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:
-6 Plenary
talks distinguished scientists.
-12 Key
note addresses
-24 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)
Rush for your submission of abstract to International Conference
on *Nanotechnology
for better Living"* through email before *December
30, 2018*.
For further details please visit
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~kamalkk/indexx.htm
For
more information please contact
Sixth 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
Email: flyash2018 @ gmail .com and copy to kamalkk @
iitk.ac.in
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