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The Centre of Advanced Study, Mining Engineering Department has scheduled the International Symposium. The symposium on “Rock Mechanics & Geo-Environment in Mining and Allied Industries” will be held during February 12-14, 2009 in the Department of Mining Engineering.
Official website of RGMA-09 seminar: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/min/conferences/rgma
The brochure of the symposium program is attached here
Prof. B. K. Shrivastava is the Chairman of the organising Committee for the symposium.
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About the seminar
Introduction
Large scale infrastructural activities are being taken up in the world today. Its manifestations are evident in the form of scaling up of the mining activities, hydroelectric power projects, dams, metros, underground caverns, embankments and slopes and other myriad excavations for the exploration, civil, energy and military purposes. Many of these activities are being conducted at greater depths, extreme stress environments, higher inclinations, extreme temperatures, and in rocks with great variations in physico-mechanical properties, constitutive behaviours and discontinuities.
The behaviour of the rock material, the analysis of discontinua and their interplay in the resulting fractured media requires newer tools for its analysis and study. The problem becomes even more complex when liquids and gases, passing through the rock mass, are considered an essential design input. These situations pose a whole gamut of newer challenges for the rock engineers.
While Rock Mechanics originally developed through mining, today the civil, energy, exploration and military sectors are enhancing its scope and the understanding. The Geo-environment, which is concerned with the applications of rock mechanics to the problems of environment, has now evolved as an associated field of study.
Therefore, this Symposium is being convened to assess and understand the interface of the different aspects of the theory, tools and practices of Rock Mechanics on one hand and the Geo-environment on the other, in the mining and allied industries.
Symposium Themes
Rock Mechanics
• Laboratory and in-situ investigations
• Mechanics of Rock Breakage
• Rock Fragmentation: tools and techniques, options of analysis
• Mechanics of structures in and on rocks
• Rock-reinforcements and Stabilizations of structures
• Modelling and Analysis of Rock Mass Behavior
• Underground Space Applications
• Mechanics of Extreme workings
• IT-enabled Rock Mechanics: Scope of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy and Artificial Neural Network
Geo-Environment
• Prediction and Management of Ground Vibrations, Flyrocks and Airblasts
• Subsidence- prediction and mitigation of its impacts
• Impact of mining/ rock excavations on ground water and air
• Coal Bed and Coal Mine Methane drainage
• Slope stability and land slides
• Geo-hazards
• Reclamation and closure of mines
• IT-enabled Geo-environment
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PREAMBLE
About Mining dept. IT-BHU
The Department of Mining Engineering at BHU is the oldest in this discipline in the country. It occupies a pioneering position in the field of mining education and research. It has many firsts to its credit. The first Bachelor, Postgraduate and Doctoral degrees in mining engineering in India have been awarded by this department. Today’s Mineral Industry is being run by many of its illustrious alumni holding important positions in the country. Senior faculty members have been recognized by the mining and allied industries as experts in the respective fields and are members of important decision making bodies and R&D organisations like CIMFR, NIRM, UGC, ISMU, NCL, CCL, SCCL, CIL, HZL, UCIL etc. Faculty members have been regularly contributing in national and international journals in India and abroad. The Department is well recognized as a leading centre of research in mining engineering in general and rock mechanics & ground control and geo-environment in particular. The Department received generous grants to accelerate its research and developmental activities. It has received 72.60 lakh under FIST programme. It has also received many sponsored projects and consultancy assignments from Mining Industries. The U.G.C., New Delhi sanctioned an additional amount of Rs. 20.00 Lac to Centre of Advanced Study to upgrade its infrastructure. Further, on the basis of the performance and utilization of Rs.20.00 Lac, U.G.C. sanctioned additional Rs.30.00 Lac to the department for upgrading the infrastructure.
Establishment of Center of Advanced Study
As a recognition of the significant contributions made by the Department in the area of ‘Rock Mechanics and Ground Control’ during the last two decades, the University Grants Commission (UGC) selected this Department under its Special Assistance Programme (DSA) in 1984, and subsequently upgraded it as centre of excellence in the thrust area by establishing the (CAS) in 1990 – the first mining department to have acquired such recognition in this area. The aim of UGC for establishing such a centre was to strengthen the teaching and research in the thrust area of rock mechanics and ground control so that human resource developed could take up the new challenges in industry. The CAS vis-a-vis the department therefore has dedicated itself to strengthen the teaching, research and training programmes in the thrust area. As a result, the department has been selected for CAS Phase – III in the thrust area of “Rock Mechanics & Ground Control and Geo-Environment”. The work done during the period (i.e. 2007 -08) has been presented here.
The centre is actively engaged in research & developmental work in the thrust area and rendering valuable service to the mining and construction industry. It is well equipped with laboratories. The post doctoral research, doctoral research, post graduate and graduate research activities are going on in full swing. The faculty associated with the centre is highly qualified to take up the new challenges of the industry.
Major Areas of Research
The Centre is actively engaged in research and developmental work in the thrust area of Rock Mechanics and Ground Control & Geo - Environment and rendering valuable service to the mining and construction industry. It is well-equipped with laboratories for specimen preparation, rock testing, stress analysis, numerical modeling, equivalent material modeling and drilling & blasting, creep testing etc.
a) Rock Mechanics & Ground Control and Geo-environment
• Rock Drilling
• Rock Blasting
• Equivalent Material Modeling
• Numerical Modeling
• Subsidence Prediction
• Slope Stability Analysis
• Geo-technical Properties including Creep of Rocks
• Rock Bolting
• Application of Fuzzy Logic and Artificial Neural Network.
b) Mine Planning & Design
c) Mine Environment & Pollution Control
d) Mineral Processing & Beneficiation
e) Exploration & Exploitation
f) Mining Machinery
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The above information for the seminar was provided by Sanjay Kumar Sharma, convener of the seminar.
(S. K. Sharma)
Sanjay Kumar Sharma
Convener, RGMA-09
Institute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi- 221 005 India Fax 91-542-2369442, 2369434
91-9450787274 sksharma.min@itbhu.ac.in rgma09@itbhu.ac.in
Profile: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/min/faculty.shtml
Department website: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/min/
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We are please to state that Prof. N. K. Mukhopadhyay (Department of Metallurgical Engineering) has been appointed as Member of Aperiodic Commission's International Union of Crystallography, UK. A letter sent to Prof. Mukhopadhyay from Marc de Boissieu, Chair of the Commission on Aperiodic Crystal is attached here.
The Aperiodic meeting is planned on13-18 September 2009 at Liverpool, UK.
Website: http://www.aperiodic09.org/
The IUCr international meeting is planned in 2011, Madrid, Spain).
Website: http://www.iucr.org/
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About Aperiodic Crystals
In terms of atomic arrangements, the solids are generally classified into three major groups: (i) Periodic Crystals (ii) Aperiodic Crystals, (iii) Amorphous or glassy phase. The periodic crystals show the periodicity among the atomic arrangements (real space) as well as in the corresponding diffraction patterns (reciprocal space). The rotational symmetries in the diffraction patterns are restricted to 2 fold, 3-fold 4 fold and 6 fold symmetries, where as the aperiodic crystals exhibit the aperiodicity (i.e., no periodicity but some regularity and order) among the atomic arrangements. The corresponding diffraction patterns are discrete like periodic crystals but not restricted to only those rotational symmetries unlike periodic solids, as indicated above. It is known that the amorphous/glassy phases consist of atoms in a random fashion and it does not show any discrete diffraction patterns. In short, “Aperiodic Crystal" is meant any solid having an essentially discrete diffraction diagram, and in which three-dimensional lattice periodicity can be considered to be absent. As an extension, this term will also include those crystals in which three-dimensional periodicity is too weak to describe significant correlations in the atomic configuration, but which can be properly described by crystallographic methods developed for actual aperiodic crystals.
Aperiodic crystals include modulated structures, polytypes, incommensurate misfit or composite crystals, and quasicrystals. Some of the aperiodic crystals also fall in the category of Complex Metallic Alloys (CMA). Lots of work is being done to understand the basis for synthesis, structure, and stability of these phases. Generally, this class of materials is hard, brittle and of high strength due to the restricted activities of dislocations as the structure is highly complicated. Attempts are also being made to use these materials in the form nanocrystals and nanocomposites. These materials can be applied for suitable coatings on soft substrate and also as suitable reinforcements in the composite materials. In addition to the mechanical properties, these materials also exhibit the unusual physical properties for which the efforts are being made to correlate their structures with the properties.
The unusual electronic and magnetic behaviors also have made these materials interesting for further research. In BHU, namely in the Department of Metallurgy and the School of Materials Science & Technology of IT-BHU, and in the Department of Physics, the research related to the Aperiodic Crystals is being actively pursued.
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About sixth International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals
(According to its website)
We are delighted to host the sixth International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals APERIODIC'09, and look forward to welcome you in Liverpool in September 2009.
Information regarding the conference will be made available on this web site.
Aperiodic'09 is the sixth International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals, organized under the auspices of the Commission on Aperiodic Crystals of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). It follows Aperiodic'94 (Les Diablerets), Aperiodic'97 (Alpe d'Huez), Aperiodic'2000 (Nijmegen), Aperiodic'03 (Belo Horizonte) and Aperiodic'06 (Zao).
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About International Union of Crystallography
(According to its website)
The IUCr is an International Scientific Union. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences.
Prof. N.K. Mukhopadhyay
Department of Metallurgical Engineering
Institute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi 221 005 , INDIA
Ph:(O)91-542-2369346 Ext.228(o);(R)91-542-2575512
Fax: 91-542-2369478/2368428/2368174
E-mail:mukhopadhyay_nk@yahoo.com
mukho.met@itbhu.ac.in
mukho.nk@gmail.com
Profile of Prof. Mukhopadhyay on institute website: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/met/faculty/nkm.shtml
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Additional links
1) Department of Metallurgical Engineering, IT-BHU
http://www.itbhu.ac.in/met/
2) Aperiodic Crystals-Sixth International Conference
http://www.aperiodic09.org/index.html
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3) International Union of crystallography
http://www.iucr.org/
International Union of CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
4) Aperiodic Crystals Phase Change Behaviour May Lead to Technological Advances in Devices from Computer Displays to Hard Drives
http://www.azonano.com/News.asp?NewsID=5606
5) Hidden Degrees of Freedom in Aperiodic Materials
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5859/69
6) Strange-behaving crystals could have impact on research, technology
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/ksu-scc010308.php
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The Mining Engineering Department has scheduled the national seminar. The seminar on “Environmental Management in Mining and Allied Industries” will be held during November 7 & 8, 2008 in the Department of Mining Engineering.
Official website of EMMA-2008 seminar: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/min/conferences/emma/
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Message to mining alumni by Dr. A. Jamal, Convener of the seminar:
On this occasion, a souvenir volume would be published under the title "Visionaries of Indian Mining Industry". The Committee of the publication cell has suggested including names of BHU Alumni working in mining and allied industries in this special document (Souvenir).
I will be thankful if the alumni can provide a brief bio-data not more than two pages along with a recent colored photograph at the earliest please (by 30th September 2008).
Further, I am taking this opportunity to invite you in this seminar on 7 & 8th November 2008 and request you to support us by participation and contribution in the form of advertisement of concerned company. This advertisement will be published in the above souvenir. The detail of charges for advertisement is also given on above website.
A line in confirmation for your participation and contribution of papers at the earliest will highly be appreciated.
With regards
Yours sincerely,
(A. Jamal)
Convener- EMMA-2008
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The brochure of the seminar program is attached here.
Prof. N. C. Karmakar is the Chairman and Chief Convener for the seminar.
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PREAMBLE
About Mining dept. IT-BHU
The Department of Mining Engineering at BHU is the oldest in this discipline in the country. It occupies a pioneering position in the field of mining education and research. It has many firsts to its credit. The first Bachelor, Postgraduate and Doctoral degrees in mining engineering in India have been awarded by this department. Today’s Mineral Industry is being run by many of its illustrious alumni holding important positions in the country. Senior faculty members have been recognized by the mining and allied industries as experts in the respective fields and are members of important decision making bodies and R&D organisations like CIMFR, NIRM, UGC, ISMU, NCL, CCL, SCCL, CIL, HZL, UCIL etc. Faculty members have been regularly contributing in national and international journals in India and abroad. The Department is well recognized as a leading centre of research in mining engineering in general and rock mechanics & ground control and geo-environment in particular. The Department received generous grants to accelerate its research and developmental activities. It has received 72.60 lakh under FIST programme. It has also received many sponsored projects and consultancy assignments from Mining Industries. The U.G.C., New Delhi sanctioned an additional amount of Rs. 20.00 Lac to Centre of Advanced Study to upgrade its infrastructure. Further, on the basis of the performance and utilization of Rs.20.00 Lac, U.G.C. sanctioned additional Rs.30.00 Lac to the department for upgrading the infrastructure.
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The above information for the seminar was provided by Dr. Abdul Jamal, convener of the seminar.
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| Dr. Abdul Jamal Convener, EMMA-2008 Reader, Department of Mining Engineering Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi- 221 005 Fax: 0542-236969442 Mobile: 09450013951, 09452345898 Email: aarif.jamal@yahoo.com; bhu_ajamal@yahoo.com |
Profile: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/min/faculty.shtml
Department website: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/min/
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(Chronicle note: There was a recent news item about Prof. S. K. Kak (from Electronics Engineering department) being appointed as VC of Meerut University. Praharsh Sharma (3rd year electronics) talked with Prof. Kak prior to his leaving for the assignment. Here is the brief report about the news item, some additional links and news from Times of India.)
 | Prof. Kak has been appointed as new Vice-Chancellor for Chaudhary Charan Singh University (Meerut University), UP. He has been appointed initially for six-months, which can be extended for a total of three years. He joined as VC of Meerut University on Sept. 09, 2008. |
Prof. Kak can be contacted at: skkak[AT]bhu.ac.in
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Prof. S. K. Kak appointed as new Vice-Chancellor of Meerut University
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Meerut_varsity_V-C_quits_over_bribery/articleshow/3450549.cms
LUCKNOW: Prof SP Ojha, vice-chancellor of Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, finally resigned from his post following a month long controversy after release of a CD which allegedly showed him taking a bribe.
Though no inquiry was done to verify the authenticity of the CD, Prof Ojha was reportedly asked to quit by the governor TV Rajeswar, who is also chancellor of the state universities.
The governor, said sources, was of the view that the person sitting on the post of vice-chancellor should be above all doubts.
However, the official press release issued by the Raj Bhawan said that governor has appointed Prof SK Kak, of the electronics and engineering department, institute of technology, Banaras Hindu University, as the new vice-chancellor of Meerut University following resignation of Prof Ojha.
The CD in question showed Prof Ojha sitting in a room and a person putting some money on the table.
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Additional Links:
1) Electronics dept. of IT-BHU
http://www.itbhu.ac.in/ece/
2) Profile of Dr. S. K. Kak
http://www.itbhu.ac.in/ece/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35&Itemid=73
3) About Meerut University (website under construction) http://www.meerutuniversity.org/ 4) Courses offered at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, UP.
http://www.upeducation.net/Universities/Charan_Singh_University/Regular.asp 5) Wild West Machismo (Oct. 2006 issue)
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6) Court frames charges against former vice chancellor
http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=88863
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The Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology has scheduled the National Conference. The conference on “Recent Advances in Waste Management” will be held during February 20-21, 2009 in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology.
The brochure of the symposium program is attached here
Prof. K. K. Shrivastava (Professor & Head, Chemical Engineering Dept.) is the Chairman of the Organising Committee for the symposium.
We have received the following message from Ashish Gupta, Student Convener of the seminar:
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Respected Sir,
We are happy to inform you that the Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology is organizing a National Conference on Recent Advances in Waste Management, RAWM-09 during February 20-21, 2009.
The main objective of this conference is to recognize the areas which need an immediate attention and which are posing threat to ecological balance. Keeping this in view, the conference will be focusing on emerging challenges in waste management, emission problems and management, effluent treatment technologies and sustainable technologies and other related issues. Varanasi being the center of learning, place of salvation and city of light, it is expected that a large number of participants (approx. 500) from Industries, Research Organizations, Academic Institutions and NGOs will participate in this conference. Eminent personalities from various related fields have agreed to deliver plenary and keynote addresses.
Academic Institution now needs greater support from organization like yours than ever before. The conference of this scale would not be possible without active support of Industries/Organization like you.
Therefore, we are looking forward for generous financial support from your organization for proposed conference. The support may be in the form of sponsorship of any event of the conference. The information brochure is enclosed for your kind perusal. We also request you to spare some of your valuable time for gracing the occasion.
Please let me know in case you have any queries.
With regards,
Ashish Gupta, B. Tech. (4th year Chemical)
Student Convener (RAWM-2009)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology
Centre of Advanced Study & DST Department under FISTIT-BHU, Varanasi
MOBILE: +91-9935491851
EMAIL: ashish.gupta.che05@itbhu.ac.in
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Additional links
1) Link for conference: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/che/conferences/rawm/
2) Department website: http://www.itbhu.ac.in/che/
3) Address for Correspondence for Conference
Dr. B. N. Rai
Convener
Centre of Advanced Study
Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005 (India)
Phone: (0542)6702700. 6702704, 6702702, Fax: 0542-2368092
e-mail : rawm[AT]itbhu.ac.in, rawm_registration[AT]itbhu.ac.in
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(News forwarded by Anuraag Dubey, Electrical 1998 and Praharsh Sharma 3rd year Electronics)
2) Rahul Gupta (B. Tech. Part-III)
4) Pankaj Rajput (B. Tech. Part-III)
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http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/local/uttarpradesh/4_1_4822989.html
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi 221005, UP