ANNUALANNUAL REPORTREPORT 2012–20132012–2013

INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ADDRESS

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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. (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. (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 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. Indeed, capacities available with individual researchers, Raymond’s interests are not limited to physics and by dividing the problems into smaller sets that can mathematics: he reads Latin, he loves the arts, be solved using local computing resources. It has books – particularly those of the sixteenth century, not only “networked” independent computing as they were first published – but his main concern environments, but has created a growing global certainly lies in human beings and the realization collaborative setup for research. of their potential.

8 has had, and continues to have, a rich history and dynamics of nucleic acids and to provide a of contributions in the field of protein structure and platform to invoke interest in young researchers. dynamics, from collagen work of Ramachandran A key element was to also try to highlight the with Gopinath Kartha and subsequently Manju importance and imperative requirement of creating Bansal to crystallographic works of Vijayan and a collaborative network inspired by the success of colleagues to the more recent work of Mittal and ABC, especially within the Indian scientific Jayaram – a testament to which are the ongoing community. A perfect avenue for executing the and planned Golden Jubilee celebrations for above plan was provided by the newly established Professor GN Ramachandran’s seminal work on Kusuma School of Biological Sciences at IIT Delhi. protein conformations. A somewhat lesser Thus evolved an international conference on appreciated fact in the Indian scientific community, “Nucleic acids in disease and disorder”, organized however, is the role of Indian scientists, again by the Kusuma School of Biosciences in initiated by Ramachandran’s group, in association with Supercomputing Facility for contributing towards developing our current Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, from 7 understanding of DNA structure. Somehow this to 9 December 2011 at IIT Delhi. The programme has led to a slower growth in the number of provided an excellent opportunity to the students researchers in India being interested in, and and the scientific community to discuss the latest contributing towards, understanding the structure developments in the diverse issues pertaining to and dynamics of nucleic acids compared to the the structure, dynamics, stability, interaction and exponential increase in researchers working on function of nucleic acids. protein structure and dynamics. In fact, the DNA About 150 participants from all over India, in community in India is relatively quite small, and addition to the distinguished speakers from abroad, has not met in years for a focused discussion – attended the meeting. This special issue comprises evidenced by the fact that most young researchers the proceedings of this conference. in India are not aware that the first discoveries of the left-handed DNA structure, while being simultaneously explored by American scientists, Special Issue on Genomics and happened in India in the late 1970s. Further, several Biodiversity early efforts towards exploring structure and Guest Editors: dynamics of nucleic acids have not been followed Ramesh K Aggarwal, up. More recently, while contributions such as Rajeev K Varshney NuParm, Chemgenome, PreDDicta and and K Thangaraj PROMBASE have been received well Journal of internationally, they are yet to percolate into the Biosciences, Volume Indian scientific community. Essentially there is a 37, No. 5, November requirement to enthuse bright young investigators 2012, pp. 807–920 in India to pursue research in structural and functional aspects of nucleic acids. A three-day international symposium on Thus, an idea was mooted to host the next ABC “Genomics and Biodiversity” was held in meeting at IIT Delhi. The essential goal was to Hyderabad, India, from 23 to 25 February 2011. gather Indian scientists working on the structure

9 The symposium was jointly organized by ADNAT linked to agronomically important traits with the (Association for Promotion of DNA Fingerprinting help of high-throughput genotyping methods. The and other DNA technologies) and CCMB (Centre next two articles (Martin W Ganal et al. and Robert for Cellular and Molecular Biology), as part of the J Henry et al.) provide simple but comprehensive 15th Annual Convention of ADNAT at CCMB. reviews of the genomic approaches that have Justifying the theme of the symposium, the talks greatly accelerated the pace of “molecular marker covered a rich diversity of research areas, discovery” and the development of large genome- organized into six sessions, namely, Genomics wide SNP arrays, followed by their potential Platforms and Technologies, Characterization of applications in characterization of genetic Biodiversity, Genomics for Harnessing resources, creation of high-density linkage maps Biodiversity, Genomics for Diversity, Disease and and also in association studies. As a step forward, Health, Conservation of biodiversity, and the next three articles inform us about how the Biodiversity Studies in Challenging Scenarios. genomics approaches/molecular markers can help Overall, there were 23 invited talks by eminent us in understanding the origin/evolution of the vast scientists from India and eight other countries germplasm resources, and also in their meaningful (Germany, UK, Australia, Singapore, Republic of management, preservation and utilization. The Korea, USA, Colombia and Kenya); six short article by BM Prasanna traces the centre of origin presentations by young researchers, and a panel of maize and migratory routes of maize discussion by scientists and social stakeholders on domestication using molecular markers on diverse “Genomics, Untapped Biodiversity, GMOs and germplasm, and emphatically brings out the need Socio-Environmental Concerns”. The meeting was for high-throughput precision phenotyping as a attended by a large number of researchers and prerequisite to exploit the genetic resources for students from across the country and also by the desirable variability. In their article, MY Kim et al. members of the ADNAT society. describe how whole genome sequencing of diverse germplasm can aid in identifying QTLs governing The presentations included in this special issue complex traits by comparative genomics provide a broad glimpse of the variety of scientific approach, exemplifying it with their identification enquiry into various facets of biodiversity of 118 genes involved in flowering pathway in exploration. The first three articles discuss the soybean. In the following article, Andreas Börner advancement in recent genomic platforms that aid et al. discuss the fate of genetic integrity of long- in the discovery and development of molecular term stored germplasms that differ in their modes markers, which in turn are expected to dramatically of reproduction, and highlight the need for shift the efficiency of molecular breeding to a higher integrating molecular markers in the management level in plants. These should serve as simple primers of large ex situ genebanks. In concert with crop for young researchers venturing into the field. The plants, there is an equal need for healthy livestock article by Rajeev K Varshney et al. provides the for sustainable agriculture. In the following article, success story of the development of genetic Emily L Clark and Damer P Blake review the resources (thousands of SSRs and SNPs) in legume genomics-based population-level approaches that crops through next-generation sequencing, and have accelerated the pace of mapping genomes their use in developing comprehensive genetic of parasitic organisms, taking the example of maps and identification of candidate markers

10 coccidial protozoans that cause diseases of severe Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry importance in both medical and veterinary fields (MTIC-XIV) (the genomic information of protozoans is Guest Editor: K C expected to help in developing vaccines using Kumara Swamy reverse-genetic tools). The next two articles turn Journal of Chemical the focus from plant/agriculture biodiversity to Sciences, Vol. 124, faunal biodiversity. In the first of these articles, No. 6, November Andrea Paz and Andrew J Crawford discuss the 2012, pp. 1137–1450 use of DNA barcoding-based rapid inventories of sympatric diversity among frogs, and highlight the importance of sampling approach (from clade- This special issue based sampling to geographically focused comprises sampling) to answer questions related to macro- contributions from invited speakers of the ecology and community phylogenetics. Fourteenth Symposium on Modern Trends in Subsequently, Jan Janecka et al. throw light on Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XIV) held at the the astonishing fact that the rates of molecular and during 10–13 December morphological evolution is highly decoupled and 2011. The MTIC series of biennial symposia have suggest from their findings that insertions and been an important forum for inorganic chemists deletions in the functional regions (that brings of the country to focus on the current status as about phenotypic divergence) probably arise and well as the future developments in the frontier areas fix faster than the rate of neutral substitution in of research in this discipline. The topics covered the genome. In the end, the focus shifts to the most in this issue span a diverse range from bioinorganic studied animal species, Homo sapiens, which chemistry to materials chemistry, encompassing diversified extensively since it originated in Africa the traditional areas of coordination chemistry, about 200,000 years ago. In this last article, main group chemistry and organometallic Rakesh Tamang et al. review the complex genetic chemistry. origin of Indian populations and the driving forces that led to the current high-level diversity, as revealed by mitochondrial, Y-chromosomal and autosomal DNA marker analysis of around 20,000 individuals across India. The review highlights the fact that the contemporary Indian populations are the descendents of the very first modern humans who ventured the journey of Out-of-Africa about 60,000 years ago. It is hoped that this special issue will initiate many youngsters in the area of applied genomics to conserve/manage our natural biological resources/wealth.

11 Proceedings of the 25th International from the Tevatron at Fermilab, USA, with those Symposium on “Lepton–Photon from the LHC. Interactions at High Energies (Lepton – Latest results from the T2K experiment from Japan, Photon 2011)” Parts I and II the OPERA experiment from Europe and the Editors: Rohini MINOS experiment from the USA, which had also Godbole and Naba K detected the appearance of neutrinos through Mondal oscillations in terrestrial neutrino beams, were Pramana, Vol. 79, announced. The possible observation of a nonzero neutrino mixing angle θ , reported in the “hot topic Nos. 4 & 5, October 13 and November 2012, session”, has now in fact been confirmed beyond pp. 511–1364 any doubt. The Planck Space Observatory had collected a large amount of data of the “cosmic microwave This special issue of background radiation” that pervades the Universe Pramana – Journal of Physics comprises the and is a relic from the very beginning of time. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium Irregularities, or “anisotropies”, in this radiation on “Lepton – Photon Interactions at High Energies carry important information about the early (Lepton–Photon 2011)”. This conference covered Universe and the subsequent formation of stars theoretical and experimental aspects of elementary and galaxies. The participants had the benefit of particle physics with plenary talks covering the learning about the latest developments from the current results, developments and provided a vista fascinating space probe. of the future. The conference dealt with the latest results from accelerator experiments as well as space-bound and deep underground laboratories, 5.3 Report on publications studying neutrinos, dark matter and cosmic rays. The 5-year Co-publication Agreement with This was the first international meeting in which Springer for all journals has been in effect during the results from (LHC), 2012–2013. The number of full-text downloads for obtained with the two detectors ATLAS and CMS, all ten journals on SpringerLink continued their designed to search for the Higgs boson and for upward trend. Some of the download figures for new particles beyond the Standard Model such as 2012–2013 are given in the following table: supersymmetric particles were announced for the first time by representatives of these collaborations. In addition, results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the USA were presented on the “quark-gluon plasma” formed at the extremely high pressures and temperatures, reached in the heavy ion collisions, providing key insights into the behaviour of matter under conditions similar to those at the birth of the Universe. The conference gave a unique opportunity to compare the data

12 Journal Downloads Downloads 2012–2013 2011–2012 Bulletin of Materials Science 94495 71676 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 8031 6420 Journal of Biosciences 78520 41392 Journal of Chemical Sciences 48414 40667 Journal of Earth System Science 26045 22947 Journal of Genetics 24927 18956 Pramana – Journal of Physics 50383 46707 Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences 32747 28497 Resonance – Journal of Science Education 34078 45159 Sadhana – Engineering Sciences 31504 36587

REPOSITORY OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF 6 ACADEMY FELLOWS

The number of records (publications) listed in the The Repository is at http://repository.ias.ac.in. Repository has crossed 90,000, and full text files Repository content can be viewed by year, by are available for over 20,000 of them. The work subject (sectional committee name), and by of updating the Repository happens continuously, Fellow name (names as in Academy Year Book). and records are added when found or sent to the Academy office by Fellows.

13 7 DISCUSSION MEETINGS

7.1 Electronic, Optical and The topics of the meeting ranged from organic Magnetic Molecular Materials: molecular systems to inorganic molecular systems; Experiments and Modelling from experiments to theory and modeling; and from Orange County, Coorg pure research to device fabrications. There were 25–28 November 2012 four lectures on theoretical aspects of modelling electronic, optical and magnetic properties. These Convener: S Ramasesha (IISc, Bangalore) ranged from theoretical designs of molecular The discussion meeting “Electronic, Optical and multiferroics, paradigms for obtaining large third- Magnetic Molecular Materials: Experiments and order nonlinear responses, modelling molecules for Modelling” was held in Orange County, Coorg, solar energy storage and multiscale modelling for from 25 to 28 November 2012. There were, in all, supramolecular assemblies. There were three talks 23 participants of which 14 participants made oral on molecular magnetism, spanning spin state presentations and 8 participants presented a total transition systems for device applications, design of 9 posters. There were five scientist participants of high-anisotropy molecular magnets and design with affiliations outside India – two French, a of single-chain magnets using phosphorous as Japanese, a Chinese and an American. The linkers between magnetic ions. There were three participants also included 8 students/fresh post- talks on the synthesis of organic molecular systems doctoral researchers and 5 women scientists. for device applications and enhanced nonlinear The oral presentations were scheduled for 45 optical response. There were two talks on organic minutes, but often because of lively discussions, molecular devices for solar and display they extended to a little under an hour. The applications and two talks on nanomaterials and interesting poster session was on the 26th and was their optical responses in the presence of protein very encouraging for young researchers. There aggregation and transition metal dopants. were also many one-on-one discussions outside There were cultural programmes, bird watching, the scheduled lectures and posters. and village and plantation tours organized for the participants.

14 7.2 Inositide Signalling in Health This meeting discussed multiple aspects of and Disease inositide signalling. Several speakers presented new Orange County, Coorg advances in understanding the biochemical 28 November – 2 December 2012 reactions that underpin inositide signalling as well as the spatial organization of these with living cells. Convener: Gaiti Hasan (NCBS, Bangalore) A notable highlight was exciting new insights into An international workshop on “Inositide signalling the regulation of phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase in health and disease” was held between 28 (PI3K) enzyme activity via RasGTPase family November and 2 December 2012 at Orange members. Fundamental mechanistic insights into County, Coorg, sponsored by the Indian Academy the altered regulation of PI3K enzymes through of Sciences and the National Centre for Biological structural studies using deuterium exchange were Sciences. The workshop was organized by Gaiti presented. These new structural insights offer a Hasan and Raghu Padinjat (NCBS), Phillip mechanistic explanation for understanding how Hawkins (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK) mutations in PI3K enzymes result in enhanced and John York (Vanderbilt University, USA). The activity that is now clearly linked to cell proliferation meeting featured a cast of around 20 international and cancer. speakers working at the leading edge of research Also presented was an exciting new study into the in this field presenting new and mainly unpublished localization and regulation on phosphatidylinositol findings. The meeting was also attended by 30 PhD 4 kinase (PI4K) in mammalian cells. Many cell students and post-doctoral fellows mainly from signalling reactions that depend on inositides are India and from other parts of the world. These triggered by the activity of enzymes that use participants presented their most recent research PI(4,5)P2 as a substrate. However, there has been during interactive poster sessions. Finally, in a long-standing mystery surrounding the addition to the formal sessions, substantial time mechanism by which the levels of PI(4,5)P2 are was set aside for informal discussions, and new maintained within cells. Spatially regulated activity collaborations were forged at this meeting. of PI4K is critical for this process.

15 Speakers presented multiple new data sets on the z fabrication and fracture of 3-D structures, such regulation and function of the most recently as nano-honeycombs and metamaterial discovered and enigmatic member of the architectures through a combination of phosphinositide family, namely, lithography and electrochemistry phosphatidylinositol 5 phosphate (PI5P). These z void nucleation in metallic glasses included new insights into the function of enzymes z the use of dynamic nanoindentation to obtain that produce PI5P, a novel role for PI5P in information on creep and adhesion at room and regulating Pin1 function in the mammalian nucleus elevated temperatures and new roles for the regulation of cell growth through interactions with the TOR kinase. z shape memory alloys z instrumentation used for small-scale uniaxial and bend testing 7.3 Mechanical Properties of Small Scale Systems z cyclic deformation effects when microstructural and sample length scales overlap Orange County, Coorg 24–28 February 2013 z thermal barrier coatings Convener: Vikram Jayaram (IISc, Bangalore) z intrinsic stresses in thin films and their management in GaN-based systems This workshop, fourth in a series that began in 2004, was held at Orange County for the first time. z the coupling of electric fields and mechanical In contrast to earlier versions, the participation stresses in interconnects used in semiconductors was restricted to those actively working in the area z micro-mechanical systems based on superalloys of small-scale deformation and included, in for high temperatures addition to 14 invited lectures of 45 minutes from z topology optimisation and fabrication of experts, 14 shorter oral and 8 poster contributions microsystems from young scientists in India, spread across three z fundamentals of interfacial fracture toughness. and a half days. Lead lectures from India, Germany, USA and Hong Kong set the tone for Contributed talks from scientists at IIT-B, IIT-K, IIT- every session and covered different aspects of M, Hysitron, ISRO, DMRL, CGCRI, University of mechanical response including: Hyderabad, ARCI and IISc covered on-going research of scientists and young faculty in the z the role of sample size and microstructural scale above areas as well as in polymeric thin films and in plasticity and fracture

16 moleculardynamics simulations of deformation Each item of the agenda was discussed in great and indentation fracture of brittle materials and detail. The recommendations of the meeting will coatings. Talks were accompanied by extensive, be taken up with the Government of India, State lively discussions which continued informally into Governments, KV Sangathan and groups of the ample free time that was made available. mathematicians interested in mathematics education. One important aspect of the meeting was the interest shown (and also confirmed later 7.4 School Mathematics after the meeting) by the Azim Premji University Orange County, Coorg in working jointly with this group of 28 February – 2 March 2013 mathematicians on teachers training. It was also Convener: Phoolan Prasad (IISc, Bangalore) interesting to note the valuable work initiated by the SCERT in nurturing mathematics in schools from the 6th standard, which may be followed by other states.

7.5 Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy – Brainstorming Session Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 15 March 2013

The meeting was organised by the Ramanujan The Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Mathematical Society (RMS) and was hosted by Policy 2013 was unveiled by the Prime Minister, the Indian Academy of Sciences. This meeting was Dr. Manmohan Singh on 3 January 2013 during attended by Prof. MS Raghunathan, President of the centenary session of the Indian Science RMS, Prof. Phoolan Prasad, Editor-in-Chief of the Congress in Kolkata. A policy document on RMS series of Little Mathematical Treasures (LMT); Science, Technology and Innovation Policy was Editorial Board members of LMT and Prof. P made available in the public domain thereafter. Shankaran as a representative of the Joint Science The Department of Science and Technology (DST) Education Panel of the three science academies. initiated a national consultation with different The other invitees to the meeting were some school/ college teachers, a member of the Azim Premji University, a Research Officer of Kerala SCERT and a representative of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of India. The agenda of the discussion meeting was (i) Creation of an all India cadre of school teachers (along the lines of services like IAS or IPS); (ii) Nurture programme for mathematics teachers; (iii) National level programme of quality mathematics education for bright students in schools.

17 stakeholders to elicit inputs on implementation perspectives on the policy document based on their and operationalisation of specific measures and rich experiences, accomplishments and mechanisms enunciated in the policy. The DST contributions to science and technology activities proposed to conduct 10 brainstorming sessions in the country. across India. The session saw a large gathering of Fellows, senior One such session was held in Bangalore under scientists, academicians, students and others. The the auspices of the Indian Academy of Sciences speakers discussed recommendations in various on 15 March 2013 at Indian Institute of Science, areas including public health, public–private Bangalore. The speakers – Prof. Roddam partnership, and reforms in education and Narasimha, Prof. D Balasubramanian, Prof. K innovation. VijayRaghavan, Prof. TV Ramakrishnan and A set of recommendations on STI Policy Prof. KN Ganesh – presented their views and Implementations was submitted to DST.

8 MID-YEAR MEETING 2012

The twenty-third Mid-Year Meeting of the Academy The main meeting included two Special Lectures, was held at Bangalore during July 13 and 14, 2012. one Public Lecture and twenty-one short Since the past six years or so, it has been a tradition presentations by Fellows and Associates. Listening to invite selected college and university teachers to them all, one picks up little bits and pieces of to attend the Academy meetings as its guests. information which stay in the mind. A more Special programmes are organized on the day detailed account than the present one has prior to the main meeting, for the appeared in Current Science benefit of teachers. In 2011, a half- (Volume 103, September 25, day seminar in the earth sciences 2012, page 616). Ashutosh was put together by Nibir Mandal Sharma’s special lecture was in and Vinayachandran, and this the general area of new materials year they enlarged it to cover the for device applications in the interface and overlaps between nanoscience domain. The earth and life sciences. It resulted processes involved are physically, in a very educative experience, not chemically, driven. Self- hopefully encouraging teachers to organization is to be distinguished spread new ways of stressing from self-assembly – they are interdisciplinary approaches. opposites! Ashutosh Sharma

18 Chandrima Shaha’s special lecture was devoted Utpal Sarkar spoke about the now withdrawn to the subject of reports that neutrinos travel faster than light, and apoptosis or cell commented that if true, these particles from the death. Of the nearly 1987 supernova event would have reached us four one hundred trillion years before photons did! The talk by Balakrish cells in our body, we Nair on the practical problems of creating and lose some one hundred making available vaccines for major illnesses was billion each day! Cell quite heartrending. His subject was cholera, and death is essential for this sentence stands out from his excellent talk: life, strange as it may “Cholera is a classic example of the failure of sound, and it has translating information generated through basic developed under the scientific inquiry to the prevention, diagnosis, and guidance of treatment of human disease. How can this evolutionary forces. situation be reversed in India?” Even licensing of

Chandrima Shaha One was reminded a vaccine is a new research beginning. that at the other end of M Rajeevan’s talk on “Long-term variations of the scale, even stars are born and eventually die! droughts over India” took us back to an ever- Mahesh Rangarajan’s public lecture carried the present problem we face in our country. For a long title “Making spaces for nature: Science, politics time, drought predictions were “kept secret”; may and the environment in an emerging economy”. It be things are easing now. He contrasted statistical dealt with the particularly difficult problems which versus dynamical approaches to making reliable a country like India has to deal with in saving predictions; clearly, one has to move towards the natural habitats while facing population and latter in time. The earlier 16 parameter statistical developmental pressures. On a world perspective, model failed from 1994 onwards, and actually we have grown from some 50 nations in 1900 to missed the droughts of 2002 and 2004. Normally, about 200 now, thanks to the breakup of many 70 to 90 per cent of the monsoon rainfall occurs empires. From 1900 to 2000 the global GDP has during June to September, and a deficit of 10 per increased 14-fold. Somehow historians seem able cent means a drought. Drought frequencies over to not lose heart in witnessing day-to-day tragedies parts of the country have been increasing. A new which overwhelm most others; they seem to have index proposed by Rajeevan and others may help the right perspectives on problems. As follow and analyse events better. the speaker recalled, when Andre The attendance at this Mid-Year Malraux asked Chairman Mao for his Meeting was, as always, assessment of the French Revolution, encouraging, with about 230 Mao replied that it was still too soon Fellows and Associates, and to decide! With eloquence and insight, many students and teachers from Rangarajan made us believe that local institutions and the general finally we may succeed in solving our public present at the sessions. environmental problems in our own muddled way.

Mahesh Rangarajan

19 9 ANNUAL MEETING 2012, DEHRA DUN

The seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the to the fore. Once Academy, hosted by the Wadia Institute of again we saw the Himalayan Geology in Dehra Dun during 2–4 kinds of surprises November 2012, saw a return to this venue after that lurk beneath 19 years, the previous Annual Meeting in this city often-ignored having been in 1993. Thanks to its location in the everyday materials Himalayan foothills, and the proximity to many and phenomena! places of historic interest, the attendance was very The Special Lecture good – 135 Fellows, 11 Associates and 47 invited by Rohini teachers. Godbole titled The packed three-day programme included, apart “We have found a new boson, what next?” was from the opening Presidential Address, two Special all about the Higgs discovery at the LHC at CERN Lectures, two evening Public Lectures, two mini in 2012 summer. Prior to this talk, the presentation Symposia, and presentations by 19 Fellows and by V Ravindran – “What is the Higgs boson?” – Associates. The was a well-illustrated account of the standard Presidential model of particle physics built up over several Address by Prof. decades, based on concepts of continuous AK Sood, the symmetry, its spontaneous breaking, and the concluding one reason for bringing in the Higgs boson. Godbole’s for the triennium talk took this story further, and showed how the 2010–2012, detailed theoretical calculations and expectations carried forward played key roles in guiding and then interpreting the general the “Higgs effort”. One could not help comparing themes of the two and contrasting this discovery and situation with A K Sood previous ones, previous key experimental discoveries – of the being devoted this time to unusual behavior muon, of parity violation, for instance – where the patterns of “Driven Matter”. These come generally theoretical underpinnings of the search seem far under the category of non-equilibrium statistical less elaborate. One remembers also that the “Higgs mechanics, a developing discipline largely within effort” was based on 3000 physicists from 38 classical physics. The behaviours of countries! gels and colloids under mechanical The second Special Lecture by forces, shear, chemical gradients and V S Chauhan on “Current electric fields were described based challenges in research of infectious on recent experiments. We learnt diseases: Malaria and tuberculosis” that good quality chocolate taste brought home the magnitudes of needs shear property in an essential these problems and difficulties in way, while in the case of margarine, making progress. With TB, India shear-induced crystallization comes has 21% of the world’s patients, V S Chauhan

20 China has 14%. Two-million patients are added youngest and yet tallest mountain system in the every year, and 1000 succumb each day. The poor world. The India-Asia collision of about 60 million are badly affected, and the public and private years ago, the pictures of the moving land mass sectors are yet to join hands. Added to this is the over the preceding 500 million years, covering 18 problem of irresponsible drug use. Fortunately, one cm a year, initial collision in the north-west followed sees a very slow decline in incidence, and in India by clockwise rotation, were conveyed in a gripping treatment is free. China has done very well in this fashion. Plus all that can be learnt from studies of field, while in India we do have several fine river systems, glaciers, and earthquakes. research centres tackling these diseases. The second Symposium was a tribute to the life Of the two Public Lectures, Mohan and work of Alan Turing, and was Agashe’s on “Cinema for Health” titled “Computing legacy of Alan was a very well delivered analysis of Turing”. His immensely fruitful the impact a well-made movie has conceptual advances in many on the viewer for long after it is seen. directions, and their relevance today The speaker combined his skills as a almost six decades after his passing psychiatrist and a film personality to away – in biology, complexity theory, wonderful effect. He reminded us concepts of randomness and that we are born with vision and computability – were presented. hearing – so they are more intuitive, Mohan Agashe From a wide spectrum of other while words and language come later, along with presentations, here are a few selected highlights: analysis. The talk was embellished by two short A K Shukla told us that while today one in seven films each with a powerful message. persons has a car (this is the world average, 7 Shyam Saran – a career diplomat and civil billion people and 1 billion vehicles), this could servant – spoke on “The challenge of climate become 1 in 4 by 2020; the world population is change and India’s strategy in multilateral expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, 11 billion by negotiations”. Both past problems and future 2100. Hence the need to move to electric vehicles. policies were covered. Climate change and energy Abhishek Dhar addressed questions in non- security are linked; and equilibrium statistical physics, departures from in the recent past there Fourier’s law of heat transport, the Levy have been further distribution, random versus Levy walkers, and the complications due to like. Anuranjan Anand described studies of economic crises. The epileptic seizures provoked by sensory stimuli – hope expressed was touching hot water – and the way these patients that with our occur in family clusters. Surprisingly, 80% of such civilisational values, cases worldwide are known to be in India, and Shyam Saran and non-exploitative here the number of such individuals is about 1000. respect for nature, we may have important What a “small” yet intriguing problem to study at advantages. the genetic level! The Symposium on “Science of the Himalayas” The meeting as a whole was intellectually gave a thrilling account of the emergence of this stimulating, and also well organized.

21 10 RAMAN PROFESSOR

Sauro Succi from the Istituto Santosh Ansumali and his Applicazioni Calcolo “Mauro coworkers, during his previous Picone”, Rome (Italy), occupied the Raman visits. Raman Chair in three phases — In addition, he completed three during October 2011 and February papers jointly with Prof. Adhikhari 2012 (as reported in Patrika, March in — a previous submission 2012 issue) and also during July which has been accepted for 23–31, 2012, the last phase of his publication in the Journal of visit. During this phase he attended Computational Physics. They also the 21st edition of the conference completed two new papers, on lattice “Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics” held in discretizations of differential operators and Bangalore from 23 to 27 July and delivered a talk turbulence simulations, which have been submitted titled “Lattice Boltzmann methods for fluid to Physical Review Letters and Proceedings of the turbulence”. The talk was based on the joint work National Academy of Sciences, respectively. Succi did with Indian colleagues, particularly

11 JUBILEE PROFESSOR The Jubilee Professorship was PhD at the University College instituted during the Platinum London, and his postdoctoral work Jubilee Year of the Academy in at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular 2009. One of the salient features is Biology in Cambridge. that the Jubilee Professor is expected During his tenure as the Jubilee to visit smaller towns, universities for Professor, Venkitaraman delivered delivering lectures, holding seminars an Academy Public Lecture entitled, and interacting with students, “Cancer suppressor mechanisms teachers and researchers or for that guard the human genome”, on scientific collaboration. The first August 2, 2012, at the Indian Jubilee Professorship was awarded to Dr Ashok Institute of Science. The details of this lecture can R Venkitaraman, University of Cambridge and the be found in the following section. UK Medical Research Council, in 2012. Ashok R Whilst in Bangalore, he was also able to meet and Venkitaraman holds the Ursula Zoellner interact with the faculty and students from the Professorship of Cancer Research at the University Indian Institute of Science, the National Centre of Cambridge, and is the Director of the Medical for Biological Sciences, St. Johns Medical College Research Council (MRC) Cancer Cell Unit there. and the Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre in He learnt and practiced medicine at the Christian Bangalore. Medical College, Vellore, before completing his

22 During the period 5–22 August, he made several University, Madurai. These visits left a number of visits to deliver lectures and meet interested faculty important impressions, which have been and students at smaller institutions, such as the summarized in an interview published in Current Vellore Institute of Technology, the Amrita Institute Science (volume 103, issue 12, 25 December for Medical Sciences, Cochin, and the School of 2012). Biological Sciences at Madurai-Kamaraj

12 ACADEMY PUBLIC LECTURE

Cancer suppressor mechanisms that understanding carcinogenesis. Moreover, the near- guard the human genome universal occurrence of chromosomal instability Jubilee Lecture by Professor Ashok R in common epithelial malignancies offers Venkitaraman (Jubilee Professor) important opportunities for devising new approaches to cancer therapy. Insights into these Medical Research Council Cancer Cell Unit, issues that come from our studies on the University of Cambridge, UK macromolecular interactions that control DNA 2 August 2012 replication, repair and mitotic progression, the key Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore cancer suppressor mechanisms that maintain Chromosomes serve as the functional and physical chromosome stability in normal cells, will be containers for the information encoded in the discussed. To understand these processes at human genome. Instability in chromosome resolutions ranging from molecules to organisms, structure and number is a hallmark of human an integrative and interdisciplinary approach was epithelial cancers, which is triggered early in cancer used, combining somatic cell genetics, single- development. What provokes chromosomal molecule biophysics, chemical biology and instability, and how it fosters cancer pathogenesis, transgenic models. remain major unresolved questions central to

13 SCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES

Since 2007, the three national Science Academies 13.1 Summer Fellowships of the country have been conducting in a formal This is the seventh year of the Summer Research and well-structured manner a variety of Fellowships Programme which is jointly conducted programmes to improve science education for the by the three National Science Academies of the benefit of students and teachers all over the country. The summer fellowship programme country. These are planned and coordinated by a enables young and motivated students and Joint Science Education Panel. The three main teachers to do short-term projects for two months programmes of the Panel are: summer fellowships, with Fellows and other scientists of the country. refresher courses, and lecture workshops.

23 The main objective is to expose them to the joy of undergo a rigorous course of lectures, discussions, doing science. It was started in 1995 on a very laboratory experiments, and problem-solving small scale. The number of fellowships awarded sessions. in 1995 was 3. In 2012, this number has gone up During the last 14 years, 131 courses have been to 1691, of which the fellowships availed in 2012 held in several parts of the country on a variety of was 1269. Table 4 gives the subject-wise break- subjects: experimental and theoretical physics; up of applications received, fellowships offered and experimental and theoretical chemistry; availed. biotechnology; mathematics; atmospheric science; animal and plant tissue culture; experimental 13.2 Refresher Courses nonlinear dynamics; vistas in zoological teaching; marine geology and geophysics; tensors; This is an all-India programme to help motivated phylogenetic biology; stochastic process, etc. teachers improve their background knowledge and During the year 2012–2013, 23 refresher courses teaching skills. It is normally of two-week duration have been held, and a list of these courses with and teachers selected from all over the country relevant details is as follows:

24 A. Refresher Courses in Special Lectures: TR Rangaswamy, IB Shameem Banu, M Basheer Ahamed and E Manikandan (all from Experimental Physics BSARU, Chennai). In 2012-2013, 10 Refresher Courses were held on Experimental Physics. These were held under the 3. (XXXIX) NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, 16 – 31 July direction of R Srinivasan who was instrumental 2012 in the conceptualisation and designing of the Co-ordinator: KM Ajith (NITK) experiments. These experiments are useful for No. of Participants: 31 participants from Davangere, Ernakulam, Hospet, Mangalore, Moodbidri, Palakkad, laboratory programmes at BSc and MSc levels and Shimoga, Surathkal, Thirthahalli, Ujire. many universities in the country have adopted Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), CD these experiments as part of their curricula. In order Ravikumar (Univ. of Calicut), AV Alex (Union Christian to conduct the Refresher Courses, a user-friendly College, Alwaye), JBC Efrem D’sa (Carmel College for kit containing several components has been Women, Goa), SM Sadique (Goa), TG Ramesh (NAL, Bangalore). developed and manufactured under licence by a Special Lectures: MN Satyanarayan and Madhu K company in Bangalore: M/s Ajay Sensors and (NITK, Surathkal). Instruments. The following is a list of Experimental Physics 4. (XL) IASc, Bangalore, 16 – 31 August 2012 Refresher Courses held since April 2012 with R No. of Participants: 18 participants (5 students and 13 Srinivasan as the Course Director. These form faculty) from Biratnagar, Cachar, Chandigarh, Davangere, Kanpur, Krishnagiri, Mandya, Mizoram, Pala, Patna, course numbers 37 to 46 in this series. Thiruvannamalai, Tirupur, Varanasi. Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), Seeta 1. (XXXVII) Institute of Technical Education and Bharati (Bangalore), Sarbari Bhattacharya (Bangalore Research, Bhubaneswar (ITER), 15–30 May 2012 University), TG Ramesh (NAL, Bangalore), Sarmishta Co-ordinator: V Rama Rao (ITER) Sahu (Maharani Lakshmi Ammani College, Bangalore). No. of participants: 27 participants from Anugul, Special Lecture: TR Ramadas (Abdus Salam Baliapal, Bargarh, Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, Burla, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy). Cuttack, Kolkata, Sambalpur. Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), JBC Efrem 5. (XLI) St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, 4 – 19 D’sa (Carmel College, Goa), Manohar Naik (GVM September 2012 College, Goa), SM Sadique (Goa University), KRS Priolkar (Goa University), Saroj Ku Rath (Talcher College). Co-ordinator: Subhankar Ghosh (St. Xavier’s College) Special lectures: Structure of matter in physics (SP No. of Participants: 22 participants from all over India Mishra); dark energy in the universe (Ajit Mohan Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), Sudipto Roy, Srivastav); our stability is but balance (LP Singh); Shibaji Banerjee (St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata), Sougata historical perspective of superconductivity (NC Mishra). Bhattacharya (Vidyasagar College), Aparajit Nag (BKC College). 2. (XXXVIII) B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Special Lectures: PK Chakraborty (St. Xavier’s College, Chennai (BSARU), 5 – 20 June 2012 Kolkata); DN Bose; Anjan Burman (SNBNCBS, Kolkata); Achintya Dhar (IIT, Kharagpur). Co-ordinators: M Basheer Ahamed / GV Vijayaraghavan (BSARU) No. of Participants: 24 participants from Chennai, 6. (XLII) Tuljaram Chaturchand College, Baramati Coimbatore, Mysore, Tiruchirapalli. (TCC), 8 – 23 October 2012 Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), G Vinitha Co-ordinator: MK Kokare (TCC) (VIT, Chennai), N Meenakshisundaram (Sastra University, No. of Participants: 45 participants from Akluj, Thanjavur), GV Vijayaraghavan, I Raja Mohammed and Baramati, Bhopal, Bhor, Hadapsar, Kopargaon, M Basheer Ahamed (BSARU). Shrirampur, Vita.

25 Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), JBC Efrem Special Lectures: Experiments in optics for enabling D’sa (Carmel College, Goa), Manohar Naik (Goa physical understanding (S Anantha Ramakrishna); University), SM Sadique (Goa University), Neelam Kapoor importance of experiments in physics learning (HC (RK Talrega College, Mumbai), RT Sakpal (TCC, Verma); my experiments in teaching physics (YN Baramati). Mohapatra). Special Lectures: CH Bhosale (Shivaji University, Kolhapur) and Ray Bagkar (Wadia College, Pune). 10. (XLVI) IASc, Bangalore, 5 – 20 March 2013 No. of Participants: 17 participants from , 7. (XLIII) IASc, Bangalore, 15 – 30 November Anand, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Birbhum, Chennai, 2012 Delhi, Jammu, Madurai, Malappuram, Mandya, Mysore, No. of Participants: 22 participants from Anantapur, Udumalpet. Bangalore, Birbhum, Chennai, Jaipur, Kanpur, Katra, Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), TG Ramesh Latur, Malappuram, Patia, Santiniketan, Thiruvallur, (NAL, Bangalore), Seeta Bharati (Bangalore), N Thrissur, Tuticorin, Vadodara, Vijayawada, Meenakshisundaram (Sastra University, Thanjavur), AV . Alex (Union Christian College, Alwaye). Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), Sarbari Special Lectures: Abhisek Dhar (ICTS, Bangalore), N Bhattacharya, BN Meera (Bangalore University), Kumar (RRI, Bangalore) and ESR Gopal (IISc, Sarmishta Sahu (MLA College, Bangalore), TG Ramesh Bangalore). (NAL, Bangalor), AV Alex (Union Christian College, Alwaye). Special Lectures: Aveek Bid (IISc, Bangalore) and B. Other Refresher Courses Andal Narayan (RRI, Bangalore). 11. Statistical Physics 8. (XLIV) VIT University, Chennai, 4 – 19 Nehru Arts and Science College (NASC), December 2012 Kanhangad, 30 April – 12 May 2012 Co-ordinator: G Vinitha (VIT) No. of participants: 47 participants (26 faculty and 21 No. of Participants: 16 participants from Amravati, students) from Adipur, Calicut, Jaipur Town, Kanhangad, Aruppukottai, Chennai, Madurai, Mysore, Nagpur, Kannur, Karaikudi, Kolkata, Kudal, Latur, Malappuram, Rajkot, Tiruchirapalli,Vellore. Mumbai, Nagpur, Navi Mumbai, Palakkad, Pune, Salem, Thalassery, Thanjavur, Tiruchirapally, Thrissur. Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), C Krishnamoorthi, G Vinitha and Caroline Ponraj (all from Course Director: Deepak Dhar (TIFR) VIT, Chennai). Course Coordinator: KM Udayanandan (NASC) Special Lectures: Fabrication and characterization of Resource Persons: KPN Murthy (University of electrical micro-switch (Atanu Dutta); Wave nature of Hyderabad), Deepak Dhar (TIFR, Mumbai), Gautam I recoiled electrons in the Compton Effect (Vinay Menon (IMSc, Chennai), Chandan Dasgupta (IISc, Venugopal); Characterizations of interphases Bangalore), Abhishek Dhar (ICTS, Bangalore), Srikanth semiconductor and conducting ceramics (N Manikandan); Sastry (JNCASR, Bangalore), Prabodh Shukla (NEHU, Telluride phase change materials and tellurite glass optical Shillong). fibres (N Punithavelan). Extracts from the report: The total number of invited participants to the Course was 60. Of these 50 were 9. (XLV) Christ Church College, Kanpur (CCC), 1 college teachers and 10 students of MSc or research – 16 February 2013 scholars from nearby colleges. The aim of the refresher course was to improve the pedagogical skills of the Co-ordinator: RK Dwivedi (CCC) participating college teachers, and not to introduce them No. of Participants: 33 participants from Banda, Dehat, to recent developments in the field. In the opening Etawah, Fatehpur, Hardoi, Jabalpur, Kanpur, address, Deepak Dhar emphasized that the courses should Kumaracoil, Lucknow, Mathura, Muzaffarnagar, Pauri, not be aimed only at the top 5% of students, but that Sambhal, Solan, Unnao. the teacher should aim that at least 50% of the material Resource Persons: R Srinivasan (Mysore), RK Dwivedi, is understood by at least 50% of the students. Accordingly, T Pramila, Manish Kapoor, SP Singh (all from Christ the Course was divided into 6 modules of 6 lectures (75 Church College, Kanpur). minutes each), which covered the basics of statistical

26 physics syllabus, as covered in standard BSc level courses Course Coordinators: S Ananthakrishnan /RH Ladda/ in most universities. The modules were as follows: AL Choudhari Module 1: Thermodynamics: notions of equilibrium, Resource Persons: RH Ladda (Latur), AL Choudhari temperature, entropy, work. Zero, first, second, third law. (Aurangabad), SH Patil (Mumbai), Arvind Kumar Basic ideas of approach to equilibrium. Maxwell relations. (Mumbai), R Nagarajan (Mumbai) and others. Variational principles for equilibrium in statistical mechanics. Jarzynski equation. (KPN Murthy, Univ. of Hyderabad). 13. Theoretical Physics Module 2: Ensemble theory: Different ensembles, their University of Mumbai, 16 – 28 July 2012 equivalence, which is better for what. Derivation of No. of participants: 46 participants from Amravati, different ensembles. Typical calculation of partition Bodhgaya, Chennai, Durgapur, Guntur, Karav, Karjat, functions. Classical ideal gas, Virial expansion, Van der Kattankulattur, Kumaracoil, Mumbai, Noida, Pedhambe, Waals gas. (Chandan Dasgupta, IISc, Bangalore). Raigad, Ratnagiri, Thane, Varanasi. Module 3: Ideal Fermi and Bose gases, density matrices, Course Director: HS Mani (Chennai) Bose Einstein condensation, cluster expansion for Course Coordinator: Anuradha Misra (University of quantum mechanical systems, applications. (Gautam Mumbai) Menon, IMSc, Chennai). Resource Persons: Amita Das (IPR, Ahmedabad), Module 4: Phase transitions: notion of phases, examples Arvind Kumar (UMDAE-CBS, Mumbai), HS Mani (CMI, of different phases, phase transitions, Ising model, simple Chennai), SH Patil (IIT Bombay), AA Rangwala mean-field theory of Van der Waals-Weiss. (Srikant Sastry, (University of Mumbai). TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad). The University of Mumbai is shifting to a new semester Module 5: Markov Chains, Random Walks, Fluctuation system from this academic year and for its effective dissipation theorem, Langevin and Fokker-Planck implementation, four new post-graduate centres are being equations. (Abhishek Dhar, ICTS, Bangalore). started. This will require many undergraduate teachers Module 6: In this module, it was initially planned to to be able to teach at the MSc level. The prime objective discuss the use of numerical techniques in statistical of this Refresher Course was to prepare these new teachers physics. However, based on feedback from participants, to teach at the MSc level. it was partially redesigned, and the first half discussed The subjects covered in the Course consisted of classical the basic notions of statistical physics, as covered in Reif, mechanics, quantum mechanics, classical Berkeley Physics course, chapters 1 and 2. In the second electrodynamics and mathematical methods in physics. half of the module, techniques of molecular dynamic There were 6-7 lectures in each of the topics and 3 tutorial and Monte Carlo simulations were discussed, with sessions. The courses were taught at MSc level. Sufficient examples of glasses, cars, and markets. (Deepak Dhar, reading material and problem sheets were provided to TIFR, Mumbai). the participants and the problems discussed in the tutorials. All the resource persons gave a large number of problems In addition, there was a popular lecture on Higgs Boson that helped in making the concepts easier to grasp. Some by Sreerup Roychoudhuri from TIFR. of these were worked out in the tutorial sessions. There was a session of roughly one hour duration each day. For the first week, the tutorials were conducted by Deepak 14. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics Dhar, and in the second week by Prabodh Shukla from PSGR Krishnammal College for Women (PSGR NEHU, Shillong. KCW), 27 August – 8 September 2012 No. of participants: 32 participants from Chennai, 12. Motivational Bridge Course in Mathematical Coimbatore, New Delhi, Phagwara, Shimla, methods in Physics & Laboratory practices for I Thiruvannamalai, Udumalpet, Vijayamangalam, and II year B.Sc. Students Warangal. Yeshwant Mahavidyalaya, Nanded, 14 May – 2 June Course Director: P Kandaswamy (Bharathiar 2012 University, Coimbatore) No. of participants: 71 participants from different Course Coordinator: K Sumathi (PSGR KCW) colleges in Nanded and surrounding areas. Resource Persons: P Kandaswamy and S Saravanan Course Director: R Nagarajan (Mumbai) (Bharathiar University), N Rudraiah and M Venkatachalappa (Bangalore University), NM Bujurke (Karnataka University, Dharwad), T Amarnath (University

27 of Hyderabad), Maithili Sharan (IIT, New Delhi), M barcoding of plants and phylogenetic analysis; role of Subbiah (Pondicherry University), K Sumathi (PSGR chemistry in plant identification; role of botanic gardens KCW), N Mohan Kumar (IGCAR, Kalpakkam), S in plant conservation; vegetative characters in Sreenadh (Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati). identification of forest tree species; orchid taxonomy and biology; role of taxonomy and palynology in agri- biotechnological research; acts and conventions related 15. Action Zoology: The Emerging Trends to biodiversity; etnobotany, methods, techniques and its University of Allahabad, 5 – 19 September 2012 role in search of newer economic plant; role of anatomy Course Director: UC Srivastava (University of in taxonomic researches and chemotaxonomy; history Allahabad) of taxonomic researches; botanical survey in India and its role in documentation and conservation flora and Course Coordinator: Niraj Kumar (NASI, Allahabad) traditional knowledge of plants; reproductive biology and Resource Persons: VP Sharma (IIT, New Delhi), conservation and relevance of low tech science in modern Maheep Bhatnagar (ML Sukhadia University, Udaipur), days. The Course included practical sessions. Ishan Patro (Jiwaji University, Gwalior), PN Saxena (BRAU, Agra), Krishna Misra (IIT, Allahabad), Ashok Kumar (CSJM University, Kanpur), UC Srivasatava, AK 17. Plant Sciences Pandey, Ashish Khare (University of Allahabad), MK PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Thakur (BHU, Varanasi), Neeraj Kumar (NASI, Coimbatore (PSGRKCW), 19 November – 3 Allahabad), Sharda Sundaram Sanjay (ECC, December 2012 Allahabad). Course Director: TJ Pandian (MKU, Madurai) Course Co-ordinator: S Poornima (PSGRKCW) 16. Traditional and Modern Approaches in Plant No. of participants: 27 participants from Anantapur, Taxonomy Coimbatore, Mahe, Mangalore, Parangipettai, Solan, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore Tiruvannamalai. (UAS), 15 – 29 November 2012 Resource Persons: TJ Pandian, Jebasingh, Sri Priya, Course Director: RR Rao (UAS) KN Ganeshaiah, RR Rao, DJ Bagyaraj, Victor Arokia Course Co-ordinator: M Sanjappa, MD Rajanna Doss, K Mani, N Natarajan, KS Subramanian, D (UAS) Sudhakar, SF Maleeka Begum, TS Lokeswari Sivaswamy, Narendar Sivaswamy, S. Paulsamy, V No. of participants: 26 participants from Allahabad, Narmathabai, Modhumita Dasgupta, M Ramanathan, Anand, Bangalore, Chattisgarh, Coimbatore, Delhi, S Poornima, NS Vasanthi, S Karuppusamy, TS Ghaziabad, Hassan, Krishnagiri, Lucknow, Mumbai, Suryanarayanan. Nanded, Rajouri, Ramanathapuram, Rohtak, Sangli, Topics of lectures: Role of arbuscular mycorhhizal fungi Shimoga, Srinagar. in sustainable agriculture; microbial inoculants and crop Resource Persons: HY Mohan Ram, RR Rao, M productivity; bioinformatics; status of nano agriculture Sanjappa, MD Rajanna, Ramakrishna, KN Ganeshaiah, in India; engineering insect resistance in plants; safety of R Uma Shaanker, V Bhaskar, MP Nayar, K Shankar GM crops; an eco-friendly approach of essential oils as Rao, SR Yadav, D Narasimhan, KG Bhat, Jagadish bio-pesticides; silencing RNAs in plants; gene regulation Chandra, YN Seetharam, K Shivanna, G Ravikanth, mechanism; bio-processing (fermentation-upstream and Senthil Kumar, Amit Agarwal, C Sathish Kumar, C downstream processing); industrial enzymes (enzymes, Kameswara Rao. applications and problems); plant-insect interaction; Topics of Lectures: Problems of taxonomy teaching encounter with wasp; functional genomics; basic and research in India; endemism in Indian plants and principles of pharmacological screening of drugs; screening taxonomy at crossroads; biogeography with special for anti-inflammatory drugs; application of reference to India; photography and identification of nanotechnology in seed science; joy of doing science; in plants; species and population concept and herbaria; search of sanjeevani; evolution of mutualism in plants; cladistics and phylogeny; taxonomy of plants; bioinformatics; cloning of biopesticide gene; cytotaxonomy; plant nomenclature; pollen morphology antidepressant activity of plants; drug discovery; chemical in relation to plant taxonomy; revision of genus Impatiens genomics; ethics in research; Amazon – a naturalist L., trends in evolution of angiosperm flowers; taxonomic pilgrimage; isolation of plant genomic DNA; RNA literature and other resources; taxonomy of Impatiens extraction; orchids – genetic resources, utilization and species complexes; patterns of species discovery in the conservation, floristic diversity in India: inventorization, Western Ghats and molecular phylogenetics; DNA conservation and bioprospection; problems in taxonomy

28 teaching and research in Indian Universities – a plea for No. of participants: 17 participants from Anand, urgent resurrection; biodiversity – an overview; molecular Bangalore, Burdwan, Chikkasandra, Gajapati, Kolkata, taxonomy and floristics; research opportunities in plant Malkangiri, Mangalore, Manipal, Nadia, Pune, Puri, science; plants as source of nano particles – some vision Rayagada, Sivaganga, Tiruchirapalli, Varanasi. to reality; biotechnology – a boon for diabetes treatment: Resource Persons: Partho Sarothi Ray, Anindita from vision to reality; role of miRNA plant gene regulation; Bhadra, Rupak Dutta, Mohit Prasad, Tapas Sengupta, transgenic approaches to modify oils and fats in plants. Malancha Ta, Rituparna Sinha Roy and Partha Pratim Datta. 18. Experimental Chemistry Course contents: Organismal biology – microscopic University of Pune, Pune, 3 – 16 December 2012 observations: plant cells/Drosophila/human cheek epithelial cell/mammalian cell lines; behavior experiment: Course Director: DD Dhavale (University of Pune) ant/zebrafish/Drosophila; Cellular biology – Drosophila Course Co-ordinator: Satish Pardeshi (University of polytene chromosome staining and observation; blood Pune) film staining and observation; isolation of DNA and RNA No. of participants: 12 participants from Amravati, from goat liver/blood; protein extract preparation and Bhubaneswar, Dumka, Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Rewa, isolation of plasmid DNA from bacteria; Molecular Surat, Tirupati biology – spectrophotometric quantitation and electrophorsis of DNA/RNA/protein; enzyme assays from Resource Persons: GS Grover, ND Singh, PD bacterial extract: constitutive–alkaline phosphatase Lokhande, Vaishali Shinde, SB Waghmode, Dipalee inducible-b galactosidase; western blotting; PCR/restriction Malkhede, Pragati Thakur, AS Kumbhar, SK Haram, digestion. Several practical sessions were also held. AA Kumbhar, Satish Pardeshi, AK Nikumbh, Sunita Special lectures were given by: Gene expression in Salunkhe, BG Ankamwar, Suvidya Ranade. prokaryotes (NC Mandal); DNA structure and function Course Content: Organic Chemistry: Preparation, (HK Majumder); viral life cycle and regulation (Dhrubajyoti purification and characterization of organic compounds; Chattopadhyay); utility of statistics in biology (Partha P detection of functional groups and elements in organic Majumder); memory and learning (Kausik Si); behavioural compounds; synthesis of polystyrene; Physical Chemistry: biology of ants (Sumana Annagiri). spectrophotometric and spectrofluorometric determination of the ground and excited state acidity constants of 2-naphthol; conductometric titration of 20. Foundation of Physics vinegar, various other acid base combinations, AgNO3 Bengal Engineering and Science Univeristy, and KCl, determination of CMC; study of clock reaction Shibpur (BESU), 24 – 31 December 2012 at two different temperatures; Inorganic/Analytical/ Environmental Chemistry: Round-trip of Cu; A Course Director: Amitabha Ghosh (BESU) pHmediated synthesis of nitro and nitrite derivatives of a Course Co-ordinator: BK Guha (BESU) complex; photochemical degradation of a dye using Zno/ No. of participants: 56 from Hooghly, Howrah, TiO2 catalyst in the presence of sunlight, tungsten lamp Kolkata, 24 Parganas, Purba Midnapore, Purulia. and mercury lamp; environmental chemistry related experiment; various types of titration; Nano Chemistry: Resource Persons: Soumitra Sengupta, AK Mallik, nanoparticle synthesis; characterization techniques used Amitabha Ghosh, BK Guha, Swapan Datta, Manoj for nonmaterial; Biochemistry: separation; of DNA by Harbola, Birendranath Das, Bhupati Chakrabarti, Surajit Agarose gel electrophoresis; separation of nucleic acid Chakraborty. bases by paper chromatography; determination of effect Topics covered: Newtonian mechanics and non-linear of increasing substrate concentration on enzyme. dynamics; theory of gravitation; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; electricity, magnetism and special theory of relativity; quantum theory. 19. Experimental Biology Special Lecture: Solar system and stellar evolution (DP Indian Institute of Science Education and Duari). Research, Kolkata (IISER), 19 – 31 December 2012 Course Director: Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay (University of Calcutta, Kolkata) Course Co-ordinator: Partho Sarothi Ray (IISER, Kolkata)

29 21. Advances in Plant and Animal Biotechnology Bandyopadhyay, Shobhana Narasimhan, Rinti Banerjee, Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College and other Kamal Hazari, Anjali Kulkarni, Sheela Dhonde. venues, Mumbai, 3 – 16 February 2013 Course Director: Tarala D Nandedkar (NIRRH, 22. Modern Genetics: Concepts and Practice Mumbai) Manipal University, Manipal, 4 – 16 February 2013 Course Co-ordinator: Susan Eapen (IWSA, Navi Course Director: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore) Mumbai) Course Co-ordinator: K Satyamoorthy (Manipal No. of participants: 21 participants from Anand, University) Aurangabad, Burdwan, Hassan, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nizamabad, Perambalur, Secunderabad. No. of Participants: 21 participants from Arcot, Bangalore, Changa, Indore, Kasargod, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Resource Persons: KB Sainis, Rakesh Tuli, Deepak Mangalore, Puducherry, Padnekkad, Ranchi, Salem, Modi, Rajani Bhisey, SK Apte, Sulabha Pathak, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga, Sullia, Surat, Thiruppattur, Jayashree Sainis, Smita Mahale, SF D’souza, Archana Tiruvannamalai, Visakhapatnam. Joshi Saha, Sonia Chadha, Suman Bakshi, Rita Mukhopadhyaya, Paramjit Khurana, Shelly Resource Persons: DN Rao, V Nagaraja, P Kondaiah, Bhattacharya, Robin Mukhopadhyaya, Sorab Dalal, PN Rangarajan, KP Gopinathan, R Mukhopadhyaya, Sanjeev Waghmare, Shubhada Chiplunkar, Rita Jayaram S Kadandale, Mitesh Shetty, SP Thyagarajan, Mulherkar, Sandipto Ghosh, D Bhattahcharyya, Pradnya K Ramnarayan, Girisha Katta, Herman D’souza. Kowtal, Rukmini Govekar, Debjani Dasgupta, Neetin Topics of lectures: At the Crossroads of chemistry and Desai, Mustansir B, Rajashri Navalakhe and many others. immunology: catalytic antibodies (catabs, abzymes); Topics covered: Biotechnology: science, applications cancer causing viruses, viral genomes, pathobiology and and concerns; biotechnology for designer plants and vaccines; from basic biology to drug discovery efforts – foods; cultivation of genetically modified food crops: an ongoing journey; impact of molecular cytogenetics prospects and challenges; reverse genetics: RNAi in testing in clinical genetics; bacteriophages as models for research and therapeutics; application of tissue culture molecular genetics; heavy metal toxicity; making sense to basic research; microbes for ecofriendly environmental out of expression profiling data: analysis and applications; malaria vaccine: one thing leads to another; interpretation of breast cancer-micro arrays; recombinant artificial photosynthesis; protein purification techniques; protein production in pichipastoris; Agarose gel harnessing biomaterials for bioprocess development and electrophoresis and SDS-PAGE; theory behind HPLC and monitoring; vectors for gene manipulations; genomic tools mass spectrometry; genetics in clinical practice; prenatal for fungal pathogens of plants and animals; microsatellite diagnostics for genetic diseases; advances in vaccinology. markers and their application in wheat breeding; SSR Isolation of genomic DNA, primary culture; plasmid DNA PCR; reporter gene assays; advent of genomics: isolation, lymphocyte culture; methods of DNA damage implications in crop improvement; engineering plants for and repair assessment; techniques in genetic toxicology; changing climatic conditions; generation and culture of absolute cell count by flow cytometry; cell viability assay; adult rat; RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis plasmid cell cycle analysis; atomic absorption spectrophotometer extraction; staining and loading; hepatic stem cells: an theory and practice; introduction to various aspects of alternate methodology for toxicological studies; silver PCR technique; polymerase chain reaction; bacterial cell staining; viral vectors for gene expression; generation of count; DNA sequencing; real time PCR; principle transgenic animals; in vivo molecular imaging; cancer procedure and guidance for performing microarray immunotherapy; rodents in research; gene therapy; flow experiments; flagellar staining principle. The Course also cytometry; mass spectrometry; advances in biotechnology; consisted of over 6 hours of practicals/demonstrations/ an overview of plant tissue culture; sugarcane hands-on training. biotechnology; next generation designer crops for better nutrition and stress tolerance; proteomics, functional 23. Vision and Challenges of Pervasive Computing genomics and new biology; ethics in science and and Cloud Computing technology; synthetic life: myth and reality; biotechnology and molecular biology of silk; future potential of stem GR Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore cells. Several practical demonstrations were also (GRDCS), 25 February – 9 March 2013 conducted during this Course. Course Director: BL Deekshatulu, GR Gangadaran A Panel Discussion on “Women in teaching and leading (Hyderabad) sciences” was also held on the last day of the Course. Course Co-ordinator: Vanitha Sidambaranathan The panelists were Mythily Ramaswamy, Ranjini (GRDCS)

30 No. of Participants: 35 participants from Coimbatore, introduction, applications, industry views; services Duragapur, Pollachi, Puducherry, Rourkela, Surat. discovery: composition; current landscape in cloud; Resource Persons: Ramalatha Marimuthu, GR services in computing; social computing; types of clouds; Gangadharan, Thiagarasu, AS Syed Nazir Ahmed, R deployment types; cloud environment roles; CloudSim; Kalpana, GR Karpagam, L Ashok Kumar, T Devi, Pavan pervasive computing – definitions: terms Yara, Johny Kannan, BL Deekshatulu, Rajiv Wankar, and standards; human computer interaction introduction Renuga, L Jagadeeshwaran, Mahesh U Patil, Vannirajan to robotic science; robotics lab; pervasive middleware; Chellapan, Raveendhran, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay. wireless sensor networks; Castalia; mathematical Course Contents: Why research in cloud computing challenges in pervasive computing research. and pervasive computing? cloud computing – an

13.3 Lecture Workshops The Joint Science Academy Panel arranges two Workshops have been held. During this financial or three-day lecture workshops on carefully chosen year up to 31 March 2013, 57 Workshops were topics in physics, mathematics, chemistry and life held on various topics at different institutions in sciences at selected college and university the country. The following gives some information departments for the benefit of local students and on the Lecture Workshops held from April 2012 to teachers. Speakers include Fellows and scientists March 2013. from nearby institutions. Since inception, 311

31 1. Transferable Skills – The Successful Scientist’s Viswanath and S Kesavan (IMSc, Chennai), Rajeeva Other Toolbox Karandikar (CMI, Siruseri). Manipur University, Canchipur, 4 – 5 April 2012 Participants: 115 from various colleges in Chennai Convener: S Mahadevan (IISc, Bangalore) Topics of lectures: Trigonometry in ancient and Co-ordinators: Upendra Nongthomba/Debananda medieval India; mathematics, recursion and complexity; Ningthoujam non-colliding random walks; a mathematical tour of image processing; some elementary probability; Speakers: S Mahadevan, Upendra Nongthomba (IISc, Pontryagin duality for finite groups; topology of algebraic Bangalore), John Sparrow (University of York, UK), varieties; the Hardy-Ramanujan formula for the partition Debananda Ningthoujam (Manipur University, function; classical identities and lie algebras; open Canchipur), R Sharma and PK Gupta (NEHU, Shillong). discussion on job opportunities in mathematics. Participants: 55 participants from Manipur University.

Topics of lectures: 50 years of the Operon Model; what 4. History, Aspects and Prospects of Mathematics are transferable skills; ethics in scientific research; nurturing in India science in Manipur: inspirations from biographies of trailblazers; evolution in the microbial world; connecting Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 20 – 21 the dots: personal anecdotes about academic life; the June 2012 journey is more important than the destination: random Convener: G Rangarajan (IISc, Bangalore) walks in science; proteins and proteomics; good teaching; Speakers: SG Dani (TIFR, Mumbai), Siddhartha Gadgil, Drosophila as model system for studying human muscle MK Ghosh, G Rangarajan and Manjunath Krishnapur diseases. (IISc, Bangalore), Sheetal Dharmatti (IISER, Thiruvananthapuram), BV Rao (CMI, Chennai), Partha 2. Transferable Skills – The Successful Scientist’s Sarathi Chakraborty, Jaya N Iyer, S Viswanath andS Other Toolbox Kesavan (IMSc, Chennai). North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 9 – 10 April Participants: 150 from various colleges in Bangalore. 2012 Topics of lectures: Trigonometry in ancient and Co-ordinators: Upendra Nongthomba/BBP Gupta medieval India; mathematics, recursion and complexity; non-colliding random walks; a mathematical tour of Speakers: S Mahadevan, Upendra Nongthomba (IISc, image processing; some elementary probability; Bangalore), John Sparrow (University of York, UK), Pontryagin duality for finite groups; topology of algebraic Debananda Ningthoujam (Manipur University, varieties; the Hardy-Ramanujan formula for the partition Canchipur), R Sharma and PK Gupta (NEHU, Shillong). function; classical identities and lie algebras; open Participants: 52 participants from NEHU. discussion on job opportunities in mathematics. Topics of lectures: 50 years of the Operon Model; what are transferable skills; ethics in scientific research; nurturing 5. Plane Geometry to Rubber-sheet Geometry science in Manipur: inspirations from biographies of trailblazers; evolution in the microbial world; connecting Harish-Chandra Research Institute and NASI, the dots: personal anecdotes about academic life; the Allahabad, 29 – 30 June 2012 journey is more important than the destination: random Convener: Satya Deo (HRI, Allahabad) walks in science; proteins and proteomics; good teaching; Co-ordinator: Niraj Kumar (NASI, Allahabad) Drosophila as model system for studying human muscle diseases. Speakers: V Pati (ISI, Bangalore), CS Arvinda (TIFR, Bangalore), SS Khare (NEHU, Shillong), Satya Deo (HRI, Allahabad), Ramji Lal (IIIT, Allahabad). 3. History, Aspects and Prospects of Mathematics Participants: 88 participants from various colleges in in India Allahabad. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, 18 Topics of lectures: Quaternions and rotations in 3- – 19 June 2012 space; Euclid, regular solids and a journey through to Convener: KN Raghavan (IMSc, Chennai) non-Euclidean geometry; from Euclidean geometry to Speakers: SG Dani (TIFR, Mumbai), Siddhartha Gadgil non-Euclidean geometry with special focus on taxicab and Manjunath Krishnapur (IISc, Bangalore), Sheetal geometry; historical motivations of rubber sheet geometry; Dharmatti (IISER, Thiruvananthapuram), BV Rao (CMI, polygons in hyperbolic geometry. Chennai), Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Jaya N Iyer, S

32 6. Mathematics Arumaganathan (PSG College of Technology, Hans Raj College, Delhi, 7 August and 13 August Coimbatore). 2012 Participants: 218 from 31 colleges and 5 universities Convener: Ajit Iqbal Singh (ISI, New Delhi) (Anna Univ., Avinashilingam Univ., Bharatiyar University, Karpagam University., Pondicherry University). Co-ordinator: Mukund Madhav Mishra (Hans Raj College, Delhi) Topics of lectures: Mathematical modelling in human immunology; near boundary flow method for calderon Speakers: Gadadhar Misra (IISc, Bangalore); Manindra problem in electrical conductivity; mathematical Agrawal (IIT, Kanpur); Aloke Dey (ISI, New Delhi), Kapil modelling for love and happiness; mathematical modelling H Paranjape (IISER, Mohali). of control systems using fuzzy logic approach; inventions Participants: 150 participants from various colleges in through mathematical modelling; stability analysis of and around Delhi. Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy time delay systems: LMI approach. Topics of lectures: Numbers; the P-NP problem; variance and existence of orthogonal arrays; modern 9. Photonics and Radio Universe geometry. M.M.K. & S.D.M. First Grade College for Women, Mysore, 17 – 19 August 2012 7. Modern trends in Chemistry Convener: G Srinivasan (Bangalore) Periyar University, Salem, 13 – 14 August 2012 Co-ordinator: PS Usha (MMK & SDM College, Mysore) Convener: R Ramaraj (MKU, Madurai) Speakers: Hema Ramachandran, Reji Philip, KS Co-ordinator: D Gopi (Periyar University, Salem) Dwarkanath and N Uday Shankar (all from RRI, Speakers: P Natarajan (), S Bangalore). Chandrasekaran (JNCASR, Bangalore), N Sathyamurthy Participants: 99 participants (33 teachers and 63 (IISER, Mohali), S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore), D students) in and around Mysore. Ramaiah and MLP Reddy (NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram), Topics of lectures: Laser cooling of atoms; nature of V Subramanian (CLRI, Chennai) light; use of cold atoms; properties of light; nonlinear Participants: 250 research scholars, students and optics; intense field non linear optics; seeing through fog/ teachers from various universities, colleges and institutes. imaging through turbid media; radio universe; basic Topics of lectures: “Click” Chemistry and beyond: concepts of radio telescopes; the hydrogen line — a diverse chemical function from a few good reactions; powerful tool to explore the universe; the challenges of structural motifs and shapes of atomic and molecular observing the invisible universe; important discoveries made clusters; new acids in inorganic chemistry; designing of from radio observations using the H1 line. functional dyes for photodynamic therapy; versatile lanthanide – molecular chromophoric building blocks: 10. Experimental Physics from design to assembly and functions; molecular dynamics of collagen like peptides; solid state lighting St. Pious X Degree & PG College for Women, devices. Hyderabad, 24 – 25 August 2012 Convener: SN Kaul (School of Physics, University of Hyderabad) 8. New vistas on Mathematical Modelling Co-ordinator: R Komala (St. Pious College) Nirmala College for Women, Coimbatore, 13 – 14 August 2012 Speakers: P Kistaiah (Osmania University), SN Kaul, S Srinath, Nirmal K Vishwanathan and Ashok Vyudayagiri Convener: PV Arunachalam (Dravidian University, (all from University of Hyderabad). Kuppam) Co-ordinator: I Arockiarani (Nirmala College, Madurai) Speakers: PV Arunachalam (Dravidian University, Kuppam), E Balagurusamy (Anna University, Chennai), P Kandaswamy (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore), BR Nagaraj (TIFR, Bangalore), P Balasubramaiam (Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindugal), R

33 11. The pathway to Higgs Boson: Models, 14. Mathematics Experiments and Beyond… B R Ambedkar College, Delhi (BRAC), 13 and 20 The American College, Madurai, 28 – 29 August September 2012 2012 Convener: Ajit Iqbal Singh (Delhi) Convener: MVN Murthy (IMSc, Chennai) Co-ordinator: Sarla Bharadwaj (BRAC) Co-ordinator: Richard Rajkumar (The American Speakers: Rahul Roy and Arunava Sen (ISI, Delhi), S College, Madurai) Sivaramakrishnan and MS Raghunanthan (IIT, Mumbai). Speakers: G Rajasekaran, Prafulla Behera, Gagan Topics of lectures: Random walks and electrical Mohanty, D Indumathi and Naba K Mondal (IMSc, networks; an introduction to game theory; google’s page Chennai) and Vivek Datar (BARC, Mumbai). rank algorithm; geometry’s dictate to arithmetic: falting’s Topics of lectures: Introduction to the standard model theorem. leading to Higgs discovery; precision test of standard model and discovery of Higgs boson; discovery of Higgs and future experiments at CERN; discovery of Higgs 15. Linear Algebra and Applications particle and its implications. Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi (LSRC), 21 – 22 September 2012

12. Biotechnology for Sustainable Development Convener: Ajit Iqbal Singh (Delhi) S. V. University, Tirupati, 29 – 30 August 2012 Co-ordinator: Sucheta Nayak (LSRC) Conveners: Aparna Dutta-Gupta/S Dayananda Speakers: MS Raghunathan (TIFR, Mumbai), S (University of Hyderabad) Sivaramakrishnan (IIT, Mumbai), Ujjwal Sen (HRI, Allahabad), Debasis Mishra and RB Bapat (ISI, Delhi). Co-ordinator: M. Rajasekhar (SV University, Tirupati) Topics of lectures: Google’s page rank algorithm; Speakers: Aparna Dutta-Gupta, AS Raghavendra, S quantum information theory; exploring theorems in linear Dayananda and AR Reddy (University of Hyderabad), algebra using matlab; applications of farkas lemma; when TJ Pandian (MKU, Madurai) and K Muralidhar (University is a tree nonsingular? of Delhi).

16. Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences 13. Frontiers of Science Central University of , Thiruvarur Vivekananda College, Bangalore (VC), 3 – 4 (CUTN), 21 – 23 September 2012 September 2012 Convener: M Palaniandavar (CUTN) Convener: KJ Rao (IISc, Bangalore) Co-ordinator: V Rajendran (CUTN) Co-ordinator: Chikkahanumantharayappa (VC) Speakers: M Periasamy (UOH, Hyderabad), PK Das, S Speakers: G Jagadish, BR Jagirdar, S Asokan, V Natarajan and S Ramakrishnan (IISc, Bangalore), R Nanjundaiah, B Ananthanarayan, E Arunan, KJ Rao Murugavel and KP Kaliappan (IIT, Mumbai), V and B Gopal (all from IISc, Bangalore), Subramanian (CLRI, Chennai), M Palaniandavar (CUTN, Chikkahanumantharayappa (VC). Thiruvarur). Topics of lectures: Shock pressures can do the Topics of lectures: Organometallics and materials impossible; for the future fuel go back to hydrogen; chemistry; bioinorganic and biomimetic chemistry; main sensors are the key to chase the new science; evolution, group chemistry; nanomaterials; organic and bioorganic how much do we know about it; what is the excitement chemistry; solid state chemistry; biologically active natural about “God particle”; hydrogen bond: a molecular beam products; polymer chemistry; computational chemistry; microwave – spectroscopist’s view; chemistry and spectroscopy. consciousness; X-ray crystallography the tool which has always pushed the frontiers of science; luminescent materials. 17. Research Issues in Digital Image Processing Dr NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore (NGPASC), 25 – 26 September 2012 Conveners: BL Deekshatulu (Hyderabad)/R Krishnan (Amrita Univ., Coimbatore) Co-ordinator: N Ananthi (NGPASC)

34 Speakers: BL Deekshatulu (Hyderabad), R Krishnan theorem and percolation theory; Kleinian groups: a tribute (Amrita University), TGK Murthy (ARCI, Hyderabad), T to Bill Thurston; dynamics of distal actions. Parthasarathy (ISI, Chennai), PVSSR Chandra Mouli (VIT, Vellore), T Senthilkumar (Amrita University, Coimbatore). 21. Photophysics of Molecular Materials for Electronic and Energy Applications M. S. University, Baroda, 3 – 5 October 2012 18. Thrust Areas for Future Researches in Biological Sciences Convener: S Ramasesha (IISc, Bangalore) PSGR Krishnammal College for Co-ordinator: Praveen Ghalsasi (MS University, Baroda) Women,Coimbatore (PSGR KCW), 27 – 28 Participants: 102 participants from different institutions September 2012 in Baroda. Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU, Madurai) Topics Covered: Molecular materials; probing electron Co-ordinator: N Ezhili (PSGR KCW) states; molecular devices; electron states in conjugated molecules; laser spectroscopy; electronic processes in Speakers: G Marimuthu (MKU), SK Saidapur and organic devices; nonlinear optics of molecules. Bhagyashri Shanbhag (Karnatak University, Dharwad), S Mahadevan (IISc, Bangalore), A Shanmugam (Annamalai University, Chidambaram), 22. History, Aspects and Prospects of Electronics Soundarapandian Kannan (Bharathiar University, in India Coimbatore). University of Delhi, New Delhi, 12 – 13 October Topics of lectures: Biology: the basics, complexities & 2012 prospects; evolution in the microbial world; scope of Convener: Manoj Saxena (Deen Dayal Upadhyaya research in marine science; biology and behaviour of rats; College, New Delhi) role of natural selection in shaping organisms; evolution Co-ordinator: Poonam Kasturi (Deen Dayal Upadhyaya & human health; sexual selection: language of College, New Delhi) communication for mate selection; siRNA to target breast cancer. Participants: 262 participants from institutions in Alwar, New Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida. Topics Covered: From transistors to teraflop computing 19. Bioinorganic Chemistry and its Applications and beyond; teaching and research: which way to go? Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (MKU), 28 revolutionary ideas in microelectronics and their social – 30 September 2012 impact; quantum dots based biosensors for cancer Convener: M Palaniandavar (CUTN, Thiruvarur) detection; steep subthreshold green transistors for low Co-ordinator: R Mayil Murugan (MKU) power CMOS integrated circuits; Indian rockets and missiles; nanotechnology in semiconductor industry; the Speakers: PT Manoharan (IIT, Chennai), M silent enables of electronics industry – silicon technology; Palaniandavar and V Rajendiran (CUTN, Thiruvarur), system design opportunities in India; agilent, academia AR Chakravarty (IISc, Bangalore), C Pulla Rao (IIT, and the pursuit for employability. Mumbai), R Ramaraj (MKU), Shyamalava Mazumdar (TIFR, Mumbai), Sankar Rath and A Raja (IIT Kanpur), A panel discussion on “Need and role of industry in C Sivasankar (Pondicherry University). curriculum development and career opportunities for graduates” was held.

20. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems for Post-graduates 23. Mathematics School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (JMI), 18 October University, New Delhi (JNU), 1 October 2012 2012 Convener: Ajit Iqbal Singh (ISI, New Delhi) Convener: Ajit Iqbal Singh (ISI, New Delhi) Co-ordinator: Amala Bhave/Riddhi Shah (JNU) Co-ordinator: KK Dewan/Naseem Ahmad (JMI) Participants: 138 participants (95 students and 43 Participants: 150 participants from JMI and other teachers) from Delhi. institutions in Delhi. Topics Covered: Hyperbolic geometry and number theory; ergodic transformations; subadditive ergodic

35 Topics Covered: On the lifted temperature minimum; Topics Covered: Natural resources, sustainable Ramanujan and pi; the Kobayashi metric on convex development and geopolitics; quest for water wisdom; domains; how applied mathematics should be done? hydrogen energy: the green future fuel; ocean circulation, marine biosphere, global change and Indian monsoon; soil as vital natural resource for sustainable development; 24. Mapping, Utilization and Conservation of overview of the oil and gas industry. Bioresources VIT University, Vellore, 29 – 31 October 2012 28. Emerging Paradigms in Life Sciences Convener: R Uma Shaanker (UAS, Bangalore) Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, 19 – 20 November Co-ordinator: R Siva (VIT) 2012 Participants: 150 participants from in and around Vellore Convener: Shelly Bhattacharya (Visva-Bharati, district. Santiniketan) Topics Covered: Mapping, utilization and conservation Co-ordinator: Sudipta Maitra (Visva-Bharati, of bioresources. Santiniketan) Participants: 77 participants including two teachers from 25. Tectonic Geomorphology Bolpur College and others were students of Visva-Bharati. HNB Garhwal Univeristy, Srinagar Garhwal Topics Covered: Definition of normal science and its (HNBGU), 30 October – 2 November 2012 foundation in posterity; the mysteries behind the DNA Convener: Nibir Mandal (, Kolkata) topological structures in Leishmania donovani, a protozoan parasite, causing Kala Azar; Melatonin: a Co-ordinator: YP Sundriyal (HNBGU) hormone that acts in harmony with environmental signal Participants: 100 participants of darkness; molecular mechanism of invasion and Topics Covered: Geomorphic processes and evolution metastasis in ovarian cancer; genetic basis of diseases: of landforms; tectonic geomorphology; geomorphic new knowledge we gained and the challenges we must markers; ascertain timing in landscape; methods of dating confront; identification of biomarkers of heart diseases; with special reference of OSL dating; fold, fault and stress; cellular signaling defects: an ill understood area. paleoseismology; rate of uplift and erosion. 29. Modern Trends in Chemistry and Chemistry 26. Theoretical Physics Lectures Education University of Mysore, Mysore, 8 – 10 November, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling (UNB), 22 2012 – 23 November 2012 Convener: MVN Murthy (IMSc, Chennai) Convener: Uday Maitra (IISc, Bangalore) Co-ordinator: C Ranganathiah (University of Mysore) Co-ordinator: Amiya Kumar Panda (UNB) Participants: 140 participants from various colleges in Participants: 200 participants from Assam, Maharashtra, Mysore. Sikkim, Uttarakhand and institutions around Darjeeling. Topics Covered: Point groups; time dilation; uncertainty Topics Covered: Green chemistry in teaching and relations in the classical realm; throwing polarized light research; molecular spectroscopy; chromatography; on mathematics; three is company: the Efimov molecules that break the rules; medicinal chemistry; click chemistry; nanoscience and nanotechnology. 27. Conservation and Use of Natural Resources for Sustainable Development 30. Neuroscience Research: Translation to Care Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra (DEI), 17 and Cure – 18 November 2012 Sophia College for Women, Mumbai, 23 – 24 Convener: Anand Mohan (DEI) November 2012 Co-ordinator: Sahab Das Kaura (DEI) Convener: Tarala D Nandedkar (NIRRH, Mumbai) Participants: 150 participants from 10 colleges in and Co-ordinator: Medha Rajadhyaksha (Sophia College, around Agra. Mumbai) Participants: 150 students from various colleges in Mumbai.

36 Topics Covered: Toxicology; neurological disorders– Participants: 479 participants from Kakatiya University, integrating research in imaging into clinical practice; Narsampet, Waddepally and other colleges around behavioral, neural and cognitive studies of auditory, Warangal. speech and phonological processing in development Topics Covered: Uses of recombinant DNA technology dyslexia; animal models for human diseases; glioblastoma in modern health care; epigenetics; virulence strategies and meduclloblastoma, malignant brain tumours with of a human opportunisitic fungal pathogen Candida different strokes; neural stem cells: a battle of nerves. glabrata; recombinant DNA technology in the health care of tuberculosis and HIV infections; functional 31. Need of Understanding the Neglected Tropical compartmentalization of the nucleus; drosophila: a model Diseases organism to study development and disease; development of body axis in animals and evolution of complexity. Chennai Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Tiruchirapalli (CMCH&RC), 26 – 27 November 2012 34. Mathematics Convener: Utpal S Tatu (IISc, Bangalore) St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, 17 – 21 December Co-ordinator: N Prabhu (CMCH&RC) 2012 Participants: 147 participants (23 teachers and 124 Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM, students). Bangalore) Topics Covered: Malaria; leprosy; filariasis; dengue; Co-ordinator: Renee D’souza (St. Joseph’s College, parasitic eye infections; leptospirosis. Panel discussions Bangalore) on “Malaria – Issues and challenges”; “Is leprosy still in Participants: 51 participants from seven colleges in India”; “Issues on Dengue” were also held. Bangalore. Topics Covered: Group theory; logic and set theory; 32. Recent Developments in Chemistry calculus; linear algebra; differential equations and applications. Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, 29 November – 1 December 2012 Convener: BC Ranu (IACS, Kolkata) 35. Introductory Astronomy Co-ordinator: Adinath Majee (Visva-Bharati, SDM College, Ujire, 20 – 22 December 2012 Santiniketan) Convener: CR Subrahmanya (RRI, Bangalore) Participants: 133 participants from colleges and Co-ordinator: SG Bhargavi (PPISR, Bangalore) and Universities in Kolkata. Shiv Rao (SDM College, Ujire) Topics Covered: Green chemistry on education and Participants: 133 participants from various institutions research; green chemicals for UG and PG labs; basic in and around Ujire. thermodynamics; prediction of possible (molecule) Topics Covered: Galaxies; radio astronomy; physics materials for H2 storage from DFT calculation; of astronomy; physics of Sun; cosmology; astronomical hydrogenbonding in supramolecular assembly of pi- facilities in India across the electromagnetic spectrum. conjugated chromophores; stimuli-responsive amphiphilic polymer assembly: implications in drug delivery; cyclometallated complexes of the platinum metals; co- 36. Condensed Matter Physics ordination chemistry of the thiosemicarbazone ligands; St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, 10 – 12 January symmetry, orbitals and geometry. 2013 Convener: G Srinivasan (Bangalore) 33. Uses of Recombinant DNA Technology in Co-ordinator: RA Angiras (St. Joseph’s College, Modern Health Care Bangalore) Kakatiya University, Warangal (KU), 30 November Participants: 75 participants from different colleges in – 1 December 2012 Bangalore. Convener: Shekhar C Mande (NCCS, Pune) Topics Covered: Energy bands in solids; magnetism; Co-ordinator: G Shamitha (KU) liquid crystals; photonics.

37 37. Recent Trends in Synthetic Organic Chemistry 41. Microbes, Minerals and Environment SNGS College, Pattambi, 17 – 18 January 2013 VIT, Vellore, 24 – 25 January 2013 Convener: D Ramaiah (NIIST, Thirvananthapuram) Convener: KA Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore) Co-ordinator: P Venugopalan (SNGS College, Pattambi) Co-ordinator: A Prem Rajan (VIT, Vellore) Participants: 118 participants from Calicut, Coimbatore, Participants: 100 participants from different institutions Irinjalakuda, Malappuram, Mannarkkad, Palakkad, in Vellore. Pattambi, Shoranur, Thrissur, Valanchery. Topics Covered: Microbial aspects of environmental Topics Covered: Design of sensitizers for photodynamic pollution and control with respect to mining; bacteria therapeutical applications; palladium-catalysed cross- from cold habitats: biodiversity, survival and usefulness; couplings in organic synthesis; diversity-oriented synthesis impact of zoonotic diseases in environment; microbial of pharmaceutically important heterocycles and diversity and its applications; bioleaching: mechanisms cyclopentanoids through palladium catalysed and processes; bioremediation of chromium transformations; small molecules in drug discovery; contaminated soils and aquifers; adhesion of therapeutically important quinolones and acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans to mineral surfaces; benzothiophenes through tandem reaction; synthesis of biomineralization: nature’s footsteps. b-peptides with specific folding preferences for targeting protein-protein interactions. 42. Traditional, Modern and Futuristic Taxonomy Jain University, Bangalore, 29 – 31 January 2013 38. Nanotechnology and its Applications Convener: KN Ganeshaiah (UAS, Bangalore) MMM Engineering College, Gorakhpur (MMMEC), 18 – 20 January 2013 Co-ordinator: Ashwini N (Jain University, Bangalore) Convener: AK Ganguli (IIT, Delhi) Participants: 80 participants from various colleges in Bangalore. Co-ordinator: SP Singh (MMMEC) Topics Covered: Floristic diversity of India; species Participants: 140 participants from various colleges in concept in taxonomy, evolution, ecology and Gorakhpur. conservation; an island called India; phylogenetic patterns Topics Covered: Nanomaterials by colloidal synthesis; across multiple taxonomic groups reveal endemic quantum dots; nanotechnology and drug delivery; metal radiations; DNA barcoding; hands-on training on nanoparticles-doped dielectric films and their applications; molecular systematics; plant taxonomy; insect taxonomy; magnetism at the nanoscale; microemulsions as microbial taxonomy; do we need a new taxonomic nanoreactors; functional nanocomposite materials and species concept. Practical sessions were also held during coatings; magnetic materials for novel device applications; this Workshop. molecular simulations. 43. Recent Developments in Physics 39. Emerging Trends in Development of Drugs and Government Arts and Science College, Melur, 30 Devices – 31 January 2013 University of Delhi, Delhi, 21 – 22 January 2013 Convener: G Baskaran (IMSc, Chennai) Convener: K Misra (NASI, Allahabad) Co-ordinator: John Peter A (Government Arts and Co-ordinator: SK Awasthi/Vibha Tandon (Univ. of Delhi) Science College, Melur) Topics Covered: Medicinal chemistry and human Participants: 141 participants from several colleges in welfare; nutraceuticals and their bio-comprehensive and around Melur. effects; targeted drug delivery; nucleic acids, peptide and Topics Covered: Richness of materials science; protein chemistry. challenges and opportunities in computational materials science. 40. Recent Advances in Chemistry Manonmaniam Sundarnar University,Tirunelveli 44. Thrust Areas in Life Science 23 – 24 January 2013 Cauvery College, Tiruchirapalli, 31 January – 2 Convener: S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore) February 2013 Co-ordinator: V Kumaresen (MSU, Tirunelveli) Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU, Madurai)

38 Co-ordinator: H Abirami (Cauvery College, societies; self-organization in natural sciences; tipping Tiruchirapalli) point transitions in complex dynamical systems. Participants: 150 participants from various colleges in Tiruchirapalli. 48. Current Developments in Atomic and Nuclear Topics Covered: Understanding evolution; evolution and Physics human health; prey capture and detection by the Indian Christ University, Bangalore, 6 – 7 February 2013 false vampire bat; biological clocks: connecting genes to behaviour; evolution of viviparity in vertebrates; Convener: S Kailas (BARC, Mumbai) understanding circadian entrainment in fruit flies Co-ordinators: Syed Azeez and SG Bubbly (Christ Drosophila melangaster; biology and behaviour of bats; University, Bangalore) research begins with observation – Francis Galton; sex Participants: 135 students from different colleges in changing fish; microbial evolution; technique for Bangalore. conservation of fish genome; genetic switches; Topics Covered: Expanding nuclear landscape; phytotherapy of fish diseases. applications of nuclear accelerators in basic and applied sciences; radiation effects and nuclear energy; 45. Frontiers in Astronomy current challenges in particle physics; physics of ion atom NITK, Surathkal, 1 – 3 February 2013 mixtures; laser spectroscopic applications from physics Convener: G Srinivasan (Bangalore) to medicine; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Co-ordinator: HS Nagaraja (NITK, Surathkal) Participants: 125 participants from Mangalore and 49. Recent Developments in Physics Surathkal. Sri G. V. G. Visalakshi College for Women, Topics Covered: What are stars?; X-ray astronomy; Udumalpet (SGVGVCW), 6 – 7 February 2013 quantum stars; gamma ray astronomy; black holes; radio Convener: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan University, universe. Tiruchirapalli) Co-ordinator: TV Banumathi (SGVGVCW) 46. Advanced Spectroscopic Techniques Participants: 245 students from various colleges in and HPT Arts and RYK Science College, Nashik around Udumalpet. (HPTRYKSC), 2 – 3 February 2013 Topics Covered: Nonlinear dynamics: a science of Convener: Dilip D Dhavale (University of Pune) complexity; understanding of the ultimate structure of matter; basics of quantum computation and quantum Co-ordinator: VD Bobade (HPTRYKSC) information; some exciting developments in condensed Participants: 170 participants from eight colleges in matter physics; nanotechnology; physics of living systems Nashik. – biophysics, the novel subject for future. Topics Covered: 13C NMR spectroscopy, 2D-NMR spectroscopy; mass spectrometry; IR and UV 50. Frontiers in Cell and Molecular Biology spectroscopy; 1H NMR spectroscopy; XRD spectroscopy. Vidya Bhavan Rural Institute, Udaipur (VBRI), 14 – 15 February 2013 47. Basic and Interdisciplinary Topics in Physics Convener: LS Shashidhara (IISER, Pune) Midnapore College, Midnapore, 4 – 6 February Co-ordinator: TP Sharma (VBRI) 2013 Participants: 349 students from various colleges in Joint Conveners: Indrani Bose (Bose Institute, Kolkata)/ Udaipur. Bhupati Chakrabarti (City College, Kolkata) Topics Covered: Science and career opportunities in Co-ordinator: BN Goswami (Midnapore College) 21st century; evolution of human cognition; cells on the Participants: 128 participants from different colleges in move: what is happening inside; science and researches and around Midnapore. in the field of genomics; are we more microbial than Topics Covered: Relaxation in disorder materials and human; conventional and unconventional types of nanocomposites; new particle at the large hadron collider; permeability; virosphere; green fluorescent proteins (GSP); turbulent flow characteristics; the joy of small things; how living organisms move: inter and intracellular econophysics of income and wealth distributions in movements within the body.

39 51. Progress and Challenges in Medical Topics Covered: Luminescence and applications; role Biotechnology of chemistry in the development of sensitizers in Christ University, Bangalore, 15 – 16 February 2013 desensitized solar cells and biologically active compounds; revolution in evolutionary thoughts: Darwin and after; Convener: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore) pathogenic bacteria and their survival mechanisms; Co-ordinator: S Suma (Christ University) coupling reactions and green chemistry; role of organic Topics Covered: Traditional, modern and futuristic chemistry in drug discovery; transcription and formation vaccines; strategies to counter resurgent tuberculosis; gut of R-loops. bacteria and health; infection: lack of immunity or escape mechanism; multi-layered capsules as drug delivery 55. Chemistry and Physics of Advanced Materials systems; virus infection mechanisms; stem cell therapy. N.S.S. College of Engineering, Palakkad, 1 – 2 March 2013 52. Modern Trends in Chemistry Convener: T Pradeep (IIT, Mumbai) Vivekananda College, Tiruvekadam West, 22 – 23 Co-ordinator: S Mayadevi (NSSCE, Palakkad) February 2013 Participants: 150 participants from different colleges in Convener: R Ramaraj Palakkad. Co-ordinators: VK Sivasubramanian/R Sevvel Topics Covered: Hybrid materials; functionalized Participants: 200 participants from various colleges in nanostructures; polymeric drug delivery systems; Green and around Madurai. revolution in chemistry; nanochemistry; chemistry of ultra- Topics Covered: Ionic liquids and organic synthesis; thin molecular films; nanopore; biological motor – creating tissue phantoms: chemistry assisting ultrasound synthetic molecular motor. imaging; thiosulfate networks – synthesis, structure and properties; white light excitation fluorescence: novel 56. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology concepts in analytical fluorimetry; inorganic-organic hybrid structure; principle and applications of molecular Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 1 – 2 March 2013 dynamics; molecular dynamics of collagen-like peptides; Convener: AK Ganguli (IIT, Delhi) nanoparticles as sensors and catalysts. Co-ordinator: Tokeer Ahmad (JMI, New Delhi) Participants: 151 participants from various universities 53. Viral Vaccines and Diagnostics and colleges in and around Delhi. Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, 25 – 26 Topics Covered: Nanostructures for applications in February 2013 energy and environment; nano and nanoporous materials; Convener: HS Savithri (IISc, Bangalore) thin film to organic nanowire and high performance organic field effect transistor; functional nano coatings Co-ordinator: M Hema (SVU, Tirupati) by the wet chemical process; structural and magnetic Topics Covered: Virus structure, biology and phase transition in Pt based Nanostructured alloys; purification; virus characterization; viral diagnostics; viral magnetic nanomaterials for GHzfrequency applications. vector interactions; virus replication and virus cellular interactions; viral vaccines/therapeutics; control of emerging and re-emerging viruses. 57. Recent Advances in Chemistry AS College, Deoghar, 16 – 17 March 2013 54. Modern Chemistry and Biology Convener: Anunay Samanta (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad) Aurora’s Degree and PG College, Hyderabad, 27 – 28 February 2013 Co-ordinator: Bijoy K Choudhary (AS College, Deoghar) Convener: Ahmed Kamal (IICT, Hyderabad) Co-ordinator: KMR Nambiar (Aurora’s College, Hyderabad) Participants: 200 participants from various colleges in Hyderabad.

40 13.4 Participation of Teachers in different disciplines. A few of these teachers are Academy Meetings invited to the Academy mid-year and annual The Academy maintains a database of bright and meetings every year to give them an opportunity motivated teachers around the country, largely to attend scientific lectures and to meet and interact based on recommendations received from the with Fellows. About 87 teachers attended the Fellows of the Academy. This list is constantly Academy meetings in Bangalore and Dehra Dun. updated and contains names of teachers mainly Over the past decade, about 1076 teachers from colleges and university departments in attended the Academy meetings.

14 “WOMEN IN SCIENCE” PANEL PROGRAMMES a. Careers in Science India. She urged the young girls to read Mount Carmel College, Bangalore biographies of famous women scientists to learn 9 March 2013 and derive their inspiration from them. Godbole also gave a talk explaining the contribution of The Indian Academy of Sciences, under the particle physics to other sciences and the auspices of the Panel on “Women in Science”, significance of the recently discovered Higgs organized a half-day session on “Careers in Boson. Her description of the discovery of the Science” to commemorate International Women’s proton–proton collision to yield one Higgs boson Day and National Science Day. This lecture particle that manifests in one in a billion collisions programme was held on 9 March 2013 at Mount was very interestingly illustrated and explained. Carmel College, Bangalore. Remembering the contributions made by women scientists to science, Rohini Godbole (IISc), the first speaker, gave a brief introduction of the book Lilavati’s daughters: The women scientists of India, and recalled the contributions made by and Anandibai Joshi, the first lady doctor in

41 The second speaker, TNC Vidya (JNCASR) spoke b. Women Teaching and Leading on the social organisation in female Asian Sciences elephants. This talk showed how female Asian Indian Women Scientists Association (ISWA), elephants interact, how their networking is Vashi, Navi Mumbai structured and organised as compared to the 16 February 2013 African elephants. The talk revealed the marked As part of the programmes of the Academy Panel differences between the social behaviour of Asian on “Women in Science”, a panel discussion on and African elephants in their group strategies, “Women teaching and leading sciences” was held defence against predators and during crises such on 16 February 2013 on the last day of the two- as food shortage. week “Refresher Course on Advances in Plant and The third speaker Attreyee Ghosh (IISc) gave an Animal Biotechnology” at the Indian Women overview of ongoing research in the area of Scientists Association (ISWA), Vashi, Navi geophysics and enlightened the audience on Mumbai. It was attended by nearly 90 persons, various aspects of little-known facts of our planet comprising the course participants, the faculty, Earth. The structure of the Earth was explained in college students, teachers, scientists and IWSA a lucid manner emphasizing the fact that ample members. research is necessary to cope with calamities such “Women in Science” has been receiving immense as earthquakes and tsunamis. For aspiring earth attention in India and abroad to assess why scientists, Ghosh listed a few necessary traits: (i) women are not as much in the forefront as men in a person who loves being outdoors, (ii) is willing science. Is it just a gender bias or are there other to explore nature and has love for science and issues which need attention? This topic has been (iii) has a flair for coding and computing to design the focus of activities of the Academy Panel, and numerical models. it was therefore considered appropriate to discuss Following these lectures, an interactive session was and see how far we have gone in our efforts to also organized. Prabha Chatterji, an industrial improve the space for women in science. A 2004 consultant, interacted with the students. Some of report by a committee, chaired by Rohini Godbole the questions discussed were – reservations for and others, presented some of the prime factors women in research institutes, post marriage social as to why women scientists in India are where responsibilities of women and poor quality of they are. These factors include environmental science education at the school level. issues such as societal pressures, lack of amenities, The session concluded on an optimistic note with which part of the country you reside, lack of suggestions from the panel to the young gathering support from the family, gender bias, science vs on the advantages of doing science, like flexible arts as appropriate for women, the glass ceiling and independent working hours. Ten promising and so on. students were presented with a copy of the book Surekha Zingde (ACTREC, Kharghar, Navi Lilavati’s daughters – The women scientists of Mumbai) moderated the proceedings of the panel India. of eminent women who had won laurels in their individual fields of activities. The panelists were Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM, Bangalore), Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR, Bangalore)

42 and Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (RRI, Bangalore), (Mythili Ramaswamy); equal participation with who represented the mathematical and physical domestic activities from the spouse is a must for a sciences; Kamal Hazari (ex NIRRH, Mumbai), woman to move ahead in her career (Ranjini Anjali Kulkarni (BARC, Mumbai), representing the Bandyopadhyay); a woman must understand her medical sciences; Rinti Banerjee (IIT-B), medical own body well to ensure that she can regulate her sciences among the engineers, and Sheela Dhonde activities and move ahead in undertaking what (IISER, Pune), representing the teaching faculty she wants to do (Kamal Hazari); environment at from the colleges. home plays a major role in determining careers Three of the Refresher Course participants, Liji and family support is essential to excel (Anjali Thayil (a college professor in Mumbai), Reshma Kulkarni); good parenting, family encouragement, Turbekar (from the Koli Community in Mumbai) no discrimination between girl and boy child while and Sashidhara Rajaratnam (from an growing up and the freedom of choice in the economically backward community in selection of a career, and the importance given to Tamilnadu), spoke on their efforts to overcome “networking” to be considered as a Fellow of the several different societal pressures to reach their Academies, are factors involved in the goals as scientists and teachers. Tulsi Mukherjee development of women as scientists (Rinti (BARC) and Bakhtavar Mahajan (ex HBCSE, Banerjee); major attention is needed for educating TIFR), from the audience, shared their experiences the girl child in rural areas and small towns if they and views on the topic. are to contribute effectively to society at large (Sheela Donde). All the senior scientists on the panel were from families in which education was of prime Zingde, summarizing the proceedings, mentioned importance, so the lack of support was not a factor. the efforts made by the Academies towards The discussion revealed how each member in the identifying issues affecting women in science such panel envisaged the topic, their personal as need for equal opportunities, gender neutrality, experiences as professionals, their views and mentoring, flexi hours of work for women, opinions of being women scientists, clinicians and opportunity to return after a break in career, efforts educationists. The panelists expressed the to provide jobs to both spouses in the same campus importance of self-esteem, determination, or at least in the same city and provision for child persistence and decision on professional priorities, care on campus. She brought to attention the small as the way forward for women scientists. They percentage of women who get elected as Fellows shared anecdotes that influenced their decisions of the Academies and that due importance should and made it possible for them to reach their present be given to their professional achievements rather positions. They also expressed how the immediate than their “networking” capabilities which are environment and that of society affects the path most often affected by lack of family support and to development of a woman’s career. the view that a woman is solely responsible for the child and the home. She also informed that Key take-home points were: a woman’s self-esteem the Government of India has provided leave is essential to ensure that she reaches her goal opportunities for working women to ensure that (Shobhana Narasimhan); make your position children below 18 years of age receive due clear to your male colleagues that you are attention from their mother. scientifically at par, besides being a woman

43 The points that now require attention and which women have the same opportunities as men in constituted the recommendations of this panel science in India so that they excel professionally were the need for: and are recognized at par with men. 1. child and elder care leave for both men and The Indian Women Scientists’ Association thanks women so that they share their responsibilities all the three Science Academies for supporting for the family; IWSA to conduct the Panel Discussion. IWSA is 2. the importance for women to stand up for also greatly indebted to the panelists. Of course, their rights, but not misuse privileges offered our thanks are also due to the audience. by the government; [Compiled by Surekha Zingde, Deputy Director, 3. concerted efforts for mentoring of men to CRI-ACTREC, and Rita Mukhopadhyaya, participate in family responsibilities. Secretary, IWSA]. These recommendations will contribute to the efforts of the Academies towards ensuring that

15 HINDI WORKSHOP

The Academy in association with Raman 2013. These workshops were jointly organized by Research Institute organized a Hindi Workshop the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Raman on 12 June 2012. A special lecture on “Use of Research Institute. The workshop sessions covered: Hindi in computers” was given by Dr S N Mahesh, a) Official work in Hindi through computers: senior Hindi translator, CAIR, Bangalore. various methods to make routine correspondence The Academy and Raman easier through the computer Research Institute had organized were demonstrated by Shri A Hindi Week Celebrations during K Billure. 10–14 September 2012. Various b) Official Noting and competitions on areas such as Drafting: some learning tips administrative terminology, noting on noting and drafting were and drafting, essay writing, etc., taught by Shri M G Savadatti. were organized. On the concluding Increased efforts were made day, a special lecture by Professor on the implementation of the K S Valdiya, FASc, was arranged. guidelines and targets fixed by He spoke on "Himalaya Ki Teen the Official Language Mahaan Nadiyaan". Prizes were Implementation Committee distributed to the winners of the and we are happy to report several competitions held during the event. that the Academy has been able to meet most of Two Hindi workshops were held, one on 18 these targets. December 2012 and the other on 26 February

44 16 ACADEMY FINANCES

The accounts for the financial year 2012-2013 were audited by a firm of chartered accountants. A summary of the income and expenditure is given below:

Plan/Non-Plan Plan/Non-Plan Income Rupees Expenditure Rupees (in lakhs) (in lakhs) Grant – DST 880.00 Journal printing 153.33 INSA/NASI 255.96 Science education programmes 383.93 Grant – INSPIRE 13.60 Salaries 192.04 Medical expenses 9.05 Subscriptions 78.14 Fellows’ repository 8.62 Interest earned 25.83 on Plan grant Annual/mid-year meetings 59.56 Others 22.33 Postage 36.09 Deficit under Others (expenses on retirement benefits, Non-Plan 0.01 bonus, maintenance of building, equipment, stationery, packing, pension fund, furniture & equipment, library books, discussion meeting, etc.) 209.85 Surplus 223.40 1275.87 1275.87

17 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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

45 Table 1

Information about published papers in journals (January to December 2012)

Vol. no. No. of No. of Total no. of ** issues papers pages 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 35 7 156 1240 L562 2. Current Science 102,103 24 715 3232* L298 3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 33 4 17 422 L218 4. Journal of Biosciences 37 6 104 1121 K116 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 124 6 156 1450 K452 6. Journal of Earth System Science 121 5 106 1572 K384 7. Journal of Genetics 91 3 76 541 L124 8. Pramana 78,79 12 232 2528 K326 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 122 4 52 684 K172 10. Resonance 17 12 95 1214 L123 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 37 6 49 776 L259

Total - - 1767 14780 L134

* Including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s total no. of pages

Table 2

Information on papers submitted for publication (January to December 2012)

Accepted Rejected Pending Total **

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 192 647+ 8 892 K89 2. Current Science 548 1610 17 2175* L76 3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 9 83+ 198K19 4. Journal of Biosciences 110 797 8 915 K202 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 155 662 29 846 K177 6. Journal of Earth System Science 106 228+ 29 398 K96 7. Journal of Genetics 85 412+ 8 518 K118 8. Pramana 247 407 42 696 K98 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 43 299 24 366 K50 10. Resonance 135 53 25 213 K37 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 43 159 212 414 K86

Total 1673 5357 403 7531 K896

+ Withdrawn (BMS: 40, JAA: 5, JESS: 35, JG: 13) * 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 2012)

Subscription Complimentary Fellows & Total Associates India Foreign India Foreign

1. Bulletin of Materials Science 2503a - 71 16 34 2624 2. Current Science 5447c 41d 170 56 44 5758 3. J. Astrophys. Astron. 1279 - 74 05 18 1376 4. Journal of Biosciences 2154 - 95 36 90 2375 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 1970 - 70 18 62 2120 6. Journal of Earth System Science 1328 - 71 26 40 1465 7. Journal of Genetics 1777 - 48 24 53 1902 8. Pramana 2289 - 80 08 54 2431 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 1943 - 72 22 23 2060 10. Resonance 7574b - 192 07 - 7773 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 1742 - 72 14 26 1854 Total 30006 41 1015 232 444 31738

a. Includes about 640 MRSI members in India and abroad b. Includes about 3040 personal subscribers c. Includes about 1350 personal subscribers d. Includes about 22 complimentary copies sent to Third World Countries

Table 4

Details of 2012 Summer Fellowships

STUDENTS TEACHERS Subjects Applications Offered Availed Applications Offered Availed received received

1. Agricultural Sciences 4174 536 441 249 64 39 (incl. Life Sciences) 2. Chemistry 1677 217 163 114 48 30 3. Physics 1637 207 148 107 53 35 4. Engineering 5526 281 182 137 23 15 5. Earth Sciences 622 141 118 14 04 03 6. Mathematics 534 101 77 40 16 08

Total 14170 1483 1139 661 208 130

47 Annexure 1: New Fellows (effective 1 January 2013)

Ali, Nahid Ghosh, Hirendra Nath Indian Institute of Chemical Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Biology, Kolkata Mumbai Sp: Immunology; parasitology Sp: Radiation & photochemistry; quantum dot & nanomaterials; ultrafast spectroscopy in condense phase Bandyopadhyay, Uday

Indian Institute of Chemical Gopal, B Biology, Kolkata Indian Institute of Science, Sp: Gastric pathophysiology; Bangalore anti-malarials; free radical biology & apoptosis Sp: Structural biology; molecular biology; molecular biophysics.

Baskaran, S Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai Gopalakrishnan, S Sp: Synthetic organic chemistry; Indian Institute of Science, natural products; enantioselective Bangalore synthesis Sp: Wave propagation; structural health monitoring; computational mechanics

Chattopadhyay, Debasis Iyer, Jaya N National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Sp: Abiotic stress of plants; plant virology; genome sequencing Sp: Algebraic geometry

Dighe, Amol Tata Institute of Fundamental Jagirdar, B R Research, Mumbai Indian Institute of Science, Sp: High-energy physics; Bangalore phenomenology; astroparticle Sp: Organometallic chemistry; physics materials chemistry; catalysis

48 Mahapatra, Susanta Rao, B Jagadeeshwar University of Hyderabad, Tata Institute of Fundamental Hyderabad Research, Mumbai Sp: Theoretical chemical Sp: Genome dynamics; biology of dynamics cellular adaptations; computational biology

Maiti, Souvik Rao, N V Chalapathi Institute of Genomics & Banaras Hindu University, Integrative Biology, Delhi Varanasi Sp: Biophysical chemistry; Sp: Igneous petrology; mantle chemical biology geochemistry; geodynamics, mineral resources

Sastry, G Narahari Mitra, Debashis Indian Institute of Chemical National Centre for Cell Science, Technology, Hyderabad Pune Sp: Computational chemistry; Sp: Molecular virology; molecular theoretical chemistry; computer- immunology; HIV/AIDS & anti- aided drug design viral drug discovery

Shenoy, V B Mukhopadhyay, Sangita Indian Institute of Science, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting & Bangalore Diagnostics, Hyderabad Sp: Condensed matter theory; Sp: Immunology; cell signaling; strongly-correlated systems; cold communicable diseases atom physics

Singh, Bhim Nayak, T K Indian Institute of Technology, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, New Delhi Kolkata Sp: Power electronics; renewable Sp: Nuclear & high-energy energy generation physics experiment; QCD phase transition & quark; gluon plasma; phases of nuclear matter Souradeep, Tarun Pati, Arun K Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad Sp: Cosmology; high-energy physics; early universe Sp: Quantum information theory; quantum computing; foundations of quantum theory

49 Sundar Rajan, B Honorary Fellows Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Sp: Wireless communication; coding theory Kailath, Thomas Stanford University, USA

Swaminathan, Soumya National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai Sp: Paediatrics; tuberculosis; HIV co-infection; TB Nocera, Daniel George pathogenesis Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Tyagi, Avesh K Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai Sp: Chemistry of functional materials; nanomaterials; nuclear materials

Annexure 2: Fellows Deceased

Abhyankar, Shreeram Daruwalla, Erach Hormasji Shankar (b. 24.10.1923, d. 17.03.2012) (b. 22.07.1930, d. 02.11.2012) Elected: 1974 Elected: 1988 Sp: Textile chemistry Sp: Algebra and algebraic geometry

Das, Prosad Kumar Bhattacharyya, Jagdish Chandra (b. 20-05-1926, d. 14-01-2011) (b. 01.09.1930, d. 04.06.2012) Elected: 1975 Elected: 1979 Sp: Numerical weather prediction, ocean-atmosphere Sp: Experimental astrophysics coupling, storm surges and dynamic meteorology

50 Doraiswamy, Lakshmangudi Nagaraju, Javaregowda Krishnamurthy (b.06.11.1954, d. 31.12.2012) (b. 13.05.1927, d. 02.06.2012) Elected: 2003 Elected: 1974 Sp: Molecular genetics & Sp: Chemical reaction evolution, genetics of silkmoths engineering, fluidization and and molecular marker genetics organic synthesis engineering Nayar, Bala Krishnan Krishnamachari, (b. 19.09.1927, d. 12.05.2012) Samavedam Laxmi Narasimha Gopala Elected: 1975 (b. 20.09.1928, d. 06.02.2012) Sp: Pteridology, anatomy, palynology and evolution Elected: 1975 Sp: Atomic & molecular spectroscopy, lasers, spectrochemical analysis and Rindani, Tansukh solar energy utilization Harshadray (b. 17.04.1917, d. 24.10.2012) Krishnamurthy, Elected: 1960 Edayathumangalam Sp: Endocrinology, physiology Venkatarama and stress (b. 18.06.1934, d. 26.10.2012) Elected: 1972 Sri Niwas Sp: Parallel & distributed (b. 04.07.1946, d. 15.11.2012) computing, complex systems and computational intelligence Elected: 1995 Sp: Geoelectromagnetism, geophysical inversion and Lakhanpal, Rajendra Nath geohydrology (b. 05.08.1923, d. 19.01.2012) Elected: 1976 Sp: Plant sciences Srikrishna, A (b. 01.01.1955, d. 20.01.2013) Elected: 1994 Sp: Synthetic organic chemistry Lal, Devendra and natural products chemistry (b. 14.02.1929, d. 01.12.2012) Elected: 1965 Sp: Earth & planetary sciences, nuclear physics and geochemistry

51 Srinath, Laxmipuram Honorary Fellows Deceased Srinivasachar (b. 15.03.1927, d. 13.09.2012) Staab, Heinz A Elected: 1974 (b. 26.03.1926, d. 29.07.2012) Sp: Experimental mechanics, Elected: 1989 engineering design and reliability engineering

Vardya, Mahendra Singh (b. 22.02.1933, d. 20.01.2013) Stoicheff, Boris Peter Elected: 1972 (b.01.06.1924, d. 15.04.2010) Sp: Astrophysics Elected: 1971

Annexure 3: New Associates (effective 1 January 2013)

Agarwal, Shivani Jeganmohan, M Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Education and Research, Pune Sp: Machine learning; statistical Sp: Organometallic chemistry; learning theory asymmetric synthesis and total synthesis

Beegum, Naseema S Mukherjee, Santanu National Physical Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, New Delhi Bangalore Sp: Remote sensing; atmospheric Sp: Asymmetric catalysis; aerosols; climate implications synthetic methodologies; stereoselective synthesis

Ghosh, Sujit Kumar Nair, Nisanth N Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Technology, Education and Research, Pune Kanpur Sp: Metal-organic frameworks; Sp: Theoretical chemistry; functional co-ordination molecular dynamics simulation; chemistry soft condensed matter systems

52 Ray, Supratim Roy, Parthanil Indian Institute of Science, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Kolkata Sp: Systems neuroscience; Sp: Probability theory; stochastic gamma oscillations; signal processes; random fields processing

Reddy, M Subba Sahu, Kirti Chandra Centre for DNA Fingerprinting Indian Institute of Technology, and Diagnostics, Hyderabad Hyderabad Sp: Cell biology; cell signalling; Sp: Fluid mechanics; transition to protein modifications turbulence in shear flows; spatially developing flows in complex geometries; multiphase flows; interfacial fluid mechanics

Annexure 4: 23rd Mid-Year Meeting 13–14 July 2012, Bangalore

A. Special Lectures C. Lecture presentations by Fellows/ Associates 1. Ashutosh Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 1. Utpal Sarkar, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad Taming self-organization in highly confined soft matter to sub-100-nm scales: Confronting the faster-than-light neutrinos Fabrication of nanolens-arrays by spinodal 2. Srivari Chandrasekhar, Indian Institute instability of thin polymer films of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 2. Chandrima Shaha, National Institute of Synthesis of bio-actives with relevance to Immunology, New Delhi human health care Many roads to an end: the evolution of cell 3. G Balakrish Nair, Translational Health death Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon From genomes to public health: The cholera B. Public Lecture example 1. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial 4. Rakesh K Mishra, Centre for Cellular & Museum and Library, New Delhi Molecular Biology, Hyderabad Making spaces for nature: Science, politics Functional relevance of the non-coding part and the environment in an emerging of the genome and evolution of complexity economy in animals

53 5. R P Chhabra, Indian Institute of 16. Smitha V Thampi, Physical Research Technology, Kanpur Laboratory, Ahmedabad Hydrodynamics of particles in visco-plastic Computed axial tomography’s view of the fluids ionosphere 6. Samit Chattopadhyay, National Centre 17. K N Raghavan, Institute of Mathematical for Cell Science, Pune Sciences, Chennai Expression and modulation of CD44 Invariant theory and standard monomial variant isoforms in human cancers theory 7. M Rajeevan, Ministry of Earth Sciences 18. V K Chandrasekar, Bharathidasan (MoES), New Delhi University, Tiruchirappalli Long-term variations of droughts over India Event-related synchronization/ desynchronization in coupled nonlinear 8. K Porsezian, Pondicherry University, oscillator systems and applications Puducherry 19. Faiz Ahmed Khan, Indian Institute of Supercontinuum generation in photonic Technology, Hyderabad crystal fibers Synthesis of marine natural products 9. C Pulla Rao, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai 20. Manoj Saxena, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, New Delhi Metallation of proteins Tunnel field effect transistor – A biomolecule 10. Amol A Kulkarni, National Chemical sensor Laboratory, Pune 21. Abhishek Dey, Indian Association for the Microreactors: Engineering the art of Cultivation of Science, Kolkata chemical synthesis Hydrogen, anybody? 11. R K Kohli, Panjab University, Chandigarh Inter-plant interaction: Ecological disturbance through plant invasion 12. S J Bhatt, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar Differential structures in C*- algebras 13. Subhasish Dey, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Turbulence in mobile-bed streams 14. S R Barman, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore Quasicrystalline metallic adlayers 15. Yogendra Singh, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi Survival strategies of bacterial pathogens

54 Annexure 5: 78th Annual Meeting 2–4 November 2012, Dehra Dun

A. Presidential Address 4. , Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur A K Sood, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Turing machines and the development of complexity theory The emerging facets of Raman effect

C. Special Lectures B. (a) Symposium on: Science of the Himalaya 1. Rohini Godbole, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1. Pradeep Srivastava, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun We have found a new boson, what next? Evolution of Himalaya: a look through 2. V S Chauhan, International Centre for Ganga river system Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi 2. A K Jain, Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee Current challenges in research of infectious diseases: malaria and tuberculosis When did India–Asia collide and make the Himalaya? 3. Anil Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Science, D. Public Lectures Bangalore 1. Mohan Agashe, Pune State of Himalayan glaciers Cinema for health 4. J R Kayal, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 2. Shyam Saran, Research and Information Himalayan tectonic model and the strong– System for Developing Countries great earthquakes The challenge of climate change

(b) Symposium on: The computing E. Lectures by Fellows/Associates legacy of Alan Turing 1. Amita Aggarwal, Sanjay Gandhi 1. R K Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Fundamental Research, Mumbai Lucknow Computing legacy of Alan Turing Immune mechanisms in juvenile idiopathic 2. Ramesh Hariharan, Strand Genomics arthritis Ltd, Bangalore 2. A K Shukla, Indian Institute of Science, Patterns in biology and the program of life Bangalore 3. V Arvind, Institute of Mathematical Electric vehicles: constraints, concerns and Sciences, Chennai challenges Algorithmic randomness, real numbers and 3. V Ravindran, Harish-Chandra Research computability Institute, Allahabad What is the Higgs boson?

55 4. Anindya Sarkar, Indian Institute of 14. Anuranjan Anand, Jawaharlal Nehru Technology, Kharagpur Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore Evolution of the Ganges delta from ice age to 21st century and the endangered Genetics of a human epilepsy syndrome Sundarbans triggered by tactile and temperature cues 5. V Ravi, National Institute of Mental Health 15. Aparna Dutta Gupta, University of and Neurosciences, Bangalore Hyderabad, Hyderabad A novel technology for simultaneous Ecofriendly management of insect pests: an detection of multiple pathogens causing attempt to identify alternate molecules and acute encephalitis in India targets 6. Samik Nanda, Indian Institute of 16. Lalit Kumar, All India Institute of Medical Technology, Kharagpur Sciences, New Delhi Scaffold-oriented synthesis, a new strategy Life style and cancer for accessing natural products and new 17. Ramratan Yadav, Birbal Sahni Institute of chemotypes Palaeobotany, Lucknow 7. Pradip Dutta, Indian Institute of Science, Tree ring archives of past climate: gauging Bangalore modern conditions Multiphase convection during solidification 18. S Balasubramaniam, Jawaharlal Nehru of binary alloys Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 8. A R Rao, Tata Institute of Fundamental Bangalore Research, Mumbai Modelling complex molecular fluids What happens close to a black hole? 19. Amit P Sharma, International Centre for 9. Indranil Dasgupta, University of Delhi Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, South Campus, New Delhi New Delhi Viruses as a tool for gene expression and Structural biology of malaria parasite silencing in plants proteins: insights and implications for inhibitor discovery 10. Abhishek Dhar, International Centre for Theoretical Studies, Bangalore Levy walk description of anomalous heat transport 11. Debasisa Mohanty, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi Structural bioinformatics approach for deciphering protein interaction networks 12. Utpal S Tatu, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Chaperoning parasitism 13. Purnima Bhargava, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation

56 STATEMENTSTATEMENT OFOF ACCOUNTSACCOUNTS 2012–20132012–2013

III NDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BANGALORE 58 RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2012 (Amount in rupees) RECEIPTS 2012-2013 2011-2012 I Opening balances: a) Cash in hand 16,275 98,323 b) Bank balances 2,44,64,103 1,34,06,098 II Grants received: a) From Govt of India 6,91,30,000 8,17,70,000 b) From other sources 2,63,20,729 2,65,94,500 III Income on investments: a) Earmarked endowment funds 10,25,120 15,25,495 b) Own funds - 55,66,715 IV Interest received a) On bank deposits 27,77,888 21,81,325 b) Loans & advances, etc. 62,230 30,770 V Other income 2,57,16,848 1,32,01,671 VI Any other receipts a) Contribution to Corpus fund - 47,500 b) Contribution to scientific research 55,000 60,000 c) Fellowship fees 17,500 23,100 d) DST meetings/Inspire 17,09,354 2,74,852 VII Investments matured 3,09,00,000 2,61,00,000 TOTAL 18,21,95,047 17,08,80,349

PAYMENTS I Expenses a) Establishment expenses 2,07,61,004 2,00,60,258 b) Administrative expenses 8,88,38,032 6,27,38,282 II Investments and deposits made 3,45,32,217 5,81,12,419 III Expenditure on a) Fixed assets 30,46,232 22,34,043 b) Capital work in progress - c) Land 74,271 IV Refund of surplus money/loans - - V Other payments 7,53,280 32,54,969 Closing balances: a) Cash in hand 55,392 16,275 b) Bank balances 3,41,34,619 2,44,64,103 TOTAL 18,21,95,047 17,08,80,349 Place: Bangalore As per our report of even date Date: 16.05.2013 For G R Venkatanarayana Chartered Accountants

Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- (D Chatterji) (J Srinivasan) (G Chandramohan) (G R Venkatanarayana) President Treasurer Executive Secretary Partner

59 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2013 (Amount in Rupees) Particulars 2012-2013 2011-2012 A. INCOME Plan Non-Plan Plan Non-Plan Grants/subsidies 11,25,26,180 24,30,000 9,86,49,896 32,07,500 Fees/subscriptions 78,13,888 Nil 84,88,817 Income from royalty, publications, etc. 1,21,41,712 Nil 90,36,378 Interest earned 25,83,343 6,75,078 Nil 21,09,622 Other income 6,72,886 Nil 8,08,379 TOTAL (A) 11,51,09,523 2,37,33,564 9,86,49,896 2,36,50,696 B. EXPENDITURE Establishment expenses 1,65,08,900 42,68,690 1,18,12,858 76,63,810 Other administrative expenses, etc. 7,62,60,468 82,08,328 6,79,66,295 83,62,988 TOTAL (B) 9,27,69,368 1,24,77,018 7,97,79,153 1,60,26,798 C. Springer royalty transferred to JASP Fund - 1,12,57,796 - 76,25,573 D. Surplus/(Deficit) 2,23,40,155 (1,250) 1,88,70,743 (1,675) Place: Bangalore As per our report of even date Date: 16.05.2013 For G R Venkatanarayana Chartered Accountants

Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- (D Chatterji) (J Srinivasan) (G Chandramohan) (G R Venkatanarayana) President Treasurer Executive Secretary Partner

BALANCE SHEET AS ON 31 MARCH 2013 (Amount in Rupees) 2012-2013 2011-2012 SOURCES OF FUNDS Corpus/Capital fund 14,65,64,104 14,35,87,676 Earmarked/endowment funds 3,81,25,943 2,60,67,975 Current liabilities and provisions 3,07,34,862 3,28,23,845 TOTAL 21,54,24,909 20,24,79,496 ASSETS/APPLICATION OF FUNDS Fixed assets 7,31,19,688 7,37,14,116 Investments: from earmarked/endowment funds 3,81,25,941 2,52,93,724 Investments: others 6,42,11,998 7,29,93,695 Current assets, loans, advances, etc. 3,99,67,282 3,04,77,961 TOTAL 21,54,24,909 20,24,79,496 Place: Bangalore As per our report of even date Date: 16.05.2013 For G R Venkatanarayana Chartered Accountants

Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- (D Chatterji) (J Srinivasan) (G Chandramohan) (G R Venkatanarayana) President Treasurer Executive Secretary Partner

60 EETING M NNUAL A IGHTH -E Indian Academy of Sciences 2–4 November 2012, Dehra Dun EVENTY S

61 INDIAN A CADEMY OF SCIENCES BANGALORE