A Brief Report on the Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics (NSU-XVII)

17th National Symposium on Ultrasonics, (NSU-XVII) was jointly organized by the Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Ultrasonics Society of India during Dec. 4-6, 2008, at Department of Physics B.H.U., Varanasi. The objective of the symposium was to provide a common platform to scientists, technologists, academicians, users and manufacturers of ultrasonic instruments, devices and materials for industrial, medical and other applications. Due to wide ranging applications of ultrasonics from synthesis to characterization of nanomaterial materials, the focal theme of the Symposium “Ultrasound and Nanomaterials” was in line with the current focus of scientists, technologists and academicians all over the world.