29th Annual Report (2016-17)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS 14 29 th ANNUAL RE PORT 2016-17 Anirban Ain, Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Sharad Gaonkar, Anuradha Gupta, Sanjit Mitra, NikhilMukund, Jayanti Prasad and Tarun Souradeep Sukanta Bose SumantaChakraborty and KinjalkLochan SanjeevV. Dhurandhar Ajit Kembhavi Jayant V. Narlikar Aseem Paranjape Tarun Souradeep Milner's Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, shared with LIGO and Virgo Science Collaboration (LVC). Gruber Prize on Cosmology, sharedwith LVC. Science Lead, LIGO - India Project. HonourableMention in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition. The H.K. FirodiaVigyan BhushanAward, 2016. Appointed aVice-President of the InternationalAstronomical Union (IAU) for six years fromAugust 2015. Felicitated during the 90thAkhil BharatiyaMarathi Sahitya Sammelan, Dombivli, February 4, 2017. Selected anAssociate of the IndianAcademy of Sciences, Bengaluru. Elected the President of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG) for two year fromMarch 2016.