Activities

“Pre-Master’s Workshop in Theoretical Physics, Cycle – I”, for outgoing final year students, was funded by the College and was held from 15th till 19th May’ 2017.
It was a high demand on behalf of the participants that the tenure of the workshop should be longer and the next cycles should follow soon.

The resource persons consisted of :

• Prof. Partha Ghosh, HOD Physics, Bangabasi College
• Prof. Saugata Bhattacharyya, Vidyasagar College
• Prof. Arabinda Choudhury, S.A. Jaipuria College
• Prof. Joydip Mitra, Scottish Church College
• Prof. Sk. Jahiruddin, Sister Nivedita College for Girls
• Prof. Suman Chowdhury, Bangabasi College

“Ondhokaarer Utsyo Hote – A Public Lecture for all Physics Enthusiasts”,

delivered by Prof. Tapas Das of HRI Allahabad on 7^th May, 2019.

“A Wave of Change – Pedagogical Lecture Series” meant for CBCS Physics students. The speakers were Prof. Ananda Dasgupta of IISER-Kolkata & Prof. Anirban Kindu of C.U, on 19^th & 24^th September 2018 respectively.

“Shishu Mahabishyer Prothom Chhobi- A Public Lecture”, delivered by Anirban Roy, Post Doctoral Fellow, Cornell University on 23^rd December, 2019.

“Princeton Meets Bangabasi” – Live Interaction over Zoom by Prof. David Spergel, Emeritus Professor, Princeton University & Director, Centre for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, on 23^rd December, 2019.

“One Day Workshop on CBCS-Physics Syllabus”, in Collaboration with U.G Board of Studies, University of Calcutta, on 7^th May 2018, at Acharya Prasanta Kumar Bose Auditorium, Bangabasi College. It was attended by over 200 faculty members of different Colleges under the University. The speakers were Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri, Prof. Salil Kumar Biswas, Prof. Tilak Sinha & Prof. Suman Bandopadhaya.

“”Prof. Shyamadas Chatterjee Endowment Lecture”, in association with Indian Physical Society, was delivered by Amitava Raychaudhuri, Prof. Emeritus, University of Calcutta on 1st September 2017, at Acharya Prasanta Kumar Bose Auditorium, Bangabasi College. The topic of the lecture was “Solving the mystery of mass”.”, in association with Indian Physical Society, was delivered by Amitava Raychaudhuri, Prof. Emeritus, University of Calcutta on 1st September 2017, at Acharya Prasanta Kumar Bose Auditorium, Bangabasi College. The topic of the lecture was “Solving the mystery of mass”.

“C.K. Majumdar Memorial Experimental Physics Workshop” in collaboration with Indian Association of Physics Teachers, IAPT, Regional Council – 15, from 22nd till 24th December 2016, for first year Physics Honours students. Participation was enthusiastic from this college as well as from other colleges. Innovative experiments were demonstrated by IAPT members and performed by students themselves. The students on the second day, were addressed by eminent high energy physicist, Prof. Sukalyan Chattopadhyaya of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. His motivating lecture was highly appreciated by students.

. “Integrated PhD interviews in Physics-A positive march towards a research career” on 16th May 2016 Monday, at the Acharya P.K. Bose Memorial Auditorium Hall. It was funded by the College and received tremendous response from students from all over the city.The speakers were.

• Prof. Rabin Banerjee, SNBNCBS Kolkata
• Prof. Pushan Majumdar, IACS, Kolkata
• Prof. Narayan Bandopadhyay, IISER Kolkata
• Prof. Amal Das, IIT-Kharagpur.

“Chat with a Scholar”- A very own initiative on behalf of the Physics Department has earned tremendous
acclaim & response from undergraduate students all over Kolkata. A research scholar working in an active field
of Physics is invited over to chat informally with the students to motivate them and the entire event is video-
recorded & shared over Youtube. The scholars who had visited are:

• Roopayan Ghosh, JRF, IACS-Kolkata.
• Sourav Islam, JRF, IISER-Kolkata.
• Abhirup Ghosh, SRF, ICTS-Bangalore and Member, LIGO Collaboration, Recipient of FundamentalPhysics Award
• Ankan Sur, Anton Pannekoek Institute of Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Ankan Sur, Anton Pannekoek Institute of Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Susovan Maiti, SRF, HRI-Allahabad
• Kausik Ghosh, SRF, IISc Bengaluru