Appointment of Prof. Dhananjay Nandi as the Head of the Department
We are happy to inform you that Prof. Dhananjay Nandi has taken charge of the Chair, DPS from September 6...
Observing a Century of Quantum Mechanics
A 4-day international conference on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
A hundred years of the development of quantum mechanics is approaching. As we know, speedy developments happened from 1924 to 1927. Even though we are approaching a century of its existence, many problems relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics remain unsolved. <...
Undergrad vision: Young physicists' symposium
Date: 25th August 2024
Time: 2:00 PM IST
Venue: Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, RC
This unique initiative by Gluon offers the younger members of DPS, along with other BS-MS students, a platform to share their insights with peers. In our opening session, six speakers will present their ideas on various fields, ranging from a...
Bibha Chowdhuri Memorial Lecture: Prof. Vandana Nanal (TIFR Mumbai) -- Is neutrino its own antiparticle?
The nuclear beta decay revealed the existence of neutrino more than eight decades ago, but the neutrino s...
Dr. Raghunath Ghara joins as a Ramanujan Fellow
Dr. Raghunath Ghara has recently joined DPS, IISER-Kolkata as a Ramanujan Fellow. His research area is As...
DPS Outreach
The children affected by Manipur violence recently took part in outreach activities organised by the DPS....
Convocation 2024
Congratulations to all the graduating students from the Department of Physical Sciences. This year, twent...
Director's Gold Medals
Congratulations Varun Kushwaha and Deyasini Roy for winning Director's Gold Medals...
Chairman's Medal of Excellence
Congratulations to Dhavala Sai Srinivas for winning the Chairman's Medal of Excellence!...
Dr. Prantika Bhowmik joins IISc as an Assistant Professor
It is a matter of immense pride to us that our alumni, Dr. Prantika Bhowmik, PhD student of Prof. Diby...
Anand Dev Ranjan awarded an SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship
Anand Dev Ranjan has been awarded a 2024 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE, the International S...
Jeeban Kumar Nayak awarded an SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship
Jeeban Kumar Nayak has been awarded a 2024 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE, the international...
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...
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...
Correlated Quantum Matter Workshop
A two-day workshop on “Correlated Quantum Matter” is to be held in IISER Kolkata between 18-19 Apr...
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...
Appointment of Prof. Dhananjay Nandi as the Head of the Department
We are happy to inform you that Prof. Dhananjay Nandi has taken charge of the Chair, DPS from September 6...
Observing a Century of Quantum Mechanics
A 4-day international conference on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
A hundred years of the development of quantum mechanics is approaching. As we know, speedy developments happened from 1924 to 1927. Even though we are approaching a century of its existence, many problems relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics remain unsolved. <...
Undergrad vision: Young physicists' symposium
Date: 25th August 2024
Time: 2:00 PM IST
Venue: Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, RC
This unique initiative by Gluon offers the younger members of DPS, along with other BS-MS students, a platform to share their insights with peers. In our opening session, six speakers will present their ideas on various fields, ranging from a...
Bibha Chowdhuri Memorial Lecture: Prof. Vandana Nanal (TIFR Mumbai) -- Is neutrino its own antiparticle?
The nuclear beta decay revealed the existence of neutrino more than eight decades ago, but the neutrino s...
Dr. Raghunath Ghara joins as a Ramanujan Fellow
Dr. Raghunath Ghara has recently joined DPS, IISER-Kolkata as a Ramanujan Fellow. His research area is As...
Director's Gold Medals
Congratulations Varun Kushwaha and Deyasini Roy for winning Director's Gold Medals...
Chairman's Medal of Excellence
Congratulations to Dhavala Sai Srinivas for winning the Chairman's Medal of Excellence!...
Dr. Prantika Bhowmik joins IISc as an Assistant Professor
It is a matter of immense pride to us that our alumni, Dr. Prantika Bhowmik, PhD student of Prof. Diby...
Anand Dev Ranjan awarded an SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship
Anand Dev Ranjan has been awarded a 2024 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE, the International S...
Jeeban Kumar Nayak awarded an SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship
Jeeban Kumar Nayak has been awarded a 2024 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE, the international...
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...
Correlated Quantum Matter Workshop
A two-day workshop on “Correlated Quantum Matter” is to be held in IISER Kolkata between 18-19 Apr...
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...
Probing Shallow and Deep Oxygen Traps in Binary Transition Metal Oxide, CoV2O6, Using Ultrafast Pump Probe Spectroscopy
Title: Probing Shallow and Deep Oxygen Traps in Binary Transition Metal Oxide, CoV2O6...
Patterning biomolecules (including proteins such as antigens and antibodies) in pre-designed, parallel architectures can be a game-changer in rapid, inexpensive diagnostics. However, typical patterning methodologies, including top-down approaches such as photolithography and e-beam lithography, or bottom-up approaches such as solgel nanofabricat...
Ultra stable three-dimensional Photophoretic trap in air facilitated by single Multimode fiber.
Research Highlight: Light-Matter Lab
Title: Ultra stable three-dimensional...
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...
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...