Our researchers are engaged in a wide variety of areas spanning the whole spectrum of highly application oriented Materials research to purely theoretical foundations. The department faculty engage in research collaborations with leading institutions and industries in India and abroad and are also involved in many national and international interdisciplinary projects such as India-based Neutrino wave detection program, national solar energy program, gravitational wave detection program LIGO, collaborations with CERN to cite a few.

The department offers several academic programs with the goal of providing an education that prepares the students with scientific outlook and enables them to solve challenging problems not only in physics but also other areas of science and indeed society in general. Programs like the B.Tech. program in Engineering Physics, M.Tech. program in Functional Materials and Nanotechnology and the Interdisciplinary Dual Degree M.Tech. in Advanced materials and Nanotechnology aim to impart knowledge at the nexus of technology and Physics. Our 2-year MSc program, and BS-MS Dual Degree program aim to support students who are excited about science and are ready to take up challenging research. The instructional labs are continuously upgraded to the highest standards, having experiments at different grades of difficulties ranging from the basics to advanced research level. The course curricula are modernized periodically and a complete review of the programs are undertaken on the average once in 5 years.

Several members of our faculty are involved with outreach programs beyond the institute to engage the larger community with Physics. This includes regular interactions with teachers and students of high schools and undergraduate colleges in the region and a vibrant summer student internship program every year in addition to writing articles. The department faculty has had considerable experience and success in “distance- education” through NPTEL lectures. Many members of the faculty have given lecture based courses in NPTEL over the past few years with substantial favourable response from the viewers.

In a nutshell the department has state of the art research facilities for all research programs being undertaken to excel in contemporary research and training the students on topics which have a good balance between fundamental and applied component with immediate societal impacts.

The Head, Department of Physics