From skvdst@alpha.nic.in Thu Nov 16 21:19:35 2000 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:36:12 +0530 From: SK VARSHNEYSubject: DST Circular No. 15 [ Part 1, Text/PLAIN (charset: ISO-8859-1 "Latin 1") 254 lines. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] INTERNATIONAL DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, NEW DELHI 110 016 E-mail: skvdst@alpha.nic.in CIRCULAR NO. 15 DATED 10th November 2000 In this issue : · call for applications for beamtime allocation on italian synchrotron radiation source, elettra. · Invitation of nomination for ILTP Fellowship · Invitation of nomination for INSA-JRD Tata Fellowship · Opportunities from previous circulars (Indo-Hungarian, Indo-Polish) · Tell a friend · General Information (Change of address, unsubscription, suggestions, etc) ______________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT: IT MAY PLEASE BE NOTED THAT THIS IS A GENERAL CIRCULAR NOT ADDRESSED TO ANY INDIVIDUAL. PLEASE CHECK ELIGIBILITY AND OTHER CONDITIONS BEFORE INITIATING THE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE CONCERNED OFFICIAL. ______________________________________________________________ BEAMTIME ALLOCATION ON ITALIAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCE, ELETTRA Call for applications The Department of Science & Technology (DST), together with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is promoting the use of beamlines at Italian synchrotron source, Elettra, at Trieste by the Indian scientific community under the Indo-Italian Programme of Cooperation (POC) in Science & Technology 1998-2001. DST invites proposals for experiments on these beamlines. 2. Elettra is a third generation 2 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Source of high brilliance and offers intense VUV, soft and hard X-ray beams using bending magnets, undulators and wigglers. Proposals can be made for experiments on the following ten beamlines: i. Super ESCA (Beamline 2.2 R) ii. ESCA Microscopy (Beamline 2.2 L) iii. VUV Photoemission (Beamline 3.2 R) iv. Spectromicroscopy (Beamline 3.2 L) v. Circularly Polarised Light (Beamline 4.2 R) vi. Hard X-ray Diffraction (Beamline 5.2 R) vii. Small Angle X-ray Scattering (Beamline 5.2 L) viii. Gas Phase Photoemission (Beamline 6.2 L) ix. Synchrotron Radiation for Medical Physics-SYRMEP (Beamline 6.1 R) x. Surface Diffraction (Beamline 7.2 R) 3. Further details of beamlines are available at the Internet web address www.elettra.trieste.it. They can also be got by writing to Smt. Sadhana Relia, Scientist F, International Division, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Technology Bhawan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110016 (Fax No.011-6862418; e.mail: sadhana_relia@hotmail.com). 4. Typical experiment at Elettra would take about a week and request for up to three scientists per experiment may be considered for experiments longer than 3 days (9 shifts). For experiments less than 9 shifts, visit of not more than two scientists will be considered. Scientists are encouraged to contact the Elettra Beamline coordinator prior to making proposal or revising the proposal. The list of scientist-in-charge of Elettra beamlines could be obtained from DST. Collaborative experiments with Italian and other local groups at Elettra can also be proposed. 5. Experiments at separate beamlines require separate proposals with complete scientific justifications. 6. The scientists are requested to send their proposal (one in original and eight additional copies) to DST by December 30, 2000. 7. The applications invited under this advertisement will be subject to an initial scrutiny within India by DST through an `Expert Committee' followed by another round of evaluation by `Elettra Scientific Review Committee'. All revised proposals should also be submitted through DST only with clear statement of reasons for resubmission and a copy of comments from Elettra, if any. 8. As per the present policy of Sincrotrone Trieste, the Indian applicants (selected by DST) will have to submit the Application Form on-line by getting connected to Virtual User Office http://users.elettra.trieste.it_offhtmlgistOpening.htmml.ion=listinfoml9600l (on Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 4 etc) with Java script enabled and forwarding one complete printed version of the same to DST. 9. Once the Indian proposal (original or revised) qualifies the two step evaluation, DST will fund the international air travel expenses and medical insurance for period of stay in Italy and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will provide the daily allowance for the Indian scientist to cover board, lodging and local transport in Italy @ Lit 180,000 under the Indo-Italian POC in S&T. 50 ILTP Fellowships for Russian scientists Nominations are invited from Indian academic and R&D organizations for affiliation of 50 young Russian scientists (between 35-45 years old) in their respective institutes for a period ranging between 4 months to 1 year. As a part of the ILTP Fellowship, the Russian scientists will be provided fellowship amount of Rs 12,000/- per month and airfare by economy class from Moscow to place of work in India. The host institute is required to organize focussed work plan and fully furnished accommodation. The format for nomination could be obtained by requesting to ypk@alpha.nic.in or to skvdst@alpha.nic.in. The nomination forms must be submitted to Shri YP Kumar, Adviser (ILTP), Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi 110016 along with (a) consent of the Russian scientist to work in the Indian organisation in the proposed period of the visit and (b) Acceptance of the Head of the host institute in India. Nominations received till 31st December 2000 will be processed in the present round. INSA-JRD TATA Fellowship Inviting nomination for scientists from Developing countries of Asian-Pacific region Indian National Science Academy (INSA) has established INSA-JRD Tata Fellowship to extend facilities of the advance scientific infrastructure and expertise of India to scientists and researchers from the developing countries. It covers short term, participatory research studies in all major discipline of science & technology. About 20 Fellowships are to be provided annually. The fellowship covers to and fro airfare, board and lodging at the affiliated institute and an adequate allowance in Indian currency to cover incidental expenses. The period of award will be 3 to 6 month. Nominated scientist should be a scientist, teacher or a research scholar, preferably below 45 years affiliated to a scientific or academic institution in a developing country (outside India), preferably from Asian and Pacific region. The prescribed application form can be downloaded from www.insa-india.org or may be obtained from the Executive Secretary, Indian National Science Academy, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002 (Fax: 011-3231905, e-mail: insa@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in, insa1@ndf.vsnl.net.in ). OPPORTUNITIES FROM PREVIOUS CIRCULARS Indo-Hungarian Programme in Science & Technology Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India and the Ministry of Education (MOE), Government of Hungary, jointly invites application from scientists and researchers for support under Indo-Hungarian Programme on Cooperation in Science & Technology (2001-2003) for developing and implementing joint research projects. The proposals are required to have the endorsement of both Indian and Hungarian project coordinators and their institutes. The financial support from DST would be provided in terms of exchange visit component only (i.e. international fare to Indian researchers and hospitality to Hungarian researchers by DST and vice versa by MOE), as per the terms agreed upon between India and Hungary. The proposals would be separately evaluated by both DST and MOE. Preference would be given to the proposals of scientific merit and meeting national priorities of the two countries. Application forms along with guidelines may be obtained from Shri SK Varshney, Scientist D, International Division, Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110016, E-mail skvdst@alpha.nic.in. Request for application forms may be made latest by 25th November 2000. Identical project proposals completed in all respects should be submitted by 30th November 2000 to DST (to Shri SK Varshney) by the Indian scientists and to the MOE (Division for R&D) in Budapest by the Hungarian scientists. Unilaterally submitted projects shall not be considered. Indo-Polish Programme of Cooperation in Science & Technology Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India and the state Committee for Scientific Research (KBN), Government of Poland, jointly invites application from scientists and researchers for support under Indo-Polish Programme on Cooperation in Science & Technology (2001-2003) for developing and implementing joint research projects. The proposals are required to have the endorsement of both Indian and Polish project coordinators and their institutes. The financial support from DST would be provided in terms of exchange visit component only (i.e. international fare to Indian researchers and hospitality to Polish researchers by DST and vice versa by KBN), as per the terms agreed upon between India and Poland. The proposals would be separately evaluated by both DST and KBN. Preference would be given to the proposals of scientific merit and meeting national priorities of the two countries. Application forms along with guidelines may be obtained from Shri SK Varshney, Scientist D, International Division, Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhavan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110016, E-mail skvdst@alpha.nic.in. Request for application forms may be made latest by 25th November 2000. Identical project proposals completed in all respects should be submitted by 30th November 2000 to DST (to Shri SK Varshney) by the Indian scientists and to the KBN (to Mr P Pajestka) in Warsaw by the Polish scientists. Unilaterally submitted projects shall not be considered. TELL A FRIEND Please forward the following message to one of your scientific acquaintance from within India : CREATION OF E-MAIL DIRECTORY OF INDIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY International Division, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India is maintaining an e-mail directory of the scientific institutions in India (respective Directors / Heads of the institutions) and other eminent scientists. This directory is being used to electronically mail various announcements by the International Division of the Department viz. 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