Honours/Awards given to Dr. Chakraborty
I am very lucky to get several awards, both for teaching and research. It is extremely difficult to do both at the same time with high quality, as developing a new analytically solvable model keeps my brain always busy!
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for the 'Teaching Honour Roll' award at the Institute's Teacher's Day Celebration, September 8, 2018, IIT Mandi. This award was given for teaching Adv. Quantum Chemistry course for Master's students in Chemistry. More than 100 extra students from diverse disciplines have attended this course.
Dr. Chakraborty was invited by the Chair of the Teaching & Learning committee of the institute to deliver a short talk in the institute's Teacher's Day Celebration function, September 5, 2016.
Dr. Chakraborty has received the 'Foundation Day' award for excellence in research at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2016. This award was given for solving an well known analytically intractable multi-state problem in a diffusion-reaction system.
Dr. Chakraborty has received the 'Foundation Day' award for excellence in teaching at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2013. This award was given for teaching two elective courses to the B. Tech. students, one is on thermodynamics, and the other is on nanoscience.
Dr. Chakraborty has received the 'Foundation Day' award for excellence in both teaching & research at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2011. This award was given for publishing the first research paper (work done by pen & paper only) from the whole institute, as well as teaching the basic chemistry core course to the 1st year B. Tech. students.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for the 42nd International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Young Chemist Award (Progm. B), by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, in conjunction with the 42nd IUPAC Congress that was held from 2 - 7 August 2009 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Dr. Chakraborty was recommended by Professors K. L. Sebastian & M. E. Kellman for this award.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected to present two posters at the 42nd International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, held from 2 - 7 August 2009 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. One of the posters was on work related to single molecule transistor, and another poster was on work related to a buckled carbon nanotube.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected at the very prestigious ACS PRF Summer School on Computation, Simulation and Theory in Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Materials Chemistry, June 11-18, 2005, in Park City, Utah, USA. Dr. Chakraborty was one of the two students selected from India.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for the prestigious Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar on Molecular Energy Transfer in Buellton, California, USA, January 8-9, 2005. He was expected to talk about his research work on single molecule transistor.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for the prestigious Carl Strom fellowship for attending the Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar on Molecular Energy Transfer in Buellton, California, USA, January 8-9, 2005. Only very few students worldwide get selected for this fellowship.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for a poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on molecular energy transfer in Buellton, California, Jan. 8-14, 2005. The poster was on work related to single molecule transistor.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for a travel grant from the Department of Science and Technology, India, for attending the Gordon Research Conference on molecular energy transfer in Buellton, California, Jan. 8-14, 2005.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for a poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Reactions at Surfaces in Ventura Beach Marriott, Ventura, CA, February 13-18, 2005. The poster was made on the topic related to modelling the interaction between C60 with different metal surfaces.
Dr. Chakraborty was selected for a travel grant from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, for attending the Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Reactions at Surfaces in Ventura Beach Marriott, Ventura, CA, February 13-18, 2005.
Dr. Chakraborty was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India (2000 - 03) based on research done as a Junior Research Fellow. The examiner was the very respected Prof. Vishnu Kamath of Bangalore University, India.
Dr. Chakraborty was awarded Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for lectureship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India (1997 - 99) on the basis of an all India Examination.
Dr. Chakraborty was qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE - 1997), conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, with a percentile score of 99.24 & All India Rank of 12. This is one of the most important exams. for M.Sc. students in India.
Dr. Chakraborty was awarded a National Scholarship by the Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, based on B. Sc. Exam. Result (1995).
Dr. Chakraborty was awarded a National Scholarship by the Department of Education, Government of West Bengal, India, based on the Higher Secondary Exam. Result (1992).
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