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11.4.1 Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC)
Established in 1984 as the first Inter University Centre, its mission is "to provide within the university system world class facilities for accelerator based internationally competitive research in focused areas of several disciplines, e.g., Nuclear Physics, Materials Science, Atomic Physics and Radiation Biology. This IUC has the dual role i.e. to establish world class accelerator along with the experimental facilities and to create adequate infrastructure for enabling the university community to undertake internationally competitive research. "
The Centre has been quite successful in achieving its objective of providing a world class accelerator facility for research within the university system and operating the system round the clock, seven days a week as a user facility with an uptime of better than 95%. It has been able to bring in the culture of working together in large projects and is catalyzing the collaborating efforts between the university and the institutes. It has revived the culture of research in many University departments and Colleges and has enhanced the quality of research as evidenced by the improving standards of Publications. It has been able to keep pace with the progress of research by augmenting the facilities continually. It is generating valuable human resource by providing training in high technology areas. The user community consists of researchers from 69 Universities, 43 Colleges and 47 National Laboratories including all 7 IITs. About 100 students have obtained their Ph.D through the work done at IUAC and currently about 80 students are utilizing the IUAC facilities.