DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The Department was established in 1995. By M arch 2007, the Department has 13 faculty members, 6 supporting staff members, 203 students in the BTech programme, 81 students in the MTech programme and 20 students in the PhD programme. Till date degrees have been awarded to 271 BTech students, 123 MTech students and 1 PhD student. In the Eighth Convocation of the Institute, 38 students were awarded BTech degree and 21 students were awarded the MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

ACTIVITIES

The Department has provid ed individual workspace w ith a high-end PC to each and every students of CSE for workin g 24x7x365. Th e Department arranged for summer training of the second and third year BTech students at ind ustries and educational institutions all over th e country and abroad.

Computer Science and EngineeringAssociation (a student organization) has conducted a series of lectures and organized workshops on d ifferent topics during this period. Some students of the Departm ent took part in the ACM-ICPC contest at liT Kanpur and Coimbatore in 2006 and received ce rtifi cate of achi evement with honourab le mention. A Linu x User Group is active and condu cti ng several workshops and seminar to promote Linux throughout the Institute. A Solaris User Group is recently formed in same direction . The Department has also initiated an open source project for developm ent of a Network Simulator named as GNS.

During th e summer vacati on of 2006, the Department provided summer training to nearly thirty students of different institutions of India. The faculty members of the Departm ent involve th emselves in different sponsored project and consultancy works.

A new MTech programm e in Computer Science and Engineering with specialization in Information Security h as been started in th is year.

The Department has organised th e 8 th Internati onal Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2006) during27-30 December 2006. Participants from USA, Canada, UK, Korea, Chin a, Iran, Israel, UAE, Greece, France, M exico, Italy, Ireland, Germany, etc. took part in ICDCN 2006.

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TEACHING PROGRAMME

Apart from the regular courses a large number of specially designed courses, keeping in view the current industry trends, were offered to the students by the faculty of the Department during this period. Students were offered courses in Wireless Networks, Advanced Operating Systems, Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition, Cryptography, Optimization, Intelligent Systems and Interfaces, Distributed Systems, Parall el Algorithms and Mobile Robotics in add ition to a set of courses in core areas. Innovative approaches to teaching traditional courses such as Operating Systems and Databases were also adopted. For instance, the students were taught how to study and modify an Operating System using the Nachos instru ctional software, use of Network Simulators in network course. They were also trained extensively in using Oracle RDBMS. Hands on experience given to students on RATIONAL suites by personnel from industry. All of these have had a very positive outcome:

FACILITIES

The Department currently has a laboratory with a Sun UltraSparc II Server. The Sun Workshop University ed ition 5.0 compilers are installed which includes-Fortran 77, Fortran90, C, C+ +, IPE and dbx. Apart from this, the Department has Xeon based 8 Nodes server farm with 2 TB SAN storage and SDLT storage library running with 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (update 3), several standalone

. Pentium Servers, and HP PA-RISC server.

Many software packages and environments are available on the servers including all Oracle software, all Microsoft software, all Sun Mi crosystems software, Nachos OS package, PHIGS graphics library, C+ + compi lers, Network Simulator-2, GloMc5Sim, RATIONAL Suites, NQL, Delphi Studio, Visual Prolog and Lisp interpreters. Departm ent also maintains repository for all popular Linux distributions viz Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

The Department hardware laboratory is equipped with the foll owing equipm ent: 136 Channel Colour Logic Analyzer with Pattern Generator Option, 34 Channel Colour Logic Analyzer with Pattern Generator Option, Universal Robotics Trai ning Kit with All M echanica l Hardware, 15 MHz Function/ Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Triple output dc Power Supply W ith GPIB/RS, 2 channel 60 MHz M egaZoom Oscilloscope, Basis 3.5 digit handheld Multimeter, Data Acqu isition/ Switch Unit, Wireless Transmitter/Receiver pair, Sampling and reconstructi on train er, TOM pu lse code

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modulator/transmitter, TDM pulse code demodulator/ receiver, Data formatting and carrier modulation transmitter trainer, Carrier demodulation and data reform atting receiver trainer and 8085 Microprocessor Trainer kit. The Departm ent has recently procured TINA software package for hardware laboratory.

Various other specialized systems like lECO Robotic Invention System, Ultimate Bui lder Set and Ultim ate Accessory Set, Bluetooth Application Training and Application Toolkit, Oracle Academic Ini tiative (OAI M embership licence), Microsoft Academic Alliance are also avail able.

The Department has an exclusive library cum read ing room for all members of the Department which is equipped with more than 3000 books/CDs and journals like IEEE, ACM, etc.

SPONSORED PROJECTS/CONSULTANCIES

Continuing Research Projects

M oU with CDAC Kolkata for the 'Creation of a Sp eech Corpus for the Manipuri l anguage', March 2006 - Decem ber 2006

Title: Seamless Handover Issues in Next Ceneration Wireless Networks Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Inform ation and Communication Technology, Japan Principal Investigator: Prof. S. Nandi CO- Investigator: Prof. C. Barua and Dr. R. Bhattacharj ee

Tit le: Information Security Education and Awareness Sponsoring Agency: Departm ent of Information Technology, Covt. of India Principal Investigator: Prof. S. Nand i CO- Investigator: Dr. C Sajith

Consultancies

Title: ERP Consultancy for CRIDCO & OPTCl Sponsoring Agency: Orissa Power Transmission Corporation Limited, India Principal Investigators: Prof. C. Baru a and Prof. s. Nandi

Title: Assam State Wide Area Network (ASWAN) Project Sponsoring Agency: Covt. of Assam Principal Investigator: Prof. C. Baru a

Title: School Computerization Project Sponsoring Agency: Assam Sarba Sikhsha Abhij an, Covt. of Assam Principal Investigator: Prof. C. Barua

Title: IT Roadmap of NEEPCO Sponsoring Agency: North East Power Corporation Principal Investigator: Prof. C. Baru a

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PUBLICATIONS

International Journal

P. Vi swanath, M .N. Murty and s. Bhatnagar ' Parti tion based pattern synthesis with effici ent algorithms for nearest neighbor classification', Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier Science), 27, pp. 1714-1724, June 2006

H.S. Paul , A Cupta and A Sh arma ' Finding a suitable checkpoint and recovery protocol for a distributed application', Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 66 (5), pp. 732-749, M ay 2006

Z. Li, s. Nandi and AK. Cupta 'M odelling th e short-term unfairness of IEEE 802.11 in presence of hidden terminals', Performance Evaluation , 63 (4-5), pp. 441-462, M ay 2006

J. Xie, A Das, S. Nandi and A Cupta ' Improving th e reliability of IEEE 802.11 broadcast scheme for multi casting in mobile ad hoc networks', lEE Proceedings - Communications, 153 (2), pp. 207-212, Ap ril 2006

Conference (International)

B.K. Srivastava, C. Khataniar and D. Coswami ' Perform ance enhancement in hierarchical peer to peer systems', COMmunication Systems softWAre and middlewaRE, January 2007

A Roy Chowdhury, M.V.S. Deekshitu lu and S. Nandi 'Improving MAC layer fairness in multi-hop wireless mesh networks' , COMmunication Systems softWAre and middlewaRE, January 2007

A. Roy Chowdhury, S. Tripathy and S. Nandi ' Securing wireless sensor networks against spuri ous inj ectio ns', COMmunication Systems softWAre and middlewaRE, January 2007

S. Tripathy, S. Nandi and A Mitra 'A secured response algori thm with query authenti cation for wireless sensor networks', 5th Asian International Mobile Computing Conference, January 2007

B. Dey, Akhil 5., S. Nandi 'Clustering probl em in large-sca le sensor network : possibilities and requirements', Internationa l Conference on Advanced Communication Systems (I CACS-2007), January 2007

A Bhattacharj ee and S. Nandi 'Cl ass based packet sched ul ing and servi ce curve', 14th

International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, December 2006

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S. Tripathy and S. Nandi 'Efficient remote user authentication and key establishment for multi-server environment', 3 rd International Conference on Distributed Computing & Internet Technology, December 2006

B. Dey and S. Nandi 'Distributed location and lifetime biased clustering for large scale wireless sensor network', International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, December 2006

B. Dey and S. Nandi 'Localized intra cluster chaining for energy efficient data gathering in large scale wireless sensor network', 2nd

International Conference on Wireless Communications and Sensor Networks, December 2006

V. Kone and S. Nandi 'QoS constrained adaptive routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networksr

, 9th International Conference on Information Technology, December 2006

S. Tripathy, S. Nandi and A. Roy Chowdhury ' CARMA: ce llular automata-based remote mutual authentication', 9th International Cpnference on Information Technology, December 2006

S. Tripathy and S. Nandi 'RPAKE: RCA based password authenticated key- exchange scheme', IEEE INDICON 2006, September 2006

S. Tripathy and S. Nandi ' Robust mutual authentication for low cost RFID systems', 4th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN '06, August 2006

S. Parm ar, S. Nandi and A. Roy Chowdhury 'LLM: low latency MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks', IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, june 2006

S. Parmar, S. Nandi and A. Roy Chowdhury 'Power effici ent and low latency MAC for wirel ess sensor networks', IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, june 2006

S. Reddy and S. Nandi 'Modular approach for anomaly based NIDS', Modelling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, 4th International Symposium, April 2006

A. Roy Chowdhury and S. Nandi 'Survey of broadcasting techniqu es for dense wireless com puting devices', Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2006 1FIP International Conference, April 2006

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A. Roy Chowdhury and S. Nandi 'Received signal based minimization of broadcast storm in multi-hop MANET', Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 20061FIP International Conference, April 2006

N. Sarma and S. Nandi 'QoS support in mobile ad hoc networks', 3rd International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 20061FIP International Conference, April 2006

S. Tripathy and S. Nandi 'Cryptosystem for low power devices', 4 th International Symposium on Turbo Codes in connection with 6th International lTG-Conference on Source and Channel Coding, April 2006

P. Mittal, G. Barua, S. Narang 'Defeating reflector attacks: signature conflict triggered filtering', Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (EOW 2006), Helsinki, june 2006

P. Bhaduri and S. Ram esh 'Synthesis of synchronous interfaces', ACSD 2006, 6 th

International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design, Turku, Finland, pp. 208-216, IEEE Computer Society Press, 26-30 june 2006

P. Viswanath and R. Pinkesh 'I-DBSCAN: A fast hybrid density based clustering method', Proceedings of the 78th Inti. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (I CPR-O 6), Hong Kong, Vol. 1, pp. 912-915, IEEE Computer Society Press, August 2006

P. Viswanath, K. jayasurya 'A fast and efficient ensemble clustering method' , Proceedings of the 78th Inti. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-06), Hong Kong, Vol. 2, pp. 720-723, IEEE Computer Society Press, August 2006

P. Mitra and C. Chaudhuri 'Efficient algorithm for th e extraction of association rul es in data mining', ICCSA 2006, Glasgow, UK, LNCS 3981, pp. 1-10

P. Mitra and N. Amarnadh 'Upper bound on dilation of triangulations of cyclic polugons', ICCSA 2006, Glasgow, UK, LNCS 3980, pp. 1-9

V. Suresh Babu and P. Viswanath 'Novel docum ent rep resentation scheme using rough membership function for effici ent document classification', First International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP-06), IEEE Bangalore Section, Vol. 2, pp. 572-576, December 2006

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Conferences (National)

G. Barua 'High performance computing: hardware and software trends', Platinum Jubilee Lecture, Proceedings of the 94th Indian Science Congress, Annamalianagar, Jan uary 2007

P. Bhaduri 'Schedule verification and synthesis for embedded real-time components', GM R&D Workshop on Next Generation Design and Verification Methodologies for Distributed Embedded Control Systems, Bangalore, Springer, 5-6 January 2007

P. Mitra and N. Das 'Distributed join algorithm on expander networks', ReTiS 2006, pp. 9-12

R. Singarapu and S. Nandi 'A low latency and energy efficient MAC for wireless sensor networks', National Conference on Trends in Advanced Computing, March 2007

B. Dey, V.K. Yerrabelli and S. Nandi 'QoS aware routing protocols for large scale wireless sensor network', National Conference on Trends in Advanced Computing, March 2007

,G. Chauhan and S. Nandi 'Recovery in mobile computing environment: challenges and solutions', National Conference on Trends in Advanced Computing, March 2007

B. Dey, G. Mazumdar and S. Nandi 'Securing large scale wireless sensor network: Challenges and requisites', National Conference on Trends in Advanced Computing, March 2007

S. Pathare, P. Sawant and S. Nandi ' Defense against DDoS by using IP spoof detection and push forward mechanism', National Conference on Trends in Advanced Computing, March 2007

CON FERENC ES/WORKSHOPS/SYM POSIA ATTENDED

P. Bhaduri 26 th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, 13-15 December 2006

P. Bhaduri GM R&D Workshop on Next Generation Design and Verification Methodologies for Distributed Embedded Control Systems, Bangalore, 5-6 January 2007

P. Viswanath 18th IntI. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-06), Hong Kong, IEEE Computer Society

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P. Viswanath First International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP-06), IEEE Bangalore Section

P. Mitra International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications 2006, Glasgow, UK

P. Mitra National Conf. on Recent Trends in inform ation Systems 2006, IEEE Calcutta Section

S. Nandi National Conference on Trends in Advanced Computing, March 2007

INVITED TALKS

G. Barua 'Application of R&D for Competitiveness', Invited Talk, Twenty First Congress of the Indian Engineering Congress, Guwahati, December 2006.

G. Barua Invited Talk on Information Technology atTIFAC-Core M eet, Dibrugarh University, December 2006.

P. Bhaduri 'Synthesis of Interfaces', talk at GM R&D, Bangalore, January 2007.

P. Mitra Keynote Speaker, 'Robot Motion Planning', NEOELECTRONICS-06 S.R.M. Arts & Science College.

S. Nandi 'Web Appli cation Security', Tutorial in the 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 27-30 December 2006.

S. Nandi 'Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks', Invited Talk at National Conference on Trends in Advanced Computing, March 2007.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

P. Bhaduri Formal Methods Update 2006 Workshop, 3-6 July 2006

P. Mitra QIP Short Term Course, 'Application Specific Algorithms: Design and Analysis', 4-8 July 2006

The Department organised th e 8 th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 27-30

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December 2006 . Participants from USA, Canada, UK, Korea, China, Iran, Israel, UAE, Greece, France, M exico, Italy, Ireland, Germany, etc. took part in it.

VISITORS

Th e following scientisWscholars of national and international repute visited the Department during the year:

Prof. Allain Mille, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France

Prof. Sajal K. Das, University Distinguished Scholar Professor, Director, CreWMaN, CSE Departm ent, the University of Texas atAriington, USA

Prof. Ashish Mukherj ee, Canada University

Mr. Sourav Mukhopadhyay, National University of Singapore

Prof. A. Chakrabarty, Bengal Sci ence & En gineering University, Howrah, West Bengal

Dr. P.v. Bala Subramanyam, Jt. Director, CPRI, Bangalore

Dr. Jayanta Biswas, Research Associate, CEDT, Indi an Institute of Science Bangalore

Dr. Shrisha Rao, Assistant Pro fessor, Indian Institute of Inform ation Technology, Bangalore

Prof. Deepankar M edhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

Prof. Venkatesh Raman, Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Mr. Arjun M alhotra, CEO and Chai rman of th e Board, Headstrong

VISITED ABROAD

Prof. S. Nandi attended IBM System X and AMD Summit at Ho Chi Minh City, Vi etn am from 11-1 3 September 2006.

COLLABORATION

The Departm en t has collaboration with different industri e~ institutes like Microsoft Academic Alli ance, IBM, ORACLE, Redhat, Departm ent of In formation Technology and Philips Research Laboratories Bangalore, etc.

OTHERACTIVITIES

Philips Research Laboratories, Bangalore has initiated MTech Fellowship and Doctori al Fellowships for MTech and PhD students of the Departm ent. Two MTech and one PhD students are avai ling now.

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Memorandum of Understanding is signed for Collaboration in the field of Information and Communication Research between liT Guwahati and the Nation al Institute of Inform ation and Communications Technology of Japan, Republic of Japan for comprehensive research collaboration.

Memorandum of Understandin g is signed for Cooperati on in all fields of Computer Science of comm on interest between the Departm ent and the Institute of Computer Science at Technische Universitat Ilm enau , Germany.

FACULTY MEMBERS

G. Barua PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara) Professor and Director Areas of Interest: Distributed Systems, Networks, Operating Systems, Database Management Systems

P. Bhaduri PhD (Washington State University, Pullm an) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Formal Mod ellin g, Synth esis and Verifi cation of Systems

P.K. Das (on long leave from January 2007) PhD (Delhi University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Speech Recognition, Pattern Recogni tion, Man-Machine In teraction Systems

J.K. Deka PhD (lIT Kh aragpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Form al Verifi cation, VLSI System Design

D. Goswam i PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Associ ate Professor Areas of Interest: Software Engineering, Distributed Systems

N. Indurkhya (upto June 2006) Visiting Professor (Visiting from UNSW, Sydney, Australi a) Areas of Interest: Data and Text Min ing

P. Mitra PhD (Simon Fraser Universi Ly, Canada) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Computational Geometry, Paralle l Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms, Optimization

S.B. Nair PhD (Amravati Universi ty) Associate Professor Areas o(lnterest: Natural Language Processing, Artifi cia l Intelligence, In telligent Agents, Robotics

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S. Nandi PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Professor and Head Areas of Interest: Networks (QoS, Wireless networks), Computer and Network Security, VLSI

H.S. Paul PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Assi stan t Professor Areas of Interest: Distributed Systems, Distributed Algorithms

S.V. Rao PhD (lIT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Computational Geometry, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing

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c. Sajith PhD (liT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Parallel and Distributed Computin g

K.S. Sudeep (from September 2006) Senior Lecturer Areas of Interest: Graph Th eory, Algorithms, Com bi natori cs

P. Viswanath PhD (IiSc Bangalore) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Randomized Algorithms

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DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Design was set up with a vision to enkindle in some of the brightest technical minds of th e country a passion for innovation in technology driven by a firm und erstanding, appreciation and celebration of design.

The fourth batch of students, has comp leted its BDes programme successfully. All these students have been offered placement in various organizations across the country. M any of the graduating students have opted for high er studies in different universiti es abroad . The Departm ent continues to receive favourab le support from industri es in terms of internship and training for its students.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

Th e Depa rtm ent offers a BD es Degree-th e only undergraduate level degree of its kind in an Indian Institute ofTechnology-and a PhD degree in design. The focus of the BDes programme is on the study, invention, and creative use of technologies to create effective, usable and aesthetically pleasing designs. It aims at interdisc iplinary research in engineerin g, design, behavioural and social sciences and to und erstand the impact of technology on ind ivid uals, groups and organi sations. The Departm ent envisions to produce successful graduates who will be capabl e of leading the changing scenarios of today and tomorrow through thought, innovation and values.

A new postgraduate programme in Design leading to the degree of MDes will start from the new academic year 2007-2008.

STUDENT INTAKE

The intake in 2006 -2007 academic session is as follows: BDes: 24

FACULTY STRENGTH

The Departm ent has a facu lty strength of 10. Professor: 2 Associate Professor: 3 Assistant Professor: 4 Senior Lecturer: 1

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FACILITIES

The following laboratories/studios in the Department were set up and reorganized:

Graphic Studio Animation Studio Presentation Room Exhibition and Display Room Communication Design Studio New Media Laboratory Bamboo Studio Drawing and Digital Arts Studio

SPONSORED RESEARCH

Consultancy Project

Title: Product Planning Initiative for Brass and Bellm etal Craft of Hajo Cluster Assam Investigator: Mr. R.M. Punekar Sponsoring Agency: National Resource for Cluster Developm ent, NISIET, Hyderabad

Title: Visu al Design for www.y04ya.com Investigator: Mr. M. Rane Sponsori ng Agency: www.y04ya.com

Title: NEDFI-IITG Initi atives for Design of Systems for Income Generation Activiti es SubArea

i) Vending cart based on 'Dipbahan' implemen ted ii) Attachment for cycle for transporting agri cultural! horti cultural produce in rural area iii) Design developmen t of knives and shears in Knogryl village in Meghalaya using craft skills

Investigator: Mr. A.K. Das Sponsoring Agency: NEDFi, Cuwahati

Title: KVIC Technical back up unit Interface Subgroup 2 Cane and bamboo furniture for rural schools and Primary Health Centres Group Co-ordinator: Mr. R.M. Punekar Sponsoring Agency: KVIC, Mum bai

Subgroup 3 a) Design and Development of a semiautomatic loin loom for NE region b) Vegetable dyeing of si lk and application of vegetable dyes for tie and dye and batik in silk

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Group Co-coordinators : Mr. A. K. Das and Dr. D. Chakrabarti Sponsoring Agency: KYIC, Mum bai

Title: Design and fabri cation of water iron removal unit in fibreglass Investigators : Mr. AK. Das and Dr. M. Purkait Sponsoring Agency: DRDO, Tezpur

Title: Design and developm ent of water pu ri fication unit Investigators: Mr. A K. Das, Dr. M. Purkait, Dr. B. Mandai Sponsoring Agency: DRDO, Tezpur

PUBLICATIONS

Conference Proceedings

D. Chakrabarti 'Role of ergonomics in design development : pl easure beyond usabi lily', Proceedings of the XVIII Annual Conference of Physiological Society of India , Kolkata, 8-10 December 2006

J. Nielsen, J. Kumar and P. Yammiyavar 'Design HCI techniques targetting cultural diversity ' , Proceedings of OJ-IRS 2006, 6th Danish Human Computer Interaction Research Symposium, University of Aa rhu s, Denmark, 15 November 2006

AK. Das 'Tools and methods for competitive engineering', TMCE-06, TuDelft Netherland and University of Ljubliana, Siovania, Apri l 2006

Book

D. Chakrabarti and A Das (Eds.) 'Proceedings of the HWWE-2005 In ternational Ergonomics Conference', Allied Publi shers, New Delhi, 2006

PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/ SYMPOSIA

P. Yammiyavar 'Capaci ty building in IPR by nurturin g creative minds', Regional Seminar on Intellectual Properly Rights and Patents for Capacity Building, MH RD, Department of Biotechnology, liT Guwahati, 15-17 September 2006

U. Barua 'Trad itional design and digital compatibility: a look into some eth nic artifacts', Intern ational Conference organized by NORDIK Society of Norway, Bergen University, Norway, 22-24 September 2006

M.Majhi 'Cu ltural usability: a case study in animation', Intern ational Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, M ay 2006

P. Yamm iyavar and J. Kumar 'Usability: Bounded rationality perspectives in cross cu ltural framework', Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-15 M ay 2006

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P. Yammiyavar and K.M . Goel 'Emphasis on non-verbal cues for in terpreting cognitive processes in protocol analysis', Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-15 May 2006

Raj inder, Vikas and P. Yammiyavar 'Confli cts in adopting to e-servi ces in rural India-a Study of Cultural Issues', Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-1 5 May 2006

P. Yam miyavar, S. Nainwal and s. Kunhimohamm ed 'An interface to aid rural hea lth workers in diagnosing cataracts', Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-15 May 2006

J. Kumar and P. Yammiyavar ' Impact of user's aspirations on choice o f interface: towards validating Indian Psychology Perspecti ve', Indo­Danish HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-15 May 2006

K. Gupta and P. Yammiyavar 'A cultural context directed design of a tool for usability evalu ation of web interfaces', Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-15 May 2006

T. Sh ah and P. Yammiyavar 'Digital techn ology as a means to continuing cu ltural traditions - case study', Indb -Dani sh HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-15 M ay 2006

A Singh, S.R.M. Prasann a, P. Yammiyavar, V. Batra and P. Dixit 'Using culture based cues in music for affective engineering of GUI ', In do-Dani sh HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati , 14-15 M ay 2006

P. Dixit, V. Batra, P. Yammiyavar, L. Sitorus and J. Buur 'A cross cultural study in user interface mode lin g of refrigeration system mechanics', Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium, liT Guwahati, 14-15 May 2006

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

M. Ran e j ' Intellectual observers', Intern atlon allCOGRADA Design Week, Industrial Design Centre, liT Bombay, 5-6 February 2007

R.M. Punekar Nation al Graphic Design Education Meet, In ternational ICOGRADA Design Week, Industrial Design Centre, liT Bombay, 5-6 Febru ary 2007

U. Baru a and M. Rane Design Edu cation Exhibiti on, Intern ational ICOGRADA Design Week, Industrial Design Centre, l iT Bombay, 5-6 February 2007

Nine students of the Department were members of the design workshop titl ed ' Design Local' at International ICOGRADA Design Week, Industrial Design Centre, liT Bombay, 5-6 February 2007.

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M. Madhukailya Workshop on Digital Image Processing and Selected Topics in Film and Media Theory, Werkleitz Gesellschaft-Centre for M edia Art Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, April-May 2006.

M . M adhukaillya Site Specific Multimedia Workshop and Presentation, Khoj International Artist Workshop, Kolkata.

D. Chakrabarti Conducted a workshop on ergonomics to MDes students of liT Kanpur, 5-10 November 2006.

D. Chakrabarti Conducted a workshop on ergonomics at Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, 24-25 August 2006.

A K.Das Co ndu cted a workshop on Transportation Design 'Transdesign' at NIT Trichi during their technical festival 'Pragyan', 2-5 February 2007.

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY

P. Yammiyavar 'Catalyzing usability and design in India', ORACLE India, Bangalore, 14 November 2006

A Shinde Presentation on Export Oriented Products Through Practical Experience, M eghalaya, September 2006

D. Chakrabarti 'Dental Ergonomics', Clinical Society, Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Pondichery, 25 October 2006

M. Rane Visiting Faculty to Indus Vall ey School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan in November 2006.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Typography Workshop Pro f. Wolfgang W eingart, Intern ation ally renown ed typographer and retired Professor from th e Basel Sch ool of Desi gn, Swi tzerland, visited th e Departm ent and conducted a two week workshop on Basic Typography for the second year students of Design during 16-27 October 2006. This worksh op was co-ordin ated by Mr. M . Rane.

Indo-Danish HCI Research Symposium The Indo- Danish HCI Research Symposium was organised in coll aboration with th e School of Inform ati cs, Copenhagen Busin ess School, Copenhagen, Denm ark and Chin ese Academy of Sciences, Beijing on 14-1 5 M ay 2006.

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The focus of the Symposium was on cross cultural issues in human-computer interaction covering usability, interface design, interaction design, device design, human factors, psychology, sociology, affective computing, information architecture and e-Iearning amongst other issues. Forty delegates from China, US, Denmark and India attended the event. A total of thirty-four peer-reviewed papers were presented in the two-day event From the Department there were nine papers and five poster presentations of students. The Convener of the symposium was Prof. P. Yammiyavar.

EXCHANGE VISITS

J. Kumar, a PhD scholar of the Department was deputed to Copenhagen Business School, Denmark for six weeks to undergo training and collect data for his research work, under the Indo-Danish project.

P. Dixit was deputed to Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation and Danfoss Systems, Denmark to study user centered design practi ce in manufacturing industry for a period of ten weeks.

SHORT-TERM COURSES

Title: Training of craftspersons of MIS Barak Bamboo and Cane Pvt ltd on furniture making using bamboo tiles Programme Co-ordinator: A Shinde Sponsoring Agency: NMBA, TIFAC, New Delhi

Title: Human interface in design and engineering: industrial design perspective encountering various hum an factors Date: 6-10 March 2006 Programme Co-ordinator: D. Chakrabarti

Tit le: Graphic design elements for effective communication Date: 13-17 Novem ber 2006 Programme Co-ordinator: U. Barua

Title: Industrial design considerations in design of plastic products Date: 11-15 Septem ber 2006 Programme Co-ordinator: R.M. Punekar

M. Rane has developed teaching material for the course work Design Analysis and Critics undertaken between M arch 2006 - M arch 2007 as part of th e QIP Cell activities.

OTHER DESIGN RELATED ACTIVITIES

U. Barua held a solo painting exhibition of his works at th e prestigiousJehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai from 1-7 June 2006. The exhibition was inaugurated by award winning film maker Padmashri Jahnu Baru a.

U. Baru a was inv ited to submit hi s painting fo r an intern ational painting exhibition exhibited as a group show organized by Indian Arti st Network at World Trade Centre,

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Sudirman, Jakarta, Indonesia from 15-27 August 2006. The show was inaugurated by Indian Ambassador H. E. Navrekha Sharma.

A. Shinde w.as nominated as member of the Advisory and Monitoring Committee of National Mission on Bamboo Applications, TIFAC, New Delhi, to review their sponsored project tided- 'Technology Development Assistance to Barak Bamboo and Cane Pvt Ltd, Silchar; Mis Basera Building Centre (B BC), Bhopal; Mis Marboh Bamboo Products Pvt. Ltd, Barapani, East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya; Vighnaraj Bamboo Products Pvt. Ltd. Guwahati.

A. Shinde's entry for the design business proposition was short listed for India's Creative future - Creative Future School being organized at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in August 2006 by the British Council.

D. Chakrabarti was invited as external examiner for MSc Physiology Ergonomics special paper practical at Presidency College, Calcutta University, July 2006.

R.M. Punekar organized two training programmes of ten day duration on new lighting fixtures and furniture in bamboo for crafts persons from Kharghuli, Guwahati and Mangaldoi in November and Decem ber 2006, as a part of the on going KVIC-IITG TBU project under sub-group Craft and Technology.

A.K. Das undertook design and development of human powered vehicles for multi purpose applications in the context of developing nation.

VISITORS

Mr. JayantMurthy, Co-fou nder, Kaizen India, Ahmedabad Mr. Jasjitsingh Rana, Industrial Designer, Maruti Udyog, New Delhi Prof. An irudha Joshi, IDC, liT Bombay Prof. Sudarshan Khanna, NID, Ahmedabad Shri Srivastava, Secretary, NEC, Guwahati

FACULTY MEMBERS

U. Barua MFA (Visva Bharati University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Communication Design

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D. Chakrabarti PhD (Calcutta University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Ergonom ics

A.K. Das BTech (Textile), MBA MDes (liT Bombay) Associ ate Professor Areas of Interest: Industrial Design

M. Madhukailya BSc, PGDP Communication Design in Video and Film (NID, Ahmedabad) Senior Lecturer Areas of Interest: Communication Design

M. Majhi MDes (liT Bombay) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Communication Design (Animation)

R.M. Punekar MDes (liT Bombay) Associate Professor and Head Areas of Interest: Industrial Design

K. Ramachandran BE, DIIT (liT Bombay) Professor Areas of Interest: Industrial Design

M. Rane BFA (Applied Art) MDes (liT Bombay) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Communication Design

A. Shinde MDes (liT Delhi) Assistant professor Areas of Interest: Industrial Desi!?n

P. Yammiyavar MDes (liT Bombay) PhD (IiSc Bangalore) Professor Areas of Interest: Industrial Desi&n

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

INTRODUCTION

The primary objective of the Departm ent is to impart education and training at the undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels with special emphasis on design aspects of electronic systems. The emphasis on the design aspects impli es that, while the basic theoretical and analytical skills of the students are adequately developed, th e programmes are oriented in such a way that students acquire an overall design perspective and aptitude.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

The Departmen t offers the following programmes:

BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering

MTech in a) Digital Signal Processing and b) VLSI

PhD in various areas related to the fi eld of Electronics and Communication Engineering.

STUDENT INTAKE

MTech (2006 batch) : 44 BTech (2006 batch): 48 PhD : (2006-2007) : 10 Total continuing students:

FACULTY STRENGTH

The faculty strength during this period was 18.

Professor: 3 Associate Professor: 6 Assistant Professor: 9

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

Various laboratories in the Department are Electron ic Circuits laboratory, Control and Instrumentation laboratory, Microprocessor and Embedded Systems laboratory, High Frequency laboratory, DSP and Communication laboratory, VLSI laboratory, Image and Si gnal Processing laboratory, Medical El ectronics and Speech Processing laboratory and a System Simulation laboratory. The laboratories are equipped with the state-of-the-art hardware from HP, Agilent, Tektronix, Fluke, Teac Corporation, Scientech, Aplab, etc. and software from luken, Genesys, M entor Graphi cs, Microsim, Mathworks, Hypercepti on, Xilinx, Altera, l eland SW Inc., Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, etc. Th e hardware consists of Vector Network Analyser (6 GHz),

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Spectrum Analyzer (1.8 GHz), Synthesized RF Generators, Digital Storage Oscilloscopes (150-500 MHz), Mixed signal Oscilloscopes (100 MHz), Logic Analyzers (1 6 and 34+ channels), Arbitrary Waveform generators (80 MHz), Pulse generators (150 MHz), Bench-Top DMM (6.5 Di gi t), Tim er/ Counters (1 0 Digits, 5 GHz), Programmable Power Supplies, LCRMeters, Digital Modulation Signal Generators, PCM Data Record er, Feedback Control Instruments, etc. The Departm ent has also obtained a few numbers of FPGA development kits from Xilinx and Altera Inc. Some of the availab le so ftware are Matlab 7.3, HP EEsof, IE 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Software from l eland Software Inc., Analog Device's Crosscore Visu al DSP+ + , Texas Instrum ents Code Composer Studio, MicroSim Design Lab, Hypersignal Graphical DSP development software, El anix SystemView, Agilent VEE Pro, Tektronix's Wavstar, Cadstar for PCB Design, etc. The recently procured high-end software tools and packages for VLSI design an d synthesis include Cadence Bundle, Synopsys Tools Bundle, Magma Standard University, CoWare Tools, Mentor Tools Bundle, Xilinx ISE Foundation Software and XUP Spartan - 3E Starter Kits, Altera Quartus design environment along with Nios-II and oth er IP packages.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Th e Departm ent has setup a VLSI laboratory under the project entitl ed 'Special m anp ower develop m ent programme in VLSI design and related software (SM DP-I I)' sponsored by MIT, Govt. of India.

The Department has set up a sophisticated digital signal processing laboratory with the state-o f- the-art equipment from An alog Devices and Texas Instrum ents, and Real Time DSP Software from Hyperception Inc. The Department has also received a donation from Analog Devices Inc. consisting of hardware kits and Visual DSP software.

The RF/Microwave laboratory is well equipped with sufficient number of Microwave Benches, Antennas, Vector Network Analyzer (6 GHz), RF Power meter, 10 MHz to 18 GHz Power Sensor, 100 KHz to 3 GHz RF Amplifier, etc.

A Chemical-free PCB Prototyp ing System LPKF PROTOMAT C-60 from M/s. LPKF Laser and Electronics AG Germany has been set up for in-house development of printed circuit boards for circuits and working modules.

An Industrial Electronics Laboratory based around Super Small Programm able Logic Controller, Thyri storized DC drive Controll er, DC Drive and Variacs is also operational.

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The Departmental System Simulation Laboratory is equipped with up-to-date PCs and various computational and simulation software like Matlab 7.3, Borland C+ +, FPGA Advantage from Mentor Graphi cs, Xil inx's ISE foundation, Zeland's IE3D EM simulation SW, Altera's Quartus webpack, Electronics Workbench, MicroSim Design Lab (EDA software), Cadstar PCB Design, Elanix's Systemview, HP­Eesof, Hypersignal and Operating System such as HP Unix, Sun Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft windows 2003 and windows 2000/XP.

SPONSORED PROJECTS

Title: Study of source features for speech synthesis and speaker recogniti on Funding: Indo-UK joint research project under UK-INDIA Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) Standard Awards between liT Guwahati, lilT Hyderabad and CSTR, University of Edinburgh , UK Investigators: Dr. S.R.M. Prasanna (lIT Guwahati), Prof. B. Yegnanarayana(lllT Hyderabad) and Dr. Simon King (CSTR, UK) Duration: 4 years

Title: Modelling, simulation, and prototype development of continuous-phase single/multiple cycle modulation scheme applicabi li ty for high data rate long range low power wireless communication system Consultants: Prof. A. Mahanta, Prof. A.K. Gogoi, Prof. P.K. Bora and Dr. P.R. Sahu Sponsoring Agency: Motorola India Pvt. Ltd. Duration: 18 months Amount: US $22000

Title: M etamaterials engineered microwave devices: size miniaturization and performance enhancement of microwave devices using m etamaterials based sub­wavelength resonators and com ponents Investigator: Dr. K.R. Sin gh Sponsoring Agency: DST, Governm ent of Ind ia Duration: 3 years Amount: Rs.8.5 lakh

Title: Study and development of sensor and trigger mechanism for protection against lightning Chief Investigator: Dr. S. Majhi Co-investigator: prof. A.K. Gogoi, Dr. H.B. Nem ade Sponsoring Agency: Army Technical Board, Govt. of India Duration : 18 months Amount: Rs.30 lakh

Title: SpeCial manpower development programme in VLSI design and related software (SMDP-II) Sponsoring Agency: MIT, Govt. of India Principal Coordinator: Dr. S. Dandapat Project Coordinator: Dr. Roy Paily P. Duration: 5 years

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Title: Keyword spotting in continuous speech Funding: Indo-Swiss joint research project between liT Guwahati, liT Madras and IDIAP Switzerland sanctioned by DST, New Delhi Investigators: Dr. S.R.M. Prasanna, Prof. B. Yegnanarayana and Prof. Hynek Herm ansky

Title: Design and development of an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Chief Investigator: Dr. S. Dandapat Co-investigator: Dr. P.K. Bora Duration: 3 years 6 months Amount Sanctioned: Rs.5lakh Status: Completed

Tit le: Real time control of stiff systems Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Principal Investigator: Dr. s. M ajhi Co-investigator: Dr. C. M ahant1 Duration: 3 years 6 mon ths Amount Sanctioned: Rs.6lakh Status: Completed

Title: Wavelength division multi~lexed (WDM) fiber optic link Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Year: 2001 Chief Investigator: Dr. A.K. Gogoi Amount Sanctioned: Rs.7lakh Status: Completed

Title: New techniques for im age-compression and moti on compensation Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Duration: 3 years and 6 months Chief Investigator: Dr. P.K. Bora Amount Sanctioned: Rs.6 lakh Status: Completed

Title: Advanced DSP in biomedical engineerin g Sponsoring Agency: MHRD Chief Investigator: Dr. J.S. Sahambi Amount Sanctioned: Rs.6 lakh Status: Completed

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers

S.Majhi 'Relay-based identification of a class of nonminimum phase 5150 processes', IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, pp. 134-139, January 2007

K.S. Rao and B. Yegnanarayana 'Prosody modification using instants of significant excitation', IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, pp. 972-980, May 2006

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P.R. Sahu and A.K. Chaturvedi 'Performan ce analysis a predetection EGC receiver in exponentially correlated Nakagami-m fading channels for non-coherent binary modu lations', IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun, 5 (7), pp. 1634-38

S. Ramamohan and S. Dandapat 'Sinusoidal model based analysis and classification of stressed speech', IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, May 2006

P. Vinod and P.K. Bora 'Motion-compensated inter-frame collusion attack and a countermeasure', lEE Proc.lnformation Security, 153(2), pp. 61-73, June 2006

P.K. Padhy and S. M ajh i 'Relay based PI-PD design for stable and unstable FOPDT processes', Journal of Computers and Chemical Engineering, 30 (5), pp. 790-796, May 2006

M.K. Bhuyan , D. Ghosh and P.K. Bora 'Hand motion tracking and trajectory matching for dynamic hand gesture recognition', Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 18 (4), pp. 435-447, December 2006

R.S. Kshetrimayum and L. Zhu 'EBG design using FSS elements in rectangular waveguide', Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal , 21 (2), pp . 149-154, July 2006

P.K. Padhy and S. M aj hi 'Tuning of PI controller for stable processes', Journal of Systems Science and Engineering, 13 (1), pp. 55-59, June 2006

S.R.M. Prasanna, C.S. Gupta and B. Yegnanarayana 'Extraction of speaker-specific excitation information from linear prediction resid ual of speech', Journal of Speech Communication, 48 (10), pp. 1243-1 261, October 2006

A. Mitra 'Mobile communication: the health and socio-economic issues', Breakthrough, 12 (1), pp. 16-27, October 2006

H.S. Dhillon and A. Mitra 'A low-power architecture of digital sinusoid generator using cubic sp line interpolator', IETEJournal of Education , 47 (3), pp. 129-1 36, July-September 2006

A. Mitra, v.V.S. Rao and S.R.M. Prasanna 'A new image encryption approach using combinational permutation techniques', Int. Journal of Compo Sc., 1 (2), pp.127-131,May2006

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S.R.M. Prasanna, Y.V.S. Rao and A. Mitra 'An image encryption method with magnitude and phase manipulation using carrier images', Int. Journal of Compo Sc., 1 (2), pp. 132-137, May 2006

A. Mitra 'A finite precision block-floating-point treatment to direct form, cascaded and parall el FIR digital filers', Int. Journal of Signal Processing, 3 (1), pp. 1-9, April 2006

L.N. Sharm a, S. Das and A.K. Gogoi Laboratory experiments through low bit rate Internet link', International Journal of Online Engineering (ijOE: ISSN: 1861-2121),2 (3), July 2006

S.R.M. Prasanna, C.S. Gupta and B. Yegnanarayana 'Extraction of speaker-specific excitation information from linear prediction residual of speech', Journal of Speech Communication, 48 (10), pp. 1243-"1261, October 2006

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

International

P. Vinod, G. Doerr and P.K. Bora 'Assessing motion-coherency in video watermarking', 8th ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop (ACM MM and Sec '06), Geneva, September 2006

M. Buragohain and C. Mahanta 'Modelling of thermal power plant using full factorial design based ANFIS', IEEE International conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) (CIS-RAM 2006), Bangkok, Th ailand, 7-9 June 2006

C. M ahanta and P.J. Bhagat 'Adaptive fuzzy self-learning controller for rob otic manipulators', IEEE International conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems(ClS) and Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) (CIS-RAM 2006), Bangkok, Th ailand, 7-9 June 2006

A. Ali and S. M ajh i 'Design of optimum PID controller by bacteria-foraging strategy', Proc. of IEEE Conference on Industria l Technology, Muinbai, 15-17 December 2006

P.K. Padhy and S. M ajh i 'An exact method for on-line identification of FOPDT processes', Proc. of IEEE Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT06, Mumbai, 15-17 December 2006

P.K. Padhy and S. Majhi ' Identification ofTlTO processes', Proc. of IEEE Conference on Industrial Technology, IClT06, Mumbai, 15-17 December 2006

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S. Kumar, S.K. Singh and R. Bhattacharjee 'A scheme for efficient handoffs in heterogeneous network environment', In ternational Conference on Computers and Devices for Communica tion (CODEC-06), Kolkata, 18-20 December 2006

B.S. Paul and R. Bhattacharj ee 'Studies on the effect of mutual coupling in one ring MIMO channel simulation model', International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication (CODEC-06), Kolkata, 18-20 December 2006

S. Gulati and R. Bhattacharjee 'Automatic blind recogni tion of noisy and faded digitally modulated PSK signals', International Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing (lCEMC2 2006), PESI~ Bangalore, 4-5 August 2006 (Best paper award, Modulation and SDR Session)

S. Kumar, S.K. Singh and R. Bhattacharjee 'A new handoff scheme for macro-mobility scenario', 3rd Interna tional Confe rence on W ire less and Optica l Communications Networks: The Next Generation of Internet (WOCN 2006), Bangalore, 11-13 Apri l 2006

K. Singh and R. Bhattacharjee 'Bit error rate perform ance of genetic algorithm opti mized WDM systems', 3rd International Conference on Wire less and Optical Communications Networks: The Next Generation of Internet (WOCN 2006), Bangalore, 11-13 Ap ril 2006

A. Mitra I\n adaptive negative feedback controller for indoor wireless commu nications', Proc. Int. Conf. Adv. Electronics. Comm. Tech. (lCAECT), Punjab, December 2006

H.S. Dhillon and A. Mitra 'Digita l sinusoid generator with two-interval cubic sp line interpolator: a low power architecture', Proc. Int. Conf. Adv. Electron ics. Comm. Tech . (lCAECT), Punjab, December 2006

K.M. Krishna and A. Mitra 1\ dual antenna single correlator RAKE receiver with modified Walsh- Hadamard codes for WCDMA systems', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Signal, Image Proc., Karnataka, pp. 725-730, 7-9 December 2006

M.N. Kumar and A. Mitra 'A combined fast adaptive channel estimation and mod ifi ed T-H precoding scheme for indoor wireless communications', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Signal, Image Proc., Karnataka, pp. 1003-1008,7-9 December 2006

N.P. Kumar and A. Mitra 'Decision feedback equalization w ith a new block based adaptive algorithm: effici ent realization and roundoff error issues', Proc. IEEE Int . Conf. Signal, Image Proc., Karnataka, pp.1009-1014,7-9 December 2006

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M.K. Bhuyan, D. Ghosh and P.K. Bora 'Feature extraction from 2D gesture trajectory in dynam ic hand gesture recogn ition', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 1-6, 7-9 June 2006

M.K. Bhuyan, D. Ghosh and P.K. Bora 'Recognition of wide classes of hand gestures for human computer interaction', Proceedings of the First International Conference on Man-Machine Systems (lCoMMS), Langkawi, Malaysia, 15-16 September 2006

B. Deka and D. Ghosh 'U ltrasound image segmentation using watersheds and region merging', Proceedings of the lET International Conference on Visual In forma ti(iJn Engineering (VIE 2006), Bangalore, pp. 110-115,26-28 September 2006

A. Jain, T. Dube and D. Ghosh 'A fuzzy approach to person identification using gait', Proceedings of the lET Internati9nal Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2006), Bangalore, pp. 174-179, 26-28 September 2006

V.N. Shankar and D. Ghosh 'Dynamic hand gesture synthesis and an imation using image morphing echnique', Proceedings of the lET International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2006), Bangalore, pp. 543-548, 26-28 September 2006

B. Deka and D. Ghosh 'Watershed segmentation for medical ultrasound images', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC-2006), Taipei, Taiwan, 8-11 October 2006

U. Bharali and D. Ghosh 'Cardiac motion estimation from echocardiographic image sequence using unsupervised active contour tracker', Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE In~ernational Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (lCARCV-2006), Singapore, 5-8 December 2006

N.R. Krish nan, R.P. Paily and H .B. Nemade ' Design of SAW based biosensor for heavy metal ion detection', International Symposium on Nano-Bio Interface, Kolkata, 1-3 March 2006

N.R. Krishnan, H.B. Nemade and R.P. Paily 'Modelling and analysis of SAW b<jlsed liquid sensors', Eighth International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Indian Institu te of Science, Bangalore, 20-25 August 2006

N.R. Kri shnan, H.B. Nemade anb R.P. Paily 'Simu lation of one port SAW resonator using COMSOL multiphysics', COMSOL Mu ltiphys ics user Conference, Bangalore, 17 November 2006 (First prize for the best paper presented in the con ference)

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M.S. Manikandan and s. Dandapat 'An efficient wavelet-energy based phonocardiogram (PCG) data compression', Proc. IEEE In t . Conf. Signal, Image Proc. ( ICSIP 2006), Hubli , India, 7-9 December 2006

M .S. M anikandan and s. Dandapat 'Wavelet-threshold based ECG compression with sm ooth retrieved quality for telecardiology', Proc. 3rd IEEE Int. Conf. In te lligent Sensing and Inform ation Process ing, Ind ia, December 2006

K.S. Rao and B. Yegnanarayana 'Voice conversion by prosody and vocal tract modification', accepted in 9 th Int. Co nf. Info rm ation Techn o logy, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, pp. 111 -11 6, December 2006

S. Sumi tra, P. Yugandhar, A. M anohar, K. Vivekanand and S.R.M. Prasanna 'A comparative study of keyword spotting and isolated word recognition task', Proc. Intemational Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and In fo rmatics, j anuary 2007

S.R.M . Prasanna, P. Yugandhar 'Keyword spotting system (KWS) using Vector Quantization (VQ) tech nique', Proc. In te rn ational Confe rence on Systemics, Cybernetics and Info rmatics, j anuary 2007

S.R.M. Prasanna, A. Mitra, D.K. Sharm a, V. Singh, V.A. Ku mar 'Analysis of encrypts speech from perm utati on scram biers', Proc. International Con ference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, january 2007

H.S. j ayanna and S.R.M. Prasanna 'Variable segmental analysi s based speaker recogni tion in lim ited data conditions', IEEE-Int . Conf. on Siganal and Image processing (ICSIP) , Hubli , Karn ataka, December 2006

B.V. Kalyan and P. K. Bora 'Video based tracking with multip le cameras', International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and In fo rmatics, pp. 283-288, january 2007

Nat ional

M. K. Bhuyan, D. Ghosh and P. K. Bora 'Continuous hand gesture segmentation and co-articu lation detection', Fifth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVCIP-2006), Madurai, India, LNCS vol. 4338, pp. 564-575, Springer, 13-1 6 December 2006

S. M ajh i and P. K. Padhy 'Relay based identifi cation of time delay processes', Proc. of 30th National Systems Conference , Dona Paula, Goa, November 2006

P. K. Padhy and s. Majhi 'IMC based PID controller for FOPDT stable and unstable processes', Proc. of 30th National Systems Conference, Dona Paula, Goa, November 2006

Annual Re port 2006-2007

D. Dey and R.S. Kshetrimayum 'High gain and effi cient patch antenna on micromach ined GaAs EBGs with increased bandwid th' , Annual IEEE Indican , New Delhi, September 2006

S.K. M anusani, R.S. Kshetrim ayum and R. Bhattacharjee 'Robust tim e and frequency synchronization in O FDM based 802. 11 a WLAN systems', Annual IEEE Indican , New Delhi , September 2006

M .K. Bhuyan, D. Ghosh and P.K. Bora 'A fram ew o rk fo r hand gesture recognition with appli cati on to Indian sign language', Proceedings of the Third IEEE INDICaN 2006, Delh i, 15-1 7 September 2006

G. Haobij am and R.P. Pai ly 'Systematic analysis, design and optimization of on chip sp iral indu ctor for sili con based RFIC's', IEEE INDICaN, Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

. P. Baburaj and s. M ajhi 'M odi fi ed sm ith pred ictor controller for network congesti on control', Proc. of IEEE INDICON-06, New Delhi , Sept. 2006

P.K. Pad hy and s. Maj hi 'On-li ne mobil e robot path trackin g using PI controller' , Proc. of IEEE INDICON-06, New Delhi, September 2006

S. Gulati and R. Bhattacharj ee 'Automatic blind recognition for noisy and faded digitally mod ulated M QAM si gnals' , IEEE INDICaN 2006, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

B.S. Paul and R. Bh attacharjee ' Effect of array geometry on the capacity of outdoor MIMO communicati on: A study', IEEE INDICaN 2006, India Habi tat Centre, New Delh i, 15-1 7 September 2006

S.K. M anu sani , R.S. Kshetrim ayu m and R. Bhattach arjee 'Robust tim e and frequency synchron ization in OFDM based 802 .11 a WLAN systems', IEEE INDICaN 2006, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 15-1 7 September 2006

G. Haob ij am and R.P. Pai ly 'Design and optimization of on-chip sp iral inductor fo r sili con based RF IC'S', VLSI Design And Test Symposium, Goa, 9-1 2 August 2006

D.V. Bhargava and R.P. Pai ly ' Design and study of an electrostatic torsion m icro actu ator for beam steering in hor izontal plane', VLSI Design And Test Symposium , Goa, 9-1 2 Au gust 2006

N. j ain, K.S. Reddy, s. Dandapat 'Constrain ed autoregressive mode l for burg method', Proceedings of IEEE Ind ia Annual Conference (INDICaN 2006), New Delhi , 15-17 September 2006

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C.S. Raja, S. Dandapat 'Stress comp ensation for improvem ent in spea ker recognition', Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (lNDICON 2006), New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

T.V. Sagar, K.S. Rao, S.R.M. Prasanna, S. Dandapat 'Characterization and incorporation of emotions in speech', Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (lNDICON 2006), New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

D. Satyarthi, B.A.N. Raju, S. Dandapat 'Detection of diabetic retinopathy in fundus images using vector quantization technique' , Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (lNDICON 2006), New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

D. Hazarika, C. Mahanta, S. Dandapat 'Tracking of heart wall motion using unscented Kalm an filter', Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (lNDICON 2006), New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

M.S. Manikandan and S. Dandapat 'Wavelet based ECC compression with large zero zone quantizer' , Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (lNDICON 2006), New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

M.S. Manikandan and S. Dandapat 'An efficien t wavelet-based cardiac signal compression for telemed ici ne compression ', Proc .Indian Conf. Medica l Informatics and Telemedicine (lCMIT 2006), Kharagpur, pp . 132-136, December 2006

P. Krishnamoorthy and S.R.M. Prasanna Enhancement of noisy speech by spectral subtraction and residual modifi cati on', Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (lNDICON 2006), New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

N. Candhi, P. Krishnamoorthy and S.R.M. Prasanna 'Reduction of musi cal noise in spectral subtracted speech using excitation source information', Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (lNDICON 2006), New Delhi, 15-17 September 2006

H.S. Jayanna, K.C. Cuj ala, S.R.M. Prasanna 'Comparison of fuzzy and crisp vector qu anti zation technique for speaker recognition', Proc. National Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (NWAJ), NCST Mumbai, July 2006

H.S. Jayanna and S.R.M . Prasanna 'Speaker recognition in limited data conditions for variable fram e rate analysis', Proc. National Conference on VLSI Design, Signal Process ing and Communica tion (NC-VSCom), Tumkur, Karnataka, February 2007

V.A. Kumar, A. Mitra. S.R.M. Prasanna 'Performance analysis of different pseudo noise seq uence for speech encryption', Proc. National Conference on VLSI Design, Signal Processing and Communication (NC-VSCom), Tumkur, Karnataka, February 2007

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Book Chapters

Y.V.S. Rao, A. Mitra and S.R.M. Prasanna 'A Partial Image Encryption M ethod with Pseudo Random Sequences', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 4332, pp. 315-325, Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg, December 2006

INVITED LECTURES OF OUR FACULTY

In India

Prof. P.K. Bora delivered an invited talk on 'An Overview of Bi oelectronics' at the seminar on Bi oelectronics at Tezpu r University on 27 March 2007.

Dr. S. Dandapat delivered an invited talk on ' ECC In strum entation and Compressi on' at th e seminar on Bioelectronics atTezpur Un iversity on 27 M arch 2007.

Dr. S. M aj hi delivered invited lectures on (i ) 'Basics of Fuzzy Logic Control' and (ii) 'Design of Fuzzy Logic Controll ers' at National Institute for Teachers Training and Research, Cuwahati, 23 August 2006.

Dr. C. Mahanta delivered an invited talk on 'Neural Networks and Applications' in NEC sponsored Workshop on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm (WNNGA) organised by Dept. of Statisti cs and Com puter Sci ence, st. Anthony'S Coll ege, Shillong on 22 M arch 2007.

Dr. S.R.M . Prasann a deli vered a tutori al on ' Speech Processing' in First Intern ational Conference on Signal and Image Processing (lCSIP) held at B.V. Bhoomaraddi Coll ege of En gineerin g and Technology, Hu bly, Karnataka during 7-9 December 2007.

Dr. S.R .M. Prasa nn a de li vered an in vited ta l k on ' Research Issues in Speech Processin g' at Sri Siddharth a Institu te o f Techn o logy Tumkur, Karn atka o n 11 December 2007.

Dr. A. Mitra gave an invited talk titled 'A New Approach Towards Low Cost, Low Power Adaptive Si gnal Processing' at C.S. Sanyal School ofTelecommunications, liT Kharagpur on 1 July 2006 .

VISITORS FROM OTHER I NSTITUTES/ UNIVERSITIES

Prof. N.V. Th akor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Johns Hopkin s University, USA, 13-14 February 2007

Prof. K.V. Srivathsan, Director IIITM-K (Trivendrum), 7 March 2007.

SHORT-TERM COURSES

A short-term course on 'B iomed ica l, Speech and Image Processi ng' was organised during 26-30 December 2006. Dr. S.R.M. Prasann a and Dr. S. D andapat we re the coordinators.

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INVITED LECTURES

Dr. Ch andrasekhar Sarm a, Infineon Technologi es, Fishkill, NY, USA delivered an invited talk on ' Status of logic technology processing: how photolithography is driving device scaling' on 12 January 2007.

Prof. Nitish V. Thakor, Professor of Bi omed ical engineering in Johns Hopkins University, USA, delivered a talk on 13-14 Febru ary 2007.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Mr. Dipto Dey, an MTech student and Mr. Abhishek Rawat, a BTech stud ent of the Dept. have won the first and third pr ize respectively in Motorola's MOTOFWRDINDIA Competition 2006.

FACULTY MEMBERS

R. Bhattacharjee PhD Uadavpur University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: El ectromagnetics, Antennas and Microwaves

P.K. Bora PhD (IISc Bangalore) professor Areas of Interest: Im age Processing and Computer Vision

S. Dandapat PhD (lIT Kanpur) Associate Professor and Head Areas of Interest: Biomedical Si gnal Processing, Speech Processing and Medical Image Processing

A.K. Gogoi PhD (lIT Kanpur) Professor Areas of Interest: Electromagnetics, Microwave Engineerin g, RF System Design

A. Mahanta PhD (liT Delhi) Professor Areas of Interest: Digital Signal Processing

C. Mahanta PhD (liT Delhi) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Control Systems, Stochastic Systems

S. Majhi DPh il (University of Sussex, UK) Associ ate Professor Areas of Interest: Relay Control Systems, Control Algorithms and Identification

A.K. Mishra PhD (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Radar Signal Processing and VLSI

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A. Mitra PhD (lIT Kh aragpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Adaptive Signal Processi ng, Statistical Signal Processing, Finite-precision Signal Processing, Wireless Communication, Pattern Recognition

H.B. Nemade PhD (lIT Bombay) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Industrial! Ul trasonic Instrumentation, Non-destructive testing

R.P. Palathinkal PhD (lIT M adras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: MOSFET Devices and VLSI Technology

S.R.M. Prasanna phD (liT M ad ras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Speech, Audio, im age and Biomedical Signal Processing, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition

A. Rajesh PhD (thesis submitted), (lIT Kanpur, India) Senior Lectu rer Areas of Interest: Coding and Modulation Techn iques

K.S. Rao PhD (lIT M adras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Speech processing, Prosodic aspects of speech, Digital Signal Processing, Neu ral networks

J.S. Sahambi PhD (liT Delhi) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Digital signal Processing, Wavelets, Microprocessors

P.R. Sahu PhD (liT Kanpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: M ob il e Communications: Diversity combining techniques over fading channels

K.R. Singh PhD (NTU Singapore) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: El ectromagnetic Band Cap, Filters, Metamaterials, Computational Electromagnetics and Periodic Structures

R. Sinha PhD (lIT Kanpur) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Speech and Aud io Processing, Speech Recognition, Signal Processing

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DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Hum anities and Social Sciences has a unique niche in the academi c programme of the Institute. It currently comprises six discipli nes, namely, Economics, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and History and Archeology. The courses offered at the BTech level are designed with a view to provi din g academic inputs that complement the technology programm es of the Institute. All the six disciplines endeavour to highlight the fact that science and technology mu st eventually address the needs of human beings. However, apart from imparting knowledge in some of the contemporary areas, the courses also encourage students to deliberate on issues relating to ethical and social roles of techn ology. A growing understanding of the impor tance of interdisciplinarity is today one of the Department's major strengths. Some of the currentacademic concern s in the six disciplines focus on this aspect of knowledge. The Department also has a vibrant Doctoral Programme in which scholars are encouraged to excel in high quality research through rigorous coursework that hone thei r theoretical, critical and empirical tools. Th e wide range of areas of interests of the facu lty members ensures a broad vision and openness in the Department's academic programmes.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

PhD Programme The Department is running PhD programme in Economics, English, Philosophy and Psychology.

BTech and BDes Programme The Department offered elective courses in Econom ics, Philosophy, Psychology English, Sociology and History and Archeology to the first and third semester students du ring July-November 2006 Semester. Elective courses were offered in Economics, Ph ilosophy, Psychology, Sociology, History and Archeology to the fourth semester students and Economics, English, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, History and Archeology to the sixth semester students and English, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, History and Archeology to the eighth semester students during December 2006-April 2007 Semester.

Preparatory Programme (English) The Preparatory Programme that started at liT Guwahati from 1998 is continuing. The Department offered cou rses in both the semesters of the programme in 2006-2007.

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STUDENT INTAKE

Ei ght PhD students-four each in Economics and En glish­are admitted in the Department during 2005-2006.

FACULTY STRENGTH

Th ere are fourteen facu lty members in the Departmen t as on 31 M arch 2007; three in English, two each in Economics, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, and History and Archeology besides one visiting professor.

Professor: 1 (Visiting) Associate Pro fessor: 6 Assistant Professor : 3 Senior Lecturer: 4 Total Facu Ity: 14

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

The department will be using the facilities of the Institute Computer Centre for its Language Laboratory. Software for faci li tatin g the language skill s of the students in the areas of Phonetics and Language learning has already been procured. The Psychology Laboratory has procu red hardware and software that are bei ng utilized mostly by the research scholars. There is a proposal to have a full­fledged Psychology Laboratory in the Department.

SPONSORED PROJECTS

Ongoing

Title: Ground water markets in Assam: Issues of equity and reliabi lity Co-Investigator: Dr. S. Borbora Sponsoring Agency: Ind ian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi

Tit le: Ground water markets in Assam: Issues of equity and reliability Principal Investigator: Dr. M .K. Dutta Sponsoring Agency: Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi

Tit le: Situation of the intern ally displaced persons in Assam and their rehabili tation by the Government Principal Investigator: Dr. S.D. Hazarika Sponsoring Agency: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, Ministry of Cu lture, Governm ent of India

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

PUBLICATIONS

International Journal

A. Barua ' D esigning Hum ans', Eubios journal o f As ian and International Bioethics, 16 (5), pp.154 -159, September 2006

A. Barua 'Environmental Ethics and the Third world Perspective', Environmental Science and Technology, 2, pp.457-461, Ameri can Science Press, Houston, November 2006

A. Barua ' Philosophy of Art ificial In telligence: A H eideggeri an Approach', Philosophy Pathways, electronic journal, 122, November 2006 (http://www.philosophypathways.com I current.html)

A. Barua and A. Th oibisana 'Exploitation in th e Human Body - Trade and Some Ethical Issues', Eubios journal of Asian and International Bioethics, 16 (5), pp.16-22, January 2007

K. Barua 'The Androgene: Th e ambiguity of existence in Patri ck White's The So lid Mandala and The Twyborn Affa ir ' , Consciousness, Literature and the Arts , 7 (3), pp. 45-55, December 2006

K. Barua 'Li terary Encounters in a cybernetic classroom', journal of Asia-wide liT Alumni Event, pp 24-2 7, liT Alumni Association Singapore, August 2006

National Journal

S. Borbora 'Rural-Urban Divide and Poverty in Ind ia', Assam Economic j ournal, 18, pp. 75-88, 2005, pub lished in April 2006

A. Barua 'Fanaticism and the Philosophy of Dwelling', journal

K. Barua 'It was only yesterday', Volume on Fourth Spring Festiva l of Books for Children, Anwesha, pp. 17-18, Guwahati, 2006

M.K. Dutta 'Institutional Factors behind Variations in Utilization Efficiency of Irrigation Projects in th e Brah maputra Valley of Assam', Indian journal of Regional Science, 38 (1), pp 36-44, July 2006

M .K.Dutta 'Crop Diversification under Governm ent Suppli ed and Privately Owned Irrigation: A Study in the Brahmaputra Valley in Eastern India', Assam Economic journal, 18, pp 61-68,2005, published in April 2006

S.D. Hazarika 'Political Participation of women and the dilectics of 73 rd

Amendment' , Indian journal of Politica l Science, 67 (2), pp 245-260, April-June 2006

Deepthi S. 'Towards understanding Social Mobility: Cri tique of the approaches', Emerging Trends in Development Resea rch, 12, December 2005, published in June 2006

Conference Proceedings

International

S. Borbora / 'Micro Fin ance: Indian Experience in Rural Financing and its

Role in Poverty Alleviation', Internationa l conference on development - Which Finance, w hich Development , Universite Mosteque Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux, France, 23-24 November 2006, (e-p roceedi ng) http:// beagle.u­bordeaux4.fr/jourdev/Paper>lBorbora.pdf

S. Borbora /'Outsourcing and offshoring in IT Sector ' , CD Proceeding of

the Indian Perspective, the International Conference on Management "Double Digit Growth: Asian Perspective" , IBS Ahmedabad, 5-7 January 2007

of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 22, pp . 55-75, A. Barua January-March 2005, published in July 2006 'Environmental Ethics : a third world perspective', Second

A. Barua 'Engineers as Philosophers? A Phil osophical Approach to Engineering', jUNNASA, 11 (1 May), pp. 17-30,2006

/' International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (EST2006), The American Academy of Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA, pp. 150-155, August 2006

K. Barua A. Barua 'Towards a more vibrant classroom: the necessity of change 'Buddhi.sm and Democracy in the Asia paci fic',::rd APARRI in framing and teaching English Courses in Higher Education', /' Internat~onal.Conferen.ce o~ Democracy and Its £?,scontents, Role of Higher Education for Social Change in India with Th.e Unl~erslty of .Callfornl a at ~e:keley, organized. ?y.the Special Reference to North Eastern Region, Golden jubilee ASia-PaCific Am encan.s an? Rellglo.us R:search Initiative, Celebrat ion Vo lume, pp. 59-64, Shillong Coll ege, Shill ong, sponsored by The University of California at Berkeley, pp. July2006 16-19, 3-5 August 2006

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A. Barua M .K. Du tta 'Feminist Critic of Science : A Post-modern Perspective', 'Enhancing Utilization Efficiency of Irrigation through International Conference on Truth, Interpretation and Ground Water M arkets: A Study from Assam in Eastern India', Language: Critiques and Reconstructions, organized by the 5th Japan Economic Policy Association Conference, Ayoam a

t" Dept. of Philosophy, University of Mumbai in collaboration Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 2-3 December 2006 (CD r

with ICPR, 20-2 2 March 2007 Rom)

A. Barua 's k d d h C I I R ' . th . h . S.D. Hazarika and S. Garg an ara eva an t e u tura enalssance In e Vals navlte 'C It I D d th I f M d' A . I d ' ,

Assam', International Conference on Bhakti Movement and u ura em~cracy an e ro eo e la: c~se In n la,

S . S k d . d b h A K I . h Fourth International Conference on Cultural Poltey Research,

nmanta an ara eva, organize y t e som a atl rt a I" Th U ' 'ty fM' d P f ' A t V' / . . e nlversl 0 USIC an er ormln g r sienna campus and the Assamese Dept., PragJyotlsh College, pp. 12-15, tAt W b PI tz 1 A 1030 V' At ' 12 8-9 M h 2007 a n on-von - e ern- a , - lenna, us na, -

arc 16 July 2006

K. Barua 'To garden the W ildern ess: John Fowles's Th e Tree', Literature, Writing, and the Natural World, EAPSU Conference 2006, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, 20-22 October 2006

K. Barua 'The Experiments with Truth: restru cturing of Gandhian experiences in Naipaul 's Half a Life and Magic Seeds', 4th

.,/ International Conference of the United States Chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Santa Clara Universi ty, Californ ia, 27-29 October 2006

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K. Barua 'Cultu ral Studi es and the Engineer' , Technology and the Literature and Writing Classrooms, Special Sess ion , Th e Midwest Modern Lan guage Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, 9-12 November 2006

K. Barua 'The Aesthetics of Prayer: in Shrimanta Sankaradeva', Third International Conference on Bhakti Movement and Srimanta

/ Sankaradeva, Asom Kalatirtha in collaboration with Srim anta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati , 9-11 March 2007

K. Barua 'Reconstructions of the Truth in Mahatma Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments w ith Truth and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul : Memories of a City' , Truth, Interpretation and Language,

/ International Seminar, University of Mumbai and the Indian Council of Phi losophical Research, New Delhi, 20-22 M arch 2007

M.K. Dutta 'Bridging the Digital D ivide: Th e Case of Commun ity Information Centres of Assam in North East India' ,

t' International Conference on 10 Solutions for Socio-Economic Development (ISED 2007), CDAC, Ban gal ore, pp 18-26, 12-13 March 2007

M.K. Dutta 'Management of Ground Water through Water Markets: A Study from Assam in Eastern India', Ninth Biennial Conference of International Society for Ecological Economics, New Delhi,

/ 16-18 December 2006 (CD Rom)

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National

A. Barua 'Relevance of the Gandhian Thought', Seminar on Gandhian Thought on Education, M ajhihira National Basic Educational Institute, Purulia, West Bengal, pp . 19-23, 1-3 November 2006

A. Baru a ' Ecstasy and Education', Seminar on Quality in Higher Education: Evolving strategies for total qua lity management in North Eastern Region, Jointly organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Patkai Christian College, Dimapu r and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore, pp. 95-98, 18-1 9 December 2006

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, CHAPTERS, ETC.)

Book Chapter

K. Barua 'The Ebony Towers by John Fowl es', The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story, Ed. Andrew Maunder, New York, Facts on File, pp. 353-355, 2 M arch 2007

R.M. Punekar 'Kanakadasa: The Philosopher-Poet of the Haridasa Tradition of Karnataka', Bhakti in Current Research, Ed. Monika Horstmann, New Delhi , M anohar, pp. 201-209, 2006

A. Saikia ' Li terary History, Orality and Discourses of M adness: a note on the Social History of Assam' , Folklore as Discourse, Ed. M.D. Mu thukum araswam y, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, 2006

Entries in Encyclopedia

R.M. Punekar 'Devdasi', The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Ed. M elissa Di tmore, Greenwood Press, USA, pp.134-1 36, 2006

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

R.M. Punekar 'Kanhopatra' , The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Ed. Melissa Di tmore, Greenwood Press, USA, pp.237,2006

Book Review

R.M. Punekar Review of Debatin g Gandh i: A Reader edited by A. Raghuramaraj u, OU r, 2006, The Book Review , Vol. xxxi, No. 3, March

R.M . Punekar Review of Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians: Essays, by Thomas Weber, Roli Books, 2006, The Book Review, Vol. xxxi, No. 3, M arch

R.M. Punekar Review of Friends of Gandh i: Correspondence of M ahatma Gandhi wi th Esther Feaerin g et ai, edited by E.S. Reddy and Holger Terp, Nati onal Gandhi Museum, The Book Review, Vol. xxxi, No.3, M arch 2006

S. Sarma A book review article tided 'Unique Struggle' in FRONTLI NE, Vol. 23, Issue 19, 23 September to 06 October 2006

A. Saikia Review of Am alendu Guha's Planter Raj to Swaraj in Social Scientists, 2007, pp. 37-49, January-March 2007

PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS/SYMPOS IA

International

S. Borbora 'Micro Finance: Indian Experience in Rural Financing and its Role in Poverty Alleviation', Intern ational Conference on Development - W hich Fin ance, w hich Development, Bordeaux, France, Universite Mosteque Bordeaux IV, 23-24 November 2006

S. Borbora 'Ou tsourcing and O ffshorin g in IT Sector: The Indian Perspective', In tern ational Conference on M anagement: Double Digi t Growth: Asian Perspective, IBS Ahm edabad, 5-7 January 2007

K. Barua 'To garden the Wild ern ess: John Fowles's Th e Tree, Lite rature, W riting, and the Natural Worl d ' , EAPSU Conference 2006, M ansfield University of Penn sy lvania, 20-22 October 2006

K. Barua 'The Experim ents w ith Tru th: restru ctu ring of Gandhian experiences in Naipaul 's Half a Life and Magic Seeds' , 4th Intern ational Conference of the Uni ted States Chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Li terature and Language

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Studi es, Santa Clara University, Californi a, 27-29 October 2006

K. Barua 'Cultural Stud ies and the En gineer ', Technology and th e Li terature and Wri ting Cl assrooms, Special Session, Th e Midwest M odern Language Association Convention, Palmer House Hil ton, Chi cago, 9-12 November 2006

K. Barua 'Th e Aesth eti cs of Prayer: in Shrim anta Sankaradeva', 3rd

Intern ational Conference on Bhakti M ovement and Sri manta Sankaradeva, Asom Kalatirtha in coll aboration with Srimanta Shankaradeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati, 9-11 March 2007

K. Barua 'Reconstru ctions of the Tru th in M ahatma Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments w ith Truth and Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories of a City', Truth, Interpretation and Language, International Seminar, Universi ty of Mum bai and the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 20-22 March 2007

A. Barua ' Environm ental Ethics: a third world perspective', 2nd

Intern ational Conference on Environm ental Science and Technology (EST2006L The American Academy of Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA, 19-22 August 2006

A. Barua 'Buddhism and Democracy in the Asia Pacific', 3rd APARRI Intern ational Conference on Democracy and Its Discontents, University of Californ ia, Berkeley, organized by the Asian­Paci fi c Am ericans and Religious Research Ini tiative, 3-5 August 2006

A. Barua 'Lincoln, Nehru, and Democracy', International Conference on Abraham Lincoln and Democracy, Lincoln Center for Ameri can Study, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA, 11-1 2 August 2006

A. Barua ' Feminist Cri tic of Sci ence : A Post-m odern Perspective' , Intern ati onal Conference on Tru th, In terpretaion and Language : Cri t iqu es and Reconstruct ions, Dept. o f Philosophy, University of Mumbai in collaboration with ICPR, 20-22 March 2007

A. Barua 'Sankaradeva and the Cul tural Renaissance in the Vaishnavite Assam', Intern ational Conference on Bhakti Movement and Srimanta Sankaradeva, Asom Kalati rtha and the Assamese Dept. Pragjyotish Coll ege, Guwahati, 8-9 M arch 2007

R.M . Punekar and A. Nath 'Fasting, Feasting: Food, Consumption and Politics of Power' , International Conference on Food: Representation, Ideology and Politi cs, Centre for Advanced Studies, Dept. of En glish, Jadavpur University, Kolkatta, 16-1 8 November 2006

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N. Tripath, S. Nongmaithem and V. Agarwal 'Organizational Citizenship Behaviour: Some Antecedents', 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology held at Athens, Greece, 16-21 july 2006

L. Das 'Contemporary Cognitive Poetics and Indian Aesthetic Theories', Biannual International Conference of Internationale Gesellschaft fur Empirische Literaturwissenschaft, Munich, Germany, 5-9 August 2006

M.K.Dutta 'B ridging the Digital Divid e: The Case of Commu nity Information Centres of Assam in North East Ind ia', Intern ational Conference on ICT Solutions for Socio­Economic Development (lSED 2007), CDAC, Bangalore, 12-13 March 2007

M.K. Dutta 'Management of Grou nd water th rough Water M arkets: A Study from Assam in Eastern India', 9th Biennial Conference of International Society for Ecological Economics, New Delhi, 16-18 Decem ber 2006

M.K.Dutta 'Enhancing Utilization Efficiency of Irrigation through Ground Water Markets: A Study from Assam in Eastern India', y h japan Economic Policy Association Conference atAyoama Gakuin Universi ty, Tokyo, j apan, 2-3 December 2006

S.D. Hazarika and S. Garg 'Cultu ral Democracy and the role of M ed ia: A case in India', 4th Intern ational Conference on Cu ltural Poli cy Research, University of Music and Performin g Arts Vien na campus at Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, A-1 030 Vienna, Austria, 12-16 ju ly 2006

Deepthi S. 'Socia l Computing: Experiences from Rural India', International symposium on Human Computer Interaction, IITGuwahati and Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 14-15 May 2006

Deepthi S. 'Changing Identities: Gender and Employment in the Call Center Industry in India', International seminar on Gender and Access in South Asia, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and IUSSp, Paris, 14-18 November 2006

Deepthi S. 'Vedic Sciences: Relevance and Appli cation in the Age of Information Societies', 2nd World Congress on Vedic Sciences, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 9-11 February 2007

National

S. Borbora 'Women in Agriculture, economic emancipation leading to empowerment', Regional Workshop on Social and

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Institutional Fram ework for Female Participation in Agriculture, National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (N IPCCD), Guwahati Regional Centre, Guwahati, 28-30 june 2006

S. Borbora 'WTO Beyond Hong Kong: Focus on Agriculture', Nati onal seminar on Global Convergenc~ of Commerce Education, Dept. of Commerce, NEHU and Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New D~lhi , NEHU, Shillong, 7-8 November 2006

S. Borbora 'Common Market Approach for Tourism Developm ent in th e North East', 8th Annual conference of NEEA, Mizoram University, Aizwal, 16-17 November 2006

A. Barua 'Relevance of the Gandhian Thought', Seminar on Gandhian Thought on Education, Majhih ira National Basic Educational Institute, Pu rulia, West Bengal, 1-3 November 2006

A. Barua ' Ecstasy and Education', Semi nar on Quali ty in H igher Educati on: Evolving strategies for total quali ty management in North Eastern Region, Internal Quali ty Assu rance Cell (lQAC), Patka i Chri stian College, D imapur and National Assessment and Accred itation Counci l (NM C), Bangalore, 18-1 9 December 2006

A. Baru a and A. Th oibisana 'Phenomenologica l Methodology', Seminar-cum-worksh op on Phil osophical Methods, ICPR, New Delhi and M anipur Un iversity, Mani pur, 28-31 january 2006

A. Barua 'Crossing the Borders: An inter-religi ous Di alogue in Medieaval Assam', National seminar on Peace in Dialogue in India's North-East, ICSSR and Dept. of HSS, liT Guwahati, Guwahati, 1-2 February 2007

A. Barua 'Philosophy as Metaphysics: a Heideggerian Perspective', National Seminar on Current Debates in Metaphysics, ICPR and liT Bombay, Mumbai, 16-19 February 2007

A. Baru a 'Transcendental Phenomenology and Its Critics', National seminar on Post M odern ism: Modernism and its Discontents', ICPR and Philosophy Dept. NEHU, Shi ll ong, 14-16 March 2007

A. Barua and A. Thoibisana 'Language and Life World: Wi ttgenstein ian and Heidegger', National Seminar on Post Moderhism: Modernism and its Discontents, ICPR and Philosophy Dept. NEHU, Shi ll ong, 14-16 March 2007

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A. Barua and A. Th oibi sana 'Femin ist epistemology and the Philosophy of Science', National seminar on Ph il osophy, Science and Technology, ICPR and Gauhati University, Guwahati, 28-29 M arch 2007

K. Barua 'Bhakti as the Essence of Peace: Srimanta Sankaradeva's aesthetics of Prayer', National seminar on Peace in Dialogue: Refl ections on North East India, Dept. of HSS, liT Guwahati in coll aboration with the Indian Counci l of Social Science Research, North Eastern Regional Centre, 1-2 February 2007

R.M. Punekar and A. Nath 'Social Spaces and Voices in j ane Austen's Persuasion', National seminar on Re-Reading j ane Austen, Dept. of English, Gauhati University, 30 October-1 November 2006

L. Das 'Defamiliarising the Famili ar: A Reading of Selected Short StoriesofShashi Deshpande', National seminar on Tradition and Transformation, Sahitya Akademi, Guwahati, 27-28 March 2007

N. Tripathi, S. Nongmaithem and N. Kum ar 'Differences in Organizational Learning Processes: A Study ofTwo Organizations', 16 th NAOP Annual Conference, liT Bombay, 14-16 December 2006

S.D. Hazarika and S. Garg 'The Gandhian understanding of Peace and Autonomy', National Seminar on Peace In Dialogue: Reflections on North East India', liT Guwahati, 1-2 February 2007

S. Sarma 'Application of GIS to describe historical urban development in Guwahati City, Asom', NEGeo2006 conference, National Informatic Centre, Govt. of India and Mycoordinates, New Delhi, Ad mini strative Staff Coll ege, Guwahati, 21-22 September 2006

A. Saikia 'Forests, Wastelands and Changing Ecology in Colonial Assam', International Workshop on History of Global Climate Change organized by the Department of History, jadavpur University, 22-23 March 2007

A. Saikia ' History of Reading in the 19 th Century Assam', 29 th session of Indi an Folklore Congress, NEHU, Shill ong, 20 -22 Septem ber 2006

V. Prabhu 'Mind your business: An enquiry into business ethi cs', National seminar on M oral Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives, Women's College, Tinsukia, 18-20 November 2006

V. Prabhu 'Wittgenstein on Values: A struggle towards perfection' , IW PC/81 st Session of Ind ian Phil osoph ical Congress, Delhi, 15-20 December 2006

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Deepthi S. 'Employment in the Call Center Industry: Opportunities and Adversities for Wom en in Bangalore City ', 32 nd All India Sociological Conference, Chen nai, 25-29 December 2006

Deepthi S. Are the Voices Unheard: Women in the Peace Process', National seminar on Peace in D ialogue: Reflections from the North East, Department of Humani ties and Social Sci ences, liT Guwahati, 1-2 February 2007

A. Basu 'Visu al Fi eld Superiori ty as a Function of Stimulus Type and Content with respect to Familiarity', XVI NAOP Conference, liT Bom bay, 14-1 6 Decem ber 2006

A. Basu, M.K. M andai, T. Du tta and A. Basu 'Visual Field Advantage in the Processing of Stimulus Content and Structure', XVI NAOP Conference, liT Bombay, 14-1 6 December 2006

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOS IA ATTENDED

National

R.M. Punekar attended and participated in the National Seminar on Peace in Dialogue: Reflections from the North­East organized by the Dept. of Hum anities and Social Sci ences at liT Guwahati, 1-2 Febru ary 2006.

S.D. Hazarika attended and participated asa Resource Person on a discussion on Globalisation and North East India and chaired an interactive session with Participants on Gender at the workshop on Rethinking Rights, j ustice and Development in India, organized by Calcutta Research Group and'Panos Institute South Asia, Guwahati, 20-23 April 2006.

S. Sarma attended a three-day traini ng programme on Geoinformation Technologies and their applications at liT Guwahati, 18-20 September 2006.

A. Basu attended the National Seminar on Counseling Psychology in the 21 st Century: Trends and Techniques, Gauhati University and Psychologist' Association of North East India (PANEl), 10-11 November 2006.

INVITED LECTURE OF FACULTY

India

S. Borbora invited and attended the Regional Consultation on 'WTO and Sou th Asia: Strategizing Beyond Hong Kong' jointly organized by the Centre for Trade and Development (Centad) and the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative, UNDP regional Centre, Colombo during 21-22 April 2006 at New Delhi .

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S. Borbora chaired a session on 'Women in Agriculture and Land rights' in the Regional Workshop on Social and Institutional Framework for Female Participation in Agricu lture organized by National Institute of Publ ic Cooperation and Child Development at their regional centre (NIPCCD), Guwahati during 28-30 June 2006.

S. Borbora delivered a lecture on 'WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) at Assam Administrative Staff College, Khanapara, Guwahati on 5 July 2006.

S. Borbora chaired a session on 'Environmental Ethics and Social and Human Issues' in the National Seminar on Environment: Problems and Panacea organ ized by KRB College, Guwahati sponsored by UGC on 3 January 2007.

S. Borbora chaired the inaugural session as well as the valedictory session of the National Seminar on Peace in Dialogue: Reflections on the North East organized by the Dept. of HSS, liT Guwahati on 1 February 2007.

S. Borbora invited as a Resource Person and delivered a lecture on 'Organizational Constraints in Implementing Schemes and Networking with Agencies to Achieve Food Security' on 22 M arch 2007 in a Training Programme on Achieving Institutional Linkages for Sustainable Nutritional Security and Role of Women organized by National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development at their regional centre (NIPCCD), Guwahati.

S. Borbora was a panelist in a discussion on VISSION 2020 for NE at liT Guwahati on 31 January 2007.

S. Borbora attended the Pan iiT Global conference during 25-26 December 2006 as a member of the official delegation from liT Guwahati.

A. Barua was a Resource Person in a ICPR sponsored workshop cum seminar atManipur University, 28-31 January 2007.

A. Barua gave a key-note speech, ' Introducing Phenomenology', at the Lecture Series on Phenomenology, organized by the Dept. of Philosophy, Gauhati University and the ICPR, 30 March 2007.

K. Barua delivered lectures to PhD students on 'Towards a Persuasive Comm unication Skill and Scientific Presentation' at the Department of Physics, liT Guwahati, 5-7 September 2006.

K. Barua gave a lecture on 'Orientation for Scientific Literature survey/review articles' at the Physics learning camp for undergraduate students, organized by BharatJan Vigyan Jatra in collaboration with liT Guwahati, 27 November - 2 December 2006.

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N. Tripathi was invited to address employees of United Bank of India on 'Stress and Time Management' at Two­day Training Programme on pJrsonality Development at Indian Institute of Bank Management, Guwahati on 28 November 2006.

R.M. Pu nekar chaired the session 'Knowledge, Art and Activism' in the 9 th International Conference on Knowledge-Systems in a Clirriate of Creativity: Indian Perspective organized by the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda at Udaipur, 17-20 December 2006.

R.M. Puenkar was invited as reso urce person and requested to engage the session on 'From Untouchable to Dalit' on 1 December 2006 for the 12th Refresh er Course on Postcolonial Studies: History, Theory and Practice organized by the Department of English, Gauh ati University, 27 November -17 December 2006.

R.M. Punekar was invited as resource person and requested to engage the session on 'Dalit Literatu re' on 1 December 2006 for the 12th Refresher Course on Postcolonial Studies: History, Theory and Practice organized by the Dep artment of English, Gauhati University, 27 November -17 December 2006.

A. Sai kia delivered a lecture on 'Writing and Imagining History as a Discipline in Assam 1897-1970' in UGC Refresher Course in Academic Staff College, Guwahati on 28 October 2006.

A. Saikia delivered a lecture on Historians' Truth in the Department of History, Cotton College, Guwahati on 25 September 2006.

S.D. Hazarika delivered a lecture on 'Individual and Society' on invitation from Indira Gandhi Open University for their distance education programme aired by All India Radio at 4-5 P.M., 28 May 2006.

V. Prabhu was invited as a panelist for the national seminar on 'Amartya Sen: The Philosopher', Madura College, Madurai, 26-27 March 2007.

Deepthi S. delivered a lecture on the topic 'Intell ectual Property Rights (IPR) and Traditional Knowledge' in an awareness programme on Intellectual Property Rights (I PRJ and Patents for Capacity Building organized at liT Guwahati from 15-17 September 2006.

Abroad

A. Barua ' Heidegger's Comportment Toward East-West Dialogue', Discussant Participant, Department of Asian Studies, University ofTexas, Austin, 8-9 August 2006.

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INVITED LECTURES/VISITORS

Sanj ib Baruah, del ivered a lectu re on 'From Frontier to a Post Frontier: Rethinking the Development Challenges of NE India', 25 September 2006.

Arnab Dey presented a seminar on ' Tea Plantation and Labour conditions in Assam: Literary Representations, Public Debates and Colonial Control in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century ', 10 October 2006.

M.S. Prabhakar delivered a talk on 'Nation and State in NE India', 28 November 2006.

Uma Dasgupta delivered a talk on 'Science and Nationalism in India', 27 February 27,2007.

Kashmira Kakati presented a seminar on 'Conservation status of the endangered Hoolock Gibbon', 28 M arch 2007.

A. Christy Williams presented a sem inar on 'Asian Elephants - what wi ll it take to save them?' 28 M arch 2007.

Minakshi Rajeev, Associate Professor in Economics at ISEC, Bangalore presented a seminar on 'Contract labour Act in India: A pragmatic view', 28 April 2006.

G.J.V. Prasad, Professor, School of Language and Li terature, JNU, New Delhi presented a semin ar on 'A Minute Stretching into Centuries: M acaulay, English, India', 1 May 2006.

SHORT-TERM COURSES

A. Basu participated in a short-term cou rse on teaching skil ls in liT Kharagpur, April 2006.

SEM INARS/ WORKSHOPS/ CONFERENCES ORGAN ISED

S.D . Hazarika orga n ised a workshop on 'I ntern al Displacement: Issues in North East India', sponsored by Mau lana Abu l Kal am Azad Institute of Asian Studies during 18-17 April 2006 at liT Guwahati .

S.D. Hazarika organised a nation al seminar on 'Peace In Dialogue: Refl ections on North East India' in Collaboration with ICSSR-NERC during 1-2 February 2007 at liT Guwahati.

SPEC IAL MENTION

S. Borbora: M ember, Referee Board, Gyan M anagement­An International Bi-Annual Journal of Management and Tech nology.

S. Borbora: El ected as Secretary, North Eastern Economic Association in its Annual M eeting held at Mizoram University during 16-17 November 2006.

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A. Barua: Paper Setter/ Examiner, Department of Philosophy, NEHU, April 2006.

A. Barua: Member, Board of Post Graduate Studies, NEH U, Shiliong (Tura Campus), 2006-2007.

N. Tripathi: Elected to the working comm ittee of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) as a member in December 2006.

R.M. Punekar: Invi ted as a panel member at the intervi ews conducted by NERIST, Itanagar for teach ing positions in their Hum anities and Social Sciences Dept. in M ay 2006 and Febru ary 2007.

R.M. Punekar: Edited and helped publish a souvenir on th e occasion of the Inter-liT Sports M eet conducted by liT Guwahati in December 2006.

FACULTY MEMBERS

A. Barua PhD (N EHU) Associ ate Professor Areas of Interest: Phen omenology of Cogni tive Science, Phenomenology o f Religion, Ethica l Issues related to Science and Technology

K. Barua PhD (Gauhati University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Commonwealth Literatu re, Comparative Studies, Cultural Studi es, Comparative studies and translations

S. Baruah PhD (Un iversity of Chicago) Visiting Professor Areas of Interest: In ternational Politics, North East India Studies

A. Basu PhD (lIT Kharagpur) Sen ior Lecturer Areas of Interest: Cogni tive Psycho logy, Cognitive Neuroscience, Laterality, Emotional Intelligence

S. Borbora PhD (Gauhati Un iversity) Associate Professor and Head Areas of Interest: Development econom ics, Industrial Economics and Labour Economics

L. Das PhD (Dibrugarh University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Cognitive Studies, Literary Theory, Gender Studi es, Consci ousness Studies, Posthumanism and Technology

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M.K. Dutta PhD (Gauhati University) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Water Resource Management, Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics

S.D. Hazarika PhD (NEHU) Senior Lecturer Areas of Interest: Sociological issues related to Gender and Displaced Communities, Technology and Society, Alternative Science, Complimentary and Alternative Medicine

V. Prabhu PhD (Pondicherry University) Senior Lecturer Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Technology, Applied Philosophy, Peace Studies, Critical Thinking Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Education

R.M. Punekar PhD (Gujarat University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Culture and Translation Studies, Modern British Literature, Indian Writing in English

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Deepthi. S PhD (University of Mysore) Sen i or Lectu rer I Areas of Interest: Social Stratlification Studies, Cyber Sociology, ICT and Development

A. Saikia PhD (University of Delhi) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Social and Environmental History of 19 th and 20 th Century Assam

S. Sharma PhD (Deemed University of Pun e) Assi stan t Professor Areas of Interest: Archaeology of North east Indi a, Colon ial History of Assam, Cultural Poli cy

N. Tripathi PhD (liT Kanpur) Associ ate Professor Areas of Interest: Organizational Behaviour, Hum an Resource Management, Social/ Environm enta l Psychology, 1-0 Psychology

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Mathematics conti nued to offer both undergraduate and postgraduate level mathematics courses to STech (all branches), MSc (in Mathematics and Computing) and PhD students during the year. The Department has started a STech programm e in Mathematics and Computing from the academic year 2006. The Department continued to organize seminars under the liT Guwahati Mathematics Se min ar Seri es in which seve ral disti ngu ished mathematicians from India and abroad delivered tal ks. During the year, the Department conducted two short-term courses under Q IP.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Preparatory Programme The Department offered cou rses in both the semesters of 2006-2007 for the preparatory programm e.

BTech Programme Th e Department offered Math ematics-I (MA-101) and Mathematics-III (MA-201) courses in the odd semester and M ath ematics-II (MA-1 02) in the even semester to STech students. Over and above these courses, the Departm ent also offered two 4th semester Science El ective courses to STech students and th e course MA-203 to 4th semester CSE students.

BTech (Mathematics and Computing) Programme The Department has started a STech p rogramm e in Mathemati cs and Computing from July 2006 and 19 students have been admitted to the programm e.

MSc (Mathematics and Computing) Programme The MSc programme in Mathematics and Computing which was started in July 2000, admitted its seventh batch of 22 students in Ju ly 2006. In add ition, there are 16 students in the second year of MSc programme.

Ph D Program me At present, the Department has 20 PhD students out of wh ich 3 were admi tted during the year.

STUDENT INTAKE

MSc- 22 PhD-3

Degrees Awarded MSc-11 PhD-1

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FACULTY STRENGTH

There are sixteen facu lty members in the Department as on 31 March 2007.

Associate Professor: 8 Assistant Professor: 6 Senior Lecturer: 2

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AND FACILITI ES

The Departmental Computer Laboratory is fu lly functional and is being used by the MSc and PhD students. The Laboratory has sophisticated mathematical softwares. liT Guwahati continues to house a Regional M athematics Library funded by the National Soard for H igher Mathematics (NSHM).

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Apart from regular research activities like guiding students, the facu lty members of the Departm ent coll aborated with the researchers of other premier institutions.

SPONSORED PROJ ECTS

New

Title: Analytical and Inverse Modelling for EstimatingAquifer Parameters of a Confined Aquifer (new) Investigators: Dr. S.N. Bora and Dr. G. Barua (Departm ent of Civil Engineering) Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 2 years Amount Sanctioned: Rs.8lakh

O ngoing

Title: Laplacian Eigenvalues of Graphs Investigators: Dr. S. Pati and Dr. A.K. Lal Sponsoring Agency: DST Durat ion: 3 years Amount Sanctioned: RS.2.75 lakh

Title: Layer Resolvin g Numerical Schemes for Singu lar Perturbation Problems Principal Investigator: Dr. S. Natesan Sponsoring Agency: DST Duration: 4 years

Tit le: Developing web-based (e-Iearnin g) course material under (NP-TEL) scheme Investigators: Dr. M .G.M. Prasad and Dr. D.C. Dalal Sponsoring Agency: MHRD

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Title: Lectu re Notes on Matrix Computations Investigator: Dr. R. Alam Sponsoring Agency: QIP CD Cell, liT Guwahati

PUBLICATIONS

I nternational Journal

S.e. Martha and S.N. Bora 'Water wave diffraction by a small deform ation of the ocean bottom for oblique incidence', Acta Mechanica, 185, pp. 165-177,2006

S.e. Martha and S.N. Bora 'Reflection and transmission coefficients for water wave scattering by a sea-bed of small undu lation', Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik/Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 87(4), pp. 314-321, March, 2007

R.B. Bapat, A.K. Lal and S. Pati 'A q-analogue of the Distance Matrix of a Tree', Linear Algebra and its Applications, 416 (2-3), pp. 799-814, July 2006

S. Barik, M. Neumann and S. Pati 'On Nonsingular Trees and a Reciprocal Eigenvalue Property', Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 54 (6), pp. 453-465, December 2006

S. Barik, B.K. Sarma and S. Pati 'The Spectrum of the Corona of two Graphs', Siam Journal of Discrete Mathematics, 21 (1), pp. 47-56, January 2007

S. Natesan, e. Conca and M. Vanninathan 'Numerical Experiments with Bloch-Floquet Approach in Homogenization', International Journal for Numerica l Methods in Engineering, 65 (9), pp. 1444-1471, 2006

J. Vigo-Aguiar and S. Natesan 'An Efficient Numerical Methods for Singular Perturbation Problems', Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 192, pp. 132-141, 2006

V. Shanthi, N. Ramanuj am and S. Natesan 'Fitted Mesh Method for Singu larly Perturbed Reaction ­convection-Diffusion Problems with Boundary and Interior Layers', Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, 22 (1 -2), pp. 49-65, 2006

S. Natesan, R.K. Bawa and e. Clavero 'Uniformly convergent compact numerical scheme for the normalized flux of singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems', International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences, 3(2), pp. 207-221, 2007

J.e. Kalita 'Effects of clustering on the simulation of incompressible viscous flows', Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 1 (1), pp. 36-48, 2007

J.e. Kalita, and M.M. Gupta 'New paradigm continued: further computations with the

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stream fu nction velocity formulation for solving Navier-Stokes equations', Communications in Applied Analysis, 10 (4), pp. 461 -490,2006

J.e. Ka lita and P. Chhabra 'An improved (9,5) higher order compact scheme for the transient two-dimensiona l conviction-diffusion equations', International Journa l for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 51, pp. 703-717,2006

J.e. Kali ta, P. Chhabra and S. Kumar 'A semi-d iscrete higher order compact scheme for the unsteady two-dimensional sch rodinger equation', Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 197 (1), pp. 141-149,2006

S. Maity, e. Arackaparambil and K. Meyase 'Construction of Cryptographically Significant Boolean Functions', Congr. Numer. (Utilitas Mathematica), 181 , pp. 151-163,2006

D. Gupta and N. Selvaraj u 'Performance Evaluation and Stock Allocation in Capacitated Serial Supply Systems', Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 8 (2), pp. 169-191, 2006

R.K. Sin ha and B. Deka 'A priori error esti mates in the finite element method for nonselfadjoin t ell iptic and parabolic interface problems', Calcolo, 43, pp. 253-278, 2006

R.K. Sinha and J. Geiser 'Error estim ates for fi nite volume element methods for convection -diffusion-reaction equations', Appl. Numer. Math., 57(1), pp. 59-72, 2007

R.K. Sinha, R.E. Ewing and R.D. Lazarov 'Some new error estimates of a semidiscrete finite volum e element method for parabolic integro-differential equation with nonsmooth ini tial data', SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, 43 (6), pp. 2320-2343, 2006

S. M ishra and S.B. Rao 'Minimum monopoly in regular and tree graphs', Discrete Mathematics, 306 (14), pp. 1586-1594, 2006

M.G.P' Prasad and T. Nayak 'Dynamics of certain class of cri tically bounded entire transcendental functions', Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Application, 329, pp.1446-1459, 2007

M . Prabhakar and R. Mishra 'M inim al Degree Sequence for Torus knots of type (P, 2P-1 )', Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, 15 (9), pp. 1141-1151 , 2006

M. Prabhakar and R. Mishra 'Minimal Degree Sequence for 2-Bridge Knots', Fundamenta Mathematicae, 190, pp. 191-210, 2006

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

International

B.K. Sarm a and M . Nath 'On singulari ty of unicycl ic graphs', Book of abstracts of International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Spain, 22-30 Au gust 2006

D.C Dalal, S.K. Pandi t and J.C Kali ta 'Numerical investigation of vertical evolution in a backward constri cted channel fi ow ', Proceedings of 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (lCCMS-06), liT Guwahati, 8-10 December 2006

J.C Kalita, N. Kum ar and AK. Dass 'HOC computati on of 2 sided lid-driven cavity fl ow ', Proceedings of 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (lCCMS-06), liT Guwahati , 8-1 0 December 2006

J.C Kali ta and S. Sen 'HOC formulation of the transcient Navier-stokes equations in prim itive variables', Book of abstracts of International Congress of Mathematicians, M adrid, Spain, 22-30 August 2006

S.N. Bora ' Refi ection of wave energy by sm all undulation of the sea­bed, the sea-bed', Recent Advances in Computational Mechanics and Simulations: Proc. 2nd In ternational Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Vol. II , pp. 1483-1489, I.K. Intern ational Publishing House Pvt. Ltd ., 8-10 December 2006, organized by liT Guwahati, India

S. Natesan, R.K. Bawa and C Clavero 'An e-Uniform Hybrid Scheme for Singularly Perturbed 1-D Reaction-Diffusion Problems', Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Proceedings of ENUMATH 2005, pp. 1025-1032, Springer, 2006

R.K. Bawa and S. Natesan 'Parallel Im plementati on of a Spline Based Computational Approach for Singular Perturbation Problems', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4297, pp. 254-262, 2006

S. Maity, C Arackaparambil and K. Meyase 'Construction of 1-resilient Boolean functions with very good nonlineari ty', Sequences and Their Applications - SETA 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 4086, pp. 41 7-431,2006

S. Maity, A Nayak and S. Ramsundar 'On Faul t Tolerance of Two-Dimensional M esh Networks', International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking - ICDCN 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verl ag, 4308, pp. 442-453, 2006

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S. M aity, S. Ramsundar 'On Reli abili ty Analysis of Forward Loop Forward Hop Networks', International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology - ICDClT 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Sprin ger-Verl ag, 4317, pp. 136-144, 2006

S. M aity, R.P. Sin gh 'Permutation Polyn omi als M od ul o po', Proc. of the Intern ational Conference on Num ber Th eo ry and Combinatorics 2006, ICNTC 2006, Sastra University, Tamil Nadu, 19-22 December 2006

S. M aity, R.P. Sin gh 'A Vari ant of Arazi's Key Agreement Protocol', Proc. of 3 8 1h South eas tern In te rn atio n al Conferen ce o n Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Comp uting 2007, Florida Atlanta University, Boca Raton, FL, 5-9 March 2007

National

S.N . Bora 'Obliqu e Surface-wave Propagation over Sinu soidally Varyin g Topography ', Proceedings of 5 1" Congress of the Indian Society of Th eoretical and Applied Mechan ics (IS TAM), pp. 23-30, Coll ege of Engin eering, Andhra University, 18-21 December 2006

PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA

International

A Saikia 'Eul er Systems and Cycl otoni c Units' , Intern ati onal Conference on Number Theory, Hari sh Chandra Research Institu te, All ahabad, 1-5 December 2006

B.K. Sarma 'On singularity of unicycl ic graphs', International Congress of M ath ematicians, M adrid, Spain, 22 -30 Au gust 2006

D.C Dalal 'Appli ca tion of Fluid M echani cs in In dustry and Environment held in the Physi cs and App lied M athematics Uni t' , Indian Statisti cal Institute, Kolkata, 28-31 August 2006

J.C Kali ta 'HOC formul ati on o f the t ransc ient Nav ier- stokes equ ations in primitive vari ables', In tern ational Congress of M athematicians, M ad rid, Spain, 22 -30 Au gust 2006

R. Al am ' Pseudospectra of matri x penci ls and some distance probl ems', Intern at ional W ork shop on stru ctu red pertur bat ions and di stance p robl em s i n M at ri x Computations, M athemati cal Research and Conference Centre, Bed lewo, Poland , 26 -30 M arch 2007

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S. Pati 'On Grap hs with a Recip rocal Eigenvalue Property' , Western Canad a Linear Algebra Meeting, July 2006

S. Natesan, R.K. Bawa 'Second-Order Numerical Scheme for Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Robin Problems', South African Society for Numerical and Applied Mathematics (SANUM 2006), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 3-5 April 2006

S. Maity International Con ference on Distributed Computing and Intern et Technology - ICDCIT 2006, Bhubaneswar, 20-23 December 2006

S. Bora 'Structured eigenvalue condition numbersand backward errors of a class of polynomial eigen value problems', Intern ational Workshop on structu red perturbations and distance problems in Matrix Computations, M athematical Research and Conference Centre, Bed lewo, Poland, 26-30 March 2007

National

D.e. Dalal Mathematics and Applications - Recent Trends (MART-2007), Departm ent of M athem atics, The University of Burdwan, 10-12 January 2007

D.e. Dalal 'Mathem atical Analysis and its Applications in Real-world, Prob lems', Departm ent of Mathematics, Berh ampur University, Orissa, 16-17 Septem ber 2006

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED

A. Saikia International Congress of Math ematicians (ICM) 2006, Mad rid, Spain, 22 -30 August 2006

B.K. Sarm a Intern ational Congress of Mathematicians 2006, M ad rid, Spain, 22 -30 Au gust 2006

D.e. Dal al Mathematics and Applications - Recent Trends (MART-2007), Department of M athematics, the University of Burdwan, 10-12 January 2007

D.e. Dalal Mathematical Analysis and its App li cations in Real-world, Prob lems held in the Department of M ath ematics, Berhampur Universi ty, Orissa duri ng 16-1 7 September 2006

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D.C. Dalal Application of Fluid Mechanics in Industry and Environment held in the Physics and Applied M athematics Unit, Indian Statisti ca l Institute, Kolkata during 28-31 August 2006

J.e. Kalita Intern ational Congress of M athematicians, Madrid, Spain, 22-30 August 2006

R.Alam International workshop on stru ctured perturbations and distance problems in M atrix Computations held at the Mathematical Research and Conference Centre in Bedlewo, Poland, 26-30 M arch 2007

S. Natesan International Congress of M athem aticians, Madri d, Spain, 22-30 August 2006

S.N. Bora SANUM 2006: Annual Congress of South African Society for Applied Mathematics

S. Maity International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking -ICDCN 2006, liT Guwahati, 27-30 December 2006

S. Bora Internati onal workshop on structured perturbations and distance problems in Matrix Com putations held at the Mathematical Research and Conference Centre in Bedlewo, Poland, 26-30 M arch 2007

INVITED LECTURES OF FACULTY

R. Alam delivered invited talk at the Intern ational Workshop on Structured Perturbations and Distance Problems in Matrix Computations held at Mathematics Research Centre and Conference in Bedlewo, Poland, 26-30 March 2007.

D.e. Dalal 1. National Conference on Mathematics and Applications.,­Recent Trends (MART-2007) held in the Departm ent of Mathematics, the Universi ty of Burdwan, Burdwan, 10-12 January 2007. 2. National Conference on M athematical Analysis and its Applications in Real -world Problems held in the Departm ent of Mathematics, Berh ampur University, Orissa, 16-17 September 2006.

S. Pati 1. National Workshop on Graph Theory and Appli cation s at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, 9-16 October (India) .

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Invited Talk: Nonnegative M atri ces and Graph Spectra: A Brief Introduction (3 talks) 2. Intern ational Conference on Discrete M athematics, IISC, Bangalore, 15-1 8 December 2006. Invi ted Talk: Generalizations of Fied ler's M onoton icity Theorem.

S. Bora 1. Invited to speak at the Intern ational Workshop on Structured Perturbations and Distance Problems in M atrix Computations organized by N.J. Higham (University of M anchester), V. Mehrmann (Tu Berlin), S.M. Rum p (Tu Hamburg-Harburg), T. Szulc (Pozwan University) and D.B. Szyld (Temple University) at the Mathematical Research and Conference Centre in Bedlewo, Poland, 26-30 M arch 2007.

VISITORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTES/ UNIVERSITIES

Professor Volker M ehrmann, TU Berl in, Germany.

Dr. Jayadev Siddhanta Athreya, Department of Mathematics, Yale University, USA.

Professor Murli M. Gupta, Departm ent of M athematics, Th e George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

Professor Ram N. Mohapatra, Departm ent of M athematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.

Professor S.G. Dani, School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

Professor H.B. Walikar, Department of M athematics, Karnataka University, Dharwad.

Dr. N.G. Bhowmik, Principal Scientist Emeritus, Watershed Science Section, Illinois State Water Survey, USA.

Mr. Partha Sarathi Mandai, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Dr. D.O. Bhatta, Departm ent of M athematics, University ofTexas-Pan Am erican, Edinburgh, Texas, USA.

Dr. Harish Pillai, Departm ent of El ectrical Engineerin g, liT Bombay, Mumbai.

Professor A.S. Vasudeva Murthy, TIFR Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Dr. Parag Kr. Deb, Cotton Coll ege, Guwahati.

Professor Narayan Rangaraj, Dept. of Mechanical Engg., liT Guwahati.

Dr. T.e. Panda, Berhampore University, Orissa.

Professor P.e. Das, Institute of Math em atics and Applications, Bhubaneswar.

Dr. Arindam Sengupta, Departm ent of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Professor e.S. Seshadri, Chennai M athematical Institute, Chennai.

Professor Swadhin Pattanayak, Institute of M athematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar.

Professor Aloknath Chakrabarti, Department of M athematics, Indian Institute of Science, Ban galore.

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Professor Aloke Goswami , Stat-M ath Divi sion, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

SHORT-TERM COURSES

S.N. Bora Coordinator of the Short-Term Course under Qu ali ty Improvement Programme on 'Mathematical Techniques in Science and Engineering', 26-30 June 2006.

R. Alam and R. Sinha Coordinators of QIP Short-Term Cou rse on 'M atrix Computations', liT Guwahati, December 2006

INVITED LECTURESNISITORS

A. Saikia 1. Departm ent of M athematics, Gauh ati University, December 2006.

2. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, January 2007.

D.e. Dalal 1. Advanced Training Programme in M athematics organized by the Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Guwahati during 14-30 December 2006.

2. Delivered lectu re in the QIP _Short-Term Course on 'Mathematical Techn iques in Science and Engineering', liT Guwahati, 26-30 June 2006.

J.e. Kalita Worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor, Departm ent of M athematics, the George Washin gton University, Washington DC, USA, between 28 June - 26 December 2006.

S.N. Bora 1. Popularizing Math ematics in Colleges: Challenges and Solutions, Assam University, Silchar, 25 April 2006.

2. Water Wave Scattering by a Small Undulation on the Ocean Bottom, Research and Development Section In­house Seminar, liT Guwahati, 5 June 2006.

3. Special Functions and th eir Applications, QIP-STC on Mathemati cal Techniques in Science and Engineering, liT Guwahati, 26-30 Jun e 2006 .

4. Fourier Series to Fourier Transform via Fourier Integrals, QIP-STC on M athematical Techniqu es in Science and Engineering, liT Guwahati, 26-30 Jun e 2006.

5. Some Integral Transform s and their Applications, QIP­STC on M athemati ca l Techniqu es in Science and Engineering, liT Guwahati , 26-30 Jun e 2006.

S. Bora Delivered lectures in the QIP Short-Term Course on Matrix Computations held in December, 2006, at liT Guwahati .

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S. Natesan 1. Delivered lectu re in the Q IP Short-Term Cou rse on Mathematical Techniques in Science and En gineering, liT Guwahati, 26-30 June 2006.

2. Delivered lecture in the Thi rd National Workshop on Techniques in Applied M athematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, University o f Calcutta, Kolkata, 8-10 October 2006.

FACULTY MEMBERS

R. Alam PhD (l IT Bombay) Associate Professor and Head Areas of Interest: Numerical Functional Analysis, Numerical Linear Algebra

S. Bandopadhyay Ph D (lSI Delhi) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: O perations Research

S. Bora Ph D (l IT Guwahati) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Pertu rbation Theory, Numeri ca l Lin ear Algebra

S.N. Bora Ph D (DalTech, Canada) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Water W ave Dynami cs, O cean Engineeri ng, Flow Through Porous M edia

D.e. Dalal Ph D (l IT Kharagpu r) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Fluid Dynamics

J.e. Kalita ph D (l IT Guwahati) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Computational Flu id Dynamics, Numerical Methods for PD Es

K.V. Krishna PhD (l IT Delh i) Senior Lectu rer Areas of Interest : General Algebra, Theoretical Computer Science

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S. Maity PhD (lSI Kolkata) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Combinatorics, Cryptography, Fault­Tolerant VLSI Architectures

S. Natesan PhD (Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirappalli) Associ ate Professor Areas of Interest: Differential Equations, Homogen ization, Numerical Analysis

S. Pati Ph 0 (lSI Delh i) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Spectral Graph theory

M.C.P' Prasad PhD (lIT Kanpur) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Complex Dynam ics and Fractals

M. Prabhakar PhD (liT Delhi) Senior Lecturer Areas of Interest: Kn ot Th eory

A. Saikia PhD (University of Cambri dge, UK) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Al gebraic Num ber Th eory

B.K. Sarma PhD (Delhi University) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Spectral Graph Theory, Combinatorial Matrix Theory

N. Selvaraj u PhD (lIT M adras) Assistant Professor Areas of Interest: Queueing Theory, Stochastic Modelling, Operations Research

R.K. Sinha PhD (liT Bombay) Associate Professor Areas of Interest: Numerical Analysis

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