Sourabh Dube
About

http://www.unipune.ac.in/
University of Pune is one of the premier universities in India. The university occupies an area of about 400 acres in the northwestern part of Pune. It was established on 10th February, 1948 under the Poona University Act.
The university houses 46 academic departments and has about 118 recognized research institutes and 269 affiliated colleges offering graduate and undergraduate courses. The university is also home to such national and regional centers such as the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), the National Center for Radio Astronomy (NCRA) and the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
With an estimated 6.5 lakh students studying at the university and at affiliated institutions, the University of Pune is the largest traditional university in the world. It has a Five Star rating from the National Assesment and Accreditation Council, and the status of UPE from the University Grants Commision (UGC) which makes it the most highly rated state university in India. It also has the highest enrollment of foreign students coming to India; nearly 45% of all foreign students coming to India come to University of Pune alone.

http://www.rutgers.edu/
Chartered in 1766,10 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Rutgers has a unique history as a colonial college, a land-grant institution, and a state university. In 1945 and 1956, state legislative acts formally designated Rutgers as The State University of New Jersey. The university’s 27 degree-granting units offer majors in more than 100 fields.

physics.rutgers.edu/../plano_phd.html
The Richard J. Plano Dissertation Prize is given annually to a PhD graduate who, in the judgment of the physics graduate faculty, wrote the best PhD dissertation in the past year. The prize, which includes a cash award, was established by an anonymous donor in honor of Richard J. Plano, who was a professor of physics at Rutgers until his retirement in 1999.