Research
We explore the Universe, literally, from the smallest to the largest scales, not just in terms of length but also in energy and time. We spy on exotic particles whizzing inside colliders. We worry about how a collection of particles behave at extreme temperatures, pressures and magnetic fields. We try to understand the basis of life and evolution, order and chaos. We flirt with black holes and swim in space-time ripples. We care about the fact that the Sun has magnetic fields and worry about the weather in space. Our research portfolio encompasses almost all major areas of physics, areas whose boundaries we try to stretch every day, working with our minds, pen, paper, computers and instruments mixed with a healthy dose of romance for our subject. You may read few highlights in our Research News.
Research Areas
Astrophysics and Space Sciences
- Solar and stellar magnetism
- Magnetohydrodynamic dynamo theory
- Space weather predictions
- Space mission support and satellite data analysis
- Computational Astrophysics
Biophysics and Complex Systems
[ People: A Ghosh, A Banerjee, N Ghosh, R De, S Sengupta ]
- Evolutionary game theory
- Dynamics of social cooperation
- Gene expression
- Computational neuroscience
- Biophotonics
- Biopolymers
- Bioinformatics
- Mechanobiology
Condensed Matter Experiment
[ People: B Bansal, B Pal, C Mitra, G D Mukherjee, N Kamaraju, P Mitra, S Raj ]
- Semiconductor nanostructures
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Giant Magnetoresistance
- Spintronics
- Nanotechnology
- Physics at high pressure
- Physics at high magnetic fields and low temperatures
- Atomic force microscopy
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
[ People: A Ghosal, A Ghosh, C Mitra, P K Mohanty, P K Panigrahi, R Bhattacharyya, S Lal, S Das, S Sinha ]
- High temperature superconductivity
- Strongly correlated systems
- Low-dimensional quantum systems
- Quantum computation and information processing
- Many body physics
- Bose-Einstein condensates
- Quantum phase transitions
- Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
Data Analysis and Computation
[ People: D Nandi, P K Panigrahi, R K Nayak ]
- Statistical and wavelet techniques
- Algorithm development
- Data modelling
- Global climate reconstruction and trends
- Satellite data analysis
- Ground-based observatory data analysis
Gravitation and Cosmology
[ People: G M Hossain, K Dutta, N Banerjee, R K Nayak ]
- Physics of Black Holes
- Gravitational waves
- Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology
- General Theory of Relativity
- Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime
- Cosmology and its Connections to Particle Physics
Mathematical Physics
[ People: A Dasgupta, R K Singh ]
- Lie-algebraic techniques in quantum optics
- Foundations of quantum mechanics
- Group theory
- Non-commutative field theory
Molecular Dynamics and Spectroscopy
[ People: D Nandi ]
- Gas phase molecular dynamics
- Collision physics
- Dissociative electron attachment
- Dipolar dissociation
- Velocity slice imaging spectroscopy
- Time-of-Flight mass spectrometry
Non-Linear Dynamics
[ People: A Ghosh, P K Panigrahi, R Bhattacharyya, R De, S Banerjee, S Sinha ]
- Dynamical systems
- Chaos
Optics and Spectroscopy
[ People: A Banerjee, B Pal, N Ghosh, N Kamaraju, P K Panigrahi, R Bhattacharyya ]
- Precision optical spectroscopy
- Ultrafast spectroscopy
- Photoemission spectroscopy
- Nanophotonics
- THz spectroscopy
- THz imaging
- Nonlinear Optics
- Quantum Optics
Particle Physics and High Energy Physics
[ People: B Mukhopadhyaya, R K Singh ]
- Collider phenomenology
- Super-symmetry
- Higgs bosons
- Neutrino Physics
Soft Matter Physics
[ People: A Kundagrami ]
- Physics of liquid crystals, colloids, & polymers
Please visit our faculty page to find out specific research areas of our faculty members.