Dear Members, NCSI-Net Foundation cordially invites you to the Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 9th Memorial Lecture. Topic:  Scientometrics: Sixty Years After the Garfield Paper Speaker: Prof. Balaram P, Director, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore Venue: APC Seminar Hall (erstwhile NCSI Seminar Hall), Indian Institute of Science Date & Time: Friday 6th June, 2014 at 6 PM About Speaker: Professor P. Balaram, is Professor of Molecular Biophysics and currently the Director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his M.Sc. from IIT Kanpur (1969) and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, USA (1972). His main research interests are in bioorganic chemistry and molecular biophysics. He is the author of over 400 research papers. Professor Balaram is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy. He has received many awards/honors in recognition of his work, of which mention must be made of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of CSIR (1986), Alumni Award for Excellence in Research from IISc (1991), TWAS Award in Chemistry (1994), G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (1994), Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur (2000), Padma Shri (2002) and Padma Bhushan (2014) by the Government of India. Professor Balaram has delivered a number of lectures and has served on the Editorial Boards of journals, both national and international. He has served on many committees of the Government of India, and is currently a Member, Science Advisory Committee to the Union Cabinet and Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, among others. He has been the Editor of "Current Science" since 1995 to 2013. RSVP: Francis Jayakanth JRD Tata Library IISc (francis@library.iisc.ernet.in ). With Warm Regards,   Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.