Homi Bhabha workshop at BHU

VARANASI: The department of physics, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in association with the Board of Research in Nuclear Science, department of atomic energy, is going to organise a two-day Homi Bhabha centenary national workshop on neutron generator and application from Saturday.
According to the convener Dr HP Sharma, the BHU has 40-year-old, outdated accelerator facility at physics department.It is being planned to revive the accelerator facility to support the multidisciplinary accelerator-based research activities in various fields.
Sharma said the department proposed a new accelerator facility, which would be able to deliver the beams of proton, deuteron and neutron for multidisciplinary research in nuclear physics, medical physics, material science and radiation biology. "The workshop has been organised to bring this to the notice of larger scientific community from various departments, institutes and universities," he said and added many reputed accelerator experts and researchers would take part in the workshop.
The technical and scientific details of the proposed facility would be discussed during the workshop, he said and added that the recent developments in experimental techniques and applications of neutrons in various branches of science would also be discussed.
Research grant: Dr Ajay Pratap, reader at the department of History, BHU, has received a research project grant of Rs 1.25 lakh from the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi, for the work on documentation and analysis of the rock art of Uttar Pradesh with special reference to the rock art of Mirzapur district.
According to Pratap, he, along with his PhD student Nawal Kumar has already studied and documented some prehistoric paintings of the Wyndham falls near Barkachha in Mirzapur district. These preliminary findings have already been published in the project gallery of the international journal of archaeological research antiquity.
In this project, the investigators also propose to survey, document and analyse the Vindhyachal and Kaimur rock paintings to gain a comparative view with the paintings of Mirzapur area. Apart from documenting the thematic content of the painted rock shelters already reported since the 19th century, the aim of this project is to make new discoveries as a source for reconstructing the local history of the area and make appropriate recommendations for better preservation of these paintings as public heritage. Presently, rock paintings, such as those at Wyndham falls, had been greatly defaced and vandalised by tourists and other visitors, he said.
BHU to hold World Tourism Week: The department of Art and Tourism, BHU, is going to celebrate the World Tourism Week from September 22 at the Rajiv Gandhi South Campus of BHU at Barkachha.