XXVI ANNUAL REPORT GOA UNIVERSITY
XXVI ANNUAL REPORT GOA UNIVERSITY
XXVI ANNUAL REPORT GOA UNIVERSITY
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Major Thrust Areas of Research and Achievements<br />
The major thrust areas of research include Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Theoretical<br />
Computer Science, Access Control, Algorithms, Software Architecture, Embedded<br />
Systems, CAD and E-Learning and, DBMS, Natural Language Processing.<br />
Visiting Scholars<br />
DCST and Computer Society of India, Goa Chapter, Talk on “Services & Applications<br />
support for the Max Planck Society in a Pan-European context, 3 rd January, 2011.<br />
Sponsored Research Project sanctioned between June 2010 and May 2011<br />
• Jyoti D. Pawar (PI), Ramdas Karmali (co-PI), Madhavi Sardessai, Department of<br />
Konkani (co-PI), Integrated WordNet for Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani,<br />
Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu: Development of Indradhanush: An Integrated WordNet<br />
for Bengali, Gujrati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Oriya, Punjabi & Urdu, 3 rd August, 2010, 2<br />
years, DIT, New Delhi, Rs. 299.52 lakhs.<br />
• Jyoti D. Pawar (Co-PI) and Sangeeta Jadhav, S.S. Dempo College, Panaji (PI), A<br />
Computational Model for Bharat Natyam, 1 st February, 2011, 3 years, UGC, Rs. 5.13<br />
lakhs.<br />
Ongoing Projects/Completed during June 2010 – May 2011<br />
• Jyoti D. Pawar (PI), Ramdas Karmali (co-PI) and Chandralekha D’Souza,<br />
Department of Konkani (co-PI), Parallel Corpora Development for Konkani under<br />
the Indian Language Corpora Initiative (ILCI), February 2009, 2 years, DIT, Rs. 23<br />
lakhs.<br />
• V. V. Kamat, CAD-ELearn Project, July 2010, 3 yrs, Govt. of Goa, Rs. 12.00 lakhs.<br />
Placement Details 20 out of 30 students were placed.<br />
Department of Physics<br />
Faculty<br />
P. R. Sarode, Ph. D., Professor (superannuated w.e.f. 7/10/2010) -- Solid State Physics: Xray<br />
Spectroscopy – XANES, EXAFS.<br />
J. A. E. Desa, Ph. D., Professor & Head -- Solid State Physics: Structures of Glasses and<br />
Disordered Materials, Neutron Diffraction.<br />
U. Subramanian, Ph. D., Associate Professor-- Solid State Physics: Optical and Electrical<br />
Properties of Materials.<br />
R. B. Tangsali, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Solid State Physics: Transport and Magnetic<br />
Properties of Materials, Nanomaterials.<br />
R. V. Pai, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics: Cold Atoms<br />
and Molecules.<br />
K. R. S. Priolkar, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Solid State Physics: X-ray Spectroscopy<br />
(XAS, XAFS).<br />
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