Materialia Indica

Dear Colleagues, Students,
We are pleased to announce the launch of Materialia Indica, an India-centric community website (and blog) by and for materials scientists and engineers: academics, researchers, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students in materials science and allied fields (minerals, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers ...). The About Materialia Indica page has more details.

While a part of Materialia Indica is decidedly India-centric (announcements about conferences, job openings, awards and recognition, etc), there will be a lot in there -- journal club, classic papers, teaching tips, etc -- that materials science folks everywhere should be able to participate in and benefit from.

Materialia Indica is a community website which is open to from materials researchers everywhere. We therefore invite you to join us at Materialia Indica and participate in the conversation with the larger materials community. Becoming a member is easy: please give us your contact details in the form on the Contributors page, and we will be happy to send you a membership invitation.

Materialia Indica is an interesting new project for all of us, as it involves a bit of community-building. Starting something like Materialia Indica is something that we have been talking about in different groups for over several years -- but we were always sure about its usefulness. We are glad that we have finally got this project off the ground.

Once again, we are pleased to invite you to join, and contribute to, Materialia Indica. We look forward to your participation there.

We end this mail with a request: please share this mail with your friends, colleagues and students, and urge them to join the Materialia Indica community. We thank you in advance for your help in spreading the news about the site.

Regards,
Abi (T.A. Abinandanan, IISc)
Guru (M.P. Gururajan, IIT-D)
Phani (G. Phanikumar, IIT-M)

Welcome to Materialia Indica! - http://materialiaindica.wordpress.com/
What is Materialia Indica? Short answer: it’s an India-centric website / blog for materials science folks: academics, researchers, grad and undergrad students. Here’s the long answer.

If you would like to join Materialia Indica as a contributor, please let us know through the contact form on the Contributors page.

Please take your time to explore the site (both the static pages and blog posts), and tell us what you think about Materialia Indica. We would especially appreciate your suggestions on how it can serve the community better


Events
International Conference on the Beginnings of Uses of Metals and Alloys National Institute of Advanced studies, Bangalore September 13 to 18, 2009 - Details >>


Indian Heritage Videos
You tube video on Casting Nataraja and Metal Images at Swamimalai, Tanjavur district, Southern India, narrated by Dr. Sharada Srinivasan and shot by Peter Vemming, Middelaldercentret, Denmark - Links >>