No.35 June 2002

Newsletter of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Reviving Patrika...

– N. Mukunda This semi-annual newsletter of the Academy started appearing in December 1980 during the Presidentship of S. Varadarajan. Anna Mani edited it with care and concern for fifteen years until June 1995, when, due to failing health, she could not continue to oversee its production any further. It has not appeared since then. Inside...

Now, after a break of seven years, we are reviving Patrika. Several Fellows Presidents 2 have been elected since 1995, and to all of them this will be something new. Several Presidents and Councils have served their terms and have New activities 2 passed on their responsibilities to successors. In addition to its traditional Recent activities 6 activities, two major new ones have been added to the Academy’s New Fellows 7 functioning — the various programmes overseen by the Science Education Panel, and the entry of the electronic medium in publication Discussion meetings 8 activities and in internal organization. Publication activities 8 This issue marking the revival of the Newsletter is devoted to a brief Annual meetings 8 review of some of these important developments since the mid-90’s. Especially for Fellows elected in recent years, I hope this account will act Mid-year meetings 9 as an invitation to contribute to Academy’s activities. Further issues of Public lectures 9 Patrika will carry detailed reports on activities from 2002. Raman Professors 9

Annexures 10-12

S. Varadarajan Adieu to Anna Mani 1918 – 2001 EDITOR N. Mukunda PUBLISHED BY R. Narasimha Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore 560 080, India Phone: (080) 361 2546, 361 4592

This newsletter is available on the Academy website: www.ias.ac.in/patrika/ P. Rama Rao

To receive a regular copy of the Newsletter, please write to the Executive Secretary of the PRESIDENTS Academy We have had four Presidents, and their Councils, in office during Patrika’s silence and even slightly earlier: R. Narasimha (1992–94), P. Rama Rao (1995–97), N. Kumar (1998–2000) and currently Forthcoming K. Kasturirangan (2001–2003). Events – 2002

Mid-Year Meeting Bangalore 5-6 July

Annual Meeting Chandigarh 8-10 Nov.

Refresher Course Theoretical Physics N. Kumar Delhi 1-15 Oct.

Refresher Course Reproductive Biology Dharwar 17-31 Oct.

Refresher Course Experimental Physics Kalpakkam 18-31 Oct.

Refresher Course Immunology K. Kasturirangan Pune 2-14 Dec. others known to them) to keep it centred NEW ACTIVITIES around the undergraduate level. Each issue is about 100 pages in length, and covers all I. Science Education Panel areas of science, mathematics and engineering. In early 1994, the President and Council set up an expert panel to review the status of university (b) Each year the Academy organises a Mid-year science education in the country; and to make Meeting around July in Bangalore and an suggestions, both to outside agencies and to the Annual Meeting around November at other Academy itself, for actions and programmes that locations in the country. Since 1995, it has could be taken up to help improve the situation. been the practice to invite selected teachers The Committee’s report was accepted by the from colleges and universities all over the Council at its meeting in December 1994, and issued as “Academy Paper No. 1 – University Science Education”. Over the years, this paper has reached the attention of many in the country, including teachers, scientists and policy makers, and at least a few recent initiatives might be traced to it.

An important part of this Paper was a collection of suggestions for activities to be undertaken by the Academy on its own. To coordinate these, the country to attend these meetings as guests Science Education Panel was set up in 1996. The of the Academy. This provides an important major initiatives taken by Academy since then are meeting-point between Fellows and the briefly listed below: teaching community, as well as an opportunity for the latter to listen to lectures and symposia (a) Resonance – journal of science education was on current scientific research. During 2002 it started as a new publication of the Academy. is hoped that close to 50 teachers will attend It has appeared regularly every month since each of the two meetings; and on the occasion January 1996, and of the mid-year meeting a special one-day has gained a good programme exclusively for teachers is being reputation for planned. It is also planned that each teacher quality of content, will be invited to attend two successive production and Academy meetings. The database of teachers timeliness. The now includes nearly 1000 names from around level of the articles the country. sometimes tends to be rather high, Contributions from Fellows to the newsletter and we need the are welcome – brief articles of general interest, assistance of news, views, interesting anecdotes, etc. Fellows (and (c) For both students and teachers, a Summer Fellowship Programme enabling them to work for two months with Fellows has been introduced since 1995. Starting with relatively small numbers, this programme at present has reached a reasonable size – about 1100 applications each year, and about 75 departments in the country is 12 (Mathematics and 25 fellowships for 2, Physics 1, Chemistry 4, Life Sciences 5). students and teachers Several more of these are also being planned. respectively. The programme is usually (e) Project Lifescape: Monitoring biodiversity to announced in Resonance promote conservation, sustainable use, and and Current Science around control has emerged as a major scientific December for the coming challenge in recent years. This project is an summer; and selections are attempt to address this challenge. Its made by groups of Fellows based in objectives include: identifying an appropriate Bangalore in each area. Both train travel and set of species whose abundance would be monthly fellowships for living expenses are assessed to study different localities in the offered. country; generating material to aid in reliable identification and classification of these taxa (d) From about end of 1999, a series of two-week and devising a standardized system of long Refresher Courses for teachers, and classification of ecological habitat types; short 2-3 day lecture programmes for the designing a set of student projects appropriate benefit of M.Sc./Ph.D. students and teachers, to the focal set of species to advance our are being organized. The initiative in each case understanding of various topics in ecology, is taken by a Fellow, while the lecturers include evolutionary biology, behaviour, and both Fellows and others. Both of these have biogeography; designing a computerized evoked a very positive response. So far nine biodiversity system to organize the data Refresher Courses (see Annexure 1) have generated; and field-testing the programme been held in such places as Chandigarh, through pilot projects in selected high schools, Kolkata, Allahabad, Hyderabad, Goa, colleges, and universities. Wide consultations Mavelikara, Kottayam, Dharwar and Mysore and interactions have resulted in the creation (Mathematics 3, Life Sciences 3, Theoretical of a network of biology teachers in several Physics 2, Experimental Physics 1). A few states of the country to try out these new ideas. more are already in preparation for the rest of The first of the fasicles on butterflies has 2002. Each course involves teacher- appeared while others on freshwater fishes, participants from all over the country. The frogs, birds, medicinal plants, and trees are number of short duration lecture programmes in various stages of preparation. so far held at various colleges and university II. Modernization & Tailor-made software programs are now used to handle processing of every submitted manuscript. Computerization Using a page-composition software, the entire typesetting of Resonance pages and scanning of There are two aspects of these developments, illustrations are done in-house with the full camera- one related to journal publication and general ready pages handed over to press for printing. publicity, and the other to office and accounts Similarly correspondence with journal organization. Each of these is described briefly. subscribers, preparation of mailing lists, maintenance of accounts, bank reconciliation, (a) Starting around September 1999, a well- work relating to fellowship, composing pages for planned and determined effort was undertaken year book, etc. have all been computerized. to place all the eleven Academy journals (including Current Science) on the web. This An imaginatively conceived Academy website has is to increase visibility of our journals also been set up giving information about the worldwide, and so to induce more of the good fellowship, publications, scientific meetings, and quality research papers by scientists in the other activities (URL: www.ias.ac.in). The editorial country to be submitted to our journals. By now board of Pramana – Journal of Physics has taken all our eleven journals are available on the web far-reaching steps to set up a fully computerized with full text of articles freely available for ten system for online processing of manuscripts of them. The Academy server for this purpose through internet for use by the editors, the editorial was installed around March 2000. Another office, the authors and referees. When complete, server located this can serve as a at the model for other Supercomputer Academy journals and Education & indeed other journals in Research the country. It will also Centre of the make it possible for Indian Institute Fellows located away of Science also from Bangalore to carries these participate to the full in publications. editorial activities.

Over the last few Based on experience years, the Academy gained since 1999, has made Academy organised substantial investments to computerize most of two three-day workshops on electronic publishing its day-to-day operations. Staff involved in editorial in science, for the benefit of editors of Indian and related work as well as in non-publication research journals. The Workshops were held activities now extensively work on computers. during March 2002 at Bangalore, and a more Email has become the most preferred mode of detailed account is planned for the next issue of communication. Patrika. arrangement appear in Annexure 2. OTHER RECENT ACTIVITIES (c) A bust of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar by the famous sculptor Paul Granlund, well- known for his earlier bust of Srinivasa (a) Following up on the “1994 Academy Paper Ramanujan, was acquired by the Academy No. 1 on University Science Education”, and unveiled in the Council Room by Lalitha Council has sought to take up other issues of Chandrasekhar. Additional copies of this bust importance to the country’s scientific were also ordered by the Academy and given community, for similar study and preparation of reports. One of them currently engaging its attention is to examine all issues concerning scientific data available in the country. To start with, geographical data was chosen for study. The consensus that emerged after detailed deliberations by a panel and discussions with the scientific community is that the Government should follow a policy of letting data acquired at public expense conveniently accessible to the public except when clearly understood security considerations demand at cost to other institutions in India and abroad. that access be restricted. This report is now being sent to appropriate agencies in the (d) Academy has acquired a small plot of land Government. near the HMT campus in Bangalore, about 6 km north of the main Academy campus. A (b) Academy has occasionally been bringing out three-storey building comprising guest rooms a variety of special publications, often to for housing Fellows, teacher and student commemorate specific events. To advertise visitors is nearing completion and will be ready and market such publications more effectively, for use by around September 2002. This a memorandum of facility will greatly ease many summer understanding was operations, including housing teachers and signed with M/s students during summer fellowship visits to Universities Press Bangalore, and teacher invitees to the Mid- Limited, an affiliate of M/s Year Meetings. It will also supplement the Orient Longmans existing Academy guest house facility. (Hyderabad). Some of the volumes include special collections of Resonance articles tied together by a common theme. The publications so far brought out under this issues of topical interest are frequently brought NEW FELLOWS out and subscriptions have more or less been maintained; however overseas subscriptions have Since 1996, 163 new Fellows have joined the declined, a trend seen worldwide. Academy. Also elected were 10 Honorary Fellows and 47 Associates. Annexure 3 lists their names. During this period, the Academy also lost a number ANNUAL MEETINGS of distinguished Fellows and Honorary Fellows. Their names appear in Annexure 4. The Academy annual meetings have of late attained a distinctive character with a mixture of special lectures and public lectures interspersed DISCUSSION with microsymposia and presentations by new MEETINGS Fellows and Associates. The participation of invited teachers from various parts of the country Fellows might recall that the Academy bought a has led to greater interaction with the fellowship time-share from the Orange County Resorts in and has added to the importance of these Coorg in Karnataka under which Academy meetings. The excellent hospitality by organizers discussion has also contributed to greater participation of meetings Fellows in the annual meetings. can be organized Since the last Patrika, the annual meetings have twice every been held in Chennai (1995, hosts: IIT/CLRI/ year for a IGCAR); Jodhpur (1996, Defence Laboratory); maximum Hyderabad (1997, IICT/CCMB/NGRI); Kottayam of 25 (1998, Mahatma Gandhi University); Lucknow participants. (1999, CDRI); Goa (2000, NIO/Univ. of Goa); Details can be had from the Academy Office. and Tirupati (2001, S.V. University). Proposals from Fellows to hold meetings are welcome. So far 13 discussion meetings have been held at Orange County. The list appears as Annexure 5. MID-YEAR MEETINGS

The mid-year meetings have been held every year PUBLICATION in July in the Indian Institute of Science, ACTIVITIES Bangalore.

The eleven journals continued to be published. Rigorous refereeing and reasonably good production standards continue to be maintained. Except for a couple of journals which suffer from insufficient manuscript submissions, all the other journals appear with unfailing regularity. Special Resonance Internet Software Collection ACADEMY PUBLIC for Chemists LECTURES This collection of softwares in a CD ROM was an offshoot of discussions between the authors, Prof. A G Samuelson and Prof. regarding chemistry Several public lectures have been held in related software. They have been involved in helping Bangalore during the last seven years. A list chemistry departments with computer related problems appears as Annexure 6. and have felt the need for a local collection of software that can be accessed through a CD or via the local intranet. The vagaries of the net make a search for RAMAN PROFESSORS suitable software and subsequent downloads very frustrating. This collection would also eliminate (a) multiple downloads of the same file and (b) the hidden Distinguished scientists who have visited India as expense in terms of time and bandwidth. To broaden Raman Professors since 1996 are: the scope many softwares used by a chemist such as browsers, html editors, pdf readers and the like have Herman Bondi (Cambridge, Dec. 1995–Feb. 1996) been included. Softwares have been classified into B.I. Halperin (Harvard, Sept.–Oct. 1996) various categories and the CD has a search program and an index with keywords. Dan P. McKenzie (Cambridge, Feb.–April 1997) Please contact the Academy office for ordering the CD. T.N. Krishnamurti (Florida, Dec. 1998 and Dec. 1999) Itamar Procaccia (Rehovot, Israel, Feb.–Mar. 2001) Albert J. Libchaber (Rockefeller, Oct.–Nov. 2001) CONCLUSION

This issue of Patrika, marking its revival after many years, has become somewhat long. There has been a great deal to catch up with. We fervently Herman Bondi hope that hereafter Patrika will appear regularly. As the preceding pages show, over the past few years two major new lines of activity have been D.P. McKenzie added to the Academy’s traditional roles: strengthening links with the science teacher and student communities in the country, and adapting its publication activity to the new electronic T.N. Krishnamurti medium. The latter is essentially inescapable. In each of these efforts, full participation by the Fellowship is vital for doing things well and making a worthwhile contribution to the educational and research scenes in the country. Of course we will Itamar Procaccia undertake, after careful consideration, only those activities in these areas where we feel confident of doing well, given our human and material resources. Till the next issue, then... Albert J. Libchaber – N. Mukunda ANNEXURE 1 (3) Butterflies of Peninsular India D. Pandey, BHU, Varanasi Krushnamegh Kunte, pp. 300 R. Pandit, IISc, Bangalore Ram Sagar, Nainital Observatory List of Refresher Courses (4) Probability and statistics – Echoes S. Ramakrishnan, TIFR, Mumbai held so far from Resonance S. Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore Editors: Mohan Delampady, T. A.P. Rao, IUCAA, Pune (1) Instructional school on linear Krishnan and S. Ramasubramanian, E.V. Sampathkumaran, TIFR, Mumbai algebra, Panjab University, pp 1–201 M.K. Sanyal, SINP, Kolkata Chandigarh, 6–18 December 1999 Diptiman Sen, IISc, Bangalore (5) Mathematical analysis – Echoes K.P. Singh, TIFR, Mumbai (2) Refresher course in Animal from Resonance Science, Karnatak University, Editors: V. Pati and A. Sitaram, pp. CHEMISTRY Dharwad, 1–15 June 2000 1–142 Anil Kumar, NCL, Pune (3) Winter school on modern biology, D. Basavaiah, University of Hyderabad IICB, Kolkata, 6–17 November 2000 P.K. Bharadwaj, IIT, Kanpur ANNEXURE 3 S. Bhattacharya, IISc, Bangalore (4) Refresher course in theoretical K. Bhattacharyya, IACS, Kolkata physics, Bishop Moore College, Fellows/Honorary Fellows/ T.K. Chandrashekar, IIT, Kanpur Mavelikara, 6–18 November 2000 Associates Elected since 1996 P.K. Chattaraj, IIT, Kharagpur S. Ghosh, IACS, Kolkata M.K. Gurjar, NCL, Pune (5) Refresher course in Genetics and Fellows Evolution, University of Mysore, M.S. Hegde, IISc, Bangalore Mysore, 10–22 September 2001 K.C. Kumaraswamy, Univ. of Hyderabad MATHEMATICS U. Maitra, IISc, Bangalore (6) Refresher course in Experimental B.G. Maiya, University of Hyderabad Adimurthi, TIFR Centre, Bangalore P. Mathur, IIT, Mumbai Physics, Goa Univerisity, Goa, Oct. B. Bagchi, ISI, Bangalore 29 to Nov. 12, 2001 M.K. Mishra, IIT, Mumbai R.B. Bapat, ISI, New Delhi R.N. Mukherjee, IIT, Kanpur S.M. Bhatwadekar, TIFR, Mumbai (7) Refresher course in Theoretical G.V. Nair, RRL, Trivandrum M.K. Ghosh, IISc, Bangalore S. Pal, NCL, Pune Physics, Univerisity of Hyderabad, G. Misra, ISI, Bangalore Hyderabad, 18–30 November 2001 R. Ramaraj, MKU, Madurai R. Mukerjee, IIM, Kolkata S. Sarkar, IIT, Kanpur K.H. Paranjape, IMSc, Chennai Murali Sastry, NCL, Pune (8) Instructional school on Linear T.R. Ramadas, TIFR, Mumbai algebra, Harish-Chandra Research Y.D. Vankar, IIT, Kanpur S. Ramasubramanian, ISI, Bangalore A.K. Singh, IIT, Mumbai Institute, Allahabad, 3–15 S. Thangavelu, ISI, Bangalore December 2001 M. Vairamani, IICT, Hyderabad Ushadevi N. Bhosle, TIFR, Mumbai S. Vasudevan, IISc, Bangalore M. Vanninathan, TIFR Centre, Bangalore S. Yashonath, IISc, Bangalore (9) Refresher Course in Mathematics – T.N. Venkataramana, TIFR, Mumbai Workshop on analysis, probability S.L. Yadava, TIFR Centre, Bangalore and statistics, C.M.S. College, ENGINEERING Kottayam, 10–22 December 2001 PHYSICS G.V. Anand, IISc, Bangalore Baldev Raj, IGCAR, Kalpakkam S. Ananthakrishnan, NCRA, Pune P.P. Chakrabarti, IIT, Kharagpur H.M. Antia, TIFR, Mumbai ANNEXURE 2 A. Ghosh. IIT, Kanpur S. Banerjee, TIFR, Mumbai S.K. Ghosh, TIFR, Mumbai S.V. Bhat, IISc, Bangalore A. Kakodkar, AEC, Mumbai Academy Publications in S.M. Bhattacharjee, IOP, Bhubaneswar D.V. Khakhar, IIT, Mumbai collaboration with Universities B.K. Chakrabarti, SINP, Kolkata M.G. Kulkarni, NCL, Pune Press S. Chaturvedi, University of Hyderabad V. Kumaran, IISc, Bangalore S.R. Das, TIFR, Mumbai A.K. Mallik, IIT, Kanpur S.V. Dhurandhar, IUCAA, Pune (1) Percolation theory and particle T.G.K. Murty, ISRO, Bangalore A.K. Grover, TIFR, Mumbai systems R. Narasimhan, IISc, Bangalore A. Gurtu, TIFR, Mumbai Editor: Rahul Roy, 2000, pp 1–238 S.K. Pal, ISI, Kolkata Indrani Bose, Bose Institute, Kolkata Surendra Prasad, IIT, New Delhi A.M. Jayannavar, IOP, Bhubaneswar (2) Perspectives in structural biology Anurag Sharma, IIT, New Delhi A.S. Joshipura, PRL, Ahmedabad A volume in honour of G.N. Ashutosh Sharma, IIT, Kanpur D.G. Kanhere, University of Pune Ramachandran, September 1999, C.S. Sundar, IGCAR, Kalpakkam S. Mukhi, TIFR, Mumbai pp 1–746 Vijay Chandru, IISc, Bangalore R. Nagarajan, TIFR, Mumbai N. Nitsure, TIFR, Mubai MEDICINE GENERAL BIOLOGY Associates S.K. Acharya, AIIMS, New Delhi S. Adhya, IICB, Kolkata K.A. Balasubramanian, CMC Hospital, Manju Bansal, IISc, Bangalore MATHEMATICS Vellore M.K. Basu, IICB, Kolkata A.G. Bhatt, ISI, New Delhi Rajani A. Bhisey, Mumbai Sudha Bhattacharya, JNU, New Delhi B.V.R. Bhat, ISI, Bangalore Chitra Sarkar, AIIMS, New Delhi P. Chakrabarti, Bose Institute, Kolkata C.B. Khare, TIFR, Mumbai B.C. Das, Insttitute of Cytology & A. Chattopadhyay, CCMB, Hyderabad E.K. Narayanan, ISI, Bangalore Preventive Oncology, New Delhi V.S. Chauhan, ICGEB, New Delhi Arvind N. Nair, TIFR, Mumbai S.V. Gangal, CBT, New Delhi C.K. Das Gupta, University of Calcutta Arupkumar Pal, ISI, New Delhi N.R. Jagannathan, AIIMS, New Delhi A.K. Datta, IICB, Kolkata R. Sridharan, TIFR, Mumbai A. Jayakrishnan, SCTIMST, Trivandrum Katuri Datta, JNU, New Delhi V. Suresh, TIFR, Mumbai Madhu Dikshit, CDRI, Lucknow A. Ghosh, IMTECH, Chandigarh I. Mittra, Tata Memorial Hospital, S.K. Gupta, NII, New Delhi PHYSICS Mumbai S. Jameel, ICGEB, New Delhi Y.D. Sharma, AIIMS, New Delhi G. Krishnamoorthy, TIFR, Mumbai V.K. Aswal, BARC, Mumbai Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, National S. Mayor, NCBS, Bangalore Abhishek Dhar, RRI, Bangalore Brain Research Centre, New Delhi Ch. Mohan Rao, CCMB, Hyderabad M. Krishnamurthy, TIFR, Mumbai V. Nagaraja, IISc, Bangalore G.I. Menon, TIFR, Mumbai EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCES Rajendra Prasad, JNU, New Delhi P.K. Mukherjee, SINP, Kolkata Pratima Sinha, Bose Institute, Kolkata A.K. Pati, BARC, Mumbai S. Dasgupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Somdatta Sinha, CCMB, Hyderabad P.S. Ramkumar, RRI, Bangalore M. Dileep Kumar, NIO, Goa S. Roy, Bose Institute, Kolkata R. Rangarajan, PRL, Ahmedabad B.N. Goswami, IISc, Bangalore G. Sahni, IMTECH, Chandigarh R. Srianand, IUCAA, Pune A.K. Kamra, IITM, Pune D.M. Salunke, NII, New Delhi Sucheta Koshti, TIFR, Mumbai K.S. Krishna, NIO, Goa K. Sankara Rao, IISc, Bangalore U.V. Waghmare, JNCASR, Bangalore Shyam Lal, PRL, Ahmedabad V.P. Sharma, Malaria Research Centre Anand Mohan, BHU, Varanasi New Delhi CHEMISTRY S.V.S. Murty, PRL, Ahmedabad Namita Surolia, JNCASR, Bangalore P.C. Pandey, National Centre for Antarctic , JNU, New Delhi J.B. Udgaonkar, NCBS, Bangalore & Ocean Research, Goa F.A. Khan, IIT, Kanpur U. Varshney, IISc, Bangalore T. Radhakrishna, CESS, Trivandrum Ram Seshadri, IISc, Bangalore K. VijayRaghavan, NCBS, Bangalore S.S. Rai, NGRI, Hyderabad Srabani Taraphder, IIT, Kharagpur Sraswati Vishveshwara, IISc, Bangalore R. Ramesh, PRL, Ahmedabad R. Varadarajan, IISc, Bangalore P.B. Rao, National MST Radar Facility, ENGINEERING Tirupati Honorary Fellows M. Agrawal, IIT, Kanpur M.M. Sarin, PRL, Ahmedabad P. Dasgupta, IIT, Kharagpur A.K. Singhvi, PRL, Ahmedabad A. Ghosh, ISI, Kolkata P.W. Anderson, Princeton University, New D.C. Srivastava, University of Roorkee S.K. Gupta, IISc, Bangalore Jersey R. Hariharan, IISc, Bangalore Abhay Ashtekar, Pennsylvania State ANIMAL SCIENCES V. Kumaran, IISc, Bangalore University A.K. Lele, NCL, Pune S. Bhattacharya, IICB, Kolkata Hermann Bondi, Churchill College, V.V. Patel, CAIR, Bangalore A.P. Gore, University of Pune Cambridge V.B. Shenoy, IIT, Kanpur Amitabh Joshi, JNCASR, Bangalore Anthony K. Cheetham, University of K.N. Sivarajan, IISc, Bangalore P.P. Majumder, ISI, Kolkata California at Santa Barbara, California G. Marimuthu, MKU, Madurai C. Cohen-Tanoudji, College de France, EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES K. Muralidhar, University of Delhi Paris T.C. Narendran, University of Calicut Michael E. Fisher, University of Maryland A. Manglik, NGRI, Hyderabad R. Raman, BHU, Varanasi Olivier Kahn, University of Bordeaux, J.S. Ray, PRL, Ahmedabad R. Sukumar, IISc, Bangalore Pessac * S.K. Satheesh, IISc, Bangalore M.G. Watve, Garware College, Pune David A. King, University of Cambridge Robert K. O’Nions, University of Oxford PLANT SCIENCES Jacob Palis, The Institute for Pure & D. Pental, UDSC, New Delhi Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro A.S. Raghavendra, University of H.W. Roesky, University of Göttingen Hyderabad Bill Sutherland, University of Utah R.R. Rao, NBRI, Lucknow E.P.J. van den Heuvel, University of M. Snajappa, BSI, Kolkata Amsterdam H.S. Shetty, University of Mysore Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of R. Tuli, NBRI, Lucknow Technology K. Veluthambi, MKU, Madurai * Since deceased LIFE SCIENCES , Chennai (8) Contemporary issues in olfaction N.A. Narasimham, Mumbai 28 November–2 December 1998 R. Banerjee, SINP, Kolkata S. Narayanaswamy, Chennai L. Geetha, JNCASR, Bangalore K.A.V. Pandalai, Chennai (9) Stochastic differential equations P. Guptasarma, IMTECH, Chandigarh D.D. Pant, Allahabad and their applications Inderjit, University of Delhi, Delhi R.C. Paul, Chandigarh 2–7 December 1998 Saman Habib, CDRI, Lucknow G.N. Ramachandran, Chennai M.S. Inamdar, JNCASR, Bangalore V. Ramalingaswami, New Delhi (10) Monsoons: Past, present and future Amitabh Joshi, JNCASR, Bangalore G.S. Ramaswamy, Chennai 20–22 November 1997 V.K. Sharma, JNCASR, Bangalore Darshan Ranganathan, Hyderabad Shubha Tole, TIFR, Mumbai S. Rangaswami, Chennai (11) Instability and transition in fluid N. Tandon, AIIMS, New Delhi B.N.B. Rao, Bangalore flows Vidita A. Vaidya, TIFR, Mumbai T.S. Sadasivan, Chennai 22–25 November 1996 N. Tandon, AIIMS, New Delhi A.K. Saha, Kolkata Vidita A. Vaidya, TIFR, Mumbai V.H. Salaskar, Mumbai (12) High redshift universe C.J. Saldanha, Bangalore 23–27 February 1997 I.G. Sarma, Bangalore ANNEXURE 4 S.M. Shah, Ohio, USA (13) Comparative planetology M.R. Siddiqi, Islamabad, Pakistan 1–4 March 1997 Fellows Deceased since 1996 Surjit Singh, Chennai S.K. Sinha, New Delhi V. Agnihothrudu, Bangalore A. Sreenivasan, Bangalore ANNEXURE 6 F. Ahmad, Lucknow P.V. Sukhatme, Pune V.C. Anguli, Chennai R.N. Tandon, Delhi Public Lectures at Bangalore R. Ananthakrishnan, Pune H.J. Taylor, Edinburgh, Scotland K.R. Anantharamaiah, Bangalore B.V. Thosar, Mumbai (1) Crystallization of membrane B.K. Bachhawat, New Delhi B.D. Tilak, Pune proteins: Routes and R.R. Bahadur, Delhi C.S. Vaidyanathan, Bangalore achievements D.V. Bal, Pune G.S. Venkataraman, Chennai Hartmut Michel, Max-Planck V. Baliah, Chennai P. Venkateswarlu, Alabama, USA Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt- W.V. Bhagavat,Ujjain M.A. Viswamitra, Bangalore am-Main, Germany P.K. Bhattacharyya, Kolkata 22 April 2002 C. Chandrasekaran, Bangalore S. Chandrasekhar, Illinois, USA ANNEXURE 5 (2) J.D. Bernal: His legacy to science V.R. Chariar, Bangalore and to society P.N. Chhuttani, Chandigarh Discussion Meetings at Allan L. Mackay, Birkbeck College, I.C. Chopra, New Delhi Orange County London, UK J. 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