Buti Young Scientist Award

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Professor Bimla Buti has declared (at the PSSI GBM, 2011) that the award amount for the Buti Young Scientist Award will be enhanced to Rs.10,000/- from the year 2012 onwards.

To encourage young scientists, ‘Buti Young Scientist Award' has been instituted by Buti Foundation. The award consists of a Certificate of Merit and a cash prize of Rs.10,000. On behalf of Buti Foundation, Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) at its Annual National Conference will present this award to the selected young researcher for the best presentation.

The first award was given at PLASMA 2004 (PSSI Conference) held at Bundelkhand University at Jhansi in December 2004. Looking at the great enthusiasm of the young participants for competing for this award, President, Buti Foundation has decided to have TWO such awards from 2005 onwards.

One award will be exclusively for applicants from Universities and Colleges and the second one will be open to all young scientists. This has been done keeping in mind that the scientists at Universities and Colleges do not have facilities comparable to the ones at Research Institutes. However there will be no compromise on the quality of the presentation. In case, the presentations are not to the mark, no award will be given that year.

For further information, check The Buti Foundation website.

Who can apply ?

Buti Foundation Young Scientist Award is open to Graduate students working towards their Ph.D. degrees and to fresh Ph.D.s with less than 2 years post-doctoral experience. Maximum age limit for competing for this award is 35 years (as on January 1 of the year of conference) . This award of Rs. 10000 is for the best presentation with really good contents to be presented at the annual PSSI meeting.

The applicant should be a Life Member of PSSI.

The applicant should NOT have presented the same material in previous editions of the Buti Award.

Guidelines (Please read carefully before applying)

1. One-page abstract, full manuscript of the work carried out by the student (maximum 5 A4 size pages), and CV should be emailed to buti.awards@gmail.com on or before the date prescribed on the Abstract submission (Indico) portal. Entries received after this date will not be considered. Entries without (1) Abstract on Indico (2) Full paper in the format prescribed on Indico portal (3) CV of the candidate showing date f birth (4) Recommendation from thesis advisor, can be rejected from Buti Award presentations without informing the candidate. If abstract has been submitted, they can however present the paper as oral/poster as assigned by the Scientific Programme Committee.

2. The abstract should be approved by the student's thesis advisor.

3. The Scientific programme committee of PSSI will do an initial screening to select 5-6 applicants who will be asked to make an ORAL presentation at the special session during the Plasma Conference.

3. Maximum age limit is 35 years.

4. Time given will usually be 15+5 minutes, but if a situation arises that would necessitate rescheduling of the presentation time, the applicants would be informed prior to the start of the session and they would need to complete their talk within the stipulated time.

5. Other than scientific quality of the work being presented, the panel of judges will also seriously consider the presentation skills (visual as well as vocal), time management, clarity of presentation as well as defence of the presented data while choosing a awardee.

6. The panel of judges may choose NOT to award the prize in case a suitable candidate is not found.

7. The decision of the panel of Judges would be final and binding.

8. Membership in PSSI is mandatory.

Professor B. Buti,

President, Buti Foundation,

B-8/6042, Vasant Kunj,

New Delhi 110 070

E-mail : bimlabuti@gmail.com

Past Receipients of the BUTI Young Scientist Award

Year	Recepient	Affiliation	Topic
2004	Sambaran Pahari	IPR, Gandhinagar	Confinement of electron plasmas and observation of modes in a toroidal Penning trap
2005	Suraj Sinha	IPR, Gandhinagar	Power balance at cathode in glow discharges
2006	P. Bandhyopadhyay	IPR, Gandhinagar	Experimental study of nonlinear solitory waves in a strongly coupled dusty plasma
2006	Ruchi Mishra	Dr. H.S Gour Uty, Sagar (MP)	Shear driven electrostatic Ion-cyclotron instability in a current-less plasma : A study using loss-cone distribution function
2007	Maya P	IPR, Gandhinagar
2008	Nidhi Shukla	H S Gour Uty
2009	Sharad Kumar Yadav	IPR, Gandhinagar	Electron Current Pulse Propagation And Its Anomalous Dissipation Through Inhomogeneous Plasma
2009	Prajapati R. P.	Vikram Uty, Ujjain	Effect of Flow Velocity and Pressure Anisotropy on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability of Anisotropic Plasma Using Polytrope Laws
2010	G. S. Gogna	Dublin University	The resonance hairpin probe-concept, theory and application in magnetized plasma
2011	Shail Pandey	IIT Kanpur	Observation of electron plasma waves inside large amplitude electromagnetic pulses in a temporally growing plasma
2011	B. Kakati	CPP-Guwahati	Negative ion production using Ceasium coated dust
2012	Udit Narayan Pal	CEERI Pilani	Development and Characterization Studies of DBD based Ultraviolet Light Sources
2012	Swarniv Chandra	Jadavpur University	Solitary Structures in Electron-acoustic Waves in a Relativistically Degenerate Quantum Plasma with Two-Temperature Electrons
2013	No award was presented.
2014	Uday Chakravarty	RRCAT	Enhanced laser energy absorption and x-ray emission from nanostructured targets irradiated by ultrahigh intensity laser pulses.
2015	Sourav Pramanik	SINP Kolkata	Effect of Transverse magnetic field on the steady state solutions of a Bursian diode.
2015	K. Nityanandan	Pondicherry University	A novel observation of whight light laser in saturable non-linear optical media
2017	Niraj KUMAR	CEERI Pilani	Optimization Studies of Pseudospark Sourced Electron Beam for Development of Plasma Assisted Slow Wave Oscillator
2017	Deep Kumar KURI	Tezpur University	Cyclotron effects on hot electron generation and their role in proton acceleration by a short pulse circularly polarized laser from overdense plasmas
2018	Mridula N.	VSSC, Trivandrum	A Quantitative Analysis On The Roles Of F3 Layers As Well As Solar Flux In Modulating The Topside Ionization Over Indian Region
2019	Anshu Verma	IIT Delhi	Exploring Thruster Potential of Compact ECR Plasma Source
2021	M. G. Hariprasad	IPR Gandhinagar	First Order Phase Transition and Crystal-Fluid Coexistence in a Complex Plasma System
2022	Nandini Yadava	Nirma University, Ahmedabad	Understanding the Physical Processes Prevailing in the Edge Plasma Region of Aditya-U Tokamak using Spectroscopic measurements
2022	Ajaz Ahmad Mir	IIT Jammu	Synchronization of Dust Acoustic Waves in a forced Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers model
2023	Pallab Boro	J N U, New Delhi	Cosmic Ray Driven Magnetohydrodynamic Waves In Magnetized Self-Gravitating Dusty Molecular Clouds
2023	Tirtha Mandal	RRCAT, Indore	Investigation of Ultra-Short High Intensity Laser Plasma Interaction Through MeV Fast Electrons and X-Ray Generation Studies