Research State of the art research facilities available in the department Teaching India's top most instructors ready to guide in various fields of Physics Outreach Outreach activities going on through out the year in the department Current and Upcoming Events Physics Society RSD 2026 Research Scholars Day Prof. Anindya Das, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 27-28th March 2026 (9:30 AM to 6:00 PM) Outreach Auditorium Physics Society Outreach Lecture 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Discovery of Macroscopic Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling and Energy Quantization in an Electric Circuit Prof. Anjan Kumar Gupta, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur 17 February 2026 (5:00 PM) LHC 16 (Lecture Hall Complex) View all outreach events... | View all colloquium... Announcements Awards & Honours Calendar Announcements List of Projects 2026-27-I Semester PhD Admission July 2026 For consideration in the current round of evaluations for Institute Post Doctoral Fellowships, please put in your application by February 15, 2026. Applications received after this will only be considered in the next round. List of Projects 2025-26-II Semester List of Selected Candidate: PhD Admission 25-26-II SEM Interview Schedule for Shortlisted Candidates List of Shortlisted Cadidates for Online Interview PHD Admission January 2026 PG Electives (Sem-II, 2025-26) UG Electives (Sem-II, 2025-26) List of Selected Candidate:Ph.D Admission Semester-1 2025-26 Revised Interview Schedule List of Shortlisted Candidate for interview List of Projects for 2025-2026-I Semester Ph.D. Admissions Semester-1 2025-26 PG Electives (Sem-I, 2025-26) UG Electives (Sem-I, 2025-26) List of courses PHY 2025-2026-I Semester Apply for Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Application received till February 28, 2025 will be considered for the next round of selection. List of Projects for 2024-25 2nd Semester UG Electives Sem-II 2024-25 PG Electives (Sem-II, 2024-25) List of courses for 2024-2025-II Semester Apply for Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Application received till July 31, 2024 will be considered for the next round of selection to be held in August 2024 Awards & Honours Mr. Aman Khosla (Ph.D. Student, Supervisor: Prof. Rohit Medwal) , secured third position in the Telecom 5G/6G CoE Hackathon (FY 2025–26) program supported by StartInUP, Government of Uttar Pradesh.He has won a grant of ₹3 Lakhs for a project duration of up to 12 months. Mr. Aman Agrahari (Ph.D. Student, Supervisor: Prof. Rohit Medwal) has been selected for the India-Japan science research exchange LOTUS Programme 2026-2027. Mr. Debojit Chanda (Ph.D. Student, Supervisor: Prof. Manas Khan) was awarded the second-best-poster at the International Conference: Interdisciplinary Applications of Magnetic and Optical Tweezers (MTOT2025). Ms. Deepika Behmani (Ph.D. Student, Supervisor: Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee) has received the 'AAPPS-DPP Poster Prize 2025' at the 9th Asia Pacific Conference in Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2025) held in Fukuoka, Japan, from 21st to 26th September 2025. The title of the poster was "Flow field dynamics in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet: A tale of turbulence and transition." and is co-authored with Deepika Behmani (presenting author), Pawan K. Karn, Debopam Das, and Sudeep Bhattacharjee (thesis supervisor). Prof. Koushik Pal has been selected as a fellow of the Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Mahendra Kumar Verma has been published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Prof. Amit Kumar Agarwal has been selected for the “Rastriya Vigyan Puraskar: Vigyan Yuva - Shanti swarup Bhatnagar” award. Prof. Amit Agarwal has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Science of India (NASI) Prof. Manoj Harbola has been awarded 25 years of Distinguished Service Award (2025) Prof. Arijit Kundu has been awarded "Excellence in Teaching Award" (2024) Prof Amit Agarwal has been awarded P.K. Kelkar Chair of IIT Kanpur with effect from June 15, 2024 for a period of 3 years. Prof. Supratik Banerjee has been awarded P.K. Kelkar Fellowship with effect from September 09, 2024 for a period of 3 years. (Late) Prof. Amit Dutta was awarded Distinguished Teacher Award (2023) Prof. Gautam Sengupta has been awarded for 25 years of Distinguished Service (2023) Prof. Manoj Harbola has been awarded Excellence in Teaching Award (2023) Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee has been awarded Excellence-in-Teaching Award (2023) Mr. Rishabh Verma (Advisor: Prof. Rohit Medwal) has been awarded the prestigious Chanakya Fellowship, I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation, IISER Pune. (2023) Mr. Pushpendra Kumar Yadav (Ph.D. Student, Advisor: Prof. Amit Agarwal) received the best poster award for his presentation entitled "Room temperature electron-hole liquid phase in monolayer MOSi2Z4 (Z=pinctogen) at International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. (2023) Mr. Bheemsehan Gurjar [Advisor: Dipankar Chakrabarti] 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. (2023) Ms. Garima Bawa PhD. student at the Department of Physics got the Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Medal in the convocation held in 2023 View all awards & honours... Calendar Featured Highlights Prof. Amit Agarwal
