July 1, 2026

Milenia published his first paper  in JOSA B. Congratulations Mile. This is a new work with other group members chipping in. Thanks people.

Jun 26, 2026

Debojyoti defended his Ph.D. Viva.  Congratulations Dr. Debojyoti Ra Chodhury.

April 24, 2026

Our alumni (2006-2008) Dr Deepak Venkateshvaran from Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K. delivered an invited talk on “Molecular Nanomechanics: order, disorder, and mechano-electronic correlations” in the physis department (HSB 210).

April 2, 2026

Prof. Bisht delivered a keynote address on “Quantum optics and spectroscopy of low dimensional materials with structured beams” at  Int. Conf. on Optics, Lasers, OPTIX 2026 @ National Institute of Tech. Calicut.  Happy that I met Dr. Raman Namboodiri (Faculty, physics), our Alumni.

Mar 24, 2026

Debojyoti wins excellence research award at IIT Madras!  Congratulations Deb. Photo is  here.

March 2026

Here is an interesting lecture to motivate for experimental science, delivered  to the High school students (uploaded by Swamprabha) “ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJlBZjG8B_E ”

Dec. 17, 2025

Milenia qualified the comprehensive viva examination; congratulations Mile.

Dec. 16, 2025

Debojyoti completed his research colloquium. Congratulations Deb.

Dec. 13, 2025

Elder brother of PBB: H D Bist passed away at Haldwani after a brief illness at the age of 90.  PBB had just visited  him on 29^th Nov. at ICU (Krishna Hospital).

Dec. 13, 2025

Prof. Periasamy, WM Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, Virginia, delivered a seminar at HSB 209 related to “Two-photon microscopy and Machine Learning”.

Dec. 10, 2025

Prof. Bisht delivered an invited talk on “Degenerate multi wave mixing (DMWM) applications in optics and spectroscopy” at  the SCOPOSIS at PRL, Ahmedabad.

Dec. 8, 2025

Collaborative work with NIT Pondicherry  and University of Sydney finds place in J. Optics (IoP) entitled: “Plasmonic effects of gold nanoprisms on third order optical nonlinearity of WS2 monolayers”, Congratulations team.

Dec 7, 2025

Prabha and Jayeeta: Congratulations on your achievement.

Dec. 4, 2025

PBB and his group conducted an IIT Madras- University of Tsukuba online workshop;  link: “https://physics.iitm.ac.in/~prem/photophysics/jowJI25.htm”. Here is a photo of the meeting.

Nov. 28, 2025

Prof. Bisht delivered a talk on “Glass technology for ultrafast optics and biophotonics” at  the National Workshop on Scientific Glass Blowing at CLT, IIT Madras.

Oct. 25, 2025

MBS in the department. Best wishes.