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".

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.

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

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

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. 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.

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.

Prof. Mahendra K.Verma (Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Cray HPC award.)

Dr. Saurabh Mani Tripathi (S. N. Seshadri Memorial Instrumentation Award in Physical Sciences for 2018)

Dr. Joydeep Chakrabortty (Buti Foundation Award for Excellence in Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Biophysics for 2018)

Dr.Suchita(Ph.D supervisor: Prof.R.Vijaya) is the co-recipient of the Best Thesis Award of Indian Laser Association this year. Suchita was a M.Sc-Ph.D dual degree student and defended her thesis in August 2018. She was presented with a certificate and a cash award of Rs.7,500 in the DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-27) held during December 3-6 at RRCAT, Indore.

Mr. Rajesh Kumar (PhD student of Prof.S.Anantha Ramakrishna) got the best poster award in the international conference PHOTONICS 2018 held in Delhi during 13-15 Dec 2018. He was presented with a certificate and a cash prize of Rs.10,000.

Poulami Nandi (Ph.D student of Dr.Arjun Bagchi ) has been awarded a Fulbright doctoral fellowship for a period of 9 months.

Pulastya Parekh (Ph.D student of Dr.Arjun Bagchi ) has been awarded a Junior Research Fellowship for spending 4 months at the Erwin Schrodinger Institute in Vienna.

Two Ph.D students, Supratim Das Bakshi and Sourav Biswas , are co-recipients of the Arepalli-Karumuri travel grant (administered by IIT Kanpur) for 2018.

We congratulate our alumni who are being conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award this year, in the category of Academic Excellence: Prof. G.Ravindra Kumar from TIFR (Ph.D, 1990) and Prof.Ashvin Vishwanath from Harvard (MSc5, 1996)

Prof. H.S.Mani (ex-professor from our department) will be honored as "Institute Fellow" for his distinguished service. The felicitation will be during the Foundation day celebrations on 2nd Nov, 2018.

Ms. Pratyasha Sahani, Ph.D. student of Physics (Supervisor: Prof. R.Vijaya) has received the Best Poster Award in "OSI - International Symposium on Optics" organised at IIT Kanpur during 19-22 September, 2018. The title of her poster was "Planar photonic crystal as a polarizer for the out-of-plane incidence of light", The award consists of a certificate and a cash award of Rs. 3500.

Dr. Anupam Guleria, who did her Ph.D in our dept earlier and is presently working at the Centre of Biomedical Research (CBMR), SGPGI Lucknow, has received the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee award 2018.

Mr. Dibya Jyoti Sivananda, Ph.D. student of Physics (Supervisor: Prof. Satyajit Banerjee) has received the Best Poster Award in "National Conference On Quantum Condensed Matter(Q-Mat)," organised at IISER Mohali, India from 25th - 27th July, 2018. The title of his poster was "Stepwise disintegration of magnetic domains in a EuB6 single crystal observed by magneto-optical imaging". The award consists of a certificate and a cash award of Rs. 5000.

Sudarshana Laha, (Roll no. 17109869) Ph.D. student of Physics (Supervisor: Prof. Amit Dutta) has received the best poster award in "National Conference On Quantum Condensed Matter," organised at IISER Mohali, India from 25th - 27th July, 2018. The award consists of a certificate and a cash award of Rs. 5000.