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1 Nanoparticle induced d irector d istortionand d isorder in l iquid crystal-nanoparticled ispersions Gupta, Meenal; Satpathy, Ipsita*; Roy, Arun; Pratibha R Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 352,292, 2010

2 Photosensitive phasmid-l ike l iquidcrystall ine materials with unusualmesomorphic behaviour Nagaveni, Nagendrappa Gowdru*; Gupta,Meenal; Roy, Arun; Prasad, Veena* Journal of Materials Chemistry 20, 9089, 2010

3 Occurrence of transit ion between two polarorthogonal smectic phases in newhomologous series of novel bent-corecompoundsRadhika S; Sadashiva BK; Pratibha RLiquid Crystals 37, 417, 2010

4 Critical behaviour at transitions from uniaxialto biaxial phases in a smectic l iquid-crystalmixture Sasaki, Y*; Ema K*; Le KV*; Takezoe H*;Dhara, Surajit*; Sadashiva BK Physical Review E 82, 011709, 2010

5 Stable amorphous blue phase of bent-corenematic l iquid crystals doped with a chiralmaterial Taushanoff, Stefanie*; Van Le, Khoa*;Will iams, Jarrod*; Twieg, Robert J*;Sadashiva BK; Takezoe, Hideo*; Jakl i, Antal* Journal of Materials Chemistry 20, 5893, 2010

6 Stress relaxation in aging soft colloidalglasses Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini; Mohan, P Harsha;Joshi, Yogesh M* Soft Matter 6, 1462, 2010

7 Splay and bend elastic constants in thenematic phase of some d isulf ide bridged

d imeric compounds Kundu, Brindaban*; Pal, Santanu Kumar*;Kumar, Sandeep; Pratibha R;Madhusudana NV Physical Review E 82, 061703, 2010

8 Liquid-crystal nanoscience: an emergingavenue of soft self-assembly Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Kumar, Sandeep Chemical Society Reviews 40, 306, 2011

9 Enhancement of the d isplay parameters of42 -pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl due to thed ispersion of functional ised gold nanoparticles Pandey, Abhay S*; Dhar R*; Kumar, Sandeep;Dabrowski R* Liquid Crystals 38, 115, 2011

10 The f irst examples of d iscotic l iquidcrystall ine gemini surfactants Kumar, Sandeep; Gupta, Satyam Kumar Tetrahedron Letters 51, 5459, 2010

11 Stress-strain relation in the collapse ofLangmuir monolayer of a d imer of d iskshaped moiety Kumar, Bharat; Suresh KA; Gupta, SatyamKumar; Kumar, Sandeep Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 044701, 2010

12 Microemulsion phase as a med ium forelectrodeposition of nickel and electron-transfer study of ferrocyanide-ferricyanideredox system Ganesh V*; Lakshminarayanan V Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 349,300, 2010

13 Enhanced electrocatalytic activity of Pd-d ispersed3,4-polyethylened ioxythiophenf ilmPandey, Rakesh K; Lakshminarayanan VJournal of Physical Chemistry C 114, 8507,2010

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14 Temperature- and electric-f ield-inducedinverse Freedericksz transition in anematogen with weak surface anchoring Kumar, Arun T*; Sathyanarayana P*; SastryVSS*; Takezoe, Hideo*; Madhusudana NV;Dhara, Surajit* Physical Review E 82, 011701, 2010

15 4-Decylphenyl 4-benzyloxy 3-methyl-benzoateArunkashi HK*; Palakshamurthy BS*;Vahini,Vindu M*; Srinivasa HT;Devarajegowda HC*Acta Crystallographica E 66, 02126, 2010

16 4-Ethoxyphenyl 4-[(methoxycarbonyl)-oxy]benzoateSrinivasa HT; Devarajegowda HC*;Arunkashi HK*; Meenakshi TG*Acta Crystallographica E 66, 03074, 2010

17 The role of the Cytoskeleton in volumeregulation and bead ing transit ions in PC12neurites Fernandez, Pablo*; Pullarkat, Pramod A Biophysical Journal 99, 3571, 2010

18 Chiral symmetry breaking in crystals ofachiral polymers Hatwalne, Yashodhan; Muthukumar M* Physical Review Letters 105, 107801, 2010

19 Time autocorrelation function and Green-Kubo formula: Study on a d isorderedharmonic chain Kundu, Anupam Physical Review E 82, 031131, 2010

20 Polymer quantization of the free scalar f ieldand its classical l imit Laddha, Alok; Varadarajan, Madhavan Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 175010,2010

21 Energy current magnif ication in coupledoscillator loops Marathe, Rahul; Dhar, Abhishek;Jayannavar AM* Physical Review E 82, 031117, 2010

22 Linear-response formula for f inite-frequencythermal conductance of open systems Dhar, Abhishek; Narayan, Onuttom*; Kundu,Anupam; Saito, Keiji* Physical Review E 83, 011101, 2011

23 Heat conduction in d isordered harmoniclattices with energy-conserving noise Dhar, Abhishek; Venkateshan K*;Lebowitz JL* Physical Review E 83, 021108, 2011

24 Appl ication of importance sampl ing to thecomputation of large deviations innonequil ibrium processes Kundu, Anupam; Sabhapand it, Sanjib; Dhar,Abhishek Physical Review E 83, 031119, 2011

25 Heat conduction and phonon local isation ind isordered harmonic crystals Kundu, Anupam ; Chaudhuri, A*; Roy D*;Dhar, Abhishek; Lebowitz JL*; Spohn H* Europhysics Letters 90, 40001, 2010

26 Non-local Pancharatnam phase in two-photon interferometry Mehta, Poonam; Samuel, Joseph; Sinha,Supurna Physical Review A 82, 034102, 2010

27 Interplay of energy dependent astrophysicalneutrino flavor ratios and new physics effects Mehta, Poonam; Winter, Walter* Journal of Cosmology and AstroparticlePhysics 03, 041, 2011

28 Head-on infall of two compact objects: Thirdpost-Newtonian energy flux Mishra, Chandrakant; Iyer BR Physical Review D 82, 104005, 2010

29 Parametrized tests of post-Newtonian theoryusing advanced LIGO and Einstein telescope Mishra, Chandrakanth; Arun KG*; Iyer BR;Sathyaprakash BS* Physical Review D 82, 064010, 2010

30 Spherical harmonic modes of 5.5 post-Newtonian gravitational wave polarizationsand associated factorized resummedwaveforms for a particle in circular orbitaround a Schwarzschild black hole Fujita, Ryuichi+; Iyer BR Physical Review D 82, 044051, 2010

31 AIGO : a southern hemisphere detector forthe worldwide array of ground-basedinterferometric gravitational wave detectos Barriga P*; Blair DG*; Coward D*; Iyer BR; and 41+ co-authors Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084005,2010

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32 Large deviations of heat flow in harmonicchainsKundu, Anupam; Sabhapand it, Sanjib; Dhar,AbhishekJ. Stat. Mech. P03007 (2011)

33 Hamiltonian constraint in polymerparametrized f ield theory Laddha, Alok; Varadarajan, Madhavan Physical Review D 83, 025019, 2011

34 Post-Newtonian factorized multipolarwaveforms for spinning, nonprecessingblack-hole binaries Pan, Yi*; Buonanno, Alessandra*; Fujita,Ryuichi; Racine, Etienne*; Tagoshi,Hideyuki* Physical Review D 83, 064003, 2011

35 DECIGO and DECIGO pathfinder Ando, Masaki*; Fujita, Ryuichi+; et al Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084010,2010

36 Competition between fold ing andaggregation in a model for protein solutions Maiti M*; Rao, Madan; Sastry S* European Physical Journal E 32, 217, 2010

37 Nonaff ine heterogeneities and dropletfluctuations in an equil ibrium crystall inesol id Das, Tamoghna*; Sengupta, Surajit*;Rao, Madan Physical Review E 82, 041115, 2010

38 On extend ing the quantum measure Dowker, Fay*; Johnston, Steven*; Surya,Sumati Journal of Physics A 43, 505305, 2010

39 Quantum covers in quantum measure theory Surya, Sumati; Wallden, Petros Foundations of Physics 40, 585, 2010

40 Directional optical switch using interactingdark states Narayanan, Andal; Madathil, PreethiThekkile*; Manjappa, Manukumara* Journal of the Optical Society of America A 27,1778, 2010

41 Tracking interacting dark states throughhigher order absorption resonances Madathil, Preethi Thekkile*; Manjappa,Manukumara*; Narayananan, Andal European Physical Journal D 60, 389, 2010

42 Threshold nonl inear absorption in Zeemantransitions Narayananan, Andal; Hazra, Abheera*;Sandhya SN* Journal of Physics B 43, 215502, 2010

43 Rubid ium d imers in paraff in-coated cells Acosta VM*; Jarmola A*; Windes D*;Corsini E*; Ledbetter MP*; Karaulanov T*;Auzinsh M*; Rangwala SA; Kimball,Jackson DF*; Budker D* New Journal of Physics 12, 083054, 2010

44 Investigation of antirelaxation coatings foralkal i-metal vapour cells using surfacescience techniques Seltzer SJ*; Michalak DJ*; Donaldson MH*;Balabas MV*; Rangwala SA; and 15+ co-authors Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 144703, 2010

45 Transverse laser cool ing of a thermal atomicbeam of dysprosium Leefer N*; Cingoz A*; Gerber-Siff B*;Sharma, Arijit; Torgerson JR; Budker D* Physical Review A 81, 043427, 2010

46 Entanglement and nonclassical ity formultimode rad iation-field states Ivan, Solomon J; Chaturved i S*; Ercolessi E*;Marmo G*; Morand i G*; Mukunda N*;Simon R* Physical Review A 83, 032118, 2011

47 Nonl inear optical stud ies on a new poly2-(biphenyl-4-yl)-5-[3,4-d idecyloxy-5-(1,3,4-oxad iazol-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl]-1,3,4-oxad iazole Hegde PK*; Adhikari AV*; Manjunatha MG*;Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji Materials Science Forum 659, 56, 2010

48 Mixing does the magic: a rapid synthesis ofhigh surface area noble metal nanospongesshowing broadband nonl inear opticalresponse Krishna, Katla Sai*; Sandeep, Suchand CS;Phil ip, Reji; Eswaramoorthy, Muthusamy* ACS Nano 4, 2681, 2010

49 Optical nonl inearity in NiFe2O4 nanoparticlesSridharan, Kishore ; Agarwal, Milan*; Phil ip,Jacob*; Endo, Tamio*; Phil ip, Reji Transactions of the Materials Research Societyof Japan 35, 159, 2010

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50 Synthesis, characterisation of N,N’-bis(2-hydroxynaphthal idene) phenylene-1,2-d iamine with M(II)(M = Ni, Zn and Fe) Schiff-base complexes and their non-l inear opticalstud ies by z-scan technique Sampath Kumar HC*; Bhat B Ramachandra*;Rudresha BJ*; Ravindra R*; Phil ip, Reji Chemical Physics Letters 494, 95, 2010

51 Novel poly(3,4-d ialkoxythiophene)s carrying1,3,4-oxad iazolyl-biphenyl moieties:synthesis and nonl inear optical stud ies Hegde PK*; Adhikari AV*; ManjunathaMG*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji Polymer Internat ional 60, 112, 2010

52 Effect of cadmium oxide incorporation onthe microstructural and optical properties ofpulsed laser deposited nanostructured zincoxide thin f ilms Vinodkumar R*; Lethy KJ*; Arunkumar PR*; Krishnan, Renju R*; Pillai, N Venugopalan*; Pillai, VP Mahadevan*; Phil ip, Reji Materials Chemistry and Physics 121, 406,2010

53 Nonl inear Optical Stud ies on NewConjugated Poly{2,2l-(3,4-d ialkoxythiophene-2,5-d iyl)bis[5-(2-thienyl)-1,3,4-oxad iazole]}sHegde, Pramod Kumar; Adhikari AV;Manjunatha MG; Suchand Sandeep CS;Phil ip, RejiJournal of Applied Polymer Science 117, 2641(2010)

54 Synthesis, characterisation and nonl inearoptical properties of 2-[(E)-2-(4-ethoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-1-methylquinol inium4-substitutedbenzenesulfonate compounds Ruanwas, Pumsak*; Kobkeatthawin,Tawanrat*; Chantrapromma, Suchada*; Phil ip, Reji; Smijesh N; Padaki, Mahesh*; Isloor, Arun M* Synthetic Metals 160, 819, 2010

55 Synthesis and characterisation of a newNLO-active donor-acceptor-type conjugatedpolymer derived from 3,4-d iphenylthiophene Manjunatha MG*; Adhikari AV*; HegdePK*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji Journal of Polymer Research 17, 495, 2010

56 Mod ified collaborative coefficient: a newmeasure for quantifying the degree ofresearch collaborationSavanur, Kiran P; Srikanth RScientometrics, 84, 365, 2010

57 Complementarity in generic open quantumsystems Banerjee, Subhashish*; Srikanth R Modern Physics Letters B 24, 2485, 2010

58 2N qubit “mirror states” for optimal quantumcommunication Mural idharan S*; Karumanchi S*; Jain S*;Srikanth R; Panigrahi PK European Physical Journal D 61, 757, 2011

59 Evidence for surface states in pristine andCo-doped ZnO nanostructures:magnetization and nonl inear opticalstud ies Pod ila, Ramakrishna*; Anand, Benoy*; West,Palmer J*; Phil ip, Reji; and 6+ co-authors Nanotechnology 22, 095703, 2011

60 Room temperature ferromagnetism andoptical l imiting in v2o5 nanoflowerssynthesized by a Novel method Parida, Manas R*; Vijayan C*; Rout CS*;Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji;Deshmukh PC* Journal of Physical Chemistry C 115, 112, 2011

61 Tunabil ity of third order nonl inearabsorption in (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O3 thin f ilms Ambika D*; Kumar, Viswanathan*; Sandeep,Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji Applied Physics Letters 98, 011903, 2011

62 Optical l imiting properties of CdSnanowires Muthukumar, Sai V*; Reppert J*; Sandeep,Suchand CS; Rama Krishnan, Siva S*; Pod ilaR*; Kuthirummal N*; Siva Sankara S*;Venkataramaniah K*; Phil ip, Reji; Rao AM* Optics Communications 283, 4104, 2010

63 Optical nonl inearity in Lead Sulf idemicrotowersTamilselvan V*; Kishore, Sridharan*;Narasimha Rao K*; Phil ip, RejiJournal of Physics D: Applied Physics 43,385402, 2010

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64 Spectrally broadened excitonic absorptionand enhanced optical nonl inearities in Dy3+-doped ZnO nanoparticles Karthikeyan B*; Sandeep, Suchand CS;Pand iyarajan T*; Venkatesan P*; Phil ip, Reji Applied Physics A 102, 115, 2011

65 Highly conductive and transparent laserablated nanostructured Al:ZnO thin f ilms Vinodkumar R*; Navas I*; Chalana SR*;Gopchandran KG*; Ganesan V*; Phil ip, Reji;Sudheer, SK*; Pillai, Mahadevan VP* Applied Surface Science 257, 708, 2010

66 A new nonl inear optically active donor-acceptor-type conjugated polymer :Synthesis and electrochemical and opticalcharacterisation Manjunatha MG*; Adhikari AV*; Hegde PK*;Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji Journal of Electronic Materials 39, 2711, 2010

67 Synthesis, next term characterisation andthird-order nonl inear optical stud ies ofcopper complexes containing 1,10-phenanthrol ine-5,6-d ione andtriphenylphosphine l igands Rudresha BJ*; Bhata, Ramachandra*;Sampath, Kumara HC*; Shiva, Kumara KI*;Safakath, K*; Phil ip, Reji Synthetic Metals 161, 535, 2011

68 Synthesis and third order opticalnonl inearity stud ies of the donor-acceptorconjugated polymer, poly(2-[3,4-d idodecyloxy-5-(1,3,4-oxad iazol-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl]-5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxad iazole)and a polymer/TiO2 nanocomposite Mural i MG*; Ramya MG*; Udayakumar D*;Lakshmi NB*; Phil ip, Reji Synthetic Metals 160, 2520, 2010

69 A new donor-acceptor type conjugativepoly2-[4-(1-cyanoethenyl)phenyl]-3-(3,4-d idodecyloxythiophen-2-yl)prop-2-enenitrile: Synthesis and NLO stud ies Hegde P Kumar*; Adhikari, Vasudeva A*;Manjunatha MG*; Sandeep, Suchand CS;Phil ip, Reji Synthetic Metals 160, 1712, 2010

70 Optical-tweezer-induced microbubbles asscavengers of carbon nanotubes Ramachandran, Hema; Dharmadhikari AK*;

Bambardeka K*; Basu H*; DharmadhikariJA*; Sharma S*; Mathur D* Nanotechnology 21, 245102, 2010

71 Quantumness in a decoherent quantum walkusing measurement-induced d isturbance Srikanth R; Banerjee, Subhashish*;Chandrasekhar CM* Physical Review A 81, 062123, 2010

72 Relationship between quantum walks andrelativistic quantum mechanics Chandrashekar, CM*; Banerjee, Subhashish*;Srikanth R Physical Review A 81, 062340, 2010

73 Complementarity in atomic and oscillatorsystems Srikanth R; Banerjee, Subhashish* Physics Letters A 374, 3147, 2010

74 Spectral index stud ies of the d iffuse rad ioemission in Abell 2256: impl ications formerger activity Kale, Ruta; Dwarakanath KS Astrophysical Journal 718, 939, 2010

75 Carbon ionization states and the cosmic far-UV background with Heii absorption Vasil iev, Evgenii*; Sethi SK; Nath, Biman B Astrophysical Journal 719, 1343, 2010

76 Extended X-ray emission from rad io galaxycocoons Nath, Biman B Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 407, 1998, 2010

77 The Austral ia Telescope 20 GHz (AT20G)Survey: analysis of the extragalactic sourcesamplesMassard i, Marcella*; Ekers, Ronald D;Subrahmanyan, Ravi and 20 co-authorsMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 412, 318, 2011.

78 First spectroscopic imaging observations ofthe sun at low rad io frequencies with theMurchison Widefield Array Prototype Oberoi, Divya*; Prabu T; Vedantham, Harish;Gopalakrishna MR; Madhavi S; Roshi, DAnish; Udaya Shankar N; Srivani KS;Subrahmanyan, Ravi; and co-authors Astrophysical Journal Letters 728, L27, 2011

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79 Test continuity with an LED Badd i, Raju R EDN 56, 47, 2011

80 Centaurus A: morphology and kinematics ofthe atomic hydrogen Struve C*; Oosterloo TA*; Morganti R*;Saripall i L Astronomy and Astrophysics 515, A67, 2010

81 The shear dynamo problem for smallmagnetic Reynolds numbersSridhar S; Singh, Nishant KJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 664, 265, 2010

82 Supermassive Black hole formation at highRedshifts through a primord ial magneticf ield Sethi, Shiv K; Haiman, Zoltan*; Pandey,Kanhaiya Astrophysical Journal 721, 615, 2010

83 Primord ial magnetic f ield l imits fromcosmological data Kahniashvil i, Tina*; Tevzadze, Alexander G*;Sethi SK; Pandey, Kanhaiya; Ratra, Bharat* Physical Review D 82, 083005, 2010

84 Bandwidth in Bolometric InterferometryCharlassier R; Bunn EF; J-Ch. Hamilton;Kaplan J; Malu, SAstronomy & Astrophysics, 514, A37, 2010

85 Slow m = 1 instabil ities of softened gravityKeplerian d iscs Sridhar S; Saini TD* Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 404, 527, 2010

86 Comparative study of d ifferent scatteringgeometries for the proposed Ind ian X-raypolarization measurement experiment usingGeant4 Vadawale SV*; Paul, Biswajit; Pendharkar J*;Naik, Sachindra* Nuclear Instruments and Methods in PhysicsResearch A 618, 182, 2010

87 Discovery of a 0.02 Hz QPO feature in thetransient X-ray pulsar KS 1947+300 James, Marykutty; Paul, Biswajit; Devasia,Jincy; Indulekha, Kavila Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 407, 285, 2010

88 Apsidal motion in 4U 0115+63 and orbitalparameters of 2S 1417-624 and V0332+53

Raichur, Harsha; Paul, Biswajit Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 406, 2663, 2010

89 Possible use of self-cal ibration to reducesystematic uncertainties in determiningd istance-redshift relation via gravitationalrad iation from merging binaries Saini TD*; Sethi SK; Sahni, Varun* Physical Review D 81, 103009, 2010

90 Two-d imensional homography-basedcorrection of positional errors in widef ieldMRT images Nayak, Arvind; Daiboo, Soobash*; UdayaShankar N Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 408, 1061, 2010

91 Interferometric imaging with the 32 elementMurchison wide-field array Ord SM*; Deshpande AA; Gopalakrishna MR;Kamini PA; Madhavi S; Prabu T; Roshi, DAnish; Udaya Shankar N; Srivani KS; and 50+co-authors Publications of the Astronomical Society of thePacif ic 122, 1353, 2010

92 Direction dependence in supernova data:constraining isotropy Gupta, Shashikanth; Saini, Tarun Deep* Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 407, 651, 2010

93 Flares, broadening of the pulse-frequencypeak, and quasi-period ic oscillations in thetransient X-ray pulsar 4U 1901+03 James, Marykutty+; Paul, Biswajit ; Devasia,Jincy; Indulekha, Kavila* Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 410, 1489, 2010

94 New measurement of orbital and spin periodevolution of the accretion d isc corona source4U 1822-37 Jain, Chetana; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan* Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 409, 755, 2010

95 Variations in the X-ray ecl ipse transitions ofCen X-3 Devasia, Jincy*; Paul, Biswajit; James,Marykutty; Indulekha, Kavila* Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 10,1127, 2010

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96 Development of 1.5 THz waveguide NbTiNsuperconducting hot electron bolometermixers Jiang, Ling*; Shiba, Shoichi*; Shiino,Tatsuya*; Shimbo, Ken*; Sakai, Nami*;Yamakura, Tetsuya*; Irimajiri, Yoshihisa*;Ananthasubramanian PG; Maezawa, H*;Yamamoto, Satoshi* Superconductor Science & Technology 23,045025, 2010

97 Detection of extended molecular gas in thed isk of the LSB galaxy M al in 2 Das, Mousumi; Boone F*; Viallefond F* Astonomy and Astrophysics 523, A63, 2010

98 An X-ray bright nucleus in the low-surface-brightness galaxy UGC 6614 Naik, Sachindra*; Das, Mousumi; Jain,Chetana; Paul, Biswajit Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 404, 2056, 2010

99 Detection of the H92á recombination l inefrom NGC 4945 Roy AL*; Oosterloo T*; Goss WM*;Anantharamaiah KR Astronomy and Astrophysics 517, A82, 2010

100 Magnetic transport on the solar atmosphereby laminar and turbulent ambipolard iffusion Hiraki Y*; Krishan V+; Masuda S* Astrophysical Journal 720, 1311, 2010

101 Use LEDs as photod iodes Badd i, Raju R EDN 55, 45, 2010

102 Logic probe uses six transistors Badd i, Raju R EDN 55, 46, 2010

103 Detect l ive ac-mains l ines Badd i, Raju R EDN 55, 48, 2010

104 Install ing newgenl ib: open source l ibraryautomation package. Anuradha KT*; Savanur, Kiran P SRELS Journal of InformationManagement 47, 621, 2010

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monomers to polymersSandeep KumarCRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2011

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3 The Pancharatnam phase in two flavorneutrino oscillationsMehta, Poonam*Hamburg 2009, Lepton Photon 2009* 490-492, 2010http://www-l ibrary.desy.de/preparch/desy/proc/proc10-04/P5.pdf

4 Quasi-degenerate neutrinos and maximalmixing in hybrid seesawsChakrabortty, Joydeep; Joshipura, Anjan S;Mehta, Poonam; Vempati, Sudhir K*

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5 Five years of the Raman Research InstituteDigital Repository: Some lessons andreflections Srinivasan, Girija; Patil YM; Manjunath M;Savanur, Kiran P; Nagaraj MN; Benegal,Vrinda J; Sheshadri, Geetha ASP conference series Vol. 433, Library andInformation Services in Astronomy VI. Ed by EIsaksson et al p214 Astronomical Society of thePacif ic, 2010

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7 Digital l ibrary at M.S. Ramaiah Med icalCollege: A case study Hemantha Kumar GH*; Nagaraj MN National Seminar on Management of DigitalInformation Sources, Services and Systems,July 29-30, 2010 Ed by I R N Goudar et al.p250, RNS Institute of Technology,Bangalore, 2010

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11 Intensity and energy dependent prof iles oftransient HMXB pulsars GRO J1008-57, 1A1118-61 and GX 304-1Paul, Biswajit; Devasia, Jincy*; Maitra,Chandreyee; James, Marykutty*; Naik,Sachindra*; Indulekha, Kavila*The First Year of MAXI: Monitoring Variable X-ray SourcesPoster Presentations, 4thInternational MAXI Workshop 30 November-2December 2010 in Tokyo, Japan; Publ icationdate 12/2010

12 Defect med iated instabil ities inmultilamellar tubulesBhatia, TriptaInternational Soft Matter Conference 2010,Granada, Spain, 5 – 8 July 2010

13 An addressing technique to drive blue phaseLCDs Ruckmongathan T N IDW’2010 Proceedings of the InternationalDisplay Workshop, p607, 2010

14 The search for gravitational waves and thetwo body problem in general relativityIyer BRMathematics Today; Special Issue, A tributeto P.C. Vaidya, 26, 72, 2011

15 Nonl inear properties and optical l imitingperformance of SulforhodamineB dopedsil ica and polymeric matricesSharma, Sunita; Devendra, Mohan*; GhoshalSK*; Gupta, Umesh*International Conference on Materials forAdvanced Technology

16 Study of third order nonl inear properties ofRhodamine6G in sil ica matricesSharma, Sunita; Devendra, Mohan*;Vandana, Nasa*; Ghoshal SK*International Conference on Materials forAdvanced Technology

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9 Randomly polarised smectic A phaseexhibited by bent-core molecules:experimental and theoretical stud iesGupta, Meenal; Datta, Soma; Radhika S;Sadashiva BK; Roy, ArunSoft Matter 7, 4735, 2011

10 Anticl inic smectic C phase in new and novelf ive-ring hockey stick-shaped compoundsRadhika S, Srinivasa HT; Sadashiva BKLiquid Crystals 38, 6, 2011

11 Nonl inear absorption andphotoluminescence emission innanocomposite f ilms of Fuchsine Basic dye-polymer systemSreekumar G; Louie Frobel PG; Sreeja S;Suresh SR; Mayadevi S; Muneera CI;Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji;Mukherjee CChemical Physics Letters 506, 61, 2011

12 Theory of the asymmetric ripple phase inachiral membranesKamal, Md. Arif; Pal, Antara; Raghunathan,VA; Rao, MadanEurophysics Letters

13 Temperature driven anneal ing ofperforations in bicellar model membranesNieh, MP*; Raghunathan VA; Pabst G;Harroun, Th; Nagashima, K; Morales, H;Katsaras, J; Macdonald, PLangmuir 27, 4838, 2011

14 Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer in thesemi-organic NLO material Sod ium AcidPhthalate Hemihydrate: VibrationalSpectroscopy and Z-Scan StudySajan D; Vijayan N; Safakath K; Phil ip, Reji;Hubert JIJournal of Physical Chemistry A

15 Photoinduced transparency of effectivethree photon absorptioncoefficient forfemtosecond laser pulses in Ge16As29Se55 thinf ilmsBarik AR; Adarsh KV; Sandeep, Suchand CS;Phil ip, Reji; ZhaoD; Jain HApplied Physics Letters, 98, 201111, 2011

16 Second harmonic chalcone crystal: synthesis,growth and characterisationD’Silva ED; Narayan Rao D; Phil ip, Reji;Butcher RJ; Rajnikant; Dharmaprakash SMPhysica B 406, 2206, 2011

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17 Nonl inear optical properties of nanosizedrare-earth-doped strontium barium niobateceramicsNuja J; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji;Nandakumar KSpectroscopy Letters 44, 334, 2011

18 Design and synthesis of a new thiophenebased donor-acceptor type conjugatedpolymer with large third order nonl inearoptical activityMurthy, Vishnu; Phil ip, Reji, et alSynthetic Metals

19 An open-aperture z-scan study of Sr2CeO4

blue phosphorSeema R; Sandeep, Suchand CS, Phil ip, Reji;Kalarikkal, NandakumarJournal of Alloys and Compounds

20 Feedback control mechanism for Acousto-optic modulatorMeena MS; Arun V; Sanan, Sahil; Narayanan,AndalJournal of Instrumentation Society of India40, 4, 2010

21 Dynamics of Photothermally CreatedVapourous, Gaseous, and MixedMicrobubblesDharmadhikari, Ad itya K; Dharmadhikari,Jayashree A; Mahulkar, Amit V; Ramanandan,Gopika; Ramachandran, Hema; Pand it,Aniruddha B; Mathur, DeepakJournal of Physical Chemistry C 115, 6611,2011

22 Pulse profile stabil ity of the Crab pulsarJain C; Paul, BResearch in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011

23 Timing and spectral stud ies of the transientX-ray pulsar GX 304-1 during an outburstDevasia, J; James, M; Paul, B; Indulekha KMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 2011

24 X-ray Spectroscopy of the High Mass X-rayBinary Pulsar Centaurus X-3 over its BinaryOrbitNaik, S; Paul, B; Al i, ZAstrophysical Journal 2011

25 Prospect of polarization measurements fromblack hole binaries in their thermal state witha scattering polarimeterMaitra, Chandreyee; Paul, BMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 2011

26 Stud ies of quasi-period ic oscillations in theblack hole transient XTE J1817-330Roy, J; Agrawal PC; Paul, B; Duorah, KMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 412, 1011, 2011

27 RXTE-PCA observations of 1A 1118-61:timing and spectral stud ies during anoutburstDevasia, J; James, M; Paul, B; Indulekha, KMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 414, 1023, 2011

28 Search for pulsations in the LMXB EXO 0748-676Jain, C; Paul, B, 2011Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 11,577, 2011

29 Suzaku observation of the transient X-raypulsar GRO J1008-57Naik, S; Paul, B; Kachhara, C; Vadawale SV,2011Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 413, 241, 2011

30 Ecl ipse Timings of the LMXB XTE J1710-281:Orbital Period Gl itchesJain, C; Paul, BiswajitMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 413, 2, 2011

31 Intracluster gas pressure, entropy injectionand redshift evolutionNath, Biman B; Majumdar, SMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 2011

32 QUBIC: The QU Bolometric Interferometerfor CosmologyE. Battistell i, A. Baù, D. Bennett, L. Bergé,J.-Ph. Bernard, P. de Bernard is, A. Bounab,É. Bréelle, E.F. Bunn, M. Calvo, R. Charlassier,S. Coll in, A. Cruciani, G. Curran, L. Dumoul in,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,

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M. Maiello, S. Malu, S. Marnieros, S. Masi,A. Murphy, F. Nati, C. O’Sull ivan, F. Pajot,A. Passerini, S. Peterzen, F. Piacentini,M. Piat, L. Piccirillo, G. Pisano, G. Polenta,D. Prêle, D. Romano, C. Rosset, M. Salatino,A. Schillacci, G. Sironi, R. Sord ini, S. Spinell i,A. Tartari, P. Timbie, G. Tucker, L. Vibert,F. Voisin, R.A. Watson, M. ZannoniAstroparticle Physics 34, 705, 2011

33 Transport coefficients for the shear dynamoproblem at small Reynolds numbersSingh, Nishant K; Sridhar SPhysical Review E 83, 056309, 2011

34 Non-Gaussianity in the Measurement ofHubble ConstantShashikant; Saini TDMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety, 415, 2594, 2011

35 The Austral ia Telescope Compact ArrayBroadband Backend (CABB)Wilson, Warwick E; Ferris, RH; Axtens, P;Brown, A; Davis, E; Hampson, G; Leach, M;Roberts, P; Saunders, S; Koribalski, B S;Caswell JL; Lenc, E; Stevens, J; Voronkov, MA;Wieringa, MH; Brooks, K; Edwards PG;Ekers, RD; Emonts, B; Hindson, L; Johnston,S; Madd ison, ST; Mahony, EK; Malu, SS;Massard i, M; Mao, MY; McConnell, D;Norris, RP; Schnitzeler, D; Subrahmanyan, R;Urquhart, JS; Thompson, MA; Wark, RMMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 2011

36 Imaging the Epoch of Reionization:l imitations from foreground confusion andimaging algorithmsVedantham, Harish; Udaya Shankar N;Subrahmanyan, RaviAstrophysical Journal Letters

37 Classical Heisenberg spins on a hexagonallattice with Kitaev coupl ingsChandra, Samarth; Ramola K; Dhar DPhysical Review E 82, 031113, 2010

38 Spl itting of the ground state manifold ofclassical Heisenberg spins ascoupl ings arevariedChandra, SamarthPhysica A 389, 3739, 2010

IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1 Topological phase in two flavor neutrinooscillations and imprint of the CPV phase,Mehta, PoonamThe proceedings of Neutrino 2010, Athens,Greece, 2010

2 Rad iation and thermal pressure drivengalactic windsNath, Biman BAstronomical and Astrophysical Transaction,2011Conference Proceedings of ‘Dynamics andevolution of disc galaxies’, Puschinov, 2010

3 Non-equil ibrium carbon ionization statesand the extragalactic far-UV backgroundwith HeII absorption Vasil iev, Evgenil O*; Sethi SK; Nath, Biman B Astrophysics and Space Science, 2011

4 Dust in the IGM : pro and contra Shchekinov YA*; Nath, Biman B Astrophysics and Space Science, 2011

BOOK CHAPTERS (IN PRESS)

1 Directions in Causal Set Quantum GravitySurya, SumatiFinal version on the Archives:arXiv:1103.6272v1.Recent Research in Quantum Gravity

2 Chemistry of Columnar Liquid Crystals inLiquid Crystall ine SemiconductorsKumar, SandeepCanopus Acedemic Publishing Ltd., Bristol, UK.

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

Appendix II - conferences attendedName Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

Abhishek Dhar Third International Workshop on Transmission ofInformation and Energy in Nonl inear andComplex SystemsNational University of Singapore5 July – 5 August, 2010

Workshop on New Trends in Nonl inear Dynamics:Heat Control and ThermoelectricityEttore Majorana Centre in EriceItaly23-28 October, 2010

Conference on Spectroscopy and MesoscopicPhysicsS.N. Bose Center for Basic SciencesKolkata22 - 24 November, 2010

StatPhys-Kolkata VIISaha Institute of Nuclear PhysicsKolkata26 - 30 November 2010

DAE Symposium on Sol id State PhysicsManipal UniversityManipal26 - 30 December, 2010

Kolkata University21 January 2011

Barasat UniversityWest Bengal21 January 2011

Andal Narayanan Conference on Quantum Technologies with atomsNational Laboratory FAMO and the University ofWarsawPoland28 August – 2 September 2010

1.Phononic heat conduction ind isordered crystals (invited)

2. The Langevin equations and Green’sfunction formal ism for heat transportin harmonic systems

3. The recursive Green’s functionmethod for evaluation of transmissioncoeff icients in heat transport

Heat conduction in d isorderedharmonic lattices with energyconserving noise (invited)

Green-Kubo formula for open systems(invited)

Large deviation funct ions andfluctuation theorems in heat transport(invited)

Heat conduction in d isorderedharmonic crystals (invited)

Surprises in the theory of heatconduction

Surprises in the theory of heatconduction

Quantifying interacting dark statesthrough higher order resonances

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Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talk

Phase sensitive electromagneticallyinduced transparency (invited)

Quantifying interacting dark statesthrough higher order resonances

Single f ile d iffusion of colloids in 1-Dchannel

Extracting large-scale d istribution ofcold HI

1. The small scale structure inInterstellar HI: Truth or Consequences

2. The 4 Cs: coherence, correlation,convolution, cal ibration

Conference on Quantum Information Processingand Appl ications, 2011Pond icherry UniversityPond icherry14 – 21 February 2011

Research Institute for Quantum OpticsNeils Bohr InstituteDenmark2 – 5 September 2010

Anjan Roy SLIME TalkRaman Research InstituteBangalore11 January 2011

School on Statistical PhysicsRaman Research InstituteBangalore7 – 19 March 2011

Arijit Sharma Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-coldAtomic and Molecular GasesGoa University10 – 14 January 2011

Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchMumbai16 – 17 January 2011

Arnab Pal School on Statistical PhysicsRaman Research InstituteBangalore7 – 19 March 2011

School on Non-equil ibrium Statistical PhysicsRaman Research InstituteBangalore22 March – 3 April 2011

Avinash Deshpande HI Pathfinder Workshop, Perth ZooAustral ia2 – 4 February 2011

Giant Meterwave Rad io Telescope/National Centre for Rad io AstronomyPune8 – 18 July 2010

National Centre for Rad io AstronomyPune19 – 26 December 2010

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University of Western Austral ia2 February – 18 March 2011

Biman Nath Workshop on Cosmology Rapid ResponseMeetingTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchMumbai6 – 8 April 2010

Conference on Dynamics and Evolution of DiscGalaxiesMoscow30 May – 1 June 2010

Southern Federal University, Russia5 – 12 June 2010

Conference on UV Universe 2010St. Petersburg, Russia31 May – 3 June 2010

National Initiative for Undergraduate SciencesHomi Bhabha Centre for Science EducationMumbai16 – 21 June 2010

Jawaharlal Nehru PlanetariumBangalore2 December 2010

Gurucharan CollegeAssam23 December 2010

Ind ian Institute of TechnologyKharagpur5 February 2011

29th Scientif ic Meeting of the AstronomicalSociety of Ind ia 2011Pt. Ravishankar Shukla UniversityRaipur23 -25 February 2011

Biswajit Paul Raman Research InstituteBangalore26 October 2010

1. Coll imated particle-beams frompulsars and precession: The vela story

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

3. Rad io frequency interference: toavoid or attack?

Galaxy clusters, AGNs and SZ effect(invited)

Rad iation and thermal pressure drivenwinds

Non-equil ibrium carbon ionizationstets and the extragalactic far-UVbackground

Basic cosmology

The violent universe

Milky way: our galaxy

Galactic outflows

Galaxy outflows (invited)

Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries

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Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talkMeeting on Future Small Astronomy Satell itesWeizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael5 – 9 June 2010

38th COSPAR Scientif ic AssemblyGermany18 – 25 July 2010

Inter University Center for Astronomy &AstrophysicsPune5 – 10 November 2010

Institute of Space and Astronautical SciencesJapan29 November 2010

Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan3 December 2010

Chandrasekhar Centenary ConferenceInd ian Institute of AstrophysicsBangalore7 – 11 December 2010

Workshop on Need for Large Optical and InfraredAstronomy Facil it ies in Ind iaAryabhatta Research Institute of ObservationalSciencesNainital18 – 19 December 2010

4th International MAXI Workshop on the First Yearof MAXI: Monitoring Variable X-ray SourcesSociety for Promotion of Space Science andAoyama Gakuin University Research InstituteJapan30 November – 2 December 2010

Conference on Wideband X-ray Astronomy:Frontiers in Timing and SpectroscopyInter University Center for Astronomy &Astrophysics, Pune13 – 16 January 2011

X-ray instruments for mini satell ites

1. Discovery of QPOs in AccretionPowered Pulsars

2. Dips in the pulse prof iles of accretionpowered X-ray pulsars

Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries andQPOs in X-ray pulsars

Development of a Thomson X-rayPolarimeter and its science prospects

Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries

Optical observations of X-ray sources:Ground support for ASTROSAT

1. ASTROSAT-LAXPC

2. Intensity and energy dependentprofiles of transient HMXB pulsars GROJ1008-57, IA 1118-61 and GX 304-1

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 SmallSatell ite Mission

High Mass X-ray Binaries

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Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talkName Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talkNational Conference on Relativistic Astrophysicsand Astroparticle Physics – Exploring the CosmosNorth Bengal University27 – 28 January 2011

29th Scientif ic Meeting of the AstronomicalSociety of Ind ia 2011Pt. Ravishankar Shukla UniversityRaipur23 - 25 February 2011

COSPAR Publ ications Committee MeetingCentre National d’Etudes SpatialesParis, France21 March 2011

Chandreyee Maitra Conference on Rad icals in Science: Nature orNurtureRaman Research InstituteBangalore9 - 11 August 2010

Conference on Accretion and outflow in blackhole systemsAstrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio Astronomicoof Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian Space Agencyand its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto d iAstrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASFBologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus AstronomicalCenter (Warsaw), and the Central Department ofPhysics of the Tribhuvstituto Nazionale d iAstrofisica (INAF), the Osservatorio Astronomicoof Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian Space Agencyand its Data Center (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto d iAstrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASFBologna), the Nicolaus Copernicus AstronomicalCenter (Warsaw), and the Central Department ofPhysics of the Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu)held at hotel Rad issonKathmandu, Nepal11 – 15 October 2010

Relativistic Astrophysics: study ofcompact stars

1. Orbital evolution of X-ray Binariesand QPOs in X-ray pulsars

2. Broadening of pulse frequency peakin Accretion Powered Pulsars

3. Dips in the pulse prof iles of AccretionPowered Pulsars

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

5. Thomson X-ray Polarimeter for aSmall Satell ite Mission

Detectabil ity of X-ray polarisation fromblack hole sources: prospect with aThomson Polarimeter

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Conference on Wideband X-ray Astronomy:Frontiers in Timing and SpectroscopyInter-University Centre for Astronomy andAstrophysicsPune13 – 16 January 2011

Chandrakant Mishra 19th International Conference on GeneralRelativity and Gravitation (GR19)Mexico5 - 9 July 2010

Ind igo School on Gravitational Wave AstronomyUniversity of Delhi13 – 24 December 2010

XXVI Meeting of IAGRGHarishchandra Research InstituteAllahabad19 – 21 January 2011

Debasish Saha National Chemical LaboratoryPune29 November – 4 December 2010

Durai Chelvan 29th Scientif ic Meeting of the AstronomicalSociety of Ind ia 2011Pt. Ravishankar Shukla UniversityRaipur23 – 25 February 2011

Dwarakanath K.S. Conference on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research InstituteBangalore1 – 4 March 2011

Discussion Meeting on Low Frequency ImagingNational Rad io Astronomy ObservatoryWest Virginia26 – 27 April 2010

Naval Research LaboratoryUSA28 – 29 April 2010

Discussion Meeting on Rad io Continuum and HIin high redshift clustersColumbia University, New York30 April – 2 May 2010

1. Prospect of polarisationmeasurements from black hole binariesin their thermal state with a scatteringpolarimeter

2. Probing the complex energydependent pulse prof ile of 1A1118-61using phase resolved spectroscopywith Suzaku

Parametrized tests of post-Newtonanian theory with GWdetectors

Thomson X-ray Polarimeter for a SmallSatell ite Mission

1. Discovery of a giant rad io halo in agalaxy cluster at z = 0.443

2. A zoo of rad io rel ics: from clustercores to f ilaments

Dead Rad io Galaxies

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St. Joseph’s CollegeBangalore30 July 2010

Geetha S Symposium on Next Generation Libraries:Opportunities and ChallengesCity Central LibraryBangalore29 October 2010

Dr.S.R.Ranganathan Memorial Lectures onPeople, Culture and 21 Century LibrariesSRELS CentreBangalore17 – 19 February 2011

Girish B.S. 29th Scientif ic Meeting of the AstronomicalSociety of Ind ia 2011Pt. Ravishankar Shukla UniversityRaipur23 - 25 February 2011

Gopala Krishna MR 29th Scientif ic Meeting of the AstronomicalSociety of Ind ia 2011Pt. Ravishankar Shukla UniversityRaipur23 -25 February 2011

Hema Ramachandran Laboratoire Amie Cotton, ParisFrance12 – 31 May 2010

University of Malaysia27 – 30 October 2010

Iyer BR Summer ProgrammeBASE, Jawaharlal Nehru PlanetariumBangalore2 June 2010

Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchMumbai12 June 2010

19th International Conference on GeneralRelativity and Gravitation (GR19)Mexico5 - 9 July 2010

Galaxy clusters

A new programmable receiver systemfor the Ooty Rad io Telescope


Cold atoms, photons and quantumcomputing at PERFIK 2010 (invited)

Impact of Astronomy on Basic Science

1. 5.5PN spherical harmonic modes andresumed waveforms for a particle incircular orbit around a Schwarzchildblack hole

2. Testing post-Newtonanian theoryusing Advanced LIGO and EinsteinTelescope

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Institut hautes etudes scientif iquesBures sur yvetteFrance12 – 18 October 2010

Institut astrophysique de Paris DenfertRochereauFrance21 September - 11 October 2010

Card iff UniversityUnited Kingdom19 October – 2 November 2010


XXVI Meeting of IAGRGHarishchandra Research InstituteAllahabad19 – 21 January 2011

Hind High VacuumBangalore22 November 2010 and 24 January 2011

Conference on The Ind ian Road-Map forGravitational Wave Astronomy: IndIGO - ACIGAmeeting on LIGO-Austral iaInd ia International Centre and Jamia Mil iaIslamia, Delhi8 - 10 February, 2011

Jacob Rajan Seminar on Fundamentals of Cryptography andNetwork SecurityCentre for Development of Advanced ComputingBangalore5 June 2010

Workshop on Library Automation Package andDiscovery ToolInd ian Institute of ScienceBangalore29 November – 3 December 2010

Parallel and Distributed Computing WorkshopRaman Research InstituteBangalore28 – 29 March 2011

The detection of gravitational wavesand the two body problem in generalrelativity

Can post-Newtonian theory be testedusing Advanced LIGO and EinsteinTelescope?

Gravitational waves from binary blackholes (invited)

Parametrized tests of post-Newtoniantheory using GW observations

IndIGO: Genesis, highl ights and currentstatus (invited)

Linux, overview, Ubuntu installation,Ubuntu Commands

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Jaya Kumar A School on Non-equil ibrium Statistical PhysicsRaman Research InstituteBangalore22 March – 3 April 2011

Joseph Samuel International Conference On Quantum Systems,Classical Measurements and ConsequencesSVYASA UniversityBangalore25 – 30 June 2010

Rad icals in Science : Nature or NurtureRaman Research InstituteBangalore7 – 9 August 2010

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-Centrefor Appl ied MathematicsBangalore16 November 2010

Mahatma Gandhi UniversityKottayam26 – 29 January 2011

Kanhaiya Lal Pandey Chandrasekhar Centenary ConferenceInd ian Institute of AstrophysicsBangalore7 – 11 December 2010

Conference on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research InstituteBangalore1 – 4 March 2011

Kiran Savanur 6th International Conference on Webometrics,Informetrics and Scientometrics and 11th

COLLNET MeetingUniversity of MysoreMysore18– 22 October 2010

National Workshop on Scientometrics underUGC/SAPKarnatak UniversityDharwad25 – 27 October 2010

Krishnamurthy S National Knowledge Network – A 1Gbps Link:WorkshopInd ian Institute of Technology MadrasChennai30 April – 1 May 2010

A tale of three sl its

Surface Tension and the CosmologicalConstant

Tops and writhing DNA

Surface tension and the cosmologicalconstant

1. Mod if ied collaborative coeff icient

2. Growth and impact of researchoutput of Bangalore University, 1971-2010:a scientometric study

1. Software tools for scientometricanalysis

2. H-Index – an introduction

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Kshitij Thorat Conference on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research InstituteBangalore3 March 2011

Lakshminarayanan V Indo-Ital ian Workshop on ElectrochemistryUniversity of Delhi30 August 2010

5th International Asian Conference onElectrochemical Power SourcesNational University of Singapore18 September 2010

Taiwan-Ind ia Bilateral Workshop on energydevicesNational Central UniversityTaiwan16 November 2010

Prof. B.S.Seshadri Memorial LectureBangalore UniversityBangalore29 September 2010

9th International Conference on Advances inElectrochemical Science and TechnologySociety for Advancement of ElectrochemicalScience & TechnologyKaraikud i2 December 2010

National Science Day LectureK.L.E. College of Arts and ScienceBangalore28 February 2011

Conference on Recent trends in the synthesis,characterisation and appl ications ofNanostructured materials (NANOSCAP2011)Al Ameen Arts, Science and Commerce CollegeBangalore25 March 2011

National Seminar on ElectrochemistrySri Krishnadevaraya UniversityAnantapur26 March 2011

Lakshmi Saripall i Rishi Valley SchoolBangaloreAugust 2010

Rad io optical imaging of ATLBS survey(poster)

High surface area Pd-conductingpolymer nanocomposite f ilms aselectrocatalyst (invited)

Electrocatalysis of Pd-PANI and Pd-PEDOT nanocomposite f ilms towardsalcohol electro-oxidation reaction(invited)

Electro-oxidation of alcohols on formicacid on Metal nanoparticles d ispersedconducting polymer f ilms for d irectalcohol fuel cells appl ications (invited)

Electrochemistry with nanomaterials

Electrochemical stud ies of redoxprobes in self organised lyotropic l iquidcrystall ine systems (invited)

Seeing atoms

Electrochemistry of nanomaterials forbiosensors and catalysis (invited)

Electrochemistry of nanomaterials forbiosensors and catalysis (invited)

Interconnections

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Conference on Evolution of Galaxies, their centralblack holes and their large-scale environmentUniversity of BonnGermany20 – 24 September 2010

Conference on Accretion and Outflows in BlackHole SystemsAstrof isica (INAF), the OsservatorioAstronomico of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ianSpace Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC),the Istituto d i Astrofisica Spaziale e FisicaCosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the NicolausCopernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), andthe Central Department of Physics of theTribhuvstituto Nazionale d i Astrofisica (INAF),the Osservatorio Astronomico of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian Space Agency and its DataCenter (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto d i AstrofisicaSpaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna),the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center(Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physicsof the Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu) held athotel Rad issonKathmandu, Nepal11 – 15 October 2010

McDonnell Centre for the Space SciencesWashington UniversityUSA24 – 29 October 2010

The 26th Annual New Mexico SymposiumNational Rad io Astronomy ObservatoryUSA5 November 2010

135th International Convention of theTheosophical SocietyBangalore29 December 2010

Conference on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research InstituteBangalore1 – 4 March 2011

Madhavan Varadarajan International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar16 November 2010

Conference on ChandrayanaInstitute of Mathematical SciencesChennai3 – 7 January 2011

Accessing the elusive, yet commonblack hole growth and feedbackprocesses: results from the ATLBS, asensitive rad io survey

Journey Inwards using outwardmanifestations: what do rad io galaxiesand their host dust characteristics tellus about the AGN?

Rad io Galaxies: Accessing the elusive,yet common feedback processes andAGN l ifecycles

Accessing the elusive, yet commonblack hole growth and feedbackprocesses: results from the ATLBS, asensitive rad io survey

Interconnections (invited)

LQG dynamics: insights fromparameterized field theory (Seminardel ivered by phone)

Black hole evaporation from theperspective of Quantum Gravity(invited)

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School of PhysicsUniversity of Hyderabad31 March – 1 April 2011

Mamta Gulati Conference on Rad icals in Science – Nature orNurtureRaman Research InstituteBangalore9 – 11 August 2010


Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research InstituteBangalore1 - 4 March 2011

Manjunath M National Knowledge Resource ConsortiumLibrarians/Nodal Off icers MeetJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced ResearchBangalore10 – 12 May 2010

Seminar on Semantics and KnowledgeRepresentation Models and Workshop onAdvanced DSpaceInd ian Statist ical InstituteBangalore17 – 18 February 2011

Nagaraj M N National Seminar on Management of DigitalInformation: Sources, Services and SystemsRNS Institute of TechnologyBangalore29 – 30 July 2010

National Conference on Challenges ofLibrarianshipNew Horizon Institute of TechnologyBangalore16 December 2010

Nandakumar R Parallel and Distributed Computing WorkshopRaman Research InstituteBangalore28 – 29 March 2011

Narendra Kumar Workshop on Physics for Students and TeachersJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientif icResearchBangalore20 September 2010

Black hole evaporation from theperspective of quantum gravity

Digital l ibrary at M.S.Ramaiah Med icalCollege: A case study

There is science in everyday l ife(invited)

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Meeting of the Council and Commission Chairs ofIUPAP – Ind ian Physics: Research at the FrontiersNew Delhi5 – 6 November 2010

Nishant K Singh SERC School on Fluids, Fields and Rad iationNational Centre for Rad io AstronomyPune14 – 26 June 2010

Rad icals in Science – Nature or NurtureRaman Research InstituteBangalore9 – 11 August 2011


St. Joseph’s CollegeBangalore17 February 2011

Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research InstituteBangalore1 – 4 March 2011

Poonam Mehta Ind ian Institute of ScienceBangalore26 April 2010

Neutrino 2010,University of AthensGreece14 – 19 June 2010

Institute of Sol id State ResearchGermany22 June – 5 July and 5- 20 July 2010

Wuerzburg UniversityGermany6 – 9 July 2010

International School and Conference onQuantum Information Processing andAppl icationsHarishchandra Research InstituteAllahabad18 – 20 February 2011

Atoms, molecules and optics (invited)

The magnetic f ield in the universe

Some interesting aspects of cosmicneutrinos from core-collapsesupernovae endowed with mildlyrelativistic jets

Topological phase in two flavourneutrino oscillations and imprint of theCPV phase

Nonlocal Pancharatnam phase in twophoton interferometry

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Conference on Nuhorizons IVHarishchandra Research InstituteAllahabad23 – 25 February 2011

University of DelhiDelhi11 – 17 February and 28 February – 5 March 2011

Prabu T Issues in Design of Complex Multi-Core SystemsInnovate-itBangalore19 – 22 October 2010

MWA Project MeetArizona State University, USA11 – 14 December 2010

MWA Facil it ies WorkshopUniversity of WashingtonUSA1 – 2 November 2010

Pramod Pullarkat Annual General Body Meeting ofInstitute of Smart Structures and SystemsInd ian Institute of ScienceBangalore24 July 2010

Mysore UniversityMysore16 September 2010

LiveMech WorkshopNational Centre for Biological SciencesBangalore28 October – 8 November 2010

Indo-US Bioengineering WorkshopNational Centre for Biological SciencesBangalore7 – 8 November 2010

Pratibha R International Soft Matter ConferenceUniversity of GranadaSpain5 – 8 July, 2010

Prasad V.V. School on Statistical PhysicsRaman Research InstituteBangalore7 – 19 March 2011

Need for new approaches fordebugging multi-core systems (invited)

Rheological properties of l iving cells(invited)

Mechanical responses of cells

Tunable optical metamaterials basedon colloidal gold nanosphered ispersions in smectic l iquid crystals

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Raghunathan A Conference on Cosmological ReionizationHarishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad16 February 2010

Raghunathan VA Institute of Biophysics and NanosystemsResearch, Austral ian Academy of SciencesAustria8 – 15 July 2010

Ranjini Bandyopadhyay National Chemical LaboratoriesPune16 September 2010

Ravi Subrahmanyan 1. MWA Meeting2. NSF Discussion Meeting on ‘Beyond 512T’University of Sydney28 June – 1 July 2010

Molonglo ObservatoryAustral iaJuly 2010

Workshop on Rad icals in Science: Nature orNurtureRaman Research InstituteBangalore9 – 11 August 2010

Rishi Valley SchoolBangaloreAugust 2010

St. Joseph’s CollegeBangaloreAugust 2010

Carnegie Mellon UniversityUSA19 – 23 October 2010

Washington UniversityUSA23 – 29 October 2010

New Mexico SymposiumNational Rad io Astronomy ObservatoryUSA4 – 12 November 2010

Array Operation Center, SocorroNovember 2010

Pomona CollegeUSA14 – 16 November 2010

Structural polymorphism of surfactant– DNA complexes

The history of the Universe

Cosmic evolution

On growth and form: the shapes ofrad io sources

Tuning in to the Cosmic Dawn

Bullet Cluster: wide-bandinterferometer measurement of theSunyaev Zeldovich Effect

The cosmic dawn

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Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research Institute, Bangalore1 – 4 March 2011

Reji Phil ip Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchMumbai15 – 16 April 2010

International Conference on Nanomaterisls:Synthesis, Characterisation and Appl ications2010Mahatma Gandhi UniversityKottayam27 – 29 April 2010

Manipal UniversityManipal6 – 8 May 2010

University of Kerala14 May 2010

Refresher Course in Physics UGC-Academic StaffCollegeKerala UniversityTrivandrum15 – 16 July 2010

Training course on Nanoscience andNanotechnologyInd ian Institute of Technology Madras2 September 2010

Programme on Stimulating Teachers throughAdvanced TrainingCochin University for Science and TechnologyKerala27 September 2010

National CollegeBangalore4 October 2010

The Rev. K.C. Mathew Memorial EndowmentLectureBishop Moore College, Mavel ikkaraKerala26 November 2010

International Conference on Recent Trends inMaterial Science and Technology 2010Ind ian Institute of Space Science and Technologyand Materials Research Society of Ind iaTrivandrum28 – 30 October 2010

Interferometer Imaging of DiffuseRelativistic Plasma (invited)

Discussion meeting on intense laserf ield research activity in Ind ia

Nonl inear optics in the nano domain(invited)

Sil icon Photonics

Photonics

Nonl inear optics

Optical nonl inearity in nanomaterials

Intense f ield nonl inear optics

Photonics

Introduction to Photonics

Nonl inear optics of nanomaterials(invited)

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National Laser Symposium-19Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced TechnologyIndore1-4 December 2010

INSPIRE programme Sacred Heart CollegeThevara9 December 2010

INSPIRE programme National Institute ofTechnologyCal icut19 December 2010

National Seminar on Nanotechnology andAppl icationsMaharaja’s CollegeCochin2 February 2011

National Seminar on Nonl inear Optical Materialsand CharacterisationSacred Heart CollegeKerala10 – 11 March 2011

Symposium on Recent Advances in PhotonicsManipal University29 March 2011

Rishin P.V. First year of MAXI: Monitoring variable X-raysources – 4th International MAXI WorkshopTokyo, Japan30 November – 2 December 2010

Conference on Accretion and outflow in blackhole systemsAstrofisica (INAF), the OsservatorioAstronomico of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ianSpace Agency and its Data Center (ASI/ADSC),the Istituto d i Astrofisica Spaziale e FisicaCosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna), the NicolausCopernicus Astronomical Center (Warsaw), andthe Central Department of Physics of theTribhuvstituto Nazionale d i Astrofisica (INAF),the Osservatorio Astronomico of Roma (INAF/OAR), the Ital ian Space Agency and its DataCenter (ASI/ADSC), the Istituto d i AstrofisicaSpaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF/IASF Bologna),the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center(Warsaw), and the Central Department of Physicsof the Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu) held athotel Rad issonKathmandu, Nepal11 – 15 October 2010

Nonl inear optics of nanomaterials(invited)

The history of l ight

The history of l ight

Nonl inear optical appl ications ofnanomaterials (invited)

Laser induced plasmas (invited)

Nanophotonics (invited)


Prospect of X-ray polarisationmeasurements from accreting stellarmass black holes in their thermal statewith a Thomson X-ray Polarimeter

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29th Scientif ic Meeting of the AstronomicalSociety of Ind ia 2011Pt. Ravishankar Shukla UniversityRaipur23 -25 February 2011

Roman Sverdlov University of MississippiUSA1 September 2010

QMath11 ConferenceUniversity of Hradec KraloveCzech Republ ic8 September 2010

DICE2010University of Pisa and othersCastigl ioncello, Italy16 September 2010

Silver Jubilee Symposium on 75 years of quantumentanglementS.N.Bose National Centre for Basic SciencesKolkata6 – 10 January 2011

Nalanda Dialogue Forum25 – 28 February 2011

Institute of Mathematical ScienceChennai18 - 23 March 2011

International Conference on Quantum Opticsand Quantum ComputingJaypee Institute of Information TechnologyNoida24 - 26 March 2011

Ruckmongathan T.N. International Display Workshop 2010The Institute of Image Information andTelevision Engineers and The Society forInformation DisplayJapan1 – 3 December 2010

Kendriya VidyalayaBangalore1 January 2011

Science Business ForumIndo Korean Science &Technology CenterHotel AsokaBangalore7 March 2011


Incorporating particle creation andannihilation into Bohm’s Pilot WaveModel

Completely local interpretation ofmany-body quantum phenomena

Incorporating particle creation andannihilation into Bohm’s Pilot WaveModel

Can superluminal local ity be a basis forPilot Wave Model?

Entanglement without configurationspace



An addressing technique to drive bluephase LCDs

Bit sl ice addressing of l iquid crystald isplays

Commercial isation of research onl iquid crystal d isplays

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Ryuichi Fujita 19th International Conference on GeneralRelativity and Gravitation (GR19)Mexico5 - 9 July 2010

Osaka UniversityJapan27 December 2010 – 21 January 2011

Sad iq Rangwala Founders Day MeetingPoornaprajna Institute of Scientif ic ResearchBangalore1 July 2010

Asian International Seminar on Atomic andMolecular PhysicsKorea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea4 – 8 August 2010

Indo-Brazil Workshop on Cold Atoms, MesoscopicSystems and Quantum Information ProcessesInd ian Institute of Science Education andResearchHyderabad16 - 18 October 2010

ICTP Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atomic and Molecular GasesThe Abdus Salam International Centre forTheoretical Physics & Goa University, Goa10 - 14 January 2011

Sandeep Kumar Vellore Institute of TechnologyVellore29 March 2010

6th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee forproject ‘Liquid Crystall ing Polymers’Department of Information Technology, Delhi4 April 2010

Allahabad University15 April 2010

Central CollegeBangalore13 May 2010

Mil itry University of TechnologyPoland10 July 2010

International Liquid Crystal ConferenceJageillonian University, Poland11 – 16 July 2010

5.5PN spherical harmonic modes andresummed waveforms for a particle incircular orbit around a Schwarzchildblack hole

Atom-cavity based all-optical switchand a few other things

Cold atom-ion interaction in a hybridtrap

Cold chemistry and precisionexperimentation with ion traps

Ion induced physics in a cold d ilute gasof atoms

Discotic l iquid crystals as advancedmaterials for organic electronics(invited)

Organic Photovoltaics (invited)

The Fascinating World of LiquidCrystals (invited)

Playing with Discs (invited)

Nanophase segregated mesophasemorphology in self-organized noveld isc-rod ol igomesogens (invited)

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Meeting of the Monitoring Committee for project‘Development of optically active polymers fordata storage’Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi6 September 2010

Institute of Advance Study in Science & TechnologyGuwahati23 September 2010

17th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsVeer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat15 - 17 November 2010

Working Group Meeting on Electronic Materialsand ComponentsDepartment of Information Technology, Delhi6 December 2010

Central Drug Research InstituteLucknow22 December 2010

R.V. College of EngineeringBangalore18 February 2011

MLA CollegeBangalore10 March 2011

Sanjib Sabhapand it STATPHYS-Kolkata VIISaha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata26 – 30 November 2010

Santosh Prasad Gupta 17th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsVeer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat15 November 2010

Siddharth S Malu Workshop on Diffuse Relativistic PlasmasRaman Research Institute, Bangalore2 March 2011

Solomon Ivan International Conference on Quantum Systems,Classical Measurements and ConsequencesSwami Vivekanada Yoga Research FoundationBangalore25 – 30 June 2010

Indo-Brazil Workshop on Cold Atoms, MesoscopicSystems and Quantum Information ProcessesInd ian Institute of Science Education andResearchHyderabad16 – 18 October 2010

Liquid Crystals beyond LCD (invited)

How Can Crystals be Liquid (invited)

Some Milestones in Discotic research(invited)

Green Chemistry and Liquid Crystals(invited)

How Can Crystals be Liquid? (invited)

Record Statistics of Continuous TimeRandom Walk (invited)

Formation of mesh phases in a CationicSurfactant System with strongly boundcounterions

The Bullet Cluster: SZ effect & rad iohalo at 18 GHz (invited)

Bosonic Gaussian channels

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Institute of Mathematical SciencesChennai15 April – 01 May 2010 and 25 October – 10November 2010

Workshop on Quantum Information ScienceInstitute of Mathematical SciencesChennai24 November – 4 December 2010

Conference on 75 years of QuantumEntanglementS.N. Bose Centre for Basic SciencesKolkata6 – 10 January 2011

International School and Conference onQuantum Information Processing andAppl icationsHarish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad14 – 20 February 2011

Sridhar S Solar Hel iospheric and InterplanetaryEnvironment 2010 ConferenceNew Mexico, USA26 – 30 July 2010

Problematik 2010 WorkshopOxford University, United Kingdom9 – 13 August 2010

Chandrasekhar Centenary ConferenceInd ian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore7 – 11 December 2010

29th Scientif ic Meeting of the AstronomicalSociety of Ind ia 2011Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur22 – 25 February 2011

Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad26 February – 1 March 2011

Ind ian Institute of AstrophysicsBangalore29 March 2011

Srinivasa H T 17th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsVeer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat15 - 17 November 2010

Suman G Das SLIME TalkRaman Research Institute, Bangalore31 August 2010

Six lectures on Bosonic Gaussianchannels

Imbalanced turbulence in the solarwind (invited)

Simpl ifying warps (invited)

MHD turbulence (invited)

Stellar dynamics in the galactic centre(invited)

MHD turbulence

Interstellar, Interplanetary & MHDTurbulence

Synthesis and MesomorphicCharacterisation of NovelTrifluoromethyl Coumarin LiquidCrystals

Femtonewton Force Spectroscopy ofSingle Extended DNA Molecules

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Sumati Surya DICE2010, Space-Time-Matter-current issues inquantum mechanics and beyondUniversity of Pisa and others, Castigl ioncelloItaly13 – 17 September 2010

McGill UniversityCanada31 January 2011

Universite de MontrealMontreal10 February 2011

Perimeter InstituteWaterloo16 – 25 February 2011

Supurna Sinha International Conference On Quantum Systems,Classical Measurements and ConsequencesPrashanti Kutiram, Bangalore25 – 30 June 2010

Rad icals in Science : Nature versus NurtureRaman Research InstituteBangalore9 – 11 August 2010

Conference on Impact of Quantum Effects on ourClassical World ViewMahatma Gandhi UniversityKottayam26 – 29 January 2011

Tripta Bhatia International Soft Matter Conference 2010,University of Granada, Spain5 – 8 July 2010

European Confined Liquid Crystal ConferenceUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia19 – 20 July 2010

Ludwig-Maximil ians-UniversitätGermany25 - 27 July 2010

1. Joseph Stephan Institute2. Laboratory of BIOPhysics3. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics4. Institute of Biophysics, Med ical Faculty5. Liquid Crystal LaboratoryUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia18 - 24 July 2010

In search of a covariant quantummeasure (invited)

Discreteness, causal ity and covariancein quantum gravity

Discreteness, causal ity and covariancein quantum gravity

Controlled entanglement

Defect med iated instabil it ies inmultilamellar tubules



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Name Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talkName Conferences attended / Institutions visited Title of paper / talkCentre Interd iscipl inaire de Nanoscience deMarseilleFrance9 – 17 July 2010

Conference on Advanced School on LivingMechanics – cells t issues and organismsNational Centre for Biological SciencesBangalore28 October – 8 November 2010

Udaya Shankar N MWA Project MeetingUniversity of Sydney, Austral ia28 June – 1 July 2010

GBD Junior College, Gauribidanur14 September 2010

Conference on Aperture Array Verif icationProgramme Workshop 2010Cavend ish Laboratory, United Kingdom8 – 10 December 2010

MWA Project MeetingArizona State University, Arizona11 – 14 December 2010

Kendriya VidyalayaBangalore28 December 2010

National Seminar on Astronomy & AstrophysicsPoorna Pragna CollegeUdupi8 January 2011

VVS College, Bangalore10 March 2011

Vijayaraghavan D 17th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsVeer Narmad South Gujarat UniversityGujarat15 – 17 November 2010

Vrinda Benegal Symposium on Next Generation Libraries:Opportunities and ChallengesCity Central Library, Bangalore29 October 2010

National Conference on Open ContentManagement & Organisation for technicalInformation ServicesM.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology Library &Information Centre, Bangalore4 February 2011



Challenges of observing the invisibleuniverse

3d-PSF of MWA

Interference, d iffraction and rad ioastronomy

Fundamentals of rad io astronomy

Ancient Greek astronomy to presentday understand ing of the universe

Magnetic susceptibil ity stud ies onmicelles, vesicles and bicelles

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N.S. Dinesh Challenges in build ing automated 15.4.2010Ind ian Institute of Science puppetryBangalore

N.V. Venkataraman Surface chemical grad ients: A versatile 19.4.2010Laboratory for Surface platform for combinatorial stud iesScience and TechnologySwitzerland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vikram Soni Magnetars: Maximum stars 28.5.2010National Physical LaboratoryNew Delhi

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

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

Prashant Gade Persistence in spatially extended dynamical systems 4.6.2010University of Nagpur, Nagpur

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Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi Motion of a vortex f ilament in superfluid 4He: effects of 29.6.2010University 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 1.7.2010Louisiana State University, USA of mathematics that went through Ind ia

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

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

Lisa George Photoinduced processes in transient 3.8.2010Marquette University molecules and complexes: Matrix isolationUSA and computational stud ies

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

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

Raju R. Badd i Extended low-density warm ionized med ium 23.8.2010Raman Research Institute in the inner galaxy: A study using recombination l inesBangalore

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

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

Diptiman Sen Quantum games 3.9.2010Ind ian Institute of ScienceBangalore

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

Toney Teddy Fernandez Femtosecond laser written optical waveguide ampl if iers 15.9.2010Instituto d i Fotonica eNanotecnologie del CNR, Italy

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

Prasun Dutta Probing turbulence in the interstellar med ium 28.9.2010National Centre for of the external galaxiesRad io Astronomy, Pune

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Renugopalakrishnan Engineering a robust artif icial photosynthetic 30.9.2010Northeastern University & system via efficient quantum coherenceHarvard Children’s HospitalBoston, USA

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

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

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

Prashanth Upadhya Tracking ultrafast dynamics in semiconductor 12.10.2010Center for integrated nanostructures through space and timeNanotechnologies, Los AlamosNational Laboratory, USA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selvarani Ganesan Nanocatalysts and their appl ications 22.11.2010Central Electrochemical ResearchInstitute, Chennai


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Vishwesha Guttal The evolution animal grouping and 22.11.2010Princeton University, USA collective motion

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

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

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

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

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

Poonam Chandra Cosmological transient objects 14.12.2010Royal Mil itary CollegeKingston, Canada

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

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

Michael Sheetz How can cells robustly sense their 28.12.2010Columbia University microenvironment to respond correctlyUSA and MechanobiologyInstitute, Singapore

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

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

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

Sir Anthony James Leggett Bell’s theorem, entanglement, quantum 20.1.2011University of Sussex teleportation and all thatUK & University of Ill inois, USA

Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics? 21.1.2011

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

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B. Ashok Dynamics of serrated flow in vesicular 2.2.2011Advanced Centre of Research in nanotubulationHigh Energy Materials,University of Hyderabad

Luc Blanchet Does and atom interferometer test the 3.2.2011Centre National de la Recherche gravitational redshift?Scientif ique and Institutd’Astrophysique de Paris, France

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deepak Kumar Sinha Photocontrol of protein activity in a single 18.03.2011Laboratoire de Physique cell of a l ive organismStatistique, EcoleNormaleSuperieure, Paris


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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 parad igm shift to quasi-crystals 9.08.2010

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

Miller Goss From solar noise to cosmic noise to rad io 9.08.2010astronomy: Austral ian contributions to openinga 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 d iscoveries in 10.08.2010Science – also an ambience – some examples

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

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

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

Rajaram Nityananda Robert Dicke – physicist extraord inary 10.08.2010

Thomas Phill ips The invention of SIS and HEB receivers and 10.08.2010enabl 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. 11.08.2010hydrodynamics to modern fluid mechanics:Ludwig Prandtl’s giant leap of 1904

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

Joseph Samuel Physics at the interface 11.08.2010

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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 d ish 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 19.1.2011Cochin University of Science& Technology, Cochin

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

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

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

Gianfranco Brunetti Particle acceleration in galaxy clusters: 1.03.2011from rad io 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 1.03.2011synchrotron rad io source

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

Sanjay Kumar Numerical study of kinetic Alfven wave 1.03.2011excitation 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 f ield in spiral galaxies 1.03.2011

Ettore Carretti Diffuse polarized emission 1.03.2011

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

Shweta Srivastava GMRT low rad io frequency study of the 1.03.2011Wolf Rayet galaxy NGC 4214


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Katherine Blundell Evolution & energies in classical double 1.03.2011rad io galaxies revealed by rad io & X-rays

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

Akash Pirya A multi-frequency study of f ive 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- 2.03.2011double 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 f ield 2.03.2011

Kiran Lakhchaura Interaction of the WAT source in abell 2.03.20113395 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 2.03.2011properties and the unification scheme

Tiziana Venturi Diffuse rad io emission in galaxy clusters: 2.03.2011current 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 2.03.2011the statistical properties of the rad io halo population

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

Ruta Kale Double rel ics in the outskirts of A3376: 2.03.2011accretion 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 f ilaments 2.03.2011

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

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

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

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

Lawrence Rudnick Manifestations of magnetic f ield inhomogenetis 3.03.2011

Huub Rottegering Diffuse emission in clusters: tracers of 3.03.2011cluster 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) – f irst 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 3.03.2011DEEP2 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 Physicsheld at the Raman Research Institute between 7 – 19 March 2011

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

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

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 inf inity

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 f inite hyperbol ic groups

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

Speaker Title

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Viktor Schroeder Parallel session

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

Frederic Paul in Equid istribution, 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 f ields

Darren Long Small subgroups of SL(3,Z)

S.G. Dani, Mike Davis, Open problems sessionPedro 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 Valed ictory address

Name and Institution Duration of StayName and Institution Duration of Stay

Speaker Title

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1 March – 30 June 20101 November – 28 February 2011

3 March – 5 May 2010

1 – 9 April 2010

20 April – 15 May 2010

22 – 23 April 2010

26 – 30 April 2010

1 May – 30 August 2010

9 – 23 May 2010

9 – 23 May 2010

19 May 2010

21 – 22 May 2010

9 – 19 May 2010

26 May – 16 July 2010

1 – 6 June 201022 – 25 July 201020 January 201124 – 26 March 2011

1 – 9 June 2010

Mary Kutty JamesM.G. University, Kerala

Devanka PathakCard iff University, United Kingdom

Benoy AnandSri Sathya Sai University, Andhra Pradesh

Rukmini DeyHarish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

Jayaram ChengalurNational Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune

Srikanta PalBirla Institute of Technology-Mesra, Ranchi

Sneha HonnappaUniversity of Zeilona, Poland

Benincasa DionigiImperial College, London

Steven JohnstonImperial College, London

Rajesh GopakumarHarish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

Bindu KrishnanInd ian Space Research Organisation, Trivandrum

Shreyas PotnisInd ian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Noble P. AbrahamM.G. University, Kerala

K. SankaranAnna University, Chennai

Prashant GadeNagpur University, Nagpur

Appendix IV - VisitorsName and Institution Duration of StayName and Institution Duration of Stay

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Name and Institution Duration of Stay

Duncan Campbell WilsonUniversity of Sydney, Austral ia

T.R. RaoBanaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Bhimsen ShivamoggiUniversity of Central Florida, USA

C. S. UnnikrishnanTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

A.R.P. RauLouisiana State University, USA

Gauri KulkarniNational Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune

Fel ix Richard AngerLudwig Maximil ians University of Munich, Germany

Jincy DevasiaM.G. Unviersity, Kerala

R. SimonInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Richard DodsonUniversity of Western Austral ia, Austral ia

Bikram PhookunSt. Stephen;s College, Delhi

Yuri ShchekinovSouthern Federal University, Russia

Utpal SarkarPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

P. BhattacharjeeSaha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Nadheem OozeerHartbeesthoek Rad io Astronomy Observatory, South Africa

K.G. ArunMcDonnell Centre for Space Sciences, USA

Pravabati ChingangbamSejong University, Korea

B. Sriram ShastryUniversity of Cal ifornia, USA

3 – 6 June 2010

5 – 12 June 201025 – 29 December 2010

7 June 2010

24 – 30 June 2010

30 June – 4 July 201016 – 17 July 2010

7 June – 31 August 20104 – 22 January 2011

1 June – 31 July 2010

1 July – 31 October 2010

6 – 7 July 2010

7 – 25 July 2010

9 – 13 July 2010

13 – 27 July 2010

16 – 18 July 2010

18 – 21 July 2010

28 July – 10 August 2010

15 – 18 August 2010

16 – 18 August 2010

20 August – 8 October 2010

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Poshak GandhiInstitute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan

Jayendra N BandyopadhyayNational University of Singapore, Singapore

Pallavi DebnathInstitute of Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar

Miller GossNational Rad io Astronomy Observatory, USA

Lisa GeorgeUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Donatella CiampiniUniversity of Pisa, Italy

Toney Teddy FernandezInstituto d i Fotonica e Nanotechnologie del CNR, Italy

Suchand SandeepDELFT University of Technology, The Netherlands

Vijayan C.Ind ian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai

Divya OberoiMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Diptiman SenInd ian Institute of Science, Bangalore

R.W. HunsteadUniversity of Sydney, Austral ia

Smitha S.L.Kerala University, Kerala

Louie Frobel P.G.Kerala University, Kerala

Harsha RaichurInter University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Naik S.Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

V.P. Mahadevan PillaiUniversity of Kerala, Trivandrum

Prasun DuttaNational Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune

22 – 24 August 2010

22 – 26 August 2010

22 – 26 August 2010

3 – 30 August 2010

12 – 13 August 2010

3 – 10 August 2010

17 August – 16 September 2010

14 August – 22 October 201018 – 22 January 2011

17 – 18 August 2010

25 – 26 August 2010

3 September 2010

5 – 15 September 2010



7 September – 7 October 2010

14 - 17 September 2010



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RenugopalakrishnanNortheastern University of Harvard Children’s Hospital, USA

Himanshu Khandel iaUniversity of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Chetana JainDelhi University, Delhi

Wayne ArcusMIT-Kavl i Institute of Astrophysics & Space Research, USA

Punyabrata PradhanInstitut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany

Robert E GoekeMIT-Kavl i Institute of Astrophysics & Space Science Research, USA

Prashanth UpadhyaCenter for Integrated NanotechnologiesLos Alamos National Laboratory, USA

G. RajalakshmiTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

P.B. Sunil KumarInd ian Inst itute of Technology, Madras

Zoltan HaimanColumbia University, USA

Dipanjan BhattacharyaNational University of Singapore, Singapore

Aurnab GhoseInd ian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

Romeel DaveUniversity of Arizona, USA

K. GuruswamyNational Chemical Laboratory, Pune

J. K. VijUniversity of Dubl in, Ireland

Deepto ChakrabartyMIT-Kavl i Institute of Astrophysics & Space Research, USA

Selvarani GanesanCentral Electrochemical Research Institute, Chennai

Vishwesha GuttaPrinceton University, USA

29 September – 2 October 2010

1 October 2010

1 – 14 October 2010

6 – 8 October 2010

8 – 9 October 2010

6 – 10 October 201010 – 11 March 2011

11 – 13 October 2010

13 – 23 October 2010

18 October 2010

18 – 22 October 2010

26 October 2010

10 – 11 November 2010

16 November – 5 December 2010

17 – 19 November 2010

18 – 21 November 201024 – 27 November 2010

19 – 20 November 2010

20 – 22 November 2010

22 November 2010

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M.C. VariaThe MS University of Baroda, Vadodara

JaghdeepInstitute for Astronomy, USA

Anne GreenUniversity of Sydney, Austral ia

Takahiro SagawaTokyo University, Japan

Shu TanakaKinki University, Japan

Thomas LaupretreUniversity of Paris, France

Poonam ChandraRoyal Mil itary College, Canada

Rashmi RaoQualcomm MEMS Technologies, USA

Ravi A.V. KumarInstitute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad

Aparna A. NairUniversity of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram

Jinto ThomasInstitute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad

Alok C GuptaAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital

Mats JonsonUniversity of Gothenburg, SwedenHeriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

Eleanor E.B. CampbellEd inburgh University, United Kingdom

Naveen YadavTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Deepak MoreTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Sud ipto MuhuriInstitute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

Dibyendu RoyUniversity of Cincinnati, USA

22 – 27 November 2010


30 November - 2 December 2010

1 – 4 December 2010



13 – 17 December 2010

9 December 2010

22 November 201016 – 17 December 2010

14 – 17 December 2010


28 – 30 December 2010

21 December 2010

23 December 2010

29 December 2010 – 29 January 2011

9 – 16 January 2011

15 – 25 January 2011

11 – 18 January 2011

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D.V.G.L.N. RaoUniversity of Massachusetts, USA

V.P.N. NampooriCochin University for Science and Technology, Cochin

Luc BlanchetInstitut d'astrophysique de Paris, France

B. AshokUniversity of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Martin EvansThe University of Ed inburgh, Scotland

Pragati PradhanSt. Joseph's College, Darjeel ing

Sanjit MitraCal ifornia Institute of Technology, USA

Ajai KumarInstitute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad

Suman BhattacharyaLos Alamos National Laboratory, USA

David BlairUniversity of Western Austral ia, Austral ia

Ju LiUniversity of Western Austral ia, Austral ia

Sourav BhattacharyaS.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Wei-Tou NiNational Tsing Hua University, China

V.M. KenkreUniversity of New Mexico, USA

Mukund ThattaiNational Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Bibhu Ranjan SarangiInstitut Curie, France

Amit ChattopadhyayCentre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Nitin KumarInd ian Institute of Science, Bangalore

11 – 21 January 2011

18 – 20 January 2011

24 January – 5 February 2011

1 – 4 February 2011




24 – 25 January 2011


10 – 14 February 2011

10 – 14 February 2011

10 – 20 February 2011

11 February – 2 March 2011

13 – 16 February 2011

15 February 2011

16 – 22 February 2011

17 – 18 February 2011

1 March 2011

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Manjula DeviBirla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani, Rajasthan

Visweswar Ram MarthiNational Centre for Rad io Astronomy, Pune

Deepak Kumar SinhaLaboratorie de Physique Statisique, Paris

Ron EkersAustral ia Telescope National Facil ity, Austral ia

Sharath AnanthamurthyBangalore University, Bangalore

Divya SharmaBirla Institute of Science and Technology-Pilani, Hyderabad

1 – 9 March 2011

2 – 7 December 20108 – 15 March 2011

18 March 2011

8 August 201022 – 29 March 2011

22 March 2011

25 – 27 March 2011

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Biswajit Paul An ultramassive, fast-spinning white dwarf in a 22.4.2010pecul iar binary system, Sandro Mereghetti et al.Science, 325, 1222 (2009)

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A. Raghunathan Planck and reionization history 24.6.2010Pia Mukherjee et al.Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 389, 231 (2008)

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Mamta Gulati An asymmetric explosion as the origin of spectral evolution 26.8.2010d iversity in type 1A supernovae, Maeda K. et al.Nature, 466, 82-85 (2010)

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N. Kumar The Nobel Prize in Physics – 2010 11.11.2010(Special journal club session)

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Biswajit Paul A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay 27.1.2011Demorest et al.Nature, 467, 1081-1083 (2010)

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