Contribution to Various Committees of TIFR (≥ 2000)

1. 1.Chairperson, Institute Grievance Cell, April 2008 - September 2011; Acting Chairperson,
   October 2011 - February 2012; Member, March 2012 - June 2013.
   

2. 2.Chairperson, Science Popularization and Public Outreach Committee, 2005 - 2009;
   Co-Chairperson, 2009 - 2016; Member, 2003-2005.
   

3. 3.Co-Chairperson, Institute Committee for evaluation and promotion of the scientific/lab staff, April 1999 - December 2001, April 2008 - September 2009; Acting Chairperson, October 2009 - February 2012.
   

4. 4.Convener, Apex Committee, Founder’s Day 2008;
   Member, Apex Committee, Founder’s Day 2009.
   

5. 5.Convener, Selection Committee, TIFR Alumni Association - Geeta Udgaonkar Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis (Physics) from TIFR in the year 2014-15.
   

6. 6.Convener, Drop Test Committee of the Physics Subject Board. The committee set up question papers for the four core courses, conducted tests, and evaluated answer books, August 2013.
   

7. 7.Member, HBCSE Committee, February 2009 - 2016.
   

8. 8.Member, Madan Lal Mehta Memorial Lectures Committee, February 2009 - October 2012.
   

9. 9.Member, Selection committee for the Homi Bhabha Award in Science Education,
   constituted by the TIFR Endowment Fund, 2006 - 2007.
   

10. 10.Member, Promotion Norms and Designations Committee, September 2000.
    

11. 11.Acting Chairperson, Department of Theoretical Physics, January-May 2012 and on many other  occasions during 2012-2016.

Public Outreach Activities

Contribution to Various Non-TIFR Committees (≥ 2000)

1. 1.Member, Evaluation Committee, Indian Physics Association’s Prof. Rahul Basu Memorial Award for the Best Thesis in any area of High Energy Physics, 2020-2022.
   

2. 2.Member, Steering Committee to discuss the long-range plan for Theoretical Nuclear Physics in India. The committee was set up following the DST Sponsored Interaction Meeting on Theoretical Nuclear Physics, IIT Roorkee, September 2010.
   

3. 3.Expert Member, Scientific Officers’ interviews & promotions committees, BARC.
   

4. 4.Member, Doctoral Committee to evaluate the progress of Junior Research Fellows towards Ph.D., Nuclear Physics Division, BARC, 2011 - 2015.
   

5. 5.Asian Science Camp 2010: Was invited to be a judge of students’ scientific posters, 21 August 2010, Navi Mumbai.
   

6. 6.Member, Planning Committee, SERC School series in Nuclear Physics, BARC, May 2003,
   August 2005.
   

7. 7.Member, N.S. Satyamurthy Memorial Award Seminar Evaluation Committee, BARC, February 2003.
   

8. 8.Member, K.S. Krishnan Research Associateship Interview Committee, BARC, June 2003,
   October 2012.

Science Popularization and Public Outreach Committee was established in TIFR in 2003. Rajeev Bhalerao had been a Member of this Committee since its inception, the Chairperson during October 2005 - April 2009, and Co-Chairperson during May 2009 - June 2016.

One of the most important activities of this Committee is the organization of the Frontiers of Science: Open House for standard X students, their parents, and teachers. It involves organizing a visit to TIFR of several hundred invited participants from many schools in and around Mumbai (about 1500 persons from 80 schools in 2014), with a full-day’s program of lectures, audio-visuals, lab visits, demonstrations of science experiments, etc. The proposal to organize such a program was made by him in 2002 and this program has been organized every year since 2003. As a part of this program, several booklets were produced for free distribution among the invitees: (a) Famous Indian Scientists, (b) Research Establishments in India, (c) A Revolution in Physics: Einstein’s Discoveries of 1905 Made Simple, (d) Inside TIFR Laboratories, etc.

The Committee has also been holding Cafe Scientifique - like sessions called Chai and Why at the Prithvi Theatre, Juhu, first Sunday of every month, and at the Ruparel College, Matunga, third Sunday of every month. As a part of this continuing program, he made a presentation entitled The Big Bang and the Little Bang, at the Prithvi Theatre, Juhu, Mumbai, on 4 October 2009.

As a part of the Homi Bhabha Birth Centenary celebrations (2008-2010), the Outreach Committee organized a monthly Public Lecture Series by TIFR scientists, over the period of two years, at various venues throughout Mumbai.

1. 1.Member, National Advisory Committee,
   68th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, IIT Roorkee, 6-11 December 2024.
   

2. 2.Member, National Advisory Committee,
   67th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, IIT Indore, Indore, 8-13 December 2023.
   

3. 3.Member, International Advisory Committee,
   8th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP),
   Puri, Odisha, India, 7-10 February 2023.
   

4. 4.Member, Advisory Committee,
   DAE-BRNS Workshop on Hadron Physics 2023,
   Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, 16-20 January 2023.
   

5. 5.Member, National Advisory Committee,
   66th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Cotton Univ., Guwahati, 30 November-5 December 2022.
   

6. 6.Member, National Advisory Committee,
   65th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Mumbai, 1-5 December 2021.
   

7. 7.Member, National Advisory Committee,
   64th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Lucknow University, Lucknow, 23-27 December 2019.
   

8. 8.Member, International Advisory Committee,
   63rd DAE-BRNS International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Mumbai, 10-14 December 2018.
   

9. 9.Member, Advisory Committee,
   62nd DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Thapar University, Patiala, 20-24 December 2017.
   

10. 10.Member, Advisory Committee,
    61st DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, 5-9 December 2016.
    

11. 11.Member, Advisory Committee,
    60th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, 7-11 December 2015.
    

12. 12.Member, Advisory Committee,
    DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BHU, Varanasi, 8-12 December 2014.
    

13. 13.Member, Advisory Committee,
    Training Workshop on Detector and Physics Simulations for PANDA @ Fair (PANDATRG – 2014),
    Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujarat), 18-20 March 2014.
    

14. 14.Member, International Advisory Committee,
    International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Mumbai, 2-6 December 2013.
    

15. 15.Member, National Advisory Committee,
    National Conference on Nuclear Physics (NCNP-2013), Sambalpur University, 1-3 March 2013.
    

16. 16.Member, Advisory Committee,
    DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Delhi University, 3-7 December 2012.
    

17. 17.Member, Organizing Committee,
    DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, 26-30 December 2011.
    

18. 18.Member, Advisory Committee,
    5th DAE-BRNS Workshop on Hadron Physics, BARC, Mumbai, 31 October - 4 November 2011.
    

19. 19.Member, Organizing Committee,
    International Workshop – Quarks, Hadrons, and LHC, IITB, Mumbai, 28-30 August 2011, satellite workshop of XXV International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies (Lepton-Photon 11), TIFR, Mumbai, 22-27 August 2011.
    

20. 20.Member, Organizing Committee,
    DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BITS, Pilani, 20-24 December 2010.
    

21. 21.Member, Organizing Committee,
    NN Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem, ICTS program, TIFR, 18-27 November 2010.
    

22. 22.Member, Planning Committee,
    DST Sponsored Interaction Meeting on Theoretical Nuclear Physics, IIT Roorkee,
    3-5 September 2010.
    
    Member, Advisory/Organizing Committees of:
    

23. 23.International Symposium on Nuclear Physics (ISNP-2009),
    BARC, Mumbai, 8-12 December 2009.
    

24. 24.DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics,
    IIT, Roorkee, 22-26 December 2008.
    

25. 25.International Workshop on Radiation-Matter Interaction under Extreme Conditions,
    BHU, Varanasi, 19-20 December 2008.
    

26. 26.DAE-BRNS National Seminar on New Era in Nuclear & Particle Physics,
    Department of Physics, University of Burdwan, 28-29 November 2008.
    

27. 27.International Workshop on Hadron Physics,
    AMU, Aligarh, 18-23 February 2008.
    

28. 28.International Workshop on Hot & Dense Matter in the RHIC-LHC Era,
    TIFR, 12-14 February 2008.
    (This was a satellite workshop of Quark Matter 2008 held in Jaipur.)
    

29. 29.DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics,
    Sambalpur University, Burla, Orissa, 11-15 December 2007.
    

30. 30.Advanced School on Quark-Gluon Plasma,
    IIT Mumbai, 3-13 July 2007, Convener, Organizing Committee.
    

31. 31.DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics,
    MS University of Baroda, Vadodara, 11-15 December 2006.
    

32. 32.Workshop on Physics & Astrophysics of Hadrons & Hadronic Matter,
    Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, 6-11 November 2006.
    

33. 33.DAE-BRNS International Symposium on Nuclear Physics,
    BARC, Mumbai, 12-15 December 2005.
    

34. 34.Workshop on Hadron Physics,
    IoP, Bhubaneswar, 7-17 March 2005.
    

35. 35.DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics,
    BHU, Varanasi, 6-10 December 2004.
    

36. 36.DAE-BRNS Workshop QGP Meet ’04,
    IoP, Bhubaneswar, 7-9 October 2004.
    

37. 37.Workshop on Relativistic Mean Field Theory in Nuclear Physics,
    IoP, Bhubaneswar, 26-31 July 2004.
    

38. 38.International Workshop on Near-Equilibrium Field Theory,
    TIFR, 15-19 December 2003.
    

39. 39.DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics,
    BARC, Mumbai, 8-12 December 2003.
    

40. 40.DAE-BRNS Workshop QGP Meet ’03,
    VECC, Kolkata, 5-7 May 2003.
    

41. 41.DAE-BRNS Workshop on Mesons & Quarks,
    HBCSE, Mumbai, 28 January - 1 February 2003. 
    

42. 42.International Conf. on Physics & Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP 2001),
    Jaipur, November 2001.
    

43. 43.International Symposium on Nuclear Physics (ISNP2K),
    BARC, Mumbai, December 2000.
    

44. 44.Third Microworkshop on Quark-Gluon Plasma,
    TIFR, 27-31 March 2000.