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  • 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


Recent Events

Nov

27th

Open Seminar by Ankit Kumar, Title: Exploring low magnetic field instabilities in the static and driven vortex state in K-doped BaFe2As2 superconductor,

Time: 12:00 PM, Venue: FB-382(A. K. Raychaudhuri Seminar Room)

Central Research Facilities of the Department

Recent PhD Thesis

  • Hybrid Nano-Mechanical Resonators.
    Mr. Rajan Kumar Singh(19/11/2019)

  • In vivo and Ex vivo Detection of Head and Neck Cancer with Different Diagnostic Media and Spectroscopic Techniques.
    Mr. Pavan Kumar(06/11/2019)

  • Aspects of non-equilibrium dynamics of closed quantum systems: information, phase transitions and topology.
    Mr. Utso Bhattacharya(23/10/2019)

  • Polymerase traffic on DNA tracks: stochasticity, interference and conflict resolution
    Mr. Soumendu Ghosh(26/07/2019)

  • Molecular motor traffic on Nucleic Acid Strands: Traffic Congestion in Decoding and Recoding of Genetic Message
    Ms. Bhavya Mishra(25/07/2019)

  • Novel tools for characterizing photon correlations in parametric down-conversion
    Mr. Girish Kulkarni(16/07/2019)


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Department of Physics

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, soft matter physics and atomic and molecular 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, 2019)

Manpower data:

1 Number of faculty members 43 (Full time: 41, Visiting: 2)
2 Number of staff members 28
3 Number of Inst. Post-doctoral fellows 6
4 Number of DST Inspire fellows 4
5 Number of women scientists 2
6 Number of Ph.D students 170
7 Number of M.Sc-Ph.D students 40
8 Number of M.Sc (2 yr) students 60
9 Number of B.S-M.S students 9
10 Number of B.S students 147

 

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. X-ray and Neutron Scattering Laboratory: Dr. S N Nandi
  21. Tandetron Accelerator Lab: Dr. Aditya H Kelkar
  22. Spectroscopic Investigation of Novel systems: Dr. Jayita Nayak
  23. Quantum Materials Laboratory: Dr. Chanchal Sow

 

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

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 or CSIR or UGC or PMRF). Admission is also granted directly to 4-yr undergraduate degree holders from IITs with a CPI more than 8.0. Admission is done once or twice in a year, depending on the availability of seats.

Recruitment criteria

Recruitment for Faculty positions: The institute announces on its website whenever a faculty recruitment portal is opened. Applications have to be submitted online and a departmental committee selects the applicants to be called for a seminar (skype or in person). Following the seminar, the application is recommended for an interview if found to be suitable. All the applications are studied by the selection committee and a decision is made by the selection committee appointed by the Director. Applicants are expected to have an exceptional academic record in their masters and doctoral studies, and 3 years of post-doctoral 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 does the short-listing, conducts written/trade tests and/or interviews as applicable and an institute-level committee makes the decision.