Welcome Fifth Meeting of the Advisory Committee CAS Physics in Physics of Nano-Materials and Complex Systems 28 th March 2012

The Fourth Advisory Committee met on 18th March The minutes were circulated to all members No comments received.

Financial Sanctions Non Recurring Equipment Grant of Rs Lakhs Major Equipments Low Temp Cryostat (8 ), RF Sputtering upgradation (10), Impedance Analyzer (10) plus other smaller equipments. All are working and being used. Presentations to be given by concerned colleagues. Recurring for 5 years lakhs plus 3 project Fellows (Main highlight here is Website development for course material… to be presented by AKK )

Three Project Fellows working. (Some details regarding their status like Ph D students or Post doc to be given)) Earlier Project Fellows completed their doctoral work. Some appointed fellows were Postdocs and they have got a regular PDF (either here or elsewhere)

The support received from UGC by the virtue of being CAS Department A.Infrastructure grant of Rs 20 lakhs during , 30 Lakhs in and another 30 lakhs in was received. All had been utilized and latest UC was sent in May/June Next installment of Rs 30 lakhs for the year was not released YET. Even though some expenditure has been incurred. The claim for this had been submitted. B. 10 UGC Research Fellowships for Meritorious students for CAS Departments in and another 5 in were sanctioned. All the 15 have been continued in These have been renamed now as BSR fellowships.. Another five have been sanctioned recently

CAS Visitors (to be listed )

Travel Support to Faculty ( to be listed)

Academic To be listed

Publications: over 100 publications during last one year (including those submitted and in press) in refereed Journals and about 50 in conference proceedings. Fellows of all the three Indian Academies Institute of Physics London (UK) DST PAC members ( Materials Science and Cond Matter Phys, Laser and Atomic Physics ) and other expert committees of DST Memberships of International Committees of Prestigious International Conferences and other bodies

Editorial Work: Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids ( T & F UK) (Associate Editorship) Editorial Board memberships: European Physical Journal ( Applied Physics) Nuclear Instruments and Methods B, Elsevier Pramana, Int. Journal of Modern Physics B, Modern Physics Letters B, Physics Research International, Journal of Magnetism, Advances in Cond matter Physics...Hindawi Publishers. Open Condensed Matter Physics, Open Chemical Physics journal, Open Applied Phys... Bentham Publishers

Faculty Visits to Well Known Centers of Research To be listed

Major Inputs (Incentives) required to Excel Further in next phase of CAS Convert Project Fellows to PDF/RA >International Travel : Major International Conf. At least once in two years, For 31 Faculty it works out to be about 15 lakhs per year. >Maintenance money for the equipments bought ….. about 5 lakhs per year >The novel programme of Website development More inputs to sustain it, About 2.5 lakhs p a Consumables ->to about 3 lakhs/pa for Helium Plus some other minor additions listed in the report.

Thank You