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PAPERS IN JOURNALS 1 The universe in a soap film Katti, Rohit*; Samuel, Joseph; Sinha, Supurna Classical and Quantum Gravity 2626, 135018, 2009 2 Comment on “Writhe formulas and antipodal points in plectonemic DNA configurations” Samuel, Joseph; Sinha, Supurna; Ghosh, Abhijit* Physical Review E , 063901, 2009 3 Dark energy from quantum wave function collapse of dark matter Majumdar AS*; Home D*; Sinha, Supurna Physics Letters B 679, 167, 2009 4 Stable homology as an indicator of manifoldlikeness in causal set theory Major, Seth*; Rideout, David*; Surya, Sumati Classical and Quantum Gravity 2626, 175008, 2009 5 Quantum covers in quantum measure theory Surya, Sumati; Wallden, Petros

Foundations of Physics DOI: 10.1007/s1007/s10701-010-9419-1 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ http://www.springerlink.com/content/h6115m6667p1u238/ ?p=68fb76def1d54df5a57ac7739c5d3a45&pi=0 6 Spacelike distance from discrete causal order Rideout, David*; Wallden, Petros Classical and Quantum Gravity 2626, 155013, 2009 7 Dynamics and predictions in the co-event interpretation Ghazi-Tabatabai Y*; Wallden, Petros Journal of Physics A 42, 235303, 2009 8 On the resolution of the big bang singularity in isotropic Loop Quantum Cosmology Varadarajan, Madhavan Class.Quant.Grav.2626:085006, 2009 9 Buckling, stiffening, and negative dissipation in the dynamics of a biopolymer in an active medium Kikuchi, Norio*; Ehrlicher, Allen*; Koch, Daniel*; Kas, Josef A*; Ramaswamy, Sriram*; Rao, Madan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106106, 19776, 2009 10 Reply to “Comment on `Elastic constants from microscopic strain fluctuations” Sengupta S*; Nielaba, Peter*; Rao, Madan; Binder K* Physical Review E 8181, 013102, 2010 11 Topological phase in two flavour neutrino oscillations Mehta, Poonam Physical Review D 7979, 096013, 2009 12 An efficient numerical method for computing gravitational waves induced by a particle moving on eccentric inclined orbits around a Kerr black hole Fujita, Ryuichi; Hikida, Wataru*; Tagoshi H* Progress of Theoretical Physics 121121, 843, 2009 13 Analytical solutions of bound timelike geodesic orbits in Kerr spacetime Fujita, Ryuichi; Hikida, Wataru* Classical and Quantum Gravity 2626, 135002, 2009 14 DECIGO pathfinder Ando, Masaki*; Kawamura, Seiji*; Sato, Shuichi*; Fujita, Ryuichi and 40+ co-authors Classical and Quantum Gravity 26, 094019, 2009 7th International LISA Symposium held in 2008 in Barcelona, 2009

89 15 Third post-Newtonian angular momentum 25 Spatio-temporal plasticity in chromatin flux and the secular evolution of orbital organization in mouse cell differentiation and elements for inspiralling compact binaries in during drosophila embryogenesis quasi-elliptical orbits Bhattacharya, Dipanjan; Talwar, Shefali*; Arun KG*; Blanchet, Luc*; Iyer BR; Sinha, Mazumder, Aprotim*; Shivashankar GV+ Siddhartha Biophysical Journal 9696, 3832, 2009 Physical Review D 8080, 124018, 2009 26 Polar switching in the smectic-AdPA phase 16 Comparison of post-Newtonian templates for composed of asymmetric bent-core compact binary inspiral signals in molecules gravitational-wave detectors Guo, Lingfeng*; Dhara, Surajit*; Sadashiva BK; Buonanno, Alessandra*; Iyer BR; Ochsner, Radhika S; Pratibha R; Shimbo, Yoshio*; Evan*; Pan, Yi*; Sathyaprakash BS* Araoka, Fumito*; Ishikawa, Ken*; Takezoe, Physical Review D 8080, 084043, 2009 Hideo* 17 Two mesoscopic models of two interacting Physical Review E 8181, 011703, 2010 electrons : Exact results 27 Novel banana-discotic hybrid architectures Roy, Dibyendu Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Srinivasa HT; Kumar, Physical Review B 8080, 245304, 2009 SandeepBeilstein Journal of Organic 18 LISA as a dark energy probe Chemistry 55, 1, 2009 Arun KG*; Mishra, Chandrakant; Broeck CVD*; 28 A nanophase segregated mesophase Iyer BR ; Satyaprakash BS*; Sinha, Siddhartha morphology in self-organized novel disc-rod Classical and Quantum Gravity 2626, 094021, oligomesogens 2009 Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Raghunathan VA; Kumar, 19 Massive black-hole binary inspirals: results Sandeep from the LISA parameter estimation taskforce Chemical Communications 4545, 7003, 2009 Arun KG*; Babak, Stas*; Berti, Emanuele*; 29 Effect of ceramide on nonraft proteins Cornish, Neil*; Cutler, Curt*; Gair, Jonathan*; Pabst, Georg*; Boulgaropoulos, Beate*; Hughes SA*; Iyer BR; Sinha, Siddhartha; and 8 Gander, Edgar*; Sarangi BR; Raghunathan VA; co-authors Laggner, Peter* Classical and Quantum Gravity 2626, 094027, Journal of Membrane Biology 231231, 125, 2009 2009 30 Effect of surfactants on iridescence 20 Nonequilibrium charge transport in an developed by swollen lamellar phase of C12- interacting open system: two-particle alkenylsuccinic acid resonance and current asymmetry Dastidar, Sudipta G*; Bharath P*; Pal, Antara; Roy, Dibyendu; Soori, Abhiram*; Sen, Raghunathan VA Diptiman*; Dhar, Abhishek Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Physical Review B 8080, 075302, 2009 Research 4848, 8856, 2009 21 Heat conduction in a three dimensional 31 Re-entrant phase behavior of a concentrated anharmonic crystal anionic surfactant system with strongly Saito, Keiji*; Dhar, Abhishek binding counterions Physical Review Letters 104, 040601, 2010 Ghosh, Sajal Kumar; Rathee, Vikram* ; 22 ‘Sequence’ dependent elasticity and local Krishnaswamy, Rema*; Raghunathan VA; stiffness of a random heteropolymer Sood AK* Muhuri S*; Rao, MadanJournal of Statistical Langmuir 2525, 8497, 2009 Mechanics 10.1088, 2010 32 On some liquid crystals made of banana- 23 Heat transport and phonon localization in shaped molecules and their mixtures with mass-disordered harmonic crystals rod-like molecules Chaudhuri, Abhishek; Kundu, Anupum; Roy, Madhusudana NV Dibyendu; Dhar, Abhishek; Lebowitz JL*; Liquid Crystals 3636, 1173, 2009 Spohn, Herbert* 33 Discotic mesogen - DNA complex films at Physical Review B 8181, 064301, 2010 interfaces 24 Classical Langevin dynamics of a charged Suresh KA* ; Nayak, Alpana particle moving on a sphere and Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 512512, diamagnetism: a surprise 57, 2009 Kumar N; Kumar,Vijay K* 34 Atomic force microscope study of glass Europhysics Letters 8686, 17001, 2009 surfaces after etching with HF and alumina polish Dhason A British Society of Scientific Glassblowers Journal 4747, 117, 2009

90 35 Novel benzene-bridged triphenylene-based 45 Laser induced rotation of trapped chiral and discotic dyads achiral nematic droplets Gupta, Satyam Kumar; Raghunathan VA; Mosallaeipour, Marjan*; Hatwalne, Yashodhan; Lakshminarayanan V; Kumar, Sandeep Madhusudhana NV; Ananthamurthy Sharath* Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113113, 12887, Journal of Modern Optics 5757, 5, 395 2010 2009 46 Self-assembled superlattices of gold 36 Electrochemical studies of redox probes in nanoparticles in a discotic liquid crystal self-organized lyotropic liquid crystalline Vijayaraghavan D; Kumar, Sandeep systems Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 508508, Kumar, Suresh P; Lakshminarayanan V 101, 2009 Journal of Chemical Science 121121, 629, 2009 47 Playing with discs 37 Electron transfer redox reactions in the Kumar, Sandeep micellar and liquid crystalline media Liquid Crystals 3636, 607, 2009 Kumar, Suresh P ; Lakshminarayanan V 48 Synthesis and characterization of bent- Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 8989, shaped azobenzene monomers: Guest-host 187, 2009 effects in liquid crystals with azo dyes for 38 Experimental studies of the transient optical image storage devices fluctuation theorem using liquid crystals Lutfor MR*; Hegde G*; Kumar, Sandeep; Datta, Soma; Roy, Arun Tschierske C*; Chigrinov VG* Pramana 7272, 797, 2009 Optical Materials 3232, 176, 2009 39 Hybrid organic/inorganic nanocomposite as a 49 Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of quasi-one-dimensional semiconductor under nonsymmetric liquid crystalline dimers ambient conditions containing azobenzene groups Kumar, Suresh P; Kumar, Sandeep; Rahman MLR*; Asik, Jahimin*; Kumar, Lakshminarayanan V Sandeep; Silong, Sidik*; Rahman MZA* Journal of Applied Physics 106106, 093701, Phase Transitions 8282, 228, 2009 2009 50 Hierarchical discs 40 Electro-oxidation of formic acid, methanol, Kumar, SandeepLiquid Crystals Today 1818, 2, and ethanol on electrodeposited Pd- 2009 polyaniline nanofiber films in acidic and 51 Synthesis and photoswitching properties of alkaline medium bent-shaped liquid crystals containing Pandey, Rakesh K; Lakshminarayanan V azobenzene monomers Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113113, 21596, Rahman, Lutfor*; Kumar, Sandeep; 2009 Tschierske, Carsten*; Israel, Gunter*; Ster, 41 Discotic nematic liquid crystals: science and Diana*; Hegde, Gurumurthy* technology Liquid Crystals 3636, 397, 2009 Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Kumar, Sandeep 52 Stress relaxation in aging soft colloidal glasses Chemical Society Reviews 3939, 264, 2010 Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini; Mohan, Harsha P; 42 Kinetics of trans - cis isomerization in Joshi, Yogesh M* azobenzene dimers at an air-water interface Soft Matter, DOI : 10.1039/ < B916342E > Kumar, Bharat; Suresh KA* 53 Discrete cosine transform for driving liquid Physical Review E 8080, 021601, 2009 crystal displays 43 Micro-structural, electrical and spectroscopic Ruckmongathan TN investigations of pulsed laser ablated Journal of Display Technology 55, 243, 2009 palladium incorporated nanostructured 54 Methods to reduce power dissipation and tungsten oxide films supply voltage of LCD drivers Lethy KJ* ; Beena D*; Pillai, VP Mahadevan*; Thirunarayanan, Raghavasimhan*; Suresh KA* Ruckmongathan TN Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Journal of the SID 1717, 897, 2009 99, 5335, 2009 55 Colloidal gold nanosphere dispersions in 44 Electrochemically grown mesoporous gold smectic liquid crystals and thin nanoparticle- film as high surface area material for electro- decorated smectic films oxidation of alcohol in alkaline medium Pratibha R; Park W*; Smalyukh I I* Nagaraju DH; Lakshminarayanan V Journal of Applied Physics 107107, 063511, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113113, 14922, 2010 2009

91 56 Orientational order in liquid crystals exhibited 66 Optical limiting properties of hydrophobic by some binary mixtures of rod-like and poly(etherimide) membranes embedded with bent-core molecules isolated and aggregated gold nanostructures Kundu, Brindaban; Pratibha R; Madhusudana D’Britto V*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Philip, Reji; NV Prasad BLV* European Physical Journal E 3131, 145, 2010 Colloids and Surfaces A 352352, 79, 2009 57 Tunable optical metamaterial based on liquid 67 Non-linear optical properties of crystal-gold nanosphere composite (Pb1ÀÛÜxSrx)TiO3 thin films Pratibha R; Park K*; Smalyukh I I*; Park W* Ambika D*; Kumar V*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Optics Express 1717, 19459, 2009 Philip, Reji 58 Flexoelectric studies on mixtures of Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 9797, 661, compounds made of rodlike and bent-core 2009 molecules 68 Optical characterization of a new donor- Kundu, Brindaban; Roy, Arun; Pratibha R; acceptor type conjugated polymer derived Madhusudana NV from 3,4-diphenylthiophene Applied Physics Letters 9595, 081902, 2009 Manjunatha MG*; Adhikari AV*; Hegde PK*; 59 Coarsening through directed droplet Sandeep Suchand CS; Philip, Reji coalescence in uid-uid phase separation Journal of Materials Science 4444, 6069, 2009 Thakur, Snigdha*; Pullarkat, Pramod A; Sunil, 69 Optical and nonlinear absorption properties Kumar PB* of Na doped ZnO nanoparticle dispersions Physical Review E 8080, 011708, 2009 Karthikeyan B*; Suchand Sandeep CS; 60 Drag force as a tool to test the active Pandiyarajan T*; Venkatesan P*; Philip, Reji mechanical response of PC12 neurites Applied Physics Letters 9595, 023118, 2009 Bernal, Roberto*; Melo, Francisco*; Pullarkat, 70 Synthesis of high coercivity cobalt-in-carbon Pramod A nanotube hybrid structures and their optical Biophysical Journal 9898, 515, 2010 limiting properties 61 Design and synthesis of novel calamitic and Narayanan TN*; Suchand Sandeep CS; discotic materials based on the Shaijumon MM*; Ajayan PM*; Philip, Reji; photorefractive carbazole unit Anantharaman MR* Manickam, M* ; Iqbal, P* ; Spencer, N*; Nanotechnology 2020, 285702, 2009 Ashton, PR* ; Kumar, Sandeep; Donovan KJ* ; 71 On the chromo-electric permittivity and Preece JA* Debye screening in hot QCD Molecular Crystals & Liquid Crystals 518518, 84, Chandra V*; Ranjan A*; Ravishankar V 2010 European Physical Journal A 4040, 109, 2009 62 Carbon nanotubes in discotic liquid crystals 72 Quasi-particle model for lattice QCD: quark- Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Kumar, Sandeep gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 8989, Chandra, Vinod*; Ravishankar V+ 101, 2009 European Physical Journal C 6464, 63, 2009 63 Optical limiting properties of Te and Ag2Te 73 Dynamics of entanglement in two-qubit nanowires open system interacting with a squeezed Sandeep, Suchand CS ; Samal AK* ; Pradeep thermal bath via dissipative interaction T* ; Philip, Reji Banerjee, Subhashish; Ravishankar V+ ; Chemical Physics Letters 485485, 326, 2010 Srikanth R 64 Two-photon absorption and optical limiting Annals of Physics 325325, 816, 2010 in tristhiourea cadmium sulphate 74 Entanglement dynamics in two-qubit open Dhanuskodi S*; Girisun, Sabari TC*; Smijesh, system interacting with a squeezed thermal N; Philip, Reji bath via quantum nondemolition interaction Chemical Physics Letters 486486, 80, 2010 Banerjee, Subhashish; Ravishankar V+; 65 Study of optical properties and effective Srikanth R three-photon absorption in Bi-doped ZnO European Physical Journal D 5656, 277, 2010 nanoparticles 75 Complementarity in atomic (finite-level Karthikeyan B*; Suchand Sandeep CS; Philip, quantum) systems: an information-theoretic Reji; Baesso ML* approach Journal of Applied Physics 106106, 114304, Srikanth R*; Banerjee S 2009 European Physical Journal D 5353, 217, 2009

92 76 Synthesis and nonlinear optical 85 Size dependent optical nonlinearity of Au characterization of new polyf2,20-(3,4- nanocrystals didodecyloxythiophene-2,5-diyl)bis[5-(2- Jayaraj, Madambi*; Sreeja R*; Aneesh PM*; thienyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole]g Aravind, Arun*; Reshmi R*; Philip, Reji Hegde PK*; Adhikari AV*; Manjunatha MG*; Journal of the Electrochemical Society 156156, Suchand, Sandeep CS; Philip, Reji K167-K172, 2009 Synthetic Metals 159159, 1099, 2009 86 Higher order nonlinearities in a non-Doppler 77 Theoretical investigations of quantum walks free geometry by cold atoms in a double optical lattice Narayanan, Andal; Sharma, Archana; Preethi Satapathy, Nandan; Hagman, Henning*; TM ; Abheera, H*; Ramachandran, Hema Zelan, Martin*; Kastberg, Anders*; Canadian Journal of Physics 8787, 843, 2009 Ramachandran, Hema 87 Shear dynamo problem: quasilinear kinematic Physical Review A 8080, 012302, 2009 theory 78 Monte Carlo calculations of spectral features Sridhar S; Subramanian, Kandaswamy* in random lasing Physical Review E 7979, 045305, 2009 Mujumdar, Sushil*; Torre, Renato*; 88 Slow pressure modes in thin accretion discs Ramachandran, Hema; Wiersma, Diederik S* Saini TD*; Gulati Mamta; Sridhar S Journal of Nanophotonics 44, 041550, 2010 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 79 Bright visible emission from carbon Society 400, 2090, 2009 nanotubes spatially constrained on a micro- 89 Nonperturbative quasilinear approach to the bubble shear dynamo problem Ramanandan G*; Dharmadhikari AK*; Sridhar S; Subramanian, Kandaswamy* Dharmadhikari JA* ; Ramachandran, Hema; Physical Review E 8080, 066315, 2009 Mathu D* Optics Express 1717, 9614, 2009 90 Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in a strongly magnetised plasma 80 Theoretical investigations of quantum walks Sridhar S by cold atoms in a double optical lattice Astronomische Nachrichten 331331, 93, 2010 Satapathy, Nandan; Hagman, Henning*; Zelan, Martin*; Kastberg, Anders*; 91 Diffuse radio emission in Abell 754 Ramachandran, Hema Kale, Ruta; Dwarakanath KS Physical Review A 8080, 012302, 2009 Astrophysical Journal 699699, 1883, 2009 81 Three-dimensional lattice of ion traps 92 GMRT detection of a new Wide-Angle Tail Ravi K; Lee, Seunghyun; Sharma, Arijit; Ray, (WAT) radio source associated with the galaxy Tridib; Werth G*; Rangwala, Sadiq PGC 1519010 Physical Review A 8181, 031401, 2010 Kantharia NG*; Das, Mousumi*; Gopal- Krishna* 82 Recombination emissions and spectral Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 3030, blueshift of pump radiation from ultrafast 37, 2009 laser induced plasma in a planar water microjet 93 The Murchison widefield arrary: design Anija M; Philip, Reji overview Optics Communications 282282, 3770, 2009 Lonsdale CJ*; Deshpande AA; Gopalakrishna MR; Kamini PA; Kumar, Deepak*; Madhavi S; 83 Design and fabrication of PIC based Prabu T; Roshi, Anish D; Shankar, Udaya N; temperature controller for precision heating Srivani KS and 33 co-authors of materials Proceedings of the IEEE 97, 1497, 2009 Nadeer, Muhammad TM*; Belavadi, Prakash*; Philip, Reji 94 Development of THz waveguide NbTiN HEB International Journal of Computer mixers Intelligence Research and Applications 33, 175, Jiang, Ling*; Shiba S*; Shimbo, Ken*; Sakai, 2009 Nami*; Yamakura, Tetsuya*; Sugimura, Mika*; Ananthasubramanian PG; Maezawa H* ; 84 Enhanced optical nonlinearity of polyaniline - Irimajiri Y*; Yamamoto S* porphyrin nanocomposite IEEE Transactions on Applied Pandey, Rakesh K; Suchand, Sandeep CS; Superconductivity 1919, 301, 2009 Philip, Reji; Lakshminarayanan V Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113, 8630, 2009

93 95 Relics of double radio sources 107 Activity dependence of solar supergranular Dwarakanath KS; Kale, Ruta fractal dimension Astrophysical Journal 698698, L163, 2009 Paniveni U*; Krishnan V+; Singh, Jagdev*; 96 HI content and star formation in the Srikanth R interacting galaxy Arp86 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Sengupta, Chandreyee; Dwarakanath KS; Society 402402, 424, 2009 Saikia DJ* 108 Description of accretion induced outflows Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical from ultra-luminous sources to under- Society 397397, 548, 2009 luminous AGNs 97 Starburst-driven galactic outflows Ghosh, Shubhrangshu*; Mukhopadhyay, Nath, Biman B; Silk, Joseph* Banibrata*; Krishan, Vinod+; Khan, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Manoranjan* Society 396396, L90, 2009 New Astronomy 1414, 83, 2010 98 The biggest explosions in the universe 109 Alfven-like mode in partially ionized solar Nath, Biman B atmosphere Resonance 1414, 985, 2009 Singh KAP *; Krishan, Vinod+ New Astronomy 1515, 119, 2010 99 Spectral and temporal changes associated with flux enhancement in 4U 1626-67 110 Reciprocity constraints on the matrix of Jain, Chetana*; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan* reflection from optically anisotropic surfaces Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Bhandari, R Society 403403, 920, 2010 Journal of the Optical Society of America A 2626, 2368, 2009 100 An X-ray bright nucleus in the low-surface- brightness galaxy UGC 6614 111 Primordial magnetic fields and the HI signal Naik, Sachindra*; Das M* ; Jain, Chetana*; from the epoch of reionization Paul, Biswajit Sethi SK; Subramanian, Kandaswamy* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Society 404404, 2056, 2010 Physics, 1111, 021 , 2009 101 Orbital X-ray modulation study of three 112 Estimation of cosmological prameters from supergiant HMXBs neutral hydrogen observations of the post- Jain, Chetana*; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan* reionization epoch Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 9, Bharadwaj, Somnath*; Sethi SK; Saini TD* 1303, 2009 Physical Review D 7979, 083538, 2009 102 Effect of pulse profile variations on 113 The genesis of morphologies in extended measurement of eccentricity in orbits of Cen radio sources: x-shapes, off-axis distortions, X-3 and SMC X-1 and giant radio sources Raichur, Harsha; Paul, Biswajit Saripalli, Lakshmi; Subrahmanyan, Ravi Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Astrophysical Journal 695695, 156, 2009 Society 401401, 1532, 2009 114 ATLBS: the Australia telescope low-brightness 103 A torque reversal to spin-up in 4U 1626-67 survey Jain, Chetana*; Paul, Biswajit Subrahmanyan, Ravi; Ekers RD*; Saripalli, Astronomer’s Telegram No.2095, 2009 Lakshmi; Sadler EM* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 104 Discovery of a short orbital period in the Society 402402, 2792, 2010 supergiant fast X-ray transient IGRJ16479- 4514 115 The Australia telescope 20 GHz survey: the Jain, Chetana*; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan* source catalogue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Murphy, Tara*; Sadler E M*; Ekers RD*; Society 397397, L11, 2009 Massardi, Marcella*; Hancock, J. Paul*; Mahony, Elizabeth*; Ricci, Roberto*; Burke- 105 Kolmogorov dissipation scales in weakly Spolaor, Sarah*; Calabretta, Mark*; ionized plasmas Subrahmanyan, Ravi Krishan V+ ; Yoshida Z* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 402, 2403, 2010 Society 395395, 2039, 2009 116 Near-infrared/optical identification of five 106 Sweet-Parker current slab in a partially ionized low-luminosity X-ray pulsators plasma Kaur, Ramanpreet*; Wijnands R*; Paul, Krishan V+ Biswajit; Patruno A*; Degenaar N* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 400400, 2200, 2009 Society 402402, 2388, 2010

94 BOOKS 6 Hard X-ray polarimeter for small satellite missions 1. Eyes on the sky: The story of telescopes Cowsik R; Paul B; Duraichelvan R; Rishin PV Nath, Biman B The coming of age of X-ray Polarimetry, Vigyan Prasar, 2010 Rome, Italy, April 27-30, 2009 X-ray 2. Nothing is blue Polarimetry - A New Window in Astrophysics Nath, Biman B Eds. R. Bellazzini et al, Cambridge University Harper Collins Publishers India, 2009 Press 7 Nature of meterwave luminous objects and search for electron-cyclotron maser emission POPULAR ARTICLES Deguchi S*; Koike K*; Ramesh B 1. Cosmic Shadow Play ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- Nath, Biman Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia The Hindu 2009 DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p260, 2. Fun with Grains 2009 Sinha, Supurna 8 Origin of Disk Lopsidedness in Spiral Galaxies Jantar Mantar 10(1), 23, 2010 Angiras, RA; Jog CJ*; Dwarakanath KS; Omar A*; Verheijen, MAW* The Low-Frequency Radio Universe ASP IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Conference Series, Vol. 407, Eds Saikia DJ, 1 Ultrafast light transmission behavior of Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, San surface plasmon excited Maxwell - garnet Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, typeAg nanocomposite polymer p79. Karthikeyan B*; Suchand Sandeep CS; Philip, 9 GMRT HI observations of M51-like systems : Reji Arp 086 and Arp 072 Proceedings of the SPIE Vol. 7394: Sengupta, Chandreyee*; Dwarakanath KS; Plasmonics: Metallic nanostructures and their Saikia DJ* optical properties 7. Ed. Mark I. Stockman, ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- p739426, 2009 Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia 2 Optical and nonlinear optical properties of DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p110, cobalt doped ZnO nanostructures 2009 Karthikeyan B*; Suchand Sandeep CS; Philip, 10 Steep-spectrum sources from the VLA 74 Reji MHz survey Proceedings of the SPIE Vol.7393: Dwarakanath KS; Kale, Ruta Nanophotonic Materials No. 6. Eds. Stefano ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- Cabriniand Taleb Mokari, p739303, 2009 Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia 3 An Optical Limiter Based on Ferrofluids DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p162, Nair, Swapna S*; Thomas, Jinto*; Sandeep, 2009 Suchand CS; Anantharaman MR* and Philip, 11 Diffuse radio emission in the galaxy cluster Reji Abell 754 ICMAT & IUMRS-ICA, July 2009, Singapore Kale, Ruta; Dwarakanath KS 4 Broadband light emission from optically- ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- trapped carbon nanotubes Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia Ramachandran, Hema; Dharmadhikari AK*; DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p237, Dharmadhikari JA*; Mathur D* 2009 Journal of Physics: Conference Series 194 12 A 50 MHz system for GMRT (2009) 012054 Shankar, Udaya N; Dwarakanath KS; Amiri S; 5 Development of a Thomson X-ray Polarimeter Somashekar R ; Girish BS; Laus, Wences; Rishin PV; Paul B; Duraichelvan R; James, Nayak, Arvind Marykutty*; Devasia, Jincy* ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- The coming of age of X-ray Polarimetry, Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia Rome, Italy, April 27-30, 2009 X-ray DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p393, Polarimetry- A New Window in Astrophysics 2009 Eds. R. Bellazzini et al 13 Radio galaxies as probes of the large-scale external medium Saripalli, Lakshmi ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia DJ, Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p131, 2009

95 14 Scattered OH Maser sources in the direction 22 A method to achieve uniform gray scale to of W49N gray scale response times in LCDs Mendoza-Torres, Jose E*; Goss,WM*; Streb S*; Ruckmongathan TN Deshpande AA; Ramachandran R* SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, to 2009, Vol. 40, p1584 40, 1584, 2009 Stars and GalaxiesIAU Symposium 23 Topological phase in two flavour neutrino Proceedings Vol. 259, p95 Cambridge oscillations University Press, 2009 Mehta, Poonam 15 Software Data-Processing Pipeline for Proc. of XXIV International Symposium on Transient Detection Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies Chennamangalam J; Maan Y; Deshpande AA (Lepton Photon 09) The Low-Frequency Radio Universe ASP 24 Post-Newtonian gravitational wave Conference Series, Vol. 407Eds. Saikia DJ et polarisations and spherical harmonic compo- al. p442 Astronomical Society of the Pacific, nents for a particle in circular orbit around a 2009 Schwarzschild black hole 16 GMRT observations of H.E.S.S. sources Fujita, Ryuichi and Iyer, Bala Osborne JL*; Pandey-Pommier M*; Shankar, Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Udaya N General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- Vol. 19. Eds. Saijo M et al. p137. Mar. 2010 Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia 25 Introduction on bosonic fields into causal set DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p349, theory 2009 Sverdlov, Roman; Bombelli, Luca 17 GMRT observations of Jupiter’s synchrotron Proceedings of the Workshop on Continuum radio emission at 610 MHz and Lattice Approaches to Quantum Gravity, Bhardwaj A*; Ishwara-Chandra CH*; Shankar , 17-19 September 2008 Udaya N; Misawa H*; Imai K*; Miyoshi Y*; www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Workshops/08/CLAQG Tsuchiya F*; Kondo T*; Morioka A* 26 Women in Physics in India – 2008 ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- Chandra, Nutan*; Godbole RM*; Gupte, Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia Neelima*; Jolly, Pratibha* ; Mehta, Anita*; DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p369, Narasimhan S*; Rao, Sumathi*; Sharma, 2009 Vinita*; Surya, Sumati 18 Homography-based correction of positional AIP Conference Proceedings Vol.1119: errors in MRT survey Women in physics: The 3rd IUPAP Interna- Nayak Arvind ; Daiboo S ; Shankar, Udaya N tional Conference on Women in Physics. Ed. ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- B K Hartline et al. p120, American Institute of Frequency radio universe Eds by Saikia Physics, 2009 DJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p426, 27 Communication and collaborative research 2009 pattern of Eugene Garfield: a scientometric 19 Dynamic range improvement of GMRT low portrait. frequency images Sangam SL and Savanur, Kiran Prasad, Peeyush ; Subrahmanya C R 5th International Conference on ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- Webometrics, Informetrics and Frequency radio universe Eds by D. J. Saikia,D. Scientometrics & 10th COLLNET Meeting, A. Green, Y. Gupta, and T. Venturi, p398, 2009 September 13-16, 2009, Dalian, China. 20 12 GHz Radio-holographic surface 28 Status of India in Astronomy and Astrophysics measurement of the RRI 10.4m telescope as reflected in its publications output in SCI: Ramesh B; Venkatesh S; Raju, Sharath B a scientometric study ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low- Ganjihal, Keshava G and Savanur, Kiran Frequency radio universe Eds by D. J. Saikia,D. National seminar on Webometrics, A. Green, Y. Gupta, and T. Venturi, p434, 2009 Informetrics and scientometrics (WIS), held at 21 Formation of Porphyrin and/Polyaniline Dharwad, on December 21-22 2009 nanostructured thin film by layer by layer 29 CITESPACE II a visual analysis of the formation assembly and application in ppb level lead and development of the Journal Impact sensing. Factor Pandey RK; Avinash BS; Lakshminarayanan V Savanur, Kiran and Sangam SL Conference Proceedings, Sensors-15, 15th National seminar on Webometrics, national seminar on physics and technology Informetrics and scientometrics (WIS), held at of sensors NSPTS-15 C-23-1 Dharwad, on December 21-22 2009.

96 IN PRESS 10 Apsidal motion in 4U 0115+63 and orbital parameters of 2S 1417-624 and V 0332+53 Raichur H; Paul B IN JOURNALS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 1 AIGO: a southern hemisphere detector for the worldwide array of ground-based 11 Nonlinear Optical Studies on New Conjugated interferometric gravitational wave detectors Poly{2,2'-(3,4-dialkoxythiophene-2,5- Barriga P*; Iyer BR et al (44 Authors including diyl)bis[5-(2-thienyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole]}s Iyer BR) Hegde, Pramod Kumar*; Adhikari A Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 084005, 2010 Vasudeva*; Manjunatha MG*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Philip, Reji 2 Occurrence of a transition between two polar Journal of Applied Polymer Science -Online- orthogonal smectic phases in a new April 2010, DOI: 10.1007/s10965-009-9336-1 homologous series of novel bent-core compounds 12 Mixing Does the Magic: A Rapid Synthesis of Radhika S; Sadashiva BK; Pratibha R High Surface Area Noble Metal Nanosponges Liquid Crystals, Vol. 37, No. 4, 417-425, 2010 showing Broadband Nonlinear Optical Response 3 A generic, green route to synthesize high Krishna, Katla Sai*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; surface area noble metal nanosponges Philip, Reji; Eswaramoorthy, Muthusamy* showing broadband nonlinear optical ACS Nano response Sai Krishna K*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Philip, 13 Optical nonlinearity in NiFe2O4 nanoparticles Reji and Eswaramoorthy M* Sridharan K; Agarwal M; Philip J; Endo T; ACS Nano, Vol.4, No.5, 2681-2688, 2010 Philip, Reji Transactions of the Materials Research Society 4 Bandwidth in Bolometric Interferometry of Japan Charlassier R*; Bunn EF*; J-Ch. Hamilton*; Kaplan J*; Malu, S 14 Synthesis, Characterization N, N’-bis(2- Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.514, A37, hydroxynaphthalidene)phenylene-1,2- 2010 diamine) of M (M= Ni(II), Zn(II) and Fe (II)) Schiff-Base Complexes and Non-linear optical 5 Slow m = 1 instabilities of softened gravity studies by Z scan technique Keplerian discs Kumar, Sampath HC*; Rudresha BJ*; Ravindra Sridhar S; Saini TD* R*; Philip, Reji Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Chemical Physics Letters Society 404, 527, 2010 15 Novel poly(3,4-dialkoxythiophene)s carrying 6 Transverse laser cooling of a thermal atomic 1,3,4-oxadiazolyl biphenyl moiety: Synthesis beam of dysprosium and NLO studies Leefer N*; Cingöz A*; Gerber-Siff B*; Sharma, Adhikari AC*; Hegde PK*; Manjunatha MG*; Arijit; Torgerson JR* and Budker D* Sandeep, Suchand CS; Philip, Reji Phys. Rev. A 8181, 043427 2010 Polymer International 7 Photonic Crystals: An amazing material for 16 Effect of Cadmium oxide incorporation on ultrafast technology the microstructural and optical properties of Ghoshal SK*; Tilahun,Wondwosen*; Mohan, pulsed laser deposited nanostructured ZnO Devendra* and Sharma, Sunita thin films International Journal of Modern Physics B Vinodkumar R*; Lethy KJ*; Arunkumar PR*; 8 Comparative study of different scattering Krishnan, Renju R*; Pillai, Venugopalan N*; geometries for the proposed Indian X-ray Pillai, Mahadevan VP*; Philip, Reji polarization measurement experiment using Materials Chemistry and Physics Geant4 17 Possible use of self-calibration to reduce Vadawale SV*; Paul B; Pendharkar J*; Naik S* systematic uncertainties in determining Nuclear Instrument and Methods in Physics distance-redshift relation via gravitational Research, A radiation from merging binaries 9 Discovery of a 0.02 Hz QPO feature in the Saini, Tarun+; Sethi, Shiv; Sahni, Varun* Transient X-ray Pulsar KS 1947+300 Phys. Rev. D. 2010 James M*; Paul B; Devasia J*; Indulekha K* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

97 18 Synthesis, characterization and nonlinear 5 Five years of the RRI Digital repository: Some optical properties of 2-[(E)-2-(4- lessons and reflections ethoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-1-methylquinolinium Srinivasan, Girija; Patil YM; Manjunath M;. 4-substitutedbenzenesulfonate compounds Savanur, Kiran; Nagaraj MN; Benegal, Vrinda J Ruanwas P*; Kobkeatthawin T*; and Sheshadri, Geetha Chandrapromma S;.Fun H; Philip, Reji; Proceedings of the LISA VI Conference, 21st Smijesh N; Padaki M*; Isloor, Arun M* Century Astronomy Librarianship: From New Synthetic Metals 160, 819 (2010) Ideas to Action. ASP Conference Series Eds. 19 Synthesis and characterization of a new NLO E. Isaksson et al. active donor-acceptor type conjugated polymer derived from 3,4-diphenylthiophene BOOKS (IN PRESS) Manjunatha M G*; Adhikari AV*, Hegde, Pramod Kumar*, Suchand, Sandeep CS and 1. Chemistry of discotic liquid crystals: from Philip, Reji monomers to polymers Journal of Polymer Research, DOI: 10.1007/ Kumar, Sandeep s10965-009-9336-1 CRC, Press LLC http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10965-009- 2. Directions in causal set quantum gravity 9336-1 Surya, Sumati 20 Modified collaborative coefficient: a new Recent Research in Quantum Gravity measure for quantifying the degree of researchcollaboration POPULAR ARTICLES (IN PRESS) Savanur, Kiran; Srikanth R Scientometrics, 84, 365, 2010 1. Mirrors and merry-go-rounds Samuel, Joseph 21 Carbon Ionization States and the Cosmic Far- Resonance UV Background with HeII Absorption’ by E. Vasiliev*, Sethi, Shive and Nath, Biman B Astrophysical Journal

IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1 Quasi-degenerate neutrinos and maximal * denotes co-authors who do not belong to RRI mixing + denotes Visitng Professors of RRI Chakrabortty J; Joshipura AS; Mehta P and Vempati SK Proc. of XXIV International Symposium on Lepton PhotonInteractions at High Energies (Lepton Photon 09) 2 Study of third order nonlinear properties of Rhodamine6G in silica matrices Sunita, Sharma; Devendra, Mohan; Vandana, Nasa; Ghoshal SK International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technology 3 Nonlinear properties and optical limiting performance of SulforhodamineB doped silica and polymeric matrices Sharma, Sunita; Devendra, Mohan; Ghoshal SK; Gupta, Umesh International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technology 4 Open access to Physics and Astronomy Theses: A case study of the RRI Digital Repository Mulukunte, Nagaraj N; Manjunath M; Savanur, Kiran and Geetha S Proceedings of the LISA VI Conference, 21st Century Astronomy Librarianship: From New Ideas to Action. ASP Conference Series Eds. E. Isaksson et al.

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Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

Abhishek Dhar Conference on Frontiers and Directions in Heat conduction and phonon Condensed Matter Physics localization in disordered harmonic Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore crystals (Invited) 25 – 29 May 2009

International Conference on Interaction, Heat conduction and phonon Instability, Transport and Kinetics: Glassiness and localization in disordered harmonic Jamming crystals (Invited) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 4 – 8 February 2010

Rutgers University, USA Phononic heat conduction in 15 August – 15 October 2009 disordered harmonic crystals

School on Statistical Physics Transport theory (6 lectures) Raman Research Institute ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 22 March – 3 April 2010

Alok Laddha Loops 2009 Polymer parametrizised field theory Beijing, China 3 – 8 August 2009 Loop Quantum Gravity (6 lectures) Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 7 – 17 September 2009 Shape Instabilities in axons Anagha Datar Conference on Molecular Motors: Transport and Tracking National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Held at Pondicherry 23 – 28 January 2010 Generating atom photon quantum Andal Narayanan International Conference on Cold Ions and correlations using optical and Atoms, Sankarpur microwave fields (Invited) 18 – 21 January 2010 Atom photon quantum correlations Advanced Research TPSC Workshop (Invited) Pune University 17 February 2010 Interacting dark state dynamics National Workshop on Quantum Entanglement Pondicherry University 17 – 19 February 2010

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune 16 February 2010

Anirban Polley School and Conference on Multiscale Modeling and Simulations of Hard and Soft Materials Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Bangalore 7 – 20 December 2009

99 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk ICTS Satellite Meeting on Breaking Barrier from Demonstrating significant interbilayer Physics to Biology coupling between long chain and PIP2 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore using MD simulations 4 – 8 January 2010

School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Anjan Roy School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Archana Sharma International Program on Quantum Information An information theoretic study of a 2010 four level atomic system in squeezing Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar 4 January 2010

Arijit Sharma International School on Cold Ions and Atoms, 1. A three dimensional lattice of ion Kolkata International Center for Theoretical traps Sciences and Indian Association for Cultivation of Science 2. A hybrid ion-atom trap Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture 6 – 15 January 2010

University of California, USA Transverse laser cooling of dysprosium 5 October – 23 December 2009 atoms

Arnab Pal School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

School on Multiscale Modelling and Simulation Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 7 – 20 December 2009

Avinash Deshpande MWA Bangalore Meeting Considerations of light-curve studies Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 7 - 10 December 2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 1 – 2 September 2009

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico RRI-GBT multi-band receiver: inspired 3-8 September 2009 by puslars, tomography and transients

Conference Astro 2009 Radio pulsars-fascinating life stories of Seethalakshmi College for Women Trichy cosmic lighthouses 24-25 September 2009

Bala Iyer Teacher’s Training programme Special Relativity Jain College, Bangalore 19 August 2009

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore The Search for Gravitational Waves: 16 October 2009 Current Status and Future Prospects

MES College, Bangalore Seminar on Einstein’s Insight: It is all 5 March 2010 about Time

100 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Conference on Indian Experimental Gravitational Wave effort: Scope and feasibility Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune 10 – 11 August 2009

Conference on First Galileo-Xu Guangqi Meeting, Gravitational Waveforms for Binary ICRANet - International Center for Relativistic Black Holes (Invited) Astrophysics Network, China 26 – 30 October, 2009

Conference on Science without Boundaries International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore 28 - 31 December 2009

SERC Winter School on Nuclear Astrophysics and 1. Gravitational Waves: A new window Neutrino Astrophysics to the universe (Invited) Calicut University, Calicut 2 – 3 February 2010 2. From Einstein’s quadrupole formula to GW phasing (Invited)

Conference on Australian International A Comparison of PN templates for Gravitational Observatory: Project Plan and inspiralling compact binaries (Invited) benefits, Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy, Australia 22 – 24 February 2010

Conference on Experimental General Relativity, University of Western Australia, Australia 28 February - 2 March 2010

Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore 24 August 2009

ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore 2 September 2009

Calicut University Kozikode From Principle of Equivalence to 2 - 3 February 2010 Nature of Gravitation: Albert Einstein’s Inspiration (4 lectures) Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics , Pune 8 February 2010

Gingin Gravity Centre , Australia 23 – 24 February 2010 28 February – 1 March 1 2010

Hind High Vacuum, Bangalore 15 February 2010

Biman Nath Summer School 4 lectures Indian Institute of Astrophysics Kodaikanal 11 - 13 June 2009

101 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Workshop on Astronomy Basic Cosmology Christ Junior College, Bangalore 11 September 2009

Bangalore University, Bangalore The first stars in the universe (Invited) 27 November 2009

Biswajit Paul Conference on The Coming of Age of X-ray A Thomson X-ray polarimeter Polarimetry Instituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Rome 27 – 30 April 2009

7th Integral Workshop on “The Extreme Sky: “ASTROSAT: prospects for a hard X-ray Sampling the Universe above 10keV”, survey”(Invited) Instituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Rome13 – 17 October 2009

COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop on Data Indian Astronomical Facilities Analysis from the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 8 – 19 February 2010

Workshop on “Observational Astronomy - 1. Timing compact X-ray sources Research Facilities and Opportunities in India” Indian Statistical Institute 2. X-ray astronomical techniques: 17-24 August 2009 spectroscopy and polarimetry

3. X-ray astronomy missions and opportunities

Introductory Workshop on X-ray Astronomy 1. X-ray astronomical data sources and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & archives Astrophysics, Pune 29 June - 03 July, 2009 2. ASTROSAT-LAXPC instrument and software requirements

Irfu/Service of Astrophysique, France 22 – 23 March 2010

Chaitra S Hegde Complex Systems School Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 5 – 29 January 2010

RRI School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Chandreyee Maitra XXI Canary Islands Winter School Of Astrophysics on Accretion processes in Astrophysics Instituto D Astrofisica D Canaris, Spain 2 – 13 November 2009

11th COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop on the data analysis of the fermi gamma ray space telescope Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 8 – 19 February 2010

102 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk N. Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Poland Gamma Ray binaries 15 November – 4 December 2009

Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian Indian X-ray Polarimeter Observatory, Poland 27 November 2009

Debasish Saha School on Glass Formers and Glasses Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Bangalore 4 – 20 January 2010

Deepak Pandey International Conference on Cold Ions and Atoms Quantum walk of light in frequency 2010 space using cascaded Michelson Sankarpur interferometers 18 – 21 January 2010

Geetha S National Workshop on Content Management Karnataka Library Association and NCSI Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 27 June 2009

Girish B S MWA Bangalore Meeting Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 7 - 11 December 2009

Hari Krishna Bisoyi 16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Molecular engineering of room University of Lucknow temperature electron deficient discotic 26 – 28 October 2009 liquid crystals

Hema Ramachandran University of Colorado, Boulder Can a quantum walk by ultracold atoms 27 – 31 July 2009 be detected?

University of Pisa, Italy Quantum walk by ultracold atoms in a 26 – 27 October 2009 double optical lattice

Manipal University, Manipal Photons, photonics and quantum logic 20 March 2010

XXVI International Conference on Photonic, Broadband light emission from Electronic and Atomic Collisions optically-trapped carbon nanotubes University of Michigan, USA 22 – 28 July 2009

Laboratoire Amie Cotton, Paris Can a quantum walk by ultracold atoms 1 – 30 October 2009 be detected?

Jacob Rajan Advanced Training Programming on Cyber Laws, Information Security and Software Quality Assurance Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi 6 – 10 July 2009

Jagdish C Joshi International School on Cold Ions and Atoms, Kolkata International Center for Theoretical Sciences and Indian Association for Cultivation of Science Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture 1 – 10 January 2010

103 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

Jaya Kumar A Conference on Science without Boundaries Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 28 – 31 December 2009

RRI School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Joseph Samuel University of Cambridge Surface Tension and the Cosmological 2 - 3 June 2009 Constant

Classical and Quantum Gravity Editorial Board Surface Tension and the Cosmological Meeting Constant Institute of Physics, United Kingdom 4 - 5 June 2009

Oxford University, United Kingdom Surface Tension and the Cosmological 6 - 8 June 2009 Constant

Institute for Theoretical Physics The universe in a soap film The Netherlands 10 June 2009

Akshara School, Bangalore Experiments with froth and light 12 march 2010

Poorna Prajna Institute, Bangalore Reflections on Rotations 10 June – 10 July 2009

Jyothi S International School on Cold Atoms and Ions 2010-05-20 International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore 6 – 16 January 2010

Kanhiaya Lal Pandey Conference on Cosmological Reionization Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad 16 – 20 February 2010

Kiran Savanur Fifth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Tenth Collnet Meeting Dalian University of Technology, China 13 – 16 September 2009

Lakshmi Saripalli International Astronomical Union, Brazil Dust characteristics of radio galaxy l3 – 14 August 2009 hosts

University of Western Australia, Australia Active Galactic Nuclei (3 lectures) 15 – 29 May 2009

Lakshminarayanan V Workshop-cum-lecture programme on Electrochemistry for the study of Biocatalysis for Industry, Medicine and biological processes Environment Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam 13 August 2009

104 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

Indo-Japan workshop on Biomolecular Electronics High surface area gold nanoparticle and Organic Nanotechnology film for electro catalysis National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi 17 December 2009

Seminar on the Future of Diagnostic Devices for Electrochemical platforms and sensors Infectious Diseases - the Power of Plastic for microfluidics Microfluidics Anna University, Chennai 29 December 2009

National Science Day Nanoscience and nanotechnology – RBANM’s First Grade College,Bangalore Excitement of seeing small things. 1 March 2010

16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Electrical conductivity of discotic liquid Lucknow University, Lucknow crystals (Invited) 26 – 28 October 2009

Madhavan Varadarajan Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid The free polymer scalar field and its 22 February – 10 March 2010 classical limit

IUCAA Resource Center Introduction to loop quantum Delhi University, Delhi cosmology (2 lectures) 22 – 30 March 2010

Abhayfest Conference, Pennsylvania State Quantum gravity and the black hole University information loss problem (Invited) 25 May – 20 June 2009

Loops 2009 Conference Quantum gravity and the black hole Beijing Normal University information loss problem (Invited) 3 – 7 August 2009

Conference on Open Problems in Loop Quantum The free polymer scalar field and its Gravity and Spin Foams classical limit (Invited) European Science Foundation, Poland 28 February - 4 March 2010

Manjunath M National workshop on Design and Organisation of Institutional Repositories using Dspace (1.5.2) B.N.M.Institute of Technology, Bangalore 9 January 2010

The LISA VI Conference on 21st Century Astronomy Librarianship: from new ideas to action Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune 14 – 17 February 2010

Meena M S International Conference on Cold Ions and Atoms 1. A microwave cavity at 3.0357 GHz. Shankarpur frequency 18 – 21 January 2010 2. Quantum walk of light in frequency space using cascaded Michelson interferometers

105 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Nagaraj M N LISA VI Conference on 21st Century Astronomy Open access to physics and astronomy Librarianship: from new ideas to action thesis: a case study of the RRI digital Inter University Centre for Astronomy & repository Astrophysics, Pune 14 – 17 February 2010

National workshop on Design and organisation of institutional repositories using Dspace (1.5.2) B.N.M.Institute of Technology, Bangalore 9 January 2010

Nagaraja H N National Workshop on Electronic Systems Packaging Technologies 2009 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 26 – 27 November 2009

Nagaraju D H 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Austria Immobilization and electrochemical 4 – 9 October 2009 studies of proteins and protein-SWNT conjugates on self-assembled monolayers

Nandan Satapathy International School and Conference on Cold 1. Quantum walks by cold atoms in a Atoms and Ions, double optical lattice Kolkata and Sankarpur, West Bengal 6 - 21 January 2010 2. Quantum walk of light in frequency space using cascaded Michelson interferometers

Narendra Kumar National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore Invisibility cloak: meta-materialism 11 August 2009 (Invited)

Nipanjana Patra Conference on Epoch of Reionization Harish Chandra Institute, Allahabad 16 – 20 February 2010

Poonam Mehta NuHoRizons III 2010 Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad 8 – 10 February 2010

Workshop on 50 years of Aharonov-Bohm effect Topological phase in two flavour Tel Aviv Unviersity, Tel Aviv neutrino oscillations 11 – 14 October 2009

XXIV International Symposium on Lepton Photon 1. Degenerate neutrinos and maximal Interactions at High Energies (Lepton Photon mixing 09), Germany 17 – 22 August, 2009 2. Topological phase in two flavor neutrino oscillations

Workshop towards neutrino technologies Abdus-Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy 13 – 17 July , 2009

Conference on Aspects of neutrinos (NuGoa), Topological phase in two flavour ICTS Program, Goa neutrino oscillations: a new 8 – 15 April 2009 interpretation from geometry

106 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Conference on Neutrinos in particle astrophysics Topological phase in two flavour and cosmology, Chennai neutrino oscillations: a new 4 – 7 April 2009 interpretation from geometry

Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Topological phase in two flavour Kolkata neutrino oscillations: a new 26 November – 4 December, 2009 interpretation from geometry

SGTB Khalsa College Topological phase in two flavour Delhi University, Delhi neutrino oscillations: a new 24 – 26 November, 2009 interpretation from geometry

Centro de Fisica Teorica das Particulas, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal 12 – 19 September 2009

Institut für Theoretische Physik E, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 26 – 30 July1 – 16 August 2009 23 – 31 August 2009 1 – 11 September 2009

Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, Germany 19 – 25 July 2009

Prabu T MWA Bangalore Meeting Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 7 – 12 December 2009

COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 8 – 19 February 2010

MWA Correlator Design Progress Monitoring Meeting, Perth August 2009

MWA Tiger Meet, Perth November 2009

Pragya Srivastava ICTS program on Non-equilibrium Statistical Dynamics of Cortical Actin on Physics Cylindrical and Spherical Cells Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 30 January – 8 February 2010

Satellite Meeting on Breaking Barriers from Dynamics of Cotractile Ring on Physics to Biology Spherical Cells: S. Pombe National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 9 – 11 January 2010

Pramod Pullarkat Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Mechanical Responses of Cells and Pune Regulations 21 – 22 May 2009

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Mechanical Responses and Shape 8 July 2009 Dynamics of Cells

107 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Rheological Properties of Living Cells 21 August 2009

SERC School-cum-Symposium on Rheology of Rheological Properties of Living Cells Complex fluids Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 4 – 9 January 2010

Symposium of Motors Tracks and Transport Active mechanical responses of axons Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore Pondicherry 23 – 28 January 2010

Satellite Meeting on Breaking Barriers from Physics to Biology National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 9 – 11 January 2010

Prasad V V School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Radhakrishnan V Mid year meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences, Hyderabad 1 – 3 July 2009

XXVII General Assembly of the International Issues in astronomical synthesis Astronomical Union, Brazil imaging (Invited) 6 – 8 August 2009

Second Platinum Jubilee Meeting Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 12 – 14 November 2009

Third Platinum Jubilee Meeting Indian Academy of Sciences, Mumbai 3 – 5 December 2009

Raghunathan A Workshop on Cosmological Reionization Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad 16 – 21 February 2010

Ranjini Bandyopadhyay School on Glass Formers and Glasses 1. Experimental techniques–I International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for 2. Experimental techniques-II Advanced Research, Bangalore 4 - 20 January 2010

SPS March Meeting 2010 on Soft Matter Physics, Stress relaxation and strain induced Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi jamming in aging soft colloidal glasses 4 – 5 March 2010 (Invited)

Rajib Basak School on Glass Formers and Glasses Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research, Bangalore 4 – 20 January 2010

108 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Rakesh Kumar Pandey 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Austria Formation of Porphyrin/Polyaniline 4 – 9 October 2009 Nanostructures by Layer-by-Layer Assembly and their Application in ppb level Lead Sensing

15th National Seminar on Physics and Formation of Porphyrin/Polyaniline Technology of Sensors Nanostructures by Layer-by-Layer Pune University Assembly and their Application in ppb 5 – 7 March 2010 level Lead Sensing

Ramesh B Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Japan 3mSTeP: 3m Submillimeterwave 16 - 17 December 2009 telescope prototype (invited)

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Radio astronomy in India: a perspective Japan (invited) 13 - 20 December 2009

National College, Trichirapalli Seeing with Millimeterwaves 19 March 2010

Ravi K International School on Cold Ions and Atoms, Kolkata International Center for Theoretical Sciences and Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture 6 – 15 January 2010

International Conference on Cold Ions and A hybrid ion-atop trap Atoms, Sankarpur 17 – 21 January 2010

Ravi Subrahmanyan University of Western Australia, Australia Radio jet interactions with galaxy 17 – 30 May 2009 environment

Comonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research On growth and form: the shapes of Organisation, Australia radio sources 27 June – 3 July 2009

International Astronomical Union, Brazil 3 – 14 August 2009

Conference on Cosmological Reionization 1. Status of EoR Monopole Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad Measurement (invited) 16 – 20 February 2010 2. Conference summary: an observer’s perspective (invited)

SKA Science and Engineering Meeting University of Manchester, United Kingdom 22 – 25 March 2010

Reji Philip Discussion Meeting on INDIGO Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune 10 August 2009

Annual Photonics Workshop Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin 27 – 28 February 2010

109 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk State Level Seminar on Nanoscience and its 1. Modern perspectives (Invited) Applications Lady Doak College, Madurai 2. Nonlinear optics in the nanophase 15 February 2010 (Invited)

National Workshop on Syntheses, Nonlinear Optics: Application to Characterization and Applications of nanoparticles (Invited) Nanomaterials Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam 12 -14 January, 2010

National Conference on Nanomaterials Nonlinear Optics: Application to St.Teresa’s College, Cochin nanoparticles (Invited) 4 - 5 February 2010

UGC Seminar on the scope of Nanomaterials and Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics Technology (Invited) M A College, Kothamangalam, Kerala 17 – 18 September 2009

National Seminar on Current Trends in Material Advances in Nonlinear Optics (Invited) Science, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal 2-3 December 2009

JSPS-DST Asian Academic Seminar Optical limiting applications of Yokohoma Media and Communications Centre, nanocomposite materials Japan 8 - 10 December 2009

19th MRS-J Academic Symposium Optical nonlinearity in oxide Yokohoma Media and Communications Centre, nanocomposite materials (Invited) Japan 7 - 9 December 2009

24th Refresher Course in Physics for college/ Nonlinear Optics (part I & part II) university teachers UGC-Academic Staff College, Kerala University, Trivandrum 9 October 2009

Visveshwaraiah Museum, Bangalore The Raman Effect 7 November 2009

Central College, Bangalore Physics Nobel Prize 2009 18 November 2009

National Chemical Laboratories, Pune Nonlinear Optics: Application to 11 August 2009 Nanoparticles

National Institute of Technology, Surathkal Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics 21 January 2010

Mie University, Japan Nonlinear Optics in the Nanophase 11-12 December 2009

110 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Renu Vishavkarma Conference on Molecular Motors, track and transport National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Pondicherry 23 – 28 January 2010

Rishin P V Conference on The Coming of Age of X-ray Thomson Polarimeter for a small X-ray Polarimetry Astronomy Mission Instituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Italy 27 – 30 April 2009

Roman Sverdlov Conference on Tropical Structures in Geometry and Physics Mathematical Science Research Institute, USA 30 November 2009 – 4 December 2009

University of Missisippi, USA 7 – 13 December 2009

Ruckmongathan T N Society for Information Symposium 2009 Society of Information Display, USA 31 May – 5 June 2009

XV International Workshop on Physics of Recent developments in driving matrix Semiconductor Devices LCDs (Invited) Solid State Physics Laboratory and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Liquid Crystal Displays 15 – 19 December 2009

CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore 26 February 2010

Ruta Kale Conference on High Performance Computing in Observational Astronomy; Requirements and Challenges National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune 12 – 16 October 2009

MWA Bangalore Meeting Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 8 – 12 December 2009

Ryuichi Fujita The 19th Workshop on General Relativity and Post-Newtonian gravitational wave Gravitation polarisations and spherical harmonic Rikkyo University, Japan components for a particle in circular 30 November - 4 December 2009, orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole

Osaka University, Japan Post-Newtonian expansion of 7 December 2009 – 15 January 2010 gravitational waveforms for a particle in circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole

Sadiqali Rangwala International School on Cold Ions and Atoms 1. A hybrid ion-atom trap Sankarpur, West Bengal 17 - 21 January 2010 2. A three dimensional lattice of ion traps

111 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

International School on Cold Ions and Atoms, Experiments with cold and ultra-cold Kolkata, International Center for Theoretical molecules Sciences and Indian Association for Cultivation of Science Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture 6 – 15 January 2010 Classical Heinsenberg spins with Kitaev Samarth Chandra IIT Kanpur Golden Jubilee Conference on Non- couplings equilibrium Statistical Physics Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 30 January – 8 February 2010

RRI School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010 1. Pattern Formation in Sandpile Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Models and Exact Counting of 11 – 24 February 2010 Dimer Coverings

2. Rall’s cable equation and Hodgkin- Huxley model

1. Discotic organic materials for solar Sandeep Kumar I-CAMP Summer School , China cells (Invited) 28 June – 4 July 4 2009 2. Discotic liquid crystals and photovoltaics (Invited)

Liquid crystals beyond display Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing applications (Invited) 6 July 2009 Novel discotic-calamitic hybrids 16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals, (Invited) Lucknow 26-28 October 2009

Moser Baer India Limited, Greater Noida 9 March 2010

Department of Information Technology New Delhi 10 March 2010

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 12 November 2009

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 22 June 2009

Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati 19 June 2009

Sanjib Sabhapandit Seminar on Dynamics of a polymer in shear flow Dynamics of a polymer in shear flow Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 11 – 16 November 2009

112 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

ICTS Program on Nonequilibrium Statistical Integer partitions and exclusion Physics statistics (invited) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 30 January - 8 February, 2010

School on Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute 22 March – 3 April 2010

Satyam Kumar Gupta 16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Novel benzene bridged triphenylene- University of Lucknow based discotic dyads 26 – 28 October 2009

Seunghyun Lee International Conference on Cold Ions and 1. A three dimensional lattice of ion Atoms, Sankarpur traps 18 – 21 January 2010 2. A hybrid ion-atom trap

SERC school on Experimental Atomic & Molecular Physics Physics Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 15 April – 5 May 2009

International School on Cold Ions and Atoms International Center for Theoretical Sciences and Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata 6 January – 16 January 2010

Shashikant M.E.S. Kishore Kendra, Bangalore Invisible matter in the Universe 17 December 2009

Solomon Ivan International Program on Quantum Information Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 14 – 31 January 2010

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 29 October – 13 November 2009

Somashekar R Training programme on Administrative Vigilance Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi 30 November – 4 December 2009

MWA Bangalore Meeting Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 7 – 8 December 2009

Sridhar S Conference on Astrophysical MHD Dynamo action in linear shear flows University of Helsinki, Finland 8 April 2009

Conference on Astrophysical Turbulence & The shear dynamo problem Dynamos, Abdus-Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy 20 - 30 April 2009

Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden 11 – 19 April 2009

113 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Srinivasa H T 16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals, Effect of lateral substituents and chain Indian Liquid Crystal Society length on mesomorphic properties of University of Lucknow Novel Alkoxybenzyloxy benzoates of 26 – 29 October 2009 Cyanophenyl Compounds

Srivani K S MWA Bangalore Meeting Present status of the 32 Tile Digital Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Receiver System 7 – 11 December 2009

MWA Correlator Design Progress Monitoring Meeting, Perth August 2009

Suchana Seth Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 31 January – 8 February 2010

School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Suchand Sandeep Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 8 – 9 June 2009

Conference on SPIE Optics + Photonics Ultrafast light transmission behavior of Society of Photographic Instrumentation surface plasmon excited Maxwell- Engineers, USA Garnet type Ag nanocomposite 2 – 6 August 2009 polymer

University of California, Berkeley, USA 7 August 2009

University of California, USA 10 August 2009

University of Boulder, USA 11 – 12 August 2009

Suman Gaurab Das School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Sumati Surya Imperial College, London The quantum vector measure and the 21 – 30 September 2009 importance of being extendible

CAUSETS AT DIAS-II, Dublin Enroute to a quantum dynamic for 14 – 18 December 2009 causal sets

Perimeter Institute, Canada 28 February - 13 March 2010

Suresh Kumar P JENESYS programme Electron transfer, transport and Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan electrohcemiluminescence 30 June – 1 November 2009

114 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Tridib Ray International School and Conference on Cold 1. A three dimensional lattice of ion Ions and Cold Atoms traps International Center for Theoretical Sciences and Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, 2. A hybrid ion-atom trap Kolkata 6 – 15 January 2010

Udaya Shankar MWA Project Meeting University of Washington, USA 16 – 20 June 2009

Multi-Wavelength Astronomy Workshop Challenges of Observing the Invisible St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore Universe 20 – 21 August 2009

M K Dasgupta Memorial Seminar Dipolar Arrays for Radio Astronomy University of Calcutta 1 September 2009

IUCAA-MGU Workshop on Galaxy Astronomy New Generation Radio Telescopes Kottayam 31 October – 2 November 2009

Bangalore University, Bangalore 21st century radio telescopes 26 November 2009

Mount Carmel College, Bangalore 21st century radio telescopes 15 December 2009

National Science Day A journey in the dark universe A V Kanthamma College for Women, Hassan 20 February 2010

National Science Week Dynamics of discoveries Visveswaraya Institute and Technological Museum, Bangalore 26 February 2010

MWA Project Meeting Synthesis of two 150 MHz. surveys University of Washington, USA 18 – 23 January 2009

MWA Project Meeting Comparison of usual vis-à-vis drift scan Raman Research Institute, Bangalore strategy for EoR detection 7 – 10 December 2009

Venkatramanan P R RRI School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2010

Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 30 January – 4 February 2010

115 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Vijayaraghavan D 16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Physical studies on gold nanoparticles- University of Lucknow, Lucknow liquid crystal composites: evidence for 26 October 2009 super lattices of gold nanoparticles

Wasim Raja National Centre for Radio Astronomy & Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Pune 28 October – 1 November 2009

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Appendix III Name Title Date colloquia

Name Title Date

Rajat Mani Thomas Cosmological reionization simulations for LOFAR 8.4.2009 Kapteyn Astronomical Institute Groningen, The Netherlands

Sanjay Puri Pattern formation in the kinetics of phase transitions 9.4.2009 Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Partha Pratim Mondal Super resolution, photobleaching and 15.4.2009 Massachusetts Institute of advanced image reconstruction techniques Technology,USA for single and multi-photon imaging

D P Sengupta Remembering Sir J C Bose 16.4.2009 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ M Anandan Full color OLED micro-display 21.4.2009 Organic Lighting Technologies LLC, Austin, USA

V Ravishankar Quantum algorithm to determine “shapes” of functions 22.4.2009 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

C M Iyer Relativity of simultaneity and the reversal 24.4.2009 Technik Industries, Noida in the time order of interactive events

V P Mahadevan Pillai Laser ablated nanostructured materials 5.5.2009 University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram

Yamuna Krishnan Wires, reporters and information capsules: 7.5.2009 National Centre for Cellular journalism with DNA Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Sreedhar Dutta Non-equilibrium perturbations 12.5.2009 Korean Institute for Advanced Studies, Seoul

Aruna Kesavan Dark Energy 15.5.2009 Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Anne Green The SKAMP project – a telescope reborn to look back in time 15.5.2009 University of Sydney, Australia (Special Colloquium)

Sourav Sur Cosmic (super-) acceleration with multi-field k-essence 20.5.2009 University of Lethbridge and quintessence Canada

Harshawardhan Wanare Coherent control of metamaterials 22.5.2009 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

117 Name Title Date Ashok K Singal Maximum brightness temperature of an 1.6.2009 Physical Research Laboratory incoherent synchrotron source: Inverse Ahmedabad Compton limit – A myth

Sandeep K Sirothia A few interesting studies using deep 2.6.2009 National Centre for low-frequency images Radio Astronomy, Pune

Ramandeep Johal Maximum work extraction in quantum systems 2.6.2009 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Chandigarh

Biman Bagchi Energy landscape view of natural dynamics 4.6.2009 Indian Institute of Science in complex systems Bangalore

Bulbul Chakraborty Rheology of granular materials: Dynamics 5.6.2009 Brandeis University, USA in a stress landscape (Special Colloquium)

Gauri Kulkarni Statistics of luminous red galaxies in SDSS 10.6.2009 Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune

Santanu Kumar Pal Adsorbate-induced ordering transitions in 15.6.2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison thin films of liquid crystalline gels supported USA on chemically funcionalized surfaces

Tarun Kumar Jha From nuclear matter to the neutron stars 16.6.2009 Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

Anushree Roy Amusing behavior in wet foam 17.6.2009 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Sayan Kar Are there extra dimensions? 18.6.2009 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Sayan Kar Kinematics of flows: some recent results 19.6.2009 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Rajib Saha CMB angular power spectrum estimation 2.7.2009 Jet Propulsion Laboratory using blind and non-blind methods Pasadena, USA

K Vijay Raghavan The assembly, during animal development, 2.7.2009 National Centre for of the ability for coordinated movement Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Solomon Ivan Entanglement and nonclassicality- 8.7.2009 Institute of Mathematical connections and interconversion Sciences, Chennai

Rajesh Ganapathy From atomic epitaxy to colloidal epitaxy: 10.7.2009 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre Is the physics similar? for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore

118 Name Title Date Sreedhar Dutta The role of initial conditions in Ageing state 10.7.2009 Korean Institute for Advanced Studies, Seoul

Tarun Souradeep Searching the CMB for subtle deviations 13.7.2009 Inter University Centre for from ‘standard’ cosmology Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Carol Upadhya ‘Global Indians’: Negotiating identity in the 16.7.2009 National Institute of software industry Advanced Studies, Bangalore

Samarth Chandra Ground states and low temperature 17.7.2009 Tata Institute for behavior of spin systems Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Rumi De Dynamics of cellular response to mechanical stress 20.7.2009 Brown University, USA

Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya Dynamics in supercooled liquids: Interplay 28.7.2009 Indian Institute of Science between activated and continuous motions Bangalore

D.K. Avasthi Ion beams in synthesis and engineering 30.7.2009 Inter University Accelerator centre of nanostructures New Delhi

B.S. Sathyaprakash From initial LIGO to Einstein telescope: 30.7.2009 Cardiff University The road to astrophysics and cosmography United Kingdom

Roie Shlomovitz Curved membrane protein regulate cell morphology 31.7.2009 Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Uma Ramakrishnan Why the Indian subcontinent holds 6.8.2009 National Centre for the key to global tiger recovery Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Pradeep Kumar K Frequency coded quantum key distribution 7.8.2009 Indian Institute of over fibre-optic channel Technology, Madras

Shashikant Gupta Constraints on isotropy using supernovae la 7.8.2009 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Urbasi Sinha Testing quantum mechanics by a three-slit experiment 13.8.2009 University of Waterloo, Canada

S. Chatterjee Meghnad Saha – The scientist and crusader 20.8.2009 Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore

Ronald Benjamin Stochastic energetics of a Brownian motor and 25.8.2009 University of Colorado refrigerator driven by inhomogeneous temperature at Boulder, USA

119 Name Title Date Roop Malik A tug-of-war between nanoscale motors inside cells: 27.8.2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Precise mechanistic details from measurement Research, Mumbai of picoNewton forces

Sachindeo Vaidya Quantum signatures of spacetime graininess 3.9.2009 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Chandan Dasgupta Growing length and time scales in glass-forming liquids 17.9.2009 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Hindi week Hindi week (under OLIC) 22.9.2009

Hindi Diwas Dr. Saragu Krishnamurthy 29.9.2009

Andrzej A. Zdziarski Compton scattering and the nature of Cyg X-3 1.10.2009 N Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw, Poland

D Indumathi The India-based neutrino observatory: Overview 1.10.2009 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Suneeta Varadarajan Some applications of Ricci flow in physics 5.10.2009 University of Alberta, Canada

Debanjan Bose Study of Gamma Ray emission from AGNs 5.10.2009 Universidad Complutense, Spain using atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes

Andrzej A Zdziarski 1.Gamma-ray binaries 6.10.2009 N Copernicus Astronomical 2. Black-hole masses and radiative processes 7.10.2009 Centre, Warsaw, Poland in accreting black-hole sources

Sajal Kumar Ghosh Interaction of synaptic vesicles with 7.10.2009 University of Goettingen, Germany lipid membranes: Role of PIP2

Zolt Haiman 1. Structure formation in the (early) Universe 6.10.2009 2. The formation of the first supermassive black holes 7.10.2009 3. Electromagnetic & gravitational wave 8.10.2009 signatures of black hole mergers

John Ford The green bank observatory of the US 9.10.2009 National Radio Astronomy National Radio Astronomy Observatory Observatory, USA

Jaya Bhagat India is a hungry nation 15.10.2009 Central Expenditure, New Delhi

Nayantara Gupta Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the 22.10.2009 Indian Institute of Technology light of Pierre Auger data Mumbai

Golam M Hossain Driving cosmic inflation on a bumpy road 30.10.2009 University of New Brunswick Canada

A Sudhakara A novel approach towards the synthesis of indoles 4.11.2009

120 Name Title Date Kandaswamy Subramanian Magnetic fields-from the early to the contemporary universe 5.11.2009 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Peter L Biermann Ultra high energy particles and cosmic ray 11.11.2009 University Bonn electrons/positrons, from massive star explosions UA Huntsville

Anil Bhardwaj X-ray emission from the solar system bodies 11.11.2009 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (Special Colloquium) ISRO, Trivandrum

Mandar Deshmukh Studying quantum Hall physics and 16.11.2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental electromechanical devices using graphene Research, Mumbai

G K Anathasuresh Motion without hinges and sliders 19.11.2009 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Bhaswati Bhattacharyya Single pulse studies of wide profile drifting 24.11.2009 Indian Institute of Science pulsars - a probe of pulsar magnetosphere Bangalore and Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Joseph Samuel Tops and writhing DNA 1.12.2009 Raman Research Institute (Slime Talk) Bangalore

Diptiman Sen Quenching across quantum critical points and lines 2.12.2009 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Satish Kumar Gandhi, a Man of the past or a man of the future! 3.12.2009 Schumacher College, UK (Gandhi Memorial Lecture)

Biran Schmidt The history of the Universe 10.12.2009 Australian National University Australia

Jaswant K Yadav Fractal dimension as a quantifier of LSS clustering 15.12.2009 Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad

S Dutta Gupta Absorption in metamateirals: feasibility 15.12.2009 University of Hyderabad of device applications Hyderabad

G S Giri Atomic parity violation in a single trapped radium ion 17.12.2009 University of Groningen Netherland

Sourin Das Probing non-abelian nature of the read- 21.12.2009 Institut fur Festkorper-Forschung rezayi quantum hall states via electrical Germany and thermal transport measurements

Priyamvada Natarajan Mapping dark matter and dark energy 21.12.2009 Yale University with gravitational lensing USA

121 Name Title Date Chandrashekhar Joshi Big physics gets small: laser and beam 23.12.2009 UCLA, USA driven particle accelerators

Hideo Takezoe Spontaneous deracemization in bent-, rod - 24.12.2009 Tokyo Institute of Technology and disk-shaped mesogens Japan

Buddhapriya Chakrabarti Shear unzipping of DNA 29.12.2009 Durham University, Durham

Dhrubaditya Mitra Time scales of turbulence 8.1.2010 University of London, UK

Jaroslaw Dyks The nature of double eclipse in pulsar 12.1.2010 N Copernicus Astronomical magnetosphere: The story of a breakthrough Center, Warsaw, Poland

Debasish Chaudhuri Shape and size of confined polymers 12.1.2010 FOM Institute AMOLF The Netherlands

John Seed Neutrinos and elephants 15.1.2010 Rainforest Information Centre (Special Colloquium) Australia

Antoine Browaeys Entanglement of two atoms using the Rydberg blockade 22.1.2010 Institut d’Optique, France

P A Johnson Information and communications 25.1.2010 BlueScope Steel Ltd infrastructure at New Zealand steel New Zealand

Joanna M Rankin A new era of pulsar emission investigations 25.1.2010 University of Vermont, USA

David Jauncey Interstellar scintillation; from low frequency variability and 29.1.2010 Commonwealth Scientific and intra-day variability to MASIV Industrial Research Organisation Australia

Sanat Karmakar Interaction of antimicrobial peptide 29.1.2010 Jadavpur Universtiy NK-2 with model membranes Kolkata

Guenter Werth Ion traps: A tool for precision spectroscopy 1.2.2010 Johannes Gutenberg University Germany

Martin Gilbert Health andCConservation in Asia: From Avian 4.2.2010 Wildlife Conservation Society influenza to the vulture decline Bangalore

Surajit Paul Injection of turbulence by evolving shocks in 16.2.2010 Inter University Centre for major merging clusters Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

David J Thompson Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope: viewing 18.2.2010 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center the extreme universe USA

122 Name Title Date Krishna Rai Dastidar Control of the dynamics of coupled atomic-molecular 22.2.2010 Indian Association for the Bose-Einstein condensates Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

Seema Satin Formulation of calculus on fractal curves 22.2.2010 Pune University, Pune in R^n and physical application

Eric A Cornell Is warm glass stickier than cold glass? 4.3.2010 University of Colorado, USA

Gargi Shaw Physical conditions in photodissociation regions: 5.3.2010 University of Mumbai, Mumbai NGC2023 & S140

Soumen Roy Networks and emergence 5.3.2010 University of Chicago, USA

Satyajit Rath Down the rabbit hole: HIV, immune evasion 18.3.2010 National Institute of Immunology and lessons in immune system design New Delhi

Sudhir Cherukulappurath Plasmon nano-optics: concepts and applications 29.3.2010 ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain

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Appendix IV visitors

Sreedhar Dutta 1 April – 31 July 2009 Korean Institute for Advanced Studies, Seoul 1 – 5 October 2009

Kunal Bhattacharya 1 April – 30 June 2009 S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Rajat Mani Thomas 7 – 9 April 2009 University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Partha Pratim Mondal 15 April 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Narayanan T N and Reena 20 - 22 April 2009 Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin

M Anandan 21 April 2009

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S N Sandhya 1 – 15 May 2009 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

V P Mahadevan Pillai 4 – 6 May 2009 University of Kerala, Trivandrum

Gagan Deep Kaur 6 – 27 May 2009 Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mohali

Ramandeep S Johal 10 May – 15 June 2009 Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Mohali

G Vinitha 10 May – 10 August 2009 Crescent Engineering College, Chennai

Harsha Raichur 11 – 16 May 2009 Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophyics, Pune

Anne Green 11 – 16 May 2009 University of Sydney, Australia 20 – 26 January 2010

Sanjay Pande 18 May – 10 June 2009 Gonda University, Uttar Pradesh

Sourav Sur 19 – 26 May 2009 University of Alberta, Canada

Harshawardhan Wanare 21 – 24 May 2009 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Subhashish Bannerjee 21 – 28 May 2009 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Praveen Kumar 24 – 26 May 2009 National Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune

124 T R Seshadri 25 May – 5 July 2009 Delhi University, New Delhi

Siddharth Malu 27 May – 13 June 2009 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune 20 August – 16 October 2009

Keiji Saito 31 May – 5 June 2009 University of Tokyo, Japan

Anvar Shukurov 31May – 6 June 2009 University of New Castle, United Kingdom

Ashok Singal 31 May – 3 June 2009 Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

Sandip Sirothia 1 – 8 June 2009 National Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune

Soobash Daiboo 1 June to 31 August 2009 University of Mauritius, Mauritius

A.M.Jayannavar 6 – 7 June 2009 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar

Gauri Kulkarni 8 – 11 June 2009 Inter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Solomon Ivan 7 – 9 July 2009 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Tarun Souradeep 10 – 14 July 2009 Inter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune 1 – 2 September 2009

Jincy Devasia and Marykutty James 12 – 26 July 2009 Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam

A R P Rau 13 – 17 July 2009 University of Louisiana, USA 22 – 28 December 2009

Dhiraj Dedhia 16 – 26 July 2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

B Karthikeyan 18 – 19 July 2009 National Institute of Technology, Trichy 21 – 23 November 2009 19 – 21 February 2010

Samarth Chandra 17 – 19 July 2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Rumi De 19 – 26 July 2009 Brown University, USA

Md. Nadeer 20 – 25 July 2009 Amar Jyothi Engineering College, Kerala

Suneesh 20 – 25 July 2009 Amar Jyothy Engineering College, Kerala

Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya 28 July 2009 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

125 D K Avasthi 29 July – 1 August 2009 Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi

Roie Shlomovitz 31 July 2009 Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

D Dhar 2 -3 August 2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Urbasi Sinha 13 August 2009 University of Waterloo, Canada

Sajith Babu 17 – 18 August 2009 Kerala University, Trivandrum

S Sreeja 19 – 20 August 2009 Kerala University, Trivandrum

Roop Malik 27 – 28 August 2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Panangaden 27 – 28 August 2009 McGill University, Canada

Saroj Kumar Mahalik 29 August – 8 September 2009 Centre for Excellence in Laser & Optoelectronics Sciences Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin

Rajesh Patel 9 – 19 September 2009 Bhavanagar University, Gujarat

Md Lutfor Rahman 16 – 21 September 2009 University of Malaysia, Sabah

P G Louie Frobel and G Sreekumar 29 – 30 September 2009 Kerala University, Trivandrum

Andrzej Zdziarski 30 September – 10 October 2009 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Poland

Chetana 1 – 18 October 2009 Jain Delhi University, New Delhi 20 December 2009 – 6 January 2010

Jincy Devasia 1 October 2009 – 31 January 2010 M G University, Kottayam

Suneeta Varadarajan 4 – 7 October 2009 University of Alberta, Canada

Debanjan Bose 4 – 6 October 2009 Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Sajal Kumar Ghosh 5 – 8 October 2009 University of Goettingen, Germany

Zoltan Haiman 5 – 9 October 2009 Columbia University, USA

John Ford 8 – 9 October 2009 Green Bank Telescope, USA

126 Satyabrata Mohapatra 14 – 17 October 2009 Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha university, New Delhi

Nayantara Gupta 17 – 25 October 2009 Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Muthukumar and Benoy Anand 23 -30 October 2009 Sree Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh

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Arvindam Das 7 November 2009 – 7 January2010 St. Xavier College, Kolkata

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Mandar Deshmukh 15 – 19 November 2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Bhaswathi Bhattacharya 22 – 24 November 2009 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

N Krishnan 28 – 29 November 2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

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Alak Ray 6 – 8 December 2009 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

127 Sourin Das 6 December 2009 – 1 January 2010 Institut fur Festkorper-Forschung Theorie-3, Forschungszentrum Julich and RWTH Aachen, Germany

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Fabien Bretenaker and Fabienne Goldforb 27 – 30 December 2009 Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, France

Jaroslaw Dyks 5 – 22 January 2010 N Copernicus Astronomical Centre Rabianska, Poland

Sajal Dhara 6 – 9 January 2010 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

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Sanat Karmakar 21 – 30 January 2010 Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Guenter Werth 21 January – 3 February 2010 University of Mainz, France

T R Rao 22 – 27 January 2010 Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

128 David Jauncey 25 – 30 January 2010 Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Australia

D V G L N Rao 25 – 31 January 2010 University of Massachusetts, USA

A Ramalingam 4 – 5 February 2010 Anna University, Chennai

G Swarup 9 – 12 February 2010 National Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune

K G Arun 9 – 14 February 2010 Washington University, USA

Jaydeep Bogchi & Surjit Paul 15 – 17 February 2010 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Krishna Rai Dastidar 15 – 23 February 2010 Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

Seema Satin 21 – 23 February 2010 Pune University, Pune

Xavier Martin 21 – 24 February 2010 Tours University, France

Yasutaka Hiraki 23 February – 3 March 2010 Nagoya University, Japan

Byung Kyu Park 1 March – 15 April 2010 University of California, Berkeley

Gargi Shaw 3 – 5 March 2010 University of Mumbai, Mumbai

Edward Morgan 4 – 12 March 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Bryna Hazelton 4 – 12 March 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Soumen Roy 5 March 2010 University of Chicago, USA

Raj Kumar Gupta & Manjula Devi 6 – 13 March 2010 Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Mike Dopita 9 – 11 March 2010 Australian National University, Australia

Mustansir Barma 22 March 2010 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

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Gautam Menon 28 March 2010 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

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Suhel Quader The evolution of evolutionary Biology: From Darwin to the 9.7.2009 National Centre for Biological present (Special Journal club) Sciences, Bangalore

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Kanhaiyal Lal Pandey Exploring dark matter with milky way substructure 22.10.2009 Michael Kuhlen et al., Science, 325325, 970-973 (2009)

Reji Philip Imaging atomic wave functions using a laser 22.10.2009 D Shafir et al., Nature Physics, 55, 412 (2009)

T Srinivas The Nobel Prize in Physics – 2009 26.10.2009 Indian Institute of (Special Journal Club) Science, Bangalore

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Seunghyun Lee Towards quantum superposition of living organisms 26.11.2009 Oriol Romero-Isart et al., arXiv:0909.1469v2

M K Mathew The Nobel Prize in Chemistry – 2009 30.11.2009 National Centre for (Special Journal Club) Biological Sciences Bangalore

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Poonam Mehta Some interesting aspects of cosmic neutrinos from core 11.3.2010 collapse supernovae endowed with mildly relativistic jets Soebur Razzaque and A. Yu. Smirnov arXiv: 0912.4028 [hep-ph], submitted to JHEP

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