Ms. Ayesha Nanda has received a poster prize in the recently concluded 7th Annual Conference of the Division of Plasma Physics of the Association of Asia Pacific Physics Society (AAPPS-DPP 2023), held from November 12-17, 2023 at Port Messe Nagoya, Japan. The poster's title is "Energy exchange in a compact dipole plasma: thermodynamical investigations through measurements and modeling" which is co-authored with Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee.

Ms. Deepika Behmani has received a best poster prize in the recently held Plasma Scholars Colloquium (PSC 2023) during July 20 - 21, 2023, at IIT Kanpur. The title of the poster was "Frequency locked measurement of plasma potential fluctuations in an atmospheric pressure microplasma jet".

Ms. Jayashree Majumdar has received the best poster prize in the recently held "35th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG 2023)" during July 9 - 14, 2023, at Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands. Her poster was on "Studies on changes in surface morphology of materials under plasma environment and their potential applications in field emission".

Mr. Bheemsehan Gurjar (Prof. Dipankar Chakraborty ) has been awarded the Gary McCartor award from the International Light Cone Advisory Committee (ILCAC) and will be honored in 2023 Light Cone meeting at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ph.D. student Ms. Swati Swagatika Mishra have received the poster award in the recently concluded 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2022).

Ph.D. student Mr. Sushanta Barman and Ms. Kalyani Barman have received the poster award in the recently concluded 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2022).

Ph.D. student Ms. Ayesha Nanda (Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee) has received the BEST ORAL AWARD in the 8th Plasma Scholars Colloquium (PSC- 2020) held online during 8th and 9th October 2020 organised by Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) in association with KIIT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The title of the oral talk was "ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF A PLASMA CONFINED IN A DIPOLE MAGNETIC FIELD: SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY".

Ph.D. students Ms. Deepika(Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee), has won a poster award in the recently concluded 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2020), held as e-conference, from 26th October to 31st October, 2020. The title of her poster was "Characterization of Fluctuations in Atmospheric Pressure Micro-plasma Jets".

Ph.D. students Mr. Sushanta Barman(Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee), has won a poster award in the recently concluded 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2020), held as an e-conference, from 26th October to 31st October, 2020. The title of his poster was "Observation of Nonlinear Demagnification in Plasma-based Ion beam Optics".

Ph.D. students Ms. Swati Swagatika Mishra(Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee), has won a poster award in the recently concluded 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2020), held as an e-conference, from 26th October to 31st October, 2020. The title of her poster was "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Collisional Cooling of He and its Binary Mixtures with Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe in Nose-Hoover thermostat for Creating Strongly Coupled Cryo-plasmas".

The recipients of Rs.10,000 from Dept Excellence grant for the period of Aug 2019-Jan 2020 are given below.

Kamalika Nath, Ph.D. student (Roll no. 12109872) is the second recipient of Arepalli-Karumuri travel grant of 2019.

Ph.D. student Ms. Jayashree Majumdar (Ph.D. supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee) has received the Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) POSTER AWARD in the 34TH NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (PLASMA-2019) organized by PSSI at VIT, Chennai, from 3rd-6th December 2019. The award carries a cash component of Rs. 5000/- and a certificate of merit. The title of the poster was "FIELD EMISSION PROPERTIES OF ATOMICALLY HETEROGENEOUS METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURES CREATED BY MICROWAVE PLASMA GENERATED LOW ENERGY ION BEAMS".

Prof. Mahendra Verma has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. effective from 2020.

Dr. Arjun Bagchi (Associate Professor in Physics) has received the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Physical Sciences for the year 2018-19.

Dr. Joydeep Chakrabortty (Associate Professor in Physics) has been selected by Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) core-committee to join INYAS as a member, for five years, from January 2020.

Sayak Bhattacharjee (first-year BS student in our dept) has published a paper: Sayak Bhattacharjee, "Transform as a vector? Tying functional parity with rotation angle of coordinate axes", Eur. J. Phys., 41, 015802 (2020).

Ph.D. student Mr. Sagar Paul (PHY) and Post-Doc fellow Dr. Ganesh Kotagiri (PHY) (Their Supervisor: Prof. Anjan Gupta) has received the "J. C. Bose Prize for Innovation in Method" for a poster presentation titled, "Magnetic reversal through vortex nucleation in a single magnetic nano-particle probed using Nb micro-SQUIDs in hysteresis free mode" at a conference "National Conference conference in electron spectroscopy-2019" held in SNBNCBS, Kolkata during 26-29 Nov 2019.

Ph.D. student Divya Rawat (Ph.D. Supervisor Prof. Pankaj Jain) has been awarded the COSPAR Visiting fellowship and she will be visiting the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK, for a period of 2 months, to carry out joint research with Dr. Diego Altamirano.

Ph.D. student Ms. Jayashree Majumdar (Ph.D. supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee) has received the poster presentation prize for the poster titled " Field emission properties of atomically heterogeneous metallic nanostructures created by microwave plasma generated low energy ion beams” authored by Jayashree Majumdar, Krishn Pal Singh, and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, in the 12th International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA 2019), held at the Department of Physics, University of Lucknow during November 11-14, 2019

The recipients of Rs.10,000 each from Dept Excellence fund for the period of Feb-July 2019 are:(Alphabetical list):

Rajesh Tripathi ((Roll no. 13109074) will receive Rs.25,000 from the Arepalli-Karumuri Travel grant in 2019.

Chitres Guria (Roll no. 150208) of BS received the General Proficiency Medal in the 52nd Convocation for the best academic performance among the graduating students of 4-yr UG programme in Physics. He also received the Proficiency Medal for the best UG project work in the Physics Dept.

Sreemayee Aditya (Roll no. 171159) of 2-yr M.Sc received the General Proficiency Medal in the 52nd Convocation for the best academic performance among the graduating students of 2-yr M.Sc programme in Physics. She also received the Proficiency medal for the best M.Sc project work.

Suraj Prakash of BS-MS received the Bhagavatula project award in the 52nd Convocation for the best project work among all graduating students of 4-yr/5-yr programme in the Physics Dept.

Dr. Joydeep Chakrabortty has been selected for Buti Foundation Award for Excellence in Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Biophysics for 2018. The details can be available in the following link: http://www.tifr.res.in/~ipa1970/butiabout.php and the result is announced in this link: http://www.tifr.res.in/~ipa1970/awards/IPAAwards2018.pdf

Dr. Saurabh Mani Tripathi, has been awarded the IPA S. N. Seshadri Memorial Instrumentation Award in Physical Sciences – 2018 conferred by the Indian Physics Association. The award is given in recognition of Dr. Tripathi's outstanding work related to development of a novel fiber-optic based bio-sensor to detect E. Coli bacteria in water over a wide temperature range.

The book titled “Energy Transfers in Fluid Flows: Multiscale and Spectral Perspectives” by Prof. Mahendra K. Verma is now published with Cambridge University Press.

Mr. Ishan Deo, first-year B.S (Physics) student is selected by KVPY to attend the Thirteenth Asian Science Camp-2019 to be held in China during 28th July to 3rd Aug, 2019.

Ms. Ayesha Nanda(Ph.D supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee) has received the best poster presentation award on her poster titled "Diffusion of particles confined in a dipole magnetic field", in the recently held International Conference on Photonics, Metamaterials and Plasmonics (PMP-2019) at the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), Noida, from February 14 - 16, 2019.

Ms. Meenaxi Sharma(PhD supervisor: Dr Krishnacharya) has received the "Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research" (AWSAR)-2018 award from DST for her popular science story entitled “Slippery Coatings for Highly Viscous Complex Fluids on Solid Surfaces”. The Award carries a cash prize of Rs 10,000 along with a certificate of appreciation.