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Contribution:

• He has around forty years of teaching and research experience in the area of hydrological modelling and Water Resources Management
• He has supervised 20 PhDs and authored more than 100 research papers published in peer reviewed journals
• He has also edited five books
• He has vast experience in handing international and Danish projects

Contribution:

• As part of the SGR International Distinguished Faculty Outreach Programme (SGRIP) delivered 11-hour lecture series on “Recent Trends and Developments in Ocean Renewable Energy and River Current Energy Conversion Systems’ to the senior students of the Department during 31 Oct - 4 Nov, 2016
• Discussed the potential of marine renewable energy in India and the present and future challenges
• Held relevant discussion with the faculty members for possible industry academic collaboration through faculty, student exchange programme

Takeaways:

• Provided the proposed lectures
• Explored future Industry-academic collaboration under Canada-India bi-lateral S & T Agreement
• Explored possibilities to provide similar lectures on ocean energy during a two day period in December 2017

Contribution:

• Offered a micro-credit subject and lecture series on Geometric Methods for Machine Vision

Awards and Honors:

• American Automatic Control Council’s Donald Eckman Award in 1988
• United Nations Development Programme’s TOKTEN Consultant in 1993
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship Programme for research in Japan in 1997
• Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2000
• Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2014

Takeaways:

• Classical introduction to monocular vision using geometry and dynamical systems
• Geometric problems in rotational mechanics and human gaze control
• Neural Signal Processing in Animal Vision
• Machine Cognition and Control using a Sensor Network

Contribution:

• Offered workshop, short-term course on “Structure and Properties of Polycrystalline Materials” (50 participants, including faculty attended his lecture from 5 Oct – 4 Nov 2016)
• Interaction with research scholar and groups from various departments
• Offered a lecture ‘Roles of Texture in Controlling Oxidation, Hydrogen Ingress and Hydride Formation and Transformation in Zr Alloys’ for Indian Institute of Metals, Kharagpur Chapter in IIT Kharagpur
• The core members in the ‘Scientific advisory committee’ of the international conference ‘iCAMMP-iv, 2016 held in Dept. Metal & Mater Engg from 5 – 7 Nov, 2016

Awards and Honors:

• He has enjoyed distinguished academic carrier in various universities in Europe, Asia and Canada
• He has supervised more than 36 PhD students and has more than 500 (49 in 2015) peer reviewed research publications in his credit

Takeaways:

• An overview of the effect of microstructure, texture and grain boundaries, interface on various mechanical, physical and electronic properties
• Engineering of these polycrystalline material features to optimize these properties
• The application of textures and grain boundaries, interfaces in technology and research:
  1. Texture and formability of mechanical properties
  2. Inter-granular fracture of pipeline steels
  3. Grain oriented transformer steels
  4. Texture optimization in magnetic recording media

Contribution:

• Offered workshop, short-term course on Crystal Plasticity Modelling (> 50 participants, including faculty attended his lecture from 3rd – 21st Oct, 2016)
• Interaction with research scholars and groups
• Offered a lecture ‘The limits of grain fragmentation in severe plastic deformation’ for Indian Institute of Metals, Kharagpur Chapter in IIT Kharagpur
• The core members in the ‘Scientific advisory committee’ of the international conference ‘iCAMMP-iv, 2016 held in Dept. Metal & Mater Engg from 5 – 7 Nov, 2016

Awards and Honors:

• Knight of the French Superior Education by Government of France in 2012
• The Grand Prize of Research of the Industrial Society of East-France (2012)

Takeaways:

• Introduction to geometrical considerations, mechanisms and mathematical formations of plastic deformation of polycrystals
• Crystal plasticity criteria: Schmid, Bishop and Hill, Viscoplastic slip
• Applications to polycrystal deformation (Use of static, Sachs, Taylor, relaxed constraint, self-consistent and finite element models)
• Applications of different models to polycrystalline materials: Prediction of crystallographic texture and stress-strain curves, parameters of anisotropy, work hardening and formability for cubic, hexagonal materials

Contribution:

• Delivered several lectures to the students of Globalization and Culture (HS30095) and (MHRM) students and an Institute Lecture on India’s Soft Power: Rhetoric and Reality between 22 Aug – 02 Nov, 2016

Takeaways:

• Comprehensive overview of Globalization, Media and Culture
• Professional Exposure to the role of media in a global context through case studies
• Discussion on News and Infotainment in a Global Context, Global Media Cultures, Contra Flows in Global Media, Global Digital Divides and Dividends and Cultures of Globalization
• Delivered expert talk on India’s Soft Power: From Buddha to Bollywood from International Relations framework
• Provided a valuable comparative perspective which could be extremely useful in this age of growing internationalization of media, culture and communication

Contribution:

• Delivered a series of lectures on ‘Digital Fluid Power’ as a part of PG Elective course ‘Fluid Drive and Control (ME60409)’ for about 12 hours
• All lectures have been recorded by CET Audio Visual section
• In the end semester examination, a compulsory question was set from Dr. Rudolf’s portion and most of the students answered satisfactorily
• A special lecture –IEEE, Local Chapter, in EE Department on 16 Nov, 2016

Awards and Honors:

• International Award- Bramah Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) 2010
• Member of several scientific advisory boards in home county and abroad
• Editorial board member is several International journals
• Consultant to several Industries in home county and abroad

Scientific Discussion:

• Possibility of joint guidance to PhD level students. A current student may be invited to work on digital fluid power in Dr. Rudolf institute for a part of the problem assigned to the student
• Joint collaborative work on Digitally Displacement Pump (DDP) for wind turbine

Contribution:

• During her visit, Dr. Catapano also shared literature and source codes on relevant research topics, which are not available in the open literature
• Plans to sign an MoU with IREA, Napoli was also discussed
• In short, Dr. Catapano’s visit achieved its academic purpose and paved the way for further collaboration between IIT Kharagpur and IREA Napoli

Contribution:

• As part of the SGR International Distinguished Faculty Outreach Programme (SGRIP), delivered lectures for 3 weeks during July-August 2016 as a part of the regular Postgraduate course “Modeling and Simulation of Dynamical Systems” (ME60419). The course was credited by dual-degree B.Tech students, M.Tech students and Research Scholars.
• Discussed rigid body kinematics, Kane's dynamics formulation, Lagrangian approach, linearization, eigenvalue problem with a number of examples
• Modeling and computation related to flexible multi-body systems were discussed
• Conducted a test for the students as a part of Teacher's Assesment for the course
• Delivered a departmental seminar on his research activities.

Takeaways:

• Distributed hand-outs of his lecture notes.
• Provided his recently published book “Flexible Multi-body Dynamics”, Wiley, 2016

Contribution:

Offered a short-term course on Power Electronics and Battery Charging for Electric-Drivetrain Vehicles

Takeaways:

• Comprehensive overview on electric drive vehicles and drivetrain architectures
• Drivetrain dc-dc converter operation and loss modelling
• Dynamic modelling and control of drivetrain dc-dc converters and motor drives
• Advancement in wide bandgap power devices and power converter topologies for xEV applications
• Advancement in wide bandgap power devices and power converter topologies for xEV applications

Awards and Honors:

• Fellow of IEEE
• Transactions Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Electronics Society, 2008
• CU Boulder Inventor of the Year Award, 2006
• Bruce Holland Excellence in Teaching Award, ECE Department, CU Boulder, 2004
• Transactions Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power Electronics Society, 1997
• NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993
• Best Paper Award, High-Frequency Power Conversion Conference, 1989
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1986
• Caltech Graduate Fellowship, 1986
• Best Electrical Engineering Graduate Award, University of Belgrade, 1984

Contribution:

Offered a short-term course on Battery Management for Electric-Drivetrain Vehicles

Takeaways:

• Introduction to Terminology; equivalent-circuit battery models.
• State estimation technique using nonlinear Kalman filters
• Discussion on state of health estimation of battery pack
• Battery-pack balancing; power-limits estimation
• Physics-based battery models and methods for making battery work better and last longer

Contribution:

• Dr. Golumbic offered a short term course on “Algorithmic Graph Theory” to the senior undergraduate, masters, and PhD students of Departments of Computer Science, Electronics and Mathematics during 24 Jan – 15 Feb, 2017.
• On Feb 13, 2017 Dr. Golumbic delivered an institute-wide lecture titled “ The Elusive Nature of Intersecting Paths on a Grid”.
• Dr. Golumbic, Dr. Rogers Mathew and doctoral students Mr. Atrayee Majumder, Mr. Tapas Mishra and Mr.Davis Issac (PhD student from Max Planck Institute for Informatica, Germany) worked on open problems related to total colorings of structured families of graphs. Our immediate goal is to find a total coloring algorithm for certain types of cographs.

Takeaways:

• Distributed hand-outs of his lecture notes.
• Provided his recently published book “Flexible Multi-body Dynamics”, Wiley, 2016

Awards and Honors:

• Dr. Golumbic has been a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications since 1995.
• Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence society ECCAI, 2005.

Contribution:

Offered for 14 weeks internship in Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, UK as a part of his PhD work

Takeaways:

• Completed his experimental work on radiography and XCT experiments.
• Analysing all data with his both supervisors
• Modelling of porosity formation already started from this experimental results

Contribution:

• Presented the research work on opto-fluidic random laser in the winter school.
• Visited Bar Ilan University and gave a seminar in the physics department.

Takeaways:

• Distributed hand-outs of his lecture notes.
• Provided his recently published book “Flexible Multi-body Dynamics”, Wiley, 2016

Awards and Honors:

• Presented my recent studies in the area of opto-fluidic random laser in the workshop and received some invaluable feedback from the audience, which would be beneficial for my research work and improving my academic skills in future.
• Discussion with the renowned scientist would also help me in my current experiment.
• Half day guided tour to old city Jaffa organised by the winter school committee provided me the opportunity to learn about the history and culture of Israel.
• Discussed my research results with the mesoscopic optics group at Bar Ilan University for possible collaborative work with the group in near future.

Contribution:

• The ground state properties of the correlated oxides have been studied over the last decades by using first-principles DFT approach.
• Though the finite temperature response within the ab-initio approach for insulating oxides has not been studied yet.
• The formalism can be fascinating to look into the magnetic ordering in presence of various external parameters such as temperature, magnetic field and the spin-orbit effects.
• There are few oxides which are great potential for the industries.
• Magnetite (Fe3O4) is one of such famous candidate owing toits spintronics device applications in recent times.
• In collaboration with the theory group at the University of Warwick we will set up the formalism for the finite temperature magnetism in correlated oxides to study those systems.

Takeaways:

• A long term collaboration has been set up between the material modeling group here in the Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur with the theory group in material simulation at the University of Warwick.
• During my visit I have learnt their theoretical and computational tools for bcc-Fe (iron) and started a study of some transition metal oxides (MnO, Fe3O4).
• Within this research collaboration we will publish couple of papers on these materials in near future.
• Working in the leading theory group of finite temperature magnetism was a great learning experience.
• I have participated in the group meetings and delivered a talk of my PhD work over there.
• The discussion with the professors and students helped me to understand few aspects of my research problems