Overview

The Department of Physics at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus currently has fifteen faculty members whose research interest spans experimental and theoretical aspects of condensed matter physics, optics, spectroscopy, quantum computation, non-linear dynamics and chaos, statistical mechanics, field theory, nuclear physics, high energy physics and astrophysics.The department offers a four year M.Sc. (Hons.) program with plus two students as input and the admissions are made based on the BITSAT exam score. We also offer a Ph.D program in physics which is open to students with an M. Sc. Degree.

People

 We are currently fifteen faculty
members whose research interests span
experimental and theoretical aspects of
condensed matter physics, optics, spectroscopy,
quantum computation, non-linear dynamics and
chaos, statistical mechanics, field theory, nuclear
physics, high energy physics and astrophysics. We also have 5 research scholars and a technical assistant.

Research

We have research interests in varied areas of Experimental, Theoretical and Computational physics. Our faculty members have research grants from funding agencies such as DST, SERC, BRNS etc.  State-of-art laboratories in Optics and Solid State Physics are being developed. We have five research scholars working in various areas

Activities

• Institute Development and infrastructure: Apart from building state-of-the art laboratories for physics, we also maintain the campus LMS photon, which runs on the open source Moodle LMS. It currently supports 200 odd courses running across disciplines on the Goa Campus.
  
• Courses: We offer programs leading to MSc (hons) and PhD in  Physics. We also  run  basic physics courses and laboratories for undergraduate engineering students, apart from offering multi-discipline electives.
• Conferences and Schools: 

• "SERC Preparatory school in Theoretical High Energy Physics(THEP), 2010", 20th Oct. to 15th Nov. 2010.