2001 - Annual Report

Abstract

It is our pleasure to welcome to our Board of Governors, Dr. AnilKakodkar (Chairman, AEC and Secretary to Government of India, Department of AtomicEnergy).

We had the nice opportunity of honouring Prof. G. Rajasekaran on his 65th birthday. A one-day symposium was organized in the Institute in his honour in which several of his col-laborators and associates talked about the significant contributions of Prof. Rajasekaran.

It is with profound grief I place on record the passing away of our Patron, Bharat Ratna Shri C. Subramaniam, the guiding spirit in the establishment and growth of our Institute.His demise is an irreparable loss to our Institute.As usual, the academic year 2000-2001 had been an eventful one for the Institute in terms of scientific publications and scientific meetings.

We congratulate Prof.K. Srinivasa Rao and Prof. Radha Balakrishnan who were awarded the Popularization of Science Award and the Tamil Nadu Scientists Award for Physical Sciences, respectively, by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology. Congratulations to Dr. N. Sabu, who has received the best thesis award of this Institute. The Institute took the initiative to organize and to host several conferences, workshops and training programmes for college/university teachers as is recorded in this report.The Institute has also entered several international collaborative projects such as the DST-DAAD joint research project on Electrochemical Interface with University of Ulm, Germany;project on Syntactic Methods for verification supported by Indo-French center for promo-tion of Advanced Research; project on High Efficient Data Structure supported by UK-India,Science and Technology Research fund of DST; project on Parameterized Complexity under the DST-DAAD Personnel Exchange Programme - 1999; DST-NSF (USA) exchange programme in Mathematical Physics and the existing Federation agreement with Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. This report has been compiled through the efforts of a committee that consists of Drs. R.Sridhar, G. Date, S. Kalyan Rama, V. Arvind, D.S. Nagaraj, K. Srinivasa Rao and Mr. K.S.Santhanagopalan together with help from Drs. Venkatesh Raman and Rahul Basu.