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Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati 781039, INDIA

2 Annual Report 2010–2011

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

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Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is the

sixth member of the IIT family. Indian Institute of

Technology–Assam Society was formed in February

1989. The foundation stone of IIT Guwahati was laid

in July 1992 in Guwahati. The Institute of Technology

(Amendment) Act 1994, passed by the Parliament,

was notified in the Gazette of India on May 26, 1994,

by which the IIT Guwahati–Assam Society was made

into IIT Guwahati. By the Gazette of India notification

of the Ministry of Human Resource Development

dated September 1,1994, the Central Government

declared September 1,1994, as the date on which the

Institute of Technology (Amendment) Act 1994 (No.

35 of 1994) came into force and IIT Guwahati was

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Annual Report 2010–2011: Highlights

Growth

Particulars 2009-2010 2010-2011 Growth in %

Student Strength 2903 3379 16.40

PhD Graduation 37 48 29.73

Faculty Strength 251 269 7.17

R&D Funds Received (In crores of `) 17.77 37.92 114

Total Research Publication 904 938 3.76

Major R&D Project Received: Design and development and fabrication of OLED organic solar cells

and organic TFTs based on molecular polymeric and composite materials – ` 5.23 crores

Major Conference Held: International Canference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS

2010), 11-15 December 2010 (500+ participants from all over the world)



Annual Report 2010–2011: A Quick Look 7

PART I

Organisation 11IIT Council 13 Board of Governors 16Finance Committee 18Building and Works Committee 19Senate 20Executive Summary 25

PART II

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

Biotechnology 37Chemical Engineering 65Chemistry 79Civil Engineering 94Computer Science and Engineering 110Design 123Electronics and Electrical Engineering 131Humanities and Social Sciences 146Mathematics 160Mechanical Engineering 168Physics 193

ACADEMIC CENTRES

Centre for Energy 212Centre for the Environment 222Centre for Nanotechnology 228

CENTRALISED SERVICES

Central Library 233Centre for Educational Technology 234Central Instruments Facility 237Centre for Mass Media Communication 238Computer and Commuication Centre 239

PART III

APPENDICES

Faculty 243

OĀ c ers and Scientifi c Staff (Group A) 249

Degree Awardees 251

Progress in Construction Works 261

Details of Research and Development Projects 265

Summary of Institute Accounts 272

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Annual Report 2010–2011: A Quick Look

Department / Centre

Academic Department 11Academic Centre 3Service Centre 4

Grants

MHRD Rs. 174.63 crores

Total Rs. 174.63 crores

Students Admitted

Preparatory 7

BTech/BDes 573MTech/MDes 314MSc 121MA 44PhD 222Total 1281

Students Strength

Preparatory 7

BTech/BDes 1804MTech/MDes 583MSc 214MA 61PhD 710Total 3379

Number of Degrees Awarded12th Convocation (2010)

BTech/BDes 329MTech/MDes 205MSc 73PhD 48Total 655

Faculty/Staff Strength

Faculty 269Scientific Staff 32Non-Teaching Staff (Group A) 27Non-Teaching Staff (Others) 264Total 592

Research Papers

Journal Papers 457Conference Papers 481Total 938

Consultancy Projects

New Projects 203Outlay (Rs. in crore) 3.18

Sponsored Research Projects

New Projects 88Outlay (Rs. in crore) 37





PART I

Organisation

IIT Council

Board of Governors

Finance Committee

Building and Works Committee

Senate

Executive Summary





Chairman, Council of IITsShri Kapil SibalMinister for Human Resource DevelopmentGovt. of IndiaNew Delhi 110 115

Chairman, Board of GovernorsDr. R. P. SinghFormer Chairman and Managing DirectorPower Grid Corporation of India LimitedA-1, PWO Housing SocietyHriday Deep, Sector 43Gurgaon, Haryana 122 002

DirectorProf. Gautam Barua

Dean, AdministrationProf. S. Dandapat

Dean, Academic AffairsProf. S. Nandi

Dean, Faculty AffairsProf. P. K. Bora

Dean, Research and DevelopmentProf. P. S. Robi

Dean, Students’ AffairsProf. A. K. Sarma

Dean, Institute WorksProf. A. Dutta

RegistrarDr. B. N. Raychoudhury

Head, Department of Biotechnology Prof. A. Goyal

Organisation



Head, Department of Chemical Engineering Dr. P. Saha

Head, Department of ChemistryProf. A. Chattopadhyay

Head, Department of Civil EngineeringProf. S. K. Deb

Head, Department of Computer Science and EngineeringDr. P. Bhaduri

Head, Department of Design Prof. A. K. Das

Head, Department of Electronics and Electrical EngineeringProf. S. Majhi

Head, Department of Humanities and Social SciencesProf. A. Barua

Head, Department of Mathematics Prof. R. K. Sinha

Head, Department of Mechanical EngineeringProf. D. Chakraborty Head, Department of Physics Prof. S. Ravi

Head, Centre for Energy Prof. P. Mahanta

Head, Centre for the Environment Prof. C. Mahanta

Head, Centre for Nanotechnology Dr. S. S. Ghosh

Head, Central Instruments Facility Dr. A. K. Saikia

Head, Centre for Educational Technology Prof. S. Talukdar

Head, Centre for Mass Media Communication Prof. A. K. Das

Head, Computer CentreDr. D. Goswami



Minister in charge of Technical Education in the Central Government (Ex-Officio) Shri Kapil Sibal Chairman Minister for Human Resource Development Govt. of India, New Delhi 110 115 Chairman of Board of Governors of all IITs (Ex-Officio)

Bombay Dr. Anil Kakodkar Member Chairman, BOG, IIT Bombay Delhi Shri R. P. Agarwal Member Chairman, BOG, IIT Delhi Guwahati Dr. R. P. Singh Member Chairman, BOG, IIT Guwahati Kanpur Prof. M. Anandakrishnan Member Chairman, BOG, IIT Kanpur Kharagpur Shri Shiv Nadar Member Chairman, BOG, IIT Kharagpur Madras Dr. R. Chidambaram Member Chairman, BOG, IIT Madras Roorkee Shri Analjit Singh Member Chairman, BOG, IIT Roorkee Director of all IITs (Ex-Officio)

Bombay Prof. Devang V. Khakhar Member Director, IIT Bombay Mumbai 400 076

Delhi Prof. Surendra Prasad Member Director, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas Delhi 110 016

Guwahati Prof. Gautam Barua Member Director, IIT Guwahati Guwahati 781 039

Kanpur Prof. S. G. Dhande Member Director, IIT Kanpur Kanpur 208 016

IIT Council



Kharagpur Prof. Damodar Acharya Member Director, IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 721 302

Madras Prof. M. S. Ananth Member Director, IIT Madras Chennai 600 036

Roorkee Prof. H. K. Verma Member Director, IIT Roorkee Uttaranchal 247 667

Chairman, University Grants Commission (Ex-Officio)

Prof. Ved Prakash Member Chairman, University Grants Commission Bahadurshah Zafar Marg New Delhi 110 002

Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Ex-Officio)

Dr. Samir K. Brahmchari Member Director General Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Anusandhan Bhawan, Rafi Marg New Delhi 110 001

Chairman, Council of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Ex-Officio) Dr. K. Kasturirangan Member Chairman, Council of IISc Bangalore National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus Bangalore 560 012

Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Ex-Officio) Prof. P. Balaram Member Director, IIsc Bangalore Bangalore 560 012

Three nominees of the Central Government

To represent the Ministry concerned with Technical Education Smt. Vibha Puri Das Member Secretary, Department of Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development To represent the Ministry of Finance Ms. Sushma Nath Member Secretary, Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure To represent any other Ministry Shri R. Chandrashekhar Member Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology



Nominee of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Prof. S. S. Mantha Member Chairman All India Council for Technical Education IP Estate, IG Sports Complex New Delhi 110 002

Nominees of the Visitor (minimum 3 and maximum 5)

Prof. C.N.R. Rao Member Chairman Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister Prof. C. S. Seshadri Member Director Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai Plot H1, SIPKOT IT Park, Padur, Siruseri 603 103

Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Member Director Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Homi Bhaba Road, Mumbai 400 005

Dr. Kota Harinarayan Member Chairman Research Council of Central Scientific Instrument Organisation, National Aerospace Laboratories P.O. No. 1779, Bangalore 560 017

Shri Tarun Das Member Chief Mentor, Confederation of Indian Industry, Plot No. 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Sector 18 Gurgaon 122 015 Three Members of Parliament (two from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha)

Shri Janardhana Swamy Member Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) Shri Deepender Singh Hooda Member Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) Smt. Vasanthi Stanley Member Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 106, South Avenue New Delhi 110 001

Secretary to the Council Shri Ashok Thakur Secretary Additional Secretary Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of Higher Education New Delhi 110 115



Chairman

Dr. R. P. SinghFormer Chairman and Managing DirectorPower Grid Corporation of India LimitedA-1, PWO Housing SocietyHriday Deep, Sector 43Gurgaon, Haryana 122 002

Member (Ex-Officio)Prof. Gautam BaruaDirectorIIT Guwahati

Member-Nominees of the IIT CouncilShri Provash Chandra NeogyEC–126, Sector–ISalt LakeKolkata 700 064

Shri K. Shankar Narayanan H 87, Bag Mugalia Extension Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462 043

Prof. Vinod Kr. SinghDirectorIndian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) BhopalTransit Campus: ITI (Gas Rahat) BuildingGovindpura, Bhopal 462 023

Shri N. K. Sinha Joint SecretaryBureau of Distance Learning and ScholarshipsMHRD, Dept. of Higher EducationShastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 115

Member-Nominee of the Govt. of AssamShri H. M. CairaePrincipal Secretary to the Govt. of AssamPublic Enterprise and Higher Education DepartmentsC Block (3rd Floor), Assam SecretariatDispur, Guwahati 781 006

Board of Governors



Member-Nominee of the Govt. of MeghalayaShri P. D. Sawyan (from 07.07.2010)Architect/IndustrialistHotel CentrepointPolice BazarShillong 793 003

Member-Nominees of the SenateProf. Alika Khare (up to 31.12.2010)ProfessorDepartment of PhysicsIIT Guwahati

Prof. B. K. PatelHead and ProfessorDepartment of ChemistryIIT Guwahati

Prof. S. Dandapat (from 01.01.2011)ProfessorDepartment of Electronics and Electrical EngineeringIIT Guwahati

Secretary (Ex-Officio)Dr. B. N. RaychoudhuryRegistrarIIT Guwahati



Dr. R. P. Singh Chairman (Ex-Officio)Former Chairman and Managing DirectorPower Grid Corporation of India LimitedA-1, PWO Housing Society, Hriday Deep, Sector 43Gurgaon, Haryana 122 002

Prof. Gautam Barua Member (Ex-Officio)Director IIT Guwahati

Financial Adviser MemberDepartment of Higher Education MHRD, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 115

Joint Secretary MemberDepartment of Higher Education MHRD, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 115

Shri D. Saikia, IAS Member Former Commissioner and SecretaryGovernment of AssamSaru Mataria, Dispur, Guwahati 781 006

Prof. P. K. Bora MemberDean (Faculty Affairs) and Professor Department of Electronics and Electrical EngineeringIIT Guwahati

Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury Secretary Registrar IIT Guwahati

Finance Committee



Prof. Gautam Barua Chairman (Ex-Officio)Director IIT Guwahati

The Director (Technical) Member (Ex-Officio)Department of Higher EducationTechnical Section IMinistry of Human Resource DevelopmentShastri Bhawan, New Delhi 110 115

Prof. N. K. Chaudhury MemberFormer Vice ChancellorGauhati UniversityNiz Path, RukminigaonGuwahati 781 022

Shri Debi Charan Bora Member Former Commissioner and SecretaryPWD, Assam Monalisa Path, Hatigarh CharialiZoo Narangi Road, Guwahati 781 021

Dean Administration/Deputy Director Member (Ex-Officio)IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. Dutta Member (Ex-Officio)Dean, Institute Works andProfessor, Department of Civil EngineeringIIT Guwahati

Chief Engineer (Buildings) Member (Ex-Officio)PWD, Assam Chandmari, Guwahati 781 003

The Superintending Engineer Member (Ex-Officio)CPWD, AssamR.G. Baruah Road, Guwahati

Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury Member Secretary (Ex-Officio)Registrar IIT Guwahati

Building and Works Committee



Chairman

Prof. Gautam BaruaDirectorIIT Guwahati

Member Secretary

Dr. B. N. RaychoudhuryRegistrarIIT Guwahati

Members

Prof. S. Nandi Dean of Academic Affairs, andProfessor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. DandapatDean of Administration, andProfessor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. P. K. BoraDean of Faculty Affairs, andProfessor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. DuttaDean of Institute Works andProfessor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. P. S. RobiDean of Research & Development, andProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. K. SarmaDean of Students’ Affairs, andProfessor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. GoyalProfessor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati

Dr. P. SahaAssociate Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. Chattopadhyay Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati

Senate



Prof. S. K. DebProfessor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Dr. P. BhaduriAssociate Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. K. DasProfessor and Head, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. MajhiProfessor and Head, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. BaruaProfessor and Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati

Prof. R. K. SinhaProfessor and Head, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati

Prof. D. ChakrabartyProfessor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. RaviProfessor and Head, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati

Prof. P. MahantaHead, Centre for Energy, andProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. C. MahantaHead, Centre for the Environment, andProfessor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Dr. S. S. GhoshHead, Centre for Nanotechnology, andAssociate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati

Dr. K. PakshirajanChairman, Hostel Affairs Board, andAssociate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati

Prof. P. GoswamiProfessor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati

Prof. R. SwaminathanProfessor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. K. GhoshalProfessor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. J. B. BaruahProfessor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. T. Khan Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati

Prof. B. K. Patel Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati



Prof. T. PunniyamurthyProfessor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati

Prof. M. RayProfessor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. K. SaikiaProfessor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati

Prof. M. JawedProfessor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. TalukdarProfessor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. D. ChakrabartiProfessor, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati

Prof. R. M. PunekarProfessor, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati

Prof. P. G. YammiyavarProfessor, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. K. BoseProfessor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. K. Gogoi Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. MahantaProfessor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. N. S. AhmedProfessor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati

Prof. K. BaruaProfessor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. BorboraProfessor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati

Prof. R. AlamProfessor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati

Prof. D. C. DalalProfessor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati

Prof. B. K. SarmaProfessor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. K. Dass Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. U. S. Dixit Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati



Prof. S. K. DwivedyProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. K. KakotyProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. S. C. MishraProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. R. TiwariProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. Khare Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati

Prof. A. SrinivasanProfessor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati

Dr. S. GhoshChairman, Hostel Affairs Board, andAssociate Professor, Department of Physics

Members (External)

Dr. Pranab BharaliFormer Director (Operations), Oil India Limited

Prof. Dulal C. GoswamiFormer Professor of Gauhati University

Prof. Birendranath DattaFormer Professor of Gauhati University

Invitees

All Associate Professors and the Deputy Librarian of the Institute





THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Shri Prabhat Sawyan, architect and industrialist joined the Board as the nominee of the Govt. of Meghalaya in July 2010. Prof. Samarendra Dandapat, Dean (Administration) and Professor, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati joined the Board in December 2010 as a S enate’s nominee . The I nstitute w elcomes them both to the Board and thanks the outgoing Board member, Prof. Alik a K hare, Depar tment of Ph ysics, IIT Guwahati, for her contributions during her tenure.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

The I nstitute has 11 academic depar tments, 3 int er-disciplinary academic centres and 4 service centres. No additions were made this year. These are:

DepartmentsBiotechnology (BT), Chemical Engineering (CL), Chemistry (CH), Civil Eng ineering ( CE), C omputer S cience and Engineering (CSE), Design (DE), Electronics and Electrical Engineering (EEE), Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Mathematics (MA), M echanical Engineering (ME), and Physics (PH)

Executive Summary

Academic CentresCentre for Energy, Centre for the En vironment, Centre for Nanotechnology

Service CentresComputer and C ommunication C entre, C entral Instruments Facility, Centre for Educational Technology, Centre for Mass Media Communication

The I nstitute off ers academic pr ogrammes c overing a wide range of scienc e, engineering, and humanities disciplines as given below:

Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) pr ogrammes in Biotechnology (BT), Chemical Engineering (CL), Chemical Science and Technology ( CT), Civil Eng ineering ( CE), Computer S cience and Eng ineering ( CS), Elec tronics and Communication Engineering (EC), Electronics and Electrical Eng ineering (EE), Eng ineering Ph ysics (EP), Mathematics and C omputing (MC ), and M echanical Engineering (ME),

Bachelor of Design (BDes) pr ogramme in the Department of Design,

Master of Technology (MTech) programmes in BT, CL, CE, CS, EE and ME,

INTRODUCTION

IIT Guwahati was established in the year 1994 through the Institutes of Technology Act, and has successfully completed sixteen years of its existence. The year 2010 has seen its twelfth batch of students taking their degrees in the month of May. The Institute takes pride in the achievements of its students and gladly announces that almost all the passed out students have been well placed in various government organisations and multi-national companies in India and abroad. All the achievements in academic and research areas have been successful only because of the relentless eff orts of dedicated faculty members and the commendable cooperation of all other non-teaching employees of the Institute.

Here is a brief report on the activities and achievements of the Institute during the year 2010-2011.



Twelfth Convocation

In the Twlefth Convocation held on 26 May 2010, a total number of 655 students received their BTech, BDes, MSc, MTech, MDes and PhD degrees as given below:

BTech/BDes

Biotechnology : 30Chemical Engineering : 33Chemical Science and Technology : 14Civil Engineering : 43Computer Science and Engineering : 57Design : 21Electronics and Communication Engineering : 46Engineering Physics : 13Mathematics and Computing : 19Mechanical Engineering : 53

Total : 329

MSc

Chemistry : 28Mathematics and Computing : 28Physics : 17

Total : 73

MTech/MDes

Biotechnology : 07Chemical Engineering : 24Civil Engineering : 38Computer Science and Engineering : 36Design : 16Electronics and Communication Engineering : 36Mechanical Engineering : 48

Total : 205

Master of Science (MSc) programmes in Chemistry (CH), Mathematics and Computing (MC), and Physics (PH),

Master of A rts (MA ) pr ogramme in Dev elopment Studies (DS) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HS), and

Doctor of Philosoph y (PhD ) pr ogrammes in all departments and in the C entres for Ener gy (EN), the Environment (EV), and Nanotechnology (NT).

The Depar tment of Elec tronics and C ommunication Engineering (EC) has been renamed as the Department of Elec tronics and Elec trical Eng ineering (EE) in order t o ac commodate all its curr ent ac tivities mor e appropriately.

The total number of enr olled students in 2010-2011 is 3379. Of these, 46.4% ar e post-graduate students. The detailed break up is:

Course 2009–2010 2010–2011

Preparatory 37 7

BTech/BDes 1592 1804

MTech/MDes 502 583

MSc 178 214

MA 19 61

PhD 575 710

Total 2903 3379

Dr. R. P. Singh, Chairman, Board of Governors and Prof. Gautam Barua, Director, IIT Guwahati, with the medal winners at the 12th ConvocationDr. R. P. Singh, Chairman, Board of Governors and Prof. Gautam Barua, Director, IIT Guwahati, with the medal winners at the 12th



ACADEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

The I nternet bandwidth has been upg raded t o 180 Mbps with the addition of 100 Mbps fr om the National Knowledge Network of which the I nstitute is an ac tive partner. The network backbone is being upgraded to 10 Gbps capacity. The ADSL broadband network facility has been extended to the staff quarters in the campus.

The C entral Librar y no w has a c ollection of 1,30,583 items. This includes 9,795 subscribed online journals and magazines. The availability of research papers online has helped the students and facult y members a lot in their academic activities. A number of new equipment ha ve been added to the laboratories of all the Depar tments

and Centres. Some of the major equipment and facilities acquired by the Institute during the last year are:

Physical P roperty M easurement S ystem – ` 1.77 crores

Spectroscopic Ellipsometer – ` 1.34 crores High Resolution Mass Spectrometer – ` 1.26 crores Nanoindentor – ` 94.4 lakhs Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography System – ` 34.35

lakhs Bench-Top Powder X-Ray Diff ractometer – ` 33.75

lakhs UV-visible - near Infra-red Spectrophotometer – ` 25

lakhs

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The number of PhD students on campus is incr easing every year. This year has seen a big jump in numbers , growing from 575 last y ear to 710. The current faculty to PhD students ’ ratio of 2.64 surpasses the tar get of 2.5 set last y ear. The number of PhDs g raduating per faculty is 0.22. This may seem low, but it may be noted that about a thir d of the I nstitute facult y have spent less than f our years in the I nstitute and so they c ould not have supervised any graduating PhD student. The ratio rises to 0.33 when they are excluded. Nevertheless, the I nstitute’s goal is t o increase the number of PhDs graduating every year.

The other component of the Institute research programme is sponsored (or directed) research. There are 200 research staff (of which 31 are also enrolled for PhD).

IIT Guwahati considers it essential for all members of its faculty to be involved in research and development for contributing to the knowledge pool and/or developing new t echnologies f or the benefit of humanit y. The Institute off ers a ‘Start-up Research Grant’ to newly-joined faculty members of the I nstitute to start their research activities. During this y ear, 20 pr ojects ha ve been sanctioned under this scheme worth ` 98.20 lakhs.

In 2010-2011, the Institute obtained sponsored research and consultancy projects worth ̀ 40 crores as compared to ̀ 39 crores last year, while the total funds received has gone up from ̀ 22 crores to ̀ 42 crores. Over 330 projects were in pr ogress during this y ear. The R&D pr ojects were mainly sponsor ed by Government Ministries and Departments with major support coming from Ministries of Environment (MoE), Human Resour ce Development

PhD Biotechnology : 4Chemistry : 9Chemical Engineering : 5Computer Science and Engineering : 1Design : 1Electronics and Communication Engineering : 6Humanities and Social Sciences : 3Mechanical Engineering : 7Mathematics : 8Physics : 3Centre for Energy : 1Total : 48Grand Total : 655

A detailed list of degree awardees is given in Appendix III.

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Table–1

Table–2

Particulars 2009-2010 2010-2011

New sponsored projects received 51 88

New consultancies received 202 203

Total sanctioned value of the new sponsored projects (In crores of `) 34.00 37.00

Total sanctioned value of the new consultancies and others (In crores of `) 5.00 3.18

Total amount received for all projects – new and ongoing (In crores of `) 17.77 37.92

Total amount received for all consultancies and others – new and ongoing (In crores of `) 4.05 3.77

*SIDA – Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

(MHRD), Departments of S cience and Technology (DST ), Biotechnology (DBT), Atomic Energy (DAE), Information Technology (DIT), Council of Scientifi c and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Defence Research Labs (DRL). The following table (Table–1)provides a comparison of this year’s R&D project profi le with that of last year:

Project Title Funding Agency Discipline

Amount Sanctioned

(` in lakhs)

Study of apopoitic signalling pathways in mesenchymal stem cells during normal and diff erentiated state DBT Biotechnology 63.45

Betraying the parasite's redox system: Studies on spermidine synthase of leishmania donovani DBT Biotechnology 82.18

Development of aptamer based molecular diagnostics for breast cancer DBT Biotechnology 67.2

Development of on line handwriting recognition system for Indian language (OHWR) - Phase II - Deployment of an application and improvement of engine performance

DITElectronics

and Electrical Engineering

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Speech-based access for agricultural commodity prices in six Indian languages DIT

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

57.62

Climate change water and rural livelihoods: Assessing socio-economic vulnerability and potential adaptive strategies in eastern Himalayan region, India

SIDA* Humanities and Social Sciences 100

Design and development and fabrication of OLED organic solar cells and organic TFTs based on molecular polymeric and composite materials DST Centre for

Nanotechnology 523.15

Ganga river basin management plan MoEF Civil Engineering 59.5

FIST: to strengthen research activities in the areas of fl uid mechanics, advanced materials and clean energy and simulation studies DST Chemical

Engineering 225

FIST: to strengthen research activities in the areas of structural engineering and water resources DST Civil

Engineering 305

FIST: to strengthen student training and research facilities in the area of ‘Medical Image Processing’ DST


108

FIST: to strengthen activities in Physical Sciences DST Physics 229



FACULTY AND STAFF

The faculty strength at the end of March 2011 was 269. This is an increase of 18 from 251 at the end of last year. This is in comparison to an increase of 31 last year. Even though a number of faculty are due to join in the coming months, eff orts should be increased in recruitment. The Institute should ha ve had 338 facult y members rather than the 269 it had.

The non-facult y staff strength remains unchanged at 323. It may be gladly informed that after many years of struggle, the Institute has been able to get the Ministry’s approval for the creation of 100 new posts. While many of the posts ar e to absorb those alr eady on c ontract, process is on f or adding about 30 mor e staff . Another 50 posts are likely to be created in August after the new batch of students come in. It may be mentioned that the approved student t o staff ratio is 100:11. S o with 3800 students by August, the number of posts will bec ome 418. The Institute has also submitted a promotion policy to MHRD with the appr oval of the Boar d. This will help in the career progression of staff .

PUBLICATIONS

The faculty members of the Institute have been actively publishing research papers in international and national journals as w ell as in c onference pr oceedings. The number of publications during the past one year are

Journals : 457

Conferences : 481

The number of journal publications ha ve gone do wn from 478 last y ear, while the number of c onference publications have increased, from 426 last y ear. Even though the per facult y output is satisfac tory at 1.7 f or journals and quantit y alone cannot measur e success, there is no room for complacency here and the reduction from last year is a cause of worry.

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA/COURSES

Various conferences, seminars, workshops and schools were organised by the Departments and Centres of the Institute during the year. A few of them are:

ICM satellite conference on Galois Representations in Arithmetic and Geometry, 10-13 August 2010.

International Workshop on Rec ent A dvances in Computational F luid D ynamics (RA CFD 2010), 30 August – 2 September 2010.

SERC Preparatory S chool on M odern Optics , 10-13 November 2010.

Advanced Instructional School on Numerical Linear Algebra, 2-22 December 2010.

National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS-2010), 3-4 December 2010.

In addition to sponsored Research Projects, IIT Guwahati undertakes consultancy assignments for various Stat e Government Departments, Railways, National Highways Authority of India, Oil and Gas Sector, Construction and Infrastructure C ompanies, P ower S ector, Education Institutes, Health and Pharmac eutical I ndustries and Financial Institutions.

A total of 203 consultancy projects (including the testing and recommendation jobs) were carried out in the year. The total value of the consultancy projects undertaken during this year is ̀ 3.18 crores. ̀ 3.77 crores was received for all consultancies.

The ‘IIT Guwahati Technology I ncubation Centre’ was established t o facilitat e c o-operation and int eraction between the I nstitute and entr epreneurs in various sectors of scienc e and eng ineering, and promote innovation thr ough f ormal and inf ormal means . The activities of the c entre are progressing w ell with fi ve active incubatees already in its fold.

Some of the research projects received during the year are given in Table–2 on the facing page.

High Resolution Mass SpectrometerHigh Resolution Mass Spectrometer



International C onference on F ibre Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS 2010),11–15 December 2010.

International C onference on Climat e Change and Water: Assessing Vulnerability, Impact, and Adaptation in the Eastern Himalayas, 3–5 January 2011.

Winter S chool on Speech and A udio P rocessing (WiSSAP 2011), 8–11 January 2011.

DST SERC Winter School on Green Chemistry on the theme Research, Teaching and Application: Exploring Opportunities in Green Chemistry, 7–19 March 2011.

National Workshop on Information Security Education and Awareness, 7–11 March 2011.

A total of nineteen short-term courses were also organised by the Departments and Centres of the Institute.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

Dr. Arupjyoti Saikia has published a book titled, “Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000” which has been w ell r eceived. Prof. Arun Go yal, Depar tment of Biotechnology, was elec ted as F ellow of the National Academy of Biolog ical S ciences. Dr. Anug rah Singh, Department of Chemical Engineering, was awarded the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum fellowship for the year 2010 to visit California Institute of Technology, USA. Dr. Tamal Banerjee, Department of Chemical Engineering, received the Indo-US Fellowship in Engineering Sciences, 2011. Prof. T. Punniyamurthy, Department of Chemistry, received JSPS Bridge F ellowship 2010 and JSPS Shor t-Term Invitation Fellowship 2011. The symbol designed by Dr. D. Uda ya K umar, Depar tment of Desig n, was chosen b y the Go vt. of I ndia t o represent the I ndian Rupee. He was a student at IIT Bombay at that time. He was also adjudged Young I ndian Leader b y CNN-IBN

and an ‘achiever under 35’ by India Today. Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar, Depar tment of Desig n, was empanelled by the Government of India as Scientifi c Adviser to the Controller General of P atents Design and Trademarks. Prof. Pinakeswar M ahanta, Depar tment of M echanical Engineering, was a warded India Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Univ ersity of Nottingham, Unit ed Kingdom. Dr. P. Muthukumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, received DAAD Research Award for a short term research stay at University of Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. N. Sahoo , Depar tment of M echanical Engineering, received a DAAD Research Fellowship for a research visit to Aachen University, Germany. Prof. Subhash C. Mishra, Department of M echanical Eng ineering, was elec ted fellow of the I ndian National A cademy of Eng ineering (INAE). Dr. P. K. Giri, Department of Physics, received the IIT-DAAD Faculty-Exchange-Visit Fellowship.

The Institute congratulates all of them.

CONSTRUCTION AND CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT

The construction activity in the campus is progressing in accordance with the increase in the number of students enrolled. There are now eight boys’ hostels with a total capacity of 2940. The construction of the remaining portion of the eighth boys’ hostel with a total capacity of 500 is going on and 240 r ooms have already been occupied. Another 120 rooms are expected to be ready by June 2011. The construction of the ninth boys’ hostel with a capacity of 1000 students was started in August 2009. Ar ound 330 r ooms will be r eady for

Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP 2011)

International C onference of F iber O ptics and Photonics

(PHOTONICS 2010)

Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP 2011)

International C onference o f F iber Optics a nd Pho tonics



occupation from the next semester starting in July 2011. On completion of the eighth and ninth boys’ hostel, the total capacity for boys will be 4200.

The girls’ hostel has at pr esent a capacit y of 472 seats with expansion w ork going on f or another 42 r ooms along with kitchen and dining space. These rooms will be ready by July 2011. Construction of another block with an additional 112 r ooms has been sanc tioned and the construction work will begin shortly. With this, the total capacity of the girls’ hostel will be 626.

The conference centre consisting of f our halls (t wo of 150 capacity and two of 200 capacity each) with audio-visual and air- conditioning facilities and a f ood court was c ompleted in Dec ember 2010. The int ernational conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS 2010) was held suc cessfully in the c entre in December 2010.

The A cademic C omplex of the I nstitute was initially constructed with fl oor area of about 74,000 m 2. With the incr ease in student str ength, the I nstitute is expanding the Academic Complex in a phased manner. Expansion w orks in the Depar tments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistr y, Civil Eng ineering, C omputer Science and Eng ineering, Desig n, Elec tronics and Electrical Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and C entral I nstruments Facility have already started and some of them will be ready for the new academic session.

The Conference Centre consisting of four halls (two of 150 capacity and two of 200 capacity)

Residences f or facult y and non-facult y members ar e also under construction. On completion of all these b y December 2012, the number of quarters will be F-type: 79, E-type: 114, D-type: 168, C-type: 72, and B-type: 175, for a total of 608.

Construction of r esidential quar ters for the P rincipal, teachers and staff and an open auditorium for the Kendriya Vidyalaya is expected to be completed by March 2012.

In addition to the present Student’s Activity Centre (SAC), work on another SAC building for conducting activities of welfare, cultural and technical boards of the students’ Gymkhana has star ted. Two food courts are also being built, one of which is for students.

In order to enhance the security of the campus, a road along the boundar y wall of the campus is being built. This will allo w patrolling of the campus perimet er by the security staff .

The campus beautifi cation and ‘make green’ initiative started several years ago is progressing well.

INSTITUTE EXPENDITURE

The details of expenditur e during the y ear ar e as follows:

Recurring (in crores of `) : 80.49Non-recurring (in crores of `) : 95.78Sponsored Projects (in crores of `) : 39.32Total Expenditure (in crores of `) : 215.59

The Conference Centre consisting of four halls (two of 150 capacity and two of 200 capacity)



STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

Alcheringa 2011

Alcheringa, the annual cultural f estival of the I nstitute, was held fr om 3-6 F ebruary this y ear. Alcheringa is now r egarded as a major students ’ cultural ev ent of the Nor th-East in which thousands of students fr om across the c ountry take par t in various y outh oriented competitions, workshops, seminars and informal events. The performances of musicians and performing artistes of repute are the r eal crowd pullers. This year too well known artistes in the fi elds of music, dance and drama performed before huge crowds.

Techniche 2010

Techniche 2010 – the annual t echno-management festival of the I nstitute – was or ganised during 2–5 September 2010 with g reat success. One of the main attractions of Techniche was the L ecture Series, where eminent scientists , Nobel laur eates, entr epreneurs and int elligentsia fr om ar ound the w orld deliv ered lectures on their w ork, shar ed their experienc es and thus greatly inspired the students . This year, eminent personalities from diverse spheres of t echnology and management visited the I nstitute. Among them w ere Mr. R ichard M. Stallman (F ather of GNU pr oject, a fr ee Unix-like operating system and founder of Free Software Foundation), Mr. Nathan Schulhof (father of MP3 player industry and dev eloper of the fi rst word processor for Apple C omputers I nc.), Dr. Ferid Murad (1998 Nobel laureate in Medicine) all of whom were on their fi rst ever Indian visit. S ome of the other ev ents Techniche 2010 organised were Guwahati Half Marathon, workshop of American Parkour, robotics, paper presentations, quizzes,

panel discussions and the international school olympiad technothlon which had a par ticipation of over 1.5 lakh school students.

Following are the other regular events organised by the students during the year:

Manthan – the intra-IIT cultural festival

Spirit – the inter-college invitation sports competition

Spardha – the annual sports meet

Zest – the annual athletics meet

Along with these , there have been r egular events and competitions organised by the various clubs and societies under the Cultural Council like the M ovie Club, the Fine Arts Club, the Literary Club, the Photography Club, etc.

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS

Mr. Sahil Salunke , a student of B Tech pr ogramme in Mathematics and Computing, won the Classmate Ideas

Vinayak Chittar (sitar), Arnab Chakrabarty (sarod) and Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla) performing at Alcheringa 2011

Mr. Sahil Salunke (2L) along with the winners of Classmate Ideas for India Challenge Mr. Sahil Salunke (2L) along with the winners of Classmate Ideas

Vinayak Chittar (sitar), Arnab Chakrabarty (sarod) and Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla) performing at Alcheringa 2011



for I ndia Challenge – a nation wide contest organised by ITC. Sahil was among the fi ve best a ward winners chosen among o ver 60,000 nation-wide entries . Dr. Siva Murru and Dr. Saitanya K. Bharadwaj, PhD students of the Depar tment of Chemistr y, received the fi rst and second prize, respectively in 2010 Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Awards at the University of Hy-derabad in Januar y 2011. M d. Hanif Choudhur y, a PhD student of the Centre for Energy, has been selected for National Renewable Energy Fellowship 2010-2011 of the Ministry of New and Renewable Ener gy, Govt. of India. Mr. Golla Nani Babu , a student of B Tech programme in Mechanical Engineering, broke the 28 y ear old r ecord in the pole vault in the 46th Inter IIT sports meet held at IIT Delhi.

TRAINING AND PLACEMENT

The placement scenario at IIT Guwahati for the year 2010-2011 has been good and better than the year before. A total of 104 companies from various sectors have so far participated in the recruitment process. Out of the total of 623 students (BTech: 309, BDes: 19, MTech: 208, MDes:

15, MSc: 59 and MA: 13) registered for placement, 92.1% BTech and BDes ha ve been plac ed so far . The highest package off ered to the BTech students is ` 20 lakhs p.a. with an average package of ` 7.40 lakhs p.a.

The percentage of plac ement till no w for MTech and MDes is r easonable and stands at 67.7%. The highest package off ered to MTech students is ` 12.07 lakhs p.a. with an average package of ` 5.5 lakhs p.a.

For MSc programmes, 3 students have been placed out of the 59 r egistered candidates. 12 PhD students ha ve also received job off ers through the plac ement cell in various sectors.

Companies fr om sev eral diff erent sec tors ha ve participated in the campus r ecruitment pr ocess. The percentages of par ticipation from various sec tors are 29% in C ore Eng ineering, 51% in IT , 13% in Resear ch and Education and 7% in others. Among the core sector companies 11% are PSUs.

The branch-wise placement details are given below:

Dept.

Under Graduate (BTech/BDes/MSc) Post Graduate (MTech/MDes/MA)

No. of Students

Reg.

Total No. of jobs

No. of Students

Placed

% of Students

Placed

No. of Students

Reg.

Total No. of jobs

No. of Students

Placed

% of Students

Placed

CSE 52 57 52 100 38 39 37 97.4

EEE 50 50 46 92 38 29 29 76

ME 54 54 50 93 30 28 28 93

CE 36 32 31 86 49 27 27 55

CL 34 29 29 85 32 11 11 34

BT 21 23 19 90 21 15 15 71

M&C 26 29 25 96 – – – –

CST 18 18 16 89 – – – –

EP 18 19 18 100 – – – –

DD 19 16 16 84 15 4 4 26.7

PH (MSc) 11 – – – – – – –

CH (MSc) 30 – – – – – – –

M&C (MSc) 18 3 3 16.7 – – – –

MA (HSS) – – – – 13 – – –



CLOSING REMARKS

An IIT is an int ernational institute, but it must also be sensitive to the environment it is in. IIT Guwahati has from the very beginning been working on local problems. In recent months, it has been an ac tive participant in the discussions on t echnical issues r egarding the building of hydel projects in the Nor th-East. IITG facult y ha ve taken up pr ojects on fl ood mitigation, riv er er osion, drainage in the city of Guwahati. Research in Earthquake engineering is a c ore str ength of the I nstitute. The Institute is str engthening its int eraction with I ndian Oil C orporation which has thr ee r efi neries in A ssam, and with Oil I ndia Ltd, which has its r egistered oĀ ce in Assam. IITG faculty are assisting the Go vt. of A ssam in areas such as Disast er Management, E- Governance, Higher and Technical Education Policy issues. They are also involved in various academic interactions with the educational institutions in the Nor th East. IIT Guwahati has special arrangements with NERIST, NITs Silchar and Agartala to assist their facult y complete PhD deg rees.

Being the premier educational and R&D Institute in the North-East, the I nstitute is called upon f or assistanc e by various Central Govt. Ministries and the faculty, staff and students have delivered to the best of their abilities. The establishment of the Technology Incubation Centre is an oppor tunity to create a set of entr epreneurs who will invest in this region and help its economy to grow. The opportunities for contributions are huge especially since the problems are so many and so challenging. The faculty and r esearch students ar e urged to be aler t on the opportunities and challenges f or research that the North-East provides.

As eight new IITs are fi nding their feet, IIT Guwahati has now g raduated t o the list of established IIT s. Six teen years may not be v ery long in the lif e of an I nstitute, but in this day and age when changes are so rapid, it is a long time. The Institute has done w ell so far, but has much more to do before it can truly count itself among the top institutes of the world.



PART II

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

Biotechnology

Chemical Engineering

Chemistry

Civil Engineering

Computer Science and Engineering

Design


Humanities and Social Sciences

Mathematics

Mechanical Engineering

Physics

ACADEMIC CENTRES

Centre for Energy

Centre for the Environment

Centre for Nanotechnology

CENTRALISED SERVICES

Central Library

Centre for Educational Technology

Central Instruments Facility

Centre for Mass Media Communication

Computer and Communication Centre





DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTIONThe Depar tment of Biot echnology, established in November 2002, has both Under graduate (B Tech) and P ostgraduate (M Tech and PhD ) academic programmes. This Depar tment is unique in Nor th-Eastern I ndia, impar ting qualit y education and providing an ex cellent r esearch environment thr ough its academic programmes. As of now, the Department of Biotechnology has 22 faculty members from diverse streams and specializations.

Teaching and r esearch ar e the t wo major ac tivities of the Depar tment of Biot echnology. Among the 41 g raduating students fr om the Depar tment of Biotechnology in the 12th c onvocation30 B Tech, 7 MTech, and 4 were PhD students.

Research in the Depar tment of Biot echnology is very div erse and c overs almost all impor tant ar eas in the Ā eld of Biot echnology. F aculty members from this Depar tment ar e also ac tively in volved in Centre f or Ener gy, C entre f or the En vironment, and Centre f or Nanot echnology, ther eby par ticipating in multidisciplinary research activities. Research activities during this period in the Department of Biotechnology resulted in 160 publications , of which 77 w ere in international journals ,15were in national journals , and 68were in various c onferences (both national and international).

New pr ojects of w orth Rs . 725.94 lak hs ha ve been sanctioned t o various P rinciple I nvestigators in the Department. Besides, a number of projectsof about Rs. 2555.442 lakhs are ongoing,and a few projects of worth Rs. 199.9844 lak hs ha ve been c ompleted. M oreover, two facult y members fr om this Depar tment ar e also working on consultancy projects. Many new equipment,

purchased from the Depar tmental fund as w ells from various projects, are available in the Department.

Five faculty members received various prestigious awards, and a number of students r eceived best poster awards in various c onferences as w ell as r eceived fellowships for research in aboar d.In addition, a number of facult y members deliv ered in vited talks , abook chapt er was published and some exchange programmes for higher research were completed during this period. A number of distinguish scientists , both fr om I ndia and aboar d, delivered lectures in addition t o the lec tures delivered in one shor t t erm c ourse/workshop or ganisedby the Department of Biotechnology.

The detail ac tivities of the Depar tment of the Biotechnology are given in below. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESTeaching (BTech and MTech programmes) and Research (PhD and Project mode).

STUDENT INTAKEBTech students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 43MTech students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 29PhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 23

FACULTY STRENGTHProfessors : 03Associate Professors : 10Assistant Professors : 09Total : 22

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESAtomic F orce M icroscope – C ontactMode, Autotensiometer, Bior eactor, Trinocular Phase Contrast M icroscope with F luorescence attachment,



Trinocular St ereo Z oom M icroscope with F ibre Optic Light, DuoFlow, FACS Calibur Flowcytometer Analyser, Compact Spec trofl uorometer, FPL C S ystem, Dig ital Imaging S ystem, Gradient PCR Thermal C ycler, HPL C System, F reeze Dr yer, M anual Rotar y M icrotome, Multimode M icroplate Reader, Real-Time PCR S ystem, Ultracentrifuge.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESThe major thrust of the Depar tment includes biochemical eng ineering, plant biot echnology, nanobiotechnology, gene therap y, c omputational biology and proteomics. The Department has initiated eff orts to establish advanced research laboratories in all the thrust areas. Apart from fundamental research, the goals of the Depar tment are also targeted to meet the demands of the biotechnology based industries.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

New Sponsored Projects

Principal Investigator Name of Project Sponsoring Agency

Amount Sanctioned (Rs. in lakh)

Co-Investigator Duration

Aiyagari Ramesh

Evaluation of probiotic attributes of lactic acid bacteria based on bacteriocinogenic activity and in vitro adhesion properties

CSIR 11.30 Biplab Bose 3 years

Arun Goyal Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility DBT 20.0 V. Dubey -

Bithiah Grace Jaganathan

Study of Apoptotic Signalling Pathways in Mesenchymal Stem Cells during Normal and Diff erentiated State

DBT 91.05

Zhumur Ghosh, Rajesh Singh (IIAR),

Chandra-mani Pathak (IIAR)

3 years

Gurvinder Kaur Saini

Isolation, characterization and identiĀ ca-tion of natural pigments of food and industrial values from Ā lament-ous fungi

DBT 56.76Suresh

(NERIST), N.C. Talukdar (IBSD)

3 Years

Lingaraj Sahoo

Development of Pod Borer Resistant Transgenic Pigeonpea and Chickpea

ICAR

795.30 58.00 (For IITG for 3

years)

- 5 Years

R. Swaminathan

Protein aggregation: early molecular events, mechanisms and inhibition

DST 53 - 3 years

R. Swaminathan

Single molecule fl uorescence investigations on the mechanism of lysozyme aggregation and RNA helicase activity

DBT 94.75 (60 for IITG)

B. Anand (IITG) and S. Maiti

(TIFR, Mumbai)3 years



Ranjan Tamuli (PI, IITG) and D. P. Kasbekar (PI, CCMB)

Studies on the cellular roles of calcium signalling proteins in Neurospora crassa

DBT

72.88 (Total),

50.70 (for IITG)

Utpal Bora (IITG) and Ch. Mohan Rao

(CCMB)

3 years

Vikash Kumar Dubey

Studies on Peptide-conjugated nanoparticles mediated antileishmanial drug delivery to macrophages

DBT 31.83 S. Patra 3years

Vikash Kumar Dubey

Betraying the parasite’s redox system: Studies on spermidine synthase of Leishmania donovani.

DBT 82.18

V. Trivedi, P.K.Iyer,

S. Sundar(IITD), M. V.

Jagannadham (BHU)

3years

Vikash Kumar Dubey

Deciphering the molecular mechanism underlying the activity of antitumor agents as antileishmanial agents and their potential for therapy

DBT 40.68 - 3years

Vikash Kumar Dubey

An integrated compu-tational and biochemical approach to target Ornithione decarboxylase, a key enzyme involved in synthesis of trypanothione for antileishmanial drug discovery

ICMR

40.00 (14.53 Lakhs Initial sanction for one year )

V. Trivedi 3years

Vishal Trivedi

Molecular Modelling, Design and Synthesis of Macrophage Phagosome-Lysosome Fusion Activators in Development of anti-malarials

BRNS 16.86 - 3years

Vishal Trivedi

Biochemical and Functional Character-ization of RIO kinase (s) from Plasmodium falciparum as a Potential Drug Target

DBT 31.48 V. K. Dubey 3 years



Vishal Trivedi

Winged Helix domain-oligonucleotide recognition as an axis to develop PfRIO-2 speciĀ c inhibitor: implication in anti-malarial drug development

DBT 82.10Sanjukta Patra, Chandra Lata

Bal (BIT Ranchi)3 years

Utpal Bora

Ganga river basin management plan: Thematic group-Ecology and Biodiversity. (IIT Consortia National

Ministry of Environment and Forests

1600.00 (Total)

Ranjan Tamuli and Mrinal Kanti Dutta

1.5 years

Utpal BoraSilk Based scaff olds for Neural Tissue Engineering.

DBT 58.44 Ranjan Tamuli 3 years

Utpal Bora

Establishment of Institutional Biotech Hubs (IBThubs) by DBT under special programme for North Eastern States of India.

DBT 27.00Chandan

Mahanta and Ranjan Tamuli

3 years

b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Principal Investigator Name of ProjectSponsoring

Agency

Amount Sanctioned

(Rs. in Lakh)

Co-Investigator

Duration

Anil Mukund Limaye

Characterization of the rat ventral prostate speciĀ c PBPC1BS and S100RVP gene promoters

IIT Guwahati 5 - 2 years

Anil Mukund LimayeThe SHBG-RSHBG pathway: insights from prostate cancer cell lines

DST(Fast Track)

19.89 - 3 years

Arun Goyal

Prebiotics and nutraceuticals production from Lactic acid bacteria.

Indo-Bulgarian

Joint project, DST

16 - 3 years

Arun Goyal

Production of microbial carbohydrates and carbohydrate active enzymes for healthcare

DBT 11.74 - 3 years



Arun Goyal

Probiotic fermentation as a platform for production of neutraceuticals.

CSIR 20.1 - 3 years

Arun GoyalMicrobial conversion of cellulose to sugars for ethanol production

DBT 31.48D.

Goyal(Thapar University)

3 years

Arun GoyalMTech Programme Support

DBT 170 - 3years

B. Anand

Understanding the Molecular Divergence of Lysozyme and α-lactalbumin by Resurrecting the Common Ancestor

IITG 5 - 2 years


Cytoskeletal organization and migration potential of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) during diff erent stages of Diff erentiation

IITG 5 - 2 years

Debasish DasScreening of robust algae strains for biodiesel production

IITG 5 - 2 years

Kannan Pakshirajan

In situ production of sophorolipid by the yeast Candida bombicola for pre-treatment of fats and oils containing dairy wastewaters

DST 16.8 - 3years

Latha Rangan

DNAB (DNA Barcoding) based biodiversity inventory in Zingiberaceae of Northeast India

DIT 71.18U. Bora,

D. L. Sahoo5 years

Latha Rangan

Cloning of fatty acid saturation genes and analysis of spatial and temporal expression from seeds of candidate plus tree Karanj (P. pinnata L.)

DBT 22.64B. G.

Jaganathan3 years



Lingaraj Sahoo

Development and evaluation of transgenic mungbean over expressing AtNHX1 and AVP1 for salt tolerance

DBT 78.75 - 3 years

Lingaraj Sahoo

Genetic engineering of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) for resistance to pod borer and bruchid

DBT 11.62 L. Rangan 3 years

Lingaraj Sahoo

Amino acid polymorphism in conserved Motifs in HMA proteins and Heavy Metal Resistance in Plants

DST 4.2S. K. Panda (AU, Assam)

3 years

Lingaraj Sahoo

Molecular cloning and functional Analysis of Na+/H+ antiporter gene in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp)

DBT 44.88S. K. Panda (AU, Assam)

3 years

Pranab Goswami

Development of Enzyme Electrode for the Construction of Cholesterol Biosensor

CSIR 9.4 U. Bora 3.5 years

R. Swaminathan

Conjugating luminescent quantum dots to proteins: consequences to protein function and development of sensitive assays

CSIR 15 - 3 years

Rakhi ChaturvediIn vitro production of haploids in Tea (Camellia spp)

DBT 34.49M. Hazarika

(TRA, Tocklai, Jorhat)

4years

Ranjan Tamuli

Functional analysis of calcium signalling proteins in Neurospora crassa

DST 15.352 None 3 years

Sanjukta PatraProtein stability prediction of lipases – in silico studies.

DIT 41.89 V.K.Dubey 3 years



Sanjukta Patra

PuriĀ cation of caff eine from waste tea leaves and their transformation to potent pharmaceutical molecules

DBT 66 P.K.Iyer 3 years

Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh

Fundamental Molecular Investigations inBiotechnology (Core Project)

DBT

Total 1133.68

Core grant 760.18

P. Goswami, L. Sahoo,B. Bose,

A. Ramesh,S. Patra

5 years

Pranab GoswamiStudies and application of redox enzymes for bioelectornics devices

DBT 94.96 S. Patra 5 years

Biplab BoseCombination therapy using suicide genes and recombinant antibody

DBT 97.32 S. S. Ghosh 5 years


Investigations on the molecular mechanism of Nanomaterial cellular interactions

DBT 102.82B. Bose,

A. Ramesh5 years

Lingaraj Sahoo

Molecular cloning and functional characterisation of heavy metal stress speciĀ c phytochelatin synthase gene from Eichhornia crassipes

DBT 78.4 - 5 years

Utpal BoraNanoparticle mediated targeted siRNA delivery to cancer cell lines

DST 12.96 - 3 years

Venkata Dasu VeerankiProcess Development for the Production of Recombinant Cutinase

DST 34.5 - 3 years

Vikash Kumar Dubey

Studies on eff ect of small molecule compounds on folding and amyloid formation of proteins

CSIR 21.50 S. Patra 3 years

Vikash Kumar Dubey

Studies on trypanothione Reductase from Leishmania Parasites: Structure, Function, Folding and Potential for Chemotherapy

DBT 35.76 S. Patra 3 years



Vikash Kumar Dubey

Structural Properties and folding mechanism of apocytichrome C552 from Hydrogenobactor Thermophilus

DST 11.5 - 3 years

Vikash Kumar Dubey

Structure, Stability and Functional Studies of 2, 5-Diketo-D-gluconate Reductase

DBT 11.65 - 3 years

c) Completed Sponsored Projects

Principal Investigator Name of ProjectSponsoring

Agency

Amount Sanctioned

(Rs. in Lakh)

Co-Investigator

Duration

Biplab Bose

Inhibitor Based Selection of Blocking Antibodies against Heparin-binding EGF-like Growth Factor: Developing Potent Molecules for Antibody-based Cancer Therapy

DBT 11.72 S. S. Ghosh 3 years

Biplab Bose

Development of Therapeutic Human Antibodies Against Cripto-1: Targeting Oncogenic Signalling.

DST 10.34 - 3 years

Kannan Pakshirajan

Decolorization of textile dyeing wastewaters by the white rot fungi Phanerochaete chrysosporium in a novel rotating biological contactor reactor

CSIR 11.5 - 3 years

Kannan Pakshirajan

Non-conventional two phase partitioning bioreactor systems for biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by Mycobacterium frederiksbergense

DBT 11.6 - 2 years



Latha Rangan

Analysis of start codon context and sequence characteristics around TIS in plant model systems

DBT 5.05 K. Pakshirajan 1.5 years

Lingaraj SahooCloning of elite germplasm of Jatropha for large scale plantation

DARL (Centre for

Energy)9.98 - 3 years

Lingaraj Sahoo

Genetic engineering of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) for storage pest resistance

DST 4.92 - 3 years

Lingaraj Sahoo

Development of micropropagation technology for Jatropha: A potential biofuelplant

NEDFi 4 - 3 years

Pranab GoswamiEnzymatic Biofuel Cell for Biomedical applications.

DBT 35Anil Verma, M. Barthakur,U.

Bora, L.Borbora2 years

Ranjan Tamuli

Functional analysis of translesion DNA polymerase Pol eta(η), Pol iota (ι), and Pol kappa (κ) in Neurospora crassa


Utpal Bora

Synthesis of Biodegradable Nanocarriers for Targeted Drug Delivery

DBT 14.69Pranab

Goswami3 years

Utpal BoraElectrospun nanoĀ ber Scaff olds For Hepatic Tissue Engineering

DBT 52.55R. R. Bhonde,

Pranab Goswami

3 years

Venkata Dasu Veeranki

Production of Bacterial L-Asparaginase: An approach for process optimization

DBT 12 3 years

Vikash Kumar DubeyDevelopment of novel therapeutics against leishmaniasis

DIT 8.66 A. Goyal 2.5 years



CONSULTANCY

Principal Investigator Name of Project Sponsoring

Agency

Amount Sanctioned (Rs. in Lakh)

Co-Investigator

Kannan Pakshirajan

Microbial investigation to overcome foul smell in Ā nished liquid product

Jyothy Laboratories Limited, Guwahati 0.20 -

Lingaraj Sahoo

Oil analysis and DNA Ā ngerprinting of Jatropha and Patchouli accessions

NEDFi (From Centre for Energy) 0.90 P. Mahanta

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

International JournalB. Ojha, A. K . Singh, M. D . Adhikari, A. R amesh and G. Das‘2-Alkylmalonic A cid: Amphiphilic chelat or and a potent inhibitor of metalloenz yme’, Journal of Ph ysical Chemistry B 114, pp 10835-10842, July 2010

Rishikesh Shukla, Ilia Iliev and Arun Goyal‘PuriĀ cation and charac terisation of dex transucrase from L euconostoc mesent eroides NRRL B-1149’ , Biotechnology and Biot echnological Equipnment, v ol. 24(2) SE, pp 576-580, May 2010

Seema Patel, Naresh Kasoju, Utpal Bora and Arun Goyal‘Structural analysis and biomedical applicatins of dextran produced b y a new isolat e P ediococcus pent osaceus screened from biodiversity hot spot Assam’, Bioresource Technology, vol. 101, pp 6852-6855, May 2010

Seema Patel and Arun Goyal‘Isolation, charac terisation and mutagenesis of exopolysaccharide synthesizing new strains of lac tic acid bacteria’, Internet Journal of Microbiology, vol. 8(1), June 2010

Bithiah Grac e Jaganathan , Veronica Tisato , Thomas Vulliamy, I nderjeet Dok al, Judith M arsh, F rancesco Dazzi and Dominique Bonnet‘Eff ects of MSC c o-injection on the r econstitution of aplastic anemia patient f ollowing hematopoietic stem

cell transplantation’, Leukemia, vol. 24 (10) pp 1791-5, October 2010

Debasish Das, Aditya Basu, Anshul N igam, Prashant S. Phale and Pramod P. Wangikar‘Dynamics of rat e limiting enz ymes in volved in the sequential substrat e uptake b y P seudomonas putida CSV86: Modeling and experimental validation ’, Process Biochemistry, vol. 46(3) pp 701-708, March 2011

Priyanka Dhar and Gurvinder Kaur’Cuticle-degrading proteases produced by Metarhizium anisopliae and their induction in diff erent media’, Indian Journal of Microbiology,vol. 50(4) pp 449-455, October-December 2010

Priyanka Dhar and Gurvinder Kaur’Eff ects of carbon and nitrogen sources on the induction and r epression of chitinase enz yme fr om Beauv eria bassiana isolates’, African Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 9 (47), pp 8092-8099, November 2010

A. Daverey and K. Pakshirajan‘Pretreatment of synthetic dair y wast ewater using the sophor olipid pr oducing y east C andida bombicola’,Applied Biochemistr y and Biot echnology, vol. 163 (6), pp 720-728, March 2011

A. Ghosh, K. Pakshirajan, P. K. Ghosh and N. K.Sahoo‘Perchlorate degradation using an indigenous microbial consortium predominantly Burkholderia sp.’, Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 187 (1-3), pp 133–139, M arch 2011



S. Kumar, V. Venkata Dasu and K. Pakshirajan‘Assessment of Physical Process Conditions for Enhanced Production of No vel Glutaminase -Free L-Asparaginase from Pectobacterium carotovorum MTCC 1428’, Applied Biochemistry and Biot echnology, vol. 163 (3), pp 327–337, July 2010

K. Pakshirajan, A. Sivasankar andN. K. Sahoo‘Decolourisation of synthetic wast ewater c ontaining azo dyes by immobilized Phanerochaete chrysosporium in a c ontinuously operat ed RBC r eactor’, Applied Microbiology and Biot echnology, vol. 89 (4), pp 1223–1232, 2011

S. J. Sarma, K. Pakshirajan and B. Mahanty‘Chitosan c oated alg inate-polyvinyl alc ohol beads f or encapsulation of silicone oil containing pyrene: a novel method f or biodeg radation of poly cyclic ar omatic hydrocarbons’, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, vol. 86 (2), pp 266-272, 2011

S. Kumar, V. Venkata Dasu and K. Pakshirajan‘PuriĀ cation and charac terisation of glutaminase -free L-asparaginase fr om P ectobacterium car otovorum MTCC 1428’, Bior esource Technology, v ol. 102 (2), pp 2077-2082, 2011

S. J. Sarma and K. Pakshirajan‘Surfactant aided biodeg radation of p yrene using immobilised cells of Mycobacterium frederiksbergense’, International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, vol. 65 (1), pp 73-77, 2011

K. Pakshirajan and S. Singh‘Decolourisation of synthetic wastewater containing azo dyes in a bat ch operated rotating biological contactor reactor with the immobilised fungus Phaner ochaete chrysosporium’,Industrial and Eng ineering Chemistr y Research, vol. 49 (16), pp 7484–7487, 2010

B. Mahanty, K. Pakshirajan and V. V. Dasu‘Batch biodeg radation of P AHs in mix ture b y Mycobacterium fr ederiksbergense: analy sis of main and int eraction eff ects’, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, vol. 12 (4), pp 441–447, 2010

A. Daverey and K. Pakshirajan‘Eff ect of diff erent oils and media c onstituents on the pr oduction of sophor olipids b y Wickerhamiella domercqiae’,International Journal of M icrobes and Environmental Management, vol. 1 (1), pp 11-15, 2010

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan and P. K. Ghosh‘Enhancing the biodeg radation of 4- chlorophenol by Ar throbacter chlor ophenolicus A6 via medium development’, I nternational Biodet erioration and Biodegradation, vol. 64 (6), pp 474-480, 2010

A. Daverey and K. Pakshirajan‘Sophorolipids fr om C andida bombic ola using mix ed hydrophilic substrat es: pr oduction, puriĀ cation and characterisation’, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, vol. 79 (1), pp 246-253, 2010

S. J. Sarma and K. Pakshirajan‘An immobilised c ell sy stem f or biodeg radation of pyrene by Mycobacterium frederiksbergense’,Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, vol. 30 (3), pp 129-140, 2010

S. Singh and K. Pakshirajan and A. Daverey‘Enhanced dec olourisation of Dir ect Red – 80 dy e b y the whit e r ot fungus Phaner ochaete chr ysosporium employing sequential desig n of experiments ’, Biodegradation, vol. 21 (4), pp 501-511, 2010

S. Singh, A. Daverey and K. Pakshirajan‘Screening and optimisation of media c onstituents for dec olourisation of M ordant Blue - 9 dy e b y Phanerochaete chrysosporium’,Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, vol. 12 (3), pp 313-323, 2010

V. Kesari, M. S. Vinod, A. Parida and L. Rangan‘Molecular marker based charac terisation in candidat e plus tr ees of P ongamia pinnata, a pot ential biodiesel legume from North Guwahati, Assam’, Annals of Botany PLANTS, Vol 2010, plq017 DOI 10.1093/aobpla/plq017, 2010

G. Dwivedi, S. Hallihosur and L. Rangan‘Evergreening- A dec eptive devise in pat ent rights ’, Technology in Society, vol. 32 (4), pp 324-330, 2010



V. Kesari and L. Rangan‘Development of P ongamia pinnata as an alt ernative biofuel crop- current status of plantations in I ndia and scope’, Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology, vol. 13 (3), pp 127-137, 2010

Tushar, S. Basak, G. C. Sarma and L. Rangan‘Ethnomedical uses of Zing iberaceous plants of Northeast I ndia’, Journal of Ethanopharmac ology, v ol. 132 (1), pp 286-296, 2010

V. Kesari and L. Rangan‘Eff ect of genot ype and auxin tr eatments on rooting r esponse in st em cuttings of CPT s of Pongamiapinnata’,Current S cience, v ol. 98, pp 1234-1237, 2010

A. Das, V. Kesari and L Rangan‘Plant regeneration in Curcuma species and assessment of genetic stabilit y of r egenerated plants ’, Biolog ia Plantarum, vol. 54 (3), pp 423-429, 2010

V. Kesari, A. Das and L Rangan‘Physico-chemical characterisation and microbial assay from seed oil of P ongamia pinnata, pot ential biofuel crop’, Biomass and Bioenergy, vol. 34, pp 108-115, 2010

J. Purkayastha, T. Sugla, A. Paul, P. Mazumdar, A. Basu, S. K. Solleti, A. Mohommad, Z. Ahmed and L. Sahoo‘Effi cient in vitr o plant r egeneration from shoot apic es and gene transfer by particle bombardment in Jatropha curcas’,Biologia Plantarum, v ol. 54, pp 13-20 (DOI: 10.1007/ s10535-010-0003-5), 2010

P. Mazumdar, A. Basu, A. Paul, C. Mahanta and L. Sahoo‘Age and orientation of the c otyledonary leaf explants determine the effi ciency of de novo plant regeneration and A grobacterium tumefaciens- mediat ed transformation in Jatr opha cur cas L. ’, S outh A frican Journal of Botan y (DOI:10.1016/j .sajb.2010.01.001), 2010

A. Paul, G. Thapa, A. Basu, P. Mazumdar, M. C. Kalita and L. Sahoo‘Rapid plant r egeneration, analy sis of genetic Ā delity and essential aromatic oil content of micropropagated

plants of Patchouli, Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth. - an industrially impor tant ar omatic plant ’, I ndustrial Crops and Products, vol. 32 (2010), pp 366-374, 2010

Urmila Sax ena, M itun Chak raborty and P ranab Goswami‘Covalent immobilisation of cholest erol o xidase on self-assembled gold nanopar ticles for highly sensitiv e amperometric detection of cholesterol in real samples’, Biosensors and Bioelec tronics, v ol. 26, pp 3037-3043, 2011

Preety Vatsyayan and Pranab Goswami‘Acidic pH c onditions induce dissociation of the haem from the pr otein and destabilise the catalase isolat ed from A spergillus t erreus M TCC 6324’ , Biot echnology Letters, vol. 33, pp 347-351, 2011

Preety Vatsyayan, Sandip Bor doloi and P ranab Goswami‘Large catalase based bioelec trode f or biosensor application’, Biophysical Chemistr y, vol. 153, pp 36-42, 2010

Urmila Sax ena, M adhuri Das , S eraj Ahmed , L epakshi Barbora, M ala Bor thakur, Anil Verma, Utpal Bora and Pranab Goswami‘Multiwalled C arbon Nanotube -Based Enz yme Electrode f or Total Cholest erol Estimation in Human Serum’, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, vol. 6 (1), pp 84-95, 2011

Urmila Saxena and Pranab Goswami‘Silk M at as Bio -matrix f or the I mmobilisation of Cholesterol Oxidase ’, Applied Biochemistr y and Biotechnology, vol. 162, pp 1122–1131, 2010

M. Singh and Rakhi Chaturvedi‘Optimisation of Spilanthes acmella L. cultivation b y in vitro nodal segment culture’, Acta Hort. (ISHS), vol. 865, pp 109-114, 2010

M. Singh and Rakhi Chaturvedi‘Improved clonal propagation ofSpilanthes acmellaMurr. for production of scopoletin’, Plant Cell, Tiss. Organ Cult., vol. 103, pp 243-253, 2010



P. Srivastava and Rakhi Chaturvedi‘Simultaneous det ermination and quantiĀ cation of three pentacyclic triterpenoids-betulinic acid, oleanolic acid, and ursolic acid-in cell cultures of Lantana camara L’,In Vitro C ell. Dev . Biol . - Plant., v ol. 46, pp 549-557, 2010

P. Srivastava, N. Kasoju, U. Bora and Rakhi Chaturvedi‘Accumulation of betulinic acid , oleanolic acid and ursolic acid in in vitr o cultur es of Lantana camara L. and their c ytotoxic ac tivity against HeLa c ell lines ’, Biotechnol. Biopr ocess Engg .vol.15, pp 1038-1046, 2010

P. Srivastava, V. Sisodia and Rakhi Chaturvedi‘Eff ect of culture conditions on synthesis of triterpenoids in suspension cultures of Lantana camara L’, Bioprocess Biosyst Eng., vol. 34, pp 75-80, 2011

R. Tamuli, R. Kumar and R. Deka‘Cellular roles of neuronal calcium sensor-1 and calcium/calmodulin-dependent k inases in fung i’, J . Basic MicrobiologyDOI: 10.1002/jobm.201000184, 2010

M. Goel and R. Tamuli‘RPL10 (ribosomal protein L10)’, Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol, August 2010 (online publication) URL:http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Genes/RPL10ID42148chXq28.html

C. Debamitra, P . Sara vanan, V. K . Dubey and Sanjukta Patra‘In Silic o Charac terisation of Thermostable Lipases ’, Extremophiles, vol. 15 (1), pp 89-103

P. Saravanan, A. T. Alpana and Sanjukta Patra‘Deciphering Role of Amino A cids f or the Stabilit y of Staphylococcus aur eus Lipase (SAL3)’ , I nterdiscip S ci Comput Life Sci., vol. 2 (4), pp 374

P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Induction of apopt osis in canc er c ells at lo w silv er nanoparticle concentrations using chitosan nanocarrier’, ACS Applied M aterials & I nterfaces, vol. 3 (2), pp 218-228, 2011

V. K. Yata and S. S. Ghosh‘Synthesis and charac terisation of a no vel chit osan based E. c oli c ytosine deaminase nanoc omposite f or potential application in pr odrug enz yme therap y’, Biotechnology Letters, vol. 33 (1), pp 153-157, 2011

V. K. Yata, K. Sen, M. V. S. Kumar and S. S. Ghosh‘Interaction studies of E. c oli uracil phosphoribosyltransferase with 5-fl uorouracil for potent anticancer activity’, Medicinal Chemistry Research, DOI 10.1007/s00044-011-9627-z, 2011

A. Jaiswal, P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Investigating fl uorescence quenching of ZnS quantum dots by silver nanoparticles’, Plasmonics, vol. 6, pp 125–132, 2011

S. Das, A. K. Sahoo, S. S. Ghoshand A. Chattopadhyay‘Plasmonic signatures in the composite crystals of gold nanoparticles and p-Hydroxyacetanilide (Paracetamol)’, Langmuir, vol. 26 (20), pp 15714–15717, 2010

P. Sanpui, S. B . P andey, A. Chatt opadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Incorporation of gene therap y v ector in Chit osan stabilized Mn2+-doped ZnS Quantum’, Material Letters, vol. 64 (22),pp2534-2537, 2010

P. Gopinath, S. K . Gogoi, P . Sanpui, A. P aul, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Signalling gene cascade in silver nanoparticle induced apoptosis’, Colloids Sur face B I nterfaces,vol. 77 (2), pp 240-245, 2010

M. Banerjee, S. M allick, A. P aul, A. Chatt opadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Heightened reactive oxygen species generation in the antimicrobial ac tivity of a thr ee component iodinated chitosan-silver nanopar ticle composite’, Langmuir, vol. 26 (8), pp 5901-5908, 2010

R. K. Das, N. Kasoju and U. Bora‘Encapsulation of cur cumin in alg inate-chitosan-pluronic composite nanoparticles for delivery to cancer cells’, Nanomedicine: Nanot echnology, Biology , and Medicine, vol. 6, pp 153-160, 2010



N. Kasoju and U. Bora‘Antheraea assama Silk F ibroin-Based F unctional Scaff old with Enhanc ed Blood C ompatibility for Tissue Engineering Applications ’, A dvanced Eng ineering Materials, vol. 12 (5), 2010

R. K. Das, B. B. Borthakur and U. Bora‘Green synthesis of gold nanopar ticles using ethanolic leaf ex tract of C entella asiatica ’, M aterials L etters, v ol. 64, pp 1445-1447, 2010

R. K. Das, P. Sharma, P. Nahar and U. Bora‘Synthesis of gold nanopar ticles using aqueous extract of Calotropis procera latex’, Materials Letters, vol. 65, pp 610-613,2011

R. K. Das, N. Gogoi and U. Bora‘Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles using Nyctanthes arbortristisfl ower ex tract’, Biopr ocess Biosy stem Eng (DOI 10.1007/s00449-010-0510-y)

P. J. Babu, P. Sharma, B. B. Borthakur, R. K . Das, P. Nahar and U. Bora‘Synthesis of Gold Nanopar ticles U sing M entha arvensis L eaf Ex tract’, I nternational Journal of Gr een Nanotechnology: Physics and Chemistry, vol. 2, pp 1-7, 2010

A. Sahu, N. Kasoju, P. Goswami and U. Bora‘Encapsulation of Curcumin in Pluronic Block Copolymer Micelles for Drug Delivery Applications’, J Biomater Appl (doi: 10.1177/0885328209357110)

S Kumar, V. V. Dasu and K. Pakshirajan‘Localisation and pr oduction of no vel L -asparaginase from Pectobacterium carotovorum MTCC 1428’, Process Biochemistry, vol. 45, pp 223-229, 2010

S. Kumar, V. V. Dasu and K. Pakshirajan‘PuriĀcation and charac terisation of glutaminase -free L –asparag inase fr om P ectobacterium car otovorum MTCC 1428’ , Bior esource Technology DOI:10.1016/j .biortech.2010.07.114

S. Kumar, V. V. Dasu and K. Pakshirajan‘Assessment of Physical Process Conditions for Enhanced

Production of No vel Glutaminase -Free L-Asparaginase from P ectobacterium car otovorum M TCC 1428’, Appl Biochem Biotechnol, DOI 10.1007/s12010-010-9041-x

A. Agarwal,S. Kumar,V. V. Dasu‘Eff ect of chemical and ph ysical paramet ers on the pr oduction of l-asparag inase fr om a newly isolated S erratia mar cescens SK -07’,Letter in Applied Microbiology, vol. 52 (4), pp 307-313, 2011

Nandini Sark ar, M anjeet K umar and Vikash K umar Dubey‘Exploring possibilit y of pr omiscuity of am yloid inhibitor: Studies on eff ect of selec ted c ompounds on folding and amyloid formation of proteins’, Process Biochemistry, vol. 46, pp 1179-1185, 2011

Santhosh K annah Venkatesan, Anil K umar Shuk la and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘Molecular dock ing studies of selec ted tric yclic and quinone derivativ es on tr ypanothione r eductase of L eishmania infantum ’,Journal of C omputational Chemistry, vol. 31 (13), pp 2463-2472, 2010

Parameswaran Sara vanan, Santhosh K . Venkatesan,C Gopi Mohan, Sanjukta Patra and Vikash Kumar Dubey’Mitogen-activated pr otein k inase 4 of L eishmania parasite as a therapeutic tar get’, E uropean Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 45, pp 5662-5670, 2010

Alka D wevedi, Vikash K umar Dubey , M edicherla V. Jagannadham and Arvind M. Kayastha‘Insights int o pH-I nduced C onformational transition of G alactosidase fr om P isum sativum leading t o its Multimerisation ’, Applied Biochemistr y and Biotechnology, vol. 162, pp 2294-2312, 2010

Nandini Sarkar and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘Protein nano-Ā brilar structure and associated diseases’, Current Proteomics, vol. 7, pp 116-120, 2010

B. P raveen K umar,Sushant Singhand Vikash K umar Dubey‘Eff ect of Arsenic stress on Vigna radiate: A Biochemical studies’, International Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering Research, vol. 1, pp 1-4, 2010



Neeraj Suthar and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘In silico approach to counter Leishmania donovani by targeting cysteine protease B: Struc ture modeling and inhibitor docking’, Global Journal of Biochem., vol. 2, pp 49-58, 2011

Sushil K umar Shak yawar, Arun Go yal, Vikash K umar Dubey‘Database of in silic o P redicted P otential Drug Target Proteins in C ommon Bac terial Human P athogens’, American Journal of Drug Discovery and Development, vol. 1, pp 70-74, 2011

National JournalDeeplina Das and Arun Goyal‘Characterisation and screening of antimicrobial activity of lac tic acid bac terium isolat ed fr om a traditional beverage M archa of Sik kim’, Journal of Pharmac y and Chemistry, vol. 4 (4), pp 136-139, 2010

Seema Patel and Arun Goyal‘16S rRNA based identiĀ cation and ph ylogenetic analysis of a no vel dex tran pr oducing P ediococcus pentosaceus isolated from north-east Indian microbial diversity’, Current Trends Biotechnology and Pharmacy, vol. 4, pp 746-754, 2010

Bhagya Lakshmi S., Gur vinder K aur S. and P admini Palem P. C.‘Isolation and puriĀ cation of cuticle deg rading extracellular pr otease fr om ent omopathogenic fungal species Beauv eria bassiana and M etarhizium anisopliae’, International Journal of Applied Biology and Pharmaceutical Technology, v ol. 1 (3), pp 1150-1156, 2010

Sirisha S.,Gurvinder Kaur S. and Padmini Palem P. C.‘Strain impr ovement of ent omopathogenic fungal species Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae by pr otoplast fusion’, I nternational Journal of Applied Biology and Pharmac eutical Technology, vol. 1 (3), pp 1135-1143, 2010

Uzma Mustafa and Gurvinder Kaur‘Studies on ex tracellular enz yme pr oduction in

Beauveria bassiana isolat es’, I nternational Journal of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, vol. 6 (5), pp 701-173, 2010

P. Srivasta va, R. R. Hazarik a, M. Singh and R akhi Chaturvedi‘Assessment of age and morphometric paramet ers of seeds on azadirachtin production in neem seed kernels collected from various ecotypes’, Research J. Chemistry and Environment, vol. 14, pp 24-28, 2010

N. Kasoju, S. S. Ali, A. Sahu , R. K . Das, P. J. Babu and U . Bora‘Surface functionalisation of chit osan-PEO electrospun nanoĀ brous scaff old’, Asian Chitin Journal, vol. 6 (1), pp 41-46, 2010

N. Kasoju and U. Bora‘Improving the standar ds of scientiĀ c publishing in India’, Indian J Med Res, vol. 132, pp 523-524, November 2010

Sushil Kumar Shakyawar, Arun Goyal and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘Genome analy sis of selec ted f oodborne pathogens for identiĀ cation of drug tar gets’, C urrent Trend in Biotechnology and Pharmac y, v ol. 5, pp 1134-1148, 2011

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaInternational Anil Kumar Verma, Arabinda Ghosh and Arun Goyal‘In silic o struc ture and substrat e binding analy ses of family 35 carboh ydrate binding module fr om cellulosome ofClostridium thermoc ellum’,World Congress on Biot echnology, H yderabad, I ndia, 21-23 March 2011

Shraddha Shukla and Arun Goyal‘Production and characterisation of glucan from a new strain of Weissella c onfusa isolat ed fr om f ermented cabbage’, I nternational C onference on Genomic Sciences, VII Convention of Biotech Research Society of India, Madurai Kamraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 November 2010



Rishikesh Shukla, Seema Patel, Damini Kothari, Debasish Das and Arun Goyal‘Combined eff ects of freely available nitrogen substrates and carbon source on dextransucrase production from a mutant of soil isolat e P ediococcus pent osaceus (SPAm)’, International Conference on Genomic Sciences, VII C onvention of Biot ech Resear ch S ociety of I ndia, Madurai K amraj Univ ersity, Tamil Nadu , I ndia, 12-14 November 2010

Deeplina Das and Arun Goyal‘Production and charac terisation of Bac teriocin fr om natural isolat e of lac tic acid bac teria fr om traditional fermented food of Sikkim’, International Conference on Genomic S ciences, M adurai K amraj Univ ersity, Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 November 2010

Shraddha Shukla, T. Jagan Mohan Rao and Arun Goyal‘Optimisation of cultur e c onditions f or pr oduction and assa y c onditions of glucansucrase fr om Weissella confusa isolated from fermented cabbage’,International Conference on Genomic S ciences, M adurai K amraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 November 2010

Saprativ P. Das , Debasish Das , Dinesh Go yal and Arun Goyal‘Simultaneous Sac chariĀ cation and F ermentation (SSF) pr ocess in volving r ecombinant C. thermoc ellum cellulase isolated from E. Coli’,International Conference on Genomic Sciences, Madurai Kamraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 November 2010

Seema Patel, Damini Kothari and Arun Goyal‘Enhanced production of bioactive dextran from a novel strain of P ediococcuspentosaceus b y UV -mutagenesis and Response sur face methodology ’,International Conference on Genomic S ciences, M adurai K amraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 November 2010

Seema Patel, Damini Kothari and Arun Goyal‘Exploring structure and biot echnological applications of dex trans fr om Lac tic acid bac teria isolat ed fr om microbial diversity hot spot in India’, fourth International Congress on Biopr ocess in F ood I ndustries, C uritiba, Brazil, 5-8 October 2010

Seema Patel, Damini Kothari and Arun Goyal‘PuriĀ cation and charac terisation of an ex tracellular dextransucrase from Pediococcus pentosaceus isolated from soil of Nor th East I ndia’, f ourth I nternational Congress on Biopr ocess in F ood I ndustries, C uritiba, Brazil, 5-8 October 2010

Rishikesh Shuk la, Shraddha Shuk la, I lia I liev, Isk ra Ivanova and Arun Goyal‘Production and structural characterisation of insoluble dextran pr oduced in the pr esence of malt ose fr om Leuconostoc mesent eroides NRRL B-1149’ , f ourth International Congress on Bioprocess in Food Industries, Curitiba, Brazil, 5-8 October 2010

Rishikesh Shukla, Ilia Iliev and Arun Goyal‘PuriĀ cation and Charac terisation of Dex transucrase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-1149’, Second Balkan C onference on Biology , Plo vdiv Univ ersity, Bulgaria, 21-23 May 2010

Bithiah Grace Jaganathan, Dominique Bonnet‘Eff ect of Rho GTPase on the migration and diff erentiation of human adult hematopoietic stem cells’, International Society for Stem Cell Research, eighth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 16-19 June 2010

Digar Singh and Gurvinder Kaur‘Media optimisation and cultur e c onditions f or the enhanced production of Swainsonine from Metarhizium anisopliae’, P roceedings of the F ifty-Ā rst Annual conference of A ssociation of M icrobiologists of I ndia - International Symposium on Recent advances in cross-disciplinary micr obiology: A venues and Challenges , BITS Ranchi, pp 241, 14-17 December 2010

Abhishek Gupta and Gurvinder Kaur‘Precursor directed Beauvericin production by Beauveria bassiana isolates’, Proceedings of the F ifty-Ā rst Annual conference of A ssociation of M icrobiologists of I ndia - International Symposium on Recent advances in cross-disciplinary micr obiology: A venues and Challenges , BITS Ranchi. pp 240, 14-17 December 2010

Pradeep Kumar S and Gurvinder Kaur‘Studies on h ydrophobins and spor e pr oteins fr om



entomopathogenic fungi’, Proceedings of the Fifty-Ā rst Annual conference of Association of Microbiologists of India - I nternational S ymposium on Rec ent advanc es in cr oss-disciplinary micr obiology: A venues and Challenges, BITS Ranchi. pp 144, 14-17 December 2010

Priyanka Dhar and Gurvinder Kaur‘A study on the virulenc e of entomopathogenic fung i in relation to two major virulent determinant enzymes: chitinase and pr otease at the genetic and enz ymatic level’, N inth I nternational M yclogical C ongress (IMC9): The Biology of F ungi, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1-6 August 2010

S Ghosh, L Rangan, U Bora‘Biodiversity, bior epositories and biobank ing in India’, P roceedings of theI nternational Workshop on Biodiversity and Climat e Change 2010, IIT K haragpur, pp 50-51 , 19-22 Dec ember 2010 (Poster presentation) (awarded second best poster award)

V Kesari, L Rangan‘Systematic evaluation of candidat e plus tr ees ( CPTs), seed oil analy sis and pr opagation t echniques in Pongamia pinnata (l .) pierr e, an alt ernative biodiesel crop oc curring in Nor th Guwahati, A ssam, I ndia’, Proceedings of theBioener gy S ystems Resear ch Initiative 2010 Annual Retreat, UGA Athens, pp 38, 15th November 2010 (Poster presentation)

S Basak, Tushar, A Das, V Kesari, VK Dubey, L Rangan‘Phylogenetic analy sis in Zing iberaceae nativ e t o Northeast I ndia using RAPD markers ’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on Genomic S ciences-Recent Trends (ICGS-2010), Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai, pp 120, 12-14 November 2010

AM Ramesh, V Kesari, L Rangan‘Characterisation of R hizobium pongamiae sp . no v., isolated from root nodules of Biodiesel plant Pongamia pinnata’,Proceedings of the International Conference on Genomic Sciences-Recent Trends (ICGS-2010), Madurai Kamraj Univ ersity, M adurai, pp 112, 12-14 No vember 2010

A Nath, A Das, L Rangan, A Khare‘Antibacterial ac tivity of c opper o xide nanopar ticles

synthesized via laser ablation in liquids’, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, IIT Guwahati pp 427, 11-15 Dec ember 2010 (Poster presentation)

Urmila Saxena, Mitun Chakraborty, Pranab Goswami‘Gold nanopar ticle based cholest erol biosensor ’, Proceedings of the International Conference On Frontier in Biological Sciences (InCOFIBS 2010) , National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, pp 139, 1-3 October 2010

Pranab Goswami‘Application potential of large catalase from Aspergillus terreus M TCC 6324 f or bioelec tronic devic es’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on Molecular and Functional Catalysis, Singapore, pp 102, 11-15 July 2010

Madhuri Das, Pranab Goswami‘ModiĀ ed carbon nanotube and naĀ on c omposite as electro-active matrix f or immobilisation of cholest erol oxidase on gold electrode for Bioelectrode Fabrication’, Proceedings of theI nternational C onference on Carbon Nanotechnology: Potential and Challenges , IIT Kanpur,pp 48, 15-17 December 2010

Seraj Ahmad, Pranab Goswami‘Statistical evaluation of medium c omponents b y experimental design for enhancing the COX (cholesterol oxidase) production from Rhodococcus sp.’, Proceedings of the World C ongress on Biot echnology, H yderabad International C onvention C entre (HIC C), H yderabad, India, pp 72, 21-23 March 2011

Rakhi Chatur vedi, R ashmi Rek ha Hazarik a and Vijay Kumar Mishra‘Assessment of r egenerative pot entiality of c otyledon explants of some indigenous varieties of cucurbits using varied concentrations of cytokinins’, Proceedings of the Six th I nternational Plant Tissue C ulture and Biotechnology C onference, Bangladesh A ssociation for Plant Tissue Culture and Biot echnology (BAPTC&B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 92, 3-5 December2010

Rakhi Chatur vedi, Vijay K umar M ishra and R ashmi Rekha Hazarika‘Comparative study of TDZ and BAP on or ganogenesis



from in vitr o c otyledon cultur e of Citrullus lanatus (thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai cv. Sugar Baby’, Proceedings of the Six th I nternational Plant Tissue C ulture and Biotechnology C onference, Bangladesh A ssociation for Plant Tissue Culture and Biot echnology (BAPTC&B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp 14, 3-5 December2010

Rakhi Chaturvedi and Priyanka Srivastava‘Production of trit erpenoids in in vitr o c ell cultur es of Medicinal plants ’,Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of the IAPB and 2010 In Vitro Biology Meeting, Society f or I n Vitro Biology (SIVB), St. L ouis, M issouri, USA, vol. 45, pp 29, 6-11 June 2010

V.K. Mishra and Rakhi Chaturvedi‘Eff ect of physical and chemical factors for induction of callus and pr oliferation thr ough in vitr o andr ogenesis in C amellia sinensis(L.) O . K untze’, P roceedings of the International C onference on F rontiers in Biolog ical Science (I nCoFIBS-2010), Depar tment of Lif e S cience, National I nstitute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Orissa, India, pp 221, 1-3 October 2010

R. Deka, R. Kumar, and R. Tamuli‘Calcium sig nalling genes in Neur ospora crassa ’, Neurospora 2010 M eeting, A silomar, USA, 8-10 April 2010

G. Ravi, R. Deka, and R. Tamuli‘Role of C alcium sig nalling genes in het erokaryon incompatibility in Neurospora crassa’, Fifteenth ADNAT CONVENTION on Genomics and Biodiversity, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, 23-25 Feb 2011

R. Kumar and R. Tamuli‘Calcium signalling proteins are essential for full fertility in Neurospora crassa’, World Congress on Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India, 21-23 March 2011

R.Deka and R. Tamuli‘Cellular roles of the Neurospora crassa neuronal calcium sensor-1 homologue’,World Congress on Biotechnology 2011, Hyderabad, India, 21-23 March 2011

R. Deka, R. Kumar, G. Ravi, and R. Tamuli‘Investigating c ellular func tions of the calcium

signalling genes in Neur ospora crassa’,World Congress on Biotechnology 2011, Hyderabad, India 21-23 March 2011

P Sara vanan, A Thorat, D Chak ravorthy and Sanjukta Patra‘In Silic o Charac terisation and Struc tural M odeling of Thermoactive, and Alkaline Staphylococcus Lipase’, Asia-PaciĀ c Bioinf ormatics C onference or ganised b y NCBS, Bangalore, 18-21 January 2011 (Poster presentation)

A. Jaiswal, P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Eff ect of silv er nanopar ticles on the fl uorescence property of ZnS quantum dots ’, Third I nternational Symposium on M aterials Chemistr y, Bhabha A tomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India, 7-11 December 2010

S. S. Ghosh‘Silver nanocomposites as antimicrobial and anticancer agents’, S econd I nternational C onference on Natural Polymers and Biomat erials (ICNP – 2010), Kotta yam, India, 24-26 September 2010

V. K. Yata and S.S. Ghosh‘Evaluation of Chitosan based nanocomposite-mediated enzyme and gene delivery systems to introduce prodrug activating enzymes into cancer cells’,Fifth International Conference on Bioeng ineering and Nanot echnology (ICBN-2010), Biopolis, Singapore, 1-4 August 2010

S. Ghosh, L. Rangan, U. Bora‘Biodiversity, Bior epository and Biobank ing in I ndia’, International Workshop on Biodiv ersity and Climat e Change (BDCC), organized by CORAL, IIT Kharagpur, 19-22 December 2010 (Awarded 2nd best poster award)

N. Gogoi, S. Rahman, U. Bora‘Biodiversity of the Ganga River’, International Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change (BDCC), organized by CORAL, IIT Kharagpur, 19-22 December 2010

S. Rahman, P. C. Bhattacharya, U. Bora‘Urban Biodiversity: a case study in Guwahati cit y with reference to newly declared Amchang and Deepor Beel sanctuary’, I nternational S ymposium on Biodiv ersity



and Genomics, CCMB Hyderabad, organized by ADNAT, 23-25 February 2011

V.V. Dasu and R. Goswami‘Cloning and expr ession of thr ee L -asparaginases of Erwinia car otovora subsp . atr oseptica in E. c oli, SIM Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2010, H yatt Regency San Francisco, CA, 1-5 August 2010

R. Goswami and V.V. Dasu‘Optimisation of chemical and ph ysical parameters for enhanced production of recombinant L- asparaginase-II of Er winia car otovora in E. c oli.’, I nternational Conference on Genomic Sciences (ICGS) 2010, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, I ndia, 12-14 November 2010

K. R. Hegde and V.V. Dasu‘Cloning and Expr ession of bac terial cutinase in E.c oli’, International C onference on Genomic S ciences (IC GS) 2010, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 November 2010

K. Dutta and V.V. Dasu‘Production of cutinase fr om P seudomonas c epacia NRRL B2320: Screening of microorganisms and medium optimisation’, I nternational C onference on Genomic Sciences 2010, M adurai K amaraj Univ ersity, M adurai, Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 November 2010

Abhay Narayan Singh and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘Procerain B a potential candidate for protease industry’, World C ongress on Biot echnology, H yderabad, I ndia, 21-23 March 2011

Neha Sharma, Anil K umar Shuk la and Vikash K umar DubeyEvaluation of Plumbagin and its derivative as potential modulator of Redo x Thiol M etabolism of L eishmania parasite’, World Congress on Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India,21-23 March 2011

Anil Kumar Shukla and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘Biophysical pr operties of TryR fr om L eishmania infantum: a st ep t owards drug dev elopment f or Leishmaniasis’, I nternational C onference on F rontiers on Biological Sciences,NIT Rourkela, 1-3 October 2010

Prakash Saudagar , Santhosh K annan Venkatesan and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘Molecular modeling, virtual screening and comparative analysis of Trypanothione Synthetase from L. donovani and L. major f or the identiĀ cation of new inhibit ors as a drug ’,International C onference on F rontiers on Biological S ciences,NIT Rourkela, 1-3 Oc tober 2010 (Oral Presentation)

Sushant Singh, Anil Verma and Vikash Kumar Dubey‘Oxidative str ess analy sis in germinat ed Chick pea seeds under c opper ions ’,International C onference on F rontiers on Biolog ical S ciences,NIT Rourkela, 1-3 October 2010 (Oral Presentation)

NationalM.D. Adhikari, B.R. Panda, U. Vudumula, A. Chattopadhyay and A. Ramesh‘Facile estimation of bacterial cells based on poly-L-lysine mediated agg regation of gold nanopar ticle’, F ifty-Ā rst Annual C onference of A ssociation of M icrobiologists of India (AMI-2010), Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, 14-17 December 2010

A. K. Singh, S. Mukherjee, M. D. Adhikari and A. Ramesh‘Antagonistic pr operty and f ood application pot ential of anti-list erial bac teriocin pr oduced b y lac tic acid bacteria’, F ifty-Ā rst Annual C onference of A ssociation of Microbiologists of India (AMI-2010), Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, 14-17 December 2010

U. Vudumula, B . Ojha, M. D . A dhikari, G. Das and A. Ramesh‘Studies on the antimicr obial ac tivity of synthetic amphiphiles’, Fifty-Ā rst Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI-2010), Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, 14-17 December 2010

Deeplina Das, Arijita Dutta and Arun Goyal‘Antibiotic sensitivit y, carboh ydrate f ermentation characteristics, puriĀ cation and charac terisation of glucansucrase of natural isolat e of lac tic acid bac teria from fermented beverage’,Fifty-Ā rst Annual Conference of A ssociation of M icrobiologists of I ndia ( AMI-2010), Birla I nstitute of Technology M esra, R anchi, 14-17 December 2010



Damini Kothari, Ankur Tyagi, S eema P atel and Arun Goyal‘Comparative study of various paramet ers of dextransucrase fr om wild-t ype and mutant of Pediococcus pent osaceus isolat ed fr om A ssam’,Fifty-Ā rst Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI-2010), Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, 14-17 December 2010

Shadab Ahmed, Arabinda Ghosh and Arun Goyal‘Cloning of family 43 glycoside hydrolase(GH43) and its derivative fr om Clostridium thermoc ellum’, F ifty-Ā rst Annual C onference of A ssociation of M icrobiologists of India (AMI-2010), Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, 14-17 December 2010

Rishikesh Shuk la, S eema P atel, Damini Kothari, Soumyadeep Chak raborty, Debasish Das and Arun Goyal‘Combined eff ects of ph and dissolv ed o xygen on dextran pr oduction fr om a mutant of soil isolat e Pediococcus pent osaceus (SP Am)’,Fifty-Ā rst Annual Conference of A ssociation of M icrobiologists of I ndia (AMI-2010), Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, 14-17 December 2010

Ruchi Mutr eja, Saprativ P . Das , Debasish Das , Dinesh Goyal and Arun Goyal‘Involvement of recombinant Clostridium thermocellum cellulose expr essed and isolat ed fr om E. c oli in simultaneous enz ymatic andmicr obial r eaction f or ethanol pr oduction’, F ourth Annual C onvention of Association of Biot echnology and Pharmac y, National Conference of Emerging Trends in Biopharmaceuticals: Relevance to Human Health, Thapar University, Patiala, India,11-13 November 2010

Himangshu S onowal, Darilang M awrie, A tul K umar, Sandeep K asani, P abitra K umar Gogoi, Bithiah Grac e Jaganathan‘Mesenchymal St em C ells fr om Hemat ologic Malignancies’, RBP S ymposium on A dvances in Translational Resear ch and M edicine, Ahmedabad , India, 1-4 February 2011

V. Kesari, A. Das, L. Rangan‘Genetic r elationship of C urcuma species fr om Nor th East India using PCR based markers’, National Conference on Innovations in Biotechnology, Chennai, 7-8 October 2010 (Oral Presentation)

A. Das, N. Kasoju, U. Bora, L. Rangan‘Biochemical, antimicr obial and pharmac ological screening of fl avanoids fr om Z. moran of Nor theast India’, P roceedings of the National C onference on Emerging Trends in Biopharmac euticals: Relevanc e to Human Health and F ourth Annual C onvention of Association of Biot echnology and Pharmac y, Thapar University, Patiala, pp 34, 11-14 No vember 2010 ( Oral presentation)

V. Kesari, A. M. Ramesh, L. Rangan‘Characterisation in candidat e plus tr ees ( CPTs) of Pongamia pinnata (L.) P ierre, a v ersatile legume fr om North Guwahati - A r eview’, Proceedings of the Thirty-third C onference of I ndian Botanical S ociety and International S ymposium on the New Horiz ons of Botany, Shivaji Univ ersity, Kolhapur , M aharashtra, pp 217, 10-12 November 2010 (Poster presentation)

Tushar, S. Aggarwal, M. S. Vinod, A. Parida, L. Rangan‘Mining of C urcuma species fr om Assam using plastid speciĀ c DNA barcodes’, Proceedings of the First National Conference on Biot echnology, Bioinf ormatics and Bioengineering, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, pp 39, 17-18 December 2010 (Oral presentation)

V. Kesari, S. R amachandran, A. M. R amesh, M. S. Vinod, A. Parida, L. Rangan‘Morphological and biomolecular approach in CPTs of P. pinnata, a promising crop from North Guwahati’, Second Edition of I ndian Youth Science Congress, Chennai, pp 119, 26-28 June 2010 (P oster pr esentation) (a warded best poster in energy and environmental science)

D. Chakravorty, S. K. Singh and S. Patra‘In silico prediction of mechanism of ac tion of cytseine protease inhibit ors fr om mushr oom’, F ifty-Ā rst Conference of A ssociation of M icrobiologists of I ndia (AMI), Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, 14-16 December 2010



R. K. Das, A. Sett, N. Kasoju, S. Bapatla, U. Bora‘Role of PCL in nanopar ticle based drug deliv ery’, National C onference on Tissue Eng ineering, NIT Rourkela, 21-22 M arch 2011) ( Won the Best P oster Presentation Award)

K. Pakshirajan, S. Singh and R. Pothi‘Decolourisation of r eal t extile dy eing wast e wat er by whit e r ot fungus Phaner ochaete chr ysosporium’, Proceedings of F ourth I nternational C onference on Perspectives on Water Resources and the Environment, IPWE 11, Singapore, 4-6 January 2011.

N.K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan and P.K. Ghosh‘Batch biodeg radation of p -nitrophenol using Arthrobacter chlor ophenolicus A6’ , P roceedings of International Conference on Genomic Sciences - Recent Trends, ICGS 10, Madurai, 12-14 November 2010

S. J. Sarma, K. Pakshirajan and K. B. G. Saamrat‘A novel t wo phase sy stem for pyrene biodegradation using fr ee and immobiliz ed micr oorganisms’, Proceedings of I nternational C onference on Genomic Sciences - Rec ent Trends, IC GS 10, M adurai, 12-14 November 2010

P. Sangeeta, S. Kheria and K. Pakshirajan‘Biodecolourisation of r eal textile industr y wastewater using the whit e r ot fungus Phaner ochaete chrysosporium’,Proceedings of International Conference on Genomic Sciences - Recent Trends, ICGS 10, Madurai, 12-14 November 2010

K. Pakshirajan, S. Jaiswal and R. K. Das ‘Biodecolourisation of az o dy es using Phaner ochaete chrysosporium: eff ect of culture conditions and enzyme activities’, Proceedings of I nternational C onference on Genomic S ciences - Rec ent Trends, IC GS 10, M adurai, 12-14 November 2010

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan and P. K. Ghosh‘Kinetics of growth and biodegradation of p-nitrophenol p-chlorophenol b y Ar throbacter chlor ophenolicus A6’, Proceedings of N inth I nternational Conference on Hydro-Science and Eng ineering, ICHE 10, Chennai, 2-5 August 2010

Book, Chapter, etc.A. Daverey and K. Pakshirajan‘Recent advanc es in bior emediation of c ontaminated soil and wat er using micr obial sur factants’, M icrobes and Microbial Technology, I. Ahmad(Ed), Springer, New York, pp 207-228, 2011

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED: INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL

Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date International/

National

Aiyagari Ramesh

National Symposium on Trends in Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics

University of Kalyani, West Bengal 5-6 October 2010 National

Aiyagari Ramesh

National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS) - 2010

IIT Guwahati 3-4 December 2010 National

Anil Mukund Limaye

30th Annual Convention of Indian Association for Cancer Research and International Symposium on ‘Signalling Network and Cancer’

Kolkata 6-9 February 2011 International symposium

Anil Mukund Limaye

79th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists (India)

Bangalore 13-15 December 2011 National Conference



Arun Goyal

4th International Congress on Bioprocess in Food Industries

Curitiba, Brazil 5-8October 2010 International

Arun GoyalInternational Conference on Genomic Sciences

Madurai Kamraj University

12-14November 2010 International

B. Anand FCS 2010 NEHU, Shillong 8-14 November 2010 National

B. Anand

79thAnnual Meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists (India)

IISc, Bangalore 13-15 December 2010 National


International Society for Stem Cell Research 8th Annual Meeting

San Francisco, USA 16-19 June 2010 International

Kannan Pakshirajan

Forming a Network for Education for Sustainable Development in Asia

Kyoto, Japan 27-31October2010 International

Latha Rangan Bioenergy Systems Research Initiative UGA Athens, USA 15November 2010 International

Latha Rangan Young Indian Science Congress

SRM University, Chennai 26-28June 2010 National

Pranab Goswami

International Conference on Molecular and Functional Catalysis

Singapore 11-15 July 2010 International

R. Swaminathan55th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society

Baltimore, USA 5-9March 2011 International

Ranjan Tamuli Neurospora 2010 Meeting Asilomar, USA 8-10 April 2010 International

Ranjan Tamuli World Congress on Biotechnology2011 Hyderabad 21-23 March 2011 International


Second International Conference on Natural Polymers and Biomaterials

Kottayam, Kerala 24-26September 2010 International


Frontiers in Chemical Science (FICS-2010)

IIT Guwahati 3-4 December2010 National

V. V. Dasu

International Conference on Genomic Sciences 2010

Madurai 12-14 November 2010 International



Vikash Kumar Dubey

15th International Conference Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists

Rajkot 4-7 February 2011 International

Vikash Kumar DubeyInternational Conference on Genomics Science

Madurai 12-14 November 2010 International

Vikash Kumar Dubey 10th Agriculture Science Congress Lucknow 10-12 February 2011 National

Vikash Kumar DubeyNational conference on Biological Chemistry

Visakhapatnam 29-30 November 2010 National

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY: IN INDIA, ABROAD

Name of Faculty Name of Lecture Name of Inst./Org. Place Date

Aiyagari Ramesh

Nano-Bio Interface: Harnessing the Power of “Small” in Biological Applications

Department of Biochemistry

and Biophysics, University of

Kalyani

Kalyani, West Bengal 6 October 2010

Aiyagari Ramesh

Exploiting Nanomaterial-Based Tools and Synthetic Amphiphiles in Biological Applications

IIT Guwahati Guwahati 3 December 2010

Arun Goyal

Exploring structure and biotechnological applications of dextrans from Lactic acid bacteria isolated from microbial diversity hot spot in India

4th International Congress on

Bioprocess in Food Industries

Curitiba, Brazil 5-8 October 2010

Arun Goyal Applications of Dextrans and Oligosaccharides

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological

University Anantapur, AP 29 October

2010

Arun Goyal

Enhanced production of bioactive dextran from a novel strain of Pediococcu-spentosaceus by UV-mutagenesis and Response surface methodology

Madurai Kamraj University Tamil Nadu

12-14 November

2010

B. AnandStructural Basis for the Diversity in the Catalytic Mechanisms of GTPases

NEHU Shillong 27 October 2010

B. AnandGenome Analyses and Sequence Based Phylogeny

Gauhati University Guwahati 23 November 2010

Latha Rangan Genome mining in Zingibereceae

Department of Genetics, University of Gerogia, Athens

Georgia, USA 16 December 2010



Latha Rangan Progress in area of Crop Biotechnology

Vivekanandha College of

Engineering for Women

Trichungode, TN 12 March 2011

Latha Rangan Challenges in Biotechnology SRM University Chennai 26 June 2010

Latha Rangan IPR and Bioresources protection in NE India

IITG-NRDC Joint Regional Seminar

on information and analytical tools for the life science

researcher

IIT Guwahati 6 May 2010

Pranab Goswami

Application potential of large catalase from Aspergillus terreus MTCC 6324 for bioelectronic devices

International Conference on Molecular and

Functional Catalysis

Singapore 14 July 2010

Pranab Goswami Prof. A. C. Dutta memorial lecture.

Department of Botany, Cotton

CollegeGuwahati 28 January

2011

R. Swaminathan Protein aggregation diseases

North-Eastern Hill University Shillong 26 March 2011

R. Swaminathan Fluorescence Techniques for Biology

North-Eastern Hill University Shillong 26 March 2011

Ranjan Tamuli Harnessing Technology from Nature Dhemaji College Dhemaji 1 August 2010

Ranjan Tamuli

Modern tools and techniques for Gene and genome analysis (Restriction mapping, ORF Ā nding PCR primer designing, etc.)

Gauhati University Guwahati 24 November 2010

Ranjan TamuliHomology Modelling and Sequence analysis for Phylogenetic study

Cotton College Guwahati 26 March 2011


Silver Nanocomposites as Antimicrobial and Anticancer Agents

Institute of Macromolecular

Science and Engineering (IMSE)

Kerala 25 September 2010


Nanoscale materials as potential therapeutic agents

Indian Institute of Technology

GuwahatiGuwahati 3 December

2010

Utpal BoraNetworking Bioresource Repositories And Biobanking In India

ANRC and RIKEN BRC Japan 28 October

2010

Utpal Bora Molecular Biology Techniques

Zoological Society of Assam and

Cotton CollegeCotton college 24 March 2011

Utpal Bora Traditional fermented food of North East India DBT, IBSD Imphal 4-5 September

2010



Utpal Bora

National symposium on biodiversity of Assam: Status, Development and Conservation

Assam Science Society Guwahati 4-5 December

2010

Vikash Kumar Dubey Protein Biochemistry for food and human health

15th ISCB International

Conference Indian Society of Chemists

and Biologists

Rajkot 6 February 2011

Vikash Kumar Dubey

Deciphering the molecular mechanism underlying the activity of antitumor agents as antileishmanial and their potential for therapy

National conference on Biological

ChemistryVisakhapatnam 29 November

2011

INVITED LECTURES

Name Name of Inst./Org. Name of Lecture Date

Dr. Parthasarathi Das

Discovery Chemistry Aurigene Discovery Technologies Ltd. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratory Ltd., Hyderabad

Drug Discovery and Development: An Overview 6April 2010

Prof. T. SatyanarayanaDepartment of Microbiology University of Delhi South Campus

Cell-bound phytase of the yeast Pichia anomala:

Production, characteristics and applications

21May 2010

Prof. U.C. Banerjee

Professor and Head Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, NIPER

Enantiomeric synthesis of chiral drug intermediates through chemoenzymatic

route

1June 2010

Prof. M. V. Deshpande National Chemical Laboratory, Pune Fungal Dimorphism 21June 2010

Prof. Satyahari Dey Department of Biotechnology IIT Kharagpur

Innovation in Plant Biotechnology: Global scenario

and Indian perspectives

21September 2010

Dr. J. P. Tamang Department of Microbiology Sikkim Central University

Updated Research Status: Microbiology, Nutrition and

Socio-Cultural Aspects of Ethnic fermented Foods and Beverages of the Himalayas

8October 2010

Prof. Aparna Dutta Gupta University of Hyderabad

IdentiĀ cation of regulatory proteins from insect blood and their function during

development

19 November 2010

Prof. Hiroyuki Koyama Gifu University, JapanMolecular Regulation of Aluminium Tolerance in

Arabidopsis28 March 2011



SHORT-TERM COURSESDBT programme support project sponsored short term training course on ‘Advanced Techniques in Cellular and Molecular Biology’; 15-19November 2010; Coordinator: Dr. Biplab Bose.

AWARDS AND HONOURSProf. Arun Goyal Dr. C.V . R aman A ward ( Citation and C ash

Award) f or the 4th IES “National Young Teachers Excellence Award 2010” for excellence in the Ā eld of Engineering and Technology Education, b y IES Group of Institutions, Bhopal. Elected as F ellow, National A cademy of Biolog ical

Sciences(FNABS), March 2011. Invited to Chair the Session on Microbial Genomics

and to Chair Panel of judges for Best Poster Awards at the I nternational C onference on Genomic Sciences (IC GS), 12-14 No vember 2010, M adurai Kamraj University, Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Kannan Pakshirajan Awarded the I ndian National S cience A cademy

(INSA) M edal f or Young S cientists 2010 at the academy’s annual general meeting held at I ndian Institute of S cience, Bangalor e, during 28-30 December2010, f or achieving ex cellent syner gy between chemical engineering and environmental biotechnology to accomplish remediation of heavy metals and az o dy es using the basidiom ycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium.

Dr. Latha Rangan Visiting S cientist, Depar tment of Genetics ,

University of Geor gia, USA, Oc tober – Dec ember 2010 Invited to Chair Plant Sciences Section during Indian

Youth S cience C ongress (I YSC), SRM Univ ersity, Chennai, June 2010 Elected as Associate Member, National Academy of

Sciences (NASI), India, Allahabad Co-ordinator and A ssam Stat e Repr esentative,

Member IYSC, 2010-2011.

Prof. Pranab Goswami Felicitated as r esource person and deliv ered a

lecture in a training course in life science for senior

faculty of univ ersity and c olleges on 5Oc tober 2010 in Academic Staff College, Gauhati University, Guwahati. Felicitated as resource person and delivered Prof. A.

C. Dutta memorial lecture at Department of Botany, Cotton College, Guwahati on the topic ‘Advances in Biosensors Research’ on 28January 2011.

Dr. Vikash Kumar Dubey Young S cientist A ward of the Biot ech Resear ch

Society of India (BRSI) Young S cientist A ward of National A cademy of

Agriculture Sciences (NAAS) Young S cientist A ward (Biolog ical S ciences) of

Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB) Selected for Associateship of National A cademy of

Agriculture Sciences Elected as MNASc (Member, The National Academy

of Sciences, India)

SPECIAL MENTION Ms. P riyanka Dhar r eceivedInternational Travel

Support fr om DST f or att ending an I nternational Conference, 9th I nternational M ycological Congress, held at Edinburgh, UK,during 1-6 August 2010; supervisor, Dr. Gurvinder Kaur Saini. Mr. Tushar, a PhD student, a warded US I ndia

Fulbright Nehru Research Scholarship for 9 months 2011-2012; supervisor, Dr. Latha Rangan. Mr. R amachandran Sarath, an M Tech Student,

received Best P oster A ward in Ar ea of Ener gy and En vironmental S ciences in I YSC 2010 held at Chennai; supervisor, Dr. Latha Rangan. Mr. Sudipta Ghosh, a PhD student, received Second

Best P oster A ward in an I nternational Workshop on Biodiv ersity and Climat e Change held at IIT Kharagpur 2010; supervisor, Dr. Latha Rangan. Ms. Urmila Sax ena, a PhD student, w orking under

the super vision of P rof. P ranab Goswami, w on best paper a ward in the I nternational Conference on Frontier in Biolog ical Sciences (I nCOFIBS 2010) held at National I nstitute of Technology, Rourkela, 1-3 October 2010 f or her paper ‘Gold nanoparticle based cholesterol biosensor’. Dr. Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh elected as a Member,

Central Technical C ommittee ( CTC), DB T Nodal Cell.



Dr. Utpal Bora selected as a Member of School Board, School of Eng ineering and Technology, Nagaland University.

FACULTY MEMBERSB. AnandPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Struc tural Biology , Bioinf ormatics and C omputational Biology , RNA Biology , M olecular Evolution

U. BoraPhD (I nstitute of Genomics and I ntegrative Biology , Delhi)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: Biomat erials, Nanot echnology, Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering

B. BosePhD (AIIMS, New Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest:Therapeutic recombinant antibodies, Molecular cell Biology, Theoretical Biology

R. ChaturvediPhD (University of Delhi, Delhi)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, Protoplast Isolation and Regeneration, Isolation, PuriĀ cation and Charac terisation of Plant S econdary Metabolites

N. ChaudharyPhD ( Centre f or C ellular and M olecular Biology , Hyderabad)Areas of In terest: Peptide self-assembly and am yloid aggregates, Peptide-membrane interactionsCurvature inducing proteins

D. DasPhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Metabolic Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, M odelling of F ermentation P rocess, Biofuel

V.V. DasuPhD (IIT Madras)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interests: Bioprocess Development (upstream to downstream), Metabolic Engineering, Bioenergy V.K. DubeyPhD (Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interests:Parasite Biology, Protein folding and aggregation, Proteases, Environmental Proteomics

S.S. GhoshPhD (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Gene Therapy, Expr ession Cloning (Mammalian Systems), Nanobiotechnology

P. GoswamiPhD (Nor th East I nstitute of S cience and Technology, Jorhat, formerly RRLJorhat)Professor Areas of In terest:Biocatalysis, Biosensor , Enz ymatic Biofuel cell, and Biotransformation

A. GoyalPhD (IIT Kanpur)Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of In terest: M olecular Biology , P rotein Engineering, Struc tural and F unctional P roteomics of C arbohydrate ac tive enz ymes and other industrial microbial enzymes

B.G. Jaganathan PhD (Frankfurt University, Germany)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest:Mesenchymal Stem Cells (Biology, for Tissue repair, in health and disease), C ell Therapy, Rho GTPases and Haematopoietic Stem Cells

A.M. LimayePhD (IISc Bangalore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest:Molecular endocrinology , C ancer biology, Gene expr ession and r egulation in E ukaryotic and Prokaryotic systems



K. PakshirajanPhD (IIT Madras)Associate ProfessorAreas of in terest:(a) En vironmental Biot echnology: removal and r ecovery of hea vy metals fr om wastewaters b y biosorption, micr obial tr eatment of contaminated environment (air and wat er), utilization and r euse of wast e mat erials f or the pr oduction of microbial pr oducts (b) Biot echnological P roducts and Process Engineering: production, characterization and properties, pr ocess desig n, k inetics and optimization (c) Biohydrometallurgy and (d) Biofuels

S. PatraPhD ( Central F ood Technological Resear ch I nstitute, Mysore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Enz ymes – applicationsin pharma and food industry

A. RameshPhD ( Central F ood Technological Resear ch I nstitute, Mysore)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Nanobiot echnology, M olecular Microbiology

L. RanganPhD (M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Molecular Systematics, Biofuel, IPR

L. SahooPhD (Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Genetic Engineering and Functional Genomics of plants

G.K. SainiPhD (Andhra University, Visakhapatnam)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: F ungal Biot echnology, Biolog ical Control, DNA Ā ngerprinting and Transformation studies, Studies on ex tracellular enzymes and t oxic metabolite production, Development of a potent biopesticide

R. SwaminathanPhD (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)Professor Areas of In terest:Spectroscopic and c omputational approaches t o in vestigate I ntrinsically Disor dered Proteins: their identity and prevalence in the Proteome; Protein Aggregation: their mechanisms and approaches to inhibit agg regation; Biochemical c onsequences of Macromolecular Crowding inside living cells

R. Tamuli PhD ( Centre f or C ellular and M olecular Biology , Hyderabad)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Calcium Signalling, IdentiĀ cation of novel cancer relevant genes

V. TrivediPhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: I ntracellular Sig nalling inPlasmodium falciparum



DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTIONChemical Engineering Department was started in 2002 with BTech course and PhD programme. MTech course with specialisation in P etroleum ReĀ nery Engineering was started in 2004. The Department is fully supported by 24 facult y members and 10 staff members. The Department c omprises of about 7 laborat ories f or the under graduates. I n addition, the Depar tment is equipped with ex cellent analytical instruments , computer facilities and r esearch laborat ories f or the postgraduates and the r esearch scholars . Our mission is t o impar t Chemical Eng ineering principles t o the young graduates, to motivate and develop the students’ intellectual skills and to promote extensive research in Chemical Eng ineering which suppor ts the academic objectives, industrial needs and the socio -economic development of our country.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESStarted in 2002, the Department is a major academic host off ering all deg ree programmes such as B Tech, MTech and PhD in Chemical Eng ineering. The Depar tment off ers two specialisations in the mast er degree course viz. (1) P etroleum S cience and Technology and (2) Materials S cience and Technology. Bachelor deg ree in Chemical Engineering follows an eight semester system. The curriculum is desig ned t o impar t fundamental principles as well as recent advancements in Chemical Engineering. The syllabi include Humanities, Computer, Mechanical, and Chemical eng ineering scienc es. The students are encouraged to do a t wo semester thesis work (semesters VII and VIII) to get an insight int o the realistic industrial pr oblems and t o Ā nd a suitable solution methodology . To enhanc e their sk ills, the undergraduate students ar e motivat ed t o att end various workshops and under go summer training . The master degree courses follow a f our semester system.

In the Ā rst t wo semest ers, the post graduate students are exposed to advanced common courses of Chemical Engineering as w ell as specialisation r elated c ourses. The curriculum involves one year thesis work (semesters III and IV ) which includes fundamental and applied research. The doctoral programme requires a minimum necessity of taking four course work for master (MTech) degree holder and six course work for bachelor (BTech) degree holder in the Ā rst t wo semest ers. A fter the completion of course work, the doctoral students have to appear f or the PhD c omprehensive examination. The r esearch scholar is fur ther allo wed t o carr y out his/her r esearch w ork af ter suc cessful c ompletion of the PhD c omprehensive examination. The exceptional candidates in M asters’ deg ree pr ogramme ar e encouraged t o be induc ted in our doc toral pr ogram in their sec ond year of M asters’ degree. The maximum duration f or the doc toral pr ogramme is about f our years.


FACULTY STRENGTHProfessor : 01Associate Professor : 10Assistant Professor : 13Total : 24

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESZeta Potential Measuring Instrument (Rs. 26.5 lakh)Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (Rs. 12.5 lakh)

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESPresently, the Depar tment is endo wed with y oung,



vibrant and dynamic facult y w ell qualiĀ ed t o impar t high qualit y t eaching and r esearch in c onventional and fr ontier ar eas of Chemical Eng ineering and ReĀ nery Engineering. The major research areas include Catalysis and Reac tion Eng ineering, P rocess S ystems

Engineering, Transfer Operations , F luid D ynamics, ReĀ nery Engineering, Thermodynamics, Environmental Engineering, F uel C ells et c. Also , the facult y of the department are actively involved in various sponsor ed and consultancy projects from the external agencies.

RESEARCH PROJECTSNew Sponsored Projects


Agency



A. K. Golder

Toxic metal hazard from sludge generated during reduction of Cr(VI) from waste water by zero-valent iron (Fe0)

IITG (Start up Grant) 4.6 - 2 years

A. K. D. Mahapatra

Investigation of Diblock Copolymer Crystallisation by Molecular Simulation

DST 25 - 3 years

M. K. Purkait

Treatment of contaminated drinking water using electrocoagulation technique

DRL, Tezpur 9.6 C. Das 2 years

K. Mohanty

Concentration of biogas slurry to preserve microorganisms in the inoculum by novel separation techniques

DRL, Tezpur 6.84 C. Das 1 years

D. Bandyopadhyay

External Field Driven Flow Induced micro/nano scale Patterning, Mixing, Heat and Mass transfer in micro/nano Fluidic Devices

DST 40 Ashis Sen 3 years

G. Pugazhenthi

Development and characterisation of low cost ceramic composite membranes for separation of dyes from aqueous solution

DST 19.6 - 3 years

K. Mohanty

Optimised Production of Bioethanol and Biohydrogen from Lignocellulosic Biomass in a Fluidised Bed Reactor

CSIR 16.51 V. V. Goud 3 years

K. Mohanty

Concentration of Biogas Slurry to Preserve Microorganisms in the Inoculum by Novel Separation Techniques

DRL, Tezpur (DRDO) 6.84 C. Das 1 years



K. Mohanty

Novel Supported Ionic Liquid Membrane for the Extraction of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from Aqueous Solutions

DST 16.39 - 3 years

S. K. Majumder

Process intensiĀ cation in drag reduction in high viscous multi-phase fl ow through pipeline

CSIR 10.42 T. K. Mandal 3 years

Ongoing Sponsored Projects


Agency



B. P. MandalSynthesis gas puriĀ cation by CO2-selective polymeric membranes

DST 28.70 - 3 years

D. Bandyopadhyay

A combined experimental and theoretical study on the instabilities and patterning of thin liquid crystal Ā lms

DST 9.60 - 3 years

T. Banerjee

Simultaneous Desulphurisation and DenitriĀ cation of Diesel oil using Ionic Liquids with Quantum Chemical Prediction and Validation

DST 17.20 - 3 years

R. Uppaluri

Optimisation of Mass Transfer Enhanced Electroless Plating Parameters for Metal Composite Membrane Fabrication

CSIR 13.73 M. K. Purkait 3 years

Completed Sponsored Projects


Agency



A. SinghStudy on free surface fl ow of concentrated suspensions

DST 20.55 - 3 years

P. Ghosh

Nitration of aromatic compounds at high-concentrations of sulfuric acid

CSIR 10.00 - 3 years



CONSULTANCY


Agency



G. Pugazhenthi

Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Membrane Cleaning Characterisation

ABB Global Industries &

Services Ltd., Bangalore,

India

7.56 C. Das 1 year

K. Mohanty

A Study on Environmentally Safe Drilling Practices and Waste Management in Drilling Activity in ONGC’s Assam & Assam-Arakan Basin

ONGC 6.5 - 1 year

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONSInternational JournalP. D . S. Reddy , D . Bandy opadhyay, Sang Woo Joo , A. Sharma and Shizhi Qian‘Parametric study on instabilities in a t wo-layer electromagneto-hydrodynamic channel fl ow conĀ ned between t wo parallel elec trodes’, Phys. Rev., v ol. E 83, pp 036313, 2011

D. Bandyopadhyay, P. D. S. Reddy, A. Sharma, Sang Woo Joo and Shizhi Qian‘Electro-Magnetic F ield I nduced F low and I nterfacial Instabilities in C onĀ ned StratiĀ ed Liquid La yers’, Theor. Comp. F lu. D yn., (DOI 10.1007/s00162-011-0225-y), 2011

A. Patro, D. Bandyopadhyay, G. Tomar, A. Sharma and G. Biswas‘Interfacial Instabilities in Thin Elastomer Films’, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 134, pp 064705, 2011

P. S. G. P attader, I. Banerjee , A. Sharma and D . Bandyopadhyay‘Multiscale Pattern Generation in Viscoelastic Polymer Films b y Spatio -temporal M odulation of Elec tric F ield and Control of Rheology’, Adv. Func. Mat., DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201001206, 2010

P. D. S. Reddy, D. Bandyopadhyay and A. Sharma‘Self-organised Or dered Arra ys of C ore-shell C olumns in Viscous Bilayers Formed by Spatially Varying Electric Fields’, J. Physical Chem., vol. C (DOI:10.1021/jp106253k), 2010

S. Srivasta va, P . D . S. Reddy , Cindy Wang, D . Bandyopadhyay and A. Sharma‘Electric F ield I nduced M icrostructures in Thin F ilms on Ph ysico-Chemically Het erogeneous and P atterned Substrates’, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 132, pp 174703, 2010

S. Srivastava, D. Bandyopadhyay and A. Sharma‘Embedded M icro-structures b y Elec tric F ield I nduced Pattern Formation in Interacting Thin Layers’, Langmuir, vol. 26, pp 10943, 2010

P. Monash, A. Majhi and G. Pugazhenthi‘Separation of BSA using γ-Al2O3-Clay C omposite UltraĀ ltration M embrane’, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biot echnology, v ol. 85, pp 545-554, 2010

P. Monash and G. Pugazhenthi‘Investigation of Equilibrium and K inetic Parameters of Methylene Blue A dsorption onto MCM-41’, The Korean Journal of Chemical Eng ineering, vol. 27 (4), pp 1184-1191, 2010

A. Majhi, G. Pugazhenthi and A. Shukla‘Comparative Study of Ultrasound Stimulation and Conventional Heating M ethods on the P reparation of Nano -sized γ-Al2O3’, I ndustrial and Eng ineering Chemistry Research, vol. 49, pp 4710-4719, 2010

P. Monash and G. Pugazhenthi‘Development of ceramic supports derived from low cost clays f or membrane applications and its optimisation



based on sint ering temperature’, I nternational Journal of Applied C eramic Technology, vol. 8 (1), pp 227-238, 2010

S. V. Krishna and G. Pugazhenthi‘Infl uence of pr ocessing c onditions on the pr operties of poly styrene (PS)/ or ganomontmorillonite ( OMMT) nanocomposites pr epared via solv ent blending method’, I nternational Journal of P olymeric M aterials, vol. 60 (2), 144-162, 2011

P. Monash, Ram Niwas and G. Pugazhenthi‘Utilisation of Ball Cla y A dsorbents f or the Remo val of Cr ystal Violet D ye fr om A queous S olution’, Clean Technologies and En vironmental Policy, vol. 13 (1), pp 141-151, 2011

S. K. Patel and S. K. Majumder‘Reduction of drag in non-Newt onian fl ow through packed bed ’, Journal of Eng ineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 6 (2), pp 147-151, 2011

M. K. Singh and S. K. Majumder‘Co- and C ounter-current M ass Transfer in Bubble Column’, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 54, pp 2283-2293, 2011

S. K. Patel and S. K. Majumder‘Non-Newtonian Flow Behavior on Frictional Pressure in Packed Bed’, International Journal of Chemical Reac tor Engineering, vol. 9 (A28), pp 1-13, 2011

R. Joshi and S. K. Majumder‘CFD Simulation of h ydrodynamics of bubbly fl ow in bubble c olumn’, Journal of Eng ineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 6 (1), pp 47-57, 2011

M. K. Singh and S. K. Majumder‘Theoretical study on eff ect of operating parameters on mass transf er in bubbly F low’, Journal of Eng ineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 5 (2), pp 163-170, 2010

S. K. Majumder, S. Ghosh, A. K. Mitra and G. Kundu‘Gas-Newtonian and gas-non-Newt onian slug fl ow in v ertical pipe: P art-I: G as holdup charac teristics’, International Journal of Chemical Reac tor Engineering, vol. 8 (A117), pp 1-23, 2010

R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘Quantum Chemical Studies on the Simultaneous Interaction of Thiophene and Pyridine with Ionic Liquid’, AIChEJ, vol. 57, pp 749-764, 2011

N. R. Varma, R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘Experiments, Correlations and C OSMO-RS Predictions for the Ex traction of Benz othiophene fr om n-hexane using I midazolium-based Ionic Liquids ’, Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 166, pp 30-39, 2011

R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘COSMO-RS based predictions for the desulphurisation of diesel oil using ionic liquids: Eff ect of cation and anion c ombination’, F uel P rocessing Technology, v ol. 92, pp 39-52, 2011

S. P. Singh, R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘UNIFAC Group I nteraction Prediction for Ionic Liquid-Thiophene based S ystems using Genetic Algorithm ’, Lecture Not es in C omputer S cience (Springer), v ol. 6457, pp 195-204, 2010

R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘COSMO-RS-Based S creening of Ionic Liquids as Green S olvents in DenitriĀ cation Studies ’, I ndustrial Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 49, pp 8705-8725, 2010

R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘Evaluation and comparison of global scalar pr operties for the simultaneous int eraction of ionic liquids with thiophene and pyridine’, Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 293, pp 22-31, 2010

V. K. Verma and T. Banerjee‘Ionic Liquids as Entrainers f or Water-Ethanol, Water-2-propanol and Water-THF systems: A Quantum Chemical Approach’, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, vol. 42, pp 909-919, 2010

S. Mohanty, T. Banerjee and K. Mohanty‘Quantum Chemical Based S creening of Ionic Liquids for the Ex traction of Phenol fr om A queous S olution’, Industrial Eng ineering Chemistr y Resear ch, v ol. 49, pp 2916-2925, 2010 (M anuscript appeared in the A CS Special Issue on Ionic Liquids (http://pubs .acs.org/page/vi/2011/ionicliquids.html)



G. Suryanarayana and P. Ghosh‘Adsorption and c oalescence in mix ed-surfactant systems: air–water interface,’ Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 49, pp 1711-1724, 2010

M. Rahaman, B. Mandal, and P. Ghosh‘Nitration of nitr obenzene at high- concentrations of sulfuric acid: mass transf er and k inetic aspec ts,’ American Institute of Chemical Eng ineers’ Journal, vol. 56, pp 737-748, 2010

S. M. Reddy and P. Ghosh‘Adsorption and c oalescence in mix ed sur factant systems: wat er-hydrocarbon int erface,’ Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 65, pp 4141-4153, 2010

A. Gupta and P. Ghosh‘A randomised algorithm f or the effi cient synthesis of heat ex changer net works,’ C omputers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 34, pp 1632-1639, 2010

S. V. R. Bandaru and P. Ghosh‘Mass transfer of chlorobenzene in concentrated sulfuric acid’, I nternational Journal of Heat and M ass Transfer, vol. 54, pp 2245–2252, 2011

S. Jana, M. K. Purkait and K. Mohanty‘Preparation and Charac terisations of C eramic MicroĀ ltration Membrane: Eff ect of Inorganic Precursors on M embrane M orphology’, S ep. S ci. Technol., vol. 46, pp 33-45, 2011

S. R. Pilli, V. V. Goud and K. Mohanty‘Biosorption of Cr ( VI) fr om A queous S olutions ont o Hydrilla Verticillata Weed: Equilibrium, K inetics and Thermodynamic Studies’, Environ. Engg. Mngmt. J., vol. 9, pp 1715-1726, 2010

S. Jana, M. K. Purkait and K. Mohanty‘Removal of Cr ystal Violet by Advanced Oxidation and MicroĀ ltration’, Appl . Cla y S ci., v ol. 50, pp 337-341, 2010

L. Wang, T. Khan, K. Mohanty and R. Ghosh‘Cascade ultraĀ ltration bior eactor-separator sy stem for c ontinuous pr oduction of F(ab ’)2 frag ment fr om immunoglobulin G’, Journal of Membr. Sci., vol. 351, pp 96-103, 2010

S. Pandian, S. Gokhale and A. K. Ghoshal‘An open-terrain line source model coupled with street-canyon eff ects t o f orecast carbon mono xide at traffi c roundabout’, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 409 (6), pp 1145-1153, 2011

S. K. Chattopadhay, S. Singh, N. Pramanik, U. K. Niyogi, R. K. Khandal, R. Uppaluri and A. K. Ghoshal‘Biodegradability Studies on Natural F ibers Reinforced Polypropylene Composites’, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, (DOI: 10.1002/app.33828), 2011

B. Chakraborty, A. K. Ghoshal and M. K. Purkait‘Cross-fl ow ultraĀ ltration of stable oil-in-water emulsion using poly sulfone membranes ’, Chemical Eng ineering Journal, vol. 165, pp 447-450, 2010

S. Sharma and A. K. Ghoshal‘Study of K inetics of C o-pyrolysis of C oal and Waste LDPE Blends under Ar gon A tmosphere’, F uel 89, pp 3943-3951, 2010

B. Chakraborty, A. K. Ghoshal and M. K. Purkait‘UltraĀ ltration of oil-in-wat er emulsion: Analy sis of fouling mechanism ’, M embrane Water Treatment, v ol. 1, 2010

K. Chakrabarty, P. Saha and A. K. Ghoshal‘Separation of lignosulfonate from its aqueous solution using emulsion liquid membrane’, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 360, pp 34-39, 2010

A. Banerjee and A. K. Ghoshal‘Phenol deg radation b y Bacillus c ereus: path way and kinetic modeling ’, Journal of Bior esource Technology, vol. 101, pp 5501-5507, 2010

A. Shaik, K. Chakrabarty, P. Saha and A. K. Ghoshal‘Separation of Hg (II) fr om its aqueous solution using bulk liquid membrane ’, I ndustrial and Eng ineering Chemistry Research, (DOI: 10.1021/ie901362m), 2010

S. K. Chattopadhay, R. K . Khandal, R. Uppaluri and A. K . Ghoshal‘Mechanical, Thermal and M orphological P roperties of M A-g-PP C ompatibilised and Chemically M odiĀ ed Banana F iber Reinf orced P olypropylene C omposites’, Journal of Applied P olymer Science, vol. 117, pp 1731-1740, 2010



K. Chakrabarty, P. Saha and A. K. Ghoshal‘Separation of mercury from its aqueous solution through supported liquid membrane using en vironmentally benign diluent’, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 350, pp 395-401, 2010

S. Paul, A. K. Ghoshal and B. P. Mandal‘Physicochemical P roperties of A queous S olutions of 2-(1-Piperazinyl)-ethylamine’, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, (DOI: 10.1021/je9007926), 2010

K. Chakrabarty, P. Saha and A. K. Ghoshal‘Simultaneous separation of mercury and lignosulfonate from aqueous solution using suppor ted liquid membrane’, Journal of M embrane Science, vol. 346, pp 37-44, 2010

P. J. Jaijus and A. Singh‘Flow visualiSation and Solute transport in evaporating droplets’, AIChEJ, vol. 56 (7), pp 1674-1684, 2010

A. A. Kumar and A. Singh‘Dynamics of bi- dispersed settling suspensions in rotating c ylinder’, A dvanced P owder Technology, v ol. 21 (6), pp 641-651, 2010

G. M. Y. Ahmed and A. Singh‘Numerical simulation of par ticle mig ration in asymmetric bifur cation channel ’, Journal of non-Newtonian F luid M echanics, v ol. 166 (1), pp 42-51, 2011

J. Annadkumar and B. Mandal‘Adsorption of chr omium ( VI) and R hodamine B b y surface modiĀ ed tanner y wast e: K inetic, mechanistic and thermodynamic studies ’, Journal of Hazar dous Materials, vol. 186 (2-3), pp 1088-1096, 2011

S. Sen, V. V. Dasu and B. Mandal‘Medium Dev elopment f or Enhanc ed P roduction of Alk aline P rotease fr om a newly Isolat ed Bacillus pseudoĀ rmus SVB1’, A sia-PaciĀ c Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol. 5 (6), pp 925-931, 2010

S. Paul, A. K. Ghoshal and B. Mandal‘Physicochemical P roperties of A queous S olutions of 2-(1-Piperazinyl)-ethylamine’, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, vol. 55, pp 1359-1363, 2010

V. H. Bhusare and P. Balasubramanian‘A new P aradigm in K inetic M odeling of C omplex Reaction S ystem’, I nternational Review on M odeling and Simulations, vol. 3 (5), pp 1145-1152, 2010

B. K. Nandi, R. Uppaluri and M. K. Purkait‘IdentiĀ cation of optimal membrane morpholog ical parameters during micr oĀ ltration of mosambi juic e using low cost ceramic membranes’, LWT – Food science and Technology, vol. 44 (1), pp 214-223, 2011

M. Ajith, R. Das, R. Uppaluri and S. C. Mishra‘Boundary heat fl uxes in a squar e enclosur e with an embedded design element ’, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 24 (4), pp 845-849, 2010

R. Das, T. B. Pavan Kumar, S. C. Mishra and R. Uppaluri‘An in verse analy sis f or paramet er estimation applied to a non-f ourier c onduction-radiation pr oblem’, Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 32 (6), pp 455-466, 2010

S. K . Chattopadhyay, R. K . K handal, R. Uppaluri and A. K. Ghoshal‘Bamboo Ā ber r einforced polypr opylene c omposites and their mechanical , thermal , and morpholog ical properties’, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 119 (3), pp 1619-1626, 2011

B. K. Nandi, R. Uppaluri and M. K. Purkait‘MicroĀ ltration of stable oil-in-wat er emulsions using Kaolin based c eramic membrane and evaluation of fouling mechanism’, Desalination and Water Treatment, vol. 22, pp 133-145, 2011

B. K. Nandi, B. Das, R. Uppaluri and M. K. Purkait‘Preparation and charac terisation of inexpensiv e submicron range inorganic microĀ ltration membranes’, Membrane Water Treatment, vol. 1 (2), 2010

B. K. Nandi, M. Ajith, R. Uppaluri and M. K. Purkait‘Treatment of Oily Wastewater Using Low Cost Ceramic Membrane: Comparative Assessment of P ore Blocking and Ar tiĀ cial Neural Net work M odels’, Chemical Engineering Resear ch & Desig n, v ol. 88, pp 881-892, 2010

M. Ajith, B. S. Gill and R. Uppaluri‘Economic feasibility of Silica and Palladium Composite



Membranes for Industrial Dehydrogenation Reactions’, Chemical Engineering Research & Design, vol. 88 (8), pp 1088-1101, 2010

R. More, V. K. Bulasara, R. Uppaluri and V. K. Banjara‘Optimisation of Crude Distillation System using Aspen Plus: Eff ect of Binar y F eed S election on Grass-r oot Design’, Chemical Eng ineering Resear ch and Desig n, vol. 88 (2), pp 121-134, 2010

V. K. Bulasara, H. Thakuria, R. Uppaluri and M. K. Purkait‘Eff ect of process parameters on electroless plating and nickel-ceramic c omposite membrane charac teristics’, Desalination, vol. 268 (1-3), pp 195-203, 2011

MonographsM. Rahaman, B. Mandal and P. Ghosh‘Nitration of N itrobenzene at H igh-Concentrations of Sulfuric A cid, Lap –Lambert A cademic P ublishing, Germany, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-8383-3209-3

R. C. Borah, P. G. Rao and P. GhoshDevolatilisation of C oal in Ar gon, Air , and Ox ygen-Enriched Air, VDM Verlag, Germany, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-639-29248-0

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaY. N. Prajapati and G. Pugazhenthi‘Infl uence of S ynthesis M ethods on the P roperties of Nanosized ZrO2: A C omparison Study ’, POL YCHAR 19-World F orum on A dvanced M aterials, K athmandu, Nepal, 20-24 March 2011

K. Kakati, A. Prakash and G. Pugazhenthi‘Thermal Properties and Thermal Degradation Kinetics of P olypropylene/ Or ganomodiĀ ed N i-Al La yered Double H ydroxide (LDH) Nanoc omposites P repared by M elt I ntercalation Technique’, Eighth I nternational Conference on C omposite S cience and Technology (ICCST8), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22-24 March 2011

D. Vasanth, R. Uppaluri and G. Pugazhenthi‘Development of P orous C eramic Suppor t b y Uniaxial Dry Compaction Method using Low Cost Raw Materials for Membrane Applications’, Sixty-third Annual Meeting of I ndian I nstitute of Chemical Eng ineers ( CHEMCON 2010), Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, 27-30 Dec ember 2010

M. K. Gagrai, C. Das and A. K. Golder‘Study on the mechanism of aqueous Cr( VI) sorption by Spirulina plat ensis biomass ’, P roceedings of the International Water A ssociation (IW A), M icrobes in Wastewater and Waste Treatment, Bioremediation and Energy P roduction (MW T-2011), Goa, 24-27 Januar y 2011

M. K. Gagrai, C. Das and A. K. Golder‘Biosorption of heavy metal ions to a microalga spirulina Sp.’, Proceedings of the Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), Annamalai, December 2010

N. K. Meena, V. Singh, A. K. Golder and C. Das‘Improvement of coal properities using organic solvent’, Proceedings of the Chemical Eng ineering C ongress (CHEMCON), Annamalai, December 2010

Y. Satya Das and A. K. Golder‘Electrochemical r eduction of hexa valent chr omium from aqueous effl uent’, P roceedings of the Chemical Engineering C ongress ( CHEMCON), Annamalai, I ndia, December 2010

A. Kumar, B. J. Medhi and A. Singh‘Measurements of appar ent wall slip v elocity in concentrated suspension of non- colloidal par ticles in open channels’, Proceedings of the Seventh international Conference on Multiphase F low, ICMF2010, Tampa, Florida, 30 May-4 June 2010

Y. Ahmed, M. Girish Kumar and A. Singh‘CFD simulation of shear induc ed par ticle mig ration’, Proceedings of 7th int ernational C onference on Multiphase F low, ICMF2010, Tampa, F lorida, 30 M ay-4 June, 2010

A. A. Kumar, B. J. Medhi and A. Singh‘Measurements of int erface location in c oncentrated suspension in open channel fl ow’, P roceedings of the Fourth I nternational C onference on F luid M echanics and Fluid Power, FMFP 2010, Chennai, 16-18 December 2010

A. Mondal and B. Mandal‘Synthesis and Charac terisation of Cr osslinked poly (vinyl alc ohol) membrane c ontaining blended amine carrier’, Proceedings of the Indian Chemical Engineering



Congress, CHEMC ON 2010, Annamalainagar , 27-29 December 2010

R. Muraleedharan, A. Mondal and B. Mandal‘Kinetics of r eaction of carbon dio xide with aqueous blends of 2-amino 2-h ydroxymethyl 1, 3-pr opanediol and monoethanolamine ’, P roceedings of the I ndian Chemical Eng ineering C ongress, CHEMC ON 2010, Annamalainagar, 27-29 December 2010

J. Annadkumar and B. Mandal‘Removal mechanism of Cr( VI) and R hodamine B from aqueous solutions using HCL tr eated adsorbent ’, Proceedings of the I ndian Chemical Eng ineering Congress, CHEMC ON 2010, Annamalainagar , 27-29 December 2010

R. Muraleedharan, A. Mondal and B. Mandal‘Density and visc osity of aqueous blends of 2-Amino 2-h ydroxymethyl 1, 3-pr opanediol and monoethaanmine’, P roceedings of the I ndian Chemical Eng ineering C ongress, CHEMC ON 2010, Annamalainagar, 27-29 December 2010

G. Cheripally , A. M annava, R. Gupta, P . Saha, A. K . Ghoshal, B. Mandal, R. Uppaluri and S. Gumma‘Isotherm M odeling of C1 t o C6 H ydrocarbons Adsorption Onto Activated Carbon and Comparison of Models’, Proceedings of the AIChE annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, USA, 07-12 November 2010

V. Agarwal and C. Das‘Study of counterion binding of lead ions using localised adsorption model ’, I ndian Chemical Eng ineering Congress ( CHEMCON-2010), Annamalai Univ ersity, Tamilnadu, 27-29 December 2010

V. Singh, M. K . Purkait, V. K. Chandaliya, P. P. Biswas and C. Das‘Low c ost c eramic membrane pr epared fr om ir on ore slime ’, I ndian Chemical Eng ineering C ongress (CHEMCON-2010), Annamalai Univ ersity, Tamilnadu, 27-29 December 2010

A. Das and C. Das‘Extraction and puriĀ cation of st evioside with wat er as a solv ent using ultraĀ ltration’, I ndian Chemical Engineering C ongress ( CHEMCON-2010), Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, 27-29 December 2010

N. K. Meena, V. Singh, A. K. Golder, V. K. Chandaliya, P. P. Biswas and C. Das‘Improvement of c oal pr operties using or ganic solvent’, I ndian Chemical Eng ineering C ongress (CHEMCON-2010), Annamalai Univ ersity, Tamilnadu, 27-29 December 2010

M. K. Gagrai, C. Das and A. K. Golder‘Biosorption of hea vy metal ions t o a micr oalga Spirulina Sp .’, I ndian Chemical Eng ineering C ongress (CHEMCON-2010), Annamalai Univ ersity, Tamilnadu, 27-29 December 2010

S. S. Gupta, A. Singh and R. K. Upadhyay‘Flow of Concentrated Suspension through Bifurcation: Numerical Studies’, GLS10, Braga, P ortugal, 26-29 June 2010

S. P. Singh, R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘UNIFAC Group I nteraction Prediction for Ionic Liquid-Thiophene based S ystems using Genetic Algorithm ’, Eighth Simulated Evolution and L earning (SEAL 2010), IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, 1-4 December 2010

R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘Measurement and E valuation of Transport, Sur face, Optical and Thermodynamic pr operties of 1- ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulphate with heteroaromatic nitrogen, het eroaromatic sulphur and wat er at (298.15, 303.15, 308.15, 313.15, 318.15, 323.15) K and 1 bar’, Second Asia PaciĀ c Conference on Ionic Liquids (APCIL),Dalian, China, 7-10 September 2010

R. Anantharaj and T. Banerjee‘Interaction Ener gies bet ween Ar omatic N itrogen Compounds and Ionic Liquid: Ab initio and C OSMO-RS based Appr oach’, P re-Symposium, S econd A sia PaciĀ c Conference on Ionic Liquids ( APCIL), Dalian, China, 5-6 September 2010

S. Sasmal, K. Mohanty and V.V. Goud‘Enhancing the enzymatic digestibility of areca nut husk Ā ber by optimisation of the acid catalysed pretreatment process’, Six tieth C anadian Chemical Eng ineering Conference, TCU Plac e, Sask atoon, Sask atchewan, Canada, 24-27 October 2010

S. Borah, K. Mohanty and V.V. Goud‘Investigation of physico-chemical properties of biomass



samples as pr ospective bioener gy sour ce f or nor th-east I ndia’, Six tieth C anadian Chemical Eng ineering Conference, TCU Plac e, Sask atoon, Sask atchewan, Canada, 24-27 October 2010

A. Difusa, S. J. Borah, K. Mohanty and V. V. Goud‘Use of fossil and renewable energy and their impacts on environment’, Climat e C onference 2011: I nternational Conference on Climate Change and Water, IIT Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

S. J. Borah, K. Mohanty and V. V. Goud‘Physico-chemical characterisation of biomass samples as pr ospective bioener gy sour ce f or Nor th-East I ndia’, International C onference on Renewable Ener gy, ICRE-2011, Jaipur, India, 17-21 January 2011

S. Sasmal, K. Mohanty and V.V. Goud‘Determination of kinetic parameters of Areca nut husk Ā ber using thermo -gravimetric analy sis’, I nternational Conference on Renewable Ener gy, ICRE-2011, Jaipur , India, 17-21 January 2011

N. R. Gangadhar and P. Balasubramanian‘Numerical Bifur cation Analy sis of Dela yed Rec ycle Stream in a C ontinuously Stirr ed Tank Reac tor’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on Modeling, Optimisation and Computing (ICMOC 2010), American I nstitute of Ph ysics ( AIP), v ol. 1298, pp 192-197, 28-30 October 2010

V. H. Bhusare and P. Balasubramanian‘A New P aradigm in K inetic M odeling of C omplex Reaction Systems’, Proceedings of the First International Conference of M odeling and Simulations (IC OMOS) Virtual F orum, P raise Worthy P rize, v ol. 1 (1), pp 110-117, 12-26 July 2010

V. H. Bhusare and P. Balasubramanian‘Kinetic Modeling of F irst Order Isothermal I rreversible Elementary Reac tion S ystems’, Chemc on 2010, Chidambaram, India, 27- 29 December 2010

N. R. Gangadhar and P. Balasubramanian‘Numerical Bifur cation Analy sis of Dela y Diff erential Equations in Chemically Reac ting S ystems’, Chemc on 2010, Chidambaram, India, 27- 29 December 2010N. R. Gangadhar and P. Balasubramanian‘Numerical Bifur cation Analy sis of Dela yed Rec ycle Stream in a C ontinuously Stirr ed Tank Reac tor’, International C onference on M odeling, Optimisation and C omputing (ICMOC 2010), NIT Dur gapur, 28-30 October 2010

V. H. Bhusare and P. Balasubramanian‘A New P aradigm in K inetic M odelling of C omplex Reaction S ystems’, F irst I nternational C onference of Modelling and Simulations (IC OMOS) Virtual F orum, Praise Worthy Prize, Italy, 12-26 July 2010

Book, Chapter, etc.A. Jain and B. Mandal‘Removal of Acid Gas Impurities using TunableAlkanolamine S olvent: M odelling and Simulation ’, (ISBN: 978-3-8433-8017-1), Lap -Lambert A cademic Publishing, Germany, 2010

M. Rahaman, B. Mandal and P. Ghosh‘Nitration of N itrobenzene at H igh-Concentrations of Sulfuric A cid: M ethods, experimental studies and modelling’, (ISBN: 978-3-8383-3209-3), Lap -Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2010

K. Mohanty, D. Das and M.N. Biswas‘Development of a Multistage Ex ternal L oop Airlif t Reactor f or Wastewater Treatment’, (ISBN: 978-3-639-29875-8), VDM Verlag, Germany 2010



National

A. K. D. Mahapatra Accelerating Biology Pune 14-16 December 2010 National

A. K. Ghoshal AIChE Annual Meeting Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

7-12 November 2010 International



A. Singh ICMF 2010 Tampa, Florida, USA 30 May – 5 June 2010 International

C. Das

International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, ICFANT 2010

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

9-11 December 2010 International

C. DasIndian Chemical Engineering Congress, CHEMCON-2010

Annamalai University, Tamilnadu

27-29 December 2010 National

D. Bandyopadhyay WCU International Conference South Korea June 2010 International

D. BandyopadhyayAdvanced Instability Methods meeting on instabilities

JNCASR, Bangalore January 2011 International

D. Bandyopadhyay Introduction to thin Ā lms

CMERI, Durgapur, West Bengal December 2010 National

G. Pugazhenthi CHEMCON 2010 Chidambaram 27-30 December 2010 National

G. Pugazhenthi

8th International Conference on Composite Science and Technology (ICCST8)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 22-24 March 2011 International

K. Mohanty ICFANT, 2010 Kolkata 9-1 December 2010

K. Mohanty GIST, 2010 Pune 26-27 December 2010 International

K. MohantyInternational Conference on Renewable Energy, 2011

Jaipur 17-21 January 2011 International

R. K. UpadhyayIndo-US workshop on Energy and Environment

New Delhi 12-15 December 2010 International

T. Banerjee8th Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2010).

IIT Kanpur 1-4 December 2010 International

T. Banerjee

CHEMCON 2011: 63rd Annual Session of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers

Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu


V. V. Goud ICRE-2011 Jaipur 17-21 January 2011 International

V. V. Goud GIST 2010 Pune 25-28 December 2010 National





D. BandyopadhyayA journey fr om random t o or dered microstructures

CMERI Durgapur, West Bengal December 2010

SHORT-TERM COURSESTitle: F luid M echanics and M ass Transfer Laborat ory TrainingCoordinator: Dr. B. MandalFunding A gency: C entral I nstitute of Technology, KokrajharDuration: 2 days (May 2010)

Title: QIP-STC on ‘Advances in Biofuel Research’Coordinator: K. Mohanty (jointly with Dr. V. V. Goud)Duration: 29 November-3 December 2010

Title: ScientiĀ c Computing in Chemical EngineeringCoordinator: Dr. S. K. MajumdarDuration: 6-10 December 2010

Title: ScientiĀ c Computing in Chemical EngineeringCoordinator: Dr. P. BalasubramanianDuration: 6-10 December 2010

PATENT FILEDP. Biswas, V. K. Chandaliya, P. K. Banerjee, C. Das and M. K. Purkait‘Development of membrane based t echnology for the separation of c oal fr om or ganic solv ent’, Applied f or Indian patent (725/KOL/2010)

AWARDS AND HONOURSA. SinghINDO-US S cience and Technology F orum F ellowship, 2010

C. Das‘Dr. A.V . R ama R ao F oundation’s Best PhD Thesis and Research Award in Chemical Eng ineering/Technology’ for the y ear 2010 fr om I ndian I nstitute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)

D. BandopadhyayVisiting Faculty at the Yeungnam University from June 2010

T. BanerjeeINDO-US Fellowship in Engineering Sciences, 2011

SPECIAL MENTIONG. PugazhenthiGuided M Tech thesis entitled “Properties and thermal deg radation k inetics of polymer/or ganoclay nanocomposites: Eff ect of pr ocessing c onditions and organoclay loading ” selec ted f or Ambuja ’s Young Researcher’s Award for the year 2010 by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)

FACULTY MEMBERSD. BandyopadhyayPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Colloid and I nterfacial Phenomena, Computational F luid D ynamics, M icro and Nano Fluidics, Complex Flow and Fluids, Clean Energy – Fuel and Solar cells P. Balasubramanian PhD (IIT Madras)Assistant Professor Areas of In terest: Reac tion Eng ineering, Nonlinear Dynamics, Petroleum Processing

T. BanerjeePhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Phase equilibria of ionic liquids , Molecular simulations , Global optimisation, Statistical thermodynamics

C. DasPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Wastewater T reatment, Bioremediation, Membrane based Separation Process



M. DePhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Catalysis and r eaction engineering, adsorption, hydrocarbon processing A. K. GhoshalPhD (IIT Kharagpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: A dvanced S eparation Technology, Modeling and Simulation, En vironmental P ollution Control, Pyrolysis of waste plastics

P. GhoshPhD (IIT Bombay)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: I nterfacial phenomena, I nterfacial reactions, M embrane separation, R andomised algorithms

A. K. GolderPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Elec troremediation of wat er/wastewater, Ph ysiochemical wat er/wastewater treatment techniques, Bioremediation, Electrochemical corrosion

S. GummaPhD (Cleveland State University, USA)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Multiphase fl ow & r eactor, CFD in down-fl ow bubble c olumn, M ineral pr ocessing, Bio -separation

V. V. GoudPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Het erogeneous Reac tions, Bio -energy and Green Engineering, Biolubricant, Utilisation of Lig nocellulosic Biomass f or F uel/Chemicals, Supercritical Fluids

A. KumarPhD (University of Delaware, USA)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: G as Transport in Nanopor ous Materials, Molecular Simulation, Statistical Mechanics

B. P. MandalPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Separations with chemical r eaction, Molecular based membrane separation, M odeling and simulation of separation pr ocesses, En vironmental pollution control

A. K. D. MahapatraPhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C omplex fl uids, Phase transition in polymers (Nucleation, cr ystallization, c ollapse transition, etc.), Structure-property relations,Molecular simulations, Biological physics

S. K. MazumdarPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Multiphase fl ow & r eactor, CFD in down-fl ow bubble c olumn, M ineral pr ocessing, Bio -separation

T. K. MandalPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Multiphase fl ow & M easurement in multiphase fl ow, Bio-diesel

K. MohantyPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: I ndustrial pollution c ontrol, Environmental biot echnology, Bioseparation, Membrane technology

V. S. MoholkarPhD (University of Twente, Netherlands)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Bubble dynamics, CFD, Sono-process engineering, Bio-mass gasiĀ cation

G. PugazhenthiPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: M embrane S eparation, P olymer Nanocomposites, Nanomaterials, Catalysis and ReĀ nery Processes



M. K. PurkaitPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Sur factant based separation techniques, Membrane reactors

P. K. SahaPhD (IIT Madras)Associate Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of Interest: Process Modeling, Optimisation and control, Membrane Based separation Process

A. SinghPhD (IISc Bangalore)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C omputational and Experimental Fluid D ynamics, M icrofl uidics/Nanofl uidics, Material Processing, Flow through Porous Media

R. K. UpadhyayPhD (IIT Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Multiphase Flow Reactor, Multiphase Flow M easurements, C omputational F luid D ynamics, Residence Time Distribution, Novel Reactors

R. V. S. UppaluriPhD (UMIST, Manchester, UK)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Major: C omputer Aided P rocess Design and Integration, Composite Materials, Membrane Technology, Sur factant based Enhanc ed Oil Rec overy and Elec troless Plating; M inor: ReĀ nery Engineering, Bio-systems Eng ineering, Techno-economic analy sis Extracurricular: Synthesis of Science and Spirituality

A. VermaPhD (IIT Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: F uel C ells, H ydrogen P roduction, Wastewater Treatment.



DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

INTRODUCTIONThe Depar tment of Chemistr y, with facult y str ength of 25, is engaged in pursuing ex cellence in higher learning thr ough t eaching and r esearch in modern topics in Chemistr y and r elated interdisciplinary Ā elds of int erest. The facult y members of the Depar tment are implementing a lar ge number of r esearch and development sponsor ed pr ojects. A siz eable number of students who obtained various deg rees fr om the Department are pursuing in research over the globe. The Department has r eceived fund under FIST -Programme (Level-II) of the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. The students and facult y members of the Department ha ve r eceived pr estigious national and international fellowships and awards.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES(i) B Tech C ore ( Theory and Laborat ory) and Elec tive

Courses in Chemistry(ii) MSc(iii) BTech in Chemical Science and Technology(iv) PhD

STUDENT INTAKEBTech (CST) students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 33MSc students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 36PhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 35

FACULTY STRENGTHProfessors (1 in lien) : 8 Associate Professors : 7Assistant Professors : 9Total : 24

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESThe depar tment of Chemistr y has sophisticat ed instrumentation facilit y t o suppor t r esearch and

teaching at various lev els. The f ollowing is a list of important instruments, which are currently available in the Department:(i) Fluorescence Spectrophotometer: Varian (ii) FT-IR- Spectrophotometer: Nicolet(iii) UV- Visible Spectrophotometer: Hitachi(iv) Elemental Analyzer: Perkin Elmer(v) Gas Chromatograph: Hewlett Packerd(vi) H igh P erformance Liquid Chr omatogram and Gel Permeation Chromatogram: Waters(vii) Electrochemical Analyzer: CH Instruments(viii) M agnetic Susc eptibility Balanc e: Sher wood ScientiĀ c(ix) F luorescence lif e-time measur ement equipment: IBM(x) Pressure Reactor: ICT make(xi) Langmuir –Blodgett Film maker(xii) Thermogravimetric analyz er and diff erential scanning calorimeter: Mettler Toledo (xiii) F ourier Transform I nfrared spec trophotometer: Perkin Elmer(xiv) Cryocooler: Julabo(xv) Polarimeter- Perkin Elmer(xvi) UV - Visible Spec trophotometer: P erkin Elmer (Lambda 25 and Lambda 35)(xvii) Single Cr ystal X -Ray Diff ractometer: Bruker Nonius(xviii) GC- MS: Perkin Elmer(xix) H2, N2, O2 gas generat or: P eak S cientiĀ c Laboratory(xx) Glove Box: Mbraun(xxi) Hydrogenation Apparatus: ICT (xxii) Cryostat: Oxford(xxiii) F ourier Transform-Infrared Spec trophotometer: Varian(xxiv) High Speed Centrifuge: Sigma (xxv) F luorescence Spec trophotometer: Horiba Jobin



Fluoromax-4 (xxvi) Thermogravimetric analyz er and diff erential scanning calorimet er: TA I nstruments (SD TQ600 and Q20)(xxvii) UV -VIS-NIR Spec trophotometer: P erkin Elmer Lambda 750(xxviii) Power X-ray Diff ractometer: Bruker D2 Phaser

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESThe Depar tment is engaged in various r esearch and Development activities such as:Catalysis, Supramolecular Chemistr y, Nanoscale Science and Technology, S ynthesis, struc ture and

reactivity of Inorganics, Newer reagents, Protocols and Newer methodolog ies, S ynthesis of natural pr oducts and C arbohydrate Chemistr y, Bio -organic Chemistr y, Bio-inorganic Chemistr y and C o-ordination Chemistr y and Or ganometallics, P olymer synthesis , Or ganic Photochemistry, M olecular dynamics , Quantum Molecular dynamics, Physical Chemistry – Spectroscopic and Theoretical in vestigations on No vel M aterials, peptide chemistr y, Dev elopment of new theor etical approaches t o: Laser A ssisted C ontrol of Chemical Reactions, and , Resonanc es in Elec tron – M olecule Scattering, Biomimetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Computational Biophysics and Chemistry etc.



Agency



B. Mondal Nitric Oxide Reactivity of Copper (II) Complexes DST 33.23 - 3 Years

C. V. Sastri

Elucidation of Peroxynitrite Decomposition by Non-Heme Complexes: Spectral, Electrochemical and Pulse Radiolysis Study

BRNS 15.91 - 3 Years

P. K. Iyer

Design and Development of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) and Photovoltaic (PV) Devices

DST- India 40.15 - 3 Years



Agency


Co- Investigator Duration

Dept. of Chemistry DST – FIST Project under level –II category DST 215.00 - 5 Years

A. PaulNewer methods of growth, assembly and patterning of nanoparticles

DST 22.67 - 3 Years

A. Saikia

Stereoselective synthesis of substituted tetrahydropyran and their nitrogen and sulfur analoges

CSIR 13.15 - 3 Years



D. Manna

Mechanistic Insights into the Phosphatidyl Inositol (IP) Binding Properties of Human Protein Lamellipodin and its Pleckstrin Homology (PH) Domain

BRNS (YSR) 17.00 - 3 Years

D. Manna

Interaction of Phosphotidyl Inositol with Phox Homology (PX) Domain: Elucidation of Mechanistic Principal and Strategies for Therapeutic Intervention

DBT (RGYI) 14.85 B. Mondal, S. S. Bag 3 Years

S. Paul

The Role of aqueous solution of trimethyl-amine-N-Oxide on thepressure induced hydrophobic interactions and the pressure induced hydrogen bond properties and dynamics

DST 18.38 - 3 Years

C. V. Sastri

Dioxygen activation and haloperoxidase activity by mononuclear non-heme iron (II) complexes

DST-SERC 39.44 - 3 Years

M. Qureshi

Synthesis and charactrization of highly eff cient fl uorescent and phophorescent molecular materials having hetero atoms for optoelectronics device application

DST 33.00 - 3 Years

S. S. Bag

Toward the Expansion of the Genetic Alphabet: Design, Synthesis and Study of Physical/Photophysical Properties of Unnatural Nucleoside Base Analogues and Incorporation into Short Oligonucleotide Sequences

DST 37.62 - 3 Years

S. S. Bag

Toward the Expansion of the Genetic Code: Design, Synthesis and Study of Photophysical Properties of Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acids (FUAA) for Site-SpeciĀ c Incorporation into Proteins




T. Punniyamurthy Development of novel Processes for removing sulfur from diesel

IOCL 10.32 - 2 Years

T. PunniyamurthyChiral Main Chain Polymer Catalysts for Asymmetric Catalysis

DST 38.76 - 3 Years

T. PunniyamurthyNew Chiral Dendtric Catalysts for Asymmetric Catalysis


A. K. GuptaStudy of High Hormonic generation beyond dipole approximation

DST 18.00 - 3 Years

A. ChattopadhyayStimuli Responsive Materials with Nanoscale Components


B. K. Patel

Development of Green Organic Synthetic Methodologies using Thiophilic Reagents


B. K. Patel

Group transfer and mechanistic investigation of some unprecedented reactions

DST 31.00 - 3 Years

M. Ray

Synthesis and electrochemistry of functionalized oligoaniline optimized for metal binding at the terminal end


G. Das

Precursor synthesis of inorganic mineral through complexes of mixed donor ligands

DST 23.00 - 3 Years

A. N. PandaQuantum dynamical simulation of four atomic reactions

DST 19.26 - 3 Years

B. Mandal

Synthesis and Evaluation of a Novel Class of Multi-Target-Directed-Ligands as Potential Leads against Amyloid Diseases

DST 19.20 - 3 Years

B. Mandal

Beta Breaker Dipeptides: Development of a Novel Approach for Amyloid Disruption

Dept. of Atomic Energy,

YRSA

16.50 - 3 Years

P. K. Iyer Nanoscale Optoelectronic materials and devices

DST and MPG,

Germany

Rs. 2 Lakh + Euro 12,000 - 4 Years



P. K. IyerDevelopment of Metallosupra-molecular polymers

DST 35.23 - 3 Years



Agency



A. K. Saikia

Synthesis of chiral ligands/catalysis and their applications in asymmetric synthesis

DST 20.4 - 3 Years

V. Manivannan

Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Transition Metal Complexes of 2-Pyridylterpyridine


G. Krishnamoorthy

Investigation of Mechanisms of Photochemical Reactions in Ionic Liquids

DST 24 - 3 years

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS International JournalB. Mondal, P. Kumar, P. Ghosh and A. Kalita ‘Fluorescence-based det ection of nitric o xide in methanol and aqueous media using copper (II) complex’, Chem. Commun., vol. 47, pp 2964-2966, 2011

G. Dutta, R. K. Debnath, A. Kalita, P. Kumar, M. Sarma, R. Boomi Shankar and B. Mondal ‘An asymmetric dinuclear c opper(II) c omplex with phenoxo and ac etate bridge: synthesis , struc ture and magnetic studies ’, P olyhedron, v ol. 30, pp293-298, 2011

A. Singh and B. Mondal ‘Stepwise syntheses, structure and spectroscopic studies of ruthenium complexes of 2, 6-bis (benzimidaz ol-2-yl) pyridine with o -iminoquinone ancillar y ligand ’, I norg. Chim. Acta., vol. 363, pp 3145-3150, 2010

M. Sarma, A. Kalita, P. Kumar, A. Singh and B. Mondal ‘Reduction of c opper(II) complexes of tripodal ligands by nitric o xide and trinitr osation of the ligands ’, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 132, pp 7846-7847, 2010

M. Sarma and B. Mondal ‘Nitric Oxide Reduc tion of C opper(II) C omplexes:

Spectroscopic E vidence of C opper(II) N itrosyl Intermediate’, I norg. Chem., v ol. 50, pp 3206-3212, 2011

S. S. Bag, R. Kundu and M. Das ‘Click-Reagent Version of S onogashira C oupling Protocol to Conjugated Fluorescent Alkynes with No or Reduced Homocoupling’, J. of Org. Chem., vol. 76 (7), pp 2332-C2337, 2011

M. Maji, D. Mallick, S. Mondal, A. Anakuthil, S. S. Bag, A. Basak and E. D. Jemmis‘Selectivity in G arratt-Braverman C yclisation: An Experimental and Computational Study’, Org. Lett., vol. 13 (5), pp 888-C891, 2011

S. S. Bag, R. Kundu, M. Katsuhiko, Y. Saito and I. Saito ‘Singly and doubly labeled base -discriminating fl uorescent oligonucleotide pr obes c ontaining o xo-pyrene chr omophore’, Bioor ganic and M edicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 20, pp 3227-3230, 2010

S. K. Padhi, R. Sahu and V. Manivannan ‘Syntheses and Struc tures of C obalt(III) Alc oholate Complexes F ormed b y A ddition of a Water M olecule Across 2-Pyridyl Substitut ed I mine F unction’, I norg. Chim. Acta, vol. 367, pp 57-63, 2011



H. S. Jena, J. Subramanian and V. Manivannan ‘Molecular Struc tures of N ickel(II) M onochelates of a Racemic Tridentate Ligand and C o-Ligand I nduced Structural Variations’, I norg. Chim. A cta, v ol. 365, pp 177–182, 2011

R. Sahu and V. Manivannan ‘Syntheses and M olecular Struc tures of C o3+–Na+ and Co3+–K+ C oordination P olymers C onstructed U sing Mono- and Bis-Chelated Cobalt(III) Complexes of Bis(2-pyridylcarbonyl)amide Ion’, Inorg. Chim. A cta, vol. 363, pp 4008–4016, 2010

P. Saha, U. C. Reddy, S. Bondalapati, and Anil K. Saikia ‘A No vel S ynthesis of Oxabic yclo[3.3.1]nonanone via (3,5)-Oxonium-Ene Reac tion’, Or g. L ett., v ol. 12, pp 1824-1826, 2010

S. Das, A. K. Sahoo, S. S. Ghosh and A. Chattopadhyay‘Plasmonic signatures in the composite crystals of gold nanoparticles and p-Hydroxyacetanilide (Paracetamol)’, Langmuir, vol. 26(20), pp 15714–15717, 2010

J. Deka, A. Paul and A. Chattopadhyay ‘Estimating c onformation c ontent of a pr otein using citrate-stabilized A u nanopar ticles’, Nanoscale , v ol. 2, pp 1405-1412, 2010

K. K . Dey , B . R. P anda, A. P aul, S. Basu and A. Chattopadhyay ‘Catalytic Gold Nanopar ticle Driv en pH SpeciĀ c Chemical Locomotion’, J. Colloid Interface Sci., vol. 348 (2), pp 335-341, 2010

P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh ‘Induction of apopt osis in canc er c ells at lo w silv er nanoparticle concentrations using chitosan nanocarrier’, ACS Applied M aterials & I nterfaces, vol. 3 (2), pp 218-228, 2011

A. Jaiswal, P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh ‘Investigating fl uorescence quenching of ZnS quantum dots by silver nanoparticles’, Plasmonics, vol. 6, pp 125-132, 2011

P. Sanpui, S. B . P andey, A. Chatt opadhyay A and S.S. Ghosh‘Incorporation of gene therap y v ector in Chit osan

stabilized Mn2+-doped ZnS Quantum ’, Material Letters, vol. 64 (22), pp 2534-2537, 2010

P. Gopinath, S. K . Gogoi, P . Sanpui, A. P aul, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh ‘Signaling gene cascade in silv er nanoparticle induced apoptosis’, C olloids and Sur faces B: Bioint erfaces, v ol. 77, pp 240-245, 2010

A. Murugadoss, A. Khan and A. Chattopadhyay ‘Stabilizer speciĀ c int eraction of gold nanopar ticles with a thermosensitive polymer hydrogel’, J. Nanopart. Res., vol. 12, pp 1331-1348, 2010

A. T. Khan, Md. M. Khan and A. Adhikary ‘Tetrabutylammonium tribr omide ( TBATB): a mild and effi cient cataly st f or O -isopropylidenation of carbohydrates’, C arbohydr. Res ., v ol. 346, pp 673-677, 2011

A. T. Khan and Md. M. Khan ‘Bromodimethylsulfonium br omide (BDMS) mediat ed dithioacetalisation of carbohydrates under solvent free conditions’, Carbohydr. Res., vol. 345, pp 154-159, 2010

A. T. Khan, Md. M. Khan and K. K. R. Bannuru ‘Iodine catalyzed one-pot Ā ve component reactions for direct synthesis of densely func tionalized piperidines’, Tetrahedron, vol. 47, pp 7762-7789, 2010

A. T. Khan, M. Lal and Md. M. Khan‘Synthesis of highly functionalized piperidines by one-pot multicomponent r eaction using t etrabutylammonium bromide ( TBATB)’, Tetrahedron L ett., v ol. 51, pp 4419-4424, 2010

H. Ghosh, A. Banerjee, S. K. Rout and B. K Patel‘A c onvenient one -pot synthesis of ar yl amines fr om aryl aldoximes mediated by Koser’s reagent’, ARKIVOC, vol. 2, pp 209, 2011

L. Jamir, J. Nath and B. K. Patel‘Improved pr ocedure f or the pr eparation of isothiocyanates via iodine -mediated desulfurisation of dithiocarbamic acid salts ’, Gr een Chem. L ett and Rev ., vol. 4, pp 1, 2011



R. Yella, K. Veerababurao and B. K. Patel‘Bromineless Br omine as an Effi cient Desulfurizing Agent f or the P reparation of C yanamides and 2-Aminothiazoles fr om Dithiocarbamat e Salts ’, S ynth. Commum., vol. 41, pp 792, 2011

R. Yella and B. K Patel ‘One-Pot S ynthesis of F ive and Six M embered N, O , S-Heterocycles Using a Ditribromide Reagent’, J. Comb. Chem., vol. 12, pp 754, 2010

R. Yella, S. Murru, A. R. Ali and B. K. Patel‘Arylthioureas with Bromine or its Equivalents Gives No ‘Hugerschoff ’ Reac tion P roduct’, Or g. Biomol . Chem., vol. 8, pp 3389, 2010

R.Yella, H. Ghosh, S. Murru, S. K. Sahoo and B. K. Patel‘Effi cient Preparation of Isothiocyanates from Dithiocarbamates U sing Br omineless Br ominating Reagent’, Synth. Commum., vol. 40, pp 2083, 2010

S. Sakthivel and T. Punniyamurthy ‘Chiral Linear Polymers Bonded Alternatively with Salen and 1,4-Dialkoxybenzene: Synthesis and application for Ti-Catalyzed Asymmetric TMSCN Addition to Aldehydes’, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 21, pp 2834, 2010

M. M. Guru, Md. A. Ali and T. Punniyamurthy‘Copper(II)-Catalyzed Conversion of Bisaryloxime Ethers to 2-Arylbenzoxazoles via C−H Functionalisation /C−N/C−O Bonds F ormation’, Org. Lett., vol. 13, pp 1194-97, 2011

Md. A. Ali and T. Punniyamurthy‘Domino Ligand F ree C opper C atalyzed S ynthesis of Polysubstituted Indoles’, Synlett, pp 623-626, 2011

P. Saha, Md. A. Ali, P. Ghosh and T. Punniyamurthy‘Cobalt-Catalyzed I ntramolecular C-N and C- O Cr oss-Coupling Reac tions: S ynthesis of Benzimidaz oles and Benzoxazoles’, Or g. Biomol . Chem., v ol. 8, pp 5692, 2010

R. Paul, Md A. Ali and T. Punniyamurthy ‘Copper-Catalyzed S elective H ydroxylation of Ar yl Halides with Tetrabutylammonium H ydroxide: Synthesis of Phenols and Alk yl Ar yl Ethers ’, S ynthesis, pp 4268, 2010

D. J. Kalita and A. K. Gupta ‘Use of ModiĀ ed Smooth Exterior Scaling Method as an Absorbing Potential ans its Application’, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 134, pp 094301, 2011

D. J. Kalita and A. K. Gupta‘Application of smooth exterior scaling method to study the time dependent dynamics of H$_2^+$ in int ense laser Ā eld’, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 133, pp 134303, 2010

Z. Khan, D. Barpuzary, O. Baswant, S. Sutradhar and M. Qureshi‘Directed growth of 1D cadmium sulĀ de by chemically anchored Al2O3 and ZnO nanopar ticles’, M aterials Letters, vol. 65, pp 1168–1171, 2011

D. K. Singh, P. K. Iyer and P. K. Giri ‘Improved chemical synthesis of g raphene using a safer solv othermal r oute’, I nternational Journal of Nanoscience, vol. 10 (1), pp 1-4, 2011

D. K. Singh, P. K. Iyer and P. K. Giri ‘Defect ev olution and struc tural impr ovement in lo w energy ion irradiat ed carbon nanotubes: M icroscopic and spec troscopic studies ’, I nternational Journal of Nanoscience, vol. 10 (1), pp 1-5, 2011

P. J. Goutam, D. K. Singh, P. K. Giri and P. K. Iyer‘Enhancing the Photostability of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) by P reparing C omposites with Multiwalled C arbon Nanotubes’, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 115, pp 919-924, 2011

A. K. Dwivedi, G. Saikia and P. K. Iyer ‘Aqueous polyfl uorene pr obe f or the det ection and estimation of F e3+ and inor ganic phosphate in blood serum’, J. Mater. Chem., vol. 21, pp 2502-2507, 2011

G. Saikia, A. Murugadoss, P. J. Sarmah, A. Chattopadhyay and P. K. Iyer‘Tuning the Optical Charac teristics of P oly(p-phenylenevinylene) b y in Situ A u Nanopar ticle Generation’, J . Ph ysical Chemistr y B , v ol. 114 (46), pp 14821-14826, 2010

A. K. Padhy, B. Chetia, S. Mishra, A. Pati and P. K. Iyer‘Imidazole derivatives as the or ganic precursor of ZnO nano par ticle’, Tetrahedron Lett., vol. 51 (20), pp 2751-2753, 2010



G. Saikia and P. K. Iyer‘Facile C-H Alk ylation in Water: Enabling Def ect-Free Materials for Optoelectronic Devices’, J. Org. Chem., vol. 75 (8), pp 2714-2717, 2010

G. Saikia and P. K. Iyer‘A remarkable superquenching and superdequenching sensor for the selec tive and non-in vasive detection of inorganic phosphat es in saliva ’, M acromolecules, v ol. 44, pp 3616, 2011

D. K. Singh, P. K. Iyer and P. K. Giri ‘Diameter dependenc e of o xidative stabilit y in multiwalled carbon nanotubes: Role of def ects and eff ect of vacuum annealing ’, J. Appl. Phys., vol. 108 (8), pp 084313/1-084313/10, 2010

D. K. Singh, P. K. Iyer and P. K. Giri ‘Diameter dependenc e of int erwall separation and strain in multiwalled carbon nanotubes probed by X-ray diff raction and Raman scattering studies’, Diamond and Related Materials, vol. 19 (10), pp 1281-1288, 2010

S. C. Sahoo and M. Ray ‘Three P oint Chiral Rec ognition and Resolution of Amino Alc ohols Through Well-DeĀ ned Interaction Inside a M etallocavity’, Chemistr y A E uropean Journal, vol. 16, pp 5004, 2010

S. C. Sahoo, M. Dubey, Md. A. Alam and M. Ray‘Eff ect of metal c oordination and intra-molecular H-bond on the acidit y of phenolic pr oton in a set of structurally charac terized oc tahedral N i(II) c omplexes of L-histidine derivative’, I norg. Chim. A cta, vol. 12, pp 3055, 2010

F. A. S. Chipem, N. Dash and G. Krishnamoorthy‘Role of nitrogen substitution in phenyl ring on excited State intramolecular pr oton transf er and r otamerism of 2-(2’-H ydroxyphenyl)benzimidazole: A theor etical study’, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 134, pp 104308, 2011

F.A. S. Chipem, S. Chatterjee and G. Krishnamoorthy ‘Theoretical study on phot ochemical beha vior of trans-2-[4’-(dimethylamino) st yryl] benz othiazole’, J . Photochem. Photobiol., vol. 214, pp 121-127, 2010

R. Adhikary, P. Mukherjee, G. Krishnamoorthy, R. Kunkle, T. Casey, M. Rasmussen and J. Petrich‘Fluorescence spectroscopy of the r etina for diagnosis of transmissible spong iform enc ephalopathies’, Anal . Chem., vol. 82, pp 4097-4101, 2010

S. Bhattacharya, A. N. Panda and H.-D. Meyer ‘MulticonĀ guration time-dependent Hartree approach to study the OH+H2 r eaction’, J. Chem. Ph ys., vol. 132, pp 214304, 2010

A. Pramanik, S. Majumdar and G. Das ‘Aryl azo imidazoles assisted assembly of anion/anion-water through salt f ormation’, Cr ystEngComm., vol. 12 (1), pp 250-260, 2010

A. Pramanik and G. Das’Precursory A g-bipyridine metallo -organic framew ork (MOF): A new and effi cient route for the synthesis of Ag nanoparticles’, CrystEngComm., vol. 12 (2), pp 401 - 405, 2010

B. Ojha and G. Das ‘ArtiĀ cial Amphiphilic Scaff olds for the Selective Sensing of Protein Based on H ydrophobicity’, Chem. Commun., vol. 46, pp 2079-2081, 2010

B. Ojha and G. Das’The int eracton of 5-(alko xy)Napthalaen-1-Amine with Bo vine S erum Albumin and its Eff ect on the Conformation of Protein’, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 114 (11), pp 3979-3986, 2010

B. Ojha and G. Das ‘Molecular Rec ognition of 2-alk ylbenzimidazole: Photophyscial and Struc tural Studies ’, J . Phot och. Photobio. A: Chemistry, vol. 211, pp 176-184, 2010

A. Pramanik, A. Basu and G. Das ‘Coordination assembly of p -substituted ar yl aso imidazole c omplexes: I nfl uences of elec tron donating substitution and counter ion’, Polyhedron, vol. 29 (8), pp 1980-1989, 2010

B. Saha, S. Chakraborty and G. Das ‘A R ational Appr oach f or C ontrolled A dsorption of Metal Ions on Bo vine S erum Albumin-malachit e Bio -



nanocomposite’, J . Ph ys. Chem. C, v ol. 114, pp 9817–9825, 2010

B. M. Borah, B. Saha, S. Dey and G. Das ‘Surface modiĀ cation directed controlled adsorption of serum albumin on magnetite nano-cuboids synthesized in gel-diff usion technique’, J. Colloid. Interf. Sci., vol. 349, pp 114-121, 2010

B. Ojha, A. K . Singh, M. Deb A dhikari, A. Ramesh and G. Das’2-Alkylmalonic A cid: Amphiphilic Chelat or and A Potent I nhibitor of M etalloenzyme’, J . Ph ys. Chem. B , vol. 114, pp 10835–10842, 2010

A. Pramanik and G. Das ‘Aryl azo imidazole assisted self assembly of d10 metal complexes: I nfl uence of halogen substitution and counter ions’, Polyhedron, vol. 29, pp 2999-3007, 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaR. Sahu and V. Manivannan ‘Transition Metal Chemistry of Ligands Having Pyridine Rings’ Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry (FIC-2010), IACS Kolkata, December 2010

V. K. Fulwa, R. Sahu, H. S. Jena and V. Manivannan‘Novel S ynthesis of 2,4-Bis(2-p yridyl)-5-(pyridyl)imidazoles and F ormation of N-(3-(Pyridyl) imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine)picolinamidines: N itrogen–Rich Ligands’, F rontiers in Chemical S ciences (FICS 2010), IITGuwahati, December 2010

Z. Khan, D. Barpuzary, S. Sutradhar and M. Qureshi‘Templated Synthesis of Ordered CdS nanowires Arrays on Chemically Anchored Al2O3 and ZnO Nanoparticles’, Third International Symposium on Materials Chemistry, BARC Mumbai, December 2010

Z. Khan, D. Barpuzary, M. Khannam and M. Qureshi ‘Directed growth of 1D Cadmium SulĀ de by chemically anchored metal o xide (M = Al3+, Zn2+) nanopar ticles for phot o-catalytic wat er splitting ’, I nternational Conference on Chemistr y: F rontiers and Challenges , Aligarh Muslim Univ ersity, Aligarh, 29 No vember-1 December 2010

N. Dash and G. Krishnamoorthy ‘Eff ect of N-alk ylations on spec tral charac teristics of 2-(4’-N, N- dimethyl aminophen yl) imidaz o [4, 5-b] pyridine’, F rontiers in Chemical S ciences, Guwahati, December 2010

N. Dash, F. A. S. Chipem and G. Krishnamoorthy ‘Photophysics of f ew dual fl uoresceing fl uorophores’, Frontiers in Chemical S ciences, Guwahati, Dec ember 2010

A. Mishra, F. A. S. Chipem, A. Thangamani, S. Chatterjee and G. Krishnamoorthy ‘Spectral charac teristic and phot ochemistry of trans-2-[4’ (dimeth ylamino) st yryl] benz othiazole: A c ombined theor etical and experimental study ’, International Conference on Recent Frontiers in Applied Spectroscopy, Chidambaram, India, September 2010

F. A. S. Chipem, N. Dash and G. Krishnamoorthy ‘Temperature Eff ects on ex cited-state intramolecular proton transfer in 2-(2’-h ydroxyphenyl) benzimidazole and its N itrogen Substitut ed Analogues ’, Third A sia PaciĀ c Symposium on Radiation Chemistry (APSRC 2010) and DAE-BRNS Tenth Biennial Trombay symposium on Radiation and Phot ochemistry ( TSRP2010) L onavala, India, September 2010

Arghya Basu, Sandeep Kr. Dey and G. Das’Oxidative Cyclization of Thiosemicarbazone: An Optical and Turn-on F luorescent Chemodosimet er f or C u+2’, International S ymposium on F rontiers in I norganic Chemistry (FIC-2010), 11-13 Dec ember 2010, I ndian Association f or the C ultivation of S cience (IA CS), Kolkata, India

Bimlesh Ojha and G. Das ‘2-Alkylmalonic Acid: Amphiphilic Chelator and A Potent Inhibitor of M etalloenzyme’, F rontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS-2010), 3-4 Dec ember 2010, I ndian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India

J. Saikia, B. Saha and G. Das‘Effi cient r emoval of chr omate and arsenat e fr om individual and mixed system by malachite nanoparticles’, Frontiers in Chemical S ciences (FICS-2010), 3-4 December 2010, I ndian I nstitute of Technology



Guwahati, Assam, IndiaJ. Saikia and G. Das ‘Controlled synthesis of framboidal stable vat erite using a salicyclic acidaniline dye as an additive’, Hybrid Materials 2011, S econd I nternational C onference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials, Strasbourg, France, 6-10 March 2011

Book, Chapter, etc.Anil K. Saikia Phenolic C ompounds in M edicine, pp 7-18, No va Science Publications, New York, USA, 2011

G. Krishnamoorthy‘Hydrogen Bonding Eff ects On I ntramolecular Char ge Transfer’, Hydrogen Bonding and Transfer in the Excited State, Ed. K. L. Han and G. J . Zhao, Chapter 14, pp 313-329, Wiley VCH, West Sussex, UK, 2011


Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date International/ National

A. ChattopadhyayInternational Conference on Forensic Nanotechnology

Pt. Deen Dayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar,

Gujarat

25-26 March 2011 International

A. ChattopadhyaySustainability: Issues and Challenges for the Developing world

North East Centre for Research and

Development, Guwahati9 March 2011 National

A. ChattopadhyayDST SERC School on Nanobiotechnology

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

22 January 2011

National

A. ChattopadhyayAdvances in Nanomaterials (ANM2010)

Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI),

Kolkata

6-7 December

2010International

A. ChattopadhyayMolecules, Supramolecules and Materials

IIT Kanpur 1-3 October 2010 National

A. Chattopadhyay

3rd Asia PaciĀ c Symposium on Radiation Chemistry and 10th Biennial Trombay Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry

BARC, Mumbai14-17

September 2010

International

A. Chattopadhyay

Indo-French Seminar on Soft Interfaces: Self-organization, Functionalities and Applications

ESPCI, Paris, France 7-9 July 2010 International

C. V. SastriFifth Asian biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference

Kaohsiung, Taiwan1-5

November 2010

International

M. SarmaFrontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS)

IIT Guwahati, India3-4

December 2010

National



M. SarmaTheoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS) 2010

IIT Kanpur, India8-12

December 2010

International

A. K. GuptaMultiphoton Processes, Gordon Research Conference

Tilton School, NH, USA 6-11 June 2010 International

P. K. IyerMACRO2010: 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress

Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC),

Glasgow, UK

11-16 July 2010 International



A. K. SaikiaPrins and Oxonium-ene Reaction in Construction of Oxygen Heterocycles

IIT Guwahati Guwahati 3-4 December 2010

A. K. SaikiaStereoselective Synthesis of Tetrahydropyran and Oxabicyclic Compounds

Manipur University Imphal 15-16 March 2011

A. K. SaikiaSynthesis of Cyclic Ethers via Prins and Oxonium-ene Reaction

North East Hill University Shillong 28-29 March 2011

B. K Patel

Green Diversity Amplifying (DA) Strategy for the Construction of Heterocycles from Thiourea

HNB Gharwal University Gharwal 22-23 March 2011

B. K Patel

Diversity Amplifying (DA) Strategy for the Construction of Heterocycles from Thiourea

Apex Institute of Technology and

ManagementBhubaneswar 25 December

2011

B. K Patel

Diversity Amplifying (DA) Strategy for the Construction of Heterocycles from Thiourea

Pt. Ravishankar Shulka University Raipur

23-24 December

2010

B. K Patel

Construction of Heterocycles from Thiourea by Diversity Amplifying (DA) Strategy,

IIT Kanpur Kanpur 1-3 October 2010

M. Ray

Three Point Chiral Recognition and Resolution of Amino Alcohols Through Well-DeĀ ned Interaction Inside a Metallocavity

IACS Kolkata Kolkata11-13

December 2010



P. K. Iyer

Defect free electroluminescent polymers for light emitting diode and biosensors

St. Xaviers College Ahmedabad 3- 4 March 2011

P. K. Iyer and G. Saikia

Novel electroluminescent polymers for organic light emitting diode and diagnostic applications

Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh 10-12 February 2011

P. K. Iyer

Development of electroluminescent polymers for organic light emitting diode and diagnostic applications

Apex Institute of Technology and

ManagementBhubaneswar 25 December

2010

P. K. Iyer Inspiring young minds with polymers

National Institute of Science and Technology,

BerhampurBerhampur

30 October-3 November

2010

P. K. IyerPolyfl uorene co-polymers as pure blue light emitters and dual sensors

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune Pune 20-21 August

2010

P. K. Iyer and A. K. Dwivedi

Highly sensitive and selective sensing of Fe3+ and phosphate in blood serum by anionic polyfl uorene derivative

IIT Delhi New Delhi15-17

December 2010

T. Punniyamurthy Recent Advances in Cross-Coupling Reactions

NOST-XIV Organic Chemistry Conference Goa 5-8 December

2010

T. Punniyamurthy

Newer Methods for Carbon-Heteroatom Cross-Coupling Reactions and Macromolecular Catalysis

KIIT Bhubaneswar, OMCA-2011 Bhubaneswar 28 February

2011

T. PunniyamurthyRecent Development in Carbon-Heteroatom Cross-Coupling Reactions

CSMCRI, Bhavanagar Bhavanagar 7 January 2011

T. Punniyamurthy

Design and Development of Macromolecular Catalysts for Asymmetric Catalysis

BIT-Life Science 1st World Congress on Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis

Beijing, China 19-21 May 2010

T. PunniyamurthyRecent Advances in Carbon-Heteroatom Cross-Coupling Reactions

Department of Chemistry, Kumamoto

University

Kumamoto, Japan 21 March 2011

T. PunniyamurthyNewer Methods for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds

Department of Chemistry, Kagoshima

University

Kagoshima, Japan 24 March 2011

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES/ORGANISATIONS

Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose Date

Prof. A. K. Singh IIT Bombay PhD Viva-voce 6 September 2010



Prof. V. Chandrasekhar IIT Kanpur PhD Viva-voce 29 September 2010

Prof. S. Ramasesha IISC Bangalore PhD Viva-voce 11 October 2010

Dr. Alejandra Palermo Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Student-Faculty Interaction 8 February 2011

S E M I N A R S / W O R K S H O P S / C O N F E R E N C E S ORGANISED

Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date International/ National

G. DasNational Conference in Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS) - 2010

DST 3-4 December 2010 National

B. K. Patel,P. K. Iyer

DST SERC Winter School on Green Chemistry on the theme Research, Teaching and Application: Exploring opportunities in Green Chemistry

DST 7-19 March 2011 National

AWARDS AND HONOURSProf. T. P unniyamurthy has r eceived JSPS Bridge Fellowship 2010 and JSPS Shor t-Term I nvitation Fellowship 2011 sponsor ed b y Japan S ociety f or the Promotion of Science.

SPECIAL MENTION Dr. Siva Murru (Super visor: Prof. B . K . Patel) and Dr .

Saitanya K. Bharadwaj (Supervisor: Prof. M. K. Chaudhuri and Dr. Gopal Das) of Chemistry Department have been selected for 1st and 2nd priz e respectively of “2010 Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Awards”.

Ms . Jashmini Dek a, a PhD student, has r eceived an international travel award for presenting a poster in the Symposium O (Bio -nanomaterials for imaging, sensing and actuating) of the spring conference of the European Materials Research Society, which will take place in Nice (France) in May 2011.

M r. Subhojit Das , a PhD student, has r eceived the Best post er pr esentation a ward at the I nternational Symposium on Advances in Nanomaterials (ANM 2010) held during 6-7 Dec ember 2010 at C entral Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata.

FACULTY MEMBERSJ. B. BaruahPhD (IISc Bangalore)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Homogeneous C atalysis, Supramolecular chemistry and material design

A. ChattopadhyayPhD (Columbia University) Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of Interest: Nanoscale Science and Technology

M. K . Chaudhuri ( On deputation as Vice Chanc ellor, Tezpur University)PhD (IIT Kharagpur)ProfessorAreas of Interest: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Inorganics, Newer Materials and Methodologies, Newer Reagents and Protocols

G. DasPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Supra molecular , Bioor ganic chemistry and Biomineralization



A. K. GuptaPhD (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Quantum Molecular Dynamics

P. K. IyerPhD (CSMCRI, Bhavnagar)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: P olymer synthesis , Or ganic/Organometallic Chemistr y and Devic e fabrication, Sensors

A. T. KhanPhD (Kalyani University, W.B)Professor Areas of In terest: S ynthesis of Natural P roducts, Heterocycles and C arbohydrate Chemistr y, New er Methodologies

G. KrishnamoortyPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Or ganic Phot ochemistry and Spectroscopy

L. M. KunduPhD (LMU Munich, Germany)Assistant Professor Areas of In terest: Nucleic A cid/Peptide Chemistr y, DNA/RNA Damage and Repair, DNA Hybrid Materials

B. MondalPhD (IIT Bombay)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Bioinorganic Chemistry

V. ManivannanPhD (IACS, Calcutta)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Coordination Chemistry

B. MandalPhD (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Peptide Chemistry

D. Manna PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Lipid-P rotein I nteraction, Lipid Synthesis

A. N. PandaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Dynamics of bimolecular scatt ering processes

B. K. PatelPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Bio -Organic Chemistr y and New er Methodologies

A. PaulPhD (Columbia University)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Surface Science, Catalysis, Thin Films

T. PunniyamurthyPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of Interest: Synthetic Organic Chemistry

M. RayPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Bioinor ganic and c oordination chemistry

A. K. SaikiaPhD (Nor th East I nstitute of S cience and Technology, Jorhat, formerly RRL Jorhat)ProfessorAreas of In terest: New S ynthetic M ethodology and Natural Product Synthesis

S. PaulPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C omputational Bioph ysics and Chemistry



M. Qureshi PhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Materials Chemistry

S. S. Bag PhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemistry of Nucleic Acid

C. V. Sastri PhD (University of Hyderabad)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Biomimetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology

M. Sarma PhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant Professor Areas of In terest: Dev elopment of new theor etical approaches t o Laser A ssisted C ontrol of Chemical Reactions, and Resonanc es in Elec tron – M olecule Scattering Reac tions, and Resonanc es in Elec tron – Molecule Scattering.



DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTIONThe Depar tment of Civil Eng ineering, established in the y ear 1998, has sho wn r emarkable pr ogress in academic, r esearch and c onsultancy w orks. F aculty members continued to take the lead in str engthening their r espective specialisations thr ough fur ther development of the laboratories and research facilities. Faculty members published their r esearch w ork in leading journals or pr esented papers in int ernational/national c onferences. The Depar tment has been involved in sev eral sponsor ed R&D and c onsultancy projects in the last f ew y ears. The Depar tment has organised man y w orkshops, shor t t erm c ourses and conferences. The Department has been identiĀ ed as a Centre of Excellence by Ministry of Urban Development, Government of I ndia. The Depar tment has r eceived a grant of Rs. 3.05 Crores from the Department of Science and Technology, Go vernment of I ndia under FIST programme f or fur ther str engthening of the stat e of the art experimental facilities.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESThe Department is curr ently having BTech, MTech and PhD Programmes. The MTech programme includes the following specialization: Structural Engineering Water Resources Engineering and Management Geotechnical Engineering Environmental Engineering Transportation Systems Engineering Infra-structure Engineering and Management



MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

Structural Engineering LaboratoryOverhead EOT Crane f or Struc tural test hall , Universal Test frame, Several new NDT equipment like C orrosion analyzing, Rebar locator. Permeability tester, Resistivity meter, ex traction t ester, D ynamic A ctuator sy stem, Earthquake simulat or, P seudo D ynamic Test F acility, FFT analyz er f or vibration t esting of struc tural elements, Resonant frequency meter, HBM-48 channel data ac quisition sy stem, H ydraulic F ork Lif t, A-F rame Aluminium Ladder (16f t high), A utomatic Vicat’s apparatus f or SC, I nitial and F inal S etting of C ement, 300 LP M in P owerpack f or M TS t est sy stem, Reac tion Mass Assembly for Electoseis Long Stroke Shaker Model 113 etc. Abaqus V 6.8 sof tware, ANSYS – v13, SAP 2000 – v14 , MIDAS , Primavara, etc.

Environmental Engineering LaboratoryLaser par ticle siz e analyz er, A tomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Ultra-pure water System Abmient, Ambient air pollutant measur ement sampler, The Ā ne particular sampler , M icro-meteorological monit oring equipment with required accessories and data logging system and software ( automatic), Trinocular laboratory microscope c omplete with essential ac cessories and digital camera etc. are in working condition.

Ozone analyz er, A utomative gas analyz er, C ascade Impactor, BOD incubator, Electric muffl e furnace, Drying



oven, Air compressor etc. have processed for procuring in the current year.

Geotechnical Engineering LaboratoryDe-airing apparatus f or triaxial t esting, Multi- channel data logging , r elative density apparatus, Rock t esting equipments, GeoStudio 2007 products are pc software for analysis of earth structures subjected to earthquake shaking and design are available.

Miniature Pressure Transducer Tensiometer, ReĀ lling kit for T-5 tensiometer, Research Centrifuge with rotor, Cross permeability t est apparatus , H ygoclipCP302 X XPVC, Humidity Temp Controller Model – 902 Duel Channel , Guelph Permeameter kit, Upgrading of Block vibration to computerized block vibration test equipment, Direct Q-3 Ultrapure water puriĀ cation system have processed for procuring in the current year.

Transportation Engineering LaboratoryBump int egrator f or pa vement management, Br ooke Field Viscometer for testing of bituminous mat erial as well as marshall Desig n of fl exible pavement facilities, HDM4 f or high way dev elopment model , MXRO ADS for high way geometric desig n, r olling thin Ā le oven, TRANSYT, ISIS, HCS sof tware, plat e c ompactor, CBR Ā eld apparatus , Driv er vision scr een t ester, Univ ersal Penetrometer for bitumen testing including automatic pnetrometer timer , Eletric plat e c ompactor f or preparation of triaxial sample , Testing equipment for falling Weight Defl ectometer et c. ar e in w orking

condition. R adar Gun, Video VBox 10H z sy stem, PT V vision software VISSIM, Standard TransCAD software (V-5) etc. has been processed for procuring in the current year.

Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering LaboratoryAn in-situ hillslope experiment set up (siz e =250 m2) with fully aut omatic subsur face fl ow measurement system was designed and fabricated at the Ā eld site. The experimental set-up will quantify both subsurface and surface fl ow in a hillslope under high int ensity st orm events. 5 and 10 m tilting fl ume long channel , rainfall simulation apparatus f or study rainfall f or various studies fl ow, Auto-weather station, Turbines, Pump ring etc. ar e in w orking c ondition. H ydraulic Tilting F lume 20m x 1.0 m x 60. Cm length, C onstruction of St orage tank, Micro ADV 16-MHz Splash-Proof System has been processed for procuring in the current year.

Surveying LaboratorySurvey equipment / modern equipment like EDM, Total station, Elec tronic Theodolite, GIS f or r emote-sensing, Digitizer, GPS et c f or various studies t opographic, Volumetric bench with set of w eir and Not chs, Impact of Jet, Free and Force Vertex fl ow, Losses in Pipe system are in working condition.

Engineering GeologyTrinocular St ereo z oom M icroscope, P etrographic Microscope with dig ital image capturing facilit y, hardness box kit are available.



Agency



A. Murali Krishna

Seismic Response of Reinforced Soil Retaining walls using 3D Numerical Studies

IITG 5.0 -- 2 years

A. Murali Krishna

Evaluation of Seismic Earth Pressures on Retaining Structures: A Comprehensive Study

BRNS (DAE) 9.7 -- 2 years





Agency



A. Dutta Development of Software for Optimal Shape/Design of Aircraft

ARDB - - 2003-2004

S. K. Deb

Studies on Seismic Behavior of Building with Soft First Storey based on Pseudo Dynamic Testing

MHRD - - 2003-2004

S. Dutta

Analysis of Water Balance in Rice Agriculture Sysytem Using Distributed Hydrologic Model

SAC - - 2004-2005

A. K. Sarma GIS based Inventory of Rivers of the Northeastern Region of India

MoEF - - 2005-2006

A. K. Sarma Event Based Flood Forecasting Model for Flood Hazard Mitigation

AICTE - - 2005-2006

S. K. Dash

Geocell-Reinforced Sand Foundation on Soft Clay, Behaviour under Cyclic Loading

DST - - 2005-2006

S. Dutta An Integrated Hydrologic Modelling of the Brahmaputra Valley

DST - - 2005-2006

S. Chakraborty

A sequential biological treatment to handle complex wastewater containing phenol, thiocyanate and ammonia-nitrogen

MEF - - 2006-2007

G. Barua

Analytical and Inverse modelling for estimating aquifer parameters of a continued aquiĀ er

DST - - 2006-2007

S. Chakraborty

A Study of Removal and Recovery of Heavy Metals from Waste Water using Functionalized Polymer Coated Silica Gel

CSIR - - 2006-2007

C. Mahanta

Establishing an information system on water resources of the Brahmaputra river system

DST - - 2007-2008

S. Dutta Spatio-temporal analysis of natural resources in Brahmaputra basin

DST - - 2007-2008



S. K. Deb

VeriĀ cation Test of Prototype Base Isolated Buildings subjected to Dynamic Loads

BRNS - - 2007-2008

S. B. Gokhale

Air quality models evaluations at traffi c intersections in urban environments for regulatory compliance

DST - - 2007-2008

S. Sreedeep

An investigation on the eff ect of multiple contaminant migration in soils

DST - - 2007-2008

P. K. Ghosh Arsenic removal by electrochemical Ion Exchange (EIX) process

DST - - 2007-2008

S. A. Kartha Non-ideal fl ow and transport in bio-heap-leaching of precious metals

DST - - 2007-2008

A. K. Sarma

A modelling based study towards mitigating Fluoride contamination hazards in the aff ected areas of Guwahati City

DST - - 2008-2009

S. Dutta

Water, Energy and Sediment Budgeting (WESB) of Subtropical Humid Hilly Watersheds with Altitudinal Variation

ISRO - - 2008-2009

C. Mahanta

Design Bank (GIS based Digital Information System) of traditional handicrafts of the Northeast for their conservation and sustainability focusing on green design

Ministry of Textile - - 2008-2009

Sreeja P.

Development of a risk based decision support system for fl ood management

DST - - 2008-2009

A. K. Sarma

Development of Hydro-dynamic fl ood forecasting system using river stage and run-off , seasonal rainfall, DEM and other components of hydro-informatics for pagladia river watershed in lower Assam

NESAC, Shillong - - 2008-2009



K. D. Singh

Numerical modelling of Plain Plasticity Induced Crack Closure Eff ects for Bi-Material interfacial crack

BRNS, Mumbai - - 2009-2010

A. M. Krishna

Evaluation of Seismic Earth Pressures on Retaining Structures: A Comprehensive Study

BRNS, Mumbai - - 2009-2010

S. Dutta

Flood Modelling for Trans-boundary river under Defence Strategic Scenarios: Mathematical modelling

DTRL, New Delhi - - 2009-2010

B. Pradhan Performance Appraisal of Concrete in Chloride and Sulfate Environment

DST, New Delhi - - 2009-2010

S. Dutta

Technique development for genrating probilistic fl ood inundation maps for fl ood waves of diff erent recurrence period

DoS, Ahmedabad - - 2010-2011

HOD, CIVIL

To Strengthen the research activities in the area of Structural Engineeirng and Water Resources

DST - - 2010-2011



Agency



A. Dutta

Study of Delamination in FRP Composites under Low Velocity Impact using Adaptive Finite Element Method

C-DAC - - 2002-2003

V. Chandramouli

Developing a Remote Sensing Laboratory for Better Water Resources Management and Flood Mitigation

MHRD - - 2003-2004

C. Mahanta

Distribution, Fractionation and Deposition of Phosphorus in the Flood Plain Sediments

MHRD - - 2004-2005

A. K. Sarma

Urban Flood Hazard Mitigation of Guwahati City by Silt Monitoring and Watershed Modelling

MHRD - - 2005-2006



D. Maity

Design of a Concrete Dam Under Seismic Excitation Considering Fluid Structure Interaction

MHRD - - 2006-2007

C. Mahanta

Geographical Information System For Bharalu Watershed of the Brahmaputra River Basin for Flood Control, Mitigation and Water Resources Planning

DST - - 2006-2007

S. Talukdar

Study of the Performance of Magneto Rheological (MR) Dampers for Mitigation of Wind and Seismic Induced Vibration in Tall Buildings

MHRD - - 2006-2007

S. K. Deb

VeriĀ cation Test of a Prototype Base Isolated Two Storeyed RCC Framed Building Subjected to Actual Earthquake

BRNS - - 2007-2008

S. K. Deb National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education

MHRD - - 2007-2008

CONSULTANCY


Agency



B. Singh

Proof checking of piles and pile cap design and drawings for fl yover at Jorabat on NH-37

RITES, Guwahati, Assam 0.30 - -

B. Singh

Proof checking of counterfort RCC retaining wall with pile foundation on the approach to the new Brhmaputra bridge on NH-31

Mott Macdonald Private Limited,

Guwahati1.0 - -

Kaustubh Dasgupta

Evaluation of Safety of Overhead Water Tanks at Agartala

Directorate of Urban Dev.,

Govt. of Tripura5.00 - 5 month

A. Murali KrishnaMaterial testing for the ongoing Geo-tube at Matmara Project

Executive Engg., Dhakuakhana

Water Resources Division

3.75 A. K. Sarma 2 month

S. Talukdar

Assessment of 9 Existing Damaged Bridges of NH-31by Nondestructive Evaluation

National Highway Authority of India

12.40 - -




International JournalSharad Gokhale‘Traffi c fl ow patt ern and met eorology at t wo distinc t urban traffi c junc tions with impac ts on air qualit y’, Atmospheric Environment, vol. 45 (10), pp 1830-1840, 2011

Suresh P andian, Sharad Gok hale and Aloke K umar Ghoshal‘An open-terrain line source model coupled with street-canyon eff ects t o f orecast carbon mono xide at traffi c roundabout’, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 409 (6), pp 1145-1153, 2011

A. Ghosh, K. Pakshirajan, P. K. Ghosh and N. K. Sahoo‘Perchlorate deg radation b y an indigenous micr obial consortium predominantly Burkholderia sp.’, Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 187, pp 133-139, 2011

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan, P.K. Ghosh and A. Ghosh‘Biodegradation of 4- chlorophenol b y Ar throbacter chlorophenolicus A6: Eff ect of cultur e c onditions and degradation k inetics’, Biodeg radation, v ol. 22 (2), pp 275-286, 2011

A. S. Kalamdhad, M. Ali and M. Khwairakpam‘Thermal analy sis of r otary drum c omposting of diff erent wast e c ombinations’, I nternational Journal of En vironmental S cience and Eng ineering Resear ch (IJESER), vol. 1 (1), pp 38-44, 2010

Satish Chandra, Vishal Sharma and Rajan Choudhary‘Characterisation of Fly Ash Bituminous Concrete Mixes’, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, vol. 22 (12), pp 1209-1216, December 2010

Bimlesh Kumar and Achanta Ramakrishna Rao‘Performance comparison of batch and continuous fl ow surface aeration sy stems’, Kor ean Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol. 27 (6), pp 1796-1800, 2010

Bimlesh Kumar‘Energy Dissipation and Shear R ate with Geometr y of baffl ed surface aerator’, Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin, vol. 14 (2), pp 92-96, 2010

Bimlesh K umar, G.Sr eenivasulu and A. R amakrishna Rao‘Regime Relationships of Alluvial Channel with Seepage’, Journal of H ydraulic Research, vol. 48 (3), pp 315-319, 2010

Bimlesh K umar, G.Sr eenivasulu and A. R amakrishna Rao‘Design of Seepage aff ected incipient Alluvial Channels using R adial Basis F unction Net work’, Journal of Hydrology and H ydromechanics, v ol. 58 (2), pp 102-113, 2010

Bimlesh Kumar and Ankit Bhatla‘Genetic algorithm optimized neural network prediction of fric tion fac tor in mobile bed channel ’, Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol. 19 (4), pp 317-337, 2010

Bimlesh K umar, G. Sr eenivasulu and A. R amakrishna Rao‘Incipient M otion Desig n of Sand Bed Channels aff ected by Bed Suc tion’, Computer and Elec tronics in Agriculture, vol. 74 (2), pp 321-328, 2010

Richard H. Scott, Sajal K. Deb and Anjan Dutta‘Strain distribution in ex ternal r einforced c oncrete beam-column joint subjec ted t o c yclic loading ’, Concrete, C oncrete S ociety, UK , v ol.44 (7), pp 57-59, 2010

V. Vinot and B. Singh‘Experimental study of infl uence of wast e shr edded tyres on shear strength of sand’, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Eng ineering, vol. 3 (3), pp 515-520, 2010

A. Kalita and B. Singh‘Strength characteristics of a local red soil blended with Class F fl y ash and c ement’, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication, vol. 207, pp 143-148, 2010

V. Vinot and B. Singh‘Experimental study on shear str ength beha vior of shredded t yre-reinforced sand ’, ASCE Geot echnical Special Publication, vol. 207, pp 93-98, 2010

M. Sumesh, A. Kalita and B. Singh‘An experimental in vestigation on str ength properties



of fl y ash blended soils treated with cement’, Journal of Environmental Research & Dev elopment, vol. 5 (2), pp 322-329, 2010

A. Murali Krishna‘Mitigation of Liquefac tion Hazar d U sing Granular Piles’, International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, vol. 2 (1), pp 44-66, 2011

A. Bhattacharjee, S. Mittal and A. Murali Krishna‘Bearing capacit y impr ovement of squar e f ooting by micr opiles’, I nternational Journal of Geot echnical Engineering, 5(1), pp 113–118, 2011

B. Kumar, A. K. Patel and A. R. K. Rao‘Shape Eff ect on Optimal Geometric C onditions in Surface Aeration Systems’, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Springer, vol. 27 (11), pp 159-162, 2010

A. R. K. Rao and B. Kumar‘Closure t o Discussion of Resistanc e charac teristics of Surface aerat ors’, Journal of H ydraulic Eng ineering, ASCE, vol. 136 (3), pp 193, 2010

B. Kumar and A. R. K. Rao‘Continuous fl ow Sur face A eration S ystems’, Chemical Engineering and Technology, v ol. 33 (2), pp 305-314, 2010

B. Kumar and A. R. K. Rao‘Metamodelling appr oach t o pr edict fric tion fac tor of alluvial channel ’, C omputers and Elec tronics in Agriculture, vol. 70, pp144-150, 2010

Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya‘Discussion of E volutionary Algorithms f or the Determination of Critical Depths in Conduits’, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE, vol. 136 (3), pp 221-223, 2010

T. Karmaker and S. Dutta‘Generation of synthetic seasonal h ydrograph f or a large river basin’, J. Hydr., pp 287-296, 2010

Ch. Mallikarjuna and S. T. G. Raghu Kanth‘Forecasting the Air Traffi c of Nor th-East I ndian Cities ’, Advances in adaptive data analysis, vol. 2(1), pp 81-96, 2010

M.Z. Nain and M. Jawed‘Impact of Sudden Change in F eed Substrat e Types on Steady Response of Suspended Gr owth Anaerobic Reactors’, I nternational Journal of En vironmental Research, vol. 4 (2), pp 247-254, 2010

K.U. Ahamad and M. Jawed‘Kinetics, Equilibrium and Breakthrough Studies for Fe(II) Removal by Wooden Charcoal: A L ow Cost Adsorbent’, Desalination, vol. 251, pp 137-145, 2010

A. Sachan and K. Rao‘Permeability of panki fl y ash under stress’, International Journal of Geot echnical Engineering, vol. 4 (1), pp 63-70, 2010

B. Kumar‘Computer simulated dam break analysis’, Construction India, vol. 12 (3), pp 54-60, 2010

A. C. Borsaikia, A. Dutta and S. K. Deb‘System identiĀ cation of multist oreyed non-standar d shear building using parametric state space modelling’, Journal of Struc tural C ontrol and Health M onitoring (Wiley I nter-Science), published online , DOI:10.1002/stc.385, 2010

National JournalH. B. Kaushik‘Importance of Eff ective Stiff ness P roperties of RC Members in Seismic Analysis and Design of Structures’, Annals of the I ndian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), VIII, 2011

K. Dasgupta, R. Goswami and C. V. R. Murty‘Seismic Shear Desig n of Deep RC Vertical M embers: Review of Code Provisions’, The Indian Concrete Journal, vol. 84 (9), pp 39-50, 2010

K. Dasgupta, R. Goswami and C. V. R. Murty‘Seismic Shear Desig n of Deep RC Vertical M embers: Draft Provisions for Indian Codes’, The Indian Concrete Journal, vol. 84 (9), pp 59-63, 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaRajan Choudhary‘Causes of F ailures in F lexible P avements’, National



Workshop on Road I nfrastructure and Traffi c Planning in Jaipur City, Jaipur, 29 January 2011

Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya‘ANN based semi- distributed rainfall-runoff model incorporating geomorphology of the wat ershed’, Fourth I nternational P erspective on Water Resour ces and En vironment: IPWE 2011, National Univ ersity of Singapore, Singapore, 4-6 January 2011

P. K. Ghosh, G. Upadhyaya, L. Raskin and K. F. Hayes‘Comparison of uranium and nitrat e r emoval fr om simulated g roundwater using mix ed micr obial consortia in the pr esence and absenc e of ir on’, F irst IWA C onference in I ndia on M icrobes in Wastewater and Waste Treatment, Bior emediation and Ener gy Production, Goa, India, 24-27 January 2011

H. B. Kaushik and A. L. Mane‘Eff ect of cracked sec tion on lat eral r esponse of RC structures’, P roceedings of the F ourteenth E uropean Conference on Ear thquake Eng ineering, Ohrid , Macedonia, Paper No. 1649, 30 A ugust-03 S eptember 2010

H. B. Kaushik and S. V. Manchanda‘Infl uence of ductile detailing on behaviour of masonry inĀ lled RC frames ’, P roceedings of the F ourteenth European C onference on Ear thquake Eng ineering, Ohrid, M acedonia, P aper No . 1575, 30 A ugust-03 September 2010

R. K. Goswami and B. Singh‘Stability analy sis of fl ood pr otection embank ments and riv erbank pr otection w orks’, P roceedings of the Fifth I nternational C onference on Rec ent A dvances in Geot echnical Ear thquake Eng ineering and S oil Dynamics, San Diego, California, USA, Paper No. 4.13b, 24-29 May 2010

V. Vinot and B. Singh‘Experimental study on shear str ength beha vior of shredded t yre-reinforced sand ’, P roceedings of the GeoShanghai International Conference 2010, Shanghai, China, pp 9, 3-5 June 2010

A. Kalita and B. Singh‘Strength charac teristics of a local r ed soil blended

with Class F fl y ash and c ement’, P roceedings of the GeoShanghai International Conference 2010, Shanghai, China, pp 9, 3-5 June 2010

B. Singh, R. Patel and B. Mistri‘A review of constitutive models and their applications in geot echnical eng ineering’, P roceedings of the International C onference on Ear th S ciences and Engineering, ICEE 2010, H yderabad, Vol I, pp 29-38, 21 August 2010

B. Singh, B. Mistri and R. Patel‘A study on load capacit y beha vior of plat e anchors ’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on Ear th Sciences and Engineering, ICEE 2010, H yderabad, Vol I, pp 102-111, 21 August 2010

M. Sumesh, A. Kalita and B. Singh‘An experimental investigation on strength properties of fl y ash blended soils treated with cement’, Proceedings of the Third I nternational C ongress of En vironmental Research, ICER-10, M auritius, pp 7, 16-18 S eptember 2010

V. Vinot and B. Singh‘Environmental impact of waste tyres and its remedies’, Proceedings of the Third I nternational C ongress of Environmental Resear ch, ICER-10, M auritius, pp 8, 16-18 September 2010

V. Vinot and B. Singh‘Experimental study on r euse of scrap t yres in soil–fl y ash mix tures’, P roceedings of the Six th I nternational Congress on En vironmental Geot echnics, 6ICEG 2010, New Delhi, Vol II, pp 1194-1197, 8-12 November 2010

B. Singh, B. Mistri and R. Patel‘A study on pullout capacit y of horizontal and inclined plate anchors for off shore installations’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on M arine Technology, MARTEC 2010, Dhak a, Bangladesh, pp 6, 11-12 December 2010

B. Mistri and B. Singh‘A c omparison of pullout capacit y of horiz ontal and inclined plat e anchors in cla y’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on A dvances in Civil



Engineering, ACE 2010, Thiruvananthapuram, pp 5, 21-22 December 2010

P. Barman, M. Sumesh and B. Singh‘Performance of tyre chips as geotechnical construction materials’, P roceedings of the F ourth CUSAT National Conference on Rec ent A dvances in Civil Eng ineering, RACE 2010, Kochi, pp 169-175, 16-18 September 2010

M. Sumesh, P. Barman and B. Singh‘In-place eff ectiveness of c oal ash in geot echnical engineering Ā eld applications ’, P roceedings of the Fourth CUSAT National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, RACE 2010, Kochi, pp 192-196, 16-18 September 2010

M. Sumesh and B. Singh‘Fly ash as useful c onstruction material for sustainable development’, Proceedings of the National C onference on I nnovations in Eng ineering, INNOV ATIONS 2010, New Delhi, pp 5, 1-2 November 2010

A. Bhosale and B. Singh‘ModiĀ cation of expansiv e soil , sof t cla y and g ranular soil’, P roceedings of the Elev enth National and F irst International Conference on Technological Trends, ICTT 2010, Trivandrum, Vol I, pp 74-79, November 2010

B. Singh, B. Mistri and R. Patel‘Comparison of f oundation sy stems f or off shore wind turbine installation ’, P roceedings of the Elev enth National and F irst I nternational C onference on Technological Trends, IC TT 2010, Trivandrum, Vol I, pp 87-92, November 2010

A. Bhosale, P. Barman and B. Singh‘BeneĀ cial use of c oal ash in modiĀ cation of soil characteristics’, Proceedings of the National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences, FICS 2010, Guwahati, pp 4, December 2010

P. Barman, A. Bhosale and B. Singh‘A review of en vironmental impacts from geotechnical applications of scrap tyres’, Proceedings of the National Conference on F rontiers in Chemical S ciences, FICS 2010, Guwahati, pp 6, December 2010

S. Rai and B. Singh‘Eff ect of piles on r esponse of raf t f oundations’, Proceedings of the I ndian Geot echnical C onference, IGC-2010, Mumbai, Vol II, pp 917-920, December 2010

K. Dasgupta and C. V. R. Murty ‘Improvement in Seismic ConĀ guration of Slender Reinf orced C oncrete Wall Piers on Isolated Footings’, Proceedings of the Ninth US National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 9NCEE, Toronto, Canada, 25-29 July 2010

V. Prashanth and A. Murali Krishna‘Evaluation of interfacial frictional resistance in oblique direction’, P roceedings of the Third I ndian Young Geotechnical Eng ineers C onference, New Delhi, I ndia, pp 247-252, 25-26 March 2011

Manojit Chak raborty, A. Murali K rishna and Arunasis Chakraborty‘Reliability based stabilit y analy sis of a cantilev er retaining wall ’, Proceedings of the Third I ndian Young Geotechnical Eng ineers C onference, New Delhi, I ndia, pp 143-148, 25-26 March 2011

Anurag Upadhyay, A. Murali Krishna and K.D. Singh‘Behavior of C antilever Retaining Walls Under S eismic Conditions’, P roceedings of the F ifth I nternational Conference on Ear thquake Geot echnical Eng ineering, Santiago, Chile, Paper No: BCRUP, 10-13 January 2011

A. Bhattacharjee and A. Murali Krishna‘Numerical M odelling of R igid F aced Reinf orced S oil Walls Under Seismic Shaking’, Proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical C onference 2010, Mumbai, I ndia, Vol 1, pp 869-872,16-18 December 2010

V. Prashanth and A. Murali Krishna‘Assessment of Soil-Geosynthetics Interaction Properties’, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Exhibition, and Shor t Course on Geot echnical and Geosynthetics Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities on Climate Change, Bangkok, Thailand, 7 - 8 December 2010

A. Murali Krishna‘Seismic Lateral Earth Pressures on Retaining Structures’, Proceedings of the F ifth I nternational C onference



on Rec ent A dvances in Geot echnical Ear thquake Engineering and S oil D ynamics, San Diego , CA, P aper No. 6.25a , 24-29 May 2010

N. Chetia and S. Talukdar‘Suppression of wind induc ed vibration using elevat ed service r eservoir as tuned mass damper ’, P roceedings of the F ourth I nternational C onference on Struc tural Engineering, M echanics and C omputation, Ed: A. Zingoni, C ape Town, S outh A frica, pp 237-240, 6-8 September 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘Performance evaluation of tensiometer in contaminated soil’, I nternational C ongress on En vironmental Geotechnics, 6ICEG 2010, New Delhi, 8-12 No vember 2010

A. Garg, C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘Infl uence of diff erent suc tion measuring pr ocedures on SWCC and seepage modelling in unsaturat ed soils’, International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, 6ICEG 2010, New Delhi, 8-12 November 2010

B. Poly, L. Mamu and S. Sreedeep‘Evaluating the Suitabilit y of S orption Isotherms f or silty sand ’, I nternational C ongress on En vironmental Geotechnics, 6ICEG 2010, New Delhi, 8-12 No vember 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘Infl uence of soil properties on soil-water characteristic curve’, I nternational C ongress on En vironmental Geotechnics, 6ICEG 2010, New Delhi, 8-12 No vember 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘Evaluation of SWC C model and estimation pr ocedure for soil and fl y ash’, EWRI Congress 2010, R hode Island, USA, 16-20 May 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘A study on the infl uence of unit weight on tensiometric measurements’, E WRI C ongress 2010, R hode Island , USA, 16-20 May 2010

C. Malaya, B. Poly and S. Sreedeep‘Performance evaluation of t ensiometer r esponse

in c ontaminated soil ’, I nternational C ongress on Environmental Geot echnics, 6ICEG 2010, New Delhi, 8-12 November 2010

Y. Mohamed and S. Sreedeep‘Evaluating the utilit y of fl y ash f or waste containment application’, Ninth International Conference on H ydro-science and Eng ineering, ICHE 2010, IIT M adras, 2-8 August 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘A study on wat er r etention charac teristics of fl y ash’, Ninth I nternational C onference on H ydro-science and Engineering, ICHE 2010, IIT Madras, 2-8 August 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘Infl uence of admixture on soil-water characteristic curve of a sandy soil ’, National C onference on Sustainable Water Resour ces M anagement and I mpact of Climat e Change’ BITS, Hyderabad, March 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘An Investigation on the Eff ect of I nitial Water Content and Dr y Densit y on Dr ying S oil-Water Charac teristic Curve of a C ohesionless S oil’, F ifth I nternational Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 September 2010

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘Recent dev elopments in the measur ement of soil suction’, EWRI, Singapore, 2011 C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘Evaluation of drying and wetting SWCC of a sandy soil’ EWRI, Singapore, 2011

C. Malaya, D. Abhijit, and S. Sreedeep‘Infl uence of measuring methodolog ies on soil-wat er characteristic cur ve of soil ’, 3r d int ernational post graduate conference on infrastructure and environment (IPCIE), Hongkong, 2011

S. Sreedeep‘Relevance of soil-wat er charac teristic cur ve in unsaturated soil mechanics ’, National c onference on advances in eng ineering geology and geot echnical engineering, GEOC ON2011, M arch 29-30, K annur, Kerala



D. Abhijit and S. Sreedeep‘Suction-water content relationship for a class F fl y ash’ Advances in materials and techniques for infrastructure development, AMTID-2011, NIT Calicut, June 2011

C. Malaya and S. Sreedeep‘A Study on Wetting S oil-Water Charac teristic C urve of a P oorly Graded Sandy S oil’, I ndian Geot echnical Conference, I ndian I nstitute of Technology Bomba y, Mumbai, India, December 2010



National

Rajan ChoudharyRoad Infrastructure and Traffi c Planning in Jaipur City

Jaipur 29 January 2011 National

Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya

4th International Perspective on Water Resources and Environment: IPWE 2011

National University of Singapore,

Singapore4-6 January 2011 International

P. K. Ghosh

First IWA conference in India on Microbes in Wastewater and Waste Treatment, Bioremediation and Energy Production

Goa 24-27 January 2011 International

H. B. Kaushik

14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Ohrid, Macedonia 30 August-3 September 2010 International

Kaustubh Dasgupta

9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 9NCEE

Toronto, Canada 25-29 July 2010 International

A. Murali Krishna Indian Geotechnical Conference 2010 Mumbai 16-18 December

2010 National

A. Murali Krishna

Intl. Symp. on Forensic Approach to Analysis of Geohazard Problems

Mumbai 16-18 December 2010 International

A. Murali Krishna

National Workshop on Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructural Development

Mysore 4-5 October 2010 National





H. B. Kaushik

Training of Engineers and Architects on Seismic RetroĀ tting

District Disaster Management

Authority, GuwahatiGuwahati 20-21 August 2010

Kaustubh Dasgupta

Earthquake-Resistant Design Issues for Architects - I and II

Guwahati College of Architecture Guwahati 26 August and 24

September 2010

A. Murali Krishna

Seismic Concerns in Geotechnical Engineering Practice and Probable Solutions

Assam Engineering Institute Guwahati 28 September 2010

SHORT-TERM COURSES

Title: Road Maintenance and SafetyDate: 11-15 October 2010Course Co-ordinators: A. K. Maurya and R. Choudhary

Title: Seismic Design of Buildings and BridgesDate: 29 November – 3 December 2010Course Co-ordinators: K. Dasgupta and A. Chakraborty

Title: I nfrastructure Dev elopment and C onstruction Management

Date: 17-21 January 2011Course C o-ordinators: L. Boeing Singh and Bulu Pradhan

Title: Sustainable Dev elopment of hilly urban ar ea for mitigating water related hazardsDate: 26-28 October 2010Course Co-ordinator: A. K. Sarma

Title: Modern Surveying TechniquesDate: 7-11 December and 13-17 December 2010Course Co-ordinator: R. K. Bhattacharjya

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANISED

Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date International/

National

A. K. Sarma

Mathematical modelling of River Brahmaputra with Emphasis on Climate Change

Ministry of Water Resources, GoI

and State Disaster Management

Authority, Govt. of Assam

31 January – 1 February 2011 National

C. Mahanta,Arupjyoti Saikia

Understanding Conservation: Perspectives from Manas and Kaziranga National Parks, Assam

4-5 September 2010 National



INVITED LECTURES


Fred EvansWykeham Farrance Division Controls Testing Equipment Ltd., UK

Technical presentation on advances in triaxial soil testing 10 December 2010

Dr. Subhru Mitra University of North Texas at Dallas

Stochastic trunk routing and mode choice model 6 January 2011

Prof. Hemanta Hazarika Kyushu University, Japan Sustainable Construction – Few

Recent Developments in Japan 24 January 2011

AWARDS AND HONOURS Dr. Hemant B . K aushik was a warded INAE Young

Engineer A ward f or the y ear 2010 b y I ndian National Academy of Eng ineering t o r ecognise outstanding contributions in the Ā eld of Structural Engineering. A. Muralik rishna became M ember, TC-203 -

Earthquake Geot echnical Eng ineering ( Technical Committee of I nternational S ociety of S oil M echanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)) for the period 2010-2013. A. Muralik rishna became Ex ecutive M ember

(Elected), I ndian Geot echnical S ociety, New Delhi, f or the period 2011-2012.

FACULTY MEMBERSG. BaruaPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Flow through Porous Media

R. K. BhattacharyaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Water Resources System Management, Genetic Algorithms, ArtiĀ cial Neural Networks

A. ChakrabortyPhD (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: D ynamic and R andom Vibration, System IdentiĀ cation and Damage Det ection, Wavelet Analysis

S. ChakrabortyPhD (IIT Bombay)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: W ater and W astewater Treatment,

Biodegradation of I ndustrial Wastewater, Remo val of Heavy Metals from Wastewater

R. ChoudharyPhD (IIT Roorkee)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: P avement Analy sis and Desig n, Highway C onstruction and Qualit y C ontrol, Pavement Material Charac terisation, P avement E valuation and Maintenance, Traffi c Engineering

K. DasguptaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Ear thquake Eng ineering, Desig n of Reinf orced C oncrete Struc tures, Retr oĀ tting of Structures

S. K. DashPhD (IIT Madras)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Reinforced S oil Struc tures, Shallo w and Deep F oundations, Gr ound I mprovement Techniques

S. K. DebPhD (IIT Roorkee)Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of In terest: P assive and S emi-active C ontrol, Performance based S eismic Desig n, S ystem IdentiĀ cation and Structural Health Monitoring, Seismic Damage Assessment

A. DuttaPhD (IIT Delhi)Professor Areas of In terest: F inite Element M esh Generation,



Optimisation, C ontrol, Health M onitoring and RetroĀ tting of structures

S. DuttaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Meso-Scale Distributed hydrological modelling, Sat ellite Remot e S ensing and GIS f or Water Resour ces M anagement, C omputational R iver Hydraulics and its Applications , Watershed and Irrigation Management

P. K. GhoshPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Water tr eatment f or Domestic and Industrial use , Domestic and I ndustrial Wastewater Treatment, Sludge tr eatment b y Ph ysicochemical and Biological Process

S. GokhalePhD (IIT Delhi)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Urban Vehicular Pollution, Industrial Stack P ollution, I ndoor Air P ollution, En vironmental Impact Assessment

M. JawedPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Biolog ical P rocesses, Anaer obic Wastewater Treatment, Hea vy M etal Remo val and Recovery, Water Treatment and Supply , Domestic and Industrial Wastewater Treatment

A. KalamdhadPhD (IIT Roorkee)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Solid Waste Management, Mechanical Composting and Vermicomposting, Analy sis of S olid Wastes

S. A. KarthaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: F low and Transport thr ough Porous M edia, Heap L eaching, H ydrology, Numerical Modelling

H. B. KaushikPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Ear thquake Resistant Desig n, Nonlinear Beha viour of Struc tures, Retr oĀ tting of Structures, Finite Element Modelling

B. KumarPhD (IISc Bangalore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Small Scale Studies of M ixing Tanks, Experimental Studies of A eration S ystems, S ediment Transport Analy sis, P ipeline Analy sis, CFD Simulation, Surge Analysis

C. MahantaPhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)ProfessorAreas of Interest: Water Quality, Sediment Dynamics in Fluvial Systems, Environmental Impact, Risk Assessment and M anagement, En vironmental Geo -informatics, Engineering Geology

C. MallikarjunaPhD (IIT Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Tr affi c F low Theory and M odelling, Traffi c Data C ollection and Analy sis, Travel Demand Modelling

A. K. MauryaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Driver Behaviour, Traffi c Flow Theory and Modelling, Traffi c Engineering

A. K. MishraPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Chemical C ompatibility Studies of Soil-bentonite M ixtures, Waste (Municipal , I ndustrial and Hazar dous) M anagement and Disposal and Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

A. Murali KrishnaPhD (IISc Bangalore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: S oil I nvestigation, Reinf orced S oil



Structures, Geosynthetics and Gr ound I mprovement, Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

Sreeja P.PhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Urban H ydrology and H ydraulics, Computational F luid D ynamics, Multi- Objective Water Resources S ystems Analy sis, St ochastic H ydrological Modelling, Coastal Hydrodynamics

B. PradhanPhD (IIT Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Durabilit y studies in c oncrete, Corrosion of St eel Reinf orcement and P rotection Measures, High Performance Concrete, Mass Transport in C ementitious M aterials, Non- destructive Testing of Concrete Structures, Construction Management

S. Ray (up to 04.08.2010)PhD (Princeton, USA)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Biochemical processes in Wastewater Treatment, M onitoring and M anagement of Sur face Water Qualit y, I mpact of Climat e Change on Water Resources

T. L. RyntathiangPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Pavement Materials, Precast Concrete Block Pavement, Cast In-Situ Concrete Block Pavement

Sreedeep S.PhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Beha vioral Studies of Unsaturat ed Porous M edia, Charac terisation of Geomat erials, Contaminant Transport and Retainment in Geomaterials, Soil Stabilisation, D ynamic Beha viour and Study on Liquefaction Potential of Soil

A. Sachan (up to 08.12.2010)PhD (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Microfabric Study for Cohesive Soils

using XRD, SEM, AFM, Strain Localization in Soils using DIA technique, Material Characterisation

A. K. SarmaPhD (Gauhati University, Guwahati)Professor Areas of In terest: M odelling and Simulation in Free Sur face F low, Heuristic M ethod in Reser voir Optimisation, GIS based Watershed Modelling

A. K. SinghPhD (IISc Bangalore)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Information T echnology in Construction Eng ineering, Objec t-Oriented Programming, Constitutive Modelling

B. SinghPhD (IIT Delhi)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: M arine Geot echnology, M odelling of Onshore and Off shore Foundations, Soil Stabilisation and Ground ModiĀ cation, Pavement Subgrade and Site Characterisation

K. D. SinghPhD (Southampton University)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Structural Analysis and Design, Finite Element Method, Fracture and Fatigue Mechanics

L.B. SinghPhD (IIT Madras)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: P ublic P rivate P artnerships, R isk Management, Construction Management

S. TalukdarPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Struc tural D ynamics, Bridge Engineering, Wind induced Vibration and Control, Non Destructive Techniques



DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTIONThe Department of Computer Science and Engineering was established in 1995. Sinc e its inc eption, the Department has been r ecognised f or ex cellence in research and t eaching. The Depar tment pr ovides an outstanding r esearch en vironment c omplemented b y superior t eaching f or its students . I n M arch 2011, the Department has 23 facult y members , 7 suppor ting staff members, 259 students in the B Tech programme, 99 students in the M Tech programme and 40 students in the PhD pr ogramme. Till dat e, deg rees ha ve been awarded t o 465 B Tech students , 268 M Tech students and 6 PhD students . I n the 12th C onvocation of the Institute, 57 students w ere awarded the BTech degree, 36 students w ere awarded the M Tech degree and one student was a warded the PhD deg ree in C omputer Science and Engineering.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES The Department provides individual workspace with a high-end PC, ac cessible r ound the clock , t o each and every students of C omputer Science and Eng ineering. The Depar tment arranges f or summer training of second and thir d year BTech students in industr y and educational institutions in India and abroad.

The C omputer S cience and Eng ineering A ssociation (CSEA), a student g roup in the Depar tment, has conducted a series of lectures and organised workshops on diff erent t opics during this period . S ome students of the Depar tment took part in the A CM-ICPC contest. A Linux User Group is ac tive and is c onducting several workshops and seminars to promote Linux throughout the institute. A Solaris User Group is also working in the same direction.

During the summer of 2010, the Depar tment provided

summer training t o 38 students fr om diff erent institutions around the country.

Keeping in view curr ent t echnology tr ends, a lar ge number of specially desig ned c ourses w ere off ered by the Depar tment during this period . Students w ere off ered courses in Wireless Networks, Internet Protocols, Speech P rocessing, C omputational Number Theory and Cr yptography, C omputer and Net work S ecurity, Optimization, I ntelligent S ystems and I nterfaces, Distributed S ystems, P arallel Algorithms , I nformation and R andomness, C omputational Geometr y, VLSI Design, A dvanced C omputer Ar chitecture, Embedded Systems, Formal VeriĀ cation, Mobile Robotics, Enterprise Systems, Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia Systems, in addition to a set of courses in core areas.



MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESThe Department has separate laboratories for each year of the BTech and MTech programmes and provides one computer (business class machines with quad-core and minimum 4GB RAM) t o each enr olled student. These laboratories provide state of the ar t computing facility for the students . All the laborat ories are connected to the Gigabit Network of the Department which in turn is connected to the I nstitute Gigabit Net work on optical



Ā bre. The labs ar e suppor ted by many dual pr ocessor servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 including a High Availability (HA) File Server Cluster implementation with c entral LD AP authentication, running on IBM eServer I ntel X eon / AMD Opt eron based pr ocessors and Terabyte capacit y c entral st orage. A HP St orage Works MSL5000 S eries tape librar y is a vailable for the backup requirements. There is a local repository mirror server (maintained by the students of the Department) for Ubuntu and Fedora Linux to provide the most recent updates to users.

Nearly ev ery c ontemporary sof tware and dev eloping platform is made available to the students, so that they can be at par with the fast pac ed world of Information Technology.

Various M icrosoft pr oducts and the R ational Rose software development suite are used to familiarise the students with diff erent software development models. Many software packages and environments are available on the ser vers, including M ATLAB, Oracle RDBMS, Nachos OS pack age, NS2, GlomoSim, PHIGS g raphics library, Java compiler and applet viewer, C++ compilers and Lisp int erpreters. Development environments like MS Visual Studio 2008, MS Visual Studio .NE T, Visual Prolog, MS Offi ce 2003 developer, etc. are actively used for dev elopment purposes in the Depar tment. O ther software like Net work Quer y Language – Workstation (NQL), Qualnet with libraries , CADP ar e also a vailable. The Depar tment is a par tner in the Oracle A cademic Initiative and the MSDN Academic Alliance.

The Department hardware laboratory is equipped with educational t ools t o pr omote bett er understanding of c omputer har dware and peripherals among the students. 8085/86 M icroprocessor Trainer k its and 8033 Microcontroller kits are used to provide hands on experience t o students about basic har dware. These are suppor ted b y C olour L ogic Analyz er and P attern Generator, F unction/Arbitrary wa ve generat or, dig ital oscilloscopes, Wireless Transmitter/Receiver pairs, Data acquisition/Switch units , TDM pulse c ode modulat or/transmitter and demodulat or/receiver and other similar essentials . Univ ersal Robotics Trainer k its and Lego r obots ar e ac tively used b y students int erested

in robotics. Students working on various pr ojects have developed microcontroller controlled arms and robots. The Depar tment also has a campus wide WLAN Test bed, a CROSSBOW Wireless S ensor Net work Test bed and Tablet PCs for E-Classroom.The Depar tment has an ex clusive librar y cum r eading room equipped with mor e than 4000 books/CDs and journals published by IEEE, ACM etc.USP of the Department: The Depar tment enc ourages open int eractions

with all faculty members and non-teaching staff ; Individual w orkspace f or each student: each

student r egistered with the Depar tment is pr ovided with a cubicle and computer; and 24 × 7 × 365 ac cess t o all facilities of the

Department.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESThe major r esearch ar eas of the Depar tment ar e Computer Networks, Computer and Net work Security, Operating S ystems, Distribut ed S ystems, Speech Processing, C omputational Geometr y, Ar tiĀ cial Intelligence, M obile Robotics , Algorithms , Natural Language P rocessing, S oftware Eng ineering, F ormal VeriĀ cation, Embedded Systems, Electronic CAD, Pattern Recognition, Optimization, Multimedia Net working and S ecurity, I nformation H iding, M achine L earning, Computational Geometr y, I nformation Retrieval , Data M ining, and Multic ore P arallel P rogramming and Human- Computer I nteraction. The Depar tment’s faculty members actively involve in sponsored research and consultancy in these areas.

The Depar tment func tions as a nodal c entre f or the ERNE T, a r esource c entre f or I ndian Language Technology S olutions (RCIL TS) and a r esource c entre for the I nformation S ecurity Education & A wareness Programme.

The Depar tment c ollaborates with the f ollowing entities in I ndustry/Academia: M icrosoft, IBM, Oracle , HP, Wipro, TCS, Intel, General M otors R&D (Bangalor e), Red Hat, Helsink i Univ ersity of Technology (F inland), University of Oldenbur g ( Germany), Hanbat National University (S outh Kor ea), ISI Kolk ata and IIT K anpur, among others.



RESEARCH PROJECTS a) New Sponsored Projects


Agency

Amount Sanctioned

(Rs in Lakhs)


Samit Bhattacharya Modelling Visibility of Web Page Objects DST, New Delhi - - -

T. Venkatesh

Architectures and Protocols for Highspeed Networks with Tiny or No Buff ers

DST, New Delhi - - -



Agency

Amount Sanctioned

(Rs in Lakhs)

Co- Investigator Duration

P. Bhaduri

Intelligent Robot Human Interaction and Embedded Systems

DST, New Delhi 50J. K. Deka, S. B. Nair, P. K. Das

5 years

Sukumar Nandi

Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Project

MCIT, New Delhi 38 G. Sajith 5 years

Sukumar Nandi A Test bed for Mobile e-learning Systems

Hewlett Packard (HP), Asia PaciĀ c

and Japan

42 (one time in April 2007)

D. Goswami, J. K. Deka, S. V. Rao

3 years

D. Goswami

Fault Tolerance with Check Point and Recovery Protocols in Cluster based Distributed Systems

DST, New Delhi 10 S. Nandi 3 years

H. K. KapoorFormal Approach to Design of Latency-insensitive System

DST, New Delhi 5 - 2 years

Sukumar Nandi

Design, Development and VeriĀ cation of Network SpeciĀ c IDS using FDD of DES

MCIT, New Delhi 70Santosh

Biswas, Arijit Sur

2 years



Agency



Gautam Barua

Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solution (2nd Phase) (Assamese and Bodo)

MCIT, New Delhi 26D. Goswami,Shakuntala

Mahanta3 years



CONSULTANCY


Agency



Gautam Barua

ERP Implementation - Orissa Power Transmission Corporation Ltd., Bhubaneswar

Orissa Power Transmission

Corporation Ltd., Bhubaneswar

8.42 Sukumar Nandi Ongoing

Gautam BaruaIT Consultant General Insurance Corporation, Mumbai

General Insurance

Corporation, Mumbai

2.50 - Ongoing

Gautam BaruaGovt. of Assam, E-Governance projects

Govt. of Assam - - Ongoing

Gautam Barua

ERP Implementation - North Eastern Electric Power Corporation, Shillong

North Eastern Electric Power Corporation,

Shillong

10 - Ongoing

Santosh Biswas

Development of Framework for Logging and Analysis of Network Traffi c to Secure IT Infrastructure

Projects of MCIT at Manipur University,

Gauhati University,

Assam University

15 Sukumar

Nandi, Arijit Sur

New

Gautam Barua ERP System SelectionAsianRe

Bangkok, Thailand

- - 1 year

Gautam BaruaProcurement of Computers and Educational Software

Assam Sarba Shiksha Abhijan, Govt. of Assam

- - New


International JournalS. Bhattacharya, D. Samanta and A. Basu‘Model-based Design of Scanning Input Communication Aids: State of the Art and Research Issues’, International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, vol. 32 (3), pp 290-296, 2010

Lalit K. Pagaria, T. Venkatesh, and C. Siva Ram Murthy‘Modeling the I mpact of C ontrol Plane L osses on the Performance of Optical Burst Switched Core Node’, IEEE Communication L etters, v ol. 14 (11), pp 1071-1073, 2010

V. Vijaya Saradhi and G. K. Palshikar‘Churn P rediction’, Exper t S ystems with Applications , vol. 38 (3), 2011

Girish Keshav Palshikar, Harrick M. Vin, V.Vijaya Saradhi and Mohammed Mudassar‘Discovering Exper ts, Experienc ed P ersons and Specialists f or IT I nfrastructure Suppor t’, S ervices Science, vol. 3 (1), pp 1-21, 2011

Shivashankar B. Nair and S. Borgohain‘Towards a Pictorially Grounded Language for Machine-Aided Translation’, I nternational Journal of A sian Language Processing, vol. 20 (3), pp 87-109, 2010



Shivashankar B. Nair, W. Godfrey and D. H. Kim‘On Realising a Multi-A gent Emotion Eng ine’, International Journal of S ynthetic Emotions, vol. 2 (2), 2011

Santosh Biswas , D Sark ar, Siddhar tha Muk hopadhyay and Amit Patra‘Fairness of Transitions in Diag nosability Analy sis of Discrete E vent S ystems’, Journal of discr ete ev ent dynamic sy stems: theor y and applications , vol. 20 (3), pp 20:349-376, Springer, 2010

Santosh Biswas , D Sark ar and Siddhar tha Mukhopadhyay‘Fairness of Transitions in Diag nosability Analy sis of Discrete Event Systems’, International Journal of System Sciences, v ol. 41 (7), pp 763-782, Taylor and F rancis, 2010

Neminath Hubballi, Sant osh Biswas , Rupa S., R itesh Ratti and Sukumar Nandi‘Discrete E vent S ystems Appr oach t o LAN A ttack Detection’, ISA Transactions, v ol 50 (1), pp 119-130, 2011

S. Karmakar and A. Gupta‘Adaptive Br oadcast b y F ault-tolerant Spanning Tree S witching’, Journal of P arallel and Distribut ed Computing, vol. 70 (9), pp 889-906, 2010

P. Mitra and K. Baid‘Generation of Targeted A dvertising f or Online S ocial Networks’, I nternational Journal of Web Applications , pp 129-136, 2011

Nityananda Sarma and Sukumar Nandi‘Service Diff erentiation using P riority based M AC Protocol in M ANETs’, I nternational Journal of I nternet Protocol Technology, vol. 5 (3), pp 115-131, 2010

N. Hubballi, S. Biswas and S Nandi‘Network SpeciĀ c F alse Alarm Reduc tion in I ntrusion Detection S ystem’, I nternational Journal on S ecurity and Communication Networks, (available online), 2010

Nityananda Sarma and Sukumar Nandi‘A Multipath QoS Routing with Rout e Stabilit y f or

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks’, IETE Technical Review, vol. 27 (5), 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaN. Singh and S. Bhattacharya‘A GA-Based Approach to Improve Web Page Aesthetics’, Proceedings of the F irst I nternational C onference on Intelligent I nteractive Technologies and Multimedia, IIIT Allahabad, India, pp 29-32, 28-30 December 2010

S. Jain and S. Bhattacharya‘Virtual Keyboard Layout Optimisation’, Proceedings of the IEEE Students ’ Technology Symposium ( TechSym), IIT Kharagpur, India, pp 312-317, 3-4 April 2010

A. Kumar and S. Bhattacharya‘Online Devnagari Isolat ed Charac ter Rec ognition f or the iPhone using Hidden Markov Model’, Proceedings of the IEEE Students ’ Technology Symposium ( TechSym), IIT Kharagpur, India, pp 300-304, 3-4 April 2010

V. R. Anwikar and P. Bhaduri‘Timing Analysis of Real-Time Embedded Systems using Model Check ing’, Eighteenth I nternational Conference on Real-Time and Net work S ystems, Toulouse, France, 4-5 November 2010

Ashok Singh Sairam, Lat e A shish Subramaniam and Gautam Barua‘Defeating Refl ector Based Denial- of-Service A ttacks using Single P acket F ilters’, F ifth I nternational ICST Conference on C ommunications and Net working in China (Chinacomm 2010), Bejing, China, August 2010

Lipika Deka and Gautam Barua‘On-line C onsistent Backup in Transactional F ile Systems’, F irst A CM A sia-PaciĀ c Workshop on S ystems (APSys2010), August 2010, New Delhi

H. K . K apoor, A. A sthana, T. K rilavicius, W. Z eng, J . M a and K. L. Man‘Towards a Language Based S ynthesis of NCL Cir cuits’, Proceedings of the The I nternational MultiConference of Eng ineers and C omputer S cientists (IMECS), Hong Kong, pp 1033-1038, March 2011

K. L. M an, A. A sthana, H. K . Kapoor, T. Krilavicius and J . Chang



‘Process Algebraic SpeciĀ cation of DI Cir cuits’, Proceedings of the S eventh IEEE I nternational S oC Design C onference (ISOC C), Kor ea, pp 396-399, November 2010

H. K. Kapoor‘Interface P rocess Generation t o C ompose Dela y-Insensitive A synchronous M odules’, I nternational Conference on C ommunication, C omputers and Devices (ICCCD), India, December 2010

Shivashankar B. Nair, W. Godfrey and D. H. Kim‘A Multi-M obile A gent Multi-Robot Net work’, International C onference on Emer ging Trends in Robotics and C ommunication Technologies, Chennai, India, 3 - 5 December 2010

Shivashankar B. Nair and Godfrey‘A Pheromone based M obile Agent Migration Strategy for S ervicing Net worked Robots ’, F ifth I nternational ICST C onference on Bio -Inspired M odels of Net work, Information, and Computing Systems, BIONETICS 2010, Boston, USA, 1-4 December 2010

Shivashankar B. Nair and W. Godfrey‘Mobile Agent Cloning for Servicing Networked Robots’, Thirteenth I nternational Conference on P rinciples and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2010), Kolkata, India, 12-15 November 2010

A. Khan, K. Misra, S. Biswas, J. Deka and H. Kapoor‘Fair Diag nosability in PN-based DES M odels’, Proceedings of the IEEE I nternational C onference of Control and Automation 2010, Xiamen, China, pp 2116-2171, 9-11 June 2010

Neminath Hubballi, S. Roopa, R itesh R atti, F . A. Barbhuiya, Sant osh Biswas , Arijit Sur , Sukumar Nandi and Vivek Ramachandran‘An Active Intrusion Detection System for LAN SpeciĀ c Attacks’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on A dvances in C omputer S cience and I nformation Technology 2010, Japan, pp 129-142

Neminath Hubballi, Roopa S, R itesh R atti, F Barburiya, Santosh Biswas , Sukumar Nandi, Arijit Sur and Vivek Ramachandran

‘A Discr ete E vent S ystem Appr oach t o I ntrusion Detection System for LAN A ttacks’, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Mediterranean Conference on C ontrol and Automation, M arrakech, M orocco, pp 695-700, 23-25 June 2010

Bidyut K r. P atra, Neminath Hubballi, Sant osh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi‘Distance Based F ast H ierarchical Clust ering M ethod for Lar ge Datasets ’, P roceedings of the I nternational Conference on Rough S ets and C urrent Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2010), Poland, pp 50-59, 28-30 June 2010

F. A. Barbhuiya, S Roopa, R R atti, Neminath H, S Biswas , S Nandi, A Sur and V Ramachandra‘An A ctive Host-based Det ection M echanism f or ARP -related A ttacks’, P roceedings of the I nternational Conference on Network and Communications Security (Netcom 2010), Chennai, I ndia, pp 432-443, 27-29 December 2010

Neminath Hubballi, Sant osh Biswas and Sukumar Nandi‘Sequencegram: n- gram M odeling of S ystem C alls f or Program based Anomaly Detection’, Proceedings of the International C onference on C OMmunication S ystems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2011, Bangalor e, India, pp 1-10, 4-8 January 2011

Santosh Kumar, Sukumar Nandi and Santosh Biswas‘Research and Application of One -Class Small Hypersphere Suppor t Vector M achine f or Net work’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on COMmunication S ystems and NE TworkS ( COMSNETS) 2011, Bangalore, India, pp 1-4, 4-8 January 2011

A. Patro, S. Biswas and D. Goswami‘Use of Reliabilit y M etrics t o C ompare Bit Torrent and Network C oding’, P roceedings of the I nternational Conference on C ommunication, C omputers and Devices (IC CCD) 2010, IIT K haragpur, pp 1-6, 10-12 December 2010

Ranbir Sanasam, Hema Murthy and Timothy Gonsalves‘Feature Selection for Text ClassiĀ cation Based on Gini Coeffi cient of I nequality’, JMLR F ourth I nternational



Workshop on F eature S election in Data M ining, FSDM2010, Hyderabad, India, 21-24 June 2010

Ranbir Sanasam, Hema Murthy and Timothy Gonsalves‘Dynamic Quer y Expansion Based on U ser’s Real Time I mplicit F eedback’, I nternational C onference on K nowledge Disc overy and I nformation Retrieval , KDIR2010, Valencia, Spain, 26-29 October 2010

Sankara Rao and Ranbir Sanasam‘Proxy: I ntegrating Client Side I nformation and Query’, Eighth I nternational Workshop on I nformation Integration on the Web, IIWeb2011, H yderabad, I ndia, 28 March 2011

S. Katiyar and S. Karmakar‘An Appr oach t o Termination Det ection in Dela y Tolerant Net works’, S econd National C onference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science (NCETACS), Shillong, Meghalaya, India, 4-5 March 2011

P. Mitra, G. Sundaram, S. G. Kumar and V. Kurup‘Mail Plug in f or IBM M ashup C enter’, I nternational Conference on Internet Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010

P. Mitra and S. Swain‘Supersingularity and C yclicity of Elliptic C urves’, National Workshop on Network Security (NWNS) 2010, Tezpur University, 9-10 June 2010S. Surti and D. Goswami‘Pseudo Stabilizing C ausal Or dering’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on H igh P erformance Computing and Simulation, C aen, France, pp 157-162, 28 June – 02 July 2010

S. De, S. Nandi and D. Goswami‘On per formance impr ovement issues in unor dered Tuple Space based M obile Middleware’, IEEE INDIC ON, Kolkata, India, 17-19 December 2010

S. Chakraborty, S. Majumdar and D. Goswami‘An Approximate Equilibrium Model for Load Balancing in Distributed Systems using epsilon-Congestion Game’, International Workshop on Distribut ed Systems (IWDS

2010), IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, 27-29 November 2010G. Khataniar and D. Goswami

‘Improving Quer y Processing in Unstruc tured Peer-to-Peer S ystem’, P roceedings of the National C onference on Emer ging Trends and Applications in C omputer Science 2010, Shillong, India, pp 10-14, 9-10 April 2010

G. K. Saikia, N. Sharma, G. Khataniar and D. Goswami‘Cooperation M echanism f or 3-tier hierar chical P eer-to-Peer t o impr ove QoS ”, P roceedings of the National Conference on Emer ging Trends and Applications in Computer Science, Shillong, India, pp 81-85, 9-10 April 2010

G. Khataniar, D. Goswami, B. Das and M. K. Deka‘A Sur vey on S ecurity M easures used in P eer-to-Peer System’, National Workshop on Net work S ecurity (NWNS10), Tezpur, India, 9-10 June 2010

Udit Singh, Rajat Singh and Arijit Sur‘Reversible Data Hiding by Utilizing the Local Maxima in the Histogram’, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multimedia and C ontent Based I mage Retrieval (ICMCBIR-2010), Bangalore, India, pp 221-223, 21-23 July 2010

Anand S Nair, Arijit Sur and Sukumar Nandi‘Detection of P acket L ength Based Net work Steganography’, P roceedings of the I nternational Conference on Multimedia I nformation Net working and Security (MINES 2010), Nanjing, China, pp 574-578, 18-20 November 2010

Udit Singh and Arijit Sur‘Reversible Data H iding by Alternate Shif ting of P eaks in the Histogram’, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2010), Allahabad , I ndia, pp 187-192, 28-30 December 2010

S. Sinha, S. C. Manash, P. Barman and A. Sahu‘A Study on the P erformance of S erial Code on Shar ed Memory Parallel Architecture’, Proceedings of the IEEE International C onference on P arallel, Distribut ed and



Grid Computing, Solan, India, pp 19-22, 28-30 Oc tober 2010K. Sreenivasan and S. Raj‘Checkpointing in a Cloud C omputing S ystem’, Workshop on Cloud C omputing, IIT Bomba y, Mumbai, February 2011

Biswanath Dey and Sukumar Nandi‘A S calable Ener gy Effi cient and Dela y Bounded Data Gathering Framework for Large Scale Sensor Network’, International Conference on Emer ging Applications of Information Technology, February 2011

Biswanath Dey, Sukumar Nandi and Gautam Das‘Mobility Assisted Effi cient C overage Control in Clust er Based S ensor Net works’, I nternational C onference on Emerging Applications of I nformation Technology, February 2011

Shivendra K atiyar, K ullai Reddy M eka, F erdous A. Barbhuiya and Sukumar Nandi‘Online Voting S ystem Powered b y Biometric S ecurity Using St eganography’, I nternational C onference on Emerging Applications of I nformation Technology, February 2011

Rajendra P amula, Jatindra K umar Dek a and Sukumar Nandi‘An Outlier Det ection M ethod Based on Clust ering’, International Conference on Emer ging Applications of Information Technology, February 2011

Sandip Chakraborty, Soumyadip Majumder, Ferdous A. Barbhuiya and Sukumar Nandi‘A S calable Rekeying S cheme f or S ecure Multicast in IEEE 802.16 Network’, Second International Conference on Net work and C ommunications S ecurity, Januar y 2011

Santosh Kumar, Sumit Kumar and Sukumar Nandi‘Copyright P rotection in Dig ital Multimedia ’, Second I nternational C onference on Net work and Communications Security, January 2011

Abhijit Sarma, Shantanu Joshi and Sukumar Nandi‘Context A ware M obile I nitiated Handoff for Performance I mprovement in IEEE 802.11 Net works’, Second I nternational C onference on Net works and Communications, January 2011

Rajendra P amula, Jatindra K umar Dek a and Sukumar Nandi‘Distance Based F ast Outlier Det ection M ethod’, IEEE INDICON, December 2010

Arup Bhattacharjee and Sukumar Nandi‘Tighter End-to-End Delay Bound f or Aggregate Traffi c Scheduling’, IEEE INDICON, December 2010

Arup Bhattacharjee and Sukumar Nandi‘Bivariate G amma Distribution: A plausible solution for joint distribution of packet arrival and their siz es’, Thirteenth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, December 2010

Amrita Bose P aul, Shantanu Kon war, Upola Gogoi, Angshuman Chakraborty, Nihifar Yeshmin and Sukumar Nandi‘Implementation and P erformance E valuation of AODV in Wireless M esh Net works using NS-3’, S econd International Conference on Education Technology and Computer (ICETC 2010), June 2010

Marchang Jims , Sukumar Nandi, and N ityananda Sarma‘Prioritized QoS suppor t M AC f or Real Time F lows’, Second I nternational C onference on C omputer and Network Technology, April 2010

Book, Chapter, etc.S. Bhattacharya‘Model-based Appr oaches f or S canning Keyboar d Design: Present State and Future Directions’, Handbook of Resear ch on P ersonal A utonomy Technologies and Disability I nformatics, Ed . Ja vier P ereira, C entre of Medical I nformatics, Univ ersity of A C oruña, Spain, Medical I nformation S cience Ref erence (an imprint of IGI Global), pp. 264-282




Name of Faculty Name of Conference/Workshop Place Date International/

National

Purandar Bhaduri18th International Conference on Real-Time and Network Systems

Toulouse, France 4-5 November 2010 International

Gautam Barua

First ACM Asia-PaciĀ c Workshop on Systems co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2010

New Delhi 29-30 August2010 International

Shivashankar B. Nair

5th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems

Boston, USA 1-4 December 2010 International

S. Ranbir SinghInternational Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval

Valencia, Spain 26-29 October 2010 International

S. Ranbir SinghPaciĀ c Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Hyderabad 21-24 June 2010 International

Sukumar Nandi

IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems

Mumbai December 2010 International

Santosh BiswasInternational Conference on Communication, Computers and Devices

IIT Kharagpur December 2010 International

Diganta Goswami

International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation

Caen, France June 28 - July 02 2010 International

Santosh BiswasIEEE International Conference of Control and Automation

Xiamen, China June 2010 International

Arjit Sur

International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security

Nanjing, China 4-6 November 2010 International



S. Ranbir SinghApplication of Machine Learning in Information Retrieval

Gauhati University Guwahati, India 6-8 October 2010

Sukumar NandiTraffi c Characteristics under Connectionless Service

IIT Bombay Mumbai, India December 2010

Sukumar Nandi Detection of ARP Attacks Tezpur University Tezpur, India June 2010




Name Name of Inst./Org. Purpose Date

Girish PalshikarSystems Research Lab., Tata Research Development and Design Centre

Collaboration between IIT Guwahati and Tata Reseach

Labs29 March 2011

Sushmita Mitra ISI Kolkata Visit to IIT Guwahati 28 March 2011

Vivek Ramachandran Founder, SecurityTube Speaker at ISEA Workshop at

IIT Guwahati 7-11 March 2011

Nagareshwar Talekar Founder, Security Xploded Inc. Speaker at ISEA Workshop at IIT Guwahati 9 March 2011

Md. Sohail Ahmad Manager, R&D AirTight Networks Speaker at ISEA Workshop at IIT Guwahati 10 March 2011

K. Prasanna Security Consultant Islamic Bank, Dubai

Speaker at ISEA Workshop at IIT Guwahati 11 March 2011

P. Anandan Microsoft ResearchIndia Collaboration between IIT Guwahati and Microsoft

Reseach India 8 February 2011

Peri Bhaskara Rao Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan Visit to IIT Guwahati 7 February 2011

U. S. N. Murthy Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad Visit to IIT Guwahati 29 December 2010

Dhruba Borthakur Facebook, USA Visit to IIT Guwahati 4 November 2010

Siddharta Nandi Advanced Technology Group, NetApp, Bangalore

Collaboration between IIT Guwahati and NetApp 18 October 2010

Narendra S. Chaudhari IIT Indore Visit to IIT Guwahati 3 September2010

Ashish Mukhopadhyaya University of Windsor, Canada Visit to IIT Guwahati 29 July 2010

Santosh Kumar Mohanty Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Collaboration between IIT

Guwahati and TCS 29 July 2010

Sagar Naik Dept. of CSE, University of Waterloo Visit to IIT Guwahati 15-24 June 2010

Manish Bali NVIDA Systems Pvt. Ltd. Demonstration of CUDA GPU Computing Facility 19 April 2010


Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date International/National

Sukumar NandiWorkshop on Information Security Education and Awareness

DIT, New Delhi 7-11 March 2011 National



INVITED LECTURES


Sagar Naik Dept. of CSE, University of Waterloo

Green Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems

23 June 2010

Ashish Mukhopadhyay

Dept. of CSE, University of Windsor, Canada Point Placement on a Line 29 July 2010

Santosh Kumar Mohanty Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Latest Advancement in

Computing Technology 29 July 2010

Narendra S Chaudhari Dept. of CSE, IIT Indore P=NP, Polynomial Solvability

of NP-Complete Problems 3 September 2010

Kishor Barman TIFR, Mumbai What is popular amongst friends? 21 September 2010

Dhruba Borthakur Facebook, USADesign and Architecture of Hadoop Distributed File System

4 November 2010

Anant Vishnoi General Motors R&D, BangaloreEffi cient Cache State Dumping for Post-silicon Processor Validation

8 November 2010

Raghunath Tiwari Dept. of CSE, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Green’s Theorem and its applications to the isolation problem in planar graphs

6 December 2010

USN Murthy Biology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad

Data Mining – An Aplomb Solution for the Aff righting Vector Borne Diseases in India

29 December 2010

Peri Bhaskar Rao Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Phonetic Essentials of Indian Languages and their Implications for Speech Technology

7 February 2011

P. Anandan Microsoft Research India Microsoft Research India: The Growing Years 8 February 2011

Vivek Ramachandran SecurityTube Reverse Engineering and

Exploit Research 7 March 2011

Nagareshwar Talekar SecurityXploded Inc Password Recovery, Storage and Security 9 March 2011

Md Sohail Ahmad AirTight Networks Wireless Network Security, Attacks and Counter measures 10 March 2011

Prasanna K Islamic Bank, DubaiMozilla Firefox Internals, Building Extensions & Attack Strategies

11 March 2011

Sushmita Mitra Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute

Some Computational Intelligence Applications 28 March 2011

SHORT-TERM COURSESQIP Short-Term Course on “Multimedia Communication”, 20-26 October 2010, organised by Sukumar Nandi and Arjit Sur.

FACULTY MEMBERS A. Anand PhD (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Machine Learning and applications



in Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Evolutionary Algorithms

A. Awekar PhD (North Carolina State University, Raleigh)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Data Mining

Gautam Barua PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara) Professor and Director Areas of In terests: Distribut ed S ystems, Net works, Operating Systems, Database Management Systems

P. BhaduriPhD (Washington State University, Pullman)Associate Professor and HeadAreas of In terests: F ormal M odelling, S ynthesis and VeriĀ cation of Embedded Systems

S. Bhattacharya PhD (IIT Kharagpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Human C omputer I nteraction, User M odeling, M odel Based E valuation of I nteractive Systems, Rehabilitation Engineering

S. Biswas PhD (IIT Kharagpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Net working, F ault Tolerance, VLSI Testing, Embedded Systems P. K. Das PhD (Delhi University) Associate Professor Areas of In terests: Speech Rec ognition, P attern Recognition, Man-Machine Interaction Systems

J. K. Deka PhD (IIT Kharagpur) Associate Professor Areas of In terests: F ormal VeriĀ cation, VLSI System Design

D. Goswami PhD (IIT Kharagpur) Associate Professor

Areas of In terests: S oftware Engineering, Distributed Systems

R. Inkulu PhD (IIT-Chicago)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Algorithms , C omputational Geometry B. George PhD (TIFR Mumbai) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Word C ombinatorics, Algorithms and Combinatorics

H. K. Kapoor PhD (London South Bank University, UK)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Formal VeriĀ cation of Circuits

S. Karmakar PhD (IIT Kharagpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Distribut ed algorithms , fault-tolerance, distributed algorithms for ad hoc and sensor networks

P. MitraPhD (Simon Fraser University, Canada)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: Computational Geometr y, Parallel Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms, Optimization

S. B. Nair PhD (Amravati University) Associate Professor Areas of In terests: Natural Language P rocessing, ArtiĀ cial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, Robotics

S. Nandi PhD (IIT Kharagpur) Professor and Dean of Academic Aff airsAreas of Interests: Networks (QoS, Wireless networks), Computer and Network Security

S. V. Rao PhD (IIT Kanpur) Associate Professor



Areas of In terests: Computational Geometr y, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing

A. Sahu PhD (IIT Delhi) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Advanced Computer Architecture, Multicore P arallel P rogramming and C ompiling, Embedded Systems, VLSI and FPGA Design.

G. Sajith PhD (IIT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interests: Parallel and Distributed Computing

V. V. Saradhi PhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Machine Learning, Kernel Methods, Data Mining and their applications.

S. R. Singh PhD (IIT Madras) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Web S earch, M achine L earning,

Information Retrieval , Data M ining especially in the area of Web Search Engine

K. Sreenivasan PhD (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Visiting ProfessorAreas of In terests: P erformance E valuation of Computer Systems, Cloud Computing

A. Sur PhD (IIT Kharagpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Information Hiding: Steganography and Steganalysis, Multimedia Security: Image and Video Watermarking, Net work S ecurity: I ntrusion Det ection System and Network Steganography

T. Venkatesh PhD (IIT Madras) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: WDM Optical Net works, IP over WDM Net works, Br oadband A ccess Net works, Performance E valuation of C omputer Net works, Network Tomography.



DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN

INTRODUCTIONThe Depar tment of Desig n, IIT Guwahati, off ers 4 y ear undergraduate programme in Desig n leading t o BDes degree, 2 y ear post graduate pr ogramme in Desig n leading to MDes degree and Doctoral studies in Design leading to PhD degree.

These Design programmes engage in inter-disciplinary and intra- disciplinary studies that int egrate cr eative pursuits engaging design and technology as applicable to the following thrust areas:

Industrial Desig n aspec ts in New P roduct DevelopmentUsability Engineering and Interaction Design including HCIErgonomic Research and DesignCommunication Design and New Media

Considering the new oppor tunities in the domain of inf ormation t echnology that incr easingly r equire designers, the Depar tment has enhanc ed its desig n research and dev elopment ac tivities in the ar ea of product desig n and c ommunication desig n that embrace: Experiential Desig n, U sability Eng ineering, User Experienc e Desig n, Human C omputer I nterfaces, Lifestyle and accessories, E-learning, Games, Design for the elderly, Publication Design.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESThe Depar tment has BDes , MDes and PhD programmes.

STUDENT INTAKEBDes students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 45MDes students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 22PhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 5

FACULTY STRENGTHProfessor : 04Associate Professor : 01Assistant Professor : 07Total : 12

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESEquipmenti. Eye Movement Recorder ii. Remot e Testing System iii. Digital White Board iv. Games Simulatorv. Digital Photography Equipmentvi. Videography Equipmentvii. Machinery for Product Design and developmentviii. EOS Rapid Prototyping Machine ix. Audio Visual Equipment for presentation

Facilitiesi. CAID Lab (Product Audit lab) ii. Product Modeling and Simulation Lab iii. Rapid Prototyping Lab iv. Workshop (wood, plastic, bamboo, metal) v. Graphic / print and Multimedia Studio vi. Ergonomics (Human factors Lab) vii. ErgoMaster 3.5, M anne QuinPRO , Er gonomics

Modelling Software viii. Usability Engineering and HCI Lab ix. Digital Photography and Video Studio x. Macintosh Computer Studioxi. Virtual Reality labxii. Embedded Interaction Lab



RESEARCH PROJECTSa) New Sponsored Projects


Agency



Sougata KarmakarVisual and Tactile Information Processing in Product Selection Process

Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.

40.83 Subrata Ghosh 03 Years



Agency



Debkumar Chakrabarti

Virtual ergonomics Lab A Component project of Under CET/P/RB/2 (DC)

MHRD - - 2 years


Introduction to Ergonomics, Under CET/P/HoC/1

MHRD 8 - 2 years

Pradeep Yammiyavar

Virtual Lab- Creative Design, Prototyping & Experiential Simulation Lab

MHRD 30 (Approx) - 3 years

Ravi Mokashi Punekar

Design Development of Gear for Avalanche Survival

High Altitude Warfare School,

Indian Army32 A. K. Das Uptill

2012

Dr. Sougata Karmakar

Design and Evaluation of Play Ground for Primary School Children in Virtual Environment

IIT Guwahati 5 - 2 Years

Amarendra Kumar Das

Design development of Innovative devices of Innovators (4 components)

National Innovation

Foundations, DST, Govt. of

India

26 - 1.5 Years

Amarendra Kumar Das

Design Development of Poly houses for NER

Zopar exports, Shillong 1.25 - 6 months

Amarendra Kumar Das

Design Development of Bullet Proof Bunkers

West World, Delhi 1.6 - 6 months

CONSULTANCY


Agency



D. Udaya Kumar Logo design for Rural Connectivity buses

ASTC, Guwahati 1.21 - One

month




International Journal M. Her tzum, T. Clemmensen, K . Hornbæk , J. Kumar, Q. Shi and P. Yammiyavar‘Personal U sability C onstructs: Ho w P eople C onstrue Usability A cross Nationalit y and Stakeholder Gr oups’, International Journal of Human- Computer Interaction, Issue 1, pp 1532-7590, 2011

S. Iqbal‘Structures and Struc tural I nterventions in Almora, India’, Vulnerability, R isk and C omplexity: I mpacts of Global Change on Human Habitats Ed . K abisch S, Feldmann H (Faculty of Architecture, Helmholtz Centre For Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany) pp 57-59,2010

S. Iqbal‘Vision 2030: A F uturistic Facelift to the Temple City of Otto Konigsberger’, Urban Dynamics & Housing Change: Crossing into the 2nd Decade of the 3r d Millenium Ed. Ozuekren A S (Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey) pp 66-68, 2010

National JournalManuj Dhariwal, Pradeep Y. and Rajat Dhariwal‘CRIB – A new framew ork pr oposal f or dev eloping Mathematical concepts in school children by engaging multiple intelligences’, Journal of Early Childhood C are & Education – Na vtika, v ol 1 (4) , Salwan Educational Trust, Gurgaon, India, 2011

P. Karmakara, P. K. Das, S. Sark ar (Mondal), S. K armakar and D. Mazumdar‘Association Study bet ween L ead and C opper Accumulation at Diff erent Ph ysiological S ystems of C attle b y C anonical C orrelation and C anonical Correspondence Analy ses’, En vironment and Ec ology, vol. 28 (4), pp 2321-2325, 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia T.Ravi and Debkumar Chakrabarti‘Product ac ceptance-Demands c onvenience and Emotion rather than c onĀ ning in aesthetics and t echnology f or func tion’, Sustainabilit y and Technology:Now, Proceedings of the LeNS Conference,

Banglore, Greenleaf Publishing Ltd. UK, pp 128-132, 29 September- 1 October 2010, International

Prakash Kumar and Debkumar Chakrabarti‘Extending the life Cycle of Under-Utilised Urban S crap Through Sustainable Desig n Appr oach’, P roceedings of the Third International Conference on Research into Design (IC oRD 2011), IIS c Bangalor e, Resear ch int o Design Suppor ting sustainable pr oduct development, edited b y Amar esh Chak rabarti, Resear ch P ublishing, Singapore, pp. 541- 550, ISBN: 978-981-08-7721-7, 10-12 January 2011

Sangeeta Pandit, Nandita Bhattacharyya and Debkumar Chakrabarti‘An ergonomics study on women weavers’ performance: Design and Occupational assessment in the handloom industries in A ssam’, Abstrac t publication, I ndian Science Congress, Chennai, 3-7 January 2011

Debkumar Chakrabarti‘Good desig n fundamentals and er gonomics health risks fac tors’, Abstrac t publication, I ndian S cience Congress, Chennai, 3-7 January 2011

Nandita Bhattacharyya, Sangeeta Pandit and Debkumar Chakrabarti‘Work related upper limb disorders among the women workers engaged in fruit processing industries of Assam and desig n dev elopment sc ope’, Abstrac t publication, Indian Science Congress, Chennai, 3-7 January 2011

Pradeep Yammiyavar and Debayan Dhar‘Usability c onsiderations in c onceptualizing GUIs – A case study of an online aptitude t esting sy stem f or admitting students in Desig n programs’, P roceedings of the Third International Conference on Research into Design (IC oRD 2011), IIS c Bangalor e, 10-12 Januar y 2011

Kanupriya, Rishub Kumar and Pradeep Yammiyavar‘Extent of I nfl uence of r egional pr eferences on the design of GUI elements in new s papers w ebsites: An experimental study on user ’s per ceptions on visual la yout’, P roceedings of the Third I nternational Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2011), IISc Bangalore, 10-12 January 2011



Pradeep Yammiyavar and Vikash Kumar‘E-Waste Generation fr om M obile Phones and Sustainability issues for Designers’, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2011), IISc Bangalore, 10-12 January 2011

Gaurav Abnesh K ulshrestha, Kshitij Bhar dwaj and Pradeep Yammiyavar‘Modifying Traffi c Circles to Reduce Fuel Consumption’, Proceedings of National Round Table Meet on Hybrid Renewable Ener gy S ources f or P ublic Transportation Systems, IIT Guwahati, 11-13 October 2010

Aman Gupta, Bharadwaj R adhakrishna and P radeep Yammiyavar‘Natural Vehicle C ooling S ystems’, P roceedings of National Round Table M eet on H ybrid Renewable Energy S ources f or P ublic Transportation S ystems, IIT Guwahati, 11-13 October 2010

Vikash Kumar and Pradeep Yammiyavar‘Systems Appr oach t o a Sustainable Transportation Systems – an overview’, Proceedings of National Round Table M eet on H ybrid Renewable Ener gy S ources f or Public Transportation S ystems, IIT Guwahati, 11-13 October 2010

Ravi Mokashi Punekar‘Social Sustainabilit y and dev elopment: case example of par ticipatory appr oach t o dev eloping bamboo furniture by craftpersons for primary health c entres in Assam’, ‘Sustainability in Desig n – NOW ’, Proceeding of the LeNS Conference, Bangalore, India, pp II 1246-1252, 29 September – 1 October 2010

K. K. Balakrishnan and Ravi Mokashi Punekar‘Traditional A ssamese ar chitecture: in a sustainable perspective’, ‘Sustainability in Desig n – NOW ’ – Proceeding of the L eNS C onference, Bangalor e, I ndia, pp I 591-612, 29 September – 1 October 2010

Vivek Tripathi, Div yanshu Bansal and R avi M okashi Punekar‘Early Stage Analysis of the eff ects of shared Compting (CSCL) on c omputer Lit eracy in Emer ging Ec onomies, India HCU 2010, I nteraction Desig n f or I nternational Development 2010, IDC, IIT Bomba y, pp 93-101, April 2010

S. Karmakar, C. Dattu Patil and D. Chakrabarti‘3D Physiological CAD Model in Pedagogy of Physiology and M edical S ciences’, P roceedings of N inety-eighth Indian S cience C ongress, SRM Univ ersity, Chennai, India, 3-7 January 2011

S. Karmakar, M. C. Kallesh and D. Chakrabarti‘Comparative Study of Human M odel C onstructions in Diff erent 3D Dig ital Human M odeling S oftwares’, Proceedings of PSI and SAAP Conference 2010, St. John’s Medical C ollege, Bangalor e, I ndia, 15-17 Dec ember 2010

Keyur Sorathia‘Energy C onservation and I nteraction Desig n’, Proceedings of Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction 2011, Madiera, Portugal, pp 193-198, 23-27 January 2011

Partha K armakar, P radip K umar Das , S eema Sark ar Mondal, Sougata Karmakar and Debasis Mazumdar ‘Association Study between Lead and Zinc Accumulation at Diff erent Ph ysiological S ystems of C attle b y Canonical C orrelation and C anonical C orrespondence Analyses’, Proceedings of the I nternational Conference on M odelling, Optimization, and C omputing (ICMOS 2010), vol. 1298, pp. 742-748, 2010

Book, Chapter, etc.Pradeep Yammiyavar, Ed.Hybrid Renewable Ener gy S ources f or public transportation sy stems, P roceedings of the National Round Table Meet, IIT Guwahati, 11-13 October 2010




Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date International/National

Debkumar Chakrabarti Indian Science Congress Chennai January 2011 National

Pradeep Yammiyavar

ICORD 11, International Conference on Research in Design.

Bengaluru 10-12 January 2011 International

Pradeep Yammiyavar

National Round Table Meet on Hybrid Renewable Energy Sources for public transportation systems

Guwahati 11-13 October 2010 National

Pradeep Yammiyavar

Delhi International renewable Energy Conference ( DIREC-2010)

NCR-Delhi 27-29 October 2010 International


International Workshop on Design for Sustainability. Invited as resource person

Politechnico di Milano, Milan, Italy 17-29 July 2010 International


‘Sustainability in Design – NOW’ , LeNS Conference, Bangalore, India

II Sc Bangalore 29 September – 01 October, 2010 International


Invited Speaker, ‘Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science’

St. Anthony’s College, Shillong 4-5 March, 2011 National

Conference

Sougata Karmakar 98th Indian Science Congress

SRM University, Chennai, India 3-7 January 2011 International

Utpal Barua Taches-taches Saint-Lo, France 2-12 September 2010 International

Utpal Barua Learning material for Children IDC, IIT Bombay 3-10 November

2010 International

D. Udaya Kumar

Seminar cum Workshop to discuss Creating a Brand Value for Goan crafts with reference to exploring tourism potential

Goa 27-28 March 2011 National

D. Udaya Kumar Typography Day 2011 Ahmadabad 3-6 March 2011 International

D. Udaya Kumar E for Energy - a national conference

St. John’s International

Residential School, Chennai

2-4 January 2011 National




Four lectures under topic Design Ergonomics

Design programme, IIT Kanpur Kanpur 3-5 September

2010


Basics of design ergonomics

Dept. of architecture, IIT

RoorkeeRoorkee 4 October

2010




Physiology and Design Ergonomics (Dr. J. N. Mukherjee Memorial Lecture)

City College, Calcutta University Kolkata 10 January

2010


Design ideation for elderly needs

Under TIE Programme, DST Delhi 1 October

2010

Pradeep Yammiyavar

Museum as an institution for preservation and propagation of contemporary crafts of the North East

North East Handloom and

Handicrafts Development

Corporation, Govt of India

Guwahati 15 February 2011


‘Systems Design for Sustainability’ (Resource Person)

LenS – the Learning Network on

Sustainability’, Politechnico di

Milano

Milan, Italy 17-29 July 2010


Co-designing for ICT enabled Product Design and Development

St Antony's College Shillong 4-5 March 2011


Design and Sustainability – A business perspective Tata Motors Ltd. Lucknow 23 February

2011


Gurukool – Workshop on Interaction Design (Resource Person)

USID and IIT Kanpur IIT Kanpur28 August – 4

September 2010

Keyur Sorathia Addressing Maternal Mortality in Assam

XXXIV Indian Social Science Congress

(Gauhati University)Guwahati

27-31 December

2010

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED


Pradeep Yammiyavar

National Round Table Meet on Hybrid Renewable Energy Sources for public transportation Systems, IIT Guwahati

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy –

Govt of India11-13 October 2010 National

Sougata Karmakar and Debkumar Chakrabarti

QIP - ‘Ergonomics and Technology Applications’ AICTE 25-29 October 2010 National

INVITED LECTURES


Michale Carl

Centre for Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology ; Copenhagen Business School Denmark

Computational Framework for a Cognitive Model of Human

Translation6 Jan 2011

N. S. DineshCentre for Electronics, Design and Technology Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Challenges in building Multiple Robots based Automated Puppetry 12 Feb 2011



Parag Deshpande University of Limerick, Ireland

Bringing an interactive artifact into being: Examining the use of an Architectural Design Model in

Interaction design

15 March 2011

Matti Hamallanin Aalto Design Factory, University of Helsinki, Finland PD6 – Workshop on Product Design

9-11 September

2010

Iko AvitalDepartment of Design, Holon School of Art and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel

Design for Packaging and Identity 17-21 January 2011

AWARDS AND HONOURSD. Udaya Kumar:Young Indian Leader, CNN-IBN, Network 18; Young Alum Achiever A ward, IIT Bomba y, Mumbai; C ommunicator of the Year, A ssociation of Business C ommunicators of I ndia, Mumbai; Young A chiever A ward, St. John ’s International Residential S chool, Chennai; Lif etime Achiever A ward, Lions Club I nternational, Chennai; Appreciation Award and Citation, School of Architecture and Planning, Anna University

ANY OTHER (SPECIAL MENTION) Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar has been Empanelled by GOI as ScientiĀ c Adviser to the Controller General of Patents Design and Trademarks, M inistry of C ommerce and Industry (2010-2011).Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar was nominat ed as M ember of the A cademic A dvisory C ouncil of IIIT D and M Kanchipuram (2010-2011).Royalty of Rs . 9.00 Lak hs was r eceived by IIT Guwahati from Govt. of Assam under Mukhyamantri Assam Vikash Yojna against pr opagation of Dipbahan R ickshaw designed by Prof. Amarendra Kumar Das.

FACULTY MEMBERSU. BaruaPhD (IIT Guwahati)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Basic Desig n, Desig n Dra wing and Visualisation, Visual Design: Principles and Application, Indian Symbology and Communication

D. ChakrabartiPhD (Calcutta University)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Er gonomics Resear ch, Human

Compatibility F actor, Desig n Er gonomics, P roduct: Environment I nterface Desig n, Oc cupational Health, Participatory Ergonomics and Training

A. K. DasPhD (IIT Guwahati)Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of In terest: I ndustrial Desig n, R apid Prototyping and Tooling, Space Design, Facility Design, Environmental Graphics, Design for Disabled

S. IqbalMArch (IIT Roorkee)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: A daptive Reuse , S olar P assive Architecture

S. KarmakarPhD (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Virtual Simulation ( CAD and Dig ital Human M odeling), Ph ysical Er gonomics (P roduct and Workstation design), Cognitive Ergonomics (Information processing), Design and Work Environment, Design and Occupational Health and Safety, Military Ergonomics

Udaya Kumar D.PhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant professorCommunication Design

M. MadhukaillyaP.G. in C ommunication Desig n (National I nstitute of Design, Ahmedabad)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Shor t F ilm, New M edia Theory,



Documentary Ā lm, Video art, Participatory video

M. MajhiMDes (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Animation, Special Eff ects, Cartooning, Animation M ovie H istory, Cr eation of Traditional Animation

R. M. PunekarPhD (IIT Bombay)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Product Desig n and Dev elopment, Designing Sustainable P roducts Services and S ystems,

Design Education and E-learning, Basic Design, Studies in Design and Material Culture

A. ShendeBE, MDes (Domus)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: P roduct Desig n, F urniture Desig n, Lighting Design

P. G. YammiyavarPhD (IISc Bangalore)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Desig n Resear ch, IC T and Human Computer I nteraction, Desig n S emantics, Desig n Management, Health Psychology, Built Environment.



DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTIONThe primar y objec tive of the Depar tment is t o impart education and training at the under graduate, postgraduate and r esearch lev els on Elec tronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) and Electronics and Electrical Eng ineering (EEE) with special emphasis on design aspec ts of elec tronic sy stems. The emphasis on the desig n aspec ts implies that, while the basic theoretical and analytical sk ills of the students ar e adequately dev eloped, the pr ogrammes ar e orient ed in such a wa y that students ac quire an o verall design perspective and aptitude . All the academicians in the Department are dedicat ed t o Ā nding solutions t o the challenges of r esearch and dev elopment in the Ā eld of engineering besides the basic aim of pr eparing the students to become the nex t generation of leaders in their chosen area of study.

The name of the Depar tment of Elec tronics and Communication Eng ineering (ECE) has been changed to Electronics and Electrical Engineering (EEE)

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESThe Department off ers the following programmes:BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering,BTech in Electronics and Electrical EngineeringMTech in a) Dig ital Sig nal P rocessing, b) VLSI, c) Communication Systems, and d) Applied ControlPhD in various subjec t ar eas r elated t o the Ā eld of electronics and c ommunication eng ineering and electronics and electrical engineering

STUDENT INTAKEBTech (ECE) students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 66BTech (EEE) students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 40MTech students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 54PhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 36


MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

(a) The major facilities a vailable in the Depar tment laboratories include a sound pr oof ac oustic chamber f or sound r ecording t o carr y out speech analysis r elated studies . The equipment include recording instruments like directional studio quality microphones, ser ver facilities , mobile phones , et c. Also there are EMG and ECG acquisition systems for the biomedical studies. In addition to this, there are six w orkstations a vailable f or ex ecuting c omplex computation tasks.

(b) Depar tment had pur chased Qualnet and Exata Network Simulator Software along with lic ense for diff erent libraries f or setting up of a new “Network Laboratory” for BTech, MTech and PhD students. The other hardware items purchased for this laboratory includes CISCO 2811 series business routers, CISCO 2960 series la yer-2 swit ches, CISC O 1300 series 802.11AG wir eless r outer and Cr ossbow/Memsic Wireless Sensor Network Educational Kit.

(c) AC/DC conversion a. Uncontrolled diodes setupb. Uncontrolled static converter circuits setupc. SCR and Controlled rectiĀ er circuit setupd. Single pulse converters setupe. Two pulse midpoint converter setupf. Multi phase converters setupg. Drainage coil converters setuph. Bridge converters setup



AC/AC conversion a. Thyristor setupb. Single phase controllers setupc. Three phase controllers setupd. Phase c ontrol f or the r egulation of lighting with fault simulator setup

DC/DC conversion a. Choppers setupb. Convertor communication c. Control setup

DC/AC conversion a. Inverters setupb. Frequency converters setup

(d) F or High F requency and C ommunication Laboratory:I. 5 Nos. of X-band microwave test bench with Klystron

sourceII. 5 Nos. of X-band microwave test bench with GUNN

sourceIII. 2 Nos. of Parabolic Disc (with feed) 8” diameter 8 to

12 GHz

(e) The hardware facilities in the ar eas of VLSI consists of FPGA development kits from Xilinx and Altera Inc. along with high end software tools and packages for VLSI design and synthesis namely C adence Bundle, Synopsys Tools Bundle, Magma Standard University, CoWare Tools, M entor Tools Bundle , Xilinx ISE Foundation Software and XUP Spar tan - 3E Star ter Kits, Altera Quartus design environment along with Nios-II and other IP packages.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESThe main f ocus of the r esearch in c ommunication and advanc e DSP has been on the per formance analysis of modern c ommunication sy stems as w ell as dev elopment of sig nal pr ocessing algorithms f or the same . The r esearch in c ommunication in volves realization of both the transmitter and receiver diversity techniques with various channel models. The statistical

characteristics of mobile -to-mobile c ommunication channel and geometrical based modelling of such channels ar e being in vestigated. The lat est channel coding techniques such as the LDPC and Turbo codes have also been taken up f or the per formance analysis in appropriate areas. The DSP related research includes developing link performance improvement algorithms such as those for equalization, diversity and networking. A number of non-blind and blind equalization techniques are developed for this purpose. Cross layer optimization bet ween PH Y and M AC la yers f or MIMO systems is another thrust ar ea of the g roup. The group is initiating its nex t major r esearch ac tivities on ultra wideband (UWB) c ommunication sy stems. Resear ch activities have also been star ted in the area of Wireless Sensor Net work and I pv6. Further, sensor and trigger mechanism f or shutting do wn elec tronic sy stems in the ev ent of hea vy lightning ha ve been dev eloped. Research on c ontactless batt ery char ging and development of smart grid is also going on in the areas of po wer sy stems. The r esearch ac tivities in the VLSI Group mainly f ocus on S emiconductor Devices, MEMS based sensors , Dig ital and Analog I ntegrated Cir cuit design and FPGA implementations f or applications in Biomedical, I mage P rocessing and C ommunication areas. The Department is a par t of SMDP II pr ogramme and the major CAD t ools ha ve been made a vailable by the M inistry of C ommunications and I nformation Technology. A no vel induc tor struc ture is dev eloped, and for veriĀ cation a VCO and LNA designs and layouts have been completed. The group is enrolled with Euro Practice for getting desig ns fabricat ed and so far t wo chips ha ve been suc cessfully fabricat ed and t ested. Once chip c ontains diff erent Multila yer I nductors, 2.4 GHz VCO, 4 bit fl ash ADC and an NMOS AmpliĀ er for GHz operation. The second chip contains a low voltage ampliĀ er f or EC G applications , a CMOS lo w po wer Precision temperature sensor, and an inductive coupled Interchip transceiver. The group is actively involved with the I ndian Nanoelec tronics Users Program (INUP) and has been suc cessfully fabricat ed C arbon Nanotubes based Thin-Film Transistors.





Agency

Amount Sanctioned (Rs. In Lakh)


P. K . B ora

Development of Robust Document Image Understanding System for Document in Indian Scripts (OCR): Phase-II

DIT 28.75M. K. Bhuyan

and Sanjib Das

3 years

Roy Paily Palathinkal

Establishment of a new National MEMS Design Centre at IIT Guwahati

National Programme

on Micro and Smart Systems

11.16 - 3 years


Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Low Power Analog Front End chip for heart rate detection

DST 20 - 2.5 years


Digital VLSI Design Virtual Lab

National Mission on Education

through ICT

40 - 2 years

S. R. M. PrasannaDevelopment of on-line handwritten recognition system in Assamese

DIT 70C. Mahanta

andL.N. Sharma

3 years



Agency



S. Dandapat

Special Manpower Development Project in VLSI Design and related software (SMDP II) at IIT Guwahati

DIT 59 Roy Paily Palathinkal 6 years

R. BhattacharjeeAnalysis and Development of matched feed for off set parabolic antenna system

ISRO 11.38 - 2 years


Design of Carbon Nanotube Field Eff ect Transistor (CNFET) based AmpliĀ ers

Global Research

Collaboration from

Semiconductor Research

Corporation, USA

40000 USD - 2 years

S. R. M. Prasanna

Development of person authentication system based on speaker veriĀ cation in uncontrolled environment

DIT 109

Rohit Sinha, Sukumar

Nandi and S. Dandapat

3 years



Rohit Sinha

Speech-based Access for Agricultural Commodity Prices in Six Indian Languages

DIT 58S. R. M.

Prasanna, P. K. Das

2 years

S. R. M. PrasannaStudy of source features for speech synthesis ans speaker recognition

UKIERI, University of Edinburgh

40 S. Dandapat 4 years

R. Sinha

Characterisation and Compensation of Acoustic and Linguistic Mismatch for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition of Children Speech

DST 18 S. R. M. Prasanna 3 years

R. SinhaDevelopment of Virtual Laboratory on Signals and Systems

MHRD 30S. R. M.

Prasanna, S. Dandapat

1 years

P. R. SahuPerformance of EGC receiver in correlated Hoyt fading channels

DST 10.38 R. Bhattacharjee 3 years

M. K. Bhuyan

Development of Indian Sign Language Education and Recognition Platform for Hearing Impaired Students of India

National Mission for Education

through ICT, MHRD

130 (for the pilot phase) P. K. Bora 3 years

Chitralekha Mahanta

Gesture based interface for control application DST 13.1 P. K. Bora 3 years



Agency



S. Majhi

Study of Sensor and Development of Trigger Mechanism for Protection against Lightning

Army Technical Board, Govt. of

India21.5

A.K. Gogoi, H.B. Nemade,

A. Mitra3 years

S. R. M. Prasanna Keyword spotting in continuous speech

DST, and NSF, Switzerland 10

A.K. Gogoi, H.B. Nemade,

A. Mitra3 years

K. R. Singh

Metamaterials engineered microwave devices: size miniaturization and performance enhancement of microwave devices using metamaterials based sub-wavelength resonators and components

DST 8.52A.K. Gogoi,

H.B. Nemade, A. Mitra

3 years



CONSULTANCY


Agency



M. K. Bhuyan

Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in e-Learning

National Mission for Education

through ICT, MHRD

- - 3 years


International JournalA. Ali and S. Majhi‘PID C ontroller Tuning Based on Bac terial F oraging Strategy’, Asian Journal of C ontrol, vol. 13 (2), pp 328-337, March 2011

U. Mehta and S. Majhi‘IdentiĀ cation of a class of Wiener and Hammerst ein-type nonlinear pr ocesses with monot onic static gains ’, ISA Transactions, vol. 49 (4), pp 501-509, October 2010

K. P. S. Parmar, S. Majhi and D. P. Kothari‘Optimal Load Frequency Control of an Interconnected Power System’, MITIJ of Elec trical and I nstrumentation Engg., vol. 1 (1), pp 1-5, January 2011

P. Krishnamoorthy and S. R. M. P rasanna ‘Enhancement of noisy speech b y t emporal and spec tral processing’, Speech Communication (Elsevier), v ol. 53, pp 154-174, February 2011

N. Ramakrishnan, H. B. Nemade, and R. P. Palathinkal‘Mass L oading in C oupled Resonat ors C onsisting of SU-8 M icropillars F abricated O ver SA W Devic es’, IEEE Journal Sensors, vol. 11 (2), pp 430-431, 2011

K. C. Narasimhamurthy and Roy Paily‘High Performance Local Back Gate Thin-Film Field-Eff ect Transistors using Sorted Carbon Nanotubes on Amino-Silane Treated Hafnium-Oxide Surface’, Semiconductor Science and Technology., vol. 26 (7), pp 075002, 2011

K. C. Narasimhamurthy and Roy Paily‘Fabrication and P erformance C omparison of Interdigitated T hin-Film Field-Eff ect Transistors using

Diff erent P urity S emiconducting C arbon Nanotubes ’, Advanced Materials Research, vol. 181-182, pp 343-348, January 2011

N. Ramakrishnan, T. Vamsi, A. Khan, Harshal B. Nemade and Roy Paily Palathinkal‘Humidity sensor using NIP AAm nanogel as sensing medium in SA W devic es’, I nternational Journal of Nanoscience, 2011

Ramesh Babu and Roy Paily‘Power-Delay Reduc tion in FPGA I mplementations Using Bypassing Technique’, I nternational Journal of Recent Trends in Eng ineering, v ol. 4 (4), No vember 2010

N. Ramakrishnan, Roy Paily Palathinkal, and Harshal B . Nemade‘Mass loading eff ects of high aspec t ratio struc tures grown o ver SAW resonators’, S ensor Letters, vol. 8 (2), pp 253-257, 2010

N. R amakrishnan, Harshal B . Nemade , and Ro y P aily Palathinkal‘Finite element simulation of a sur face ac oustic wa ve hydrogen sensor with palladium nano-pillars as sensing medium’, Sensor Letters, vol. 8 (6), pp 824-828, 2010

Rongping Lin, Wende Zhong , Sanja y K . Bose , M oshe Zuckerman‘Light- T ree ConĀ guration f or Multicast Traffi c Grooming in WDM Mesh Networks’, Photonic Network Communications, vol. 20 (2), pp 151-164, 2010

Md. Zia Ur Rahman, RaĀ Ahamed Shaik, D. V. Rama Koti Reddy‘Effi cient sig n based normalised adaptiv e Ā ltering



techniques f or canc elation of ar tifacts in EC G sig nals: Application to wireless biotelemetry’, Signal Processing, vol. 91, pp 225-239, 2011

M. K. Bhuyan, P.K. Bora and D. Ghosh‘An Integrated Approach to the Rec ognition of a Wide Class of C ontinuous Hand Gestur es, I nternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and ArtiĀ cial Intelligence, vol. 25 (2), pp 227-252, March 2011

S. S. Karthikeyan and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘Notched UWB bandpass Ā lter using C omplementary Single Split R ing Resonat or’, IEICE Elec tronics Expr ess (ELEX), vol. 7 (17), pp 1290-1295, September 2010

S. S. Karthikeyan and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission line based on Open Slot Split ring Resonat or’, M icrowave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL), vol. 52 (8), pp 1729-1731, May 2010

H. Katiyar and R. Bhattacharjee‘Performance of MRC c ombining Multi-ant enna Cooperative Rela y net work’, I nternational Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), vol. 64 (10), pp 988-991, 2010

National JournalK. C. Narasimhamurthy and R. Paily‘Fabrication of carbon nanotube Ā eld eff ect transistor’, IETE Technical Review (I nstitution of Elec tronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India), vol. 28 (1), pp 57-69, 2011

B. S. Paul and R. Bhattacharjee‘Time and Angle of Arrival Statistics of Mobile-to-Mobile Communication Channel Employing Dual Annular Strip Model’, IETE Journal of Research, vol. 56 (6), pp 327-332, 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/Symposia/Book/ChapterSanjib Das, P. K. Bora and A. K. Gogoi‘Subtractive Clust ering of Vertices f or CPCA based Animation Geometr y C ompression’, P roceedings of S eventh I ndian C onference on C omputer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2010), Chennai, India, 12-15 December 2010

K. P. S. Parmar, S. Majhi and D. P. Kothari‘Multi-Area Load Frequency Control in a P ower System Using Optimal Output F eedback Method’, Proceedings of PEDES-2010-POWER INDIA, New Delhi, 21-23 December 2010

D. Padhan and S. Majhi‘A Two-degree-of-freedom C ontrol S cheme f or Improved P erformance of Unstable Dela y P rocesses’, Proceedings of Six th I nternational C onference on Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dhaka, pp 251-254, 18-20 December 2010

K. P. S. Parmar, S. Majhi and D. P. Kothari‘Automatic Generation C ontrol of an I nterconnected Hydrothermal Power System’, Proceedings of INDIC ON 2010, Kolkata, 17-19 December 2010

U. Mehta and S. Majhi‘Modelling and C ontrol of Nonlinear S ystems With Input Monotonic Gains’, Proceedings of INDICON 2010, Kolkata, 17-19 December 2010

U. Mehta and S. Majhi‘On-line IdentiĀ cation and C ontrol M ethods f or PID Controllers’, P roceedings of Thirty-fourth National Systems C onference (NSC 2010), Surathk al, 10-12 December 2010

U. Mehta and S. Majhi‘Online tuning method for PID Controllers’, Proceedings of I nternational C onference on C ontrol, A utomation, Robotics and Vision (ICARC V 2010), Singapor e, 7-10 December 2010

U. Mehta and S. Majhi‘An online r elay f eedback scheme f or cascade c ontrol systems’, Proceedings of Thirty-fourth National Systems Conference (NSC 2010), Surathk al, 10-12 Dec ember 2010

Rongping Lin, Wende Zhong, Sanjay K. Bose and Moshe Zuckerman‘Light-tree Based Multicast Traffi c Grooming in WDM Mesh Net works’, P roceedings of Opt oelectronics and Communications C onference ( OECC 2010), Sappor o, Japan, July 2010



Samar Shailendra, Ratnajit Bhattacharjee and Sanjay K. Bose‘Optimised fl ow based modelling of multi-path multi-homed transmission’, Proceedings of IEEE I nternational Conference on C ommunication S ystems (IEEE IC CS 2010), Singapore, November 2010

Sarabjot Singh, Sanjay K. Bose and Maode Ma‘Analytical and Simulation Studies f or C all A dmission and Resource Allocation Schemes proposed for WiMAX system’, Paper No. PM2-2-1-4, IEEE ICCS 2010, Singapore, November 2010

Rongping Lin, Wende Zhong, Sanjay K. Bose and Moshe Zuckerman‘Dynamic Sub -Light-Tree Based Traffi c Grooming for Multicast in WDM Net works’, P roceedings of IEEE GL OBECOM 2010, DOI: 10.1109/ GL OCOM. 2010.5684181

Samar Shailendra, Ratnajit Bhattacharjee and Sanjay K. Bose‘Optimized F low Division M odelling f or Multi-P ath Transport’, P roceedings of IEEE INDIC ON 2010, DOI: 10.1109/INDCON.2010.5712713

K. K. Sarma and A. Mitra‘Estimation of MIMO Channels using C omplex Time Delay F ully Recurr ent Neural Net work‘, P roceedings of the National C onference on Emer ging Trends and Applications in C omputer S cience (NCE TACS 2011), Shillong, Meghalaya, pp 6-11, 4-5 March 2011

A. Neogi and A. Mitra‘A M AP Based Blind Estimation of ST O and CFO f or a Coded OFDM S ystem‘, P roceedings of the National Conference on C ommunications (NC C 2011), IIS c Bangalore, 28-30 January 2011

K. K. Sarma and A. Mitra‘MIMO Channel M odeling using Temporal Ar tiĀ cial Neural Net work Architecture‘, Proceedings of the F irst International C onference on I ntelligent I nteractive Technologies and Multimedia, IIIT Allahabad, pp 37-44, 28-30 December 2010

A. Mitra‘A PH Y-MAC Cr oss La yer Desig n f or L ow PER with Adaptive M odulation and C oding‘, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cognitive Radio (IWCR), IIIT Bangalore, 15 December 2010

A. Mitra‘A L ow C omplexity MIMO -OFDM Det ection S cheme using QR and Sorted QR Decomposition’, Proceedings of the IETE National Conference on Electronic Technologies (NCET), Ponda, Goa, pp 69-73, 16-17 April 2010

Chitralekha M ahanta, T. Srinivas Yadav and Hemanta Medhi‘Dynamic Hand Gestur e Rec ognition S ystem U sing Neural Network’, Proceedings of the F irst International Conference on P ervasive and Embedded C omputing and Communication Systems (PECCS 2011), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 5-7 March 2011

T. Srinivas Yadav, Hemanta M edhi and Chitralek ha Mahanta‘Static Hand Gesture Recognition System Using Neural Networks’, P roceedings of the S econd I nternational Conference on Sig nals, S ystems and A utomation (ICSSA-2011), Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, I ndia, 24-25 January 2011

Sanjoy Mondal and Chitralekha Mahanta‘Nonlinear F eedback Based Discr ete I ntegral Sliding Mode C ontroller f or Linear Unc ertain S ystem’, Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth National S ystems Conference (NSC-2010), Surathk al, I ndia, 10-12 December 2010

S. Majhi‘Digital C ontrol S ystems’, CD C ell, QIP , IIT Guwahati, 2011

A. Kumar, R. Bhattacharjee and S. Goel‘A Clustering Based Channel M odel for Indoor Wireless Communication’, P roceedings of the S eventeenth National C onference on C ommunications, NC C 2011, IISc Bangalore, 28-30 January 2011

H. Katiyar, R. Bhattacharjee and S. Darshi‘Outage P erformance of S witch and Sta y C ombining



Scheme for Multi-antenna Relay Network’, Proceedings of the S econd UK -India-IDRC I nternational Workshop on C ognitive Wireless S ystems, UKIWC WS 2010, IIT Delhi, 13-14 December 2010

H. Katiyar, R. Jana and R. Bhattacharjee‘Performance Analysis of Two-Hop Regenerative Relay Network with Generaliz ed S election C ombining at Multi-antenna Rela y’, P roceedings of IEEE INDIC ON 2010, Kolkata, 17-19 December 2010

R. Gangula and R. Bhattacharjee‘Performance of Selection Cooperation in the Presence of a M alicious Rela y’, P roceedings of the S eventh International S ymposium on Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS 2010, Univ ersity of York, UK , 19-22 September 2010

Debadatta Pati and S. R. M Prasanna‘Speaker recognition from excitation source perspective’, IETE Technical Review , v ol 27 (2), pp 138-157, M arch 2010

B. C. Haris , G ayadhar P radhan, Sumit Shuk la, Abhina v Misra, R. Sinha, S. R. M. Prasanna‘Multi-Variability Speech Database f or Robust Speaker Recognition’, Proceedings of 17th National C onference on Communications NCC 2011, January 2011

Gayadhar Pradhan and S. R. M. Prasanna‘SigniĀ cance of Speaker I nformation in Wideband Speech’, Proceedings of NCC 2011, January 2011

Soyuj Kumar Sahoo and S. R. M. Prasanna‘Bimodal Bio-metric Person Authentication Using Speech and F ace Under Deg raded C ondition’, P roceedings of NCC 2011, January 2011

S. R. M. P rasanna, D . Go vind, K . Sr eenivas R ao and B . Yegnanarayana‘Fast ProsodyModiĀ cation using I nstants of Sig niĀ cant Excitation’, F ifth I nternational C onference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, May 2010

S. R. M. Prasanna and D. Govind‘Analysis of excitation source information in emotional speech’, INTERSPEECH- 2010, Chiba, Japan, S eptember 2010

R. Subadar, T. S. B. Reddy, and P. R. Sahu‘Performance of a L-SC Receiver over kappa-mu and eta-mu Fading Channels’, Proceedings of IEE Conference on Communication, ICC 2010, Capetown, South Africa, 23-27 May 2010

R. Subadar and P. R. Sahu‘Channel C apacity of A daptive Transmission with L-MRC Systems in Hoyt (Nakagami-q) Fading Channels’, Proceedings of IEEE C onference, INDIC ON 2010, Jadavpur, 17-19 December 2010

R. Subadar and P. R. Sahu‘Channel C apacity of A daptive Transmission with L-EGC Systems in Hoyt (Nakagami-q) Fading Channels,’ Proceedings of National Conference on Communications, NCC2011, IISc. Bangalore, 28-30 January 2011

K. C. Narasimhamurthy and Roy Paily‘Fabrication and charac terisation of C arbon Nanotube thin-Ā lm F ield Eff ect Transistor using sor ted SWCNT s’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on Advanced Material and Science, Trivandrum, Kerala, pp 52-57, October 2010

S. Sowmya and Roy Paily‘FPGA I mplementation of I mage Enhanc ement Algorithms’, I nternational C onference on Communications and Sig nal P rocessing (IC CSP), NIT Calicut, India, 10-12 February 2011

Sunil Joshi and Roy Paily‘Low P ower Viterbi Dec oder b y M odiĀ ed ACSU architecture and Clock G ating M ethod’, I nternational Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP), NIT Calicut, India, 10-12 February 2011

S. Ghai and R. Sinha‘Enhancing childr en’s speech r ecognition under mismatched condition by explicit acoustic normalisation’, in Proceedings of INTERSPEECH’10, Japan, pp. 522-525, September 2010

Rahul Shrestha and Roy Paily‘Hardware Implementation of Max-Log-MAP Algorithm based on M acLaurin S eries f or Turbo Dec oder’, International C onference on C ommunications and



Signal P rocessing (IC CSP), NIT C alicut, I ndia, 10-12 February 2011

K. C. Narasimhamurthy and Roy Paily‘Performance C omparison of Thin-Film Transistors Fabricated using Diff erent P urity S emiconducting Nanotubes’, P roceedings of the Twenty-fourth International C onference on VLSI Desig n, Chennai, India, pp 208-213, January 2011

Suyog Jagtap and Roy Paily‘Geometry optimisation of a MEMS-based ener gy harvesting devic e’, IEEE Students ’ Technology Symposium 2011, IIT Kharagpur, 14-16 January 2011

J. R. Panda, A. S. R. Saladi and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘An Inset-fed Dual-Frequency Circular Microstrip Antenna with a Rec tangular Slot f or Application in Wireless Communication’, P roceedingsof the I nternational Conference on Emer ging Trends in Elec trical and Computer Technology (ICE TECT), K anyakumari, I ndia, March 2011

A. S. R. Saladi, J. R. Panda and R. S. KshetrimayumAn E-Shaped CPW-Fed Folded-Slot Antenna for the 2.45 GHz RFID applications’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP), Calicut, India, February 2011

J. R. Panda and R. S. KshetrimayumA P rinted 2.4 GH z/5.8 GH z Dual-Band M onopole Antenna f or WLAN and RFID Applications with a Protruding Stub in the Gr ound Plane ’, P roceedings of the National C onference on C ommunications (NC C), Bangalore, India, January 2011

J. R. Panda, P. Kakumanu and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A Wide-band Monopole Antenna in Combination with a UWB M icrowave Band-pass F ilter f or Application in UWB C ommunication S ystem’, P roceedings of the Annual IEEE I ndia C onference (INDIC ON), Kolk atta, India, December 2010

J. R. Panda and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘Planar M icrostrip-Line F ed Elliptical Cr escent P atch UWB 5.2 GH z/5.8 GH z Not ch Ant enna With U-Shaped Slot’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on

Advances in Communication, Network and Computing (CNC), Calicut, India, October 2010

J. R. Panda and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A P rinted F-Shaped Dual-band M onopole Ant enna for RFID and WLAN Applications ’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on C omputer and Communication Technology (ICCCT), Allahabad, I ndia, September 2010

J. R. Panda and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A Planar M icrostrip-Line F ed C oncentric Cir cular UWB 5.2 GH z/5.8 GH z Not ch Ant enna with U-Shaped Slot’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on Computer and C ommunication Technology (IC CCT), Allahabad, India, September 2010

S. Bojanapally and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘Wideband Ant enna Arra y Beamf orming using FIR Filter’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on C omputing, C ommunication and Net working Technologies (ICCCNT), Karur, India, June-July 2010

J. R. Panda, A. S. R. Saladi and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A C ompact 3.4/5.5 GH z Dual Band-Not ched UWB Monopole Ant enna with Nest ed U-Shaped Slots ’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on Computing, C ommunication and Net working Technologies (ICCCNT), Karur, India, June-July 2010

A. S. R. Saladi, J. R. Panda and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A C ompact P rinted 9-Shaped Dual-band M onopole Antenna for WLAN and RFID Applications’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on C omputing, Communication and Net working Technologies (ICCCNT), Karur, India, June-July 2010

J. R. Panda and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A C ompact CPW -Fed Hexagonal 5 GH z/6 GH z Band-Notched Ant enna with an U-Shaped Slot f or Ultrawideband Communication System’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, July 2010

J. R. Panda and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A P rinted Trident Shaped Triple-Band M onopole Antenna for Wireless Applications’, Proceedings of the



International C onference on Sig nal P rocessing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, July 2010

J. R. Panda and R. S. Kshetrimayum‘A Compact 3.5/5.5 GHz Dual Band-Notched Monopole Antenna f or Application I n UWB C ommunication Systems With Defected Ground Structure’, Proceedings of the Indian Antenna Week (IAW), Puri, India, May-June 2010

RaĀ Ahamed Shaik‘Filtering Elec trocardiographic Signals using F iltered-X LMS Algorithm ’, P roceedings of the I nternational Conference on A dvances in C omputer S cience ( ACS 2010), Trivandrum, India, pp 61-65, December 2010

Mohammad Zia-ur-Rahman, RaĀ Ahamed Shaik and D V Ramakoti Reddy‘Baseline wander and Power line interference elimination from C ardiac Sig nals using Err or Nonlinearit y LMS algorithm’, Proceedings of the International Conference on S ystems in M edicine and Biology (ICSMB 2010), Kharagpur, India, pp 217-220, December 2010

Sudhamshu Baghel and RaĀ Ahamed Shaik‘Low Power and L ess Complex Implementation of Fast Block LMS Adaptive Filter using Distributed Arithmetic’, Proceedings of the IEEE Students Technology Symposium, Kharagpur, India, January 2011

Sudhamshu Baghel and RaĀ Ahamed Shaik‘FPGA Implementation of Fast Block LMS Adaptive Filter Using Distribut ed Arithmetic f or H igh Throughput’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on Communications and Sig nal P rocessing (IC CSP 2010), Calicut, India, pp 443-447, February 2011

Gourav Jain and RaĀ Ahamed Shaik‘High Throughput Architecture for Systolic Array based FFT using C ORDIC’, P roceedings of the I nternational Conference on Cir cuits, Devic es and S ystems (IC CDS 2011), Bangkok, Thailand pp 451-455, March 2011

M. K . Bhuyan, M ithun K umar K ar and Debanga R aj Neog‘Two Handed Hand P ose Rec ognition f or Human Computer Interactions’, Proceedings of the International

IEEE C onference on Graphic and I mage P rocessing (ICGIP), Manila, Philippines, December, 2010

M. K . Bhuyan, Debanga R aj Neog and M ithun K umar Kar‘Hand pose r ecognition using geometric f eatures’, Proceedings of the National C onference on Communication (NC C), IISC Bangalor e, 1-5 Januar y 2011

S. R. M. P rasanna, D . Go vind, K . S. R ao and B . Yegnanarayana‘Fast prosody modiĀ cation using instants of sig niĀ cant excitation’, accepted for publication in Speech pr osody 2010, going to be held in Chicago, USA, May 2010

M. Singh, P. Kumar, and I. Kar‘Analysis of Vehicle to Grid Concept in Indian Scenario’, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control, PEMC, Ohrid, 6-8 September 2010

M. Singh, I. Kar and P. Kumar‘Infl uence of EV on Grid P ower Quality and Optimizing the Charging S chedule to M itigate Voltage I mbalance and Reduce Power Loss’, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International C onference on P ower Elec tronics and Motion Control, PEMC, Ohrid, 6-8 September 2010

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos‘MIX-SPLIT: Controlled Mixing of S ecrets and Traceable Pseudonym Generation using Codebooks’, Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Washington, Seattle, 12-15 December 2010

A. Talwai, D. Sengupta and K. Karthik‘A Transparent Encr yption S cheme f or Watermarked Biometric and M edical I mages’, P roceedings of International C onference on Sig nal A cquisition and Processing (ICSAP 2011), Singapor e, 26-28 F ebruary 2011

S. Kashyap, K. Karthik‘Authenticating Encr ypted Data ’, P roceedings of the National C onference on C ommunications (NCC 2011), Bangalore, January 2011





S. R. M. Prasanna and S. Dandapat

Workshop on Image and Speech Processing (WISP) 2010

IIIT Hyderabad 16 December 2010 International

Rohit Sinha, S. Dandapat and S. R. M. Prasanna

Winter school on speech and audio processing (WiSSAP) 2011

IIT Guwahati 8-11 January 2011 International

R. Bhattacharcharjee

National Workshop on Deployment and Use of NPTEL Courses at JSS Academy of Technical Education

Noida (Organised by IIT Kanpur)

30- 31 October 2010 National

R. BhattacharcharjeeNational Conference on Communications, NCC 2011

IISc Bangalore 28-30 January 2011 National

S. K. Bose IEEE ICCS Conference Singapore November 2010 International

S. R. M. Prasanna INTERSPEECH 2010 Japan 27-30 October 2010 International

Roy Paily PalathinkalInternational Conference on Advanced Material and Science

Trivandrum, Kerala October 2010 International

Roy Paily Palathinkal 24th International Conference on VLSI Design IIT madras January 2011 International

M. K. Bhuyan

International IEEE Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP)

Manila, Philippines 4-5 December 2010 International

M. K. BhuyanIndo-French Seminar Matrix Information Geometries

Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

23-25 February 2011 International

S. R. AhamedInternational Conference on Circuits, Devices and Systems (ICCDS 2011)

Bangkok, Thailand March 2011 International

S. Majhi

11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision,

Singapore 7-10 December 2010 International

A. Mitra National Conference on Communication (NCC) IISc Bangalore 28-30 January 2011 National

A. Mitra International Workshop on Cognitive Radio (IWCR) IIIT Bangalore 15-16 December

2010 National

A. Mitra76th Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)

NIO Goa 12-14 November 2010 National

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos

Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)

Washington, Seattle 12-15 December 2010 International



A. Talwai, D. Sengupta and K. Karthik

International Conference on Signal Acquisition and Processing (ICSAP 2011)

Singapore 26-28 February 2011 International

S. Kashyap, K. Karthik

National Conference on Communications (NCC 2011)

Bangalore, India January 2011 National

Chitralekha Mahanta

1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS 2011)

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal 5-7 March 2011 International



Roy Paily Palathinkal Recent developments in VLSI Technology

Government College of Engineering

ThrissurKerala 26-28 October

2010

M. K. BhuyanApplications of Matrix Information Theory in Video Surveillance

Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France Paris, France 23-25

February 2011

M. K. Bhuyan

Introduction to Matrix Information Theory and its Application in Computer Vision

Don Bosco University Guwahati 3 March 2011

M. K. BhuyanFundamental concepts of Image Processing and Computer Vision

Gauhati University Guwahati 29-30 January 2011

S. R. M. PrasannaSpeaker recognition using excitation source information

IISc Bangalore IIT Guwahati 29 January 2011

A. Mitra Low Power Wireless Communication AMITY University Noida March 2011

A. Mitra Signal Estimation via Adaptive Filtering

Don Bosco University Guwahati 3 March 2011

A. Mitra Fundamentals of Mobile Communication

R V College of Engineering Bangalore December

2010

A. Mitra Basic Electronics: Fundamental Concepts IETE Centre Guwahati October 2010

A. Mitra Estimation Theory in Signal Processing Gauhati University Guwahati July 2010



Rohit Sinha, S. Dandapat and S. R. M. Prasanna

WiSSAP 2011 ISCA, Noth-East Council and LDC-IL 8-11 January 2011 International




Two day training programme on FPGA laboratory Training by resource persons from Coreel Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

Special Manpower Development Project in VLSI

Design and related software (SMDP II) project funded by

DIT

6-7 August 2010 National

Roy Paily PalathinkalOne Day Workshop on CMOS and MEMS Technology Development

Special Manpower Development Project in VLSI

Design and related software (SMDP II) project funded by

DIT

14 May 2010 National

Roy Paily Palathinkal IEEE 802.16 Mobile WiMAX Technology Workshop

Jointly by Special Manpower

Development Project in VLSI

Design and related software (SMDP

II) project funded by DIT and Intel

Higher Education Programme,

Bangalore

17 May 2010 National

R. Bhattacharjee and Roy Paily Palathinkal

IEEE EDS Mini Colloquium on Future of Nano Electronics

IEEE Electron Device Chapter, Kolkata 2 April 2010 National

Rohit SinhaWinter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP-2011)

NEC Shillong, LDC-IL Mysore, CSIR and

DST, IBM-India Research Centre,

Delhi


INVITED LECTURES


Prof. Peri baskararao Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Phonetic Essentials of Indian Languages and their Implication for

Speech Technology4 February 2011

Dr. C. Chandra Sekhar IISc Bangalore Statistical methods for speech

enhancement 20 July 2010

Prof. T. V. Srinivas IISc Bangalore Wiener Ā ltering based speech enhancement methods 5 June 2010

AWARDS AND HONOURS Second P rize f or the Best M Tech Thesis A ward in

the ar ea of VLSI and M icroelectronics among the 28 Participating Institutes across India for the Thesis entitled ‘Design of Multi-band CMOS L ow Noise AmpliĀ er’ B. C. Deepak, supervised by Dr. Roy Paily Palathinkal.

Dr. A. Mitra, Senior Member, IEEE, USA, 2010; Fellow, IETE, India, 2010; awarded N V Gadadhar Memorial Gold Medal, IETE, 2010; co-chaired (Technical Session 2), CISP 2011, Don Bosc o Univ ersity, Guwahati, 2011; chair ed (Technical S ession 3), MEC ON 2011, AMIT Y University, Noida, 2011.



Dr. S. Majhi chaired a technical session on “Complex Systems”, 11th I nternational C onference on C ontrol, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapor e, 7-10 December 2010. Dr. S. Chouhan a warded M icrosoft Outstanding

Young Faculty Award 2010. Dr. Rohit Sinha r eceived the Best P aper in Sig nal

Processing Track award in the 17th National Conference on C ommunications (NC C-2011) f or r esearch paper titled “Multi-Variability Speech Database f or Robust Speaker Recognition”.

SPECIAL MENTIONDr. R. Paily Palathinkal fabricated the India Chip-Analog 3.

FACULTY MEMBERSS. R. AhamedPhD (IIT Kharagpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Adaptive Signal Processing, Mobile Communications, VLSI Signal Processing

R. Bhattacharjee PhD (Jadavpur University, India) Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: Elec tromagnetics, Ant ennas and Microwaves

M. K. BhuyanPhD (IIT Guwahati) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: I mage and Video P rocessing, Computer Vision, P attern Rec ognition and Human Computer Interactions (HCI)

P. K . B oraPhD (IISc. Bangalore, India)ProfessorAreas of In terests: I mage P rocessing and C omputer Vision

S. K. BosePhD (Stony Brook, USA)ProfessorAreas of Interests: Modelling, Simulation and Analysis of Communication Networks

S. ChouhanPhD (IIT Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Wireless Sensor Net works, Coding Theory, Wireless Communications

S. DandapatPhD (IIT Kanpur)Professor Areas of In terests: Biomedical Sig nal P rocessing, Speech Processing and Medical Image Processing

D. DebPhD (University of Virginia) Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Adaptive Control, Nonlinear Control, Active Flow Control, Synthetic Jet Actuators, Solid State Power Controllers, Aircraft Flight Control, Wind Turbines Modelling and Control, Smart Homes

D. FulwaniPhD (IIT Kanpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Control Systems

A. K. GogoiPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of In terests: Elec tromagnetics, M icrowave Engineering, RF System Design

T. Jacob PhD (IIT Kanpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Statistical Sig nal P rocessing and Information Theory

I. KarPhD (IIT Kanpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Control Systems, Neural Net works and Fuzzy Logic

K. Karthik PhD (University of Toronto) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Signal processing and Multimedia Security



P. KumarPhD (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Algorithm dev elopment for Multi-objective optimization and multicrit eria decision making in engineering systems, Simulation and Analysis of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

A. MahantaPhD (IIT Delhi, India)ProfessorAreas of Interests: Digital Signal Processing

C. MahantaPhD (IIT Delhi, India)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: C ontrol S ystems, St ochastic Systems

S. Majhi DPhil (University of Sussex, UK)Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of In terests: Rela y C ontrol S ystems, C ontrol Algorithms and IdentiĀ cation

A. K. Mishra PhD (University of Edinburgh, UK) Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Radar Signal Processing and VLSI

A. MitraPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interests: Adaptive Signal Processing, Statistical Signal P rocessing, F inite-precision Sig nal P rocessing, Wireless Communication, Pattern Recognition

H. B. NemadePhD (IIT Bombay)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: S ystems Desig n, Elec tronic Instrumentation, Elec tronic P roduct Desig n, Sur face Acoustic Wave Devices, and MEMS

R. P. PalathinkalPhD (IIT Madras)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: S emiconductor Devic es, VLSI Circuits/Systems/Technology and MEMS

S. R. M. PrasannaPhD (IIT Madras)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: Speech, A udio, image and Biomedical Sig nal P rocessing, F uzzy L ogic, Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition

A. Rajesh PhD (IIT Kanpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Coding and M odulation Techniques

P. R. SahuPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant Professor Areas of In terests: Mobile Communications: Diversity combining techniques over fading channels

A. SethiPhD (Illinois, UIUC)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: M achine L earning and P attern Recognition, C omputer Vision and I mage P rocessing, Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology

K. R. SinghPhD (NTU Singapore)Assistant Professor Areas of In terests: Electromagnetic Band G ap, Filters, Metamaterials, C omputational Elec tromagnetics and Periodic Structures

R. SinhaPhD (IIT Kanpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Speech and A udio P rocessing, Speech Recognition, Signal Processing

P. Tripathy PhD (IIT Kanpur) Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Power system dynamics and stability studies, Wide Ar ea M onitoring and C ontrol of P ower System, Optimal po wer dispatch and stat e estimation, Security analy sis and c ontrol, Ener gy management system and distribution automation.



DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

INTRODUCTIONThe Depar tment of Humanities and S ocial S ciences has a unique niche in the academic pr ogramme of the I nstitute. I t curr ently c omprises nine disciplines , namely, Ec onomics, English, Philosoph y, P sychology, Sociology, H istory, Ar cheology, P olitical S cience and Linguistics. The c ourses off ered at the B Tech lev el are desig ned with a view t o pr ovide academic inputs that c omplement the t echnology pr ogrammes of the I nstitute. All the nine disciplines endea vour t o highlight the fac t that scienc e and t echnology must eventually addr ess the needs of human beings . However, apart from imparting knowledge in some of the c ontemporary ar eas, the c ourses also enc ourage students to deliberate on issues r elating to ethical and social r oles of t echnology. A g rowing understanding of the impor tance of int erdisciplinary is t oday one of the Department’s major strengths. Some of the current academic concerns in the six disciplines f ocus on this aspect of knowledge. The Depar tment also has a vibrant M A pr ogramme in Dev elopment Studies and Doc toral P rogramme in which scholars are encouraged to excel in high qualit y research through rigorous coursework that hone their theoretical, critical and empirical t ools. The wide range of ar eas of int erests of the facult y members ensur es a br oad vision and openness in the Depar tment’s academic programmes.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESMA programme in Dev elopment Studies and Doc toral Programme.The Depar tment or ganised an Annual L ecture for the year 2010-2011on the broad theme ‘Culture, History and Language’. The lecture series for this year was sponsored by ICSSR in c ollaboration with IIT Guwahati. All t otal

9 lec tures w ere deliv ered b y eminent personalities .Noted f olklorist and educationist P admashree Birendranath Datta deliv ered the inaugural lec ture ‘The D ynamism of C ulture as r efl ected in the M irror of F olklore’ on 31 M ay 2010 . P rof. P rasenjit Duara, a noted hist orian and curr ently Dir ector of Resear ch in Humanities and S ocial S ciences at National Univ ersity of Singapor e deliv ered the sec ond lec ture S eries on ‘Asia Redux: Conceptualizing the Region for Our Times’. Other speakers included ar e Arun K umar Tripathi, Department of Philosoph y of Technology, I nstitute for Philosoph y, Dr esden Univ ersity of Technology; distinguished humanist, scholar and peace activist from Nagaland Niketu Iralu; Prof. Anjali Gera Roy from Indian Institute of Technology K haragpur; eminent scholar Professor André Béteille; William H. Danforth, Professor of South Asian Religions and a noted Ramayana scholar Prof. P aula R ichman, P rof. Dr . P ramod Talgeri, Vice-Chancellor, I ndia I nternational Multiv ersity, P une and eminent anthr opologist and f ormer Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University, Prof. A. C. Bhagabati.

The Department organised an Interactive Session with the visiting scholars and dig nitaries fr om Bangladesh on 23 No vember 2010 with the dig nitaries and some distinguished academicians , media persons , distinguished citiz ens, students and other in vited guests from Guwahati. The distinguished guests fr om Bangladesh who t ook par t in the panel discussion were P rof. Sirajul Islam, r etired P rofessor of H istory, Dhaka Univ ersity and author of number of books on Bangladesh; Ambassador A. K. M. Farook; Prof. Shaheen M. Kabir, Jahangirnagar University; Dr. Kalpana Halder, Librarian, Dhaka University, having expertise in Sanskrit and Bengali language and lit erature and manuscript reading; Shahida Begum, A ssistant A ttorney General of Bangladesh; Ali I mam, a w ell k nown and highly



respected television journalist. Besides the panelists a good number of facult y and students of the I nstitute participated in the programme.

ICPR sponsored World Philosophy Day was c elebrated on 30 November 2010. Prof. Ashok Vohra, former Head, Department of Philosophy, DU, gave the keynote lecture on ‘Lifestyle, Value and Meaning of Life’. The Department also felicitated a renowned philosopher and a dedicated philosophy teacher who taught more than a decade in Cotton C ollege, Guwahati, Dr . J yotshna Bhatacharjee , for her pioneer work in popularising philosophy among young students and researchers of the region.

An I nternational C onference on ‘Climate Change and Water: Assessing vulnerability, impact, and adaptation in the Eastern Himalayas’ was organised in the Department from 3-5 Januar y 2011. The conference was suppor ted by North East Council (NEC), Oil India Limited (OIL) and Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR).

International Women’s Day was celebrated specially by the students of M A Development Study and facult y in the Depar tment in c ollaboration with the C ommittee for Working Women IIT Guwahati on 8 March 2011. The

students of the Depar tment and the members of the Women Cell took initiative to stage special plays related to women’s issues.

STUDENT INTAKEMA students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 44PhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 23

FACULTY STRENGTHProfessors : 3Associate Professors : 5Assistant Professors : 10Visiting Professor : 1Total : 19

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES20 new PCs w ere pr ocured f or the r esearch scholars ’ laboratory.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESDr. Bidisha S om was a warded Start Up Grant fr om the Institute for her ongoing project ‘The cognitive schemas and motion v erbs: A c omparative study of t wo Nor th Eastern languages of I ndia’. Duration f or this pr oject is 2 years.

RESEARCH PROJECTS New Sponsored Projects


Agency



Archana Barua

Culture In Dialogue: Re -Visiting The Vaishnavite Renaissance In North East India(Assam And Manipur)

IGNCA 11.63 Krishna Barua 1 year

Sawmya Ray

Gendered Consequences: Understanding Sex Traffi cking in the Context of Armed Confl icts in North East India

National Commission for Women

(NCW)

- - 2 years

Sawmya Ray

Seduction, Sale and Slavery: Traffi ck ing of Women and Children in North-East India

Indian Council of Social Science

Research (ICSSR)

5.91 - 2 years

Utpal BoraGanga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP)

- 30 M. K. Dutta 1 year



M. K. DuttaCD Cell Project on Slide Preparation on Agriculture and Rural Development

AICTE 0.15 - 1 year

Liza Das Digital Northeast India MHRD Centralised budget

Ratnajit Bhattacharjee 2 years

Liza Das Virtual English Lab MHRD Centralised budget P. K. Das 2 years

S. MallickQIP CD Cell Project on Interrogating Modernity (Slides)

AICTE 0.15 - 1 year

Abu Nasar Saied Ahmed

Islamic Cultural Heritage in India’s North East IGNCA 21.33 - 1 year

Rajshree Bedamatta

Women Workforce Participation under Employment Programmes and its Contribution to Household Food Security


Rajshree Bedamatta

Livelihood Study in the KBK Region of Orissa: IdentiĀ cation of the Gap and Preparation of a Statistical Database for Development Planners of the State

Indian Council of Social Science

Research

5 - 1 year

Anamika Barua

Climate change water and rural livelihoods: assessing socio-economic vulnerability and potential adaptive strategies in Eastern Himalayan Region, India

Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)

100

Pernille Gooch

(University of Lund)

3 years



Agency



Abu Nasar Saied Ahmed Madrasas in Assam MMA 8 - 2 years

Liza Das Cultural Studies (Web) MHRD 7 - 3 years

Liza Das English Language and Literature MHRD 7 Krishna Barua 3 years

Liza Das Indian Society: Issues and Problems MHRD 7 S. Mallick 3 years

Liza Das Cultural Studies (Video) MHRD 7 - -

S. Mallick Science, Technology and Society (NPTEL – II) MHRD 7 A. Barua 3 years

S. Mallick Indian Society: Issues and Problems (NPTEL – II) MHRD 7 L. Das 3 years



S. Mallick Introduction to Sociology (NPTEL – II) MHRD 7 - 3 years

A. Saikia

The Life and Times of Historian Surya Kumar Bhuyan: A Study into the Professionalization of Modern Historical Research in the 20th century Assam

ICHR, MHRD 1 - 2 years

G. Barua

Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solution (Assamese and Bodo)

MIT, New Delhi - Bidisha Som 3 years

Debarshi Das Video course: Game Theory and Economics NPTEL – II 2.5 - 3 years

Sukanya SharmaMegaliths in Changing Times: A Study in Cherrapunjee

ICHR - - 2 years

Sukanya Sharma Virtual Anthropology Laboratory MHRD - - -

Anamika Barua

Water and livelihood assessing climate change vulnerability in Sikkim, India

SASNET Planning Grant 5.24 Pernille

Gooch 1 year

Anamika Barua

Developing a measure for inequitable household access to water in urban India

ICSSR-ESRC 3.90 Klaus Hubacek 1.5 years

Anamika Barua Climate change and tourism – a case study from North Eastern India

IITG startup grant 5 - 2 years

Naveen Kasyap

Eff ects of sleep on the strategies of route learning in virtual town environment in humans

DST 13 - 3 years



Agency



Sukanya Sarma

Source Book of the Archaeology of the Himalayan Region: Arunachal Pradesh

Dept. of Culture, Govt. of India and Centre for

Archaeological Studies and

Training Eastern India,

Kolkata

2.4 - -



RESEARCH PUBLICATIONSInternational JournalBidisha Som‘Language, C ategorisation and C ognitive Struc tures: The Case of Great Andamanese’, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, vol. XXXX (1), pp 175-190, 2011

Krishna Barua‘The C osmic and A cosmic — a r edeĀ nition of Being and Time in P atrick White’s Voss’, The Indian Review of World Literature in English A Bi-Annual Online Lit erary Journal vol. 6 (II) July 2010. ISSN: 0974 - 097X

Arupjyoti Saikia‘Landlords, Tenants and Agrarian Relations: Revisiting a Peasant Uprising in C olonial Assam’, Studies in H istory, vol. 26 (2), pp. 175-209, August 2010

Arupjyoti Saikia‘The M oneylenders and I ndebtedness: Understanding the P easant Ec onomy of C olonial A ssam, 1900–1950’, Indian Historical Review, vol. 37 (1), pp 63-88

Arupjyoti Saikia‘Imperialism, Geology and P etroleum: History of Oil in Colonial Assam’, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 46 (12), pp 48-55, 19-25 March 2011

Sukanya Sharma‘Negotiating Transnational Identities on Indo-Myanmar Border: The Trade F actor’, the I ndia Quar terly SA GE Publications, vol. 67 (1), March 2011

Sukanya Sharma‘Southeast A sian Elements in the Ar chaeological evidence of Northeast India’, SPAFA Journal: a publication of the SEAMEO Reg ional C entre f or Ar chaeology and Fine Arts (SPAFA), Bangkok, 2011

Rashmirekha Sarma and Sukanya Sharma‘The ( Culturally) Disappearing people of Arunachal Pradesh; a Conceptual Understanding’, Quest, vol. IV, pp 132-148, January 2011

Aparna Rayaprol and Sawmya Ray‘Understanding Gender Justice: Perceptions of Lawyers in India’, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 17 (3), pp 335-363, 2010

Ira Das, M. K. Dutta and S. Borbora‘Sectoral Linkages in Assam: An Empirical Analysis’, Man and Development, vol. 32 (2), pp 77-94, June 2010

Parag Dutta and Mrinal Kanti Dutta‘An Analysis of Fiscal Crisis and Fiscal Reforms in Assam in Recent Decades’, Assam Economic Journal, vol. 22, pp 01-12, 2011

S. Mallick‘Review of A griculture in Dev eloping C ountries: Technology Issues’ edited by Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan, Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 27 (3), pp 375-376, September 2010

S. Mallick‘Review of The C omplementary Natur e of Realit y b y Peter Barab ’, S cience C ommunication, v ol. 32 (4), pp 543-544, December 2010

S. Mallick‘Review of Bey ond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Eng ineering b y Craig Holdr ege and St eve Talbott’, Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 28 (1), pp 145-146, February 2011

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar‘Chokhamela the Dalit poet-saint ’, Samaj P rabodhan, vol. xx (2), pp 14-29, 2011

N. Tripathi, P. Sorokowski, et al‘Attractiveness of leg length: Repor t fr om 27 nations ’, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, vol. 42 (1), pp 131-139, 2011

N. Tripathi, S. Nong maithem, L. R istic, M. M itkovic, and J. Zdravkovic‘Assertiveness and personality: Cross-cultural diff erences in I ndian and S erbian male students ’, P sychological Studies, vol. 55 (4), pp 330-338, 2010

N. Tripathi‘Privacy and C ontrol: Ar e they r elated?’, P sychological Studies, vol. 55 (2), pp 108-117, 2010

J. B. P. Sinha, S. Singh, P. Gupta, K. B. L Srivastava, R. B. N. Sinha, S. Srivastava, A. Ghosh, R. N. Siddiqui, N. Tripathi,



M. Gupta, S. Srivasta va, Z. Mulla, C. Vijayalakshmi and A. Pandey‘An exploration of the I ndian mindset ’, P sychological Studies, vol. 55 (1), pp 3-17, 2010

National JournalRajshree Bedamatta‘A Distric t L evel Analy sis of F ood I nsecurity in Rural Orissa’, Review of Development and Change, vol. XV (1), pp 49-68, January-June 2010

Archana Barua‘Education for Swaraj: A G andhian Perspective’, Special Volume on Nai Talim Education S ystem, H ydearabad, National C ouncil of Rural I nstitutes (NCRI), pp 22-25, September 2010

George, Annie, U. Vindhya and Sawmya Ray‘Sex T raffi cking and S ex Work: DeĀ nitions, Debates, and Dynamics – A Review of Lit erature’, Economic and Political Weekly: Review of Women’s Studies, XLV (17), pp 64-74, 2010

Aparna Rayaprol and Sawmya Ray‘Understanding Gender Justice: Perceptions of Lawyers in I ndia’, I ndian Journal of Gender Studies , 17 (3), pp 335-363, 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaN. Tripathi and N. Kumar‘The eff ect of per formance monit oring on w ell-being of call- centre agents: M oderating r ole of c o-worker support’, Twentieth Annual NA OP C onference, JNU , New Delhi, 12-15 December 2010

S. Nongmaithem and N. Tripathi‘Organisational learning and the r ole of c ontextual variables in I ndian public sec tor or ganisations: A qualitativ e study ’, IAAP Division 3 P sychology and S ocietal Dev elopment in vited symposium on ‘Globalisation and Resear ch P aradigms: Need f or Refl ection’ at Twenty-seventh I nternational C ongress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia, 11-16 July 2010

N. Tripathi and N. Kumar‘The eff ect of emotional labour on str ess and job

satisfaction in call- centre agents: M oderating r ole of self-effi cacy’, e -Poster pr esented at Twenty-seventh International C ongress of Applied P sychology, Melbourne, Australia, 11-16 July 2010

Krishna Barua‘The Territorial Imagination: in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a Cit y’, M odern Language A ssociation Convention, Los Angeles, USA, 6-9 January 2011

S. Borbora‘Global Economic Crisis: I ts impact on I ndian Economy and Challenges Ahead ’, F ourth I nternational Borneo Business Conference (IBBC) 2010, Faculty of Economics and Business , Univ ersiti M alaysia Sara wak (UNIM AS), Sarawak, Malaysia, pp 327-334, (ISBN 978-967-5418-15-0) , 13-15 December 2010

S. Borbora and Gopal Kumar Sarma‘Branch level Effi cienc y of MicroĀ nance Institutions and Its Determinants: An Application of Data En velopment Analysis in A ssam, I ndia’, F ourth I nternational Borneo Business Conference (IBBC) 2010, Faculty of Economics and Business , Univ ersiti M alaysia Sara wak (UNIM AS), Sarawak, Malaysia, pp 687-702 (ISBN 978-967-5418-15-0), 13-15 December 2010

Arupjyoti Saikia, Kawal Deep Kaur and Gopal Sarma‘Preliminary Estimat e on Cr op P roduction in Brahmaputra Valley: 1890-1947’ , P roceedings of the Conference of the Nor th East India History Association 2010, pp 409-419

M. K. Dutta and M. P. Bezbaruah‘Institutional Factors behind Eff ectiveness of I rrigation: A Study from Assam in Eastern India’, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual C onference of I nternational Net work for Economic Research (INFER), University of Muenster, Germany, 3-5 September 2010

A Barua, D. Guan and K. Tongper‘Assessing int er-regional vir tual wat er trade in I ndia’, Proceedings of the Ec ological Ec onomics C onference on A dvancing Sustainabilit y in the Time of Crisis , University of Bremen and Oldenburg , Germany, 22-25 August 2010



Book, Book Chapter, etc.Arupjyoti SaikiaForests and Ec ological H istory of A ssam, 1826-2000, Oxford Univ ersity P ress, pp . 392+xxiii, 2011 (ISBN13: 9780198069539/ISBN10: 0198069537)

S. MallickThe Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Changing ScientiĀ c P ractices in I ndia, Lamber t A cademic Publishing AG and Co. KG, Germany, July 2010

Arupjyoti Saikia‘Emergence of a new stat e: Land r eform and the beginning of planning ’, M odern I ndia: The H istory of India: 1750-1950, Ed. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi, Instance of Distance Learning, 2011

Arupjyoti Saikia‘Rural economy and society’, Modern India: The History of I ndia: 1750-1950, Ed . Upinder Singh, Univ ersity of Delhi, Instance of Distance Learning, 2011

S. Mallick‘Changing Protocols of IPRs and S cientiĀ c Practices in the Age of Liberalization: The Case of Plant M olecular Biology in I ndia’, Liberalizing Resear ch in S cience and Technology: Studies in Science Policy, Ed. N. Asheulova, B. K . P attnaik, E. Kolchinsk i and G. Sandstr om, Saint-Petersburg: The Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 437-473, August 2010

Arpana Nath and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar‘Fasting, Feasting: Food, Consumption and the P olitics of P ower’, The Writer’s F east: F ood and the C ultures of Repr esentation, Ed . Supriya Chouduri and R imi B . Chatterjee, Orient BlackS wan, New Delhi, pp . 92-103, 2011

Sukanya Sharma‘Rethinking the Neolithic of Northeast India: Issues and Prospects’, Neolithic of East ern I ndia, Ed . K . S. Singh, Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi, March 2011

Sukanya Sharma‘Indigenous K nowledge, Sustainabilit y and Shif ting Cultivation: The G aro Experienc e’, The Nor th East Umbrella: C ultural-Historical I nteraction and Isolation

of the Tribes in the Region (Pre-history to 21st Century), Don Bosc o C entre f or I ndigenous C ultures, Shillong , 2011 (ISBN: 81854080053)

A. Barua and A. Jaitly‘Urban water sustainability in Asian cities - is 24x7 water supply possible?, A Planet f or Lif e 2010, Sustainable Cities, Ed. P. Jacquet, R. Pachauri, L. Tubiana, AFD, IDDRI TERI Press, 2010

A. Barua‘Climate Change: ho w vulnerable is Nor th East ’, The Assam Tribune, 14 December 2010

A. Barua‘Let water too have a price’, The Sentinel, 5 June 2010

Archana Barua‘Ethics of War and Weapons of M ass Destruc tion’, Knowledge, F reedom and Reason, Ed . S. Goswami, Publication Cell, Dept. of Philosophy, GU, pp 93-94, July 2010

Archana Barua‘What is Phenomenology ’, Dimensions of Philosoph y Tradition and M odernity, Ed. S. Goswami, P ublication Cell, Dept. of Philosophy, GU, pp. 93-94, June 2010

Archana Barua‘Understanding Business Ethics ’, Darshik a, Ed . C. Das , Publication C ell, Ar yavidyapith C ollege, Guwahati, pp130-141, August 2010

Saundarjya Borbora‘Micro Finance in Rural Poverty Alleviation’, Development Scenario of Nor th-East I ndia, Ed . J . U . Ahmed , DVS Publishers, Guwahati, pp 156-169, 2010

Saundarjya Borbora and R. Mahanta‘Measurement and I ndicators of P overty in I ndia’, Poverty and Sustainable Dev elopment: C oncepts and Measures, Ed. N. S. I yengar, Deep & Deep P ublications, New Delhi, pp 151-163, 2010

Krishna Barua‘The r estructuring of the M andalic c onsciousness in Patrick White’s novels Australia and India: convergences



and divergences, Ed. Santosh K. Sareen, Mantra Books, New Delhi, 2010

Krishna Barua‘I do not k now wher e is the song ’, Edit ors choic e cotemporary shor t st ories in I ndian English, Eds . Jaideep Sarangi and Sunil Sharma, A uthors Press, New Delhi, 2010

Krishna Barua‘Encounters and Betra yals: ReĀ guring the P olitics of Contesting S elves in Bhabendra Nath Saik ia’s Deuk a and Taranga’, Multicultural Lit erature in I ndia : Critical Perceptions, Vol. II, Ed . N. D . R. Chandra, Sarup Books , Delhi, 2010

Krishna Barua‘Ecological int erdependence: C ultural Ec ology in the Vedic and Doaist traditions ’, Ec ological

Criticism: Applications and P ossibilities, Ed . Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Authors Press, New Delhi, 2010

V. PrabhuReligion, Culture and Value- Wittgenstein’s perspective, Lambert A cademic P ublishers, German y, No vember 2010

Arpana Nath and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar‘Fasting, Feasting: Food, Consumption and the P olitics of Power’ The Writer’s Feast: Food and the C ultures of Representation, Eds . Supriya Chouduri and R imi B . Chatterjee, New Delhi, Orient BlackS wan, pp . 92-103, 2011

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar‘Gandhi’s Philosoph y and the Quest f or Harmon y b y Anthony P arel’, The Book Review , 34 (5), pp10, M ay 2010



A.N.S. Ahmed Sustainable Community Development Kuala Lumpur 20-22 July 2010 International

Krishna Barua Modern Language Association Convention Los Angeles, USA 6-9 Jan. 2011 International

Shakuntala MahantaWorkshop on the syntax of North East Indian Languages

Tezpur University, Assam 19-22 Jan. 2011 National

Abu Nasar Saied Ahmed

Sustainable Community Development Kuala Lumpur 20-22 July 2010 International

S. Mallick and L. Das 17th ISA World Congress of Sociology

Gothenburg, Sweden 11-17 July 2010 International

S. Mallick 36th All India Sociological Conference

Ravenshaw University, Cuttack 27-29 Dec. 2010 National

Payel Chakrabarti and Liza Das

National Conference on Research Methodology In Journalism And Mass Communication: De-Westernizing Media Studies

Tezpur University, Assam 26-28 Nov. 2010 National

V. Prabhu

National Seminar on Relevance of the Gandhian Concept of Freedom in the Present day Society

Goreswar College, Assam 2-3 Nov. 2010 National

V. PrabhuShort Term Course on Research Methods in Social Sciences

IIT Guwahati 12-18 March 2011 National



V. PrabhuNational Conference on Philosophy for Social Integration

Department of Philosophy, Gauhati

University29-31 March 2011 National

M. K. DuttaNational Seminar on Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Tezpur University, Assam 1-3 April 2010 National

M. K. Dutta12th conference of International Network for Economic Research

University of Muenster, Germany

3-5 September 2010 International

M. K. Dutta12th Annual Conference of North Eastern Economic Association

Nagaland University 10-11 Nov. 2010 National

M. K. Dutta

National Conference on Economic Development of Assam (in the context of North-East Juxtaposition and Look East Policy)

K. K. Handique State Open University,

Guwahati


M. K. Dutta

International Conference on Seeking Sustainable Solutions for the Brahmaputra: Challenges and Opportunities

Guwahati 18-19 December 2010 International

M. K. Dutta34th Annual Conference of Indian Social Science Congress

Gauhati University, Guwahati


M. K. Dutta

International Conference on Climate Change and Water: Assessing Vulnerability, impact and adaptation in the Eastern Himalayas

IIT Guwahati 3-5 January 2011 International

S. Borbora The 12th annual conference of NEEA Nagaland University 10-11 Nov. 2010 National

S. BorboraNational Seminar on Theoretical formulation of MGNREGA

Jorhat College, Assam 13 Nov. 2010 National

S. Borbora4thInternational Borneo Business Conference (IBBC) 2010

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 13-15 Dec. 2010 International

S. Borbora XXXIV Indian Social Science Congress

Gauahti University , Guwahati 27-31 Dec. 2010 National

S. Borbora

National seminar on Relevance of Gandhian Philosophy in Contemporary India

Gargaon College, Simalugri 7-8 January 2011 National

S. Borbora

National Seminar on Issues of Social Sector Development in North East India (Under DRS-II, SAP of the UGC)

Department of Economics,

Dibrugarh University

11 March 2011 National



Arupjyoti SaikiaAnnual Conference American Historical Association

Boston January 2011 International

Arupjyoti Saikia Migration and Mobility in a Global Perspective Taiwan August 2011 International

Arupjyoti SaikiaUnderdevelopment and development: challenge and response

Viswa Bharati University January 2011 National

Arupjyoti SaikiaCulture and Development: Perspectives from North East India

Tezpur University March 2011 National

Arupjyoti Saikia Vernacular Sources in Eastern India

Mahishadhal College, Medinipur March 2011 National

Arupjyoti Saikia Deforestation in NE India Mariani College, Assam January 2011 National

Archana Barua Herneneutics and Science: Worlds, Realities and Life

Sigmund Freud University, Vienna 26-29 Aug. 2010 International

Archana BaruaScience , Spirituality and Humanity: Transcending Disciplinary Barriers

University of Delhi 17-19 Feb. 2011 International

Archana Barua Mysticism Without Bounds Christ University, Bangalore 5-8 January 2011 International

Archana Barua

I.C.P.R. sponsored national seminar on Social Concerns In Indian Philosophy

Cotton College, Guwahati 29 Nov. 2010 National

Archana Barua Philosophy,Society and Values

Biswanath College, Assam 29 -30 Dec. 2010 National

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar

European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies

University of Bonn, Germany 26-29 July 2010 International

K. Nath and R. M. Punekar

Spaces and Flows: International Conference on Urban and Extra-Urban Studies

UCLA, USA 4-6 Dec. 2010 International

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar

Social imagination in Comparative Perspective

Central University Gujarat 3-6 March 2011 International

R.M. Punekar The Body in Culture: Culture of the Body

Jawaharlal University, Delhi 3-4 March 2011 International

Sukanya Sharma

The Hoabinhian in Northeast India in 13th international conference Crossing Borders in Southeast Asian Archaeology of the European Association of the Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA 13)

Berlin 27 September – 1 October 2010 International



Rajshree BedamattaDesigning and Planning Urban Rainwater Harvesting

New Delhi 30 March – 3 April 2010 National

Anamika Barua

Ecological Economics conference on advancing sustainability in the time of crisis

Germany 22-25 August 2010 International

Sawmya Ray

National Seminar on agency, autonomy, and power: A Dialogue on women and body

Delhi University, New Delhi

23-25 February 2010 National

Sawmya Ray Workshop on Sex Traffi ck ing and Sex Work Hyderabad 17-22 Dec. 2010 National

S. MallickScience, Technology and Nation: In Search of a Moral Fulcrum

University of Hyderabad 24-26 Feb. 2011 National



S. BorboraHuman Resources, Building Human Capital and Development

Kokrajhar Commerce College Kokrajhar, Assam 25 October

2010

M. K. Dutta Issues of Food Security and Agriculture in Assam Rangia College Rangia, Assam 22 September

2010

M. K. Dutta Global Slowdown: Advantage India

Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh, Assam 13 November

2010

S. Mallick Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation

University of Hyderabad Hyderabad 26 February

2011

S. Mallick

ScientiĀ c Theory: Paradigms of Knowledge Production and Social Shaping of Technology

Ashoka Trust for Research in

Ecology and the Environment

Bengaluru 15 March 2011

A.N.S. AhmedRevisiting a Lost Relationship: Assam and Bengal in the Colonial Era

Asiatic Society of Bangladesh Dhaka 15 October

2010

A.N.S. Ahmed Environment, Citizenship and Environment Gauhati University Guwahati 24 March 2011

Shakuntala Mahanta Cognitive biases in language learning

English and Foreign Languages

UniversityHyderabad 4 August 2010

Archana Barua Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy

Institute of Philosophy, Dresden

University of Technology

Germany 1 September 2010

Archana Barua Cultural Dialogue in South East Asia and India’s North East

International Society for Folk Narrative Research, NEHU

Shillong 22-25 February 2011

Archana BaruaWoman, Technology and Value: Some Thoughts on Computer Ethics

St. Anthony ‘s College Shillong 10 December

2010



Archana Barua

Modern Indian Thought on Humanism with Special Reference to Swami Vivekananda

Vivekananda Study Centre, Dhemaji

CollegeDhemaji, Assam 20 November

2010

Arupjyoti SaikiaFrom Tribes to Farmer: Understanding Deforestation in NE India

McMillan South Asia Centre Yale University, USA January 2011

Arupjyoti SaikiaManiram Dewan: Assamese Modernity and Historical Consciousness

Kamrup Anusandhan Samiti,

GuwahatiGuwahati January 2011

Anamika BaruaClimate change, ecosystem services and livelihood

SaciWATERS Hyderabad and

RSPN BhutanBhutan 9-11 February

2011

Anamika Barua Ecosystems for lifeInternational Union for Conservation of

Nature New Delhi 21 January

2011

Anamika BaruaA framework to assess vulnerability to climate change

University of Sikkim Gangtok 7 August 2010

Anamika BaruaClimate change, water and livelihood – a case of Sikkim

Centre for Legislative Research

and AdvocacyGuwahati 5-6 July 2010



Dabo Guan University of Cambridge Project related 25 March 2011

Pernille Gooch University of Lund Project related 17 March 2011

INVITED LECTURES


Prof. Peri Bhaskararao

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Ethnolinguistic study of the Todas 8 Feb. 2011

Dr. Udoy Saikia Flinders University Population and development 6 January 2011


Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By DateInternational/

National

S. Mallick Workshop on Children and Women’s Rights and Issues UNICEF 6 May 2010 National

Anamika Barua

Climate change and water: assessing vulnerability, impact and adaptation in Eastern Himalayas

Oil India Ltd., North East

Council, ICSSR

3-5 January 2011 International

Arupjyoti SaikiaUnderstanding Conservation: Perspectives from Manas and Kaziranga National Parks, Assam

ATREE, Bangalore

4-5 September

2010National



SHORT-TERM COURSESS. Mallick and L. DasTitle: Science, Technology and SocietySponsor: AICTEDuration: 13-17 December 2010

Sawmya RayCo-ordinater, I ndian C ouncil of S ocial S ciences, New Dehli, sponsor ed shor t-term c ourse on ‘Research Methods in Social Sciences’, 12-18 March 2011.

AWARDS AND HONOURSDr. Rohini M okashi-Punekar elec ted unanimously as the Zonal Representative and Member of the Executive Committee, IA CLALS ( The I ndian A ssociation f or Commonwealth Literature and Languages) for the term 2011-2014.

Prof. S. Borbora r eceived outstanding P aper A ward (Finance) at the 4th I nternational Borneo Business Conference (IBBC ) 2010 f or the paper ‘Branch lev el Effi cienc y of MicroĀ nance I nstitutions and I ts Determinants: An Application of Data En velopment Analysis in Assam, India’.

Dr. Naveen Kashyap was nominated for INSA’s Bi-Lateral Exchange f or scientist t o German y f or thr ee months during 2011-2012.

SPECIAL MENTIONDebarshi DasFollowing ar ticles published in the book Sanhati Selections 2011, Kolkata:‘Agrarian Investment in India’,‘A Budget for Pranab Babu’s People’,‘A Brief Note and Interview with Akhil Gogoi’.

S. Borbora1. M ember, P eer Review Boar d, P roĀ cient, An International Journal of M anagement, ISSN 0975-475X ProĀ cient2. M ember, Review Boar d, Journal of Elec tronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO)3. Referee, Assam Economic Journal (ISSN 0976-7530)4. Referee, Journal of Human Ecology (ISSN 0970-9274)

V. Prabhu Preparation of study material on “Bentham and Mill” for

KK Handique State Open University.Preparation of study mat erial on “Religious Language” for IGNOU, Delhi

S. MallickExpert Review er, PG Diploma C ourse titled Natural Resource M anagement, Rest oration and Sustainable Development, Ecological Society, Pune, August 2010.Referee, Educational Research, USA, October 2010.Referee, C ambridge Univ ersity P ress, UK , No vember 2010.Member, Ex ecutive C ommittee, RC – 13 (S cience, Technology and S ociety), I ndian S ociological S ociety, New Delhi, 1 Januar y 2009 – 31 Dec ember 2010 (extended from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2012).Resource Person, Symposium on Sustainabilit y: Issues and Challenges f or the Dev eloping World, Nor th East Centre f or Resear ch and Dev elopment, I ndira G andhi National Open University, Guwahati, 9 March 2011.

M. K. DuttaElected Secretary of North Eastern Economic Association for the session 2010-2012.

FACULTY MEMBERSA.N.S. AhmedPhD (Gauhati University, Guwahati)Visiting ProfessorAreas of Interest: International Relations, Area Studies, Problems of Go vernance, Islamic S ociety and C ulture, Politics and Militancy

A. BaruaPhD (University of Leeds)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: En vironmental Ec onomics, Development Economics, Climate Change Issues

A. BaruaPhD (North Eastern Hill University, Shillong)Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of In terest: Phenomenology and C ognitive Science, Phenomenology and Relig ion, Ethical Issues related to Science and TechnologyK. BaruaPhD (Gauhati University, Guwahati)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Commonwealth Literature, Cultural Studies, Comparative Studies and Translations



R. BedamattaPhD (Univ ersity of C alcutta, thr ough I ndian Statistical Institute Kolkata)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Dev elopment Ec onomics, I nformal Sector, Issues in F ood S ecurity and S ocial S ecurity, Economics of Education

S. BorboraPhD (Gauhati University, Guwahati)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Development Economics, Industrial Economics, Labour Economics

D. DasPhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Dev elopment Ec onomics, Macroeconomics, Applied Game Theory

L. DasPhD (Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ognitive studies , Lit erary Theory, Gender Studies, Consciousness Studies, Posthumanism and Technology

M.K. DuttaPhD (Gauhati University, Guwahati)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: A gricultural Ec onomics, Environmental Economics

N. KashyapPhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Sleep and Human M emory System, Episodic and Emotional M emory, EEG, ERP and Polysomnography

S. MahantaPhD (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Phonolog ical theor y with special interest in Optimalit y Theory, Vowel Harmon y, Experimental appr oaches t o Phonology and its acquisition

S. MallickPhD (University of Hyderabad)

Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: S ociology of S cience, H istorical Sociology

R.M. PunekarPhD (Gujarat University)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ulture and Translation Studies , Modern British Literature, Indian Writing in English

S. RayPhD (University of Hyderabad)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: S ociology of Gender , S ociology of Law, Sociology of Communication

A. SaikiaPhD (Delhi University)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Social and Environmental History of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Assam

S. SharmaPhD (Deccan College PG and Research Institute, Pune) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Ar chaeology of Nor theast I ndia, Colonial history of Assam, Cultural Policy

B. SomPhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ognitive Linguistics , Endanger ed and lesser k nown languages , Language Typology, Sociolinguistics

N. TripathiPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Or ganisational Beha viour, Human Resource M anagement, S ocial/Environmental Psychology, I-O Psychology

P. VenkataramanPhD (Pondicherry University)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Philosophy of Technology, Applied Philosophy, P eace Studies , Critical Thinking, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Education



DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

INTRODUCTIONThe Department of Mathematics continued to off er both undergraduate and post graduate lev el mathematics courses t o B Tech, MS c and PhD students during the year. The Depar tment continued to organise seminars under the IIT Guwahati M athematics S eminar S eries in which sev eral distinguished mathematicians fr om India and abr oad deliv ered talks . I n addition, ther e were several activities of the two student organisations namely, MATRIX and IIT Guwahati Chapter of SIAM.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Preparatory ProgrammeThe Depar tment c ontinued t o off er c ourses in both the semest ers of 2010-2011 f or the pr eparatory programme.

BTech ProgrammeThe Depar tment off ered M athematics-I (M A-101) and Mathematics-III (M A- 201) c ore c ourses in the odd semester and M athematics-II (M A-102) in the ev en semester to BTech students. The Depar tment has also off ered 4th semest er science elec tive course to BTech students. The courses MA 101, MA 102, MA 201, CS 302, MA 591, MA 421 and M A 221 were also off ered during summer 2010. The Depar tment will star t off ering minors in Mathematics to BTech/BDes students of 2010 batch onwards.

BTech (Mathematics and Computing) ProgrammeThe BTech programme in Mathematics and Computing was started in July 2006. There are 28 students in fourth year (2007 batch), 26 students in third year (2008 batch) and 32 students in second year (2009 batch). In addition to this, 36 students were admitted in 2010. The second

batch of BTech students will be graduating in this year.

MSc (Mathematics and Computing) ProgrammeThe MS c pr ogramme in M athematics and C omputing was star ted in July 2000. There are 27 students in the 2009 batch and 41 students were admitted in 2010.

PhD ProgrammeThe Depar tment has 30 PhD students , out of which 8 were admitted during the year 2010-2011.

STUDENT INTAKEBTech students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 36MSc students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 41PhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 08


MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESThe Depar tment has t wo v ery good c omputer laboratories for students. Besides, IIT Guwahati houses the Reg ional M athematics Librar y funded b y the National Boar d f or H igher M athematics (NBHM). I n addition, the Department has its own library.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESApart fr om r egular r esearch ac tivities like guiding students, the facult y members of the depar tment attended c onferences and under took c ollaborative research w orks with r esearchers fr om some pr emier institutions in the country and abroad.



RESEARCH PROJECTSOngoing Sponsored Projects


Agency



J. C. Kalita

Simulation of incompressible viscous fl ows by the biharmonic approach

DST 8.87 - 3 years

P. S. Mandal

Designing a robust protocol for secured topology discovery in wireless sensor networks


RESEARCH PUBLICATIONSInternational JournalBhupen Deka and Rajen K. Sinha‘Lα(L2) and L α(H1) - Norms Err or Estimat es in F inite Element Method for Linear Parabolic Interface Problems’, Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimisation, vol. 32 (3), pp 267-285, March 2011

Rajesh P. Singh, A. Saikia and B.K. Sarma‘Poly Dragon: An Effi cient Multivariat e P ublic Key Cryptosystem’, Journal of M athematical Cr yptology, ISSN (Online) pp. 1862-2984, ISSN (Print) pp. 1862-2976, published online : 24 February 2011

R. Barman and A. Saikia‘Iwasawa Lambda-Invariants and Gamma-Transforms of p-Adic Measures on Z_{p}^{n}’, International Journal of Number Theory, vol. 6 (8), pp 1819-1829, 2010

R. Barman and A. Saikia‘Coeffi cients of a p -Adic M easure on Z_{p} ^{n}’ and Iwasawa Lambda-I nvariants of I ts G amma-Transforms’, Asian-European Journal of M athematics, vol. 3 (4), pp . 545-554, 2010

R. Barman and A. Saikia‘A Not e on I wasawa Mu-I nvariants of Elliptic C urves’, Bulletin of the Brazilian M athematical S ociety, New Series vol. 41 (3), pp. 399-407, 2010

Rajesh P. Singh, A. Saikia and B.K. Sarma‘Little-Dragon Two: An Effi cient Multivariate Public Key Cr yptosystem’, I nternational Journal of Net work Security and Applications, vol. 2 (2), pp 1-10, April 2010

S. S. Ahmad, R. Alam and R. Byers‘On pseudospec tra, critical points and multiple eigenvalues of matrix pencils’, SIAM Journal Matrix Anal. Appl., vol. 31 (2010), pp.1915-1933, May 2010

B. Adhikari and R. Alam‘On back ward err ors of struc tured polynomial eigenproblems solv ed b y struc tured pr eserving linearisations’, Linear Algebra. Appl., vol. 434 (2011), pp. 1989-2017, November 2010

R.V. Gurjar and V. Wagh‘Relations between multiplicity and divisor class g roup for rational sur face singularities ’, I nternational Journal of Mathematics, World ScientiĀ c, vol. 21 (7), pp 915-938, October 2010

Jiten C. Kalita and Shuvam Sen‘Biharmonic computation of the fl ow past an impulsively started cir cular c ylinder at Re=200’ , L ecture Not es in Engineering and C omputer S cience, v ol. 2185 (1), pp 1805-1810, 2010

J. Mohapatra and S. Natesan‘Parameter-uniform numerical method f or global solution and global normalised fl ux of singularly perturbed boundar y-value pr oblems using g rid equidistribution’, C omputers & M athematics with Applications, vol. 60, pp 1924-1939, July 2010

H. Ramos, J. Vigo-Aguiar, S. Natesan, R. Garcia-Rubio, M. A. Queiruga‘Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Singularly P erturbed



Problems on Nonunif orm meshes b y using a Non-Standard Algorithm’, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 48, pp 38-54, June 2010

J. Mohapatra and S. Natesan‘The P arameter-Robust Numerical M ethod Based on Defect C orrection Technique f or Singularly P erturbed Delay Diff erential Equations with La yer Beha vior’, International Journal of Computational Methods, vol. 7 (4), pp 573-594, August 2010

S. Mohapatra and S. N. Bora‘Refl ection and transmission of wat er waves in a t wo-layer fl uid fl owing through a channel with undulating bed’, ZAMM (Z eitschrift fur Angewandt e M athematik

und M echanik, (DOI: 10.1002/zamm.200800216), v ol. 91 (1), pp 46-56, January 2011 (A Wiley-VCH Journal)

G. Barua and S. N. Bora‘Hydraulics of a partially penetrating well with skin zone in a conĀ ned aquifer’, Advances in Water Resources, vol. 33, pp 1575-1587, December 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaInternationalA. Saikia‘Ribet’s C onstruction of a Suitable C usp Eigenf orm’, Proceedings of Workshop on Iwasawa Theory of Totally Real Fields’, pp 49-65, 2010



Anupam SaikiaICM Satellite Conference on Automorphic Forms and Number Theory

International Centre, Goa 14-17 August 2010 International

Anupam Saikia Workshop on Algebra and Number Theory Tezpur University 22-26 December

2010 National

D.C. Dalal Indo-US Workshop on Ecological Health of Rivers ISI Kolkata 1-3 November 2010 International

D.C. Dalal International Congress for Mathematicians (ICM) Hyderabad 19-27 August 2010 International

Rajen K. Sinha

International Workshop on Advances in Computational Partial Diff erential Equations

BITS, Pilani Goa Campus

7 February - 5 March 2011 International

Rajen K. Sinha International Congress for Mathematicians (ICM) Hyderabad 19-27 August 2010 International

RaĀ kul Alam International Workshop IWASEP-8 Berlin, Germany 28 June - 1 July

2010 International

Shreemayee Bora International Workshop IWASEP-8 Berlin, Germany 28 June - 1 July

2010 International

Jiten C. KalitaInternational Congress on engineering and applied mathematics

London, UK 30 June - 2 July 2010 International

S.N. Bora

8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Diff erent Equations and Applications

Germany 25-28 May 2010 International

S.N. Bora International Congress for Mathematicians (ICM) Hyderabad 19-27 August 2010 International



S.N. BoraInternational Conference on Mathematical Sciences 2 (ICMS2)

Kuala Lumur, Malaysia

30 November - 2 December 2010 International

S.N. BoraSymposium of Modelling in Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Surat 27-30 December 2010 National

S. Natesan International Congress for Mathematicians (ICM) Hyderabad 19-27 August 2010 International

S. NatesanSeminar on Diff erential Equations : Modelling, Analysis and Computation

Kolkata 2-3 March 2011 National

Sukanta Pati Indo-French Seminar on Matrix Information Geometries

France 23-25 February 2011 International

Sukanta Pati International Conference on Recent Trends in Graph Theory and Combinatorics

Cochin 12-15 August 2010 International

Siddhartha P. Chakrabarty

Workshop on Modelling Biological System Shillong 25-29 October 2010 National


Workshop and Symposium on Mathematical Ecology Kolkata 7-14 December

2010 National

Kalpesh Kapoor

Workshop on the Chemistry of concurrent and distributed programming

Mysore 16-19 February 2011 National

Partha S. Mandal

6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (WCSN’10)

IIIT Allahabad 15-19 December 2010 International

P.A.S. Sree Krishna International Congress for Mathematicians (ICM) Hyderabad 19-27 August 2010 International

A. K. DeyWorkshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis

IIT Bombay 25-27 November 2010 National



Rajen K. SinhaAdvances in Computational Partial Diff erential Equations

BITS Pilani, Goa Campus 7 February - 5 March 2011

RaĀ kul Alam Functional Analysis and Operatory Theory

Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore 8-11 August

2010

D.C. DalalRecent advances on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications

Assam University Silchar 6-18 October 2010



D.C. Dalal Workshop on Modelling Biological System NEHU Shillong 25-29 October

2010

S.N. Bora Integral Equations : Basic Ideas and Applications IIT Guwahati

6-10 December

2010

S.N. BoraInterpolating Polynomials : Construction, their Properties and Uses

Gauhati University Guwahati 11-31 March 2011

S.N. Bora Numerical Integration Gauhati University Guwahati 11-31 March 2011

S.N. Bora Integral Equations : Basic Ideas and Applications Gauhati University Guwahati 11-31 March

2011

S.N. BoraDiff erential Equations : Occurrences and Applications

Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh 22 March 2011

Partha S. Mandal Algorithms for Mobile and Wireless Networks Tezpur University Tezpur

Vinay Wagh AIS on Computational Commulative Algebra IISER Pune

13-31 December

2010

Vinay Wagh

International Conference on Commulative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, CAAG-IX

IISc. Bangalore Bangalore5-10

December 2010

Anupam Saikia Workshop on Algebra and Number Theory Tezpur University Tezpur

22-26 December

2010

S. NatesanDiff erential Equations : Modelling, Analysis and Computation

University of Calcutta Kolkata 2-3 March

2011

Sukanta Pati Matrix Information Geometries

Thales Research and Technology France 23-25

February 2011

Sukanta Pati Recent Trends in Graph Theory and Combinatorics CUSAT Cochin 12-15 August

2010


Option Pricing Through Monte Carlo Simulation

University of New South Wales Sydney 27 May 2010


Optimal Harvesting for a Deterministic and Stochastic Fishery Model

NEHU Shillong 25 October 2010


Optimization Techniques in Ecology IISER Kolkata 9 December

2010


Application of Control Theory in Fishery Harvesting

IISER Kolkata 13 December 2010

P.A.S. SreekrishnaGeodesic Lengths in Hyperbolic Knot Complements in S3

NEHU Shillong14-15

December 2010




Name Name of Inst. /Univ./Org. Purpose Date

Prof. Marlos Viana University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Delivered lecture 15 December 2010

Prof. Aldric Brown University College London Delivered lecture 2 September 2010

Dr. Mainul Haque School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Delivered lecture 5 August 2010

Dr. John M. Murray

School of Mathematics and Statistics and National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia

Delivered lecture 10 February 2011

Prof. Murli M. Gupta The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

To have collaborative

research with the Institute

15-18 August 2010



D.C. Dalal, Rajen K. Sinha and Siddhartha P. Chakrabarty

International Workshop on Recent Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics (RACFD)

National Board for Higher Mathematics

and DST

30 August - 2 September 2010 International

Anupam Saikia

ICM satellite conference on Galois Representations in Arithmetic and Geometry

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR

10-13 August 2010 International

Anupam SaikiaAdvanced Training School for Lecturers (ATML) on Linear Algebra

National Board for Higher Mathematics 5-17 July 2010 National

Anupam Saikia Workshop on Algebra and Number Theory



RaĀ kul Alam andShreemayee Bora

Advanced Instructional School on Numerical Linear Algebra



INVITED LECTURES

Name Name of Inst./ Org. Name of Lecture Date

Prof. A.B. Raha ISI Kolkata Atsuji Spaces and Equivalent Versions 7 December 2010

Prof. R.V. Gurjar TIFR, Mumbai Singularities 8 November 2010

Dr. Gautam Bharali IISc., BangaloreAnother view of Weierstrass’

approximation theorem through polynomial convexity

30 September 2010

Prof. Bhabani P. Sinha ISI, Calcutta Energy Effi cient Communication in Low Power Wireless Networks 23 August 2010

Prof. Amiya Kumar Pani IIT Bombay Navier Stokes Equations : A Million Dollar Open Problem 11 August 2010

Prof. Sujatha Ramdorai TIFR, Mumbai Problems in Number Theory : Simple yet sophisticated 21 April 2010



SHORT-TERM COURSESS. NatesanPrincipal Coordinator of the Shor t Term Course under Quality I mprovement P rogramme on “Analytical and Numerical S olutions of Diff erential Equations ”, held during 6-10 December 2010 at IIT Guwahati.

SPECIAL MENTIONRaĀ kul AlamVisited ETH Zurich, Switzerland, during 20-27 June 2010, for undertaking collaborative research work.Visited TU-Berlin, German y, during 2-10 July 2010, f or undertaking collaborative research work.

Siddhartha P. ChakrabartyVisited University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, May-June 2010 for collaborative research work.

FACULTY MEMBERS R. AlamPhD (IIT Bombay) Professor Areas of In terests: Numerical F unctional Analy sis, Numerical Linear Algebra

S. BandopadhyayPhD (ISI Delhi)Assistant Professor Areas of Interests: Operations Research

B. BhattacharjyaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Graph Theory

S. BoraPhD (IIT Guwahati)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: P erturbation Theory, Numerical Linear Algebra

S. N. BoraPhD (Dalhousie University, Canada)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: W ater W ave Dynamics, Ocean Engineering, Flow through Porous Media

S. P. ChakrabartyPhD (University of Illinois, Chicago)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: M athematical Biology , Optimal Control Theory, Mathematical Finance

A. K. ChakrabartyPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Functional Analysis

D. C. DalalPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Professor Areas of Interests: Fluid Dynamics

A. K. DeyPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Distributions models and its applications, Survival Analysis

J. C. KalitaPhD (IIT Guwahati)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: C omputational F luid D ynamics, Numerical methods for PDEs K. V. KrishnaPhD (IIT Delhi)Assistant Professor Areas of In terests: General Algebra, Theoretical Computer Science

K. KapoorPhD (London South Bank University)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: P rogramming Languages , Concurrency, Software Testing.

P. S. MandalPhD (Jadavpur University)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Wireless S ensor Net works, Distributed Computing

S. NatesanPhD (Bharathidasan University)



Associate ProfessorAreas of In terests: Diff erential Equations, Homogenization, Numerical Analysis

S. Pati PhD (ISI Delhi)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interests: Spectral Graph Theory

M. G. P. PrasadPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interests: Complex Dynamics and Fractals

H. RameshPhD (IIT Madras)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: Formal Languages and A utomata Theory, Membrane Computing

A. SaikiaPhD (University of Cambridge)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Algebraic Number Theory

B. K. SarmaPhD (Delhi University)ProfessorAreas of In terests: Spec tral Graph Theory, Combinatorial Matrix Theory

N. SelvarajuPhD (IIT Madras)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: St ochastic M odelling, Queueing Theory, Stochastic Finance

R. K. Sinha PhD (IIT Bombay)Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of Interests: Numerical Analysis

P. A. S. Sree KrishnaPhD (SUNY, Buff alo) Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terests: H yperbolic 3-manif olds, L ow-dimensional topology

K. V. SrikanthPhD (SUNY, Buff alo) Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Low Dimensional Topology

J. SwainPhD (IIT Madras)Assistant Professor Areas of Interests: Harmonic Analysis

V. V. WaghPhD (University of Pune)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interests: Algebraic Geometry



DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTIONThe Department of Mechanical Engineering, being one of the lar gest and oldest depar tments of the I nstitute, caters t o its students with class tut orial and stat e of the art laboratories. Major activities of the Department involve t eaching, laborat ory dev elopment, r esearch and pr oviding t echnical c onsultancy t o industries . The Depar tment mainly aims at g iving students quality education, dev eloping their pr oblem-solving skills, challeng ing them with open- ended pr oblems while desig ning their pr ojects, pr oviding them ample opportunity f or t eam w ork which nourishes their c o-ordination skills from an early stage of their car eer and providing them an instrumental research facility round the clock in a da y which help them g row keen interest in active research. Curriculum is continuously upgraded and modernised by the introduction of new courses. The Department c ontinues setting up of new laborat ories and procuring new equipment by assessing the course based necessity. Procurement of books , back v olumes and journals c ontinued f or the g rowth of C entral Library. For the beneĀ t of students and institute as well, the Depar tment ac tively par ticipates in the operation of c ementing the institut e –industr y int erface and in line with this it pr ovides t echnical c onsultancy to various industries and arranges summer training for B Tech students . Depar tment also disseminat es technical k now-how to the adjoining localit y through various c onsultancy w orks. The facult y members of the Depar tment ar e ac tively engaged with subsidiar y centres in the Institute viz. Centre for Energy, Centre for Educational Technology, Centre for the En vironmental and Centre for Nanotechnology. They are instrumental in ex tending their dedicat ed suppor t t o the w elfare of these c entres and quit e of ten take up c onsultancy projects which ar e dir ectly or indir ectly associat ed with the rural as w ell as urban dev elopment of the

state. M any such pr ojects ha ve been ac complished successfully, man y ar e ongoing and man y ar e in the offi ng. Depar tment aptly makes use of the t echnical facility of the Workshop in teaching and in setting up of in-house experimental set-ups. Apart from carrying out practical classes as per academic curriculum, Workshop caters to needs of diff erent departments of the Institute in t erms of ex ecuting w orks of their B Tech, M Tech and PhD students as w ell as other r elated r esearch/ consultancy w orks. The Depar tment also w elcomes students fr om other depar tments of the I nstitute supporting their time -to-time academic and r esearch needs.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESThe M echanical Eng ineering Depar tment curr ently off ers BTech, MTech and PhD pr ogrammes. The BTech programme off ers a c omprehensive fundamental education in mechanical engineering, emphasising basic sciences and mathematics , f ollowed b y eng ineering sciences and eng ineering desig n. The Depar tment off ers M Tech pr ogramme in thr ee specialisations , i.e . (1) Machine Design, (2) Fluid and Thermal Engineering and (3) C omputer A ssisted M anufacturing. These programmes c onsist of c ourse w orks in the ar eas of specialisation f ollowed b y a one y ear dedicat ed t o thesis work.





MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESThe Department has an excellent computational facility sustained by its CAD lab which cat ers to the academic requirement of students r ound the clock . Besides, the Department runs various laborat ories which ar e w ell-stocked with stat e of the ar t technical equipment and apparatus. They are namely:Advanced M anufacturing Laborat ory; Str ength of Materials Laboratory; Materials Science Laboratory; Fluid Mechanics Laborat ory; Thermal S cience Laborat ory; Turbo-machinery Laborat ory; IC Eng ine Laborat ory; Vibrations and A coustics Laborat ory; M echatronics and Robotics Laborat ory; Instrumentation Laboratory; Theory of M achines Laboratory; Tribology Laboratory; CAD/CAM Laboratory; Metrology Laboratory

Major equipment includes: Universal Testing Machine of capacity 1000 KN for SOM Lab (Model: KUTES-100)Flexible M anufacturing S ystem (M ake: M TAB, F ANUC Control)Welding F ume Ex traction Do wndraft Table (M ake: PLYMOVENT AB, Model: DRAFT MAX BASIC)Precision Geared Lathe (Make: Panther, Model: 1350/2)

Vertical Milling Machine (Make: Batliboi, Model: BF3-V)Horizontal M illing M achine (M ake: Batliboi, M odel: BF3-U)All Gear ed Shaping M achine (M ake: P anther, M odel: 24AG)Variable Compression Ratio I. C. Engine (Make: Kirloskar, Model: AG 1)

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESFaculty members of the Depar tment ar e ac tively engaged in r esearch and dev elopment w orks. The number of publications in reputed journals is increasing year b y y ear. A number of sponsor ed r esearch and consultancy pr ojects ar e being in vestigated in the Department. The major r esearch ar eas ar e fl uid mechanics, thermal scienc e, h ydrogen ener gy, design, manufac turing and mat erial scienc e. The faculty members ar e exploring new ar eas like micr o-manufacturing, mag netic bearings , smar t struc tures and nano-fl uid mechanics. Development works are also undertaken in the following areas:

Processing of self lubricating cutting tool machineDevelopment of injection moulded asymmetric gearDevelopment of power absorption gear test



Agency



Ashis Kumar Sen

Development of a ‘plug-n-play’ microfl uidic research platform and novel approaches to mixing, droplet, particle separation and pumping at micro-scale

DST 23 - 3 years

Niranjan Sahoo

Shock tube development and veriĀ cation of capabilities of existing correlation of stagnation point heat transfer rate

ARDB 16.04 Vinayak Kulkarni 2 years

S. Kanagaraj

Feasibility studies on carbon nanotubes/ ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene nanocomposites for total joint replacements

DST 24.65

Bhaskar Borgohain, NEIGRIHMS,

Shillong

1.5 years



K.S.R.K. Murthy

Application of goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation procedures for the accurate computation of mode I stress intensity factors

ARDB 6.83 D. Chakraborty 2 years

Sukhomay Pal

Development of artiĀ cial intelligence based monitoring technique for arc welding applications


S. K. Kakoty

Mechanization of spawn production and spawn supply to Mushroom farmers group and conversion of spent mushroom subtract into vermin-compost in North Easter Region for poverty alleviation in the North-East India

North East Council 36.96

In collaboration

with Mushroom

Development Foundation

1 year

Ongoing Sponsored ProjectsDepartment of Science and Technology has sanctioned an amount of Rs . 270 Lak hs t o the Depar tment of Mechanical Eng ineering under FIST scheme f or

strengthening the r esearch ac tivities in the ar ea of micro-fabrication. The project is progressing well and a 2.5 kW CO2 Laser Cutting Machine (Make: LVD, model: Orion) has been pr ocured. The list of other sponsor ed projects is as follows.


Agency

Amount Sanctioned (Rs. In Lakh)


U. S. Dixit Micro Fabrication DST (FIST) 270 - 5 years

S. D. Kore

Numerical modelling of impact behaviour of electromagnetic welding of sheets


U. S. Dixit

To Establish an Institute of Excellence (IOE) for Advanced Studies, Training and Research in Mechanical Engineering

AICTE 25 A. K. Dass 3 years

R. Tiwari Virtual Mechanical Vibration Lab MHRD 103.0 S. K. Dwivedy 2 years

P. MuthukumarDevelopment of a metal hydride based thermal energy storage systems.

DST 10.04 - 3 years

P. Muthukumar

Numerical and Experimental Analysis for the Development of a Metal Hydride Based Hydrogen Energy Storage Device

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

33.45 S. C. Mishra 3 years



Niranjan Sahoo

Design, development and performance evaluation of stress wave force balances for aerospace applications

DST 14.4 - 3 years

S. Kanagaraj

Preparation and characterization of nanofl uid to reduce emission level in a diesel engine

DST 18.3 - 3 years

S. Senthilvelan

Design, development and performance evaluation of self lubricated cutting tools for high speed machining

ARDB 16.07 P. S. Robi 3 years

S. Senthilvelan

Design, development and performance evaluation of asymmetric composite gears

DST 19.80 - 3 years

K.S.R.K. Murthy

An investigation of strain gage method for accurate measurement of the stress intensity factors

NRB 19.15 D. Chakraborty 2.5 years

R. Ganesh Narayanan

Forming behavior of Friction Stir Welded blanks DST 16.8 - 3 years

R. Ganesh Narayanan

Evaluating the tensile properties of Zircaloy 4 material

AERB 9.5 U.S. Dixit 2 years

R. Ganesh Narayanan

Forming behavior of Friction Stir welded blanks made of dissimilar materials

ARDB 39.77S.V. Kailas,

IISc., Bangalore

3 years

A. Banerjee

Theoretical and experimental study of shape memory alloy wire actuated compliant links

IIT Guwahati 5.0 - 2 years

S. K. KakotyRural Technology Action Group – North East (RuTAG-NE)

Offi c e of the Principal ScientiĀ c

Adviser to the Govt. of India

29.976 -Continuing from April

2006

Dibakar Bandopadhya

Design and Development of an Active Compliant Mechanism for Micromanipulation

IIT Guwahati 5.0 - 2 years

Dibakar Bandopadhya

Fabrication of Cost-eff ective IPMC actuator as artiĀ cial muscle materials for biomedical prosthetic application

DST 18.5 - 3 years



D. Chakraborty

Optimum Design and Control of Smart FRP Composite Structures in Parallel Platform

DST 16.65 A. Dutta andCDAC, Pune 2.5 years



Agency



S. Kanagaraj

Studies on heat transfer characteristics of nanofl uids under horizontal, vertical and inclined fl ow conditions

FCT, Portugal 70

Prof. Monica Oliveira and

Prof. JoseSimoes,

University ofAveiro,

Portugal

3.5 years

CONSULTANCY


Agency



S. D. KoreDetermination of number of tracks of the form Ā ll and seal packing machine

Central Excise and Service Tax

Dept.0.49 - One

month

R. TiwariTechnical Design and Analysis of Taper Roller Bearings

DRDO 14 - 1.5 years

S. K. Kakoty

Vetting of the proposal regarding facilities for setting up Walk-In-Cold room for four collection and procurement Centres in North-East

NERAMAC, Guwahati 0.4412

U. K. Saha and D. K.

Sarma-

P. S. Robi Pressure tube correlations development BARC, Mumbai 60.41 - 3 years

P. S. Robi Metallurgical analysis of VDU heater tube samples NRL 0.45 - 6 months

P. Muthukumar

VeriĀ cation of Air-Conditioning Load, Design and Selection of HVAC Equipments

CADMETRIC Consulting, Guwahati

1.21 - -


International JournalSachin D. Kore, P. P. Date, S. V. Kulkarni, Satendra Kumar, Dolly Rani, M. R. Kulkarni, S. V. Desai, R. K . Rajawat, K. V. Nagesh and D. P. Chakravarty‘Application of Elec tromagnetic I mpact Technique f or

Welding Copper-to-Stainless Steel Sheets’, International Journal of A dvance M anufacturing Technology, Accepted Oc tober 4, 2010, DOI 10.1007/s00170-010-2981-z.

S. N. Joshi and S. S. Pande‘Intelligent process modeling and optimisation of die -



sinking elec tric dischar ge machining ’, Applied S oft Computing, vol. 11 (2), pp 2743–2755, 2011

Bharat Kawale, Ravi Peetala, Niranjan Sahoo and Vinayak Kulkarni‘Numerical methods t o det ermine c onvective heating rates on aerodynamic surfaces’, International Journal of Hypersonics, vol. 1 (1), pp 1-12, 2010

Vinayak Kulkarni and K. P. J. Reddy‘Counterfl ow drag r eduction studies f or a blunt cone in high enthalp y fl ow’, I nternational Journal of Hypersonics, vol. 1 (1), pp 69-76, 2010

Vinayak Kulkarni, Viren Menezes and K. P. J. Reddy‘Eff ectiveness of forward facing spike for drag reduction on a large angle blunt cone in hypersonic fl ow’, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 43 (3), pp 542-544, 2010

Vinayak Kulkarni and K. P. J. Reddy‘Accelerometer based f orce balanc e for high enthalp y facilities’, Journal of A erospace Engineering, vol. 23 (4), pp 276-280, 2010

Sandip Chanvan, Niranjan Sahoo and Vinayak Kulkarni‘Simulation of honey comb-screen c ombinations for turbulenc e management in a subsonic wind tunnel’, Journal of Wind Eng ineering and I ndustrial Aerodynamics, vol. 99, pp 37-45, 2011

M. Hazarika, U. S. Dixit and S. Deb‘Eff ect of Datum Sur face Roughness on P arallelism and Perpendicularity Tolerances in M illing of P rismatic Parts’, Proc. IMechE, Part B: J. Engineering Manufacture, vol. 224 (B9), pp 1377-1388, 2010

M. Hazarika, U. S. Dixit and S. Deb‘A S etup Planning M ethodology F or P rismatic P arts Considering Fixturing Aspects’, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 51 (9-12), pp 1099-1109, 2010

M. Hazarika, S. Deb, U. S. Dixit and J. P. Davim‘Fuzzy set based setup planning sy stem with ability for online L earning’, Journal of Eng ineering M anufacture, Proc. IMechE, Part B, vol 225 (2), pp 247-263, 2011

R. Das, U. S. Dixit and S. Deb‘Eff ect of die land length and lubrication on the mechanical pr operties of the ex truded pr oducts in a multi-hole ex trusion pr ocess: an experimental study ’, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Engineering (Serial Publications), vol. 1 (2), pp 175-179, 2010

M. Karthikeyan and R. Tiwari‘Detection, localisation, and sizing of a structural fl aw in a beam based on f orced response measurements - An experimental in vestigation’, M echanism and M achine Theory, vol. 45 (4), pp 584-600, 2010

S. K. Singh and R. Tiwari‘IdentiĀ cation of a Multi- Crack in a Shaf t System using Transverse Frequency Response Functions’, Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 45, pp 1813-1827, 2010

A. Satheesh and P. Muthukumar‘Performance I nvestigations of a Single -Stage M etal Hydride Based Heat P ump’, I nternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 35, pp 6950-6958, 2010

A. Satheesh and P. Muthukumar‘Performance Investigation of a Double -Stage Double-eff ect M etal H ydride Heat P ump’, Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 30 (17-18), pp 2698-2707, 2010

P. Muthukumar and M. GrollErratum t o ‘Metal h ydride based heating and c ooling systems: A r eview’ I nternational Journal of H ydrogen Energy, vol. 35, pp 3817-3831, 2010P. Muthukumar, Piyush Anand and Prateek Sachdeva‘Performance analy sis of por ous radiant burners used in LPG c ooking st ove’, I nternational Journal and Environment, vol. 2, pp 367-374, 2011

Niranjan Sahoo and Ravi K. Peetala‘Transient surface heating rates from a nickel Ā lm sensor using in verse Analy sis’, I nternational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 54, pp 1297-1302, 2011

Niranjan Sahoo and Ravi Peetala‘Transient t emperature data analy sis f or a supersonic fl ight test’, Journal of Heat Transfer, Transactions of the ASME, vol. 132, pp 084503-1/5, 2010



B. Kawale and N. Sahoo‘Heat transfer data analysis from thin Ā lm heat transfer gauge’, Journal of the I nstitute of Eng ineers (I), v ol. 91, pp 14-18, 2010

Bharat Kawale, Ravi Peetala, Niranjan Sahoo and Vinayak Kulkarni‘Numerical methods t o determine convecting heating rates on aerodynamic surfaces’, International Journal of Hypersonics, vol. 1 (1), [pp 1-12, 2010

Siddharth M ehta, K . P rashanth Chauhan and S. Kanagaraj‘Modeling of thermal c onductivity of nanofl uids by modifying M axwell’s equation using c ell model approach’, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2011

Narendra Singh, Gaurav Chand and S. Kanagaraj‘Investigation of thermal c onductivity and visc osity of carbon nanotubes-Eth ylene gly col nanofl uids’, Heat Transfer Engineering, 2011

B. C. Lamas, M. A. L. Fonseca, F. A. M. M. Gonçalves, A. G. M. Ferreira, I. M. A. Fonseca, S. Kanagaraj, N. Martins and M. S. A. Oliveira‘EG/CNTs nanofl uids eng ineering and thermal characterisation’, Journal of Nano r esearch, vol. 13, pp 69-74, 2011

S. Kanagaraj, M. T. Mathew, A. Fonseca, M. S. A. Oliveira, J. A. O. Simões and L. A. Rocha‘Tribological charac terisation of ultrahigh molecular weight poly ethylene-carbon nanotubes c omposites: Eff ects of sliding distanc e’, I nternational Journal of Surface S cience and Eng ineering, v ol. 4, pp 305-321, 2010

J. Reis, S. Kanagaraj, A. Fonseca, M. T. Mathew, F. C. Silva, J. Potes, M. S. A. Oliveira and J. A. O. Simões‘In vitr o studies on multiwalled carbon nanotubes/ultrahigh molecular w eight poly ethylene nanocomposites’, Brazilian Journal of M edical and Biological Research, vol. 43, pp 476-482, 2010

J. P onmozhi, F. A. M. M. Gonçalv es, A. G. M. F erreira, I. M. A. F onseca, S. K anagaraj, N. M artins and M. S. A. Oliveira

‘Thermodynamic and transpor t pr operties of CNT - water based nanofl uids’, Journal of Nano Resear ch, vol. 11, pp 101-106, 2010

B. B. Sahoo, U. K. Saha and N. Sahoo‘Theoretical P erformance Limits f or a S yngas–Diesel Fueled C ompression Ig nition Eng ine fr om 2nd La w Analysis’, Energy, vol. 36, pp 760–769, 2011

B. B. Sahoo, U. K. Saha and N. Sahoo‘Eff ect of Load Level on the Performance of a Dual Fuel Compression Ig nition Eng ine Operating on S yngas Fuels With Varying H2/C O C ontent’, ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2011

M. Eswaran and U. K. Saha‘Experimental I nvestigation of Liquid F ree Sur face Behaviour in an Excited Tank’, Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, Proc. of the IMechE, Part–M 2011

C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan‘Fatigue Performance of Discontinuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Leaf spring’, Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Proc. of Ins. Mech. E Part L, vol. 224 (3), pp 93-100, 2010

C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan‘Joint P erformance of Glass F iber Reinf orced Polypropylene L eaf spring ’, C omposite Struc tures, v ol. 93 (2), pp 759-766, 2011

C. Subramanian and S. Senthilvelan‘Short-term Flexural Creep Behavior and Model Analysis of a Glass-Ā ber-reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Leaf spring ’, Journal of Applied P olymer S cience, v ol. 120 (6), pp 3679-3686, 2011

C. Subramanian, Sunil Balwant Deshpande and S. Senthilvelan‘Eff ect of Reinf orced F iber L ength on Damping Performance of Thermoplastic C omposites’, A dvanced Composite Materials

A. K. Parimi, P. S. Robi, S. K. Dwivedy‘Severe plastic def ormation of c opper and Al– Cu alloy using multiple channel-die compression’, Materials and Design, vol. 32, pp 1948-1956, 2011



B. Nayak, S. K. Dwivedy and K. S. R. K Murthy‘Dynamic analy sis of mag netorheological elast omer-based sandwich beam with c onductive sk ins under various boundar y c onditions’, Journal of S ound and Vibration, vol. 330, pp 1837-1859, 2011

B. Pratiher and S. K. Dwivedy‘Nonlinear response of a v ertically moving viscoelastic beam subjec ted t o a fl uctuation c ontact load ’, A cta Mechanica., vol. 218 (1-2), pp 65-85, 2011

Dibakar Bandopadhya and James Njuguna‘A Study on the Eff ects of Kalman Filter on Performance of IP MC-Based A ctive Vibration C ontrol S cheme’, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, vol. 18 (6), 2010

Dillip K umar Biswal and Dibak ar Bandopadh ya and Santosha Kumar Dwivedy‘Evaluation of deh ydration loss and in vestigation of its eff ect on bending r esponse of seg mented IP MC actuators’, I nternational Journal of Smar t and Nano Materials, vol. 1 (3), pp 187-200, 2010

K. Kalita, W. K. S. Khoo, S. D. Garvey, R. J. Hill-Cottingham, D. Rodger and J. F. Eastham‘Passive C ontra-Magnetised Parallel-Airgap, S erial F lux Magnetic Bearings’, Journal of M echanical Engineering Science, P roceedings of the I nstitution of M echanical Engineers, Part C, , vol. 224 (11), pp 2515- 2524, 2010

W. K. S. Khoo, K. Kalita, S. D. Garvey, R. J. Hill-Cottingham, D. Rodger and J. F. Eastham‘Active Axial-MMF P arallel-Airgap S erial F lux M agnetic Bearings’, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 46 (7), pp 2596-2602, 2010

W. K. S. Khoo, K. Kalita, S. D. Garvey‘Practical I mplementation of the Bridge C onĀ gured Winding f or P roducing C ontrollable Transverse Forces in Electrical Machines’, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics H. Sarangi, K. S. R. K. Murthy and D. Chakraborty‘Optimum strain gage location f or evaluating str ess intensity fac tors in single and double ended cracked conĀ gurations’, Eng ineering F racture M echanics, v ol. 77, pp 3190-3203, 2010

Satyajit Panda‘Nonlinear Analy sis of Smar t Annular Plat es U sing Cylindrically Orthotropic Piezoelectric Fiber Reinforced Composite’, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and structures, 2011

P. Janaki Ramulu and R. Ganesh Narayanan‘Weld z one r epresentation during the f ormability prediction of fric tion stir w elded blanks with similar thickness sheets ’, Journal of Strain Analy sis f or Engineering Design

R. Ganesh Narayanan, K. Veerababu, K. Siva Krishna and G. Saravanakumar‘Determining the f orming beha vior of tailor w elded blanks Expert systems predict results’, Stamping Journal (An FMA publication), pp 14-17, 2011

R. Ganesh Narayanan and B. S. Naik‘Assessing the validit y of orig inal and modiĀ ed failure criteria to predict the f orming limit of un-w elded and tailor welded blanks with long itudinal weld’, Materials and M anufacturing P rocesses, v ol. 25 (11), pp 1351-1358, 2010

K. Siva K rishna, R. G anesh Nara yanan and G. Saravanakumar‘Tailor w elded blank f orming limit c omputation b y neural net work based exper t sy stem’, I nternational Journal: C omputer and Experimental Simulations in Engineering and Science (CESES), issue 8, 2010

K. Veerababu, R. G anesh Nara yanan and G. Saravanakumar‘An exper t sy stem f or pr edicting the deep dra wing behavior of tailor w elded blanks ’, Exper t sy stem with applications, vol. 37 (12), pp 7802–7812, 2010

S. C. Mishra, R. Muthukumaran and S. Maruyama‘The Ā nite volume method appr oach to the c ollapsed dimension method in analyzing st eady/transient radiative transf er pr oblems in par ticipating media ’, International Communication in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 38 (3), pp 291-297, 2011

S. C. Mishra, A. Stephen and M. Y. Kim‘Analysis of non-F ourier c onduction-radiation heat



transfer in a c ylindrical enclosur e’, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, vol. 58 (12), pp 943-962, 2010

S. C. Mishra, Ch. Hari Krishna and M. Y. Kim‘Lattice Boltzmann method and modiĀ ed discrete ordinate method applied t o radiativ e transpor t in a spherical medium with and without c onduction’, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, vol. 58 (11), pp 852-881, 2010

M. Ajith, R. Das, R. Uppaluri and S. C. Mishra‘Boundary heat fl uxes in a squar e enclosur e with an embedded design element ’, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 24 (4), pp 845-849, 2010

R. Das, S. C. Mishra, T. B. Pavan Kumar and R. Uppaluri‘An in verse analy sis f or paramet er estimation applied to a non-F ourier c onduction-radiation pr oblem’, Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 32 (6), pp 455-466, 2010

C. Kim, M. Y. Kim, M. J. Yu and S. C. Mishra‘Unstructured poly gonal Ā nite v olume solutions of radiative heat transf er in a c omplex axisymmetric enclosure’, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B , v ol. 57 (3), pp 227-239, 2010

A. Banerjee, B. Bhattacharya, and A. K. Mallik‘Forward and in verse analy ses of an SM A ac tuated complaint link ’, ASME, Journal of M echanisms and Robotics, vol. 3, pp 021003-021012, 2011

S. K. Laha and S. K. Kakoty‘Non-linear dynamic analy sis of a fl exible rotor supported on por ous oil journal bearing ’, C omm. I n Nonl. Sc. & Num. Simul., vol. 6 (3), pp 1617-1631, 2010

D. Arumuga Perumal and Anoop K. Dass‘Multiplicity of St eady S olutions in Two-Dimensional Lid-Driven Cavity Flows by Lattice Boltzmann M ethod’, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2010

D. Santhosh K umar, Anoop K . Dass and Anupam Dewan‘A multig rid-accelerated thr ee-dimensional transient-fl ow c ode and its application t o a new t est pr oblem’, Journal of H ydrodynamics, v ol. 22 (6), pp 838-836, 2010

D. Arumuga Perumal, Gundavarapu V. S. Kumar, Anoop K. Dass‘Application of Lattic e Boltzmann M ethod t o F lows in Microgeometries’, CFD Letters, vol. 2 (2), pp 75-84, 2010

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Biomass G asiĀ cation f or Dec entralised P ower Generation’, The I ndian P erspective. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 14, pp 73-92, 2010

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Thermodynamic Optimisation of Biomass G asiĀ cation for Decentralised Power Generation and Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis’, Energy, vol. 35, pp 2557-2579, 2010

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Investigations in G asiĀ cation of Biomass M ixtures Using Thermodynamic Equilibrium and S emi-equilibrium M odels’, I nternational Journal of Ener gy and Environment, vol. 2 (3), pp 551-578, 2011

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Performance C orrelations f or Biomass G asiĀ ers Using Semi-equilibrium Non-st oichiometric Thermodynamic Models’, International Journal of Ener gy Research, DOI: 10.1002/er.1818.

Ranjit S. P atil, M anmohan P andey and P inakeswar Mahanta‘Parametric Studies and Eff ect of S cale-up on Wall-to-Bed Heat Transfer Charac teristics of Cir culating Fluidised Bed R isers’, Experimental Thermal and F luid Science, vol. 35 (3), pp 485-495, 2010

Ranjit S. P atil, P inakeswar M ahanta and M anmohan Pandey‘Eff ect of S cale-up on Heat Transfer Charac teristics of C yclone S eparators of Cir culating F luidised Beds ’, Energy Journal, (RERIC, ISSN 1513-718X)

R. S. Patil, M. Pandey and P. Mahanta‘Eff ect of scale -up on heat transf er charac teristics in upper splash r egion of cir culating fl uidised bed risers ’, Journal of Ener gy and P ower Engineering (David), vol. 4 (6), pp 31, 2010



R. S. Patil, M. Pandey and P. Mahanta‘Eff ect of scale-up of lower and middle splash region on heat transfer characteristics of circulating fl uidised bed risers’. Journal of P ower and Ener gy, Proc. IMechE, Part A, vol. 224 (A8), pp 1059-1068, 2010

R. S. Patil, M. Pandey and P. Mahanta‘Eff ect of S cale-up on heat transf er charac teristics of c yclone separat ors of cir culating fl uidised beds’, International Energy Journal (RERIC), vol. 11 (3), 2010

S. P. Lakshmanan and M. Pandey‘Numerical investigations on power ramping procedure for a natural cir culation boiling wat er reactor’, Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol. 240 (4), pp 860-867, 2010

S. P. Lakshmanan and M. Pandey‘Numerical in vestigation of star tup instabilities in parallel-channel natural cir culation boiling sy stems’, Science and Technology of Nuclear I nstallations (Hindawi), 2010

G. V. Durga Prasad and M. Pandey‘Parametric eff ects on r eactivity instabilities and nonlinear oscillations in a nuclear- coupled double channel natural cir culation boiling sy stem’, Nuclear Engineering and Desig n, v ol. 240 (5), pp 1097-1110, 2010

Tarapada Roy, P. Manikandan and D. Chakraborty‘Improved shell Ā nite element f or piez othermoelastic analysis of smart Ā ber reinforced composite structures’, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, vol. 46, pp 710-720, 2010

S. G arg, K . P atra, V. K hetrapal, S. K . P al and D . Chakraborty‘Genetically evolved radial basis function network based prediction of drill fl ank wear’, Engineering Applications of ArtiĀ cial Intelligence, vol. 23, pp 1112-1120, 2010

Sanjib Banerjee , P. S. Robi, A. Srinivasan and P raveen Kumar Lakavath‘Eff ect of trac e additions of Sn on micr ostructure and mechanical properties of Al–Cu–Mg alloys’, Materials & Design, vol. 31 (8), pp 4007-4015, 2010

Sanjib Banerjee , P.S. Robi, A. Srinivasan and Lak avath Praveen Kumar‘High temperature deformation behavior of Al–Cu–Mg alloys micr o-alloyed with Sn ’, M aterials S cience and Engineering A, vol. 527A (10-11), pp 2498-2503, 2010

Sanjib Banerjee, P. S. Robi and A. Srinivasan‘Calorimetric study of precipitation kinetics of Al-Cu-Mg and Al-Cu-Mg-0.06 wt.% Sn alloys’, Metals and Materials International, vol. 16 (4), pp 523-531, 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaSachin D Kore‘Magnetic P ulse Welding of Similar and Dissimilar Metals’, Proceedings of the I nternational Workshop on Electromagnetic Forming Technique , Anna Univ ersity, Chennai, 11-12 November 2010

S. N. Joshi and S. S. Pande‘Development and validation of int elligent pr ocess model f or die -sinking EDM’, P roceedings of the Third International and Twenty-fourth AIM TDR C onference, Andhra Univ ersity, Visakhapatanam, 13–15 Dec ember 2010

Nagarjuna Reddy Y., Sat ya P ramod J ., Girish O . and Vinayak N. Kulkarni‘Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Viscous Flow over a porous fl at plate using Ā nite’, International Conference on F luid P ower and Eng ineering, Chennai, Dec ember 2010

Satya P ramod J ., Nagarjuna Reddy Y., Girish O . and Vinayak N. Kulkarni‘Numerical Study of Sonic Jet Injection into Supersonic Freestream with ’, Twelfth Annual CFD S ymposium, Bangalore, India, August 2010

C. Murali Krishna, M. Chandrasekaran and U. S. Dixit‘Strategic management of pr oduct dev elopment process capabilit y using neural net work appr oach’, Proceedings of the IEEE I nternational C onference on Advanced Management Science, Chengdu, China, 9-11 July 2010

R. Das, U. S. Dixit and S. Deb‘Eff ect of die land length and lubrication on the



mechanical pr operties of the ex truded pr oducts in a multi-hole ex trusion pr ocess: an experimental study ’, Proceedings of the F ourth I nternational C onference on Advances in M echanical Eng ineering, SV National Institute of Technology, Surat, I ndia, 23-25 S eptember 2010

R. Das, U. S. Dixit and S. Deb‘An experimental study on the eff ect of lubrication, die land length and vibration in multi-hole ex trusion process’, P roceedings of the S econd I nternational Conference on P roduction and I ndustrial Eng ineering (CPIE 2010), NIT Jalandhar, India, 3-5 December 2010

Ratnakar Das, U. S. Dixit and Sankha Deb‘Eff ect of extrusion ratio, die land length and lubrication on har dness and sur face r oughness in multi-hole extrusion’, P roceedings of the Third I nternational and Twenty-fourth AIM TDR C onference, A U C ollege of Engineering (A), Visakhapatnam, India, 13-15 December 2010

M. Hazarika, U. S. Dixit and Sankha Deb‘A method f or Ā ne tuning the membership g rades assigned b y exper ts: an application t o burr height estimation in drilling ’, P roceedings of the Third International and Twenty-fourth AIM TDR C onference, AU C ollege of Eng ineering ( A), Visakhapatnam, I ndia, 13-15 December 2010

Muthumari Chandrasek aran, M anapuram Muralidhar and Uday Shanker Dixit‘Optimisation of Ā nish turning pr ocess with on line learning’, P roceedings of the Third I nternational and Twenty-fourth AIM TDR C onference, A U C ollege of Engineering (A), Visakhapatnam, India, 13-15 December 2010

S. Mahto and U. S. Dixit‘Optimal shapes of single link fl exible manipulators for maximizing natural fr equencies’, P roceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM), IIT Kharagpur, India, 27-29 December 2010

P. Paul and U. S. Dixit‘Development of t oys f or t eaching and learning of

mechanical eng ineering’, P roceedings of the National Conference on A dvanced Desig n and M anufacture, Einstein College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India, 6-7 January 2011

M. Chandrasekaran, M. Murlaidhar and U. S. Dixit‘Fuzzy set based online optimisation of Ā nish milling process’, P roceedings of the National C onference on Advanced Design and Manufacture, Einstein College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, I ndia, 6-7 Januar y 2011

A. Sen, M. Mowlem and H. Morgan‘Microsystem for on-chip fl ow cytometry’, Proceedings of the I nternational C onference on F iber Optics and Photonics, IIT Guwahati, India, 11-15 December 2010

S. K. Singh and R. Tiwari‘A No vel Normalisation P rocedure of Quadratic Coeffi cients in a Multi-Crack IdentiĀ cation Algorithm for a Shaft System’, Proceedings of IFToMM 8th International Conference on Rotordynamics, KIST, Seoul, South Korea, 12-15 September 2010

D. J. Bordoloi and R. Tiwari‘Optimisation of C ontroller P arameters of A ctive Magnetic Bearings using Genetic Algorithm ’, Proceedings of IFT oMM 8th I nternational C onference on Rot ordynamics, KIST , S eoul, S outh Kor ea, 12-15 September 2010

S. K. Singh and R. Tiwari‘Multi-crack IdentiĀ cation using Forced Responses from a Rotor System’, Proceedings of the F ifth I nternational Conference on Vibration Eng ineering and Technology of M achinery, VETOMAC-VI, IIT Delhi, I ndia, 13-15 December 2010

D. J. Bordoloi and R. Tiwari‘Optimisation of C ontroller P arameters of A ctive Magnetic Bearings in Rot or-Bearing S ystems’, Proceedings of the F ifth I nternational C onference on Vibration Eng ineering and Technology of M achinery, VETOMAC-VI, IIT Delhi, India, 13-15 December 2010

M. Lal and R. Tiwari‘IdentiĀ cation of Multiple F aults in Rot or-Bearing-



Coupling Systems’, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Vibration Eng ineering and Technology of M achinery, VETOMAC-VI, IIT Delhi, I ndia, 13-15 December 2010

K. Singh and R. Tiwari‘Virtualisation of M echanical Vibration Experiments for the I nternet-Based Remot e Laborat ory’, P roceedings of the F ifth I nternational C onference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of M achinery, VETOMAC-VI, IIT Delhi, India, 13-15 December 2010

A. Tripathi, A. Garg, T. Chakraborty and R. Tiwari‘Automation of the Health M onitoring of I nduction Motors by Support Vector Machine Learning Algorithms’, Proceedings of the National C onference on I ndustrial Problems on Machines and Mechanisms, IPROMM-2010, MNIT Jaipur, India, 17-18 December 2010

R. Tiwari and D. J. Bordoloi‘Investigations on Vibration Resonanc e P roblems in Conveyor Belt G alleries’, P roceedings of the National Conference on I ndustrial P roblems on M achines and Mechanisms, IPROMM -2010, MNIT Jaipur , I ndia, 17-18 December 2010

R. Tiwari, S. Bansal and S. Sahoo‘Health M onitoring of Rotating M achine Elements b y Support Vector M achine Algorithms ’, P roceedings of the International Conference on Condition Monitoring (ICCM-2011), NSTL& GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India, 24-25 February 2011 (Keynote Lecture)

R. Tiwari, D. J. Bordoloi, S. K. Dwivedy‘Vibration pr oblems due t o misalig nment in the splined-shaft of a limest one crusher unit: a case study’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on C ondition M onitoring (IC CM-2011), NSTL& GIT AM University, Visakhapatnam, India, 24-25 February 2011

R. Tiwari‘The Stat e of the Ar t in A utomation of C ondition Monitoring of Rotating M achineries’, P roceedings of the International Conference on Multi-body D ynamics (ICMBD-2011), KL Univ ersity, Vijayawada, I ndia, 24-25 February 2011 (Keynote Lecture)

P. Muthukumar‘Metal H ydride Based Thermal M achines’, National Seminar on Renewable Ener gy Technology: Issues and Prospects (RETIP-2010), North Eastern Regional Institute of S cience and Technology, Arunachal P radesh, I ndia, 24-25 September 2010

B. Satya Sekhar and P. Muthukumar‘Performance Studies on M etal Hydride Based Thermal Energy St orage S ystem’, P roceedings of the National Seminar on Renewable Ener gy Technology: Issues and Prospects (RETIP-2010), North Eastern Regional Institute of S cience and Technology, Arunachal P radesh, I ndia, 24-25 September 2010

A. Satheesh and P. Muthukumar‘Feasibility study on crossed van’t Hoff line concept for single-stage metal hydride heat pump’, Proceedings of the I nternational S ymposium on I nnovative M aterials for Processes in Ener gy S ystems 2010 - F or Fuel C ells, Heat P umps and S orption S ystems, Singapor e, 30 November - 1 December 2010

P. Muthukumar, Kishore Patel, Pratik Sachan and Nished Singhal‘Computational study on metal h ydride based thr ee-stage h ydrogen c ompressor’, P roceedings of the International C onference on Renewable Ener gy, ICRE -2011, Jaipur, 17-21 January 2011

B. Satya Sekhar, P. Muthukumar and R. Saikia‘Tests on a Metal Hydride Based Thermal Energy Storage System’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on Renewable Energy, ICRE -2011, Jaipur, 17-21 January 2011

P. Muthukumar and P. I. Shyamkumar‘Development of a novel porous radiant burner for LPG cooking applications’, Proceedings of the I nternational Conference on Renewable Ener gy, ICRE -2011, Jaipur , 17-21 January 2011

Rakesh Kumar, Niranajn Sahoo and Vinayak Kulkarni‘Design, fabrication and calibr ation of heat transf er gauges f or transient measur ement’, P roceedings of ASME I nternational M echanical Eng ineering



Congress and Exposition (IMECE) Vancouver, British Columbia, C anada, 12-18 No vember 2010 (P aper No: IMECE2010-40253)

Biplab Debnath, B . B. Sahoo, Ujjwal Saha and N iranjan Sahoo‘Simulation of c ombustion and emissions in a dual fueled diesel eng ine’, P roceedings of the ASME International C ombustion Eng ine C onference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 12-15 S eptember 2010 (Paper No: ICEF2010-35095)

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha‘Optimisation of h ydrogen and carbon mono xide ratio in syngas f or a dual fuel diesel eng ine operation’, Proceedings of the ASME C onference on Thermal and Environmental Issues in Energy Systems, Sorrento, Italy, 16-19 May 2010 (Paper No: MA020)

Bibhuti B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and Ujjwal K. Saha‘Assessment of a syngas-diesel dual fuelled compression ignition eng ine’, P roceedings of the F ourth ASME Conference on Energy Sustainability, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 17-22 May 2010 (Paper No: ES2010-90218)

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha‘Dual F uel P erformance Studies of a Small Diesel Engine U sing Gr een F uels’, P roceedings of the 2nd International C onference on M echanical, I ndustrial and M anufacturing Technologies, Singapor e, 26-28 February 2011

M. Eswaran and U. K. Saha‘Dynamics of Air-wat er I nterface in an Ex cited Tank – An Experimental Study ’, P roceedings of the F ourth International (and Thirty-seventh National) Conference on Fluid Mechanics and F luid Power, IIT M adras, India, 16-18 December 2010

M. Eswaran and U. K. Saha‘Eff ect of Ex citation F requency of Air-wat er I nterface Dynamics in a Rec tangular Tank’, P roceedings of the Seventh I nternational C onference on F low D ynamics, Sendai, Japan, 1-3 November 2010

M. Eswaran and U. K. Saha‘Waves Simulation in an Excited Cylindrical Tank Using σ

Transformation’, Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Eng ineering C ongress and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, 12-18 November 2010

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha‘Eff ect of Load Level on the Performance of a Biogas–Run Dual Fuel Compression Ignition Engine’, Proceedings of the National Seminar on Renewable Energy Technology: Issues and P rospects, NERIST , I tanagar, I ndia, 24-25 September 2010

Ratna Kumar Kommogi, M. S. S. Santosh Kumar, Prateek Kumar and S. Senthilvelan‘Friction Wear P erformance of I njection M olded Asymmetric Gears ’, P roceedings of the S eventh International C onference on I ndustrial Tribology, SAIL R&D Center, Ranchi, 2-4 December 2010

Veeranjaneyulu Rayapudi, S.Senthilvelan and P.S. Robi‘Friction w ear per formance of self lubricat ed cutting tool material’, Proceedings of the National C onference on Recent Trends in M anufacturing Technology, Anna University, Chennai, March 11-12, 2011

Amit Kumar Haldar and S. Senthilvelan‘Notch eff ect on disc ontinuous Ā ber reinforced thermoplastic c omposites’, P roceedings of the 8th International C onference on C omposite S cience and Technology, Univ ersiti P utra M alaysia, M arch 22-24, 2011 published in Key Eng ineering Materials Vols. 471-472 (2011) pp 173-178

Deep Sharma and S. K. Dwivedy‘Design and F abrication of an A utonomous M obile Robot f or Obstacle A voidance and P ath Planning in partially k nown En vironment’, P roceedings of the International C onference on C ontrol, Robotics and Cybernetics (ICCRC2011), March 21-23 2011, New Delhi

B. Nayak, M. Srinivas, S. K. Dwivedy and K.S.R.K. Murthy‘Free vibration of MRE based sandwich beam with nonconductive c omposite sk ins’, P roceedings of the 6th I nternational C onfernce on Vibration Eng ineering and Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC-VI) Dec 13-15 2010, IIT Delhi, pp 687-693 (Macmillan Publisher Indian Ltd)



B. Na yak, K . K . Nagabandi, S. K . D wivedy and K .S.R.K. Murthy‘Experimental investigation of free and forced vibration of stiff and sof t c ored sandwich beams ’, I nternational Conference on Theoretical Applied C omputational and Experimental M echanics, 27-29 Dec ember 2010, Kharagpur

S. K. Dwivedy, S. S. Dhutekar, P. Eberhard‘Numerical in vestigation of chatt er in r olling mill ’, Proceedings of the 4th I nternational c onference on A dvanced C omputational Eng ineering and Experimenting (ACE-X 2010) 8-9 July 2010, Paris France

B. Nayak, S. K. Dwivedy and K.S.R.K. Murthy‘Free vibration c ontrol of MRE embedded visc oelastic cored Sandwich beam with Time varying Magnetic Ā eld’, Proceedings of the ASME 10TH Biennial C onference on Engineering Systems Design and Analy sis, ESDA 2010, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-14th July 2010

Dillip K umar Biswal , Dibak ar Bandopadh ya, and Santosha Kumar Dwivedy‘Fabrication and thermo mechanical analy sis of pur e silver-electrode Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite (IPMC) actuator’, Proceedings of the I nternational Conference on M echanical and A erospace Eng ineering ( CMAE 2011),, New Delhi, India, March 21-23, 128-132, 2011

Dillip K umar Biswal , Dibak ar Bandopadh ya, and Santosha Kumar Dwivedy‘Eff ect of deh ydration on nonlinear vibration characteristics of an Ionic P olymer-Metal C omposite (IPMC) ac tuator’, P roceedings of the I nternational Congress of En vironmental Resear ch (ICER-10), UoM, Reduit, Mauritius, 16-18 September 2010

Jagannath Sardar, Dibakar Bandopadhya‘Fabrication and Evaluation of Damping Characteristics of P ortland C ement F illed Thermoplastic C omposites’, Proceedings of AIM TDR, Andhra Univ ersity, Visakhapatnam, vol. 2, pp. 1095-1098, 2010

H. Sarangi, K.S.R.K. Murthy, and D. Chakraborty‘Upper bound f or radial location of a strain gage for det ermination of SIF in double edge cracked

conĀ gurations’, P roceedings of F ifth I nternational Conference on Theoretical, Applied , C omputational and Experimental Mechanics, ICTACEM, Kharagpur, 27-29 December 2010

Susanta Kumar Dey, R. Ganesh Narayanan, G. Saravana Kumar‘Computing the tensile behavior of tailor welded blanks by ANN based exper t system’, Proceedings of AIM TDR 2010, Andhra Univ ersity c ollege of eng ineering, Visakhapatnam, pp. 921-926, 13-15 December 2010

Ravi Kant, R. Ganesh Narayanan‘Investigation on the forming of adhesive bonded blanks’, Proceedings of AIMTDR 2010, Andhra University college of eng ineering, Visakhapatnam, I ndia, Dec ember, 13-15, 2010, pp. 977-982

P. Janaki Ramulu, Nilesh Bondre, R. Ganesh Narayanan‘Weld z one r epresentation during fric tion stir w elded blank f ormability pr ediction with equal thick ness’, Proceedings O f AIM TDR 2010, Andhra Univ ersity college of engineering, Visakhapatnam, December, 13-15, 2010

R. P. Chopade, P. Mahanta and S.C. Mishra‘Bio-diesel: need , a vailability and c cope: The I ndian perspective’, P roceedings of the I nt. C onference on Advances in Renewable Ener gy, M ANIT Bhopal , June 24-26, 2010

S. C. Mishra and A. Stephen‘Combined mode Non-Fourier conduction and radiation heat transfer in a 2-D rectangular geometry’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Thermal Energy and Environment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

S. Anbarasu, P. Muthukumar and S.C. Mishra‘Parametric studies on a Mg2Ni based hydrogen storage reactor’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on Thermal Energy and Environment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

R. P.Chopade, E. Agnihotri , R. Uppaluri, and S.C. Mishra, and P. Mahanta‘Multiparameter r etrieval b y in verse solution in



radiative transf er pr oblem using par ticle swarm algorithm’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Thermal Energy and Environment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

S. C. Mishra, H. Poonia and A. K. Das‘Lattice Boltzmann method applied t o the analy sis of radiativ e transpor t pr oblems with and without conduction in a 1-D planar medium ’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on Thermal Ener gy and Environment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

Ajay Karthik K, Phanidhar N. and S.C. Mishra‘Thermal analy sis of a 2-D malig nant tissue subjec ted to a shor t pulse laser ’, Proceedings of the I nternational Conference on Thermal Ener gy and En vironment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

A.K. Das, A. A. Vaidya and S.C. Mishra‘Numerical study of the dynamics of a condensing bubble using the lattic e Boltzmann method ’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on Thermal Ener gy and Environment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

C.A.V. Kartha, Aditya G. V., and S.C. Mishra‘Lattice Boltzmann method Applied t o the Analy sis of Heat Transfer in a Biolog ical Tissue with and without a Tumor’, P roceedings of the I nternational C onference on Thermal Energy and Environment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

R.P.Chopade, S.C. Mishra, P. Mahanta, and S. Maruyama‘For unif orm thermal c onditions: R adiant boundar y design for irregular shape desig n surface’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Thermal Energy and Environment, Kalasalingam, TN, 24-26 March 2011

R. P. Chopade, S. C. Mishra, P. Mahanta, S. Maruyama and A. Komiya‘On location of a load in a radiant furnac e for uniform thermal c onditions using REM2 and micr o-genetic algorithm’, P roceedings of the 7th I nternational Conference on F low D ynamics, S endai, Japan, 1-3 November 2010

S. Anbarasu, P. Muthukumar, Subhash C. Mishra‘Numerical in vestigation of c oupled heat and mass

transfer in Mg2N i based h ydrogen st orage r eactor’, Proceedings of the 7th I nternational C onference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan, 1-3 November 2010

S. C. M ishra, H. P oonia, A. A. Vadiya, A. K . Das and P . Asinari‘Analysis of a combined mode conduction and radiation transport in a 2-D r ectangular enclosur e using the lattice Boltzmann M ethod’, P roceedings of the 7th International C onference on F low D ynamics, S endai, Japan, 1-3 November 2010

A.K. Das, A.A. Vaidya, P. Patil, and S.C. Mishra‘Numerical study of the dynamics of an evaporating bubble using the lattic e Boltzmann method ’, Proceedings of the 7th I nternational C onference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan, 1-3 November 2010

A.K. Das, P. Patil, H. Poonia and S.C. Mishra‘3D Lattic e Boltzmann model f or asymmetric liquid-liquid Taylor drop in an inclined channel ’, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan, 1-3 November 2010

M. Sharma, M. Nishioka, P. Mahanta and S. C. Mishra‘A numerical study on burning characteristics of laminar preheated premixed propane/air fl ame’, Proceedings of the 7th I nternational C onference on F low D ynamics, Sendai, Japan, 1-3 November 2010

S. C. Mishra and Ch. Hari Krishna‘ModiĀ ed discr ete or dinates method applied t o the analysis of radiative transport in a cylindrical enclosure’, Golden Jubilee National C onference on M odelling and Simulation in Heat Transfer and F luid F low, NIT Jamshedpur, 9-10 July 2010

S. C. Mishra and A. Stephen‘Combined conduction and radiation heat transfer with non-Fourier eff ect in a concentric spherical participating medium’, Golden Jubilee National C onference on Modelling and Simulation in Heat Transfer and F luid Flow, NIT Jamshedpur, 9-10 July 2010

R. P. Chopade, P. Mahanta and S.C. Mishra‘Bio-diesel: need , a vailability and sc ope: The I ndian perspective’, P roceedings of the I nt. C onference on



Advances in Renewable Ener gy, M ANIT Bhopal , 24-26 June 2010

Ashish Kumar Khetan, Sashindra K. Kakoty‘A neural net work based model t o predict bend angle in small siz e st eel plat es upon application of w elding arc’ 43r d Annual C onvention of Operational Resear ch Society of I ndia and I nternational C onference on Operational research for Urban and Rural development, Thiagarajar C ollege of Eng innering, M adurai, 15-17 December 2010

S. K. Laha, S. K. Kakoty‘On the non-linear dynamics of a fl exible rotor supported on porous journal bearing’, VETOMAC VI, IIT Delhi, 13-15 December 2010

S. Mahapatra and P. Mahanta‘Performance evaluation and qualit y dr ying in a natural c onvection wind dr yer’, P roceedings of 2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies (MIM T 2011), Singapor e, 26-28 February 2011

Pinakeswar M ahanta, R anjit S. P atil and M anmohan Pandey‘Eff ect of Particle Size and Bed Inventory on Wall-to-Bed Heat Transfer Characteristics of Circulating Fluidized Bed Risers’ I nternational A ssociation of Eng ineers (IAENG)-World C ongress on Eng ineering 2010, I nternation Conference of M echanical Eng ineering (ICME’10) London, 30 June - 2 July 2010

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta, V.S. Moholkar‘Performance C orrelations f or Biomass G asiĀ ers’, CHEMCON 2010, Annamalai Univ ersity, Chidambaram, December 2010

Debjyoti Sahu , Dur gesh Singh S ongera, Anil Verma, Sasidhar Gumma‘Synthesis and charac terisation of N ickel nanopar ticle using t emplate assist ed elec trodeposition t echnique’, CHEMCON 2010, p . 47, Annamalai Univ ersity, Chidambaram, December 2010

Dipti Yadav, Lepakshi Barbora and P. Mahanta‘Characterisation of alt ernate f eedstock f or biogas production’, All I ndia S eminar on New Renewable Energy S ources, Shillong , M eghalaya, 18 S eptember 2010

Dipti Yadav, L epakshi Barbora, Utsa v Guhar oy and P . Mahanta‘Characterisation of t ea wast e and c ooked wast e as a potential feedstock for biogas production’, International Conference on Renewable Energy, Jaipur, 16-21 January 2011

Dipti Yadav and P. Mahanta‘Agro Waste M anagement b y its Utilisation f or Biogas Generation’, I nternational C onference on Climat e Change and Water: Assessing Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptation in the East ern Himalayas, IIT Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

Lepakshi Barbora, P ankaj K alita, Kushal K alita, Sar vesh Agarwal and P. Mahanta‘Fluoride Remo val fr om Drink ing Water Utilizing Renewable Energy’, International Conference on Climate Change and Water: Assessing Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptation in the East ern Himalayas, IIT Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

Dipti Yadav, L. Barbora and P. Mahanta‘Characterisation of t ea wast e and c ooked wast e as a pot ential f eed st ock f or biomethanation ’, All I ndia Seminar on New and Renewable Ener gy, I nstitute of Engineers, Shillong, 18 September 2010

D. Chakraborty, P. Rathore, and T. Roy‘Optimal Actuators Locations in Smart Fibre Reinforced Polymer Struc tures U sing Genetic Algorithm ’, Proceedings of MIMT, Singapore, 26-28 February 2011

P.S. Robi, P.K. Jha, S.S. Choudhury‘Modelling of solidiĀ cation length in c ontinuous cast hollo w pipes ’, P roceedings of the I nternational Conference on Processing and fabrication of advanc ed materials (PFAM-XIX), 3, 1181-1190, 2011



Sanjib Banerjee, P.S. Robi, A. Srinivasan‘High t emperature fl ow beha vior of Al- Cu-Mg allo ys microalloyed with Sn’, Proceedings of 3rd International and 24th AIMTDR, pp 983-986, 2010

Book, Chapter, etc.S. D. Kore, J. Imbert, M. Worswick, Y. Zhou‘Electromagnetic Welding of Mg Allo ys’, Welding and Joining of M agnesium Allo ys, Ed . L. Liu , Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, October 2010

U. S. Dixit‘Finite element modelling of r olling pr ocesses’, F inite Element M ethod in M anufacturing P rocesses, Ed . J . Paulo Davim, ISTE, Wiley, 2010

R. Tiwari‘Internet Based Virtualization of Laboratory Experiments: A Reality Through Educational Technology’, Educational

Technology in the Chang ing Society, Ed. R. Roy, Shipra Publications, Delhi, 2011 (ISBN: 9788175415515)

S. Kanagaraj, M. S. A. Oliveira and J. A. O. Simões‘Tribology of Bioc omposites’, Biomedical c omposites, Ed. L. Ambr osio, CRC P ress Boca R atorn, USA, pp 441-464, 2010

S. Kanagaraj‘Polyethylene-Nanotube Nanoc omposites’, P olymer Nanotube Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications, Ed. Vikas Mittal, Scrivener Publishing Inc., USA, pp 113-140, 2010

S. Kanagaraj‘Carbon nanotubes/Polymer Composites for Biomedical Applications’, C arbon based Nanomat erials, Ed . Nasar Ali, Andr eas Oechsner and Waqar Ahmed , M aterials Science Foundations (monograph series), vol 65-66, pp 255-283, Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, 2010.


Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date International/National

S. D. KoreInternational Workshop on Electromagnetic Forming Technique 2010

Anna University, Chennai

11-12 November 2010 International

S. N. Joshi 3rd International and 24th AIMTDR Conference

Andhra University, Visakhapatanam


S. N. Joshi4th SERC School on micro fabrication and micro machining processes

Jadavpur University, Kolkata 5-10 April 2010 National

U. S. Dixit

2nd International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE 2010)

NIT Jalandhar, Punjab 3-5 December 2010 International

U. S. Dixit 3rd International and 24th AIMTDR Conference

AU College of Engineering (A), Visakhapatnam

13-15 December 2010

National / International

U. S. DixitNational Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacture

Einstein College of Engineering,

Tamilnadu6-7 January 2011 National

R. Tiwari8th International Conference on Rotordynamics

KIST Seoul 12-15 September 2010 International



R. Tiwari

Fifth International Conference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery

IIT Delhi 13-15 December 2010 International

R. TiwariNational Conference on Industrial Problems on Machines and Mechanisms

MNIT Jaipur 17-18 December 2010 National

R. Tiwari International Conference on Condition Monitoring

NSTL& GITAM University,

Visakhapatnam


R. Tiwari International Conference on Multi-body Dynamics

KL University, Vijayawada


P. Muthukumar

International Symposium on Innovative Materials for Processes in Energy Systems 2010 - For Fuel Cells, Heat Pumps and Sorption Systems

Singapore 30 November - 1 December 2010 International

P. Muthukumar Indo-Spain Joint workshop on Renewable Energy, Sevilla, Spain 1-4 March 2011 International

Niranjan Sahoo

ASME Conference on Thermal and Environmental Issues in Energy Systems

Sorrento, Italy 16-19 May 2010 International

S. KanagarajInternational Conference on Advanced Materials and its Applications

Kalasalingam University,

Srivilliputhur4-5 March 2011 International

N. Naresh Kumar

4th Indo-Australian Conference on Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Systems

Sardar Patel University, Gujarat


P. Sreekanth and S. Kanagaraj

International conference on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, and Advanced Materials

Visakhapatnam 17-19 December 2010 International

Mantulal Basumatary and S. Kanagaraj

3rd Bangalore Nano, Frontiers of Nanotechnology: Impact on India

Bangalore 8-9 December 2010 International

Shyam K Sharma, Arun K Nirala, S. Kanagaraj

7th International conference on Industrial Tribology

Ranchi 2-4 December 2010 International

U. K Saha

2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies

Singapore 26–28 February 2011 International



U. K. Saha7th International Conference on Flow Dynamics

Sendai International Centre, Japan 1-3 November 2010 International

S. Senthilvelan7th International Conference on Industrial Tribology

SAIL R&D Centre, Ranchi 2-4 December 2010 International

S. Senthilvelan8th International Conference on Composite Science and Technology

Universiti Putra Malaysia,

Kulalumpur22-24 March 2011 International

S. K. Dwivedy

4th International conference on Advanced Computational Engineering and Experimenting (ACE-X 2010)

Paris, France 8-9 July 2010 International

S. K. Dwivedy

ASME 10th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, ESDA 2010

Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey 12-14 July 2010 International

R. Ganesh Narayanan AIMTDR 2010 Visakhapatnam 13-15 December

2010 National

Anoop K. Dass

37th national and 4th international conference on fl uid mechanics and fl uid power

IIT Madras 16-18 December 2010 International

P. Mahanta

BURD proposal workshop (India-UK networking) as one of the invited participants from India

Birminingham, United Kingdom

29 November – 2 December 2010 International

P. Mahanta IIT London Chapter Conference

London, United Kingdom


P. Mahanta

2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies (MIMT 2011)


P. S. Robi

International Conference on Processing and fabrication of advanced materials (PFAM-XIX)

Auckland , New Zealand 14-17 January 2011 International



U. S. Dixit

Finite Element Method and Soft Computing: Can they complement each other in modeling of manufacturing processes?

NIT Jalandhar Panjab 4 December 2010



U. S. Dixit FEM and Soft Computing in Manufacturing

Einstein College of Engineering Tamilnadu 6 January

2010

R. Tiwari

Health Monitoring of Rotating Machine Elements by Support Vector Machine Algorithms

GITAM University Visakhapatnam 24 February 2011

R. Tiwari

The State of the Art in Automation of Condition Monitoring of Rotating Machineries

KL University Vijayawada 26 February 2011

P. Muthukumar

Thermal energy storage systems for solar thermal power plants: Methods and Materials

DST and Ministry of Science and

Innovation, SpainSevilla, Spain 1-4 March

2011

P. Muthukumar Metal Hydride Based Thermal Machines

North Eastern Regional Institute

of Science and Technology

Arunachal Pradesh24-25

September 2010

P. Muthukumar

Research activities on Metal hydride based thermal machines at IIT Guwahati

IKE, University of Stuttgart Germany 16 July 2010

P. Muthukumar

Metal Hydride Heat Transformer for waste heat up gradation Invited lecture

NPTC, Noida Noida 19 April 2010

Niranjan SahooHeat transfer and force measurement studies in hypersonic fl ows

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 15 March 2011

S. K. Dwivedy

Sim Tech, Cluster of Excellence (Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Magneto-Elastic and Viscoelastic Beams)

Institute of Engineering and Computational

Mechanics, University of

Stuttgart

Germany 22 June 2010

S. K. Dwivedy

SimTech: Cluster of Excellence (Statusseminar Institut für Technische und Numerische Mechanik)

Institute of Engineering and Computational

Mechanics, University of

Stuttgart

HohenwartGermany 30 June 2010

S. C. Mishra

Analysis of Radiative Transport Problems With and Without Conduction Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

International Conference on

Thermal Energy and Environment

Kalasalingam, TN 24 March 2011

S. C. MishraA Proper Understanding of Science and Spirituality - A True Healing Herb

6th All India Students’ Conference

on Science and Spiritual Quest

New Delhi 13 March 2011



S. C. Mishra

My Voyage with the Lattice Boltzmann Method - An Interesting Story of Its Application to Thermal Problems

9th Indo-German Winter Academy YASADA, Pune 17 December

2010

S. C. MishraScience and Spirituality – A Message to the Humanity

Gauhati University Guwahati 7 October 2010

S. C. MishraPulse Radiation in the Diagnosis of a Disease/Tumor in the Human Body

IIT Guwahati Guwahati 23 September 2010

S. C. Mishra

Thermal Characterization of a Radiating-Conducting System With and Without Non-Fourier Eff ects

NIT Jamshedpur Jamshedpur 9 July 2010

S. C. Mishra

My Voyage with the Lattice Boltzmann Method - An Interesting Story of Its Application to Thermal Problems

IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 23 April 2010

S. C. Mishra

Lattice Boltzmann Method – A New CFD Tool to Analyze Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Problems

Delhi Technological University Delhi 7 April 2010

S. C. Mishra7th International Conference on Flow Dynamics

Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku

University, Sendai, Japan

Sendai, Japan 1-3 November 2011



Prof. Emmanuel Deriat Professor and Research Engineer in Fluid Mechanics, University Paris X Delivering lectures 25 July – 1 August

2010

Prof. Kunal Ghosh Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur Delivering lectures 21 September 2010

Prof. Richard DashwoodAcademic Director and Head of Materials and Sustainability University of Warwick, UK

Delivering lectures 22 September 2010

Prof. A. W. Date Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Bombay Delivering lectures 22 September 2010

Prof. Pradip Dutta IISc., Bangalore Delivering lectures 7 February 2011

Dr. Sumitesh Das R&D Division, Tata steel INAE-AICTE Visiting Professor Scheme

August, November 2010; January 2011

Prof. B. C. Majumdar Retd. Professor, IIT KharagpurResourse Person in QIP Short Term

Course6-8 December 2010

Prof. A. S. Sekhar Professor, IIT MadrasResourse Person in QIP Short Term

Course6-8 December 2010



Prof. K. Raghunandana Professor, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal

Resourse Person in QIP Short Term

Course

7-10 December 2010

Prof. Saroj Mukhopadhyay Visiting Professor, WBUT, West Bengal and Ex-Professor, NITIE

Lecture on supply chain management 17-18 January 2011

Prof. T. K. Bose Retd. Professor, Department of Aerospace Engg., IIT Madras

Lecture on Wind Energy

and Aerospace Engineering

17-19 January 2011

INVITED LECTURES


Shri M. R. Kulkarni BARC Electromagnetic Forming 8 November 2011

Dr. R. K. ViswanadhamSenior Staff Scientist, PDC Tools, Sandvik Mining and Construction Houston, TX, USA

Global Trends and Research and

Development Needs of the Mining

Industry

19 November 2010

Prof. M. Groll IKE, University of Stuttgart

Energy Perspectives for the 21st Century:

Which Options do we have?

16 March 2011

Prof. M. Groll IKE, University of Stuttgart Energy and Society 18 March 2011

SHORT-TERM COURSES1. Developing Tools for Biomedical Applications, 20-24 September 2010. Jointly or ganised b y Depar tment of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Chemistry.2. Recent Advancement of I ntelligent Materials and its Applications, 14-18 December 20103. Rotors Supported on H ydrodynamic Bearings, a QIP Short Term Course, 6-10 December 2010

PATENT FILEDS. C. Mishra, Vijay Pantangi, P. Muthukumar‘Porous Radiant Burner for Domestic LPG Cooking Stove’, DST, Ref erence: TI20/TIFA/2010, dat ed 23 No vember 2010

S. Kanagaraj and Swapnita KakatiPerformance enhanc ement of c onventional ker osene stoves using Nanofuel; submitt ed f or I ndian pat ent, January 2011

AWARDS AND HONOURSProf. Subhash C. M ishra has been elec ted a f ellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. P. M ahanta was selec ted f or the a ward of I ndia Distinguished Visiting F ellowship at Univ ersity of Nottingham, United Kingdom, for the period from 30 May to 10 July 2010.

Prof. P. M ahanta was selec ted f or att ending the I ndo-UK Innovation Forum, Organised by IIT London Chapter and Nesta during 8-10 September 2010. Dr. P. Muthukumar r eceived IEI Young Engineer Award 2010 in M echanical Eng ineering fr om I nstitute of Engineers (India).

Dr. P . Muthukumar r eceived D AAD Resear ch A ward for shor t term research stay at Univ ersity of Stutt gart, Germany from 8 June - 30 July 2010.

Dr. N. Sahoo r eceived D AAD Resear ch F ellow (M ay-July 2010 f or t wo months r esearch visit t o Shock Wave Laborat ory, R WTH Aachen Univ ersity, Aachen, Germany.



SPECIAL MENTIONProf. S. K . Dwivedy visited Institute of Engineering and Computational M echanics, Univ ersity of Stutt gart, Germany with a f ellowship fr om Sim Tech, Clust er of Excellence, University of Stuttgart from 2 May – 10 July 2010.

Dr. D. Bandopadhy was in vited to deliver a lec ture on ‘ArtiĀ cial Muscle M aterials f or Biomedical Application ’ in World C ongress of I ndustrial Biot echnology (IBIO -2010), Dalian, China.

FACULTY MEMBERSD. BandopadhyaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: A ctive M aterials, Ar tiĀ cial Muscle Materials, Smart Structures, Robotics and Mechanisms

A. BanerjeePhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ompliant M echanism, Shape Memory Alloy, Bio-mimetic Devices

P. BiswasPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: M anufacturing and Desig n: Computational w eld mechanics , S olid stat e w elding, Soft computing modelling of w elding processes, FEM, Line heating

D. ChakrabortyPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Professor and Head of the DepartmentAreas of In terest: FRP , C omposites, FEM, F racture Mechanics and Design

A. DalalPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Finite Volume Methods and Unstructured Grid Techniques, Natural and M ixed Convection Flows, Heat Pipes

A. K. DasPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Experimental and numerical t wo phase fl ow, Microfl uidics, Drop dynamics, Boiling heat transfer

A.K. DassPhD (IISc Bangalore)Professor Areas of In terest: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Turbomachines

A.K. DePhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Numerical M ethods in F luid F low and Heat Transfer, Convection, Turbulence

U.S. DixitPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Desig n and M anufacturing: FEM, Neural Net work and F uzzy S et Application, Mechatronics

S.K. DwivedyPhD (IIT Kharagpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Non-linear D ynamics, Desig n and Robotics, Vibrations

S.N. JoshiPhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: CAD/CAM/CIM, Unc onventional Machining P rocesses, Application of S oft C omputing Techniques in M anufacturing, M iniaturisation of Machining Processes

S.K. KakotyPhD (IIT Kharagpur)ProfessorAreas of Interest: Tribology, Duct Acoustics, Mechanical System Design, Nonconventional Energy



K. KalitaPhD (University of Nottingham)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Rotordynamics, Coupled D ynamics of Electro-Mechanical Systems, Vibration

S. KanagarajPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Biomat erials, Nanoc omposites and their charac terisation, Nanofl uids, Thermophysical properties of mat erials at cr yogenic t emperatures, Cryogenics

S.D. KorePhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Experimental and numerical study of electromagnetic pulse processing, Solid state welding, Joining of similar, dissimilar and lightweight metals like Al, Steel, Al-Li, and Mg

K.S.R. Krishna MurthyPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: F inite Element M ethods, Err or Estimation and Fracture Mechanics

V.N. KulkarniPhD (IISc Bangalore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: H igh enthalp y fl ows, Scramjet Engine, Experimental , A erodynamics, M easurement Science, CFD simulations

P. MahantaPhD (IIT Guwahati)Professor and Head, Center for EnergyAreas of Interest: Thermal Radiation with Participating Media, F luidisation, Ener gy C onservation and Renewable Energy

S.C. MishraPhD (IIT Kanpur)Professor Areas of In terest: Analy sis of Heat Transfer Problems involving Thermal Radiation

P. MuthukumarPhD (IIT Madras)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C oupled heat and mass transf er analysis, M etal h ydride based thermal machines , Conventional and Non- conventional r efrigeration systems

R.G. NarayananPhD (IIT Bombay)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Metal Forming – Sheet forming and Cold forging, Computer applications in Metal Forming

G. NatarajanPhD (IISc Bangalore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C omputational F luid dynamics , Grid Adaptation, Error Estimation, Immersed Boundary methods, Parallel computing, Biofl uid dynamics

S. PalPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Welding P rocess M onitoring and Control, Tool Condition Monitoring, Non-Conventional Machining P rocess, Application of Ar tiĀ cial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithms and F uzzy log ic in Manufacturing

S. PandaPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C omposite mat erials, Nonlinear vibrations, Smar t mat erials and struc tures, FEM, Functionally Graded mat erials and struc tures, Micromechanics

M. PandeyPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: D ynamics and C ontrol of F luid-Thermal Systems, Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics



P.S. RobiPhD (IIT Bombay)ProfessorAreas of Interest: Coating, Fracture Mechanics, Materials Processing, Metal Matrix Composite, Metal Casting, P/M Processing

U.K. SahaPhD (IIT Bambay)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: P ropulsion, Turbomachinery, Wind Energy Conversion, Internal Combustion Engines

A.D. Sahasrabudhe (On deputation as Dir ector, C ollege of Eng ineering, Pune)PhD (IISc Bangalore)Professor Areas of In terest: Vibration and Noise , C ondition Monitoring, CAD/CAM

N. SahooPhD (IISc Bangalore)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: F luid and Thermal Eng ineering, Aerodynamics, G as D ynamics, I nstrumentation, Measurements and Experiments in Fluid

A. SenPhD (University of South Carolina, Columbia)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Microfl uidics, MEMS, Nanotechnology, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Renewable Energy

S. SenthilvelanPhD (IIT Madras)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C omposites, F atigue, Wear and Failure Analysis

C. SomayajiPhD (Mississippi State University)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Renewable Ener gy, Non-Conventional Ener gy S ources, Eng ine A fter tr eatment Systems, Design of Heat Transfer Equipments, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Fuel Cell Modeling

R. TiwariPhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of Interest: Random Vibrations, Rotor Dynamics, Mechanical System IdentiĀ cation and Rolling Element Bearing Design and Analysis



DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

INTRODUCTIONEstablished in 1995, the Depar tment c ontinues t o impart qualit y education t o B Tech, MS c and PhD students of the depar tment, allied depar tments and Ā rst year BTech/BDes students of the I nstitute. In order to achieve the goal of quality teaching, the teaching and research laboratories are being continuously upgraded with state-of-the art equipment and other infrastructure facilities. In research and development, the Department continues to excel with increase in contribution towards international research publications, sponsored research activities, par ticipating and c onducting national/international w orkshops, c onferences, shor t- t erm courses, et c. The Depar tment is w orking t owards the goal of recognition of one of the centres of excellence in learning with cutting edge r esearch and dev elopment activities in fr ontline ar eas of Ph ysics and allied int er-disciplinary subject areas.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESBTech ProgrammeThe department off ers core, science elective and open elective courses in physics for the BTech programme of the institute. The theory courses PH101 and PH102, and a laboratory course PH110 ar e off ered as c ore physics courses to 1st year BTech students. The core courses are designed to off er an overall knowledge of physics and to train the students in experimental t echniques with modern equipment. Sinc e the y ear 2006, a f our y ear BTech Eng ineering Ph ysics (EP) P rogramme has been added to train bright students as eng ineer along with essential k nowledge on ph ysics and applied ph ysics. The Depar tment has upg raded the various under graduate and post g raduate laborat ories t o meet the

demand of incr ease in number of student intake and by introducing new experiments . The course structure and syllabi of B Tech-EP programme was r evised in the reported academic y ear b y intr oducing an option of choosing a minor pr ogramme from other eng ineering disciplines off ered in the institut e. I n addition t o that, the Depar tment has intr oduced a minor pr ogramme in B Tech-EP f or the beneĀ t of students fr om other engineering disciplines . The B Tech-EP minor programme c onsists of Ā ve c ourses namely Quantum Physics, Laser Ph ysics and Technology, Computational Physics, Engineering Optics, and, Materials Science and Engineering. A new elec tive f or B Tech-EP curriculum PH460: Elec troceramics has been intr oduced. All the passing out students of the sec ond batch of B Tech-EP have got industrial plac ement and in addition t o that some of them got admission in pr estigious universities in US/Europe for higher studies.

MSc ProgrammeThe t wo-year MS c pr ogramme in ph ysics was star ted in July 2000 with an intake limit of t en students and has no w expanded t o a maximum intake of f orty one students thr ough JAM – entrance examination. This pr ogramme is desig ned with equal emphasis on both classr oom lec tures and laborat ory training with modern infrastructure. Good numbers of Ā nal year MSc students have qualiĀ ed the GATE-2011 examination, i.e. fourteen out of t wenty Ā ve enr olled students clear ed the GATE. Eight students cleared the JEST exam and Ā ve students qualiĀ ed NET exam with one of them sc oring the 9th rank in all I ndia lev el. The Depar tment has introduced t wo new elec tive c ourses namely , Ph ysics of VLSI Technology and PH530: Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics.



PhD ProgrammeThe Department has been off ering PhD programme in physics, since August 1996 both in experimental as well as theoretical areas. The Depar tment is c oncentrating on the following thrust areas; condensed matter physics (Experimental and Theoretical), Laser and Phot onics (experimental and theor etical), H igher Ener gy Ph ysics (Experimental and Theoretical) and Theoretical Physics. Students in this pr ogramme ar e trained thr ough rigorous course work covering basic as well as advanced level c ourses bef ore star ting their r esearch w ork. The current PhD strength of the Department is close to 60.

STUDENT INTAKEBTech students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 31MSc students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 41PhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 15


MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESQ switched High power Nd: YAG laser (2.7 J , 9ns), from the project No. PHY/P/AK/04, costing Rs. 40 Lakhs.

Ultra high vacuum c ompatible multipor t ablation chamber along with turbomolecular pump and accessories thr ough P roject No. PH Y/P/AK/05, c osting Rs. 19 Lakhs.

Stylus ProĀ lometer for thin Ā lm thickess measur ement from DST-FIST project, costing Rs. 22 lakhs.



Agency

Amount Sanctioned

(Rs. in Lakhs)


Bipul Bhuyan

Search for new physics beyond Standard Model using data from the Belle experiment and detector R&D for the SuperKEKB experiment

DST-SERC 38 - 3 years

Pratima Agarwal

Development of high quality SiC and diamond and thin Ā lms using Hot wire Chemical Vapour deposition techniques for plasma diagnostics applications

Board of Research in Fusion

Science and Technology,

IPR, GandhiNagar

35.14 Alika Khare 3 years

A. Perumal

Development of nanocomposite permanent magnet based on [FePt/Fe]n multilayer thin Ā lms

DRDO 35.13 - 3 years

S. RaviMagnetic Properties in nanocrystalline diluted magnetic semiconductors

BRNS, Mumbai 32 A. Perumal 3 years

Ashwini Kumar Sharma

Studies on laser-induced breakdown in liquid and solid-liquid interface

DST 31.8 Alika Khare 3 years



Alika Khare

Studies on Rhodium coated Mirror deposited by Pulsed Laser Deposition Technique

BRFST NFP, IPR, Gandhinagar 29.46 - 2 years

A. PerumalDevelopment of domain wall free Fe-Ta-C based soft magnetic thin Ā lms

CSIR 21.76 - 3 years

D. Pamu

Fabrication of K0.5Na0.5NbO3 Ferroelectric Thin Film Capacitors by RF Magnetron Sputtering

BRNS (DAE Young

Scientist)18 - 4 years

P. PouloseStudy of CP Properties of MSSM Higgs Sector in the context of LHC

SERC, DST 17.6 - 3 years

P. Poulose

Higgs Self couplings and Higgs-Gauge boson couplings in the Little Higgs model

BRNS, DAE 16.78 - 3 years

Bipul Bhuyan

Development of event reconstruction and simulation codes and active detector elements for the INO project

DST-SERC 15 P. Poulose 1 years

D. Pamu

Preparation and characterisation of Mg2TiO4 ceramics by mechanical alloying

DRDO 14.98 A. Perumal 3 years



Agency

Amount Sanctioned

(Rs. in Lakhs)


HoD, Physics (coordinator)

DST-FIST Project (Infrastructure project to the department)

DST 229 Dept. project 5 years

P. K. Giri

Ion Beam Engineering of Carbon Nanotubes for Improved Structural and Optical Functionalities

UGC-DAE CSRBeam time with TA-DA

support- 3 years

Alika Khare

Fabrication of thin Ā lms and ordered arrays of AlxIn1-xN composites for optoelectronics application via Pulsed Laser Ablation techniques

DRDO 34 Pratima Agarwal 3 years

Alika Khare

Studies on ion dynamics in Laser Produced Plasma and its Eff ect on PLD Thin Films using conventional and novel diagnostics

DST 39.37

D. Raju, Institute

for Plasma Research,

Gandhinagar

3 years



Alika Khare(from IIT Guwahati)

Fabrication and sub micron tailoring of materials for Photonics applications with Ultrafast lasers. (a multi institutional Project)

Offi c e of the principal ScientiĀ c

advisor to the Govt. of India

370(IIT Guwahati

component Rs. 50 Lakhs)

Faculty members

and scientists from TIFR, IITB , IIT D, RRCAT and

Manipal University

3 years

Subhradip Ghosh

First-principles based self-consistent theory for multi-site correlations in random alloys

DST, India 28.16A. Mookerjee,

SNBNCBS, Kolkata

3 years

S. B. SantraStudy of Self-organizing dynamics on complex and evolving networks

DST 18.8 - 3 years

Bipul Bhuyan

Search for CP-Odd light Higgs boson using data from the BaBar experiment

Startup Grant, IITG 5.00 - 3 years

A.Srinivasan

Neutron diff raction studies of structural and magnetic phases in Co-Ni-Ga alloys

UGC-CSR DAE 1.05 + TA/DA S. Sarma 3 years

S. Ravi

Neutron powder diff raction studies in charge ordered and double exchange erromagnetic samples of Nd-Mn-O series

UGC-DAE CSR, Mumbai center 0.70 + TA - 1 years

Amarendra Kumar Sarma

Few-cycle optical solitons in the context of soliton self-witching

DST, Govt. of India 3.6 - 3 years

S. B. Santra Theoretical Physics seminar Circuit

DST through SNBNCBS,

Kolkata0.50 - 1 years



Agency

Amount Sanctioned

(Rs. in Lakhs)


P. K. Giri

Growth and studies of embedded Ge and GexSi1-x nanocrystals for the development of Si- based light sources

BRNS, DAE 20.00 - 5 years

P. K. Giri

Studies of irradiation induced defects and impurities in ZnO thin Ā lms

UGC-DAE CSR 10.00 - 5 years



Alika Khare

Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films and Characterisation for Application for various Diagnostics for Fusion Plasma

BRFST NFP, IPR, Gandhinagar 22.18 - 3 years

Pratima Agarwal

Preparation and Study of Hydrogenated microcrystalline Silicon thin Ā lms by Hot wire Chemical Vapor Deposition method for Solar Cell Application

Department of Science and

Technology54 - 3.5 years

A. Srinivasan

Design, Development and fabrication of OLED organic solar cells and organic TFTs based on molecular polymeric and composite materials

DST 169S. Ravi,

A. Perumal, P. K. Iyer

3 years

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONSInternational JournalsSunil K. Khijwania, H. Fu and H. Y. Tam‘A Novel Fiber Optic P olarimetric Torsion Sensor Based on P olarisation-Maintaining Phot onic Cr ystal F iber’, Applied Optics, vol. 49 (32), 2010

Parameswar K. Iyer, Prasanta Goutam, Dilip K. Singh and P. K. Giri‘Enhancing the Phot o Stabilit y of P oly-(3-Hexylthiophene) b y P reparing C omposites with Multiwalled C arbon Nanotubes ’, J . Ph ys. Chem. B , v ol. 11, pp 919-924, 2011

Dilip K. Singh, P. K. Iyer and P K GiriDiameter dependenc e of o xidative stabilit y in multiwalled carbon nanotubes: Role of def ects and eff ect of vacuum annealing ’, J . Appl . Phy., vol. 108, pp 084313-1-10, 2010

Bappaditya Pal and P. K. Giri‘High Temperature F erromagnetism and Optical properties of C o doped ZnO Nanopar ticles’, J . Appl . Phys., vol. 108, pp 084322-1-8, 2010

Soumen Dhara and P K Giri‘Self-catalytic g rowth of horiz ontal and straight Si nanowires on Si substrat es using a sputt er deposition technique’, S olid Stat e C omm., v ol. 150, pp 1923-27, 2010

Dilip K. Singh, P. K. Iyer and P. K. Giri‘Probing the int erlayer int eractions and cur vature eff ects in large diameter multi-walled carbon nanotubes through X -ray diff raction, R aman scatt ering and TEM studies’, Diamond Rel . M ater., v ol. 19, pp 1281-1288, 2010

P K Giri, Soumen Dhara, Ritun Chakraborty‘Eff ect of ZnO seed la yer on the catalytic g rowth of vertically alig ned ZnO nanor od arra ys’, M ater. Chem. Phys., vol. 122, pp 18-22, 2010

A. T. T. Mostako, C. V. S. Rao and Alika Khare‘Mirror like pulsed laser deposit ed Tungstun thin Ā lm’, Rev. Sci. Instrum, vol. 82 (1), pp 013101, 2011

A. Nath, S. S. Laha and Alika Khare‘Eff ect of f ocusing conditions on synthesis of Titanium Oxide nanoparticles via laser ablation in Titanium-Water interface’, Appl Surf Sci, vol. 257, pp 3118-3122, 2011

A. Nath and Alika Khare (2010), ‘Transient Evolution of multiple bubbles in laser induced breakdown in wat er’, Laser and P article Beam, v ol. 29 (1), pp 1-9, 2010

A. Nath, S. S. Laha and Alika Khare‘Synthesis of TiO2 nano P articles via laser ablation at



Titanium water interface’, Integrated ferroelectrics, vol. 118, pp 1-7, 2010

P. Sara vanan, K . S. R ao, D . M ishra, A. P erumal, and V. Chandrasekaran‘One-step synthesis of Sm- Co spherical g ranules via superhydride reduction’, Advanced Science Letters, vol. 3, pp 49, 2010

D. Mishra, M. Gurram, A. Reddy, A. Perumal, P. Saravanan and A. Srinivasan‘Enhanced soft magnetic properties and magnetocaloric eff ect in B substitut ed amorphous F e-Zr alloy ribbons’, Materials Science and Eng ineering B, vol. 175, pp 253, 2010

P. Saravanan, B. Sreedhar, D. Mishra, A. P erumal and V. Chandrasekaran‘Hierarchical assembly of Sm2C o7/Co mag netic nanoparticles int o highly stable and unif orm nanospheres’, Journal of Nanoscienc e and Nanotechnology, vol. 11, pp 3706, 2011

B. Choudhur y, A. Choudhur y, A. K . M. M aidul Islam, Perumal Alagarsamy, and M. Mukherjee‘Eff ect of oxygen vacancy and dopant concentration on the magnetic properties of high spin Co2+ doped TiO2 nanoparticles’, Journal of M agnetism and M agnetic Materials, vol. 323, pp 440, 2011

J. Anto Pradeep and Pratima Agarwal‘Determination of thick ness, r efractive index, and spectral scattering of an inhomogeneous thin Ā lm with rough int erfaces’, J . Appl . Ph ys., v ol. 108, pp 043515, 2010

Purabi Gogoi, Himanshu S. Jha and Pratima Agarwal‘High band gap nano-crystallite embedded amorphous silicon prepared by hotwire chemical vapour deposition’, Thin Solid Films, vol. 518, pp 6818, 2010

Gouri Sankar Paul and Pratima Agarwal‘Structural and thermal studies on PbS nanocubes ’, Physica Status Solidi, vol. C7, pp 905, 2010

Gouri Sankar Paul and Pratima Agarwal‘Evolution of nanostruc ture with r eaction time f or ZnS

synthesised b y solv othermal pr ocess’, Ph ysica Status Solidi, vol. C7, pp 909, 2010

Purabi Gogoi, H. S. Jha, Dinesh Deva and P ratima Agarwal‘Amorphous t o nanocr ystalline transition in HWC VD Si:H Ā lmsby substrat e t emperature variation ‘, Ph ysica Status Solidi, vol. C7, pp 592, 2010

M. B.Sahariah and S. Ghosh‘Dynamical Stability and phase transition in BeO under pressure’, Journal of Applied Ph ysics, v ol. 107, pp 083520, 2010

B. Dutta and S. Ghosh‘First-principles based in vestigation of eff ects of magnetism on lattice dynamics in alloy’, Intermetallics, vol. 18, pp 1143, 2010

S. Ghosh and B. Sanyal‘Complex mag netic int eractions in off -stoichiometric alloys’, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, vol. 22, pp 346001, 2010

B. Dutta, K. Bisht and S. Ghosh‘Ab initio calculation of phonon dispersions in siz e-mismatched disor dered allo ys’, Ph ysical Review B , v ol. 82, pp 134207, 2010

B. Dutta and S. Ghosh‘Vibrational pr operties of allo ys: an understanding from ab initio calculations ’, Journal of Applied Ph ysics, vol. 109, pp 053714, 2011

R. K. Singh and A. Srinivasan‘Structural and magnetic properties of MgO-CaO-SiO2-P2O5-CaF2-Fe2O3 glasses ’, Ph ysics and Chemistr y of Glasses – E uropean Journal of Glass S cience and Technology Part B, vol. 51 (1), pp 78-82, 2010

R. K. Singh and A. Srinivasan‘EPR and magnetic susceptibility studies of iron ions in ZnO-Fe2O3-CaO-P2O5-SiO2-Na2O glasses ’, Journal of Magnetism and M agnetic Materials, vol. 322, pp 2018-2022, 2010

S. Banerjee, P. S. Robi, A. Srinivasan and L. P. Kumar‘High t emperature def ormation beha viour of Al- Cu-



Mg alloys micro-alloyed with Sn’, Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 527, pp 2498-2503, 2010

D. D. Štrbac, S. R. L ukić, D. M. P etrović, J . M. Gonzalez-Leal, A. Srinivasan and G. R. Štrbac‘Infl uence of substrat e absorption on ac curacy of determination of r efractive index and thick ness of uniform thin chalc ogenide C u1[As2(S0.5Se0.5)3]99 Ā lm’, Thin Solid Films, vol. 518, pp 5679 – 5682, 2010

S. Banerjee, P. S. Robi, A. Srinivasan, P. K. Lakavath‘Eff ect of trac e additions of Sn on micr ostructure and mechanical pr operties of Al– Cu–Mg allo ys’, M aterials and Design, vol. 31, pp 4007-4015, 2010

R. K. Singh and A. Srinivasan‘Apatite-forming abilit y and mag netic pr operties of glass-ceramics c ontaining zinc f errite and calcium sodium phosphat e phases ’, M aterials S cience and Engineering C, vol. 30 (8), pp 1100-1106, 2010

R. K. Singh and A. Srinivasan‘Magnetic pr operties of glass- ceramics c ontaining nanocrystalline zinc-ferrite’, Journal of M agnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 323, pp 330-333, 2011

S. Banerjee, P. S. Robi and A. Srinivasan‘Calorimetric study of precipitation kinetics of Al-Cu-Mg and Al- Cu-Mg-0.06wt%Sn alloys’, Metals and M aterials International, vol. 16 (4), pp 523-531, 2010

Andrey G. K alinichev, P adma K umar P. and R. James Kirkpatrick‘Molecular D ynamics C omputer Simulations of the Eff ects of h ydrogen bonding on the pr operties of layered double h ydroxides int ercalated with or ganic acids’, Philosophical M agazine, v ol. 90 (17and18), pp 2475-2488, 2010 (Published on 13 April 2010)

B. Bhuyan (et.al.)‘A Search for the Decay $B^{0} \to \gamma \gamma$. $’, BaBar Collaboration, Phys.Rev.D83:032006, 2011

B. Bhuyan (et.al.)‘Study of $B \tp \pi \ell \nu$ and $B \t o \rho \ell \nu$ Deca ys and Det ermination of $|V_{ub}|$’ , BaBar Collaboration, Phys.Rev.D83:032007,2011

B. Bhuyan (et.al.)‘Observation of new r esonances deca ying t o $D\pi$ and $D^*\pi$ in inclusiv e $e^+e^-$ c ollisions near $\sqrt{s}=$10.58 GeV ’, BaBar C ollaboration, Ph ys.Rev.D82:111101, 2010

B. Bhuyan (et.al.)‘Search for the Rare Decay $B \to K \nu \bar{nu}$’, BaBar Collaboration, Phys.Rev.D82:112002, 2010

P. Dey, Saurabh Basu and R. Kishore‘Current and Spin correlations in FFLO state of a s-wave superconductor’, Journal of Ph ysics: Conference series, vol. 273, pp 012072, 2011

K. K . Dey , B . P anda, A. P aul, Saurabh Basu , and A Chattopadhyay‘Catalytic gold nanoparticle driven pH speciĀ c chemical locomotion’, Journal of C olloid and I nterface S cience, vol. 348, pp 335, 2010

A. Medhi and Saurabh Basu‘Importance of int erlayer pair tunneling: A variational perspective’, Physica C, vol. 471, pp 1, 2010

B. Samantaray, S. Ravi, A. Perumal, I. Dhiman and A. Das‘Neutron po wder diff raction studies and mag netic properties in Nd1-xKxM nO3 (x=0.15 and 0.20) compounds’, Journal of Applied Ph ysics, v ol. 109, pp 07E150-1 to 3, 2011

B. Samantaray, S. Ravi and A. Perumal‘Critical beha viour studies in f erromagnetic (Nd ,K)-Mn-O compounds Nd1-xKxM nO3 (x = 0.16 and 0.21)’ , Journal Mangnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 322, pp 3391, 2010

S. Mohanty and S. Ravi‘Magnetic P roperties of Sn1-xN ixO2 based dilut ed magnetic semiconductors’, Solid State Communications, vol. 150, pp 1570-1574, 2010

B. Samantara y, S. K . Srivasta va, S. M ohanty, S. R avi, I. Dhiman and A. Das‘Neutron Powder Diff raction Studies in LaM n1-xCuxO3 (x=0.05, 0.10 and 0.15)’, Journal of Applied Ph ysics, vol. 107, pp 09D719 -1 to 3, 2010



B. Samantaray and S. Ravi‘Reentrant spin glass beha vior in Nd0.84K0.12M nO3’, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 322, pp 2038-2042, 2010

Amarendra K. Sarma‘Modulational I nstability of f ew c ycle pulses in optical Ā bers’, Europhysics Letters, vol. 92, pp 24004, 2010

Amarendra K. Sarma‘Vector solit on swit ching in a nonlinear dir ectional coupler’, Optics Communications, vol. 284, pp 186-190, 2011

Jian-Wei Wu and Amarendra K. Sarma‘Ultrafast all- optical X OR log ic gat e based on a symmetrical M ach-Zehnder interferometer employing SOI wa veguides’, Optics c ommunications, v ol. 283, pp 2914-2917, 2010

Amarendra K. Sarma, Manirupa Saha and Anjan Biswas‘Optical S olitons with P ower La w Nonlinearit y and Hamiltonian Perturbations: An Exac t S olution’, Journal of I nfrared, M illimeter and Terahertz wa ves, v ol. 31, pp1048-1056, 2010

Patrice Gr een, Daniela M ilovic, Amar endra K . Sarma, Dawn A. Lott and Anjan Biswas‘Dynamics of super-sech solit ons in optical Ā bers’, Journal of Nonlinear Optical Ph ysics and Materials, vol. 19, pp 339-370, 2010

J. A. Ahmed and S. B. Santra‘Sandpile avalanche properties in terms of a microscopic parameter’, Europhys Lett., vol. 90, pp 50006, 2010

J. A. Ahmed and S. B. Santra‘Finite siz e scaling in B TW like sandpile models ’, E ur. Phys. J. B, vol. 76, pp 13, 2010

D. Pamu, K. Sudheendran, M. Ghanashyam Krishna and K. C. James Raju‘Preparation and characterisation of ZST Ā lms for CMOS applications’, Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 116, 2010

D. Pamu, G. Lakshminarayana Rao and K. C. James Raju‘Eff ect of C eO2 and Nd2O3 on the micr ostructure and

microwave dielec tric pr operties of (Zr0.8,Sn0.2)T iO4 ceramics’, Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 116, 2010

R. Fleischhaker, T. N. Dey and J. Evers‘Phase modulation induc ed b y c ooperative eff ects in electromagnetically induc ed transpar ency’, Ph ys. Rev . A, vol. 82 , pp 013815, 2010

B. Anathnarayan, Monalisa Patra and P. Poulose‘Signals of additional Z boson in e+e -\to W+W^- at the ILC with polarized beams’, JHEP, vol. 1102, pp 043, 2011

S. Hesselbach, S. Moretti, S. Munir and P. Poulose‘Explicit CP violation in the MSSM thr ough gg --> H(1) --> gamma gamma ’, Ph ys. Rev . D , v ol. 82, pp 074004, 2010

National JournalS. Mohanty and S. Ravi‘Magnetic P roperties of C o doped SnO2 Dilut ed Magnetic S emiconductors’, I ndian Journal of Ph ysics, vol. 84, pp 735-739, 2010

Workshop/Seminar/Symposia/ConferenceR. Aneesh and Sunil K. Khijwania‘Titanium Dio xide Nanopar ticle Based Optical F iber sor with Linear Response o ver a lar ge dynamic R ange’, (accepted) I nternational C onference on F iber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS 10), Guwahati, India, 11-15 December 2010

R. Aneesh, Meeth Maharana and Sunil K. Khijwania‘Simple T emperature Insensitive F iber Bragg Grating Based Tilt Sensor with a Tunable Response and a Lar ge Dynamic R ange’, I nternational C onference on F iber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS 10), Guwahati, India, 11-15 December 2010

R. Aneesh, Abhinav Rastogi and Sunil K. Khijwania‘Surface Plasmon Resonanc e Based U-Shaped Optical Fiber Humidit y S ensor’, I nternational C onference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS 10), Guwahati, India, 11-15 December 2010

D. Pamu and A. K. Bhatnagar‘Dielectric studies on Ba (Zn1/3T a2/3) O3 thin Ā lms deposited b y laser ablation ’, National S eminar on



Ferroelectric and Dielec trics- X VI (NSFD 2010), Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, 2-4 December 2010

K. Hosea Pradeep, K. Ajay Kumar and D. Pamu‘The eff ect of annealing on struc tural and optical constants of nanocrystalline ZrTiO4 thin Ā lms’, National Conference on Nanomaterials (NCN 2010), Department of Ph ysics, K arunya Univ ersity, C oimbatore, 3-4 December 2010

T. Santhosh Kumar and D. Pamu‘The eff ect of annealing on optical c onstants of nanocrystalline Ba(Zn1/3T a2/3)O3 thin Ā lms’, International c onference on nanomat erials and nanotechnology (NANO 2010), Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, KSR C ollege of Technology, Tiruchengode, 13-16 December 2010

Soumen Dhara and P. K. Giri‘Studies on phot ocarrier transpor t mechanismin ZnO nano wires g rown b y vapor-liquid-solid method ’, International Symposium on Advances in Nanomaterials (ANM 2010), CGCRI Kolkata, India, 6-7 December 2010

Bappaditya Pal, Soumen Dhara, Pankaj Mishra and P. K. Giri‘Studies on struc ture, magnetic and optical pr operties of Co-doped ZnO Nanowires’, International Symposium on A dvances in Nanomat erials ( ANM 2010), C GCRI Kolkata, India, 6-7 December 2010

Soumen Dhara and P. K. Giri‘Rapid thermal annealing induced enhanced near band-edge emission fr om ZnO nano wires, nanor ods and nanoribbons’, International Conference on Fundamental and Applications of Nanoscienc e and Technology (ICFANT 2010), Jadavpur University. Kolkata, India, 9-11 December 2010

Bappaditya Pal and P. K. Giri‘Cobalt doping of ZnO nanopar ticles b y ball milling: Enhanced UV luminesc ence and r oom t emperature ferromagnetism’, Third I nternational C onference on NANO-structures SElf-Assembly (NANOSEA2010) Cassis, France, 28 June-2 July 2010

Soumen Dhara and P. K. Giri‘Microstructure and optical pr operties of fr eestanding Si nanocr ystals’, Third I nternational C onference on NANO-structures SElf-A ssembly (NANOSEA2010), Cassis, France, 28 June-2 July 2010

Soumen Dhara and P. K. Giri‘Self-catalytic growth of straight Si nanowires with high aspect ratio on Si (100) substrat e b y simple sputt er deposition’, Eighth I nternational Nanot echnology Symposium (Nanofair2010), Dr esden, German y, 6-7 July 2010

B. R. Boruah‘Relative enhanc ement in axially polariz ed Ā eld in a def ocused radially polariz ed beam ’, Thirty-Ā fth Optical S ociety of I ndia Symposium and I nternational Conference on C ontemporary Trends in Optics and Optoelectronics, India, January 2011

B. R. Boruah and Abhijit Das‘Zonal wa vefront sensing with a fl exible detector geometry’, Proceedings of the Thirty-Ā fth Optical Society of I ndia S ymposium and I nternational C onference on Contemporary Trends in Optics and Opt oelectronics, India, January 2011

Abhijit Das and B. R. Boruah‘Laser S canning Refl ected Light M icroscopy U sing Holographic S canning’, National Laser S yposium-19, Indore, India, December 2010

A. Nath, A. Das, L. Rangan and Alika Khare‘Bacterial I nhibition b y C u/Cu2O Nanoc omposites Prepared via Laser Ablation in Liquids ’, Proceedings of International C onference Phot onics-10, IIT Guwahati, December 2010

A. Nath, A. Das, L. Rangan and Alika Khare‘Antibacterial ac tivity of c opper o xide nanopar ticles synthesised via laser ablation in liquids’, Proceedings of International C onference IISC-10, Jamia M illia Islamia, Delhi, December 2010

A. Nath and Alika Khare‘Estimation of OH and O2 Rotational Temperature during Laser Induced Breakdown at Titanium Water Interface’,



Proceedings of I nternational Conference MMISLIBS-10, University of Allahabad and Mississippi State University, December 2010

A. Nath and Alika Khare‘Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Nanocolloids Formed via Laser Ablation of Ti in Water’, Proceedings of Internationl conference PEFM 2010 – Physics of Emerging Functional Materials, or ganised b y BARC Mumbai, S eptember 2010

A. T. T. M ostako, C. V. S. R ao, Shudhir Vala and Alik a Khare‘Eff ect of ion beam irradiation on PLD deposit ed tungsten Ā lms’, P roceedings of National C onference Plasma 2010, ISSA T Guwahati and PSSI I ndia, 8-11 December 2010

A. T. T. Mostako, Partha Dey, Himanshu S. Jha, Mukesh Singh, Pratima Agarwal and Alika Khare‘Molybdenum Oxides thin Ā lms via PLD’, Proceedings of National Conference Plasma 2010, ISSAT Guwahati and PSSI India, 8-11 December 2010

Satchi Kumari and Alika Khare‘Pulsed laser deposit ed rub y thin Ā lm as t emperature sensor’, Proceedings of Twenty-Ā fth National Symposium on Plasma S cience and Technology (PLASM A-2010), Guwahati, 8-11 December 2010

Satchi Kumari and Alika Khare‘Slowing do wn of light in C e:BaTiO3 cr ystal via Degenerate two-wave mixing using chopped pulses ’, Proceedings of I nternational C onference on F iber Optics and Photonics (Photonics 2010), Guwahati,11-15 December 2010

Satchi Kumari and Alika Khare‘Eff ect of cr ystal orientation on t emporal dela y in Ce:BaTiO3 via degenerate two-wave mixing‘, Proceedings of OSI S ymposium, I nternational C onference on Contemporary Trends in Optics and Opt o Elec tronics, Thiruvananthapuram, 17-19 January 2011 Satchi Kumari, Ravi Kiran Saripalli and Alika Khare‘Determination of the cr ystallographic orientations of a C e:BaTiO3 cr ystal via back ward two-wave mixing’,

Proceedings of Thirty-Ā fth OSI Symposium, International Conference on C ontemporary Trends in Optics and Opto Elec tronics, Thiruvananthapuram, 17-19 Januar y 2011

I. Kumar and Alika Khare‘Eff ect of Substrat e Temperature on P ulsed Laser Deposited Diamond Like C arbon Thin F ilms’, Proceedings of I nternational C onference on C arbon Nanotechnology: P otential and Challenges , I ndian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 15-17 December 2010

Archana Khushwaha, A. Nath and Alika Khare‘Temporal E volution of CN Band Spec tra in Laser Induced Breakdown of Plastics’, Proceedings of Twenty-Ā fth National S ymposium on Plasma S cience and Technology (PLASMA-2010), Guwahati, 8-11 December 2010

Archana Khushwaha, A. Nath and Alika Khare‘Monitoring of Plastics using Laser I nduced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)’ , P roceedings of I nternational Conference MMISLIBS-10, Univ ersity of Allahabad and Mississippi state University, 21-23 December 2010

Debabrata Mishra, Akhilesh K. Singh, P. C. Shyni, Deepika Sharma and A. Perumal‘Enhanced sof t mag netic pr operties in multila yer structured amorphous Fe-Ta-C Ā lms’, Annual Conference on M agnetism and M agnetic M aterials, A tlanta, USA, 14-18 November 2010

B. Samantaray, S. Ravi, A. Perumal, I. Dhiman and A. Das‘Neutron po wder diff raction studies and mag netic properties in Nd1-xKxM nO3 (x=0.15 and 0.20) compounds, Annual C onference on M agnetism and Magnetic M aterials, A tlanta, USA, 14-18 No vember 2010

Debabrata M ishra, P . Sara vanan, A. P erumal, and A. Srinivasan‘Enhanced sof t mag netic pr operties in mag netic Ā eld annealed amorphous F e(Co)-Zr-B allo ys’, Annual Conference on M agnetism and M agnetic M aterials, Atlanta, USA, 14-18 November 2010

Rahul Das, S. Sarma, A. Perumal, and A. Srinivasan‘Eff ect of Co and Cu substitution on the magnetic entropy



change in Ni46Mn43Sn11 alloy’, Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Atlanta, USA, 14-18 November 2010

J. Anto Pradeep and Pratima Agarwal‘Experimental det ermination of optical c onstants of Nanocompoiste thin Ā lms’, I nternational C onference on A dvances in C ondensed and Nano M aterials (ICACNM2011), P anjab Univ ersity, Chandigarh, 23-26 February 2011

Purabi Gogoi, Himanshu S. Jha and Pratima Agarwal‘Variation of micr ostructure and transpor t pr operties with Ā lament temperature of HWC VD prepared silicon thin Ā lms’, Six th I nternational Conference on Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition ( Cat-CVD) Processes, Ecole Polytechnique, P alaiseau (Near P aris), F rance, 13-17 September 2010

Himanshu S. Jha, Purabi Gogoi and Pratima Agarwal‘Electrical transpor t and Spac e char ge limit ed curr ent measurements on h ydrogenated silic on Ā lms in the amorphous t o nanocr ystalline range using HWC VD technique’, Sixth International Conference on Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition ( Cat-CVD) Processes, Ecole Polytechnique, P alaiseau (Near P aris), F rance, 13-17 September 2010

Himanshu S. Jha, P urabi Gogoi, Mukes Singh and Pratima Agarwal‘DoS U sing SCL C measur ements in h ydrogenated Silicon F ilms’, P roceedings of the F ifty-Ā fth D AE S olid State Physics Symposium (2010), M anipal, India, 26-20 December, 2010

A. Srinivasan‘A c omparative study of bioac tive glass- ceramics containing diff erent mag netic phases ’, P roceedings of International Workshop on Glasses and Glass- ceramics (IWSSCGGC 2010), C-MET, Pune, 7-10 July 2010 K. Sharma, A. Dixit, S. S. Meena, S. M. Yusuf, A. Srinivasan and G. P. Kothiyal‘Preparation and study of mag netic pr operties of silver c ontaining glass/glass- ceramics’, P roceedings of International Workshop on Glasses and Glass- ceramics (IWSSCGGC2010), C-MET, Pune, 7-10 July 2010 (Received the best poster award)

R. Das, S. Sarma, A. Perumal and A. Srinivasan‘Enhanced magnetocaloric eff ect in C o substituted Ni-Mn-Ga alloys’, Proceedings of International Conference on Magnetic Materials. (ICMM 2010), SINP, Kolkata, 25-29 October 2010

S. Sarma and A. Srinivasan‘Magnetic pr operties of F e/Mn substitut ed C o-Ni-Ga alloys’, P roceedings of I nternational C onference on Magnetic M aterials (ICMM 2010), SINP , Kolk ata, 25-29 October 2010

G. P. Kothiyal, K. Sharma, A. Dixit and A. Srinivasan‘Structural and mag netic studies on nano -crystalline biocompatible glass/glass- ceramic’, AIP C onference Proceedings of I nternational C onference on Ph ysics of Emer ging F unctional M aterials (PEF M-2010), BARC, Mumbai, pp 55, 22-24 September 2010

A. Srinivasan, A. R ajanikanth, Y. K . Takahashi and H. Hono‘Cobalt based quaternary Heusler alloys with high spin polarisation’, P roceedings of National C onference on Magnetic M aterials and Applications (M agMA 2011), SNBNCBS, Kolkata, 24-25 January 2011

Y. K . Takahashi, A. Srinivasan, B . Varaprasad, A. Rajanikanth, N. Hase, T. M. Nakatani, S. Kasai, T. Hayashi and K. Hono‘Microstructure and mag netoresistance qualit y of the CPP-GMR element using Co2Fe (Ga0.5Ge0.5)’, Proceedings of Spring M eeting of Japan I nstitute of M etals 2011, Tokyo, 25-27 March 2011

Supriya Roy and P. Padma Kumar‘Monte Carlo Investigation of Structural Changes In NZP Skeleton On Alkali Ion Substitution’, Fifty-Ā fth Solid State Physics Symposium-DAE, Manipal University, Karnataka, 26-30 December 2010

S. Mohanty and S. Ravi‘Giant mag netic moment in mechanically milled Sn1-xCoxO2 c ompounds’, C urrent Trends in C ondensed Matter Ph ysics, NISER, Bhubaneswar , I ndia, 15-19 December 2010

B. Samantaray, S. Ravi, A. Perumal, I. Dhiman and A. Das‘Neutron po wder diff raction studies and mag netic



properties in Nd1-xKxM nO3 (x=0.15 and 0.20) compounds’, F ifty-Ā fth Annual C onference on Magnetism and M agnetic M aterials (MMM 2010), Atlanta, USA, 14-18 November 2010

B. Samantaray, S. K. Srivastava and S. Ravi‘Magnetic dynamics of charge ordered Nd0.8Na0.2MnO3 Compound’, National Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications -MagMA 2011, SNBNCBS, Kolkata, 24-25 January 2011

T. Bora and S.Ravi‘Synthesis and study of magnetic properties in Co doped In2O3’, National Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications -M agMA 2011, SNBNCBS, Kolk ata, 24-25 January 2011

S. Ravi‘Spintronics and Dilut ed M agnetic S emiconductors’, Second National C onference on A dvanced M aterials, PSN C ollege of Eng ineering, Tirunelveli, 25-27 A ugust 2010

B. Samantaray and S. Ravi‘Ferromagnetic insulating t o char ge or dered stat e in (Nd,Na)-Mn-O S eries’, I nternational C onference on Superconductivity and M agnetism, Analya, Turkey, 25-30 April 2010

Amarendra K. Sarma‘Solitary wa ves in negativ e index metamat erials’, Metamaterials 2010, K arlsruhe, German y, 13-16 September 2010

S. B. Santra and J. A. Ahmed‘Finite siz e scaling in r otational sandpile models ’, Proceedings of C onference on C omputational Physics, Trondheim, Norway, pp 107, 23-26 June 2010 J. A. Ahmed and S. B. Santra‘Analysis of t oppling sur faces of st ochastic sandpile

models’, Proceedings S. S. P. Symp., Manipal University, Manipal, pp 189, 26-30 December 2010

H. Bhaumik, J. A. Ahmed and S. B. Santra‘Crossover from rotational to stochastic sandpile model’, Proceedings S. S. P. Symp., Manipal University, Manipal, pp 189, 26-30 December 2010

J. A. Ahmed and S. B. Santra‘Properties of t oppling sur faces in diff erent sandpile models’, Proceedings Condensed Matter Days, University of Kalyani, pp 98, 25-27 August 2010

T. N. Dey and J. Evers‘Non-diff racting Optical Beams in a Three-level Raman System’, I nternational C onference on Quantum Optics and Quantum C omputing, Ja ypee I nstitute of Information Technology, Noida, UP, India, 24-26 M arch 2011

S. Hesselbach, S. Moretti, S. Munir and P. Poulose‘CP-violating H iggs S ector of the MSSM thr ough glu .glu. H1 gamma gamma’, Proceedings of DISCRETE 2010, Rome, Italy, 6-11 December 2010

Book, Chapter, etc.S. K. Khijwania, Ashwini Kumar Sharma, EditedProceedings, PHO TONICS 2010, Viva Books Pvt. Lt d., 2010

P. K . Giri, D . K . Goswami, A. P erumal and A. ChattopadhyayAdvanced Nanomat erials and Nanot echnology, Guest Editors, Special Issue of I nt. J. Nanosceince. Vol. 10, No. 1, World ScientiĀ c Publishing, Singapore (2011)

P. K . Giri, D . K . Goswami, A. P erumal and A. ChattopadhyayVolume Editors, AIP Conference Proceeding 1276, Issue 1, P roc. of the I nternational C onference on A dvanced Nanomaterials and nanot echnology (ICANN-2009), Guwahati, India, 9-11 December 2009





D. PamuInternational conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

Tiruchengode13-16

December 2010

International

P. K. Giri

8th International Nanotechnology Symposium - New Ideas for Industry

Germany 6-7 July 2010 International

P. K. Giri

3rd international conference on nanostructure self-assembly (NANOSEA 2010)

France 28June - 2 July 2010 International

B. R. Boruah

XXXV Optical Society of India Symposium and International Conference on Contemporary Trends in Optics and Optoelectronics

Trivandrum, India January 2011 International

Alika Khare25th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2010

IASST, Guwahati8-11

December 2010

National

Alika Khare International Conference MMISLIBS-10

University of Allahabad

21-23 December

2010International

A. PerumalAnnual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Atlanta, USA14 -18

November 2010

International

Santabrata DasWideband X-ray Astronomy: Frontiers in Timing and Spectroscopy

Pune 13-16 January 2011 International

Pratima Agarwal

International conference on advances in condensed and nano materials (ICACNM)

Panjab University23-26

February 2011

International

Subhradip Ghosh India-Sweden meeting on Functional Materials

Uppsala University,

Sweden

29 June – 1 July 2010 International

Subhradip Ghosh Psi-K 2010 Conference Frei University, Berlin, Germany

12-16 September

2010International

A. Srinivasan International Workshop on Glasses and Glass-ceramics C-MET Pune 7-10 July 2011 International

A. SrinivasanNational Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications

SNBNCBS, Kolkata


A. Srinivasan Current Trends in Condensed Matter Physics

Assam Univesity, Silchar

4-6 February 2011 National



P. K. Padmanabhan Current Trends in Condensed Matter Physics

NISER, Bhubaneswar

15-19 December

2010International

Bipul Bhuyan BaBar Collaboration Meeting Berlin, Germany 4 -7 October

2010 International

Bipul Bhuyan Belle Analysis Meeting KEK, Japan20-21

September 2010

International

S. Ravi II National Conference on Advanced Materials

PSN College of Engg, Tirunelveli

Aug. 25-27, 2010 National

S. RaviInternational conference on superconductivity and magnetism

Analya, Turkey 25-30 April 2010 International

Amarendra Kumar Sarma Metamaterials 2010 Karlsruhe, Germany

13-16 September

2010International

S. B. Santra Workshop on Computational Physics

University of Mizoram

14-19 February

2011 National

S. B. Santra Workshop and Conference on Monte Carlo Simulation

Madurai Kamaraj University,


S. B. Santra Conference on Computational Physics

NTNU, Trondheim,

Norway

23-26 June 2010 International

T. N. DeyInternational conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing

Noidal 24-26 March 2011 International

P. PouloseLHC: phenomenology – Experiment discussion meeting

Viswa-Bharati, Shantiniketan


P. Poulose

DISCRETE 2010: Symposium on Perspectives of Physics Discrete Symmetries

Rome, Italy6-11

December 2010

International

P. PouloseCMS Collaboration – phenomenology interaction meeting

NISER, Bhubaneswar

26-28 November

2010National



P. K. Giri

Nondestructive evaluation of defects and defect engineering in single walled and multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Institute of Materials

Science, TU Dresden

Germany 24 June 2010

P. K. GiriSemiconductor Nanostructures and Carbon Nanotubes for Optoelectronics

AVT-Electronic Packaging and Microeletronics

Labs, TU Dresden

Germany 15 July 2010



Alika Khare Laser Induced Breakdown at Solid-Liquid Interface

25th National Symposium on Plasma Science

and Technology, PLASMA-2010,

Guwahati,

Guwahati 8-11 December 2010

Alika Khare IdentiĀ cation of Plastics via LIBS techniques

University of Allahabad

Allahabad University

21-23 December 2010

A. Perumal

Double-layered magnetic thin Ā lms for high density perpendicular recording application

Department of Physics, Wayne State University

Detroit 19 November 2010

Subhradip GhoshCalculation of Phonon spectra in substitutionally disordered alloys

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden 1 July 2010

A. Srinivasan Physics and applications of shape memory materials Assam University Silchar 4 February 2011

A. Srinivasan Bioceramics for medical applications Assam University Silchar 5 February 2011

S. Ravi Spintronics and Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

PSN college of Engineering Tirunelveli 25-27 August

2010

Amarendra Kumar Sarma

Metamaterials: Fundamental concepts, fantasies and possibilities

Institute of Advanced Study in Science and

Technology

Guwahati 15 February 2011

S. B. Santra Rotational Sandpile: a new Universality class

Department of Physics,

University of Calcutta,

Kolkata 9 June 2010

S. B. SantraPercolation, Critical slowing down, cluster algorithm and cluster counting

Madurai Kamaraj University Madurai 9-13 August

2010

S. B. Santra

Avalanche properties of sandpile models in terms of a microscopic parameter, Monte Carlo Method in Statistical Mechanics

University of Mizoram Mizoram 14-19 February

2011

S. B. SantraAvalanche properties of sandpile models in terms of a microscopic parameter

Department of Physics, Norwegian

University of Science and Technology,

NTNU

Trondheim, Norway 29 June 2010

T. N. DeyDiff raction free image propagation through an atomic medium

IISER Kolkata, Kolkata Kolkata 28 May 2010



SHORT-TERM COURSES


S. Ravi and D. Pal QIP short term course on ‘Smart Materials and Devices’

AICTE and IIT Guwahati


T. N. Dey and A. K. Sarma

SERC Preparatory School on Modern Optics DST

10-13 November

2010National


Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By DateInternational/

National

Sunil Khijwania, Ashwini Kumar Sharma

PHOTONICS 2010: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics

OSA, SPIE, IEEE Photonics Society, ONRG, DST, DIT, and

many industries

11-15 December

2010International

INVITED LECTURES

Name Name of Inst/Org Name of Lecture Date

S. B. RoyMaterials and Advanced Accelerator Sciences Division, RRCAT, Indore

Metamagnetic materials and magnetic-glass

27 December 2010

Ambesh DixitDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Transition metal vanadate

multiferroics10 February 2011

Ian Nugent TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada Tau Physics 21 January 2011

Manoranjan GuchaitDepartment of High Energy Physics, School of Natural Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Particle Physics: Present and

Beyond3 March 2011

J. P. Singh M. S. University, Baroda, GujaratMeson – baryon

couplings in QCD11 October 2010

Monalisa Patra CHEP, IISc Bangalore

Top-spin analysis of new scalar and

tensor interactions in e+ e- collisions

with beam polarisation

12 November 2010

AWARDS AND HONOURSDr. P. K . Giri r eceived the ‘IIT-DAAD Faculty-Exchange-Visit Fellowship’, 2010, DAAD, Germany.

Dr. Santabrata Das selec ted as an associate member of SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.

Prof. A. Srinivasan is an Ex ecutive member of the Magnetics Society of India.

SPECIAL MENTIONProf. A. Srinivasan and Dr . D . K . Goswami ar e the c o-investigators of a major DST pr oject entitled ‘Design, development and fabrication of OLED or ganic solar



cells and or ganic TFTs based on molecular polymeric and c omposite mat erials’ with budget sanc tion of Rs . 523 lakhs, the PI is Dr. P. K. Iyer, Dept. of Chemistry.

Dr. P. K. Giri is a Regular Reviewer for several international journals (Publishers: IOP, ACS, Elsevier, AIP, OSA, etc.).

Dr. S. Ghosh pr esented t wo post ers in P si-K 2010 conference, Berlin, German y, S eptember 2010. The titles are: ‘First-principles based calculations of phonon spectra in substitutionally disor dered allo ys’ and ‘Complex mag netic int eractions in off -stoichiometric Ni2MnGa alloys’.

Dr. S. Ghosh visited the Materials Theory Group, Uppsala University, Sweden, June-July 2010.

Dr. B . Bhuyan visit ed F ermi National A ccelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Chicago , USA during 10 M ay – 23 July 2010 t o w ork on the L ong Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE).

Dr. B . Bhuyan visit ed KEK , Tsukuba, Japan during 5 December – 23 Dec ember 2010 t o w ork on the Belle Experiment.

Dr. T. N. Dey and Dr . A. K . Sarma c onducted DST Sponsored ‘SERC Preparatory School on Modern Optics’, 10-23 November 2010.

Dr. S. B . Santra visit ed the Depar tment of Ph ysics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 8-10 June 2010.

Dr. S. B . Santra visit ed the Depar tment of Ph ysics, Norwegian Univ ersity of S cience and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 21 June – 2 July 2010.

Dr. S. B . Santra chair ed a session in the C onference on C omputational Ph ysics, Nor wegian Univ ersity of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Nor way, 23-26 June 2010

FACULTY MEMBERSP. AgarwalPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ondensed M atter Ph ysics (Expt.), Photovoltaic Materials and Devices

S. BasuPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory), Superconductivity

B. R. Boruah PhD (Imperial College, London)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Lasers and Optics (Expt. and Theory): Programmable Diff ractive Optics, Confocal Microscopy, Phase St epping I nterferometry, Vectorial Diff raction Theory

B. BhuyanAssistant ProfessorPhD (Delhi University)Areas of Interest: High Energy Physics (Experiment) CP violation, Rare K and B meson decays, ILC R&D

S. DasPhD (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Astrophysics (Theory), Astrophysical fl ows ar ound c ompact objec ts, Ultra high ener gy cosmic rays

T. N. DeyPh. D. (PRL, Ahmedabad)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Quantum Optics ( Theory), Coherent control of pulse pr opagation; Nonlinear optics; Optical solit ons; Negativ e index media; Bose -Einstein condensates.

S. GhoshPhD (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory), Electronic Structure Theory

P. K. GiriPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ondensed M atter Ph ysics (Expt.), Nanomaterials and optoelectronics



D. K. GoswamiPhD (I.O.P. Bhubneswar)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ondensed M atter (Experiment): Organic thin Ā lms, heterostructures and nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces

C. Y. KadolkarPhD (IIT Bombay)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory), Defects in Ionic Materials

A. KharePhD (IIT Kanpur)ProfessorAreas of In terest: Lasers and Phot onics (Expt.), Laser Physics and Spectroscopy

S. K. KhijwaniaPhD (IIT Delhi)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: F iber Optics ( Theory and Experimental), F iber Optics , F iber Bragg Gratings , Optical Fiber sensors

M. K. NandyPhD (IIT Kanpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Theoretical Ph ysics, Nonlinear dynamics

P. K. PadmanabhanPhD (IISc, Bangalore)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ondensed matt er ( Theory): Atomistic M odelling and Simulation of C ondensed States of Matter

D. PalPhD (TIFR, Mumbai)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: L ow Temperature Ph ysics and Material S cience (Experimental): Str ongly C orrelated Electron S ystems, Vortex stat es in super conductors, Superconductivity and Magnetism

D. PamuPhD (Univ.of Hyderabad, Hyderabad)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: Oxide Thin Films and High-k and low loss materials (Experimental) A. PerumalPhD (IIT Kharagpur)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ondensed M atter Ph ysics (Expt.), Nanomagnetic Materials

P. PoulosePhD (Phys. Res. Lab, Ahmedabad)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Theoretical Ph ysics, H igh Ener gy Physics Phenomenology

S. RaviPhD (Univ. of Hyderabad)Professor and HeadAreas of In terest: C ondensed M atter Ph ysics (Expt.), Superconductivity and magnetism

S. B. SantraPhD (Bose Institute, Kolkata)Associate ProfessorAreas of Interest: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory), Statistical Physics

A. K. SarmaPhD (IIT Delhi)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Photonics ( Theory) and Theoretical Physics: S olitons, Nonlinear F iber Optics , Nonlinear Optics, Bose-Einstein Condensate

A. K. SharmaPhD (IIT Kanpur)Assistant ProfessorAreas of In terest: Lasers and Optics (Experimental): Laser pr oduced plasmas , laser ablation deposition of thin Ā lms, laser-based sensors



G.S. SetlurPhD (Univ. of Illinois)Associate ProfessorAreas of In terest: Theoretical Ph ysics, H igher dimensional Bosonization

A. SrinivasanPhD (IISc, Bangalore)ProfessorAreas of In terest: C ondensed M atter Ph ysics (Expt.), Materials science

A. SilPhD (University of Calcutta)Assistant ProfessorAreas of Interest: High Energy Physics and Cosmology (Theory)

A.P. VajpeyiPhD (National Univ. of Singapore) Assistant Professor Areas of In terest: C ondensed M atter Ph ysics (Expt.), Semiconductors



CENTRE FOR ENERGY

INTRODUCTIONCentre f or Ener gy at IIT Guwahati, has c ompleted six years of its existence successfully, which was established in the year 2004. The space and infrastructure provided for the centre at J-Block, Academic Complex have been utilised for establishment of various laborat ories such as bio -energy, fuel c ell, ener gy effi cienc y, analytical, biofuel and solar ener gy, and offi c e, conference room, etc. I nvolvement of facult y members fr om various departments have been incr easing year wise and as a result academic and r esearch activities of the c entre is progressing signiĀ cantly in various Ā elds. The research activities r elated t o alt ernative fuels , c ombustion and energy effi ciency of systems has got a rapid momentum during the past Ā ve years.

Since its inc eption, the c entre has r ecruited 21 PhD students. One of the PhD students has been a warded degree in the 12th C onvocation held in M ay 2010. 3 more students ha ve submitt ed their PhD thesis . I t is worth mentioning that t wo of the PhD students ha ve received post doc f ellow at Kor ea Univ ersity, S outh Korea and at Enea C asaccia Resear ch C enter, Rome , Italy, respectively.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESAt present, the c entre off ers PhD pr ogramme. Starting of MS (Master of Science) curriculum is in progress.

STUDENT INTAKEThere are 16 PhD students on r olls. The enrollment of PhD student is increasing gradually. The average intake capacity per semester is 3.

FACULTY STRENGTHFaculty members of various disciplines are participating

in the academic and r esearch ac tivities of the c entre. Further, they are contributing to the growth of various laboratories. A steering committee comprising of senior faculty members helps in tactical and strategic decision making to the head of the centre.

The st eering c ommittee c omprises of the f ollowing members:Dr. U.K. Saha, Department of Mechanical EngineeringDr. Pranab Goswami, Department of BiotechnologyDr. Harshal B . Nemade, Department of Elec tronics and Electrical Engineering Dr. V. S. M oholkar, Depar tment of Chemical EngineeringDr. Pratima Agarwal, Department of Physics

The following faculty members ar e actively associated with the c entre thr ough r esearch pr ojects and/or supervising PhD students:

Dr. U.K. Saha, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Pranab Goswami, Department of Biotechnology

Dr. Harshal B . Nemade, Department of Elec tronics and Electrical Engineering

Dr. V. S. M oholkar, Depar tment of Chemical Engineering

Dr. Pratima Agarwal, Department of Physics

Dr. N. Sahu, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. S. C. M ishra, Depar tment of M echanical Engineering

Dr. L. Sahoo, Department of Biotechnology

Dr. A. Verma, Department of Chemical Engineering

Dr. P . Muthukumar , Depar tment of M echanical Engineering



Dr. Utpal Bora, Department of Biotechnology

Dr. Chandramohan Somayaji, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. K austav M ohanty, Depar tment of Chemical Engineering

Dr. V. V. Goud, Department of Chemical Engineering

Dr. Arun Goyal, Department of Biotechnology

Dr. Sasidhar Gumma, Depar tment of Chemical Engineering

Dr. K aruna K alita, Depar tment of M echanical Engineering

Dr. A. Dalal, Department of Mechanical Engineering MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESThe f ollowing facilities ar e a vailable in the C enter f or Energy:

Energy Effi cienc y laboratory: T ransesteriĀ cation setup f or Bio -diesel pr eparation, pr oximate analy sis facility, visc osity of diff erent fl uids can be measur ed, fl ash point, cloud & pour point f or high speed diesel as w ell as biodiesel measuring facilities ar e a vailable, air v elocity measuring facilit y a vailable, pump t esting setup, biomass gasiĀ cation unit, IC Eng ine t esting set up, wind ener gy measurement unit, fl ue gas analy ser, fuel c ell t esting set up , pr oducer gas generation and gas to liquid conversion.

Bio-energy Laboratory: Micro propagation facility for energy and bio-fuel crops, autoradiogram development facility, genetic eng ineering facility, biotransformation and cloning.

Solar Ener gy Labor atory: Demonstration unit f or effi cient use of solar energy, characterization and study of the photovoltaic module, energy spectrum measuring facility, spectral response/ photoconductivity/ quantum effi ciency and other transpor t measur ements in the presence of light of phot ovoltaic modules , mat erials and devic es. A facilit y for preparation of thin Ā lms by physical vapor deposition method is also available.

Fuel Cell Laboratory: Fabrication and characterization of biosensors , elec trochemical analy sis of elec trodes, electrolytes, etc.

Biofuel Laboratory: Facility for production and analysis of biofuels.

Analytical labor atory: G as chr omatography facilit y for analysis of gas, lipids, biofuels, by -product of direct alcohol fuel cells, fuel permeability measurement, etc. Books w orth Rs . 1.6 Lak h w ere pur chased during the year 2010-2011.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESThe facult y members , associat ed with the c entre, ar e carrying out research based projects, funded by various Government depar tments like Depar tment of S cience

and Technology (DST), Ministry of New and Renewable

Energy (MNRE), Def ense Resear ch Dev elopment

Organisation (DRDO ), Depar tment of Biot echnology

(DBT), A ssam S cience and Technology En vironment

Council ( ASTEC), et c. I n the y ear 2010-2011, C entre

for Ener gy has c ollaborated with the Univ ersity of

Nottingham, UK f or r esearch in sustainable ener gy

technology. A joint research project under DST RCUK call

proposal 2011 for Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide

has been submitted to DST. The research partners consist

of sev eral r enowned institut es of I ndia (NEERI, IIS c.

Bangalore, Tezpur University, etc.) and UK (University of

Nottingham, University of L oughbourough, University

of Birminingham, et c.). I n the last six y ears the c entre

has received 15 (Ā fteen) research projects and as many

as 15 (Ā fteen) consultancies in the area of wind energy,

solar ener gy, biolog ical fuel c ell, eng ine t echnology,

biogas, biodiesel , ener gy effi cient machines, etc. with

a total value of Rs. 256.84 lakhs, out of which about Rs .

88 lak hs is utilised f or pur chase of equipment alone .

The details of the r esearch projects and c onsultancies

are presented in the f ollowing subsections. MNRE has

identiĀ ed the centre as the hub for promotion of biogas

development and training in the NE states and has been

funding yearly since 2006.





Agency



A. Verma

Development of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell using indigenously prepared low cost composite bipolar plate

CSIR 13 - 3 years

V. S. Moholkar

Design and optimisation of 1, 3- Propanediol and n-butanol from biodiesel derived crude glycerol using immobilized Clostridial strains

CSIR 15 - 3 years

U.K. Saha

Development and Analysis of Twisted Two-bladed, Two-stage Savonius Rotor for 500 W Power Generation

ADnENERGY 8.8 P. Mahanta, N. Sahoo, D. Bhagawati

2 years

K. Mohanty

Concentration of Biogas Slurry to Preserve Microorganisms in the Inoculum by Novel Separation Techniques

DRL, Tezpur 6.84 C. Das 1 year


Principal Investigator

Name of ProjectSponsoring

Agency


Co-Investigator

Duration

P. Mahanta

Process development for fl uoride removal from drinking water utilizing solar energy

ASTEC, Assam 2.48L. Barbora, P.

Kalita2 years

V. S. Moholkar

Synthesis of green transportation fuels (Biomass gasiĀ cation integrated Fischer Tropsch)

Ministry of New and

Renewable Energy

25 P. Mahanta 2 years

P. Mahanta, V. S. Moholkar

Design, Development and commercialisation of a Circulating Fluidized Bed Biomass gasiĀ er

MNRE, New Delhi

53 P. Kalita 3 years

P. MahantaBiogas Development and Training Centre

Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources

26 P. MahantaContinuing

project




Principal Investigator

Name of ProjectSponsoring

Agency


Co-Investigator

Duration

P. MahantaDevelopment of a multi-fuel cooking stove

PCRA 2.3 - 1 year

S. KakatiDevelopment of a multi-fuel cooking stove

DST 12P. Mahanta,S. K. Kakoty

3 years

L. Sahoo

Micro Propagation Technology for Commercial Scale Plantation of Jatropha: A Potential Biofuel Plant

NEDFi, Guwahati

2.35 L. Sahoo 2 years

V. S. Moholkar Design and Optimization of a Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Biomass GasiĀ er

DBT 14.13 P. Mahanta 2 years

L. SahooCloning of Elite Germplasam of Jatropha for Large Scale Plantation

DRDO 10 L. Sahoo 2 years

S. C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar

Design and Development of Kerosene Stove with Porous Burner Cooking Stoves

PCRA 9.94 - 2 years

S. C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar

Design and Development of Porous Radiant Burners for Domestic LPG Cooking Stoves

PCRA 9.94 - 2 years

P. GoswamiDesign and development of biofuel cell for biomedical applications

DBT 35

Anil Verma, U. Bora,

M. Barthakur and

L. Barbora

3 years

CONSULTANCY


Agency



P. MahantaDevelopment of DPR for Rural ElectriĀ cation by Using Renewable Energy

Meghalaya Renewable

Energy Development

Agency

1.2 - -

L. BarboraTesting and certiĀ cation of Solar Lantern Systems and Solar Panel

ASTEC 0.30 - -



RESEARCH PUBLICATIONSInternational JournalB. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Biomass G asiĀ cation f or Dec entralized P ower Generation: The I ndian P erspective’, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 14, pp 73-92, 2010

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Thermodynamic Optimisation of Biomass G asiĀ cation for Decentralized Power Generation and Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis’, Energy, vol. 35, pp 2557-2579, 2010

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Investigations in G asiĀ cation of Biomass M ixtures Using Thermodynamic Equilibrium and S emi-equilibrium M odels’, I nternational Journal of Ener gy and Environment, vol. 2 (3), pp 551-578, 2011

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta and V. S. Moholkar‘Performance C orrelations f or Biomass G asiĀ ers Using Semi-equilibrium Non-st oichiometric Thermodynamic Models’, International Journal of Ener gy Research, DOI: 10.1002/er.1818

Ranjit S. P atil, P inakeswar M ahanta and M anmohan Pandey‘Eff ect of S cale-up on Heat Transfer Charac teristics of C yclone S eparators of Cir culating F luidised Beds ’, Energy Journal, (RERIC, ISSN 1513-718X)

Ranjit S. P atil, M anmohan P andey and P inakeswar Mahanta‘Eff ect of S cale-up on Heat Transfer Charac teristics in Upper Splash Region of Circulating Fluidised Bed Risers’, International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, ISSN: 1934-8975, USA

Ranjit S. P atil, M anmohan P andey and P inakeswar Mahanta‘Parametric Studies and Eff ect of S cale-up on Wall-to-Bed Heat Transfer Charac teristics of Cir culating Fluidised Bed R isers’, Experimental Thermal and F luid Science, vol. 35 (3), pp 485-495, 2010

Ranjit S. P atil, M anmohan P andey and P inakeswar Mahanta

‘Eff ect of S cale-up of L ower and M iddle Splash Reg ion on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Circulating Fluidized Bed R isers’, Power and Ener gy, (IM echE Journal-par tA, ISSN 0957-6509)

Preety Vatsyayan, Sandip Bor doloi and P ranab Goswami‘Large catalase based bioelec trode f or biosensor application’, Biophysical Chemistr y, vol. 153, pp 36-42, 2010

Urmila Sax ena, M adhuri Das , S eraj Ahmed , L epakshi Barbora, M ala Bor thakur, Anil Verma, Utpal Bora and Pranab Goswami‘Multiwalled C arbon Nanotube -Based Enz yme Electrode f or Total Cholest erol Estimation in Human Serum’, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, vol. 6 (1), pp 84-95, 2010

Lepakshi Barbora, Rupesh Singh, N ivedita Shr oti and Anil Verma‘Synthesis and charac terisation of neodymium o xide modiĀ ed naĀ on membrane for direct alcohol fuel cells’, Materials Chemistry and Ph ysics, vol. 122, pp 211-216, 2010

P. Mazumdar, A. Basu, A. Paul, C. Mahanta and L. Sahoo‘Age and orientation of the c otyledonary leaf explants det ermine the effi ciency of de no vo plant regeneration and Agrobacterium tumefaciensmediated transformation in Jatr opha cur cas L. ’, S outh A frican Journal of Botany, doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2010.01.001, 2010

Gouri Sankar Paul and Pratima Agarwal‘Structural and thermal studies on PbS nanocubes ’, Physica Status Solidi, vol. C7, pp 905, 2010

Gouri Sankar Paul and Pratima Agarwal‘Evolution of nanostruc ture with r eaction time f or ZnS synthesised b y solv othermal pr ocess’, Ph ysica Status Solidi, vol. C7, pp 909, 2010

B. B. Sahoo, U. K. Saha and N. Sahoo‘Theoretical P erformance Limits f or a S yngas–Diesel Fueled C ompression Ig nition Eng ine fr om 2nd La w Analysis’, Energy, vol. 36, pp 760–769, 2011



Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaRanjan and V. S. Moholkar‘Impact of Variable Gluc ose C oncentration on Gr owth Cycle of C. ac etobutylicum’, Proceedings of CHEMC ON 2010, Chidambaram

S. Mahapatra and P. Mahanta‘Performance evaluation and qualit y dr ying in a natural convection wind dr yer’, Proceedings of Second International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies (MIM T 2011), Singapor e, 26-28 February 2011

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha‘Assessment of a syngas-diesel dual fuelled compression ignition eng ine’, P roceedings of F ourth I nternational Conference on Ener gy Sustainabilit y ( ASME 2010), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 17-22 May 2010

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha‘Eff ect of H2:C O ratio in syngas f or a dual fuel diesel engine operation ’, ASME-A TI-UIT 2010 C onference on Thermal and En vironmental Issues in Ener gy Systems, Sorrento, Italy, 16-19 May 2010

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo, and U. K. Saha‘Dual F uel M ode P erformance Studies of a Small Diesel Engine Using Green Fuels’, Second International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies, Singapore, 26-28 February 2011

B. K. Debnath, B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha‘Simulation of combustion and emission characteristics in a dual fuelled diesel eng ine’, ASME 2010 I nternal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference, San Antonio, USA, 12-15 September 2010

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha‘Eff ect of L oad Level on the P erformance of a Biogas–Diesel Dual Fuel Compression Ignition Engine’, National Seminar on Renewable Ener gy Technology: Issues and Prospects, NERIST , I tanagar, I ndia, 24-25 S eptember 2010

Pinakeswar M ahanta, R anjit S. P atil and M anmohan Pandey‘Eff ect of Particle Size and Bed Inventory on Wall-to-Bed

Heat Transfer Characteristics of Circulating Fluidised Bed Risers’, International Association of Eng ineers (IAENG)-World C ongress on Eng ineering 2010, I nternational Conference of M echanical Eng ineering (ICME’10), London, UK, 30th June-2nd July 2010

Swati Khanna, Arun Goyal and V. Moholkar‘n-butanol pr oduction b y immobilised clostridium pasterianum utilising biodiesel deriv ed crude gly cerol as a sole carbon source’, Proceedings of CHEMCON 2010, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, pp 34, December 2010

Hanif A Choudhuri and V. S. Moholkar‘Structure and performance of Iron catalyst for Fischer-troph synthesis and its utilisation t owards model biosyngas’, Proceedings of CHEMCON 2010, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, pp 34, December 2010

B. Buragohain, P. Mahanta, V. S. Moholkar‘Performance C orrelations f or Biomass G asiĀ ers’, CHEMCON 2010, Annamalai Univ ersity, Chidambaram, December 2010

Swati Khanna and Vijayanand S. Moholkar‘Production of n-butanol fr om biodiesel deriv ed crude glycerol using Clostridium past eurianum immobilised on amberlite’, I nternational Conference on Renewable Energy, Jaipur, 16-21 January 2011

Amrita Ranjan and Vijayanand S Moholkar‘Comparative study of various pretreatment techniques for ric e stra w sac chariĀ cation f or the pr oduction of alc oholic biofuels ’, I nternational C onference on Renewable Energy, Jaipur, 16-21 January 2011

Dipti Yadav, Lepakshi Barbora and P. Mahanta‘Characterisation of alt ernate f eedstock f or biogas production’, All I ndia S eminar on New Renewable Energy S ources, Shillong , M eghalaya, 18 S eptember 2010

Dipti Yadav, L epakshi Barbora, Utsa v Guhar oy and P . Mahanta‘Characterisation of t ea wast e and c ooked wast e as a potential feedstock for biogas production’, International Conference on Renewable Energy, Jaipur, 16-21 January 2011



Swapnil J Borah, K austubha M ohanty and Vaibhav V. Goud‘Physico-Chemical Characterisation of Biomass Samples as P rospective Bioener gy S ource f or Nor th-East I ndia’, International Conference on Renewable Energy, Jaipur, 16-21 January 2011

Dipti Yadav and P. Mahanta‘Agro Waste M anagement b y its Utilisation f or Biogas Generation’, I nternational C onference on Climat e Change and Water: Assessing Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptation in the East ern Himalayas, IIT Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

Swapnil Borah, K. Mohanty, Vaibhav V. Goud‘Investigation of physico-chemical properties of biomass samples as pr ospective bioener gy sour ce f or nor th-east I ndia’, Six tieth C anadian Chemical Eng ineering Conference, TCU Plac e, Sask atoon, Sask atchewan, Canada, 24-27 October 2010

Amrita Difusa, Swapnil J. Borah, K. Mohanty and Vaibhav V. Goud‘Use of fossil and renewable energy and their impacts on environment’, Climat e c onference 2011: I nternational Conference on Climate Change and Water, IIT Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

Shuchi Singh, V. S. Moholkar and Arun Goyal‘Screening, isolation and optimisation of culture

conditions of c ellulolytic bac terium (SS10) isolat ed from microbial biodiversity rich A ssam’, Fourth Annual Convention of A ssociation of Biot echnology and Pharmacy, National C onference of Emer ging tr ends in Biopharmac euticals: Relevanc e t o Human Health, Thapar University, Patiala, India, 11-13 November 2010

Madhuri Das and Pranab Goswami‘ModiĀ ed carbon nanotube and naĀ on c omposite as electro-active matrix f or immobilisation of cholest erol oxidase on gold electrode for Bioelectrode Fabrication’, International Conference on C arbon Nanotechnology: Potential and Challenges, IIT K anpur, 15-17 Dec ember 2010

Lepakshi Barbora, P ankaj K alita, Kushal K alita, Sar vesh Agarwal and P. Mahanta‘Fluoride Remo val fr om Drink ing Water Utilising Renewable Energy’, International Conference on Climate Change and Water: Assessing Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptation in the East ern Himalayas, IIT Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

Dipti Yadav, L. Barbora and P. Mahanta‘Characterisation of t ea wast e and c ooked wast e as a pot ential f eed st ock f or biomethanation ’, All I ndia Seminar on New and Renewable Ener gy, I nstitute of Engineers, Shillong, 18 September 2010


Name of Faculty Name of Conf./Workshop Place Date International / National

P. Mahanta

BURD proposal workshop (India-UK networking) as one of the invited participants from India

Birminingham, United Kingdom

29 November – 2 December 2010 International

P. Mahanta IIT London Chapter Conference

London, United Kingdom


P. Mahanta

2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies (MIMT 2011)


Pratima Agarwal

International conference on advances in condensed and nano materials (ICACNM)

Panjab University, Chandigarh




U.K.Saha

2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies


U.K.Saha7th International Conference on Flow Dynamics

Sendai, Japan 1-3 November 2010 International

Pankaj Kalita and Lepakshi Barbora (SO)

Exhibition on Jatropha varieties in North East India

Regional Science Centre, Guwahati

27 November 2010 National



P. Mahanta

‘Biomass GasiĀ cation Technology’ in the workshop on Utilisation of new and renewable energy

Cotton College, Guwahati Guwahati 29 March 2011

Pankaj Kalita (SO)

‘Improved Cooking Stove’ in Capacity Building on Rural Energy Service Delivery for NGO Professionals

Resource Centre for Sustainable Development

Guwahati 13 August 2010

Pankaj Kalita (SO) Energy Effi cienc y, Codes and Ratings in Building

National workshop, BEE

Shillong, Meghalaya

16-17 September 2010

Lepakshi Barbora (SO) New Renewable Energy Sources

All India Seminar, Institute of Engineers

Shillong, Meghalaya

18 September 2010


Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose Date Remarks

6 delegates from 3 universities

University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham and University of Loughborough

Collaboration 9-10 August 2010

Research collaboration in the areas of energy

technology

Prof. S. K. Mazumder IIM Shillong Collaboration 28 January 2011

Collaboration for the

establishment of a sustainability development

park in Shillong



Dr. Lokendra Singh Director, DRDO, Tezpur Research funding 28 March 2011

Presentations and subsequent discussions held for submission of project proposal to DRDO, Tezpur

on blackwater reutilisation and waste

management

SHORT-TERM COURSES

Title Coordinator Sponsor Period

Advances in Biofuel Research Kaustubha Mohanty and Vaibhav V. Goud AICTE 29 November – 3

December 2010


Name of Faculty Name of Sem./Wor./Con. Funded By Date International / National

P. Mahanta

Training on Solar Home Lighting System to 117 participants from various districts of Assam such as Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Kokrajhar

Jointly by Department of

Forests, Assam and Ministry of New and Renewable

Energy, New Delhi

24-27 July 2010 Regional

P. Mahanta

A CCM training was organised at Assam Sisu Sewa Sadan, Guwahati. 2 Nos. of biogas digesters and 1 vermicompost units were constructed through the training

MNRE 13-27 December 2010 Regional

P. Mahanta CCM training in Arunachal Pradesh MNRE 7-16 October

2010 Regional

P. Mahanta CCM training in Meghalaya MNRE 11-21 November 2010 Regional

INVITED LECTURES


Prof. Kunal Ghosh Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Power Control cum Storm Security Device for Savonius

Wind Turbines

21 September 2010

Dr. Jayanta Bishwa Sarma

Renowned physician from Assam serving in the United Kingdom

Translational Research and the R&D Institutions in India

4 November 2010

Mr. Anand Tembe and Mr. Shirish Potnis SATARA Steel Vertical axis wind turbine and

its potential22 December

2010

Prof. Swapan Kumar Mazumder IIM Shillong Framework for Green

Management28 January

2011



Mr. Biswajit RaySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Organic Solar Cell: Modelling, Optimization and Reliability

10 January 2011

Dr. Jayanta Bishwa Sarma

Renowned physician from Assam serving in the United Kingdom

Cariograms- Map according to the subject of interest

4 February 2011

AWARDS AND HONOURSProf. P . M ahanta, selec ted f or the a ward of I ndia Distinguished Visiting F ellowship at Univ ersity of Nottingham, Unit ed K ingdom, f or the period fr om 30 May – 10 July 2010.

Mr. P ankaj K alita, S cientiĀ c Offi cer, selec ted f or the award of I ndia Distinguished Visiting F ellowship at University of Nottingham, Unit ed K ingdom, f or thr ee months (11 April – 10 July 2010).

Prof. P. M ahanta, selec ted f or att ending the I ndo-UK Innovation F orum, Or ganised b y IIT L ondon Chapt er and Nesta during 8-10 September 2010.

Dr. Gouri Shankar Paul, selected for Post Doctoral Fellow at Korea University, South Korea for the period of t wo years.

Mr. Ranjit Patil, selected for Post Doctoral Fellow at Enea Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy for the period of one year.

Mr. Hanif Choudhur y, PhD scholar , has been selec ted for National Renewable Ener gy Fellowship 2010-2011, awarded by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

Ms. Lepakshi Barbora, Mr. Pankaj Kalita, Mr. Kushal Kalita, Mr. Sarvesh Agarwal and Prof. P. Mahanta received best poster award for the post er entitled ‘Fluoride Removal from Drink ing Water Utilising Renewable Ener gy’ in the I nternational C onference on Climat e Change and Water: Assessing Vulnerability, Impact and A daptation in the Eastern Himalayas, Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011.

FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE P. AgarwalPhysics

U. BoraBiotechnology

A. DalalMechanical Engineering

P. GoswamiBiotechnology

V.V. GoudChemical Engineering

A. GoyalBiotechnology

S. GummaChemical Engineering

K. KalitaMechanical Engineering

P. Mahanta (Head of the Centre)Mechanical Engineering

S.C. MishraMechanical Engineering

K. MohantyChemical Engineering

V.S. MoholkarChemical Engineering

P. MuthukumarMechanical Engineering

H.B. NemadeElectronics and Electrical Engineering

U.K. SahaMechanical Engineering

L. SahooBiotechnology

N. SahooMechanical Engineering

C. SomayajiMechanical Engineering

A. VermaChemical Engineering



CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

INTRODUCTIONSince the Earth Summit in June 1992 in R io de Janeiro, Brazil, a global c onsensus has been r eached in addressing the pressing environmental problems facing us and pr eparing the w orld for the challenges waiting ahead. Great emphasis has been placed on the need for all sections of society to participate in working towards sustainable dev elopment – dev elopment that meets the needs of the pr esent without c ompromising the ability of futur e generations t o meet their o wn needs. Therefore, every action at local lev el is equally vital f or the continued economical and social dev elopment of the world without detriment t o the en vironment and natural resources. IIT Guwahati has visualised an ac tive role for itself in dealing with new directions and concerns emerging from the mitigatory eff orts of environmental problems of the da y. In order to give a concrete shape to this visualisation, IIT Guwahati established this full-fl edged Centre for the Environment in May 2004. The main objec tives of the C entre ar e t o pr omote interdisciplinary research and dev elopment, to impar t postgraduate education, t o cr eate public a wareness, to provide consultancy in challenging area and to train manpower f or mitigating emer ging en vironmental problems.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESThe C entre has star ted the int erdisciplinary r esearch programme from the academic year 2005-2006 leading to PhD deg ree with admission of 4 PhD students (2 full-time and 2 par t-time). 20 facult y members acr oss various depar tments of the I nstitute ar e in volved in providing guidanc e. The br oad ar eas identiĀ ed for conducting interdisciplinary research are: Air pollution-Dispersion, C ontrol and M odelling; Water and Wastewater Treatment; S olid Waste

Management and Rec ycling; Waste I mmobilization; Soil-water-contaminant I nteraction; En vironmental Bioremediation/ Environmental Biotechnology;

Biosorption and Bior emediation of hea vy metals; BioĀ ltration f or tr eating Waste G ases and Gr een Solvents; Remo val of Toxic and Recalcitrant Compounds; Biodeg radation/Bio-detoxiĀ cation of Toxic Wastes; Environmental Genomics and Proteomics; Contaminant Transport and Ret ention in P orous Media; Green Chemistr y; Optimization; En vironmental History; En vironmental Ec onomics; Gr een Desig n; Electrochemical Remediation for Water and Wastewater Treatment, Global Warming and Climate Modelling; GHG Capture and St orage, En vironmental Biot echnology, Nano-biotechnology.

The C entre is curr ently aspiring t o initiat e an MS (b y research) int erdisciplinary post -graduate pr ogramme in c ontemporary and emer ging ar eas such as Sustainable Development or Earth System Science and Engineering.

FACULTY STRENGTHThe following faculty members expressed their interest to be associated with the activities of the Centre:

Prof. Chandan Mahanta, Department of Civil Engineering – Head of the Centre.

In order to carry out the activities of the Centre – such as planning and setting up of laborat ories, preparation of indents for procurement of equipments , development of curriculum for postgraduate programme of studies to be off ered by the Centre, etc., a committee comprising the f ollowing facult y members dra wn fr om diff erent departments was established:



Head of the Centre ChairmanDr. K. Pakshirajan, Biotechnology Member Dr. Pallab Ghosh, Chemical Engineering MemberDr. B. K. Patel, Chemistry MemberDr. P. G. Yammiyavar, Design MemberDr. M. K. Dutta, HSS MemberDr. D. C. Dalal, Mathematics MemberDr. S. K. Kakaty, Mechanical Engineering Member MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

The C entre has pr ocured and installed the f ollowing major equipment/facilities during the r eporting

period: Kjeldahl Nitrogen Analyser Rocker platform De-humidiĀ er A 12.3 megapix el Digital camera was pr ocured for

documentation and experiment recording purpose

Following facilities are completed/ developed Development is in pr ogress at the I-block , new

premise of the Centre Analytical tables ha ve been installed in the new

premises at the I block. Store room has been fully developed



Agency



Utpal Bora

Establishment of Institutional Biotech Hub by DBT under special programme for N.E states of India

DBT, GOI 26 lakhsR. Tamuli,Chandan Mahanta

3 years



Agency



Gopal Das

Synthesis, Characterisation of Metal Oxides and Their Application to Wastewater Treatment

CSIR Rs. 16,88,880/- - 3 years

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONSJournalsS. Pandian, S. Gokhale and A. K. Ghoshal‘An open-terrain line source model coupled with street-canyon eff ects t o f orecast carbon mono xide at traffi c roundabout’, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 409 (6), pp 1145-1153, 2011

J. Nath, L. Jamir and B. K. Patel‘Improved pr ocedure f or the pr eparation of isothiocyanates via iodine -mediated desulfurisation of dithiocarbamic acid salts’, Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, vol. 4 (1), pp 1-34, 2011

J. Nath and M. K. Chaudhuri‘Borax: An Ec ofriendly and Effi cient C atalyst f or One -Pot S ynthesis of 3,4- Dih ydropyrimidine- 2(1H)- ones underS olvent- F ree C onditions’, S ynthetic Communications, vol. 40 (20), pp 2976-2982, 2010

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan, P. K.Ghosh‘Medium dev elopment f or enhancing the biodegradation of 4- chlorophenol b y Ar throbacter chlorophenolicus A6’ . I nternational Biodet erioration and Biodegradation, vol. 64, pp 474-480, 2011



K. Pakshirajan, A. Sivasankar and N. K. Sahoo’Decolourisation of synthetic wast ewater c ontaining azo dyes by immobilized Phanerochaete chrysosporium in a c ontinuously operat ed RBC r eactor’, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2906-7, 2011

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan, P. K. Ghosh and A. Ghosh‘Biodegradation of 4- chlorophenol b y Ar throbacter chlorophenolicus A6: Eff ect of cultur e c onditions and degradation k inetics’, Biodegradation, vol. 22, pp 275-286, 2011

A. Ghosh, K. Pakshirajan, P. K. Ghosh and N. K. Sahoo‘Perchlorate deg radation b y an indigenous micr obial consortium predominantly Burkholderia sp.’, Journal of Hazardous Matterials, vol. 187, pp 133-139, 2011

J. Anandkumar and B. Mandal‘Adsorption of Chr omium ( VI) and R hodamine B b y Surface M odiĀ ed Tannery Waste: K inetic, M echanistic and Thermodynamic Studies ’, Journal of Hazar dous Materials, vol. 186, pp 1088-1096, 2011

B. P. Sahariah and S. Chakraborty‘Kinetic analysis of phenol , thiocyanate and ammonia-nitrogen r emovals in an anaer obic- ano xic-aerobic moving bed bior eactor sy stem’, Journal Hazar dous Materials, doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.03.038, 2011

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaAditi Banerjee and Aloke K. Ghoshal‘Biodegradation of Phenol b y Isolat ed Bacillus C ereus Immobilised in Alg inate’, AIChE Annual M eeting 2010, Salt Lake City, UT (Oral Presentation)

Aditi Banerjee and Aloke K. Ghoshal‘Biodegradation of ReĀ nery Wastewater b y F ree and Immobilised Bacillus C ereus’ AIChE Annual M eeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010 (Oral Presentation)

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan and P. K. Ghosh‘Biodegradation of p -bromophenol using C a-alginate immobilised Ar throbacter chlor ophenolicus A6 gel beads (P oster)’, I nternational C onference on Climat e Change and Water, I ndian institut e of Technology Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan and P. K. Ghosh‘Batch biodeg radation of para-Br omophenol b y Arthrobacter chlor ophenolicus A6’ , I nternational Conference on Genomics S ciences (P oster). VII Convention of BRSI, Depar tment of Biot echnology, Madurai K amraj Univ ersity, M adurai, 12-14 No vember 2010

N. K. Sahoo, K. Pakshirajan and P. K. Ghosh‘Kinetics of growth and biodegradation of p-nitrophenol and p-chlorophenol by Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6 ( Oral)’, N inth I nternational C onference on H ydro-Science and Eng ineering, Depar tment of Oc ean Engineering, I ndian institut e of Technology M adras, Chennai, 2-5 August 2010

J. Anandkumar and B. Mandal‘Eff ect of diff erent chemical tr eatments on the adsorption of str ontium fr om synthetic wast ewater’, International C onference on Sustainable Water Resource M anagement and Treatment Technologies (Water 2011- NEERI) , Nagpur, 19-21 January 2011

J. Anandkumar and B. Mandal‘Removal mechanism of Cr( VI) and R hodamine B fr om aqueous solution using HCl treated adsorbent’, The Indian Chemical Eng ineering C ongress ( CHEMCON-2010), Annamalainagar, 27-29 December 2010

Sushant Singh, Anil Verma and Vikash K. Dubey‘Oxidative stress analysis in germinated Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) seeds under C opper ions ’, I nternational Conference on Frontiers in Biological Sciences (InCoFIBS- 2010), NIT Rourkela, Rourkela, Orissa, 1-3 October 2010

Sushant Singh, Anil Verma and Vikash K. Dubey‘Eff ects of incr easing Aluminium metal str ess in germinating chick pea ( Cicer arietinum) seeds ’, International C onference on Climat e Change and Water: Assessing vulnerability, impact, and adaptation in the East ern H imalayas, Depar tment of Humanities and S ocial S ciences, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati , A ssam, 3-5 January 2011

B. P. Sahariah and S. Chakraborty‘Performance of Ano xic F ed Bat ch BioĀ lm Reactor Treating Synthetic Wastewater Containing Thiocyanate,



Nitrate-N and Ammonia-N with varied infl uent phenol’, International Conference on Sustainable Water Resource Management and Treatment Technologies(Water-2011), National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, 19-21 January 2011

B. P. Sahariah and S. Chakraborty‘Eff ect of nitrat e-N on the per formance of ano xic fed bat ch r eactor tr eating synthetic wast ewater containing phenol , thioc yanate and ammonia-N’ , The Indian Chemical Eng ineering C ongress ( CHEMCON 2010), Annamalai Univ ersity, Annamalainagar , 27-29 December 2010

Banasri Sarma and A. K. Sarma‘Management P ractices (EMP s) f or manag ing ex cess sediment and water yield from hilly urban watersheds’, The I nternational C onference on C ommunity Based Water-Resource M anagement in Nor theast I ndia: Lessons fr om a Global C ontext, PFI F oundation, Guwahati, 28-30 January 2011

B. Sarma, A. K. Sarma and C. Mahanta‘GIS Based I nventory of the R ivers of Nor theastern Region of India for their Conservation and Management’, Proceedings of the N inth I nternational Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering (ICHE 2010), IIT Madras, Chennai, I ndia, pp 655-664, 2-5 A ugust 2010 ISBN no: 978-93-80689-01-02

B. Sarma, A. K. Sarma and C Mahanta‘Geographic Information System for River Water Quality Monitoring’, P roceedings of the S eminar On Clean Water For Healthy World, 25th Water resource Day, The Institute of Eng ineers (I ndia), A ssam Stat e C entre, pp 35-40, 26 May 2010

Nayanmoni Gogoi, Chandan Mahanta and Utpal Bora‘Evaluation of F loodplain Charac teristics of Brahmaputra R iver f or Sustainable Dev elopment and Best M anagement P ractices’, I nternational C onference on Climate Change and Water: Assessing vulnerability, impact and adaptation in the East ern H imalayas, Department of Humanities and S ocial S ciences, IIT Guwahati, 3-5 January 2011

Nayanmoni Gogoi, Shamim Rahman and Utpal Bora‘Biodiversity of the G anga R iver’, I nternational

Conference on Biodiv ersity and Climat e Change , CORAL, IIT K haragpur, 21-23 Dec ember 2010 (P oster presentation)

R. L. Deka and C. Mahanta‘Trends in the rainfall patt ern o ver Nor th East I ndia’, National S eminar on Climat e Change and Sustainable Development, Tezpur Univ ersity, Tezpur, A ssam, 1-3 April 2010

R. L. Deka, C. Mahanta and M. K. Dutta‘An assessment of monsoon rainfall variabilit y and rice production in A ssam’, National S eminar on Climat e Change and Sustainable Dev elopment, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, 1-3 April 2010

R. L. Deka, C. Mahanta, L. Saikia, H. Pathak and S. Das’Long-term annual and seasonal rainfall tr ends in the Brahmaputra and Barak basins of A ssam’, National Symposium, TROPMET 2010 ‘Advances in Weather and Climate Services’, Kolkata, 19-21 May 2010 R. L. Deka and C. Mahanta‘Climate Change Impact and Agricultural Systems in the Brahmaputra F lood Plains ’, I nternational C onference on Seeking Sustainable S olutions to the Brahmaputra: Challenges and Opportunities, Guwahati, Assam, 18-19 December 2010 R. L. Deka, L. Saikia and C. Mahanta‘Observed Climate Variability in the Brahmaputra Valley: Implications t o Water S ecurity and F ood S ecurity’, International C onference on Climat e Change and Water: Assessing impac t, vulnerabilit y and adaptation in the East ern H imalayan r egion, I ndian I nstitute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, 3-5 January 2011

Deepmoni Dek a, Saprativ P . Das , M. Ja wed, and Arun Goyal‘Cellulase pr oduction under solid stat e cultur e b y an isolated fungus using ag ro-waste for bioconversion to ethanol’, National C onference on Emer ging Trends in Biopharmaceuticals: Relevanc e t o Human Health and 4th Annual Convention of Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy, Thapar University, India, 11-13 November 2010




Name Name of Inst./Univ./Org. Purpose Date Remarks

Prof. Lidia Szpyrkowicz

Embassy of Italy in New Delhi

Research collaboration 10 May 2010

Inter departmental meeting was held for wide collaboration

Mr. Santonu Goswami University of Texas, El Paso, USA

Talk on Advancing our understanding

of climate change in the Arctic

23 August 2010

Interaction with scholars followed

Mr. K. J. Joy

Founder Director of Society for Promotion of Participatory Ecosystem Management, Pune

Talk on Participatory Approach to Ecosystem

Management for Resolution of Confl ict around

Natural Resources

26 August 2010

Further brieĀ ng on water confl ict

resolution

Mr. Daniel Monello Paris School of Engineering, France

Talk on Seeking Solutions to Some

Urban Water Degradation Issues

and Problem of Drinking Water in

Assam

28 September 2010

Mr. Monello also worked at the

Centre as Summer Intern for three

months

Prof. Kelley Alley Auburn University, USA

Talk on Trans-boundary water management in

the Brahmaputra- Ganga- Meghna

System

7 October 2010

A book was presented to the

Centre by this author

Prof. V. Subramanian Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Talk on Climate Change: How real is

the threat?

25 November 2010

Student interaction took place on the

emerging topic and related issues

Dr. Pernille Gooch Lund University, SwedenTalk on Risk, Society and Environmental

Discourse17 March 2011

Discussion on the ongoing joint

collaborative project Being

carried out with Dr. Anamika Barua of

HSS Dept.

Dr. Sudip Mitra Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

IITG-DBT Biotech Hub Invited

Lecture Series, which is being

organised as part of the Institutional

Biotech Hub (DBT Sponsored)

activities

17 March 2011 Part of the Biotech Hub project

Dr. Utpal Das

Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego

IITG-DBT Biotech Hub Invited Lecture Series

31 March 2011 DBT Biotech Hub project initiative




Name of Faculty Name of the Seminar Funded By Date International/ National

Arupjyoti Saikia (Dept. of HSS)

Understanding Conservation: Perspectives from Manas and Kaziranga National Parks, Assam (In collaboration with the Department of HSS)

Oxfam 4-5 September 2010 National

FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE

S. ChakrabortyCivil Engineering

M.K. ChaudhuriChemistry

D.C. DalalMathematics

G. DasChemistry

V.V. DasuBiotechnology

M.K. DuttaHumanities and Social Sciences

P.K. GhoshCivil Engineering

A.K. GhoshalChemical Engineering

S. GokhaleCivil Engineering

A. GoyalBiotechnology

S.K. KakotyMechanical Engineering

C. Mahanta (Head of the Centre)Civil Engineering

B.P. MandalChemical Engineering

K. PakshirajanBiotechnology

B.K. PatelChemistry

M.K. PurkaitChemical Engineering

A.K. SarmaCivil Engineering

P.G. YammiyavarDesign



CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTIONA sig niĀ cant pr ogress in r esearch and dev elopment has been achiev ed at the C entre f or Nanot echnology in 2010-2011. Four new int erdisciplinary projects have been sanc tioned fr om various ex tramural funding agencies. Three pr ojects w ere sanc tioned b y the DST and one fr om the DRL. A major pr oject fr om DST t o develop infrastructure for fabrication facilit y has been quite unique at IIT Guwahati. All the pr ojects ha ve already been implemented successfully at the Centre.

The basic laborat ory facilities f or diff erent ar eas of nanotechnology have been further extended. This year quite a number of equipment ha ve been pr ocured namely, -20 0 deep fr eezer, aut oclave, micr oprocessor controlled -86 0 ultra lo w deep fr eezer, horiz ontal laminar hood and Class-A S olar Simulat or and PEC VD Chamber, 3GH z H igh Resolution F requency C ounter, XRD accessories, COMSOL Multiphysics Class Kit License. Further, a new nano and microfl uidics laboratory facility has been set up at the g round fl oor of the C entre t o implement a new project.

Sophisticated instruments installed at the C entre f or Nanotechnology or at the C entral equipment facilit y (CIF) ha ve been a g reat suppor t f or the students working in diff erent areas at IIT Guwahati. The existing facilities a vailable at the C entre ar e also shar ed b y other members of various Depar tments, C entres and academic institutions of the Nor theast I ndia. Manpower dev elopment has been another ar ea of progress, which was achiev ed b y hiring junior and senior research fellow under the pr oject category. Two students of the C entre ha ve alr eady been a warded PhD degree in the early 2011. The PhD programme in Nanotechnology is c ontinuing with 10 students and

two project staff s. Collaboration with the Departments of Biot echnology, Chemistr y, Ph ysics, Elec tronics and Electrical Eng ineering, M echanical Eng ineering and Chemical Eng ineering ar e being carried out at the Centre. Further, students of the C entre and academic departments have taken up an open elective course on Nanobiosciences fl oated from the Centre. A few BTech students have carried out their BTP work at the Centre.

Students’ forum “Corral” and Re-talk are quite fruitful at the Centre. Such forum gives platform to the students to develop communication and presentation skills. Faculty members, staff and students associated with the Centre delivered lectures at several conferences and symposia. Overall, the C entre has witnessed sig niĀ cant growth in various aspec ts of academic and r esearch ac tivities during the previous year.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESIn the academic year 2010-2011, the centre has off ered the following courses:Course Name: Nanobiosciences (NT-701); Instructor: Dr. S. S. Ghosh.

STUDENT INTAKEPhD students enrolled in 2010-2011 : 5

FACULTY STRENGTHFour facult y members fr om the Depar tments of Chemistry, Physics, Biotechnology, and Electronics and Electrical Eng ineering ar e associat ed with the C entre since its inc eption. I n addition, ther e ar e additional six facult y members who ar e ac tively collaborating at the C entre thr ough int erdisciplinary pr ojects. S o, all together, t en facult y members ar e ac tively in volved now in the Centre for Nanotechnology.



MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESThe following equipment ar e installed and running in the Centre:Scanning P robe M icroscope (P roject); H igh Qualit y Water P uriĀ er; X -ray diff raction ( XRD) M easurement System; C OMSOL Multi-Ph ysics S oftware; P recision Balance; P article Siz e distribution Analyz er; UV -VIS Spectrophotometer; Planetar y Ball mill; Ultrasonic Cleaning Bath; Dig ital C amera; L CD P rojector; Deep Freezer; Hot air O ven; Hot plat e with M agnetic Stirrer; De-ionizer; Vacuum C oating Unit (both Thermal Evaporation and Elec tron Beam Deposition); H igh Temperature Furnace; Turbo Molecular Pump; RF Power Supply & M atching Net work; Transmission Elec tron Microscope (TEM); 50 MHz Digital-Analog Oscilloscope; 20 MH z F unctional Generat or; Triple Output DC power Supply ; L ock-in AmpliĀ er; Electromagnet; Trinocular micr oscope; A utoclave; Elec trophoresis System; UV-Transilluminator; Horizontal Laminar Hood; Refrigerated C entrifuge; M icro-Centrifuge; pH-M eter; Micropipette; I ncubator; I ncubator Shaker ; Rota vapor; Vacuum Pumps; A common laboratory has established with C omputers, Laser P rinters and S canner; R apid

thermal pr ocessing unit; Plasma enhanc ed chemical vapor deposition sy stem f or nanomat erials g rowth; Fluorescence A ctivated C ell sor ter (P roject); Realtime PCR machine (Project).

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIESResearch to develop nanoscale materials for therapeutic implications is being persuaded at the C entre. Also , new projects on ‘Development of Nanoscale M aterials for Bac teria Removal from Sur face Water’, ‘Design and Development and F abrication of OLED Or ganic S olar club and or ganic TFTs based on M olecular P olymeric and c omposite mat erials’, ‘A c ombined experimental and theoretical study on the instabilit y and patterning of thin liquid cr ystal Ā lms’ and ‘Fabrication and Characterization of Or ganic thin Ā lm transist or’ ar e being implemented with fund fr om DRL and DST . The Centre, r epresented b y the advisor y c ommittee and other associated faculty members, is fostering research growth in the ar eas of submicr on-scale lithog raphy, hydrogel systems, carbon nanotubes , sur face acoustic wave (SA W) based devic es, mag netic sy stems and nanobiotechnology.



Agency



A. Chattopadhyay

Development of Nanoscale Materials for Bacteria Removal from Surface Water

DRL 9.98 S.S. Ghosh 2 Years

P. K. Iyer

Design and Development and Fabrication of OLED Organic Solar club and organic TFTs based on Molecular Polymeric and composite materials

DST 523M. Qureshi, D. K. Goswami, A. Srinivasan

5 Years

D. Bandyopadhyay

A combined experimental and theoretical study on the instability and patterning of thin liquid crystal Ā lms

DST 9.6 - 3 Years

D.K. Goswami

Fabrication and Characterisation of Organic thin Ā lm transistor

DST 34.6 - 2 Years





Agency



S. S. Ghosh Nanoscale materials with therapeutic implications DBT 102.62

A. Chattopdhyay,

A. Ramesh, B. Bose

3 Years

A. Chattopadhyay

Novel Nanoscale Materials: Generation, Characterisation, and Device Applications

DST -

A number of faculty members

from various departments

5 Years



Agency



A. Chattopadhyay

Newer Chemical and Physical Methods of Engineering Devices with Nanoscale Functional Components

DST 92 - 5 Years

A. Chattopdhyay

Engineering Nanoscale Materials and their Applications in nanotechnology

DST 2,02 - -

A. Khan

Development of Stimuli Sensitive Nanogels/Nanoparticles for Controlled Release System

DST 10 - -

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONSInternational Journals

Krishna K anti Dey, Biswa R anjan Panda, Anumita P aul, Saurabh Basu and Arun Chattopadhyay‘Catalytic Gold Nanopar ticle Driv en pH SpeciĀ c Chemical Locomotion’, J. Colloid Interface Sci., vol. 348 (2), pp 335 – 341, 2010

Prasanta J . Goutam, Dilip K . Singh, P . K . Giri and Parameswar K. Iyer‘Enhancing the Phot o Stabilit y of P oly-(3-Hexylthiophene) b y P reparing C omposites with Multiwalled C arbon Nanotubes ’, J .Phy.Chem.B, 2011 (DOI: 10.1021/jp109900m)

Dilip K. Singh, Parameswar .K. Iyer, and P. K. Giri‘Diameter dependent oxidative stability of multiwalled carbon nanotubes: Role of defects and eff ect of vacuum annealing’, J.Appl. Phys., vol. 108, pp 084313, 2010

Dilip K. Singh, Parameswar .K. Iyer, and P. K. Giri‘Diameter dependent spec tral f eatures in X -ray diff raction & R aman scattering of multi-walled carbon nanotubes: Interlayer interactions and curvature eff ects’, Diamond and Related Materials, vol. 19, pp 1281, 2010

P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Induction of apopt osis in canc er c ells at lo w silv er nanoparticle concentrations using chitosan nanocarrier’, ACS Applied M aterials & I nterfaces, vol. 3 (2), pp 218-228, 2011



S. Das, A. K. Sahoo, S. S. Ghosh and A. Chattopadhyay‘Plasmonic signatures in the composite crystals of gold nanoparticles and p-Hydroxyacetanilide (Paracetamol)’, Langmuir, vol. 26 (20), pp 15714–15717, 2010

A. Jaiswal, P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Investigating fl uorescence quenching of ZnS quantum dots by silver nanoparticles’, Plasmonics, vol. 6, pp 125–132, 2011

P. Sanpui, S. B . P andey, A. Chatt opadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Incorporation of gene therap y v ector in Chit osan stabilized Mn2+-doped ZnS Quantum’, Material Letters, vol. 64 (22), pp 2534-2537, 2010

V. K. Yata and S. S. Ghosh‘Synthesis and charac terisation of a no vel chit osan based E. c oli c ytosine deaminase nanoc omposite f or potential application in pr odrug enz yme therap y’, Biotechnology Letters, vol. 33 (1), pp 153-157, 2011

V. K. Yata, K. Sen, M. V. S. Kumar and S. S. Ghosh‘Interaction studies of E. c oli uracil phosphoribosyltransferase with 5-fl uorouracil for potent anticancer activity’, Medicinal Chemistry Research, DOI 10.1007/s00044-011-9627-z, 2011

P. Gopinath, S. K . Gogoi, P . Sanpui, A. P aul, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S. Ghosh‘Signaling gene cascade in silv er nanoparticle induced apoptosis’, Colloids and Sur faces B: Bioint erfaces, vol. 77, pp 240-245, 2010

J. Deka, A. Paul and A. Chattopadhyay‘Estimating c onformation c ontent of a pr otein using citrate-stabilized A u nanopar ticles’, Nanoscale , v ol. 2, pp 1405-1412, 2010

A. Murugadoss, A. Khan and A. Chattopadhyay‘Stabilizer speciĀ c int eraction of gold nanopar ticles with a thermosensitive polymer hydrogel’, J. Nanopart. Res., vol. 12, pp 1331-1348, 2010

Conference/Workshop/Seminar/SymposiaJaiswal, P. Sanpui, A. Chattopadhyay and S. S.Ghosh‘Eff ect of silv er nanopar ticles on the fl uorescence property of ZnS quantum dots ’, Third I nternational Symposium on M aterials Chemistr y, Bhabha A tomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India, 7-11 December 2010

S. S. Ghosh‘Silver nanocomposites as antimicrobial and anticancer agents’, S econd I nternational C onference on Natural Polymers and Biomat erials (ICNP – 2010) , Kotta yam, India, 24-26 September 2010

V. K. Yata and S. S. Ghosh‘Evaluation of Chitosan based nanocomposite-mediated enzyme and gene delivery systems to introduce prodrug activating enzymes into cancer cells’, Fifth International Conference on Bioeng ineering and Nanot echnology (ICBN-2010), Biopolis, Singapore, 1-4 August 2010

P. Das and O. K. Medhi‘Spectroscopic and elec trochemical beha viour of Copper(II) phenolate complexes of S chiff base ligands used as models of G alactose Oxidase in aqueous surfactant mic ellar sy stems’, National S eminar on Membranes, M icroemulsions and S elf-Assembled Systems (MMSAS-2010), Sik kim M anipal I nstitute of Technology Majitar, Rangpo, Sikkim, 28-30 S eptember 2010



S. S. Ghosh

Second International Conference on Natural Polymers and Biomaterials (ICNP-2010)

Kottayam, Kerala24-26

September 2010

International

S. S. Ghosh Frontiers in Chemical Science (FICS-2010) Guwahati 3-4 December

2010 National

A. Chattopadhyay International Conference on Forensic Nanotechnology

Gandhinagar, Gujarat

25-26 March 2011 International

A. ChattopadhyaySustainability: Issues and Challenges for the Developing world

North East Centre for Research and Development, Guwahati

9 March 2011 National



A. Chattopadhyay DST SERC School on Nanobiotechnology IISc. Bangalore 22 January

2011 National

A. Chattopadhyay Advances in Nanomaterials (ANM2010)

Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata


A. Chattopadhyay Molecules, Supramolecules and Materials IIT Kanpur 1-3 October

2010 National

A. Chattopadhyay

3rd Asia PaciĀ c Symposium on Radiation Chemistry and 10th Biennial Trombay Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry

BARC, Mumbai14-17

September 2010

International

A. Chattopadhyay

Indo-French Seminar on Soft Interfaces: Self-organisation, Functionalities and Applications

ESPCI, Paris, France 7-9 July 2010 International



S. S. GhoshSilver Nanocomposites as Antimicrobial and Anticancer Agents

Institute of Macromolecular Science and Engineering (IMSE)

Kerala 25 September 2010

S. S. Ghosh Nanoscale materials as potential therapeutic agents IIT Guwahati Guwahati 3 December

2010

INVITED LECTURES


Dr. B. L. V. Prasad National Chemical Laboratory, Pune - 7 January 2011 AWARDS AND HONOURSMr. K rishna K anti Dey was selec ted by Depar tment of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, to participate in the 2nd I nternational Youth I nnovation Forum ‘Interra 2010’ in Novosibirsk, Russia (September 2010).Mr. K rishna K anti Dey was selec ted by Depar tment of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, to participate in the 60th Nobel Laureate and Students’ Meet at Lindau, Germany (June-July 2010). FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE B. BoseBiotechnology

D. BandopadhyayChemical Engineering

A. ChattopadhyayChemistry

S.S. Ghosh (Head of the Centre)Biotechnology

P.K. GiriPhysics

D. GoswamiPhysics

P. K. IyerChemistry

H.B. NemadeElectronics and Communication Engineering

A. SenMechanical Engineering



CENTRAL LIBRARY

The C entral Librar y, one of the impor tant c entral facilities of IIT Guwahati, c ontinued t o g row in t erms of its r esources, facilities and ser vices t o meet the requirements of the I nstitute’s wide rang ing academic and research programmes.

Following r esources ha ve been added t o the C entral Library during the reporting period:

Resources12,611 selec ted v olumes of books and back -volumes in various Ā elds of scienc e, eng ineering, t echnology, social scienc es and other r elated ar eas w ere ac quired during the F inancial Year 2010-2011 at the c ost of Rs . 275 lak h. I n addition, f ew online back v olumes and several e -books in Biomedical and Lif e S cience and ‘Lecture Notes in Computer Science Archives’ were also procured during this period.

During the F inancial Year 2010-2011, 355 f oreign journals, 86 I ndian journals and ASTM Standar ds and Digital Librar y were subscribed at the t otal cost of Rs . 273.93 Lakhs. The total strength of Institute subscribed online content collection strength has reached beyond 9,795.

All the documents added to the library were technically processed and the data were added and updated in the computerized databases t o facilitat e their optimum use. Total 152 theses w ere added in t o the c ollection and number of non-books c ollection has r eached t o 5388 items during this Ā nancial year. 1841 sets of loose issues of periodicals w ere pr ocessed f or binding . The total collection strength of the Library by the end of this Financial Year stands as 1,30,583.

ServicesAutomated Cir culation S ystem c ontinued t o pr ovide a much needed r elief t o both users and the staff , particularly t o c ope-up with the hea vy rush at the circulation c ounter. Reminders , r ecalls, statistical data generation, r eservations and other quer y r esponses became easy and prompt.

The library continued to facilitate its users with online access to various elec tronic resources and the C urrent Periodicals wherever on-line versions were available to the library along with the print subscriptions.



CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTIONThe Centre for Educational Technology is a central facility of the Institute to assist Teaching-Learning Process. The Centre is primarily c oncentrating on dev elopment of infrastructure f or Technology Enhanc ed L earning. A t present, the operational objec tive is t o set-up studio/laboratories for video and web courses. The Centre has sophisticated video r ecording and analy sis equipment and macro media sof tware. The centre also has video conferencing system.

The C entre has been in volved in one of the national level major pr ojects along with other IIT s and IIS c under MHRD , Go vernment of I ndia, namely National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The C entre has suc cessfully c ompleted the Phase I of NPTEL. Under this project a total of 16 web courses and 5 video c ourses were developed. The video c ourses in the pr ogramme c omprises of appr oximately 40 one -hour lectures for each course and the web supplements contain suffi cient mat erials that a t eacher can c over in approximately 40 lecture-hours. The contents are based on the model curriculum suggested by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the syllabi of major affi liating Univ ersities such as Anna Univ ersity ( Tamil Nadu), Ja waharlal Nehru Technological Univ ersity (Andhra P radesh) and Visvesvaraya Technological University (K arnataka). Phsae -II of the pr oject has commenced in the y ear 2009. I n Phase-II IIT Guwahati will be developing 28 numbers of video courses and 66 numbers of web courses.

The video c ourses ar e uploaded in YOUTUBE (http://www.youtube.com/iit) and ar e also submitt ed f or transmitting through GYANDARSHAN-III called Eklavya channel. The w eb c ourses and video c ourses ar e developed in or der to provide students ex tra learning material over the net.

The Centre also c oordinates the Qualit y Improvement Programme ( QIP). Qualit y I mprovement P rogramme (QIP) of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Education, Go vernment of India, under the sponsorship of All I ndia C ouncil f or Technical Education, New Delhi, has been in operation at the IIT Guwahati sinc e 2003-2004. Qualit y I mprovement Programme is being implemented with the objective of upgrading the exper tise, qualiĀ cation and capabilities of the facult y members of deg ree lev el t echnical institutions. The major activities under the QIP include: 1) M asters and Doc toral P rogramme, 2) Shor t Term Programme, and 3) Curriculum Development.

The C entre is w orking on some new pr ojects like i) Virtual Lab, ii) Development of an Indian Sign Language Recognition S ystem f or Hearing I mpaired students of India under the National Mission for Education through ICT , iii) Dev eloping suitable P edagogical Methods for Various classes, Intellectual Calibers and e-learning and iv) Creating Digital Learning Environment for Design in India

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES2 Nos. of Video Conferencing system with 2 Nos. of 55” LG TV5 Nos. of Mac Pro, 3 Nos. of Power Mac G5 2 Nos. of Sony DSR 390 DV CAM C amera, 2 Nos. of LCD Projector, 2 Nos. of DV CAM Recorder, 2 Nos. of DV CAM Player, 2 Nos . of S ony Audio Mixer SRP – V110, 1 No. of Sony Editing Control Unit, 2 Nos . of Sony Switcher DFS 700A, 2 Nos. of Sony DME Switcher DFS 700AP, 2 Nos. of Camera Control Unit3 Nos. of Philips colour Television4 Nos. of Tablet PC, 1 No. of Notebook PC, 3 Nos. of Tower Model Acer Server (Altos G710), 1 Interactive Electronic Whiteboard, 1PLASMA TV



1 No. of NI P XI-8108 Core2 Duo 2.56GH z Controller, 1 No. of Rotational Vibrometer, NI EL VIS II, NI P XI-2529 High Densit y (8 b y 16) M atrix, ABBE Refrac tometer under Virtual Lab ProjectWorkstations (H igh-end sy stems f or image/video

processing), Data/C yber Glo ves, HD C ameras, O ther Equipment for Computer Animation and Applications related t o vir tual r ealities under the P roject ‘Development of an Indian Sign Language Recognition System f or Hearing I mpaired students of I ndia’ under the National Mission for Education through ICT etc.

RESEARCH PROJECTSa) New Sponsored Projects


Agency



R.M. Punekar (Design)

Creating Digital Learning Environment for Design in India

MHRD 50

Keyur Sorathia (Design), Avinash Shende (Design), Rohini Mukashi Punekar (HSS)

2.5 years



Agency



S. Talukdar (CE) NPTEL II and NPTEL III MHRD 893 -2007 June

– June 2012

Ratnajit Bhattacharjee (EEE) Virtual Lab MHRD 576 - 2 years

Manas Kamal Bhuyan (EEE)

Development of an Indian Sign Language Recognition System for Hearing Impaired students of India under the National Mission for Education through ICT

MHRD 130 P.K. Bora (EEE) 3 years

J.K. Deka (CSE)

Developing suitable Pedagogical Methods for Various classes, Intellectual Calibers & e-learning (Pilot Phase)

MHRD 6 -

July 2009 to 31

March 2011



Agency



A. Dewan (ME), S. Nandi (CSE), R. Tiwari (ME)

NPTEL Phase I MHRD 138 A. Singh (CE) 3 years



INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY


Prof. M. Ananth, Director, IIT Madras On Phase-II of NPTEL IIT Guwahati IIT Guwahati 22 November

2010

SHORT-TERM COURSESFourteen numbers of Short Term Courses were held under QIP in the year 2010-2011 as given below:

Name of Course Date Department/Centre Coordinator

Recent Advancement of Intelligent Materials and its Applications

14-18 December 2010


Dibakar Bandopadhya and D. Chakrabarty

Developing tools for Biomedical Applications

20-24 September 2010

Mechanical Engineering and

Chemistry

S. Kanagaraj and G. Krishnamoorthy

Smart Materials and Devices: Preparation, Characterisation and Applications

9-13 August 2010 Physics S. Ravi and D. Pal

Seismic Design of Building and Bridges 29 November - 3 December 2010 Civil Engineering Arunasis Chakraborty and

Kaustubh Dasgupta

Construction Management and Infrastructure Development

17-21 January 2011 Civil Engineering L. Boeing Singh and B.

Pradhan

Road Maintenance and Safety 11-15 October 2010 Civil Engineering Akhilesh Kumar Maurya

and Rajan Choudhary

ScientiĀ c Computing in Chemical Engineering

6-10 December 2010


P. Balasubramaniam and S. K. Majumder

Multimedia Communication 20-26 October 2010

Computer Science and Engineering

Sukumar Nandi and Arijit Sur

Ergonomics and Technology Applications

25-29 October 2010 Design Sougata Karmakar and

Debkumar Chakraborty

Advances in Biofuel Research 29 November – 3 December 2010

Centre for Energy and Dept.

of Chemical Engineering

Kaustubha Mohanty and Vaibhav V. Goud

Analytical and Numerical Solutions of Diff erential Equations

6-10 December 2010 Mathematics S. Natesan

VLSI Architectures for Image and Video Processing Systems

14-18 February 2011


S.R. Ahamed

Science Technology and Society 13-17 December 2010

Humanities and Social Sciences Sambit Mallik and Liza Das

Rotors Supported on Hydrodynamic bearings

6-10 December 2010

Mechanical Engineering S. K. Kakoty

FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRE

S. Talukdar (Head of the Centre, and Coordinator, QIP)Civil Engineering



CENTRAL INSTRUMENTS FACILITY

INTRODUCTIONThe Central Instruments Facility (CIF) was set up at IIT Guwahati in the month of M ay 2004. The c oncept of CIF ev olved ar ound the need f or locating expensiv e equipment r equired b y the facult y of multiple departments/centres f or carr ying out their r esearch in a c entral plac e. The needs of the other r esearchers working under various univ ersities, research institutes, and industries situat ed in the nor theastern r egion of I ndia w ere also c onsidered while f ormulating the CIF. The CIF ac commodates sophisticat ed analytical instruments, which cat er to the cutting- edge research in many areas of modern science and technology. These equipment ar e of int er/multidisciplinary utilit y and thus off er sc ope f or their optimum utilisation. A t this budding stage the CIF houses equipment like , Nuclear Magnetic Resonanc e (NMR) Spec trometer (400 MH z), Scanning Elec tron M icroscope (SEM), C onfocal Laser Scan Microscope (CLSM), Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectrometer, Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Liquid Chr omatography M ass Spec trometer (L C MS/MS), Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), etc. Phase wise induction of more number of highly sophisticated equipment t o meet the demand on advanc ed R&D work at IIT Guwahati is under active consideration.

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESNuclear M agnetic Resonanc e Spec trometer (NMR), Varian 400MHz FTNMRScanning Electron Microscope (SEM), LEO 1430 vp.Electron Spin Resonanc e Spectrometer (ESR), Jeol JES-FA200Confocal Laser S can Microscope (CLSM), Zeiss LSM510 Meta200KV Transmission Elec tron M icroscope ( TEM), JEOL JEM 2100Vibrating Sample M agnetometer ( VSM), Lakeshor e 7410

Liquid Chr omatography M ass Spec trometer (L C/MS-MS), Waters Q-Tof Premier and Aquity UPLCMagnetic P roperty M easurement S ystem (MP MS), Quantum Design MPMSXLPico-second Time–resolved Steady State Luminescence spectrometer, Edinburgh Instruments FSP920Laser Micro-Raman System, Horiba Jobin Vyon LabRam HRAtomic F orce M icroscope/Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Agilent 5500

Equipment Installed in 2010-2011:Helium LiqueĀ er, Quantum Desig n LHEP 18: P rice Rs . 1.36 crore approx. Field Emission S canning Elec tron M icroscope, Z eiss SIGMA: Price Rs. 1.4 crore approx. Diff erential S canning Calorimeter/Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer, Netzsch STA 449F3 Jupiter: Price Rs. 0.63crore approx.

Equipment P urchased in 2010-2011 and to be installed in 2011:Spectroscopic Ellipsometer, SOPRA LAB GESSE: Price Rs. 0.87crore approx.Physical P roperty M easurement S ystem, Quantum Design PPMS-9: Price Rs. 1.77crore approx.Nano I ndentor, CE TR UNM T-1: P rice Rs . 0.94cr ore approx.

SPECIAL MENTIONAn amount equal t o Rupees eight y thousand has been collected as char ges of ex ternal samples f or the reporting year.

FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTREA.K. Saikia (Head of the Centre)Chemistry



CENTRE FOR MASS MEDIA COMMUNICATION

INTRODUCTIONMass media usually are thought of as sources of news and entertainment. They also carry messages of persuasion. Important, though of ten o verlooked, is ho w mass messages bind people int o c ommunities, ev en int o nations. United Nations study based on the data on the number of t elevision and radio sets ar ound the globe and these data seg regated int o w estern democracies and dev eloping c ountries sho ws a dir ect c orrelation between media use, education and prosperity.

Centre for Mass Media Communication (CMMC) of the Institute was star ted in M ay 2004 with an objec tive to achiev e some of the abo ve mentioned out comes. Presently the C entre has stat e-of-the-art pr e-press, off set pr ess and post-pr ess facilities . I n addition to training students of the Depar tment of Desig n regarding various aspects of print media design, it caters to various in-house desig n and printing r equirements of IIT Guwahati. Vision f or the C entre is t o ha ve an

integrated facilit y including other elements of mass media like electronic and photographic media.

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESHeidelberg off set printing machine , M odel: Speed Master SM -74 bi- colour, maximum print siz e 530x740 mmHeidelberg polar cutting machine, Model: 92 EHeidelberg scanner, Model: Nexscan F 4100Heidelberg imagesetter, Model: Primesetter 74IBM server XSeries 225Power operated Stitching MachinePower operat ed title cr easing cum M icro P erforation MachinePaper Folding Machine F4PSPaper Jogging Machine

FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTREA.K. Das (Head of the Centre)Design



COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE

INTRODUCTIONThe C omputer and C ommunication C entre of IIT Guwahati holds r esponsibilities f or c omputing and telecommunication needs of the institut e. The centre maintains the major par t of all c omputing r esource pool in the institute.

The in-house and cust omized sof tware r equired for various needs of the institut e is desig ned in the Centre. O ther than ser ving the c omputing needs of IIT Guwahati ’s student c ommunity, the c entre also conducts summer training f or ex ternal students and provides c omputing assistanc e t o various academic institutes of north-eastern region of India.

The centre takes up -to-date and adequat e preventive measures against possible cyber-attacks, which ensures a secure computing environment for IITG community. Computer C entre facilitat es the student c ommunity, faculty members and staff members t o keep a lar ge portion of their data in the storage pool of the centre.

To meet the needs of the fast evolving computing world, the C entre upg rades its existing r esources at r egular basis. The lab facilities of Computer and Communication Centre ar e ac cessed b y authoriz ed users f or 18 hours per day. On a vailability, this facilit y is also ex tended to the students of other institutes.

The C omputer and C ommunication C entre pr ovides and maintains the PCs of the faculty and staff members of the I nstitute. I n addition t o dir ect suppor t, the Computer and Communication Centre frequently hosts write-ups (HOW-TOs, FAQs etc.) in its I ntranet website. The Centre maintains online E-Notice board, web-based Complain Management and Information System, etc.

Computer and C ommunication C entre is r esponsible for the followings:

Providing Email ser vice and I nternet c onnectivity to the institute Catering t o the general purpose as w ell as high

computational need of the users Maintenance of the campus network Hosting and maintenance of Institute’s web pages Providing EPABX services Maintaining computational security Building in-house software for the institute

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIESThe major purchases in the last Ā nancial year are:

Up-gradation of Internet BandwidthThe C omputer and C ommunication C entre had upgraded the int ernet leased line of M/s Bhar ti Air tel from 10 Mbps to 27 Mbps.

The centre is now equipped with the following Internet bandwidths:1. A 27 Mbps Internet bandwidth from M/s Bharti Airtel2. A 100 Mbps Internet bandwidth from NKN project3. A 45 Mbps Internet bandwidth from M/s BSNL4. An 8 Mbps Internet bandwidth from ERNET India

Computer Network EnhancementThe C omputer and C ommunication C entre had completed the g round w ork t o upg rade the existing network backbone to 10 Gigabit capacities. New orders for Managed Layer 3 net work switches have also been placed.

The c entre has ex tended the IIT G ADSL Br oadband network facility to A and B t ype residential quarters of IIT Guwahati campus. The network and voice facility, Wi-Fi connectivity has been extended to some new offi c es premises and buildings.



Servers and PCsThe Computer and Communication Centre is equipped with a number of high- end servers from IBM, HP, Dell, Sun etc. The diverse speciĀ cations of these ser vers are required f or the ser vices pr ovided b y the C omputer Centre t o meet the c omputational demands of entir e IITG community.

To up -grade the existing email ser vers, w eb ser vices, centralized authentication systems, proxy servers of the institute, the C omputer C entre had pr ocured t wenty two HP ser vers, a c entralized st orage and a backup system in the Ā nancial year 2010-2011.

The centre has integrated a hardware based anti-spam and anti-virus Ā lter of the make Barracuda with its email solution. Computer Centre has been providing life time email services to all IITG alumni with collaboration with M/s Microsoft. This service has been upgraded to MAv3 from M Av2, which pr ovides sev eral new additional features.

Computer Centre has two clusters. The Ā rst one is a high availability clust er meant f or r egular pr ogramming, whereas, the sec ond one is a H igh P erformance Computing (HPC) cluster, which is int egrated with the nation-wide Garuda Grid.

To ensure faster development and up-gradation of the institute’s web solution, C ontent Management System (CMS) has been implemented. Within a short time span, this system is likely to be extended to all users.

138 deskt op c omputers and 15 lapt ops had been purchased/upgraded in the Ā nancial y ear. These PCs and laptops will be used in the lab and other plac es of the institute. Now, the lab of the centre is having around 240 PCs of c onĀ gurations like 4/2/1 GB RAM, c ore-i3/dual/tri core processors etc.

Four new depar tment ser vers/clusters had been installed in the depar tmental server room provided by the Centre.

Renewal of MoU/LicensesMicrosoft Volume Lic ense f or all languages Lic enses/SA pack , M cAfee antivirus Lic ense, M oU bet ween IITG and CDAC for Garuda Grid computing facility has been renewed in the Ā nancial year.

Expansion of existing EPABX systemWith the expansion of the campus , the C omputer Centre has incr eased the capabilit y of the existing EPABX system. Around 75 new users ar e added t o the existing system. One PRI int erface has been added t o the EPABX system.

ONGOING SPONSORED PROGRAMMESNational Knowledge Network (NKN) ProjectOur I nstitute is an ac tive par tner of the National Knowledge Net work (NKN). P resently, w e ha ve been connected to 1Gbps connectivity for video conferencing, virtual classrooms and high-speed int ernet services. A fully equipped stat e-of-the-art Virtual Classr oom has been c onstructed under this pr oject. This classr oom enhances us to present our lectures to others as well as to get lectures from others. An approximate amount of rupees 48 Lak hs has been spent f or the pr oject in the Ā nancial year 2010-2011.

ERNET Point of PresenceIIT Guwahati, a Level-3 PoP (Point-of-Presence) for ERNET India in the whole of Nor th-Eastern I ndia is entrust ed with the task of net working the academic institutions of the r egion and pr ovide t echnical assistanc e wher e required. C urrently, sev en educational and r esearch institutes ha ve taken I nternet c onnectivity fr om the ERNET PoP.

The ERNET node is connected from VECC Kolkata using a 2 Mbps MPLS back bone. The PoP has taken I nternet Leased Line of 20 Mbps from M/s Tata Communications to cater to the need of its users . Currently two System Engineers have been exclusively assigned to look after the aff airs of IIT G ERNE T P oP. An amount of rupees 5.9 Lak hs has been sanc tioned f or the pr oject in the Ā nancial year 2010-2011.

WORKSHOP ATTENDEDMr. J. K. Ghosh, SO-II, attended a meeting cum workshop on ‘Virtual Classroom setup at diff erent IITs’, held at NIC headquarters, New Delhi.

Mr. Iqbal Inam, SO-II, attended a meeting entitled ‘Fifth GARUDA par tners M eet’, held in Bangalor e, organised by CDAC.

FACULTY MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTRED. Goswami (Head of the Centre)Computer Science and Engineering



PART III

APPENDICES

Faculty

OĀ cers and Scientifi c Staff (Group A)

Degree Awardees

Progress in Construction Works

Details of Research and Development Projects

Summary of Institute Accounts





Appendix–I

FACULTY

Name Designa tion Department

Ahammad, Z. Asst. Professor Biotechnology (up to 02.06.10)Baskaran, A. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyBora, U. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologyBose, B. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyChaturvedi, R. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologyChaudhary, N. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyDas, D. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyDasu, V. V. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologyDubey, V. K. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologyGhosh, S. S. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologyGhosh, Z. Asst. Professor Biotechnology (up to 29.10.10)Goswami, P. Professor BiotechnologyGoyal, A. Professor BiotechnologyJaganathan, B. G. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyLimaye, A. M. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyPakshirajan, K. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologyPatra, S. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyRamesh, A. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologyRangan, L. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologySahu, L. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologySaini, G. K. Assoc. Professor BiotechnologySwaminathan, R. Professor BiotechnologyTamuli, R. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyTrivedi, V. Asst. Professor BiotechnologyBalasubramanian, P. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringBandyopadhyay, D. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringBanerjee, T. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringDas, C. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringDe, M. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringGhosh, P. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringGhoshal, A. K. Professor Chemical EngineeringGolder, A. K. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringGoud, V. V. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringGumma, S. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringKumar, A. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringMahapatra, A. D. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringMajumder, S. K. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringMandal, B. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringMandal, T. K. Asst. Professor Chemical Engineering




Mohanty, K. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringMoholkar, V. S. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringPugazhenthi, G. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringPurkait, M. K. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringSaha, P. K. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringSingh, A. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringUpadhyay, R. K. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringUppaluri, R. G. V. S. Assoc. Professor Chemical EngineeringVerma, A. Asst. Professor Chemical EngineeringBag, S. S. Asst. Professor ChemistryBaruah, J. B. Professor ChemistryChattopadhyay, A. Professor ChemistryChaudhuri, M. K. Professor ChemistryDas, G. Assoc. Professor ChemistryGupta, A. K. Assoc. Professor ChemistryIyer, P. K. Assoc. Professor ChemistryKhan, A. T. Professor ChemistryKrishnamoorthy, G. Assoc. Professor ChemistryKundu, L. M. Asst. Professor ChemistryMandal, B. Asst. Professor ChemistryManivannan, V. Assoc. Professor ChemistryManna, D. Asst. Professor ChemistryMondal, B. Assoc. Professor ChemistryPanda, A. N. Asst. Professor ChemistryPatel, B. K. Professor ChemistryPaul, A. Assoc. Professor ChemistryPaul, S. Asst. Professor ChemistryPunniyamurthy, T. Professor ChemistryQureshi, M. Asst. Professor ChemistryRamamoorthy, B. S. Asst. Professor Chemistry (up to 07.12.10)Ray, M. Professor ChemistrySaikia, A. K. Professor ChemistrySarma, M. Asst. Professor ChemistrySastri, C. V. Asst. Professor ChemistryBarua, G. Assoc. Professor Civil EngineeringBhattacharjya, R. K. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringChakraborty, A. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringChakraborty, S. Assoc. Professor Civil EngineeringChoudhury, R. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringDasgupta, K. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringDash, S. K. Assoc. Professor Civil EngineeringDeb, S. K. Professor Civil EngineeringDutta, A. Professor Civil EngineeringDutta, S. Assoc. Professor Civil EngineeringGhosh, P. K. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringGokhale, S. B. Assoc. Professor Civil EngineeringJawed, M. Professor Civil EngineeringKalamdhad, A. Asst. Professor Civil Engineering




Kartha, S. A. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringKaushik, H. B. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringKumar, B. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringMahanta, C. Professor Civil EngineeringMallikarjuna, C. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringMaurya, A. K. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringMishra, A. K. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringMurali Krishna, A. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringPekkat, S. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringPradhan, B. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringRay, S. Asst. Professor Civil Engineering (up to 04.08.10)Ryntathiang, T. L. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringSachan, A. Asst. Professor Civil Engineering (up to 08.12.10)Sarma, A. K. Professor Civil EngineeringSekharan, S. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringSingh, A. K. Assoc. Professor Civil EngineeringSingh, B. Assoc. Professor Civil EngineeringSingh, K. D. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringSingh, L. B. Asst. Professor Civil EngineeringTalukdar, S. Professor Civil EngineeringAnand, A. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringAwekar, A. C. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringBarua, G. Professor & Director Computer Science & EngineeringBhaduri, P. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringBhattacharya, S. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringBiswas, S. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringDas, P. K. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringDeka, J. K. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringGoswami, D. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringInkulu, R. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringKapoor, H. K. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringKarmakar, S. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringKenkireth, B. G. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringMitra, P. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringNair, S. B. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringNandi, S. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringRao, S. V. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringSahu, A. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringSajith, G. Assoc. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringSaradhi, V. V. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringSingh, S. R. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringSreenivasan, K. Visiting Professor Computer Science & EngineeringSur, A. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringVenkatesh, T. Asst. Professor Computer Science & EngineeringBarua, U. Assoc. Professor DesignChakrabarti, D. Professor DesignDas, A. K. Professor DesignDharmalingam, U. K. Asst. Professor Design




Iqbal, S. Asst. Professor DesignKarmakara, S. Asst. Professor DesignMadhukaillya, M. Asst. Professor DesignMajhi, M. Asst. Professor DesignPunekar, R. M. Professor DesignShende, A. Asst. Professor DesignSorathia, K. B. Asst. Professor DesignYammiyavar, P. G. Professor DesignAhamed, S. R. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringBhattacharjee, R. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringBhuyan, M. K. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringBora, P. K. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringBose, S. K. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringChouhan, S. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringDandapat, S. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringDeb, D. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringGogoi, A. K. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringJacob, T. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringKar, I. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringKarthik, K. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringKumar, P. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringMaganlal, F. D. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringMahanta, A. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringMahanta, C. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringMajhi, S. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringMishra, A. K. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical Engineering (up to 05.03.11)Mitra, A. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringNemade, H. B. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringPalathinkal, R. P. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringPrasanna, S. R. M. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringRajesh, A. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringSahambi, J. S. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringSahu, P. R. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringSethi, A. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringSingh, K. R. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringSinha, R. Assoc. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringTripathy, P. Asst. Professor Electronics & Electrical EngineeringAhmed, A. N. S. Visiting Professor Humanities and Social SciencesBarua, A. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesBarua, A. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesBarua, K. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesBedamatta, R. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesBorbora, S. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesDas, D. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesDas, L. Assoc. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesDutta, M. K. Assoc. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesKashyap, N. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesMahanta, S. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social Sciences




Mallick, S. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesPunekar, R. M. Assoc. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesRay, S. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesSaikia, A. Assoc. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesSharma, S. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesSom, B. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesTripathi, N. Assoc. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesVenkataraman, P. Asst. Professor Humanities and Social SciencesAlam, R. Professor MathematicsBalaji, R. Asst. Professor Mathematics (up to 30.11.10)Bandyopadhyay, S. Asst. Professor MathematicsBhattacharjya, B. Asst. Professor MathematicsBora, S. Asst. Professor MathematicsBora, S. N. Assoc. Professor MathematicsChakrabarty, A. K. Asst. Professor MathematicsChakrabarty, S. P. Asst. Professor MathematicsDalal, D. C. Professor MathematicsDey, A. K. Asst. Professor MathematicsKalita, J. C. Assoc. Professor MathematicsKapoor, K. Asst. Professor MathematicsKrishna, K. V. Asst. Professor MathematicsMandal, P. S. Asst. Professor MathematicsPalaparthi, A. S. S. K. Asst. Professor MathematicsPati, S. Assoc. Professor MathematicsPrasad, M. G. P. Assoc. Professor MathematicsRajan, M. P. Assoc. Professor Mathematics (up to 30.07.10)Ramesh, H. Asst. Professor MathematicsSaikia, A. Asst. Professor MathematicsSarma, B. K. Professor MathematicsSelvaraju, N. Assoc. Professor MathematicsSinha, R. K. Professor MathematicsSrikanth, K. V. Asst. Professor MathematicsSrinivasan, N. Assoc. Professor MathematicsSwain, J. Asst. Professor MathematicsWagh, V. V. Asst. Professor MathematicsBandopadhya, D. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringBanerjee, A. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringBiswas, P. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringChakraborty, D. Professor Mechanical EngineeringDalal, A. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringDas, A. K. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringDass, A. K. Professor Mechanical EngineeringDe, A. K. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringDixit, U. S. Professor Mechanical EngineeringDwivedy, S. K. Professor Mechanical EngineeringGroll, M. Visiting Professor Mechanical Engineering (up to 03.04.10)Joshi, S. N. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringKakoty, S. K. Professor Mechanical Engineering




Kalita, K. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringKanagaraj, S. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringKore, S. D. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringKrishna Murthy, K. S. R. Assoc. Professor Mechanical EngineeringKulkarni, V. N. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringMahanta, P. Professor Mechanical EngineeringMishra, S. C. Professor Mechanical EngineeringMuthukumar, P. Assoc. Professor Mechanical EngineeringNarayanan, R. G. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringNatarajan, G. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringPal, S. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringPanda, S. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringPandey, M. Assoc. Professor Mechanical EngineeringRobi, P. S. Professor Mechanical EngineeringSaha, U. K. Assoc. Professor Mechanical EngineeringSahasrabudhe, A. D. Professor Mechanical EngineeringSahoo, N. Assoc. Professor Mechanical EngineeringSen, A. K. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringSenthilvelan, S. Assoc. Professor Mechanical EngineeringSomayaji, C. Asst. Professor Mechanical EngineeringTiwari, R. Professor Mechanical EngineeringAgarwal, P. Assoc. Professor PhysicsAlagarsamy, P. Assoc. Professor PhysicsBasu, S. Assoc. Professor PhysicsBhuyan, B. Asst. Professor PhysicsBoruah, B. R. Asst. Professor PhysicsDas, S. Asst. Professor PhysicsDey, T. N. Asst. Professor PhysicsGhosh, S. Assoc. Professor PhysicsGiri, P. K. Assoc. Professor PhysicsGoswami, D. K. Asst. Professor PhysicsKadolkar, C. Y. Assoc. Professor PhysicsKhare,A. P rofessor PhysicsKhijwania, S. K. Assoc. Professor PhysicsNandy, M. K. Assoc. Professor PhysicsPadmanabhan, P. K. Asst. Professor PhysicsPal, D. Asst. Professor PhysicsPamu, D. Asst. Professor PhysicsPoulose, P. Asst. Professor PhysicsRavi, S. Professor PhysicsSantra, S. B. Assoc. Professor PhysicsSarma, A. K. Asst. Professor PhysicsSetlur, G. S. Assoc. Professor PhysicsSharma, A. K. Asst. Professor PhysicsSil, A. Asst. Professor PhysicsSrinivasan, A. Professor PhysicsVajpeyi, A. P. Asst. Professor Physics



Appendix–II

OFFICERS AND SCIENTIFIC STAFF (GROUP A)

Offi c ers (Group A)

Name Designa tion Dept./Section

Raychoudhury, B. N. Registrar Registrar’s OĀ ceBarua, S. K. Deputy Registrar AcademicDas, U. C. Deputy Registrar Administration (on deputation)Goswami, D. J. Deputy Registrar AdministrationBhuyan, K. Assistant Registrar External RelationsBorgohain, P. Assistant Registrar Faculty Aff airsBoro, D. Assistant Registrar AdministrationChoudhury, S. Assistant Registrar AcademicDas, G. Assistant Registrar Engineering SectionDeka, S. Assistant Registrar Research and DevelopmentHaokip, T. T. Assistant Registrar Stores and PurchaseHazarika, P. Assistant Registrar Finance and AccountsKonwar, L. K. Assistant Registrar Public RelationsSharma, D. Assistant Registrar Students Aff airsShyam Kumar, L. Assistant Registrar EstablishmentBaishya, P. Exe. Engineer (Civil) Engineering SectionGoswami, A. Exe. Engineer (Elect.) Engineering SectionSingh, T. J. Exe. Engineer (Civil) Engineering SectionBhagawati, D. Asst. Exe. Eng. (Elect.) Engineering SectionRoy, N. Asst. Exe. Eng. (Civil) Engineering SectionSaibaba, B. Deputy Librarian Central LibraryGuha, T. K. Assistant Librarian Central LibraryRajbangshi, R. Kr. Assistant Librarian Central LibraryBorthakur, M. Sr. Medical OĀ c er MedicalBarua, L. Medical OĀ c er MedicalBaruah, A. Kr. Medical OĀ c er MedicalGogoi, L. C. Sr. Security OĀ c er Security



Scientifi c Staff (Group A)

Name Designa tion Department/Centre

Kalita, R. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Chemical EngineeringDas, B. Scientifi c OĀ c er Gr. II ChemistryBorsaikia, A. C. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Civil EngineeringKumar, P. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Civil EngineeringSaikia, J. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Civil EngineeringBorah, B. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer Science and EngineeringKachari, N. A. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer Science and EngineeringDas, M. P. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Electronics and Electrical EngineeringDas, S. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. I Electronics and Electrical EngineeringS., Josephine Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Electronics and Electrical EngineeringSharma, L. N. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. I Electronics and Electrical EngineeringPaul, P. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Mechanical EngineeringSaikia, R. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Mechanical EngineeringSarma, D. K. Asst. Workshop Supdt. Mechanical EngineeringSarma, S. Scientifi c OĀ c er Gr. II PhysicsBorgohain, C. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Central Instruments FacilitySenapati, K. K. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Central Instruments FacilityBarbora, L. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Centre for EnergyKalita, P. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Centre for EnergyDeka, D. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Centre for the EnvironmentNath, J. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Centre for the EnvironmentBorah, M. M. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer and Communication CentreChakrabartty, R. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer and Communication CentreDas, S. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer and Communication CentreDutta, P. K. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. I Computer and Communication CentreGhosh, J. K. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer and Communication CentreInam, I. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer and Communication CentreIslam, J. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer and Communication CentreSaikia, G. K. Scientifi c OĀ cer Gr. II Computer and Communication CentreAcharyya, K. Scientifi c OĀ c er Gr. II NanotechnologyDas, P. Scientifi c OĀ c er Gr. II Nanotechnology



Appendix–III

DEGREE AWARDEES

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of B Tech degree in C omputer S cience and Engineering

Roll No Name06010101 Abhijeet Kumar06010102 Abhimanyu Kumar06010103 Abhishek Anand06010104 Abhishek Kumar06010105 Allenki Ranjith Kumar06010106 Amit Ludgar Bhengra06010107 Ankit Lekhra06010108 Ankur Basumatary06010109 Anurag Verma06010110 Ashish Thakur06010111 Ashutosh Dwivedi06010112 P. Bhavani Shankar06010113 Bonela Dileep06010114 Chinthala Shivakumar Reddy06010116 G H Srikanth06010117 G M Rohith Reddy06010118 Ganesh Kumar Tsavatapalli06010119 Gaurav Gupta06010120 Gautam Sewani06010122 Gunjan Aggarwal06010123 Gyanendra Singh Baiswar06010124 Harish Reddy Mallu06010125 Harpreet Singh06010126 Jasmeet Singh Jaggi06010128 Joormana Brahma06010129 Kunal Galav06010130 Madhusudhan M06010131 Manchem Sandeep06010132 Mittapally Varun Vihari06010134 Neeraj Kumar06010135 Nitin Kumar Gupta06010136 Om Prakash Meena06010138 Praveen Kanakala06010139 Puneet Jindal06010140 Purva Goyal06010141 Raj Kamal Kumar06010143 Ravula Anirudh06010144 S Tara Sasank06010145 Sanakini Srikar

06010146 Satyajeet Kumar06010147 Siddharth Jain06010148 Siddharth Prakash Singh06010149 Somdutt Sharma06010150 Srinadh Babu N06010151 Vaibhaw Chandrakar06010152 Venkata Ravikiran Sastry P06010153 Anurag Kumar Nilesh06010154 Mukund R06010155 Nipun Sehrawat06010156 Sanjay Ahuja06010157 Swagatika Prusty05010124 Rakesh Kumar05010129 R. Vishali Reddy05010142 Sunil Kumar Meena05010146 V. Raghavender Reddy04010108 Arjun Kumar04010144 Udit Singh

List of students who ha ve fulfi lled the r equirements for the a ward of B Tech deg ree in Elec tronics and Communication Engineering

Roll No Name06010201 Abhishek Jain06010202 Akshay Kumar06010203 Amit Kumar06010205 Anil Kumar06010206 Ankur Gandhe06010207 Anshul Batwara06010208 Arpit Gupta06010209 Atul Kumar Sancheti06010212 Divay Manhas06010213 Dobbidi Ashok Kumar06010217 Jitendra Verma06010218 K Sankara Sastry06010219 Karan Sikka06010220 Karandeep Singh Chawla06010222 Madhukiran Korrapaty06010223 Mahendra Kumar Meena06010224 Manish Kumar06010227 Nitesh Sinha06010228 Pankaj Kumar Singh06010229 Prince Kumar



06010230 Pukhraj Meena06010231 Rajnish Kumar06010233 Ram Krishna06010234 Ravi Arvind Gupta06010237 Sarabjot Singh06010239 Saurabh Chaurdia06010240 Shashank Goel06010241 Shyam Agarwal06010242 Siddhartha Trivedi06010243 T Sujit Reddy06010244 Tanuj Kumar Lodhi06010245 Vamsi Krishna Ithapu06010247 Vishal Bhola06010248 Vivek Kumar Pandey06010249 Amit Goyal06010250 Anandram S06010251 Ankit Singh06010252 Dilip Bethanabhotla06010253 Ramnik Singh Malhi06010254 Rohit Kumar Gupta06010255 Shantanu Raghav06010256 Sourish Dev Mandal05010219 Hridesh Kumar Shrotriya05010232 Sai Ravi Kiran C05010235 Shrawan Kumar04010205 Amit Sharma

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering

Roll No Name06010301 Abhishek Kumar06010302 Adarsh Bikash Saikia06010303 Ajay Malik06010304 Akashdeep Singh Virk06010305 Akhilesh Kumar06010307 Amit Kumar Baloda06010310 Arun Kumar Nirala06010312 Bhanu Pratap Singh Rana06010315 Chandrakant Tandon06010316 D V Phani Chandra Sekhar Y06010317 Debendra Bahadur Singh Dharua06010318 Deepak Shilpi06010319 Govind Mohan06010320 Grandhi Pradeep Kumar06010321 Guthana Sairam06010322 K Prashanth Chauhan06010324 Mahaveer Prasad Agarwal06010327 Naveen Kumar Baswal06010328 Navneet Tyagi06010329 Nished Singhal06010330 Nitin Kishore06010331 Pankaj Kumar Sangwan06010332 Prabha Shankar

06010333 Pradeep Sagwal06010334 Pratik Sachan06010335 Raghuvardhan Reddy Suram06010336 Rakesh Kumar06010337 Rohit Koolwal06010338 Rohit Singhal06010339 S Satya Kalyan06010341 Saurabh Mundeja06010342 Shalabh Malhotra06010343 Sheshank Verma06010344 Shivakumar S06010345 Shyam Kishor Sharma06010346 Siddharth Bhatpahari06010347 Siddharth Mehta06010348 Siddhartha Kambala06010349 Sirugudi Yasaswi06010350 Suman Kumar06010351 Suresh R 06010352 Sushant Kumar06010356 Naga Venkat Adurthi06010357 Prarthana Majumdar06010358 Prateek Sachdeva06010359 Peehoo Dewan06010360 Piyush Anand06010361 Tushar Lila05010330 Pankaj Singh05010335 Rahul Jain05010337 Rahul Kumar Verma05010342 Sameer Pandey04010328 N Bharath Reddy

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of BTech degree in Civil Engineering

Roll No Name06010401 Aayush Thakur06010404 Ajit Choudhary06010405 Akshay Singh06010407 Ankit Bhatla06010408 Ankit Garg06010409 Anurag Upadhyay06010410 Anuran Gayali06010411 Ashish Kumar Singh06010412 Ashwani Kumar Singh06010413 Bharath Velishala06010414 Bulbule Trupti Deepak06010415 C Kranthi C Reddy06010416 Chandu Namewar06010417 Chetan Phani Parchuri06010418 Dinesh Rekulapally06010419 Gandhi Deep Dilip Chetna06010420 Gaurav Kumar Jha06010421 Hemant Kumar Bhaskar06010422 Junnuri Karthik



06010423 K Goutham Abhilash06010424 Kamal Kumar06010425 Karthik Malladi06010426 Kezhiyur Alben Jose06010429 Mayank Jain06010430 Md Kashif Ahsan06010431 N S Shiva Prasad06010432 Naba Kumar Medhi06010435 Partha Sarkar06010436 Prabal Pratap Singh06010437 Prabhas Ranjan Gupta06010438 Prabhat Agrawal06010440 Rahul Kumar Verma06010441 Ram Randhir Kumar06010442 Ram Shanker06010444 Rupesh Kumar06010445 Salil Sharma06010446 Shobhanand Anil Kumar06010447 Shrey Sultania06010449 Sujeet Kumar Modi06010450 Sunil Kumar06010452 Varun Agarwal06010453 Y Nishanth Babu04010419 Nidhi Gupta

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of BTech degree in Biotechnology

Roll No Name06010603 Abhinav Shukla06010604 Aditya M06010605 Anuj Kumar06010607 Arvind Sharma06010608 Chamarthi Hareesh06010609 Deepak Kumar Suman06010610 Digvijay Singh06010611 Gayatri Rao Tadinada06010612 K Akshay06010613 K Bala Gurudutta Saamrat06010614 K V Nitin06010615 Koride Sarita06010616 M S Sudarsan06010617 Manuj Mundra06010619 Nikhil Yadav06010620 P Bhargavi06010623 Peeyush Kumar Singh06010624 S Krishna Bindu06010625 Sabitoj Singh Virk06010626 Saumitra Karmakar06010628 Shilpi Harish06010629 Siddharth Gupta06010630 Sudhanshu Shekhar06010631 Sushil Kumar Shakyawar06010632 Tejesh Eati

06010633 Vikas Gupta06010634 Vikash Sisodia06010635 Vipin Ranga06010636 Titiksha Dikshit05010614 Mohit Chauhan

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of BTech degree in Chemical Engineering

Roll No Name06010701 Abhinav Sharma06010702 Abhinov Kumar06010703 Abhishek Kumar06010704 Abhishek Mishra06010705 Aditya Prakash06010706 Ajay Saini06010707 Amit Kumar Singh06010709 Anshul Jain06010711 Bhagawat Rawat06010712 Chandan Kumar06010713 Deepak Kumar06010714 Gaurav06010715 Himank Khulbe06010716 Krishna Kumar06010717 Lalan Kumar06010719 Manish Kumar Jain06010720 Manoj Kumar Singh06010721 Mohd Akhtar06010722 Murakonda Venkata Kishore Kumar06010723 Nalla Mysura Reddy06010725 Pankaj Kumar06010727 Piyush Mittal06010730 Rahul Verma06010735 Shivdeep Gaagat06010736 Siddharth Gaur06010738 Sri Charan Yarlagadda06010739 Suryapratap Singh06010741 Vaibhav Agarwal06010742 Vikas Rameshchandra Banjara06010743 Saumya Sen05010716 Pandi Chetan Krishna05010726 Utpal Das05010727 V. Venugopal

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of BTech degree in Engineering Physics

Roll No Name06012101 Abhishek Kumar06012103 Dave Utsav Deepak06012104 Deepika Sharma06012105 Deeptanshu Manu Jha06012107 Jishnu M06012108 Meeth Maharana



06012109 Mohit Yadav06012110 Nikhil Kumar Dubey06012111 P Anand Kumar06012112 Prateek Singh06012113 Ravi Shankar Bhamidipati06012117 Shibashish Behera06012118 Siddharth Muthukrishnan

List of students who ha ve fulfi lled the r equirements for the award of BTech degree in Chemical Science and Technology

Roll No Name05012202 Amey Kirwai05012204 Hanumanula Madhav Aditya05012206 Neeraj Chandrol05012208 Rakendra Kumar Mishra05012209 Ravi05012210 Satish G06012202 Anjishnu Sarkar06012203 Anuj Gupta06012205 Ashish Agrawal06012206 C Vijay Gopal06012209 Janmajay Purohit06012210 Lovish Singla06012211 Neela Nihar06012216 Vishnu Malpani

List of students who ha ve fulfi lled the r equirements for the a ward of B Tech deg ree in M athematics and Computing

Roll No Name06012301 Amit Arya06012302 Aniket Batra06012303 Apoorv Bordia06012304 Apoorv Gupta06012305 Ashish Kumar Ambast06012306 C Poorna Chandra06012307 Himanshu Bhatia06012309 Mohit Jalan06012311 Pugaonkar Aniket Narayan06012312 Sandeep Kumar Chaudhary06012313 Saurabh Gupta06012314 Sekhar Anand B06012315 Soumya Sarthak Mishra06012318 Venkatesh Chowdary Yerra06012319 Yogendra Singh06012320 Abhinav Madhok06012321 Pankaj Parag06012322 Satyam Shekhar06012323 Yagyesh Kesarwani

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of BDes degree in Design

Roll No Name06020501 Anamay Jii06020502 Ashutosh Kumar Upadhyay06020503 Bajaj Ayush Suresh Bajaj06020504 Devesh Anand06020505 Divyanshu Bansal06020506 Dnyanada Panchbhaiyye06020507 Gopalakrishnan Venkateswaran06020508 Iyer Ganesh Viswanathan06020509 M Sandeep06020511 Piyush Jain06020512 Preeti Kanther06020513 Prudvin Reddy A06020514 Punit Dutt Mathur06020515 Rahuldeo Kumar Sinha06020516 Rohit Mohan06020517 S Nitish Sivaramakrishnan06020518 Sajin Kumar06020521 Sourav Sarkar06020522 Vatsal Uttarwar06020523 Vikram Chatterji06020524 Vivek Tripathi

List of Students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the MSc degree in Physics

Roll No Name08212101 Alok Kumar Singh08212102 Anup Kumar Sahoo08212103 Arun Mathew08212104 Asim Kumar Das08212107 Chandan Kumar Bishwakarma08212108 Deepak Bhat08212111 Jithin Raj. P. K08212112 Kapil Dev Patel08212114 Konark Bisht08212115 Nagender Mishra08212117 Pabitra Mohan Pradhan08212118 Pankaj Kumar Mishra08212119 Piyali Nath08212121 Pritam Ganguly08212124 Sisir Chowdhury08212126 Sudip Kumar Dey08212127 Sudip Kumar Sarkar

List of Students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the MSc degree in Chemistry

Roll No Name08212201 Abhisek Ray08212202 Anka Babu Rajulapati



08212203 Anupa Majumdar08212204 Arghya Banerjee08212206 Debobrata Sheet08212207 Gopinath Shit08212208 Gorachand Dutta08212209 Koushik Chatterjee08212210 M. Rajesh08212211 Madhu Sudan Manna08212212 Manas Das08212213 Nagapurnima Gudimella08212214 Nilufa Khatun08212215 Pokhraj Ghosh08212217 Rajorshi Das08212218 Rakesh Mukherjee08212219 Sanjeeb Sutradhar08212220 Satyapriya Bhandari08212221 Shyam Sundar Samanta08212222 Somdev Banerjee08212224 Srinu Pampana08212225 Subhajit Sikdar08212226 Subrata Guchait08212227 Subrata Jana08212228 Suresh Babu G08212229 Tuhin Ghosh08212230 V. S. Baswanth Oruganti07212210 Gaurav Gupta

List of Students who ha ve fulfi lled the r equirements for the a ward of the MS c degree in M athematics and Computing

Roll No Name08212301 Aditya Ghosh08212303 Barun Gorain08212306 Garima Mishra08212307 Husney Parvez Sarwar08212310 Jyoti08212311 Kalyan Manna08212312 Kumari Saloni08212314 Niten Kumar Sharma08212315 Priyanka Joshi08212316 Punit Sharma08212318 Reena Karjee08212319 Rohit Sharma08212322 Shyam Sunder Iyer08212324 Srikumar Panda08212325 Sudip Kumar08212326 Sumana Hatui08212328 Pal Umesh Anilkumar08212329 Veerendra Maddipatla08212330 Vishal Gupta07212304 Amit Brahaha07212305 Amit Gaur07212308 Arun Kumar07212311 Chandra Shekhar Nishad07212313 Ghanshyam Prasad07212317 Kamalakar Ramesh Surwade07212323 Saud Ahmad07212324 Sudipta Purkait06212320 Rajesh S

List of students who ha ve fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering Name Roll No Project TitleN. Sandeep Kumar 07410101 Push Based Middleware for Database Updates in Service Oriented ArchitectureNishant Mishra 07410105 Context Aware Mobile Ad-hoc ServicesSudipta Samanta 07410111 On Line Call Admission in All-optical Network on Grid TopologySunil Kr Kushwaha 07410114 An EĀ cient Service Discovery & Selection Method for MANETs using Cross Layer ApproachKundu Saikat Debiprasad 07410115 A Cluster Based Data Sharing Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksRajat Kumar Gupta 07410116 A Fast Handoff Mechanism for IEEE 802.11 NetworksUmbare Chaitanya Pandurang 07410117 An EĀ cient Channel Assignment and Routing in Wireless Mesh NetworksAhinave Prabhakar Maruti 07410118 Link Grammar based Semantic Annotation of DocumentsPatel Alpeshkumar Prahladbhai 07410119 Exploring use of NoC for Reconfi gurable Video CodingBalbir Kumar 07410120 BSP Tree for Orthogonal CubesRejoy V.M. 07410122 An Area EĀ cient technology Mapping Algorithm for FPGAPunnoose .A.K 07410124 Speaker Adaptation using MAP and MLLR ApproachesDh. Sreenivasa Rao 07410125 Energy EĀ cient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor and Actor NetworksVB Krushna Beesetti 07410126 Handling Hotspot Modules in Network on ChipGaurav Makhon Baruah 07410127 Exploring Contexts for Relevant Search Results



Dhananjay Uday Kotwal 07410128 Seamless QoS Aware Handoff between IEEE802.11 and GSM NetworksVijaya Katturi 07410130 Fast MAC Vertical Handoff s Between 802.11 and 802.16 with Dual Mode Dual radiosPraveen Moparthy 07410131 Formal Analysis of Simulink/Statefl ow ModelsPrasad Velpula 07410133 Design and I mplementation of a GPS based L ocation/Tracking Detection SystemBattula Ramesh Babu 07410134 A Hybrid Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh NetworkAnupam Singh 07410135 An Optimal Approach for Features Detection and Facial Expression Recognition using Fast ICA and Bacterial Foraging TechniquePrabal Kumar 07410136 Optimization Vector Quantization Based on Trelis-Coded and Multistage ApproachesMohit Srivastava 07410137 Deletion of Objects in Unstructured Peer to Peer Storage SystemsAbhishek Srivastava 07410138 An External Memory Algorithm to Compute the Longest Common Subsequence of Two given StringsAlok Misra 07410139 Design of a Financial Management Systems of IIT Guwahati

List of students who ha ve fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Information Security

Name Roll No Project TitleRajib Chakrabartty 06410121 Study and Implementation of User Migration in Computer GridsShobhit Agarwal 07410102 A Multi Factor Security Protocol for Automatic Teller MachineSajeesh .K 07410104 An Authenticated Encryption Based Security Framework for NoC ArchitecturesPrakash Verma 07410106 An Improved Approach to Ensure Authenticity and Integrity of Accesses in Outsourced DatabasesTarun Kochar 07410107 A Single Chip Implementation of AES Cipher and Whirlpool Hash FunctionRamanuj Chouksey 07410112 Formal Verifi cation of Access Control PoliciesPiyush Singhai 07410113 ECDLP Based Proxy Multi Signature SchemeManeesh Chandra Soni 07410121 Security of VOIP NetworksAbadhan Saumya Sabyasachi 07410129 A Provably Secure Threshold Proxy Signature Scheme from Bilinear- Pairing Rachuri Sreedhar 07410132 False Alarm Reduction in SNORT using Network Vulnerability Information.Kunal Gupta 07410140 Mobile Agent Systems: Agent Security in Hostile Network

List of students who ha ve fulfilled the r equirements f or the a ward of the M Tech deg ree in Elec tronics and Communication Engineering with Specialization in Signal Processing

Name Roll No Project TitleSalil Kashyap 07410201 New Steganalysis Methods for Images and VideoSayantan Hazra 07410202 Development of EĀ cient Modulation Techniques for Navigation Satellite SystemsAkshaya Mittal 07410205 Channel Modeling for Macrocell Environments and Mobile-to- mobile CommunicationHisham. C 07410207 Area_EĀ cient Architecture for Motion Estimation and Compensation in H.264/AVC Video EncoderP. Praveen Kumar 07410208 Biometric Authentication: Principles of Template Protection and Gabor Filter Based Feature ExtractionNaga Sricharan Parakala 07410209 Permutation Vector Quantizer for Distribution Video Coding ApplicationsKrishnaiah T 07410210 A Gradient Based Adaptive Equalization Scheme for MIMO Sytems



V.S.S. Vara Prasad Ramoju 07410211 Multimodal Biometric Person Authentication using Handwritting, Face, Speech and Signature FeaturesChinni Narasimha Rao 07410212 FPGA Implementation of Inner-Receiver Blocks of DVB-T ReceiverDharmendra Dixit 07410213 Performance Analysis of GSC and MRC Receivers in Rayleigh, k-µ, and n-µ Fading ChannelsNavin Agarwal 07410214 Channel Modeling for Ultra Wideband CommunicationKishor Chandra 07410217 Shaping Better Than Raised Cosine Pulse for Ultra Wideband CommunicationsKomal 07410219 Hand Gesture Recognition using Neural NetworksAnirudh Sharma 07410220 Robust Algorithm for Tracking of Incoming Ballistic MissileAmadala Gopinath 07410221 FPAA Based Automatic Tuning of Industrial ControllersD. John Pradeep 07410223 COM Parameter Extraction of UDTs suitable for nano-stepping motor applicationsAnup Kumar Mandpura 07410224 A Group Separation Hybrid ICA Technique for fMRI Data AnalysisRevanth Babu Chalamcharla 07410227 Visual Cryptography with FingerprintingNavanit Palrecha 07410228 Tracking of Objects in Dynamic BackgroundUppala Naveen Reddy 07410232 Study of Discriminative Normalization Techniques in Automatic Speech recognition Rajib Jana 07410233 Antenna Design for Ultra Wideband Communication ApplicationsVenkateswararao Kagita 07410234 Speech-Interactive Email System Using Keyword SpottingVenkata Lakshmana Rao B 07410235 Design and Analysis of H.264 Video Encryption Schemes for Real Time Video ApplicationsG. Naveen Reddy 07410238 Performance Evaluation of BPSK and ð/2-Shift BPSK in the presence of VLF Impulse NoiseHemanth G 07410239 Neutralization of Trapping Sets in LDPC DecodingSapta Girish Babu 07410242 Transceiver Structure for Multi-State Integer-Cycle Signalling Scheme and Its Performance Evaluation K. Kishore 07410243 Development of EĀ cient Channel Coding Techniques for Navigation Satellite SystemsHaris B. C. 07410244 Improved PAPR for Single carrier-FDMA based SystemsSantu Sardar 08410223 Tank Bottom Imaging Using Impulse RadarT. Siva Bhaskar Reddy 08410232 Performance of Diversity Communication receivers over Composite and Non-homogenous Fading ChannelsSaket Verma 08410236 Diversity Based Microwave Imaging

List of students who ha ve fulfilled the r equirements f or the a ward of the M Tech deg ree in Elec tronics and Communication Engineering with Specialization in VLSI

Name Roll No Project TitleAvi Chandra Y 07410229 An Open Source EDA Tool: EQU-IITG,Formal Equivalence CheckerRajeev Pankaj Nelapati 07410230 A Study of FIR Filter Architectures and Digital Audio EqualizerS Satheesh Kumar 07410231 FPGA Implementation of Transform and Quantization Blocks of H.264 Video EncoderMeer Mudassar Imam Yahya 07410236 Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer Design for RF Applications S. Venkatesh 07410240 Systematic Design of Operational Amplifi ers Using CMOS 0.18 µm Devices Operating in Strong and Moderate Inversion

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the MTech degree in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Machine Design Name Roll No Project TitleDhruba Jyoti Bordoloi 06410312 Design, Fabrication & Testing of Electromagnetic BearingsKaustubh Acharyya 06410320 Eff ect of Additives on the Bond Strength of Araldite AdhesiveRajasekhar T 07410301 Finite Element Analysis of Smart FGM Structures



Jogdand Pradip Vilasrao 07410302 A New Method for Determination of the Mixed-Mode Stress Intensity Factors and T-StressesAnand Kumar Verma 07410304 Experimental Study and Simulation of Extrusion ProcessG. Venkatesh 07410305 Determination of Strain Gage Locations for accurate measurement of opening mode stressParimi Anil Kumar 07410306 Experimental Investigation of Serve Plastic Deformation using Multiple Channel die compression method for the production of bulk nano-structured materialsSandip Rudha Budhe 07410307 Experimental Study on Eff ect of Surface Roughness on Adhesive Bond StrengthTanguturi Chandana 07410308 Cohesive Finite Element Method for Analysis of Delamination in Laminated CompositesHari Prasad Chintha 07410309 Analysis of Split type angular Contact Ball BearingsSri Harsha Mundluri 07410310 Finite element analysis of smart FRP laminated shell structuresVikram Pavuluri 07410311 Transient analysis of a rotor with a breathing crackRamesh Babu Vemuluri 07410312 Stability Analysis of Rotor Mounted on Multilobe BearingsAbhishek Trimbak Dhumal 07410313 An Expert System to Predict the Tensile and deep drawing behavior of tailor welded blanksDhutekar Shailesh Srinivasrao 07410314 A Parametric Study of Cold Rolling Mill VibrationsDada Saheb Ramteke 07410315 Unbalance Response of Rotor Mounted on Multilobe BearingsSiva Krishna Kolluri 07410316 An expert system to predict the forming limit of tailor welded blanksSonu Paroche 07410317 Comparison of the Finite Element based Mixed Mode Fatigue Crack Growth Simulations Srinivasa Naik Bhukya 07410318 Predicting the forming limit and experimental validationVarun Karthik S 08410314 Design and Performance Analysis of Stress Wave Force Balances for High Speed Aerospace ApplicationsKhilawan Singh 08410316 Virtualization of M echanical Vibration Exper iments for the I nternet Based Remote LaboratoryAmit Kumar Haldar 08410317 Damage Tolerance of analysis of Composites materialNeesu Vikram Manoj Kumar 08410318 Design and Development and Performance of Self Lubricating Cutting Tool Materials

List of students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the MTech degree in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Fluids and Thermal Sciences

Name Roll No Project TitleRituraj Saikia 05410342 Development of a performance investigation test facility for metal hydride based heat storage systemAtul Bhattad 07410319 Experimental investigation to study the eff ect of horizontal inclination on liquid sloshing in a rectangular tankSachin Sudhakar Thakre 07410320 CFD Investigation to Study Thermal-hydraulic behavior of supercritical water fl owing through 7 Pin fuel rod BundleNanduri Anil 07410321 Numerical Study of Hypersonic Shock InteractionsPavan Kr. Konathala 07410322 Inverse Determination of Applied Heat Flux and Maximum Temperature Developed during Laser Forming Process Tirakala Jithendra 07410324 Stability Analysis of Hypersonic Boundary Layers in Single and Two Phase Fluid FlowsKawale Bharat Harishchandra 07410325 Development of Heat Transfer Models for Predicting Transient Heating Rates from temperature History



List of the students who have fulfi lled the requirements for the award of the PhD degree

Name T hesis TitleBiotechnology Biswa Ranjan Meher Computational investigation of HIV-1 protease dynamics by comparing the eff ects of mutation, force fi elds and pressure

Biswanath Mahanty Studies on Biodegradation of Pyrene by Mycobacterium Frederiksbergense

Abhishek Sahu Development of Polymeric Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells

M. Venkata Satish Kumar Some Investigations on Protein Structure, Function and Dynamics in Disordered States and Non-ideal conditions


Debasis Ghosh Removal of Fluoride, Iron and Arsenic from Drinking Water using a Combination of Electrocoagulation and Microfi ltration

Pradip Chowdhury Gas Adsorption on Cu-BTC and Cr-BDC Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Mehabub Rahaman Nitration of Nitrobenzene at High-Concentrations of Sulfuric Acid

Barun Kumar Nandi Preparation and Characterization of Low Cost Ceramic Composite Membranes for Microfi ltration and Ultrafi ltration Applications

Kabita Chakrabarty Liquid Membrane Based Technology for Removal of Pollutants from Wastewater

Chemistry Rik Rani Koner Synthesis and Characterization of Chiral Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes of Amino Acid Derived Ligands and Aniline Based Polymers with Functional GroupAvijit Pramanik Molecular Recognition and Coordination Chemistry of Mixed Donor LigandsSuribabu Jammi Copper Catalyzed C-C,C-N and C-S Bond Formations and Synthesis of Chiral 1, 2-Diamine Based Main Chain PolymersSiva Murru Newer Strategies for the Synthesis of Five and Six Membered Heterocycles Containing N, O and S Saitanya Kumar Bharadwaj Synthesis, Structural Evaluation and Studies of Reactivity of Heteroperoxovanadates (V) And Development of Solid Acid Catalysts for Organic TransformationsAnirban Karmakar A study on aromatic carboxylic acids as ligands and receptorsA. Murugadoss Functional Au and Ag Nanoparticles in Polymer Composites and Molecular AssembliesAmardeep Synthesis, Spectral and Reactivity Studies of Ruthenium Complexes with 2,6-bis(benzimidaz ol-2-YL) PyridineTasneem Parvin Development of New Synthetic Methodologies Leading to ß-Amino Carbonyl Compounds: Some Aspects of Multicomponent Reactions

Computer Science and EngineeringAlka EĀ cient Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Data Sets Design Jyoti Kumar Comparative Study of Users’ Experiential Data Collection Techniques for Human Computer Interaction Design in Cross Cultural Settings

Electronics and Communication EngineeringMrinal Buragohain Adaptive Network Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) as a Tool for S ystem Indentifi cation with Special Emphasis on Training Data MinimizationBabu Sena Paul Modelling of Multi-antenna Wireless Channels and Relay Based C ommunication Systems



Genemala Haobijam Optimization of Planar Spiral Inductor and Design of Multilayer Pyramidal Inductor for Silicon Radio Frequency Integrated CircuitsM. Sabarimalai Manikandan Cardiovascular Signal Compression Using a New Wavelet Energy Based Diagnostic Distortion MeasureAhmad Ali Controller Design Methods for Linear Systems with Emphasis on Integrating ProcessesH. S. Jayanna Limited Data Speaker Recognition Humanities and Social SciencesAbhigyan Prasad Collapsing Boundaries: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Amitav GhoshDaisy Das Quality of Life and Environment : A Case Study of GuwahatiSonia Nongmaithem Organizational Learning and Leadership: Moderating Eff ect of Organizational C ulture

Mathematics Madhusmita Tripathy On the Convergence of H1 -Galerkin Mixed Finite Element Method for Parabolic P roblemsRajendra Kumar Ray Some New Directions in HOC Methodology : Tackling Circular GeometriesRajesh Pratap Singh Permutation Polynomials and Their Applications in CryptographyAkhilesh Kumar Analytical Study on Solute Transport in Streams with Transient Storage and H yporheic ZonesKaushik Mukherjee Upwind Based Numerical Methods for Time-Dependent Singularly Perturbed Problems with Boundary and Interior LayersSmrutiranjan Mohapatra Water Wave Scattering by a Spherical Structure and an Undulating Bottom Topography in a Two-Layer FluidJugal Mohapatra Parameter-Uniform Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed Convection- Diff usion Boundary-Value Problems Using Adaptive GridRupam Barman Iwasawa Invariants of Elliptic Curves and p-adic Measures

Mechanical Engineering Deba Kumar Sarma Experimental Study , Neural Net work M odelling and Optimization of Environment- Friendly Air-Cooled and Dry Turning Processes Tarapada Roy Finite Element Based Design and Optimal Vibration Control of Smart Fiber Reinforced Composite Shell Structures Using Genetic AlgorithmJagu Srinivasa Rao Design Optimization of Active Magnetic Thrust Bearing Systems Using Multi- Objective Genetic AlgorithmsVijaya Kumar Pantangi Development and Performance Analysis of Porous Radiant Burners for Cooking Applications Lakshmanan S.P. Investigations on Startup Instabilities and Power Ramping Procedures for Natural Circulation Boiling SystemsP. Pandithevan Subject Specifi c Design and Analysis for Fabrication of Human Femoral Scaff oldRanjan Das Retrieval of Parameters in Heat Transfer Problems Involving Thermal Radiation Physics Amal Medhi Role of interlayer couplings in bilayer superconductors: A variational Monte Carlo studyRajendra Kumar Singh Investigations on S elected Bioac tive Glasses and Glass- Ceramics Containing I ron OxideDebabrata Mishra Magnetic Properties of Co and Mn Substituted Fe-Zr-B Alloys Prepared by Melt Spinning and Mechanical Alloying Processes Centre for Energy Gouri Sankar Paul Synthesis and Studies of II-VI and IV-VI Nanostructured Compound Semiconductors and Some Conjugated Polymers

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Boys’ Hostel No. 8 (504 capacity with 15161 sqm fl oor area)

Boys’ Hostel No. 9 (1000 capacity with 31050 sqm fl oor area)

Extension of Girls’ Hostel (1817 sqm)

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Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. Pile works completed, 2. Slab of all fl oors including roof slab of 15 blocks out of 20 blocks completed, 3. Intermediate slab of 3 blocks out of balance 5 blocks, 4. 240 rooms already handed over for occupation, 5. 120 rooms are expected to be ready by June 2011.

Work is in progress. 330 rooms will be made ready by July 2011.

Work is in progress. Status of works: Southern Block complete except vertical extension. Northern Block 1. Foundation 100% complete, 2. Casting of beam, slab and column 95% complete, 3. Brickwork work 90% complete, 4. Plastering of wall 80% complete, 5. Tile works 60% complete, 6. Piling for extension for Dining hall 50% complete.

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Extension of Academic Complex (Phase-III)

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Completed in December 2010.

Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. False ceiling work 90% complete. 2. Painting works started. 3. Flooring works 90%.

Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. Structural work 95% complete. 2. Plastering work 75% 3. Plumbing work started.

Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. Structural work 90% complete 2. Plastering work 90%.

Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. Civil works in CIF 90% complete. 2. Civil works in Dept. of Chemical Engineering 90% complete. 3. Dept. of Design civil works 75% complete.

Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. Foundation work for Depts. of Mathematics and HSS completed.

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35 units of F type residential quarter in 7 blocks (6694 Sqm)

30 units of F type residential quarter in 6 blocks (Ph-IV)

24 units of E-type in 4 blocks (3638 Sqm)

30 units of E-type in 5blocks (4548 Sqm)

18 units of D-type in 3 blocks (2806 Sqm) Phase-III

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Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. 6 blocks already handed over. 2. Finishing work in 7th block is going on.

Work is in progress. Status of works: 1. Foundation completed in 1 block. 2. Site development work is in progress for other blocks. 3. Brickwork including plastering in 30 units complete. 4. Flooring complete in 4 blocks complete. 5. Sanitary work 60% complete. 6. Electrical work 40% complete. 7. Site grading 100% complete. 8. Conduit laying in slab/wall cutting and switch box fi tting works in 5 blocks is complete.

Work is in progress. Status: 1. 2 blocks complete 2. 2nd two blocks structural work up-to 1st fl oor completed

Work is in progress. Status: 1. Foundation work of 2 blocks completed. 2. Site development of 3 blocks is in progress.

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18 units of D-type in 3 blocks (2806 Sqm) Phase-IV

35 units of C-type in 5 blocks (3908 Sqm)

28 units of B-type in 2 blocks (Phase-II) (2403 Sqm)

28 units of B-type in 2 blocks (Phase-III) (2403 Sqm)

Earthwork fi lling in proposed SAC and future boys’ hostel Area

Construction of Security Road along the boundary wall (Phase-II)

Construction of Security Road along the boundary wall (Phase-III)

Strengthening and repairing of Internal Roads of the campus

Construction of Student’s Activity Centre (Phase-II)

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All the 5 blocks are made for occupation.

Work is in progress. Status: One block of 14 units occupied in March 2011 and the other block will be ready by June 2011.

Foundation work completed structural work going on.

Work is in progress.

Work awarded on March 2010 and mobilised plant and machineries.

Work awarded in December 2010 and construction of earthen embankment is going on.

1. WBM work complete. 2. BM & SDBC 60%. 3. Drain work complete. 4. Other works are in progress.

Work is in progress. Status: 1. Piling work of SAC building completed. 2. Foundation work of Student’s and Faculty Canteen is going on.

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Appendix–V

DETAILS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS

The following projects were completed during the year 2010-2011:

Project Title: GIS based Inventory of Rivers of the Northeastern Region of IndiaPrincipal Investigator: Dr. A. K. SarmaFunding Agency: MoEF

Project Title: Event Based Flood Forecasting Model for Flood Hazard MitigationPrincipal Investigator: Dr. A. K. SarmaFunding Agency : AICTE

Project Title: An Integrated Hydrologic Modeling of the Brahmaputra ValleyPrincipal Investigator: Dr. S. DuttaFunding Agency: DST

Project Title: Development of a Multi-fuel cooking stovePrincipal Investigator: Ms. S. KakatiFunding Agency : DST

Project Title: Binary Coalescence of Drops in Viscous MediaPrincipal Investigator: Dr. P. GhoshFunding Agency: DST

Project Title: Optimization of Laminated Fibre Reinforced Plastic Composites on Paeallel PlatformPrincipal Investigator: Dr. D. ChakarbortyFunding Agency: DST

Project Title: Development of New Technique for Experiment Identifi cation of Beam Crack ParametersPrincipal Investigator: Dr. R. TiwariFunding Agency: ARDB

Project Title: Newer Chemical and Ph ysical Methods of Eng ineering Devices Consisting of Nanoscale F unctional ComponentsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. A. ChatoppadhyayFunding Agency: DST



Project Title: Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon mediated sequence specifi c delivery and activation of Prodrug gene in hepatocellular carcinoma cellsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. S. S. GhoshFunding Agency: CSIR

Electrospun Nanofi ber Scaff olds for Hepatic Tissue EngineeringPrincipal Investigator: Dr. U. BoraFunding Agency: DBT

Project Title: Design and Optimization of a Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Biomass Gasifi erPrincipal Investigator: Dr. V. S. MoholkarFunding Agency: DBT

Project Title: Development and Reactivity Studies of DiCopper (1)/(11) Complexes with Tridentate N-Donor Ligands: Models for Tyrosinases and Catechol OxidasesPrincipal Investigator: Dr. B. MondalFunding Agency: BRNS

Project Title: Supramolecular assemblies of quinone - methides and related systemsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. J. B. BaruahFunding Agency: CSIR

Project Title: Study on free Surface Flow of Concentrated SuspensionsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. A. SinghFunding Agency: DST

Project Title: Enhanc ement of S ynthesis of Lipids fr om M icroalgae (M icroalgal oil) f or Biodesiesel P roduction: Optimization using Mechanistic ApproachPrincipal Investigator: Dr. V. S. MoholkarFunding Agency: DRL, Tezpur

Project Title: Metamaterials engineered microwave devices: Size miniaturization and performance enhancement of microwave devices using metamaterials based sub-wavelength resonators and componentsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. K. R. SinghFunding Agency: DST

Project Title: Layer Resolving Numerical Schemes for Singular Perturbation ProblemsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. S. NatesanFunding Agency: DST

Project Title: Thermal Analysis of a Graphite Heating ChamberPrincipal Investigator: Dr. S. C. MishraFunding Agency: DRDL

Project Title: Preparation and Study of Hydrogenated Miccrocrystalline Silicon Thin Films by Hotwire Chemical Vapor Deposition method for Solar Cell ApplicationPrincipal Investigator: Dr. P. AgarwalFunding Agency: DST



NEW RESEARCH PROJECTSThe research projects received during the year 2010-2011 are given below:

Project Title Funding Agency Principal InvestigatorDepartment

Development and application of r ecombinant and other Celluloses for large scale recycling of Cellulosic biomass

The SHBG-RSHBG P athway: I nsights fr om prostate Cancer cell lines

Evaluation of pr obiotic attributes of lac tic acid bacteria based on bacteriocinogenic activity and in vitro adhesion properties

Study of Apopoitic pathways in Mesenchymal stem cells during Normal and Diff erenciated State

Isolation Charac terisation and identifi cation of natural pigment of food and industrial value from fi lamentous fung

Creation of Bioinf ormatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) for the promotion of Biology Teaching through Bio- Informatics (BTBI) scheme of BTISnet

Molecular & Ph ysic- chemical charac terisation of selected ginger species from north eastern region

Development of pod borer resistant transgenic pigeonpea and chickpea

Protein agg regation : Early M olecular ev ents: mechanisms and inhibition

Functional analysis of Calcium signaling proteins in neurospora crassa

Purifi cation of Caff eine form waste tea leaves and their transformation to potent pharmaceutical molecules

Silk Based Scaff olds for Neural Tissue Engineering

Betraying the parasite’s redox system: Studies on sepermidine synthase of Leishmania donovani

Studies on P eptide- conjugated nanopar ticles mediated antileishmanial drug deliv ery t o macrophages

Decipering the molecular mechanism underlying the activity of antitumor agents as antileishmanial agents and their potential for therapy

An integrated computational and biochemical approach to target Ornithione for antileishmenial drug discovery

Biotechnology

DBT

DST

CSIR

DBT

DBT

DBT

DBT

ICAR

DST

DST

DBT

DBT

DBT

DBT

DBT

ICMR

Dr. A. Goyal

Dr. A. M. Limaya

Dr. A. Ramesh

Dr. B. G. Jagan

Dr. G. K. Saini

HOD

Dr. L. Rangan

Dr. Sahoo

Dr. R. Swaminathan

Dr. R. Tamuli

Dr. S. Patra

Dr. U. Bora

Dr. V. K. Dubey

Dr. V. K. Dubey

Dr. V. K. Dubey

Dr. V. K. Dubey




Chemistry

Biochemical and func tional charac terisation of RIO k inase (s) fr om plasmodium falciparum as potential drug target

Wingled Hel ix domain- ol igonucleotide recognisation as an axis t o dev elop PIRIO - 2 specifi c inhibibit or: implication in antimalaria drug development

An integrated computational and Biochemical approach to target omithione decarboxylase, a key enzyme involved in synthesis of trypanothione for antileishmantal drug discovery

Development of Aptamer Based M olecular Diagnostics for Breast Cancer

Single Molecule fl uorescence investigation on the mechanism of ly sozyme agg regation and RNA helicase activity

Role of R ho GTP ase R hoaA on I nteraction Between human mesench ymal st em c ells and hematopoietic stem cells

DBT

DBT

ICMR

DBT

DBT

DBT

Dr. V. Trivedi

Dr. V. Trivedi

Dr. V. K. Dubey

Dr. U. Bora

Dr. R. Swaminathan

Dr. B. G. Jaganathan

Biotechnology

Group transfer and mechanistic investigation of some unprecedented reactions

Nitric oxide reactivity of Copper Complexes

Elucidation of per oxynitrite decomposition by Non- Heme c omplex: Special , Elec trochemical and Pulse radiolysis Study

Mechanistic insights int o the phosphatidyl inositol (IP) binding properties of Caenorhabitis Elegans pr otein M ig 10 A and its Pleckstrin Homology (PH) Domain

Core shell/Core-Spacer-shell approach to nano magnetic/ fluor escent molecules t owards bi-functional system

Design and development of organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and photovoltaic (PV) devices

DST

DST

BRNS

BRNS

BRNS

DST

Dr. B. K. Patel

Dr. B. Mondal

Dr. C. V. Sastri

Dr. D. Manna

Dr. M. Qureshi

Dr. P. K. Iyer

To Strengthen the research activities in the area of Fluid Mechanics , Advanced materials and Clean Energy and simulation studies

Development and Charecterisation of Low cost Creamic Composite Membrance for separation of Dyes from Aqueous Solution

Novel supported ionic liquid Membrance for the extraction of endocrine disrupting chemicals from Aqueous solution

DST

DST

DST

HOD

Dr. G. Pugazhenthi

Dr. K. Mohanty





Civil Engineering

Design


Humanities and Social Sciences

Optimised pr oduction of Bioethanol and Biohydrogen fr om ligoc ellulosic biomass in a fl uidised-bed reactor

Investigation of dblock copolymer Crystallisations by Molecular Simulation

CSIR

DST

Dr. K. Mohanty

Dr. A. K. Dasmahapatra


Seepage eff ect on r egime c ondition of alluvial chennel

Performance Appraisal of Concrete in Chloride and Sulfate Environment

To strengthen the research activities in the area of structural Engineering & Water resources

Ganga River Basin Management Plan

Technique development for generation probabilistic fl ood waves of diff erent recurrence periods

DST

DST

DST

MEF

Dept. of space

Dr. B. Kumar

Dr. B. Pradhan

HOD

Dr. M. Jawed

Dr. S. Dutta

Design and Dev elopment of Enabling (assisting) Devices for Elderly in the context of Home and Travel

Dr. A. K. DasDST

Upgradation and setting of laborat ories in the Depar tment of Elec tronics and Elec trical Engineering under fund f or improvement of S&T infrastructure (FIST) scheme

Design, fabrication and t esting of lo w po wer analog front-end chip for Heart rate detection

Development of on line handwriting r ecognition system for I ndian language ( OHWR) - Phase II - Deployment of an application and impr ovement of engine performance

Speech-based Access for Agricultural Commodity Prices in Six Indian Languages

Development of r obust Document image understanding S ystem f or Document in I ndian Scripts (OCR) Phase-II

DST

DST

DIT

DIT

DIT

HOD

Dr. R. P. Paily

Dr. S. R. M. Prasanna

Dr. R. Sinha

Dr. P. K. Bora

Climate Change Water and Rural Livelihoods: Assessing Socio-economic Vulnerability and potential Adaptive Strategies in Eastern Himalayan Region, India

Islamic Heritage in India North East

Culture in Dialogue: Re visiting the Vaishnaavite renaissance in North East India

Eff ect of sleep on the stratesies of route learning in virtual town environment in humans

Seduction sale and sla very: TraĀ ck ing of women and children in North East India

Gendered consequences understanding, Sex traĀ cking in the context of armed confl icts in North East India

SIDA

IGNCA

IGNCA

DST

ICSSR

NCW

Dr. Anamika Barua

Dr. A. N. S. Ahmed

Dr. Archana Barua

Dr. N. Kashyap

Dr. S. Ray

Dr. S. Ray





Physics

Mechanization of Spa wn pr oduction and Spawn supply to Mushroom farmers group and conversion of spent Mushr oom subtract into vermincompost in Nor th Eastern Region for proverty allevation in the North East India

Febrication of c ost - eff ective IPMC actuator as ar tifi cial muscle mat erials for biomedical prosthetic application

Shock tube dev elopment and v erification of existing c orrelations for stagnation point heat transfer

Feasibility study on C arbon Nanotubes/Ultrahigh M olecular Weight P olythylene Nanocomposites for total joint replacement

NEC

DST

DRDO

DST

Prof. S. K. Kakoty

Dr. D. Bandopadhya

Dr. N. Sahoo

Dr. S. Kanagraj

Studies on Rhodium coated mirror deposited bu Pulsed laser deposition technique

Studies on Laser induced breakdown in liquid and solid liquid interface

Development of domain wall fr ee Fe-Ta-C based soft magnetic thin fi lm

Development of P olymer/Bioactive Glass Nanocomposites

Development of E vent r econstruction and simulation codes and active detector elements for the INO project

Search for new physics beyond standard model using data from Selie experiment and detector R&D for the super KEKB experiment

Preparation and Characterisation of Mg2TiO4 ceramics by Mechanical Alloying

Febrication of K0.5Na.5N bO3 Ferroelectric Thin film capacit ors b y RF mag netron sputtering

Analysis of man y-body Hamilt onians using higher dimensional bosonisation

FIST Programme

Development of amorphous silicion based solour c ell on plastic and other flexible substrates

BRFST

DST

CSIR

BRNS

DST

DST

DRDO

BRNS

DST

DST

DRDO

Dr. A. Khare

Dr. A. K. Sharma

Dr. A. Perumal

Dr. A. Srinivasan

Dr. B. Bhuyan

Dr. B. Bhuyan

Dr. D. Pamu

Dr. D. Pamu

Dr. G. S. Setlur

HOD

Dr. P. Agarwal




Physics

Centre for Energy

Centre for the Environment

Centre for Nanotechnology

Centre for Educational Technology

Higgis Self-coupling and Higgis-Gague Boson Coupling in little Higgs Model

Study of CP properties of MSSM higgs sector in the context of LHC

Inhomogeneous superconductivity in P auli limited superconductors

Magnetic pr operties in SnO2 Based Nano - crystalline Diluted Magnetic semiconductor

BRNS

DST

DST

BRNS

Dr. P. Poulose

Dr. P. Poulose

Dr. S. Basu

Dr. S. Ravi

Development of P olymer Elec trolyte Membrance Fuel C ell using indigenously prepared low cost composite bipolar plate

Design and Optimisation of a pr ocess f or Production of 1,3 Propanediol and n-Butanol from Biodiesel deriv ed crude Gly cerol using Immobilised Clostridal Strains

CSIR

CSIR

Dr. A. Verma

Dr. V. S. Moholkar

Establishment of I nstitutional Biot ech Hub DBT Dr. U. Bora

Stimuli Development of Nanoscale Materials for Bacteria Removal from Surface water

Fabrication and Charat erisation of Or ganic thin transistor

A c ombined experimental and theor etical study on the instabilit y and patt erning on thin liquid crystal fi lms

Design and dev elopment and fabrication of OLED organic solar club and organic TFTs based on molecular polymeric and composite material

DRL

DST

DST

DST

Dr. A. Chattopadhyay

Dr. D. K. Goswami

Dr. D. Bandyopadhyay

Dr. P. K. Iyer

Creating Dig ital L earning En vironment f or Design in India

MHRD Prof. R. M. Punekar



Appendix–VI

SUMMARY OF INSTITUTE ACCOUNTS

Amount in Rs.

Balance Sheet as on 31 March 2011

Liabilities Current Year Previous Year

Capital Fund and Liabilities

Capital Fund 6,587,314,224 7,050,810,639

Earmarked/Endowment Funds 1,203,576,393 1,252,857,055

Unsecured Loans and Borrowings – –

Current Liabilities and Provisions 614,606,770 487,223,346

Total: 8,405,497,387 8,790,891,040

Assets

Fixed Assets 6,436,665,148 6,858,165,517

Investments–from Earmarked/Endowment Funds 443,625,508 375,630,871

Investments - Others 186,932,322 8,979,138

Current Assets, Loans and Advances etc. 1,338,274,409 1,548,115,514

Miscellaneous Expenditure – –

Total: 8,405,497,387 8,790,891,040

Amount in Rs.



Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended on 31 March 2011

Income Current Year Previous Year Grants/Subsidies 674,685,037 647,046,022

Fees/Subscriptions 86,962,857 70,300,775

Income from Investments – –(Income on Investment from earmarked/endowment,Funds transferred to Fund)

Interest Earned 2,547,513 20,738,200

Other Income 41,712,397 40,117,310

Total (A): 805,907,804 778,202,307

Expenditure

Establishment Expenses 577,904,927 476,640,923

Other Adminstrative Expenses, etc. 395,208,816 356,263,930

Total (B): 973,113,743 832,904,853

Balance being excess of Expenditure over Income (A-B) – (54,702,546)

Balance being Surplus/(Defi cit) for the year (167,205,939) (54,702,546)

Prior Period Adjustments (907,065) –

Balance being Surplus/(Defi cit) carried to Capital Fund (168,113,004) (54,702,546)

Amount in Rs. Amount in Rs.

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RECEIPTS AMOUNT TOTAL PAYMENTS AMOUNT TOTAL (Rs .) (Rs.) (Rs.) (Rs.)I. Opening Balance: I. Expenses: Cash in hand 132,500.53 a) Establishment Expenditure 409,863,094.36 Cash at Banks – i) In Current Accounts 140,284,830.35 b) Adminstrative Expenses 395,208,816.17 ii) In Deposit Accounts 561,161,975.80 701,579,306.68 II. Payments made against funds/ various projects: II. Grants Received: a) R&D Exps 423,585,005.50 a) From Govt.of India 674,685,037.08 b) CSIR/QIP/UGC/NBHM/AICTE Exp 13,287,540.00 b) From Govt. of India 1,071,614,962.92 c) JEE/GATE/JAM 144,844,125.00 c) From Other Sources 8,980,493.00 d) Gold Madel/Women Association & Others 398,838.00 d) Deprication on Fixed Assets (204,456,566.00) 1,550,823,927.00 582,115,508.50 III. Income on Investment: III. Investments and Deposits made IV. Expenditure on Fixed Assets/others 750,928,997.00 750,928,997.00 IV. Interest Received: IIT (General) a) On Bank deposits 1,412,491.00 b) Fixed Deposit c) Loans & Advances 299,129.00 V. Payments of Loans: 1,711,620.00 V. Other Income: VI. Financial Charges (Interest): Fees & Subscription 86,962,856.50 Other Receipts 41,712,396.95 VII. Other Payments: Interest on Corpus Fund 17,650,538.00 146,325,791.45 a) Loans & Advances & Others 399,296,874.00 Others Receipts against: b) Deposit of Deductions from Salary: a) R&D Fund 456,059,257.94 Against C.P.F. Subscription 1,486,941.00 b) CPF 4,944,549.00 Against G.P.F. Subscription 6,005,414.00 c) GPF 9,824,841.00 Against the CPS 14,519,492.00 d) CPS (59,690,788.39) Agains GPF/CPF Tier -II 2,013,240.00 e) GPF/CPF Voluntary Contribution 2,819,532.00 Against GSLI, GIS & LIC & SSP 4,005,031.00 e) CSIR/QIP/UGC/NBHM/AICTE 16,856,608.00 Other Deductions 648,880.00 f ) JEE/GATE/ JAM 83,739,077.90 28,678,998.00 g) Gold Madel/Women Association & Others 631,231.26 515,184,308.71 c) Caution Money 3,103,866.00 VI. Amount Borrowed C/F 2,915,624,953.84 C/F 2,569,196,154.03

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B/F 2,915,624,953.84 B/F 2,569,196,154.03 VII. Any Other Receipts: d) Deposit of deductions of Govt. Dues : a) Recovery of Loans and Adv/Current Assets: 842,777,486.00 Income tax 47,821,478.00 Professional Tax 1,452,954.00 b) Deduction from Salary: VAT 30,331,879.00 Against CPF Subscription 1,492,791.00 Forest Royalty 6,189,584.00 Against GPF Subscription 6,018,116.00 Cess 3,903,202.00 Against CPS 14,588,749.00 VAT,AGST,FR, etc. – R&D 15,092,225.00 Agains GPF/CPF Tier–II 2,013,240.00 Against GSLI, GIS, LIC & SSP 3,991,979.00 104,791,322.00 Against Other Deductions 648,880.00 28,753,755.00 e) Payments of Outstanding Liabilities & Others: Misc. Recdipts/Payments 13,892,464.00 c) Caution Money Received 3,856,260.00 Alumni Fund 501,000.00 Other Liabilities 257,178,650.00 d) Deduction of Govt. Dues : EMD 1,618,183.00 Income Tax 49,933,028.00 Security Deposit – others 21,692,130.00 Professional Tax 1,452,954.00 Investment (STDR) 607,148,493.00 VAT 35,390,843.00 Investment STDR (R&D) 85,026,167.00 Forest Royalty 8,668,326.00 Cess 5,969,688.00 Loans & Adv & Others GPF/CPF/CPS 9,892,132.00 VAT,AGST,FR, etc. – R&D 17,394,916.50 118,809,755.50 LTDR (CPF & GPF & CPS) 16,068,137.00 – 1,013,017,356.00 e) Other Receipts: VIII. Closing Balance: 130,500.00 Other Liabilities 152,383,056.00 Cash in hand Alumni Fund 501,000.00 Cash at Banks - i) In Current Accounts 349,173,900.74 Misc. Receipts/Payments 14,967,113.00 Investment (STDR) 405,763,253.00 ii) In Savings Accounts 586,278,550.57 EMD 11,291,963.00 935,582,951.31 Security Deposit–others 62,664,983.00 Loans & Adv & Others GPF/CPF/CPS 8,662,482.00 LTDR (CPF & GPF & CPS) 56,531,723.00 712,765,573.00 TOTAL: 4,622,587,783.34 TOTAL: 4,622,587,783.34

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Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) at Central Workshop

Participants of the International Conference on Climate Change and Water Demonstration by American Parkour group at Techniche 2010

A part of an exhibition stall at Techniche 2010 A meeting on research collaboration with delegates from UK

Delegates and alumni of IIT Guwahati at PanIIT Conclave 2010 Cultural programme organised on the occasion of Hindi Diwas

A dance performance at the Alcheringa Artist performing at the Alcheringa

Prof. Gautam Barua delivering speech at the Independence Day celebration

Degree recipients at the convocation hall

The cricket team of IIT Guwahati after winning the gold medal at the Inter-IIT Students Sports Meet held at IIT Delhi

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