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ANNUALANNUAL REPORTREPORT 2012–20132012–2013 INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BANGALORE ADDRESS Indian Academy of Sciences C.V. Raman Avenue Post Box No. 8005 Sadashivanagar P.O. Bangalore 560 080 Telephone 91-80-2266-1200 (EPABX) Fax 91-80-2361-6094 Email [email protected] Website www.ias.ac.in CONTENTS Introduction 4 Council 4 Fellowship 5 Associates 7 Publications 7 Repository of Scientific Publications of Academy Fellows 13 Discussion Meetings 14 Mid-Year Meeting 2012 18 Annual Meeting 2012 20 Raman Professor 22 Jubilee Professor 22 Academy Public Lectures 23 Science Education Programmes 23 “Women in Science” Panel Programmes 41 Hindi Workshop 44 Academy Finances 45 Acknowledgements 45 Tables 46 Annexures 48 Statement of Accounts 57 1 INTRODUCTION The Academy was founded in 1934 by Sir C V Bangalore. On the afternoon of that day its first Raman with the main objective of promoting the general meeting of Fellows was held during which progress and upholding the cause of science (both Sir C V Raman was elected its President and the pure and applied). It was registered as a Society draft constitution of the Academy was approved under the Societies Registration Act on 24 April and adopted. The first issue of the Academy 1934. Proceedings was published in July 1934. The Academy commenced functioning with 65 The present report covering the period from April Fellows and the formal inauguration took place 2012 to March 2013 represents the seventy-ninth on 31 July 1934 at the Indian Institute of Science, year of the Academy. 2 COUNCIL There were two statutory meetings of the Council Prof. T Padmanabhan on 14 July and 8–9 December 2012. Dr. S S Rai Until December 2012, the Council under the Prof. R Ramaswamy (Vice-President and Presidentship of Prof. A K Sood was in office. In Editor of Publications) January 2013, a new Council with Prof. Dipankar Prof. M R S Rao (Vice-President) Chatterji as the President assumed office. Prof. Chitra Sarkar The members of the Council for the period 2013 to 2015 are : Dr. Chandrima Shaha Prof. Dipankar Chatterji (President) Prof. Ashutosh Sharma Prof. G Baskaran Prof. R K Shyamasundar Dr. M K Bhan (Vice-President) Prof. A K Sood (Previous President) Prof. R Bhatia Prof. J Srinivasan (Treasurer) Prof. T K Chandrashekar Dr. G Sundararajan (Vice-President) Prof. K N Ganesh Prof. Raghavan Varadarajan (Secretary) Prof. Uday Maitra (Secretary) Prof. S R Wadia 4 3 FELLOWSHIP 3.1 2013 Elections Honorary Fellows A total of 431 nominations for fellowship in 1. Kailath, Thomas different disciplines were considered by the eight 2. Nocera, Daniel George Sectional Committees. Following postal balloting, 25 new Fellows were elected, the fellowship being 3.2 In memoriam effective from 1 January 2013. A list of their names The Academy regrets to place on record the death follows, while Annexure 1 gives their particulars. of the following 16 Fellows and 2 Honorary Fellows Also elected were two new Honorary Fellows. during the period up to March 2013. Annexure 2 Fellows gives additional information about them. 1. Ali, Nahid Fellows Deceased 2. Bandyopadhyay, Uday 1. Abhyankar, Shreeram Shankar 3. Baskaran, S 2. Bhattacharyya, Jagdish Chandra 4. Chattopadhyay, Debasis 3. Daruwalla, Erach Hormasji 5. Dighe, Amol 4. Das, Prosad Kumar 6. Ghosh, Hirendra Nath 5. Doraiswamy, Lakshmangudi 7. Gopal, B Krishnamurthy 8. Gopalakrishnan, S 6. Krishnamachari, Samavedam Laxmi 9. Iyer, Jaya N Narasimha Gopala 10. Jagirdar, B R 7. Krishnamurthy, Edayathumangalam Venkatarama 11. Mahapatra, Susanta 8. Lakhanpal, Rajendra Nath 12. Maiti, Souvik 9. Lal, Devendra 13. Mitra, Debashis 10. Nagaraju, Javaregowda 14. Mukhopadhyay, Sangita 11. Nayar, Bala Krishnan 15. Nayak, T K 12. Rindani, Tansukh Harshadray 16. Pati, Arun K 13. Sri Niwas 17. Rao, B Jagadeeshwar 14. Srikrishna, A 18. Rao, N V Chalapathi 15. Srinath, Laxmipuram Srinivasachar 19. Sastry, G Narahari 16. Vardya, Mahendra Singh 20. Shenoy, V B 21. Singh, Bhim Honorary Fellows Deceased 22. Souradeep, Tarun 1. Staab, Heinz A 23. Sundar Rajan, B 24. Swaminathan, Soumya 2. Stoicheff, Boris Peter 25. Tyagi, Avesh K 5 3.3 Strength of the Fellowship Fellows Honorary Fellows 1 April 2012 1001 52 Elected (Dec. 2012) 25 2 Deceased (2012 – 2013) 16 2 31 March 2013 1010 52 3.4 Fellowship Analysis Continuing with our analysis of the Fellowship, this year, we deal with the distribution of Fellows in various types of institutions and provide the distribution of men and women Fellows in various branches of science. Subject A B C D Total * Animal Sciences 21 4 15 11 51 (13) Chemistry 101 7 26 39 173 (2) Earth & Planetary Sciences 44 — 11 28 83 (2) Engineering & Technology 75 5 17 46 143 (1) General Biology 91 8 12 24 135 (17) Mathematical Sciences 51 6 19 10 86 (7) Medicine 20 9 23 30 82 (21) Physics 106 5 40 50 201 (7) Plant Sciences 8 4 22 22 56 (2) Total 517 48 185 260 1010 (72) *Numbers in parentheses represent women Fellows. A. Government-funded research institutions B. Private research institutions C. Universities and Colleges D. Others, retired persons, not from categories A–C The number of Associates who have been elected as Fellows during 1983-2013 are tabulated below: Subject Total Associates Elected as Fellows Animal Sciences 10 4 Chemistry 62 24 Earth & Planetary Sciences 20 5 Engineering & Technology 67 11 General Biology 31 8 Mathematical Sciences 37 13 Medicine 8 1 Physics 75 22 Plant Sciences 11 2 Total 321 90 6 4 ASSOCIATES 50 nominations were received and the following 10 were selected as Associates in 2012 (see also Annexure 3). 1. Agarwal, Shivani 6. Nair, Nisanth N 2. Beegum, Naseema S 7. Ray, Supratim 3. Ghosh, Sujit Kumar 8. Reddy, M Subba 4. Jeganmohan, M 9. Roy, Parthanil 5. Mukherjee, Santanu 10. Sahu, Kirti Chandra 5 PUBLICATIONS 5.1 Journals 5.2 Special issues of journals The following journals continue to be published Several journals brought out special issues of by the Academy: topical importance. A description of these follows: 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 2. Current Science (in association with Special Issue on Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences) Conference on Symmetries in Gauge 3. Journal of Astrophysics and Theories – Pertaining to the Work of Astronomy Raymond Stora 4. Journal of Biosciences Guest Editors: Luis 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences Alvarez-Gaumé, 6. Journal of Earth System Science Fawzi Boudjema and 7. Journal of Genetics Paul Sorba 8. Pramana – Journal of Physics Pramana, Vol. 78, No. 9. Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences 6, June 2012, pp. 10. Resonance – Journal of Science 835–978 Education 11. Sadhana – Academy Proceedings of Engineering Sciences The event to celebrate Journal-wise information on papers submitted for the 80th birthday of Raymond Stora, the great publication, the number of pages published and physicist, the authentic humanist and a most circulation figures of journals for the calendar year honourable friend, took place in Annecyle-Vieux 2012 are given in Tables 1–3 (see pages 46–47). on 8 July 2011, a few months after the official 7 date. About one-hundred colleagues and friends Nucleic Acids in Disease and Disorder: were present on this special day. Understanding the Language of Life This special issue comprises the scientific Emerging from the “ABC” of DNA contributions presented on this occasion by some Guest Editors: Manju of Raymond’s distinguished colleagues. Bansal, B Jayaram Raymond Stora has played a key role in the and Aditya Mittal development of gauge theories, which are the Journal of pillars of our modern and most successful Biosciences, Vol. 37, formulation of the fundamental interactions. The No. 3, July 2012, pp. discovery of the BRS symmetry has had not only 375–577 an impact on the renormalization of the standard model of particle physics but also repercussions “Albany 2011: on many other fields of theoretical physics. Conversation 17” was held in June 2011 at Raymond’s genius is to be found also in his SUNY, Albany – a remarkable gathering in a series approach to a variety of subjects, ranging from organized by Professor Ramaswamy Sarma since their very formal and mathematical aspects to the first meeting held 39 years ago at SUNY, more down-to-earth phenomenology. Raymond Albany. As with all Albany gatherings, the 17th has been awarded numerous honours in France Conversation had several elements of excitement and several international scientific prizes. He is in the discussions on biomolecular structure and truly a living encyclopedia we have been most dynamics. fortunate to have around us, a scholar who has always provided help and advice to colleagues and One of the highlights of the 17th Conversation was students. So many theorists, of all ages, have been the Beveridge celebration – to celebrate the and still are amazed by his swiftness in grasping achievements of the living legend Professor David the problems submitted to him, by his infrared Beveridge, a pioneer in computational biology, judgment in detecting an error, a misinterpretation DNA structure and dynamics in particular. One or a bad formulation, as well as by his eagerness of Beveridge’s major contributions has been the and skill in solving those problems. monumental effort of setting up of the Ascona B- DNA Consortium (ABC) – a global collection of These scientific and human qualities were also scientists working with a focus on an identified helpful and much appreciated in the many aspect of computationally understanding DNA positions of responsibility Raymond occupied at structure and dynamics. This concept has been various national and international levels. Some extremely successful in solving large computational scientists deserve the term of humanists, and that problems, overcoming the limited computing is definitely the case with Raymond.