Centre for Earth Sciences

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

Short Term Course on

Methods in Geochemistry and their Applications

17–22 January 2011

A short term course on ‘Methods in Geochemistry and their Applications’ for graduate and
postgraduate college/university teachers will be held at Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of
Sciences, Bangalore for a period of one week from 17 to 22 January 2011.

The objective of this short term course is to give the participants hands on training on some of the
modern techniques and the theory behind methods of geochemical investigations. The course will
expose the participants with broad range of topics ranging from Environmental Geochemistry to the
geochemical evolution of early solar system. This training is intended to provide them necessary
knowledge to handling modern instruments used in the field of geochemical investigations. The course
will consists of lectures everyday and over four hours of practical demonstration hands on training.

Teachers who wish to participate in the workshop may send their application on plain paper with
following details: name, age, date of birth, e-mail, official and residential address, telephone and
mobile numbers, academic qualifications starting from B.Sc. onwards, teaching experience, course
taught, position held and statement indicating their reason for interests in participating in the course
and their expectations from the course. Twenty selected teachers will be provided local hospitality and
round trip actual of bus fare/train fare (3 tier AC) by shortest route. Application in the prescribed
format should reach the Institute before 25 December 2010. For details please visit
http://www.ceas.iisc.ernet.in/gc-app.html.

Applications may be sent to:

Dr Prosenjit Ghosh
Course Coordinator
‘Methods in Geochemistry and their Applications’
Centre for Earth Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012
Telephone: 080-2293 2599; Fax: 080-2360 0865
e-mail: pghosh@ceas.iisc.ernet.in/pghosh@caos.iisc.ernet.in

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