DAV Chandrasekharpur alumnus Gourab won Intl Gordon Bell Prize

Bhubaneswar - 20 November  Gourab Panigrahi, an alumnus of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar has received the prestigious international Gordon Bell Prize along with 7 other Indo - American scientists for their innovative project at Denver, USA recently. Their project " Large Scale materials modelling at quantum accuracy: Ab initio simulations of quasi crystals and interacting extended defects in metallic alloys has been considered as the Pioneer one in the concerned field. Gourab, a PhD scholar at Indian Institute of Science, Bangaluru had studied 14 years at DAV Chandrasekharpur and the recipient of KVPY, Uranium Talent Scholarship, Prime Minister fellowship for his Scholastics . The prize is awarded each year to recognise outstanding achievement in high performance computing worldwide with particular emphasis on rewarding innovation. The team has developed a concrete framework that combines the accuracy provided by many body methods with the efficacy of density functional theory to access larger length scales. Gourab, son of Lingaraj Panigrahi and Prabina Panda has meritoriously cleared BSc and MS degree from IISc. For the phenomenal achievement of Gourab, the Regional Director of DAV Institutions, Odisha Dr K C Satapathy, Principal of DAV Chandrasekharpur Dr Sujata Sahu among others congratulated him.