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Present Address:                         Dr. U. A. Palikundawar
                                                     Asst. Professor
                                                     Post Graduate Teaching Department of Physics
                                                     RTM Nagpur University Campus, Nagpur-440033, India.

E-mail:                                         uapali AT yahoo.com

Date of Birth:                               29 Apr. 1975

Languages:                                  Marathi, English, Hindi.

Educational Record:

Topic of Ph. D.:    `Electrical, Magnetic and X-ray Studies of GMR Materials of the type LnMO3'

Experience:

 (a)   Research

(b)    Teaching

Membership In Professional Societies:

Mmember :

• Vidarbha University Physics teachers Association.

Research Specialisation:                      X-Ray Spectroscopy, Solid State physics
(major scientific field of interest)             

Participation in Seminar, Symposium, Conference and Workshop:

1. Five week `School of Synchrotron Radiation and Applications' organized by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, from 22 April to 24 May, 2002.

2. Two week `Indo-German School on Synchrotron Radiation Sources and their Applications' organized by the Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT), Indore, from 11 to 22 November, 2002.

3. Resource Person in a `Workshop on B.Sc. Final Year Experiments of Section- A' organized by Department of Physics, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, from 24 to 25 September, 2004.

4. UGC sponsored Refresher Course organized by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, from 18 October to 07 November, 2004.

5. IAPT- INFOSYS workshop for UG Physics Teachers on theme, `Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetic Theory' organized by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) at the Department of Physics, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, from 24 to 29 November, 2004.

6. Presented poster in `National Symposium on Instrumentations (NSI-30)' organized by the Instrument Society of India at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, from 30 November to 2 December, 2005.

7. Oral presentation in `National Seminar on Materials Preparation and Characterization' organized by the Department of Physics, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, from 28 to 29 March, 2006.

8. `Discussion Meeting on Manganites and Related Systems' organized by UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore Centre, on 23 February 2007.

9. India-Italy Workshop on `Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Condensed Matter Problems: basic and applied research' organized by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on November 23-25, 2009.

Award/Prize:

• Won the First Prize for Best Paper Presentation in Oral Category in `National Conference on Recent Trends in Basic and Applied Materials (RTBAM-09)', organized by Department of Physics, Govt. Institute of Science, Nagpur, from 10 to 11 January, 2009.

• I was selected for IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Fellowship under the Summer Research Fellowship Programme to work for two months during summer-2007 with Professor R. C. Budhani, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

• My proposal titled `XAFS study of La1-ySryCoxMn1-xO3 and LaCoxMn1-xO3 perovskites' was selected under the framework of Indo-Italian programme of cooperation in Science and Technology of Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and Italian Government to carry out XAFS measurements at ELETTRA Synchrotron Source, Trieste, Italy, from 19 to 28 November 2006.

Publications:     Research papers 3 (Journal) + 4 (Proceedings)

PUBLICATIONS
In  journals.

1. Local structure around Mn and Co in LaMn1-xCoxO3¿¿: an EXAFS study Umesh A. Palikundwar, V. B. Sapre, S. V. Moharil and K. R. Priolkar J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 (2009) 235405

2. XANES, magnetic and magnetotransport studies of LaMn1-xCoxO3±¿ Umesh A. Palikundwar, V. B. Sapre, S. V. Moharil and K. R. Priolkar Special Issue of Indian Journal of Cryogenics, 33/2-4 (2008) 76.

3. X-ray K-absorption near edge structure (XANES) study of some copper (II) mixed ligand complexes R. K. Vyass, S. K. Joshi, B. D. Shrivastava, V. B. Sapre, U. A. Palikundwar and R. N. Patel Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India Sect. A, 79 (2009) 125.

In  Conferences.

1. Preparation and characterization of LaMn1-xCoxO3±¿ and La1-ySryMn1-xCoxO3±¿ perovskites National Seminar on Synthesis and Characterization of Materials, Department of Physics, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, March 2006.

2. Some investigations in LaMn1-xCoxO3±¿ and La1-ySryMn1-xCoxO3±¿ perovskites Discussion Meeting on Manganites and Related Systems, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, Februry 2007.

3. Interfacing a Microdensitimeter with PC Umesh A. Palikundwar, V. B. Sapre and S. V. Moharil National Symposium on Instrmentaions (NSI-30), Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, pp 580, December 2005.

4. Magnetic and transport studies of La1-xSrxMn0.7Co0.3O3±¿ National Conference on Recent Trends in Basic and Applied Materials, Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Nagpur, January 2009.

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