Events

1. Science Sabha : It is week-long interactive session between students of all ages (from 1st year to PhD) on topics ranging from General Relativity & Black Holes, Rocket Science, Flexible Electronics, Particle Physics & Field Theory, Supersymmetry and String Theory, to Experimental High Energy Physics and Radio Astronomy. At the end of this event, we conduct a competition on Scientific Posters. Participants are asked to make scientific posters on any topic in physics and present it to a jury of professors from our department. These posters now decorate the ground floor of the Department of Physics.
    
2. Researchathon : It is a rigorous online PAN India Event in which participants will be given a duration of 30 hours to work on a problem statement in their field of interest in Physics and present their findings before a panel of judges. This is a 3 round event.
   Round 1: Online Quizzing event conducted via Google forms.
   Round 2: A bunch of smartly constructed problems covering almost all the disciplines of physics are put into a google form and the participants are given 2 hours to solve the problems.
   Round 3: The participants who made it till the last round, are given a problem statement from their field of choice and they are given 30 hours to solve the problems.
   For the finals, we host a panel of 6 eminent professors from TIFR, IISERs etc.
3. Mathematica Workshop : On 7th and 8th August 2021, a 2-day Mathematica workshop was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Vikash Kumar Ojha. On the first day, the theory and specifications of Mathematica were addressed. Dr. Vikash assigned the participants with a tutorial, which was to be solved within the session to gain firsthand knowledge of the new software. Students raised various doubts during the tutorial session, which Dr. Vikash enthusiastically answered. He was glad to solve them and welcomed further questions from the audience. He individually guided everyone in the meet by asking the students to share the screen and show the problem where they were stuck. He explained various concepts in the process of solving the questions well. In the third session, participants solved more questions, and then some concepts and problems related to quantum mechanics were addressed. Dr. Yogesh Sonvane was also present in the session for solving doubts about quantum mechanics. Lastly, Dr. Yogesh Sonvane explained how to construct a 3D plot, and then the session was finally concluded.
   
4. Sarabhai Online Lecture Series : Sarabhai Online Lecture Series (OLS) is a series of six talks covering various domains of physics, featuring eminent professors across the globe aimed at learning about the working of the universe. The lecture series spans over five months. We have one to two lectures on a monthly basis. This event is open to all academic year students ranging from 1st year students to PhD students. The content delivered will be scaled down to a level that students with even basic knowledge of physics and mathematics can comprehend the lectures.
   The first talk of the online Sarabhai Lecture series, presented by Dr. Soumya Bagchi from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, was a fantastic start attracting many physics enthusiasts from over the country as the professor narrated the story about the "Journey of the Humble Nucleus".
   The second talk of the “Sarabhai Online Lecture Series” conducted on September 11, 2021 by Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan was a fascinating peek into the world of “Gravitational Waves: The New Wave in Physics, Technology and Astronomy”.
   The third talk of the Online Sarabhai Lecture Series conducted on October 11, 2021 attracted many physics enthusiasts from across the country to tour the “Exotic World of Neutron Stars” with Dr. Sudip Bhattacharyya as our guide.
   The fourth talk of the Sarabhai Online Lecture Series, Dr. Manoneeta Chakraborty from IIT, Indore, on "Observing Black Holes and Understanding their imprints" was a whopping success attracting many physics enthusiasts from all over the nation.
   The fifth talk was conducted on November 13, 2021 by Dr. Andreas Schmitt, University of Southampton, England on “Phases of QCD and applications to neutron stars.”
   The final talk of the lecture series was given by Dr. Himanshu Pandey from SVNIT titled “A journey through fascinated materials” on December 11, 2021.
        
5. Pratyaksha :It is a two-day Flagship event with four events:
   ▪ A Physics Quiz on physics that required the winners to possess a deep understanding of basics concepts and a sharp mind to crack the answers
   ▪ Explore the Exhibit: A test of participants’ abilities to simultaneously solve riddles and puzzles while identifying various scientific instrumentation.
   ▪ Extempore: Participants picked a piece of paper from the bowl and they were supposed to speak on the topic (written in the paper) for 3 minutes.
   ▪ Decoherence: Participants were given a problem statement that consisted of a daily-life physical phenomenon. They were given 30 hours to understand the physics behind the phenomenon and prepare a short presentation on it.
   
    
6. Physics: A Logical Analysis : "Physics: A Logical Analysis," - the first offline talk after a long Covid spell, was delivered by Dr. Abhishek Majhi of ISI Kolkata on September 6, 2022. The event was a huge success, with up to 65 people in attendance. We looked at Maxwell's electromagnetism's mathematical errors and how they lead to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. We also questioned the mathematical contradictions in the point abstraction and how that assumption might lead to larger problems in physics. We discussed Maxwell's theories using basic differentiation notions put out by Cauchy himself, as well as numerous issues that arise in physics due to semantics and misnomers. All of this eventually led to Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen's famous work, which addressed incompleteness as a general property of any physics theory. The audience was thrilled to have the opportunity to interact with Prof. Abhishek Majhi, and the lively discussion lasted up to an hour, still leaving the audience with more questions.
      

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