IIT Madras Research Admissions 2010 Ph.D and MS (By Research) with HTRA
IIT Madras announces admissions to its RESEARCH PROGRAMMES [Ph.D and M.S (by research)] for the session starting 2010.
Scholars admitted to Ph.D. and M.S. programmes under regular scheme (fulltime) are eligible for the following Half-time Teaching/Research Assistantship (HTRA)
Research Opportunities are available in the following areas
Aerospace Engineering Department :
Aerodynamics: Subsonic, Transonic, Supersonic, Hypersonic, Rarefied Gas flows (Theoretical and Experimental), Boundary Layers and Stability of Flows, Turbulent Flows, Shock Tubes and Related Problems, Development of Algorithms and Code for Numerical Methods in Gas Dynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vortex Dynamics, Supersonic Mixing and Combustion, Optical Flow Diagnostics.
Aircraft Structures: Finite Element Methods, Numerical Methods, Photo Elasticity, Moire and Holographic Methods of Structural Analysis. Composite Structures, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Contact Mechanics, Vibrations and Impact Mechanics.
Aerospace Propulsion: Rocket Propulsion and Solid Propellant Combustion, Airbreathing Propulsion and Combustion, Cascade Flows, Multiphase Flow Simulation, Combustion Instability, Optical Flow/Combustion Diagnostics.
Applied Mechanics Department :
Plates and Shells, Finite and Boundary Element Techniques, Experimental Stress Analysis including Holography, Image processing techniques, Digital Photo Mechanics, Fatigue of Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Reliability of Structures, High Temperature Design, Composite Structures, Plasticity, Smart Materials and Structures, Constitutive Modelling, Granular Materials, Biomaterials, Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Stability, Transition, Turbulence, Turbulence Modelling, Turbulent Convection, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Bluff body and Industrial Aerodynamics, Fluid Structure interaction, Cardiovascular System studies, Image and Signal Processing, Speech Signal Processing, Ultrasound and Laser instrumentation in Medicine, Biomechanics, Rehabilitation Engineering, Evoked Response and Functional Electrical Stimulation.
Biotechnology Department :
Cellular, Molecular and Structural Biology relating to Signal transduction, Lipid Trafficking, Stem cell proliferation etc., Protein crystallography and structure prediction; Drug design and QSAR. Bioorganic Chemistry; Biotransformations; Enzymes in Organic synthesis; Biosensors; Environmental Biotechnology Bioremediation; Green Chemistry;
Biochemical Engineering, Bioreactor Modelling; Reactive Oxygen species in Bioreactors; Recombinant Systems Cloning of Therapatic Proteins and Large scale Production; Industrial Microbial Processes; Plant tissue and Animal cell Culture; Downstream Processing; Protein Refolding.
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Biomedical Engineering Biomechanics; Biomaterials; Computational Neuroscience; Molecular Genetics of Plant Development.
Chemical Engineering Department:
Chemical reaction engineering and thermodynamics, transport processes, process design and control, environmental engineering, polymer science and technology, semi-conductor materials processing, and particle technology.
Fundamental studies: Mathematical modeling of physico-chemical phenomena. Applied statistical mechanics, thermodynamic property estimation, phase equilibria. Flow visualisation using lasers, Microwave assisted thawing. Drying, multicomponent boiling and condensation. Simultaneous heat and mass transfer processes.
Modeling of processes and equipments: Hydrodynamic and kinetic studies of turbulent bed contactors, trickle beds, slurry reactors, fast and inverse bed fluidized beds. CFD analysis of process equipments. Advanced separation processes such as reactive and azeotropic distillation, membrane processes. Modeling of rotary kilns, crushing and grinding equipments, fluid energy mills of Microelectronic fabrication techniques.
Development, characterization and processing of materials: Development of polymer blends and composites, polymer based nano-composites. Rheology of polymers and colloids; damping and vibration isolation using polymers. Enzyme design and engineering, protein engineering and production of recombinant proteins.
Process design and control, systems engineering: Advanced control design such as adaptive control, intelligent control, non-linear control, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control. Synthesis and optimization of process systems; statistical data processing. Simulation and optimization of crushing and grinding circuits.
Environmental engineering and waste reduction: Liquid and solid waste treatment, air pollution monitoring and control, toxic and hazardous waste management, environmental risk assessment, colour removal from waste water. Recycling of mixed plastic waste.
Chemistry Department:
Analytical Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Main Group Elements, Inorganic Heterocycles, Materials Science, Synthetic and Structural Solid State Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Cage and Cluster Chemistry, Synthetic Organometallic Chemistry, Metalloboranes and Metallocarboranes, Supramolecular Chemistry
Organic Synthesis, Natural Product Synthesis, Organometallics, Asymmetric Catalysis, Synthetic and Structural Carbohydrate Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Enzymes in Organic Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, Organic Photochemistry
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Surface Chemistry, Theoretical and Experimental Electrochemistry, Photochemistry, Polymer Chemistry and Applications, Gas-phase Kinetics, Monolayers and Clusters, Green Chemistry, Host-Guest Chemistry, Reaction Mechanisms, Excited State Photophysics, Energy Systems, Superconductors, Nanoclusters and Nanophases, Colloid and Interface Science
Chemical Physics, Quantum and Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Reaction Dynamics, Theoretical and Experimental Spectroscopy, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging (especially NMR based), Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Nuclear Spectroscopy, Statistical Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics.
Civil Engineering Department :
Building Technology & Construction Management Division: Technology of Construction Materials, High Performance Concrete, Repair and Rehabilitation of Constructed Facilities, Accelerated and unreinforced / reinforced Masonry, Diaster-Resistant Construction. Functional Performance of Buildings, Energy Efficiency of Buildings, Noise Control in Buildings, Acoustical Modelling, Environmental Noise Control. Construction Project Management, Project Scheduling and Control, Resource Management, Quality Management, Contracts, Productivity, Constructability, Schedule Compression, Risk Modelling in Projects, PPP for Infrastructure Development, Computer Applications in Construction, Geographic Information Systems.
Geotechnical Engineering Division: Strength and Deformation Behaviour of Soils, Expansive Soils, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Pile Foundations, Soil Stabilization, Stone Columns, Reinforced Earth, Geosynthetics, Environmental
Geotechnics and Waste Disposal, Computer Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Structure Interaction, Reliability Methods.
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Division: Water Resources Systems Analysis, Design and Management for Water Supply, Irrigation, Drainage, Hydropower, Flood Control, Droughts. Surface and Ground Water Hydrology, Stochastic Hydrology, Physical and Numerical Modelling. Use of Finite Difference, Finite Element and Boundary Element Methods. Instrumentation and Monitoring of Hydraulic Systems, Computer Simulation and Optimization of Hydrosystems. Evolutionary Computing Applications, CAD, Decision Support and Expert Systems in Water Resources Engineering. Environmental Hydraulics, Water Quality Modelling, Industrial Waste Water Treatment, Hazardous Waste Management, Environmental Systems Analysis, Environmental MicroBiology, Bioremediation, Air quality and Solid Waste Management, Environmental Biotechnology, Water and Wastewater Treatment.
Structural Engineering Division: Experimental and Theoretical Study of Reinforced Concrete, Prestressed Concrete and Metal Structures, Plates & Shells, Thin Walled Members, Advanced Fibre Composite Members, Structural Dynamics and Impact Behaviour, Structural Stability, Structural Reliability, Smart Structures, Earthquake Resistant Design and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Bridges, Tall Structures, Structures for Power Plants, Finite Element Analysis of Linear and Non-Linear Structural Systems, Structural Optimization, Computer Aided Structural Analysis and Design, Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Structural Engineering.
Transportation Engineering Division: Inter-City and Regional Transportation, Urban Transportation Planning, Travel Demand Analysis, Traffic Management, Operations and Safety; Public Transportation Planning, Operations and Management; Planning of Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Applications of GIS, Simulation Tools, Advanced Techniques and Decision Support System, Optimization, Transportation Economics; Constitutive Modelling of Asphalt, Modified Asphalt and Asphalt Mixtures; New and Innovating Materials in Pavement Construction; Analysis of Layered Structures, Design of Flexible and Rigid Pavements; Geo-synthetics in Pavements and Pavement Overlays; Pavement Management Systems; Rural Roads Planning, Design, Performance Evaluation and Maintenance Management; Low Cost Road Construction, Socio-economic Benefits Evaluation of Rural Road Projects.
Computer Science and Engineering Department :
Automata theory and Formal languages, Analysis of algorithms, Graph theory, Unconventional Methods of Computing, Cryptography.
Software Engineering, Object Oriented Systems, Parallel and Distributed systems, Mobile Computing, Programming languages, Performance evaluation.
Software for VLSI design, Computer architecture, Computer graphics and Visualization.
Computer Communication and networks, Network Protocols and security, Real-time systems, Wireless Sensor Networks.
Data bases, Knowledge based systems, Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Indian language systems, Speech and vision systems, Artificial neural networks.
Electrical Engineering Department :
Communication Systems: Multi-access Wireless Communication Networks, Modulation
and Coding, Digital Signal Processing, Audio and Video Signal Compression, Image
Processing and Computer Vision, Speech Processing, Computer Networks, Optical
Communication, Optical Networks, Optical Sensors and Components, Optical metrology Computational Electromagnetics.
Control: Control Theory – Linear and Nonlinear, Robotics, Vision, Sensing, Digital Control of Systems, Simulation of Systems, Control Systems Design, Servomechanisms and Micromachines, Electronic and Control Instrumentation.
Electrical Drives and Power Electronics: Power Electronic Converters, Vector Control/Direct control /Torque Control of Motors, Simulation of PE systems, DSP Applications, Permanent Magnet Machines and Special Machines.
Instrumentation: Power Systems Instrumentation – Partial discharge measurements -Modeling and Simulation-Transducers-Signal conditioning-Optical methods for Bio-Medical Instrumentation – Virtual Instrumentation. Signal Processing applications in Instrumentation – Telemetry.
Microelectronics: Modeling, Simulation, Fabrication and Characterization of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) based Devices, Power MOSFETS, HEMTS, Compound semiconductor Devices, Polysilicon and Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistors: ultra-thin and high-k gate dielectric and small geometry devices. MEMS based sensors and actuators, BioSensors,photonics.
Power Systems and High Voltage: Power System Optimization and Economics, Energy Management Systems, Power system automation, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), Restructured Power System Operation, Power Quality.
High Voltage Engineering, Insulation Coordination,Treeing and Tracking Phenomena in insulation material, Condition Monitoring of Power Apparauts Using Multi-Fusion Sensors, Production of Nanoparticles, Sterilization of Liquid Foods.
VLSI Design: Analog and RF circuit design, Digital Systems including Architectures for Image Processing and Vision, CAD for Digital and Analog Circuits, Reconfigurable Computing.
Engineering Design:
Robotics, Dynamics and Contorl, Electro Hydraulic Servo Systems, Pneumatic Systems, Mechatronic Systems, Micro-electro Mechanical System (MEMS), Optoelectronics, Remote Sensing, Laser Based Sensing, Micro-manufacturing.
Modelling, Contorl and Fault diagnosis of Dynamic Systems (with Specific Focus on Automotive Systems) Devices.
Design Process, Non linear Finite Elements, Vehicle Dynamics and Tyre Mechanics
Humanities & Social Sciences Department : Ph.D
British, American, Common Wealth Literatures; New Literatures in English; Linguistics; Socio-linguistics; Philosophy of Language and Continental Philosophy; English Language Teaching (ELT); German Studies; German Language and Literature, German and European Studies, Comparative Studies, Political Philosophy; Modern Indian History (History of Science, Religion & Modern Science, Socio-Economic and Cultural Developments); Economics (Macro-monetary Economics, International Trade and Finance, Applied Economics/Econometrics, Development Economics, Health Care Economics, Environment and Health); Sociology; Science and Technology Policy Studies; Environment and Natural Resources Policy; Development Studies.
Department of Management Studies :
Production and Operations Management; Supply Chain Management; Logistics Management; Financial Management; Financial Engineering; Business Policy/Strategic Management; Marketing Management; Organisational Behaviour; Personnel Management and Industrial Relations; Public Systems Management.
Mathematics Department:
Functional Analysis, Operator Equations, Inverse problems, Fixed Point Theory, Differential Equations, Special Functions, Complex Analysis, Non-linear Analysis, Fuzzy sets Theory and Applications, Summability Theory, Algebra, Communication and Coding Theory, Numerical Analysis, Numerical Linear Algebra, Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Modelling, Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes, Queuing Theory, Inventory Control, Reliability, Computer Modelling and Simulation, Theoretical Computer Science Complex Theory, Algorithms, Database, Theory of Programming.
Mechanical Engineering Department:
(i) Design Engineering:
Machine Elements design development, analysis and performance improvements, New materials and design, composites, nano composites, bio materials, surface engineering, design process, contact mechanics, tribology, tyre mechanics, biomechanics, fatigue and failure analysis, computational and experimental fracture mechanics, fatigue crack closure – environment interaction studies, alternate/small specimen test methods, small crack propagation under biaxial/multiaxial loading, multi crack interaction studies, fatigue damage in composites, failure mechanics of biomaterials. Non linear finite element analysis, Vibration, finite element including coupled problems, Non destructive evaluation, structural health monitoring, Materials Characterisation, Measurements of Material Properties and Behavior, machinery signal processing, Condition monitoring of structures/ machines, machinery diagnosis, and combustion/flame noise, Acoustics and Noise Control.
(ii) Manufacturing Engineering :
Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Manufacturing Methods in Precision Engineering, Servo and Proportional Controls, Mechatronics, Microactuators, Mechanical micro-machining, Active Vibration, Active Noise Control.
(iii) Thermal Engineering:
Micro-miniature and small cryogenic refrigerators, Simulation and optimization of air separation cycles, Heat Transfer in Nano-fluids, Heat Transfer in Multi-Phase Flows, Flow Structure Interaction in High Speed Turbo machinery Seals, Heat Transfer Experiments in Phase Change Material Based Composite Heat Sinks, Two Phase Flow Convection Experiments and Numerical Methods in Porous Media, Solid State Hydrogen Storage, Sorption heating and cooling systems, Desiccont/evaporative cooling and air-conditioning, Conjugate heat transfer in low and high speed flows, Retrieval of geophysical parameters in the atmosphere in the microwave and infra red regions, Turbine rotor stator interaction, Performance improvement of centrifugal compressor by tip modification, subsonic cascade studies, Cavitation in hydraulic machines, Acoustics of Supersonic Jets, Active and Passive Control of High speed flows, Combustion noise, Emissions, Fluid Combustion, Propulsion, CFD high speed reacting flows, I.C Engine Combustion and Emissions, alternative fuels, CFD applications in I.C Engines and Gas turbine combustion chambers, fluid flow, heat transfer and combustion related to I.C Engines, advanced I.C Engine technologies such as homogeneous change, compression ignition, gasoline direct injection, electronic engine management, Simulation of engine processes and modeling – Combustion diagnostics in engines – Heat Transfer in Fuel Cells, Fluidised Bed Combustion, Solar Power Systems, Optimization of Solar ICs Systems.
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Department:
Metal casting, Matel forming, Matel joining, Materials Technology, Physical and Structural Metallurgy, Mechanical Metallurgy, Chemical Metallurgy, Thermodynamics of Metallurgical Systems, Powder Metallurgy, Ceramics and Composites, Corrosion, Surface Engineering, Biomaterials, Simulation and Modelling of Materials Processing, Nanostructured Materials, Magnetic Materials, Amorphous Alloys, Non-equilibrium Processing, Hydrogen Storage Materials, Smart Materials, Fuel Cells, Metallic Foams, Chemical Sensors, Carbon Nanotubes, Special Steels, Superalloys, Intermetallics, Materials for Optoelectronic Applications, Shape Memory Alloys, Fatigues and Fracture Mechanics, High Temperature Behaviour of Materials and Creep.
Ocean Engineering Department :
Ocean Hydrodynamics, Ship hydrodynamics, Dynamics of Floating systems, Ocean Structures, Coastal processes, Marine Geotechnical Engineering, Materials for marine Environment, Ocean Energy.
Physics Department :
Applied Optics, Quantum Optics, Photonics and nonlinear optics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Complex fluids, Dynamical systems, Statistical physics and field theory, Low temperature physics and superconductivity, Magnetism and Magnetic materials, Hydrogen Storage Materials, Microwaves and Dielectrics, Semiconductor Physics, Photovoltaics, Solid State Ionics and molecular electronics, Thin film phenomena, X-ray diffraction and Amorphous systems, Spintronix and Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, Condensed Matter Physics/Magnetism in Oxides/Magnetic Materials, Electronic structure of solids/Computational material science, Nonlinear Dynamics, Quantum Chaos, Quantum Information, Metal-oxide Thin films, Nanostructured thin films and heterostructures by PLD.
Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (SAIF) :
Nanomaterials, Clusters, Self Assembled Monolayers, Chemistry of Ions, Surface Chemistry, and Chemistry of ice surfaces. Bioactive ceramics, Surface science aspects of biomaterials host interface, nano composites, Crystal Twinning, Molecular structure of natural products and biomolecules. Photophysical Chemistry, Fluorescence Spectroscopy.
Interdisciplinary Research Areas:
Biotechnology, Chemical Physics and Molecular Biology, Communication Technology, Complex Systems, Computational Engineering, Development Studies, Energy Technology, Environmental Technology, Infrastructure Technology, Instrumentation and Control, Materials Technology, Measurement, Testing and Diagnostics
