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  • Research

    The Department is involved in quality research in multidisciplinary areas. Research work in the department can be broadly be classified in following groups,

    • Astronomy and Cosmology
    • Atomic and Molecular Physics
    • Condensed Matter Physics
    • Nuclear and Particle Physics
    • Optical and Plasma Physics
    • Statistical Physics and Complex Systems
    A brief presentation of departmental research profile can be downloaded from here. 
     
    Various research groups along with their members are listed as follows,
     
     
     
     Astronomy and Cosmology:
    • Biswanath Layek : Phase transitions in the early universe, Baryogenesis, Lithium problem in Big Bang Nucleosythesis (BBN)
    • Kaushar Vaidya : Observational Astronomy, Star formation
    • Tapomoy Guha Sarkar : Cosmological structure formation, Understanding of the nature of Dark energy

    Brief presentation of the activities of the Astro club can be downloaded from here. 

     
     
    Atomic and Molecular Physics:
    • D.D. Pant : Excited state dynamics, surface second harmonic generation, fluorescence up-conversion.
    • Rakesh Choubisa : Study of ionization differential cross-section and its applications
    • Kusum Lata : Collision of microscopic particles
     
     
    Experimental Condensed Matter Physics : 

     

    Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics :

    • Navin Singh : DNA protein interaction, biopolymer zipping unzipping transition dynamics
    • Debashis Bandyopadhyay : Nanoclusters and cluster assembly, Alloys phase diagram, superatoms, Li-ion batteries, Catalysis, H2 storage, TM@Si,Ge clusters
    • Niladri Sarkar : Nanostructured Transport, Physics of Nanoscale Devices, Electronic Transport of Mesoscopic Systems
    • R.R. Mishra : CNT, CNT-FET
    • S.N. Karbelkar : Physics of Graphene 
     

    Nuclear and Particle Physics: 

    • Biswanath Layek : QCD Phenomenology, QGP physics in the context of URHIC
    • Champak Baran Das : Nuclear break up process, Liquid-Gas phase transition of nuclear matter
    • Madhukar Mishra : Particle physics beyond standard model, QGP, Heavy ion collision, AdS/CFT correspondence and its application to QCD
    • Rishikesh Vaidya : Particle physics beyond standard model including supersymmetry, neutrino physics and flavor physics
     

    Optical and Plasma Physics :

    • Amol Holkundkar : Laser Plasma Interaction, Atomic clusters, Particle acceleration, Particles-in-cell simulations
    • S. N. Karbelkar : Quantum Optics, Wave propagation in random medium 

     
    Statistical Physics and Complex Systems:
    • J.N. Bandyopadhyay : QM in biological processes, Quantum nonlinear dynamical systems and random matrix analysis
    • Kunal Bhattarchaya : Collective motion in different systems, Structure and function of social, biological and economy networks
    • Niladri Sarkar : Application of Markov chain, Mesoscopic and Atomistic transport
    • Rakesh Choubisa : Application of non-linear discrete maps in cryptography
    • Navin Singh : Phase transitions in biological systems, Breaking of polymer networks


  • Funded Projects

    UGC's Special Assistant Programme (SAP), DRS-I
    Coordinator: Dr. R. R. Mishra
    Deputy Coordinator: Dr. Raj Kumar Gupta
    DST

    Design and characterization of electrochromic rear view mirrors using conducting polymers
    PI: Dr. S. Sindhu
    CO-PI: Dr. Manjuladevi V.
    DST's Instrument Development Programme
     
    Development of Surface Plasmon Resonance Instrument using a Novel Optical Design
    PI: Dr. Raj Kumar Gupta
    CO-PI: Dr. Manjuladevi V.
    DST's FAST TRACK
     
    Crystallization studies on AgI & CuI based superionic glasses
    PI: Dr. Anshuman Dalvi
    Study of spin polarization of electrons in the relativistic (e,3e) process in atom
    PI: Dr. Rakesh Choubisa
     
    Studies on electo-optic efect of liquid crystals
    PI: Dr. Manjuladevi V.
    UGC's Major
     
    Force induced unzipping in biopolymers
    PI: Dr. Navin Singh

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