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ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN TEACHING:
(a) Other Publications (Technical Reports):
1) Amol B. Rahane, Jennifer S. Dunn and Vijay Kumar. First Principles Atomistic Model for Carbon-Doped Boron Suboxide, ARMY RESEARCH LAB, USA,Report No.:ADA611091, Issue : ARL-TR-706, [Sept. 2014].
2) Amol B. Rahane, Vijay Kumar Jennifer S. Dunn. Effect of Carbon Doping on the Electronic Structure and Elastic Properties of Boron Suboxide, ARMY RESEARCH LAB, USA, Report No.: ADA623668, Issue : ARL-TR-7318 [June 2015].
(b) Preprints:
1) Smallest Fullerene-like Structures of Boron with Cr, Mo, and W Encapsulation. Amol B. Rahane, Pinaki Saha, N. Sukumar, Kumar Vijay.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12611
(c) Talks Given (Scientific):
1) Worked as a Resource Person at the state level seminar on "Physio-Chemical Applications of Nanotechnology" at Arts, Commerce and Science College, Kolhar, Tal: Rahata, Dist: A. Nagar, Maharashtra sponsored by Savitribai Phule Pune University on 9th-10th February 2018.
2) Hot topic talk on “Smallest Boron Fullerenes with Cr, Mo, and W Encapsulation” at the “Symposium on size selected clusters (S3C)” at Davos, Switzerland, during 28th February – 4th March 2016.
3) Invited Talk on “Ab initio studies on nanoclusters, nanoparticals, and their assembled materials" at the Conference on “Scientific Applications on PARAM Yuva II" at NPSF, CDAC, Pune, India, in January 2015.
4) Given talk on “Theoretical study of structural, magnetic and optical properties of metal oxide nanostructures." at Harishchandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad, India, in November 2012.
(d) Workshops Conducted (Resource Person):
1) Conducted One Day Workshop on “Linux Operating System and GNUPLOT Software” for T. Y. B. Sc. (Physics) Students at Department of Physics, K. T. H. M. College, Nashik on 2nd November 2015 under DBT STAR College, Scheme.
2) Conducted One Day Workshop on “Basics of Linux and GNUPLOT” at Department of Physics, K. T. H. M. College, Nashik on 28th December 2016 under DBT STAR College, Scheme.
3) Conducted One Day Workshop on “ROBOTICS with Arduino” for M. Sc. (Physics) Students at Department of Physics, K. T. H. M. College, Nashik on 12th April 2017 under Skill Developement Programme.
(e) Conferences / Workshops Organized:
1) Worked as a member of organizing committee for the "International Conference of Advances in Functional Materials (ICAFM-2018)" which was held at K. T. H. M. College, Nashik during 12-13 January 2018.
1) International Travel Support (ITS) provided by SERB, Govt. of India to attend an international symposium at Davos, Switzerland, during 28 Feb. 2016 - 4 March 2016.
2) International Travel Assistance provided by CECAM, Switzerland to attend a training program at Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany. Sept 2014.
3) Post Doctoral Research Fellowship awarded by Dr. Vijay Kumar Foundation, Gurgaon, India. Aug 2013 to Aug 2015.
4) Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) awarded by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - (CSIR), Govt. of India. April 2012 to June 2013.
5) Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), on CSIR Sponsored Research Project, Title: Computational studies on structural and electronic properties of nanomaterials in Lithium rechargeable batteries. June 2011 to March 2012.
6) Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), on Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, Sponsored Research Project, Title:Theoretical study of structural and electronic properties of metal-oxide nano-clusters. Feb. 2008 to Feb. 2011.
1) Knowledge of application of quantum physics / chemistry methods such as density-functional theory (DFT), time dependent DFT, pseudopotential methods to atomic clusters, nanostructures, surfaces and bulk systems.
2) Experience in using and porting DFT based packages such as VASP, PARSEC, RGWBS (TDDFT), Quantum Espresso, Guassian 09, FHI-AIIMS, etc. on a range of Unix and GNU Linux platforms.
3) Experience in building and maintaining High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster at the administrator level.
4) Proficiency in C, Fortran (F77, F90), Bash-shell programming, MATLAB and LATEX.
5) Web Designing : HTML, Wordpress, Joomla etc.
6) Arduino Based Projects, ROBOTICS etc.
1) Head, Starup & Innovation Cell, KTHM College, Nashik
2) Convener, Institutions Innovation Council (IIC), (An MHRD initiative), KTHM College, Nashik
3) Member, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
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