Hindi Utsav was celebrated in the Institute during 3rd September to 14th September, 2001. The main function was organised on 14th September, 2001. It began with a Kavi Sammelan in which staff members read their self composed poetry. Faculty and alumni also participated in the Programme. Participants of Song Competition enchanted the audience with their melodious devotional and patriotic songs. On 14th September, Director, Professor Ashok Misra called upon the staff members, to make maximum use of Hindi in their official work. He was presiding over the function. Prof. S.K. Ozha, a retired Professor, Aerospace Engineering Department, IITB was Chief Guest on this occasion. Prof. Ozha in his speech, highlighted the scientific nature of Hindi Language and its Devnagari Script.

Professor Alok Goyal and Prof. Ravi Sinha of Civil Engineering Department gave interesting lectures on Earthquake, its causes and safety measures to escape from this natural hazard.

Winners of the various competition were honoured on this occasion. Details of the competitions and its winners are as follows :

Hindi Essay Competition

Smt. Soumini Soman,Security Section
First Prize

Shri B.W. Lokhande, Academic Section
Second Prize

Smt. R.B. Solanki, Academic Section
Third Prize

Shri H.P. Virghat, Electrical Maintenance
Consolation Prize

Hindi Dictation Competition

Smt. R.B. Solanki, Academic Section
First Prize

Smt. Jayshree A. Purandare, Accounts Section
Second Prize

Smt. Soumini Soman, Security Section
Third Prize

Smt. Rekha S. Oltikar, Central Library
Consolation Prize

Song Competition

Smt. Manisha Pol, Genl.Admn.Section
First Prize

Smt. Madhura Sonar, Campus School
Second Prize

Smt. Vidya Bhat, Accounts Section
Second Prize

Shri Vivek Mamdapur, Estate Office
Third Prize

Shri Mohan M. Waidande, Campus School
Third Prize

Smt. Jayshree Purandare, Accounts Section
Consolation Prize

Smt. Madhavi Kulkarni, Campus School
Consolation Prize

Hindi Quiz Competition

Shri Birendra Nath Ghoshal, Accounts Section
First Prize

Ms. Pramila Sasalekar, IIT Hospital
Second Prize

Shri Vinayak Bhate, Civil Engineering Deptt.
Third Prize

Smt. Soumini Soman, Security Section
Consolation Prize

Smt. Usha Vaidya, Accounts Section
Consolation Prize

Dr. S. V. Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engg. Dept received the Career Award for Young Teachers of AICTE for a period of three year, from the year 2001-2002. The Awardee receives, in addition to full salary and other allowances of the awardee, a research grant upto Rupees 3 Lakhs for purchase of equipment, books/ Journals, field work, travel in India and securing necessary technical services.

Prof. S. Chaudhuri of Electrical Engg. Deptt has edited a book entitled "Super-Resolution Imaging". The book has been published by Kluwer Academic Publisher in September 2001.

Prof. Mamata Mukhopadhyay of Department of Chemical Engineering made a presentation at the 10th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluid Chromatography, Extraction, and Processing which was held during august 19-22, 2001 at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U. S. A. titled:" Purification of Phytochemicals by Selective Crystallization Using Carbon Dioxide as Antisolvent" .

Subsequently she visited Georgia Tech, Auburn University, Houston University, Rice University and University of Texas at Austin during the period August 23- September 10, 2001 and delivered talks on her current research work involving dense Carbon dioxide as antisolvent.

Prof. D. Parthasarathy and Prof. Rowena robinson, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, presented a paper titled "Indian 'Netizenship'and the idea of internet democracy" at the First World Internet Congress held at World Internet Institute, Gavle, Sweden during August 19-22, 2001.

"The evaluation meeting of the Nation-wide Technology Development in Indian Language" was conducted on 30th and 31st August at IIT Bombay. The language Centres of Western India including IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur and Utkal University participated in the meet. The TDIL team from the Computer Science and Engineering Department presented their work on Hindi WordNet, Translation Software and Marathi Search Engine. A highlight of the work was Sant Tukaram's Abhang being placed on the web with search facility.

Engineers Day was celebrated on 17th September 2001at IIT Bombay. Prof. Ashok Misra, Director was the Chief Guest.

Presentation by M/s. Siemens (India) on Emerging Trend in the Management of Power Distribution System followed by a short film on "Maintenance Management" was organised.

Prof. Rangan Banerjee spoke on "Energy Management Strategies in IIT Bombay", on the occation.

Department of Chemistry

Dr. Sivaprasad Mitra, Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani-333 031, Rajasthan spoke on "Energy Transfer in Multichromophoric Compounds: Femtosecond Fluorescence Upconversion Study" on September 7, 2001.

Dr. S. Tamil Selvan, Nanotechnology Laboratory, Chemistry School University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia spoke on "Nanomaterials Science: The Role of Surface Chemistry in Synthesis and Application of Noble Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles" on September 12, 2001.

Department of Chemical Engineering

Dr. D. V. Khakhar, Professor, Chem Engg, spoke on "Granular Matter: An overview with a focus on Rotating Cylinder Flow" on September 27, 2001.

Department of Physics

Amit R. Puniyani, Department of Physics, Stanford University spoke on "Growing Random Walk Networks under Constraints" on September 5, 2001

Prof. Sumit Das, Theory Group, T.I.F.R. spoke on "From Black Holes to Holograms" on September 26, 2001.

Department of Civil Engineering

Dr. Hemanta Hazarika, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan delivered a seminar on "Progressive Failure and Earth Pressure Reduction by Using EPS" on August 29,2001.

Prof. Gerd Gudehus, Director, Institute for Soil & Rock Mechanics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany spoke on "Safety Assessment with the New German Code DIN 1054" on September 4, 2001.

Dr. P. K. Thampi, Advisor (Programme Planning), Centre for Earth Science Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala spoke on "Landslides in the Western Ghats with particular reference to Kerala" on September 12, 2001.

Dr. Murthy Bondada, President, Atlantic Transportation Engg., Florida, USA spoke on "Improving Ethics for Engineers in India Through Licensing" on September 25, 2001.

Mr. Krishna S. Jangde, Supdt. Engineer, PWD, Govt. of Maharashtra, Mumbai spoke on "Design and Construction of Bridge Foundations" on September 26, 2001.

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Kumarm Bobba a Ph D student at Caltech spoke on " A Control Theoretic Approach to Transition to Turbulence " on September 11, 2001.

Department of Humanities and Social Science

Prof. Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University spoke on "Gandhi's Integrity" on September 3, 2001.

Department of Mathematics

"Existence, Truth and Proof: Introduction to modern foundation of Mathematics" was the topic of seminar delivered by Prof. N. Nitsure, TIFR, Bombay on September 14, 2001.

"Hilbert functions and singularities" was the topic of seminar delivered by Prof. Balwant Singh, IIT Bombay on September 26, 2001.

Augustin Chaintreau, INRIA ENS Paris spoke on "Linear Transformations in (max, +) algebra, and their spectral theory, with their applications to decision making and discrete event systems" on 28th September 2001.

Energy Systems Engineering

Prof. R. Ramakumar , Fellow, IEEE & Director, Engineering Energy Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, USA. Spoke on "Integrated Renewable Energy Systems" on 3rd September 2001.

Shri R. K. Satpathy, DGM (Project Engg. & New Product Development) Tata BP Solar India Limited, spoke on "Current Global Status of Solar Photovoltiac Technology & Indian Perspective" on September 5, 2001.

Shri. Girish Sant, Member, Energy Group, Prayas, Member , Advisory Committee, State and Central Electricity regulatory commissions, spoke on "Power Sector- Recent Trades, Regulation & Protection of Public Interest" on September 13, 2001.

Dr. Priyadarshini Karve, ARTI, Pune, spoke on Development of a Biomass Charring Kiln & Stove for Char Briquettes" and "A Complete Technology for Using Sugarcane Trash as a Household Fuel" on September 19, 2001.

Biotechnology Centre

Prof. G. Padmanaban, Distinuished Professor IIT Bombay spoke on "Biomedical applications of gemonics"on September 25, 2001.

Dr. Swati Patankar, GeneQuest, Mumbai spoke on "Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) in malarial parasite" on September 28, 2001.

Dr. A. Khulaifi, President, University of Qatar accompanied by Dr. Atiq Mubarak Al Naimi, Director, Public Relations and Dr. Abdulla H. Al Kubaisi, Dean of Science and Associate Professor Chemistry visited the Institute on 13th September 2001. He had a meeting with Director, Head, Maths, Prof. Joshi and Head, CSE, Prof. Biswas

      HINDI WORD PROCESSING / TRANSLATION FACILTIES

Hindi Cell has installed a bilingual word processor, "Akruti" on almost all the computers being used in the offices of Departments/ Centers/ Schools and Hostels apart from all the administrative sections for the purpose of word processing in Hindi. The Akruti Package supports all the applications of Windows. A user can use this package for doing word processing in an application like word, excel, power point, page maker and photoshop.

Hindi Cell is equipped to provide translation services for all types of official documents through E-mail. Text of the document can be typed in ". Doc" file and sent at the following e-mail address.

      APPOINTMENTS

Dr. T. Bhattacharya, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences has been appointed as an Assistant Professor (Contract) from 29th August 2001.

Ms. Shilpa Ranade has been appointed as an Assistant Professor (Contract) in the Indusrial Design Centre from 1st August 2001.

Dr. S. G. Kane has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering from 29th August 2001.

Prof. K. M. Bajoria, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering has been appointed as Warden of Hostel No. 8 from 8th August 2001.

Prof. G. N. Jadhav, Associate Professor, Deptt. of Earth Science has been appointed as Warden, Hostel No. 2 from 14th August 2001.

          RETIREMENTS ON 30^THSEPTEMBER 2001

1. Prof. S. P. Mahajan, Professor, Chemical Engineering
   
2. Prof. G. V. Dass, Professor, Physics Department
   
3. Shri K. Sukumaran, U.D.C.(HG)/H.M. Hostel No. 3
   
4. Shri A. K. Paul, Sr. Mechanic, Mechanical Engineering.
   
5. Shri B. S. Khurangale, Mech. Asstt. Gr. I, Metallurgical Engg.
   
6. Shri P. S. Ambre, Watchman, Security Section.
   

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