Professor Bimla Buti has declared (at the PSSI GBM, 2011) that the award amount for the Buti Young Scientist Award will be enhanced to Rs.10,000/- from the year 2012 onwards.

To encourage young scientists, ‘Buti Young Scientist Award' has been instituted by Buti Foundation. The award consists of a Certificate of Merit and a cash prize of Rs.5000. On behalf of Buti Foundation, Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) at its Annual National Conference will present this award to the selected young researcher for the best presentation.

The first award was given at PLASMA 2004 (PSSI Conference) held at Bundelkhand University at Jhansi in December 2004. Looking at the great enthusiasm of the young participants for competing for this award, President, Buti Foundation has decided to have TWO such awards from 2005 onwards.

One award will be exclusively for applicants from Universities and Colleges and the second one will be open to all young scientists. This has been done keeping in mind that the scientists at Universities and Colleges do not have facilities comparable to the ones at Research Institutes. However there will be no compromise on the quality of the presentation. In case, the presentations are not to the mark, no award will be given that year.

For further information, check The Buti Foundation website.

Buti Foundation Young Scientist Award is open to Graduate students working for their Ph.D.and to fresh Ph.D.s with less than 2 years post-doctoral experience. Maximum age limit for competing for this award is 35 years. This award of Rs. 5000 is for the best presentation with really good contents to be presented at the annual PSSI meeting.

The applicant should NOT have presented the same material in previous editions of the Buti Award.

The application must be sent to the Convenor of that particular year's annual PLASMA conference along with a 4-6 page manuscript of the work to be presented at the conference. Please look for the deadlines for the application and for submission of the manuscript in the Conference Announcement / website. The applicatant must clearly indicate that the manuscript is for the Buti Award presentations.

The applicant will be required to make a 25 minute oral presentation and will be judged by a panel of experts.

Professor B. Buti,

President, Buti Foundation,

B-8/6042, Vasant Kunj,

New Delhi 110 070

E-mail : bimlabuti@gmail.com

Year

Recepient

Affiliation

Topic

2004

Sambaran Pahari

IPR, Gandhinagar

Confinement of electron plasmas and observation of modes in a toroidal Penning trap

2005

Suraj Sinha

IPR, Gandhinagar

Power balance at cathode in glow discharges

2006

P. Bandhyopadhyay

IPR, Gandhinagar

Experimental study of nonlinear solitory waves in a strongly coupled dusty plasma

2006

Ruchi Mishra

Dr. H.S Gour Uty, Sagar (MP)

Shear driven electrostatic Ion-cyclotron instability in a current-less plasma : A study using loss-cone distribution function

2007

Maya P

IPR, Gandhinagar

2008

Nidhi Shukla

H S Gour Uty

Plasma-2009

Sharad Kumar Yadav

IPR, Gandhinagar

Electron Current Pulse Propagation And Its Anomalous Dissipation Through Inhomogeneous Plasma

Prajapati R. P.

Vikram Uty, Ujjain

Effect of Flow Velocity and Pressure Anisotropy on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability of Anisotropic Plasma Using Polytrope Laws

Plasma-2010

G. S. Gogna

Dublin University

The resonance hairpin probe-concept, theory and application in magnetized plasma

Plasma-2011

Shail Pandey

IIT Kanpur

Observation of electron plasma waves inside large amplitude electromagnetic pulses in a temporally growing plasma

B. Kakati

CPP-Guwahati

Negative ion production using Ceasium coated dust