No. 37March 2003
Newsletter of the Indian Academy of Sciences
2003 Elections
Fellows:

Dipankar Bhattacharya

Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

Areas of interest: High energy astrophysics, neutron stars, and gamma ray bursts.

Tushar K. Chakraborty

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad

Areas of interest: Peptides and peptidomimetics, organic synthesis and bio-organic Chemistry.

Indranil Biswas
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Areas of interest: Algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and deformation quantization.

V Chandrasekhar
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Areas of interest: Inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, inorganic rings and polymers, and main-group chemistry.

Probal Chaudhuri
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Areas of interest: Robust and nonparametric statistics, biostatistics, and statistical computing.

Pijush K Das
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata


Areas of interest: Cell biology, membrane biochemistry, molecular parasitology, and glycoconjugates.

Rajiv V Gavai
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Areas of interest: Lattice field theories, quark-gluon plasma and early universe phase transitions.

Vikram Jayaram
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Areas of interest: Ceramics, thin films and electron microscopy.

Sharika N. Kaul

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Areas of interest: Condensed matter physics, phase transitions and critical phenomena, magnetism, and magnetic materials.

S.B. Krupanidhi

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Areas of interest: Ferroelectrics, III-V semiconductor thin films, epitaxy, solid state devices and mems.

S. Mahadevan

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Areas of interest: Regulation of gene expression in bacteria, microbial physiology, and microbial evolution.

V. Purnachandra Rao

National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula
Areas of interest: Marine geology, authigenic minerals, and paleoclimate.

A. Ramachandra Reddy

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Areas of interest: Genetics, plant molecular genetics, and plant genomics.

Varun Sahni

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune
Areas of interest: General relativity and gravitation, quantum theory in curved space-time, and cosmology.

Anunay Samanta

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Areas of interest: Fluorescence spectroscopy, and photochemistry.

Shekhar C. Mande

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad
Areas of interest: Macromolecular crystallography, and protein structure and function.

Nimish A.Shah

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Areas of interest: Ergodic theory on homogeneous spaces of Lie groups, and its applications to number theory.

Shobhona Sharma
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Areas of interest: Molecular parasitology, parasite immunology, and parasite metabolism.

Subrata Sinha
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Areas of interest: Molecular oncology and immunology.

U.K. Misra

Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
Areas of interest: Clinical neurology, neurophysiology and tropical neurology.

R. Pitchappan

Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai
Areas of interest: Human immunogenetics, immunology of infectious diseases, and human genomics.

J. Nagaraju

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad
Areas of interest : Molecular genetics and evolution, genetics of silkmoths, and molecular marker genetics.

G.V.R. Prasad

University of Jammu, Jammu
Areas of interest: Vertebrate palaeontology & biostratigraphy, palaeoecology & palaeogeography, and evolution of mesozoic mammals.

G. Venkateswara Rao

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram

Areas of interest: Finite element methods, structural analysis and smart structures

Honorary Fellows :

George Guy Dodson

University of York, York, England

Areas of interest: Structural biology, and macromolecular crystallography.

K.R. Sreenivasan

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Areas of interest: Fluid mechanics and turbulence.

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