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CORRIGENDUMThe events of Seminar on

Housing & Disaster Mitigation effortsin India, scheduled to be held duringApril 11, 2009, Aug. 22, 2009 andNov. 21-22, 2009 are beingorganized by Centre of Excellencef o r D i s a s t e r M i t i g a t i o n &Management and not by theDepartment of Architecture &Planning as notified in Samvaadissue Nov. 2008

Special Lectures OrganizedName of Speaker Topic Date Organizing

Deptt./CentreDr. V. K. Tandon Cascading Failures in Jan. 7, 2009 Physics Department

Macro-economic SystemsDr. Sunita Verma Analysis of Aerosols and Jan. 9, 2009 Physics Department

Trace Gases using GlobalClimate Model andMeasurements

Dr. Yuvraj Kapadia Theory of Mind Jan. 22, 2009 Q. I. P.Dr. Pramod Kumar Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Jan. 27, 2009 Physics

Properties of Certain RareEarth Intermetallics

Department

New AppointmentDr. Anand Bulusu has joined the Department

of Electronics and Computer Engineering in December2008 as Assistant Professor ( . His area ofspecialization is Semiconductor Devices and VLSITechnology.

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The 32 National Systems Conference was organized by the ElectricalEngineering Department on Dec. 17-19, 2008 under the aegis of the SystemsSociety of India. The theme of this year's NSC was 'Energy System –Optimization andConservation'.

The three days proceedings of the Conference comprised ofpresentations by various researchers, academicians, and industrialparticipants along with an industrial exhibition from some leadingorganizations.Atotal of 270 delegates took part in the Conference.

The conference was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Prof. P. S.Satsangi, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Education, DayalbaghEducational Institutions, Agra and Founder President of the SSI on Dec. 17,2008. This was followed by award ceremony in which Prof. Satsangi washonoured with Life TimeAchievement award by both IITRoorkee and the SSI.Dr. V. K. Sarasvat, Chief Controller DRDO was honoured with Systems GoldMedal award; Prof. K. Sudhakar, IITBombay with R. K. VarshneyAward, Prof.Vivek Agarwal, IIT Bombay with Vikram Award, and Prof. Radhakant Padhi,IISc Bangalore and Sri Sunil, SDSC, SHAR, ISRO with Young ScientistAwards. Prof. S. C. Saxena, Director, IIT Roorkee presided over the function.The President and Secretary of Systems Society of India Dr. B. B. Das andShri D. S. Antuvan also graced the occasion for the entire duration of theConference.

The presence of legendary Prof. Satsangi, a pioneer in SystemEngineering and spiritual leader and Chief Mentor of Radhasoami Faith,attracted the participation of a large number of delegates during Conference.The papers presented in the conference were from diverse fields such as:Business & Social Systems, Aerospace Systems, Power & Energy Systems,Measurement & Instrumentation, Modern System Techniques, ModelReduction Techniques, New & Renewable Energy, Signal & ImageProcessing, Power Electronics and System Reliability.

There were a total of 10 Plenary Talks by eminent persons. To startwithaKeynote address was delivered by Prof. Satsangi on “Generalizing PhysicalSystem Theory for Applied Systems Research”. This was followed by theRamanujan Memorial Lecture on “Collaborative Signal Processing and DataFusion in Wireless Sensor Networks” By Prof. P. K.

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National Systems Conference (NSC - 08)

Director from Syracuse University, USA and M. N. Gopalan EndowmentLecture by Prof. K. B. Misra, RAMS Consultant, Jaipur and Editor-in-ChiefInternational Journal of Performability Engineering on “Challenges BeforeElectrical Engineers in 21 Century: Implementing Performability Concepts”.Prof. P. K. Kalra, IIT Kanpur, Mr. Pankaj Gupta, M/s Trane India Ltd., Prof. D.Anand Rao, Dayalbagh Education Institute, Prof. Jayanta Pal, IITKharaghpur, Dr. Lakshman Hari, GM Powergrid, Prof. S. K. Nagar, IT BHUand Prof. M. M. Gupta, University of Saskatchewan on different topics ofSystem Engineering.

A Unique feature of this year's conference was a Special Session onSystems Engineering which was introduced and coordinated by Prof. K.Sudhakar, Deptt. of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay. In this session twocase studies were discussed. Dr. A. G. Radha Krishnan from VSSCTrivendram presented a case study on a Design of Environmental ControlSystem. Mr. Saptrishi and Mr. Shashank presented another case study ofevolving the “IITB Student Satellite Project”.

A number of former faculty members who retired from ElectricalEngineering Deptt. also made their contributions in the Conference bychairing technical sessions. Prof. D. R. Kohli, Prof. M. P. Dave, Prof. V. K.Verma, Prof. R. B. Saxena, Prof. A. K. Pant, Prof. M. P. Jain and Prof. RavishChandra graced the Conference with their families.

Prof. H. K. Verma, Dy. Director was the Chief Guest at the ValedictoryFunction held on Dec. 19, 2008. Prof. K. B. Misra graced the occasion asGuest of Honour. The delegatesmadefollowing recommendations:-

The Conference should be called International to invite globalparticipation.Arrangements be made for a live telecast of the Conferenceproceedings.Pre-Conference Tutorials should also be organised from eminentResearchers on current topics.Few selected papers of this Conference will be published in the

International Journal of Performability Engineering and in the SSI Journal ofSystem Science & Engineering.

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Prof. S. C. Saxena lighting the lampduring Inaugural Function

Prof. P. S. Satsangi being given a memento bythe Director Prof. S. C. Saxena

Prof. P. S. Satsangi and Mrs. Satsangiattending a Technical Session

Chief Guest Prof. H. K. Verma addressing the Valedictory Function

Confluence of Former and Present PioneersFrom L to R:Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr. K. B. Misra, Dr. M. M. Gupta,

Dr. A. K. Pant, Dr. H. K. Verma, Dr. S. C. Saxena, Dr. D. R. Kohli,Dr. M. P. Dave, Dr. H. O. Gupta, Dr. S. P. Gupta.

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SPORNADO, an eventwas

organized by Deptt. of ManagementStudies (DoMS), IIT Roorkee in themajestic campus of the institutefrom Jan. 15-18, 2009. Afterthe phenomenal success ofSPORNADO'08, which saw thefuture managers from two premierinstitutes–IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi,fighting it out for the priced glory,came the grandeur and more spiritedSPORNADO'09. It was acongregation of managementstudents from the IIT Delhi, IITKanpur, IIT Kharagpur and IITRoorkee, spanned over 4 days andfeatured 10 games like football,basketball, cricket, table tennis,badminton, lawn tennis, squash,chess, pool and snooker. This eventwitnessed more than 200 studentsf ight i t out for the covetedSPORNADO'09 trophy and had morethan 2000 footfall.

The Inaugural Ceremony on Jan. 15, 2009 wasgraced by the presence of the Chief Guest Prof. N. K.Goel, Dean of Students Welfare, IIT Roorkee. The ChiefGuest and the Head of Department, Department ofManagement Studies, Prof. V. K. Nangia, lit the lamp andinaugurated the event. The first game to kick off was thecricket match between IIT Roorkee and IIT Kanpur. Thematch saw a brilliant innings from IIT Roorkee batsmen to

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IIT Roorkee Team receiving the Trophy

A Glimpse of Basketball Match

propel their innings to a matchwinning score of 140 runs and theirindomitable bowlers paved the wayfor a handsome 65 run victory. Inanother sports event, IIT Delhienthralled the audiences with their3-0 clean sweep in the squashmatches against IIT Kharagpur.

With the overall championshipat stake, the event brought manyenrapturing moments andspellbound performances in theconcluding days. IIT Roorkee andIIT Delhi had head-on clashes in thefinal matches of 8 out of the 10sports events and IIT Roorkeeemerged as the overall Championsafter defeating IIT Delhi in 7 finalsand lifted the SPORNADO'09trophy.

The event marked an end onJan. 18, 2009 with a grand closingceremony. The Chief Guest on theoccasion Shri Pradeep Kumar,GM,

BSNL (Haridwar) and Prof. Harshavardhan Sinvhal,Dean of Alumni Affairs, IIT Roorkee, graced the occasionwith their presence and gave the trophies to the winners ofthe various sports events.

SPORNADO, in true sense, was the moment whenthe soul and the sporting spirit long suppressed, foundutterance.

The GNEC Construction Monitoring Group visited the site onJan. 17, 2009 for an 'On the spot evaluation of the progress'. TheGroupwasaccompanied by the Head (Infrastructure) of EILMr.S.N.Bhatnagar, his team mates and also the Project Manager andConstruction Manager of the Construction Contractor M/S SamiahInternational Builders Pvt. Ltd.(SIBPL). Following points were noted:

The GNEC land is a low lying area and was totally submerged inwater just before the construction started w.e.f. 19.09.2008. Asper plans, the entire area shall be graded up on an average ofaprox. 2 m so as to avoid future water logging.The bearing capacity of the soil in GNEC land is in the range ofapprox. 6 T/M and also the liquidity index is too high (cohesion-less soil). This has necessitated pile foundation for all thebuildings. In all 785 concrete piles each having depth 12-22meter are already driven in.

Construction activities for the services block, academic blockand field-hostel are on. As per schedule, the academic block isexpected to be fully functional for the academic activities in theacademic year 2010.

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VISIT OF DELEGATION FROM VALI-E-ASRUNIVERSITY, IRAN

For last several months, Dr. (Ms.) Sohila Faghfori,Dean of Student Affairs and Head of InternationalRelations, Vali-e-Asr University, Rafsanjan, Iran wasexploring the possibility of academic cooperation/collaboration with the Institute. Accordingly a delegationfrom Vali-e-Asr University visited the Institute from Jan.3-7, 2009. Dr. Mehdi Ebrahiminejad, Vice Chancellor;Mrs. Fazaneh Ahmedimoghadam,W/oViceChancellor;Dr. (Ms.) Sohila Faghfori; Dr. Vahid Farzam, Dean ofFinance & Planning and Mr. Vahabi Goki, Head ofSecurity Office were the members of the delegation.

The delegation visited various departments/centresof the Institute as per their interest - EarthquakeEngineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry,Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, InstituteInstrumentation Centre, Electronics & ComputerEngineering, Management Studies, Mechanical &Industrial Engineering, Humanities & Social Sciences,Physics andCentral Library.

The delegation also met the Director and all Deans.On the concluding day of visit on Jan. 6, 2009, Prof. S. C.Saxena, Director, IIT Roorkee and Dr. MehdiEbrahiminejad, Vice Chancellor, Vali-e-Asr Universitysigned a MoU for academic cooperation between IITRoorkee and Vali-e-Asr University. Scope of MoUincludes Students exchange, faculty exchange,exchange of information on research and educationalprogrammes, joint organization of short-term continuingeducation programmes, seminars, conferences,workshops on topics ofmutual interest.

Dr. S. C. Saxena and Dr. M. Ebrahiminejadexchanging MOUs after signing

Introductory Functionof M.Tech. (Nanotechnology)

Centre of Nanotechnology organized theintroductory function of M.Tech. (Nanotechnology) onWednesday, the November 12, 2008. Prof. S. C.Saxena, Director, I.I.T. Roorkee was the Chief Gueston the occasion. The function was well attended bythe faculty from Met. & Mat. Engg., Chemistry,Biotechnology, Physics, E&C Engg. and Mech. Engg.Departments. Dean, SRIC, Dean, Finance &Planning, and Dean, Academic Studies were alsopresent on the occasion. Prof. Anil Kumar, Head,Centre of Nanotechnology welcomed the guests andapprised them with the working and facilities of thecentre. M.Tech. and Ph.D. students of the centrepresented their introduction.

Prof. Saxena highlighted the global thrust andfuture perspectives of nanotechnology andencouraged students to pursue this interdisciplinarycourse with great zeal keeping in mind to deliver itsbenefit to the society.

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Training Courses OrganizedProf. G. L. Asawa, Prof. Praveen Kumar

and Dr. K. S. Hari Prasad of Civil EngineeringDepartment organised a series of ThreeTraining Courses for Engineers of RuralEngineering Services, Madhya Pradesh atthe Institute on Sept. 15-19, 2008, Dec. 15-19, 2008 and Jan. 5-9, 2009. The Courseswere specially designed for Hydraulics andRural Road Works under National RuralEmploymentGuaranteeAct (NREGA).

Forthcoming EventsEvent Organized by PeriodNational Seminar on Housing and Centre of Excellence in April 18, 2009Disaster Mitigation Efforts in India: Disaster Mitigation andCase Studies (HDME-2009) ManagementSCHEMCON-09, 5 Annual Session Chemical Engineering Sep. 19-20, 2009

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KIPASPA 2009IPR Cell of the institute organized an International Conference on “Knowledge Sharing& IPManagement: Evolving Strategies inAsia-Pacific” during January 29-31, 2009.

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ICON 2008

The 16 IEEE International Conference on Networks,ICON 2008, was organized by the Dept. of Electronics andComputer Engg., IIT Roorkee, at Habitat World, India HabitatCentre, New Delhi, from December 12 – 14, 2008. Three pre-conference tutorials were held on the first day, one each on ContentDelivery Networks, Operating Systems for Mobiles and UnifiedCommunications, presented by eminent speakers from Industryand Academia. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. B.K.Gairola, Director General, National Informatics Centre, MCIT, Govt.of India. Keynote lectures were given by Prof. Raj Jain of Universityof Washington at St. Louis, USA, Prof. R.K. Buyya of MelbourneUniversity, Australia and Mr. Pradeep Kaithal of Cisco Systems,USA. The topics were 'Next Generation Internet', 'Utility-orientedCloud and Grid Computing' and 'Challenges for future networks',respectively.

Around 110 delegates from India and abroad participatedin the deliberations at the conference and presented their researchwork in 12 technical sessions in areas as diverse as WirelessSensor Networks, Communications, Adhoc Networks, Data andNetwork Security, Wireless Networks, TCP/IP Protocols, P2PNetworks and Network Performance. A CD of the conferenceproceedings was released at the Inaugural function.

A colorful Cultural Programme of Dances from variousstates of India, was presented by a troupe of artists from Delhi. TheConference received financial support from Platinum Sponsor-Cisco Systems USA, Gold Sponsors-Govt. of Uttarakhand andDept. of Information Technology, and MCIT. Other sponsorsincluded BSNL, IEEE, ISCEE, Velocis Systems and NihonCommunications.

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Dr. P.K. Gupta,

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Dr. A. Patnaik and Dr. S. N. Sinha,

Asstt. Prof., IIC,

DRDO Kanpur,Rs.9.95lacs.Prof., Mech. & Ind. Engg. Deptt.,

ISRO Bangalore,Rs. 16.07 lacs.

Prof., Civil Engg. Deptt.,

DST, Rs. 7.05 lacs.Assoc. Prof., Biotechnology Deptt.,

DBT, Rs. 59.36 lacs.Assoc. Prof., Mech. & Ind. Engg. Deptt.,

, BARC Mumbai, Rs. 61.23 lacs.

BARC Mumbai, Rs. 60.95 lacs.Asstt. Prof., Earth Sciences Deptt.,

DST, Rs. 11.46lacs.

Assoc. Prof., Earthquake Engg. Deptt.,

DST, Rs. 14.61lacs.

BRNS,Mumbai,Rs.15.87lacs.

Asstt. Prof., Civil Engg. Deptt.,

DST, Rs. 16.58 lacs.Asstt. Prof., Mech. & Ind. Engg. Deptt.,

DRDO, NewDelhi,Rs.22.45lacs.

Electronics & ComputerEngg.,

Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence, NavalResearch Board,Rs.39.39lacs.

Fabrication andCharacterization of Fe SiC Thin Films by PVD viaPrecursorRoute,

ActiveVibration Control of Laminated Shells,

InstitutionalCapacities Reinforcement of Hanoi University inEducation and Research in Remote and GeographicInformation Systems Applied to Monitoring andManagement of Natural Resources in Vinh PhueProvince, Vietnam,

Functional Genomic for Validation ofCandidate Gene forImprovement of Rice,

Experimental investigation of the asymmetric heating ofpressure tubes

Experimental investigation of the Rewetting of FuelCluster,

Longtail effects in Probabilistic Seismic hazard analysis: Acase study of Himalaya and Mexico City,

Estimation of site effect and ground motion in Delhi andMexico City using strong ground motion data andpreparation of near real-time shake map,

DesignEarthquake groundmotion using recordedtime histories estimation using neural network,

Numerical &experimental analysis of influence of boundaryconditions of deformation of metal plates impacted byprojectile,

Weldbonding of Aluminium Structures,

Development of Healing System for FailedAntenna Array using Evolutionary ComputationalTechniques,

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elected Treasurer of Association for English Studiesof India (AESI) on Dec. 19, 2008 during 53rd All IndiaEnglish Teachers Conference at Gurukul KangriVishwavidyalaya, Hardwar. He has been elected to thispost for a period of three years.awarded

Dec. 28-31, 2008 at IBA, GreaterNoida, Delhi Region, India.

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Dr. (Ms.) Durga Toshniwal, Asstt. Prof., Deptt. ofElectronics & Computer Engineering, presented aresearch paper entitled, "Finding Similarity in the Variationof Exchange Rates of Currencies Using Moments," at theInternational Conference on Recent Advances inCommunication Engineering (RACE - 08) held duringDec. 20 - 23, 2008 at Deptt. of ECE, University College ofEngineering, OsmaniaUniversity, Hyderabad.

Dr. G. S. Srivastava, Prof., Deptt. of Mathematicsattended the 74 meeting of Indian Mathematical Societyheld at Allahabad University, Allahabad from Dec. 27-30,2008 and delivered the 22 P. L. Bhatnagar MemorialAward Lecture on "Entire function extensions ofcontinuous functions - A brief Survey". He was in the panelof judges for the selection of papers for the AMU, IMS andV. M. Shah awards. Prof. G. S. Srivastava also chaired asession of invited talks in the meeting.

Dr. P. M. Pathak, Asstt. Prof., Deptt. of Mech. & Ind.Engineering:

attended IEEE Region 10 Colloquium and the ThirdInternational Conference on Industrial and InformationSystems (ICIIS) at IIT Kharagpur, INDIA from Dec. 8-10,2008. He presented a paper entitled, “Reconfigurationof Directional Handling of an Autonomous Vehicle”,coauthored by A. K. Samantaray (IIT Kharagpur), R.Merzouki, B. Ould-Bouamama (Ecole Polytechnique ofLille, France).delivered expert lecture on 'Modeling and Control ofSpace Robots' in Winter School on “Modeling,Simulation and Control of Engineering Systems,” heldfrom January 5–9, 2009, at NIT Jalandhar.

Dr. G. Ramasamy, Prof., Civil Engg. Deptt.:attended “Centenary Conference, IISc., Bangalore”during Dec. 13-16, 2008 and “Indian GeotechnicalConference, IGC-2008” during Dec. 17-18, 2008 at IISc,Bangalore. He presented a paper on “Computer AidedDesign of Reinforced Earth Slopes”, co-authored bySaranakumar, M. N. and Zsaki,A. M.attended 'PAN IIT-2008' meet at IIT, Madras at Chennaifrom Dec. 19-20, 2008 and made a Poster Presentationon “IIT Research Capabilities-Pitfalls and Remedies”.

Dr. Anil K. Sharma, Deptt. of Management Studiespresented following two research papers in the PAN IITResearch Symposium organised under PAN IIT GlobalConference at IIT Madras, Chennai during Dec. 19-21,2008:

Financing Infrastructure Development in India: A questfor identifying innovative sources.Correlation between Infrastructure Investment andEconomic Growth–ACross Country View.

Dr. Praveen Kumar, Prof. and Dr. Rajat Rastogi, Asstt.Prof., Deptt. of Civil Engg. attended TransportationResearch Board (TRB) 88 Annual Conference atWashington D.C. (USA) on Jan 11-14, 2009. Dr. PraveenKumar presented the paper “Investigation of Fiber-Modified Bituminous Mixes”. Dr. Rajat Rastogi alsopresented a paper “Scale Factor Estimation usingMaximum Information Procedure”.

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Dr. B. R. Gurjar,Asstt. Prof., Civil Engg. Deptt., visitedAtmospheric Science Center, National AutonomousUniversity ofMexico and also visited UNAM from Dec. 7-12, 2008, and delivered a talk to general public andseminar related to his research work on megacities andglobal climate change.Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan from Dec. 21-27, 2008;(i) to attendmeetings and have discussions related to anongoing Indo-Japanese cooperative research project"Implementation and Validation of Numerical Models forHeat Island Studies in Mega-City Delhi", and (ii) todeliver an invited lecture in the 4 Workshop on AsianUrban Heat Island Issues that was held on Dec. 25,2008 atMeisei University in Tokyo.

Dr. Binod Mishra, Asstt. Prof., Deptt of Humanities &Social Sciences attended 53rd All India English TeachersConference organized by AESI, December 18-20, 2008 atGurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Hardwar. He alsopresented a paper entitled “Soaked in Indian Sensibility: AStudy ofAnita Nair's Mistress”.

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Director's Visit to Hanoi, VietnamProf. S. C. Saxena visited Hanoi, Vietnam from

24 to 27 November 2008 to participate in the FirstRound Table under the European Union-Asia HigherEducation Platform organised by European Commission(EC), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) andsome other Organizations and was a penalist in a sessionon “Different Models of Institutional Governance andManagement”. The Round Table included sessions onAutonomy–Trends in Asian and European HigherEducation, System Governance and UniversityAutonomy, Institutional Governance and Managementand how can universities in Asia and Europe learn fromeach other. He visited Hanoi University of Technologyalongwith other delegates of the EU-Asia HigherEducation Platform and held useful discussions with theRector of University Prof. Dr. Nguyen Trung Giang, histeam and Dean of Vietnam National University. Dr.Saxena visited Hanoi Water Resources University on 25Nov. 2008 and held useful discussion with the Rector Dr.Nguyen Quang Kim and his team of Vice-Rectors, Deansand Vice-Deans and reviewed the progress of the MoUwith them. He visited Institute of Hydropower andRenewal Energy on 26 November 2008 and held usefuldiscussion with the Director Dr. Nguyen Viet and histeam. Both these institutes showed keen interest toinitiate new activities with IIT Roorkee and expressedkeen desire to visit IITRoorkee in near future.

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OFFICE MEMORANDA2. Training & Placement : Prof. P. K. Jain3. Communications : Prof. S.N.Sinha4. N. C. NigamGuest House : Prof. R. P. Singh

1. Library Advisory Committee : Prof. Surendra Kumar2. Hospital Advisory Committee : Prof. D. K. Nauriyal3. Advisory Committee for : Prof. S. K. Verma

4. Estate & Works : Prof. V. K. Gupta (Civil)

1. Estate & Works (Civil) : Dr. Akhil Upadhyay2. Estate & Work (Electrical) : Sri Bharat Gupta

1. Quality Improvement Programme : Prof. Vinod Kumar2. Educational Technology Cell : Prof. Bikash Mohanty3. Intellectual Property Rights Cell : Prof. P. K. Ghosh

1. Transportation : Dr. Sandeep Singh

On the recommendations of the Dean of Students' Welfare, theDirector is pleased to extend the tenure of all Chief Wardens, Wardens,Assistant Wardens, Chief Advisors & Deputy Chief Advisors, Sports,Hobbies Club, Students’ Club, Cinema Club, Himalayan ExplorersClub w.e.f. 01.01.2009 to 31.03.2009.

The Director is pleased to appoint Dr. B. D. Indu, Prof. & Head,Deptt. of Physics as StaffAdvisor SC/ST students with immediate effectinitially for a period of one year in place of Dr. Vikas Pruthi, Asstt. Prof.,Deptt. of Biotechnology.

In accordance with Statute 6 [1 (c)], and as per the powers vestedin the Director vide Statute 9(18), the Director, IIT Roorkee has beenpleased to nominate the under-mentioned three persons to the FinanceCommittee of the Institute as Board nominees for a period of threeyears from 01.01.2009 to 31.12.2011:1- Prof. S. K. Khanna,

Former Chairman,AICTE,Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT)A-10, Sector-62, Noida - 201 307 (UP)

2- Prof. Surendra KumarDepartment ofChemical Engineering,Indian Institute of TechnologyRoorkee

3- Prof. N. M. BhandariDepartment ofCivil Engineering,Indian Institute of TechnologyRoorkee

Director has been pleased to approve the change in the name ofContinuing Education Centre (Guest House) as under:

Continuing Education Centre Trainee Officers Hostel

Communication (ACC)

(Guest House)

D. Chairmen

ViceChairmen

E. Coordinators

F. Officer-in-Charge

No. Estt.(A)/01/D-63(iii) Dated: Jan. 01, 2009

No. Estt.(A)/59/D-63 (iii) Dated: Jan. 09, 2009

No. IITR/MS-6/2412 Dated: Jan. 07, 2009

No. IITR/Gen/2009/3931 Dated: Jan. 19, 2009

Old Name NewName

No. Estt.(A)/1588/E-2281(HODs)Dated:December 29, 2008

A. Dean:

B. Head of Departments

Head of Academic Centres

Head of Centre of Excellence

Head of Academic Service Centres

C. Professor-in-Charge

The director is pleased tomake the following appointments for aperiod of one year w.e.f. 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009:

1. Dean,Academic Studies : Prof. G. S. Srivastava2. Dean,Academic Research : Prof. H.O.Gupta3. Dean, SRIC : Prof. J.D.Sharma4. Dean, FacultyAffairs : Prof. D. K. Paul5. Dean,Administration : Prof. S.C.Jain6. Dean of StudentsWelfare : Prof. N. K. Goel7. Dean, Saharanpur Campus : Prof. I. M. Mishra8. Dean, Finance & Planning : Prof. Surendra Kumar9. Dean,AlumniAffairs : Prof. H. Sinvhal10. Associate Dean, FacultyAffairs : Prof. SatishC.Sharma11. Associate Dean,Academic : Prof. PramodAgarwal12. Associate Dean (SRIC) : Prof. B. K. Mishra13. Associate Dean (Mess) : Prof. M. L. Kansal14. Associate Dean (Discipline) : Prof. S. P. Srivastava15. Associate Dean (Foreign Students) : Dr.Deepak Khare

1. Arch. & Planning : Prof. S. Y. Kulkarni2. Biotechnology : Prof. (Mrs.)RituBarthwal3. Civil Engg. : Prof. G. L.Asawa4. Chemical Engg. : Prof. I. D. Mall5. Chemistry : Prof. Kamaluddin6. Electronics & Computer Engg. : Prof. S.N.Sinha7. Electrical Engg. : Prof. Vinod Kumar8. Earthquake Engg. : Prof.Ashwani Kumar9. Earth Sciences : Prof. R. P. Gupta10. Hum. & Soc. Sciences : Prof. S. P. Singh11. Hydrology : Prof. Himanshu Joshi12. Mathematics : Prof. (Mrs.)Rama Bhargava13. Mechanical & IndustrialEngg. : Prof. Pradeep Kumar14. Metallurgical & Materials Engg. : Prof. S. K. Nath15. Management Studies : Prof. V. K.Nangia16. Physics : Prof. B.D.Indu17. Paper Technology : Prof. J. S. Upadhyay18. WaterRes. Dev. : Prof. Ram Pal Singh

1. AHEC : Dr.Arun Kumar

1. Centre for Transportation Systems : Prof. S. S. Jain2. Centre for DisasterMitigation & : Prof. D. K. Paul

3. Centre of Nanotechnology : Prof.Anil Kumar

1. Continuing Education Centre : Prof. Vinod Kumar2. InstituteComputer Centre : Prof. Padam Kumar3. Information Superhighway Centre : Prof. Padam Kumar4. Institute InstrumentationCentre : Prof.A.K.Chaudhary

1. Security : Prof. V. K.Gupta (Chemistry)

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DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics

On the dais (L-R), Dr. A. Saxena, Dr. R. K. Choudhury, Dr. S. S. Kapoor,Prof. H. K. Verma, Prof. B. D. Indu and Prof. A. K. Jain

during Inaugural SessionProf. M.G.K. Menon delivering the lecture

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Editorial Board :

Designer & Printer :

Prof. Surendra Kumar

Prof. Ravi BhushanProf. Praveen Kumar

Ph. : 285270 e-mail : deanfap_p@iitr.ernet.in

Ph. : 285795 e-mail : rbushfcy@iitr.ernet.inPh. : 285470 e-mail : pkaerfce@iitr.ernet.in

IIT Roorkee

Jain Printing Press, RKE Ph. : 262722, 269999 Mob. : 9837506234

Prof. S.P. Gupta Ph. : 285231 e-mail : spgfee@iitr.ernet.in

(For internal circulation only)

Matter for may be sent at samvaad@iitr.ernet.incan also be seen at www.iitr.ernet.in

SamvaadSamvaad

Consultancy Projectsw.e.f. 26.12.2008 to 25.01.2009 (Above Rs.1.00 lac or More)

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Dr. R. P. Saini,

Dr. S. K. Singal,

Dr. G. L. Asawa,

Dr. Kamal Jain,

Dr. S. K. Ghosh,

Dr. Pradeep Bhargava,

Dr. N. M. Bhandari,

Dr. A. Upadhyay,

Dr. Vipul Prakash,

AHEC,Project

Manager, Yamuna Pollution Control Unit - I, U.P. Jal Nigam,Ghaziabad, Rs. 5.71 lac.

AHEC,, Gill Power

Generation Company (P) Ltd., Kahnuwan Road,Gurdaspur,Rs.5.00lacs.

AHEC,

PTC India Limited, 2nd Floor, NBCC Tower,Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi, Rs. 4.00 lacs.

CED,The Chief Engineer (Canals),

IrrigationWorks, Punjab, Rs. 3.25 lacs.

CED,

THDC, Rishikesh Rs. 5.30lacs.

THDC, Rishikesh, Rs. 18.75lacs.

CED,N.T.P.C. Ltd., LPHPP, Uttarkashi, Rs.

21.90 lacs.

CED,

BHEL,Ranipur, Haridwar,Rs.9.75lacs.

CED,BHEL

Ranipur,Haridwar, Rs. 12.75 lacs.

CED,Executive

Engineer, Prov.Division, P.W.D., Haridwar,Rs.1.30lacs.

CED,

Executive Engineer. Construction Division, PWD,Barkot, Rs. 1.80 lacs.

Executive Engineer. ConstructionDivision, PWD, Barkot, Rs. 2.98 lacs.

Checking and evaluation ofprocess hydraulic design calculations,

Performance Testing of BabehaliHydro Electric Plant (2.7 MW) in Punjab

Review of executed cost ofBhilangna Small Hydro Project (3 x 7.5 MW)Uttarakhand,

C.D. Works at RD 69.108 km ofKandi Canal Stage - II,

Consultancy Service forPreparation of L-Section and Contour map/DTM forBunakha Project in Bhutan,

Consultancy Service for Canal Alignment ofSankosh Project Bhutan,

Topographical Survey forTownship of LPHPP,

Third Party QualityAssurance of Execution Stage of NewACM Shop & Ext.ofBay-2 Block,

Third Party Quality Assurancefor Construction of New Turbine Block at BHEL,

Proof Checking of StructuralDesign and Drawing of ROB at Laksar,

Design of 30 M SpanPedestrian Bridge for Village Nakoda in KhuthnaurKhad,

Design of 60 M Span Steel GirderBridge Across River Yamuna on Approach Road forHalipad at Kharasli,

Dr. N. K. Samadhiya,

Dr. Mahendra Singh,

Dr. Umesh Kumar,

Dr. S. Mittal,

CED,

Executive Engineer, PWD, Haldwani, Rs. 2.20lacs.

CED,

XEN Construction Division, PWD, Dehradun,Rs. 2.50 lacs.

M/s R.G. Buildwell Engineer Ltd.,Ghaziabad, Rs. 1.10 lacs.

CED,THDC, Josiyara, Uttarkashi, Rs. 2.30 lacs.

CED,PWD, Haridwar, Rs. 1.00 lac.

, Uttarakhand Peyjal Nigam, Dehradun,Rs. 1.65 lacs.

R.N.Gupta & Co., Ludhiana, Rs. 2.46 lacs.

Soil Investigations forBearing Capacity for Foundation Design of Bridge atHaldwani,

Geotechnical Investigationfor Foundation Design at Vigilance DirectorateDehradun,

Geotechnical investigation at bridgesite at Ch.16.860 Patharkhai-Dodal-Umrasu Road,Pauri Garhwal,

Testing of Shortcrete Cores,

Soil Test for Mayapur BarrageBridge, Soil Tests forOverhead Tanks

Soil Tests for Machine FoundationDesign,

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Dr. D. K. Paul,

Dr. Ashwani Kumar,

Dr. N. K. Goel,

Dr. S. K. Tripathi,

Dr. M. L. Kansal,

CED,1. Exe. Engr., PWD, Hardwar, 2. Exe.

Engr. PWD, Dehradun, 3. Exe. Engr. PWD, Dhumakot, Rs.1.52 lacs.

DMC,

NationalDisaster Management Authority, NDMA Bhawan, A-1,Safdarjung Enclave,NewDelhi,Rs.4.45lacs.

EQD,

Kanti Bijlee Utpadan NigamLimited, Muzaffarpur Thermal Power Station, Bihar, Rs.5.00 lacs.

Lanco Hydro EnergiesPvt. Ltd., Udyog Vihar,Gurgaon,Rs.5.00lacs.

HYD,

BBMB,Sundernagar, Rs. 7.00 lacs.

WRD&M,

Executive Engineer,UP Irrigation, Lucknow Div.-2, Sharda Canal, Lucknow, Rs.4.89 lacs.

WRD&M,Superintending

Engineer, Investigation & Planning Circle-I, UttarakhandIrrigation Department, Yamuna Colony, Dehradun, Rs. 1.20lacs. S.T.E.P.,IIT, Roorkee,Rs.1.80lacs.

Evaluation of Subgrade andDesign of Mixes,

Broad Course Contents relating tothe Capacity Building activities for NationalEarthquake Risk Mitigation Project-reg.,

Site Specific DesignEarthquake Parameters Study for Power PlantStructures at MTPS, Kanti,

Site Specific Seismic Study for 76 MW PhataByung Hydro-Electric Project,

Study and Analysis of observeddata of Suketi Khad, Kansa Khad and River Beas,

Estimation of minimum flowfor ecological consideration, sewerage dilution andkeeping thewater Hyacinth floating,

Vetting of Hydrology forTiuni-Plasu Hydroelectric Project,

PFR for Karligad Water Supply Scheme,

Orientation Program on “ExoticRadioactivity and the Shell Model”

A one day orientation program on “Exotic radioactivity and the shellmodel” was held on Dec. 21, 2008, at the S. N. Bose Auditorium, BoseBlock, Physics Department, preceding the DAE symposium on NuclearPhysics. Over fifty participants comprising of mainly Ph.D. students andyoung researchers attended the course. The course was coordinated byProf. A.K. Jain and lectures were given by Prof. Enrico Maglione,Padova, Italy (Theoretical aspects of proton emission from proton richnuclei), Dr. Ajit K. Sinha, Director, UGC-DAE, CSR-Kolkata (ProtonRadioactivity – Experimental aspects), Dr. P.Arumugam, IITR (Meanfieldof triaxially deformed nuclei and application to proton radioactivity), Dr.Rajdeep Chatterjee, IITR (Direct and indirect approaches in nuclearastrophysics), and Dr. P.K. Rath, Lucknow Univ. (Double beta-decay andnuclear structure physics). The course concluded on a successful notepreparing the students for working in these advanced areas.