Annual General Meeting of MRS-I Included Theme Seminar on Energy-Related Materials
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Annual General Meeting of MRS-I Included Theme Seminar on Energy-Related Materials The Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Materials Research Society of India (MRS-I) was jointly organized by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and MRS-I Bombay Chapter at Central Complex Auditorium, BARC during February 10-12, 1997. The meeting held a theme seminar on "Energy-Related Materials." About 330 delegates from different parts of India participated in this event. In his inaugural address given on February 10, R. Chidambaram (Chair, Atomic Energy Commission) highlighted the current trends in materials research with a focus on processing of materials. In the context of the theme seminar of the meeting, he said that energy and materials have a symbiotic relationship. The production of energy depends on the availability of suitable materials and energy has to be expended for the production of materials. He elaborated on the interdependence of the two in the context of nuclear science and nuclear materials. He briefly mentioned significant achievements, including the completion of 40 successful years of operation of the APSARA reactor, the starting of the KAMINI reactor in Kalpakkam which marked the beginning of thorium utilization in the country, completion of 25 years of the Nuclear Fuel Complex, and the attainment of very high efficiency of the utilization of nuclear power reactors. C.N.R. Rao (Founder President, MRS-I, and President, Jawharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore) commented on the growth of the interdisciplinary Materials Research Society of India. He emphasized the need for starting a dialogue between industries and the researchers in the forum. This will be of immense value in the current globalization of India's economy. To make India's industries competitive, he said, advanced materials research centers in the country would be essential to support indigenous industries in a spectrum of fields. Anil Kakodkar (Director, BARC) briefly described the multifaceted materialsrelated research and development (R&D) work in BARC. S.K. Joshi (President, MRS-I) referred to current topics such as materials for hydrogen and fusion energy, optoelectronic materials, conducting polymers, biomaterials, biomimetic materials, and intelligent materials. C.R. Gupta (Chair, MRS-I, Bombay Chapter) mentioned the emphasis placed on the poster presentations in which results of the latest 52
1997 MRS-I Medal recipients and the President of MRS-I (Sitting, left to right) G. Banerjee, R. Jha, Paul Ratnasamy, Anil Kakodkar, S.K. Joshi (President of MRS-I), A.K. Barua, V.N. Krishnamurthy, N.G. Nair, R. Pinto, and AC. Rastogi (Standing, right to left) B.M. Mandal, V.D. Vankar, M.K. Surappa, B.P. Sharma, K. Bhanu Sankara Rao, M.C. Pandey, B.K. Godwal, A. Jayakrishnan, S.B. Krupanidhi, K.S. Narayan, and D. Bahadur
research have been reported. In the three-day meeting, eight technical sessions were arranged. Highlights include the MRS-I honor lecture, two MRS-I Superconductivity and Materials Science Prize lectures,
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