Physics

Contact	History of the Department	Courses Offered	Faculty Members
Research Work	Library	Links to other academic institutions

Department of Physics

Contact

92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata - 700 009, India
Phone : (91) (33) 2350 8386, x400 (Head), x401 (office)
E-mail : head.physics.cu at gmail.com

History of The Department

Year of establishment : 1916

Past teachers of the department

Meghnad Saha || Satyendranath Bose || C.V. Raman || Debendramohan Basu
Sisir K. Mitra || Phanindranath Ghosh || Bidhubhusan Roy || Sushil K. Acharya
Brojendranath Chakrabarty || Jogesh Mukherjee || Durgadas Banerjee || Jatindranath Bhar
Pareshchandra Bhattacharya || Shyamadas Chatterjee
Nirojnath Dasgupta || Arun K. Dutta || Samarendranath Ghoshal || Prabahan Kamal Kabir
Basantidulal Nag Chaudhuri || Sudhangsu Dutta Majumdar || Kamalaksha Dasgupta
Sibabrata Bhattacharya || Subodhnath Bagchi || Satishranjan Khastagir || Nityaranjan Pan
Ashim K. Ganguly || Aparesh Chatterjee || Santosh K. Sarkar
Mihir K. Roy || Purnangsu Roy || Utpal Chaudhuri || Binayak Ghosh
Arun K. Das || Pradip N. Ghosh || Kartick C. Das || Jyotirmay Das
Ramendra K. Poddar || Buddhadeb Bagchi || Manoranjan Saha
Dilip Sen || Dwijendralal Bhattacharya || Dilip Banerjee || Chanchal K. Majumder
Asit Baran Sanyal || Ramendra K. Kar || Priyabrata Roychowdhury || Asok Ranjan Thakur

Courses Offered

M.Sc. (2 year, 4 semester)
Intake capacity 70, strictly in order of merit in B.Sc. (Hons.). Physics as an honours subject is essential.

Course structure: (All papers in the first three semesters are compulsory for every student)
1st semester: PHY 411 (Mathematical Methods), PHY 412 (Classical and Relativistic Mechanics), PHY 413 (Quantum Mechanics - I), PHY 414 and PHY 415 (General Practicals 1 and 2)
2nd Semester: PHY 421 (Classical Electrodynamics), PHY 422 (Statistical Mechanics), PHY 423 (Electronics and Instrumentation), PHY 424 (General Practical 3), PHY 425 (Computer)
3rd Semester: PHY 511 (Atomic, Molecular, and Laser Physics), PHY 512 (Quantum Mechanics - II), PHY 513 (Nuclear and Particle Physics), PHY 514 (Condensed Matter Physics), PHY 515 (Advanced Experiments I)
4th Semester: PHY 521 (Advanced I), PHY 522 (Advanced II), PHY 523 (Elective), PHY 524 (Project), PHY 525 (Advanced Experiments II)
The department offers the following subjects as Elective, Advanced I, and Advanced II in the second year (4th semester), one to be chosen in each case. All elective subjects may not be offered. (The italicised ones have been offered in 2008-09)
Elective : Astrophysics, General Theory of Relativity, Many Body Theory, Physics of Liquid Crystals, Microwave, Selected Topics in Statistical Mechanics
Advanced I : Condensed Matter Physics I, Nuclear Structure, Plasma Physics I, Quantum Electronics, Quantum Field Theory
Advanced II : Condensed Matter Physics II, Laser Applications, Materials Physics, Nuclear Reaction and Decay, Particle Physics, Plasma Physics II, Solid State Electronics

To enrol for a Ph.D. the essential qualification is an M.Sc. or its equivalent degree from any recognised university/institute in India or abroad. Students with CSIR/UGC NET have a better chance. Currently the number of students in the department is about 20.

Post-doctoral
Positions depend on the projects of individual teachers.

Faculty Members (E-mail: id at caluniv.ac.in, Phone: +91-33-2350-8386 ext.)

Name	E-mail id	Telephone	Specialisation
Professors
Prasanta Kumar Bhattacharyya	pkbphy	403	Atomic and Plasma Physics
Salil Kumar Biswas	skbphy	408	Microwaves
Tapan Kumar Das	tkdphy	404	Quantum Mechanics
Subinay Dasgupta	sdphy	409	Statistical Physics
Amitava Raychaudhuri (on lien)	arphy		Particle Physics
Anirban Kundu	akphy	411	Particle Physics
Readers
Anindya Datta	adphys	418	Particle Physics
Gautam Gangopadhyay, Head	ggphy	400, 410	Nuclear Physics
Debnarayan Jana	djphy	413	Condensed Matter Physics
Parongama Sen	psphy	412	Statistical Physics
Jayalakshmi Shamanna	jlsphy	414	Nuclear and Mathematical Physics
Lecturers
Aritra Banerjee	arbphy	429	Material Science
Sourish Banerjee	sbphy	415	Material Science
Sudipta Bandyopadhyay	sbaphy	419	Material Science
Abhijit Bhattacharyya	abphy	417	Nuclear Astrophysics
Biswajit Ray	brphy	416	Laser Physics
Jayashree Saha	jsphy	406	Condensed Matter Physics

Awards and recognitions received by the faculty members

• Bhatnagar Award : A. Raychaudhuri
• ICTP Associateship : A. Raychaudhuri (Senior), A. Kundu, P. Sen (Regular)
• Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship : A. Bhattacharyya, A. Kundu
• Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences : A. Raychaudhuri
• Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy : A. Raychaudhuri
• Fellow of the W.B. Academy of Science and Technology : T.K. Das

Research Work
Major thrust areas in which research activities are being actively pursued

Condensed Matter Physics and Material Physics|| Laser Physics || Nonlinear Dynamics
Nuclear Physics || Nuclear Astrophysics || Particle Physics || Statistical Physics

• Condensed Matter Physics and Material Physics Phase transitions in liquid crystals, Synthesis, characterization and morphological studies of nanostructures, Oxide semiconductors

• Laser Physics Laser cooling and Doppler free spectroscopy of alkali atoms, Pump-probe double resonance experiments, Line shape measurements, Optical metrology, Theoretical studies, Fabrication of diode laser controllers, Molecular fragmentation by low-energy ion beam (with NSC, New Delhi)

• Nonlinear Dynamics Chaos, Nonlinearity in evolution equations, Logistic behaviour of natural system

• Nuclear Physics Experimental gamma spectroscopy, Nuclear structure theory, Mean field theory, Resonance and bound states of halo nuclei

• Nuclear Astrophysics Physics of neutron stars and other compact objects, Study of Phase Transition

• Particle Physics Neutrino physics, Supersymmetry, B physics, Collider physics, Physics of extra dimensions

• Statistical Physics Phase transition and critical phenomena in classical and quantum models, Dynamical properties of Ising-like systems, Study of small-world property and other features in real and model networks, Statistical mechanics of frustrated systems

Publications in Refereed Journals in the Last 5 Years:
2003: 21 2004: 48 2005: 37 2006: 23 2007: 41
(14 in national journals, 156 in international journals, including 16 publications in journals with impact factor > 5)

Ongoing Research Projects

Investigator	Title and Duration of the Project	Amount (Rs.)	Funding Agency
S. Bandyopadhyay	Study of Physical Behaviour of ZnO as a host ...	14,34,000	DST
S. Bandyopadhyay	Study of Ion Irradiation on Transition Metal Doped ZnO ...	4,05,000	IUAC-UGC
A. Bhattacharyya	Observable Signatures of Phase Transitions in Rotating Compact Stars	8,70,000	CSIR
S. Dasgupta et al.	Large Scale Simulations in Complex Stochastic Systems	50,00,000 (part)	UGC (UPE)
A.Datta	Search for Physics beyond the Standard Model in the Era of LHC	8,00,000	CSIR
G. Gangopadhyay	Relativistic Calculation in Dripline Nuclei ...	5,93,500	BRNS
A. Kundu	Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model	10,43,250	BRNS
B. Ray	High Resolution Diode Laser Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Molecules	22,52,640	DST
P. Sen	Persistence and Early Time Dynamics in Quantum Spin Systems	15,00,000	DST
National-level Collaborations: Indian National Gamma Array (INGA), India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) Major Grants: DST: FIST (level I, applied for level II); UGC: DSA, COSIST

Library

No. of books : 9000 (approx)
No. of journals : 6500 (approx), available in the central library
E-access to several journals through the INFLIBNET programme

Link to some academic institutions in India

TIFR, Mumbai || IISc, Bangalore || IMSc (Matscience), Chennai || IOP, Bhubaneswar
IUCAA, Pune || HRI (ex-MRI), Allahabad || PRL, Ahmedabad || SINP, Kolkata
IACS, Kolkata || SNBNCBS, Kolkata || IUAC (ex-NSC), Delhi || RRI, Bangalore
Jadavpur University || IIT Kanpur || IIT Kharagpur || IIT Bombay