UK Nepal USA Australia-1 Singapore Australia-2 Australia-3
United Kingdom (September 1-13, 1996)
Activities:
- Attended and presented a paper titled Ranking multi criteria river basin planning and development alternatives using ELECTRE and RANFUW in the International conference on Aspects of conflicts in reservoir development and management, City university, London, UK, 3-5 September 1996.
- Visited Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, and delivered an invited talk on Optimal reservoir operation for irrigation of multiple crops, 6 September 1996.
- Visited Department of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, and gave two invited talks on Optimal reservoir operation for irrigation of multiple crops, and Ranking multi criteria river basin planning alternatives using fuzzy numbers, 11 September 1996.
Funding:
- Overseas Development Agency, UK: Travel fellowship of £ 400 to attend the conference.
- All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi: Partial travel grant of Rs 28,000.
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Conference registration fee of £ 300.
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Travel and local hospitality to visit the university from London amounting to £ 120.
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Nepal (October 19-23, 1997)
Activities:
- Attended and presented a paper titled Stochastic Linear Programming for optimal reservoir operation - A case study, in the International conference on Large scale water resources development in developing countries: New dimensions of prospects and problems, Kathmandu, Nepal, 20-23 October 1997.
Funding:
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Conference registration fee and travel expenses.
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United States of America (January 3 to July 2, 1999)
Activities:
- Collaborative research with Prof. Upmanu Lall, Utah Water Research Lab, in the field of Hydroclimatology for a 6 month period as Boyscast Fellow.
- Visited USDA, Agriculture Research Station, Kimberley, Idaho. Discussed with Dr J.L. Wright about crop coefficients and visited some sprinkler irrigated fields.
- Visited International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York
- Visited Stanford University, Stanford.
- Visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy.
- Visited Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam.
- Visited Los Vegas, San Francisco, Salt Lake, New York Cities.
- Visited Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Yellow Stone National Parks.
Funding:
- Department of Science and Technology, India, has awarded Boyscast Fellowship for the 6 months period.
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Australia & Singapore (March 10-19, 2000)
Activities:
- Attended and presented 3 papers in the ‘Xth World Water Congress’, Melbourne, 12-17 March 2000.
- Visited many places in Singapore
Funding:
- Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi: Partial travel grant of Rs 18,000.
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Conference registration fee of Aus$800 and Rs.15,000 towards Airfare.
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Singapore (June 20-24, 2004)
Activities:
- Attended and Presented a paper in International Conference on Hydroinformatics held in Singapore during June 21-24, 2004.
Funding:
- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Australia - 2 (February 09-17, 2007)
Activities:
- Invited by University of Adelaide, Australia to participate in a joint workshop between IISc & IITs and Go8 Universities of Australia on Water Resources Engineering, held during February 11-15, 2007, to discuss about research collaborations and plan for submitting joint proposals for funding through Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF).
- University of Adelaide, Australia.
- Invited by School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia, to undertake collaborative research with their Stochastic Hydrology Research Group during April 07-14, 2008.
- Did mountain biking (on mountain bi-cycle) for 30 km through Belair National Park near Adelaide, April 13, 2008
- Chaired a Technical session and presented two papers in 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER), Adelaide, Australia, April 14-17, 2008.
- Visited University of New Southwales, Sydney and gave a lecture, April 17-18, 2008
- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
- University of Adelaide, Australia.
Funding:
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Australia - 3 (April 05-19, 2008)
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