PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Chairman Professor K.N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune, Pune Members PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INORGANIC CHEMISTRY Chairman Professor T.K. Chandrasekhar, Director, NISER, Bhubaneswar Members Professor Sandeep Verma, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Professor R.N. Mukherjee, IISER Kolkata, Kolkata Professor S. Sankaramanan, IIT Madras, Chennai Professor S. Natarajan, IISc Bangalore Professor D. Basavaiah, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Dr. Amitava Das, CSMCRI,Bhavnagar, Bhavnagar Professor A.K. Chakraborty, NIPER, Mohali Dr. Lakshmi Kantam, IICT Hyderabad, Hyderabad Dr. Sundeep Dugar, IMT Manesar, Manesar Professor A. Ramanan, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Dr. T Rajamannar, SPARC, Vadodara Professor S. Goswami, IACS Jadavpur, Kolkata Professor A.K Nandi, IACS, Kolkata Professor R. Murugavel, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Professor Dilip D. 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Elango, Anna University Madras, Chenani Dr. Tulsi Mukherjee, BARC Trombay, Mumbai Dr. G.R Ravindrakumar, CESS Thiruvananthapuram Professor Arun Chattopadhyay, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati Professor C.Srikantapa, University of Mysore, Mysore Dr. Ashish Lele, NCL Pune, Pune Professor Anindya Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur Professor S.K. Mehta, Punjab University, Chandigarh Dr. K Vijayamohanan, CERI Karaikudi, Karaikudi Professor P. Pramanik, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur Dr. Aruna Dhathathreyan, CLRI Adyar, Chennai Member Secretary Dr. R Brakaspathy, DST, New Delhi Convener Shri R.K Joshi, DST, New Delhi Professor P.K Saraswati, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Professor S.J. Sangode, University of Pune Pune Dr. Y.J Bhaskar Rao, NGRI, Hyderabad, Hyderabad Dr. K.S Krishna, NIO Dona Paula, Dona Paula Nominee of Ministry of Earth Sciences Members Secretary Dr. Manoranjan Mohanty, DST, New Delhi PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HIMALAYAN GLACIOLOGY Chairman Chairman Professor U.C. Mohanty, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Dr. Anil V Kulkarni, IISc, Bangalore Members Members Dr. K. Krishnamoorthy, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram Prof HC Nainwal, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun Professor G.S. Bhat, IISc, Bangalore Dr. Deepak Srivastava, WIHG Dehradun, Dehradun Professor K. Mohan Kumar, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi Professor A. Maitra, University of Calcutta, Kolkata Professor K. Niranjan, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam Prof S.K. 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Kulkarni, NCL Pune, Pune Members Professor Aniruddha B. Pandit, ICT Mumbai, Mumbai Professor Anup K. Ghosh, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Professor Anurag Mehra, IIT Bombay, Mumbai PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONICS & COMPUTER ENGINEERING Chairman Professor R.K. Shyamasundar, TIFR Mumbai, Mumbai Members Professor Amitava Das Gupta, IIT Madras, Chennai Professor Anupam Basu, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur Professor A. Chockalingam, IISc Bangalore, Bangalore Professor Deepak Kunzru, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Professor Manindra Agrawal, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Professor Jayant Modak, IISc, Bangalore Professor Pankaj Jalote, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi Professor K.V. Venkatesh, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Professor R.K. Shevgaonkar, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Dr. (Mrs.) Karuna D. Potdar, Reliance Industries Ltd., Navi Mumbai Dr. R. Muralidharan, DRDO Delhi, New Delhi Professor Prabhu R. 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Reddy, DST, New Delhi PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MATERIALS, MINING & MINERALS ENGINEERING PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING & ROBOTICS Chairman Chairman Professor Vikram Jayaram, IISc, Bangalore Professor R Narasimhan, IISc Bangalore Members Members Dr G.K Dey, BARC Mumbai, Mumbai Professor Pramod Mehta, IIT Madras, Chennai Professor I Samajdar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Professor S.R. Kale, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Dr. Amol Gokhale, DMRL Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor Pradip Dutta, IISc, Bangalore Dr Prabir K Pal, BARC Mumbai, Mumbai Professor SN Ojha, BHU, Varanasi Professor B Ravi, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Professor U Waghmare, JNCASR Bangalore, Bangalore Professor Soumitra Paul, IIT Kharagpur Dr. Rahul Mitra, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur Professor S.L. Bapat, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Dr. Samir Hyderabad Professor S.K Sarangi, NIT Rourkela, Rourkela Kamat, Dr BK Mishra, Bhubneshvar DMRL IMMT Hyderabad, Bhubneshwar, Professor S Narayanan, IIT Madras, Chennai Professor KA Natarajan, IISc Bangalore Shri B.K. Chaturvedi, Hindustan Motors Limited Dr. A. Upadhyayb, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Professor GC Nandi, IIIT Allahabad, Allahabad Professor SV Joshi, IARCPMNM Hyderabad, Hyderabad Dr G.S. Bhuvaneshwarb, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram Professor D Mazumdar, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Shri Anil Parab, L&T, Mumbai Dr P Pradip, TRDDC Pune, Pune Dr Vedachalam, Thiruvananthapuram Member Secretary Dr. T.R. Aggarwal, DST, New Delhi Member Secretary Shri Milind R Kulkarni, DST, New Delhi Convener Shri Satish S Sonwane, DST, New Delhi PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Chairman Professor V Kalyanaraman, IIT Madras, Chennai Members PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ANIMAL SCIENCES Chairman Professor K Muralidhar, University of Delhi, Delhi Members Professor P.P Mazumdar, IISc, Bangalore Professor Sher Ali, NII Delhi, New Delhi Professor Partha Chakraborty, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Professor Vani Brahmachari, University of Delhi, New Delhi Professor D.N. Singh, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Dr. S Shivaji, CCMB Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor Ravi B Sinha, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Professor R. Sukumar, IISc Bangalore Professor Ananth Ramasamy, IISc, Bangalore Dr. Vidita A. Vaidya, TIFR Mumbai, Mumbai Professor S.R. Wate, NEERI, Nagpur Professor C.V.R. Murthy, IIT Madras, Chennai Professor Ashwani Kumar, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee Professor J.N. 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Vengayil, DST, New Delhi Convener Shri Satish S Sonwane, DST, New Delhi PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON BIOPHYSICS, BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & MICROBIOLOGY PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HEALTH SCIENCES Chairman Chairman Professor V. I. Mathan, Chetput, Chennai Professor K. Muniyappa, IISc Bangalore Members Members Professor N R Jagannathan, AIIMS Delhi, New Delhi Professor K.Veluthambi, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai Dr. Samit Adhya, IICB Kolkata, Kolkata Dr. B. Ravindran, ILS Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar Professor Subrata Sinha, NBRC Manesar, Manesar Dr. Randeep Guleria, AIIMS Delhi, New Delhi Dr. Bindu M. Kutty, NIMHANS Bangalore, Bangalore Professor Raghavan Varadarajan, IISc Bangalore Professor Polani B. Seshagiri, IISc Bangalore Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, NCCS Pune, Pune Dr. Renu Saxena, AIIMS Delhi, New Delhi Professor Rentala Madhubala, JNU Delhi, New Delhi Professor Y.K. 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Tyagi, NIPGR Delhi, New Delhi PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE Chairman Professor D.V. Gandhinagar Pai, IIT Gandhinagar, Members Members Professor (Mrs.) Paramjit Khurana, University of Delhi, New Delhi Professor Ravinder Kumar Kohli, Punjab University, Chandigarh Professor A.K. Pandey, University of Delhi, Delhi Dr. Ramesh Venkata Sonti, CCMB Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor (Mrs.) Usha Vijayraghavan, IISc, Bangalore Professor Kapil H. Paranjape, IISER Mohali, Chandigarh Professor V. Suresh, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor Satya Deo, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, Allahabad Professor S.A. Katre, University of Pune, Pune Professor N.M. Singhi, TIFR Mumbai, Mumbai Professor S. Sunder, IIT Madras, Chennai Dr. Pulok K. Mukherjee, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, CRRI, Cuttack, Cuttack Dr. C.S. Nautiyal, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute Lucknow, Lucknow Professor Narpinder Singh, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Amritsar Professor L.C. Rai, BHU Varanasi, Varanasi Dr. T. R. Sharma, IARI Delhi, New Delhi Professor A.S. Raghavendera, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor P. Kandaswamy, University Coimbatore, Coimbatore Bharathiar Professor Asish Sen Gupta, ISI Kolkata, Kolkata Professor Dilip C. Nath, Gauhati University, Guwahati Professor U. Dinesh Kumar, IIM Bangalore, Bangalore Member Secretary Dr. P.K Malhotra, DST Delhi, New Delhi Convener Member Secretary Dr. Vinod Kumar , DST Delhi, New Delhi Dr. Ashok K. Singh, DST Delhi, New Delhi PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE Chairman Professor Kattera A. Suresh, CSMR Bangalore, Bangalore PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LASERS, OPTICS, ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS Chairman Dr. P.K. Gupta, CAT Indore, Indore Members Members Dr. A.K. Gupta, IRDE Dehradun, Dehradun Professor A.K. Nigam, TIFR Mumbai, Mumbai Professor Aswani Ghosh, IACS Jadavpur, Kolkata Professor Ajay Ghosh, University of Calcutta, Kolkata Professor Arun M. Umarji, IISc, Bangalore Dr. K.G. Manohar, BARC Trombay, Mumbai Professor Sanjay Puri, JNU Delhi, New Delhi Professor D Narayana Rao, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor Chandravas Narayana, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur, Bangalore Professor Anurag Sharma, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Professor Indranil Manna, Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute Kolkata, Kolkata Professor R. Ranganathan, SINP, Bidhannagar, Kolkata Dr. Sangeeta, BARC Trombay, Mumbai Professor DG. Kanhereb, Central University of Rajasthan Kishangarh, Ajmer Professor Samit K. Ray, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur Dr. D. Kanjilal, Inter University Accelerator Centre Delhi, New Delhi Dr. Ashok K. Tayagi, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Kalpakkam, Kalpakkam Member Secretary Dr. Amitava Roy, DST Delhi, New Delhi Convener Dr. Bipin Joshi, DST Delhi, New Delhi Professor M.P. Kothiyal, IIT Madras, Chennai Professor Rajesh Shrivastava, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee Professor Hema Ramachandran, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore RRI Professor Rupa Manjari Ghosh, JNU Delhi, New Delhi Professor E. KrishnaKumar, TIFR Mumbai, Mumbai Professor C. K. Venkateswara University Tirupati, Tirupati Jayasankar, Member Secretary Dr. Amitava Roy, DST Delhi, New Delhi Convener Dr. Bipin Joshi, DST Delhi, New Delhi Sri PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PLASMA, HIGH ENERGY, NUCLEAR PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS EXPERT COMMITTEE FOR YOUNG SCIENTIST SCHEME – CHEMICAL SCIENCES Chairman Dr. Suresh Das, NIIST Thiruvananthapuram, Chairman Dr. Amit Roy, Inter University Accelerator Centre Delhi, New Delhi Members Professor J.N. Moorthy, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Members Professor V.R.B. Kota, PRL Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad Professor S. Baskaran, IIT Madras, Chennai Dr. Sanjay Batra, CDRI Lucknow, Lucknow Dr. D.S. Patil, BARC Trombay, Mumbai Professor Anil Elias, IIT Delhi, New Delhi Dr. Amita Gandhinagar Das, IPRB Gandhinagar, Professor M. Palaniandavarb, Bharathidasan University Tirichirappalli, Tirichirappalli Dr. Prasad A. Naik, CAT Indore, Indore Dr. Pradyut Ghosh, IACS Kolkata, Kolkata Professor Kajari Majumdarb, TIFR Mumbai, Mumbai Professor Gautam Kolkata, Kolkata Bhattacharyya, SINP Dr. G.U. Kulkarni, Jawaharl Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore. Bangalore Dr. K.L.N. Phani, CERI Karaikudi, Karaikudi Professor Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, HCRI Allahabad, Allahabad Dr. B L Prasad, NCL Pune, Pune Professor Mahendra K. Verma, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur Dr. Parameswar K Iyer, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati Professor Sudeshna Sinha, IISER Mohali, Mohali Dr. B. Mahipal Reddy, IICT Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor T.P. Prabhu, IIA Koramangala, Bangalore Dr. G.N. Patwarib, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Professor Tarun Souradeep, IUCAA Pune, Pune Professor P.V. Bharatam, NIPER Mohali, Mohali Member Secretary Professor Avinash Deshpande, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore Member Secretary Dr. Amitava Roy, DST Delhi, New Delhi RRI Shri R K Joshi, DST Delhi, New Delhi EXPERT COMMITTEE FOR YOUNG SCIENTIST SCHEME – PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES EXPERT COMMITTEE FOR YOUNG SCIENTIST SCHEME – EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Chairman Chairman Professor M. Lakshmanan, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli Professor G.V.R. Prasad, University of Delhi, New Delhi Members Members Professor D. Narayana Rao, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Professor L. S. Chamyal, The M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara Professor Ratneshwar Jha, IPR Gandhinagar Dr. V. Purnachandra Rao, NIO Dona Paula, Goa Professor Parthasarathi Mitra, SINP Kolkata Dr. A. K. 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