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PAPERS IN JOURNALS1 The universe in a soap film

Katti, Rohit*; Samuel, Joseph; Sinha, SupurnaClassical and Quantum Gravity 2626262626, 135018, 2009

2 Comment on “Writhe formulas and antipodal points in plectonemic DNA configurations”Samuel, Joseph; Sinha, Supurna; Ghosh, Abhijit*Physical Review E , 063901, 2009

3 Dark energy from quantum wave function collapse of dark matterMajumdar AS*; Home D*; Sinha, SupurnaPhysics Letters B 679,679,679,679,679, 167, 2009

4 Stable homology as an indicator of manifoldlikeness in causal set theoryMajor, Seth*; Rideout, David*; Surya, SumatiClassical and Quantum Gravity 2626262626, 175008, 2009

5 Quantum covers in quantum measure theorySurya, Sumati; Wallden, PetrosFoundations of Physics DOI: 10.1007/s1007/s10701-010-9419-1http://www.springerlink.com/content/h6115m6667p1u238/?p=68fb76def1d54df5a57ac7739c5d3a45&pi=0

6 Spacelike distance from discrete causal orderRideout, David*; Wallden, PetrosClassical and Quantum Gravity 2626262626, 155013, 2009

7 Dynamics and predictions in the co-event interpretationGhazi-Tabatabai Y*; Wallden, PetrosJournal of Physics A 42,42,42,42,42, 235303, 2009

8 On the resolution of the big bang singularity in isotropic Loop Quantum CosmologyVaradarajan, MadhavanClass.Quant.Grav.2626262626:085006, 2009

9 Buckling, stiffening, and negative dissipation in the dynamics of a biopolymer in an activemediumKikuchi, Norio*; Ehrlicher, Allen*; Koch, Daniel*; Kas, Josef A*; Ramaswamy, Sriram*; Rao,MadanProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106106106106106, 19776, 2009

10 Reply to “Comment on `Elastic constants from microscopic strain fluctuations”Sengupta S*; Nielaba, Peter*; Rao, Madan; Binder K*Physical Review E 8181818181, 013102, 2010

11 Topological phase in two flavour neutrino oscillationsMehta, PoonamPhysical Review D 7979797979, 096013, 2009

12 An efficient numerical method for computing gravitational waves induced by a particlemoving on eccentric inclined orbits around a Kerr black holeFujita, Ryuichi; Hikida, Wataru*; Tagoshi H*Progress of Theoretical Physics 121121121121121, 843, 2009

13 Analytical solutions of bound timelike geodesic orbits in Kerr spacetimeFujita, Ryuichi; Hikida, Wataru*Classical and Quantum Gravity 2626262626, 135002, 2009

14 DECIGO pathfinderAndo, Masaki*; Kawamura, Seiji*; Sato, Shuichi*; Fujita, Ryuichi and 40+ co-authorsClassical and Quantum Gravity 26,26,26,26,26, 094019, 20097th International LISA Symposium held in 2008 in Barcelona, 2009

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15 Third post-Newtonian angular momentumflux and the secular evolution of orbitalelements for inspiralling compact binaries inquasi-elliptical orbitsArun KG*; Blanchet, Luc*; Iyer BR; Sinha,SiddharthaPhysical Review D 8080808080, 124018, 2009

16 Comparison of post-Newtonian templates forcompact binary inspiral signals ingravitational-wave detectorsBuonanno, Alessandra*; Iyer BR; Ochsner,Evan*; Pan, Yi*; Sathyaprakash BS*Physical Review D 8080808080, 084043, 2009

17 Two mesoscopic models of two interactingelectrons : Exact resultsRoy, DibyenduPhysical Review B 8080808080, 245304, 2009

18 LISA as a dark energy probeArun KG*; Mishra, Chandrakant; Broeck CVD*;Iyer BR ; Satyaprakash BS*; Sinha, SiddharthaClassical and Quantum Gravity 2626262626, 094021,2009

19 Massive black-hole binary inspirals: resultsfrom the LISA parameter estimation taskforceArun KG*; Babak, Stas*; Berti, Emanuele*;Cornish, Neil*; Cutler, Curt*; Gair, Jonathan*;Hughes SA*; Iyer BR; Sinha, Siddhartha; and 8co-authorsClassical and Quantum Gravity 2626262626, 094027,2009

20 Nonequilibrium charge transport in aninteracting open system: two-particleresonance and current asymmetryRoy, Dibyendu; Soori, Abhiram*; Sen,Diptiman*; Dhar, AbhishekPhysical Review B 8080808080, 075302, 2009

21 Heat conduction in a three dimensionalanharmonic crystalSaito, Keiji*; Dhar, AbhishekPhysical Review Letters 104,104,104,104,104, 040601, 2010

22 ‘Sequence’ dependent elasticity and localstiffness of a random heteropolymerMuhuri S*; Rao, MadanJournal of StatisticalMechanics 10.1088, 2010

23 Heat transport and phonon localization inmass-disordered harmonic crystalsChaudhuri, Abhishek; Kundu, Anupum; Roy,Dibyendu; Dhar, Abhishek; Lebowitz JL*;Spohn, Herbert*Physical Review B 8181818181, 064301, 2010

24 Classical Langevin dynamics of a chargedparticle moving on a sphere anddiamagnetism: a surpriseKumar N; Kumar,Vijay K*Europhysics Letters 8686868686, 17001, 2009

25 Spatio-temporal plasticity in chromatinorganization in mouse cell differentiation andduring drosophila embryogenesisBhattacharya, Dipanjan; Talwar, Shefali*;Mazumder, Aprotim*; Shivashankar GV+Biophysical Journal 9696969696, 3832, 2009

26 Polar switching in the smectic-AdPA phasecomposed of asymmetric bent-coremoleculesGuo, Lingfeng*; Dhara, Surajit*; Sadashiva BK;Radhika S; Pratibha R; Shimbo, Yoshio*;Araoka, Fumito*; Ishikawa, Ken*; Takezoe,Hideo*Physical Review E 8181818181, 011703, 2010

27 Novel banana-discotic hybrid architecturesBisoyi, Hari Krishna; Srinivasa HT; Kumar,SandeepBeilstein Journal of OrganicChemistry 55555, 1, 2009

28 A nanophase segregated mesophasemorphology in self-organized novel disc-rodoligomesogensBisoyi, Hari Krishna; Raghunathan VA; Kumar,SandeepChemical Communications 4545454545, 7003, 2009

29 Effect of ceramide on nonraft proteinsPabst, Georg*; Boulgaropoulos, Beate*;Gander, Edgar*; Sarangi BR; Raghunathan VA;Laggner, Peter*Journal of Membrane Biology 231 231 231 231 231, 125, 2009

30 Effect of surfactants on iridescencedeveloped by swollen lamellar phase of C12-alkenylsuccinic acidDastidar, Sudipta G*; Bharath P*; Pal, Antara;Raghunathan VAIndustrial and Engineering ChemistryResearch 4848484848, 8856, 2009

31 Re-entrant phase behavior of a concentratedanionic surfactant system with stronglybinding counterionsGhosh, Sajal Kumar; Rathee, Vikram* ;Krishnaswamy, Rema*; Raghunathan VA;Sood AK*Langmuir 2525252525, 8497, 2009

32 On some liquid crystals made of banana-shaped molecules and their mixtures withrod-like moleculesMadhusudana NVLiquid Crystals 3636363636, 1173, 2009

33 Discotic mesogen - DNA complex films atinterfacesSuresh KA* ; Nayak, AlpanaMolecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 512512512512512,57, 2009

34 Atomic force microscope study of glasssurfaces after etching with HF and aluminapolishDhason ABritish Society of Scientific GlassblowersJournal 4747474747, 117, 2009

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35 Novel benzene-bridged triphenylene-baseddiscotic dyadsGupta, Satyam Kumar; Raghunathan VA;Lakshminarayanan V; Kumar, SandeepJournal of Physical Chemistry B 113113113113113, 12887,2009

36 Electrochemical studies of redox probes inself-organized lyotropic liquid crystallinesystemsKumar, Suresh P; Lakshminarayanan VJournal of Chemical Science 121121121121121, 629, 2009

37 Electron transfer redox reactions in themicellar and liquid crystalline mediaKumar, Suresh P ; Lakshminarayanan VJournal of the Indian Institute of Science 8989898989,187, 2009

38 Experimental studies of the transientfluctuation theorem using liquid crystalsDatta, Soma; Roy, ArunPramana 7272727272, 797, 2009

39 Hybrid organic/inorganic nanocomposite as aquasi-one-dimensional semiconductor underambient conditionsKumar, Suresh P; Kumar, Sandeep;Lakshminarayanan VJournal of Applied Physics 106106106106106, 093701,2009

40 Electro-oxidation of formic acid, methanol,and ethanol on electrodeposited Pd-polyaniline nanofiber films in acidic andalkaline mediumPandey, Rakesh K; Lakshminarayanan VJournal of Physical Chemistry C 113 113 113 113 113, 21596,2009

41 Discotic nematic liquid crystals: science andtechnologyBisoyi, Hari Krishna; Kumar, SandeepChemical Society Reviews 3939393939, 264, 2010

42 Kinetics of trans - cis isomerization inazobenzene dimers at an air-water interfaceKumar, Bharat; Suresh KA*Physical Review E 8080808080, 021601, 2009

43 Micro-structural, electrical and spectroscopicinvestigations of pulsed laser ablatedpalladium incorporated nanostructuredtungsten oxide filmsLethy KJ* ; Beena D*; Pillai, VP Mahadevan*;Suresh KA*Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology99999, 5335, 2009

44 Electrochemically grown mesoporous goldfilm as high surface area material for electro-oxidation of alcohol in alkaline mediumNagaraju DH; Lakshminarayanan VJournal of Physical Chemistry C 113113113113113, 14922,2009

45 Laser induced rotation of trapped chiral andachiral nematic dropletsMosallaeipour, Marjan*; Hatwalne, Yashodhan;Madhusudhana NV; Ananthamurthy Sharath*Journal of Modern Optics 5757575757, 5, 395 2010

46 Self-assembled superlattices of goldnanoparticles in a discotic liquid crystalVijayaraghavan D; Kumar, SandeepMolecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 508508508508508,101, 2009

47 Playing with discsKumar, SandeepLiquid Crystals 3636363636, 607, 2009

48 Synthesis and characterization of bent-shaped azobenzene monomers: Guest-hosteffects in liquid crystals with azo dyes foroptical image storage devicesLutfor MR*; Hegde G*; Kumar, Sandeep;Tschierske C*; Chigrinov VG*Optical Materials 3232323232, 176, 2009

49 Synthesis and mesomorphic properties ofnonsymmetric liquid crystalline dimerscontaining azobenzene groupsRahman MLR*; Asik, Jahimin*; Kumar,Sandeep; Silong, Sidik*; Rahman MZA*Phase Transitions 8282828282, 228, 2009

50 Hierarchical discsKumar, SandeepLiquid Crystals Today 1818181818, 2,2009

51 Synthesis and photoswitching properties ofbent-shaped liquid crystals containingazobenzene monomersRahman, Lutfor*; Kumar, Sandeep;Tschierske, Carsten*; Israel, Gunter*; Ster,Diana*; Hegde, Gurumurthy*Liquid Crystals 3636363636, 397, 2009

52 Stress relaxation in aging soft colloidal glassesBandyopadhyay, Ranjini; Mohan, Harsha P;Joshi, Yogesh M*Soft Matter, DOI : 10.1039/ < B916342E >

53 Discrete cosine transform for driving liquidcrystal displaysRuckmongathan TNJournal of Display Technology 55555, 243, 2009

54 Methods to reduce power dissipation andsupply voltage of LCD driversThirunarayanan, Raghavasimhan*;Ruckmongathan TNJournal of the SID 1717171717, 897, 2009

55 Colloidal gold nanosphere dispersions insmectic liquid crystals and thin nanoparticle-decorated smectic filmsPratibha R; Park W*; Smalyukh I I*Journal of Applied Physics 107107107107107, 063511,2010

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56 Orientational order in liquid crystals exhibitedby some binary mixtures of rod-like andbent-core moleculesKundu, Brindaban; Pratibha R; MadhusudanaNVEuropean Physical Journal E 3131313131, 145, 2010

57 Tunable optical metamaterial based on liquidcrystal-gold nanosphere compositePratibha R; Park K*; Smalyukh I I*; Park W*Optics Express 1717171717, 19459, 2009

58 Flexoelectric studies on mixtures ofcompounds made of rodlike and bent-coremoleculesKundu, Brindaban; Roy, Arun; Pratibha R;Madhusudana NVApplied Physics Letters 9595959595, 081902, 2009

59 Coarsening through directed dropletcoalescence in uid-uid phase separationThakur, Snigdha*; Pullarkat, Pramod A; Sunil,Kumar PB*Physical Review E 8080808080, 011708, 2009

60 Drag force as a tool to test the activemechanical response of PC12 neuritesBernal, Roberto*; Melo, Francisco*; Pullarkat,Pramod ABiophysical Journal 9898989898, 515, 2010

61 Design and synthesis of novel calamitic anddiscotic materials based on thephotorefractive carbazole unitManickam, M* ; Iqbal, P* ; Spencer, N*;Ashton, PR* ; Kumar, Sandeep; Donovan KJ* ;Preece JA*Molecular Crystals & Liquid Crystals 518518518518518, 84,2010

62 Carbon nanotubes in discotic liquid crystalsBisoyi, Hari Krishna; Kumar, SandeepJournal of the Indian Institute of Science 8989898989,101, 2009

63 Optical limiting properties of Te and Ag2TenanowiresSandeep, Suchand CS ; Samal AK* ; PradeepT* ; Philip, RejiChemical Physics Letters 485485485485485, 326, 2010

64 Two-photon absorption and optical limitingin tristhiourea cadmium sulphateDhanuskodi S*; Girisun, Sabari TC*; Smijesh,N; Philip, RejiChemical Physics Letters 486486486486486, 80, 2010

65 Study of optical properties and effectivethree-photon absorption in Bi-doped ZnOnanoparticlesKarthikeyan B*; Suchand Sandeep CS; Philip,Reji; Baesso ML*Journal of Applied Physics 106106106106106, 114304,2009

66 Optical limiting properties of hydrophobicpoly(etherimide) membranes embedded withisolated and aggregated gold nanostructuresD’Britto V*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Philip, Reji;Prasad BLV*Colloids and Surfaces A 352352352352352, 79, 2009

67 Non-linear optical properties of(Pb1ÀÛÜxSrx)TiO3 thin filmsAmbika D*; Kumar V*; Sandeep, Suchand CS;Philip, RejiApplied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 9797979797, 661,2009

68 Optical characterization of a new donor-acceptor type conjugated polymer derivedfrom 3,4-diphenylthiopheneManjunatha MG*; Adhikari AV*; Hegde PK*;Sandeep Suchand CS; Philip, RejiJournal of Materials Science 4444444444, 6069, 2009

69 Optical and nonlinear absorption propertiesof Na doped ZnO nanoparticle dispersionsKarthikeyan B*; Suchand Sandeep CS;Pandiyarajan T*; Venkatesan P*; Philip, RejiApplied Physics Letters 9595959595, 023118, 2009

70 Synthesis of high coercivity cobalt-in-carbonnanotube hybrid structures and their opticallimiting propertiesNarayanan TN*; Suchand Sandeep CS;Shaijumon MM*; Ajayan PM*; Philip, Reji;Anantharaman MR*Nanotechnology 2020202020, 285702, 2009

71 On the chromo-electric permittivity andDebye screening in hot QCDChandra V*; Ranjan A*; Ravishankar VEuropean Physical Journal A 4040404040, 109, 2009

72 Quasi-particle model for lattice QCD: quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisionsChandra, Vinod*; Ravishankar V+European Physical Journal C 6464646464, 63, 2009

73 Dynamics of entanglement in two-qubitopen system interacting with a squeezedthermal bath via dissipative interactionBanerjee, Subhashish; Ravishankar V+ ;Srikanth RAnnals of Physics 325325325325325, 816, 2010

74 Entanglement dynamics in two-qubit opensystem interacting with a squeezed thermalbath via quantum nondemolition interactionBanerjee, Subhashish; Ravishankar V+;Srikanth REuropean Physical Journal D 5656565656, 277, 2010

75 Complementarity in atomic (finite-levelquantum) systems: an information-theoreticapproachSrikanth R*; Banerjee SEuropean Physical Journal D 5353535353, 217, 2009

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76 Synthesis and nonlinear opticalcharacterization of new polyf2,20-(3,4-didodecyloxythiophene-2,5-diyl)bis[5-(2-thienyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole]gHegde PK*; Adhikari AV*; Manjunatha MG*;Suchand, Sandeep CS; Philip, RejiSynthetic Metals 159159159159159, 1099, 2009

77 Theoretical investigations of quantum walksby cold atoms in a double optical latticeSatapathy, Nandan; Hagman, Henning*;Zelan, Martin*; Kastberg, Anders*;Ramachandran, HemaPhysical Review A 8080808080, 012302, 2009

78 Monte Carlo calculations of spectral featuresin random lasingMujumdar, Sushil*; Torre, Renato*;Ramachandran, Hema; Wiersma, Diederik S*Journal of Nanophotonics 44444, 041550, 2010

79 Bright visible emission from carbonnanotubes spatially constrained on a micro-bubbleRamanandan G*; Dharmadhikari AK*;Dharmadhikari JA* ; Ramachandran, Hema;Mathu D*Optics Express 1717171717, 9614, 2009

80 Theoretical investigations of quantum walksby cold atoms in a double optical latticeSatapathy, Nandan; Hagman, Henning*;Zelan, Martin*; Kastberg, Anders*;Ramachandran, HemaPhysical Review A 8080808080, 012302, 2009

81 Three-dimensional lattice of ion trapsRavi K; Lee, Seunghyun; Sharma, Arijit; Ray,Tridib; Werth G*; Rangwala, SadiqPhysical Review A 8181818181, 031401, 2010

82 Recombination emissions and spectralblueshift of pump radiation from ultrafastlaser induced plasma in a planar watermicrojetAnija M; Philip, RejiOptics Communications 282282282282282, 3770, 2009

83 Design and fabrication of PIC basedtemperature controller for precision heatingof materialsNadeer, Muhammad TM*; Belavadi, Prakash*;Philip, RejiInternational Journal of ComputerIntelligence Research and Applications 33333, 175,2009

84 Enhanced optical nonlinearity of polyaniline -porphyrin nanocompositePandey, Rakesh K; Suchand, Sandeep CS;Philip, Reji; Lakshminarayanan VJournal of Physical Chemistry C 113,113,113,113,113, 8630,2009

85 Size dependent optical nonlinearity of AunanocrystalsJayaraj, Madambi*; Sreeja R*; Aneesh PM*;Aravind, Arun*; Reshmi R*; Philip, RejiJournal of the Electrochemical Society 156156156156156,K167-K172, 2009

86 Higher order nonlinearities in a non-Dopplerfree geometryNarayanan, Andal; Sharma, Archana; PreethiTM ; Abheera, H*; Ramachandran, HemaCanadian Journal of Physics 8787878787, 843, 2009

87 Shear dynamo problem: quasilinear kinematictheorySridhar S; Subramanian, Kandaswamy*Physical Review E 7979797979, 045305, 2009

88 Slow pressure modes in thin accretion discsSaini TD*; Gulati Mamta; Sridhar SMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 400, 2090, 2009

89 Nonperturbative quasilinear approach to theshear dynamo problemSridhar S; Subramanian, Kandaswamy*Physical Review E 8080808080, 066315, 2009

90 Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in astrongly magnetised plasmaSridhar SAstronomische Nachrichten 331331331331331, 93, 2010

91 Diffuse radio emission in Abell 754Kale, Ruta; Dwarakanath KSAstrophysical Journal 699699699699699, 1883, 2009

92 GMRT detection of a new Wide-Angle Tail(WAT) radio source associated with the galaxyPGC 1519010Kantharia NG*; Das, Mousumi*; Gopal-Krishna*Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 3030303030,37, 2009

93 The Murchison widefield arrary: designoverviewLonsdale CJ*; Deshpande AA; GopalakrishnaMR; Kamini PA; Kumar, Deepak*; Madhavi S;Prabu T; Roshi, Anish D; Shankar, Udaya N;Srivani KS and 33 co-authorsProceedings of the IEEE 97,97,97,97,97, 1497, 2009

94 Development of THz waveguide NbTiN HEBmixersJiang, Ling*; Shiba S*; Shimbo, Ken*; Sakai,Nami*; Yamakura, Tetsuya*; Sugimura, Mika*;Ananthasubramanian PG; Maezawa H* ;Irimajiri Y*; Yamamoto S*IEEE Transactions on AppliedSuperconductivity 1919191919, 301, 2009

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95 Relics of double radio sourcesDwarakanath KS; Kale, RutaAstrophysical Journal 698698698698698, L163, 2009

96 HI content and star formation in theinteracting galaxy Arp86Sengupta, Chandreyee; Dwarakanath KS;Saikia DJ*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 397397397397397, 548, 2009

97 Starburst-driven galactic outflowsNath, Biman B; Silk, Joseph*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 396396396396396, L90, 2009

98 The biggest explosions in the universeNath, Biman BResonance 1414141414, 985, 2009

99 Spectral and temporal changes associatedwith flux enhancement in 4U 1626-67Jain, Chetana*; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 403403403403403, 920, 2010

100 An X-ray bright nucleus in the low-surface-brightness galaxy UGC 6614Naik, Sachindra*; Das M* ; Jain, Chetana*;Paul, BiswajitMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 404404404404404, 2056, 2010

101 Orbital X-ray modulation study of threesupergiant HMXBsJain, Chetana*; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan*Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 9,9,9,9,9,1303, 2009

102 Effect of pulse profile variations onmeasurement of eccentricity in orbits of CenX-3 and SMC X-1Raichur, Harsha; Paul, BiswajitMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 401401401401401, 1532, 2009

103 A torque reversal to spin-up in 4U 1626-67Jain, Chetana*; Paul, BiswajitAstronomer’s Telegram No.2095, 2009

104 Discovery of a short orbital period in thesupergiant fast X-ray transient IGRJ16479-4514Jain, Chetana*; Paul, Biswajit; Dutta, Anjan*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 397397397397397, L11, 2009

105 Kolmogorov dissipation scales in weaklyionized plasmasKrishan V+ ; Yoshida Z*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 395395395395395, 2039, 2009

106 Sweet-Parker current slab in a partially ionizedplasmaKrishan V+Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 400400400400400, 2200, 2009

107 Activity dependence of solar supergranularfractal dimensionPaniveni U*; Krishnan V+; Singh, Jagdev*;Srikanth RMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 402402402402402, 424, 2009

108 Description of accretion induced outflowsfrom ultra-luminous sources to under-luminous AGNsGhosh, Shubhrangshu*; Mukhopadhyay,Banibrata*; Krishan, Vinod+; Khan,Manoranjan*New Astronomy 1414141414, 83, 2010

109 Alfven-like mode in partially ionized solaratmosphereSingh KAP *; Krishan, Vinod+New Astronomy 1515151515, 119, 2010

110 Reciprocity constraints on the matrix ofreflection from optically anisotropic surfacesBhandari, RJournal of the Optical Society of America A2626262626, 2368, 2009

111 Primordial magnetic fields and the HI signalfrom the epoch of reionizationSethi SK; Subramanian, Kandaswamy*Journal of Cosmology and AstroparticlePhysics, 1111111111, 021 , 2009

112 Estimation of cosmological prameters fromneutral hydrogen observations of the post-reionization epochBharadwaj, Somnath*; Sethi SK; Saini TD*Physical Review D 7979797979, 083538, 2009

113 The genesis of morphologies in extendedradio sources: x-shapes, off-axis distortions,and giant radio sourcesSaripalli, Lakshmi; Subrahmanyan, RaviAstrophysical Journal 695695695695695, 156, 2009

114 ATLBS: the Australia telescope low-brightnesssurveySubrahmanyan, Ravi; Ekers RD*; Saripalli,Lakshmi; Sadler EM*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 402402402402402, 2792, 2010

115 The Australia telescope 20 GHz survey: thesource catalogueMurphy, Tara*; Sadler E M*; Ekers RD*;Massardi, Marcella*; Hancock, J. Paul*;Mahony, Elizabeth*; Ricci, Roberto*; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah*; Calabretta, Mark*;Subrahmanyan, RaviMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 402,402,402,402,402, 2403, 2010

116 Near-infrared/optical identification of fivelow-luminosity X-ray pulsatorsKaur, Ramanpreet*; Wijnands R*; Paul,Biswajit; Patruno A*; Degenaar N*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 402402402402402, 2388, 2010

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2 Optical and nonlinear optical properties ofcobalt doped ZnO nanostructuresKarthikeyan B*; Suchand Sandeep CS; Philip,RejiProceedings of the SPIE Vol.7393:Nanophotonic Materials No. 6. Eds. StefanoCabriniand Taleb Mokari, p739303, 2009

3 An Optical Limiter Based on FerrofluidsNair, Swapna S*; Thomas, Jinto*; Sandeep,Suchand CS; Anantharaman MR* and Philip,RejiICMAT & IUMRS-ICA, July 2009, Singapore

4 Broadband light emission from optically-trapped carbon nanotubesRamachandran, Hema; Dharmadhikari AK*;Dharmadhikari JA*; Mathur D*Journal of Physics: Conference Series 194194194194194(2009) 012054

5 Development of a Thomson X-ray PolarimeterRishin PV; Paul B; Duraichelvan R; James,Marykutty*; Devasia, Jincy*The coming of age of X-ray Polarimetry,Rome, Italy, April 27-30, 2009 X-rayPolarimetry- A New Window in AstrophysicsEds. R. Bellazzini et al

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7 Nature of meterwave luminous objects andsearch for electron-cyclotron maser emissionDeguchi S*; Koike K*; Ramesh BASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by SaikiaDJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p260,2009

8 Origin of Disk Lopsidedness in Spiral GalaxiesAngiras, RA; Jog CJ*; Dwarakanath KS; OmarA*; Verheijen, MAW*The Low-Frequency Radio Universe ASPConference Series, Vol. 407, Eds Saikia DJ, Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, SanFrancisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific,p79.

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10 Steep-spectrum sources from the VLA 74MHz surveyDwarakanath KS; Kale, RutaASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by SaikiaDJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p162,2009

11 Diffuse radio emission in the galaxy clusterAbell 754Kale, Ruta; Dwarakanath KSASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by SaikiaDJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p237,2009

12 A 50 MHz system for GMRTShankar, Udaya N; Dwarakanath KS; Amiri S;Somashekar R ; Girish BS; Laus, Wences;Nayak, ArvindASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by SaikiaDJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p393,2009

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14 Scattered OH Maser sources in the directionof W49NMendoza-Torres, Jose E*; Goss,WM*; Streb S*;Deshpande AA; Ramachandran R*Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, toStars and GalaxiesIAU SymposiumProceedings Vol. 259, p95 CambridgeUniversity Press, 2009

15 Software Data-Processing Pipeline forTransient DetectionChennamangalam J; Maan Y; Deshpande AAThe Low-Frequency Radio Universe ASPConference Series, Vol. 407Eds. Saikia DJ etal. p442 Astronomical Society of the Pacific,2009

16 GMRT observations of H.E.S.S. sourcesOsborne JL*; Pandey-Pommier M*; Shankar,Udaya NASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by SaikiaDJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p349,2009

17 GMRT observations of Jupiter’s synchrotronradio emission at 610 MHzBhardwaj A*; Ishwara-Chandra CH*; Shankar ,Udaya N; Misawa H*; Imai K*; Miyoshi Y*;Tsuchiya F*; Kondo T*; Morioka A*ASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by SaikiaDJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p369,2009

18 Homography-based correction of positionalerrors in MRT surveyNayak Arvind ; Daiboo S ; Shankar, Udaya NASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by SaikiaDJ,Green DA, Gupta Y and Venturi T, p426,2009

19 Dynamic range improvement of GMRT lowfrequency imagesPrasad, Peeyush ; Subrahmanya C RASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by D. J. Saikia,D.A. Green, Y. Gupta, and T. Venturi, p398, 2009

20 12 GHz Radio-holographic surfacemeasurement of the RRI 10.4m telescopeRamesh B; Venkatesh S; Raju, Sharath BASP conference series Vol. 407, The Low-Frequency radio universe Eds by D. J. Saikia,D.A. Green, Y. Gupta, and T. Venturi, p434, 2009

21 Formation of Porphyrin and/Polyanilinenanostructured thin film by layer by layerassembly and application in ppb level leadsensing.Pandey RK; Avinash BS; Lakshminarayanan VConference Proceedings, Sensors-15, 15th

national seminar on physics and technologyof sensors NSPTS-15 C-23-1

22 A method to achieve uniform gray scale togray scale response times in LCDsRuckmongathan TNSID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers,2009, Vol. 40, p1584 40, 1584, 2009

23 Topological phase in two flavour neutrinooscillationsMehta, PoonamProc. of XXIV International Symposium onLepton Photon Interactions at High Energies(Lepton Photon 09)

24 Post-Newtonian gravitational wavepolarisations and spherical harmonic compo-nents for a particle in circular orbit around aSchwarzschild black holeFujita, Ryuichi and Iyer, BalaProceedings of the 19th Workshop onGeneral Relativity and Gravitation in JapanVol. 19. Eds. Saijo M et al. p137. Mar. 2010

25 Introduction on bosonic fields into causal settheorySverdlov, Roman; Bombelli, LucaProceedings of the Workshop on Continuumand Lattice Approaches to Quantum Gravity,17-19 September 2008www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Workshops/08/CLAQG

26 Women in Physics in India – 2008Chandra, Nutan*; Godbole RM*; Gupte,Neelima*; Jolly, Pratibha* ; Mehta, Anita*;Narasimhan S*; Rao, Sumathi*; Sharma,Vinita*; Surya, SumatiAIP Conference Proceedings Vol.1119:Women in physics: The 3rd IUPAP Interna-tional Conference on Women in Physics. Ed.B K Hartline et al. p120, American Institute ofPhysics, 2009

27 Communication and collaborative researchpattern of Eugene Garfield: a scientometricportrait.Sangam SL and Savanur, Kiran5th International Conference onWebometrics, Informetrics andScientometrics & 10th COLLNET Meeting,September 13-16, 2009, Dalian, China.

28 Status of India in Astronomy and Astrophysicsas reflected in its publications output in SCI:a scientometric studyGanjihal, Keshava G and Savanur, KiranNational seminar on Webometrics,Informetrics and scientometrics (WIS), held atDharwad, on December 21-22 2009

29 CITESPACE II a visual analysis of the formationand development of the Journal ImpactFactorSavanur, Kiran and Sangam SLNational seminar on Webometrics,Informetrics and scientometrics (WIS), held atDharwad, on December 21-22 2009.

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IN JOURNALSIN JOURNALSIN JOURNALSIN JOURNALSIN JOURNALS1 AIGO: a southern hemisphere detector for

the worldwide array of ground-basedinterferometric gravitational wave detectorsBarriga P*; Iyer BR et al (44 Authors includingIyer BR)Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 084005, 2010

2 Occurrence of a transition between two polarorthogonal smectic phases in a newhomologous series of novel bent-corecompoundsRadhika S; Sadashiva BK; Pratibha RLiquid Crystals, Vol. 37, No. 4, 417-425, 2010

3 A generic, green route to synthesize highsurface area noble metal nanospongesshowing broadband nonlinear opticalresponseSai Krishna K*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Philip,Reji and Eswaramoorthy M*ACS Nano, Vol.4, No.5, 2681-2688, 2010

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

5 Slow m = 1 instabilities of softened gravityKeplerian discsSridhar S; Saini TD*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety 404, 527, 2010

6 Transverse laser cooling of a thermal atomicbeam of dysprosiumLeefer N*; Cingöz A*; Gerber-Siff B*; Sharma,Arijit; Torgerson JR* and Budker D*Phys. Rev. A 8181818181, 043427 2010

7 Photonic Crystals: An amazing material forultrafast technologyGhoshal SK*; Tilahun,Wondwosen*; Mohan,Devendra* and Sharma, SunitaInternational Journal of Modern Physics B

8 Comparative study of different scatteringgeometries for the proposed Indian X-raypolarization measurement experiment usingGeant4Vadawale SV*; Paul B;;;;; Pendharkar J*; Naik S*Nuclear Instrument and Methods in PhysicsResearch, A

9 Discovery of a 0.02 Hz QPO feature in theTransient X-ray Pulsar KS 1947+300James M*; Paul B; Devasia J*; Indulekha K*Monthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety

10 Apsidal motion in 4U 0115+63 and orbitalparameters of 2S 1417-624 and V 0332+53Raichur H; Paul BMonthly Notices of the Royal AstronomicalSociety

11 Nonlinear Optical Studies on New ConjugatedPoly{2,2'-(3,4-dialkoxythiophene-2,5-diyl)bis[5-(2-thienyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole]}sHegde, Pramod Kumar*; Adhikari AVasudeva*; Manjunatha MG*; Sandeep,Suchand CS; Philip, RejiJournal of Applied Polymer Science -Online-April 2010, DOI: 10.1007/s10965-009-9336-1

12 Mixing Does the Magic: A Rapid Synthesis ofHigh Surface Area Noble Metal Nanospongesshowing Broadband Nonlinear OpticalResponseKrishna, Katla Sai*; Sandeep, Suchand CS;Philip, Reji; Eswaramoorthy, Muthusamy*ACS Nano

13 Optical nonlinearity in NiFe2O4 nanoparticlesSridharan K; Agarwal M; Philip J; Endo T;Philip, RejiTransactions of the Materials Research Societyof Japan

14 Synthesis, Characterization N, N’-bis(2-hydroxynaphthalidene)phenylene-1,2-diamine) of M (M= Ni(II), Zn(II) and Fe (II))Schiff-Base Complexes and Non-linear opticalstudies by Z scan techniqueKumar, Sampath HC*; Rudresha BJ*; RavindraR*; Philip, RejiChemical Physics Letters

15 Novel poly(3,4-dialkoxythiophene)s carrying1,3,4-oxadiazolyl biphenyl moiety: Synthesisand NLO studiesAdhikari AC*; Hegde PK*; Manjunatha MG*;Sandeep, Suchand CS; Philip, RejiPolymer International

16 Effect of Cadmium oxide incorporation onthe microstructural and optical properties ofpulsed laser deposited nanostructured ZnOthin filmsVinodkumar R*; Lethy KJ*; Arunkumar PR*;Krishnan, Renju R*; Pillai, Venugopalan N*;Pillai, Mahadevan VP*; Philip, RejiMaterials Chemistry and Physics

17 Possible use of self-calibration to reducesystematic uncertainties in determiningdistance-redshift relation via gravitationalradiation from merging binariesSaini, Tarun+; Sethi, Shiv; Sahni, Varun*Phys. Rev. D. 2010

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18 Synthesis, characterization and nonlinearoptical properties of 2-[(E)-2-(4-ethoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-1-methylquinolinium4-substitutedbenzenesulfonate compoundsRuanwas P*; Kobkeatthawin T*;Chandrapromma S;.Fun H; Philip, Reji;Smijesh N; Padaki M*; Isloor, Arun M*Synthetic Metals 160, 819 (2010)

19 Synthesis and characterization of a new NLOactive donor-acceptor type conjugatedpolymer derived from 3,4-diphenylthiopheneManjunatha M G*; Adhikari AV*, Hegde,Pramod Kumar*, Suchand, Sandeep CS andPhilip, RejiJournal of Polymer Research, DOI: 10.1007/s10965-009-9336-1http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10965-009-9336-1

20 Modified collaborative coefficient: a newmeasure for quantifying the degree ofresearchcollaborationSavanur, Kiran; Srikanth RScientometrics, 84, 365, 2010

21 Carbon Ionization States and the Cosmic Far-UV Background with HeII Absorption’ by E.Vasiliev*, Sethi, Shive and Nath, Biman BAstrophysical Journal

IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSIN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSIN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSIN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSIN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS1 Quasi-degenerate neutrinos and maximal

mixingChakrabortty J; Joshipura AS; Mehta P andVempati SKProc. of XXIV International Symposium onLepton PhotonInteractions at High Energies(Lepton Photon 09)

2 Study of third order nonlinear properties ofRhodamine6G in silica matricesSunita, Sharma; Devendra, Mohan; Vandana,Nasa; Ghoshal SKInternational Conference on Materials forAdvanced Technology

3 Nonlinear properties and optical limitingperformance of SulforhodamineB dopedsilica and polymeric matricesSharma, Sunita; Devendra, Mohan; GhoshalSK; Gupta, UmeshInternational Conference on Materials forAdvanced Technology

4 Open access to Physics and AstronomyTheses: A case study of the RRI DigitalRepositoryMulukunte, Nagaraj N; Manjunath M; Savanur,Kiran and Geetha SProceedings of the LISA VI Conference, 21stCentury Astronomy Librarianship: From NewIdeas to Action. ASP Conference Series Eds.E. Isaksson et al.

5 Five years of the RRI Digital repository: Somelessons and reflectionsSrinivasan, Girija; Patil YM; Manjunath M;.Savanur, Kiran; Nagaraj MN; Benegal, Vrinda Jand Sheshadri, GeethaProceedings of the LISA VI Conference, 21stCentury Astronomy Librarianship: From NewIdeas to Action. ASP Conference Series Eds.E. Isaksson et al.

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Abhishek Dhar Conference on Frontiers and Directions inCondensed Matter PhysicsIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore25 – 29 May 2009

International Conference on Interaction,Instability, Transport and Kinetics: Glassiness andJammingIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur4 – 8 February 2010

Rutgers University, USA15 August – 15 October 2009

School on Statistical PhysicsRaman Research Institute22 March – 3 April 2010

Alok Laddha Loops 2009Beijing, China3 – 8 August 2009

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai7 – 17 September 2009

Anagha Datar Conference on Molecular Motors: Transport andTrackingNational Centre for Biological Sciences,Bangalore and Indian Institute of MathematicalSciences, ChennaiHeld at Pondicherry23 – 28 January 2010

Andal Narayanan International Conference on Cold Ions andAtoms, Sankarpur18 – 21 January 2010

Advanced Research TPSC WorkshopPune University17 February 2010

National Workshop on Quantum EntanglementPondicherry University17 – 19 February 2010

Indian Institute of Science Education andResearch, Pune16 February 2010

Anirban Polley School and Conference on Multiscale Modelingand Simulations of Hard and Soft MaterialsJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research,Bangalore7 – 20 December 2009

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Heat conduction and phononlocalization in disordered harmoniccrystals (Invited)

Heat conduction and phononlocalization in disordered harmoniccrystals (Invited)

Phononic heat conduction indisordered harmonic crystals

Transport theory (6 lectures)

Polymer parametrizised field theory

Loop Quantum Gravity (6 lectures)

Shape Instabilities in axons

Generating atom photon quantumcorrelations using optical andmicrowave fields (Invited)

Atom photon quantum correlations(Invited)

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Demonstrating significant interbilayercoupling between long chain and PIP2using MD simulations

An information theoretic study of afour level atomic system in squeezing

1. A three dimensional lattice of iontraps

2. A hybrid ion-atom trap

Transverse laser cooling of dysprosiumatoms

Considerations of light-curve studies

RRI-GBT multi-band receiver: inspiredby puslars, tomography and transients

Radio pulsars-fascinating life stories ofcosmic lighthouses

Special Relativity

The Search for Gravitational Waves:Current Status and Future Prospects

Seminar on Einstein’s Insight: It is allabout Time

ICTS Satellite Meeting on Breaking Barrier fromPhysics to BiologyNational Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore4 – 8 January 2010

School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical PhysicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Anjan Roy School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical MechanicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Archana Sharma International Program on Quantum Information2010Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar4 January 2010

Arijit Sharma International School on Cold Ions and Atoms,Kolkata International Center for TheoreticalSciences and Indian Association for Cultivation ofScienceRamkrishna Mission Institute of Culture6 – 15 January 2010

University of California, USA5 October – 23 December 2009

Arnab Pal School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical MechanicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

School on Multiscale Modelling and SimulationJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced ScientificResearch, Bangalore7 – 20 December 2009

Avinash Deshpande MWA Bangalore MeetingRaman Research Institute, Bangalore7 - 10 December 2009

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA1 – 2 September 2009

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico3-8 September 2009

Conference Astro 2009Seethalakshmi College for Women Trichy24-25 September 2009

Bala Iyer Teacher’s Training programmeJain College, Bangalore19 August 2009

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore16 October 2009

MES College, Bangalore5 March 2010


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Conference on Indian Experimental GravitationalWave effort: Scope and feasibilityInter University Centre for Astronomy &Astrophysics, Pune10 – 11 August 2009

Conference on First Galileo-Xu Guangqi Meeting,ICRANet - International Center for RelativisticAstrophysics Network, China26 – 30 October, 2009

Conference on Science without BoundariesInternational Centre for Theoretical Sciences,Bangalore28 - 31 December 2009

SERC Winter School on Nuclear Astrophysics andNeutrino AstrophysicsCalicut University, Calicut2 – 3 February 2010

Conference on Australian InternationalGravitational Observatory: Project Plan andbenefits, Australian Consortium forInterferometric Gravitational Astronomy, Australia22 – 24 February 2010

Conference on Experimental General Relativity,University of Western Australia, Australia28 February - 2 March 2010

Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore24 August 2009

ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore2 September 2009

Calicut University Kozikode2 - 3 February 2010

Inter University Centre for Astronomy &Astrophysics , Pune8 February 2010

Gingin Gravity Centre , Australia23 – 24 February 201028 February – 1 March 1 2010

Hind High Vacuum, Bangalore15 February 2010

Biman Nath Summer SchoolIndian Institute of AstrophysicsKodaikanal11 - 13 June 2009

Gravitational Waveforms for BinaryBlack Holes (Invited)

1. Gravitational Waves: A new windowto the universe (Invited)

2. From Einstein’s quadrupole formulato GW phasing (Invited)

A Comparison of PN templates forinspiralling compact binaries (Invited)

From Principle of Equivalence toNature of Gravitation: Albert Einstein’sInspiration (4 lectures)

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Workshop on AstronomyChrist Junior College, Bangalore11 September 2009

Bangalore University, Bangalore27 November 2009

Biswajit Paul Conference on The Coming of Age of X-rayPolarimetryInstituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica,Rome27 – 30 April 2009

7th Integral Workshop on “The Extreme Sky:Sampling the Universe above 10keV”,Instituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica,Rome13 – 17 October 2009

COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop on DataAnalysis from the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope,Raman Research Institute, Bangalore8 – 19 February 2010

Workshop on “Observational Astronomy -Research Facilities and Opportunities in India”Indian Statistical Institute17-24 August 2009

Introductory Workshop on X-ray AstronomyInter-University Centre for Astronomy &Astrophysics, Pune29 June - 03 July, 2009

Irfu/Service of Astrophysique, France22 – 23 March 2010

Chaitra S Hegde Complex Systems SchoolInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai5 – 29 January 2010

RRI School on Non-Equilibrium StatisticalMechanicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Chandreyee Maitra XXI Canary Islands Winter School Of Astrophysicson Accretion processes in AstrophysicsInstituto D Astrofisica D Canaris, Spain2 – 13 November 2009

11th COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop on thedata analysis of the fermi gamma ray spacetelescopeRaman Research Institute, Bangalore8 – 19 February 2010

Basic Cosmology

The first stars in the universe (Invited)

A Thomson X-ray polarimeter

“ASTROSAT: prospects for a hard X-raysurvey”(Invited)

Indian Astronomical Facilities

1. Timing compact X-ray sources

2. X-ray astronomical techniques:spectroscopy and polarimetry

3. X-ray astronomy missions andopportunities

1. X-ray astronomical data sources andarchives

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N. Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Poland15 November – 4 December 2009

Astronomical Observatory of the JagiellonianObservatory, Poland27 November 2009

Debasish Saha School on Glass Formers and GlassesJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research,Bangalore4 – 20 January 2010

Deepak Pandey International Conference on Cold Ions and Atoms2010Sankarpur18 – 21 January 2010

Geetha S National Workshop on Content ManagementKarnataka Library Association and NCSIIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore27 June 2009

Girish B S MWA Bangalore MeetingRaman Research Institute, Bangalore7 - 11 December 2009

Hari Krishna Bisoyi 16th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsUniversity of Lucknow26 – 28 October 2009

Hema Ramachandran University of Colorado, Boulder27 – 31 July 2009

University of Pisa, Italy26 – 27 October 2009

Manipal University, Manipal20 March 2010

XXVI International Conference on Photonic,Electronic and Atomic CollisionsUniversity of Michigan, USA22 – 28 July 2009

Laboratoire Amie Cotton, Paris1 – 30 October 2009

Jacob Rajan Advanced Training Programming on Cyber Laws,Information Security and Software QualityAssuranceIndian Institute of Public Administration, NewDelhi6 – 10 July 2009

Jagdish C Joshi International School on Cold Ions and Atoms,Kolkata International Center for TheoreticalSciences and Indian Association for Cultivation ofScienceRamkrishna Mission Institute of Culture1 – 10 January 2010

Gamma Ray binaries

Indian X-ray Polarimeter

Quantum walk of light in frequencyspace using cascaded Michelsoninterferometers

Molecular engineering of roomtemperature electron deficient discoticliquid crystals

Can a quantum walk by ultracold atomsbe detected?

Quantum walk by ultracold atoms in adouble optical lattice

Photons, photonics and quantum logic

Broadband light emission fromoptically-trapped carbon nanotubes

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Jaya Kumar A Conference on Science without BoundariesIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore28 – 31 December 2009

RRI School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical PhysicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Joseph Samuel University of Cambridge2 - 3 June 2009

Classical and Quantum Gravity Editorial BoardMeetingInstitute of Physics, United Kingdom4 - 5 June 2009

Oxford University, United Kingdom6 - 8 June 2009

Institute for Theoretical PhysicsThe Netherlands10 June 2009

Akshara School, Bangalore12 march 2010

Poorna Prajna Institute, Bangalore10 June – 10 July 2009

Jyothi S International School on Cold Atoms and Ions2010-05-20International Centre for Theoretical Sciences,Bangalore6 – 16 January 2010

Kanhiaya Lal Pandey Conference on Cosmological ReionizationHarishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad16 – 20 February 2010

Kiran Savanur Fifth International Conference on Webometrics,Informetrics and Scientometrics & Tenth CollnetMeetingDalian University of Technology, China13 – 16 September 2009

Lakshmi Saripalli International Astronomical Union, Brazill3 – 14 August 2009

University of Western Australia, Australia15 – 29 May 2009

Lakshminarayanan V Workshop-cum-lecture programme onBiocatalysis for Industry, Medicine andEnvironmentSri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning,Prasanthi Nilayam13 August 2009

Surface Tension and the CosmologicalConstant



The universe in a soap film

Experiments with froth and light

Reflections on Rotations

Dust characteristics of radio galaxyhosts

Active Galactic Nuclei (3 lectures)

Electrochemistry for the study ofbiological processes


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Indo-Japan workshop on Biomolecular Electronicsand Organic NanotechnologyNational Physical Laboratory, New Delhi17 December 2009

Seminar on the Future of Diagnostic Devices forInfectious Diseases - the Power of PlasticMicrofluidicsAnna University, Chennai29 December 2009

National Science DayRBANM’s First Grade College,Bangalore1 March 2010

16th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsLucknow University, Lucknow26 – 28 October 2009

Madhavan Varadarajan Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid22 February – 10 March 2010

IUCAA Resource CenterDelhi University, Delhi22 – 30 March 2010

Abhayfest Conference, Pennsylvania StateUniversity25 May – 20 June 2009

Loops 2009 ConferenceBeijing Normal University3 – 7 August 2009

Conference on Open Problems in Loop QuantumGravity and Spin FoamsEuropean Science Foundation, Poland28 February - 4 March 2010

Manjunath M National workshop on Design and Organisation ofInstitutional Repositories using Dspace (1.5.2)B.N.M.Institute of Technology, Bangalore9 January 2010

The LISA VI Conference on 21st CenturyAstronomy Librarianship: from new ideas toactionInter University Centre for Astronomy &Astrophysics, Pune14 – 17 February 2010

Meena M S International Conference on Cold Ions and AtomsShankarpur18 – 21 January 2010

High surface area gold nanoparticlefilm for electro catalysis

Electrochemical platforms and sensorsfor microfluidics

Nanoscience and nanotechnology –Excitement of seeing small things.

Electrical conductivity of discotic liquidcrystals (Invited)

The free polymer scalar field and itsclassical limit

Introduction to loop quantumcosmology (2 lectures)

Quantum gravity and the black holeinformation loss problem (Invited)

Quantum gravity and the black holeinformation loss problem (Invited)

The free polymer scalar field and itsclassical limit (Invited)

1. A microwave cavity at 3.0357 GHz.frequency

2. Quantum walk of light in frequencyspace using cascaded Michelsoninterferometers


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Nagaraj M N LISA VI Conference on 21st Century AstronomyLibrarianship: from new ideas to actionInter University Centre for Astronomy &Astrophysics, Pune14 – 17 February 2010

National workshop on Design and organisation ofinstitutional repositories using Dspace (1.5.2)B.N.M.Institute of Technology, Bangalore9 January 2010

Nagaraja H N National Workshop on Electronic SystemsPackaging Technologies 2009Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore26 – 27 November 2009

Nagaraju D H 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Austria4 – 9 October 2009

Nandan Satapathy International School and Conference on ColdAtoms and Ions,Kolkata and Sankarpur, West Bengal6 - 21 January 2010

Narendra Kumar National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore11 August 2009

Nipanjana Patra Conference on Epoch of ReionizationHarish Chandra Institute, Allahabad16 – 20 February 2010

Poonam Mehta NuHoRizons III 2010Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad8 – 10 February 2010

Workshop on 50 years of Aharonov-Bohm effectTel Aviv Unviersity, Tel Aviv11 – 14 October 2009

XXIV International Symposium on Lepton PhotonInteractions at High Energies (Lepton Photon09), Germany17 – 22 August, 2009

Workshop towards neutrino technologiesAbdus-Salam International Centre for TheoreticalPhysics, Italy13 – 17 July , 2009

Conference on Aspects of neutrinos (NuGoa),ICTS Program, Goa8 – 15 April 2009

Open access to physics and astronomythesis: a case study of the RRI digitalrepository

Immobilization and electrochemicalstudies of proteins and protein-SWNTconjugates on self-assembledmonolayers

1. Quantum walks by cold atoms in adouble optical lattice

2. Quantum walk of light in frequencyspace using cascaded Michelsoninterferometers

Invisibility cloak: meta-materialism(Invited)

Topological phase in two flavourneutrino oscillations

1. Degenerate neutrinos and maximalmixing

2. Topological phase in two flavorneutrino oscillations

Topological phase in two flavourneutrino oscillations: a newinterpretation from geometry


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Conference on Neutrinos in particle astrophysicsand cosmology, Chennai4 – 7 April 2009

Indian Association for Cultivation of Science,Kolkata26 November – 4 December, 2009

SGTB Khalsa CollegeDelhi University, Delhi24 – 26 November, 2009

Centro de Fisica Teorica das Particulas,Departamento de Fisica, Instituto SuperiorTecnico, Lisboa, Portugal12 – 19 September 2009

Institut für Theoretische Physik E, RWTH AachenUniversity, Germany26 – 30 July1 – 16 August 200923 – 31 August 20091 – 11 September 2009

Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik,Universität Würzburg, Germany19 – 25 July 2009

Prabu T MWA Bangalore MeetingRaman Research Institute, Bangalore7 – 12 December 2009

COSPAR Capacity Building WorkshopRaman Research Institute, Bangalore8 – 19 February 2010

MWA Correlator Design Progress MonitoringMeeting, PerthAugust 2009

MWA Tiger Meet, PerthNovember 2009

Pragya Srivastava ICTS program on Non-equilibrium StatisticalPhysicsIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur30 January – 8 February 2010

Satellite Meeting on Breaking Barriers fromPhysics to BiologyNational Centre for Biological Sciences,Bangalore9 – 11 January 2010

Pramod Pullarkat Indian Institute of Science Education & Research,Pune21 – 22 May 2009

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai8 July 2009




Dynamics of Cortical Actin onCylindrical and Spherical Cells

Dynamics of Cotractile Ring onSpherical Cells: S. Pombe

Mechanical Responses of Cells andRegulations

Mechanical Responses and ShapeDynamics of Cells


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Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore21 August 2009

SERC School-cum-Symposium on Rheology ofComplex fluidsIndian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai4 – 9 January 2010

Symposium of Motors Tracks and TransportInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai andNational Centre for Biological Sciences,BangalorePondicherry23 – 28 January 2010

Satellite Meeting on Breaking Barriers fromPhysics to BiologyNational Centre for Biological Sciences,Bangalore9 – 11 January 2010

Prasad V V School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical MechanicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Radhakrishnan V Mid year meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences,Hyderabad1 – 3 July 2009

XXVII General Assembly of the InternationalAstronomical Union, Brazil6 – 8 August 2009

Second Platinum Jubilee MeetingIndian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore12 – 14 November 2009

Third Platinum Jubilee MeetingIndian Academy of Sciences, Mumbai3 – 5 December 2009

Raghunathan A Workshop on Cosmological ReionizationHarishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad16 – 21 February 2010

Ranjini Bandyopadhyay School on Glass Formers and GlassesInternational Centre for Theoretical Sciences,Bangalore and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre forAdvanced Research, Bangalore4 - 20 January 2010

SPS March Meeting 2010 on Soft Matter Physics,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi4 – 5 March 2010

Rajib Basak School on Glass Formers and GlassesJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Research,Bangalore4 – 20 January 2010

Rheological Properties of Living Cells

Rheological Properties of Living Cells

Active mechanical responses of axons

Issues in astronomical synthesisimaging (Invited)

1. Experimental techniques–I

2. Experimental techniques-II

Stress relaxation and strain inducedjamming in aging soft colloidal glasses(Invited)


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Rakesh Kumar Pandey 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Austria4 – 9 October 2009

15th National Seminar on Physics andTechnology of SensorsPune University5 – 7 March 2010

Ramesh B Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Japan16 - 17 December 2009

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,Japan13 - 20 December 2009

National College, Trichirapalli19 March 2010

Ravi K International School on Cold Ions and Atoms,KolkataInternational Center for Theoretical Sciences andIndian Association for Cultivation of Science,Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture6 – 15 January 2010

International Conference on Cold Ions andAtoms, Sankarpur17 – 21 January 2010

Ravi Subrahmanyan University of Western Australia, Australia17 – 30 May 2009

Comonwealth Scientific and Industrial ResearchOrganisation, Australia27 June – 3 July 2009

International Astronomical Union, Brazil3 – 14 August 2009

Conference on Cosmological ReionizationHarishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad16 – 20 February 2010

SKA Science and Engineering MeetingUniversity of Manchester, United Kingdom22 – 25 March 2010

Reji Philip Discussion Meeting on INDIGOInter-University Centre for Astronomy &Astrophysics, Pune10 August 2009

Annual Photonics WorkshopCochin University of Science & Technology,Cochin27 – 28 February 2010

Formation of Porphyrin/PolyanilineNanostructures by Layer-by-LayerAssembly and their Application in ppblevel Lead Sensing

Formation of Porphyrin/PolyanilineNanostructures by Layer-by-LayerAssembly and their Application in ppblevel Lead Sensing

3mSTeP: 3m Submillimeterwavetelescope prototype (invited)

Radio astronomy in India: a perspective(invited)

Seeing with Millimeterwaves

A hybrid ion-atop trap

Radio jet interactions with galaxyenvironment

On growth and form: the shapes ofradio sources

1. Status of EoR MonopoleMeasurement (invited)

2. Conference summary: an observer’sperspective (invited)


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State Level Seminar on Nanoscience and itsApplicationsLady Doak College, Madurai15 February 2010

National Workshop on Syntheses,Characterization and Applications ofNanomaterialsMahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam12 -14 January, 2010

National Conference on NanomaterialsSt.Teresa’s College, Cochin4 - 5 February 2010

UGC Seminar on the scope of Nanomaterials andTechnologyM A College, Kothamangalam, Kerala17 – 18 September 2009

National Seminar on Current Trends in MaterialScience, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal2-3 December 2009

JSPS-DST Asian Academic SeminarYokohoma Media and Communications Centre,Japan8 - 10 December 2009

19th MRS-J Academic SymposiumYokohoma Media and Communications Centre,Japan7 - 9 December 2009

24th Refresher Course in Physics for college/university teachersUGC-Academic Staff College, Kerala University,Trivandrum9 October 2009

Visveshwaraiah Museum, Bangalore7 November 2009

Central College, Bangalore18 November 2009

National Chemical Laboratories, Pune11 August 2009

National Institute of Technology, Surathkal21 January 2010

Mie University, Japan11-12 December 2009

1. Modern perspectives (Invited)

2. Nonlinear optics in the nanophase(Invited)

Nonlinear Optics: Application tonanoparticles (Invited)

Nonlinear Optics: Application tonanoparticles (Invited)

Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics(Invited)

Advances in Nonlinear Optics (Invited)

Optical limiting applications ofnanocomposite materials

Optical nonlinearity in oxidenanocomposite materials (Invited)

Nonlinear Optics (part I & part II)

The Raman Effect

Physics Nobel Prize 2009

Nonlinear Optics: Application toNanoparticles

Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics

Nonlinear Optics in the Nanophase


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Renu Vishavkarma Conference on Molecular Motors, track andtransportNational Centre for Biological Sciences,Bangalore and Indian Institute of MathematicalSciences, ChennaiPondicherry23 – 28 January 2010

Rishin P V Conference on The Coming of Age of X-rayPolarimetryInstituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica,Italy27 – 30 April 2009

Roman Sverdlov Conference on Tropical Structures in Geometryand PhysicsMathematical Science Research Institute, USA30 November 2009 – 4 December 2009

University of Missisippi, USA7 – 13 December 2009

Ruckmongathan T N Society for Information Symposium 2009Society of Information Display, USA31 May – 5 June 2009

XV International Workshop on Physics ofSemiconductor DevicesSolid State Physics Laboratory and Jamia MilliaIslamia, New Delhi15 – 19 December 2009

CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore26 February 2010

Ruta Kale Conference on High Performance Computing inObservational Astronomy; Requirements andChallengesNational Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune12 – 16 October 2009

MWA Bangalore MeetingRaman Research Institute, Bangalore8 – 12 December 2009

Ryuichi Fujita The 19th Workshop on General Relativity andGravitationRikkyo University, Japan30 November - 4 December 2009,

Osaka University, Japan7 December 2009 – 15 January 2010

Sadiqali Rangwala International School on Cold Ions and AtomsSankarpur, West Bengal17 - 21 January 2010

Thomson Polarimeter for a small X-rayAstronomy Mission

Recent developments in driving matrixLCDs (Invited)

Liquid Crystal Displays

Post-Newtonian gravitational wavepolarisations and spherical harmoniccomponents for a particle in circularorbit around a Schwarzschild black hole

Post-Newtonian expansion ofgravitational waveforms for a particle incircular orbit around a Schwarzschildblack hole




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International School on Cold Ions and Atoms,Kolkata, International Center for TheoreticalSciences and Indian Association for Cultivation ofScienceRamkrishna Mission Institute of Culture6 – 15 January 2010

Samarth Chandra IIT Kanpur Golden Jubilee Conference on Non-equilibrium Statistical PhysicsIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur30 January – 8 February 2010

RRI School on Non-Equilibrium StatisticalMechanicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi11 – 24 February 2010

Sandeep Kumar I-CAMP Summer School , China28 June – 4 July 4 2009

Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing6 July 2009

16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals,Lucknow26-28 October 2009

Moser Baer India Limited, Greater Noida9 March 2010

Department of Information TechnologyNew Delhi10 March 2010

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi12 November 2009

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi22 June 2009

Institute of Advanced Study in Science andTechnology, Guwahati19 June 2009

Sanjib Sabhapandit Seminar on Dynamics of a polymer in shear flowInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai11 – 16 November 2009

Experiments with cold and ultra-coldmolecules

Classical Heinsenberg spins with Kitaevcouplings

1. Pattern Formation in SandpileModels and Exact Counting ofDimer Coverings

2. Rall’s cable equation and Hodgkin-Huxley model

1. Discotic organic materials for solarcells (Invited)

2. Discotic liquid crystals andphotovoltaics (Invited)

Liquid crystals beyond displayapplications (Invited)

Novel discotic-calamitic hybrids(Invited)

Dynamics of a polymer in shear flow


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ICTS Program on Nonequilibrium StatisticalPhysicsIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur30 January - 8 February, 2010

School on Statistical PhysicsRaman Research Institute22 March – 3 April 2010

Satyam Kumar Gupta 16th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsUniversity of Lucknow26 – 28 October 2009

Seunghyun Lee International Conference on Cold Ions andAtoms, Sankarpur18 – 21 January 2010

SERC school on Experimental Atomic & MolecularPhysicsPhysics Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad15 April – 5 May 2009

International School on Cold Ions and AtomsInternational Center for Theoretical Sciences andIndian Association for Cultivation of Science,Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata6 January – 16 January 2010

Shashikant M.E.S. Kishore Kendra, Bangalore17 December 2009

Solomon Ivan International Program on Quantum InformationInstitute of Physics, Bhubaneswar14 – 31 January 2010

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai29 October – 13 November 2009

Somashekar R Training programme on Administrative VigilanceDepartment of Science & Technology, New Delhi30 November – 4 December 2009

MWA Bangalore MeetingRaman Research Institute, Bangalore7 – 8 December 2009

Sridhar S Conference on Astrophysical MHDUniversity of Helsinki, Finland8 April 2009

Conference on Astrophysical Turbulence &Dynamos, Abdus-Salam International Centre forTheoretical Physics, Italy20 - 30 April 2009

Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden11 – 19 April 2009

Integer partitions and exclusionstatistics (invited)

Novel benzene bridged triphenylene-based discotic dyads



Invisible matter in the Universe

Dynamo action in linear shear flows

The shear dynamo problem


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Srinivasa H T 16th National Conference on Liquid Crystals,Indian Liquid Crystal SocietyUniversity of Lucknow26 – 29 October 2009

Srivani K S MWA Bangalore MeetingRaman Research Institute, Bangalore7 – 11 December 2009

MWA Correlator Design Progress MonitoringMeeting, PerthAugust 2009

Suchana Seth Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Statistical PhysicsIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur31 January – 8 February 2010

School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical MechanicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Suchand Sandeep Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai8 – 9 June 2009

Conference on SPIE Optics + PhotonicsSociety of Photographic InstrumentationEngineers, USA2 – 6 August 2009

University of California, Berkeley, USA7 August 2009

University of California, USA10 August 2009

University of Boulder, USA11 – 12 August 2009

Suman Gaurab Das School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical MechanicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Sumati Surya Imperial College, London21 – 30 September 2009

CAUSETS AT DIAS-II, Dublin14 – 18 December 2009

Perimeter Institute, Canada28 February - 13 March 2010

Suresh Kumar P JENESYS programmeKyushu Institute of Technology, Japan30 June – 1 November 2009

Effect of lateral substituents and chainlength on mesomorphic properties ofNovel Alkoxybenzyloxy benzoates ofCyanophenyl Compounds

Present status of the 32 Tile DigitalReceiver System

Ultrafast light transmission behavior ofsurface plasmon excited Maxwell-Garnet type Ag nanocompositepolymer

The quantum vector measure and theimportance of being extendible

Enroute to a quantum dynamic forcausal sets

Electron transfer, transport andelectrohcemiluminescence


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Tridib Ray International School and Conference on ColdIons and Cold AtomsInternational Center for Theoretical Sciences andIndian Association for Cultivation of Science,Kolkata6 – 15 January 2010

Udaya Shankar MWA Project MeetingUniversity of Washington, USA16 – 20 June 2009

Multi-Wavelength Astronomy WorkshopSt. Joseph’s College, Bangalore20 – 21 August 2009

M K Dasgupta Memorial SeminarUniversity of Calcutta1 September 2009

IUCAA-MGU Workshop on Galaxy AstronomyKottayam31 October – 2 November 2009

Bangalore University, Bangalore26 November 2009

Mount Carmel College, Bangalore15 December 2009

National Science DayA V Kanthamma College for Women, Hassan20 February 2010

National Science WeekVisveswaraya Institute and TechnologicalMuseum, Bangalore26 February 2010

MWA Project MeetingUniversity of Washington, USA18 – 23 January 2009

MWA Project MeetingRaman Research Institute, Bangalore7 – 10 December 2009

Venkatramanan P R RRI School on Non-Equilibrium Statistical PhysicsRaman Research Institute, Bangalore22 March – 3 April 2010

Workshop on Non-Equilibrium StatisticalMechanicsIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur30 January – 4 February 2010



Challenges of Observing the InvisibleUniverse

Dipolar Arrays for Radio Astronomy

New Generation Radio Telescopes

21st century radio telescopes

21st century radio telescopes

A journey in the dark universe

Dynamics of discoveries

Synthesis of two 150 MHz. surveys

Comparison of usual vis-à-vis drift scanstrategy for EoR detection


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Vijayaraghavan D 16th National Conference on Liquid CrystalsUniversity of Lucknow, Lucknow26 October 2009

Wasim Raja National Centre for Radio Astronomy & GiantMetrewave Radio Telescope, Pune28 October – 1 November 2009

Physical studies on gold nanoparticles-liquid crystal composites: evidence forsuper lattices of gold nanoparticles

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Appendix IIIcolloquia


Rajat Mani Thomas Cosmological reionization simulations for LOFAR 8.4.2009Kapteyn Astronomical InstituteGroningen, The Netherlands

Sanjay Puri Pattern formation in the kinetics of phase transitions 9.4.2009Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Partha Pratim Mondal Super resolution, photobleaching and 15.4.2009Massachusetts Institute of advanced image reconstruction techniquesTechnology,USA for single and multi-photon imaging

D P Sengupta Remembering Sir J C Bose 16.4.2009National Institute ofAdvanced Studies, Bangalore

M Anandan Full color OLED micro-display 21.4.2009Organic Lighting Technologies LLC,Austin, USA

V Ravishankar Quantum algorithm to determine “shapes” of functions 22.4.2009Indian Institute of TechnologyKanpur

C M Iyer Relativity of simultaneity and the reversal 24.4.2009Technik Industries, Noida in the time order of interactive events

V P Mahadevan Pillai Laser ablated nanostructured materials 5.5.2009University of KeralaThiruvananthapuram

Yamuna Krishnan Wires, reporters and information capsules: 7.5.2009National Centre for Cellular journalism with DNABiological Sciences, Bangalore

Sreedhar Dutta Non-equilibrium perturbations 12.5.2009Korean Institute forAdvanced Studies, Seoul

Aruna Kesavan Dark Energy 15.5.2009Birla Institute of Technology& Science, Pilani

Anne Green The SKAMP project – a telescope reborn to look back in time 15.5.2009University of Sydney, Australia (Special Colloquium)

Sourav Sur Cosmic (super-) acceleration with multi-field k-essence 20.5.2009University of Lethbridge and quintessenceCanada

Harshawardhan Wanare Coherent control of metamaterials 22.5.2009Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur


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Ashok K Singal Maximum brightness temperature of an 1.6.2009Physical Research Laboratory incoherent synchrotron source: InverseAhmedabad Compton limit – A myth

Sandeep K Sirothia A few interesting studies using deep 2.6.2009National Centre for low-frequency imagesRadio Astronomy, Pune

Ramandeep Johal Maximum work extraction in quantum systems 2.6.2009Indian Institute of ScienceEducation and Research,Chandigarh

Biman Bagchi Energy landscape view of natural dynamics 4.6.2009Indian Institute of Science in complex systemsBangalore

Bulbul Chakraborty Rheology of granular materials: Dynamics 5.6.2009Brandeis University, USA in a stress landscape (Special Colloquium)

Gauri Kulkarni Statistics of luminous red galaxies in SDSS 10.6.2009Inter University Centre forAstronomy and Astrophysics, Pune

Santanu Kumar Pal Adsorbate-induced ordering transitions in 15.6.2009University of Wisconsin-Madison thin films of liquid crystalline gels supportedUSA on chemically funcionalized surfaces

Tarun Kumar Jha From nuclear matter to the neutron stars 16.6.2009Physical Research Laboratory,Ahmedabad

Anushree Roy Amusing behavior in wet foam 17.6.2009Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur

Sayan Kar Are there extra dimensions? 18.6.2009Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur

Sayan Kar Kinematics of flows: some recent results 19.6.2009Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur

Rajib Saha CMB angular power spectrum estimation 2.7.2009Jet Propulsion Laboratory using blind and non-blind methodsPasadena, USA

K Vijay Raghavan The assembly, during animal development, 2.7.2009National Centre for of the ability for coordinated movementBiological Sciences, Bangalore

Solomon Ivan Entanglement and nonclassicality- 8.7.2009Institute of Mathematical connections and interconversionSciences, Chennai

Rajesh Ganapathy From atomic epitaxy to colloidal epitaxy: 10.7.2009Jawaharlal Nehru Centre Is the physics similar?for Advanced ScientificResearch, Bangalore


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Sreedhar Dutta The role of initial conditions in Ageing state 10.7.2009Korean Institute forAdvanced Studies, Seoul

Tarun Souradeep Searching the CMB for subtle deviations 13.7.2009Inter University Centre for from ‘standard’ cosmologyAstronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Carol Upadhya ‘Global Indians’: Negotiating identity in the 16.7.2009National Institute of software industryAdvanced Studies, Bangalore

Samarth Chandra Ground states and low temperature 17.7.2009Tata Institute for behavior of spin systemsFundamental Research, Mumbai

Rumi De Dynamics of cellular response to mechanical stress 20.7.2009Brown University, USA

Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya Dynamics in supercooled liquids: Interplay 28.7.2009Indian Institute of Science between activated and continuous motionsBangalore

D.K. Avasthi Ion beams in synthesis and engineering 30.7.2009Inter University Accelerator centre of nanostructuresNew Delhi

B.S. Sathyaprakash From initial LIGO to Einstein telescope: 30.7.2009Cardiff University The road to astrophysics and cosmographyUnited Kingdom

Roie Shlomovitz Curved membrane protein regulate cell morphology 31.7.2009Weizmann Instituteof Science, Israel

Uma Ramakrishnan Why the Indian subcontinent holds 6.8.2009National Centre for the key to global tiger recoveryBiological Sciences, Bangalore

Pradeep Kumar K Frequency coded quantum key distribution 7.8.2009Indian Institute of over fibre-optic channelTechnology, Madras

Shashikant Gupta Constraints on isotropy using supernovae la 7.8.2009Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore

Urbasi Sinha Testing quantum mechanics by a three-slit experiment 13.8.2009University of Waterloo, Canada

S. Chatterjee Meghnad Saha – The scientist and crusader 20.8.2009Indian Institute of AstrophysicsBangalore

Ronald Benjamin Stochastic energetics of a Brownian motor and 25.8.2009University of Colorado refrigerator driven by inhomogeneous temperatureat Boulder, USA


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Roop Malik A tug-of-war between nanoscale motors inside cells: 27.8.2009Tata Institute of Fundamental Precise mechanistic details from measurementResearch, Mumbai of picoNewton forces

Sachindeo Vaidya Quantum signatures of spacetime graininess 3.9.2009Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore

Chandan Dasgupta Growing length and time scales in glass-forming liquids 17.9.2009Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore

Hindi week Hindi week (under OLIC) 22.9.2009

Hindi Diwas Dr. Saragu Krishnamurthy 29.9.2009

Andrzej A. Zdziarski Compton scattering and the nature of Cyg X-3 1.10.2009N Copernicus AstronomicalCentre, Warsaw, Poland

D Indumathi The India-based neutrino observatory: Overview 1.10.2009Institute of MathematicalSciences, Chennai

Suneeta Varadarajan Some applications of Ricci flow in physics 5.10.2009University of Alberta, Canada

Debanjan Bose Study of Gamma Ray emission from AGNs 5.10.2009Universidad Complutense, Spain using atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes

Andrzej A Zdziarski 1.Gamma-ray binaries 6.10.2009N Copernicus Astronomical 2. Black-hole masses and radiative processes 7.10.2009Centre, Warsaw, Poland in accreting black-hole sources

Sajal Kumar Ghosh Interaction of synaptic vesicles with 7.10.2009University of Goettingen, Germany lipid membranes: Role of PIP2

Zolt Haiman 1. Structure formation in the (early) Universe 6.10.20092. The formation of the first supermassive black holes 7.10.20093. Electromagnetic & gravitational wave 8.10.2009 signatures of black hole mergers

John Ford The green bank observatory of the US 9.10.2009National Radio Astronomy National Radio Astronomy ObservatoryObservatory, USA

Jaya Bhagat India is a hungry nation 15.10.2009Central Expenditure, New Delhi

Nayantara Gupta Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays in the 22.10.2009Indian Institute of Technology light of Pierre Auger dataMumbai

Golam M Hossain Driving cosmic inflation on a bumpy road 30.10.2009University of New BrunswickCanada

A Sudhakara A novel approach towards the synthesis of indoles 4.11.2009


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Kandaswamy Subramanian Magnetic fields-from the early to the contemporary universe 5.11.2009Inter-University Centre forAstronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Peter L Biermann Ultra high energy particles and cosmic ray 11.11.2009University Bonn electrons/positrons, from massive star explosionsUA Huntsville

Anil Bhardwaj X-ray emission from the solar system bodies 11.11.2009Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (Special Colloquium)ISRO, Trivandrum

Mandar Deshmukh Studying quantum Hall physics and 16.11.2009Tata Institute of Fundamental electromechanical devices using grapheneResearch, Mumbai

G K Anathasuresh Motion without hinges and sliders 19.11.2009Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore

Bhaswati Bhattacharyya Single pulse studies of wide profile drifting 24.11.2009Indian Institute of Science pulsars - a probe of pulsar magnetosphereBangalore and Inter UniversityCentre for Astronomy &Astrophysics, Pune

Joseph Samuel Tops and writhing DNA 1.12.2009Raman Research Institute (Slime Talk)Bangalore

Diptiman Sen Quenching across quantum critical points and lines 2.12.2009Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore

Satish Kumar Gandhi, a Man of the past or a man of the future! 3.12.2009Schumacher College, UK (Gandhi Memorial Lecture)

Biran Schmidt The history of the Universe 10.12.2009Australian National UniversityAustralia

Jaswant K Yadav Fractal dimension as a quantifier of LSS clustering 15.12.2009Harishchandra ResearchInstitute, Allahabad

S Dutta Gupta Absorption in metamateirals: feasibility 15.12.2009University of Hyderabad of device applicationsHyderabad

G S Giri Atomic parity violation in a single trapped radium ion 17.12.2009University of GroningenNetherland

Sourin Das Probing non-abelian nature of the read- 21.12.2009Institut fur Festkorper-Forschung rezayi quantum hall states via electricalGermany and thermal transport measurements

Priyamvada Natarajan Mapping dark matter and dark energy 21.12.2009Yale University with gravitational lensingUSA


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Chandrashekhar Joshi Big physics gets small: laser and beam 23.12.2009UCLA, USA driven particle accelerators

Hideo Takezoe Spontaneous deracemization in bent-, rod - 24.12.2009Tokyo Institute of Technology and disk-shaped mesogensJapan

Buddhapriya Chakrabarti Shear unzipping of DNA 29.12.2009Durham University, Durham

Dhrubaditya Mitra Time scales of turbulence 8.1.2010University of London, UK

Jaroslaw Dyks The nature of double eclipse in pulsar 12.1.2010N Copernicus Astronomical magnetosphere: The story of a breakthroughCenter, Warsaw, Poland

Debasish Chaudhuri Shape and size of confined polymers 12.1.2010FOM Institute AMOLFThe Netherlands

John Seed Neutrinos and elephants 15.1.2010Rainforest Information Centre (Special Colloquium)Australia

Antoine Browaeys Entanglement of two atoms using the Rydberg blockade 22.1.2010Institut d’Optique, France

P A Johnson Information and communications 25.1.2010BlueScope Steel Ltd infrastructure at New Zealand steelNew Zealand

Joanna M Rankin A new era of pulsar emission investigations 25.1.2010University of Vermont, USA

David Jauncey Interstellar scintillation; from low frequency variability and 29.1.2010Commonwealth Scientific and intra-day variability to MASIVIndustrial Research OrganisationAustralia

Sanat Karmakar Interaction of antimicrobial peptide 29.1.2010Jadavpur Universtiy NK-2 with model membranesKolkata

Guenter Werth Ion traps: A tool for precision spectroscopy 1.2.2010Johannes Gutenberg UniversityGermany

Martin Gilbert Health andCConservation in Asia: From Avian 4.2.2010Wildlife Conservation Society influenza to the vulture declineBangalore

Surajit Paul Injection of turbulence by evolving shocks in 16.2.2010Inter University Centre for major merging clustersAstronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

David J Thompson Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope: viewing 18.2.2010NASA Goddard Space Flight Center the extreme universeUSA


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Krishna Rai Dastidar Control of the dynamics of coupled atomic-molecular 22.2.2010Indian Association for the Bose-Einstein condensatesCultivation of Science, Kolkata

Seema Satin Formulation of calculus on fractal curves 22.2.2010Pune University, Pune in R^n and physical application

Eric A Cornell Is warm glass stickier than cold glass? 4.3.2010University of Colorado, USA

Gargi Shaw Physical conditions in photodissociation regions: 5.3.2010University of Mumbai, Mumbai NGC2023 & S140

Soumen Roy Networks and emergence 5.3.2010University of Chicago, USA

Satyajit Rath Down the rabbit hole: HIV, immune evasion 18.3.2010National Institute of Immunology and lessons in immune system designNew Delhi

Sudhir Cherukulappurath Plasmon nano-optics: concepts and applications 29.3.2010ICFO-Institut de CienciesFotoniques, Spain

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Sreedhar DuttaKorean Institute for Advanced Studies, Seoul

Kunal BhattacharyaS N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Rajat Mani ThomasUniversity of Groningen, The Netherlands

Partha Pratim MondalMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Narayanan T N and ReenaCochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin

M AnandanOrganic Lighting Technologies LLC, Austin, USA

S N SandhyaIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

V P Mahadevan PillaiUniversity of Kerala, Trivandrum

Gagan Deep KaurCentre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mohali

Ramandeep S JohalIndian Institute of Science Education & Research, Mohali

G VinithaCrescent Engineering College, Chennai

Harsha RaichurInter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophyics, Pune

Anne GreenUniversity of Sydney, Australia

Sanjay PandeGonda University, Uttar Pradesh

Sourav SurUniversity of Alberta, Canada

Harshawardhan WanareIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Subhashish BannerjeeInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Praveen KumarNational Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune

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T R SeshadriDelhi University, New Delhi

Siddharth MaluInter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Keiji SaitoUniversity of Tokyo, Japan

Anvar ShukurovUniversity of New Castle, United Kingdom

Ashok SingalPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

Sandip SirothiaNational Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune

Soobash DaibooUniversity of Mauritius, Mauritius

A.M.JayannavarInstitute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar

Gauri KulkarniInter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Solomon IvanInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Tarun SouradeepInter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Jincy Devasia and Marykutty JamesMahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam

A R P RauUniversity of Louisiana, USA

Dhiraj DedhiaTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

B KarthikeyanNational Institute of Technology, Trichy

Samarth ChandraTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Rumi DeBrown University, USA

Md. NadeerAmar Jyothi Engineering College, Kerala

SuneeshAmar Jyothy Engineering College, Kerala

Sarika Maitra BhattacharyyaIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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D K AvasthiInter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi

Roie ShlomovitzWeizmann Institute of Science, Israel

D DharTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Urbasi SinhaUniversity of Waterloo, Canada

Sajith BabuKerala University, Trivandrum

S SreejaKerala University, Trivandrum

Roop MalikTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

PanangadenMcGill University, Canada

Saroj Kumar MahalikCentre for Excellence in Laser & Optoelectronics SciencesCochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin

Rajesh PatelBhavanagar University, Gujarat

Md Lutfor RahmanUniversity of Malaysia, Sabah

P G Louie Frobel and G SreekumarKerala University, Trivandrum

Andrzej ZdziarskiNicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Poland

ChetanaJain Delhi University, New Delhi

Jincy DevasiaM G University, Kottayam

Suneeta VaradarajanUniversity of Alberta, Canada

Debanjan BoseUniversidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Sajal Kumar GhoshUniversity of Goettingen, Germany

Zoltan HaimanColumbia University, USA

John FordGreen Bank Telescope, USA

29 July – 1 August 2009

31 July 2009

2 -3 August 2009

13 August 2009

17 – 18 August 2009

19 – 20 August 2009

27 – 28 August 2009

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Satyabrata MohapatraGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha university, New Delhi

Nayantara GuptaIndian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Muthukumar and Benoy AnandSree Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Andhra Pradesh

Anto JohnCentre for Materials for Electronics Technology, Trichur

Golam Mortuza HossainUniversity of New Brunswick, Canada

Alok Gupta & Haritma GaurAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital

Jinto ThomasInstitute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad

Yuri ShchekinovSouthern University, Russia

Sreedhar and SrinivasCentre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Kandaswamy SubramanianInter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Arvindam DasSt. Xavier College, Kolkata

Peter BiermannMax Planck Institute, Germany

AnupriyaIndian Institute of Technology, Madras

Ajai KumarInstitute for Plasma Research, Ahmedabad

Mandar DeshmukhTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Bhaswathi BhattacharyaInter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

N KrishnanTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

R MohandossBharatidas University, Thiruchirapalli

Satish KumarSchumacher College, United Kingdom

Alak RayTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

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Sourin DasInstitut fur Festkorper-Forschung Theorie-3, Forschungszentrum Julichand RWTH Aachen, Germany

B F BurkeMIT Kavli Institute, USA

R SrinivasanMysore

Jaswant YadavHarishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad

Dutta GuptaUniversity of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

L ResmiTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Archana MajumdarS N Bose Centre, Kolkata

Hideo TakezoeTokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Fabien Bretenaker and Fabienne GoldforbLaboratoire Aimé Cotton, France

Jaroslaw DyksN Copernicus Astronomical Centre Rabianska, Poland

Sajal DharaTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Dhrubaditya MitraUniversity of London, London

Debasish ChaudhuriFOM Institute AMOLF, The Netherlands

Joanna RankinUniversity of Vermont Burlington, Vermont

Antoine BrowaeysInstit d’ Optique, Graduate School, France

Smijesh NUniversity of Kerala, Trivandrum

Anne Green and Harvey GreenUniversity of Sydney, Australia

Sanat KarmakarJadavpur University, Kolkata

Guenter WerthUniversity of Mainz, France

T R RaoBanaras Hindu University, Varanasi

6 December 2009 – 1 January 2010

10 – 14 December 2009

13 – 18 December 2009

13 – 15 December 2009

15 – 16 December 2009

16 – 25 December 2009

18 December 2009

22 – 26 December 2009

27 – 30 December 2009

5 – 22 January 2010

6 – 9 January 2010

8 January 2010

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David JaunceyCommonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Australia

D V G L N RaoUniversity of Massachusetts, USA

A RamalingamAnna University, Chennai

G SwarupNational Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune

K G ArunWashington University, USA

Jaydeep Bogchi & Surjit PaulInter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune

Krishna Rai DastidarIndian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

Seema SatinPune University, Pune

Xavier MartinTours University, France

Yasutaka HirakiNagoya University, Japan

Byung Kyu ParkUniversity of California, Berkeley

Gargi ShawUniversity of Mumbai, Mumbai

Edward MorganMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Bryna HazeltonMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Soumen RoyUniversity of Chicago, USA

Raj Kumar Gupta & Manjula DeviBirla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Mike DopitaAustralian National University, Australia

Mustansir BarmaTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Kuldeep RainaThapar Institute of Technology, Patiala

Gautam MenonInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

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3 – 5 March 2010

4 – 12 March 2010

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Kanhaiyal Lal Pandey Exploring dark matter with milky way substructure 22.10.2009Michael Kuhlen et al., Science, 325325325325325, 970-973 (2009)

Reji Philip Imaging atomic wave functions using a laser 22.10.2009D Shafir et al., Nature Physics, 5 5 5 5 5, 412 (2009)

T Srinivas The Nobel Prize in Physics – 2009 26.10.2009Indian Institute of (Special Journal Club)Science, Bangalore

Abhishek Dhar Experimental realization of directed percolation criticality 26.11.2009in turbulent liquid crystalsKazumasa A Takeuchi et al., Phys. Rev. E., 80 80 80 80 80, 051116 (2009)

Seunghyun Lee Towards quantum superposition of living organisms 26.11.2009Oriol Romero-Isart et al., arXiv:0909.1469v2

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Samarth Chandra Activity of nerve cells in detection of smells 25.2.2010M N Geffen et al., Neuron, 61, 4 61, 4 61, 4 61, 4 61, 4, 570-586 (2009)

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Poonam Mehta Some interesting aspects of cosmic neutrinos from core 11.3.2010collapse supernovae endowed with mildly relativistic jetsSoebur Razzaque and A. Yu. SmirnovarXiv: 0912.4028 [hep-ph], submitted to JHEP

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Siddharth S Malu Probing inflation with CMB polarization 25.3.2010Daniel Baumann et al., arXiv: 0811.3919v2 (astro-ph)

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