MRSI Newsletter
A quareterly publication of the Materials Research Society of India

for circulation amongst its members


Volume B 02   Number 1  

January  2002

From the Editors’ Desk

 This issue coincides with the launch of ‘IUMRS Facets’, an international publication brought out by the International Union of Materials Research Societies to inform and promote the enabling role of advanced materials for global progress.  This publication offers a new forum for promoting exchange of ideas and information and for inspiring the development of new research and policy matters.  ‘Facets’ would provide a channel through which the important activities of MRSI can be brought to the attention of the international community of Materials Scientists. Prof. D Chakravorty, President, MRSI is on its Editorial Advisory Board and Dr. Y R Mahajan on the Board of corresponding Editors. More information on this publication can be had from www. iumrs.org

The Thirteenth Annual General Meeting of MRSI is fast approaching and we do look forward to meeting a large number of our members on that occasion.

Our best wishes to all the members for a happy, prosperous and fruitful year ahead.


H L Bhat
R V Krishnan
Editors

For more details about the activities of MRSI, members are advised to visit the society’s website at www.igcar.ernet.in/mrsi

In this issue  

From the Editors’ Desk                                      
Awards & Distinctions                                         

Report on ACCMS-1                                           
New Members                                                    
      

Notice of AGM                                                          Secretary’s annual report                               
Calendar of Events                                                 
 (Jan 2002-Oct 2003)
Interactive Forum                                                 
Highlights of R & D in                                         
Materials Science & Technology
13th AGMTentativeProgramme                                

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MRSI  NEWSLETTER

Volume B 02,  Number 1
January 2002

The MRSI Newsletter is a quarterly update published by the Materials Research Society of India. Members are requested to contribute information of interest to Materials Science community.  Members can inform through the Newsletter, recognitions/awards received by them, changes in address, forthcoming events, and any interesting scientific/technological developments in the area of materials.  The relevant information should be sent to the following address:

Editors
     MRSI Newsletter
   Materials Research Society of India
IISc Campus, Bangalore 560 012, India 

 Email: svsmrsi@physics.iisc.ernet.in
           hlbhat@physics.iisc.ernet.in
          
krishnan@css.cmmacs.ernet.in
                             

 

Awards & Distinctions Conferred on Members

We are happy to report that the following members of Materials Research Society of India have received awards and distinctions shown against their names.  MRSI congratulates them.

* P Rama Rao        

2nd Vice President, IUMRS

*S Ranganathan    

National Metallurgist Award 2001, Ministry of Steel & Mines

*J Gopalakishnan 

Fellow, National Academy of  Sciences, India

* A K Sood             

Millenium Medal of the Indian Science Congress

* K Chattopadhyay

Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering

* Atul Chokshi

Metallurgist of the year 2001, Ministry of Steel & Mines
Fellow of the National Academy of  Sciences, India

* S Natarajan 

B M Birla Award in Chemistry,1998

* B Cantor

Vice Chancellor of York University, U K

* R W Cahn

Acta Materialia Inc Award, 2002 

P.S: Members are requested to communicate to the Editorial Office about the Awards, Honours and Distinctions they have received from various agencies.

Report on ACCMS-1

The MRSI Subject Group on Compuer Aided Design of Materials  organized (jointly with JNCASR and IISc) the first Conference of the Asian Consortium for  Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-1) in Bangalore during Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2001. Prof. S. Ranganathan acted as Chairman, while Dr. G.P. Das and Dr. U. Waghmare were the joint convenors. This international meeting was attended by researchers working in the field of computational materials science in various Asian countries (Bangladesh, China, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, etc).  Some leading experts from Europe in the field of electronic structure also came to this Meeting. There were 28 invited speakers (including 16 from abroad) and about 50 contributed papers (including 7 oral contributions). These covered a wide spectrum of computational techniques and application areas in materials science.  Aida-Kawazoe prizes were given for the best presentations. The Proceedings will be published as a Special Issue of the Bulletin of Materials Science. The detailed programme and abstracts of the invited talks and contributed papers have been put up in the ACCMS web-site http://www.jncasr.ac.in/accms/. An in-depth discussion meeting was also held during this conference to share the views expressed by the representatives of various countries regarding the future strategies and role of this newly formed Asian consortium, whose objectives, activities, and other organizational details are already available on the web-site http://www.cmsmail.imr.tohoku.ac.jp/~accms/. Several concrete suggestions have been made and these have been minuted and are to be circulated amongst all the members and participants. It has also been unanimously decided that ACCMS-2 will be held in Beijing, China in 2002.                                                        

U  Waghmare


New Members
Enrolled between October 1 and December 31, 2001

Life Members
 

Vakil Singh (LM B240)Dept. of Metallurgical EngineeringInstitute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University

Varanasi 221 005

Tel: 0542-369346
Fax: 0542-368428/368174
Email: vakil@banaras.ernet.in

Sanjivani Avinash Shastri (LM B243)
73, PMG Layout
Narendra Nagar

Nagpur 440 015

Tel: 0712-72424
Email: omkar@nagpur.dot.net.in

Bhattacharyya S (LM B244)
Surface Physics Division
SINP, 1/AF, Bidhan Nagar

Kolkata 700 064
Tel: 033-3375345
Fax: 033-3374637
Email: satya@hp1.saha.ernet.in

Byomkesh Dash (LM B246)
CAP Division, NML

Jamshedpur 831 007

Tel: 0657-271164
Fax: 0657-270527
Email: byomkesh@flashmail.com

Shailaj Kumar Shrivastava (LM B248)
Gayahtri Tapo Griha
Behind Satsang Bhawan, Chitraguptanar

Patna 800 020

Tel: 0612-42216

Saravanan P (LM B255)
DMSRDE (P.O), G T Road

Kanpur 208 013

Tel: 0512-451760 Ext: 360
Fax: 0512-450404
Email: sar-p@mailcity.com

Satyam Suwas (LM B256)
X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory
DMRL, Kanchanbagh P.O

Hyderabad 500 058

Tel: 040-4586735, Fax: 040-4341439
Email: satyams@dmrl.ernet.in

Sudhindra N Misra (LM B271)
Department of Chemistry
Bhavnagar University

Bhavnagar 364 002

Tel: 0278-439852

Pundareeka Khandappa Sarode
(LM B272)
No. 76, D K Lane
BVK Iyengar Road Cross

Bangalore 560 053

Tel (Res): 080-2877040

Mani T V (LM B274)
Business Developemnt Manager
C-Met
Panchanwati, Off Pashan Road

Pune 411 008

Tel: 020-5898141, Fax: 020-5898085
Email: business@cmetp.ernet.in

Subramanian E (LM B280)
Dept. of Chemistry
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Abishekapatti

Tirunelveli 627 012

Tel: 0462-333887
Fax: 0462-322973/334363
Email: smanian2002@yahoo.com

Pramanick A K  (LM B296)
Dept. of Metallurgical Engg
IT-Banaras Hindu University

Varanasi 221 005

Tel: 0542-369346
Fax: 0542-368428
Email: pramanick-ak@rediffmail.com

Siva Kumar K (LM B300)
DMRL, Kanchanbagh P.O

Hyderabad 500 058

Tel: 040-4340051 Ext: 6509
Fax: 040-4340683/4341439
Email: siva@dmrl.ernet.in

Sunirmal Jana (LM B301)
Glass Technology Laboratory
CGCRI, 196, Raja S C Mullick Road

Kolkata 700 032

Tel: 033-4733469/96/76/77 Ext: 3341
Fax: 033-4730957
Email: janasunirmal@hotmail.com

Byrappa K (LM B 310)
P B No. 21
Manasagangotri P.O

Mysore 570 006

Tel (Res): 0821-515346
Email: byrappak@rediffmail.com

Kumaresan P (LM B311)
Department of Physics
Adhiparasakthi Engineering College

Melmaruvathur 603 319

Tamil Nadu
Tel: 04115-29247
Email: PKBorn42201@yahoo.com 

Rajasekharan Nair  (LM B315)
National Physical Oceanography Laboratory,
Defence R & D Organization
Thrikkakara

Kochi 682 021

Tel: 0484-424911 Ext. 1255
Fax: 0484-424858
Email: rajnair39@hotmail.com

Ravi Venkatanarayanan  (LM B323)
Physical Chemistry Division
NCL, Off Pashan Road

Pune 411 008

Tel: 020-5893300 Ext: 2273
Fax: 020-5893044
Email: ravi@ems.ncl.res.in

Sathiyanarayanan S  (LM B329)
Corrosion Science & Engineering Division
Central Electrochemical Research Institute

Karaikudi 630 006

Tel: 04565-427550
Email: cecrik@cscecri.ren.nic.in

Sitaram Dash (LM B350)
Programme Leader & Industrial Safety Co-ordinator
Materials Science Division, IGCAR

Kalpakkam 603 102

Tel: 04114-80081
Fax: 04114-80081
Email: dash@igcar.ernet.in

Hariharan K  (LM B354)
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology

Chennai 600 036

Tel: 044-4458667
Fax: 044-2350509
Email: haran@acer.iitm.ernet.in

Udaya Bhat K  (LM B363)
Lecturer in Metallurgy
Karnataka Regional Engineering College

Srinivasnagar P.O 574 157

Suratkal
Tel: 0824-475984 Ext: 256
Fax: 0824-476090
Email: bhatu@krec.ernet.in

 

 

 

Annual Members

 Patron Member

Aman Arora  (AM B010)
317-D, Azad Nagar, Patiala

Punjab

Tel: 0175-657811 Ext. 268
Email: aman22jan@rediff.com

Rao M R A  (AM B011)
Everest Engineering & Chemicals Enterprise,
153/B, I Cross, 5th Main
Chamarajpet

Bangalore 560 018

Tel: 080-6604897
Fax: 080-6616156
Email: everest@hotmail.com

President (PTR 60)
(Technical & Commercial)
H & R Johnson India Limited
RAHEJAS, Corner of Main Avenue & V P Road
Santacruz (West)

Mumbai  400 054

Tel: 022-6903006/6001291-4
Fax: 022-6001286/6058135

 


NOTICE
ANNUAL GENERAL BODY  MEETING OF MRSI

The Thirteenth Annual General Body Meeting of MRSI will be held at 1730 hrs on 7th February 2002 at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad.
The Agenda for the Meeting is as follows:

 1.
  
Welcome by the President, MRSI
 2.
  
Confirmation of the Minutes of the Twelfth Annual General Meeting and action thereon
 3.
  
Presentation of the Annual Report for 2001
 4.
  
Report on the International links of MRSI
 5.
  
MRSI Publications-report by the Editor
 6.
  
Award for the Best Paper published in the Bulletin of Materials Science
 7.
  
Presentation of the Statement of Accounts for 2001
 8.
  
Election of Honorary members
 9.
  
Venues for the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Annual Meeting of MRSI
10.
  Items from the Members
11.
  Any other matter.
 

Members of MRSI are requested to participate in the meeting.

SECRETARY’S ANNUAL REPORT IN BRIEF FOR THE YEAR 2001
(to be presented at the 13th AGM)

I. The activities of MRSI during the year 2001 have been pursued with usual vigour. 

a)   The number of members of MRSI has increased steadily during the last couple of years.  The current status of the membership is given below. 

Category

As on 1.1.2000

As on 1.1.2001

As on 1.1.2002

Life Members

1302

1449

1513

Annual Members

  100

67

65

Honorary Members

  132

136

136

Patron Members

    58

58

60

            The Annual members have been requested to convert their membership to life membership.  The Council members have been requested to enroll more life members and institutions/industries as Patron members.

Many activities were carried out at various chapters.  The activities were basically of the following categories (a) lectures (b) one day / half a day seminars (c) chapter AGM.  The reports of Bangalore, Kolkata, Gujarat, Bhopal, Jamshedpur, Thiruvananthapuram and Kharagpur Chapters have been received.  Reports of the activities of Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kalpakkam, Mumbai, and Varanasi Chapters have not been received so far. The report on subject groups on Biomaterials, Surfaces & Interfaces and Computer Aided Design of Materials were received.

b)  STATUS OF SERC SCHOOLS

The DST has accepted our proposal on holding the SERC Schools in Materials Science and the Schools on (i) Materials Characterization at IGCAR, Kalpakkam (ii) Nanostructures at BHU, Varanasi &  IISc, Bangalore and (iii) Carbon Based Materials-Pitch, Fullerenes, DLC, Amorphous Carbon at IISc, Bangalore are under pursuit

c)  REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL LINKS OF MRSI

·        MRSI has been a founding member of IUMRS.  IUMRS has started a newsletter, ‘FACETS’ . The IUMRS - ICEM-2002 will be held at China during June 10-14, 2002.

·        MRSI is a founding member of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). It has continued its strong links with APAM.

·        APAM  has held the following  seminars in the year 2001:

 Ø      Fifth APAM Topical Seminar ‘Materials and processes for power electronics devices’
       3-5 May 2001, Novosibirsk, Russia, Prof. F.Kuznetsov, Prof. Lasseev

Ø
     
Sixth  APAM Topical seminar on ‘Building Materials’
       7-9 June 2001, Novosibirsk, Russia, Prof. V.Fedorov

Ø
     
Seventh APAM topical seminar ‘Semiconductor materials for thermoelectric and photovoltaic devices’, 27-29 August       2001, Moscow, Russia, Prof. V.Zemskov, Prof. F.Kuznetsov

§       Eighth Topical Seminar on ‘Material Data Network’ will be organized by Prof. Hwang and  Prof. L.J. Chen in Taiwan during April 2002

·       The APAM India Chapter will hold its meeting at Hyderabad on 7th February 2002.

·      The members of MRSI have been participating in the MRS Meetings in USA and in particular at Boston.

·      The second Asia Particle Technology Symposium (APT-2003) will be held at Penang, Malaysia.

·      The Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS) held its first meeting in India in Bangalore in collaboration with MRSI during November 29-December 1, 2001.

 

II. MRSI PUBLICATIONS-REPORT BY THE EDITOR

i.                     Prof. K J Rao, Editor, Bulletin of Materials Sciences has stated that BMS is being published regularly and on time.  The journal has a good citation index.  In the year 2001 there were 107 papers published in 669 pages. The Bulletin of Materials Science is now available in full text form on the web http://www.ias.ac.in/matersci.  The Editor invites good papers from all MRSI members.  Cooperation from every member of the materials science community is solicited.

ii       The Award for the Best Paper published in the Bulletin of Materials Science will be announced at the AGM.

§        MRSI has opened a website with address http://www.igcar.ernet.in/mrsi.

§       The publication of MRSI Newsletter has been reactivated.  Three issues were brought out in 2001 and the first issue of 2002 has been published.

§      The edited volume on ‘Science and Technology of Materials in the new millennium-Indian perspective’ is ready and this volume will be brought out shortly.

III   The venue for the Fourteenth Annual General Meeting of MRSI would be Mumbai and would   be  organized by Dr. S Banerjee.  The venue for the fifteenth AGM will be finalized at Hyderabad  Meeting.

IV   The  Statement  of  Accounts  for  the  year 2000-2001 and  the  Provisional Statement for 2001-      2002 upto December 2001 will be presented at the AGM.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS, JAN 2002-OCT 2003

DATE

EVENTS

CONTACT PERSON (S)

January

22-24

International Conference on Powder Metallurgy for Automotive Components with Trade Exhibition and 28th Annual Technical Meeting of PMAI on Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials

 

Prof. P Ramakrishnan
Convener PM-2002
Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Powai, Mumbai  400 076
Tel. 022-5722545 Ext. 7608 or 7643
Fax. 022-5723480

Email:
prr@met.iitb.ac.in
Website:
www.pmaionline.org

February

1-2

National Conference on Thin film Techniques and Applications
(NACTTA-2002)

Dr. O N Balasundaram
Convener-NACTTA-2002
Lecturer in Physucs
PSG College of Arts & Science
Civil Aerodrome Post
Coimbatore 641 014,  Tamil Nadu
Tel. 0422-573386 / 591841,  Fax. 0422-575622
Email: psgcas@eth.net

February

7-9

13th Annual General Meeting of MRSI

13th MRSI AGM Secretariat
Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory
Kanchanbagh P.O
Hyderabad 500 058
Fax: 040-4341439/4340683
Email: 
mrsi13agm@vsnl.in
Homepage:
http://business.vsnl.com/mrsi13agm 

February

13-16

2002

IUPAC Workshop on Advanced Materials-II (WAMII) ‘Nanostrucutred Advanced Materials’

Prof. G U Kulkarni
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
Jakkur P.O
Bangalore 560 064

Tel: 080-84562750-57

Fax: 080-8462766
Email: wam@jncasr.ac.in

February

20-22

2002

Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields

Prof. Jayesh Bellare
Convenor, EMSI-2002
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Powai
Mumbai 400 076
Tel: 022-5767207
Fax: 022-5726895/5723480

Email:
emsi@cc.iitb.ac.in, jb@che.iitb.ac.in
Web: www.che.iitb.ac.in/faculty/jb/emsi

February

22-23

2002

National conference on Frontiers in Materials Science and Technology (FMST 02)

Prof. S Basu, Convenor
Frontiers in Materials Science and Technology 2002 (FMST 02)
Materials Science Centre
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur 721 302
Tel: 03222-83972
Fax: 03222-55303
Email:
sb@matsc.iitkgp.ernet.in

February

25-27

2002

National Seminar on Physics of Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices

Dr. G D Sharma, Convenor
National Seminar of Physics of Material for
Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
NSPMEOD’02
Department of Physics
Jai Narain Vyas University
Jodhpur (Raj) 342 005
Tel: 0291-740857, Fax: 0291-742495
Email: sharmagd_in@yahoo.com

April

1-5

2002

2002 MRS Spring Meeting

 

Materials Research Society
Member Services
506 Keystone Drive
Warrendale PA 15086-7573
USA
Tel: 724-779-3003, Fax: 724-779-8313
Email: info@mrs.org

June

10-14

2002

The 8th International Conference on Electronic Materials

IUMRS-ICEM 2002

Prof. Jianhua CHENG, C-MRS
Tel: 86-10-68944280
Fax: 86-10-68428640
Email:
cmrssec@public.bta.net.cn
http//:www.c-mrs.org.cn/icem2002

July

14-19

2002

Computational Modelling and Simulation of Materials,

CIMTEC 2002

CIMTEC 2002
P.O Box 174
Corso, Mazzini, 52
48018 FAENZA, ITALY
Tel: +0546 22461/664143, Fax: +0546 664138/663362
Website:
http://www.dinamica.it/cimtec

August

2002

APAM Networking Meeting on Nano Materials

Taiwan
(details will be given later)

October

21-25

2002

21st International Conference on Nuclear Tracks in Solids

(ICNTS-21)

Convenor
21st ICNTS Secretariat
Nuclear Science Centre
Post Box 10502, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg
New Delhi 110 067
Tel:  011-6892601/3, 6896639

Fax: 011-6893666, Email:
icnts21@nsc.ernet.in
Website: www.nsc.ernet.in/conf/icnts21

October

10-13

2003

IUMRS-ICAM

Yokohama, Japan
 (details will be given later)

Members are requested to give information about the Conference / symposia / workshops they are organizing well in advance so that the same can be inserted in the “calendar of events”

Interactive Forum

The MRSI Newsletter would like to start an interactive forum.  The purpose of this forum is to exchange scientific information, questions-answers, information on available testing facilities and industrial news. Members are most welcome to contribute to this forum in a concise manner.  Contributions may be sent to:

Interactive Forum, MRSI Newsletter, MRSI, IISc Campus, Bangalore 560 012

Highlights of R&D in Materials

Science & Technology

We would like to bring out the recent developments of materials science in a capsule form to our readers.  Readers are invited to contribute to this feature.  Kindly send a brief write up of the exciting developments in any branch of Materials Science.  The write up can be an innovative idea, a novel material, a new process or even a new product.

13thAGM, Hyderabad
Tentative Programme

Thursday, February 7, 2002 (at IICT, Hyderabad)

0830-1300         : Registration for MRSI  delegates
0900-1100         : Asia Pacific Academy of   Materials
                            (India Chapter) Meeting
1130-1300         : MRSI Council Meeting
1300-1430         : Registration continues
1430-1530         : Inauguration of 13th AGM of  MRSI
1600-1800         : Technical Session I
                          
(MRSI -ICSC Lectures)
1800-1830         : MRSI Annual General  Meeting
1830-1930         :
Honour Lecture (K J Rao)

Friday, February 8, 2002 (at DMRL, Hyderabad)

0930-1100         : Technical Session II
                         
(Theme Symposium)
1130-1300         : Technical Session III
                          
(Medal Lectures)
1400-1500         : Technical Session IV
                         
 (Theme Symposium)
1500-1730         : Exhibition & Poster Session I
1730-1930         : Technical Session V
                          
(Medal Lectures) 

Saturday, February 9, 2002 (at DMRL, Hyderabad) 

0900-1100         : Technical Session VI
                          
(Medal Lectures)
1100-1300         : Exhibition & Poster Session II
1400-1530         : Technical Session VII
                          
(Medal Lectures)
1600-1700         : Technical Session VIII
                          
(Medal Lectures)
1700-1730         : Concluding Session

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