Khagol _112 _October 2017

Congratulations to... Sanjeev Dhurandhar on being selected for Majha Sanman Award byABPNews Network Pvt. ltd. and for receiving the TMCAward for Excellence by TopManagement Consortium, Pune. SomakRaychaudhury on being elected as Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India. Durgesh Tripathi on being awarded the Buti Foundation Award - 2017 in the field of Plasma Science and Technology by the Physical Research Laboratory,Ahmedabad. Addition to the IUCAA family IUCAAextends awarmwelcome to the newVisitingAssociates of the twenty-eighth batch joining for a tenure of three years, beginning August 2017. NewVisitingAssociates 1. DharamVirAhluwalia, IIT, Guwahati 2. Arunima Banerjee, IISER, Tirupati 3. Nand Kumar Chakradhari, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur 4. Ayan Chatterjee, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Kangra 5. ShantanuDesai, IIT, Hyderabad 6. GauravGoswami, AhmedabadUniversity 7. Nandita L. Kalita, Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management andTech., Guwahati 8. ArunV. Kulkarni, BITS-Pilani, GoaCampus 9. SmritiMahajan, IISER,Mohali 10. SaptarshiMondal, Bethune College, Kolkata 11. Mahadev B. Pandge, Dayanand Science College, Latur 12. Rutu Parekh, Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Information and CommunicationTech., Gandhinagar 13. SwarupPoria, University of Calcutta, Kolkata | KHAG L | No. 112 - OCTOBER 2017 | 08