allahabad avinash c pandey head of the department of atmospheric and ocean sciences and coordinator of nanotechnology application centre nac of au has been appointed visiting professor at michigan tech michigan technological university united states in his appointment letter the michigan tech mentions that prof pandey has been offered a nontenure appointment as an adjunct professor in their department of physics pandey is msc physics mathematics mtech computer science dphil associate ictp and principal investigator pi in more than 25 externally funded research projects at k banerjee centre of atmospheric ocean studies m n saha centre of space studies and nanotechnology application centre he has built at au two distinct groups dealing with various aspects of mathematical modeling of atmosphere and ocean with special reference to oceanic system memory and nonlinear chaotic system and in the area of materials physics and nanoscale science