Calendar 2006–07

290 Part 3 • Department Profiles and Programmes of Studies Division of Materials Science and Engineering MPhil–PhD Programme PhD Stream Fields of Specialization 1. Physics of Thin Films 2. Undercooled Liquids and Glass Formation 3. Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology 4. Optical Properties of Semiconductors 5. Materials Testing 6. Cubic Boron Nitride Growth and Mechanism 7. Composite Materials 8. Nonlinear Optics 9. Optics and Lasers 10. Novel Laser Media and Laser Systems 11. Thermoluminescence 12. Applications of Ion-beam Techniques in Surface Science 13. Organic Light-emitting Devices and Materials MPhil Stream Fields of Specialization Same as those for the PhD programme. Division of Mathematics MPhil–PhD Programme PhD Stream Fields of Specialization (A) Algebra 1. Algebraic Geometry 2. Commutative Algebra 3. Algebraic Number Theory 4. Classical Groups 5. Algebraic Manifolds 6. Moduli of Algebraic Manifolds and Hodge Theory (B) Analysis 1. Convex Analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization 2. Fractals and Wavelets 3. Harmonic Analysis 4. Operator Algebra (C) Applied Analysis 1. Applied Partial Differential Equations 2. Financial Engineering 3. Fluid Dynamics 4. Mathematical Physics