Current Trends in Science – Platinum Jubilee Special
Edited by N. Mukunda
© 2009 Indian Academy of Sciences |
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| Contents |
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A Jubilee Celebration
D. Balasubramanian and N. Mukunda
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| Section CHEMISTRY |
Foreword
Charusita Chakravarty, S. Chandrasekaran, T. K. Chandrashekar and S. Sivaram
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Dimensions of chemical science
C. N. R. Rao
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Emerging trends at the interface of Chemistry and Biology: Applications to the design of human therapeutics
Santanu Bhattacharya and Raghavan Varadarajan
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Current trends in chemistry of materials
S. Natarajan and J. Gopalakrishnan
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Supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering
Ashwini Nangia
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Tuning functional properties: From nanoscale building blocks to hybrid nanomaterials
K. George Thomas
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Interplay between multiple length and time scales in complex chemical systems
Biman Bagchi and Charusita Chakravarty
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| Section ENGINEERING |
Foreword
Ashutosh Sharma, M. Vidyasagar and J. Srinivasan
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Micromechanics of engineered and biological systems
G. K. Ananthasuresh and Suman Chakraborty
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Microfluidics for biological analysis: Triumphs and hurdles of CD platforms
Jonathan Siegrist, Régis Peytavi and Marc Madou
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Super functional materials: Creation and control of wettability, adhesion and optical effects by meso-texturing of surfaces
Vijay M. Naik, Rabibrata Mukherjee, Abhijit Majumder and Ashutosh Sharma
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Classifying polynomials and identity testing
Manindra Agrawal and Ramprasad Saptharishi
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A tutorial introduction to financial engineering
M. Vidyasagar
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| Section LIFE SCIENCES |
Foreword
L. S. Shashidhara
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Why are animals (and humans) nice to each other?
Raghavendra Gadagkar
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Systems biology: From the cell to the brain
Sitabhra Sinha, T. Jesan and Nivedita Chatterjee
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Status and prospects of macromolecular crystallography
M. R. N. Murthy
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Divide and (epigenetic) rule: Chromatin domains as functional and structural units of genomes
Rakesh K. Mishra and Sanjeev Galande
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From microbial to lens βγ-crystallins: Presence of a universal calcium-binding motif in βγ-crystallin superfamily
Amita Mishra, Shashi Kumar Suman, Penmatsa Aravind and Yogendra Sharma
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Transforming bases to bytes: Molecular computing with DNA
Suruchi Sharma, Dhiraj Bhatia and Yamuna Krishnan
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| Section PHYSICS |
Foreword
Mustansir Barma and D. D. Sarma
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Developments in high energy theory
Sunil Mukhi and Probir Roy
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Five-fold way to new high Tc superconductors
G. Baskaran
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Intense, ultrashort light and dense, hot matter
G. Ravindra Kumar
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Statistical properties of turbulence: An overview
Rahul Pandit, Prasad Perlekar and Samriddhi Sankar Ray
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The gravitational dynamics of galaxies
Rajaram Nityananda
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| Section MEDICINE |
Foreword
C. C. Kartha
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Systems biology and medicine
Dhiraj Kumar and Kanury V. S. Rao
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Evolutionary perspectives on the origins of disease
Ajit Varki
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Biomarkers of diseases in medicine
Manoj Kumar and Shiv K. Sarin
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Cognitive neuroscience: Development and prospects
Michael I. Posner and Shobini Rao
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The ascent of public health science
V. Raman Kutty
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Stem cells: Concepts and prospects
Savneet Kaur and C. C. Kartha
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| Section EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES |
Foreword
Archana Bhattacharyya, Satish Shetye and Vinod Gaur
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Planetary sciences and exploration: An Indian perspective
J. N. Goswami and S. V. S. Murty
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The deep structure of continents
Dan McKenzie and Keith Priestley
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The Indian lithosphere: A seismic perspective
Vinod K. Gaur
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Biotic perspectives of the Deccan volcanism and India–Asia collision: Recent advances
Sunil Bajpai
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Spatial and temporal coherence of paleomonsoon records from marine and land proxies in the Indian region during
the past 30 ka
Manish Tiwari, S. Managave, M. G. Yadava and R. Ramesh
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Coupled model simulations of twentieth century climate of the Indian summer monsoon
M. Rajeevan and Ravi S. Nanjundiah
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Indian Ocean Dipole: Processes and impacts
P. N. Vinayachandran, P. A. Francis and S. A. Rao
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| Section MATHEMATICS |
Foreword
V. Srinivas
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Mathematical analysis in India
V. S. Sunder
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Partial differential equations
M. Vanninathan
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Some highlights on the work in probability theory in India during 1980–2008: A report
K. R. Parthasarathy
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Mathematics and Computing
Ravindran Kannan
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Lie groups and algebraic groups
M. S. Raghunathan and T. N. Venkataramana
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Algebraic geometry in India
M. S. Narasimhan
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The Sato–Tate conjecture and generalizations
M. Ram Murty and V. Kumar Murty
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