Department of Physics

Overview

The Department of Physics at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus currently has fifteen faculty members whose research interest spans experimental and theoretical aspects of condensed matter physics, optics and spectroscopy, high energy physics and astrophysics, field theory, quantum computation, non-linear dynamics and chaos,nuclear physics and statistical mechanics.

The department offers a four year M.Sc. (Hons.) program with plus two students as input and the admissions are made based on the BITSAT exam score. We also offer a Ph.D program in physics which is open to students with an M. Sc. Degree.

People

We are currently fifteen faculty members whose research interests span experimental and theoretical aspects of condensed matter physics, optics, spectroscopy, high energy physics and astrophysics, field theory, nuclear physics, quantum computation, non-linear dynamics and chaos and statistical mechanics. Currently, we have 5 research scholars and two technical assistant.

Courses

The Physics Department offers an MSc and a PhD program in Physics. Courses geared to these programs are offered, apart from a large number of basic physics course for undergraduates and cross-disciplinary electives.

Research

We have research interests in varied areas of Experimental, Theoretical and Computational physics. Our faculty members have research grants from funding agencies such as DST, SERB, CSIR, BRNS, DBT etc. State-of-art laboratories in Optics and Solid State Physics are being developed. We have five research scholars working in various areas.

Activities

Institute Development and infrastructure: Apart from building state-of-the art laboratories for physics, we also maintain the campus LMS photon, which runs on the open source Moodle LMS. It currently supports 200 odd courses running across disciplines on the Goa Campus.
Courses: We offer programs leading to MSc (hons) and PhD in Physics. We also run basic physics courses and laboratories for undergraduate engineering students, apart from offering multi-discipline electives.

Conferences, Workshops and Schools:

A workshop on higgs and top quark physics- HIGGSTOP-2013.
"SERC Preparatory school in Theoretical High Energy Physics(THEP), 2010", 20th Oct. to 15th Nov. 2010.
"GMW workshop on fast Track Young Scientist Project in Physical and Mathematical Science" during 21-22 September,2009

News and Views

W'shop/C'fnce/S'hool
A workshop on Higgs and top quark physics

From 25th February to 27th February, 2013
Jointly organized by BITS-Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, RECAAP,Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad and DST, Government of India.
Prasanta Kumar Das (Convener)
Last date of registration 20th January, 2013.
Click here for more details.

Upcoming:: IAPT (Indian Association for Physics Teachers) Workshop in Statistical Mechanics for Physics Teachers, jointly organized by the Physics Department of BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus and Department of Science and Technology and Environment, Govt. of Goa will be held on 22 and 23- March'2013. For details contact Prof. Arun V. Kulkarni.

Upcoming:: Second DST Program Advisory Committees’ (PACs’) meeting on“Plasma, High Energy, Nuclear Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Nonlinear Dynamics” during April 22-23, 2013. Click here for more details.

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