fluid mechanics; heat transfer; turbulence Sp: Plasma physics; turbulence; electron magnetohydrodynamics

Gopidas, K R Barman, S R National Institute for UGC-DAE Consortium for Interdisciplinary Science and Scientific Research, Indore Technology, Thiruvananthapuram Sp: Electron spectroscopy; Sp: Photochemistry; photoinduced surface science; materials studies electron transfer; supramolecular chemistry

Bhatnagar, Rakesh Gopinath, C S Jawaharlal Nehru University, New National Chemical Laboratory, Delhi Pune Sp: Vaccine development; genetic Sp: Surface science; engineering; molecular biology heterogeneous catalysis; spectroscopy

Chandrasekhar, S Gupta, Sourendu Indian Institute of Chemical Tata Institute of Fundamental Technology, Hyderabad Research, Mumbai Sp: Natural product synthesis; Sp: Particle physics; lattice field green chemistry and theory combinatorial chemistry

48 Haritsa, Jayant R Rao, Madan Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Bangalore Sp: Database systems; data Sp: Non-equilibrium statistical mining; real-time systems mechanics; soft condensed matter physics; biological physics

Jayaraman, N Roy, Rahul Indian Institute of Science, Indian Statistical Institute, New Bangalore Delhi Sp: Carbohydrate chemistry; Sp: Probability; stochastic dendrimer chemistry; synthetic processes organic chemistry Sengupta, Pulak Kang, Gagandeep Jadavpur University, Kolkata Christian Medical College, Vellore Sp: Metamorphic petrology Sp: Enteric virology; vaccines

Shankar, D Minwalla, Shiraz National Institute of Tata Institute of Fundamental Oceanography, Goa Research, Mumbai Sp: Tropical ocean dynamics; Sp: String theory; gravity; ocean-atmosphere interaction; quantum field theory monsoons

Raghavan, K N Shivaji, S The Institute of Mathematical Centre for Cellular & Molecular Sciences, Chennai Biology, Hyderabad Sp: Representation theory Sp: Reproductive biology; conservation biology; mammalian sperm function

Rajshekhar, V Singh, Yogendra Christian Medical College, Vellore Institute of Genomics and Sp: Neurosurgery; cysticercosis; Integrative Biology, Delhi cervical spine surgery Sp: Bacterial pathogenesis; biochemistry; cell biology

Ranade, Vivek Vinayak Srivastava, Rajesh K National Chemical Laboratory, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Pune Sp: Igneous petrology; Sp: Multiphase flows & reactors; geochemistry and precambrian computational flow modelling; geology process intensification

49 Tole, Shubha Verma, Sandeep Tata Institute of Fundamental Indian Institute of Technology, Research, Mumbai Kanpur Sp: Neuroscience; developmental Sp: Bio-organic chemistry; metal biology nucleobase interactions; peptide- based soft structures

Honorary Fellows

Friend, Richard H Marks, Tobin J Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge Northwestern University, IL

Hartl, Daniel L Harvard University, Massachusetts

2 Fellows Deceased

Adyalkar, P G Gopala Rao, R V (b. 03.12.1927, d. 13.11.2007) (b. 03.12.1927, d. 03.09.2010) Elected: 1974 Elected: 1977 Sp: Geology, hydrogeology, Sp: Physics and chemistry of seismology, mining and liquids, solids and molecular environment acoustics, high temperature superconductivity, amorphous solids, theoretical physics, Alikunhi, K H fullerenes device-oriented studies, (b. 27.05.1918, d. 26.09.2010) quantum mechanics Elected: 1969 Sp: Freshwater and brackishwater acquaculture, fish-prawn annexure annexure breeding, hatchery technology, stomatopod biology

50 Joshi, A B Rama Das, V S (b. 17.11.1916, d. 03.07.2010) (b. 05.02.1933, d. 09.12.2010) Elected: 1975 Elected: 1975 Sp: Crop breeding and genetics Sp: C4 plants, light regime in C4 plants, photosynthesis

Ramachandra, K

Kapoor, L D (b. 18.08.1933, d. 17.01.2011) (b. 27.09.1916, d. 16.04.2002) Elected: 1975 Elected: 1963 Sp: analytic theory of numbers Sp: Pharmacognosy, plant anatomy, medicinal and aromatic plants Ramakrishna, Basava Sri (b. 17.10.1921, d. 12.02.2011) Laddha, G S Elected: 1975 (b. 26.08.1922, d. 30.09.2010) Sp: Acoustics Elected: 1974 Sp: Chemical engineering, chemical technology Rao, D M (b. 04.07.1932, d. 29.12.2010) Mehta, M K Elected: 1974 (b. 24.07.1927, d. 28.06.2010) Sp: Aerodynamics and fluid Elected: 1975 mechanics Sp: Nuclear and accelerator physics, nuclear science: applications, manpower development and training Rodrigues, Veronica F (b. 31.03.1953, d. 10.11.2010) Nair N Balakrishnan Elected: 1995 (b. 06.07.1927, d. 21.04.2010) Sp: Neurogenetics, genetics, Elected: 1977 developmental biology Sp: Aquatic biology and fisheries, ecology Sethna, H N (b. 24.08.1923, d. 06.09.2010) Elected: 1968 Radhakrishnan, V Sp: Nuclear engineering (b. 18.05.1929, d. 03.03.2011) Elected: 1968 Sp: Astronomy, astrophysics, Sirsat, S M aeronautics (b. 07.10.1925, d. 10.07.2010) Elected: 1975 Sp: Cancer research pathology, wound healing and regeneration, viruses and human cancer

51 Surange, K R Venkataramani, K S (b. 07.02.1920, d. 06.01.2010) (b. 17.01.1924, d. 29.12.2010) Elected: 1976 Elected: 1968 Sp: Palaeobotany Sp: Horticulture, botany of tea plant, tea culture

Venkataraman, Balu (b. 17.12.1929, d. 28.10.2010) Honorary Fellow Deceased Elected: 1975 Sp: Chemical physics Roy, Rustum (b. 03.07.1924, d. 26.08.2010) Elected: 1990 Sp: Glasses and ceramics

3 New Associates

Ansumali, Santosh Datta, Ranjan Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore Bangalore Sp: Kinetic theory, mesoscale Sp: Aberration corrected high methods for fluids resolution transmission electron microscopy, semiconductors for opto-electronics and spintronics Bhattacharyya, Suvendra Nath Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata Dey, Abhishek Sp: Molecular cell biology, small Indian Association for the regulatory RNA, protein Cultivation of Science. Kolkata translation Sp: Inorganic, bioinorganic, Raman spectroscopy, EPR and X-ray annexure annexure absorption Datta, Ayan Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Ganapathy, Rajesh Thiruvananthapuram Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Sp: Theoretical chemistry, Advanced Scientific Research, computational material science, Bangalore structure-property relationships Sp: Soft condensed matter

52 Gun, Sanoli Patil, Nitin T The Institute of Mathematical Indian Institute of Chemical Sciences, Chennai Technology, Hyderabad Sp: Number theory, modular Sp: Catalytic carbophilic forms, special values of SLS- activation, enantioselective functions multiple catalysis

Jain, Tanvi Ray, Partho Sarothi University of Delhi, Delhi Indian Institute of Science Sp: Operator theory and Education and Research, Mohanpur noncommutative geometry, Sp: Molecular biology, translation topology regulation, RNA-protein-miRNA interactions, inflammation and cancer Mukerjee, Subroto Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Shankaranarayanan, S Sp: Condensed matter theory, Indian Institute of Science many-body theory Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram Sp: Black-hole physics; cosmology; Nair, Vijayakumar S Classical and quantum gravity The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Sripati, Arun P Sp: Atmospheric aerosols, natural Indian Institute of Science, and anthropogenic radiative Bangalore forcings, regional climate Sp: Neuroscience, visual modeling, cryosphere-climate perception, object recognition interactions

Yadav, Gitanjali Nanda, Samik National Institute of Plant Indian Institute of Technology, Genome Research, New Delhi Kharagpur Sp: Bio-informatics, Sp: biocatalysis and computational biology, plant biotransformation, asymmetric stress biology synthesis, organic chemistry

Natarajan, Vijay Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Sp: Computational topology; scientific visualization; computational geometry

53 st Mid-Year Meeting 4 21 2–3 July 2010, Bangalore

A. Special Lectures 7. Pradip K Chakraborti, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh 1. T Padmanabhan, Inter-University Centre for Understanding mycobacterial N-terminal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune methionine excision pathway Gravity: A new perspective 8. S K Khanduja, Panjab University, Chandigarh 2. K N Ganesh, Indian Institute of Science Some extensions and applications of Eisenstein Education and Research, Pune irreducibility criterion Bioinspired chemistry: From PNA (‘Pune’ Nucleic Acids) to DNA nanotechnology 9. R Gopakumar, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad B. Public Lecture The journey from Maxwell to Faraday

Shyam Benegal, Mumbai 10. B S Murty, Indian Institute of Technology, Communications and culture: Tradition, Chennai annexure annexure modernity and postmodernism in Indian cinema Excitements and challenges in advanced materials research by non-equilibrium processing C. Lecture presentations by Fellows/Associates 11. P K Ghosh, Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar Case studies of recent innovations in the area of 1. G Rangarajan, Indian Institute of Science, salt and marine chemicals Bangalore Synchronized extinction of species under 12. S R Kotha, Indian Institute of Technology, external forcing Mumbai Development of new synthetic methods 2. A K Kembhavi, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 13. D Ramaiah, National Institute for Big data—is the end of observational astronomy Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, in sight? Thiruvananthapuram Design of functional molecules for biological 3. Nitin Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, applications Kolkata A facile strategy for the detection and 14. Narendra Tuteja, International Centre for estimation of cyanide ion in water Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, New Delhi A single-subunit MCM6 from pea functions as DNA 4. T Karthikeyan, Indira Gandhi Centre for helicase Atomic Research, Kalpakkam Grain boundary engineering of ferritic steels 15. K S Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 5. Amit K Patra, National Atmospheric Research Noise features in the bacteriorhodopsin Laboratory, Chittoor photocycle High-power radar probing of ionospheric plasma irregularities 16. S Chattopadhyay, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur 6. Shally Awasthi, C. S. M. Medical University, Z-box binding factor in light signal-controlled Lucknow plant growth and development Six-monthly vitamin A from 1 to 6 years of age— DEVTA trial: Cluster-randomized trial in one million children in north India

54 17. Apurva Sarin, National Centre for Biological 19. Ashish K Lele, National Chemical Sciences, Bangalore Laboratory, Pune Surviving the crash: Mechanisms regulating cell Linking macromolecular dynamics to polymer number in the immune (T-cell) repertoire processing: some case studies

18. R Madhubala, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 20. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S. N. Bose National New Delhi Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata Identification of potential biomarkers for Electronic structure of complex materials: From antimony susceptibility/resistance in clinical first-principles study to materials modelling isolates of L. donovani 21. Gautam Biswas, Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur Understanding drops

th Annual Meeting 5 76 12–14 November 2010, Goa

A. Presidential Address 7. M D Zingde, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa A K Sood, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Status of pollution in Indian estuaries Nanotube dynamo and graphene (b) Symposium: Stem cells in development and B. (a) Symposium: Indian estuaries regeneration: From the bench to bedside and back 1. M. Dileep Kumar, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa 1. Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological Estuaries - An introduction Sciences, Bangalore Local and regulated organization of membrane 2. D Shankar, National Institute of components during stem cell differentiation Oceanography, Goa Nature of freshwater influx in Indian estuaries 2. Geeta K Vemuganti, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad 3. S R Shetye, National Institute of Cell therapy for ocular surface: A successful annexure annexure Oceanography, Goa model of regenerative medicine Monsoonal estuaries 3. Shubha Tole, Tata Institute of Fundamental 4. V V S S Sarma, National Institute of Research, Mumbai Oceanography, Goa How stem cells build the brain Biogeochemistry in estuarine systems 4. Vidita A Vaidya, Tata Institute of 5. A C Anil, National Institute of Oceanography, Fundamental Research, Mumbai Goa Adult neural stem cells: Relevance to the Influence of monsoon on estuarine ecosystem treatment of psychiatric disorders

6. V Purnachandra Rao, National Institute of 5. Shyamala Mani, Indian Institute of Science, Oceanography, Goa Bangalore Impact of mining on suspended materials in Stem cells and the brain estuaries

55 C. Special Lectures 7. J. Narasimha Moorthy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 1. A K Singhvi, Physical Research Laboratory, Molecular design for manipulation of organic Ahmedabad material properties Synergistic mutualism between geology and physics: The case of luminescence 8. R Sankaranarayanan, Centre for Cellular and geochronometry Molecular Biology, Hyderabad Proofreading during translation of the genetic code 2. Kanury V S Rao, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New 9. Rama Govindarajan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre Delhi for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore The dynamics of host–pathogen interactions in TB Vortices in density gradients: Mergers, split-ups infection and death

D. Public Lectures 10. R Sowdhamini, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 1. C Raja Mohan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Distant relationships amongst protein domains Indian Express, New Delhi India and the Indian Ocean: In search of a 11. K Subramanian, Inter-University Centre for strategic role Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune Magnetizing the Universe 2. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser, Govt. of India, New Delhi 12. Sudeshna Sinha, Indian Institute of Science Higher Education and economic development Education and Research, Chandigarh Logical stochastic resonance: Exploiting the E. Lecture presentations by interplay between noise and nonlinearity to Fellows/Associates enhance computations

1. Bharat B Chattoo, MS University, Baroda 13. Anurag Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Engineering plants for disease resistance: Bangalore Challenges and opportunities Design and optimization problems in wireless sensor networks 2. U Ramamurty, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 14. Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, National Institute Structural materials for the future: The case of of Immunology, New Delhi bulk metallic glasses Hemoglobin endocytosis in ‘Leishmania’: A novel target 3. Samar K Das, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 15. T S S R K Rao Indian Statistical Institute, Metal-oxide based inorganic systems toward Bangalore practical applications An invitation to the geometry of higher dual spaces

4. Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of 16. Kalobaran Maiti, Tata Institute of Science Education and Research,Chandigarh Fundamental Research, Mumbai How do proteins misfold and aggregate? Puzzles in magnetism

5. N K Mondal, Tata Institute of Fundamental 17. Paramjit Khurana, University of Delhi South Research, Mumbai Campus, New Delhi Neutrinos: A new window to the Universe Genes associated with embryogenesis and abiotic stress tolerance in wheat 6. Pawan Dewangan, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa 18. Suhrit Ghosh, Indian Association for the Marine gas hydrates - an untapped non- Cultivation of Science, Kolkata conventional energy resource To mix or not to mix? Assembly of donor and acceptor chromophores

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56 2010

INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BANGALORE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 2011

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2011 (Amount in rupees) RECEIPTS 2010-2011 2009-2010 I Opening Balances: a) Cash in hand 37,958 45,394 b) Bank balances 15,051,486 2,875,598 II Grants received: a) From Govt. of India 89,800,200 90,000,000 b) From other sources 19,639,809 12,049,965 III Income on investments a) Earmarked endowment funds 132,601 3,402,236 b) Own funds 1,583,014 IV Interest received a) On bank deposits 1,553,289 393,033 b) Loans, advances, etc. 55,502 24,000 V Other Income 14,497,903 16,782,457 VI Any other receipts Contribution to corpus fund 359,314 110,000 VII Investments matured 8,500,000 17,600,000 TOTAL 151,211,076 143,282,683

PAYMENTS I Expenses: a) Establishment expenses 19,225,314 16,911,345 b) Administrative expenses 71,258,571 61,433,438 II Investments and deposits made out of own funds 12,745,000 26,500,000 III Expenditure on: a) Fixed assets 3,881,545 2,077,225 b) Capital work in progress Nil 11,100,000 c) Land Nil 3,000,000 IV Refund of surplus money/loans 28,000,000 Nil V Other payments 2,596,225 7,171,231 VI Closing balances: a) Cash in hand 98,323 37,958 b) Bank balances 13,406,098 15,051,486 TOTAL 151,211,076 143,282,683

As per our report of even date annexed For B R V GOUD & Co Chartered Accountants Place: Bangalore Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Date: 10.06.2011 (A K Sood) (S Chandrasekaran) (G Chandramohan) (A B Shiva President Treasurer Executive Subramanyam) Secretary Partner

59 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2011 (Amount in Rupees) Particulars 2010-2011 2009-2010 A. INCOME Plan Non-Plan Plan Non-Plan Grants/subsidies 76,033,672 4,120,000 89,183,074 4,622,500 Fees/subscriptions Nil 7,253,111 Nil 6,238,622 Income from royalty, publications etc. Nil 6,400,364 Nil 4,383,747 Interest earned Nil 1,883,944 Nil 393,033 Other income Nil 1,125,091 Nil 340,104 Total (A) 76,033,672 20,782,510 89,183,074 15,978,006 B. EXPENDITURE Establishment expenses 4,568,483 13,909,539 7,289,317 9,623,028 Other administrative expenses 67,943,763 6,874,517 74,983,786 6,355,994 Total (B) 72,512,246 20,784,056 82,273,103 15,979,022 C. Surplus/(Deficit) 3,521,426 (1,546) 6,909,971 (1,016)

As per our report of even date annexed For B R V GOUD & Co Chartered Accountants Place: Bangalore Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Date: 10.06.2011 (A K Sood) (S Chandrasekaran) (G Chandramohan) (A B Shiva President Treasurer Executive Subramanyam) Secretary Partner

BALANCE SHEET AS ON 31 MARCH 2011 (Amount in Rupees) 2010-2011 2009-2010 SOURCES OF FUNDS Corpus/capital fund 139388923 116419731 Earmarked/endowment funds 11991861 12056660 Current liabilities and provisions 7090806 8750938 TOTAL 158471590 137227329 ASSETS/APPLICATION OF FUNDS Fixed assets 74617409 56398731 Investments: from earmarked/endowment funds 10245000 7700000 Investments: others 56030000 54330000 Current assets, loans, advances etc. 17579181 18798598 TOTAL 158471590 137227329

As per our report of even date annexed For B R V GOUD & Co Chartered Accountants Place: Bangalore Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Date: 10.06.2011 (A K Sood) (S Chandrasekaran) (G Chandramohan) (A B Shiva President Treasurer Executive Subramanyam) Secretary Partner

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