Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics

(A) Membership

	Name	Organization
1.	Prof. Subal Kar	Elevated to Senior Member IEEE, 2006
2.	Prof. P. K. Basu	Elected Fellow, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology
3.	Prof. A. Maitra	Senior Member, IEEE

(B) Visits Abroad:

Name	Position	Institution	Period
Prof. P. K. Basu	Visiting Scientist	UK Universities under INSA-Royal Society Intl. Exchange Program	May-June 06
Dr. N. R. Das	Secretary LEOS of IEEE-Calcutta	Montreal, Canada to attend the 19^th Annual General Meeting of LEOS and attend Workshop and to receive a Award for the LEOS Calcutta Chapter.	October 31- Nov. 5, 2006
	Short term visitor	McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada to discuss some issues related to existing collaborative research	do
Abhirup Das Barman	Research Fellow	Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecommunicazion’. (National Photonic Networks Laboratory), Pisa, Italy	January 1, 2007 (1 yr)
Prof. S. S. De	Conference PIERS 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Aug. 2-5, 2006
Prof. A. K. Dasgupta	Workshop	Abdus Salam ICTP, Italy	Dec. 4-15, 2006
Dr. Debatosh Guha	Visiting Scientist	Queen Mary University of London, UK,	Nov.28-29, 2006.
	Visiting Scientist	University of Bath, UK	Nov. 26-27, 2006.
	Visiting Professor	Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario	Nov 10-24, 2006
	Conference	The first European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2006), Nice, France,.	Nov. 6-10, 2006
	Visiting Research Professor	Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, as in the department of Electrical Engineering	July 2004- March 2006
Prof. Subal Kar	Conference Chair & Participant	PIERS 07, Beijing, PRChina	March 26 – 30, 2007.
Sri Ashik Paul	Collaborative research program on optical imaging of the ionosphere	Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, USA	October 30 – December 13, 2006

(C ) Awards, Distinctions, Editorship, Review work, Fellowship/Membership of Societies etc.

Name	Distinction
Prof. Susanta Sen	Dean, Faculty of Technology & Chairman – LIPMU of TEQIP – UCT-CU; FIE; Fellow CSI, Program Chair : Intl. Conf. EPMDS 06.
Dr. B. Bandyopadhyay	Website Manager: EPMDS 6; Editor of Centres website : www.irpel.org Webmaster: CODEC 06: Guest Editor, IEE –CDS (special Issue)
Prof. A. K. Dasgupta	Member of Editorial Board, IJRSP, Member – URSI GA 06
Prof. P. K. Saha	Fellow IETE (FIETE), Senior Member IEEE (SMIEEE), Chairman, AP-MTT Chapter, IEEE – Kolkata; Member of Editorial Board of IEEE Trans. MTT Chairman – CODEC 06. Guest Editor – IET-CDS (special Issue)
Prof. P. K. Basu,	Fellow WAST, FIETE, SMIEEE, Chairman, LEOS Chapter, IEEE Kolkata Member, EPSRC College, UK; Member OSA (USA) Reviewer : APS, AIP Journals, IEEE –EDS, IEE-CDS
Prof. J. P. Bandyopadhyay	FIETE, SMIEEE, Member, IEEE(LEOS) Member, Calcutta Chapter of IEEE (LEOS) Member, local organizing committee of EPMDS-2006, Dept. of Electronic Science, C.U. Member, local organizing committee for international Conference on Laser and Nanomaterials (ICLAN) October 2006 Dept. of Physics. Member of Board of Research studies of Physics of Burdwan University Reviewer of IEEE ED, JIETE, Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics, Indian Journal of Physics, Journal of Institution of Engineers.
Prof. S. Kar	Fulbright Fellow, FIETE, SMIEEE, Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Publication , U.S.A, Collaborative research with Berkely Lab U.S.A has appeard as news page in State Alumni News (Fulbright) of the U S. State Dept., Reviewer of JIETE and Journal of Physics, Selection Committee Expert of Gauhati University, External Expert of the P.G Council of North Eastern Hill University
Prof. A. Maitra	FIETE, MIEEE, Referee of the Journals- Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics, CSIR Indian Journal of Physics, IACS, Calcutta, Journal of Institution of Engineers, Calcutta
Prof. J. B. Roy	MIEEE, Program Chair : EPMDS 06
Dr. N. R. Das	FIETE, SMIEEE, Secretary, LEOS, IEEE Kolkata, Reviewer of IEEE PTL, IEEE-JQE Organizing Chair of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optic Society (LEOS) Chapter of the IEEE Calcutta Section for the year 2004, Secretary 2005 Program Chair : CODEC 06; Guest Editor : IJCITE (Special Issue)
Dr. D. Guha	SMIEEE, Reviewer of IEEE Trans MTT IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEE Proceedings on Microwave, Antennas and Propagation,IEE Electronics Letters, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, USA ,Journal of Microwaves and Optoelectronics, Brazil ,Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Trans. B, Iran, IETE Technical Review , Indian Journal of Physics
Dr. A. Biswas	MIEEE
Dr. J. Siddiqui	MIEEE, Reviewer of IEEE Antenna & Wireless Propagation Letters, Reviewer of IET (UK) Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
Dr. B. Bandyopadhyay	Guest Editor: IET-CDS (special Issue)

(D) Invited Talks / Session Chairs in Conferences and Symposia

	Name	Function	Event/Title of Talk	Organizers, dates
1.	Prof. P.K. Basu	Inv. Talk	Silicon Photonics: some unsolved problems	University of Southampton, May 26, 2006
2.		Invited talk	Electronic and photonic processes in Compound and Elemental Semiconductors and their quantum structures	University of Wales, Bangor, May 06
3.		Invited talk	do	University of Swansea, June 9, 06
4.		Invited talk	Quantum Nanostructured Electronic and Photonic Devices	University of Bristol, June 12, 2006
5.		Inv. Talk	Silicon and Compound Semiconductor Photonic Devices: Some Physical Processes	University of Bath, June 14, 2006
6.		Inv. Talk	Tutorials on VLSI Device Physics	Interra Systems, Kolkata,August 2, 2006.
7.		Inv. Tutorial	Tutorial at VDAT 06, Goa entitled Beyond CMOS: Problems and Prospects of Nanoelectronics	August 9, 2006
8.		Invited Expert and Ph.D. examiner	IOST, Tribhuban Univ, Kathmandu,	Nov. 12-14, 2006
9.		Inv. Talk	Series of lectures in Methods of Theoretical Physics	UGC Refresher Course in Physics, Dept. Physics, CU; Nov. 18 & 21, 2006.
10.		Inv. Talk	Invited valedictory address Hundred Years Journey from Valve to Quantum Dots	Dept. Physics, BESU, Nov. 30, 2006
11.		Inaugural address as Chief Guest	IEEE-ISM event SPARX 07.	ISM University, Dhanbad, Jan. 13, 2007
12.		Invited talk	Si Photonics and Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics	Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, Jan. 13, 2007.
13.		Invited Talk	National Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	HIT, March 10, 07
14.	Profs. M. H. Engineer, P.K. Saha, P. K. Basu & Susanta Sen	Invited talk	A brief history of initial phase of development of electronic science in India	Indian National Conf of URSI, INCURSI 07, NPL, New Delhi, Feb. 21-24, 2007
15.	N. R. Das	Invited talk	National Workshop on Nano Science & Technology,	Haldia Institute of Technology, WB. March 10, 2007
16.		Invited Chair	National Seminar	Academy of Technology, Adisaptagram, W. B. February 10-11, 2007
17.	D. Guha	Invited talk	Novel Designs of Dielectric Resonator Antennas for Wireless Communication	International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, Torino, Italy, September 17-21, 2007
18.		do	Broadband Antenna	Workshop on Antenna Technology, Bubaneswar, India
19.		do	Recent Trends and Advances in antenna Research at the University of Calcutta	INCURSI 2007, NPL, New Delhi
20.		do	Dielectric Resonator Antennas: New Designs and Achievements	ECE Dept., University of Bath, UK, Nov. 26, 2006
21.		do	An Overview of Research and New Achievements in Applied Electromagnetics and Antennas	Dept. of Electronics Engg. Queen Mary University of London, UK, Nov. 28, 2006
22.		Invited tutorial	Modern Antennas for Wireless Communications	Advances in Communication (COMET), CU, Dec. 16, 06
23.	S. Kar	Ivited talk	National conference on Recent advancements in Microwave Techniques and Applications	Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, 6-8 October 2006.
24.		Invited talk	3^rd Workshop on Inventors of India: Knowledge Network for Incubating Innovations into Enterprises	Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, October 26-28, 2006.
25.		Invited Co-Chair	Session Microstrip patch antennas, Phased arrays and Optical beamforming	Intl Conf. Progress in Electromagnetic Research (PIERS’07) , Beijing, China, March 26 – 30, 2007.
26.		Invited Session Chair	Invited to Organize the session entitled "Microwave and Millimeter-wave Devices and Circuits and to Chair the session in International Conference PIERS '07 ( Progress in Elecromagnetic Research Symposium ),	PIERS 07, Prague, Czech Republic, EU
27.	A. Maitra	Invited talk	Golden Jubilee Symp on Radio Science (INCURSI 07)	NPL, New Delhi, Feb. 20-24, 2007
28.		do	International Symposium on Study of Rainfall Rate and Radiowave Propagation	January 29-30, 2007, Salem, Tamilnadu, India
29.		Do	Convection and RelatedAtmospheric Studies using Earth-Space propagation Propagation and Rain Measurements”, Training programme on Thunderstorm Research,.	Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Clacutta, 12-16 March 2007
30.		do	Studies on Tropical Rain and Atmospheric water content using ground based measurements and satellite data related to  Megha Tropiques Mission,	Workshop nn Megha-Tropiques Science and Applications, Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, 2-22 March 2007
31	S. Sen	Invited Series of lectures	Digital Electronics	BITS-Pilani (Goa Campus), Oct. 15-20, 2006
32.		Invited Chair	Presentation by Faculties of Aalborg Univ, Denmark on Collaboration	October 28, 2006
33.		Invited Talk	Intl. Conf. on Information Technology	Haldia Inst. Tech. March 22,2007

(E) Conferences Attended by Teachers

	Name	Conference/Workshop	Organizer	Dates
1.	D. Biswas	8^th Intl. Conf. Optoelectronics, Fibre Optics & Photonics	Univ. Hyderabad	Dec. 12-16, 06
2.	N. R. Das	AGM, LEOS	Montreal, Canada	Oct. 28- Nov. 6, 06
3.	N. R. Das	INCURSI 07	NPL, New Delhi	Feb. 21-24, 07
4.	A. Dasgupta	Workshop on the Future of Ionospheric Research for Satellite Navigation and Positioning: Its Relevance for Developing Countries,	Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy	December 4-15, 2006,
5.	Prof. A. DasGupta, Ms. A. Das and Mr. D. Hui)	Golden Jubilee Symposium on Radio Science (INCURSI-2007)	National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi	February 21 – 24, 2007
6.	S. S. De	Intl. Symp. PIERS 2006	Chuo University, Japan Tokyo	August 2-5, 2006
7.	D. Hui (CAS Proj Fellow)	International Advanced School on Space Weather	Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy	May 2-19, 2006
8.	P. K. Basu	3^rd Intl. Workshop on Industry-Institute Interaction	Hyderabad	July 20-21, 06
9.	P. K. Basu	Golden Jubilee Symposium on Radio Science (INCURSI 07)	NPL, New Delhi	Feb. 21-24, 07
10	P. K. Goswamy	8^th Intl. Conf on Nanostructured Mterials	IISc, Bangalore	August 20-25, 06
11	D. Guha	Microwave 2006	Jaipur	October 6-8, 06
12	J. Y. Siddiqui	Do	Do	Do
13	S. Sen	3^rd Intl. Workshop on Industry-Institute Interaction	Hyderabad	July 20-21, 06
14	S.Sen	VDAT 06	Goa	August 9-12, 06
15	S. Sen	INCURSI 07	NPL, New Delhi	Feb. 21-24, 07

6. 
   Books Published/ Editorship etc.
   

Name of Authors	Title	Status
Prof. P. K. Basu and M. J. Deen	Silicon Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications	Total chapter: 12 : John Wiley, Chicester, UK ( to be published)
Prof. N. B. Chakrabarti and Prof. A. K. Datta	An Introduction to the Principle of Digital Communication	For BE/B Tech New Age Intl (formerely Wiley Eastern) in press
Dr. N. R. Das	International Journal of Computers, Information Technology and Engineering (IJCITAE)	Invited to be in the Board of Editors
Dr. N. R. Das	Special Issue of IJCITAE on some selected papers of CODEC-06.	Acting as a Guest Editor
Dr. N. R. Das, Prof. P. K. Basu	IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems on some selected papers of CODEC-06	Member of the Editorial Board
Dr. B. Bandyopadhyay, Prof. P. K. Saha and Prof. M. J. Deen	Guest Editors for the Special Issue of the International Journal The IET Proceedings (2007) on “Circuits, Devices and Systems”.	To be published

6. 
   Collaboration with National/International Institutes
   

	Name	Name of the Collaborating Scientist/Institution	Nature of collaboration
1.	Prof. A. K. Dasgupta	NPL. GMRT,NMRF-Tirupati, Andhra U, SAC,Boston U, Boston College, USA, ICTP-Trieste	Joint research
2.	Prof. N. Purkait	NPL, PRL	Joint research
3.	Prof. P. K. Saha	RMC, Kingston, Canada	Joint research and book writing
4.	Prof. P. K. Basu	McMaster Univ, Canada	As above
5.	Prof. S. Sen	TIFR	Joint research
6.	Prof. D. Biswas	U Valencia, Spain	Joint research
7.	Prof. Subal Kar	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkely, U.S.A	Laser based Ultrafast X-ray source LUX) for ultrafast studies in human cells. Nano structures etc.
8.	Prof. A. Maitra	i) Bose Institute, Kolkata ii) Satellite Application Cnetre, ISRO, Ahmedabd iii) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK iv) Strathclyde Univesrity, UK	Joint research, collaboration in sponsored projects
9.	Dr. D. Guha	Royal Military College: Ro Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada	New design and concepts of developing Circularly Polarized Broadband Dielectric Resonator Antennas
10.	Dr. D. Guha	King Fahd University, Daham, Saudi Arabia	Development of integratable dual-band/ wideband printed antennas for mobile wireless communications
11.	Dr. D. Guha	Spotwave Wireless Inc., a leadingNorhAmerican Wireless Communication Industry, Ottawa, Canada (www.spotwave.com)	Design of a dual band low profile UMTS antenna with very high gain.
12.	Dr. N. R. Das	McMaster University	Joint research

(H) Patents

US Patent : “Improved ground plane broadband patch antenna for Cell/PCS Frequencies”

Inventors: D. Guha and Y. Antar

File No. 60/745,696 dated 26-04-06.

(I) Conferences/Workshops arranged/supported by Faculties of INRAPHEL

	Title	Date/venue	Collaboration/support
1.	One day Workshop “ Radar Systems: Recent Trends and Applications”	September 8, 2006	IEEE AP-S &MTT-S Joint Chapters Chair: Prof. P. K. Saha
2.	One day Workshop “ Advances in Communication & Electronic Technology” (COMET)	December 16, 200	Sponsored under TEQIP; Chair : Prof. S. Sen; Program Chair: Prof. P. K. Basu
3.	3^rd International Conference “ Computers, Devices & Communication” (CODEC 06)	December 18-20, 06 Hyatt Regency	Organized by INRAPHEL; Chair: P K Saha, Convener : A. Maitra
4.	National Science Day Program and Workshop on Advances in Communication	February 28, 2007	IEEE Students Branch, CU, LEOS, IEEE Calcutta, TEQIP
5.	International Conference VLSI Design & Testing (VDAT 07)	August 9-12, 2007	Organized by INRAPHEL; Chair: S. Sen

(J) Visits, Lectures by Distinguished Scientists and Other Lectures arranged

	Speaker	title	Date	In collaboration with
	Dr. A. P. Mitra, FRS Honorary Scientist, NPL	Radio Science : India in global scene.	April, 19, 2006	Indian Physical Society
	Prof. S. K. Lahiri ECE Dept., IIT Kharagpur	IOSIMM	June 30, 2007	LEOS – IEEE
	Dr Kuntal Chakrabarty, SINP, Kolkata	Carbon nanotubes: present status and future goals	July 28, 2006	LEOS-IEEE
	Dr. Subhananda Chakrabarti Univ. Glasgow, UK	Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors	August 4, 2006	LEOS-IEEE
	Prof. B. K. Sarkar, IIT-Kharagpur	A comprehensive review of various Radar systems	8.09.06	APS-MTTS, IEEE Kolkata
	Dr. S. B. Sharma, SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad	Radar and Radiometric Anennas	8.09.06	Do
	Dr. A. Vangadarajan, LRDE, DRDO, Bangalore	Synthetic Aperture Radar	8.09.06	Do
	Dr. S. S. Rana, SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad	Microwave sensors for remote sensing	8.09.06	Do
	Dr. K. N. Shamanna, ADA, DRDO, Bangalore	RCS and its measurement	8.09.06	Do
	Prof. Debes Das, Minister in Charge, IT, Govt WB	Status of VLSI Design Industry	14.09.2006
	Dr. M. H. Engineer, Bose Institute, Kolkata	Pioneering work of Acharya J. C. Bose in communication and electrophysics	8.12.2006	IEEE-LEOS and IEEE-AP/MTT
	Prof. Prabhat Misra, University of Florida	VLSI CAD	15.12. 20056	CAS
	Prof. Dinesh Sharma, EE Dept, IIT-Bombay	Analog, mixed signal and RF VLSI design	16.12.2006	TEQIP
	Dr. Amitabha Das, Motoriola, USA	Do	16.12.2006
	S. K. Lahiri, IIT-Kharagpur	MEMS & NEMS	16.12.2006	do
	Prof. H. Saha, JU	Smart Sensors	16.12.2006	do
	Dr. A. Vengadarajan LRDE, Bangalore	Synthetic aperture RADARs	16.12.2006	do
	Prof. D. Datta, ECE, IIT-Kharagpur	Optical Networks	16.12.2006	Do
	Dr. D. Guha, RPE	Modern antennas for wireless communication	16.12.2006	do
	Prof. K. Thyagarajan Physics Dept, IIT-Delhi	Nonlinear optics: the good, bad and esoteric	27.12.2006	IEEE-LEOS
	Dr. Subir Saha, Motorola, Bangalore, India	Research as career in India	3.01.07	RPE Association
	Dr. A. K. Bandyopadhyay, Scientist G, NPL, New Delhi	Raman spectroscopic studies of materials under high pressure	10.01.2007	LEOS – IEEE
	Teachers and students of INRAPHEL	Science Day: Advances in Communication	28.02.07	TEQIP, CAS, IEEE-LEOS, IEEE Students Branch, CU
	Prof. M. J. Deen, Canada Research Chair, McMaster Univ	High sensitivity photodetectors for emerging applications	25 & 27 March, 2007	IEEE-LEOS, Canadian Govt and Embassy

ANNEXURE-IX
Sponsored Projects Completed

	Name	Project Title	Funding agency/period/amount in lakhs
1.	N. Purkait	Lower Atmospheric Chemistry	ISRO/ 3 years Rs. 25.01 lakhs
2.	N. Purkait	Methane Emission from Rice Fields of West Bengal, has been (completed)	MoE&F, Govt. of India, 2 years, Rs.3.5 lakhs
3.	A. K. Dasgupta	Space Weather	Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) 3 years Rs. 14.06 lacs
4.	Do	Development of Ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) Models and its validation with actual data for Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) in the Indian Zone	Space Application Center (SAC) 3 years Rs. 7.26 lacs
5.	Do	A Study of the interrelationship of Equatorial Scintillation, Ambient Ionization and Electrojet	ISRO 2 years Rs. 4.66 lakhs
6.	Prof. S. S. De	Atmospheric electricity, electrical conductivity of middle atmosphere and Schumann resonance	ISRO, 14.48 lakhs, 3 years
7.	Prof. A. Maitra	Radio Remote Sensing of the Tropical Atmosphere	ISRO, Department of Space, Government of India, Bangalore, Rs. 19.27 lakhs
8.	Do	Studies on Water Vapour and Cloud Liquid Water using Radiometers and Related Rain/Fog Environment at High Altitude Station at Darjeeling	DST, Government of India, New Delhi, IRHPA Scheme through Bose Institute, Kolkata, 2005-2010.
9.	Sri Ashik Paul	A study on the variability of total electron content near the crest of the equatorial anomaly in the Indian zone	ISRO, 7 lakhs Feb. 2006 ( 3 years)

New Projects Sanctioned

	Name	Project Title	Funding agency/period/amount in lakhs
1.	P. K. Basu & N. R. Das	Physics and modeling of Si nanophotonic devices	DST, ~ 15 lakhs (final grant to be released)
2	Prof. S. S.De/ Dr. Bijay Bandyopadhyay	Monitoring Global Electricity Parameters	Indian Space Research Organization Rs. 35, 06,558 01.04.2007 (3 yrs)
3	Prof. A. Maitra		ISRO, Department of Space, Government of India, Bangalore Rs. 19.27 lakhs
4.	Sri Ashik Paul	A study on the variability of total electron content near the crest of the equatorial anomaly in the Indian zone	ISRO, 7 lakhs Feb. 2006 – 3 years
5	Prof. A K Das Gupta and Sri A. Paul	A Study of the interrelationship of Equatorial Scintillation, Ambient Ionization and Electrojet	Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Rs. 4.66 lacs Duration of Project: 2 years
6	do	A Study on the Variability of Total Electron Content near the Crest of the Equatorial Anomaly in the Indian Zone	ISRO Rs. 6.02 lacs Duration of Project: 3 years
7	A. Maitra	Studies on Water Vapour and Cloud Liquid Water using Radiometers and Related Rain/Fog Environment at High Altitude Station at Darjeeling	DST, Government of India, under IRHPA Scheme through Bose Institute, Kolkata, 2005-2010.