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  • 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".

  • Convocation awards of 2020

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

    S.No.Roll No.Name
    1. 12109873 Mohammad Zaffar
    2. 12209062 Ankit Kumar
    3. 13109071 Pramod Ghising
    4. 13109075 Shubhajyoti Mohapatra
    5. 14109878 Krishanu Sadhukhan

  • 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 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):

    S.NoRoll No.Name
    1. 13109074 Rajesh Tripathi
    2. 14109885 Utso Bhattacharya

  • 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.

  • DORA cash award (Rs. 10,000 each) for July to Dec 2018 (alphabetical list):
    S.No Roll No. Name
    1 13109061 Annwesha Dutta
    2 12209063 Arif Warsi Laskar
    3 15109264 Barun Ghosh
    4 12209067 Rajan Kumar Singh
         
  • Excellence fund (Rs. 10,000 each) for July 2018 to Jan 2019 (Alphabetical list):
    S.No Roll No. Name
    1 11109867 Dibya Jyoti Sivananda
    2 13109066 Jitendra Kumar Pradhan
    3 12209873 Naorem Rameshwari
    4 11209097 Pavan Kumar
    5 12209067 Rajan Kumar Singh
    6 14109881 Saikat Chakraborty
    7 12209070 Sourav Biswas

  • Ms. Annwesha Dutta (PhD student of Prof. Debashish Chowdhury) has been selected for the "Best Young Investigator Presentation in the International Conference" on “Multiscale Simulation & Mathematical Modelling of Complex Biological Systems - MSMM 2019”, jointly organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Rice University, USA, held at JNU Delhi during January 30-February 01, 2019. She was presented with a certificate.

  • Ms. Pooja Sahu (Physics dept office) and Mr. Rajan C.(Liquid Nitrogen and liquid Helium plant) are the recipients of Merit Award in Jan 2019


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SOTA Seminar of Pranesh Chandra Mahato, Title: A study of Frustrated spin systems, specifically Quantum Spin Liquids,

Time: 10:30 AM, Venue: FB-382(A. K. Raychaudhuri Seminar Room)

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  • Stochastic Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Molecular Machines: Principles and Applications to Ribosome.
    Annwesha Dutta(06/10/2020)

  • Aqueous Drops on Thin Lubricating Fluid Coated Slippery Surfaces: Statics and Dynamics.
    Meenaxi Sharma(04/09/2020)

  • Statistical properties of rapidly rotating turbulence
    Manohar Kumar Sharma(10/08/2020)


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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

 

Vision

The Physics Department of IIT Kanpur is engaged in research and teaching in the frontier areas of experimental and theoretical physics. These include biological physics, condensed matter physics, high energy and nuclear physics, cosmology, astrophysics, string theory, photonics, quantum optics, information theory, quantum computation, nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics and soft matter physics. Excellence in research and teaching has been the focus of this Department ever since its inception. Today, the vision is to groom leaders who will excel in their workplace as a result of the foundation they have received during their education at IIT Kanpur.

 

Information about the department (as on 1st November, 2020)

Manpower data:

1 Number of faculty members 43 (Full time: 42, Visiting: 1)
2 Number of staff members 29
3 Number of Inst. Post-doctoral fellows 8
4 Number of DST Inspire fellows 4
5 Number of women scientists 2
6 Number of Ph.D students 184
7 Number of M.Sc-Ph.D students 37*
8 Number of M.Sc (2 yr) students 31*
9 Number of B.S-M.S students 12*
10 Number of B.S students 112*

* Y20 batch data is not yet updated.

 

List of Research laboratories:

  1. Biophotonics Lab (BIOPSYL): Dr. Asima Pradhan
  2. Metamaterials and Plasmonics Lab: Dr. S. Anantha Ramakrishna
  3. Photonics Lab: Dr. R. Vijaya
  4. Diffuse Light Imaging Laboratory: Dr. H. Wanare
  5. Quantum Measurements Lab: Dr. Saikat Ghosh
  6. Quantum Optics and Entanglement Lab: Dr. Anand Kumar Jha
  7. Fiber Optics Lab: Dr. Saurabh Mani Tripathi
  8. Magnetic Field Imaging Lab: Dr. Satyajit Banerjee
  9. Superconductivity and Magnetism Lab: Dr. Zakir Hossain
  10. Soft Matter Physics Laboratory: Dr. Krishnacharya
  11. Magnetoelectronics Lab: Dr. Soumik Mukhopadhyay
  12. Low-Temperature Lab, SQUID/PPMS Lab: Dr. K. P. Rajeev
  13. STM Lab: Dr. Anjan Kumar Gupta
  14. Physics of Electronic Materials: Dr. Y. N. Mohapatra
  15. Optical Spectroscopy Lab: Dr. Rajeev Gupta
  16. Condensed Matter-Low Dimensional Systems Lab: Dr. Zakir Hossain
  17. Waves and Beams Lab: Dr. Sudeep Bhattacharjee
  18. Simulation and Modeling Lab: Dr. M. K. Verma
  19. Soft and active matter Lab: Dr. Manas Khan
  20. Tandetron Accelerator Lab: Dr. Aditya H Kelkar
  21. Spectroscopic Investigation of Novel systems: Dr. Jayita Nayak
  22. Quantum Materials Laboratory: Dr. Chanchal Sow
  23. Soft and Biological Matter Lab: Dr. Sivasurendar Chandran
  24. Opto-Electronics Lab: Dr. Sudipta Dubey

 

List of Teaching Laboratories:

  1. UG Lab (PHY 101)
  2. Optics Lab (PHY 224)
  3. Modern Physics Lab (PHY 315)
  4. Electronics Lab (PHY441)
  5. MSc Lab (PHY 461/462)

 

List of central/common facilities:

  1. Workshop
  2. Department Library
  3. Squid/PPMS lab
  4. FIB facility
  5. Low Dimensional Lab
  6. Tandetron Accelerator
  7. Computer Lab for PhD students

 

Admission criteria

B.S: Admission is by the nation-wide Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) conducted for those who have completed 12 years of schooling. Admission is done once in a year. One can consult the IIT-JEE website for relevant details. Conversion to M.S is possible for those who satisfy the required criteria.

M.Sc (2 yrs) and M.Sc-Ph.D: Admission is by the nation-wide Joint Admission Test (JAM) conducted for those with Bachelors’ Degree. Admission is done once in a year. For more details, one may consult the JAM website.

Ph.D: Admission is by a written test and interview for those who have a Masters degree in Physics and have secured a fellowship (either by clearing the GATE exam with a cut-off score decided each year, or have a JRF for research from agencies such as Inspire/CSIR/UGC/PMRF/JEST). Admission is also possibel directly to 4-yr undergraduate degree holders from IITs with a CPI more than 8.0 and also to GATE toppers. Admission is done once or twice in a year, depending on the availability of seats.

Recruitment criteria

Recruitment for Faculty positions: The institute has a common faculty recruitment portal where applications can be submitted online. Departmental committees conduct seminars (skype/online or in person) based on the departmental feedback. All the applications are scrutinized by the selection committee (appointed by the Director) and makes the decision on selection. Applicants are expected to have an exceptional academic record in their Bachelors’, Masters’ and Doctoral studies, and 3 years of post-doctoral research experience to be considered for the post of Assistant Professor. Appointments are also made at Associate Professor and Professor level, following the same set of norms prescribed by the institute for all departments.

Recruitment for Staff positions: The institute advertises on its website whenever staff recruitment is initiated. All the available posts, their numbers, and the essential/desired qualifications are mentioned in the advertisement. The department assists in the scrutiny and conduct of written/trade tests and/or interviews as applicable, and a committee appointed by the Director makes the selection.