Correlated Quantum Matter Workshop
A two-day workshop on “Correlated Quantum Matter” is to be held in IISER Kolkata between 18-19 Apr...
DPS Day and CESSI@10
Physics days is an annual celebration of Physics conducted by the Department of Physical Sciences and ass...
Visit from OUAT, Bhubaneswar
College students (BSc) from OUAT, Bhubaneswar came to visit DPS labs on 6th March 2024 from 10:00 to 1...
The Department of Physical Science of IISER Kolkata has several postdoc openings. The application dead...
Ph.D. programme for the Autumn of 2024
IISER Kolkata invites applications from motivated students for admission to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) programme for the Autumn of 2024. The selected candidates can do a Ph.D. in any of the following disciplines: Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Computational and Data Sciences, Earth Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathema...
Dr. Debdatta Ray becomes an Assistant Professor at IIT, Kanpur
We are very happy to know that our former INSPIRE fellow Dr. Debdatta Ray has joined the Electrical Engin...
Niladri Modak received the Best Thesis Award at NPC 2024
Our former DPS PhD student Niladri Modak’s Ph.D.
thesis titled "Weak Measurements in Spin-Orbit Optica...
Best Paper Award for Jeeban Kumar Nayak
The DPS PhD student Jeeban Kumar Nayak’s paper titled, “Spin-Direction-Spin Coupling of Quasiguided M...
DPS Picnic: 2024
We have the fun-filled DPS picnic on the 3rd of February, 2024. Thanks to all the volunteers .. ...
Research Meet: 2024
The DPS will be hosting its Annual Research Meet this year on 19-20 January 2024. The program will showca...
Prof. Ayan Banerjee is the new DoSA!
Prof. Ayan Banerjee, DPS has been appointed w.e.f 01.02.2024 as the Dean of Students' Affairs (DoSA) for ...
Prof. Rangeet Bhattacharyya is the new DoAA!
Prof. Rangeet Bhattacharyya, DPS has been appointed w.e.f 01.02.2024 as the Dean of Academic Affairs (DoA...
Prof. Dibyendu Nandi received the Peraiah Foundation Lectureship Award
Prof. Dibyendu Nandi received the Peraiah Foundation Lectureship Award for the year 2023. The lectureship...
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi leads the building of a Center of Quantum computing.
Our former colleague Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi joined Siksha 'O' Anusandh University, Bhubaneswar with ...
Prof. Soumitra Banerjee: Director of IISER Kolkata.
Prof. Soumitra Banerjee of DPS has been assigned the charge of the Director of IISER Kolkata. Congratulat...
Sakshi Gupta joined Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) as a scientist!
DPS Ph.D. student Sakshi Gupta was offered a Scientist position at the Defence Research and Development O...
Yoshita Baruah was awarded a SCOSTEP Visiting Scholarship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
DPS Integrated Ph.D. student Yoshita Baruah was awarded a SCOSTEP Visiting Scholarship at NASA Goddard Sp...
Faculty Positions Available! Application Deadline: 10 December, 2023
The Department of Physical Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata...
Physical Reviwew Letter publication by Mr. Adway Kumar Das and Dr. Anandamohan Ghosh. Congratulations!
Adway Kumar Das, Anandamohan Ghosh, Ivan M. Khaymovich published in Physical Review Letters (Vol. 131, No...
Joint research of bioNap & Light Matter Lab is in the cover page of Physical Review Letters!
“Spin-Direction-Spin Coupling of Quasiguided Modes in Plasmonic Crystals” has been published in Phys....
IISER Kolkata wins GOLD in iGEM 2023!
The IISER Kolkata iGEM team has bagged Gold in the iGEM 2023 competition. The team included three student...
Visit from New Alipore Multipurpose School, Kolkata
On October 11th, around 65 students from New Alipore Multipurpose School, Kolkata visited our Institut...
Outreach for Bhaluka High School
35 students (Class XI and XII) from Bhaluka High School, Bhaluka, Nadia visited DPS on 11th October. They...
PhD Advertisement
We are accepting Ph.D. applications for the Spring Semester 2024. The application deadline is 19th Octobe...
EQUITUITION by GLUON!
Gluon is extremely thrilled to announce the long anticipated event Equituition! For those probably wonder...
𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗨𝗡!
Prof. Dibyendu Nandi and a team of students and staff from CESSI and Physics were invited to witness the ...
NB on Teachers' Day!
On this Teachers' Day, the 5th of September 2023, IISER Kolkata felicitated Prof. Narayan Banerjee. ...
Welcome to the new Ph.D. batch
Welcome to our new batch of Ph.D. students! We wish you a fruitful research experience in the coming year...
Students from Satish Chandra memorial School, Chakdaha, visited DPS labs
On 16 August 2023, about 50 students (of class XI) and a couple of teachers from Satish Chandra Memorial ...
'UNIVERSE' written by our postdoctoral fellow Dr. P. C. Lalremruati!
This book, "UNIVERSE" written in the Mizo language, is part of an
astronomy outreach for the local Mizo ...
Welcome to our new I-Ph.D students!
We heartily welcome our new batch of students for the Integrated Ph.D. program. Nine bright students join...
Bibha Chowdhuri Memorial Lecture by Prof. Aditi Sen De
The 2nd Bibha Chowdhuri Memorial Lecture in celebration of women in science will be delivered by Prof....
Doctor of Philosophy Programme at the Department of Physical Sciences (DPS): Special interview for the Autumn 2023 semester (only for candidates qualifying for the NET-JRF fellowship)
Timeline:
Ph.D. application portal opens : 1.08.2023
Publication of shortlist for Interview: 7.08.2023
Selection Interview : 10.0...
Vigyan Pratibha workshop for school teachers at IISER Kolkata
Vigyan Pratibha (https://vigyanpratibha.in/) is organizing a workshop for school teachers at IISER Kolkat...
𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 for Niladri Modak
Niladri Modak, IPhD student of the Department of Physical Sciences (DPS) and working in the bio-optics...
STATPHYS KOLKATA XII @ IISER KOLKATA FROM 18-22 DECEMBER, 2023
Along with S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, IISER Kolkata will organize STATPHY...
Director’s Gold Medal and Chairman’s Gold Medal for Suprabha Mukhopadhyay.
Congratulations Suprabha Mukhopadhyay (18MS095) for receiving both Director’s Gold Medal (highest CGPA ...
Fazal Kareem, a DPS undergraduate student, is a part of the collaboration of the gravitational wave discovery.
Indian Pulsar Timing Array reports early signs of a Gravitational Wave background in our combined dataset...
10th Convocation of IISER Kolkata
We congratulate all DPS students (BS-MS - 54, BS - 1, I-PhD - 7, Ph.D. - 7) who graduated this year. We w...
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi turning 65!
In honor of our senior colleague Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi turning 65 this June 2023, we will be having...
DPS student involved in 12 exoplanets hunt using statistical tools
Surendra Bhattarai (19MS136) and his team worked on exoplanets detection using Statistical tools like ...
Commemoration the birth centenary of Prof. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
IISER-Kolkata and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, are jointly orga...
Adway Kumar Das received Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship.
We are happy to share the news that Adway Kumar Das, Ph.D. student of Prof. Anandamohan Ghosh of DPS, has...
ADG receives INSA Teachers Award!
On an occasion on 9th May 2023, our very own ADG (Dr. Ananda Dasgupta) received the INSA Teachers Award. ...
Dr. Arnab Chakrabarti becomes an Assistant Professor!
Good news from the Spin Lab! Our former member Dr. Arnab Chakrabarti joined as an assistant professor in ...
Soumya Mukherjee wins the best poster prize!
Congratulations to Soumya Mukherjee from Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy Group and IISER Kolkata Department of...
Dr. Debdatta Ray is awarded the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship
Dr. Debdatta Ray, a National Post-Doctoral Fellow, working in bioNAP lab, Department of Physical Sciences...
Advertisement for the upcoming admission of the BS-MS program at the Institute.
The details can be found here....
DPS DAY: 2023
Annual DPS Day will be hosted on the 17th and 18th of March 2023. The main theme of the DPS Day will be "...
Nilanjana Chanda wins the Best Paper Presentation award
Nilanjana Chanda, a DPS IPhD student working under the supervision of Prof. Rangeet Bhattacharyya, won th...
DPS Research Meet
We hosted an internal research meeting on the 10th and 11th of February 2023 where all faculty members di...
DPS Picnic
Is there a better way to spend a Winter day than having a departmental picnic? ...
INSA Teacher Award 2022 for ADG
Many congratulations to our very own ADG (Dr. Ananda Dasgupta) for the INSA Teacher Award 2022. The INSA ...
DPS hosted Yuval Gefen as an Institute Colloquium Speaker
Prof. Yuval Gefen, The Isabelle and Samuel Friedman Professor of Theoretical Physics , The Weizmann Inst...
DPS Outreach
On 5th January 2023, thirty-five B.Sc students from Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College visited o...
IISER Kolkata is the winner of IICM 2022
It is an honour for the Department of Physical Sciences to have talented students who made us proud by ma...
Deadline extended
Please note that the deadline for applications for postdoctoral positions has been extended to January 15...
IAGRG Meeting: 2022
32nd Meeting of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG32) hosted by IISER Kolka...
Raj takes charge of Dean, Research and Development
Prof. Satyabrata Raj has recently been appointed as the Dean of Research and Development. Congratulations...
Dr. Samrat Roy won the Best Thesis award
Dr. Samrat Roy won the Best Thesis award in the National Laser Symposium that recently took place at IIT-...
Rajni wins essay competition
Mrs. Rajni Marick from DPS received the 1st prize in an essay writing competition held during Vigilance A...
Prof. Nirmalya Ghosh: Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
Prof. Nirmalya Ghosh, Professor, Department of Physical Sciences has been elected as a Fellow of the Nati...
Qauntum Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism
Congratulations Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi on his new book! The book is published by Springer
...
PMRF @ DPS
Congratulations to Sampurna Karmakar and Saikat Dutta from DPS for receiving the prestigious PMRF fellows...
Dr. Sayan Choudhury from DPS joins Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Our Alumni Dr. Sayan Choudhury from DPS has joined Harish-Chandra Research Institute as a faculty. He is ...
World’s Top 2% Scientists
Congratulations to Prof. Soumitro Banerjee from DPS for being enlisted in the "World’s Top 2% Scientist...
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi assumes the charge of Director, IISER Kolkata
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Professor DPS has been assigned the charge of Director, IISER Kolkata w.e.f ...
ICTP Associate
Dr. Koushik Dutta has become an Associate of Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Tr...
CONVERGENCE
On the occasion of Teachers' Day, on the first floor of the TRC building, the DPS started the 'CONVERGENC...
Rumi as a Women in STEM: Vanguards of lndia@75
We are extremely happy and delighted to share that Dr. Rumi De is a part of the group of 125 women chosen...
DPS Video
As promised, here is much awaited DPS movie! Do circulate it among your friends and in your social networ...
Correlated Quantum Matter Workshop
A two-day workshop on “Correlated Quantum Matter” is to be held in IISER Kolkata between 18-19 Apr...
DPS Day and CESSI@10
Physics days is an annual celebration of Physics conducted by the Department of Physical Sciences and ass...
Visit from OUAT, Bhubaneswar
College students (BSc) from OUAT, Bhubaneswar came to visit DPS labs on 6th March 2024 from 10:00 to 1...
Ph.D. programme for the Autumn of 2024
IISER Kolkata invites applications from motivated students for admission to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) programme for the Autumn of 2024. The selected candidates can do a Ph.D. in any of the following disciplines: Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Computational and Data Sciences, Earth Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathema...
Niladri Modak received the Best Thesis Award at NPC 2024
Our former DPS PhD student Niladri Modak’s Ph.D.
thesis titled "Weak Measurements in Spin-Orbit Optica...
Best Paper Award for Jeeban Kumar Nayak
The DPS PhD student Jeeban Kumar Nayak’s paper titled, “Spin-Direction-Spin Coupling of Quasiguided M...
Research Meet: 2024
The DPS will be hosting its Annual Research Meet this year on 19-20 January 2024. The program will showca...
Prof. Ayan Banerjee is the new DoSA!
Prof. Ayan Banerjee, DPS has been appointed w.e.f 01.02.2024 as the Dean of Students' Affairs (DoSA) for ...
Prof. Rangeet Bhattacharyya is the new DoAA!
Prof. Rangeet Bhattacharyya, DPS has been appointed w.e.f 01.02.2024 as the Dean of Academic Affairs (DoA...
Prof. Dibyendu Nandi received the Peraiah Foundation Lectureship Award
Prof. Dibyendu Nandi received the Peraiah Foundation Lectureship Award for the year 2023. The lectureship...
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi leads the building of a Center of Quantum computing.
Our former colleague Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi joined Siksha 'O' Anusandh University, Bhubaneswar with ...
Prof. Soumitra Banerjee: Director of IISER Kolkata.
Prof. Soumitra Banerjee of DPS has been assigned the charge of the Director of IISER Kolkata. Congratulat...
Sakshi Gupta joined Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) as a scientist!
DPS Ph.D. student Sakshi Gupta was offered a Scientist position at the Defence Research and Development O...
Yoshita Baruah was awarded a SCOSTEP Visiting Scholarship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
DPS Integrated Ph.D. student Yoshita Baruah was awarded a SCOSTEP Visiting Scholarship at NASA Goddard Sp...
Faculty Positions Available! Application Deadline: 10 December, 2023
The Department of Physical Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata...
Physical Reviwew Letter publication by Mr. Adway Kumar Das and Dr. Anandamohan Ghosh. Congratulations!
Adway Kumar Das, Anandamohan Ghosh, Ivan M. Khaymovich published in Physical Review Letters (Vol. 131, No...
Joint research of bioNap & Light Matter Lab is in the cover page of Physical Review Letters!
“Spin-Direction-Spin Coupling of Quasiguided Modes in Plasmonic Crystals” has been published in Phys....
IISER Kolkata wins GOLD in iGEM 2023!
The IISER Kolkata iGEM team has bagged Gold in the iGEM 2023 competition. The team included three student...
EQUITUITION by GLUON!
Gluon is extremely thrilled to announce the long anticipated event Equituition! For those probably wonder...
𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗨𝗡!
Prof. Dibyendu Nandi and a team of students and staff from CESSI and Physics were invited to witness the ...
'UNIVERSE' written by our postdoctoral fellow Dr. P. C. Lalremruati!
This book, "UNIVERSE" written in the Mizo language, is part of an
astronomy outreach for the local Mizo ...
Vigyan Pratibha workshop for school teachers at IISER Kolkata
Vigyan Pratibha (https://vigyanpratibha.in/) is organizing a workshop for school teachers at IISER Kolkat...
𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 for Niladri Modak
Niladri Modak, IPhD student of the Department of Physical Sciences (DPS) and working in the bio-optics...
STATPHYS KOLKATA XII @ IISER KOLKATA FROM 18-22 DECEMBER, 2023
Along with S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, IISER Kolkata will organize STATPHY...
Director’s Gold Medal and Chairman’s Gold Medal for Suprabha Mukhopadhyay.
Congratulations Suprabha Mukhopadhyay (18MS095) for receiving both Director’s Gold Medal (highest CGPA ...
Fazal Kareem, a DPS undergraduate student, is a part of the collaboration of the gravitational wave discovery.
Indian Pulsar Timing Array reports early signs of a Gravitational Wave background in our combined dataset...
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi turning 65!
In honor of our senior colleague Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi turning 65 this June 2023, we will be having...
DPS student involved in 12 exoplanets hunt using statistical tools
Surendra Bhattarai (19MS136) and his team worked on exoplanets detection using Statistical tools like ...
Commemoration the birth centenary of Prof. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
IISER-Kolkata and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, are jointly orga...
Adway Kumar Das received Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship.
We are happy to share the news that Adway Kumar Das, Ph.D. student of Prof. Anandamohan Ghosh of DPS, has...
ADG receives INSA Teachers Award!
On an occasion on 9th May 2023, our very own ADG (Dr. Ananda Dasgupta) received the INSA Teachers Award. ...
Dr. Arnab Chakrabarti becomes an Assistant Professor!
Good news from the Spin Lab! Our former member Dr. Arnab Chakrabarti joined as an assistant professor in ...
Soumya Mukherjee wins the best poster prize!
Congratulations to Soumya Mukherjee from Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy Group and IISER Kolkata Department of...
Dr. Debdatta Ray is awarded the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship
Dr. Debdatta Ray, a National Post-Doctoral Fellow, working in bioNAP lab, Department of Physical Sciences...
Nilanjana Chanda wins the Best Paper Presentation award
Nilanjana Chanda, a DPS IPhD student working under the supervision of Prof. Rangeet Bhattacharyya, won th...
DPS hosted Yuval Gefen as an Institute Colloquium Speaker
Prof. Yuval Gefen, The Isabelle and Samuel Friedman Professor of Theoretical Physics , The Weizmann Inst...
IISER Kolkata is the winner of IICM 2022
It is an honour for the Department of Physical Sciences to have talented students who made us proud by ma...
IAGRG Meeting: 2022
32nd Meeting of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG32) hosted by IISER Kolka...
Raj takes charge of Dean, Research and Development
Prof. Satyabrata Raj has recently been appointed as the Dean of Research and Development. Congratulations...
Qauntum Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism
Congratulations Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi on his new book! The book is published by Springer
...
PMRF @ DPS
Congratulations to Sampurna Karmakar and Saikat Dutta from DPS for receiving the prestigious PMRF fellows...
Dr. Sayan Choudhury from DPS joins Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Our Alumni Dr. Sayan Choudhury from DPS has joined Harish-Chandra Research Institute as a faculty. He is ...
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi assumes the charge of Director, IISER Kolkata
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Professor DPS has been assigned the charge of Director, IISER Kolkata w.e.f ...
ICTP Associate
Dr. Koushik Dutta has become an Associate of Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Tr...
CONVERGENCE
On the occasion of Teachers' Day, on the first floor of the TRC building, the DPS started the 'CONVERGENC...
Rumi as a Women in STEM: Vanguards of lndia@75
We are extremely happy and delighted to share that Dr. Rumi De is a part of the group of 125 women chosen...
DPS Video
As promised, here is much awaited DPS movie! Do circulate it among your friends and in your social networ...
Ultra stable three-dimensional Photophoretic trap in air facilitated by single Multimode fiber.
Research Highlight: Light-Matter Lab
Title: Ultra stable three-dimensional...
This work discerns, for the first time, the effects of the electric and magnetic f...
In 1967, Sir Nevill F. Mott's pioneering work argued that the extended and the loc...
Spin-direction-spin coupling of quasiguided modes in plasmonic metamaterials
Simultaneous demonstration of the forward (left) and inverse (right) spin Hall eff...
Research Highlights from Ultrafast and Terahertz spectroscopy (UFTS) group led by Dr. Kamaraju
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) in monolayer or few-layers form have attracted significant interest due to their intriguing physical properties, such as layer-dependent band structure, high exciton binding energy, valley selective opt...
Lattice anharmonicity and incomplete soft mode
Harvesting and use of solar energy as an alternate source of green energy has generat...
A Surprising Link between Cosmic Magnetism and Life
Exploration of planets in our own solar system and the discovery of more than 5000...
Radio telescopes detected the gravitational waves hum by studying pulsars
On June 29, an international group of scientists recorded the hum of the gravitati...
Research Highlights from Ultrafast and Terahertz spectroscopy (UFTS) group led by Dr. Kamaraju Natarajan
Covellite (CuS) is a direct band gap p-type semiconductor with a high intrinsic hole population causing localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) in NIR regime. Though these highly dense (~10 21 /cm 3 ) hole populations have imme...
Frustration. We think we understand it, and how to deal with it. But what does fru...
Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy Group: Investigation of conductivity and shielding efficiency of the free-standing PVA-GO-Ag composite thin films in terahertz regime using time domain terahertz spectroscopy
In this work, the researchers from ultrafast and THz lab at IISER Kolkata have prepared five free-standing films of PVA-GO-Ag composites by varying AgNP weight fractions (0.0 wt. % to 0.64 wt. %) and investigated them using our home-built THz-TDS setup in 0.45 to 2.45 THz range. Complex THz conductivities of these materials have been fitted using u...
Position-position classical entanglement of light from bioNap research group (Prof. Nirmalya Ghosh)
"Position-position classical entanglement of light" has been published in Lasers & Ph...
Photoexcited Ultrafast Dynamics of Free Carriers and Polarons in V2O5 Microparticles through Time-Resolved Nondegenerate Pump Probe Spectroscopy (Dr. Kamaraju Natarajan
)
V2O5 is a very promising material with a wide range of applications, including light harvesting, energy storage, photocatalysis, photodetectors, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and wave guides. However, for optimal device performance as well as from a fundamental physics point of view, a proper understanding of carrier dynamics in V2O5 based sy...
Dr. H. V. Ragavendra publishes in Physical Review Letters: Observing Nulling of Primordial Correlations via the 21-cm Signal
The behavior of primordial quantum fluctuations generated during inflation dictates t...
