HARI OM ASHRAM TRUST AWARDS

           he University Grants Commission  has nominated
           the   following  for  the  Hari  Om  Ashram  Trust
          Award,    each  of  Rs. 50,000/-, in  the following
fields for the year 2002 and 2003:

1. Sir C.V. Raman Award for Research in Physical
 Sciences

                         2002  Rajpal  Singh Sirohi, Director,
                         Indian  Institue   of   Technology, Delhi.
                         He has  done  experimental  work  with
                         significant    application,    in     Applied
                        Optics with sub-areas  like  holography,
                         optical         instrumentation,     speckle
metrology, surface profilometry, testing methods, etc.He
has also developed several optical  instruments,  two  of
them are in market.

                         2003   Prof. Ajay K. Sood,   Prof.   of
                         Physics,  Indian  Institute   of   Science,
                         Bangalore.  He  has made experimental
                         contributions to  contemporary aspects
                         of condensed  matter  physics,  such as
                         flow   induced   voltage   generation   in
carbon    nanotubes,   squeezed  states   of   phonons by
ultrafast   laser  pulses,  pressure- induced  transitions  in
fullerenes,  confined   and   interface      phonons         in
semiconductor superlattices and  soft  condensed  matter
like colloids and surfactant-based systems.

2. Homi J. Bhabha Award for the Research in
    Applied Sciences

                         2002    Prof. C.V. Dharamadhikari,
                         Dept.   of   Physics, University of Pune.
                         He  has  done   pioneering  work in the
                         development           of      sophisticated
                         techniques      of     Scanning      Probe
                         Microscopy  (SPM).         He        has 

developed a Nanotech-STM facility and utilized it for nanolithography on gold and silicon single crystal surfaces.

                         2003  Prof. B.B.  Chaudhuri, Prof. &
                         Head,   Computer   Vision  and  Pattern
                         Recognition    Unit,   Indian     Statistical
                         Institute,    Calcutta.    He    has    made
                         contributions    in   Pattern  Recognition,
                         Image Processing, Data   Compression,
Natural  Language  Processing, Speech Technology and
Digital Document Processing.

3. Meghnad Saha Award for Research in theoretical Sciences

                         2002    Dr. Manindra Agrawal, Dept.
                         of    Computer Science & Engg., Indian
                         Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has
                         developed           a             deterministic
                         polynomial-time algorithm for testing the
                         primality of a number.

                         2003      Prof. Dilip Govind Kanhere,
                         Dept.   of   Physics,  University  of Pune.
                         He  has  contributed  significantly  in  the
                         field  of  condensed  matter  physics and
                         developing   applications  in  the  area  of
                         electronic    structure   calculations   and
numerical simulations of strongly correlated systems.

4. Jagdish Chandra Bose Award for Research in Life Sciences

                         2002 Prof. S.K. Kulkarni,    Director,
                         Centre for Industry Institute  Partnership
                          Programme,     University   Institute   of
                         Pharmaceutical      Sciences,       Panjab
                         University,  Chandigarh.  Prof. Kulkarni
                          has                  made             significant