21st International Conference on Nuclear Tracks in Solids New Delhi, India; 21–25 October 2002

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21st International Conference on Nuclear Tracks in Solids New Delhi, India; 21–25 October 2002 Organized by Arunachal University, Itanagar Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi International Nuclear Track Society (INTS) Sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi Council of Scienti0c and Industrial Research, New Delhi University Grants Commission, New Delhi Ministry of Tribal A2airs, New Delhi Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi Defence Research and Development Organization, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE, INTS President: Kamal Kant Dwivedi, India Executive Vice President: Peter Vater, Germany Secretary: Michel Fromm, France Treasurer: Gilbert J;onsson, Sweden Past President: Radomir Ili
R. Hashemi-Nezhad, Australia K. Oda, Japan J. Palfalvi, Hungary L. Patrizii, Italy I. Quereshi, Pakistan A. Saad, Egypt L. Sajo-Bohus, Venezuela B. Sartowska, Poland N. Segovia, Mexico H.S. Virk, India

Honorary Members R. Brandt, Germany S.A. Durrani, UK H.A. Khan, Pakistan

X Deceased.

D.F. O’Sullivan, Ireland V.P. PerelyginX , Russia E. Schopper, Germany

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NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Asis Datta, New Delhi H.P. Dikshit, New Delhi Hari P. Gautam, New Delhi Anil Kakodkar, Mumbai Y.P. Kumar, New Delhi Lalit Mangotra, Jammu S.B. Manohar, Mumbai R.A. Mashelkar, New Delhi G. Mehta, Bangalore G.K. Mehta, Allahabad K.N. Pathak, Chandigarh

V.S. Ramamurthy, New Delhi Amit Roy, New Delhi Satya Prakash, Agra Manju Sharma, New Delhi K. Siddappa, Bangalore D.V. Singh, Roorkee R.S. Sirohi, New Delhi P.R. Trivedi, New Delhi A.L. Verma, Nirjuli H.S. Virk, Amritsar K.K. Dwivedi, Itanagar

NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chairman K.K. Dwivedi, ltanagar

Co-Chairman H.S. Virk, Amritsar

Convenor D.K. Avasthi, New Delhi

Members A.M. Bhagwat, Mumbai S.K. Chakravarty, Kurukshetra R. Chatterjee, New Delhi A.K. Ganguly, Kolkata T.D. Goswami, Guwahati Subhash Kumar, Jalandhar Rajendra Prasad, Aligarh A. Ramaswami, Mumbai Vijaylaxmi Rao, Mangalore Asiti Sarma, New Delhi

R.H. Iyer, Mumbai P.C. Kalsi, Mumbai D.T. Khathing, Shillong Shyam Kumar, Kurukshetra Sudershan Kumar, Jodhpur K.K. Sharma, Dehradun Surinder Singh, Amritsar Alok Srivastava, Chandigarh D.S. Srivastava, Aligarh Y.K. Vijay, Jaipur

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE D. Kanjilal, New Delhi Ravi Kumar, New Delhi Ambuj Tripathi, New Delhi Fouran Singh, New Delhi V.V. Siva Kumar, New Delhi Saif Ahmed Khan, New Delhi R.N. Dutt, New Delhi K. Asokan, New Delhi A. Sarma, New Delhi D. Sen, New Delhi S.K. Patnaik, Itanagar R. Dwivedi, Itanagar D.K. Mishra, Itanagar V. Upadhyaya, Itanagar Tana Showen, Itanagar

P. Dwivedi, Itanagar S. Gopinath, Itanagar P.C. Tewari, Itanagar R.K. Sharma, New Delhi B.R. Chakraborty, New Delhi A.M. Siddiqui, New Delhi H.S. Nagaraja, New Delhi Tanuja Mohanty, New Delhi S.K. Srivastava, New Delhi D.K. Avasthi, New Delhi A. Rastogi, New Delhi B.R. Mehta, New Delhi K. Srinivas, New Delhi Shyam Kumar, Kurukshetra Y.K. Vijay, Jaipur

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