Department of Physics

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 and spectroscopy, high energy physics and astrophysics, field theory, quantum computation, non-linear dynamics and chaos,nuclear physics and statistical mechanics.

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, high energy physics and astrophysics, field theory, nuclear physics, quantum computation, non-linear dynamics and chaos and statistical mechanics. Currently, we have 5 research scholars and two technical assistant.

Courses

The Physics Department offers an MSc and a PhD program in Physics. Courses geared to these programs are offered, apart from a large number of basic physics course for undergraduates and cross-disciplinary electives.

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, SERB, CSIR, BRNS, DBT 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.

Conferences, Workshops and Schools:

Upcoming:: Second DST Program Advisory Committees’
(PACs’) meeting on“Plasma, High Energy, Nuclear Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Nonlinear Dynamics”
during April 22-23, 2013.
Click here for more detail.
Workshop HIGGSTOP-2013 on Higgs and top quark physics (Feb. 25-27, 2013). It was Jointly organized by Physics department, BITS-Goa, RECAAP,HRI, Allahabad and DST, Government of India. Click here for more details.
IAPT (Indian Association for Physics Teachers) Workshop (March 22 - 23, 2013) in Statistical Mechanics
for Physics Teachers which was jointly organized by the Physics Department of BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus and Department of Science and Technology and Environment, Govt. of Goa.
"SERC Preparatory school in Theoretical High Energy Physics(THEP), 2010", 20th Oct. to 15th Nov. 2010.
"GMW workshop on fast Track Young Scientist Project in Physical and Mathematical Science" during 21-22 September,2009

News and Views

Faculty openings:
For faculty position click here.

PhD admission:
The department is intended to take PhD scholars(regular and part-time) in varied areas of Theoretical, Experimental and Computational physics. For the complete details about the PhD admission including the thrust areas of departmental research click here.    Last date for PhD application is 20th May, 2013.
For the institute PhD program click here.

Departmental Seminar

Seminar 1
Title of the Seminar : Soon After the Big Bang- Searching for First Galaxies
Speaker: Dr. Tilvi
Date: 10th May, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Venue: L202 in CC wing

Seminar archives: N_Bhandaru,Ravi_Manohar, Radhika_Vathsan, Talk_Swarup
Workshop, Conference and School
Upcoming:  To be updated!!

Recently organized:
1. Second DST Program Advisory Committees’ (PACs’) meeting on “Plasma, High Energy, Nuclear Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Nonlinear Dynamics” during April 22-23, 2013. Contact person: Dr. Prasanta Kumar Das. Click here for more details.
2. Workshop HIGGSTOP-2013 on Higgs and top quark physics was jointly organized by Physics department,BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa campus, RECAPP, HRI, Allahabad and DST, Govt. of India during Feb. 25-27, 2013. Contact person: Dr. Prasanta Kumar Das.
Click here for more details.

3.IAPT (Indian Association for Physics Teachers)Workshop (March 22 - 23, 2013) in Statistical Mechanics for Physics Teachers, jointly organized by the Physics Department of BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus and Department of Science and Technology and Environment, Govt. of Goa. Contact person:   Prof. Arun V. Kulkarni. A brief report about the school is available here.

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