Our teacher, Prof. Anil K. Bhowmick, will be completing his
tenure as regular faculty member on 30th April, 2019. In his
superannuation from IIT Kharagpur and to show our respect it
is our great privilege to hold this "Fourth International
Conference on Nanotechnology for Better Living, Theme:
Technological Advancements of Polymer Composites" during 6-7
April, 2019 at IIT Kanpur.
Professor Bhowmick is internationally known for his work on
thermoplastic elastomer from blends, blocks and ionomers.
His work in the area of polymer nanocomposites has got an
international acclaim. In a recent survey, he has been rated
as one of the 15 prolific authors publishing in the area of
all types of nanocomposites in the world. We are also
familiar with his work on failure and degradation of
polymers, surface and bulk modification of plastics,
sustainable polymers, waste utilization of plastics, etc. He
has more than five hundred publications in these fields, 35
book chapters and seven co-edited books. He was also
co-editor of the special issue of Polymer and Composite
Characterization of the Journal of Macromolecular Science
(USA). He was the 2002 winner of the
"Chemistry
of Thermoplastic Elastomers"
award and 1997 winner of the
"George
Stafford Whitby"
award of the Rubber Division, American Chemical Society for
innovative research, and 2001 K.M. Philip
award of the
All India Rubber Industries Association for outstanding
contribution to the growth and development of rubber
industries in India. He was also awarded
NOCIL award
1991,
JSPS award
1990,
Commonwealth
award
1990,
MRF award
1989 and
Stanton-Redcroft
ITAS
award 1989.
He is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Adhesion Science
and Technology (USA), Journal of Applied Polymer Science
(USA), Journal of Materials Science (USA), Polymers and
Polymer Composites (UK), Rubber Chemistry and Technology
(USA), Polymer for Advanced Technologies (Germany) and
Natural Rubber Research (India). He holds twelve patents
including one US and one German patents. He brought many
projects to the institute and developed many indigenous
items for the country. He has guided forty two Ph.D.
students and many master and post-doctoral students. He is a
Fellow of National Academy of Engineering, Indian National
Science Academy and W.B. Academy of Science and Technology.
Prof. Bhowmick always had a strong passion to challenge
existing paradigms in field area of Polymer Science and
Technology. Prof. Bhowmick has received highly-competitive
research and consultancy grants from various Indian
governments funding agencies and from industries (both from
India and abroad). Prof. Bhowmick has brought more that 50
projects to IIT Kharagpur from various funding agencies.
Prof. Bhowmick has very closely worked with the funding
agencies such as Department of Science and Technology (DST),
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Council of
Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Defence Research
and Development Organization (DRDO), ExxonMobil Chemical
Company, USA, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, USA,
Bridgestone Tire Company, Japan, Lanxess, Germany, Denka,
Japan, JK Tyres and Industries Limited, India, SK Carbon
Black Industries, India, Reliance Industries, India, TATA
Steel, India and many more. Till now he has transferred
around 24 technologies to various industries.
To our mind, Prof. Bhowmick is one of the finest
educationists in polymer science and technology in the world
today. Most of the times we have seen Prof. Bhowmick
carrying rubber and plastic specimens, liquid nitrogen,
chemicals and sometime even tire samples to lecture halls.
He had a very nice way to teach with live demos. Even during
lab classes, we remember he would suddenly come up to
students and ask them why they think the experiment is
giving particular results. He used to explain the underlying
phenomena behind each data with a lot of passion. Prof.
Bhowmick's teaching clearly exemplifies two important
pedagogical goals-content and process. He also used to go
out of his way to elicit feedback from his students,
inviting them to share their experiences at the end of each
semester. It is this commitment to growth and his student's
well-being that makes Prof. Bhowmick an outstanding
teacher.
Prof. Bhowmick has served as an extraordinary role model to
senior professionals, as well as an inspiration to his
younger colleagues at the beginning of their careers.
Indeed, we know of individuals (including me) who selected a
career in teaching and research because of the example set
by Prof. Bhowmick. Prof. Bhowmick was conferred as Professor
of Eminence by IIT Kharagpur for his outstanding
contribution to teaching and research for the past 4
decades. At present he is the only Professor of Eminence in
IIT Kharagpur. Very recently, he was also awarded Chair
Professorship by Indian National Academy of Engineering
(INAE). Chair Professorship is one of the highest honours
awarded in the academic arena and is reserved for the best
faculty members across the country as an acknowledgement of
their immense contributions to teaching and research.
Prof.
Bhowmick has a perfect blend of skills in teaching, research
and administration. Prof. Bhowmick's administrative skills
are equally commendable to his teaching and research skills.
He was selected as the Head, Rubber Technology Centre, IIT
Kharagpur for two times (June 1990- Dec 1991 & September
2005- September 2007). He was able to globally position
Rubber Technology Centre as a world class Research Centre
for Polymer Science and Technology in terms of
infrastructure, research facilities, receiving grants from
Industries and campus placements for students. He was the
Dean (Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy) (July
2000- December 2003) and Dean (Postgraduate Studies) (June
2002 to August 2002) at IIT Kharagpur. During his tenure as
Dean (Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy) he was
instrumental in raising the research funds from INR.20.0
Crores (July 2000) to INR. 80.0 Crores (December 2003).
During his tenure as Dean (Postgraduate Studies) he
introduced electronic registration system for the students
in IIT Kharagpur.
Prof.
Bhowmick was appointed as the founding Director of IIT Patna
by the Government of India during 2009. Prof. Bhowmick was
fully responsible for setting up IIT Patna from scratch.
Prof. Bhowmick developed world class academic programmes
including Polymer Science and Engineering in IIT Patna. He
established all labs with state-of-the art facilities. He
was able to position IIT Patna as one of the ten best
engineering colleges in India in 2016.
We feel that this is the appropriate time to felicitate our
teacher by bringing all his students at IIT Kanpur. We are
sure that this conference will serve as a memory to one and
all and provides us a means to connect wherever we may go
for our professional growth.
The brief glimpses of the conferences are:
-4 Plenary
talks distinguished scientists.
-8 Key
note addresses
-20 Invited
talks from world renowned academicians
-Meet
of the Heads of the Scientific Organizations
-Industries
interaction- Business opportunities
-Panel
discussion with stalwarts
-Exhibition
on world approved products/equipments
-Young
scientists meet in open air
-Special
session for Women working in Nanotechnology
-U.G/P.G
Students Sessions with Nano-People
-Opportunity
for Research Collaboration
-Awards
(Young Researcher/Young Scientist)
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Fourth International Conference on
Nanotechnology for Better Living,
2019
Prof. Kamal K. Kar
Advanced
Nanoengineering Materials Laboratory
Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Programme
Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, (UP) India
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