IITG Biotech PhD Admissions 2015

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI

GUWAHATI – 781039, INDIA

Admission to PhD Programme to start from July 2015

Programmes (PhD) Eligibility (PhD) Sponsored/Part-Time/External Financial Support Application Procedure

Applications are invited for admission to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme starting in July 2015. The departments/centres and areas in which these programme will be offered are:

PhD Programme

Departments/Centres - Areas

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

Algorithms; Theoretical Computer Science; Computational Geometry; Systems Biology (Bio-computing); Bio-inspired distributed and decentralized algorithms for Robotics and related systems; Intelligent Mobile Agent Based Cyber-physical Systems; Synthetic Emotions; Human-Computer Interactions; Speech Processing; Multimedia: Image and Video Processing; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Information Retrieval; Data Mining; Web Mining; Formal Verification; Embedded Systems; CAD for VLSI; Multi-processor Computer Architecture; Real-time Systems and Scheduling; Computer Security; Networks; Operating Systems; Distributed Systems.

Dept. of Electronics & Electrical Engineering

VLSI; Power Systems; Fiber Optic Communication; Wireless Communications; Information Theory and Coding; Antenna; Communication Networks; Biomedical Signal and Image Processing; Speech and Handwriting Processing; Image/Video Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Multimedia Analytics; Multimedia Security; Microwave Engineering; RF and Microwave; Control Systems; Power Electronics; Electrical Machines; Control of Electrical Drives; Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles; High Voltage Engineering; High Voltage Engineering and Applied Electromagnetics; Condition Monitoring of Power Apparatuses; Electromagnetics; Computational Electromagnetics; Solid State Devices; Optoelectronics; Optical Communication and Networks; Photonics; MEMS; Instrumentation; High Performance Computing; Computational Photography; Data Compression; and Cryptography.

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering 

Welding, Advanced Welding Processes, Electro-magnetic Manufacturing, Inter-laminar Stress, 3D-Piezoelectricity, Inverse Problems, Topology Optimization,Adhesion, Powder Metallurgy Processing, Advanced Materials, Wear Characterization, Shape Memory Materials for Biomedical Devices, Micromachining, Nano-finishing, Biomemetics.

Rotor Dynamics, Condition Monitoring, Smart Materials, Optimization; Operation Research; Non-linear Finite Element Analysis, Computational Contact and Impact Mechanics, MEMS, Hydrodynamic Bearings, Coupled Modeling of Electro-Mechanical Systems, Robotics, Non-Linear Vibration, Bio-mechanics.

Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer,Multi-phase Flow, Turbulent Fluid Flow, CFD in Hypersonic Applications, Cooling of Electronic Devices

Dept. of Civil Engineering

Construction Management; Environmental Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Structural Engineering; Transportation Engineering; Water Resources Engineering and Management; Remote sensing and geo-sciences; Construction materials; and Infrastructure management.

Dept. of Biotechnology

All areas of Biotechnology.

Dept. of Chemical Engineering

All areas of Chemical Engineering

Dept. of Design

Industrial Design; Communication design (including art & visual culture);

Interaction and Usability engineering (including HCI); Design Management;

Ergonomics (including Occupational health and safety).

Dept. of Physics

Condensed Matter Physics – biomaterials, cold atoms, quantum computation, computational materials physics, ferroelectric and oxide materials, Graphene and analogue atomic thin materials, organic semiconductors, semiconducting materials, smart magnetic materials, soft condensed matter, spintronics, statistical physics, strongly correlated systems, superconductivity, topological insulators, nanomaterialsand nanotechnology, theoretical and computational biophysics, polymer physics,AdS/CMT.

Laser and Photonics – Applied Optics, Fiber Optics, Laser Matter Interaction, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics.

High Energy Physics – beyond the standard model, cosmological connections, Heavy Flavour Physics, Collider phenomenology, CP violation, Neutrino physics, Low energy Effective Field Theory, Standard Model Precision Calculations.

Gravity, Cosmology and Astrophysics – Black hole Physics, Theoretical Cosmology, Phenomenology of AdS/CFT, Astrophysical flows, Ultra high energy cosmic rays.

Dept. of Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry.

Dept. of Mathematics

Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Algorithmic aspects of Ad Hoc & Wireless Sensor Networks, Linear Algebra, Numerical Linear Algebra, Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Analysis, Differential Equations, Applied Probability, AlgebraicCombinatorics, Algebraic Graph Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Queuing Theory, and Stochastic Process.

Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences

Political Science, Economics, History, Linguistics, Archaeology, and Psychology.

Centre for the Environment

Environmental Chemistry/Biotechnology/Economics/Engineering; Waste Water Treatment and supply; CO2 Capture/storage; Atmospheric Chemistry; Air Quality monitoring; Environmental Hydraulics; Environmental Genomics; and Other emerging areas of environment with interdisciplinary application of science, technology, arts and humanities.

Centre for Energy

Thermal science; Alternative/Emulsified Fuels and IC Engine; Self-bearing Switched Reluctance Machine; System Biology for Biobutanol; Biochemical synthesis of liquid Fuels; Biomass and Bioenergy; Sono-hybrid Routes to Biodiesel; Catalysis/Petrochemicals; Fuel cells; Biomass Pyrolysis; Microalgae BasedBiofuels; Solar Thermal / Solar Photovoltaics; Power Generation and Storage; Power Distribution.

Centre for Nanotechnology

Experimental and Computational studies of micro- and nano-fluidics; NanoElectronics and Optics; Nanomaterials; Nanobiotechnology; Nano Devices and Applications; Polymer Synthesis and Optoelectronic Applications.

Dates:

Starting of online application process ► from 10.00 a.m. of 20 March 2015 onwards.

Closing of online application process ► by 5.00 p.m. of 23 April 2015.

More Info : http://www.iitg.ernet.in/acad/AdvtNotificationJuly2015/phd.htm