1964 - Annual Report

Abstract

The Institute entered the third year of its activities this year. The Second Anniversary was celebrated on Pongal day the 13th January, 1964. The Hon’ble Sri M. Bhakthavatsalam, Chief Minister of Madras, presided over the function and the Hon’ble Sri R. Venkataraman, Minister for Industries and Chairman, Board of Governors of the Institute, welcomed the gathering. Professor McCrea Hazlett, Vice-President of the University of Rochester, U.S.A., delivered the Anniversary address. Professor L. Rosenfeld, NORDITA, Copenhagen, was the Second Nields Bohr Visiting Professor. Professor M. H. Stone, Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics, Chicago University, was the First Ramanujan Visiting Professor. A symposium, under the Chairmanship of Professor L. Rosenfeld, Second Niels Bohr Visiting Professor, on ‘Recent Trends in Theoretical Physics’ was organised from 3rd January to 7th January 1964. It was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Sri C. Subramaniam, then Union Minister for Steel, Mines and Heavy Engineering. Besides the members of Matscience, Prof. R. Hagedorn, Germany; Prof. B. Zumino, U.S.A. Dr. Jacob, France, Dr. F. Mohling, U.S.A., from abroad and Dr. Udgaonkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Dr. A. N. Mitra, Delhi University and Dr. S. P. Misra, Roorkee University, from I ndia participated in the symposium. The first Matscience Summer School was organised at Bangalore from 24th August to 13th September, 1964. The invited lecturers were: Professor R.Oehme, Chicago, U.S.A. Professor E.R. Caianiello, Naples, Italy. Professor K. Symanzik, New York, U.S.A. Professor W.Brenig, Munchen, W. Germany. Dr.F.Calogero Rome, Italy. Dr. A. Fujii, Tokyo, Japan. D. J. Lukierski, Wroclaw, Poland. Professor M. Venkataraman, Madras University, Madurai. Dr. S. K. Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Dr. V. Devanathan, University of Madras, Madras. Dr. R. Vasudevan, Matscience, Madras. Dr. N. R. Ranganathan, Matscience, Madras. Dr. T. K. Radha, Matscience, Madras. Dr. K. Venkatesan, Matscience, Madras.

Student participants came from Matscience, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay and University of Roorkee. Also lecturers from the educational institutions in Madras and Bangalore availed themselves of this opportunity to attend the Summer School. Under the visiting scientists programme supported by Government of Madras and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, distinguished scientists of established reputation as well as younger scientists of great promise have visited the Institute to deliver lectures, participate in seminars, symposia and summer school and also to actively collaborate with the members of the Institute. A list of visiting scientist under the above schemes for the year 1964 with the period of their visit and the titles of the lectures delivered by them is given at the end of this report. One of the happy features in this year was the recruitment of about ten students under the Research Training Scheme, purpose of which is to train promising young people fresh from M. Sc., classes in the methods of research and to provide them with facilities for attending lectures and seminars at the Institute. The publications of the Institute include research papers based on work carried out by members of Matscience and the visiting scientists, Matscience Reports and Seminar Lectures. The monthly report on recent experimental data was continued as it is found very useful. As a companion to above, a monthly report on recent theoretical developments was also introduced this year. Arrangements were concluded with the Plenum Press, New York, U.S.A., for the publication of the proceedings o the annual Matscience symposia and proceedings of the summer school. The Institute moved to the new premises at the beginning of this year. Because of of the availablity of adequate space, both staff and students have excellent working conditions. Visiting scientists are' now provided with separate cubicles, to enable them to spend most of their time in the Institute.