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From the Desk of the Vice Chancellor

Greetings!

As the Vice Chancellor of this premier university, I am extremely pleased to share this space to converse with all of you. The University of Madras is a post- sesquicentennial institution which has forged a glorious path for itself and has been the site for significant scientific discoveries as well as the beacon for national and regional societal transformation. It has successfully managed to hold aloft its tradition even while keeping up with the emerging trends. One reason for this is the way in which the university has kept alive its interactions with all the stakeholders.

The COVID 19 pandemic has introduced a ‘new normal’ and its impact is felt in the workings of the university as well. The students have been attending the lectures online. While online learning has the advantage of being anytime and anywhere, it has taken away the peer group interaction and peer learning which are integral aspects of the university experience. We look forward to welcoming you to the campus very soon. Meanwhile, our faculty and administration will continue to bring the best to the virtual classrooms. As students, you need to view the restrictions posed by the pandemic as a temporary deterrent. Your focus should be to gain the competencies to conduct application oriented research in order to evolve as useful citizens of our society.

Our university boasts of faculty with a high degree of knowledge and commitment to offer the best in teaching and research. Given the context of the pandemic, we need to redefine our teaching-learning processes to offer the best pedagogic experience to our students. Similarly, the post-pandemic era demands that we hone the employment potential and entrepreneurial capacity of our learners. This necessitates that we focus on sponsored research in cutting edge areas.

Our administrative staff have been the backbone of the university. While we move towards a transparent and complete e-governance model, we need more support from you. When the teaching-learning process at our university – from admission to certification -- is moving into the digital era, your skills and competencies need to keep pace.

At our university, we are gearing up for the final round of NAAC re-accreditation. This has offered us an opportunity to assess our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges. Further, it has made us more determined to reiterate our quality benchmarks in teaching, research and extension activities. We are aware of this responsibility and fully prepared for it because, our university has always encouraged individual thinking within the established frameworks. This is echoed in the words of Tim Burners Lee, who initiated the World Wide Web: “We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually.” Let us unite to make the educational experience at the University of Madras a synergy of the best minds and best thoughts.

Prof.Dr.S.Gowri

Vice-Chancellor
University of Madras

Dr. S. BalakumarM. Sc., M. Phil., Ph.D., FRSC (UK), FInstP (IOP, UK), SMIEEE (USA)

Professor
National Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology
17

Awards

306

Publications

40

Seminars / Conference

31

Projects

14

Ph.D Awarded

8

Ph.D Present

Seminar / Conference

National Seminar Organized

S.No Description Year Held
1

Invited talk on Nanoelectronics, Refresher Course on Nanoscience, National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Madras, Chennai, 23th November 2016.

2016
2

Convener, Webinar on “Trends In Water Remediation and Management with Nanotechnology”

2021
3

Convener, Nanomaterials Characterization Lecture Series, “Raman Spectroscopic studies for Materials Research” 

 

2021
4
  1. Convener, Nanomaterials Characterization Lecture Series, “Fundamentals of X-ray Diffraction” 
2021
5

Coordinator & Convener, Webinar series on "Biomaterials and it's applications"

2021
6

Webinar Series on Bio-nanomaterials and Nano informatics in RUSA-2.0 Biomaterials Group

2021
7

Nano-materials for Biomedical Applications, Biomaterials and its Application Webinar Series

2021
8

Prevailing scholarship opportunities for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) graduates and professionals

2021
9

Workshop on Advanced Material for Biomedical Application

2021
10

Symposium on Nano-materials Synthesis and Solutions Route, MRSI Conclave

2021
11

National webinar on Science and Technology for sustainable growth in Commemoration with National Science Day

2022
12

Biomaterials Conclave 2022 is being jointly organized by University of Madras, Society

for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs (India) -SBAOI, Society for Tissue Engineering and

Regenerative Medicine (India)-STERMI, on March 7-15, 2022

2022

National Seminar Participated

S.No Description Year Held
1

 

Program Coordinator, Seminar on "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Global Well-being with Science city, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Tamilnadu.

2023

International Seminar Participated

S.No Description Year Held
1

Invited talk on CMP of Cu/ low k multilevel interconnects, 20th International Conference on VMIC, 2003 , Los Angles, USA

2004
2

Invited talk on Abrasive free CMP process for Cu/low k materials, 1st Pac - Rim International conferences on Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Japan, Dec 2004

2004
3

Invited talk on Wear Mechanism in Abrasive free CMP Process, 2005 MRS Chemical Mechanical Planarization Symposium, San Francesco 2005

2005
4

Key note speaker -Chemical Mechanical Planarization Technology: Enhancing the MEMS manufacturability, ICMAT2007 to be held at Singapore during 1st -5th July, Singapore

2007
5

Invited talk on CMP for MEMS technology, International conference on Surface Engineering, Dec 10-12th, 2007 Singapore

2007
6

Invited talk on Ge Nanowires fabrication by controlled oxidation, Materials Science Conference, Singapore, Feb 2008

2008
7

International Conference on Nanoscience, Engineering and Nanotechnology, 28th to 30th November 2011, Chennai

2011
8

Invited Talk on SPMs: A cluster for visualization techniques, Asian School on Advanced Characterization techniques, Sept 23-25, 2011

2011
9

 

Invited talk on Photocatalytic Materials, International Conference on Advanced Materials, IIT, Chennai, Sep 2012

2012
10

Invited talk, International Conference on Recent Trends in Advanced Materials (ICRAM-2012), Jan 2012, VIT University, Vellure

2012
11

 

Invited talk on Physics of Core shell Nanostructures, 56th DAE-SSP2012, IIT, Bombay, 3-7 Dec 2012

2012
12

 

Invited talk on Bioglass, International Workshop on Crystal Growth and Characterization, 22nd Dec 2012, Crystal growth centre, Anna University, Chennai

2012
13

Invited talk,International Conference of Advance Materials, 5th-12th Jan 2012, Chennai

2012
14

Invited talk,First International Conference on Materials, Science, and Engineering  (ICMSE-12), which is scheduled in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 01-04, 2012

2012
15

Invited talk on Nanostructuring of MOS materials, International conference on Green Energy and Smart Materials through Science, Technology and Management, Gouhathi, 21-23, Jan-2014

2014
16

Invited talk on Graphene Nanomaterials,  International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, SRM University, Feb 4th-6th, 2015

2015
17

Invited talk on  Strategies to fabricate BiFeO3 Nanostructures,  Recent Advances In Nano-Science And Technology (RAINSAT-2015), 8th- 10th July 2015, Sathyabama University, Chennai -25

2015
18

Invited talk on Anisotropic nanostructures of bismuth ferrite, Third International Workshop on Advanced Functional Nanomaterials, 18th December 2015, Anna University, Chennai.

2015
19

Invited talk on Nanostructuring of Graphene assemblies, Workshop of Frontier Materials, 15th February 2016, Avinashiligam Institute for home science and Higher education for women, Coimbatore

2016
20

Invited talk on "Nanostructured Bioctive glass: From Synthesis to Materials design for Biomedical Applications" International Conference on Biomaterials, BioEngineering & BioTheranostics, (BioMET 2018), 24th - 28th July 2018.

2018
21

Invited talk on “Zinc Antimonate Nanostructures: an Advanced Functional Nanomaterial for Supercapacitor Application” International workshop on Crystalline Materials and Applications, 3rd - 5th Jan 2019, Anna University, Chennai.

2019
22

Invited talk on “Iron Based Magnetic Nanocomposites with Graphene Derivatives for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding”, 5th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN2019), 28th - 30th Jan, 2019, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai.

2019
23

Invited talk on “Zinc Antimonate: an Advanced Functional Nanomaterial for Supercapacitor Application”, International conference on Advanced Materials for Clean Energy and Health Applications (AMCEHA 2019), 6th - 8th Feb 2019, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

2019
24

Invited talk, Interational Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM-2019), Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, 6th - 7th March 2019.

2019
25

Invited talk, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2019), 23rd to 28th June 2019, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

2019
26

Invited talk on Nanostructured Bioactive Glass based Composites for Ortho, Dental and Ophthalmology, VIT University, Vellore.


2019
27

Invited talk on Application of nanotechnology in biomedical sciences, International Science Symposium on HIV & Infectious Diseases - ISSHID 2019, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), Porur, Chennai, 12th to 14th October 2019.

2019
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