Courses

First-year Courses
- PHY F111 - Mechanics Oscillations and Waves (Lecture slides can be downloaded from here)
- PHY F112 - General Physics
- PHY F110 - Physics Laboratory (Observation sheet and theory can be downloaded from here)
Second-year Courses
- PHY F211 - Classical Mechanics
- PHY F212 - Electromagnetic Theory - I
- PHY F213 - Optics
- PHY F214 - Electricity, Magnetism & Optics Laboratory
- PHY F241 - Electromagnetic Theory - II
- PHY F242 - Quantum Mechanics - I
- PHY F243 - Mathematical Methods of Physics
- PHY F244 - Modern Physics Laboratory
Third-year Courses (Compulsory Disciplinary Courses)
- PHY F311 - Quantum Mechanics - II
- PHY F312 - Statistical Mechanics
- PHY F313 - Computational Physics
- PHY F341 - Solid State Physics
- PHY F342 - Atomic and Molecular Physics
- PHY F343 - Nuclear and Particle Physics
- PHY F344 - Advanced Physics Laboratory

Pool of Electives

S. No.	Course No.	Course Title
1	BIO F215	Biophysics
2	BITS F316	Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
3	BITS F317	Theoretical Neuroscience
4	BITS F386	Quantum Information and Computation
5	BITS F416	Introduction to Nanoscience
6	BITS F417	Microfluidics & its Applications
7	BITS F446	Pattern Recognition
8	EEE F426	Fibre Optics & Optoelectronics
9	MATH F424	Applied Stochastic Processess
10	MATH F456	Cosmology
11	PHY F215	Introduction to Astronomy & Astrophysics
12	PHY F315	Theory of Relativity
13	PHY F316	Musical Acoustics
14	PHY F378	Plasma Physics and its Applications
15	PHY F379	Thin Film Technology
16	PHY F412	Introduction To Quantum Field Theory
17	PHY F413	Particle Physics
18	PHY F414	Physics of Advanced Materials
19	PHY F415	General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology
20	PHY F416	Soft Condensed Matter Physics
21	PHY F417	Experimental Methods of Physics
22	PHY F418	Lasers and Applications
23	PHY F419	Advanced Solid State Physics
24	PHY F420	Quantum Optics
25	PHY F421	Advanced Quantum Mechanics
26	PHY F422	Group Theory and Applications
27	PHY F423	Special Topics in Statistical Mechanics
28	PHY F424	Advanced Electrodynamics
29	PHY F425	Advanced Mathematical Methods of Physics
30	PHY F426	Physics of Semiconductor Devices
31	PHY F427	Atmospheric Physics
32	PHY F431	Geometrical Methods in Physics
33	PHY F432	Classical Theory of Fields: A Symmetry Perspective
34	PHY G512	Advanced Quantum Field Theory

Higher Degree
- MEL G611 - IC Fabrication Technology (S. M. Sze)
Misc
- BITS F446 - Pattern Recognition
- GER N131T - Beginning German

Research Areas for First Degree Project

Topics of research for First Degree Students:

The first degree students can select their field of research interests from the table given below. The pre-requisites, requirement for number of students etc can be discussed with the concerned faculty member. The students are encouraged to choose their field of interest among the list given below. Such interest can be carried along for their selection of topics for first degree thesis.

Name of Faculty	Research Areas
Dr. R. R. Mishra	Computational Physics, Quantum Information
Dr. D. Bandyopadhyay	Computational nanoscience
Dr. Anshuman Dalvi
Dr. D. D. Pant	Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Applications
Dr. R. Choubisa	Atomic and Molecular Physics, Multiple Scattering theory, Chaotic dynamics, Plasmon in solid
Dr. R. K. Gupta	Piezoelectricity, Electrochemistry, Instrumentation
Dr. V. Manjuladevi	Electro-optic switching of liquid crystals (LOP), Nonlinear optics: applications (SOP)
Dr. Srijata Dey
Dr. Rishikesh Vaidya
Dr. Niladri Sarkar	Nano-Scale Device Physics and Computational Electromagnetics
Dr. Navin Singh	Physics of Biological Systems, Fibre-Bundle model, more detials
Dr. B. Layek
Dr. Madhukar Mishra	Physics of Heavy-ion collisions, Standard Model and beyond, Neutrino Physics
Dr. Kaushar Vaidya
Dr. Tapomoy G Sarkar	Cosmology, General theory of relativity, Geometry and Quantum Mechanics, Driven quantum systems
Dr. J.N. Bandyopadhyay	(1) Floquet oscillations in periodically driven graphene like systems. (2) Topological properties of periodically driven Rice-Mele model. (3) Operator entanglement in quantum chaotic systems.
Dr. S. Gangopadhyay	Metal oxide thin films, Smeiconductor nanostructures
Dr. A. Holkundkar

Electives offered in Sem-II : 2020-21

List of Electives offered in Second Semester 2020-2021

1. Advanced Quantum Mechanics by Dr. R. Choubisa
2. Quantum Computation by Dr. R R Mishra
3. Image Processing by Dr. R. K. Gupta
4. Advanced Solid State Physics by Dr. J N Bandyopadhyay
5. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Dr. T. G. Sarkar
6. Soft Condensed Matter Physics by Dr. Navin Singh
7. Biophysics with the Bio department (from Physics: Dr. Navin Singh)
8. Group Theory and Applications by Dr. R. Vaidya
9. Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics by Dr. K. Vaidya

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