AANNUALNNUAL RREPORTEPORT 2013–2014

INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BANGALORE Address Indian Academy of Sciences C.V. Raman Avenue Post Box No. 8005 Sadashivanagar P.O. Bangalore 560 080 Telephone 91-80-2266-1200 (EPABX) Fax 91-80-2361-6094 Email [email protected]

Website www.ias.ac.in Contents Introduction 4 Council 5 Fellowship 5 Associates 8 Publications 8 Repository of Scientific Publications 15 of Academy Fellows Discussion Meetings 15 Mid-Year Meeting 2013 17 Annual Meeting 2013 20 Raman Professor 24 Academy Public Lectures 25 Science Education Programmes 27 ‘Women in Science’ 45 Panel Programmes Hindi Workshops 46 National Science Day 47 Additional Hostel Facility at Jalahalli 48 Dainik Bhaskar National Education 48 Leadership Award 2013 Academy Finances 49 Acknowledgements 49 Tables 50 Annexures 52

Statement of Accounts 61 The Academy was founded in 1934 by Sir C V Raman with the

main objective of promoting the

progress and upholding the cause

of science (both pure and applied).

It was registered as a Society under the

Societies Registration Act on

24 April 1934. The Academy commenced

functioning with 65 Fellows and the formal

inauguration took place on 31 July 1934 at the

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. On the Introduction afternoon of that day, its first general meeting of 1 Fellows was held, during which Sir C V Raman

was elected its President and the draft constitution

of the Academy was approved and adopted. The

first issue of the Academy Proceedings was

published in July 1934.

The present report covering the period from

April 2013 to March 2014 represents the eightieth

year of the Academy.

4 2 Council There were two statutory meetings of the Council on 6 July 2013 and 7–8 December 2013.

3 Fellowship

3.1 2014 Elections 22. Subramaniam, Annapurni A total of 465 nominations for fellowship in 23. Subramanian, V different disciplines were considered by the 24. Tandon, Nikhil eight Sectional Committees. Following postal Honorary Fellows balloting, 24 new Fellows were elected, the fellowship being effective from 1 January 1. Paulraj, Arogyaswami J 2014. A list of their names follows, while 2. Ramanathan, Veerabhadran Annexure 1 gives their particulars. Also 3. Schmidt, Brian P elected were three new Honorary Fellows.

Fellows 3.2 In Memoriam 1. Bera, Jitendra K The Academy regrets to place on record the 2. Chakraborti, Asit K death of the following 11 Fellows and 3. Chattarji, Sumantra 1 Honorary Fellow during the period up to 4. Garg, Naveen March 2014. Annexure 2 gives additional 5. Ghate, Eknath information about them. 6. Jayananda, M 7. Krishnamurthy, M Fellows Deceased 8. Kulkarni, Giridhar U 1. Agarwal, Shyam Swarup 9. Kundu, Manikuntala 2. Bhattacharyya, Sasanka Chandra 10. Madras, Giridhar 3. Bhattacherjee, Satyendra Kumar 11. Mahadevan, Priya 4. Narasimhan, Palliakaranai Thirumalai 12. Majumdar, Subeer S 5. Narendran, Thekke Curuppathe 13. Mandal, Gautam 6. Rao, Vallurupalli Sita Raghavendra 14. Mujumdar, Pradeep 7. Reddy, Chintala Raja Ram Mohan 15. Mukerji, Mitali 8. Roy, Supriya 16. Nayak, Shailesh 9. Sarabhai, Anand 17. Raghavarao, K S M S 10. Seshagiri, Narasimhiah 18. Ramana, C V 11. Siddiqi, Obaid 19. Rao, Ravi A 20. Roy, Syamal Honorary Fellow Deceased 21. Roychoudhury, Susanta 1. Dodson, George Guy

5 3.3 Strength of the Fellowship

Fellows Honorary Fellows 1 April 2013 1010 52 Elected (Dec. 2013) 24 3 Deceased (2013–2014) 11 1 31 March 2014 1023 54

3.4 Fellowship Analysis The age-wise distribution of the IASc Fellowship is as shown in the following chart.

200

180

160 168 178

140 134 118 120

100 115 106 80

60 Number of Fellows 72 57 42 40

20 17 12 02 41-45 46-50 51-55 56-60 61-65 66-70 71-75 76-80 81-85 86-90 91-95 Age group 96-100

The distribution of Fellows among the three Academies is shown in the following diagram.

The numbers in red indicate the FNASc number of Fellows exclusive to (1516) FASc 136 each Academy. The number in bold 257 (1023) indicates the number of Fellows common to all three Academies. 836 We also see that the total number 412 of Fellows in each Academy is 1023 in the Indian Academy of Sciences, 218 1516 in The National Academy of 132 Sciences and 861 in the Indian National Science Academy. The 99 total number of individual Fellows FNA (861) in all three Academies is 2090.

6 The city-wise distribution of IASc Fellows is given in the following table.

Agra 1 Howrah 4 Nagpur 1 Ahmedabad 21 Hyderabad 73 Panchkula 1 Aligarh 2 Indore 7 Pondicherry 1 Allahabad 4 Jaipur 3 Prasanti 1 Amritsar 1 Jalandhar 1 Pune 76 Bangalore 230 Jamshedpur 1 Ranchi 1 Baroda 1 Jorhat 1 Roorkee 1 Bhavnagar 2 Kalpakkam 1 Santiniketan 2 Bhopal 3 Kalyani 1 SAS Nagar 7 Bhubaneswar 10 Kanpur 14 Secunderabad 4 Chandigarh 10 Karaikudi 1 Shillong 1 Chennai 51 Karnal 1 Silchar 1 Chittoor 1 Karwar 1 Sindhudurg 1 Coimbatore 3 Kharagpur 5 Srinagar 1 Cuttack 1 Kolhapur 1 Sultanpur 1 Dehra Dun 4 Kolkata 71 Tezpur 1 Delhi 125 Kottayam 1 Thane 1 Delhi – NCR 14 Lucknow 18 Thiruvananthapuram 15 Dharwad 1 Madurai 8 Thiruvarur 1 Goa 6 Manipal 1 Tiruchirapalli 1 Durgapur 1 Meerut 1 Tirupati 1 Ernakulam 1 Mohali 2 Tumkur 1 Gandhinagar 3 Mohanpur 2 VV Nagar 1 Guntur 1 Mumbai 111 Varanasi 14 Guwahati 1 Mysore 7 Vellore 6

Total in India 979

7 4 Associates Sixty-four nominations were received and the following 11 were selected as Associates in 2013, the associateship being effective from 1 July 2013 (see also Annexure 3).

1. Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar 7. Maiti, Debabrata 2. Bera, Melinda Kumar 8. Misra, Abha 3. Gupta, Neena 9. Rajaraman, Gopalan 4. Guttal, Vishwesha 10. Sheshasayee, Aswin Narayan 5. Jha, Rajan 11. Viswanatha, Ranjani 6. Mabalirajan, Ulaganathan

5 Publications

5.1 Journals 5.2 Special Issues of Journals The following journals continue to be Several journals brought out special issues of published by the Academy: topical importance. A description of these 1. Bulletin of Materials Science follows: 2. Current Science (in association with Current Science Association) The Thirty Meter Telescope – 3. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy Observatory GenNext 4. Journal of Biosciences Editor: Ram Sagar 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 6. Journal of Earth System Science Journal of 7. Journal of Genetics Astrophysics and Astronomy, 8. Pramana – Journal of Physics Vol. 34, No. 2, 9. Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences June 2013, 10. Resonance – Journal of Science pp. 75–192 Education 11. Sadhana – Academy Proceedings of Engineering Sciences The imperative need and relevance of Journal-wise information on papers submitted building large optical telescopes was for publication, the number of pages expressed by early astronomers. Today, published and circulation figures of journals technological developments in both for the calendar year 2013 are given in Tables electronics and computers have made the 1–3 (see pages 50–51). manufacturing of extremely large-sized optical telescopes economical and feasible. Understandably, such projects are beyond

8 the capabilities of any one nation. The Thirty TMT will be equipped with a suite of first- Meter Telescope (TMT) Project is led by a generation instruments. These details found group of US institutions, namely, California description in the article by Luc Simard, who Institute of Technology (CalTech), heads the TMT instrumentation group. This University of California, and Yale University article described the capabilities and technical . Other participating nations in the TMT details of the first light science instruments. It Project are Canada, China, Japan and India. also informed the reader about a diverse set The TMT is a global effort in which all of new instruments, now under study, that partners contribute to the design, will bring additional workhorse capabilities to construction, technology development, and serve the scientific interests of a wider user scientific use of the Observatory. The TMT, base and also offer a wide range of like all telescopes with more than 1 m aperture opportunities to all TMT partners. Despite size, is basically a reflecting telescope. It will its extremely large size, the TMT will be a comprise 492 hexagonal mirror segments, ground-based telescope. As a consequence, each 1.44 m in size, and is planned for images of celestial objects formed by the installation on the summit of Mauna Kea TMT will be blurred by turbulences present located in the island of Hawaii in the United in the Earth’s atmosphere. These distortions States. With TMT, it will be possible to can now be countered using a technique called study the Universe as never before and find adaptive optics (AO). The article by Brent answers to many of the grand challenges of Lee Ellerbroek, an expert in the field, Science. provided the status of the TMT adaptive This special issue of the Journal of optics programme. Progress in AO Astrophysics and Astronomy (Vol. 34, No. 2, components prototyping, control algorithm June 2013) informed the reader about India’s development and system performance participation in this multinational mega analyses were also presented in the article. project and highlighted its important technical C. H. Ishwara-Chandra articulated the value aspects. The article by Gary H. Sanders, of such multi-wavelength observations in his Project Manager of TMT, elaborated on the article. Radio sources located beyond red issues concerning participation of institutions shift of 5 require deep optical and near-IR and countries, the technological challenges observations with the capabilities of TMT. present in the project, the key science Sujan Sengupta delineated the importance of programmes which TMT will enable, as well polarimetric observations taken with TMT in as the unprecedented gains in both light the case of exo-planetary systems discovered gathering power and angular resolution recently. The article suggested that even a imaging capabilities of the TMT. low-spectral-resolution spectro-polarimeter B. Eswar Reddy, Director of the India TMT with capability to detect linear polarization Coordination Centre, in his article, shared of 0.5–1% at the TMT would immensely help salient details of the scientific justification and in understanding the atmosphere, especially status of the technical participation of Indian the cloud chemistry of self-luminous and astronomers as well as of Indian companies. resolved exo-planets.

9 The contribution of TMT, equipped with power generation to match the needs of modern first-generation back-end sustained economic growth and improving the instruments, towards the understanding of standard of living for the masses. Nuclear front-line research problems in the area of the power is currently the fourth largest source evolution of massive stars and high-red shift of electricity in India after thermal, Universe using core collapse supernovae and hydroelectric and renewable sources of gamma-ray bursts have been effectively electricity. Thorium utilization for large-scale summarized by S. B. Pandey. power production and associated technology The TMT Infra-Red Guide Star Catalog development are important aspects of the (TMT-IRGSC) consists of stars as faint as Indian nuclear power programme. This is J ~22 mag, covering the entire TMT important because of the security of fuel observable sky from +90 to –45 degrees in reserves, since India has one of the largest declination, and is required for efficient reserves of thorium. Operation in closed planning and observing for this project. This nuclear fuel cycles, which involves important work is being carried out under the reprocessing and recycling of fissile materials, leadership of Indian astronomers. The is thus inevitable for India. A three-stage methodology and technique used in nuclear energy programme based on the generating this valuable catalogue were closed cycle is the flagship of the Indian detailed in the article by Smitha Subramanian atomic programme. Stage one aims at et al., which provided the status of this work. developing natural-uranium-fuelled pressurised heavy water reactors; the second stage aims at utilising plutonium-based fuels Nuclear Power Programme in India in fast breeder reactors. The third stage – Past, Present and Future focuses on the development of advanced Editors: AK Nayak nuclear power systems for utilisation of and BK Dutta thorium. Currently, India has 20 nuclear reactors in operation, generating Sâdhanâ, Vol. 38, No. 5, October 2013, approximately 4,780 MWe and 7 other pp. 773–1064 reactors are under construction, which are expected to generate an additional 5,300 MWe. Apart from the currently operating India has been water-cooled reactors, the country plans to among the build innovative nuclear reactors such as the frontrunners to have Advanced Heavy Water Reactor, Prototype an elaborate nuclear Fast Breeder Reactor, High Temperature programme since immediately after Reactor and Molten Salt Breeder Reactor. independence. At present, India is among the The country has set up R&D programmes few countries recognised to have mastered all towards development of accelerator-driven aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle and is a system (ADS) and fusion reactor concepts. leader in heavy water reactor technology. Important objectives of future designs would India is poised for multifold growth in nuclear be not only burning of thorium but also

10 minimising the need for the exclusion zone so Frankineae and Actinorhizal plants that new reactors can be located in close Editor: Arvind K proximity to large populations. In view of Misra this, the new designs would be practically safe and would satisfy the design requirements for Journal of Biosciences, “no impact in public domain”. While India Vol. 38, No. 4, was smoothly proceeding on the planned November 2013, pp. three-stage programme, the Fukushima 675–824 accident has been a temporary setback to the nuclear industry because of public Nitrogen is an apprehension on the safety of nuclear integral part of reactors. nucleic acids and proteins, the key bio- In this special issue, emphasis has been laid to molecules orchestrating the information bring out the design and safety aspects of the storage, retrieval and use for metabolic Indian operating reactors as well as future processes. However, nitrogen, even though it ones. The special issue also discussed how is abundant in the atmosphere, does not extreme events are prevented in the design or readily combine with other elements. High are mitigated in Indian nuclear power plants, energy input is required for formation of which require development of appropriate ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. materials, control and instrumentation Therefore, it is not easy for living organisms systems, and technologies. Apart from safety, to convert readily available atmospheric this special issue discussed the management of dinitrogen to usable form. In fact only a few radioactive waste and preparedness in the prokaryotes seem to have developed Indian fusion reactor programme. Since India expertise in ‘fixing’ atmospheric dinitrogen. has an elaborate nuclear power programme The rest of the living world relies on nitrogen based on the closed fuel cycle, development thus fixed in the soil and in the oceans. While of skilled nuclear scientists and engineers, higher life forms acquired the ability to fix who can take responsibility as well as dream carbon by ‘adopting’ a prokaryotic system in of a better tomorrow, are very important. an obligate manner in the form of This special issue brought out this aspect of chloroplasts, no such system seems to have development of human resources for the developed for fixing nitrogen. So far we do nuclear power programme. The articles in not know of any obligately symbiotic cellular this issue were primarily review articles and endobiont capable of fixing atmospheric targeted at public education. dinitrogen. This makes us wonder why nature did not let eukaryotic cells ‘adopt’ another prokaryote in an obligate manner to ensure a steady supply of fixed nitrogen. In nature we have some free living bacteria fixing atmospheric dinitrogen in the soil, or a few others that can form symbiotic

11 associations with some plants. These we miss a significant point. It is imperative to symbiotic associations ensure a steady supply have a sound, vibrant and stable forest cover of fixed carbon and other nutrients for the to support sustainable agriculture. micro-symbiont and, in return, a steady Actinorhizal symbiosis is important from the supply of fixed nitrogen for the host. The point of view of providing such forest best known associations of this type involve support for our agriculture in the long term. legumes as hosts and Rhizobium or related Realising the importance of actinorhizal bacteria as micro-symbionts. This association associations, closely knit groups of workers has been extensively studied primarily have been conducting research into various because of the agricultural importance of aspects of this symbiotic association. Since legume crops. However, there is another 1978, when the first gathering of scientists similar, but much less celebrated, association shared their experiences with actinorhizal between Frankia and some plants called symbiosis at Harvard Forest, USA, seventeen actinorhizal plants. Frankia belongs to the such gatherings have taken place so far. The family Frankiaceae of Frankineae, a group of historical developments in this field have been Actinobacteria. nicely summed up by Normand in this special Unlike Rhizobium, which has specialised in issue. forming symbiotic nitrogen fixing root/ North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, shoot nodules with members of a select India, was the proud host of the seventeenth family of angiosperms, Frankia is more such gathering in the form of a Conference versatile. It has been found to form symbiotic on Frankineae and Actinorhizal Plants. This nodules with about 23 genera belonging to 8 issue of Journal of Biosciences is a collection of different angiosperm families. Most of these research papers and review articles arising out are woody forest trees and shrubs. Another of three days of deliberations at Shillong. surprising feature of this association is that not all members of a given plant family can A wide range of topics from field harbour Frankia. For example, in the family applications of actinorhizal associations to Betulaceae, Betula does not enter into genetic transformation studies were discussed. symbiotic association, while Alnus forms root Zhong et al. have made a case for Casuarina nodules with Frankia. This observation has glauca as a model host for the study of been investigated by many scientists and most molecular mechanisms driving actinorhizal support the possibility of multiphyletic associations. Ganguli and Kennedy from origin of actinorhizal symbiosis with an initial Australia and Karthikeyan et al. from India predisposition to root symbioses in the Rosid also highlighted the significance of Casuarina. clade. On the other hand, Tobita and co-workers from Japan have reported their findings on Man gives more importance to activities that growth and nitrogen fixation in another give visible returns in the near term. It is important actinorhizal genus, Alnus. Oshone therefore not surprising that substantial funds and co-workers reported the effect of salt are made available for research in anything stress on physiology of Frankia. Richau and even remotely connected to agriculture. But co-workers reviewed the hydrogenase uptake

12 system in Frankia and report their own Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS findings. Carro et al. described elaborate National Laser Symposium experiments to demonstrate the generalised (NLS-21) – Parts I and II presence of another actinobacterium, Editors: Micromonospora, as a frequent co-inhabitant in LM Gantayet, actinorhizal nodules. Nouioui and co-workers K Dasgupta, reported the presence of cluster 2 Frankia DJ Biswas, AK Ray, strains in Tunisian soils, where compatible JP Nilaya and host plants are not normally found. AK Pulhani Pramana – Journal of In addition to these basic studies, Tisa and co- Physics, workers discussed the results of analysing Vol. 82, Nos. 1–2, Frankia genomes. Bioinformatics tools have January–February been used by Sur et al. in characterising 2014, pp. 1–462 pseudogenes, Bhattacharya and co-workers in The DAE–BRNS National Laser characterising haemoglobin of actinorhizal Symposium, held under the auspices of the plants, and Thakur et al. for studying Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, evolution of novel protein function in NifH/ Department of Atomic Energy, is an annual BchL protein family. Kucho et al. have event that brings together eminent scientists reported the use of codon optimised and engineers from India and abroad for antibiotic resistance gene as an aid in studies intense discussions on science and technology aimed at transformation of Frankia. Yanthan related to lasers. The 21st edition of National and Misra report association between Laser Symposium (NLS-21) was organised by Amplicon Restriction Patterns and level of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, and was nitrogenase activity in root nodules of held in Mumbai during February 6 to 9, 2013. Myrica. Ever since the NLS was held for the first time The high point of the Shillong deliberations at IIT–Madras in 1992, it has been growing was the increasing realisation of the medicinal both in size and stature. As a matter of fact, a importance of some actinorhizal genera. Two record number of manuscripts were such notable genera are Myrica and submitted this year for consideration for Hippophae. While Goyal et al. have reported presentation in NLS-21. The symposium this phytochemical analyses of some actinorhizal year had 10 regular scientific sessions plants, Middha and co-workers have reported comprising 7 plenary and 17 invited talks by β molecular docking studies of GSK-3 and GK both senior and young researchers, 3 poster inhibitors of Hippophae. The finding of anti- sessions consisting of a total of 277 diabetic compounds in Hippophae by Middha contributory papers selected through a et al. augurs well for the future of research on rigorous process of reviewing from the actinorhizal symbiosis. submitted 348 papers, 2 PhD thesis sessions with a total of 11 oral presentations of recent PhD theses on related topics, and an industrial

13 session with 6 presentations made by The selection of the contributory papers for industrial participants dealing with lasers and the proceedings was carried out in two steps. related products. Papers were first shortlisted by the scientific This special issue of Pramana – Journal of committee, which were then critically Physics has stemmed from the summary of reviewed by a panel of experts constituted in plenary and invited talks and 48 contributed consultation with Dr. SM Sharma, editorial papers selected from those presented as board member of Pramana. The reviewer posters during the symposium. The panel comprised Prof. AK Nath (IIT Symposium Organizing Committee, in its Kharagpur), Prof. G Ravindra Kumar (TIFR) first meeting itself, recommended publication and Prof. DN Rao (University of of the symposium proceedings as it was felt Hyderabad), who selected these 48 that this would stimulate improvement in the contributory papers for publication. scientific and the technical content of the contributions. The authors and their 5.3 Report on Publications institutions also stand to benefit from a wider exposure of their work to both national and The 5-year Co-publication Agreement with international communities. Needless to say, Springer for all journals has been in effect this special issue of Pramana would also serve during 2013–2014. The number of full-text as a reference for future research that has its downloads for all ten journals on genesis in this symposium. SpringerLink continued their upward trend. The download figures for 2012 and 2013 are given in the following table:

Journal Downloads* Downloads* 2012 2013

Bulletin of Materials Science 112,911 103,095 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 8,254 10,996 Journal of Biosciences 70,579 68,438 Journal of Chemical Sciences 47,543 62,953 Journal of Earth System Science 24,512 45,164 Journal of Genetics 23,287 35,758 Pramana – Journal of Physics 52,128 76,556 Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences 33,117 51,836 Resonance – Journal of Science Education 35,535 48,396 Sadhana – Engineering Sciences 32,395 44,067

*As provided by Springer.

14 6 Repository of Scientific Publications of Academy Fellows

The number of records (publications) listed in the Repository has crossed 92,116, and full- text files are available for over 20,744 of them. The work of updating the Repository happens continuously, and records are added when found or sent to the Academy office by Fellows. The Repository is at http:// repository.ias.ac.in. Repository content can be viewed by year, by subject (sectional committee name), and by Fellow name (names as in Academy Year Book).

7 Discussion Meetings

7.1 Numerical Many Body covered involved developments in techniques Methods in Quantum Chemistry and interesting applications of the numerical and Physics many body methods. The spectrum of Orange County, Coorg methods ranged from exact diagonalisation 2–7 December 2013 methods, density matrix renormalisation Convener: S. Ramasesha (IISc, Bangalore) group methods, quantum Monte Carlo methods, beyond the density functional The meeting was attended by 20 participants, methods such as the GW method and some including 4 students, and 16 participants made conventional quantum chemical methods. The oral presentations. There were 4 participants applications discussed were quantum phase with affiliations outside India, comprising one transitions in spin, Fermionic and Bosonic Italian, one Japanese, one British and one lattices, neutral-ionic transitions in one- American. Five women scientists attended the dimensional systems with strong correlations meeting. The very productive oral and electron–phonon interactions, presentations were for 1 hour and 15 minutes development of new methods, etc. each, and were interspersed with lively discussions. Approximately half the speakers The Orange County also arranged cultural were theoretical chemists and the remaining, programmes in the evenings, as well as bird condensed matter theorists. The topics watching, village and plantation tours.

15 and the multiplication operators on them. This is a rich area in functional analysis, and probabilists have been very interested in this for decision theory problems. Arup Chattopadhyay spoke on majorisation and its relation to eigen-value inequalities for matrices. Haripada Sau 7.2 Probability, Functional spoke on the symmetrised bidisc. These talks Analysis and Related Topics on different aspects of probability and functional analysis generated a synergy which Orange County, Coorg should be sustained. 26 February–1 March, 2014 Convener: Kalyan B. Sinha (JNCASR, Bangalore) 7.3 Foundations of Evolutionary Probability and functional analysis are Theory: The Ongoing Synthesis intimately connected areas of mathematics. Orange County, Coorg Traditional probabilists are often wary of 23–26 February 2014 functional analysis; however, more recently Conveners: L.S. Shashidhara (IISER, Pune), there has been considerable cross-fertilisation Sutirth Dey (IISER, Pune) and Amitabh Joshi between these two areas of mathematics. (JNCASR, Bangalore) Thus, this workshop was very topical. It was This discussion meeting was organised to organised by members of the faculty of bring together a group of people interested in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced evolutionary biology, representing the Scientific Research, the Department of diversity of evolutionists (and some from Mathematics of the Indian Institute of Science other fields) in India, in order to have and Stat-Math Unit of Indian Statistical extensive and somewhat free-wheeling Institute, Bangalore. In the salubrious discussions on some aspects of how recent atmosphere of Orange County, there were work on the concepts of fitness, concepts of eight talks of an hour each. Some of the talks species and phylogenetic trees, epigenetic by young students and post-doctoral fellows inheritance, cultural inheritance, phenotypic included: Kartick Adhikari and Tulsi Ram plasticity and evo-devo may or may not Reddy, who spoke on determinantal point necessitate major changes to the foundational processes and discussed about the spectrum. theories of evolution, collectively often Jaydeb Sarkar and Bata Krishna Das, who referred to as the Modern Synthesis. The discussed the Hardy space on the polydisc meeting consisted of five sessions devoted to

16 one theme each: (i) foundational concepts in evolution: species, descent with modification and fitness, (ii) cultural inheritance and cultural evolution, (iii) evolutionary developmental biology, (iv) epigenetic inheritance and neo-Lamarckism, and (v) phenotypic plasticity. Each session had two 30- minute seed talks, followed by at least 2–3 extensive, and the participants thoroughly hours of free-format discussion about the enjoyed the meeting. A few papers based on implications of recent findings in each field the discussions at this meeting may be for the foundations of evolutionary theory. considered for a Special Section in the Journal The discussions were extremely vigorous and of Genetics.

8 Mid-Year Meeting 2013

The 24th Mid-year Meeting of the Indian meeting covered varied topics from public Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, was held on health to solar cells and astrophysics to 5th and 6th July 2013 at the Indian Institute of wireless communications and were delivered Science. This was preceded by an interactive by the newly elected Associates and Fellows session for teachers of undergraduate courses of the Academy. Special lectures by S. from institutions across Sivaram and Deepak Pental and a the country. The aim of public lecture by Jacob John were this session was to also organised as a part of this facilitate discussions on meeting. A list of all the talks is how science education provided in Annexure 4. in the country can be The role of plastics in degradation further improved, of the environment is well known, including the many and researchers worldwide are different teaching trying to find eco-friendly solutions methods adopted by to this problem. The meeting teachers. opened with a special lecture by The talks during the S. Sivaram (NCL, Pune), whose

S. Sivaram 17 talk focussed on the challenges encountered polio virus. in developing a biodegradable form of plastic Studies using aliphatic polymers. conducted The second special lecture, by Deepak both by John Pental (University of Delhi South Campus, and others New Delhi), was on the use of transgenic have strongly crops which have drawn criticism and suggested several controversies globally. Pental’s talk focussed T. Jacob John on the advantages of using transgenic hybrids advantages in to improve crop yield and combat disease using IPV over OPV. He stressed on how outbreaks. The speaker cited the example of vaccine-associated paralytic polio is mustard (Brassica juncea), which is grown on associated with using OPV. Several countries 6-7 million hectares of land in India and is in Europe and also the US have benefitted often affected by from switching over to IPV, and he diseases like stem highlighted the need for India to do the same. rot, white rust With the current global energy crisis, and alternaria research on solar cells has gained interest blight, for which worldwide. Numerous scientific groups have no treatment has been looking at making low-cost, high- been found as efficiency solar cells by harnessing solar yet, leading to energy. H. N. Ghosh (BARC, Mumbai) in loss of yield. his talk highlighted the recent research According to advances in the making of dye-sensitised and Pental, switching quantum dot solar cells, and discussed the to transgenic challenges in designing an energy-efficient

Deepak Pental plant varieties cell. developed, using S. Baskaran (IIT, Chennai) spoke of the new biological tools and markers, is a safe advantages of domino reactions especially in way to tackle this problem. Pental also the environment and gave us an insight into mentioned the need to set up multiple plant his research on domino-based strategies breeding centres to help address problems towards the stereo-selective synthesis of such as the role of various genes and linkage biologically active molecules. drag that plant breeders face. S. Shankaranarayanan (IISER, Application of the latest scientific research Thiruvananthapuram) spoke on higher findings to the field of public health is not derivative theories and quantum phase only important but a necessity. T. Jacob transitions and its implications on condensed John John (Vellore), in his public lecture, spoke matter systems and black-hole entropy. on India’s long battle in fighting polio and the subsequent success. However, there have been Prahladh Harsha (TIFR, Mumbai) spoke a few reported cases of polio outbreaks on communication complexity and its recent recently, which are caused by vaccine-derived successes.

18 Amiya Kumar Pani’sPani (IIT, Mumbai) talk Debasis ChattopadhyayChattopadhyay’s (NIPGR, New looked at the ways in which traditional Delhi) talk on protein kinases in plants mathematics differed from the new discussed his research on CIPKs identified framework followed today, its objectives and from the plant Arabidopis and their the need to have a relook at mathematical involvement in plant development and stress research as it is done today. signalling, highlighting their role in The field of wireless communication has seen transporting the plant hormone auxin. rapid growth during the past decade. Most of V. K. Sharma (JNCASR, Bangalore) spoke the devices for wireless communication, on the entrainment of fruit fly Drosophila including mobile phones, at present, use one melanogaster circadian clocks under natural antenna to transmit and another to receive conditions and focussed on his experimental signals. Speaking on his area of research, research to study the behavioural responses B. Sundar Rajan (IISc, Bangalore) said that of the wild-type strains of fruit fly to changes using multiple antennas will enormously help in natural light conditions. increase both data rate and reliability. Uday Bandyopadhyay (IICB, Kolkata) Amol Dighe (TIFR, Mumbai) spoke on spoke about a newly designed gastro- particle astrophysics of neutrinos and how protective molecule SEGA which has observing the nature of the neutrinos can help therapeutic potential against gastric ulcers in studies related to supernova astrophysics. caused by consumption of non-steroidal anti- T. K. Nayak (VECC, Kolkata), in his talk inflammatory drugs or pain killers. on the Large Hadron Collider, discussed the Public health is a matter of great concern with discovery of quantum chromodynamics and the rapid global spread of epidemics and viral the present understanding of its phase outbreaks. The rapid spread of the H1N1 diagram based on data acquired from STAR virus, which caused worldwide panic, and ALICE experiments. questioned India’s capability to cope with M. Durga Prasad (University of epidemics. A. C. Mishra (NIV, Pune) in his Hyderabad, Hyderabad) discussed, in his talk lecture spoke on how the lessons learnt in the on the electronic structure perspective of the previous years and also new research on the promoter modes in proton transfer reactions, influenza viruses have helped India to be the implications of electron donation into better prepared to tackle and treat avian sigma orbitals on the other vibrational influenza and other such viral epidemics. degrees of freedom. Another matter of grave concern is the steep rise in the number of TB cases in India. With K. N. Raghavan (IMSc, Chennai) delivered over 2.2 million cases of TB, the World an interactive talk on invariant theory and Health Organization has placed India in the standard monomial theory and explained the “high TB burden” category. Soumya study of invariant functions and how it leads Swaminathan (NIRT, Chennai) raised her to the standard monomial theory with concern about the non-availability of examples.

19 biomarkers for tuberculosis that makes ions such as Cu2+, Mn2+, Ni2+, Co3+ and Fe3+. follow-up of recurrence or relapse cases B. J. Rao (TIFR, Mumbai), in his talk on the difficult. She mentioned how failing to test spatial movements of chromosomes that for tuberculosis using the DNA PCR method facilitate their repairs, spoke on the non- had caused delays in diagnosis and treatment random organisation of chromosome in children and also that around 5% of the territories in mammalian interphase nuclei. tuberculosis patients in south India were also N. V. Chalapathi Rao (BHU, Varanasi) infected with HIV. spoke on his research on kimberlites from the S. K. Pati’sPati (JNCASR, Bangalore) lecture Indian cratons relating to the spatial extent of focussed on the transport in the DNA system Purana sedimentary basins and the origin of and the magnetic interactions within a the Deccan flood basalts. modified helix of the DNA with magnetic

9 Annual Meeting 2013

The 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy The meeting began with Dipankar was held at Chandigarh from 8 to 10 Chatterji’s Presidential address. In his talk, November 2013. This was the third time, after he explained how bacteria respond to stress, 1979 and 2002, that Chandigarh was the venue adapt to changes that occur in gene again. This year expression and their various survival coincided with pathways. the 125th birth In a special lecture, Girish Sahni (CSIR – anniversary of Institute of Microbial Technology, the Academy’s Chandigarh) spoke about the success story of founder, Nobel developing India’s first biotherapeutic Laureate Sir molecule, a C. V. Raman, protein-based and the 150th clot buster. He Birth said India lacks Anniversary of affordable clot Ruchi Ram busters, Sahni. To especially in Dipankar Chatterji commemorate rural areas. Ruchi Ram Sahni said that Sahni’s 150th Birth Anniversary, a postal if protein stamp was released on 24 October 2013 at the chemists and Panjab University by the Government of R&D align with India. pharmaceutical Girish Sahni 20 companies, a global impact could be made by of Technical Institutions, Mysore) focussed manufacturing affordable drugs or molecules. his talk on malnutrition, a grave problem in India unveiled the National Cyber Security India. To address this problem, a nutritional Policy 2013 on 2 July 2013 to build a secure intervention is required, he said. and resilient cyberspace for citizens, business T. R. Sharma (Indian Agricultural Research and government. In a symposium on ‘Cyber Institute, New Delhi) discussed how Next Security and Privacy’, the challenges faced by Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies India were discussed. Supplemented with have enabled rapid identification of genes. Rakesh Tuli succinct examples, N. Balakrishnan’s (IISc, Rakesh Tuli (National Agri-Food Bangalore) talk highlighted the importance of Biotechnology Institute, Mohali) spoke about cyber security and its impact on the security how new technologies can be used for better of a nation. He further discussed the yield and crop improvement. To increase techniques for monitoring social media and productivity and bring commercial success, trends in the use of analytics software to aid there is need to create awareness to overcome national security. Gulshan Rai (Indian the fear associated with GM crops. Computer Emergency Response Team, New The lectures by Fellows and Associates Delhi) emphasised the need to promote R&D ranged from climate change, quantum on cyber security to secure e-governance computation, functional materials and services. He said that although the therapeutics to importance of protein government is self-sufficient to handle chemistry. Some of the talks are mentioned security issues, public–private partnership is below. Madan Rao (RRI and NCBS, the way forward to tackle cyber security. To Bangalore) spoke on how molecules on the tackle the challenge, R. K. Shyamasundar cell surface are organised because of strong (TIFR, Mumbai) said cryptography is one of coupling with cortical matter, as there exists the building blocks of cyber security, and interplay between the cell membrane and the that there is a need to develop a scientific cortex. Sujith K. Ghosh (IISER, Pune) roadmap. P. K. Agarwal (Power System spoke about the functional properties of Operation Corporation Ltd., New Delhi) porous co-ordination polymers (PCPs) that emphasised the need to deal with cyber have been found to have a wide range of security issues emerging due to expansion of applications in gas storage, chemical power systems. separation, drug delivery, catalysis, chemo- In a symposium on ‘Food and Nutritional sensing, etc. Arun K. Pati (HRI, Allahabad) Security’, B. S. Dhillon (Punjab presented his work on weak measurement and Agricultural University, Ludhiana) focussed quantum correlation. Kirti Chandra Sahu his talk on innovations for adding value to (IIT, Hyderabad) spoke about instability due agriculture with special reference to north- to double diffusivity in stratified viscous western India. He said that innovation in flows and discussed the results from linear agriculture was the key to ensure food stability analyses and direct numerical security, livelihood and a driver for growth, simulations. Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS, which could be done by improving the crops Kolkata) spoke on the surface quasi particles using technology. V. Prakash (JSS Group of topological insulators which obey a Dirac-

21 like equation. Sharad S. In a special lecture, Anil Sane (IIT, Mumbai) Kumar (IISc, Bangalore) delivered a talk on spoke on the theoretical combinatorics of block aspects of quantum designs and finite computation and quantum geometries. Block designs information processing and are configurations useful in the challenges faced in its mathematical branches like experimental aspects. He coding theory and finite spoke in detail of the recent group theory. Bhim developments in the field Singh (IIT, New Delhi) including the experimental spoke on the major causes proof of the Quantum No- Anil Kumar of power quality problems Hiding theorem, using such as reactive power burden, unbalanced Nearest Neighbour Heisenberg XY loading, etc., and finding solutions to these by interaction to entangle a linear chain of 3- using custom power devices, power filters and qubits, to study the frustration dynamics in a improved power quality ac–dc converters. quatumising spin system in a triangular Vijayakumar S. Nair’s (Vikram Sarabhai configuration, and the use of genetic Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram) talk algorithm in NMR QC. examined the effect of black carbon (BC) on G. Narahari Sastry (IICT, Hyderabad) snow in the Himalayan region. He showed spoke on how a pair of non-covalent how snow darkening caused due to deposition interactions mutually influence each other’s of soot and dust on snow cover reduces the strength, through computational and reflecting power of snow, accelerating structural analyses. Avesh K. Tyagi seasonal snow melting, thus leading to floods (BARC, Mumbai) spoke about functional in the foothills and the plains. S. A. Haider materials, a new class of materials that are (PRL, Ahmedabad) discussed the similarities being developed and have wide applications. of the ionosphere of Earth and Mars. He Hormones play an important role in the mentioned future missions to Mars; India’s regulation of reproduction and overall first Mangalayan was launched on 5 physiology. They are of interest to protein November 2013, which is expected to reach chemists, said Rajan Dighe (IISc, the Martian atmosphere in September 2014. Bangalore). The antibodies against hormones S. Gopalakrishnan (IISc, Bangalore) delved and their receptors are pivotal to probe the into the history of nanostructure modelling mechanism of hormone action at both the and wave propagation. He said that physiological and molecular levels. Souvik understanding wave propagation in these Maity (IGIB, Delhi) explained the in vitro structures is necessary to design next- screening method using a DNA-based generation nano devices such as Nano Electro molecular beacon to identify inhibitors of Mechanical Systems (NEMS), Nano Opto miR27 from a library of 14 aminoglycosides. Mechanical Systems (NOMS), nano Further, screening of the library revealed that resonators and others. streptomycin had the inhibitory capacity to

22 silence miR-21 oncomir In the first public lecture, by structural Jayati Ghosh (JNU, Delhi) perturbation of the raised some important issues dicing process, making on whether India is prepared it a potential anti-cancer to (i) productively employ agent. Debashis Mitra the growing number of (NCCS, Pune) said that youth; (ii) provide skills; 30 years after the (iii) bridge the gender gap; discovery of HIV, a (iv) increase women vaccine is yet to be workforce participation; and developed. His group Jayati Ghosh (v) take care of its elderly. has been able to identify and characterise a Figures suggest that by 2020 an average few novel HIV-1 inhibitors that may Indian will be only 29 years of age compared functionally block the proteins inside the cell to 37 in China and the US, 45 in Western that enhance virus replication. Sourendu Europe and 48 in Japan. She said there has Gupta (TIFR, Mumbai) discussed how been a significant rise in higher education, relativistic heavy ion collisions explore the although the figures are not great. She said it phase space diagram of the standard model of is important to have a regulatory framework particle physics and, in particular, how it is to monitor incentivised education. She constrained by theory, and where theory and concluded by saying that India, like Thailand, experiment can be compared. Jaya N. Iyer should learn from its rural health system (IMSc, Chennai) spoke on teritiary classes in where rural doctors are paid higher wages the Chern-Simons theory. Sangita than urban doctors. The second public Mukhopadhyay (CDFD, Hyderabad) lecture was given by Shivshankar Menon spoke on how PPE18 protein functions as a (National Security Advisor, PMO, New virulence factor during Mycobacterium Delhi). He stressed the need to safeguard tuberculosis infection. Studies on PPE18 have technologies to achieve a better security revealed that it plays crucial roles in the system for the country. He also spoke about survival and multiplication of Mtb cyber security as bacilli during infection. G. Mugesh being a part of (IISc, Bangalore) spoke on national security deiodination of thyroid hormones. He and added that discussed various bioinorganic, India was bioorganic and medicinal chemistry fortunate to have aspects of thyroid hormones. Subi J. the support of George (JNCASR, Bangalore), in his world class talk on supermolecular synthesis of scientists. A list of functional materials, presented details all the talks is of the designs of functional materials provided in using electronic and optical Annexure 5. functionalities of p-conjugated organic systems. Shivshankar Menon

23 10 Raman Professor

Michael L. KleinKlein, FRS, currently occupies On 10 February 2014, at IIT–Delhi, the the Raman Chair of the Academy. Klein is the February month Institute Lecture was Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science and delivered by Prof. Michael L. Klein on ‘Spark the Director of the Institute for of Life: Understanding Nature’s Voltage Computational Molecular Science. He is also Gated Ion Channels Using Computation’. In the Dean of the College of his talk, Prof. Klein Science & Technology at addressed the role of Temple University, voltage-gated ion channels Philadelphia. His research in the propagation of action interests involve probing potentials in excitable cells. the structure and dynamics He also emphasised the of macromolecular unique ability of computer systems using computer simulations to exploit the simulation techniques, in atomic details of ion areas spanning soft matter channels in hydrated to biophysics to chemical membrane environments. At biology, with special IIT–Delhi, Prof. Klein emphasis on understanding interacted with several Nature’s designs of ion faculty members as well as channels. Klein is a Fellow undergraduate and graduate of several academic students. He discussed how societies, including the computer simulations could Royal Society of London, be used as an integration the Royal Society of Canada, the National tool to address various intercellular and Academy of Sciences, USA, and the intracellular processes in biological systems. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also delivered a Public Lecture on the As part of his tenure as Raman Professor of occasion of National Science Day on 28th the Academy, Klein visited IIT–Delhi on February 2014 at IISc, Bangalore. 10 February 2014, IIT–Kanpur on 13–15 February 2014, and the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, on 28 February 2014.

24 11 Academy Public Lectures

Type Ia supernovae and the The story of the discovery of accelerating universe quasars Brian P. SchmidtSchmidt, Nobel Laureate, Ron EkersEkers, Federation Fellow, CSIRO, Australian National University, Australia Australia Telescope National Facility, 20 August 2013 Australia Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 3 January 2014 Type Ia supernovae remain one of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore astronomy’s most precise tools for measuring Fifty years ago, distances in the Universe. Prof. Schmidt on 16 March 1963, described the cosmological application of the discovery of these stellar explosions, and chronicled how the first quasar, they were used to discover the accelerating 3C273, was Universe in 1998 – an observation that is most published in simply explained if more than 70 per cent of Nature. The the Universe is made up of some previously discovery was undetected form of ‘Dark Energy’. In the based on the intervening 13 years, a variety of experiments lunar occultation have been completed, and even more observed with the proposed, to better constrain the source of Parkes radio the acceleration. This lecture reviewed the telescope in range of experiments, described the current Australia and a state of our red-shift understanding measurement of of the the identified star obtained at the Mt Palomar observed optical observatory in California. acceleration The unexpected discovery of quasars resulted and speculated in a paradigm shift in astronomy as it was the progress realised that the violent explosions in the in our nuclei of galaxies could be seen to the edge of understanding the universe and that it would take a black of Dark hole to provide such energy. The role of the Energy. nuclei of galaxies had been ignored until this time, and black holes were considered an exercise in abstraction. Prof. Ekers discussed why these unexpected discoveries were missed by some of the top astronomers at

25 that time, and provided an interesting glimpse structured layer with strong, interfacial into scientific sociology and the nature of viscoelasticity. By measuring the drainage and scientific progress. dewetting dynamics of thin aqueous films from hemispherical surfaces, where those films are laden with insoluble layers of lipids Drainage and dewetting of the tear at controlled surface pressure, it is evident film that these layers strongly stabilise the films Gerald G. Fuller,Fuller Chemical Engineering, by their ability to support surface shearing Stanford University, Stanford, USA stresses. This alternative view of the role of the meibum can help explain the origin of 21 January 2014 meibomian gland dysfunction, or dry eye Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore disease, where improper compositions of this The tear film that protects the ocular surface lipid mixture do not offer the proper is a complex thin film comprising a collection mechanical resistance to breakage and of proteins and lipids that come together to dewetting of the tear film. provide a number of important functions. Of particular interest in this presentation is the meibum, an insoluble layer that is spread Spark of life: Understanding from the nature’s gated ion channels using glands lining computation our eyelids. Michael L. KleinKlein, Temple University, USA Past work has focussed 28 February 2014 on the role of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore this layer in Professor Michael L. Klein, Raman reducing Professor, Indian Academy of Sciences, and evaporation, Laura Carnell Professor of Science, Temple although University, delivered a public lecture on the conflicting occasion of National Science Day on 28th evidence on February 2014, organised by the Indian its ability to Academy of Sciences, at Indian Institute of reduce Science, Bangalore. evaporative Crystal structures of bacterial analogues of loss has been published. Prof. Fuller voltage-gated Na+ and K+ channels have discussed the beneficial effects that are enabled computer simulations to provide derived through the interfacial viscoelasticity insights into the workings of these nano- of the meibomian lipid film, which is a duplex machines. Now we can even rationalise how film comprising a complex mixture of mutations in channel voltage-sensor-domains phospholipids, long-chain fatty esters and give rise to diseases. However, much research cholesterol. Using grazing-incidence x-ray is still needed to understand eukaryotic ion diffraction, it has been found that this channels. mixture self-assembles into a highly

26 Prof. Klein said that since discussed how the the release of the first availability of these crystal structure of a computational-based mammalian voltage-gated models has enabled one to K+ channel, Kv1.2, in 2005, tackle questions with direct theoretical and biological or computational methods pharmacological have been used to gain implications, i.e. to look insights into the into the molecular details of molecular-level function the appearance of leak of these ubiquitous currents, which follow from proteins. Starting from genetic mutations involved the open/activated state in inherited diseases. crystal structure, he and He concluded his lecture his team have presented with the following words: ‘As a crystal different protocols that have been devised to structure of the first bacterial voltage-gated uncover the resting/closed state structure and, Na+ channel was released in the year 2013, in some occurrences, the conformation of modellers have already started to take a kinetic intermediate states. They have also serious interest in unraveling the structure/ shown how these models may be tested and function behaviour of Na+-selective channels. validated against experimental data such as the Such an achievement opens up a whole new gating charge value, molecular contacts, etc., world that should enable, together with the and how such molecular-level insights may results on voltage-gated K+ channels, to help reconcile diverging views derived from explain the basis of cellular excitability at a different sets of experimental data. Also, he molecular level.’

12 Science Education Programmes

Since 2007, the three National Science 12.1 Summer Fellowships Academies of the country have been This is the eighth year of the Summer conducting, in a formal and well-structured Research Fellowships Programme, which is manner, a variety of programmes to improve jointly conducted by the three National science education for the benefit of students Science Academies of the country. The and teachers all over the country. These are summer fellowship programme enables planned and coordinated by a Joint Science young and motivated students and teachers to Education Panel. The three main programmes do short-term projects for two months with of the Panel are: summer fellowships, Fellows and other scientists of the country. refresher courses, and lecture workshops.

27 The main objective is to expose them to the course of lectures, discussions, laboratory joy of doing science. It was started in 1995 on experiments, and problem-solving sessions. a very small scale. The number of fellowships During the last 15 years, 151 courses have been awarded in 1995 was 3. In 2013, this number has held in several parts of the country on a gone up to 2156, of which the fellowships variety of subjects: experimental and availed in 2013 was 1673. Table 4 gives the theoretical physics, experimental and subject-wise break-up of applications theoretical chemistry, biotechnology, received, fellowships offered and availed. mathematics, atmospheric science, animal and plant tissue culture, experimental nonlinear 12.2 Refresher Courses dynamics, vistas in zoological teaching, marine geology and geophysics, tensors, This is an all-India programme to help phylogenetic biology, stochastic process, etc. motivated teachers improve their background During the year 2013–2014, 21 refresher knowledge and teaching skills. It is normally courses have been held, and a list of these of two-week duration, and teachers selected courses with relevant details is provided in the from all over the country undergo a rigorous following pages.

28 A. Refresher Courses in No. of Participants: 30 participants from Experimental Physics Ahmadpur, Akola, Dapoli, Daund, Indapur, Mumbai, Pune, Unnao. In 2013-2014, 10 Refresher Courses were held Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, on Experimental Physics. These were held JBC Efrem Desa, RT Sapkal, Manohar Nyayate, under the direction of R. Srinivasan, who was Sadique, Manohar Naik, Neeta Srivastava, Mahesh Vedpathak, KR Priolkar. instrumental in the conceptualisation and Special LecturesLectures: Nanomaterials and their designing of the experiments. These applications (Suresh Gosavi); composites of metal experiments are useful for laboratory oxide nanoparticles in glasses and the application of programmes at BSc and MSc levels, and many the same in practice (Bharat Kale); superconducting ferrites and other materials universities in the country have adopted these (R Nagarajan). experiments as part of their curricula. In order to conduct the Refresher Courses, a 3. (XLIX) Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore user-friendly kit containing several 6–21 June 2013 components has been developed and No. of Participants: 22 participants from Ahmedabad, Ahmednagar, Aizawl, Bangalore, manufactured under licence by a company in Calicut, Chandigarh, Faridabad, Guntur, Indore, Bangalore: M/s Ajay Sensors and Kachchh, Katra, Khammam, Muzaffarnagar, Instruments. Mysore, Sawangi, Tirunelveli. Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, AV Alex, The following is a list of Experimental TG Ramesh, Seeta Bharati, Ranjani Ashrita, Physics Refresher Courses held since April G Vinitha, Sarmishta Sahu. 2013 with R. Srinivasan as the Course Special Lectures: Arindam Ghosh (IISc, Director. These form course numbers 47 to Bangalore) and KS Narayan (JNCASR, Bangalore). 56 in this series. 4. (L) Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 6–22 August 2013 1. (XLVII) Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher No. of Participants: 21 participants from 24- Learning, Anantapur (SSSIHL) Parganas, Anantapur, Bangalore, Coimbatore, 2–18 April 2013 Dharbanga, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kota, Co-ordinator: Deepa Seetharaman (SSSIHL) Kurukshetra, Malappuram, Mysore, Palpara, No. of Participants: 16 participants from Tirupur, Tiruvannamalai, Thrissur, Vizhinagaram. Anantapur, Bangalore, Chennai, Mysore, Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, Seeta Bharati, Vijayawada. Elankumaran Kannan, AV Alex, Sarbari Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, Bhattacharya, TG Ramesh, Sarmishta Sahu. C Prathibha, Deepa Seetharaman, T Pramila, Special Lectures: PS Anil Kumar and KJ Rao GVK Gayatri. (both from IISc, Bangalore). Special Lectures: Fundamental constants in physics (Dwaraka Rani Rao); Climate change and 5. (LI) Barkatullah University, Bhopal (BU) its impact on public health and agriculture (R Rama 16–30 September 2013 Krishna Reddy); Lasers and their applications Co-ordinator: Vikas Shelke (BU) (S Siva Sanakra Sai); Nano medicine (V Siva No. of Participants: 34 Subramaniyan). Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, RK Dwivedi, SP Singh, M Kapoor, Preeti Bhobe. 2. (XLVIII) Vidya Pratishthan’s Arts, Science & Special Lectures: Vilas Shelke, DS Rana, Commerce College, Baramati (VPASCC) V Ganesan. 14–29 May 2013 Co-ordinator: Mahesh Vedpathak (VPASCC)

29 6. (LII) Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, 10. (LVI) Panjab University, Chandigarh (PU) Katra, J&K (SMVDU) 11–26 February 2014 8–24 October 2013 Co-ordinator: Devinder Mehta (PU) Co-ordinator: Sunil K Wanchoo (SMVDU) No. of Participants: 21 No. of Participants: 23 participants from Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, Bijnor, Jaipur, Jammu, Katra, Mumbai, Nagpur, S Shahi, Suman Mahendia, Neeru Choudhary, Talcher. Manish Dev Sharma. Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, Special Lectures: TG Ramesh, Sandeep Sunil K Wanchoo, KK Bamezai, Rajini Ashrita, Sahijpal, ML Garg, Manjit Kaur, AK Jain. Yugal Khajuria.

7. (LIII) Indian Academy of Sciences Annexe, B. Felicitations Jalahalli, Bangalore 7–23 November 2013 Refresher Courses in Experimental Physics is No. of Participants: 19 participants from one of the success stories of our science Ahmednagar, Alappuzha, Bhopal, Delhi, Itarsi, education programmes, and R. Srinivasan has Jaipur, Karunagappaly, Kollam, Kozhikode, been the prime architect of this entire Mysore, Patna, Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Satara, Thiruvarur. programme. Started in 2001, so far 56 courses Resource Persons: R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, have been held across the country. Nearly Seeta Bharati, Ramachandra Sapkal, Mahesh 1250 persons, mostly teachers, have so far Vedpathak, Anil Pugalia. been trained to do about 40 experiments in Special Lectures: KBR Varma and Arun M mechanics, heat, electricity, magnetism, Umarji. relaxation, lock-in amplifiers, phase 8. (LIV) Indian Institute of Science Education and transitions, nonlinear dynamics and optics. Research, Pune (IISER) 9–24 December 2013 On the occasion of the Fiftieth Golden Co-ordinator: Ashna Bajpai (IISER) Jubilee of these Refresher Courses held in Resource Persons: Bangalore in August 2013, a special function R Srinivasan, TG Ramesh, Elankumaran Kannan, was organised at the Academy office in Efrem D’Sa, Sadique, Bangalore on 16 August to express gratitude KRS Priolkar, Manohar Naik, Manohar Nyayte. Special Lectures: to R. Srinivasan, the faculty in Goa who SB Ogale, Arvind Gupta, CV Dharmadhikari. assisted him in this effort right from the beginning, and a number of resource persons 9. (LV) University of Kota, Kota who helped run these courses. 9–25 January 2014 Co-ordinator: NK The President of the Jaiman/Saurabh Dalela Academy (Dipankar (UV) Chatterji), the No. of Participants: 29 Resource Persons: R Chairman of the Srinivasan, RK Dwivedi, Joint Science Panel Sh. BL Suthar, Namrata (N. Mukunda), Sengar, Sadique. office bearers of the Special Lectures: NL Academy and staff Heda, SK Jain. attended this happy event.

30 C. Other Refresher Courses Course Coordinator: Jacob Mathew (SBC) No. of Participants: 32 participants from 11. Traditional and Modern Approaches in Alappuzha, Angul, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Animal Taxonomy Changanacherry, Coimbatore, Dindigul, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore Hyderabad, Pathanamthitta, Puthanampatti, (UAS) Rajahmundry, Salem, Sindhudurg, Sivakasi, 15–29 April 2013 Talcher, Tiruchirapalli, Thrissur, Tumkur, Course Director: M Sanjappa (UAS) Udumalpet. Course Coordinators: Ramakrishna and Resource PersonsPersons: G Rajasekaran, HS Mani, MD Rajanna (UAS) KS Mallesh and Govind Krishnaswami. No. of Participants: 22 participants from Topics Covered: Principles of quantum Ahmedabad, Andaman, Bagalkot, Baripada, Bhuj, mechanics and its applications to atoms; quantum Delhi, Dehradun, Dharwad, Indore, Kalyani, theory of radiation; relativistic quantum mechanics. Kasargod, Kolkata, Padanakkad, Palyamkottai, Special Lectures: Neutrinos and the India-based Porto Novo, Ranchi, Sagar, Solapur, Shillong, Neutrino Observatory; Standard Model, Higgs Wayanad. Boson and what next? (G Rajasekaran). Resource Persons: K Muralidhar, MA Shankar, K Narayana Gowda, S Ramani, 13. Statistical Physics Seenappa, Ramakrishna, M Sanjappa, G Venu, Nehru Arts and Science College (NASC), Praveen Karanth, KP Dinesh, S Bhupathy, VV Kanhangad Belavadi, VA Viraktamat, RR Rao, Subramanyam, 8–21 May 2013 Sushil Datta, K Gururaj, K Rema Devi, Ramanjuni Course Directors: Deepak Dhar (TIFR)/ Gowda, Vijayakumar, NG Ravichandran, KN Chandan Dasgupta (IISc) Ganeshaiah, MD Rajanna. Course Coordinators: R Rajesh (IMSc)/ Topics CoveredCovered: Species and species concept; KM Udayanandan (NASC) taxonomy and importance of Arachnids in the No. of participants: 44 participants from animal kingdom; biogeography of the world vis-a- Alathur, Anantapur, Calicut, Coimbatore, vis India; faunistic diversity of India – an overview Kanhangad, Kannur, Karaikal, Kottayam, of invertebrates; fish diversity in India; taxonomy Kozhikode, Mattannur, Madurai, Palakkad, and taxonomic impediments; life and works of Payyannur, Periya, Rajapuram, Ratnagiri, Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy and tercentenary Roorkee, Shimoga, Taliparamba, Thalassery, celebrations; chromosomes as a taxonomic tool; Thrissur, Tiruchirapalli, Tirupathi, Ujire. role of molecular taxonomy as an aid to traditional Resource Persons: KPN Murthy, Deepak taxonomy; Indian amphibians; reptiles, taxonomy Dhar, Rajesh Ravindran, Chandan Dasgupta, and ecology; role of bioinformatics in taxonomy; Subodh Shenoy, PK Mohanty, Vishnu Mayya introduction to entomology; external and internal Bannur, Sumedha, Anuradha Banerjee. morphology and development; use of identification Topics Covered: Basic concepts of statistical keys and classification of insects; keying insects to physics; elements of probability theory and order; introduction to ticks and mites; animal statistics; thermodynamics; quantum statistical nomenclature; role of taxonomy in mechanics; interacting systems and phase biotechnological research; role of nematodes; transitions; stochastic processes. global conventions on biodiversity; birds and their role in the ecosystem; past, present and future of 14. Modern Biotechnology: Concepts and Indian taxonomy; role of behavioural science as a Practice tool to taxonomy; faunal peculiarities in the Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (MKU) Western ghats. 15–29 May 2013 Course Director: G Marimuthu (MKU) 12. Quantum Mechanics Course Coordinators: B Ashokkumar, St Berchman’s College, Changanacherry (SBC) P Varalakshmi and N. Sivakumar (MKU) 1–14 May 2013 No. of participants: 22 participants from Course Director: HS Mani (CMI, Chennai) Bikaner, Chennai, Coimbatore, Courtallam,

31 Dindigul, Erode, Krishnan Koil, Madurai, Hooghly, Howrah, Kolkata, Midnapore. Mangalore, Mayiladuthurai, Pilayarpuram, Surat, Resource Persons: AK Mallik, BK Guha, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Warangal. HC Verma, SS Sarkar, Joydeep Mitra, Partha Resource Persons: M Krishnan, K Thangaraj, Ghosh, Hiranmoy Saha, Bhupathi Chakrabarti, S Mohanraj, C Adithan, GR Jayandharan, Birendrananth Das, Swapan Datta, Surajit N Thajuddin, P Sundaresan, M Sundararaman, Chakraborty. R Rengasamy, C Sankaranarayanan, P Malliga, Topics CoveredCovered: Newtonian mechanics and K Veluthambi, A Palavesam, G Kumaresan, nonlinear dynamics; optics; quantum theory; R Paramasivan, G Marimuthu, S Sudhakar, electricity, magnetism and special theory of K Sundar, M Muniraj, SR Senthilkumar, relativity; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. K Chandra Raj, K Balamurugan, P Palanivelu, Special LecturesLectures: Solar photovoltaic cells Saravanan Matheshwaran. (Hiranmoy Saha); fundamental particles (Partha Topics CoveredCovered: Characterization of lipophorin Ghosh); importance of the works of Bohr and in lepidopteran insect silkworm and its role in lipid Mosley (Bhupati Chakrabarti). transport to developing oocytes; recombinant strains and metabolic engineering for production of 16. Updates on Biology of Infectious 3- hydroxypropionic acid; population stratification; Diseases pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine; Haffkine Institute for Training, Research & AAV–mediated gene therapy; microalgae: Testing, Mumbai (HI) biodiversity to biotechnology; molecular genetics 22 September–5 October 2013 of inherited eye diseases and gene therapy; potent Course Director: Tarala D. Nandedkar toxins of marine cyanobacteria and its (NIRRH, Mumbai) pharmaceutical potentials; biofuel production from Course Coordinator:Coordinator: Nishigandha Naik (HI) microalgae; biotechnological applications of ParticipantsParticipants: 17 participants cyanobacteria; cyanobacterial defacement; gene Topics CoveredCovered: Trends in vaccinology; HIV; silencing from transgenic plant with inverted T- HIV-immunology and vaccines; H1NI; HIV Cell DNA repeats; probiotics and prebiotics; genomics culture and ELISA; diagnostic virology; influenza for diagnostics and targeted therapeutics; – diagnostics and molecular epidemology; biosafety molecular diagnosis of vector borne diseases: and accreditation of laboratory; hepatitis; dengue; special emphasis on dengue; clock gene protein chemistry; DNA sequencing; microarray; polymorphisms; autofluorescence of stem cell and transgenics; fungal infections; animal house facility; function of Riboflavin in regeneration; helminth animal handling and inoculation; immuno- infection modulates autoimmunity in mice; fluorescence assays for rabies; heat shock proteins microbial association with insects; production of as drug targets against malaria; diagnostic and recombinant proteins in high density cultures; treatment of neglected diseases; tuberculosis; Caenorhabdities elegans as a model to study noscomial infections; introduction to cognitive molecular changes during host-pathogen sciences, drosophila, zebra fish; reproductive tract interactions; cloning, characterization and infections; diagnosis of Chlamydia; protein overexpression of a thermophilic fungal chitinase chemistry; bioinformatics; nanomedicine. in S. cerevisiae; engineering sequence specificity of nucleases. 17. Statistical Mechanics Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, 15. Foundation of Physics TIFR, Mumbai Bengal Engineering Science University, Shibpur 6–19 November 2013 (BESU) Course Director: Deepak Dhar (TIFR) 22–31 May 2013 Course Co-ordinator: Anuradha Misra (UM) Course Director: AK Mallik (BESU) No. of Participants: 37 participants from Course Coordinator: BK Guha (BESU) Ahmednagar, Dindigul, Gurgaon, Jamshedpur, No. of participants: 95 school students from 24 Kilakarai, Kurukshetra, Mangalore, Mumbai, Paraganas (North and South), Durgapur, Ranchi, Tiruchirapalli, Vidyavihar.

32 Resource Persons: Deepak Dhar, SH Patil, flies; studies of wiring diagrams in the fruit fly Sourendu Gupta, Anuradha Misra, Radha brain; bio-prospecting of natural products as Srinivasan, M Barma, Dibyendu Das, Praveen sources of pest management agents; plant–animal Pathak, Kedar Damle, Vijay Singh, Sahana interaction; biodiversity in India in evolutionary and Murthy. conservation perspective. Topics Covered: Basic concepts of statistical physics; probability theory; dimensional analysis; 19. Quantum Mechanics quantum statistics; theory of stochastic processes; Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT) phase transitions and critical phenomena. 28 November–12 December 2013 Special Lectures: M Barma (Away from the Course Director: Deepak Kumar (JNU) average: fluctuations big and small); Sahana Course Co-ordinator: Ishwar Singh Tyagi (IIT) Murthy (Teaching methods); Deepak Dhar No. of Participants: 48 participants from (A simple model of proportionate growth). Adipur, Awantipora, Bhubaneswar, Gorakhpur, Hamirpur, Haridwar, Hisar, New Delhi, Jatni, 18. Evolutionary Ecology of Plants and Kangra, Kurukshetra, New Delhi, Patiala, Pauri, Animals Roorkee, Saharanpur, Srinagar, Tehri, Uttarkashi, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Varanasi. Coimbatore (PSGRKCW) Resource Persons: Saiket K Ghosh, Arvind, 11–26 November 2013 DG Kanhere, Debajyoti Chaudhury, IS Tyagi, Course Director: KN Ganeshaiah (UAS, Deepak Kumar, S Auluch. Bangalore) Course Co-ordinator: W Suganya 20. Quantum Mechanics (PSGRKCW) JSS Educational Institutions, Suttur, Mysore No. of participants: 19 participants from District (JSS) Belgaum, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, 2–14 December 2013 Kamuthi, Mumbai, Sivakasi, Vaniyambadi. Course Director: G Rajasekaran (IMSc, Resource Persons: KN Ganeshaiah, Chennai) P Balasubramanian, R Uma Shaanker, Course Co-ordinator: Vijaya Manjuantha MNV Prasad, K Padmakumar, M Sanjappa, Guru (JSS) S Paulsamy, D Narasimhan, VS Ramachandran, No. of Participants: 23 participants from Ramakrishnan, N Thajuddin, C Kunhikannan, Chamarajanagar, Chennai, Chintamani, Vijay Kumar Sharma, S Murugesan, TJ Pandian, Chitradurga, Coimbatore, Hassan, Jabalpur, P Pramod. Jaipur, Karaikal, Kollam, Mandya, Mysore, Topics Covered: Linnaeus and Darwin; Mumbai, Sulthan Bathery, Thiruvananthapuram, Evolution of insect plant interactions; do plants Tiruchirapalli, Ujire. behave like animals; self-organisation in plant Resource Persons: HS Mani, Govind growth and animal behaviour; bird–plant Krishnaswami, KS Mallesh, G Rajasekaran. interaction; sexual selection in plants; data mining, Topics Covered: Module 1: Physical basis of genetics and plant breeding; cosmic evolution of quantum mechanics, Schrödinger equation, life; molecular evolution and protobiology; hydrogen atom; Module 2: Basic postulates, linear seaweed chemical defenses; cues from marine vector space, angular momentum, atoms and chemical ecology for discovering drugs and molecules; Module 3: Perturbation theory, pharmaceuticals; plant–plant interactions; plant– scattering theory; Module 4: Quantum theory of insect interactions; floristic diversity in India; Kas radiation, relativistic quantum mechanics. Plateau – a botanical paradise; biodiversity; biology Special Lectures:Lectures Life and Work of Paul Dirac; of carnivorous plants; Galapagos Islands; cladistics; Pancharatnam, Bargmann and Berry Phases: A plants and pollinators; role of elephants and its retrospective (N Mukunda). conservation problems; morphological, biochemical and molecular phylogeny of cyanobacteria; rhythms of fruit flies in nature; entrainment of fruit

33 21. Theoretical Physics Resource Persons: Indrani Bose, Somendra Assam University, Silchar (AU) Mohan Bhattacharjee, Sudhakar Panda, Anirban 2–15 December 2013 Basu. Course Director: Sudhakar Panda (HRI, Topics Covered: Statistical mechanics; Allahabad) thermodynamics; critical phenomena; phase Course Co-ordinator: Atri Deshamukhya (AU) transitions and Ising model; Fermi and Bose No. of Participants: 37 participants from systems; Bose- Einstein condensation; quantum field Algapur, Chumukedima, Dharmanagar, Haflong, theory; tensor algebra; Dirac and electromagnetic Joysagar, Kailashahar, Silchar, Ujjain. field quantisation; symmetry breaking and Higgs mechanism; classical mechanics.

12.3 Lecture Workshops The Joint Science Academy Panel arranges two- or three-day lecture workshops on carefully chosen topics in physics, mathematics, chemistry and life sciences at selected college and university departments for the benefit of local students and teachers. Speakers include Fellows and scientists from nearby institutions. Since inception, 372 Workshops have been held. During this financial year up to 31 March 2014, 61 Workshops were held on various topics at different institutions in the country. The following pages give some information on the Lecture Workshops held from April 2013 to March 2014.

34 1. Practice and Research in Disaster 4. Skill Development & Career Management – Towards Better Orientation: Biotech, Pharma, Medicine, Worldliness Informatics Dayalbagh Education Institute, Agra (DEI) Government Degree College, Kullu 2–4 April 2013 a. 9–11 May 2013 Convener: Anand Mohan (DEI) b. 11–13 May 2013 Co-ordinators: Sanjeev Swami/Sanjay Bhushan Convener: Asha Chandola Saklani (Apeejay (DEI) Satya University, Gurgaon) Participants: 150 participants (119 students and 31 Co-ordinators: Dhaneshwari Sharma/Atul teachers) from various colleges and institutions in Kathaitr (Government Degree College), Kullu and around Agra. ParticipantsParticipants: 100 students and teachers. Topics Covered: Natural disasters and Topics Covered: Molecular diagnostics; sustainable development; man-made disaster and immunodiagnostics; herbal chemistry; microbiology; better worldliness; disaster management food and safety; GMOs; bioinformatics, drug technology and application. designing.

2. Neuro Psychiatry Diseases 5. Frontiers in Life Science Chennai Medical College and Research Centre, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong Irungalur (CMCRC) 21–24 May 2013 4–5 April 2013 Convener: SK Saidapur (Dharwad) Convener: Usha Kant Misra (Sanjay Gandhi Co-ordinator: BBP Gupta (NEHU) Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Participants: 80 participants from various Lucknow) institutions in and around Shillong. Co-ordinator: N Prabhu (CMCRC) Topics Covered: Biology: the past, present and Participants: 208 participants (33 teachers and 175 future prospects; epigenetics; concept of natural students/research scholars) from in and around selection; genetics and genomics of speciation; Irungalur. Darwinian medicine; evolution of reproductive Topics Covered: Parkinson’s diseases; nutrition strategies; Interventions for healthy aging; and neurology; Alzheimer’s and its management; pollination biology; biodiversity crisis; carnivorous dementia; molecular basis of memory and memory plants; biomonitoring through biodiversity indices. loss; delirium; neuropsychiatric aspects of A panel discussion on ‘Science Education & traumatic brain injury. Panel discussions entitled Research’ was also held. “Issues and challenges of Parkinson’s disease” and “Strengthening of learning and memory” were 6. Biology 21st Century also held. SRN Adarsh College, Bangalore 24–25 May 2013 3. Modern Trends in Chemistry Convener: V Nagaraja (IISc, Bangalore) Sikkim Government College, Gangtok Co-ordinator: Vijaya B (SRN Adarsh College) 12–13 April 2013 Participants: 167 participants from institutions in Convener: Uday Maitra (IISc, Bangalore) and around Bangalore. Co-ordinator: Bhaskar Chakraborty (Sikkim Topics Covered: Metagenomics: a revolution Government College) in biology; multiple growth polarity during leaf Participants: 146 participants from Gangtok, growth and its control by a microRNA; Rangpo, Siliguri. epigenetics and cancer: role of microRNAs and Topics Covered: Selected reagents for DNA methylation in brain tumour development; transformation addressing selectivity in organic bacterial pathogenesis – how can a pathogen synthesis; introduction to biophysical chemistry; establish itself in a host; small RNA for all drug design by enzyme inhibition; weak seasons; visible and invisible messages: how do hydrophobic interaction and its strong outcome; plants communicate with animals; advances in introduction to computational chemistry; human genetics; two burning problems of the carbohydrates; molecules which ‘break’ rules.

35 HIV-AIDS research today; traditional, modern analysis, transcendence and arithmetic; using online and futuristic vaccines. resources to learn mathematics; history of mathematics in India. A panel discussion on 7. Recent Advances in Materials Science ‘Prospects of careers involving mathematics’ was Payyanur College, Payyanur also held. 24–25 June 2013 Convener: TP Radhakrishnan (University of 10. Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Hyderabad) Mechanics Co-ordinator: KV Sujith (Payyanur College) Maharani Lakshmi Ammani College for Women, Participants: 180 participants from about 12 Bangalore (MLACW) colleges, universities and institutes in Kerala. 11–13 July 2013 Topics Covered: Polymers; atoms, natural or Convener: G Srinivasan (Bangalore) man-made; nanites; folding and aggregation Co-ordinator: Sarmistha Sahu (MLACW) profiles of α β2,3 hybrid peptides; electons, Participants: 145 participants from various photons, phonons: SASER and phoniton; size colleges and institutions in Bangalore. matters: materials at the nanoscale; interfering with Topics Covered: Crisis in classical physics; interference for nanoscale patterning – the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; waves of challenges and the journey through Maser to particles; applications of Maxwell-Boltzmann Spaser; diverse reactivity of anthracene- statistics to the thermal energy of the sun; Fermi- methanamines and sulfides with electron deficient Dirac statistics; waves and interference; probability acetylenes; electrical energy storage: materials waves; quantum stars; statistical physics. Several challenges and prospects; topochemical reactions. demonstrations were also held by the Resource Persons as part of the Workshop. 8. Galois Theory, Finite fields & Cryptography 11. Frontier Areas in Physics NASI & IIIT, Allahabad St Xavier’s College, Kolkata 24–26 June 2013 19–20 July 2013 Convener: Satya Deo (HRI, Allahabad) Convener: DN Bose (St. Xavier’s College, Co-ordinator: Niraj Kumar (NASI, Allahabad) Kolkata) Participants: 200 participants from various Co-ordinator: Subhankar Ghosh (St. Xavier’s colleges and institutions in Allahabad, Mathura, College, Kolkata) New Delhi, Roorkee. Participants: 60 participants from different Topics Covered: Introduction to finite fields; colleges in West Bengal. Galois Theory: geometric constructions; Topics Covered: Standard model and beyond; cryptography; solvability by radicals; geometric symmetry and its application to physics; growth and constructions; mathematics. characterization of low dimensional structures; selected topics in statistical physics; nanoelectronics. 9. Mathematics: Aspects, Prospects and a bit of History 12. Advances in Chemistry The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (MKU) Chennai 26–27 July 2013 1–2 July 2013 Convener: R Ramaraj (MKU) Convener: KN Raghavan (IMSc, Chennai) Co-ordinator: S Sivakumar (MKU) Co-ordinator: S Vishnu Prasad (IMSc, Chennai) ParticipantsParticipants: 155 students and teachers. Participants: 80 participants from various colleges and institutions in Chennai. 13. Advances in Chemistry Topics of lectures: Nuclear safety and the Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram (GRI) mathematical quantification of risk on the spectrum 6–7 September 2013 of the Laplacian; from linear algebra to robotic Convener: R Ramaraj (MKU) arm design via Groebner bases; shapes and Co-ordinator: Abraham John (GRI) geometry of surfaces; determinant and permanent; ParticipantsParticipants: 190 students and teachers.

36 Topics Covered:Covered Organic Synthesis: Quo Topics Covered: Host-guest chemistry in Vadis?, grapheme quantum dots; acids bases and inorganic solids; rationalising the formation of salts; chemistry and the world of intelligent salts; stone-walls defects in carbon–based materials; drug discovery: a chemist's perspective; nanomaterials; electrochemical biosensors; colour photoelectrochemistry and solar energy conversion; and chemistry; self-assembly and nanostructured principles and applications of molecular modeling and materials; photoelectrochemistry and solar energy simulation; golden opportunities with homogeneous conversion; design and development of new gold catalysis; exploring the changes in the structure materials for efficient hydrogen storage; of a a-Helical peptides absorbed on to carbon spectroelectrochemistry (in-situ measurement nanomaterials using molecular dynamics simulation. techniques) ; graphene quantum dots.

14. Microbial Genomics 17. Frontiers in Biology Maharani’s Science College for Women, Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore (KJC) Bangalore (MSCW) 23–24 September 2013 19–20 September 2013 Convener: K Somasundaram (IISc, Bangalore) Convener: DJ Bagyaraj (Bangalore) Co-ordinator: AL Calistus Jude (KJC) Co-ordinator: Kavitha B (MSCW) Topics Covered: Microbiology and cell Topics Covered: Evolution in the microbial biology; biochemistry; molecular reproduction, world; restriction-modification systems in H.pylori; development and genetics. metagenomics – a revolution in microbiology; chromosome organization in Saccharomyces 18. Recent Advancements in Animal cerevisiae; transcriptional control in E. coli: how Research much RNA polymerase; mechanism of protein Bethune College, Kolkata synthesis; bacterial genome evolution; translational 27–28 September 2013 control of cellular genes by internal initiation. Convener: Aparna Dutta-Gupta (UOH) Co-ordinator: Rahul Kumar Datta (Behtune 15. Life Sciences College, Kolkata) S.B. Arts and K.C.P. Science College, Bijapur ParticipantsParticipants: 150 students and teachers. (SBAKCPSC) Topics CoveredCovered: Charm of new discoveries in 19–21 September 2013 science, and why we fail to achieve that; the three Convener: SK Saidapur (Dharwad) billion: a decade later; theoretical model in ecology Co-ordinator: MS Mulimani (SBAKCPSC) and integrated ecosystem theories; evaluation of Topics Covered: Seeds: the biological enigma; cellular and biochemical response of earthworm genetics today; floristic diversity in India: exposed to organophosphorus-based pesticide; inventorization, conservation and bio-prospection- statistical optimization of the sugar production by priority agenda for 21st century; glycolysis: its endoglucanase from Rhizopus oryzae PR7 MTCC importance and ramifications; globalization of 9642; biodiversity of insects at forest of Kaziranga plants; current problems in taxonomic teaching and National Park, Assam; isolation and identification of research in India; genetically modified crops; Mycobacterium bovis from slaughtered cattle introduction to epigentics; evolution and human collected from abattoirs in Kolkata; effective health; different types of jaundice and their chromium reduction by Trichoderma pesudokongh management; biofuel technology. and effects of natural sources on its reduction potential. Saccharification of AGRO wastes; 16. Advances in Chemistry optimization of production parameters; Alagappa University, Karaikudi (AU) environmental characterization and DNA 20–21 September 2013 fingerprinting of a protozoan ectoparasite; a pilot Convener: S Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore) study of prevalence of Methicillin resistant; a survey Coordinator: P Manishankar (AU) of faunal diversity with special reference to birds; No. of ParticipantsParticipants: 235 cytogenetic and molecular profiling of LATA fish (Channa punctatus) from 3 different districts.

37 19. Current Trends and Directions in Google search; searching and sorting million Computer Science Research needles in zillion haystacks; binary ternary. Dr NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore (NGPASC) 22. Bioprospecting and Bioresources: From 3–5 October 2013 Molecules to Products Convener: R Krishnan (Amrita University, VIT University, Vellore Coimbatore) 21–23 October 2013 Co-ordinator: N Ananthi (NGPASC) Convener: R Uma Shaanker (UAS, Bangalore) Participants: 168 participants from various Co-ordinator: Siva Ramamoorthy (VIT) colleges, universities and institutions in Coimbatore. Participants: 145 participants from colleges in Topics Covered: Research issues in high- Chennai, Chidambaram, Erode, Kanchipuram, resolution image processing and image analysis and Thiruvannamalai, Tirupathi, Vellore. computer vision; current trends in advanced Topics Covered: Documenting, mapping, computing and recent trends in high-performance digitising bioresource; prospecting drugs from computing; research issues in information bugs - potential antibiotics for human health and retrieval; mathematical foundation for computer agriculture; bioprospecting: use of niche modelling science research (linear algebra) and research tools; using fungal endophytes; random to non- issues in optimisation techniques; classification random approaches; ecological niche modelling using genetic programming and POS tagging using tools; dyes from plants. sequence labelling and SVM tool; research issues in cloud computing. 23. Psycho-disorders & Role of Neuroprotective Nutrition in Decision 20. Cell Differentiation in the context of Making Cancer & Stem Cell Biology University of Allahabad, Allahabad (UA) Chinmaya Arts and Science College for Women, 24–26 October 2013 Kannur (CASCW) ConvenerConvener: UC Srivastava (UA) 8–9 October 2013 Co-ordinator: Niraj Kumar (NASI) Convener: T Subramoniam (NIOT, Chennai) Participants: 200 participants from various Co-ordinator: PA Valsalakumari (CASCW) colleges, institutions in and around Allahabad. Participants: 172 participants from neighbouring colleges and university departments in Kannur. 24. Selected Topics in Astrophysics Topics Covered: An introduction to stem cell St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore (SJC) biology; aberrant signaling pathways in cancer; 25–30 October 2013 creating functional blood vessels from adult stem Convener: G Srinivasan (Bangalore) cells; acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Co-ordinator: Rabbi Akkiba Angiras (SJC) haematopoietic stem cell transplantation; mechanisms Participants: 64 participants from various and control of vitellogenesis in crustacean; colleges in Bangalore. understanding cancer and its management; gamete Topics Covered: Stars; radiative processes; x- cell differentiation in crustacea: spermatogenesis; ray astronomy; galaxies; between the stars; white steroid receptors and cancer. dwarfs; ultraviolet astronomy; pulsars.

21. Mathematical Methods for Science 25. New Vistas in Topology and Analysis AES National Degree College, Gauribidanur (AES) St Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda (SJC) 11–12 October 2013 6–8 November 2013 Convener: Gadadhar Misra (IISc) Convener: T Thrivikraman (CUSAT, Kochi) Co-ordinator: KS Gayathri (AES) Co-ordinator: Sr Christry (SJC) Participants: 170 participants from various Participants: 131 participants from various colleges in Gauribidanur, Kolar. colleges in and around Irinjalakuda in Kerala. Topics Covered: Game theory; counting and Topics Covered: Basic Topology; algebraic tiling; power of matrix; role of linear algebra in topology; analysis.

38 26. Modern Trends in the Development function relationship of gonadotropin receptors; in and Characterization of Materials vivo imaging techniques. Maharani’s Science College for Women, Bangalore (MSCW) 30. Trees of Life 12–13 November 2013 Jai Hind College, Mumbai (JHC) Convener: TN Guru Row (IISc) 11–12 December 2013 Co-ordinator: G Ramagopal (MSCW) Convener: LS Shashidhara (IISER, Pune) Co-ordinator: Yasmina Dordi Avari (JHC) 27. Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy Participants: 150 participants from colleges, University of Calicut, Calicut (UC) institutions in and around Mumbai. 20–21 November 2013 Topics Covered: Evolutionary-developmental Convener: E Arunan (IISc) biology; human evolution, health and disease; Co-ordinator: P Raveendran (UC) experimental evolution in the laboratory; evolution, Participants: 170 participants from various trees of life and species in inquiry-oriented biology institutions in and around Calicut. education; extended evolutionary synthesis; Topics Covered: Advances in magnetic evolution, behavior and complex disorders. resonance spectroscopy; why molecules absorb/ emit radiation; infrared spectroscopy for the study 31. Sense and Sensibility of molecular conformations and weak Sophia College, Mumbai (SC) intermolecular interactions; laser spectroscopy; 20–21 December 2013 molecular beam microwave spectroscopy. Convener: Tarala D Nandedkar (NIRRH, Mumbai) 28. Modern Trends in Chemistry Co-ordinator: Hema Subramaniam (SC) Tezpur University, Tezpur (TU) Participants: 156 participants from different 20–22 November 2013 colleges and institutions in Mumbai. Convener: PK Das (IISc) Topics Covered: The role of environmental Co-ordinator: RC Deka (TU) sounds on the development of auditory system; Participants: 166 participants from Rajiv Gandhi connecting the retina to the brain; how those not University, Arunachal Pradesh and Tezpur like us perceive the world; visible and invisible University. messages: how plants communicate with each Topics Covered: Green chemistry; physical other and with insects; non-neuronal perception of chemistry; organometallic chemistry; chemical the environment; neuroscience. education and organic chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; biochemistry; material science; 32. Advanced Topics in Mathematics theoretical chemistry; inorganic chemistry. Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (BESU) 29. Biowaves: The Pulse of Biology 22–24 December 2013 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai Convener: Asok Kumar Mallik (BESU) 29–30 November 2013 Co-ordinator: Murari Mitra (BESU) Convener: Tarala D Nandedkar (NIRRH, Participants: 66 participants from various Mumbai) colleges and universities. Co-ordinator: Nandita Mangalore (St. Xavier’s Topics Covered: Prime numbers – theorems, College) conjectures and applications; geometric methods Participants: 235 participants from colleges, for first and second order ordinary differential institutions in and around Mumbai. equations; density functional theory; continued Topics Covered: Amazing nanotechnology and fractions: from non-random to random; the its applications in health care; impairment of cell completeness axiom in real analysis; variational division and growth of malaria parasites; methods and its applications; random walks and reciprocity as a regulatory principle of biological Markov chains; convergence concepts in process; the immune system: past, present and probability theory. future; G-protein coupled receptors: structure–

39 33. Dynamical Systems Diophantine equations; probability and sampling; PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, function algebras; notions of curvature. Coimbatore (PSGRKCW) 26–28 December 2013 36. Recent Trends in Functional Analysis Convener: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan PSGR Krishnammal College, Coimbatore University, Tiruchirapalli) (PSGRKCW) Co-ordinator: P Meena (PSGRKCW) 2–4 January 2014 Participants: 152 participants from colleges and Convener: Geetha Srinivasa Rao (University of universities in Coimbatore, Gobichettipalayam, Madras) Pollachi, Udumalpet, Tiruppur. Co-ordinator: K Sumathi (PSGRKCW) Topics Covered: Dynamics and Lagrangian Participants: 217 participants from various formulation; small oscillations and normal co- colleges in Coimbatore. ordinate analysis; free and forced oscillations Topics Covered: Geometric properties of including continuous systems; Hamiltonian dynamics; Banach spaces; Hilbert spaces of holomorphic central force motion; problem solving in dynamics. functions; visual cryptography; fixed points of generalised weakly contractive maps in orbitally 34. Recent Progress in Chemistry complete metric spaces; compatible and weakly Bengal Engineering and Science University, compatible mappings with fixed points; length Shibpur (BESU) inequalities for vectors in normed linear spaces; 26–28 December 2013 tools and techniques in approximation theory. Convener: Sabyasachi Sarkar (BESU) Co-ordinator: Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay 37. Cryptology (BESU) Aurora’s Degree & PG College, Hyderabad Participants: 110 participants from various 3–4 January 2014 colleges and institutions in Howrah, Kolkata, Convener: S Chaturvedi (UOH, Hyderabad) Narendrapur. Co-ordinator: Satyanarayana Kota (Aurora’s Topics Covered: Inorganic chemistry in biology: College) metalloenzymes of life; bio-inspired electrodes; Participants: 183 participants from graduate and infrared and Raman spectroscopy; time-resolved postgraduate colleges in Secunderabad and and sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy; Hyderabad. applications of scanning probe microscopy in Topics Covered: Elliptic cryptography and its chemistry, biology and materials; systematic applications; nano materials; coding theory; journey development of organic reactions dealing with the of cryptography; applications and advancements in C—C bond and C—X bond formations in acyclic, cryptography. carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems; designing organic molecules for a useful purpose; nonlinear 38. Recent Advances in Corrosion optics; thermodynamics; nucleic acids and their Engineering structure, function and applications in research. College of Engineering, Pune (CEP) 6–8 January 2014 35. Excursions in Mathematics Convener: KA Natarajan (IISc, Bangalore) Jain University, Bangalore (JU) Co-ordinator: ST Vagge (CEP) 27–28 December 2013 Participants: Faculty, research scholars, PG and Convener: BV Rajarama Bhat (ISI, Bangalore) UG students from colleges/institutions in and Co-ordinator: JV Ramana Raju (JU) around Pune. Participants: 128 participants from different Topics Covered: Corrosion engineering; colleges in Bangalore. materials selection for corrosion prevention; Topics Covered: Algebra, analysis, statistics, corrosion of stainless steels; microbial corrosion; number theory and geometry; colouring of maps corrosion failure analytics; coating for corrosion and polyhedra; power of matrix; an inquisitive look protection; pipeline corrosion and its prevention; at tilings, art and optimality; the world of corrosion testing, monitoring and standards; high

40 temperature corrosion; corrosion control the ‘coloured’ secrets of nature: the spectroscopic management. perspectives; nanoscience: a fleeting look; understanding molecular vibrations to grapheme to 39. Fluid Dynamics art; applications of nanomaterials; structure and PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (PSGCT) assembly of sesbania mosaic virus; crystallography 7–9 January 2014 in the 21st century. Convener: P Kandaswamy (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore) 42. Contemporary Issues in Biology Co-ordinator: Sai Sundara Krishnan (PSGCT) Parvatibai Chowgule College, Margao, Goa (PCC) Participants: 115 participants from various 20–22 January 2014 colleges in Coimbatore. Convener: HA Ranganath (Bangalore) Topics Covered: Energy conversion with Co-ordinator: Dileep K Tikare (PCC) supercritical CO2; Lattice-Boltzman method; Participants: 140 participants from various scaling in fluid dynamics; stokes flow; double colleges in Goa. diffusive convection; stability of fluid flows. Topics Covered: Biological science: its past, present, future; evolutionary biology; evolution 40. Fascinating Chemistry and human health; ethnobotany; bioprospection: Malda College, Malda floristic diversity in India with particular reference 20–21 January 2014 to medicinal and aromatic plants; genetics and Convener: Uday Maitra (IISc, Bangalore) molecular biology; RNA no longer a poor cousin Co-ordinator: Abul Hassan (Malda College) of DNA; biology of telomeres. Participants: 200 participants from various colleges in Malda, North Dinajpur. 43. Life Sciences: Enkindle Intelligentsia Topics Covered: Chemical kinetics and reaction CMR Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore rate theories; coordination chemistry of the (CMRIMS) transition metal ions; neighbouring group 22–23 January 2014 participation; learning chemistry in computer age; Convener: Dipshika Chakravortty (IISc, domain of colloid and interface science with special Bangalore) reference to nanostructured systems; Co-ordinator: DB Beena (CMRIMS) organometallic complexes of the platinum metals: Participants: 100 participants from colleges in synthesis, structure and catalytic application; a Bangalore. different way to look at thermodynamics; Topics Covered: Bacterial pathogenesis; genetic molecules defy rules. engineering; innate and adaptive immunity.

41. Physics 2014 44. Nonlinear Physics S.B. Arts and K.C.P. Science College, Bijapur Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli (BHC) (SBAKCPSC) 23–25 January 2014 20–22 January 2014 Convener: M Lakshmanan (Bharathidasan Convener: KA Suresh (CSMR, Bangalore) University, Tiruchirapalli) Co-ordinator: Suresh C Pattar (SBAKCPSC) Co-ordinator: T Kanna (BHC) Participants: 185 participants from various Participants: 166 participants from institutions in colleges in Bijapur. and around Tiruchirapalli. Topics Covered: Recent milestones in physics; Topics Covered: Nonlinear dynamics; from physics to biology and medicine: the story of application of nonlinear physics in spin systems; evolution of NMR; semiconductor prisms: an application of nonlinear physics: Bose–Einstein introduction to heterostructures; soft matter: liquid condensates, biological systems; nonlinear crystals, membranes, gels and thin films; Cohen- electronics; supersymmetry in quantum mechanics; Tannoudji or Anatole Abragam: understanding nonlinear optics; optical solitons, rogue waves, quantum mechanics and spin physics; multi- similaritons and their applications. functionality of GaN nanostructures; glimpses into

41 45. Techno Materia 2014: A Chemical and 48. Ordinary Differential Equations: An Physical Perspective of Trend-Setting Overview of its Applications and Various Engineering Materials Methods of Solutions NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad (NSSCE) Christ University, Bangalore (CU) 24–25 January 2014 30–31 January 2014 Convener: KR Gopidas (NIIST, Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM, Thiruvananthapuram) Bangalore)/AK Nandakumaran (IISc, Bangalore) Co-ordinator: S Mayadevi (NSSCE) Co-ordinator: Mayamma Joseph (CU) Participants: 151 participants from various Participants: 100 participants from various colleges in and around Palakkad. colleges in Bangalore. Topics Covered: The strange and beautiful Topics CoveredCovered: Ordinary differential world of quantum mechanics; magneto dielectric equations: introduction, examples and models; properties of some double perovskites; organic linear first and second order equations; general photovoltaics; use of Raman Spectroscopy from theory, examples and importance of theoretical MOFs to proteins; spintronics; material science study of existence, uniqueness; numerics – its under extreme pressures; fundamentals of nano- importance and modern perspective. fabrication; photoresponsive materials. 49. Recent Advances in Biology 46. Recent Advances in High Energy Christ University, Bangalore (CU) Physics 31 January–1 February 2014 St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda (SJCI) Convener: Umesh Varshney (IISc, Bangalore) 28–29 January 2014 Co-ordinator: VL Vasantha (CU) Convener: MVN Murthy (IMSc, Chennai) Participants: 145 participants from 13 colleges in Co-ordinator: Mary Gisby Poulose (SJCI) Bangalore. Participants: 180 participants including PG Topics Covered: What can we learn from students, research scholars and faculty from insect societies; synthetic DNA devices in living various colleges in Irinjalakuda. systems; genomics of restriction modification Topics covered: Standard model, Higgs Boson; system; the role of DNA polymerases in physics of strong interaction; Higgs discovery at replication and evolution; two big problems of LHC; neutrinos; neutrino oscillations; mysterious HIV research today; the importance of micro dark matter. RNAs in disease and development; population dynamics. 47. Recent Trends in Biology and Biotechnology 50. Recent Developments in Physical Jamal Mohammed College, Tiruchirapalli (JMC) Chemistry 29–31 January 2014 St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda (SJCI) Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU, Madurai) 31 January–1 February 2014 Co-ordinator: T Nargis Begum (JMC) Convener: ED Jemmis (IISc, Bangalore) Participants: 252 participants from various Co-ordinator: Rosabella K Puthur (SJCI) universities and colleges in Tiruchirapalli. Participants: 143 participants from colleges in Topics Covered: Power of evolution; power Irinjalakuda. of bacterial genetics; connecting genes to Topics Covered: Nobel laureates in chemistry behaviour of circadian clocks; biology and 2013; insights into some exactly solvable problems behaviour of bats; adaptive significance of circadian in quantum mechanics; semi-empirical and ab initio; rhythms; biology: some insights; molecular chemistry with computers; density functional mechanism of olfactory learning and memory; theory; how to think of problems in chemistry; asexual reproduction, coeloms, and embryonic molecular mechanics and force fields. stem cells; primordial germ cells and sexuality; microalgae from biodiversity to biotechnology; Lipophorin: a targeted protein for drug designs.

42 51. Contemporary Research Issues in Life 54. Plant Taxonomy Sciences PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, SDM College, Ujire (SDMC) Coimbatore (PSGRKCW) 3–4 February 2014 17–18 February 2014 Convener: RR Rao (UAS, Bangalore) Convener: M Sanjappa (UAS, Bangalore) Co-ordinator: Keshava Hegde Korse (SDMC) Co-ordinator: W Suganya (PSGRKCW) ParticipantsParticipants: 205 participants from different Topics Covered: Biodiversity of Western colleges in Bantwaal, Karkala, Moodbidre, Puttur, Ghats; orchid biology; the art and science of Udupi and Ujire. botanical illustrations and biology of carnivorous Topics Covered: Power of evolution; evolution plants; medicinal plants of India: diversity, and human health; biology of telomeres; RNA is conservation and bioprospection; adaptive radiation no longer a poor cousin of DNA; pollination in angiosperms: pollination biology; biodiversity of biology; importance of low-tech research for Tamil Nadu; taxonomy in conservation. effective management and conservation of our biodiversity; role of ethno-botany in search of 55. Current Trends in Chemistry newer and effective drug plants; current problems Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan (VM) in taxonomic teaching and research in India. 17–18 February 2014 Convener: Anunay Samanta (UOH, Hyderabad) 52. Interdisciplinary Sciences and Modern Co-ordinator: Basudeb Haldar (VM) Biology Participants: 113 participants from twenty M.K. Ponda College of Business & Management, different colleges and institutions in Bhirbhum, Bhopal (MKPCBM) Burdwan, Hooghly, Sonepat. 14–15 February 2014 Topics Covered: Inorganic supramolecular Convener: Shekhar Mande (NCCS, Pune) chemistry: a copper mono-nuclear coordination Co-ordinator: Manju Tembhre (MKPCBM) complex to trinuclear iron carboxlates through Participants: 125 participants from different multinuclear polyoxometalates; carbohydrates; educational institutions and research organisations understanding the ionic liquids using fluorescence of Bhopal. spectroscopy; chemistry of metal dithiolato Topics Covered: Interdisciplinary sciences and coordination complexes; diversity oriented modern biology; genome to epigenome; networks asymmetric synthesis of bio-active natural products; in biology; optical traps in biology and their coordination chemistry; synthesis and characterization applications; microbiome and metagenomics; gut of metal naonoparticles incorporated films by the sol- microbiome. gel process; olefin metathesis mediated synthesis of α-amino acids and α,β-diamino acids; design of 53. Insights in Evolutionary Biology functional nanomaterials and coatings. M.E.S. Degree College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Bangalore (MES) 56. Recent Trends in Materials Science and 14–15 February 2014 Materials Research Convener: SK Saidapur (Bangalore) Sree Siddaganga College of Arts, Science & Co-ordinator: Sheela Menon (MES) Commerce, Tumkur (SSCASC) Participants: 100 participants from various 21–22 February 2014 colleges in Bangalore. Convener: KJ Rao (IISc, Bangalore). Topics Covered: Power of evolution; Co-ordinator: C Narayanareddy (SSCASC) pollination, fertilization and dispersal of diasporas Topics Covered: Modern applications of in flowering plants; sexual selection; adaptive magnetic materials; composite materials – the core radiations in angiosperm pollination biology; of material applications; the expanding world of insectivorous plants; co-evolutionary arm race smart materials; a shy group of materials namely between bacteria and viruses; evolutionary drifts in glasses; the challenge of energy storage: batteries; protein domain superfamilies. sensor materials; nature of the chemical bond: perspective from electron density analysis; small can be both beautiful and exciting.

43 57. Differential Equations and its nanoparticles; catalyst and catalysis; organisation Applications and dynamics of biomembranes from slow solvent Indian Academy Degree College, Bangalore relaxation. 21–22 February 2014 Convener: Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR-CAM, 61. Spectroscopy Bangalore) Christ University, Bangalore (CU) Coordinator: PK Lakshmikanthamma (IADC) 28 February–1 March 2014 Topics coveredcovered: Ordinary differential equations Convener: E Arunan (IISc, Bangalore) and its applications; string equation; heat equation. Co-ordinator: Sunaja Devi KR (CU) Topics Covered: Why molecules absorb/emit 58. New Challenges in Plant Taxonomy radiation; time and space resolved Raman Jiwaji University, Gwalior (JU) spectroscopy; solid state spectroscopy; 21–22 February 2014 multiphoton spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy; Convener: RR Rao (UAS, Bangalore) brilouin scattering; light–matter interactions. Coordinator: AK Jain (JU) Participants: 110 students and teachers. Topics Covered: Current problems of plant taxonomy in India and how to resurrect the 12.4 Participation of Teachers in subject; plant nomenclature; taxonomy of Indian Academy Meetings Lichens; bioprospecting of lichens; forest fragmentation and its implication for biodiversity The Academy maintains a database of bright conservation; ecosystem services; conservation of and motivated teachers around the country, biodiversity through tribal wisdom; flower largely based on recommendations received evolution. from the Fellows of the Academy. This list is constantly updated and contains names of 59. Recent Research in Biological Sciences Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (MKU) teachers mainly from colleges and university 27–28 February 2014 departments in different disciplines. A few of Convener: G Marimuthu (MKU) these teachers are invited to the Academy mid-year and annual meetings every year to 60. Modern Trends in Chemistry and its give them an opportunity to attend scientific Biological Applications Sikkim Government College, Gangtok (SKC) lectures and to meet and interact with Fellows. 27–28 February 2014 About 42 teachers attended the Academy Convener: Anunay Samanta (UOH) meetings in Bangalore and Chandigarh. Over Co-ordinator: Bhaskar Chakraborty (SKC) the past decade, about 1118 teachers have Participants: 143 participants from Sikkim University, Sikkim Government College, attended the Academy meetings. Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, Siliguri College, University of North Bengal. Topics Covered: How protein molecule moves like a snake for respiration in our cell; recent advances in femto second and single molecule spectroscopy; design of sensitizers for photodynamic therapy; biomembranes; design of cyclophanes as molecular probes; fluorescence signaling of guests and complex environments; history and chemistry of a blockbuster drug; physics and chemistry of the interfaces with special reference to the synthesis and characterisation of

44 13 ‘Women in Science’ Panel Programmes a. Panel Discussion with Jocelyn b. Seminar on ‘Women in Bell Burnell Science: Career in Science’ IISc, Bangalore SRN Adarsh College, Bangalore 11 January 2014 11 March 2014 The Women in Science (WiS) Panel of the A lecture workshop was held at SRN Adarsh Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) and College, Bangalore, on International Students’ Council, IISc (Bangalore), on 11 Women’s Day. The workshop was organised January 2014, organised an Interactive in collaboration with the Women in Science Discussion Session with Prof. Dame Jocelyn Panel, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bell Burnell, visiting Professor at the Bangalore. The programme was inaugurated University of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of by Hon. President Shri V. Premraj Jain; Hon. Mansfield College. Prof. Bell discovered Secretary Shri Jetendra Mardia; Principal Dr. pulsars, pulsating radio stars, in 1968. She has Bharatish Rao; Programme Convener Prof. received several honours: she was elected Rohini M. Godbole and Programme Co- Fellow of the ordinator Dr. Vijaya B. Royal Society In the preliminary address by the workshop and was convener, Prof. Godbole, Centre for High appointed Energy Physics, IISc, Bangalore, emphasised Dame that participation of women students in Commander of school and colleges was high and that their the Order of level of achievement was also high. She also the British deliberated on the book Leelavathi’s Empire. She Daughters, which is a source of inspiration to has served as all women. She said that introducing women the President into science was necessary to bring in more of the Royal diversity, which always improved the quality Astronomical of science and technology. Society and the Institute of The technical session began with a talk by Physics. Dr. Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, from Raman Throughout Research Institute, Bangalore, who spoke on her career she has consistently encouraged ‘The Curious Case of Soft material’. She women to pursue science and is passionate spoke about soft plastics, and provided about the cause. During the interactive insight into how these soft materials had their session, issues such as stereotype biases, application in drug delivery also. gender discrimination and its covert methods were discussed.

45 The following session was by Dr. Gurpreet The post-lunch session was a Panel Kaur, scientist at Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Discussion on ‘Women in Science’ by Ltd. Her lecture was on ‘Biotechnology in eminent speakers, including Dr. Vidyanand Applied research’. She explained the Nanjundiah from Indian Institute of Science, challenges of the biotechnology in applied Dr. Mukund Thatti from National Centre for research, on how to make a right enzyme and Biological sciences, Dr. Sheela K. Ramasesha its delivery in commercial application. from Indian Institute of Science, Dr. Prajval The third speaker for the day was Dr. Urbasi Shastri from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Sinha, from Raman Research Institute, who and Dr. Mahua Ghosh from the Physics spoke on quantum mechanics and quantum Department of Mount Carmel College. In this computers. interactive session, many girl students spoke about gender-bias problems. The panellists The fourth speaker was Dr. Prajval Shastri, shared their experiences and motivated the from Indian Institute of Astrophysics, students. Bangalore, who spoke on ‘Harnessing Gravity to Glow and Grow: Galaxies and Over 90 students and many teachers from 12 Their Blackholes’. colleges participated in the workshop.

14 Hindi Workshops

The following workshops were jointly to the winners of the various competitions organized by the Indian Academy of Sciences held during the event. and the Raman Research Institute. On 28 June 2013, Dr. V. Thilagam, Hindi Hindi Week celebrations were held during Officer, IISc, Bangalore, conducted a 10–13 September 2013. Various competitions workshop on ‘Official Notings and Filing in areas such as essay writing, singing and Systems’. dictation writing, etc., were organized. On the Two Hindi workshops, on 17 December 2013 concluding day, in a special lecture, Prof. and 7 March 2014, entitled ‘Two Words’, Mallikarjun B, Director, Central University were conducted by Sri Mahadev G Savdatti, of Karnataka, Gulbarga, spoke on 'Linguistic Assistant Director (Retd.), Department of Landscape of India'. Prizes were distributed Official Language, Bangalore.

46 15 National Science Day

premises of the Academy, began with the inaugural ceremony presided by the President of the Academy, Dipankar Chatterji, who in his inaugural address introduced C.V. Raman and his research to the students gathered. Ramji Raghavan, Founder and Chairman of AIF, shared his views on the joys of learning and discovery. The students of Every year, on 28th February, National Poornapragna High School and Government Science Day is celebrated in India to mark the High School, IISc, demonstrated their discovery of the Raman Effect in 1928 by Sir scientific models in an interesting way. After C.V. Raman. The Government of India this, the students were escorted to the Raman initiated this programme with the following Museum at Raman Research Institute. Later in objectives: to widely spread the significance the evening a Public Lecture was organised of scientific applications in daily life; to by IASc at the Faculty Hall, IISc. The Public showcase all activities, efforts and Lecture was delivered by Professor Michael achievements in the field of science for human L. Klein, a well-known scientist from Temple welfare; to discuss all issues and implement University, USA, and Raman Professor, new technologies for the development of IASc. science; to provide opportunity to scientific minded citizens in the country and to popularise science and technology. The theme for the year 2014 was ‘Fostering Scientific Temper’. On this occasion, the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) in association with Agastya International Foundation (AIF) organised a demonstration of scientific models/ projects for students from various schools in Bangalore. The event, held in the

47 16 Additional Hostel Facility at Jalahalli

The Academy has begun construction of a new hostel block in its Fellows Residency at Jalahalli. The new hostel block will be a three-storey building of total area 1228 sq. ft. with 24 rooms. The entire civil work is expected to be completed early next year.

17 Dainik Bhaskar National Education Leadership Award 2013

The Dainik Bhaskar National Education The Indian Academy of Sciences was Leadership Award recognises institutions that honoured with the Dainik Bhaskar National are innovative, modern and industry-related in Education Leadership Award 2013 in their curriculum marketing, advertising, recognition of leadership in education. The marketing communications, engineering and award was presented on 23 October 2013 at technology. Mumbai.

48 18 Academy Finances

The accounts for the financial year 2013–14 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 1477.69 Journal printing 161.54 Subscriptions 77.22 Science education programmes 490.32 Interest earned 38.09 Salaries 246.06 on Plan grant Medical expenses 14.44 Others 7.02 Fellows’ repository 0.02 Deficit under Annual/mid-year meetings 60.24 Non-Plan 0.02 Postage 39.23 Others (expenses on retirement benefits, bonus, maintenance of building, equipment, stationery, packing, pension fund, furniture and equipment, library books, discussion meeting, etc.) 262.76 Surplus 325.43

1600.04 1600.04

19 Acknowledgements

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

49 Table 1 Information about published papers in journals (January to December 2013)

Vol. no. No. of No. of Total no. of (**) issues papers pages 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 36 7 190 1382 (K142) 2. Current Science 104,105 24 775 3524* (K292) 3. J. Astrophys. Astr. 34 4 28 440 (K18) 4. Journal of Biosciences 38 5 101 1013 (L108) 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 125 6 179 1690 (K240) 6. Journal of Earth System Science 122 6 121 1638 (K66) 7. Journal of Genetics 92 3 105 853 (K312) 8. Pramana 80,81 12 172 2166 (L362) 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 123 4 48 598 (L86) 10. Resonance 18 12 100 1155 (L59) 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 38 6 77 1505 (K729) Total - - 1896 15964 (K1184)

* 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 2013) Accepted Rejected Pending Total (**) 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 186 649+ 29 876 (L16) 2. Current Science 509 2413 348 3270* (K1095) 3. J. Astrophys. Astr. 36 (94++) 97 2 135 (94++)(K37) 4. Journal of Biosciences 94 955 8 1057 (K142) 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 165 840 22 1027 (K181) 6. Journal of Earth System Science 86 274 51 411 (K13) 7. Journal of Genetics 146 463+ 11 641 (K123) 8. Pramana 138 406 74 618 (L78) 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 55 360 48 463 (K97) 10. Resonance 82 42 9 133 (L80) 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 53 476 112 641 (K227) Total 1550 6975 714 9272 (K1741)

+ Withdrawn (BMS: 12, JG: 21) * Including briefer items such as news, correspondence, etc. ** As compared to last year’s figures ++ Indicates articles accepted for a conference proceedings 50 Table 3

Circulation details of journals (2013)

Subscription Complimentary Fellows & Total India Foreign India Foreign Associates 1. Bulletin of Materials Science 2470a - 87 16 33 2606 2. Current Science 4965b 53d 150 40 41 5249 3. J. Astrophys. Astr. 1238 - 84 5 16 1343 4. Journal of Biosciences 2010 - 98 36 96 2240 5. Journal of Chemical Sciences 1915 - 89 18 62 2084 6. Journal of Earth System Science 1300 - 82 26 40 1448 7. Journal of Genetics 1650 - 96 24 51 1821 8. Pramana 2178 - 106 8 57 2349 9. Proceedings (Math. Sci.) 1832 - 91 22 25 1970 10. Resonance 6207c - 191 7 - 6405 11. Sadhana – Engg. Sci. 1670 - 120 14 33 1837 Total 27435 53 1194 216 454 29352

a. Includes about 615 MRSI members in India and abroad b. Includes about 1200 personal subscribers c. Includes about 2640 personal subscribers d. Includes about 22 complimentary copies sent to Third World Countries

Table 4

Details of 2013 Summer Fellowships

STUDENTS TEACHERS Subjects Applications Offered Availed Applications Offered Availed received received 1. Life Sciences 4872 610 530 287 38 21 (incl. Agric. Sciences) 2. Chemistry 2314 331 262 165 62 45 3. Physics 2269 313 242 132 38 22 4. Engineering 11053 396 274 223 40 24 5. Earth Sciences 916 179 144 25 11 7 6. Mathematics 865 125 96 52 13 6 Total 22289 1954 1548 884 202 125

51 Annexure 1 New Fellows (effective 1 January 2014)

Bera, Jitendra K Jayananda, M Indian Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, Delhi Kanpur Sp: Solid Earth Geochemistry; Sp: Organometallic Chemistry; Archean Magmatism; Small Molecule Activation; Continental Growth; Tectonics Catalysis

Chakraborti, Asit K Krishnamurthy, M National Institute of Tata Institute of Fundamental Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Mumbai Research, SAS Nagar Sp: Atomic and Molecular Sp: Synthetic Organic Physics; Intense Laser Plasma Chemistry; Green Chemistry; Physics; Optical Sciences Medicinal Chemistry

Chattarji, Sumantra Kulkarni, Giridhar U National Centre for Biological JN Centre for Advanced Sciences, Bangalore Scientific Research, Bangalore Sp: Neurobiology; Biophysics; Sp: Nanomaterials; Physiology Nanolithography and Fabrications; Molecular Crystals and Properties Garg, Naveen Indian Institute of Technology, Kundu, Manikuntala New Delhi Bose Institute, Kolkata Sp: Approximation Sp: Stress Response in Algorithms; Combinatorial Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Optimisation; Graph Theory Immunology of Host Cell and Algorithms Response to Helicobacter pylori

Ghate, Eknath Madras, Giridhar Tata Institute of Fundamental Indian Institute of Science, Research, Mumbai Bangalore Sp: Automorphic Forms; Sp: Polymers; Supercritical Number Theory; Galois Fluids; Catalysis Representations; Arithmetic Geometry

52 Mahadevan, Priya Raghavarao, K S M S SN Bose National Centre for CSIR – Central Food Basic Sciences, Kolkata Technological Research Sp: Electronic Structure of Institute, Mysore Materials; Magnetism; Sp: Food Engineering, Nanostructure Materials Biotechnology; Chemical Engineering Majumdar, Subeer S National Institute of Ramana, C V Immunology, New Delhi CSIR – National Chemical Sp: Animal Biotechnology; Laboratory, Pune Transgenic Animals; Sp: Total Synthesis; Endocrinology Carbohydrate Chemistry; Transition Metal Catalysis

Mandal, Gautam Rao, Ravi A Tata Institute of Fundamental Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Research, Mumbai Sp: Quantum Field Theory; Sp: Classical Algebraic K- Gravity; String Theory Theory, Commutative Algebra, Linear Algebra

Mujumdar, Pradeep Roy, Syamal Indian Institute of Science, CSIR - Indian Institute of Bangalore Chemical Biology, Kolkata Sp: Hydrology; Climate Change Sp: Immunology; Parasitology; Impacts; Uncertainty Vaccine Research Quantification

Roychoudhury, Susanta Mukerji, Mitali CSIR – Indian Institute of CSIR – Institute of Genomics & Chemical Biology, Kolkata Integrative Biology, New Delhi Sp: Cancer Biology; Human Sp: Functional Genomics; Genetics; Genomics Population Genomics; Ayurgenomics

Subramaniam, Annapurni Nayak, Shailesh Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Bangalore Delhi Sp: Stellar Population; Nearby Sp: Coastal and Ocean Galaxies; Star Clusters; Stellar Processes; Oceanography Evolution; Galactic Dynamics

53 Subramanian, V Tandon, Nikhil CSIR – Central Leather All India Institute of Medical Research Institute, Chennai Sciences, New Delhi Sp: Computational Chemistry; Sp: Endocrinology; Chronic Non-Covalent Interactions; Disease Epidemiology Biomolecular Simulations

Honorary Fellows

Paulraj, Arogyaswami J Electrical Engineering Schmidt, Brian P Department, The Research School of Stanford University, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Stanford, USA Mount Stromlo Observatory, The Australian National University, Australia Ramanathan, Veerabhadran Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA

Annexure 2 Fellows Deceased

Agarwal, Shyam Swarup Bhattacherjee, Satyendra (b. 05-07-1941, d. 02-12-2013) Kumar Elected: 1985 (b. 02-10-1926, d. 28-04-2013) Sp: Internal Medicine, Genetics Elected: 1973 and Immunology Sp: Experimental Nuclear Physics

Bhattacharyya, Sasanka Narasimhan, Palliakaranai Chandra Thirumalai (b. 31-08-1918, d. 19-05-2013) (b. 28-07-1928, d. 03-05-2013) Elected: 1975 Elected: 1971 Sp: Organic Chemistry Sp: Theoretical Chemistry and Magnetic Resonance

54 Narendran,Thekke Curuppathe (b. 24-02-1944, d. 31-12-2013) Sarabhai, Anand Elected: 2000 Sarabhai, Anand (b. 03-04-1938, d. 02-02-2013) Sp: Systematic Entomology Elected: 1981 Sp: Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Nutrition and Rao, Vallurupalli Sita Ecological Strategies Raghavendra (b. 01-02-1931, d. 26-09-2013) Elected: 1974 Seshagiri, Narasimhiah Sp: Conformation of Seshagiri, Narasimhiah (b. 10-05-1940, d. 26-05-2013) Biopolymers Elected: 1974 Sp: Electronics, Data Communication, Theoretical Reddy, Chintala Raja Ram Physics and Theoretical Mohan (b. 16-01-1929, d. 12-12-2012) Molecular Biology Elected: 1980 Sp: Pathology, Parasitology Siddiqi, Obaid and Cancer Epidemiology Siddiqi, Obaid (b. 07-01-1932, d. 26-07-2013) Elected: 1968 Sp: Molecular and Behavioural Roy, Supriya (b. 01-06-1931, d. 22-08-2013) Genetics Elected: 1986 Sp: Metallogeny, Ore-Genesis and Ore Mineralogy

Honorary Fellow Deceased

Dodson, George Guy (b. 13-01-1937, d. 24-12-2012) Elected: 2003 Sp:Structural Biology and Macromolecular Crystallography

55 Annexure 3 New Associates (effective 1 July 2013)

Mabalirajan, Ulaganathan Institute of Genomics & Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar Integrative Biology, Delhi Institute of Physics, Sp: Allergy & Asthama, Bhubaneswar Mitochondrial Biology, Drug Sp: Particle Physics, Dark Discovery Matter Maiti, Debabrata Indian Institute of Technology, Bera, Melinda Kumar Mumbai Indian Institute of Science Sp: Organometallic Chemistry, Education and Research, Nadia Bioinorganic Chemistry, Sp: Sedimentology, Sequence Synthetic Catalysis Stratigraphy, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Evolution of Misra, Abha Himalayan Foreland, Indian Indian Institute of Science, Monsoon Bangalore Sp: Graphene-based NEMS/ Gupta, Neena MEMS Devices, Fuel Cells, Indian Statistical Institute, Sensors & Actuators Kolkata Sp: Commutative Algebra, Rajaraman, Gopalan Affine Fibrations, Affine Spaces Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai Sp: Applied Computational Chemistry, Molecular Guttal, Vishwesha Magnetism, Catalysis Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Sheshasayee, Aswin Sp: Theoretical Ecology & Narayan Evolution, Ecosystem National Centre for Biological Dynamics, Collective Animal Sciences, Bangalore Behaviour Sp: Evolution of Genomics, Gene Regulation, Microbiology

Jha, Rajan Viswanatha, Ranjani Indian Institute of Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Bhubaneswar Advanced Scientific Research, Sp: Optical Sensors, Optical Bangalore Fibre-based Devices, Plasmonics Sp: Nanomaterials, Spectroscopy & Electronic Structure, Magnetism

56 Annexure 4 24th Mid-Year Meeting 5–6 July 2013, Bangalore A. Special Lectures 6. V K SharmaSharma, JNCASR, Bangalore 1. S SivaramSivaram, NCL, Pune Understanding entrainment of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster circadian clocks Sustainable materials based on aliphatic under natural conditions polyesters: Teaching old chemistry some new tricks 7. Uday BandyopadhyayBandyopadhyay, IICB, Kolkata 2. Deepak PentalPental, University of Delhi South Designing of a novel tryptamine-gallic Campus, New Delhi acid hybrid to prevent nonsteroidal anti- inflammatory drug-induced gastric ulcer/ Breeding of oilseed mustard: Tales from gastropathy some marathon runners 8. S BaskaranBaskaran, IIT, Chennai Domino reaction-based approach for the B. Public Lecture synthesis of novel molecules 1. T Jacob John, Vellore 9. T K NayakNayak, VECC, Kolkata India’s success story: Polio eradication Exploring quantum chromodynamics phase transitions at the relativistic heavy ion collider and the large hadron collider C. Lecture presentations by 10. Soumya SwaminathanSwaminathan, NIRT, Chennai Fellows/Associates Tuberculosis and HIV: A decade of 1. H N GhoshGhosh, BARC, Mumbai research Harvesting solar energy through dye- 11. Amiya Kumar PaniPani, IIT, Mumbai sensitized and quantum dot solar cell Scientific computing: A new way of 2. Amol DigheDighe, TIFR, Mumbai looking at mathematics Particle astrophysics of neutrinos 12. S K PatiPati, JNCASR, Bangalore 3. A C MishraMishra, NIV, Pune Structure and electronic properties of DNA and modified-DNA systems Influenza viruses and public health in the first decade of twenty-first century 13. S ShankaranarayananShankaranarayanan, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram 4. Debasis ChattopadhyayChattopadhyay, NIPGR, New Delhi Higher derivative theories and quantum phase transition Diverse role of calcineurin B-like- interacting protein kinases in plants 14. K N RaghavanRaghavan, IMSc, Chennai 5. B Sundar RajanRajan, IISc, Bangalore Invariant theory and standard monomial theory Wireless communication with multiple antennas

57 15. B J RaoRao, TIFR, Mumbai 17. N V Chalapathi RaoRao, BHU, Varanasi Spatial movements of chromosomes that Kimberlites: Keys for understanding the facilitate their repairs geodynamic evolution of ancient cratons 16. Prahladh HarshaHarsha, TIFR, Mumbai 18. M Durga PrasadPrasad, University of Communication complexity: A treasure Hyderabad, Hyderabad house of lower bounds An electronic structure perspective of the promoter modes in proton transfer reactions

Annexure 5 79th Annual Meeting 8–10 November 2013, Chandigarh A. Presidential Address 2. V PrakashPrakash, JSS Group of Technical Institutions, Mysore Dipankar ChatterjiChatterji, IISc, Bangalore Food and nutrition security from farm to Stress management, the bacterial ways folk 3. T R SharmaSharma, IARI, New Delhi B. (a) Symposium on: Cyber security Plant genome analysis for accelerated and privacy gene discovery 1. N BalakrishnanBalakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore 4. Rakesh TuliTuli, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali Social media, analytics and national security Safer GM crops: Opportunities for innovations 2. P K AgarwalAgarwal, Power System Operation Corporation Ltd, New Delhi Security challenges for the power grid/ C. Special Lectures smart grid infrastructure 1. Girish SahniSahni, CSIR-IMTECH, 3. Gulshan RaiRai, ICERT, New Delhi Chandigarh Cyberspace and threats Exploiting enzyme mechanistic insights 4. R K ShyamasundarShyamasundar, TIFR, Mumbai for the design of improved clot buster (thrombolytic) therapy Towards a science of cybersecurity 2. Anil KumarKumar, IISc, Bangalore (b) Symposium on: Food and Quantum computation and quantum nutritional security information processing by NMR: Introduction and recent developments 1. B S DhillonDhillon, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana Innovations for adding value to agriculture

58 D. Public Lectures 10. Sangita MukhopadhyayMukhopadhyay, CDFD, Hyderabad 1. Jayati GhoshGhosh, JNU, New Delhi PPE18 protein functions as a virulence Demographic dividend or ticking time factor during Mycobacterium tuberculosis bomb? infection 2. Shivashankar MenonMenon, National Security 11. Bhim SinghSingh, IIT, New Delhi Advisor, PMO, New Delhi Power quality problems and their Science and security mitigation 12. G MugeshMugesh, IISc, Bangalore E. Lectures by Fellows/Associates Deiodination of thyroid hormones 1. Avesh K TyagiTyagi, BARC, Mumbai 13. Krishnendu SenguptaSengupta, IACS, Kolkata Rational design of new functional Junctions of topological insulators materials 14. Subi J GeorgeGeorge, JNCASR, Bangalore 2. Sourendu GuptaGupta, TIFR, Mumbai Supramolecular synthesis of functional Little bangs materials 3. Rajan DigheDighe, IISc, Bangalore 15. Sharad S SaneSane, IIT, Mumbai Hormones, receptors and antibodies Combinatorics of block designs and finite geometries 4. S A HaiderHaider, PRL, Ahmedabad 16. Arun K PatiPati, HRI, Allahabad Meteoroid ablation in the Martian atmosphere: Observation and modelling Weak measurement and quantum correlation 5. S GopalakrishnanGopalakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore 17. Vijayakumar S NairNair, VSSC, Wave propagation in nanostructures Thiruvananthapuram 6. Jaya N IyerIyer, IMSc, Chennai Climate implications of soot on snow Tertiary classes–After Chern-Simons 18. Debashis MitraMitra, NCCS, Pune theory Host factors in HIV-1 pathogenesis and 7. G Narahari SastrySastry, IICT, Hyderabad novel strategies targeting the virus Cooperativity of non-covalent 19. Kirti Chandra SahuSahu, IIT, Hyderabad interactions Double-diffusive instability in viscosity- 8. Madan RaoRao, RRI & NCBS, Bangalore stratified flows Mechanics of information processing and 20. Sujit K GhoshGhosh, IISER, Pune computation in cells Structural dynamism and functional 9. Souvik MaitiMaiti, IGIB, Delhi studies of porous coordination polymers Interfering with interference: Targeting the RNAi pathway using small molecules

59 60 SSTATEMENTTATEMENT OFOF AACCOUNTSCCOUNTS 2013-2014

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61 62 Receipts and Payments for the year ending 31 March 2014

(Amount in rupees) RECEIPTS 2013-2014 2012-2013 I Opening balances: a) Cash in hand 55,392 16,275 b) Bank balances 3,41,34,619 2,44,64,103 II Grants received: a) From Govt of India 12,54,30,000 6,91,30,000 b) From other sources 2,63,20,729 III Income on investments: a) Earmarked endowment funds 19,41,164 10,25,120 b) Own funds IV Interest received a) On bank deposits 40,12,526 27,77,888 b) Loans & advances, etc. 8,526 62,230 V Other income 2,71,96,556 2,57,16,848 VI Any other receipts a) Contribution to Corpus fund b) Contribution to scientific research 30,000 55,000 c) Fellowship fees 16,100 17,500 d) DST meetings/Inspire 14,12,478 17,09,354 VII Investments matured 2,27,68,695 3,09,00,000 TOTAL 21,70,06,056 18,21,95,047

PAYMENTS I Expenses a) Establishment expenses 2,67,18,547 2,07,61,004 b) Administrative expenses 9,41,71,218 8,88,38,032 II Investments and deposits made 4,56,82,271 3,45,32,217 III Expenditure on a) Fixed assets 32,18,546 30,46,232 b) Capital work in progress 61,98,194 - c) Land 74,271 IV Refund of surplus money/loans V Other payments 11,73,835 7,53,280 Closing balances: a) Cash in hand 58,529 55,392 b) Bank balances 3,97,84,916 3,41,34,619 TOTAL 21,70,06,056 18,21,95,047 Place: Bangalore As per our report of even date Date: 16.05.2014 For G R Venkatanarayana Chartered Accountants Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- (D Chatterji) (J Srinivasan) (G Chandramohan) (G R Venkatanarayana) President Treasurer Executive Secretary Partner 63 Income and Expenditure for the year ending 31 March 2014

(Amount in Rupees) Particulars 2013-2014 2012-2013 A. INCOME Plan Non-Plan Plan Non-Plan Grants/subsidies 14,58,18,906 19,50,000 11,25,26,180 24,30,000 Fees/subscriptions 77,22,172 78,13,888 Income from royalty, publications, etc. 1,80,77,634 1,21,41,712 Interest earned 38,09,391 2,11,661 25,83,343 6,75,078 Other income 2,19,807 6,72,886 TOTAL (A) 14,96,28,297 2,81,81,274 11,51,09,523 2,37,33,564 B. EXPENDITURE Establishment expenses 2,00,73,851 69,17,807 1,65,08,900 42,68,690 Other administrative expenses, etc. 9,70,10,972 34,58,102 7,62,60,468 82,08,328 TOTAL (B) 11,70,84,823 1,03,75,909 9,27,69,368 1,24,77,018 C. Springer royalty transferred to JASP Fund 1,78,07,365 1,12,57,796 D. Surplus/(Deficit) 3,25,43,474 (2,000) 2,23,40,155 (1,250) Place: Bangalore As per our report of even date Date: 16.05.2014 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 2014

(Amount in Rupees) 2013-2014 2012-2013 SOURCES OF FUNDS Corpus/Capital fund 14,72,99,170 14,65,64,104 Earmarked/endowment funds 5,71,33,489 3,81,25,943 Current liabilities and provisions 4,18,27,976 3,07,34,862 TOTAL 24,62,60,635 21,54,24,909 ASSETS/APPLICATION OF FUNDS Fixed assets 7,24,54,366 7,31,19,688 Investments: from earmarked/endowment funds 5,65,63,212 3,81,25,941 Investments: others 6,86,88,303 6,42,11,998 Current assets, loans, advances, etc. 4,85,54,754 3,99,67,282 TOTAL 24,62,60,635 21,54,24,909 Place: Bangalore As per our report of even date Date: 16.05.2014 For G R Venkatanarayana Chartered Accountants

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

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