Appendix I - Publications

PAPERS IN JOURNALS d imeric compounds 1 Nanoparticle induced d irector d istortion Kundu, Brindaban*; Pal, Santanu Kumar*; and d isorder in l iquid crystal-nanoparticle Kumar, Sandeep; Pratibha R; d ispersions Madhusudana NV Gupta, Meenal; Satpathy, Ipsita*; Roy, Arun; Physical Review E 82, 061703, 2010 Pratibha R 8 Liquid-crystal nanoscience: an emerging Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 352, avenue of soft self-assembly 292, 2010 Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Kumar, Sandeep 2 Photosensitive phasmid-l ike l iquid Chemical Society Reviews 40, 306, 2011 crystall ine materials with unusual 9 Enhancement of the d isplay parameters of mesomorphic behaviour 42 -pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl due to the Nagaveni, Nagendrappa Gowdru*; Gupta, d ispersion of functional ised gold nano Meenal; Roy, Arun; Prasad, Veena* particles Journal of Materials Chemistry 20, 9089, 2010 Pandey, Abhay S*; Dhar R*; Kumar, Sandeep; 3 Occurrence of transition between two polar Dabrowski R* orthogonal smectic phases in new Liquid Crystals 38, 115, 2011 homologous series of novel bent-core 10 The first examples of discotic l iquid compounds crystall ine gemini surfactants Radhika S; Sadashiva BK; Pratibha R Kumar, Sandeep; Gupta, Satyam Kumar Liquid Crystals 37, 417, 2010 Tetrahedron Letters 51, 5459, 2010 4 Critical behaviour at transitions from uniaxial 11 Stress-strain relation in the collapse of to biaxial phases in a smectic l iquid-crystal Langmuir monolayer of a d imer of d isk mixture shaped moiety Sasaki, Y*; Ema K*; Le KV*; Takezoe H*; Kumar, Bharat; Suresh KA; Gupta, Satyam Dhara, Surajit*; Sadashiva BK Kumar; Kumar, Sandeep Physical Review E 82, 011709, 2010 Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 044701, 2010 5 Stable amorphous blue phase of bent-core 12 Microemulsion phase as a medium for nematic l iquid crystals doped with a chiral electrodeposition of nickel and electron- material transfer study of ferrocyanide-ferricyanide Taushanoff, Stefanie*; Van Le, Khoa*; redox system Will iams, Jarrod*; Twieg, Robert J*; Ganesh V*; Lakshminarayanan V Sadashiva BK; Takezoe, Hideo*; Jakl i, Antal* Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 349, Journal of Materials Chemistry 20, 5893, 2010 300, 2010 6 Stress relaxation in aging soft colloidal 13 Enhanced electrocatalytic activity of Pd- glasses d ispersed3,4-polyethylened ioxythiophen Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini; Mohan, P Harsha; film Joshi, Yogesh M* Pandey, Rakesh K; Lakshminarayanan V Soft Matter 6, 1462, 2010 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114, 8507, 7 Splay and bend elastic constants in the 2010 nematic phase of some d isulfide bridged 94 APPENDIX 14 Temperature- and electric-field-induced 23 Heat conduction in d isordered harmonic inverse Freedericksz transition in a lattices with energy-conserving noise nematogen with weak surface anchoring Dhar, Abhishek; Venkateshan K*; Kumar, Arun T*; Sathyanarayana P*; Sastry Lebowitz JL* VSS*; Takezoe, Hideo*; Madhusudana NV; Physical Review E 83, 021108, 2011 Dhara, Surajit* 24 Appl ication of importance sampl ing to the Physical Review E 82, 011701, 2010 computation of large deviations in 15 4-Decylphenyl 4-benzyloxy 3-methyl- nonequil ibrium processes benzoate Kundu, Anupam; Sabhapand it, Sanjib; Dhar, Arunkashi HK*; Palakshamurthy BS*; Abhishek Vahini,Vindu M*; Srinivasa HT; Physical Review E 83, 031119, 2011 Devarajegowda HC* 25 Heat conduction and phonon local isation in Acta Crystallographica E 66, 02126, 2010 d isordered harmonic crystals 16 4-Ethoxyphenyl 4-[(methoxycarbonyl)-oxy] Kundu, Anupam ; Chaudhuri, A*; Roy D*; benzoate Dhar, Abhishek; Lebowitz JL*; Spohn H* Srinivasa HT; Devarajegowda HC*; Europhysics Letters 90, 40001, 2010 Arunkashi HK*; Meenakshi TG* 26 Non-local Pancharatnam phase in two- Acta Crystallographica E 66, 03074, 2010 photon interferometry 17 The role of the Cytoskeleton in volume Mehta, Poonam; Samuel, Joseph; Sinha, regulation and beading transitions in PC12 Supurna neurites Physical Review A 82, 034102, 2010 Fernandez, Pablo*; Pullarkat, Pramod A 27 Interplay of energy dependent astrophysical Biophysical Journal 99, 3571, 2010 neutrino flavor ratios and new physics effects 18 Chiral symmetry breaking in crystals of Mehta, Poonam; Winter, Walter* achiral polymers Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Hatwalne, Yashodhan; Muthukumar M* Physics 03, 041, 2011 Physical Review Letters 105, 107801, 2010 28 Head-on infall of two compact objects: Third 19 Time autocorrelation function and Green- post-Newtonian energy flux Kubo formula: Study on a d isordered Mishra, Chandrakant; Iyer BR harmonic chain Physical Review D 82, 104005, 2010 Kundu, Anupam 29 Parametrized tests of post-Newtonian theory Physical Review E 82, 031131, 2010 using advanced LIGO and Einstein telescope 20 Polymer quantization of the free scalar field Mishra, Chandrakanth; Arun KG*; Iyer BR; and its classical l imit Sathyaprakash BS* Laddha, Alok; Varadarajan, Madhavan Physical Review D 82, 064010, 2010 Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 175010, 30 Spherical harmonic modes of 5.5 post- 2010 Newtonian gravitational wave polarizations 21 Energy current magnification in coupled and associated factorized resummed oscillator loops waveforms for a particle in circular orbit Marathe, Rahul; Dhar, Abhishek; around a Schwarzschild black hole Jayannavar AM* Fujita, Ryuichi+; Iyer BR Physical Review E 82, 031117, 2010 Physical Review D 82, 044051, 2010 22 Linear-response formula for finite-frequency 31 AIGO : a southern hemisphere detector for thermal conductance of open systems the worldwide array of ground-based Dhar, Abhishek; Narayan, Onuttom*; Kundu, interferometric gravitational wave detectos Anupam; Saito, Keiji* Barriga P*; Blair DG*; Coward D*; Iyer BR; Physical Review E 83, 011101, 2011 and 41+ co-authors Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084005, 2010

95 32 Large deviations of heat flow in harmonic 42 Threshold nonl inear absorption in Zeeman chains transitions Kundu, Anupam; Sabhapand it, Sanjib; Dhar, Narayananan, Andal; Hazra, Abheera*; Abhishek Sandhya SN* J. Stat. Mech. P03007 (2011) Journal of Physics B 43, 215502, 2010 33 Hamiltonian constraint in polymer 43 Rubidium dimers in paraffin-coated cells parametrized field theory Acosta VM*; Jarmola A*; Windes D*; Laddha, Alok; Varadarajan, Madhavan Corsini E*; Ledbetter MP*; Karaulanov T*; Physical Review D 83, 025019, 2011 Auzinsh M*; Rangwala SA; Kimball, 34 Post-Newtonian factorized multipolar Jackson DF*; Budker D* waveforms for spinning, nonprecessing New Journal of Physics 12, 083054, 2010 black-hole binaries 44 Investigation of antirelaxation coatings for Pan, Yi*; Buonanno, Alessandra*; Fujita, alkal i-metal vapour cells using surface Ryuichi; Racine, Etienne*; Tagoshi, science techniques Hideyuki* Seltzer SJ*; Michalak DJ*; Donaldson MH*; Physical Review D 83, 064003, 2011 Balabas MV*; Rangwala SA; and 15+ co- 35 DECIGO and DECIGO pathfinder authors Ando, Masaki*; Fujita, Ryuichi+; et al Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 144703, 2010 Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084010, 45 Transverse laser cool ing of a thermal atomic 2010 beam of dysprosium 36 Competition between fold ing and Leefer N*; Cingoz A*; Gerber-Siff B*; aggregation in a model for protein solutions Sharma, Arijit; Torgerson JR; Budker D* Maiti M*; Rao, Madan; Sastry S* Physical Review A 81, 043427, 2010 European Physical Journal E 32, 217, 2010 46 Entanglement and nonclassical ity for 37 Nonaffine heterogeneities and droplet multimode rad iation-field states fluctuations in an equil ibrium crystall ine Ivan, Solomon J; Chaturved i S*; Ercolessi E*; sol id Marmo G*; Morand i G*; Mukunda N*; Das, Tamoghna*; Sengupta, Surajit*; Simon R* Rao, Madan Physical Review A 83, 032118, 2011 Physical Review E 82, 041115, 2010 47 Nonl inear optical studies on a new poly2- 38 On extend ing the quantum measure (biphenyl-4-yl)-5-[3,4-d idecyloxy-5-(1,3,4- Dowker, Fay*; Johnston, Steven*; Surya, oxad iazol-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl]-1,3,4- Sumati oxad iazole Journal of Physics A 43, 505305, 2010 Hegde PK*; Adhikari AV*; Manjunatha MG*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji 39 Quantum covers in quantum measure theory Materials Science Forum 659, 56, 2010 Surya, Sumati; Wallden, Petros Foundations of Physics 40, 585, 2010 48 Mixing does the magic: a rapid synthesis of high surface area noble metal nanosponges 40 Directional optical switch using interacting showing broadband nonl inear optical dark states response Narayanan, Andal; Madathil, Preethi Krishna, Katla Sai*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Thekkile*; Manjappa, Manukumara* Phil ip, Reji; Eswaramoorthy, Muthusamy* Journal of the Optical Society of America A 27, ACS Nano 4, 2681, 2010 1778, 2010 49 Optical nonl inearity in NiFe2O4 nanoparticles 41 Tracking interacting dark states through Sridharan, Kishore ; Agarwal, Milan*; Phil ip, higher order absorption resonances Jacob*; Endo, Tamio*; Phil ip, Reji Madathil, Preethi Thekkile*; Manjappa, Transactions of the Materials Research Society Manukumara*; Narayananan, Andal of Japan 35, 159, 2010 European Physical Journal D 60, 389, 2010 96 APPENDIX 50 Synthesis, characterisation of N,N’-bis(2- 56 Mod ified collaborative coefficient: a new hydroxynaphthal idene) phenylene-1,2- measure for quantifying the degree of d iamine with M(II)(M = Ni, Zn and Fe) Schiff- research collaboration base complexes and their non-l inear optical Savanur, Kiran P; Srikanth R stud ies by z-scan technique Scientometrics, 84, 365, 2010 Sampath Kumar HC*; Bhat B Ramachandra*; 57 Complementarity in generic open quantum Rudresha BJ*; Ravindra R*; Phil ip, Reji systems Chemical Physics Letters 494, 95, 2010 Banerjee, Subhashish*; Srikanth R 51 Novel poly(3,4-d ialkoxythiophene)s carrying Modern Physics Letters B 24, 2485, 2010 1,3,4-oxad iazolyl-biphenyl moieties: 58 2N qubit “mirror states” for optimal quantum synthesis and nonl inear optical stud ies communication Hegde PK*; Adhikari AV*; Manjunatha Mural idharan S*; Karumanchi S*; Jain S*; MG*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji Srikanth R; Panigrahi PK Polymer International 60, 112, 2010 European Physical Journal D 61, 757, 2011 52 Effect of cadmium oxide incorporation on 59 Evidence for surface states in pristine and the microstructural and optical properties of Co-doped ZnO nanostructures: pulsed laser deposited nanostructured zinc magnetization and nonl inear optical oxide thin films stud ies Vinodkumar R*; Lethy KJ*; Arunkumar PR*; Podila, Ramakrishna*; Anand, Benoy*; West, Krishnan, Renju R*; Pillai, N Venugopalan*; Palmer J*; Phil ip, Reji; and 6+ co-authors Pillai, VP Mahadevan*; Phil ip, Reji Nanotechnology 22, 095703, 2011 Materials Chemistry and Physics 121, 406, 2010 60 Room temperature ferromagnetism and optical l imiting in v2o5 nanoflowers 53 Nonl inear Optical Stud ies on New synthesized by a Novel method Conjugated Poly{2,2l-(3,4- Parida, Manas R*; Vijayan C*; Rout CS*; d ialkoxythiophene-2,5-d iyl)bis[5-(2-thienyl)- Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji; 1,3,4-oxad iazole]}s Deshmukh PC* Hegde, Pramod Kumar; Adhikari AV; Journal of Physical Chemistry C 115, 112, 2011 Manjunatha MG; Suchand Sandeep CS; Phil ip, Reji 61 Tunabil ity of third order nonl inear absorption in (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O thin films Journal of Applied Polymer Science 117, 2641 3 (2010) Ambika D*; Kumar, Viswanathan*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji 54 Synthesis, characterisation and nonl inear Applied Physics Letters 98, 011903, 2011 optical properties of 2-[(E)-2-(4- ethoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-1-methylquinol inium 62 Optical l imiting properties of CdS 4-substitutedbenzenesulfonate compounds nanowires Ruanwas, Pumsak*; Kobkeatthawin, Muthukumar, Sai V*; Reppert J*; Sandeep, Tawanrat*; Chantrapromma, Suchada*; Suchand CS; Rama Krishnan, Siva S*; Pod ila Phil ip, Reji; Smijesh N; Padaki, Mahesh*; R*; Kuthirummal N*; Siva Sankara S*; Isloor, Arun M* Venkataramaniah K*; Phil ip, Reji; Rao AM* Synthetic Metals 160, 819, 2010 Optics Communications 283, 4104, 2010 55 Synthesis and characterisation of a new 63 Optical nonl inearity in Lead Sulfide NLO-active donor-acceptor-type conjugated microtowers polymer derived from 3,4- Tamilselvan V*; Kishore, Sridharan*; d iphenylthiophene Narasimha Rao K*; Phil ip, Reji Manjunatha MG*; Adhikari AV*; Hegde Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 43, PK*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji 385402, 2010 Journal of Polymer Research 17, 495, 2010

97 64 Spectrally broadened excitonic absorption Bambardeka K*; Basu H*; Dharmadhikari and enhanced optical nonl inearities in Dy3+- JA*; Sharma S*; Mathur D* doped ZnO nanoparticles Nanotechnology 21, 245102, 2010 Karthikeyan B*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; 71 Quantumness in a decoherent quantum walk Pand iyarajan T*; Venkatesan P*; Phil ip, Reji using measurement-induced disturbance Applied Physics A 102, 115, 2011 Srikanth R; Banerjee, Subhashish*; 65 Highly conductive and transparent laser Chandrasekhar CM* ablated nanostructured Al:ZnO thin films Physical Review A 81, 062123, 2010 Vinodkumar R*; Navas I*; Chalana SR*; 72 Relationship between quantum walks and Gopchandran KG*; Ganesan V*; Phil ip, Reji; relativistic quantum mechanics Sudheer, SK*; Pillai, Mahadevan VP* Chandrashekar, CM*; Banerjee, Subhashish*; Applied Surface Science 257, 708, 2010 Srikanth R 66 A new nonl inear optically active donor- Physical Review A 81, 062340, 2010 acceptor-type conjugated polymer : 73 Complementarity in atomic and oscillator Synthesis and electrochemical and optical systems characterisation Srikanth R; Banerjee, Subhashish* Manjunatha MG*; Adhikari AV*; Hegde PK*; Physics Letters A 374, 3147, 2010 Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji Journal of Electronic Materials 39, 2711, 2010 74 Spectral index stud ies of the diffuse rad io emission in Abell 2256: impl ications for 67 Synthesis, next term characterisation and merger activity third-order nonl inear optical stud ies of Kale, Ruta; Dwarakanath KS copper complexes containing 1,10- Astrophysical Journal 718, 939, 2010 phenanthrol ine-5,6-d ione and triphenylphosphine l igands 75 Carbon ionization states and the cosmic far- Rudresha BJ*; Bhata, Ramachandra*; UV background with Heii absorption Sampath, Kumara HC*; Shiva, Kumara KI*; Vasil iev, Evgenii*; Sethi SK; Nath, Biman B Safakath, K*; Phil ip, Reji Astrophysical Journal 719, 1343, 2010 Synthetic Metals 161, 535, 2011 76 Extended X-ray emission from rad io galaxy 68 Synthesis and third order optical cocoons nonl inearity stud ies of the donor-acceptor Nath, Biman B conjugated polymer, poly(2-[3,4- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical d idodecyloxy-5-(1,3,4-oxad iazol-2- Society 407, 1998, 2010 yl)thiophen-2-yl]-5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole) 77 The Austral ia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G) and a polymer/TiO2 nanocomposite Survey: analysis of the extragalactic source Mural i MG*; Ramya MG*; Udayakumar D*; samples Lakshmi NB*; Phil ip, Reji Massard i, Marcella*; Ekers, Ronald D; Synthetic Metals 160, 2520, 2010 Subrahmanyan, Ravi and 20 co-authors 69 A new donor-acceptor type conjugative Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical poly2-[4-(1-cyanoethenyl)phenyl]-3-(3,4- Society 412, 318, 2011. d idodecyloxythiophen-2-yl)prop-2- 78 First spectroscopic imaging observations of enenitrile: Synthesis and NLO studies the sun at low rad io frequencies with the Hegde P Kumar*; Adhikari, Vasudeva A*; Murchison Widefield Array Prototype Manjunatha MG*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Oberoi, Divya*; Prabu T; Vedantham, Harish; Phil ip, Reji Gopalakrishna MR; Madhavi S; Roshi, D Synthetic Metals 160, 1712, 2010 Anish; Udaya Shankar N; Srivani KS; 70 Optical-tweezer-induced microbubbles as Subrahmanyan, Ravi; and co-authors scavengers of carbon nanotubes Astrophysical Journal Letters 728, L27, 2011 Ramachandran, Hema; Dharmadhikari AK*;

98 APPENDIX 79 Test continuity with an LED Raichur, Harsha; Paul, Biswajit Badd i, Raju R Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical EDN 56, 47, 2011 Society 406, 2663, 2010 80 Centaurus A: morphology and kinematics of 89 Possible use of self-cal ibration to reduce the atomic hydrogen systematic uncertainties in determining Struve C*; Oosterloo TA*; Morganti R*; d istance-redshift relation via gravitational Saripall i L rad iation from merging binaries Astronomy and Astrophysics 515, A67, 2010 Saini TD*; Sethi SK; Sahni, Varun* 81 The shear dynamo problem for small Physical Review D 81, 103009, 2010 magnetic Reynolds numbers 90 Two-dimensional homography-based Sridhar S; Singh, Nishant K correction of positional errors in widefield Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 664, 265, 2010 MRT images 82 Supermassive Black hole formation at high Nayak, Arvind; Daiboo, Soobash*; Udaya Redshifts through a primord ial magnetic Shankar N field Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Sethi, Shiv K; Haiman, Zoltan*; Pandey, Society 408, 1061, 2010 Kanhaiya 91 Interferometric imaging with the 32 element Astrophysical Journal 721, 615, 2010 Murchison wide-field array 83 Primord ial magnetic field l imits from Ord SM*; Deshpande AA; Gopalakrishna MR; cosmological data Kamini PA; Madhavi S; Prabu T; Roshi, D Kahniashvil i, Tina*; Tevzadze, Alexander G*; Anish; Udaya Shankar N; Srivani KS; and 50+ Sethi SK; Pandey, Kanhaiya; Ratra, Bharat* co-authors Physical Review D 82, 083005, 2010 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 122, 1353, 2010 84 Bandwidth in Bolometric Interferometry Charlassier R; Bunn EF; J-Ch. Hamilton; 92 Direction dependence in supernova data: Kaplan J; Malu, S constraining isotropy Astronomy & Astrophysics, 514, A37, 2010 Gupta, Shashikanth; Saini, Tarun Deep* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 85 Slow m = 1 instabil ities of softened gravity Society 407, 651, 2010 Keplerian d iscs Sridhar S; Saini TD* 93 Flares, broadening of the pulse-frequency Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical peak, and quasi-period ic oscillations in the Society 404, 527, 2010 transient X-ray pulsar 4U 1901+03 James, Marykutty+; Paul, Biswajit ; Devasia, 86 Comparative study of different scattering Jincy; Indulekha, Kavila* geometries for the proposed Ind ian X-ray Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical polarization measurement experiment using Society 410, 1489, 2010 Geant4 Vadawale SV*; Paul, Biswajit; Pendharkar J*; 94 New measurement of orbital and spin period Naik, Sachindra* evolution of the accretion disc corona source Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics 4U 1822-37 Research A 618, 182, 2010 Jain, Chetana; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 87 Discovery of a 0.02 Hz QPO feature in the Society 409, 755, 2010 transient X-ray pulsar KS 1947+300 James, Marykutty; Paul, Biswajit; Devasia, 95 Variations in the X-ray ecl ipse transitions of Jincy; Indulekha, Kavila Cen X-3 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Devasia, Jincy*; Paul, Biswajit; James, Society 407, 285, 2010 Marykutty; Indulekha, Kavila* Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 10, 88 Apsidal motion in 4U 0115+63 and orbital 1127, 2010 parameters of 2S 1417-624 and V0332+53

99 96 Development of 1.5 THz waveguide NbTiN superconducting hot electron bolometer Books mixers 1. Chemistry of discotic l iquid crystals: from Jiang, Ling*; Shiba, Shoichi*; Shiino, monomers to polymers Tatsuya*; Shimbo, Ken*; Sakai, Nami*; Sandeep Kumar Yamakura, Tetsuya*; Irimajiri, Yoshihisa*; CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2011 Ananthasubramanian PG; Maezawa, H*; Yamamoto, Satoshi* Superconductor Science & Technology 23, Popular Articles 045025, 2010 97 Detection of extended molecular gas in the 1. Beams in Biology d isk of the LSB galaxy M al in 2 Sinha, Supurna Das, Mousumi; Boone F*; Viallefond F* Jantar Mantar, 10,18, 2010 Astonomy and Astrophysics 523, A63, 2010 2. Mirrors and merry-go-rounds 98 An X-ray bright nucleus in the low-surface- Joseph Samuel brightness galaxy UGC 6614 Resonance August, 15, p.711, 2010 Naik, Sachindra*; Das, Mousumi; Jain, 3. Vanishing sunspots Chetana; Paul, Biswajit Nath, Biman B Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Frontl ine, 4 December 2010 Society 404, 2056, 2010 99 Detection of the H92á recombination l ine from NGC 4945 In Conference Proceedings Roy AL*; Oosterloo T*; Goss WM*; 1 Westerbork ultra-deep survey of HI at z=0.2 Anantharamaiah KR Verheijen, Marc*; Deshev, Boris*; Van Astronomy and Astrophysics 517, A82, 2010 Gorkom, Jacquel ine*; Poggianti, Bianca*; 100Magnetic transport on the solar atmosphere Chung, Aeree*; Cybulski, Ryan*; by laminar and turbulent ambipolar Dwarakanath KS; Montero-Castano, Maria*; d iffusion Morrison, Glenn*; Schiminovich, David*, Hiraki Y*; Krishan V+; Masuda S* et al. Astrophysical Journal 720, 1311, 2010 Proceedings of ISKAF2010 Science Meeting: A 101 Use LEDs as photod iodes New Golden Age for Radio Astronomy, June Baddi, Raju R 10-14 2010, Assen, the Netherlands. Edited by EDN 55, 45, 2010 J. van Leeuwen 102 Logic probe uses six transistors 2 The Murchison Widefield Array Baddi, Raju R Prabu T; Daniel A. Mitchell et al, 2010 EDN 55, 46, 2010 Proceedings of Science [PoS(RFI2010)016] 103 Detect l ive ac-mains l ines 3 The Pancharatnam phase in two flavor Baddi, Raju R neutrino oscillations EDN 55, 48, 2010 Mehta, Poonam* Hamburg 2009, Lepton Photon 2009* 490- 104Install ing newgenl ib: open source l ibrary 492, 2010 automation package. http://www-l ibrary.desy.de/preparch/desy/ Anuradha KT*; Savanur, Kiran P proc/proc10-04/P5.pdf SRELS Journal of Information Management 47, 621, 2010 4 Quasi-degenerate neutrinos and maximal mixing in hybrid seesaws Chakrabortty, Joydeep; Joshipura, Anjan S; Mehta, Poonam; Vempati, Sudhir K*

100 APPENDIX Hamburg 2009, Lepton Photon 2009* 493- Universities of Karnataka 495, 2010 Gupta BM; Sangam SL; Kumbar BD; Savanur, http://www-l ibrary.desy.de/preparch/desy/ Kiran proc/proc10-04/P28.pdf 6th International Conference on Webometrics, 5 Five years of the Raman Research Institute Informetrics and Scientometrics and 11th Digital Repository: Some lessons and COLLNET Meeting, University of Mysore, reflections Mysore on October 19-22, 2010. Srinivasan, Girija; Patil YM; Manjunath M; 11 Intensity and energy dependent profiles of Savanur, Kiran P; Nagaraj MN; Benegal, transient HMXB pulsars GRO J1008-57, 1A Vrinda J; Sheshadri, Geetha 1118-61 and GX 304-1 ASP conference series Vol. 433, Library and Paul, Biswajit; Devasia, Jincy*; Maitra, Information Services in Astronomy VI. Ed by E Chandreyee; James, Marykutty*; Naik, Isaksson et al p214 Astronomical Society of the Sachindra*; Indulekha, Kavila* Pacific, 2010 The First Year of MAXI: Monitoring Variable X- 6 Open Access to Physics and Astronomy ray SourcesPoster Presentations, 4th Theses: a case study of the RRI Digital International MAXI Workshop 30 November-2 Repository December 2010 in Tokyo, Japan; Publ ication Nagaraj MN; Manjunath M; Savanur, Kiran P; date 12/2010 Geetha S 12 Defect mediated instabil ities in ASP Conference Series Ed. by Eva Isakssson et multilamellar tubules al., Proceedings of the LISA VI Conference, Bhatia, Tripta 21st Century Astronomy Librarianship: From International Soft Matter Conference 2010, New Ideas to Action,Vol. 433, P-183, 2010 Granada, Spain, 5 – 8 July 2010 7 Digital l ibrary at M.S. Ramaiah Med ical 13 An addressing technique to drive blue phase College: A case study LCDs Hemantha Kumar GH*; Nagaraj MN Ruckmongathan T N National Seminar on Management of Digital IDW’2010 Proceedings of the International Information Sources, Services and Systems, Display Workshop, p607, 2010 July 29-30, 2010 Ed by I R N Goudar et al. 14 The search for gravitational waves and the p250, RNS Institute of Technology, two body problem in general relativity Bangalore, 2010 Iyer BR 8 Mod ified collaborative coefficient Mathematics Today; Special Issue, A tribute Savanur, Kiran; Srikant R to P.C. Vaidya, 26, 72, 2011 6th International Conference on Webometrics, 15 Nonl inear properties and optical l imiting Informetrics and Scientometrics and 11th performance of SulforhodamineB doped COLLNET Meeting, University of Mysore, sil ica and polymeric matrices Mysore on October 19-22, 2010 Sharma, Sunita; Devendra, Mohan*; Ghoshal 9 Growth and impact of research output of SK*; Gupta, Umesh* Bangalore University, 1971-2010: a International Conference on Materials for scientometric study Advanced Technology Konnur PV*; Savanur, Kiran 16 Study of third order nonl inear properties of 6th International Conference on Webometrics, Rhodamine6G in sil ica matrices Informetrics and Scientometrics and 11th Sharma, Sunita; Devendra, Mohan*; COLLNET Meeting, University of Mysore, Vandana, Nasa*; Ghoshal SK* Mysore on October 19-22, 2010 International Conference on Materials for 10 Contribution and impact of Karnatak Advanced Technology University Publ ications during 1999-2008: A Comparative Study with Four other

101 17 Migrating from informal to formal 9 Randomly polarised smectic A phase consortium - COSTLI issues exhibited by bent-core molecules: Birdie, Christina*; Patil Y M experimental and theoretical stud ies ASP conference series Vol. 433, Library and Gupta, Meenal; Datta, Soma; Radhika S; Information Services in Astronomy VI. Ed by E Sadashiva BK; Roy, Arun Isaksson et al p332, Astronomical Society of Soft Matter 7, 4735, 2011 the Pacific, 2010 10 Anticl inic smectic C phase in new and novel five-ring hockey stick-shaped compounds Radhika S, Srinivasa HT; Sadashiva BK In Press Liquid Crystals 38, 6, 2011 IN JOURNALS 11 Nonl inear absorption and photoluminescence emission in 1 Tops and Writhing DNA nanocomposite films of Fuchsine Basic dye- Samuel, Joseph; Sinha, Supurna polymer system Journal of Statistical Physics 143, 399, 2011 Sreekumar G; Louie Frobel PG; Sreeja S; DOI 10.1007/s10955-011-0175-1, 2011 Suresh SR; Mayadevi S; Muneera CI; 2 Gravitational waveforms for binary block Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji; holes Mukherjee C Iyer BR Chemical Physics Letters 506, 61, 2011 International Journal of Modern Physics D 10, 12 Theory of the asymmetric ripple phase in 2081, 2011 achiral membranes 3 Gravitational waves from binary black holes Kamal, Md. Arif; Pal, Antara; Raghunathan, Iyer BR VA; Rao, Madan Pramana: Special Issue, 77, 1, 2011 Europhysics Letters 4 Record Statistics of Continuous Time 13 Temperature driven anneal ing of Random Walk perforations in bicellar model membranes Sabhapandit; Sanjib Nieh, MP*; Raghunathan VA; Pabst G; Europhysics Letters 94, 20003, 2011 Harroun, Th; Nagashima, K; Morales, H; 5 Generating function formula of heat transfer Katsaras, J; Macdonald, P in harmonic networks Langmuir 27, 4838, 2011 Saito K*; Dhar, Abhishek 14 Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer in the Physical Review E 83, 041121, 2011 semi-organic NLO material Sod ium Acid 6 Atom interferometry and the gravitational Phthalate Hemihydrate: Vibrational redshift Spectroscopy and Z-Scan Study Sinha, Supurna Sajan D; Vijayan N; Safakath K; Phil ip, Reji; Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28, 145018, Hubert JI 2011 Journal of Physical Chemistry A 7 Observation of hysteresis in the properties of 15 Photoinduced transparency of effective a ternary lyotropic l iquid crystal system three photon absorptioncoefficient for

Vijayaraghavan D femtosecond laser pulses in Ge16As29Se55 thin Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 547, films 189, 2011 Barik AR; Adarsh KV; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji; ZhaoD; Jain H 8 Magnetic susceptibil ity studies on a ternary Applied Physics Letters, 98, 201111, 2011 lyotropic l iquid crystal system Vijayaraghavan D 16 Second harmonic chalcone crystal: synthesis, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 547, growth and characterisation 181, 2011 D’Silva ED; Narayan Rao D; Phil ip, Reji; Butcher RJ; Rajnikant; Dharmaprakash SM Physica B 406, 2206, 2011 102 APPENDIX 17 Nonl inear optical properties of nanosized 25 Prospect of polarization measurements from rare-earth-doped strontium barium niobate black hole binaries in their thermal state with ceramics a scattering polarimeter Nuja J; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji; Maitra, Chandreyee; Paul, B Nandakumar K Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Spectroscopy Letters 44, 334, 2011 Society 2011 18 Design and synthesis of a new thiophene 26 Studies of quasi-period ic oscillations in the based donor-acceptor type conjugated black hole transient XTE J1817-330 polymer with large third order nonl inear Roy, J; Agrawal PC; Paul, B; Duorah, K optical activity Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Murthy, Vishnu; Phil ip, Reji, et al Society 412, 1011, 2011 Synthetic Metals 27 RXTE-PCA observations of 1A 1118-61:

19 An open-aperture z-scan study of Sr2CeO4 timing and spectral stud ies during an blue phosphor outburst Seema R; Sandeep, Suchand CS, Phil ip, Reji; Devasia, J; James, M; Paul, B; Indulekha, K Kalarikkal, Nandakumar Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Journal of Alloys and Compounds Society 414, 1023, 2011 20 Feedback control mechanism for Acousto- 28 Search for pulsations in the LMXB EXO 0748- optic modulator 676 Meena MS; Arun V; Sanan, Sahil; Narayanan, Jain, C; Paul, B, 2011 Andal Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 11, Journal of Instrumentation Society of India 577, 2011 40, 4, 2010 29 Suzaku observation of the transient X-ray 21 Dynamics of Photothermally Created pulsar GRO J1008-57 Vapourous, Gaseous, and Mixed Naik, S; Paul, B; Kachhara, C; Vadawale SV, Microbubbles 2011 Dharmadhikari, Aditya K; Dharmadhikari, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Jayashree A; Mahulkar, Amit V; Ramanandan, Society 413, 241, 2011 Gopika; Ramachandran, Hema; Pand it, 30 Ecl ipse Timings of the LMXB XTE J1710-281: Aniruddha B; Mathur, Deepak Orbital Period Gl itches Journal of Physical Chemistry C 115, 6611, Jain, C; Paul, Biswajit 2011 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 22 Pulse profile stabil ity of the Crab pulsar Society 413, 2, 2011 Jain C; Paul, B 31 Intracluster gas pressure, entropy injection Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011 and redshift evolution 23 Timing and spectral studies of the transient Nath, Biman B; Majumdar, S X-ray pulsar GX 304-1 during an outburst Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Devasia, J; James, M; Paul, B; Indulekha K Society 2011 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 32 QUBIC: The QU Bolometric Interferometer Society 2011 for Cosmology 24 X-ray Spectroscopy of the High Mass X-ray E. Battistell i, A. Baù, D. Bennett, L. Bergé, Binary Pulsar Centaurus X-3 over its Binary J.-Ph. Bernard, P. de Bernard is, A. Bounab, Orbit É. Bréelle, E.F. Bunn, M. Calvo, R. Charlassier, Naik, S; Paul, B; Al i, Z S. Coll in, A. Cruciani, G. Curran, L. Dumoul in, Astrophysical Journal 2011 A. Gault, M. Gervasi, A. Ghribi, M. Giard, C. Giordano, Y. Giraud-Héraud, M. Gradziel, L. Gugl ielmi, J.-Ch. Hamilton, V. Haynes, J. Kaplan, A. Korotkov, J. Landé, B. Maffei,

103 M. Maiello, S. Malu, S. Marnieros, S. Masi, IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS A. Murphy, F. Nati, C. O’Sull ivan, F. Pajot, 1 Topological phase in two flavor neutrino A. Passerini, S. Peterzen, F. Piacentini, oscillations and imprint of the CPV phase, M. Piat, L. Piccirillo, G. Pisano, G. Polenta, Mehta, Poonam D. Prêle, D. Romano, C. Rosset, M. Salatino, The proceedings of Neutrino 2010, Athens, A. Schillacci, G. Sironi, R. Sord ini, S. Spinell i, Greece, 2010 A. Tartari, P. Timbie, G. Tucker, L. Vibert, F. Voisin, R.A. Watson, M. Zannoni 2 Rad iation and thermal pressure driven Astroparticle Physics 34, 705, 2011 galactic winds Nath, Biman B 33 Transport coefficients for the shear dynamo Astronomical and Astrophysical Transaction, problem at small Reynolds numbers 2011Conference Proceedings of ‘Dynamics and Singh, Nishant K; Sridhar S evolution of disc galaxies’, Puschinov, 2010 Physical Review E 83, 056309, 2011 3 Non-equil ibrium carbon ionization states 34 Non-Gaussianity in the Measurement of and the extragalactic far-UV background Hubble Constant with HeII absorption Shashikant; Saini TD Vasil iev, Evgenil O*; Sethi SK; Nath, Biman B Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Astrophysics and Space Science, 2011 Society, 415, 2594, 2011 4 Dust in the IGM : pro and contra 35 The Austral ia Telescope Compact Array Shchekinov YA*; Nath, Biman B Broadband Backend (CABB) Astrophysics and Space Science, 2011 Wilson, Warwick E; Ferris, RH; Axtens, P; Brown, A; Davis, E; Hampson, G; Leach, M; Roberts, P; Saunders, S; Koribalski, B S; BOOK CHAPTERS (IN PRESS) Caswell JL; Lenc, E; Stevens, J; Voronkov, MA; 1 Directions in Causal Set Quantum Gravity Wieringa, MH; Brooks, K; Edwards PG; Surya, Sumati Ekers, RD; Emonts, B; Hindson, L; Johnston, Final version on the Archives: S; Madd ison, ST; Mahony, EK; Malu, SS; arXiv:1103.6272v1. Massard i, M; Mao, MY; McConnell, D; Recent Research in Quantum Gravity Norris, RP; Schnitzeler, D; Subrahmanyan, R; Urquhart, JS; Thompson, MA; Wark, RM 2 Chemistry of Columnar Liquid Crystals in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Liquid Crystall ine Semiconductors Society 2011 Kumar, Sandeep Canopus Acedemic Publishing Ltd., Bristol, UK. 36 Imaging the Epoch of Reionization: l imitations from foreground confusion and imaging algorithms Vedantham, Harish; Udaya Shankar N; ______Subrahmanyan, Ravi * denotes co-authors who do not belong to RRI Astrophysical Journal Letters + denotes Visitng Professors of RRI 37 Classical Heisenberg spins on a hexagonal lattice with Kitaev coupl ings Chandra, Samarth; Ramola K; Dhar D Physical Review E 82, 031113, 2010 38 Spl itting of the ground state manifold of classical Heisenberg spins ascoupl ings are varied Chandra, Samarth Physica A 389, 3739, 2010

104 APPENDIX NameAppendixConferences II - attendedconferences / Institutions visited attended Title of paper / talk Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

Abhishek Dhar Third International Workshop on Transmission of 1.Phononic heat conduction in Information and Energy in Nonl inear and d isordered crystals (invited) Complex Systems National University of Singapore 2. The Langevin equations and Green’s 5 July – 5 August, 2010 function formal ism for heat transport in harmonic systems

3. The recursive Green’s function method for evaluation of transmission coefficients in heat transport

Workshop on New Trends in Nonl inear Dynamics: Heat conduction in disordered Heat Control and Thermoelectricity harmonic lattices with energy Ettore Majorana Centre in Erice conserving noise (invited) Italy 23-28 October, 2010

Conference on Spectroscopy and Mesoscopic Green-Kubo formula for open systems Physics (invited) S.N. Bose Center for Basic Sciences Kolkata 22 - 24 November, 2010

StatPhys-Kolkata VII Large deviation functions and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics fluctuation theorems in heat transport Kolkata (invited) 26 - 30 November 2010

DAE Symposium on Sol id State Physics Heat conduction in d isordered Manipal University harmonic crystals (invited) Manipal 26 - 30 December, 2010

Kolkata University Surprises in the theory of heat 21 January 2011 conduction

Barasat University Surprises in the theory of heat West Bengal conduction 21 January 2011

Andal Narayanan Conference on Quantum Technologies with atoms Quantifying interacting dark states National Laboratory FAMO and the University of through higher order resonances Warsaw Poland 28 August – 2 September 2010

105 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Conference on Quantum Information Processing Phase sensitive electromagnetically and Appl ications, 2011 induced transparency (invited) Pond icherry University Pond icherry 14 – 21 February 2011

Research Institute for Quantum Optics Quantifying interacting dark states Neils Bohr Institute through higher order resonances Denmark 2 – 5 September 2010

Anjan Roy SLIME Talk Single file d iffusion of colloids in 1-D Raman Research Institute channel Bangalore 11 January 2011

School on Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute Bangalore 7 – 19 March 2011

Arijit Sharma Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-cold Atomic and Molecular Gases Goa University 10 – 14 January 2011

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai 16 – 17 January 2011

Arnab Pal School on Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute Bangalore 7 – 19 March 2011

School on Non-equil ibrium Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2011

Avinash Deshpande HI Pathfinder Workshop, Perth Zoo Extracting large-scale d istribution of Austral ia cold HI 2 – 4 February 2011

Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope/ National Centre for Rad io Astronomy Pune 8 – 18 July 2010

National Centre for Radio Astronomy 1. The small scale structure in Pune Interstellar HI: Truth or Consequences 19 – 26 December 2010 2. The 4 Cs: coherence, correlation, convolution, cal ibration 106 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk University of Western Austral ia 1. Coll imated particle-beams from 2 February – 18 March 2011 pulsars and precession: The vela story

2. RRI-GBT multi-band receiver: motivation and development

3. Rad io frequency interference: to avoid or attack?

Biman Nath Workshop on Cosmology Rapid Response Galaxy clusters, AGNs and SZ effect Meeting (invited) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai 6 – 8 April 2010

Conference on Dynamics and Evolution of Disc Rad iation and thermal pressure driven Galaxies winds Moscow 30 May – 1 June 2010

Southern Federal University, Russia 5 – 12 June 2010

Conference on UV Universe 2010 Non-equil ibrium carbon ionization St. Petersburg, Russia stets and the extragalactic far-UV 31 May – 3 June 2010 background

National Initiative for Undergraduate Sciences Basic cosmology Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Mumbai 16 – 21 June 2010

Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium The violent universe Bangalore 2 December 2010

Gurucharan College Milky way: our galaxy Assam 23 December 2010

Ind ian Institute of Technology Galactic outflows Kharagpur 5 February 2011

29th Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Galaxy outflows (invited) Society of Ind ia 2011 Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur 23 -25 February 2011

Biswajit Paul Raman Research Institute Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries Bangalore 26 October 2010

107 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Meeting on Future Small Astronomy Satell ites X-ray instruments for mini satell ites Weizmann Institute of Science Israel 5 – 9 June 2010

38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly 1. Discovery of QPOs in Accretion Germany Powered Pulsars 18 – 25 July 2010 2. Dips in the pulse profiles of accretion powered X-ray pulsars

Inter University Center for Astronomy & Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries and Astrophysics QPOs in X-ray pulsars Pune 5 – 10 November 2010

Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences Development of a Thomson X-ray Japan Polarimeter and its science prospects 29 November 2010

Tokyo Institute of Technology Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries Japan 3 December 2010

Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference Optical observations of X-ray sources: Ind ian Institute of Astrophysics Ground support for ASTROSAT Bangalore 7 – 11 December 2010

Workshop on Need for Large Optical and Infrared Astronomy Facil ities in India Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences Nainital 18 – 19 December 2010

4th International MAXI Workshop on the First Year 1. ASTROSAT-LAXPC of MAXI: Monitoring Variable X-ray Sources Society for Promotion of Space Science and 2. Intensity and energy dependent Aoyama Gakuin University Research Institute profiles of transient HMXB pulsars GRO Japan J1008-57, IA 1118-61 and GX 304-1 30 November – 2 December 2010 3. Orbital evolution of the Low Mass X- ray binaries 4U 1822-37

4. XTE J1710-281 and MXB 1658-2985. Thomas X-ray Polarimeter for a Small Satell ite Mission

Conference on Wideband X-ray Astronomy: High Mass X-ray Binaries Frontiers in Timing and Spectroscopy Inter University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune 13 – 16 January 2011 108 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk National Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics Relativistic Astrophysics: study of and Astroparticle Physics – Exploring the Cosmos compact stars North Bengal University 27 – 28 January 2011

29th Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical 1. Orbital evolution of X-ray Binaries Society of Ind ia 2011 and QPOs in X-ray pulsars Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur 2. Broadening of pulse frequency peak 23 - 25 February 2011 in Accretion Powered Pulsars

3. Dips in the pulse profiles of Accretion Powered Pulsars

4. Timing and spectral properties of transient X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57

5. Thomson X-ray Polarimeter for a Small Satell ite Mission

COSPAR Publ ications Committee Meeting Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales Paris, France 21 March 2011

Chandreyee Maitra Conference on Rad icals in Science: Nature or Nurture Raman Research Institute Bangalore 9 - 11 August 2010

Conference on Accretion and outflow in black Detectabil ity of X-ray polarisation from hole systems black hole sources: prospect with a Astrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio Astronomico Thomson Polarimeter of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian Space Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physics of the Tribhuvstituto Nazionale d i Astrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio Astronomico of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian Space Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physics of the Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu) held at hotel Rad isson Kathmandu, Nepal 11 – 15 October 2010

109 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Conference on Wideband X-ray Astronomy: 1. Prospect of polarisation Frontiers in Timing and Spectroscopy measurements from black hole binaries Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and in their thermal state with a scattering Astrophysics polarimeter Pune 13 – 16 January 2011 2. Probing the complex energy dependent pulse profile of 1A1118- 61using phase resolved spectroscopy with Suzaku

Chandrakant Mishra 19th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR19) Mexico 5 - 9 July 2010

Indigo School on Gravitational Wave Astronomy Parametrized tests of post- University of Delhi Newtonanian theory with GW 13 – 24 December 2010 detectors

XXVI Meeting of IAGRG Harishchandra Research Institute Allahabad 19 – 21 January 2011

Debasish Saha National Chemical Laboratory Pune 29 November – 4 December 2010

Durai Chelvan 29th Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Thomson X-ray Polarimeter for a Small Society of Ind ia 2011 Satell ite Mission Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur 23 – 25 February 2011

Dwarakanath K.S. Conference on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas 1. Discovery of a giant radio halo in a Raman Research Institute galaxy cluster at z = 0.443 Bangalore 1 – 4 March 2011 2. A zoo of radio rel ics: from cluster cores to filaments

Discussion Meeting on Low Frequency Imaging National Rad io Astronomy Observatory West Virginia 26 – 27 April 2010

Naval Research Laboratory Dead Rad io Galaxies USA 28 – 29 April 2010

Discussion Meeting on Rad io Continuum and HI in high redshift clusters Columbia University, New York 30 April – 2 May 2010 110 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk St. Joseph’s College Galaxy clusters Bangalore 30 July 2010

Geetha S Symposium on Next Generation Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges City Central Library Bangalore 29 October 2010

Dr.S.R.Ranganathan Memorial Lectures on People, Culture and 21 Century Libraries SRELS Centre Bangalore 17 – 19 February 2011

Girish B.S. 29th Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical A new programmable receiver system Society of Ind ia 2011 for the Ooty Radio Telescope Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur 23 - 25 February 2011

Gopala Krishna MR 29th Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Thomson X-ray Polarimeter for a Small Society of Ind ia 2011 Satell ite Mission Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur 23 -25 February 2011

Hema Ramachandran Laboratoire Amie Cotton, Paris France 12 – 31 May 2010

University of Malaysia Cold atoms, photons and quantum 27 – 30 October 2010 computing at PERFIK 2010 (invited)

Iyer BR Summer Programme Impact of Astronomy on Basic Science BASE, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium Bangalore 2 June 2010

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai 12 June 2010

19th International Conference on General 1. 5.5PN spherical harmonic modes and Relativity and Gravitation (GR19) resumed waveforms for a particle in Mexico circular orbit around a Schwarzchild 5 - 9 July 2010 black hole

2. Testing post-Newtonanian theory using Advanced LIGO and Einstein Telescope

111 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Institut hautes etudes scientifiques The detection of gravitational waves Bures sur yvette and the two body problem in general France relativity 12 – 18 October 2010

Institut astrophysique de Paris Denfert Can post-Newtonian theory be tested Rochereau using Advanced LIGO and Einstein France Telescope? 21 September - 11 October 2010

Cardiff University United Kingdom 19 October – 2 November 2010

Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference Gravitational waves from binary black Ind ian Institute of Astrophysics holes (invited) Bangalore 7 – 11 December 2010

XXVI Meeting of IAGRG Parametrized tests of post-Newtonian Harishchandra Research Institute theory using GW observations Allahabad 19 – 21 January 2011

Hind High Vacuum Bangalore 22 November 2010 and 24 January 2011

Conference on The Indian Road-Map for IndIGO: Genesis, highl ights and current Gravitational Wave Astronomy: IndIGO - ACIGA status (invited) meeting on LIGO-Austral ia Ind ia International Centre and Jamia Mil ia Islamia, Delhi 8 - 10 February, 2011

Jacob Rajan Seminar on Fundamentals of Cryptography and Network Security Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Bangalore 5 June 2010

Workshop on Library Automation Package and Linux, overview, Ubuntu installation, Discovery Tool Ubuntu Commands Ind ian Institute of Science Bangalore 29 November – 3 December 2010

Parallel and Distributed Computing Workshop Raman Research Institute Bangalore 28 – 29 March 2011

112 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Jaya Kumar A School on Non-equil ibrium Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute Bangalore 22 March – 3 April 2011

Joseph Samuel International Conference On Quantum Systems, A tale of three sl its Classical Measurements and Consequences SVYASA University Bangalore 25 – 30 June 2010

Rad icals in Science : Nature or Nurture Surface Tension and the Cosmological Raman Research Institute Constant Bangalore 7 – 9 August 2010

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-Centre Tops and writhing DNA for Appl ied Mathematics Bangalore 16 November 2010

Mahatma Gandhi University Surface tension and the cosmological Kottayam constant 26 – 29 January 2011

Kanhaiya Lal Pandey Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference Ind ian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore 7 – 11 December 2010

Conference on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas Raman Research Institute Bangalore 1 – 4 March 2011

Kiran Savanur 6th International Conference on Webometrics, 1. Modified collaborative coefficient Informetrics and Scientometrics and 11th COLLNET Meeting 2. Growth and impact of research University of Mysore output of Bangalore University, 1971- Mysore 2010:a scientometric study 18– 22 October 2010

National Workshop on Scientometrics under 1. Software tools for scientometric UGC/SAP analysis Karnatak University Dharwad 2. H-Index – an introduction 25 – 27 October 2010

Krishnamurthy S National Knowledge Network – A 1Gbps Link: Workshop Ind ian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 30 April – 1 May 2010

113 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Kshitij Thorat Conference on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas Rad io optical imaging of ATLBS survey Raman Research Institute (poster) Bangalore 3 March 2011

Lakshminarayanan V Indo-Ital ian Workshop on Electrochemistry High surface area Pd-conducting University of Delhi polymer nanocomposite films as 30 August 2010 electrocatalyst (invited)

5th International Asian Conference on Electrocatalysis of Pd-PANI and Pd- Electrochemical Power Sources PEDOT nanocomposite films towards National University of Singapore alcohol electro-oxidation reaction 18 September 2010 (invited)

Taiwan-Ind ia Bilateral Workshop on energy Electro-oxidation of alcohols on formic devices acid on Metal nanoparticles dispersed National Central University conducting polymer films for direct Taiwan alcohol fuel cells appl ications (invited) 16 November 2010

Prof. B.S.Seshadri Memorial Lecture Electrochemistry with nanomaterials Bangalore University Bangalore 29 September 2010

9th International Conference on Advances in Electrochemical studies of redox Electrochemical Science and Technology probes in self organised lyotropic l iquid Society for Advancement of Electrochemical crystall ine systems (invited) Science & Technology Karaikud i 2 December 2010

National Science Day Lecture Seeing atoms K.L.E. College of Arts and Science Bangalore 28 February 2011

Conference on Recent trends in the synthesis, Electrochemistry of nanomaterials for characterisation and appl ications of biosensors and catalysis (invited) Nanostructured materials (NANOSCAP2011) Al Ameen Arts, Science and Commerce College Bangalore 25 March 2011

National Seminar on Electrochemistry Electrochemistry of nanomaterials for Sri Krishnadevaraya University biosensors and catalysis (invited) Anantapur 26 March 2011

Lakshmi Saripall i Rishi Valley School Interconnections Bangalore August 2010

114 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Conference on Evolution of Galaxies, their central Accessing the elusive, yet common black holes and their large-scale environment black hole growth and feedback University of Bonn processes: results from the ATLBS, a Germany sensitive rad io survey 20 – 24 September 2010

Conference on Accretion and Outflows in Black Journey Inwards using outward Hole SystemsAstrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio manifestations: what do rad io galaxies Astronomico of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian and their host dust characteristics tell Space Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), us about the AGN? the Istituto d i Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physics of the Tribhuvstituto Nazionale d i Astrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio Astronomico of Roma (INAF/ OAR), the Ital ian Space Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physics of the Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu) held at hotel Rad isson Kathmandu, Nepal 11 – 15 October 2010

McDonnell Centre for the Space Sciences Rad io Galaxies: Accessing the elusive, Washington University yet common feedback processes and USA AGN l ifecycles 24 – 29 October 2010

The 26th Annual New Mexico Symposium Accessing the elusive, yet common National Rad io Astronomy Observatory black hole growth and feedback USA processes: results from the ATLBS, a 5 November 2010 sensitive rad io survey

135th International Convention of the Interconnections (invited) Theosophical Society Bangalore 29 December 2010

Conference on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas Raman Research Institute Bangalore 1 – 4 March 2011

Madhavan Varadarajan International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar LQG dynamics: insights from 16 November 2010 parameterized field theory (Seminar del ivered by phone)

Conference on Chandrayana Black hole evaporation from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences perspective of Quantum Gravity Chennai (invited) 3 – 7 January 2011

115 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk School of Physics Black hole evaporation from the University of Hyderabad perspective of quantum gravity 31 March – 1 April 2011

Mamta Gulati Conference on Rad icals in Science – Nature or Nurture Raman Research Institute Bangalore 9 – 11 August 2010

Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore 7 – 11 December 2010

Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas Raman Research Institute Bangalore 1 - 4 March 2011

Manjunath M National Knowledge Resource Consortium Librarians/Nodal Officers Meet Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research Bangalore 10 – 12 May 2010

Seminar on Semantics and Knowledge Representation Models and Workshop on Advanced DSpace Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore 17 – 18 February 2011

Nagaraj M N National Seminar on Management of Digital Digital l ibrary at M.S.Ramaiah Med ical Information: Sources, Services and Systems College: A case study RNS Institute of Technology Bangalore 29 – 30 July 2010

National Conference on Challenges of Librarianship New Horizon Institute of Technology Bangalore 16 December 2010

Nandakumar R Parallel and Distributed Computing Workshop Raman Research Institute Bangalore 28 – 29 March 2011

Narendra Kumar Workshop on Physics for Students and Teachers There is science in everyday l ife Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific (invited) Research Bangalore 20 September 2010 116 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Meeting of the Council and Commission Chairs of Atoms, molecules and optics (invited) IUPAP – Indian Physics: Research at the Frontiers New Delhi 5 – 6 November 2010

Nishant K Singh SERC School on Fluids, Fields and Rad iation National Centre for Rad io Astronomy Pune 14 – 26 June 2010

Rad icals in Science – Nature or Nurture Raman Research Institute Bangalore 9 – 11 August 2011

Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore 7 – 11 December 2010

St. Joseph’s College The magnetic field in the universe Bangalore 17 February 2011

Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas Raman Research Institute Bangalore 1 – 4 March 2011

Poonam Mehta Ind ian Institute of Science Some interesting aspects of cosmic Bangalore neutrinos from core-collapse 26 April 2010 supernovae endowed with mildly relativistic jets

Neutrino 2010, Topological phase in two flavour University of Athens neutrino oscillations and imprint of the Greece CPV phase 14 – 19 June 2010

Institute of Sol id State Research Germany 22 June – 5 July and 5- 20 July 2010

Wuerzburg University Germany 6 – 9 July 2010

International School and Conference on Nonlocal Pancharatnam phase in two Quantum Information Processing and photon interferometry Appl ications Harishchandra Research Institute Allahabad 18 – 20 February 2011

117 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Conference on Nuhorizons IV Harishchandra Research Institute Allahabad 23 – 25 February 2011

University of Delhi Delhi 11 – 17 February and 28 February – 5 March 2011

Prabu T Issues in Design of Complex Multi-Core Systems Need for new approaches for Innovate-it debugging multi-core systems (invited) Bangalore 19 – 22 October 2010

MWA Project Meet Arizona State University, USA 11 – 14 December 2010

MWA Facil ities Workshop University of Washington USA 1 – 2 November 2010

Pramod Pullarkat Annual General Body Meeting of Rheological properties of l iving cells Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (invited) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 24 July 2010

Mysore University Mechanical responses of cells Mysore 16 September 2010

LiveMech Workshop National Centre for Biological Sciences Bangalore 28 October – 8 November 2010

Indo-US Bioengineering Workshop National Centre for Biological Sciences Bangalore 7 – 8 November 2010

Pratibha R International Soft Matter Conference Tunable optical metamaterials based University of Granada on colloidal gold nanosphere Spain d ispersions in smectic l iquid crystals 5 – 8 July, 2010

Prasad V.V. School on Statistical Physics Raman Research Institute Bangalore 7 – 19 March 2011

118 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Raghunathan A Conference on Cosmological Reionization Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad 16 February 2010

Raghunathan VA Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Structural polymorphism of surfactant Research, Austral ian Academy of Sciences – DNA complexes Austria 8 – 15 July 2010

Ranjini Bandyopadhyay National Chemical Laboratories Pune 16 September 2010

Ravi Subrahmanyan 1. MWA Meeting 2. NSF Discussion Meeting on ‘Beyond 512T’ University of Sydney 28 June – 1 July 2010

Molonglo Observatory Austral ia July 2010

Workshop on Rad icals in Science: Nature or Nurture Raman Research Institute Bangalore 9 – 11 August 2010

Rishi Valley School The history of the Universe Bangalore August 2010

St. Joseph’s College Cosmic evolution Bangalore August 2010

Carnegie Mellon University On growth and form: the shapes of USA rad io sources 19 – 23 October 2010

Washington University Tuning in to the Cosmic Dawn USA 23 – 29 October 2010

New Mexico Symposium Bullet Cluster: wide-band National Rad io Astronomy Observatory interferometer measurement of the USA Sunyaev Zeldovich Effect 4 – 12 November 2010

Array Operation Center, Socorro November 2010

Pomona College The cosmic dawn USA 14 – 16 November 2010

119 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas Interferometer Imaging of Diffuse Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Relativistic Plasma (invited) 1 – 4 March 2011

Reji Phil ip Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Discussion meeting on intense laser Mumbai field research activity in Ind ia 15 – 16 April 2010

International Conference on Nanomaterisls: Nonl inear optics in the nano domain Synthesis, Characterisation and Appl ications (invited) 2010 Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam 27 – 29 April 2010

Manipal University Sil icon Photonics Manipal 6 – 8 May 2010

University of Kerala Photonics 14 May 2010

Refresher Course in Physics UGC-Academic Staff Nonl inear optics College Kerala University Trivandrum 15 – 16 July 2010

Training course on Nanoscience and Optical nonl inearity in nanomaterials Nanotechnology Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2 September 2010

Programme on Stimulating Teachers through Intense field nonl inear optics Advanced Training Cochin University for Science and Technology Kerala 27 September 2010

National College Photonics Bangalore 4 October 2010

The Rev. K.C. Mathew Memorial Endowment Introduction to Photonics Lecture Bishop Moore College, Mavel ikkara Kerala 26 November 2010

International Conference on Recent Trends in Nonl inear optics of nanomaterials Material Science and Technology 2010 (invited) Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology and Materials Research Society of Ind ia Trivandrum 28 – 30 October 2010 120 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk National Laser Symposium-19 Nonl inear optics of nanomaterials Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (invited) Indore 1-4 December 2010

INSPIRE programme Sacred Heart College The history of l ight Thevara 9 December 2010

INSPIRE programme National Institute of The history of l ight Technology Cal icut 19 December 2010

National Seminar on Nanotechnology and Nonl inear optical appl ications of Appl ications nanomaterials (invited) Maharaja’s College Cochin 2 February 2011

National Seminar on Nonl inear Optical Materials Laser induced plasmas (invited) and Characterisation Sacred Heart College Kerala 10 – 11 March 2011

Symposium on Recent Advances in Photonics Nanophotonics (invited) Manipal University 29 March 2011

Rishin P.V. First year of MAXI: Monitoring variable X-ray Thomson X-ray Polarimeter for a Small sources – 4th International MAXI Workshop Satell ite Mission Tokyo, Japan 30 November – 2 December 2010

Conference on Accretion and outflow in black Prospect of X-ray polarisation hole systemsAstrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio measurements from accreting stellar Astronomico of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian mass black holes in their thermal state Space Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), with a Thomson X-ray Polarimeter the Istituto d i Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physics of the Tribhuvstituto Nazionale d i Astrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio Astronomico of Roma (INAF/ OAR), the Ital ian Space Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physics of the Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu) held at hotel Rad isson Kathmandu, Nepal 11 – 15 October 2010

121 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk 29th Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Thomson X-ray Polarimeter for a Small Society of Ind ia 2011 Satell ite Mission Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur 23 -25 February 2011 Incorporating particle creation and Roman Sverdlov University of Mississippi annihilation into Bohm’s Pilot Wave USA Model 1 September 2010

QMath11 Conference Completely local interpretation of University of Hradec Kralove many-body quantum phenomena Czech Republ ic 8 September 2010

DICE2010 Incorporating particle creation and University of Pisa and others annihilation into Bohm’s Pilot Wave Castigl ioncello, Italy Model 16 September 2010

Silver Jubilee Symposium on 75 years of quantum Can superluminal local ity be a basis for entanglement Pilot Wave Model? S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences Kolkata 6 – 10 January 2011

Nalanda Dialogue Forum Entanglement without configuration 25 – 28 February 2011 space

Institute of Mathematical Science Entanglement without configuration Chennai space 18 - 23 March 2011

International Conference on Quantum Optics Entanglement without configuration and Quantum Computing space Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Noida 24 - 26 March 2011

Ruckmongathan T.N. International Display Workshop 2010 An addressing technique to drive blue The Institute of Image Information and phase LCDs Television Engineers and The Society for Information Display Japan 1 – 3 December 2010

Kendriya Vidyalaya Bit sl ice addressing of l iquid crystal Bangalore d isplays 1 January 2011

Science Business ForumIndo Korean Science & Commercial isation of research on Technology Center l iquid crystal d isplays Hotel Asoka Bangalore 7 March 2011 122 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Ryuichi Fujita 19th International Conference on General 5.5PN spherical harmonic modes and Relativity and Gravitation (GR19) resummed waveforms for a particle in Mexico circular orbit around a Schwarzchild 5 - 9 July 2010 black hole

Osaka University Japan 27 December 2010 – 21 January 2011

Sad iq Rangwala Founders Day Meeting Atom-cavity based all-optical switch Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research and a few other things Bangalore 1 July 2010

Asian International Seminar on Atomic and Cold atom-ion interaction in a hybrid Molecular Physics trap Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea 4 – 8 August 2010

Indo-Brazil Workshop on Cold Atoms, Mesoscopic Cold chemistry and precision Systems and Quantum Information Processes experimentation with ion traps Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Hyderabad 16 - 18 October 2010

ICTP Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra- Ion induced physics in a cold d ilute gas Cold Atomic and Molecular Gases of atoms The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics & Goa University, Goa 10 - 14 January 2011

Sandeep Kumar Vellore Institute of Technology Discotic l iquid crystals as advanced Vellore materials for organic electronics 29 March 2010 (invited)

6th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee for project ‘Liquid Crystall ing Polymers’ Department of Information Technology, Delhi 4 April 2010

Allahabad University Organic Photovoltaics (invited) 15 April 2010

Central College The Fascinating World of Liquid Bangalore Crystals (invited) 13 May 2010

Mil itry University of Technology Playing with Discs (invited) Poland 10 July 2010

International Liquid Crystal Conference Nanophase segregated mesophase Jageillonian University, Poland morphology in self-organized novel 11 – 16 July 2010 d isc-rod ol igomesogens (invited)

123 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Meeting of the Monitoring Committee for project Liquid Crystals beyond LCD (invited) ‘Development of optically active polymers for data storage’ Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 6 September 2010

Institute of Advance Study in Science & Technology How Can Crystals be Liquid (invited) Guwahati 23 September 2010

17th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Some Milestones in Discotic research Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat (invited) 15 - 17 November 2010

Working Group Meeting on Electronic Materials and Components Department of Information Technology, Delhi 6 December 2010

Central Drug Research Institute Lucknow 22 December 2010

R.V. College of Engineering Green Chemistry and Liquid Crystals Bangalore (invited) 18 February 2011

MLA College How Can Crystals be Liquid? (invited) Bangalore 10 March 2011

Sanjib Sabhapand it STATPHYS-Kolkata VII Record Statistics of Continuous Time Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata Random Walk (invited) 26 – 30 November 2010

Santosh Prasad Gupta 17th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Formation of mesh phases in a Cationic Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat Surfactant System with strongly bound 15 November 2010 counterions

Siddharth S Malu Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas The Bullet Cluster: SZ effect & rad io Raman Research Institute, Bangalore halo at 18 GHz (invited) 2 March 2011

Solomon Ivan International Conference on Quantum Systems, Bosonic Gaussian channels Classical Measurements and Consequences Swami Vivekanada Yoga Research Foundation Bangalore 25 – 30 June 2010

Indo-Brazil Workshop on Cold Atoms, Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Information Processes Ind ian Institute of Science Education and Research Hyderabad 16 – 18 October 2010 124 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai 15 April – 01 May 2010 and 25 October – 10 November 2010

Workshop on Quantum Information Science Six lectures on Bosonic Gaussian Institute of Mathematical Sciences channels Chennai 24 November – 4 December 2010

Conference on 75 years of Quantum Entanglement S.N. Bose Centre for Basic Sciences Kolkata 6 – 10 January 2011

International School and Conference on Quantum Information Processing and Appl ications Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad 14 – 20 February 2011

Sridhar S Solar Hel iospheric and Interplanetary Imbalanced turbulence in the solar Environment 2010 Conference wind (invited) New Mexico, USA 26 – 30 July 2010

Problematik 2010 Workshop Simpl ifying warps (invited) Oxford University, United Kingdom 9 – 13 August 2010

Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference MHD turbulence (invited) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 7 – 11 December 2010

29th Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Stellar dynamics in the galactic centre Society of Ind ia 2011 (invited) Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur 22 – 25 February 2011

Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad MHD turbulence 26 February – 1 March 2011

Ind ian Institute of Astrophysics Interstellar, Interplanetary & MHD Bangalore Turbulence 29 March 2011

Srinivasa H T 17th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Synthesis and Mesomorphic Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat Characterisation of Novel 15 - 17 November 2010 Trifluoromethyl Coumarin Liquid Crystals

Suman G Das SLIME Talk Femtonewton Force Spectroscopy of Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Single Extended DNA Molecules 31 August 2010

125 Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Sumati Surya DICE2010, Space-Time-Matter-current issues in In search of a covariant quantum quantum mechanics and beyond measure (invited) University of Pisa and others, Castigl ioncello Italy 13 – 17 September 2010

McGill University Discreteness, causal ity and covariance Canada in quantum gravity 31 January 2011

Universite de Montreal Discreteness, causal ity and covariance Montreal in quantum gravity 10 February 2011

Perimeter Institute Waterloo 16 – 25 February 2011

Supurna Sinha International Conference On Quantum Systems, Classical Measurements and Consequences Prashanti Kutiram, Bangalore 25 – 30 June 2010

Rad icals in Science : Nature versus Nurture Raman Research Institute Bangalore 9 – 11 August 2010

Conference on Impact of Quantum Effects on our Controlled entanglement Classical World View Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam 26 – 29 January 2011

Tripta Bhatia International Soft Matter Conference 2010, Defect med iated instabil ities in University of Granada, Spain multilamellar tubules 5 – 8 July 2010

European Confined Liquid Crystal Conference University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 19 – 20 July 2010

Ludwig-Maximil ians-Universität Defect med iated instabil ities in Germany multilamellar tubules 25 - 27 July 2010

1. Joseph Stephan Institute Defect med iated instabil ities in 2. Laboratory of BIOPhysics multilamellar tubules 3. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics 4. Institute of Biophysics, Med ical Faculty 5. Liquid Crystal Laboratory University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 18 - 24 July 2010 126 APPENDIX Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk Centre Interd iscipl inaire de Nanoscience de Defect med iated instabil ities in Marseille multilamellar tubules France 9 – 17 July 2010

Conference on Advanced School on Living Defect med iated instabil ities in Mechanics – cells tissues and organisms multilamellar tubules National Centre for Biological Sciences Bangalore 28 October – 8 November 2010

Udaya Shankar N MWA Project Meeting University of Sydney, Austral ia 28 June – 1 July 2010

GBD Junior College, Gauribidanur Challenges of observing the invisible 14 September 2010 universe

Conference on Aperture Array Verification Programme Workshop 2010 Cavend ish Laboratory, United Kingdom 8 – 10 December 2010

MWA Project Meeting 3d-PSF of MWA Arizona State University, Arizona 11 – 14 December 2010

Kendriya Vidyalaya Interference, d iffraction and rad io Bangalore astronomy 28 December 2010

National Seminar on Astronomy & Astrophysics Fundamentals of rad io astronomy Poorna Pragna College Udupi 8 January 2011

VVS College, Bangalore Ancient Greek astronomy to present 10 March 2011 day understand ing of the universe

Vijayaraghavan D 17th National Conference on Liquid Crystals Magnetic susceptibil ity stud ies on Veer Narmad South Gujarat University micelles, vesicles and bicelles Gujarat 15 – 17 November 2010

Vrinda Benegal Symposium on Next Generation Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges City Central Library, Bangalore 29 October 2010

National Conference on Open Content Management & Organisation for technical Information Services M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology Library & Information Centre, Bangalore 4 February 2011

127 NameAppendix III - Title colloquia Date Name Title Date N.S. Dinesh Challenges in build ing automated 15.4.2010 Ind ian Institute of Science puppetry Bangalore

N.V. Venkataraman Surface chemical grad ients: A versatile 19.4.2010 Laboratory for Surface platform for combinatorial stud ies Science and Technology Switzerland

Rukmini Dey Thequillen bundle and geometric 27.4.2010 Harish-Chandra prequantization of various modul i Research Institute, Allahabad

Srikanta Pal HTS filters for rad io astronomy 28.4.2010 Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Vena Kapoor Of spinners and stalkers – a peek into the 6.5.2010 Nature Conservation fascinating world of spiders Foundation, Mysore

Steven Johnston The Feynman propagator on a causal set 12.5.2010 Imperial College, London

Dionigi Benincasa The scalar curvature of causal set 17.5.2010 Imperial College, London

Rajesh Gopakumar Aspects of Gal ilean conformal symmetry 19.5.2010 Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

Sunethra Ramanan Cold Bosons in ID optical lattice 26.5.2010 Ind ian Institute of Science Bangalore

Vikram Soni Magnetars: Maximum stars 28.5.2010 National Physical Laboratory New Delhi

K. Sankaran Engineering of proteins with l ipids 2.6.2010 Anna University, Chennai

Sriram Ramaswamy The mechanics and statistics of l iving matter 3.6.2010 Ind ian Institute of Science Bangalore

Prashant Gade Persistence in spatially extended dynamical systems 4.6.2010 University of Nagpur, Nagpur 128 APPENDIX Name Title Date Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi Motion of a vortex filament in superfluid 4He: effects of 29.6.2010 University of Central Florida, USA friction force in the hall-vinen phenomenological model

A.R.P. Rau Kirkman’s schoolgirls to quantum spin pairs: a 150-year thread 1.7.2010 Louisiana State University, USA of mathematics that went through Ind ia

Shuji Deguchi SiO maser observations of novae: cases of 9.7.2010 Nobeyama Rad io Observatory V407 Cyg and V838 Mon (NAOJ), Japan

Thomas Kailath From rad iative transfer theory to fast 22.7.2010 Stanford University, USA algorithms for cell phones

Lisa George Photoinduced processes in transient 3.8.2010 Marquette University molecules and complexes: Matrix isolation USA and computational studies

Pravabati Chingangbam Looking for primordial non-Gaussian signals 16.8.2010 Sejong University , Korea in the CMB

Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay Quantum chaotic system as a model of 23.8.2010 National University of decohering environment Singapore, Singapore

Raju R. Baddi Extended low-density warm ionized medium 23.8.2010 Raman Research Institute in the inner galaxy: A study using recombination l ines Bangalore

Poshak Gandhi New insights on activity in galactic nuclei 24.8.2010 Japan Aerospace Exploration from high spatial resolution mid-infrared Agency, Japan observations

Divya Oberoi Solar and hel iospheric science with the 25.8.2010 Massachusetts Institute of Murchison Widefield Array Technology, USA

Diptiman Sen Quantum games 3.9.2010 Ind ian Institute of Science Bangalore

R.W. Hunstead The extraord inary rad io galaxy MRC B1221-423 13.9.2010 School of Physics University of Sydney

Toney Teddy Fernandez Femtosecond laser written optical waveguide ampl ifiers 15.9.2010 Instituto d i Fotonica e Nanotecnologie del CNR, Italy

B. Sriram Shastry Type – I matrices, quantum integrabil ity and 21.9.2010 University of Cal ifornia, USA fermi glasses

Prasun Dutta Probing turbulence in the interstellar medium 28.9.2010 National Centre for of the external galaxies Radio Astronomy, Pune

129 Name Title Date Renugopalakrishnan Engineering a robust artificial photosynthetic 30.9.2010 Northeastern University & system via efficient quantum coherence Harvard Children’s Hospital Boston, USA

Himanshu Khandel ia New ion pathways, l ipid bl isters and 1.10.2010 University of Southern Denmark gymnastics from molecular simulations Denmark

Dharam Vir Lal Interactions of rad io galaxies with their 6.10.2010 Harward-Smithsonian hot-gas environments Center for Astrophysics, USA

Punyabrata Pradhan Fluctuation relations for systems driven 8.10.2010 Institut for Theorestische Physik, far away from equil ibrium Universitat Stuttgart, Germany

Prashanth Upadhya Tracking ultrafast dynamics in semiconductor 12.10.2010 Center for integrated nanostructures through space and time Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Jorge E. Fiscina Fermi-l ike behaviour of weakly vibrated 15.10.2010 Saarland University, Germany granular matter

G. Rajalakshmi Exploring fundamental interactions with 20.10.2010 Tata Institute of laser cooled atoms and optical interferometers Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Zoltan Haiman Formation of the first supermassive black holes 20.10.2010 Columbia University, New York

Dipanjan Bhattacharya Development of laser sheet microscope 26.10.2010 National University of for tissue imaging Singapore, Singapore

Biswajit Paul Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries 29.10.2010 Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

Neeharika Sinha Experimental set-up and optimization of a 27.10.2010 Ind ian Institute of Astrophysics gamma-ray spectrometer for the measurement Bangalore of cosmogenic radionucl ides in meteorites

K. Guruswamy Making and assembl ing materials in 18.11.2010 National Chemical Laboratory surfactant hexagonal phases Pune

Arindam Ghosh Graphene: experimental aspects 18.11.2010 Ind ian Institute of Science (Special Nobel Prize Colloquium) Bangalore

Selvarani Ganesan Nanocatalysts and their appl ications 22.11.2010 Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Chennai 130 APPENDIX Name Title Date Vishwesha Guttal The evolution animal grouping and 22.11.2010 Princeton University, USA collective motion

Romeel Dave From darkness, l ight: Computing cosmic reionization 23.11.2010 University of Arizona, USA

M.C. Varia Chemistry of various shapes of l iquid crystals 24.11.2010 M.S. University, Vadodara

Romeel Dave Galaxy formation in the cosmic ecosystem 26.11.2010 University of Arizona, USA

Thomas Laupretre Coherent processes in metastable hel ium 6.12.2010 University of Paris, France at room temperature

Rashmi Rao Mimicking the mother nature 9.12.2010 Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Inc., USA

Poonam Chandra Cosmological transient objects 14.12.2010 Royal Mil itary College Kingston, Canada

L. Mahadevan Aspects of growth and form 22.12.2010 Harvard University, USA

Eleanor E.B. Campbell Fullerenes, nanotubes (and a l ittle bit of graphene) 23.12.2010 Ed inburgh University, Ed inburgh

Michael Sheetz How can cells robustly sense their 28.12.2010 Columbia University microenvironment to respond correctly USA and Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore

Bulbul Chakraborty Fluctuations, response, entropy and 6.01.2011 Brandeis University, USA temperature in granular packings

D.V.G.L.N. Rao Fourier phase contrast microscopy 14.1.2011 University of Massachusetts, USA

Sud ipto Muhuri Lattice-gas model for active vesicle transport by 19.1.2011 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar molecular motors with opposite polarities

Sir Anthony James Leggett Bell’s theorem, entanglement, quantum 20.1.2011 University of Sussex teleportation and all that UK & University of Ill inois, USA Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics? 21.1.2011

Sanjit Mitra Analysis challenges in scanning CMB 31.1.2011 Cal ifornia Institute of Technology missions: Beam asymmetry USA

131 Name Title Date B. Ashok Dynamics of serrated flow in vesicular 2.2.2011 Advanced Centre of Research in nanotubulation High Energy Materials, University of Hyderabad

Luc Blanchet Does and atom interferometer test the 3.2.2011 Centre National de la Recherche gravitational redshift? Scientifique and Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France

Lister Staveley-Smith ASKAP: Cosmology and galaxy evolution 9.2.2011 University of Western Austral ia

Suman Bhattacharya Galaxy clusters-laboratory for Astrophysics 8.2.2011 Los Alamos National and cosmology Laboratory, USA

Martin Evans Models of switching in Biophysical contexts 8.2.2011 University of Ed inburgh, Scotland

David Blair The promise and the prospects of 11.2.2011 University of Western Austral ia gravitational wave astronomy

V.M. Kenkre Abrupt transitions in Bio/Eco systems 14.2.2011 University of New Mexico, USA interplay of nonl inearity and inhomogeneity

Sourav Bhattacharya Black holes and the positive cosmological constant 15.2.2011 S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Mukund Thattai Ancient origins of compartmental ized cells? 15.2.2011 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Amit Chattopadhyay What we learnt about the organization of membranes and 18.2.2011 Centre for Cellular and proteins from slow solvent relaxation? Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Wei-Tou Ni Vacuum birefringence, Q & A experiment 21.2.2011 National Tsing Hua University and gaseous Cotton-Mouton effect China

Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi Encapsulating cells in alginate hollow spheres 22.2.2011 Institut Curie, France

Nitin Kumar Symmetry properties of the large-deviation 1.3.2011 Ind ian Institute of Science function of the velocity of self-propelled Bangalore polar particle

Deepak Kumar Sinha Photocontrol of protein activity in a single 18.03.2011 Laboratoire de Physique cell of a l ive organism Statistique, EcoleNormale Superieure, Paris 132 APPENDIX Name Title Date Workshop on ‘Radicals in Science: Nature or Nurture’ held at the Raman Research Institute during 9, 10 and 11 August 2010

G. Srinivasan Of stars and singularities 9.08.2010

Ramanath Cowsik Zero-length springs, 4-bar l inkages and fat gravitons 9.08.2010

Murugappan Muthukumar Shifting parad igms in polymer crystall ization 9.08.2010

Srinivasa Ranganathan Impossible symmetry: The paradigm shift to quasi-crystals 9.08.2010

Ed van den Heuvel The ‘Second Golden Age’ of Dutch science 9.08.2010 and the role of ‘nurture’ for achieving scientific excellence

Miller Goss From solar noise to cosmic noise to rad io 9.08.2010 astronomy: Austral ian contributions to opening a new window to the Universe

Peter Shaver A thousand roads to knowledge 9.08.2010

Bob Frater Why is it so? 9.08.2010

Michael Berry Hamilton’s d iabol ical singularity 10.08.2010

M.G.K. Menon Nature and Nurture: Both are needed for great discoveries in 10.08.2010 Science – also an ambience – some examples

C.S. Unnikrishnan Does parad igm shift in science imply progress 10.08.2010 and approach to scientific truth? A case study on relativity and theories of motion

B.V. Sreekantan The role of cosmic ray research in ushering in 10.08.2010 the era of high energy physics, elementary particle physics and ultra-high energy astronomies

Ashok Jhunjhunwala What would it take for Ind ia to become leader 10.08.2010 in wireless technology?

Rajaram Nityananda Robert Dicke – physicist extraord inary 10.08.2010

Thomas Phill ips The invention of SIS and HEB receivers and 10.08.2010 enabl ing of Herschel/HIFI and ALMA

George Seielstad What goes down must come up 10.08.2010

Roddam Narasimha From ancient hydraul ics and 19th c. 11.08.2010 hydrodynamics to modern fluid mechanics: Ludwig Prandtl’s giant leap of 1904

Ron Ekers The search for UHE neutrinos – particle 11.08.2010 detection at rad io wavelengths

Joseph Samuel Physics at the interface 11.08.2010

133 Name Title Date Vinod Gaur Plate tectonics: psychology of research or logic of d iscovery? 11.08.2010

Marshall Cohen Ignorance can be useful: The size of the Arecibo dish 11.08.2010

Ray Norris How to engage the und iscovered Einsteins? 11.08.2010

Bernie Burke Against parad igm change, for innovation and d iscovery 11.08.2010

‘Non Linear Optics Workshop 2011’ held at the Raman Research Institute during 19 – 20 January 2011

V.P.N. Nampoori Non l inear optics 19.1.2011 Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin

C.S. Suchand Sandeep Z-scan and Four Wave mixing: 20.1.2011 Raman Research Institute experimental aspects Bangalore

Workshop on ‘Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas’ held at the Raman Research Institute during 1 – 4 March 2011

Thomas Jones Particle acceleration in supernova remnant 1.03.2011 shocks: A progress report

Gianfranco Brunetti Particle acceleration in galaxy clusters: 1.03.2011 from radio halos to gamma rays

Uri Keshet Disentangl ing the d iffuse rad io emission from galaxy clusters 1.03.2011

Ashok Singal Coherence inherent in an incoherent 1.03.2011 synchrotron radio source

Monika Singh THz generation by the laser plasma coupl ing 1.03.2011 at the plasma – vacuum boundary

Sanjay Kumar Numerical study of kinetic Alfven wave 1.03.2011 excitation by magnetosonic wave in high beta plasmas

Visweshwar Marthi The central point source in G76.9+1.0 1.03.2011

Aritra Basu Variation of magnetic field in spiral galaxies 1.03.2011

Ettore Carretti Diffuse polarized emission 1.03.2011

Marijke Haverkorn Extended continuum emissions and the 1.03.2011 magnetic field of the milky way

Shweta Srivastava GMRT low rad io frequency study of the 1.03.2011 Wolf Rayet galaxy NGC 4214 134 APPENDIX Name Title Date Katherine Blundell Evolution & energies in classical double 1.03.2011 rad io galaxies revealed by rad io & X-rays

Marek Jamrozy A near-d istance merger galaxy with a 1.03.2011 double-double rad io lobes

Akash Pirya A multi-frequency study of five large rad io galaxies 1.03.2011

Sanhita Joshi GMRT polarization images of two FR II galaxies 1.03.2011

Chiranjib Konar The dynamics of rad io galaxies and double- 2.03.2011 double rad io galaxies

Sumana Nand i A rad io study of the double-double rad io galaxy 3C293 2.03.2011

Melanie Johnston-Holl itt Bent-tailed rad io galaxies in CDFS field 2.03.2011

Kiran Lakhchaura Interaction of the WAT source in abell 2.03.2011 3395 with the intracluster med ium

Kshitij Thorat Owen-ledlow d iagram for the ATLB sources 2.03.2011

Carlos de Breuck Stars, dust and feedback in high redshift rad io galaxies 2.03.2011

Veeresh Singh Seyfert galaxies: Rad io continuum emission 2.03.2011 properties and the unification scheme

Tiziana Venturi Diffuse rad io emission in galaxy clusters: 2.03.2011 current knowledge and future prospects

Reinout van Weeren Rad io rel ics as probes of galaxy cluster mergers 2.03.2011

Matthias Hoeft Simulations of halos and rel ics in galaxy clusters 2.03.2011

Rossella Cassano The connection between rad io halos and cluster mergers and 2.03.2011 the statistical properties of the rad io halo population

K.S. Dwarakanath The GMRT survey of MACS clusters: 2.03.2011 Discovery of a giant rad io halo at Z=0.443

Ruta Kale Double rel ics in the outskirts of A3376: 2.03.2011 accretion flows meet merger shocks?

Melanie Johnston-Holl itt Detection of d iffuse rad io emission in southern REXCESS clusters 2.03.2011

Ruta Kale A Zoo of rad io rel ics: from cluster cores to filaments 2.03.2011

Melanie Johnston-Holl itt Searching for excess rotation measures in 2.03.2011 Galaxy clusters with the NVSS

Siddharth S. Malu The rad io halo and SZE effect in the bullet 2.03.2011 cluster at 18 and 22 GHz

Biman Nath Entropy of the intracluster med ium and AGN feedback 3.03.2011

135 Name Title Date Somak Raychaudhury The effect of AGN feedback on intergalactic 3.03.2011 med ium of galaxy groups and clusters

Lawrence Rudnick Manifestations of magnetic field inhomogenetis 3.03.2011

Huub Rottegering Diffuse emission in clusters: tracers of 3.03.2011 cluster mergers. Recent results and prospects for LOFAR

Roberto Pizzo Large scale structure emission: the polarization aspects 3.03.2011

Shea Brown Diffuse rad io emission on large scales 3.03.2011

Minnie Y. Mao ATLAS and WATs in ATLAS 3.03.2011

George Heald LOFAR – First results, future prospects 3.03.2011

Ray Norris EMU: Evolutionary map of the universe 3.03.2011

Sandeep Sirothia TIFR GMRT sky survey (TGSS) – first results 3.03.2011

C.H. Ishwara Chandra High-redshift rad io galaxies from deep fields 3.03.2011

Susanta K. Bisoi Deep GMRT 150 MHz observations of the 3.03.2011 DEEP2 fields: Searching for high red-shift rad io galaxies revisited

R. Subrahmanyan Imaging d iffuse emission at long wavelengths 3.03.2011

Gianfranco Brunetti Summary of important issues and find ings 4.03.2011

Lawrence Rudnick Open d iscussion of important issues 4.03.2011

RRI School on Statistical Physics held at the Raman Research Institute between 7 – 19 March 2011

Speaker Title

V. Balakrishnan Nonl inear dynamics and chaos

El i Ben-Naim Physics of granular matter

Chandan Dasgupta Critical phenomena and renormal ization group

R. Rajesh Turbulence in nonequil ibrium systems

Marcos Rigol Nonequil ibrium dynamics of quantum systems

Diptiman Sen Quantum spin systems, quenching and entanglement

136 APPENDIX Conference on ‘Geometry, Topology and Dynamics in Negative Curvature’ held at the Raman Research Institute during 2 – 7 August, 2010

Speaker Title

Martin Bridson Rigid ity for Out(F), and actions of higher-rank lattices on free groups

Emmanuel Breuillard Approximate groups

Pallavi Dani Fill ing invariants at infinity

Anne Thomas Lattices in complete Kac-Moody groups

Marc Bourdon Quasiconformal geometry and Coxeter groups (joint work with Bruce Kleiner)

Ind ira Chatterji Med ian spaces and property (T)

Etienne Ghys On cutting cloth, accord ing to Chebyshev

Marc Burger Higher Teichmueller Spaces: from SL(2, R) to other Lie Groups

Tom Farrell Space of negatively curved metrics; bundles with negatively curved fibers

Uri Shapira Dynamics and continued fractions

Mahan Mj On d iscreteness of commensurators

Jayadev Athreya Cusp excursions on parameter spaces

Jens Heber Cocompactisometry groups in nonpositive curvature

Mladen Bestvina Groups acting on quasi-trees

Yves Benoist Invariant subsets of finite volume homogeneous spaces

Gerhard Knieper New results on harmonic manifolds

Igor Mineyev Systems of complexes and the Hanna Neumann conjucture

Enrico Leuzinger The asymptotic Schottky problem

Igor Belegradek Modul i spaces metrics of nonnegative curvature

Patrick Eberlein Ergod ic behaviour in negative curvature

Francois Labourie An algebra of observables for cross ratios

Shahar Mozes Stationary measures, stiffness and equid istribution on the torus

Nimish Shah Counting points or circles orbits of geometrically finite hyperbol ic groups

Chris Connell Rigid ity for maps and measures on fol iated spaces

137 Name and Institution Duration of Stay

Speaker Title

Viktor Schroeder Parallel session

Dave Constantine Rank-rigid ity and frame flow in non-positive curvature

Frederic Paul in Equidistribution, counting and arithmetic appl ication in hyperbol ic manifolds

Keith Burns Ergod icity of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow

Alex Gorodnik Diophantine approximation and automorphic spectrum

Jean–Francois Lafont 4-d imensional locally CAT(O)-manifold with no Riemannian smoothing

Peter Linnell Approximating Betti numbers over arbitrary fields

Darren Long Small subgroups of SL(3,Z)

S.G. Dani, Mike Davis, Open problems session Pedro Ontaneda

Donatella Ciampini Rydberg excitation in Bose-Einstein condensates and optical lattices

Gerard Besson Collapsing irreducible 3-manifolds with nontrivial fundamental group

Tadeusz Januskiewicz Complex l inks in Kahlerpolyhedra

Ravi Kulkarni Valedictory address

138 APPENDIX Appendix IV - Visitors Name and Institution Duration of Stay

Mary Kutty James 1 March – 30 June 2010 M.G. University, Kerala 1 November – 28 February 2011

Devanka Pathak 3 March – 5 May 2010 Card iff University, United Kingdom

Benoy Anand 1 – 9 April 2010 Sri Sathya Sai University, Andhra Pradesh

Rukmini Dey 20 April – 15 May 2010 Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

Jayaram Chengalur 22 – 23 April 2010 National Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune

Srikanta Pal 26 – 30 April 2010 Birla Institute of Technology-Mesra, Ranchi

Sneha Honnappa 1 May – 30 August 2010 University of Zeilona, Poland

Benincasa Dionigi 9 – 23 May 2010 Imperial College, London

Steven Johnston 9 – 23 May 2010 Imperial College, London

Rajesh Gopakumar 19 May 2010 Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

Bindu Krishnan 21 – 22 May 2010 Ind ian Space Research Organisation, Trivandrum

Shreyas Potnis 9 – 19 May 2010 Ind ian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Noble P. Abraham 26 May – 16 July 2010 M.G. University, Kerala 1 – 6 June 2010 K. Sankaran 22 – 25 July 2010 Anna University, Chennai 20 January 2011 24 – 26 March 2011

Prashant Gade 1 – 9 June 2010 Nagpur University, Nagpur

139 Name and Institution Duration of Stay Duncan Campbell Wilson 3 – 6 June 2010 University of Sydney, Austral ia

T.R. Rao 5 – 12 June 2010 Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 25 – 29 December 2010

Bhimsen Shivamoggi 7 June 2010 University of Central Florida, USA

C. S. Unnikrishnan 24 – 30 June 2010 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

A.R.P. Rau 30 June – 4 July 2010 Louisiana State University, USA 16 – 17 July 2010

Gauri Kulkarni 7 June – 31 August 2010 National Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune 4 – 22 January 2011

Fel ix Richard Anger 1 June – 31 July 2010 Ludwig Maximil ians University of Munich, Germany

Jincy Devasia 1 July – 31 October 2010 M.G. Unviersity, Kerala

R. Simon 6 – 7 July 2010 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Richard Dodson 7 – 25 July 2010 University of Western Austral ia, Austral ia

Bikram Phookun 9 – 13 July 2010 St. Stephen;s College, Delhi

Yuri Shchekinov 13 – 27 July 2010 Southern Federal University, Russia

Utpal Sarkar 16 – 18 July 2010 Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

P. Bhattacharjee 18 – 21 July 2010 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Nadheem Oozeer 28 July – 10 August 2010 Hartbeesthoek Rad io Astronomy Observatory, South Africa

K.G. Arun 15 – 18 August 2010 McDonnell Centre for Space Sciences, USA

Pravabati Chingangbam 16 – 18 August 2010 Sejong University, Korea

B. Sriram Shastry 20 August – 8 October 2010 University of Cal ifornia, USA 140 APPENDIX Name and Institution Duration of Stay Poshak Gandhi 22 – 24 August 2010 Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan

Jayendra N Bandyopadhyay 22 – 26 August 2010 National University of Singapore, Singapore

Pallavi Debnath 22 – 26 August 2010 Institute of Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar

Miller Goss 3 – 30 August 2010 National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA

Lisa George 12 – 13 August 2010 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Donatella Ciampini 3 – 10 August 2010 University of Pisa, Italy

Toney Teddy Fernandez 17 August – 16 September 2010 Instituto d i Fotonica e Nanotechnologie del CNR, Italy

Suchand Sandeep 14 August – 22 October 2010 DELFT University of Technology, The Netherlands 18 – 22 January 2011

Vijayan C. 17 – 18 August 2010 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai

Divya Oberoi 25 – 26 August 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Diptiman Sen 3 September 2010 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

R.W. Hunstead 5 – 15 September 2010 University of Sydney, Austral ia

Smitha S.L. 9 – 11 September 2010 Kerala University, Kerala

Louie Frobel P.G. 7 – 8 September 2010 Kerala University, Kerala

Harsha Raichur 7 September – 7 October 2010 Inter University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Naik S. 14 - 17 September 2010 Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

V.P. Mahadevan Pillai 23 – 24 September 2010 University of Kerala, Trivandrum

Prasun Dutta 26 – 29 September 2010 National Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune

141 Name and Institution Duration of Stay Renugopalakrishnan 29 September – 2 October 2010 Northeastern University of Harvard Children’s Hospital, USA

Himanshu Khandel ia 1 October 2010 University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Chetana Jain 1 – 14 October 2010 Delhi University, Delhi

Wayne Arcus 6 – 8 October 2010 MIT-Kavl i Institute of Astrophysics & Space Research, USA

Punyabrata Pradhan 8 – 9 October 2010 Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany

Robert E Goeke 6 – 10 October 2010 MIT-Kavl i Institute of Astrophysics & Space Science Research, USA 10 – 11 March 2011

Prashanth Upadhya 11 – 13 October 2010 Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

G. Rajalakshmi 13 – 23 October 2010 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

P.B. Sunil Kumar 18 October 2010 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Zoltan Haiman 18 – 22 October 2010 Columbia University, USA

Dipanjan Bhattacharya 26 October 2010 National University of Singapore, Singapore

Aurnab Ghose 10 – 11 November 2010 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

Romeel Dave 16 November – 5 December 2010 University of Arizona, USA

K. Guruswamy 17 – 19 November 2010 National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

J. K. Vij 18 – 21 November 2010 University of Dubl in, Ireland 24 – 27 November 2010

Deepto Chakrabarty 19 – 20 November 2010 MIT-Kavl i Institute of Astrophysics & Space Research, USA

Selvarani Ganesan 20 – 22 November 2010 Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Chennai

Vishwesha Gutta 22 November 2010 Princeton University, USA 142 APPENDIX Name and Institution Duration of Stay M.C. Varia 22 – 27 November 2010 The MS University of Baroda, Vadodara

Jaghdeep 30 November – 1 December 2010 Institute for Astronomy, USA

Anne Green 30 November - 2 December 2010 University of Sydney, Austral ia

Takahiro Sagawa 1 – 4 December 2010 Tokyo University, Japan

Shu Tanaka 1 – 4 December 2010 Kinki University, Japan

Thomas Laupretre 2 – 8 December 2010 University of Paris, France

Poonam Chandra 13 – 17 December 2010 Royal Mil itary College, Canada

Rashmi Rao 9 December 2010 Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, USA

Ravi A.V. Kumar 22 November 2010 Institute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad 16 – 17 December 2010

Aparna A. Nair 14 – 17 December 2010 University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram

Jinto Thomas 13 November – 12 December 2010 Institute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad

Alok C Gupta 28 – 30 December 2010 Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital

Mats Jonson 21 December 2010 University of Gothenburg, Sweden Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

Eleanor E.B. Campbell 23 December 2010 Edinburgh University, United Kingdom

Naveen Yadav 29 December 2010 – 29 January 2011 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Deepak More 9 – 16 January 2011 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Sudipto Muhuri 15 – 25 January 2011 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

Dibyendu Roy 11 – 18 January 2011 University of Cincinnati, USA

143 Name and Institution Duration of Stay D.V.G.L.N. Rao 11 – 21 January 2011 University of Massachusetts, USA

V.P.N. Nampoori 18 – 20 January 2011 Cochin University for Science and Technology, Cochin

Luc Blanchet 24 January – 5 February 2011 Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, France

B. Ashok 1 – 4 February 2011 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Martin Evans 5 – 12 February 2011 The University of Ed inburgh, Scotland

Pragati Pradhan 25 January – 12 February 2011 St. Joseph's College, Darjeel ing

Sanjit Mitra 30 January – 2 February 2011 Cal ifornia Institute of Technology, USA

Ajai Kumar 24 – 25 January 2011 Institute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad

Suman Bhattacharya 7 – 10 February 2011 Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

David Blair 10 – 14 February 2011 University of Western Austral ia, Austral ia

Ju Li 10 – 14 February 2011 University of Western Austral ia, Austral ia

Sourav Bhattacharya 10 – 20 February 2011 S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Wei-Tou Ni 11 February – 2 March 2011 National Tsing Hua University, China

V.M. Kenkre 13 – 16 February 2011 University of New Mexico, USA

Mukund Thattai 15 February 2011 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi 16 – 22 February 2011 Institut Curie, France

Amit Chattopadhyay 17 – 18 February 2011 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Nitin Kumar 1 March 2011 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 144 APPENDIX Name and Institution Duration of Stay Manjula Devi 1 – 9 March 2011 Birla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani, Rajasthan

Visweswar Ram Marthi 2 – 7 December 2010 National Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune 8 – 15 March 2011

Deepak Kumar Sinha 18 March 2011 Laboratorie de Physique Statisique, Paris

Ron Ekers 8 August 2010 Austral ia Telescope National Facil ity, Austral ia 22 – 29 March 2011

Sharath Ananthamurthy 22 March 2011 Bangalore University, Bangalore

Divya Sharma 25 – 27 March 2011 Birla Institute of Science and Technology-Pilani, Hyderabad

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