News Letter1 - Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

RESEARCH and PUBLICATIONS
of PDPU Faculty in Last Three Months
(2) Prof. Ashish Sarkar
2008 being the International Year of Plant Earth (IYPE), and the
International Polar Year (IPY), 33rd International Geological Congress
(33IGC) addressed the issues related to Earth sciences with special
symposia.
Ashish Sarkar attended the 33IGC from 6th August to 14th August
2008, held in Oslo, Norway. He contributed and presented two
papers in the ‘Paleocimate and Climate Modelling’ and ‘General
Contributions to Soil Science’. He in one of the few selected
participants, who received financial support from ‘Geohost’ to attend
the Congress.
(4) Prof. Tajinder Singh
(1) Prof. Vishvesh Badheka
I) Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientist from Department of Science &
Technology (DST), New Delhi. For the project entitled “Gas Metal Arc
Welding with Metal Core Arc Wire” in the year Dec 2008, Project is
ongoing. (DST Ref No: SR/FTP/ETA-19/2008)
Total Cost of Project is Rs 15,18,000.00 lakh.
II) Research project on “Weldability aspects of Low Activation
Ferritic-Martensitic Steel Welded by Activated Flux Tungsten Inert Gas
Welding” from Board For Research in Fusion Science & Technology (BRFST),
National Fusion Program of Institute for Plasma Research, Department of
Atomic Energy, Gandhinagar, India, in the year Dec 2008. Project is going
on and is in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
(IGCAR), Kalpakkam. (Ref ; NFP/08/MAT-01)
Total Cost of Project is Rs 24,26,500.00
Publications
“Effect of Residual Magnetism on Sidewall Fusion in Narrow Gap Gas Metal Arc Welding”, by
Badheka V J and Agrawal S K, It has been published in “Welding and Cutting” International Journal of German
Welding Society, DVS. Issue Welding and Cutting 5 (2008)
(3) Prof. Arun Sarma
Prof. Arun Sarma visited University of Innsbruck, Austria, Europe to attend 50th year celebration of
the Insbruck Plasma Physics Division, which was held on 5th December 2008. He was invited to
attend that celebration and also to give a talk on Plasma Physics. Prof. Sarma was also invited to
work in their laboratory on a joint project in collaboration with Max Institute of Plasma Physics,
Grifswald, Germany. Prof. Sarma worked in their laboratory on following two proposals:
(i) Thermal Conductivity and Resistivity of LaB6 Materials with Laser Power
(ii) Study of antenna characteristics in plasma medium.
Dr. Tajinder Pal Singh, was invited at MIT, Pune as a Chief Referee for the International Robocon
2008, held on 31th August, where 17 Engineering Colleges from 16 countries participated. Also,
Dr. Singh for the last five years has been heading a panel of judges in Robotic National level
competition (ROBOCON) organized by Doordarshan,where teams from IIT’s, NIT’s and other
Engineering Colleges actively participate.
Robocon, short for Robotic Contest, is an interesting game-cum-intellectual exercise for budding
engineers and their enthusiastic instructors, determined to innovate and create machines to
produce desired results. Participation in it is an end-to-end competitive experience from concept
design of a system of robots programmed to perform according to rules of the game played on a
precisely created challenging field and to score a victory beating the competitors; all this according
to a Theme declared by the Host Country.
International Robocons are mainly sponsored by Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) which
includes Doordarshan (Prasarbharati) of India as a member.
RESEARCH